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Here is Phntm888's submission, Zagulo Maresh, a draconic bloodline sorcerer with the Dragon Scholar background who wants to learn more about the gold dragon that merged its bloodline with his.

"So, to Umbra Club or the Kelerium plant. Which do we choose?"

I have no Xenology, either, but I've got a lot of Intellect, so I figured it was worth a shot.

Zagulo looks at Hou, then at the girl, then nods and says, "We learned he's holed up in a Kelerium processing plant owned by Novacore, over in the Works. Droid automated, and takes up about a third of the sector. Do you know specifically where in the plant he's hiding?"

He doesn't recognize her species, and hopes they don't have to guide her around since she doesn't have eyes.

Total 2 Failure, 3 Advantages

Mentally complaining about the stairs, Zagulo follows Muhax down them - hopefully at a slower pace than they went up.

Hey all, I stopped receiving notifications for the games I'm in. You guys might want to check yours, as well.

Zagulo signs out of the terminal and sneaks back to the stairs so they can plan their next move.

Total 1 success, 4 advantage. I'll spend those to boost others stealth checks as necessary.

Total 4 successes, 1 threat

Zagulo looks over the data before whispering to those near him, "This address is for a Kelerium processing plant owned by Novacore. It's nearly entirely droid automated, and has been operational for centuries. It makes up nearly a third of the Works sector here on Coruscant. We could search the complex for hours or days and possibly not find Kaa'to."

Okay, I wasn't sure. I'll boost Muhax, since Muhax is covering the stairs.

Total is 2 success, 1 advantage.

Zagulo begins slicing the terminal, looking for any data that will allow them to locate the target.

What difficulty should I use for slicing the terminal? And can my advantage from Stealth be used to give myself a boost die on the check?

Zagulo merely nods to Tibs and sneaks over to the terminal to begin slicing it.

2 sucesses, 1 advantage total. Can I use that advantage to give myself a boost die for my Computer check?

Breathing slightly heavily from the walk to the fifteenth floor, Zagulo thinks I should have said the elevator. Either that or perhaps I should take up exercising.

To Tibs' question, Zagulo says, [b]"I would like to get access to a terminal to see whether they have information about the target's location. Perhaps we can carefully peek out the stairwell to see if we can determine how many people are present in the docking bay?

I say stairs and docking bay.

Zagulo whispers, "We should examine the docking bay above. I can likely find a terminal to slice into there, as well."

"I'm going to see if there are any ways in except for the obvious," Zagulo says, as he goes to move about and look for alternative entries.

1 success total

"There are some ventilation grates in back. They look tight, but we should be able to fit through them."

"Agreed. The sooner we catch him, the better."

Umbra Club: 2d8 - 2d8 ⇒ (3, 5) - (6, 8) = -6
Nothing there

The Spyder: 2d8 - 2d8 ⇒ (4, 6) - (7, 7) = -4
2 Successes, 2 Threat

Zelcomm Tower: 2d8 - 2d8 ⇒ (5, 5) - (5, 2) = 3
1 Failure, 1 Advantage

"We may want to avoid the Snyder. The majority of the gamblers there are affiliated with Black Sun, and if they know of recent events, we may not get out of there alive."

"Agreed. We can do this and catch the bounty hunter, I'm sure. Our skills are there."

Well, at least we're walking out of this with something. Zagulo nods his acceptance of the terms offered by Chopper, before looking to Tibs for final confirmation.

"That they did not tell us up front we would have to do this for them as part of the job is troubling. It shows they are willing to hold information back, and very well might decide to save themselves our payment at the end of this. Once we get this bounty hunter, we should make sure they pay us before we actually turn him over."

Zagulo casually wanders over to the monitor to look at the status of the decryption.

Zagulo sighed. It was going to be one of those jobs. He knew they should have insisted on half up front. It was the only way to guarantee you got something out of jobs like this. At this point, the odds were 50/50 in favor of them getting shot at the end of this.

Looking at Chopper, the Duros said, "Could you contact the Pike family and ask for half our payment? Since this wasn't part of the original job, I would say we've earned that."

"In the usual way. I assume you were told to expect us?"

Net 2 Advantage, 2 Success. Can I spend the 2 Advantage to help negate Threat from Amon's rolls?

How do I aid another in this system?

Net 5 Successes.

Smiling, Zagulo shakes his head. "Chopper apparently owes a lot of people favors."

Seeing the looks on some of their faces, Zagulo said, "His speeder shop is pretty decent. Actually, he could probably get rid of this for us. He owes me a favor for helping him out with a small legal issue. A pretty jovial Besalisk - but don't screw him over, he doesn't take it kindly."

Zagulo breathes a sigh of relief at the fact they'd escaped the Black Sun thugs. "Indeed. There are some on Duro who could not have flown so well, though they would never admit it."

As Muhax begins speaking with their employer, Zagulo waggles the data card containing the information.

"The data? Yes, I do have it. However, they appear to have taken far more security measures than is standard even for Black Sun. Whatever this data is, it is far more valuable than we were led to believe," Zagulo responds to Tibs in his gravelly voice. Though his blaster is drawn, he seeks an escape route, as he is not particularly enamored of getting into a shoot-out.

Net: 1 Triumph, 1 Failure

Zagulo has the most nonplussed look on his face at the blaring alarm. He'd sliced through 4 layers of security to get to the data they needed, broken every safeguard they had, and yet, somehow, he'd missed one. Well, no crying over spilled blue milk. Once the data finished copying, he grabbed his datapad and shouted, "Let's run."

The group bursts from the building onto the speeder pad, with nothing but the speeders and a drop. Take a job in the Core Worlds, they said. You'll be able to pay off your debts, they said. Coruscant's a great place. It's not like you're breaking into Black Sun's headquarters. Zagulo flinches as blaster bolts fly overhead.

"I'll deal with the security software. Amon, help me figure out which one to investigate."

I'll slice the security software on whichever speeder Amon chooses. If there is no security software and we decide not to use the speeder Amon chooses, I'll merely use my roll to wreck that speeder's piloting software and render it inoperable.

Computers: 2d12 + 2d8 ⇒ (6, 4) + (4, 7) = 21
That's 2 Advantage and 5 Successes. My Bypass Security talent allows me to remove one setback die from the difficulty pool. What can I spend the advantages on?

Okay, got the stuff needed for the stat line.

As far as Zagulo coming onto the crew, I see two possibilities. Both ideas revolve around Tibs or Muhax having hired Zagulo as a slicer for a job or two before he joined the crew. The first is that after a couple of jobs, Zagulo mentions he'd basically grown up on and around starships. That, coupled with the Duros species reputation as pilots and hyperspace route pioneers, caused Tibs to decide to hire Zagulo on full-time as a copilot. The other is that Tibs or Muhax got the crew hired for the Black Sun job and needed a slicer, so he contacted Zagulo, who joined the crew on a full-time basis afterwards.

Which of those sounds appealing, if either?

I'm fine with Tibs owning the ship, too.

Yoricks, I know in Pathfinder GMs usually like to have Initiative and such easily referenced in the line under your alias name. What information do you want for this game?

I like Prospector VII, as well.

So, who owns her? Did Tiberius win her in a Sabaac game? Did Muhax purchase the ship in order to facilitate his business?

Zagulo would not have sliced ownership records for a ship unless he wanted to give it to the Hutts to clear his gambling debts. Given said debts, any ship he won playing Sabaac would immediately be given to the Hutts for the same purpose.

Prospector is pretty good, too. I would be down for a theme on research and exploration. Good thinking, Aralli :).

I'm in favor of avoiding animals. Perhaps the Quasar Jewel or something similar?

Fortunately, the YV actually looks different, although it's made by the same shipyard. Plus we can work to improve and upgrade it to our tastes.

Let's go with the YV. I've thought about it, and the shield zone benefits coupled with slightly better handling and long range sensors off-set the additional hull trauma and encumbrance capacity sufficiently to make it worth it.

I will vote for the ZH as well, unless the shield information changes my views. I didn't even think to ask if there was shield information for any of the ships.

I'd favor a second round of voting, but only between 2 options. There are only 6 of us.

I'm fine with Muhax owning the ship. It doesn't quite make sense for Zagulo to own it.

I actually think the ZH-25 might be a better bet. Handling a little worse than the YV-560, but better armor and more cargo space. The YV-560 would be my other choice.

Zagulo Maresh here! I have family stuff this weekend, so won't be weighing in on the Captain thing immediately. Will try to get my votes in tonight.

Since we have 6, that reduces our base Obligation to 5 (before taking on extra), so adjust accordingly!

And now I have the PDF character sheet version of Zagulo. That editor was very helpful.

Here it is:
Character Sheet PDF.

Actually, there's at least 1 entry for every role Yoricks was looking to have filled, so if things wrapped up early, every role could be filled. However, there are 8 people who have expressed dots who may not have had time to finish their character yet, what with the holidays and all. Saturday may be too soon for them to be able to finish if they've traveled a long way to see family and whatnot. If people reasonably expected to have until January 6 to finish their character before expressing interest, they should have the time to do so.

However, closing submission to new interest early would be completely different, giving those who have not yet finished until the original deadline to finish their characters. I see no issue with that.

EDIT: The "8 expressing interest" includes those mentioned in Yoricks post above minus WarforgedMan, who finished his, and includes Hayato Ken, who was not in that list.

So much interest and excitement for this. I'll admit surprise, as I wasn't sure this would be so popular.

Indeed. That's why I made sure to list two backup roles. Versatility is valuable :)

I really need to install that character creator on my home desktop. I used my wife's laptop last night when I made the character, and didn't want to install it on hers.

An extra 250 credits? Well, shoot. Now I gotta figure out what to buy with that.

Also, you should totally take on extra Obligation. I did for +10 XP! It's great. Since Yorick is choosing 4 or 5 people, it means we're guaranteed 10 base, so an extra 10 obligation only takes you to 20. It's not that much.

Of course, 5 players with 20 Obligation each...yeah, someone's obligation is triggering.

I'm good with using that for languages. Edge of the Empire doesn't seem to address it very well that I've noticed.

I'm a Duros. I'm pretty sure that makes me at least the copilot on pretty much every ship I step on to.

Heh, Zagulo is almost as good a pilot as Nebten.

Or...as good a pilot as Nebten if I look at the sheet linked in your post vs the sheet linked in your profile?

Which one is the final sheet?

And here is Phntm888's submission, a Duros Slicer who owes a lot of money in gambling debts. His primary role is Computer Expert, and he would be able to serve as a backup Mechanic and Pilot, for both Planetary and Space. Stats are in the profile, as is a link to a reference image. It's a generic Duros, I couldn't find an image I liked tonight. I might try again tomorrow.

"I've never heard of the Rakata. Tell me, why do you say 'Jedi' as 'Jed'aii'?"

He found this pronunciation quite curious.