It was hot, the night we burned Laundry. There were vents in his financial ICE that hadn't been cleared since DOS was a pile of punch cards. Tally had some old kiddy script from the days before Neo-Sov. Softener, she called it. She was sure it could clear the cruft and give us a direct pipeline to Laundry's accounts. All of them. Not just the Barbados off-shore stuff. Even the legit cred piles in socked away in Zurich. I just wanted to see him fold.
The bulkhead slid aside. Precious molecules of air hissed into the void of space. Like bits being overwritten by a magnet, I thought. Malcolm took off his helmet. His dreads drifted in zero g. "No need to worry," he said. "The Thread to Zion, we cut long ago. The righteous don't dance like no machine's puppet in the city of the Lord." Far below, the Earth glowed in a cage of invisible lines.
Whenever she had too much synthol and fumes, Tally ranted we couldn't let it stand. That we had to do something. Revenge, maybe. Justice. The Thread must've been listening. One day suits from Health & Serv grabbed her on a 72 hour custody warrant. I heard she wound up in a gated burb, jack tore out of her head and cleaned up with blood-scrubbers coursing through her veins. Shame. The Thread gets what it wants. Can't kill the Thread.
Everyone said the Thread couldn’t die. Or at least, you couldn’t kill it. Except Aggro. He claimed he knew a way past the Root ICE all the way down to the Thread’s machine code. When he turned up in a Mac City morgue, burned from brain-core to the tips of his polyweave ‘hawk we knew he’d been right.
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It was hot, the night we burned Clown...
About Christon RynxIntro, Defense & Offense:
Christon Rynx Male Human Jedi 1 Languages
Speed 6 Stat Rolls Here
DEFENSE
OFFENSE
Melee
Ranged
Class & Race Features:
JEDI FEATURES 1- Lightsaber Starting Feats Force Sensitivity, Wp Prof (Lightsabers), Wp Prof (Simple Weapons) Talent Background: Medical HUMAN FEATURES
Talents & Feats:
TALENTS Lightsaber Combat Tree Deflect FEATS
Skills:
Armor Check Penalty: 0 SKILLS
Force Powers:
Use the Force +8 Force Suit
Gear:
Lightsaber - (1 kg) Concealed Holster 50 creds (.2 kg) Knife 25 creds (1 kg) Utility Belt 500 creds (4 kg) -Ration Pack x3 -Medpack -Toolkit -Power Pack -Energy Cell -Glow Rod -Short-Range Comlink -Liquid Cable Dispenser Medical Kit 600 creds (20 kg) Total Weight: 26.2/81 kg Cash: 25 creds
Christon:
“You only need one chance. With this one chance, a skilled performer can turn an assured defeat into a sound victory, or make the defeat even worse. But if you were going to be defeated anyway, what’s to lose?” Master Mokke always said that. He was a brilliant orator and an enthusiast duelist, always going with the flow until the right moment appeared. His big moment arrived during the execution of Order 66. Sensing a big, big disturbance in the Force, he sent his padawan away and made him keep his profile low. Then he faced the stormtroopers using his favourite weapon: his voice. So Christon ended up stranded in Actlyon, without his master and almost no one to trust. He only had a second class lightsaber and a holocron with some fencing lessons, both inherited from Master Mokke. He quickly set up on abandoning his Jedi persona and turning into a young nurse in practice, finding a job with the local healer. The Force acts in mysterious ways, and not long after, he found another orphaned apprentice, a young Twi’lek called Jukurrpa. They both shared experiences, help and even some other things too private to be explained here. Jukurrpa had her own plans, though, and one day some months after Christon woke up to find Jukurrpa gone, no sign of her... nor Christon’s holocron. He quickly freaked out. Will she tell the Empire about him? Will she be captured and forced to do it? Why did she take the holocron? He decided it was time for a change, and no Jedi was going to go fetch him apparently. With the idea that other holocrons should be able to be found somewhere else in the galaxy, he started his pilgrimage. Taking care not to travel too close to the Core while following any rumour he could gather about possible Jedi relics, Christon involuntarily accepted the burden of perpetuating the order through the dark times. Christon is not a true professional, but he’s good enough as a healer to offer some basic aid wherever he goes, in exchange for some food, shelter or intel. He’s kind but also cautious, hiding his tall, strong build - and his lightsaber - under his robes. Hard to discourage, our blond hero keeps travelling across the Outer Rim in search of legends and lore, arriving to Krai Ven Station right after the smuggler he was looking for has been shot to death due to Sabacc debts... |