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Rain bombarded the hood of her brown cloak, a hood pulled over a new set of armor that matched it. She looked fairly Jedi-like, except for her gray half-mask. A plain, dull gray, void of any features or markings. Even the eye holes were covered by a matching gray-stained material, to hide her unnatural yellow irises and to perhaps make a statement.

Of course, the mask was obscured by the darkness of night and the shadow of the hood. One needed to get close to see it clearly. In her hand was her purified lightsaber, humming as it's white light bathed the ground beneath her left side.

She had her signature in the Force smothered, but her emotions were not. It'd not be impossible to note that her mood was not great. Whenever she walked certain streets at night on Nar Shaddaa, she was forced to relive haunts. Some that caused her hands to shake violently against her will. The Force around her screamed of pain, of sadness but also of anger.

A large bang rang in the distance and men and women ran from it, panicked. Many ran past the Rain, barely noting that she was standing still like a statue even though they were in an alleyway that wasn't exactly spacious, one of the many unsavory ones with no cameras. Five men were following behind the crowd, laughing. They all had blasters out, one had his vibroblade out too. The one at the front fired his blaster into the air and then aimed it at the Rain.

"What a kriffing weirdo," he said. One of the men behind him spoke up, "Umm boss, that's one of them lightsaber weirdos."

 

Hannibal Grayza

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If gray on gray was the standard for Jedi these days, then it could be accurately said that Hannibal was definitely not dressed as a Jedi. A black button-up with a slim and tight collar accented by small bronze buttons with the sleeves rolled up showing detailed and colorful tattoos across his arms, joined by a similarly black pair of mid-waist trousers and a leather utility belt. Dashingly draped over his shoulders was a very green leather coat and his hands were covered in the gloves he wore any time he went anywhere. His well-polished DE-10 blaster pistol sat on his right hip, set to stun as always, his two lightsabers clipped to his belt on the left side fairly well concealed beneath the coat unless it was moved out of the way.

The young Knight was far more often dressed in actual robes these days, but not on the smuggler's moon. He much preferred to avoid the attentions of ambitious spacers and bounty hunters trying to collect on that moronic bounty Durr the Hutt had put out, since being chased by an angry mob made his sort of work very difficult. He was flashy, but in a way that blended in with the neon and filth of Nar Shaddaa.


He strolled down the streets, smoothly striding step by step at a somewhat slow pace. Hannibal was heading towards yet another potential lead, but felt hurry wasn't really necessary at this moment. He slipped a cigarra between his lips as he moved, lit it, and then stopped. Bemusement mixed with his standard issue smirk as he took in several unusual sights seeming to unfold before his eyes.

First, a group of malcontents firing blasters into the air and generally terrorizing a crowd, a number of whom tried to escape down an alleyway. As Hannibal approached from the back, he let his own presence sink into the surrounding chaos of the Living Force, one with the crowd, faintly detectable but hard to notice for regular folk unless they were looking right at him. Then he saw the second thing.

Gray on gray with a white saber down the alleyway, a stoic stone in the stream of mob, her presence giving him a creepy vibe despite the fact he could barely feel her presence at all. He did notice the surface anger bleeding through amidst the fear and malice of the rest of people around. That probably wasn't good, considering the context.


Clicking his tongue he approached the alley, swimming through the panicked mob with practiced ease, getting closer to the entrance of the filth-filled side passage. As he reached his desired spot he could hear the thugs speaking, pointing out the gloomy figure's lightsaber. Good lord, did these people have useless holes instead of eyes that they just now noticed? He slipped into the alley and behind an abandoned crate. Doubtless the figure would see him, but that didn't much matter.

He sank into the Force, letting it blow through him like wind and gather. Hannibal wouldn't need much. He mentally adjusted his speech patterned and flattened his tone, mimicking a certain figure of thug-murdering justice he'd heard speak quite a bit by this point and amplifying it significantly just behind the violent group.
Beware! I am the Arcanist, bringer of judgement, slayer of the wicked, and hero of justice! he yelled, a passable imitation that would nonetheless probably fail to fool anyone who knew the man. He'd certainly exaggerated the the dramatic bits. Hannibal was fairly certain Masky Mcbombsalot would never say a good half of that.

Several of the group jumped from the sudden and very loud declaration, looking around as it echoed through the alley. One of them turned towards the back of the alley just in time for his nose to break against an incoming whiskey bottle. The immediate follow up were two stun shots from Hannibal who had emerged from behind the half-broke crate laughing, DE-10 in his right hand, the blue bolts impacting center mass on broken-nose and his closest buddy. His left hand was firmly around the hilt of his lightsaberbeneath the coat, ready to deflect any incoming shots from people who thought he was just a guy with a blaster.

"Just kidding! You should surrender though, natch." he announced, flashing a wink and an impish grin. At this point his aura wasn't the least bit hidden to any who might be sensitive to such things. Even if he didn't much seem like one on the surface, he was definitely a Jedi.


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She did notice the man ducking behind a create, though instead of focusing on him she capitalized on his weird entrance, even though the oddness of it was unsettling. She breathed in deeply, bringing back her arm then thrusting it forward while letting go of her saber; her saber flew through the air, into one of the men staring at his friend being pummeled in the face with a bottle.

She did not stop there, however. The saber came around to slice through the two last men who were standing close together before returning to her hand. By now she could sense the Jedi but felt an odd lack of interest in his presence, even though she knew the feeling wouldn't be mutual. Especially not that she sliced three men in half in front of him. Though, in reality, she'd only met two Jedi. Perhaps this one was unique, but she doubted it.

Either way she turned her back to him. It was dangerous but she did so anyway, just as she had done to Oren so many years ago. Her senses were extended in case the Jedi tried anything funny, but the anger had left her after the danger was snuffed out and the alleyway was mostly vacant. The vacancy was replaced by numbness for a split second until she walked close to a wall of the alleyway.

If she had not already been attacked, she'd stare at the wall with glazed eyes. A memory washed over her, consumed her and drowned her in fear, in coldness in pain in sorrow and desperation and helplessness. Her right hand came up, and it shook so violently she closed it into a fist and held it against her chest out of fear of shaking to her knees. It was hard to face the memory, hard to justify this being worth returning to a spot with so much pain.

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Hannibal Grayza

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Hannibal hardly moved for the first couple seconds after the last man fell, looking at the gray figure, then moved forward. He toed one of the stunned men, giving him a good once over. "Dumbass." He seriously wondered what the group had thought was going to happen. Though the chances of a solid sabering were relatively low on the whole on this planet, tons of people were armed in one way or another and every fifth person was in some gang. He next looked at the three who had been hit by the spinning plasma saw of a thrown lightsaber. Yup, definitely dead, considering they were all separated at the middle on the ground, two halves smoking from the heat of the attack.

His eyes went up and looked at the other figure, now staring at a wall from beneath their hood. Hannibal gave them a good look over, senses sharp to anything odd. He'd definitely gotten something when they threw the saber, but now their feeling were getting too muddled or something for him to pick up. For a while, at least. Then his spine tingled and he got the sharp impression of worry, or fear. Anxiety? Their suppressed presence was giving him trouble and his intuition was no help at all. Way to go, Force powers, you've determined they're upset. Like any idiot with working eyes couldn't figure that out, especially considering the shaky hand.

Hannibal leaned against the same wall, though still standing amidst the fallen rabble, his blaster still in hand but facing the ground in a relaxed sort of way.
"Something interesting about that particular wall?" he asked in a conversational tone, a roundabout attempt to figure out why they were upset, having decided that mentioning the newly dead folks wasn't the best decision here.


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The Jedi's words snapped her out of her stupor and her body seemed to follow suit. She turned sharply, her head and unnaturally colored eyes snapping to him from beneath her mask. Her first assumption was right. He wasn't going to just walk away.

"Alright, what is it you want?" she asked bluntly. Annoyance was slowly replacing her other emotions as the memory's grip on her began to fade, and as she was faced with this interruption.

Truthfully, it was probably good to be pulled out of it, but she had no desire to fight the man. That did not mean she feared him—she had gained a great amount of confidence in her exploration of the Dark Side—but she wouldn't raise her blade towards him until she was forced to. Considering the scene before her however, she probably would be.

After a short pause she added, "If it's to chat, I'm not the talkative type". Maybe that wasn't entirely true, but she still couldn't dig up any amount of interest in this Jedi, unlike in her past. There were multiple factors to this including the location, but perhaps it was her latest research into what their order was suppose to be verses what they actually were that lead to the disinterest or numbness toward him.

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