STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Gunrunner

Hmm, that does not sound much like Rand, searching to quiet his mind...

Right you are! Rand will force the twists and bends of the air ducts to reveal themselves to him, bending his mind toward their exploration, fueling it from the frustration of having to enter these damn ducts in the first place.

That's more like it!

Five successes on your Force rating gives you a strong idea of which path will provide the least amount of obstacles. You will have to make your way past the massive fans only three times.

Then let's get to it! Rand, satisfied that he has found the most direct route, will tell his Padawan to follow him and make for the first turbine. Upon approaching it, he uses the Force to slow its rotations enough for Foghren to hop through. Then he quickly follows through himself.

When you encounter the first oscillating ventilation fan, you smugly reach out with the Force and pull upon it to slow its spinning. The rapidly whirling fan screeches as you strain it, but you only do it enough to get Foghren through without problem. He slips between the blades, then turns to watch you.

You let go of the blades, take a deep breath, and (rolling two successes on your three dice) jump between the blades yourself as they speed up once more.

"Not too bad, right?" Foghren asks.

"I suppose," Rand sneers, clearly displeased and doing little to hide his distaste for skulking about in here. He smacks some dust from his cloak. "Shall we carry on?"

Rand will head to the next ventilation fan and repeat the process, using the Force to slow it down so Foghren can pass through and then jumping before it speeds up again.

With both of the following fans, you roll five successes with the Force and slow them to a grind as Foghren simply walks through.

You then roll two successes on the second fan, stepping through and relying on your Jedi reflexes as before. The third fan manages to swing a little too close for comfort, as you only roll one success. You take 5 damage in return, but make it through.

Your journey through the massive cooling vents brings you to the very end, and a ventilation panel. Foghren manages to kick part of it open without much trouble, and the Master and his Padawan are deposited onto the dank lower levels of Davashad. The pyramidal monolith towers overhead, shining black in the brown-yellow light of the polluted world's single sun.

"What now?" Foghren asks, adjusting his belt and making sure his lightsaber is secured and hidden.

Rand wants to try accessing some sort of computer system that would allow him to investigate where the guns came from and whether or not they've got any power suit projects ongoing. Or a directory that could point them to the labs they'd develop those in or warehouses they'd store them in.

You highly doubt that such information would be readily accessible out on the streets of Davashad, where you now are. Anything like that would have been back inside the Naft Corporation complex.

Go figure.

Could Rand pinpoint where the Naft warehouses are on Davashad? I can't imagine they store everything in the Corporation's pyramidal complex.

You can try, but I need an approach for finding out that information. As already established, you're not going to find a computer terminal that tells you exactly where they are.

Perhaps we could ask around somewhere. Rand can use his charming personality to find out where the warehouses might be.

Having just fled from the industrial center of the Naft Corporation, this leaves you in a heavily industrialized part of Davashad. Mostly corporate offices and/or factories, dwarfed by the sheer size of the Naft pyramid but still formidable in size. Tens of thousands of people must work here- despite the harsh polluted reality of the planet around you, the monoliths and pyramids that dominate the skyline teem with life.

Then I want to find some of those people, but not at the work place. That would tip off Vikka and her goons that we snuck out, if they do not already think we did. Any sort of entertainment district or drinking establishments about?

You can't imagine that the industrial/financial district of the supercity holds anything like that. While overdeveloped, Davashad is not a high city, like Coruscant, or a deep city, like Nar Shaddaa. It is all very surface and dense. You will need to leave the area to find something like that, and a means for finding out where that might be.

Rethinking this. Maybe I could track down someone who might know here in the industrial district and then Mind Trick them to make them think they didn't talk to us. I don't know if time is an issue but it would be easier.

Plenty of office buildings about, even outside of the Naft's pyramidal complex.

Then Rand will enter one and ask about for the entertainment district. Maybe with a receptionist, someone dimwitted enough that a Jedi Mind Trick would take care of things.

Inquiring with the receptionist in an off-site Naft office points you in the direction of what passes for an entertainment district, called Hormesh Square. She describes it as an open square for public gatherings and a key spot for Naft employees to enjoy the nightlife. You see shortly that it matches everything else within the Naft pyramid's long shadow- an unimaginative gray blocky construct, which descends a few levels down in concentric squares. Each level sports restaurants and nightclubs and cocktail lounges, all classy and expensive, but drab from the outside. You find Hormesh Square relatively uncrowded, with a large statue at the center dedicated to Hormesh Naft, the founder of the Corporation.

It will come down to what you say and a Force roll to ensure that the receptionist forgets some details. The more you want her to forget, the harder the roll.

Rand knows that making her forget entirely that they were there is pointless. Not only does he lack that power, but he knows full well that the Jedi Mind Trick does not work that way.

"You will not tell anyone that you saw us or what we asked," Rand tells her, waving his hand hurriedly in front of her face, before anyone else can tell what he's doing.

Once he carries on to Hormesh Square, Rand notes the statue at the center with some jealousy. He wouldn't mind if a massive statue of himself were erected somewhere in his honor, but he knows such things rarely happen to Jedi in these times of relative peace.

In any case, he chooses a cocktail lounge and enters, keeping his hooded robes up to conceal his identity and recommending that Foghren do the same.