STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- City in the Clouds

Much better!

Agility Strong; Rianna twirls her lightsaber flashily in order to try and throw him off, before flipping up the stairs at him and jabbing her lightsaber towards his stomach.

Vash expected that from you, it seems. He counters that with a Strong Dexterity.

You try to twirl your way out of the lock but Vash keeps his lightsaber solidly connected to yours, making any such maneuver awkward without leaving yourself exposed. Vash twists his lightsaber around and your lightsaber with it, and with a final twist he forces it from your grip. Your lightsaber sails over the handrails and down to the bottom of the stairs.

Vash raises his lightsaber to deliver a two-handed slash to your abdomen.

Rianna will respond by taking advantage of the fact that she's below him and ducks low so that his attack will simply pass over her, and them jump backwards down a few steps, using the Force to try and call her lightsaber back to her as she does so.

(do I need to name a move for this? If so, Normal Agility.)

Vash is going to keep after you if you simply take a few steps down. This segment of the duel is over, and you will need to retrieve your lightsaber in a more dramatic fashion. A retreat is necessary or Vash will kill you.

How far up are we duelling? Enough that Rianna could jump down to the bottom without sustaining too much damage?

It would be a simple Leaping roll to reach the bottom safely.

Then Rianna will do that - first ducking under his initial blow, and then flipping over the handrail to land down below and recover her lightsaber.

"I thought Rand wanted me alive!" she calls up at him. "Or has he changed his mind recently?"

Vash misses his blow and then chops through the handrail just after you vault over it. You stick the landing in a crouched position and snatch up your lightsaber.

"He does!" Vash calls out, descending the stairs. "I don't!"

You have two options here- outwards or downwards.

"Rebelling against your 'master', then?" Rianna replies nastily. "You think he'd let that go?"

Hmmm...downwards. Outside leads to the chance of being shot at again...

Very true!

You descend from the control tower into the innards of the gas mining facility. It is difficult to see with the lighting as dim as it is in here, but you sense that the room you have entered is enormous. It also reeks of metal, machine lubrication, and gas fumes.

Lovely!

Still, dim lighting will make it easier for Rianna to ambush Vash when he makes his way down here...so she's going to shut down her lightsaber for the moment, move a bit further into the room, and wait for him.

It doesn't take Rianna long to creep her way into a metal pipe and nearly bang her head on it. This place is absolutely crowded with machinery. In the dark you cannot make most of it out.

Vash comes down the same way, but with his lightsaber off and his mind clouded to you. He slinks off away from the ladder, into the dark.

Can she sense anything?

If possible to do so quietly, she wants to climb up on top of something so that she can't be ambushed by Vash so easily.

You can sense your way around the room. In the dim lighting, you can make out some sort of large piece of equipment that seems appropriate to ascend. You climb up a ladder and through some piping to reach the top of it. Whatever you have climbed on, there are still lots of pipes and hoses and deactivated control panels.

Hmmm. Time to start baiting him! Rianna will ignite her lightsaber and slice through the ladder, so that he knows where she is but will also have to find a different way up to her.

"Going to just hide in the dark forever?" she calls out before doing so.

The ladder falls with a tremendous clang and your lightsaber glows vibrantly in the near darkness. You wander around whatever it is you are on, waving your saber around idly.

"No," comes Vash's voice over a PA system. It echoes in the big dark room and comes from all directions. "I want to understand my opponent, first. Why did you come here, Rianna? Why chase us?"

Rianna's going to keep sensing for where he could be, as well as for danger.

"Why?!" she responds angrily. "Are you seriously asking me that? Rand's manipulations made it so that the only way I could keep hold on my sanity was to leave the Jedi. Throw away any future I had there. I've nearly been killed by or because of him several times. And then I get a message saying that you've taken my family captive and dragged them into this when they have nothing to do with anything other than being related to me? I may not remember them, but do really you think that's something I could just walk away from and ignore?"

"Yes," Vash says. "You owe them nothing. They gave you away to the Order when you were a child and you had no say in it. And now you've rebelled against them. Why even care? All you continue to do is step into Rand's plots and encourage his behavior toward you. He didn't go through all this effort to recruit me."

"You put them in danger because of me. Why shouldn't I care when someone is being used against me like that? Do you really think that I'd believe that you would have let them go unharmed had I not come here?" Rianna says, getting more and more annoyed.

"Surrender and they won't be harmed," Vash says firmly. "You don't have to fight us. Rand won't keep calculating plans to get you if you just give in! He's wasting my time with this nonsense."