The droids reinforce! You draw two shooters, then one each on Vimus and his bodyguards. Sadly, the first bodyguard takes a final hit and goes down, a bolt striking him dead on. He crumples beside you. This must distract you, as you take 7 damage yourself.
Vimus himself stays clear, not faltering when one of his men dies. He avenges him with a burst of lasers and clears out the droids to the south. His remaining man damages a droid, while you chop apart another.
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SECURITY BREACH, Start of Turn 19
Meeting Room - North
Lobs: 0 (cover)
Hardrew: 0
Van Statten: 0 (cover)
Festans x5
(side entrance - blocked by table!)
Meeting Room - Center
Jelena (LS9): 3/29 [OGu BG] [BGu] (6F)
Vimus (G8): 1(1PR)/10 [MK ES] (2F)
Carbine
Vimus' Bodyguard (G6) x1 (1A) (cover)
Carbine
Battle Droids (G5) x4**
(main entrance)
Meeting Room - South
Mantooinians x5
Lott Dod: 6
Trade Feds x5
(side entrance - blocked by table!)
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1-3.
The droids reinforce, and those already in the room split their fire three ways- two on you, one on Vimus, and one on the guard. You deflect a kill shot away from the bodyguard and into the floor, then narrowly sidestep one intended for you, for 3 damage.
Vimus gets rattled with some close bursts, taking 3 damage.
The bodyguard finishes off the damaged battle droid. Vimus shoots down another. You hack down your target.
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SECURITY BREACH, Start of Turn 20
Meeting Room - North
Lobs: 0 (cover)
Hardrew: 0
Van Statten: 0 (cover)
Festans x5
(side entrance - blocked by table!)
Meeting Room - Center
Jelena (LS9): 3/32 [OGu BG] [BGu] (6F)
Vimus (G8): 1(1PR)/13 [MK ES] (2F)
Carbine
Vimus' Bodyguard (G6) x1 (1A) (cover)
Carbine
Battle Droids (G5) x3
(main entrance)
Meeting Room - South
Mantooinians x5
Lott Dod: 6
Trade Feds x5
(side entrance - blocked by table!)
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"Almost there..." Vimus says, swinging the blaster around on one of the droids that just entered.
2-5.
The droids reinforce.
Miss, miss, and miss on you, the Senator, and the bodyguard.
Seven successes sees you trisect your droid.
Vimus scores five successes and blasts apart a droid with a vengeance.
Bodyguard comes close to a kill, but close isn't enough to put down his target.
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SECURITY BREACH, Start of Turn 21
Meeting Room - North
Lobs: 0 (cover)
Hardrew: 0
Van Statten: 0 (cover)
Festans x5
(side entrance - blocked by table!)
Meeting Room - Center
Jelena (LS9): 3/32 [OGu BG] [BGu] (6F)
Vimus (G8): 1(1PR)/13 [MK ES] (2F)
Carbine
Vimus' Bodyguard (G6) x1 (1A) (cover)
Carbine
Battle Droids (G5) x3**
(main entrance)
Meeting Room - South
Mantooinians x5
Lott Dod: 6
Trade Feds x5
(side entrance - blocked by table!)
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"Stop messing around, take them out!" Vimus shouts to his bodyguard.
"I'm trying, Senator!" the bodyguard shouts back.
2-4, to your frustration, as the droids reinforce once again. You also take a hit for 3 damage before viciously obliterating the droid who shot at you.
Even the bodyguard can't screw up taking down a damaged droid, and Senator Vimus pops the head off his target.
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SECURITY BREACH, Start of Turn 22
Meeting Room - North
Lobs: 0 (cover)
Hardrew: 0
Van Statten: 0 (cover)
Festans x5
(side entrance - blocked by table!)
Meeting Room - Center
Jelena (LS9): 3/35 [OGu BG] [BGu] (6F)
Vimus (G8): 1(1PR)/13 [MK ES] (2F)
Carbine
Vimus' Bodyguard (G6) x1 (1A) (cover)
Carbine
Battle Droids (G5) x2
(main entrance)
Meeting Room - South
Mantooinians x5
Lott Dod: 6
Trade Feds x5
(side entrance - blocked by table!)
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I'll allow it.
3-6, the droids reinforce, but Jelena hazards reflecting fire back at one of the droids and succeeds, dropping it. She then tears into the other, leaving Vimus and the bodyguard to shoot apart the remaining droids.
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SECURITY BREACH, Start of Turn 23
Meeting Room - North
Lobs: 0 (cover)
Hardrew: 0
Van Statten: 0 (cover)
Festans x5
(side entrance - blocked by table!)
Meeting Room - Center
Jelena (LS9): 3/35 [OGu BG RF] [BGu] (6F)
Vimus (G8): 1(1PR)/13 [MK ES] (2F)
Carbine
Vimus' Bodyguard (G6) x1 (1A) (cover)
Carbine
(main entrance)
Meeting Room - South
Mantooinians x5
Lott Dod: 6
Trade Feds x5
(side entrance - blocked by table!)
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Time for bravery. Can she ask the bodyguard to stay behind so he doesn't get shot apart, then ask Senator Vimus to come with her? She can waltz into the hall and attack a droid, then tap Orthodox Guard and Reflection to defend her and the Senator from incoming fire while "returning" fire with reflected lasers.
6-4!
The bodyguard agrees to hang back, so Jelena and Senator Vimus stride into the corridor you used to enter the conference room.
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SECURITY BREACH, Start of Turn 24
Conference Room
Vimus' Bodyguard (G6) x1 (1A) (cover)
Carbine
Jelena (LS9): 3/35 [OGu BG RF] [BGu] (6F)
Vimus (G8): 1(1PR)/13 [MK ES] (2F)
Carbine
Battle Droids (G5) x4
Near Corridor
Battle Droids (G5) x4
Far Corridor
Battle Droids (G5) x4
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Safe to say you're sticking with your action, but I wanted to give you the lay of the land before proceeding. The corridor stretches ahead of you, crowded with battle droids. Near you, the hallways branch off left and right, but since you closed those entrances off, the droids abandoned them to come your way through the main door.
At the far end of the hall, the large doors lead to the office cubicles.
Your instincts serve you (and your allies) well. 5-3 sees Jelena stride confidently into the first rank of droids and hack one down before stepping back to intercept an onslaught of blasterfire she anticipates. Vimus manages to smack a single accurate laser into the receiver on a droid near her, shutting it down for good, while the bodyguard sprays haphazardly from the doorway and catches another droid in his flurry. This leaves three shooters apiece.
Perhaps predictably against these battle droids, Jelena's offensive defense plays out well. Feel free to describe your bouncing lasers back into the droids ahead of you and bringing down all three.
Feel free to also describe warding off all harm to Vimus, who stays close to you as the shots come in.
The bodyguard huddles against cover and avoids taking any hits as well.
Overall, a good round for our heroes!
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SECURITY BREACH, Start of Turn 25
Conference Room
Vimus' Bodyguard (G6) x1 (1A) (cover)
Carbine
Jelena (LS9): 1/35 [OGu RF BG] [BGu] (6F)
Vimus (G8): 1(1PR)/13 [MK ES] (2F)
Carbine
Battle Droids (G5) x2
Near Corridor
Battle Droids (G5) x4
Far Corridor
Battle Droids (G5) x2
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The droids advance in order to allow more droids to enter through the large doors at the end of the hall.
Description time! Jelena strides into the first rank of droids and scissor-cuts the nearest between her two sabers. She then raises her left-hand blade to the droids on her left, intercepting a series of bursts and letting them fly back into the droids until the bolts dismantle them. She then delivers a hard smack to a laser coming from her right and totals the droid that fired it.
"No match for a Jedi," Jelena comments, less a taunt and more a personal reassurance.
Jelena then scoffs at the droid tactic to advance. While it gives them more firepower, it puts some droids within the reach of her blades. She takes advantage and runs a droid through with both sabers as it approaches her, before it can shoot, then drags one blade up and the other down, splitting it in half. She steps back to defend Vimus.
Swap OGu for BGu.
5-4 says that you do indeed bisect the enemy droid before it can get a shot off at you. Combined fire from Vimus and his bodyguard sorts out the next one nearest you.
The droids recognize the threat you pose in close quarters and opt not to advance, while still reinforcing. They prove more apt this time, scoring hits against you for 5 damage and against Vimus for 3 damage. The bodyguard shies away from a volley but doesn't come away unscathed this time.
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SECURITY BREACH, Start of Turn 26
Conference Room
Vimus' Bodyguard (G6) x1* (1A) (cover)
Carbine
Jelena (LS9): 1(2A)/40 [BGu RF BG] [OGu] (6F)
Vimus (G8): 1(1PR)/16 [MK ES] (2F)
Carbine
Near Corridor
Battle Droids (G5) x4
Far Corridor
Battle Droids (G5) x4
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Smoke curls throughout the corridor as you deflect laser after laser after laser away from you, colliding instead with the hard metal surfaces surrounding you.