A Meal Fit For...A Wookie?

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

[fancybox2]

KASHKYYYK
1900 Hours

Participate in a hunt with another player to bring back game for the Life Day feast! This thread can be DMed, dice-rolled, or both! You will be compensated for any game you bring back!

• (Reward: In-character credits, enough to buy an advanced tech armor function)

Dice Rolled. Death Disabled.
DEADLINE: Must be completed by January 2nd
@EmilyHuene ; @Taz [/fancybox2]

Happy Life day! A holiday that originated with and is celebrated by Wookiees on Kashyyyk and has become a renowned holiday all across the galaxy. At least, except for the Sith. The Empire removed any hope of ever allowing that celebration eons ago. Excluding them, Life Day is celebrated by so many species and races and cultures. Although Mandalorians respect the Wookiees for the strength of their warriors, they don't technically celebrate Life Day itself. At least in the way they do.

Life Day is a sacred day to Wookiees, in which they celebrate the diverse ecosystems of Kashyyyk, mourn those who have died, and celebrate the lives of the young ones in their families. They consider it their duty to return to Kashyyyk on Life Day where they chew the root of the orga plant and journey to the Life Tree. They also reinforced any life debts they had to their so-called “honor families” during the holiday. Those who celebrate the holiday often decorate wroshyr trees as a symbol of the day. Life Day was most important when Wookiees were in mass enslavement across the galaxy, as it was a means of connecting to their history even when forced to be away from home.

The celebration was to take place on the floating tree-village of Rowrakruk. Kae'Leigh sat anxiously in the passenger seat of her partner's overhead class freighter The Rocinante. She was dressed in a simple brown tunic and pants combo with a leather blue jacket over top. On her hip she had holstered an R5 Blaster Pistol, but was otherwise unarmed. Kae'Leigh wasn't the fighting type like Jett Nova was. They came here to party! Why would they need guns...?

 

[Jett Nova (old)]

Life Day, it had been a couple of years since the last time Jett was on the home world of the Wookies and that time was a blur. A wonderful, nearly week long, blur. This year was off to a good start. Jett landed in a clearing near the great city and spent the better part of the evening mooching off the open tab of some mando warrior woman who was to high on spice to she couldn't even put her help on right. When the party girl did a header into the tree, Jett decided it was time to slip on the back and stumble back to The Roci.

Jett woke the next morning face down on the cold durasteel floor of the ship. Getting to his feet he stumbled into his personal room and slink into the shower. Soon he was clean of the night before and ready to make a little money. To assist in feeding the masses that were making the pilgrimage to the great floating city, the Wookies were paying a large some to those willing to brave to local forests and bring back a beast large enough to feed the need.

Soon the merc was sealed in his scout armor, armed with his R5R rifle, pistol and the rest of his gear. For a little extra punch he also packed a couple of grenades. Just in case. When he was finally ready he headed for the cargo and his jumpspeeder. He stared at the bike as if it were missing something. His partner.

Jett then walked over to a nearby com panel on the wall and punched in the code to speak withing the entire ship. "If you want to get to Ord Mantell your gonna help pay the way."

 

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

"If you want to get to Ord Mantell your gonna help pay the way."

Hearing the intercom go off the girl looked up from the datapad she was reading and pushed the button to call back, "Hey! I'm not the one who woke up drunk. I was ready four hours ago!" She then got up and headed to the hanger where he was waiting for her. "The nerve of some people," she'd think as she left the cockpit.

Moving into the hanger she approached the bike and swung her leg over it like she owned it herself, "You ready, Mr. Grumpy-pants?"

 

[Jett Nova (old)]

Jett heard the blue skinned slicer replay to his call, and even though she couldn't hear him while she was still transmitting. Jett let out a deep gutted burp to agree with her comment. A mistake on his part, as he still had the helmet of his scout armor still on. The combination of booze and Woookie cuisine made for a taste and smell that could kill a monkey-lizard. The former soldier quickly pulled the helmet off and gave a gagging noise.

Before he realized it, Kaylee was down the steps that hell down into the hold and she was on his bike. He cocked and eyebrow as he looked down at her. Putting his helmet back on he then moved his hand and waved her off to move back.

"Slide back", he demanded. Then slide over the front seat and powered up the bike, shooting out of the ship and into the late morning of the day.

 

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

"Slide back"

"You're not fun!" she'd say with a pout. But she obliged and made room for him to take the "wheel" so to speak. Once situation she leaned into him and wrapped her arms around his torso to hold on.

The bike fired up and soon they were flying down the road. Her lekku waved in the wind behind her. It was a strange sensation that gave her shivers. The first time she ever rode a bike she felt like she was having some sort of panic attack or something. She freaked out and cried so hard all the boys made fun of her. Eventually she got over it and pushed past the fear to try again. Once the initial scare wore off she found the feeling to tickle.

She would scream in excitement, "I don't know why I never bought a bike! I forgot how much I love this!!!"

 

[Jett Nova (old)]

Jett felt her arms around his torso and a surprising feeling or pride washed over him a moment, and was gone as quick as it came over him. The bike shot forward and her grip got tighter thought she sounded like she was having fun. Jett opened up the throttle and charged down the trails that took them deeper into the forest. He was admittedly not overly familiar with the planet but he knew how to track and hunt. They needed a little distance away from the city and the celebration.

The pair of them traveled deep into the forest for what seemed time the better part of an hour, then something caught the merc's eye and he pulled the bike over. Setting it down about twenty meters from the giant web. Tapping on Kaylee's hands for to let go as he carefully slide off the bike. Keeping his eye on the web and he followed the center bar of the web upward and found what he was looking for.

"Stay on the bike for the moment, carefully ready your pistol." He whispered.

Jett then took a knee and leveled his R5R rifle toward a Webweaver nearly twice the size of the jumpspeeder. The creature seemed to have been feeding and only now to notice of a disturbance near it. A sudden wrong move now, and the of hunters could quickly become a snack of this massive spider.

 

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

The forest was gorgeous. She felt so at peace here. She imagined this is what her kin felt like back on Ryloth. She'd never been; so she wouldn't know. All she'd ever known were the levels of Naruto Shaddaa and that was nothing to brag about. Smoke and fog and exhaust. A gross place to live one's life.

Her mind wandered silently as she took in the view and enjoyed the ride. When they finally started to slow she sat up straight and stretched. She could feel a certain amount if anxiety coming off of Jett, or maybe she was imagining it. What was there to be nervous about?

"Stay on the bike for the moment, carefully ready your pistol."

In confusion she looked around, "Um..... Alright?"

Her hand went to her hip and she pulled it free of the holster and clicked the safety off. Jett took a crouched position just beside them and aimed his rifle towards a large web. She then immediately noticed the massive spider eating it's meal.

"That's what we're hunting!" she exclaimed in a hushed whisper. "Are you kriffing insane?!"

 

[Jett Nova (old)]

"Yes, and well....yes!" Jett whispered back in a low and pleased with himself tone. Then, with the rifle still aimed at the nearly ship sized arachnid. Jett fired at the eight leged predator, missing his mark by less then a meter. Stunned, Jett looked up from the scope of the R5R and then back down the scope and away again. "aahh poodoo, you've gotta be kriffing me." He cursed, mostly at himself.

The Webweaver hissed as his meal was suddenly interrupted by blaster fire from intruders it hadn't noticed until just now. Fortunately for the two hunters, the giant spider was full and thus lazy for the moment. Unwilling to put forth the effort in running down the pair. Instead turning it self to fire streams of webbing wildly toward the pair and the speeder.

 

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

"aahh poodoo, you've gotta be kriffing me."

Distracted by Jett cursing, Kae'Leigh looked away for a moment to see what had happened and why her comrade had missed. When she looked back up she saw the spider turning and rear up for a second to shoot the webbing at them.

"Jett look out!" she cried.

Kae'Leigh jumped off the bike hoping to evade the webs, but her leg got caught in the outer rings as it sailed by. She cursed and tried pulling it free. After a good tug she gets her leg freed and is able to crawl away. Kae'Leigh holds up her gun and fires her blaster six times at the beast hitting it each time. Although she hit the beast six times, only one of them seems to hurt the spider. The spider stumbles from the onslaught of Kae'Leigh's sudden unnatural accuracy; it was as if she got help from some supernatural force....

Kae'Leigh turns her attention back to Jett, "Get up, Jett! Hurry!"

 

[Jett Nova (old)]

"Kark me!" Jett exclaimed was he leaped and tumbled away from the bike. The merc managed to escape but lost his rifle as the web seemed to coat the roll frame from the ranger bike, pinning it down the speeder and his rifle to the ground. Jett quickly recovered and knelled on his left leg for stability as he pulled the R5 pistol on right hip and fired. Managing a direct his in the face of the creature, just inches from his Twi'lek parner's lucky shot.

At the same time he fired his pistol, Jett pulled the spare grenade he was smart to pack early from a pouch on his belt and cook the weapon just was he fired the pistol then tossed the explosive in a sort of one-two punch to try to cripple the beast. The attack was effective, the grenade would explode and toss the giant spider from it's web and seemingly crashing to the forest floor below.

In truth the creature set itself free of it's web in hopes to avoid being finished by the explosive that it understood was somehow harmful. The force of the blast would force the beast to land awkwardly, breaking three of it's legs on it's left side as it tired to recover.

"Aim for the head and don't stop shooting till it stops moving" Jett yelled and fired the rest of his the 11 shots in the pistol charge at the spider's head.

 

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

Kae'Leigh smirked as Jett fired his pistol and then tossed a grenade at the spider causing it to drop and crash. It didn't get up either.

"Aim for the head and don't stop shooting till it stops moving"

Hearing Jett's instructions Kae'Leigh again fires her pistol at the fallen spider. The very first shot she takes kills the spider as it burns it's skull right between the eyes. But she doesn't stop there as she let's the last remaining of her six bolts fly into it.

There's a silence for a moment as Kae'Leigh stares at it trying to see if it would get back up. Did she need to reload? She wasn't sure yet. Her eyes drifted to Jett for some direction.

 

[Jett Nova (old)]

The combined attacked seemed to be all that the spider could take and after Kae'Leigh's shot it would collapse to the ground and pore fluids from it's blaster bolt riddled face, making a small pool under it's massive pincers before streaming down the and back toward a near by tree.

Jett stood up and holstered his pistol. Then pulled his datapad from it's pouch on his armor and snapped a couple of pictures of the dead creature. Turning to his partner he quickly realized all she managed to bring was her blaster to this hunting trip. "After Life Day, we're getting you some gear or next time you stay on the damn ship" He told her with a sigh. Then set to work cutting away the spider's webbing with his vibro blade, and then building a skid to haul back the Webweaver without causing further damage then what they had to do to put the thing down.

A couple of long hours later and the giant spider was strapped to four long poles with cord from Jett's pack and more then a few line vines that were lining the forest floor. Satisfied with his work, with the spider on the skid and the skid attached to the jumpspeeder. Jett jumped on the bike in front of his Kae'leigh and set course to return to Rowrakruk.


/End Thread.