USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE VI (LIGHT SIDE)- Missing Links

"Just cut through, hopefully we can shut this off on the other side." Andro advises Xeth. Hopefully there aren't automated defences still active down here.

The klaxon and red flashing lighting is over the whole base.

Then a voice on an intercom speaks, at first in a garble (which you cannot tell is because the language is unfamiliar or the equipment is old) but you catch the last part-

'Destroy the intruders'.

"I think I might have made a mistake here," Xeth says. "Um, everyone? Be ready for whatever Kazan left here..."

Can Xeth sense movement anywhere? Is anything visibly changing? I have a feeling something is coming out of these panels...

"I'm just glad it wasn't me who made the mission harder by using his lightsaber this time. Xeth, I like your style."
Of course, Andro draws and lights his saber and nods fo Argo to do the same.

"Let's back away from this panel for the moment, see what happens."

Denzral will look for a control panel of some kind, or some sort of computer/data wiring, and attempt to hack in with his equipment and silence the alarms at the very least, if not then deactivate the response completely. If there is no access panel, finish cutting open the door. Are we sensing danger?

"Xeth, that wasn't exactly what I had in mind for opening the door!" Denzral will say over the alarms, and get to work.

"Would the defenses even be working after so long?" Wentar asks aloud, he grips his lightsaber anyway, just in case.

Damn it, Denz, there are no control ports here at all- the walls are just smooth metal! There must be an access point somewhere, but it sure as heck isn't around here...

At this point, the panel by Xeth slides open, revealing a small, dark recess with no floor- some kind of grav chute. At this moment, an almost skeletal droid of dark grey metal shoots into view from underneath.

"Destroy," it intones, raising a blaster at you.

Denzral should be near Xeth on the opposite side of the door, any chance he could dismember the droid with his sabre which should still be activated? And then just hack the the droid to see if it is wirelessly connected and attempt things that slower way.

Xeth is not going to hesitate; his lightsaber already drawn, he makes a casual one-handed swipe at the droid's neck to sever its head.

"I HATE battle droids," Xeth snarls as the thing falls in a sparking heap.

(Better to prevent that one from shooting me in the head than waste time being careful with disabling it...)

Jelena is less than pleased with this development.

"We should have been more careful," Jelena says disapprovingly before bringing her lightsaber up into a high guard, prepared to protect herself and her Padawan. "Stay with me, Essallin."

Having cut the droid in two, you just make your comment about battle droids, Xeth, when your intuition saves you as you deflect a shot from below.

"Destroy," comments the top half of the droid, still active despite being in two pieces. Its gun is pointing up towards you.

Holy hell... these things are NOT like battle droids. They work in pieces... they were made in an age of Total War... by a Sith Lord trying to protect himself from an entire Republican army.

"Gah!" Xeth says as he snaps away the bolt, then plunges his lightsaber into the droid's blaster. "These things need to be fully dismantled before they stop. I don't like this."

(How does this work in terms of rolling?)

We'll see soon...

Ahhh it's going for your leg, Xeth!

At this point, with a faint shumf!, another droid pops into place at the top of the grev chute.

'Destroy," it says.

"Destroy!" the shattered one on the ground agrees.

Gallagher will cut down the new droid while Xeth tries to figure out how to stop the first one permanently.

Andro will assist Xeth in mutilating the first droid, adn waves for Argo to help Gallagher with the new one.

"I do NOT like enemies who don't stay down!"

Have any of the panels around me popped open? Or is it just Xeth and his sabering of all things?
I also assume that Sunda is with me, is anyone else?

Uhoh... Roan, you are looking at the droids that just popped out of every panel- now opened- in the corridor ahead of you.

"Destroy! Destroy!" echoes down the corridor at you.

I think it;'s only Sunda, as it stands!

Jelena and Essallin will have gone with Roan.

"We need to find a way to shut down these droids," Jelena says.

Well, we are rapidly approaching a combat situation here, so time for people to consider what weapons they have out and what schticks are loaded! Old hands, help out the new guys.

Special rule for this fight: When killed, there is a chance some segment of the droid may carry on functioning and keep bothering you. You'll see how that works! Segments can be attacked as normal.

Another special rule for this fight: The powers 'Cleave', 'Carnival of Carnage' and 'Whirling Strike' can be used with their appropriate weapons to overkill these droids into tiny pieces so they don't get up. An overkill requires you to roll twice as many successes as normal. You still kill the droid if you roll enough for a normal kill but not an overkill- however, going for an overkill deactivates the schtick's normal power. You must specify you are trying to do it in your action.

Oh! That sound is the sound of many thick bulkheads closing in that long entrance corridor you came down... that makes escape extremely difficult.

There are two ways to win this fight. It is up to you to work out either.

"There's got to be a master control somewhere! Staying here and fighting could be really bad. We need to find it."
Is the way ahead of us clear of bulkheads?

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