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Iko fiddled with his lightsaber while the RangeMaster hovered over the large morgue where the last shamans were hiding. He had heard a lot about the importance of death for the Swokes Swokes, to the point that they built a massive graveyard that was visible from orbit, to the point that the first explorers mistook it for a huge ice cap.
He gave a look at the passenger seat next to him, where his companion for this mission, a droid that preferred to be called Peedee, and sighed. "Alright. I hope that what I heard about you is true, because for this mission, stealth and good fighting skills may be essential. I haven't dabbled enough in Sith Alchemy to understand the process, but one thing is sure: the rituals they used have created monsters, both living and undead. Just curious: have you been programmed to feel fear?" he asked, a bit jokingly.

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"Heh." she snickered "Fear is an emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. I do not have this as you organics do." Pedee had this information on her databanks. She knows what it is, but it's not something he has. As a self-learning droid, Pedee could learn how to feel fear, but she is not interested in doing such. It would be like learning pity or remose, why would she? Plus as a bodyguard droid with her charge designated, she is programmed to to protect her owner even if it means her destruction. "I won't disappoint, don't worry" she affirmed. She hopes likewise of her partner

Anyways, stealth mission. That's fine. Pedee game equiped with her usual gear, including a lightsaber she obtained from the Byblos invasion that went wrong, she doesn't think she will use it but she would like to have it on her just in case. Anyways, this place would give an organic the creeps as she looked around. There are also zombies here. They don't seem to be AMS-made zombies, which have infected a good portion of the galaxy, as Pedee understand here it's a thing to do with the Force instead. But eitherway, Pedee would be adapt at fighting zombies, since as a synthetic she can't be infected or zombified herself.

Pedee looked out the viewport, and it looks very break and very erie. Ugh. Pedee would be fine if this mission was completed as soon as possible. The bodyguard droid is ready for the mission to commence.

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The ship slowly touched the ground, bouncing slightly on the landing gears' shock absorbers. He turned off the ship, but left the lights on, illuminating the large building that was right in front of them: an abandoned morgue, their objective. He rolled his shoulders a bit as he stood up from his seat and prepared, putting on his armor, helmet included, and turned on the HUD. "Alright, let's go" he said once he was ready. His dual-bladed spinning lightsaber was attached to his right hip, while the DL-18 blaster was strapped on the left.
As they walked out of the ship, Iko stifled a cough. "Dammit, definitely there are dead in there" he said, the smell of decomposing corpses quite sharp in the air. He turned on his helmet's lights while muttering "Why did we choose to get in that mission during the night... Anyway, be careful" he told Peedee while he took in his hand the lightsaber, keeping it turned off for the moment.

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Pedee can't smell, but her motion sensors are going off, it's coming from right in front of them. "Lots of movement stirring up movement ahead". She said with her usual feminine robotic voice. "Did you say this is a stealth mission?" she asked, he shined a light and then he has a lightsaber in hand. Lightsabers make lots of humming noise that might attract zombies. Pedee has her fists, which don't make as much noise in comparison.

The Blackwell droid would lead the way to the door, she had her fists up in a fighting stance as she cautiously went to the door. The coast is clear, good good. They were able to get to the door without zombies, cultists, or whatever molesting them. Pedee would then open the door, and then there would be 4 of those Swokes Swokes that are pale and look like zombies or ghouls. They would hiss and then proceed to attack.

As Pedee would back up out of the door way and back into more open space as the zombies came at her, the zombies couldn't help but make hissing and foaming noises. Pedee waited until they came out of the door and then Pedee would pivot to her left and then draw out one of ther Kyuzo blades and then swing to behead it. For the second one however, it had to move around to get a move on the droid, but Pedee would then get low, do a leg sweep, leaving the ghoul to hit the ground. Pedee would grab the ghoul's head and proceed to rip it off.

The other two ghouls would need to be handled by her partner @samdragon

So much for stealth, although it wasn't his lightsaber or light. Hopefully the rest of the hostiles in the creepy morgue aren't stirred.
 

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Iko rolled his eyes. She was right, but whatever, he already did it. His lightsaber for the moment was still turned off, but as soon as the four zombies appeared in front of them, he turned on one of the blades and plunged it right in between of the first zombie's eyes, piercing its head from side to side.

The other zombie shambled towards the Tiss'shar, who hissed at it, trying to intimidate it, even though it was useless against an undead. As soon as the zombie was close enough, he quickly turned, cutting through the first zombie's head and making it fall on the ground, and then slashed through the second zombie's neck, beheading it swiftly and putting the zombie out of its misery.

He then looked at Peedee and sighed. "Welp, looks like the surprise effect is gone by now" he whispered with a soft chuckle, and clutched the lightsaber, looking around the room. It was a sort of reception, with a turned table, some old shelves, and lots of dust everywhere. The alien raptor then headed towards the next room, walking slowly, keeping his senses on high alert.

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Pedee drew both of her blades on her to ensure maximum lethalness, gripping them around the finger inserts instead of inside them. The droid and the reptile-thing Sith have traveled quite a ways on the first floor, haven't encountered any more resistance yet. They found dust, some more dust, and obvious signs of age, disorganization, and disrepair on everything inside in addition to even more dust. But where they are now they would come across what appears to be an old security room.

It was unlocked and there was a Swokes Swokes cultist inside. Not a undead yet not one of those shaman at least as far as the droid can tell. Almost immediately after the door was open, the cultist would then attempt to level it's blaster at the Sith duo and then Pedee would throw one of the Kyuzo blades, nailing then right in between the eyes, the blaster shot was fired but it would miss slightly.

Upon further inspection of the room, there would be some displays of various parts of the facility. A lot of them were uneventful, some zombies in few, some cultists in few, but Pedee's photoreceptors found something interesting. "Check this out" and she would point to one particular display. The footage would play but there wasn't any audio with the video.

There would be one Swokes Swokes, with robes and some runes on them talking to another member of it's species that looks like three cultists that's kneeling. With that, the apparent shaman would then reach out with the force and some Sith sorcery would then envelop the cultists and the cultist looks like it was in pain. Before too long, the end result would be the cultist being transformed into a zombie, not just a mindless one, but one that seems to have a higher level of functions. The Shaman would then raise it's arms out, seemingly this ritual being a successs

Pedee would then ask her partner "Did you just see that?" Pedee is a machine that things with logic, even though she knows about the Force and how it defies logic, she has a hard time processing what just happened.

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The Tiss'shar looked around the room, and as soon as they entered and met the Swokes Swokes, he took a defensive stance in case the alien would shoot, but Peedee had been much faster, dispatching of the cultist with incredible ease.

He looked around the room, examining the various security cameras. Some of them were still working, while others showed just static, probably they were broken or something. Then the droid drew Iko's attention to one of the monitors he hadn't checked yet and he went to watch.

He followed the ritual with quite the interest, taking mental notes, humming softly. He whistled impressed at the end result: ghouls, a mixture of undead and living, with still higher functions intact. "I heard about the mixed rituals they used for that, but witnessing one, even just through a camera and without audio, is another thing. This, Peedee, is ancient knowledge. A mixture of Sith sorcery and native rituals. Even though I wonder: why would a species of aliens who revere so much their dead, decide to profanate their bodies for that purpose?" he mused.

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That is an interesting question "Perhaps that cult and this 'dark side' they use corrupts and twists their minds. Maybe what they think they are doing to them blessing them, giving the revered dead a second chance?" Pedee thought, she just shrugged. Ultimately to her it doesn't matter why they are doing it so, but what matters if they are putting a stop to it. "Come on, lets get moving" after Jistos had time to watch the full 'ascendance' ritual.

With that they would go into a hallway the leads into a stairwell that goes up and down. The shaman are likely to be down there, or so she guesses. So that's the way Pedee would go

But it was dark down there, Pedee would then switch vision mode after hearing the groans of more zombies, they would just be beginning to rise up by time Pedee's feet hit the basement floors. 8 of them actually. Her weapons and too short to deal with the lot of them effectively and if she gets into a melee even she might be torn apart, but she did have one item that could help her. She would put away he right handed blade and instead draw something else, a lightsaber. Pedee doesn't like using it, but it's good here. As the zombies would swarm up on her, Pedee would swing the blade horizontally and activate the saber's dual-phase function extending it 2 meters. The blade would cleave most of those 8 zombies down. Pedee would back away to get some breathing room after he wide swing.

"Not bad"
she said about her weapon.

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He nodded. "Yeah, wouldn't be surprised about that. The Dark Side is quite the insidious entity, able to twist most but the most resilient minds" he commented while they proceeded into the building. He kept his senses on high alert, his silvery eyes darting around as they walked.

Iko hummed softly as they walked down the stairs, hearing the groans from downstairs, and instinctively clutched his lightsaber. Once Peedee did her job, he turned his saber's twin blades on and begun spinning it. He then threw it inside the group of zombies, guiding the lightsaber with the Force to cleave through the ranks of zombies, taking down the remaining zombies!

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Together they were able to destroy all the zombies in their path. Flesh is weak, but decaying rotting flesh? Even weaker if Pedee had to be frank. Pedee would not at the lizard-thing and they could now proceed forward. Pedee would turn a corner, and then around it she would see something familiar, the same room from the video footage they witness eariler.

Pedee would quietly turn towards Iko and then whisper "Wait here" and then continue to take a peek exposing herself as little as possible. She would see a Swokes Swokes dark shaman standing before a kneeling female from the same species. She would also see another figure, a human wearing dark robes. "A human?" Pedee would then speculate, well it's not really speculating when it's pretty clear what it's supposed to be "Must be some sort of emissary or observer from that Akis cult".

Both the Sith bodyguard and the Sith Marauder would be able to hear the female speak the shaman. "... I've done all that you ask, now I humbly ask you for your blessing" the shaman would reply with a dark, deep menacing voice "You have done well. Your sacrifice is a testament to your obedience. You are indeed worthy for the blessing of Ascension" the Shaman would then reach out with eldritch force energies, the energies would then corrupt the woman, she would grow bigger, her flesh would start turing pale and rotting. "I.... I feel... improved!" the woman said, she can now talk even after looking like a zombie. "Congratulations. Now, use your new and improved body..." The shaman would look around where the corner is "...to get rid of the pests hiding there" The newly 'ascended' woman would now charge around the corner. Pedee would then back up and ready into a fighting stance.

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Iko chuckled lightly at just how easy it was to get rid of the zombies, but he remained wary as they proceeded. He stopped as she told him to, tilting his head as he realized the room they were close to was the same they saw in the footage, and muttered something.

He listened carefully to the conversation, cursing under his breath as he heard and then saw the changes the woman underwent, and he backed up, lightsaber turned on with both blades, ready for the upcoming fight. He kept himself a few feet behind Peedee to avoid bothering her while she fights. As soon as the woman appeared from behind the corner, Iko would lift his hand towards her, attempting to block and choke her with the Force.

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The lady would be blocked, but she isn't choking, most likely curiosity of her 'ascension' But while she was being blocked, Pedee used her free arm to grab her heavy blaster and start shooting her with lethal heavy rounds. The shots would land in the center of mass, chunks of her torso would be blown to pieces, but she's still moving. After that, she would then shot her in the head. It would be reduced to a mess, but the body is still functioning. How is that possible?

Meanwhile, the dark shaman would see that his new 'ascended' was getting overpowered and was getting agitated, it would begin to walk where it had line of sight of the two, not going around the corner though. With a wave of his hand, he would discharge force lightning from his hand, attacking the droid. Unfortunately, the force lightning would force her into a kneeling position as it hit her. It was a brief burst though. He would raise his hand once again, and suddenly the whole area would be shrouded in pitch black darkness. The shaman would then move backwards as he prepares for his next attack, as he would lower his presence in the force. Now the two can't rely on the force or their own eye-sight to see the shaman.

Meanwhile, the cult emissary would draw a dagger and start sneaking over towards the corner

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Iko grit his teeth as he then pushed the woman back a few meters with the Force, possibly slamming her into the wall opposite to where he was. He turned on his lightsaber once more, and also activated the spinning function, holding the lightsaber in front of himself to somehow protect himself from incoming attacks. He always kept an eye on his sides and used the Force to passively 'scan' his surroundings, but he growled as the darkness shrouded them. "This can end relatively peacefully. Just surrender your secrets to us, and we may let you go" he said, trying to persuade the man
 

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Pedee was taken aback when hit with force lightning, she would need a bit more time to recover. She should really contact her father and see if he can make her more resistant to electrical attacks. The area would be shrouded in darkness, but Pedee still had infrared receptor, so she could see her partner, and the enemies just fine.

The shaman would then respond to Iko's attempt to persuade them. "Hah. You think I'll forsake the Goddess? I'll offer your heads to her on a spike!". It was a good attempt, but the dark shaman would need more convincing. The Sith Marauder might be able to block the lightning with his lightsaber, but the shaman was quite skilled in the Force, especially of the dark side variety. The shaman would stop the lightning and dash to his left. He had the advantage of being in the dark while the lightsaber the Sith was using gave away his position. With that, the dark shaman would cast both hands forward and a jet of blue flames would be launched, threatening to engulf the Sith unless he does something.

In the mean time, the emissary snuck to the Sith's right side, and was about to stab him with his dagger. "Die in the name of the Goddess!" Pedee would shot her twice with her heavy blaster pistol, killing her. "No, we will leave that to you."

Looks like the Sith was trying to get him to stand down to teach them their dark arts, but they have to kill him in the end. "Don't you know that your 'Goddess' is just a schutta who surrendered to Darth Stolas without a fight?" Pedee said in hopes to break the shaman's morale, but the Shaman wasn't having it. "Silence soulless automaton!" The shaman wasn’t having it.

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Iko's fine hearing aided him with tracking the man as he talked and moved, so he managed to turn around and barely avoid the flames, which charred a little bit of his robes, but nothing too serious. He growled, holding the lightsaber in front of himself as it rotated, a scene that centuries earlier had been the worst fear of many Force users. "Your power is prodigious, I won't deny this, but it's also very... rudimental. Teach me your methods, and I'll find a way to refine the ritual to create even more powerful acolytes" he said, keeping a calm tone as he talked. The Tiss'shar was relatively confident that such words may have some effect, but only time would say.

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"You lie. Die!" the shaman would tire of these games, he feels his resolve wavering, but if he did, he would be forsaking the Goddess. The Shaman would lash out, he would gesture with his left hand and motion it upwards. This wasn't just any gesture, it was one with the force as he would attempt to grab Iko with the force and then slam him into the ceiling, and with a motion downloads, he would aim to slam him back down into the dirt.

Pedee wasn't going to stand by and let his Sith partner get manhandled. While he was distracted, Pedee would be recovered well enough by now, she would leap into action and then slash his chest with a slash from each of her blades at the same time. With that, his attack would stop and he would be too wounded to fight anymore as he would be bleeding. "You've... bested me... My... tome..." he struggled to spit out his last words, but he had some amount of energy left to point towards the podium at the end of the room, which would have the tome of dark magicks. With that, the finger would collapse and the shaman would lie dead eyes wide open.

Pedee did what she felt like she had to do, he wasn't going to be talked down, a religious fanactic after all, but at least maybe Iko could find what he wants.

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Iko gave a surprised yelp as he was lifted in the air by the shaman's power, but he managed to land on his feet after Peedee killed him. He looked over the podium from where he stood, a few meters away, and stretched a hand towards the tome, which begun to slowly lift up and float towards the Tiss'shar. Iko had decided to do so to avoid getting caught in an eventual trap.

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Well, it's done. With the dark shaman killed and died in agony, the force power used to shroud the area in darkness faded. There was now light again. The emissary cultist emissary was dead as well. Pedee then stepped foward and shot the shaman and the emissary with a heavy blaster shot each in the head, making sure they are dead and won't be coming back to life. "You got what you need from that?" she said after the Sith levitated the book towards him.

If so, Pedee would say that the mission is complete, the shaman is dead, they extinguished the source of the undead here, and as a bonus the cult emissary is dead too so she won't be poisoning the minds of anyone else. "Looks like we are done here." she said. She can do without staying here a bit more longer.

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After seeing that the book didn't trigger any traps, Iko jerked his wrist a little and the tome flew in his hands. He flicked some pages, reading through it, smirking softly. "Perfect. This kind of knowledge will certainly be useful for the Eternal. Perhaps this way we may even ba able to control to an extent the zombies created by the AMS virus..." he thought alous as the two proceeded outside of the building.

Then, they boarded onto his ship and left the planet, headed back to Korriban, where they would take their time to study the tome and uncover all its secrets...

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