Toro smiles a bit, as she see's Ferani's attitude begin to shift, but then Paeon makes his gambit, and she shoots him a glance as if to say , Did you really just do that?
She watches and listens to Ferani's response, "OK, OK, you can kill us all with your...whatever you've got there. " waving her hand at Ferani's robo-limb, " Ignore my charming friend," she says, glancing at Paeon with irritation, <<She's lying. But let's try to get our info without burning the place to the ground? >>.
Looking back to Ferani, "Look, I can tell you're lying. Duravor was a friend. He died when you guys were fighting the Level 21 Crew. We know one of yours killed him, probably that big Vesk out there... or maybe it was you with the kill shot. Whatever. You were doing a job for someone...we want to know who that someone is. And our credits are yours if you give us the info we need. The Andy stays with us."
Ferani maintains her sour expression, but at the promise of credits she seems to mellow a little once again;
The Downside’s Queen raises her head proudly then chuckles;
”Think you three have it all figured out… You know nothing… The 21 "Spew" are in the pocket of the Hardscrabbler mining clan. Your friend Kreel was in deep too. We got our own patrons see… Big Corp backing our play. Type you don’t mess with. Type that don’t mess around with problems getting in the way of their business…”
She arches her tattooed brow, before grinning maliciously;
”Now. Just how much credit you patsies plan on giving to the Kings as tribute?”
Vrokilayo clamps his jaws open and shut in smug pride at his story being well received.
”Another? Maybe later Mousssebar Eater… We Vesssk like to hit hardessst first. Ssso it isss with ssstories… Bessst firssst…”
As the visitors ask about the other gangers he merely shakes his head;
”Them? They just little Kingsss… Prossspectsss. Not earned namesss. Not blooded nor found a calling like Grillz or the door-boyz…”
The two gangers serving drinks exchange looks and fleeting grimaces, but say nothing to the challenge the imposing vesk’s assessment.
When Retsiji mentions being in a scrap after just 2 days onboard he flashes a toothy grin;
”Hah. Good work. Fast work. Vesssk work! You were victoriousss yesss?”
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{If it was just a contract I suppose then you fulfilled your duty. I can understand that.}
Paeon stares intently at the Queen.
{Perhaps the Queen would share some information then. Kreel did right by us, took us in. So we're here to either do right by him or figure out the truth.}
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I can assure you we better allies that enemies. We should share intel. Perhaps there are things we can do for each other.
Ferani chuckles at Paeon’s words;
”Duty? Hahah. Duty don’t come into it when big corp credits come a knocking. We Kings answered and got paid, but I find it amusing you think us capable of such honourable notions… Tells me more about you Lasher, than you know about me…”
She eyes Noah curiously;
"That you might be. We might make interesting bed-fellows, your crew and mine... You fully functional Andy?"
The gang boss then sneers, as she delivers some hard truths;
”Listen. Your dwarven friend had to be wiped. Astral Extractions wanted to send those frakin’ Hardscrabblers and righteous Starfinders a message. A bloody one. Cost me three mailmen to deliver it… but worth it. Worth every damn credit. Will bankroll our reign!”
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Noah 2.0 offers Yes fully functional, and then some. Let me demonstrate. His hands make quick arcane gestures and he fires a ray of acid at Ferani. He then steps back and pulls a knife.
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As Retsiji recounts the scrap he was involved in Vrokilayo listens intently, then as the details sink in, a look of surprised recognition begins to creep across the brute Vesk;
"Thisss sssoftssshell o' yoursss... He have a name?"
Just as Hatchbuster poses the question, you all "hear" Noah's message heralding the commencement of hostilities...
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Having no weapon in hand, and being caught between the table and the large vesk as Noah signals the festivities to begin, Kris heads towards the table against the wall.
"Excuse me, big boy" Kris says lightly pushing on the vesk right shoulder as she walks by, giving herself a bit of room to work, and Retsiji a blind side. "if his damnable pride will let him take it".
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Koro listens to Ferani's rant, nodding and smiling, covering up the seething anger as the gang leader blithely talks about the death of her friend. However, in order to find out who in Astral ordered Keravor's death, they needed to keep her talking.
She'd just opened her mouth to do some more shmoozing, when Noah takes charge of the situation and escalates!!!
With a roll of her eyes, and an almost apologetic shrug towards Ferani, Koro draws her pistol and fires...
With a roar, Retsiji closes with the other vesk.
Paeon watches in disbelief as the 'droid fires. He drops the pistol he has confiscated and moves in the direction of the Queen. As he does so his solar mote transforms into a two handed blade nearly as long as Paeon himself. Its wide flat blade decorated with the constellations of forgotten galaxies.
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No sooner has Ferani uttered her bitter words, than Noah mirthlessly sends an corrosive ray that bubbles and burns the gang leader.
Her howl of anger and pain is stolen as suddenly a slug from Koro’s buries itself into the shoulder of the King’s Queen!
In quick succession Ed splashes Vrokilayo's eyes with the potent liquor, as his companions move seemlessly to engage their foes.
For their worth the two gangers sit slack jawed at the seemingly sucidal action of the Shirren, and the club wielder at the northern door seems momentarily rooted to the spot!
Hissing in pain, the big vesk scratches at his stinging eyes, then as the sound of gunfire emits from Ferani's office he bellows in rage...
"Asssasssinsss! Kill them all! Ferani! I come to you my Queen!"
...before lashes wildly out with a clawed hand:
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Though weaponless Hatchbuster's claws rake deep into Retsiji's armour, leaving deep furrows...
Paeon steps forward and heaves with his blade, a trailing blur of light follows it,
As Paeon swings, s bright light begins to surge from his eyes and body as heat begins to radiate around him.
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Get him, Resti! And you can be Hatchbusterbuster! The Shirren steps back targeting the thug next to him with a trio of shooting stars!
Kris draws the laser pistol she recently aquired and takes aim at the large vesk. Taking advantage of the big fella's momentary blindness.
A bit surprised that she tagged Ferani with that quick shot, Toro adjusts her aim and fires again...
... then she sees that Paeon is doing his solar thing, and glances at Noah, "Keep back, he's going to explode....really..."
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Retsiji rocks back on his heels, then comes back with a devastating roundhouse right.
Reeling from the corrosion and slug burying itself in her, Ferani screams in pained anger... just as Paeon rushes forward cleaving her with a blurred blade!
The Queen of the Kings reflectively attempts to block the strike... but is left standing, slowly blinking through scowled eyes at where her hand used to be attached to her body...
"Whaaat... the... frakkk..."
As she peers at the stump of flesh cauterized by the Solarion's blade, Ferani snaps back to reality and mouths a curse, just as Koro's second bullet impacts - snapping her head back and washing the back wall crimson.
The feared gang leader drops like a stringless puppet!
Noah 2.0, shocked by the violence he initiated, blinks a few times, then crosses to the woman and looks for a way to open the security door. Unsure how much time we have before this event is investigated. And I bet our friends outside would welcome some help.
He will open the door if possible.
<< Boss is down.>> Noah 2.0 sends to the telepaths in the group, not totally sure his message is received.
Kris’ quickfire shot at Vrokilayo is deflected by the brute’s armour. Retsiji launches a brutal roundhouse in reply to the raking he took just seconds before, and sends one of Hatchbuster’s teeth spinning across the room.
Seeing the two Vesk viciously engage shocks the remaining gangers into action.
“Clubber” shifts towards Kris, and cracks a swing at the sniping android...
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...but the blow merely clangs against the wall as she ducks reactively!
His two card sharking comrades scramble to their feet bellowing obscenities, drawing their las-pistols.
”Double-crossin’ scum-suckers! You all Vat Garden fodder!”
The blow is heavy, but Retsiji resists it more than Hatchbuster expected, drawing a infuriated scowl...
Retsiji’s slug seems to give Vrokilayo clarity. The King’s scaled enforcer draws his assault hammer and with a bloody grin swings for the fences on his fellow vesk:
”You hit like a hatchling! Now you sssee what a true named Vesssk can do!”
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His two card sharking comrades scramble to their feet bellowing obscenities, drawing their las-pistols.
”Double-crossin’ scum-suckers! You all Vat Garden fodder!”
The curses are met with a flash of arcane starlight as one of the Kings gets blasted within an inch of his life causing him to reevaluate his life choices!
"Frak this! I'm done!"
The ganger drops his pistol as quickly as he drew it.
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His breathing hoarse and labored, Retsiji nevertheless presses the attack. He lands another solid blow on his named opponent and grins wordlessly at the other.
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Calmly ducking the ganger's swing, Kris takes aim at Hatchbuster's head up until the point she plants the survival knife in the gatekeeper's throat.
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Koro takes a moment to admire her last shot, then turns to address Noah's question, "Probably never. The Kings most certainly have the local security on the payroll."
She then holsters her pistol and looks sternly at the android, "Next time we have the prime information source of our investigation talking....let's let her talk, instead of trying to melt her face off!"
She then hustles over to the fallen Ferani and searches the ganger for any more information or things of use for the investigation.
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Paeon's large sword instantly vanishes the moment the looming threat is gone, replaced by his solar mote's pulsing dark energy. The light now faded from his eyes he no longer seems to be bursting at the seems.
Remembering the key pads on the various doors Paeon reaches down and collects Ferani's hand, wrapping it in a cloth and fixing it to his belt.
{Now this is just a literal dead end, lets hope we can find some information in this room. This ended quickly. Hopefully nothing was heard.}
Paeon will assist in the search,
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Ed chirps a warning to the faltering King, then sends another wave of his silvery stars scything into Hatchbuster!
The scaled enforcer reels, stumbling straight into a roundhouse launched by his fellow Vesk!
Retsiji’s punch caves in the jaw and cheek of Vrokilayo, who gets laid out flat with a sickening thud.
Kris catches the club wielding King by surprise, deftly spinning to slice at the ganger’s neck. The thug avoids his throat being opened by shifting at the last second, but a deep cut is left along his jaw line.
”Andy b1tch! I’ll break you for that!”
Bloodied, but enraged he once again swings wildly at Kris with his bat;
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Across the room the two card sharks employ differing tactics. The one who dropped his pistol bolts for the door making it to the door in a panicked rush.
His companion levels his las-pistol at Ed and fires:
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but the shot proves wayward!
As Ferani’s body lies sprawled upon the floor, and her blood drips down the back wall you begin a cursory search of the room.
Noah determines that the security door from the room is locked and requires a key card to access. Bypassing the security coding would be a difficult task, though not impossible .
Padding down the dead gang boss yields a pistol battery pack (20 charges), credstik showing 500cr on its display, and a key card… By her side is the macabre club made from robotic limbs, and she wears battered Estex Suit I armour.
The weapon Paeon disarmed from her is a Static Arc Pistol (16 charges), and upon the desk sits a Tier 1 Datapad.
Suddenly the deathly calm is shattered by a loud thump on the wall and sounds of gunfire from the adjoining store room where you let your companions!
Pocketing the battery and cred stick for now Noah 2.0's hand settles onto the access card. [/b]Got it![/b] he says as the gunfire from the other room seems to punctuate his statement. Paeon, I could put that pistol to good use if you can spare it. he adds as he looks for the slot to use the access card on to open the door. I have a spell that powers up those energy weapons.
As the sound of thumps, zaps and bullets emit from the adjoining room, Noah calmly inserts the key card into the security door eliciting a grind as the lock mechanisms disengage, and the display pings to green.
Inside the racking contains the cache of the Downside Kings illicit labours:
- A Holoskin
- An Azimuth Artillery Laser with 2 batteries (20 charges each)
- An Injection Glove
- 1 Dose of Dreamshiver
- 2 x Incendiary Grenades I
- A Quick Release Sheath (Armour Upgrade)
- 2 x Mk 1 Serums of Healing
- 500 UPBs
- 6 x Credstiks (each containing 100Cr)
The fleeing King ducks under the bruised Vesk’s wayward punch and gets to the door, and he fumbles to open it.
Meanwhile Ed continues to sling stars with aplomb, sending one wave into the defiant ganger, and another blasting the fleeing card shark into the next life! Sprawled against the door he slumps as his body sparks with stellar energy.
As another of his gang falls, the bat wielding punk aims another swing at Kris, attempting to cave her skull in and open up an avenue of escape;
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Still off-balance, he over-extends and swings at air.
Across the room Ed's furious stellar barrage elicits a crazed response from the remaining King. Though wounded, be frantically blasts at the dangerous bug:
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His lancing shot sets the shirren alight!
Party Up. Party On!
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