Nubb takes a running jump over the broken crates and turns on the luashunta, firing off a shot from his laser pistol at the man's head!
T'Kesh lets out a mad laugh, takes advantage of the smoke wafting up from Ferani's body, and fires her gun at the lashunta. "Still hungry? How about THIS!"
Skitt looks around confused for a moment. Then he quickly pulls out and drinks a potion.
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Nubb and T'Kesh both miss their targets while Skitt heals himself. Meanwhile, the other Downside Kings hurry deeper into the warehouse. The armoured ifrit and the ysoki scurry inside and put their backs against the crates, the shirren circles around the area of the flare, and the human woman ducks under the stairs and puts her back to the warehouse wall, carefully hiding under the catwalk as she creeps up on our heroes. Unfortunately for her, she has no idea that Rabbot is above her and well aware of her presence...
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Rabbot extends her arm out over the edge of the catwalk and fires her gun at the lady below her.
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Taken completely by surprise, the woman lets out a shriek of pain as Rabbot's laser blasts her in the arm! Meanwhile, the lashunta with the short hair fires his laser rifle at T'Kesh a few more times, completely missing!
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T'Kesh returns the favour, firing her laser rifle at the lashunta!
Skitt walks onto the crates and pulls out his azimuth laser pistol and shoots it at the lashunta!
Nubb pokes at the air in front of him and laughs as he hacks into the lashunta's comm unit and makes it vibrate wildly! Then he shoots the lashunta!
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Although T'Kesh and Skitt miss, Nubb's laser fire strikes the lashunta hard enough that he falls over unconscious! The ifrit and the ysoki look at Nubb in fear and quickly fire their guns at him! The bullets and laser blasts slam into the crates and boxes behind him -- all except for one! One blast strikes him in the shoulder. Meanwhile, the shirren circles around the fight, hoping that Nubb and T'Kesh will be too distracted by the others to bother shooting him. The woman under the catwalk blindly runs out from under it and fires her gun up at Rabbot, hitting her in the tracks
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T'Kesh laughs wildly and fires her gun at the ysoki!
But her aim is as wild as her laughter!
Skitt sneaks forward a space, waves hello to his friends, then he focuses on a bolt in the crane and sends it flying through the air at the ysoki.
"Beep... bop... rabbot... ow..."
Rabbot fires her laser pistol at the lady who shot her!
Then she quickly builds a wall of cover to hide behind!
"Owww!" Nubb exclaims. He pokes at the air in front of him, causing the forklift behind the ysoki to sound a blaring loud alarm.
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Nub shoots the ysoki, but he refuses to fall! He tosses down his pistol, pulls out his sniper rifle and takes careful aim at Nubb! Meanwhile, the ifrit releases a burst of bullets at T'Kesh. She ducks, causing the bullets to miss and one of them to hit the shirren! The shirren screams in pain, then starts yelling at his pal.
"Oi! Watch it ya' fire-headed fool!"
The shirren angrily fires his gun at Nubb, but he keeps a keen eye on the ifrit as he shoots which causes his laser blast to fly right past Nubb and narrowly miss the ysoki!
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"HA! You'll never take down T'Kesh: Killer Chef!" T'Kesh ducks behind laser fire, dodges bullets, and fires her gun at the ysoki!
Rabbot zooms along the catwalk and leaps into the forklift!
"Oooh! Nice gun!" Skitt says. "Would you like it, T'Kesh?"
Skitt pulls out his laser pistol and fires a shot at the shirren!
Nubb turns to face the shirren behind him, pokes at the air, and causes the shirren's comm device to overheat! With a laugh Nubb fires his laser pistol at the shirren.
"Would I ever!" T'Kesh laughs madly.
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As Nubb and Skitt both miss, the ifrit and shirren both decide to focus their fire on the Killer Chef! Bullets fly and laser beams sear the air. When the smoke clears T'Kesh has been shot in the shoulder with a pistol, and burnt by a laser blast. Fortunately she manages to avoid catching aflame.
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T'Kesh scowls and takes aim at the ifrit. "Word of advice: if you're going to shoot at me, you'd better hope you kill me. Otherwise? You're mine."
T'Kesh drops her pistol, pulls out her sniper rifle, and fires it at the ifrit!
Nubb pokes at the air, causing his suit to project lasers at the shirren. Although harmless, they're super distracting!
Skitt makes the fancy sniper rifle levitate, then sends it flying at the ifrit.
"PEW! PEW! PEW!" Skitt exclaims, aiming his many fingers at the ifrit like they're pistols.
Rabbot turns on the forklift and drives it at the ifrit, trying to pick him up with it.
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Nubb's light show does it's job, distracting the shirren enough that he lands a killing blow, shooting the bug-man right in the heart. T'Kesh shoots the ifrit in the shoulder, causing them to howl in pain and drop their gun -- just in time for Rabbot to run them over with a forklift.
With the last of the enemies flattened on the ground beneath Rabbot's wheels the warehouse falls silent...
After a gruelling battle, the Downside Kings are no more.
T'Kesh preens and poses for the camera, crowing out her victory for her many fans!
Rabbot drives the body up onto the area with the barrels, trying to get herself in the camera shots for once.
"Beep.... bop... rabbot.... vroom... vroom...."
"Ha! Alive we are!"
Nubb inspects the corpses for clues and useful loot.
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Sifting through the bodies for gear the group finds six suits of flight suit stationwear, six azimuth laser pistols with 10 charges remaining on each of their batteries, 7 extra batteries, 4 clubs, and 2 survival knives. Ferani is wearing an estex suit I with a quick release armour upgrade, a holoskin, a tactical semi-auto pistol with 30 rounds, two mk I serums of healing, a datapad (tier 1 computer about the size of a tablet), and a key card. Finally, the burly vesk is wearing troop ceremonial plate, carrying an assault hammer, an azimuth artillery laser, an auto target rifle with five magazines of longer rounds (10 cartridges each), a frag grenade I, a shock grenade I, and two incendiary grenades I. Scattered among the bodies you find eight credsticks with a total of 1,600 credits on them. Finally, a search of the warehouse turns up 500 UPBs.
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Nubb takes 4 batteries, the quick release armour upgrade, holoskin, and two mk 1 healing serums.
Nubb takes the datapad and tries to sift through it.
When she's finished posing and looting the place, T'Kesh takes a tactical pistol, club, and a battery.
"Anything good on there?" she asks Nubb.
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Nubb finds that the datapad is password protected.
Skitt tries to help! "Guys! Let's help Nubb!"
"What's this button do?" Skitt clicks the button. "What about this one?"
Skitt grins. "Did I help?"
Rabbot takes two batteries, a frag grenade I, a shock grenade I, and two incendiary grenades I.
"Beep...bop...rabbot...boom!"
She tries to look at the data pad.
"Na-na-na!" Nubb exclaims as the others start poking the data pad. "Hands off. I've got it!"
"Ooooh! Very interesting! Proof this is! Look! Look!" Nubb shows everyone the information.
Nubb looks at Ferani's keycard and tries to figure out what it opens. "Hmmm... What is this? What secrets do you unlock?"
"That's it, then. We got all we need. Proof of misdeeds and blah, blah, blah. Let's bring the data pad back to Sunnyside and report in."
"Beep... bop... rabbot... O...K..."
"That's right," T'Kesh says to the camera. "I won. Put me in a jungle, a desert or a space station, and nothing can defeat me. Can't hunt a hunter! Not when it's... T'KESH!"
She turns dramatically, staring off into the distance with a smouldering stare. It looks wonderfully dramatic. The little automated cameras hover through the air, filming her from many different angles.
"Unfortunately, our next stop won't be to go hunting. It will be... in an office! Sunnyside Salvage Shuttle and Towing! My current target..." With a wink at the camera she adds, "Locking on!"
Then she looks at the rest of her companions.
"Let's move out, crew!"
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The group leaves the warehouse behind, hurrying off before station security, other members of the Downside Kings, or other gangs come to investigate. Outside the yellow caution tape is torn to shreds, and mounds of broken walls and rubble fill the 'road,' clearly the result of the Downside Kings blowing their way into the warehouse with grenades. There's not a pedestrian or bystander in sight...
After a few twists and turns down the hall, the streets become crowded and noisy, with the ever-present thrum of vital station machinery vibrating the metal walls of the stores and tenements. The buildings reach two storeys above street-level, their roofs built just under the ceiling that separates level 21 from level 20. Unlike the artificial daylight halogens on the station's Ring, the levels of the Spike seem to have no such luxuries afforded to them. Instead, hanging between all of the buildings are lines of electrical lanterns, bathing the alley-streets below in dim, amber-coloured light.
The group begin to make their way to one of the several stairwells serving as access points to the Spike. Ascending through stairwells and access elevators they finally reach the Ring. There, they return to the small Ringtrain platform.
It is not a long wait before one of the ringtrains stops at the station platform, the thrum of the mag-lev propulsion system being set to idle vibrating through the air. People pour out of the carriage and the group enters. The carriages are all equally crowded, with little room for personal space.
Once all the new passengers have boarded the carriage, the doors close behind them with a hydraulic sigh, and the ringtrain lurches forward slowly to make its way towards its next destination.
The view out of the windows is a blur of tall buildings and streets far below, and the borders between neighbourhoods appear to be distinctly jarring as styles of building change from block to block, and sometimes from one side of the street to the other. The ringtrain stops a few times, with each station being announced with a robotic voiceover through the carriage's intercom about a half minute before slowing down and stopping at another elevated platform.
Finally, the intercom's voice announces "Drifter's End" as the next stop, and many of the carriage's occupants shift their feet as they prepare to disembark. The district and streets below are clean enough, with graffiti-style murals and public notice boards affixed to many of the bare building walls. Neon signs advertise all manner of businesses, most of them geared towards explorers, long-haul space crews, and space-faring vagabonds of varying sorts. Every street seems to have a bar or recruiting office somewhere on it, and all of the roads feel like they lead to the central jewel of the neighbourhood, the Lorespire.
The Lorespire is a building and campus owned by the Starfinder Society, which is much bigger than any other building in the neighbourhood. The campus complex takes up nearly a whole district block on its own. Deep blue metal clads the various multi-storeyed buildings making up its structure, and a massive blue tower in the centre of the complex with a gilded golden compass star spinning slowly on the top of it.
Just down the road from the Lorespire is a yellow and gold skyscraper topped with a hologram of a brilliantly bright sun. Holographic flames flicker on the sides of the building cascading down the walls from the roof, and flickering out into the yellow paint halfway down its length. Emblazoned on the each side of the building in big red sparkling letters is the word 'Sunnyside.' Over the main entrance is a decorative arch emblazoned with the businesses full title 'Sunnyside Salvage Shuttle and Towing.' Although it doesn't look like the fanciest building in the neighbourhood, it's certainly one of the most eye-catching!
The group retraces their steps through the streets, past the Lorespire Campus and up to the front entrance of Sunnyside. A concrete ramp leads up to the buildings large glass doors. They slide open at your approach with a quiet 'swish.'
Inside is a large reception area with at least a dozen people wandering through or waiting. It's appointed nicely, with comfortably deep seating arranged in ways to promote conversation and potted plants interspersed pleasingly through the room. Behind the reception desk sits a human woman in professional business attire, her blonde hair pulled back in a tight ponytail.
As the group enters the secretary looks up and frowns. They can see that the secretary has an earpiece in her left ear and is tapping at a keyboard with both hands. Her eyes are red and puffy from crying.
"Did you... Did you hear anything about Durovar?" she asks them sadly. "Anything at all?"
"Beep... bop... rabbot... must speak to... Chiskisk first..." Rabbot replies as she zooms up to the secretary.
"Yeah, let's move out!" Skitt exclaims happily, throwing his arms into the air in excitement!
Skitt frowns when he sees the sad lady. "Oh, no! Don't cry! Here, I'll help! Skitt grabs a box of Kleenex and brings it to the lady. He smiles proudly. "Here ya' go!"