"I prefer aged, LT.", Juviest replies with a sly grin, opening fire on the incoming beasts.
Hi GM, just wanted to make clear, as these blips are appearing from the rocky background, are they visible from the ship, or still underground? Just wondered whether they were something I could try targeting with ship's weapons. Apart from that, I'm thinking of leaving the ship to go help but not sure how much I'll actually to be able to contribute. I'll maybe need to come up with a Plan C.
Aristi's eyes go wide as looks at the sensor screen. "Whoa! Kara, Juviest! Get out of there quick! I see ten contacts bearing down on you, they don't look like dumb animals either." The Bothan casts about the cockpit, looking for ideas how help the others. His eyes come to rest on the external comms...
One last question! If Aristi tries to rig the comms so that they blare out loud music or something to try to lure the bogeys away from the others and towards the ship, would you ask for a Computers check or Deception check? Would you require a destiny pool point to confirm that we had suitable audio files loaded into the ship's records?
Thrask let out a roar in anger as the beast manage to pierce his scales. He swung the Rykk blade at the one who attacked.
Following the strike, he turned and ran back towards the entrance of the cave to keep from getting surrounded.
Kara's shot hits true and knocks the creature on it's back, though it quickly right itself and continues to charge. That is when you notice that you are being charged by several creatures from all sides.
Juv's shots nearly finishes off a second creature.
"Oh you're aged all right. Skin like a bantha's behind." Kara quips with Juviest as the creature falls from her shot.
Then it gets back up.
The grin leaves her face as Kara flips the switch for autofire on the Czerka rifle. She has to take some of these down. Taking aim, she lets it rip.
Bright red energy lashes out from Kara's blaster rifle. The wounded creature takes another hit square in the chest. Without looking to see if it is down, she traverses the big rifle left. Sighting down another, she holds down the trigger. Another bolt hits it square in the face, turning it into a red ruin.
She lets out her held breathe, not even knowing she was holding it.
Djebelle isn't afraid of the dark - after all, some of her best heists, her favourite deals, her narrowest escapes, were done under its cover. The night is her friend.
And for those times when it isn't, she has... scanner goggles. Taking a moment to fish them from her utility belt and strap them on, she looks around with curiosity.
Thrask snarls as he is bowled over and he can feel the beast locked down on his shoulder. He wraps the arm holding it's fellow beasts head around the creatures body pulling him closer and he attempts to clamp down his own teeth on the beast.
He unfortunately can't get a good grasp with his own teeth.
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Juviest harumphs. "That so? Why don't you drop that rifle and just try and hurt their feelings?", he replies with a grin, firing a blast at the closest beast.
3S, 2A. 1 Adv for Paired, 1 for a blue die for LT.
He sees the first creature he shot still limping, and fires off a final shot into its shambling body. "On your right, LT!", he snaps, as a creature starts sprinting towards them.
no input/output devices?
Her brow furrows and she stares at the screen with code on to see if any of it makes sense, before returning to the blank screen and seeing if she can sense anything there, perhaps black text on a black background or similar.
Juv finishes off the injured creature and damages another.
The beast bites down again and begins to rake you with it's claws.
Wait, WHAT!?
Djebelle's heart momentarily stops - and then soars, the blood pounding in her ears, drowning out even the noise of Vader's breathing.
I TOLD them - I TOLD them not to say the name, that he'd hear, that he'd come for me...
She takes a sharp, deep, breath - and things snap back into focus. OK, wait. The 2 whatever-they-weres up there may have been Jedi losers, but even THEY would have sensed it if Vader had suddenly appeared on the planet. They wouldn't have sent her straight to him, not if they were on her side.
This is a trick. Has to be. She hopes.
Thrask let out a yelp as the beast raked him. He lashed out with the rykk blade but the beast was too nimble for him. He rolled with the weight of the blade onto his feet and retreated slowly backwards, keeping his blade up in an attempt to keep the claws at bay.
I...I don't even know what to say
Well this makes no sense... is it all in my mind?
Aneira circles the screens.
Do I need to enter that repeating character from one screen to the other? How with no peripherals!?
She frowns, brow furrowing and making her horn spaces itch.
She reaches out with her mind then and tries to make the computer do her bidding, putting the character on the screen...
Aristi flings himself at the controls, modulating the speakers and hurriedly trying to find sound files. Finally he punches the button for the external speakers and blaring, reedy voices thunder out in stereo. Emurrian opera. "Blast! Didn't mean to play that one!" Aristi gives up on this ropy plan and instead heads for the turret. Kara and Juviest seemed to be holding their own, but he was determined to help in some way.
Intellect check - 3 Failures, 1 Advantage
Gunnery check - 2 Success, 1 Threat - damage 6 + 2
Aristi reaches the turret and quickly fires up the controls. The laser sight comes up and he squeezes off a shot at the nearest creature.
BTW, are yous reading private posts? Shame on you!
One of the creatures leaps on Kara knocking her down .
The injured creature leaps on Juviest knocking him down also causing one of his pistols to slide out of arms reach.
In the distance Thrask emerges from a cave and a creature leaps past him.
The remaining 4 creatures turn to the ship and hesitate seemingly deciding whether to attack or flee.
Juviest winces as the claws pass through his armour. Despite the injury being merely a flesh wound, a couple of strands of sweat appear on his forehead.
He tumbles on the ground, scrambling to grab his blaster, as he gives a nudge to the beast, unloading the blaster in its throat. Pushing the corpse aside, he takes aim at the one on top of Kara, a massive wound appearing on its torso. "Natives are getting restless!", he chuckles as he shuffles slightly to the left, still remaining on the ground. "Though I got to say, we've got them outgunned!", he barely manages to outshout the blaster cannon.
Doing her best to wipe the slick of sweat from her forehead, she stands once more and moves to open the chest.
OK wasn't expecting that, though don't know what I *was* expecting...
She stares at the screen for a moment before sitting down at the keyboard. Then tentatively she types 'Aneira' and hits enter.
Aristi keeps blasting away with the laser, surprised to have been able to hit one of the creatures with the ship's weapon. They were a lot smaller than trying to hit another starship. As he blasts away, he spares a glance at the readouts. He'd never given the laser proper time to warm up properly, and it was putting strain on the ship's systems. Too late now, he thinks as he keeps blasting away.
Gunnery check - [ooc] Damage 6 + 2 = 80 damage to all of those non-ships out there :)
'...fast...very fast...'
The creature was on her, fangs buried in her shoulder as it bore her over on to her back.
'...not again...not again...'
The memories of a bloody day on Tanis tormented her mind, sending her into painful flashbacks. For a brief second, Kara knew she was dead. Then the crack of Juviests's big pistol breaks the spell. The stench of burnt flesh in her nostrils, training and instinct takes over. She drops her rifle - too big close quarters - and draws her pistol. jamming it into the alien's gut she fires.
Thrask jumped forwards after dodging the creature's attack and slammed the blade into the creature's check trying to rake as large a gash as he can in it.
He jumped back towards the group after a good hit and looked over his shoulder towards the others "Start retreating to the loading ramp, nail em as they come in and I'll get any that get through." he yelled trying to get some form cover setup for the others.
Thrask dispatches his pursuer and darts for the ship.
The ship's cannon vaporizes another creature.
The remaining 3 creatures start howling. Their cries are answered from the cliffs as more of the monsters begin to emerge.
Ah now, logic problems I can solve! Hmm...
She thinks for a moment then shrugs
Well with a closed box system meaning there's no way to influence what is being drawn it's down to the worst case scenario. So first draw doesn't matter, just sets a baseline, second draw worst case is draw the other color, third draw means no matter what you've got at least one pair as there's only two colors...
She chews her lip, anxious with her conclusion
so that's for a closed system where you can't tell what you're drawing each time... But is it a trick? Am I supposed to think outside the box and come up with something different?
Fretting, she takes a deep breath and calms herself.
It could also simply be what it appears to be, a puzzle requiring attention to detail and patience, the ability to think calmly. You're answering the question that has been asked, no more and no less. Ok then...
Her fingers pause over the keys for a moment, but then she types '3' and presses enter.
Thrask turns about at the bottom of the ship's ramp and runs a hand across one of the scratches and licks the blood from his hand. His hand goes to the vibrosword still in it's sheath and pulls it free. They had earned his full force now.
He let out a guttural hiss in challenge back to them.
Attempt at Intimidation/gathering their attention towards him in case the other PCs show up as well
"Glad to have you back, big guy." Kara nods towards Thrask. "Now if we can just get our resident vacationers to end their little seances..." She trips the comms as she rolls to one knee, bringing up her pistol. "Djebelle. Aniera. Unless you want to get left behind here, finish up and get out here, there's more of these things coming!" She gives Thrask and Juviest a look. She's only half-joking...
She fires at one of the creatures, hitting it squarely.
As Kara's voice crackles in her ear, Djebelle becomes aware that she has just been staring at the crystal, reduced to speechless silence. (Fortunately, nobody was around to see it.)
She puts a hand up to the comm. "Sure thing, hon - I mean, copy that, Ell Tee, I'm on the way over. Over."
Reaching into the chest, she reverently takes hold of the crystal, lifting it up to the light. She smiles, suddenly, dimples creasing her cheeks: it's purple, just like her hair. Maybe the Jedi do have a sense of... something, after all. Not humour, exactly. But something related.
Looking around, she addresses the empty room: "Thanks. It's been, it's been - something. Not sure what, but something. See you around, maybe. Or not. That's fine too."
Quickly wrapping the crystal back up in the soft leather cloth, she slips it carefully into her pocket, before running like hell back to the ship.
Aristi sends up a prayer of thanks to the silent ones as he sees Kara and Juviest running back to the Kessel's Folly, Thrask not far away as he draws a vibrosword to challenge the monsters. And there's more of them. Aristi swings the turret over and squeezes off a shot towards the creatures emerging around the cliff. Hopefully that will keep them at bay for a few minutes. He ought to be warming up the engines for liftoff, but he decides to stay put until everyone is onboard.
Juviest takes a long breather, as he grins towards the last unharmed beast. "Don't bring claws to a blaster fight, kid.", he says with a grin, as he unloads both blasters into its hide.
Two shots blast into the thing's chest, as Juviest raises his blasters, smoke coming out of the barrels. "I say we pack a few, if we can! Don't s'pose we can grab one alive, do you? Might fetch a good price.", he offers.
Aneira dutifully types the answer and hits enter.
"People. We. Are. Leaving. NOW!!!"
Wiping his forehead, Juviest chuckles as he sees the big creature, then pats Thrask's shoulder. "Well, well, Trandoshan.", he says, lighting up a cigar. "Does your Scorekeeper let you share?", he chuckles, bringing his blasters up. At the press of a button, the hiss of coolant echoes and steam starts raising from the blasters. Letting out a puff himself, he takes a duelist's stance, drawing a bead on the big monster.
Firing at the big one when he can, 2S, 2A for 13 and 9 damage, one advantage to boost next roll
"Get on the ship already!" Aristi growls after hearing that loud shriek. He strains to look out the viewport, but can't get a view of what was making that noise. He doesn't like the look of the masses of creatures streaming down the cliff walls. He grips the controls, waiting for the creatures to come into range and wondering how quickly he can get the engines warmed for take-off.
What's the terrain like between the ship's current position and where the characters currently are, or the cave entrances? Wondering if I can land nearer and pick them up. I'll probably move back up to the cockpit.
Thrask grins and looks upwards towards the big one. He licks the vibrosword. "The Scorekeeper would allow such a thing, but she is a fickle goddess and if you do not worship her and put yourself in her service then she will not reward you in the forever. This matter...would reward incredible bounty if taken as a solo hunt but it would prove a matter of life and death, even with help that may prove to be true. I should force you all inside..."" he began as he started to step towards the creature.
His heart beat faster with each step. The fear, the anticipation of the fight to come. He stood in the clearing, waiting for the beast and giving the group time to gather again.
Djebelle bursts out of the cave, running as hard as she can. "On - my - way - do - NOT - leave - me - here - hon - please -"
She saves her breath for harder running, having seen the beasts approaching the ship.
Standing at the base of the ship's ramp, rifle in hand, Kara watches the thing and smaller ones scale down the walls. Then Djebelle breaks from the cave and sprints to the ship. Kara takes a look toward the place where Aniera disappeared.
'...dammit...'
"Everyone on board ASAP. We can't take them all. Focus on the big one until Djebelle gets here, then we are blasting off. Reb, you have 30 seconds..." Kara estimates, watching the beasts move, "after that, we won't be able to keep the ramp clear. You'll be on your own."
'...don't know how many times I had to say it....'
Kara takes aim at the big one, blasting away at it as it approaches.
Sat there in her safe zone in front of a computer, the warmth drains from Aneira's body as the complex mathematical question appears.
Oh frick...
she chews her lip as she tries to sort the numbers, have them make sense, but no amount of juggling seems to do it. Finally she calms herself once more and closes her eyes, she feels the presence of what others have called the Force, but she just knows is as the universe turning around her for a moment when she is in need... she thinks back to her lessons long ago, her mind distracted... but yes, the fragment of a textbook, a tutor's voice, the formula was there somewhere...
Education: 3 successes, 1 threat
The answer comes like surfacing from a deep dive, the feel of sunlight and air on skin, the answer presents itself and she smiles.
It's all about Prime numbers isn't it? she marvels finally, each of those in the sequence is flanked by Prime numbers!
She quickly does some number crunching in her head
So 138, 150 and 180 then!
She types these in and hits enter, curious to know what will happen when all three lights go green. That's *if* all three lights go green. She chews a finger absent-mindedly as her stomach tenses in anticipation.