STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Initiation

Nothing looks familiar. This whole place is disorienting.

Rand also cuts contact without a word more.

Rianna shoves the communicator into a pocket in disgust.

"What do you want from me?" she asks the forest, frustrated.

In response, water drops from the trees start to drop around you more frequently than they just were...

This time Rianna will be stubborn and stand her ground, because she wants out of here.

The water drops press into your skin like cold dead hands, and again the ghastly image of... Ciira Treen appears to you, limping from behind one of the old gnarled trees. She looks as if she has been drowned, as 'Myraline' did earlier.

"We want to see what you are made of," Ciira gurgles. "And where you break."

"What do you mean by that?" Rianna says, backing away a bit. "What are you doing?"

"You will die here if you are not worthy," Ciira gurgles. "Starvation is slow and painful, and we will feed off your pain."

"I have no plans of dying here..." Rianna says. "I want to leave this place!"

"We deem you unworthy to leave. This is your fate."

"No! I am leaving this place, and you will show me how!" Rianna says, stalking up to the 'ghost' of Ciira. "You do not frighten me in that form."

Ciira vomits up a lungful of water in the midst of a cackle.

"Make me! Make me!" Ciira taunts childishly.

"I ask you again - what do you want of me?"

Ciira just laughs in your face, spraying a mist of fouled water at you.

"You foul little..." Rianna says, taking a step back. "I wish I had never rescued you in that jungle..."

"You would have let me die?" Ciira says, her voice warbling with undertones of other voices. She lashes out with a hand, and you feel a spray of water drops hit you in the chest like a crowbar. It knocks you to the ground, grinding you over tree roots before hitting a stump. "No! You're too weak and pathetic, Jedi!"

You take 16 damage from your Fling.

"Yes! I should have!" Rianna replies, standing up again. "You stole my Master from me...and I am not weak or pathetic!"

You get as far as "I am not..." before Ciira takes you in a strong invisible grip, squeezing off your windpipe. She cackles gleefully as you start to turn blue.

She... it? ... is going to strangle you to death, Rianna.

Rianna will do what she can to try and fight against the grip, though she knows she's not terribly strong in the Force...but she does not want to die here.

However, it's pretty safe to say that she's quite terrified at the moment.

To break a Grip you roll your highest available combat-oriented skill. Rianna is quite talented unarmed.

However, if you fail the roll, you take damage. Damage you cannot afford.

If you tap into the Dark Side, I will give you an automatic pass...

You and your difficult choices...

As tempting as it is to try it the hard way 😛 Rianna is likely slipping more at this point, despite her determination not to, and the Myraline and Ciira things have already hit a nerve and unbalanced her...so Dark Side it is.