Open Event Mines of Perdition

[John Q]

As soon as he could, John would enter the hangar bay, enter his ship, and fly away.

 

[Tahiri]

"What the..."

Tahiri instinctively stepped back at seeing the thing that appeared and landed atop the Gand. Unlike the others there, she was relatively inexperienced, and despite being a Jedi she hadn't seen something like this happen to another living being right before her eyes. The sounds were bad enough, and the sight of it didn't help either.

She was frozen by it, and were it not for Indy telling her to back up she might have stayed frozen in shock. But inexperienced as she was, she still was a Jedi, and was able to force herself to move, albeit a little sluggishly given her shock.

Her hands grabbed the lightsabers and both blades came to life, and as the others took their own action, she did the only thing she could think of without getting any closer. She locked the blade in her left hand in its lit state and threw the blade straight at the thing, the blade flying towards its torso.

Spoiler: tl;dr

Tahiri takes a few steps back, pulls out her lightsabers, and throws one at the creature.

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[The Gatekeeper]

OOC - First Map Available on Discord

With Ezzo Skeck
@R5 9A @John Q
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Without anyone making any attempt to stop him, or push the droid to act against the order to open the hanger, Ezzo made it to the ship used by the survey team and it closed up behind him as he began the take-off procedures. As part of these procedures, the utility droid strengthened its physical connection to the console it was connected to and finished the process that it had started earlier; namely the correct and proper procedure for departure.

It deactivated the hanger's ray shields, the only thing keeping the beings within the hanger from the cold vacuum of space. As it was a powered shield, the deactivation would be near instant and the organic ( @John Q ) would find himself struggling to breathe as the air within the hanger was forcibly vented out into space, the shield deactivating as he was approaching his ship. Both the organic and the droid ( @R5 9A ), however, would also have to contend with the fact that the difference in pressure was exerting pressure on them, attempting to fling them into the void in an attempt to balance that pressure.

Both John and R5 would be caught almost completely flatfooted and would need to scramble to ensure that they were not spaced - even as both droid and man began to slide towards the open hanger.

Within the mine, the teams that had pressed on would find themselves safe from the depressurization of the hanger bay due to the securely locked doors and life support system in operation.

With Chirzo
@Vahliri Kahtal @Varyn Atrix @Edin Frost
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Conversation, typically, dried up during combat - especially when said combat included figures of molten metal lurching forward toward their adversaries. Varyn and Vahliri seemed content to stick to shouted 'suggestions' and Chirzo seemed content to follow those commands. Edin, however, tried a different tactic while still being active in the battle himself.

He tried to reason with the child... and it worked.

"Hmm... m'okay!" the child declared with a bright smile, clapping his hands slightly, "But only cus you asked nicely and you've got scars like me! The rules are... if you answer one of my questions right, I put away one of my toys. Mother likes it when I use my smarts!"

As this was happening, the two Sith reached out with the Force and pushed a cooling presence out towards the molten soldiers that were marching forward. The sheer weight and residual heat of the metals worked against them but their combined powers were enough to begin to cause large chunks of the metals to start cooling and hardening, causing the creatures to begin to almost seize up at the joints, continuing to literally drag themselves forward on limbs that were being rapidly forced rigid.

Edin's shot would cause the top-most box to twist in place, unbalancing it and the hover-sled atop of it in such a way that only the two of them actually tumbled to the ground. The hover-sled would land, perhaps fortunately, repulsors down and it seemed to activate, beginning to hover not far off the ground. As the box tumbled down with it, however, Chirzo caught it with the Force with a grunt of exertion before flinging it at one of the metal figures, sending the stiff-limbed creature crashing to the ground with a heavy thud.

The child barely seemed to notice.

"Oh I've got a good question for you! How hot does gold need to be before it melts?"

It seemed that the child was actually rather absorbed by the game he didn't realise he was supposed to be playing before Edin brought it up.

With Lanowen's Squashed Corpse
@Indy Sati @Charlotte Le'Anna @Tahiri @Lebowski @Kaos Tyr​

The creature took a blood-soaked step forward and the team that had broken away with Lanowen lept into action - either to avenge him or, more likely, to avoid imitating him in a messy death. Both Charlotte and Indy immediately attacked the creature with the Force, the Sith in an attempt to destroy it and the Jedi in an attempt to restrain it. It spoke to their duelling philosophies that they chose to engage using the same 'weapon' but in very different ways. Both of them, however, would be able to apply their techniques - but with far more difficulty than they initially would have expected.

For Indy, it was as though the creature she was trying to restrain had the weight and momentum of a small starship rather than a creature maintaining a menancing pace. Whereas Charlotte's attempts to crush the creature's were likelywise faced with something that seemed denser than it had any right to be - the chitinous skull of the creature seemed to creak and small cracks began to form, as though she was crushing the outer layer of some kind of stone rather than a living creature.

Both Force Users would succeed, however, in slowing the creature and causing it pain - leaving it to wade forward at a much slower pace while thrashing its head from side to side in pain. This was enough of an opening that Lebowski was able to land each and every one of his shots, the blaster bolts slamming hard into the face of the creature with muted 'Thump!' sounds that seemed to stagger the creature, jerking its head back and exacerbating the cracks in its chitin, until they could see as it began to ooze some of the same slime that coated its entire body, though more concentrated.

It seemed to have the presence of mind, however, to recognise that Kaos approaching it so fearlessly was a sign that he could cause it issue. As the Miralukan approached, it tried to lash out with one of the membranes - revealed to be a pair of bat-like wings complete with tough bones along the upper ridge. It was, however, an attempt and an unsuccessful one at that as Tahiri's thrown lightsaber caught the bone ridge of the wing as it came up. It succeeded in blocking the strike from cutting into it's torso by knocking the saber off-target, but it had the unintended effect of stopping it from being able to block Kaos' advance due to the wing suddenly being half the length it had been before - the young Jedi's lightsaber having cut clean through it.

As half the wing fell to the ground, Kaos would be granted the clean approach he wanted and he would land a solid blow to the creature's jaw. Were it any other creature, it's jaw likely would have been detached from the head in a bloody spray of gore - as it was, Kaos would feel the density of the creature as he struck true and know it was akin to punching through several layers of metal. The crack upon impact, however, wasn't Kaos' hand but the chitin of the creature breaking even more as the cracks began to widen. As the only member of the team who had touched the liquid, Kaos would be able to report that it was acidic in nature as it began to quickly bubble and hiss upon contact with his gauntlets.

The creature staggered back a step, rocked by the barrage that it had endured and teetered ever so slightly on its heels.

As it was doing this, however, there was a tearing sound from behind the group as the metal ceiling sheet was torn from the ceiling by a force unseen and sent flying through the air at the backs of the group - specifically straight at Lebowski as he awaited an attack from behind.

Leaning forward again, the creature roared and viscous liquid gushed from the cracks in its chitin as it launched a spray of the acidic slime from its mouth, spraying in a semi-circle to try and catch everyone but Lebowski in it's demonic splash-zone.

Spoiler: Known Details

• Banvhar Combine - The Company sponsoring the prospecting mission and a mining corporation well-known throughout the Galaxy. They are not the largest but they are successful.
• Location - The planetoid is currently listed as Object N51920. It is without a sector of the Outer Rim largely unknown to the Galaxy and can be reached only through the assistance of Banvhar Combine due to the only safe routes through hyperspace to Object N51920 being charted by their Prospecting teams.
• Prospecting Team - Lanowen the Gran Surveyor, Ezzo Skeck the Rodian droid technician and Chirzo the Mirialan Force 'Expert'.
• The Call for Help - While investigating the planetoid and beginning probing mining operations, Chirzo reported back to Banvhar Combine that there is a strong presence in the Force that seemed wild and unpredictable. The reports grew more urgent as the team dug deeper until the team has refused to dig further until the company hires actual Jedi/Sith to investigate further. Chirzo believes that the presence she is feeling is incredibly powerful but also unstable.

@Killa Ree @Wit
@Charles @Sreeya @Versok
@Altaris @Fantasy Liver @Phoenix @Valen Pelora @Taygood

 

[Kaos Tyr]

The Miralukan warrior took a mental note of every single thing the creature had done so far: The strange wings lashing out at him only to be cut by a lightsaber, the durability of the monster and the acidic substances that were coming out of it. Kaos thanked the force he worse his Matukai gauntlets because otherwise his hand would've broken first and melted second. The thing in front of him would prove to be a challenge, something that would've given even him a tough time on a one on one and he had to be careful around even with a group backing him up.

Being close enough to take a proper "look" at the acid coming out from the monster's wounds becoming greater and greater, Kaos knew that he had to get out of the way of the creature before it did something horrible. Fortunately, he had already begun to circle around it before it even tried to spew out acid at all of them so the Miralukan would be able to get to its side and safely out of the mouth's range by the time it went for it.

However, Kaos was not going to just stay there and let the people that had got his back before handle the acid on their own, no. The Matukai warrior would instead go for an uppercut straight to the jaw as soon as he noticed the acid, hoping to force the creature to shut its mouth and also be far more innacurate in order to lessen the amounts of acid his companions would have to deal with. His other arm would remain up and ready to block any acid coming his way from the wounds or anything else and Kaos would start to enhance his force vision, not wanting to be surprised by any extra wings or crazy tricks the creature had under its sleeve.

Spoiler: TLDR

Kaos attempts to dodge andtries to literally make the monster shut his mouth with a shoryuken

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[Varyn Atrix]

Varyn continued to spew frostiness at the metallic creatures, almost not even hearing the conversation between Edin and the child. Not that he knew the answer to the question anyway. Part of him consider pressing on, darting past the fight to see if there was something he could do in the next room.

Instead, he continued sending out the frost and shouted back to Chorizo. Hit them with another crate! he shouted, hoping she would be able to smash the remaining ones as they grew even more frozen. He would move to avoid the creatures if they grew close enough, but for now he pressed on the assault.

 

[Darth Tempest]

Vahliri couldn’t help but grit her teeth in frustration. The half-Annfyn was growing increasingly tired of the child spirit and its games - especially as the question was something, she suspected, none of them had an answer to. While Varyn and Edin were free to keep guessing, Vahliri focused her attention strictly onto putting down the threat of the metal-skinned creatures.

Just as Chorizo launched the box at one of them, Vahliri eased the flow of Cryokinetic energy that swirled around the joints and limbs of the creature. Without pause, the half-Annfyn coiled her grasp around the elbow of the creature - tightening and gripping into a crushing vice. Her grasp was timed just as Chorizo sprang into action, attempting to capitalize on the distraction.

With a violent twist of her arm, Vahliri attempted to snap the elbow backwards and pull - hoping to snap joint and bone and tear the lower arm completely off. With the combined efforts of herself and Varyn, the half-Annfyn banked on the metal and bone being especially brittle.

If successful, Vahliri would attempt to drive the arm and rebar back into the monster - to spear it with its one honey, metal-coated limb.

 

[Indy Sati]

Shit.

The creature was strong. Ridiculously weighted. Sweat beaded on the Pantoran's forehead as she continued the relentless pressure of holding it in place. That was, until, two things happened. First, the sound of tearing metal as the supposedly reinforced roof seemed to wrench itself towards their backs, while the creature seemed to begin spewing acid. She could practically smell the threat of burning skin, if not worse.

So she moved rapidly in a fluid motion. First, she temporarily deactivated her lightsaber and kept it pointed away from her body, before tucking it into a sideways roll to avoid the threats of both the possibility of metal and of being spattered by acid. When coming back up from her roll, she kept the lightsaber deactivated, but easily accessible should there be other immediate dangers, and resumed holding the thing in stasis, with concentrated effort. She would let Kaos keep on pummeling this thing, hopefully slowing it down enough to make it an easy target.

Spoiler: TL;DR

Indy deactivates her saber, taking care to make sure it's pointed away from her body and tucks and rolls out of the way of metal and acid, then resumes holding the creature in stasis as soon as she's upright to assist Kaos and possibly Charlotte.

 

[Tahiri]

Tahiri had a lot to react to, the joint effort seemingly doing actual damage to the creature, keeping track of where her blade went after it was deflected by the creature, the sound of tearing metal from behind, and the beast let out its acidic attack. And through it all was the overarching horror and terrified curiosity about just what she had walked into.

Knowing that she had to prioritize, she ignored whatever was happening behind them to focus on the immediate threat, the beast's attack. She launched herself into the air, using the Force to assist her ascent so that she would be high enough to allow the attack to pass harmlessly below her. And as she landed, being careful to not land in acid puddles, she reached out with the Force towards her lightsaber and pulled it once more, but not towards herself, but for round two with the beast.

Spoiler: tl;dr

Tahiri jumps into the air to avoid the acid attack, and after landing carefully she uses the Force to throw the previously used lightsaber at the beast once more.

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[Charlotte Le'Anna]

A low growl escaped her throat. Charlotte straining against the hard casing of the insect. Not for the first time, she cursed herself for neglecting her studies. Ruling a kingdom was timing consuming…leaving her far too rusty. The disgusting creature did eventually begin to break but at a cost. It roared and acid spewed from its mouth. That particularly awful maneuver happened to come at the same moment the ceiling decided to give way. Durasteel reinforced…my ass. Charlotte had only moments to react.

Her saber dropped from her hand. The Force coiling around her body as she threw herself sideways, away from Indy and away from the acid. Her body hopefully carrying away from the falling ceiling. A small but important barrier shuddered between her body and the outside world. Enough to try to protect her should any rubble or acid sneak through. There was not a thought or moment left to try and finish the insect off.

Spoiler: Charlotte's Actions

Charlotte releases the Force and wraps it around her body while throwing herself sideway to hopefully avoid the rocks and the acid.

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[Edin Frost]

Edin was pleasantly surprised that attempting to talk to the spooky ghost actually got a response. Unfortunately, his group was completely worthless in that regard. No one volunteered an answer and they kept on with their attacks. The Firrerreo growled in frustration, also not knowing the answer. However, he decided to try his luck anyway, “Exactly as hot as it needs to be to melt and not a degree cooler!” He shouted at the child. Technically not an incorrect answer, but also not a nerdy exact number. He had a feeling shouting out an exact wrong number would lead to a tantrum.

He eyed the hoversled curiously, wondering why it was here to begin with. Edin used one when he was a child but it had been a long time since then. Shrugging, he hopped on and zoomed up into the air to gain a better perspective of the whole area. The Goth twins seemed to have the monsters handled, so he focused on getting a vantage point for shooting or to spot something that may help neutralize things faster.

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[John Q]

Instantly, rushing air flung John up. Instinctively, he grabbed onto a boulder. The vacuum sucked all air and sound out the hangar bay. Most people depressurized don’t die from lack of oxygen, but from too much oxygen left in them, which then expands rapidly or forms bubbles in their blood. John read this somewhere, so he exhaled and dug deep into the hard rock by his long fingernails.

He was a few meters from his ship. Just a few meters. But you might have asked him to run a marathon across a moon– effectively that’s what this trial was now. A moon. This, his latest mountain. Depressurizing was like someone trying to peel off his eyes and put a vacuum cleaner inside his mouth. His tongue began to boil. Lights and stars flashed on his peripherals. He squeezed the big rock tighter.

A man can think of a surprising number of thoughts in his final moments. Near death experiences of two seconds can last two hours when blinded by the mind’s gloom. John’s experience became as disembodied as a gamer playing an arcade game. Put in a quarter to keep the pixelated man alive, put in another to make him jump. John smiled– his silver crown rattling loose. He wondered if the main group would find his body. What would they think of John Qarthiq? The man born in a mine to die in a mine. If this was it, right now, who among them would discover his secret?

John was hovering now over his own funeral. An empty casket lowered in the catacombs. The desert, silent and vast. The casket, lower and lower into the pit. It appeared John would be honored as previous Sith Lords had been.

But then someone farted.
John’s casket alighted– engulfed in orange flames– crackling into embers. Lord Draugr walked out from the shadows. “He was nothing but a fool.”

John regained consciousness. Waving like a flag on a flagpole– he hurled out his right hand, the one crushed by Draugr– now gleaming and metallic. Summoning a similar energy that Draugr had used to fling John off the cruise ship, John now took this for the lesson it was and invoked a similar force power deep within him. In short, John pushed, and pushed hard. He flew off that boulder, slamming into the door of his ship. He then secured himself, turned the handle, and opened the ship door. Immediately, blown back by the difference in pressure, the air escaping, he heaved himself inside and slammed it shut. The air was banging its fists on his lungs. John gasped. He cried. He got up. Somehow, clawing and scraping and grasping– he hit a button that did something.

Just laying there. Just breathing. Repressurizing John.

Spoiler: tl;dr

John had a near-death experience as he was depressurized, but got inside his ship and repressurized.

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[The Gatekeeper]

OOC - First Map Available on Discord

With Ezzo Skeck
@R5 9A @John Q
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As R5 had not managed to catch the movements of the utility droid, perhaps distracted by parsing through data, it was unable to react to the sudden vaccum. In the time that it had taken John to act, R5 had failed to do the same and, thus, was unable to correct the motion that started dragging the little astromech out into space. R5 would fly past John as the little droid was flung out into space.

John managed to draw on a well of courage and ingenuity that some may have thought impossible for him, managing to pull himself onboard his shit with nothing but raw grit and determination. As the ship airlock had engaged, the life support systems would work to keep the Sith alive even as the utility droid back on the hanger bay systems seemed to eye the ship for a moment before returning its full focus to the systems, all according to its programming.

Within his own ship, Ezzo cared little for the goings on within the hanger he so desperately wanted to leave and his launch preparations were completed, allowing him to launch and begin flying straight out into the void of space. He kept the speed low as he did so - just because he was scared didn't mean he wanted to burn the Sith and the droid with his rear engines after all. Instead he began plotting a hyperspace route as his ship rocketed away from the planetoid. So distracted was he that he didn't notice the radar pinging him about contacts - he was just too overwhelmed at finally being freed.

Spoiler: R5 Outcome

As R5 has failed to act in two turns, he has been autohit and spaced. As a droid he is less likely to die outright but he is, unless the rest of the players actively choose to save him, lost in space.

With Chirzo
@Vahliri Kahtal @Varyn Atrix @Edin Frost
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The two Sith worked in tandem with the Sith-Drop-Out to such a degree that it could be said that they were a natural team. Of course, in the face of such foes it made sense that people came together. If anything could bring a group of people together, it was fear, and that was something that all who followed the teachings of the Sith knew on an instinctive level.

Even if few ever acknowledged it.

Chirzo nodded in understanding before using the Force to launch another crate at one of the targets that Varyn was busy continuing to assault the creatures with an artic wind. The arm targeted by Vahliri, made brittle by the cold, snapped at the pressure exerted onto it and the Sith found no issue with thrusting the arm and its rebar through the torso of the creature she had broken it off of in the first place. A crate sailed majestically through the air, slamming into a creature as it was beginning to reach a glacial pace. It smashed into the creature violently, sending it clattering, stiffly, to the ground.

"Hey! That's kinda right!"

The child clapped his hands happily, both at someone answering him with a right answer - but also because someone was actually playing his game. One of the three, the first to have been knocked prone, seemed to steam for a moment before it began to, seemingly, melt once again despite the cold. It ended up looking like a puddle on the ground and the child floated over to where Edin had started to use the sled to get a vantage point.

"Mommy said she'd play with them for me while I ask you questions, Mister." he told Edin as he sat to the assassin's right hand side, just hovering along with him, "Do you know what colour gold is when it melts?"

True to his word, the other two seemed to stiffen slightly more than expected before they too began to melt. Unlike the first one to be sent away, however, the two quickly became liquid metal before beginning to reform. This was aided by a slow but steady stream of molten metal from the pools behind them snaking their way across the distance. Steam billowed up around them, the ice made by the Sith melting and turning to vapour in short order, obscuring the two creatures from sight for even just a second.

A second was all the Mother needed to reset her child's toys.

As the steam settled, or was dissipated, it would reveal that the two creatures seemed to have grown in size and changed appearance. Resembling human skeletons made out of solid gold, the two were a good foot taller than they had been before and wielded scythes made of the same golden bones as their bodies. Together they let out battle cries before flinging themselves forward at the Sith, one swinging to try and cut Varyn horizontally at the waist, while the other brought the point of its scythe down toward Vahliri, aiming to split her head open from above.

With Lanowen's Squashed Corpse
@Indy Sati @Charlotte Le'Anna @Tahiri @Lebowski @Kaos Tyr​

Despite being specifically told to watch out for an attack made from behind, Lebowski was caught off guard by the plate of ceiling metal coming flying at him at speed. Without having truly prepared himself, Lebowski was caught by the metal at full speed, flung backward by the metal as it flew. This was actually, despite their movements, the only reason the piece of metal didn't strike the rest of the team regardless as it was shown to still be in control of the sender.

Lebowski was find the metal wrapping itself around his torso, pinning his arms to his chest as it began to squeeze the bruised and disorientated. Every second it got tighter, the edged of jagged metal cutting into him deeper as the metal seemed possessed with the demand that he be squeezed to death.

The flying metal did, however, cause both Force Users currently attacking it to release their holds. Even if one of them only did it temporarily, it was enough for the powerful creature to reach out with it's right hand, catching Kaos' fist before the planned uppercut could connect. It's arm muscles bulged, flexed and cracked and tore as it took the punishment for stopping a punch with the force of Kaos'... but stopped it, it did.

With its grip on his wrist secure, the creature would turn its head to bring the spray of acid directly down into the face of Kaos. It was halfway through the motion, the stream now directed at Kaos' right shoulder, when it was suddenly seized by a stasis one again and it slowed, not stopping, due to this effort. Indy would find that applying the statis was much harder this time, something about the way the creature moved seemed to suggest that it had learned how to resist through physical means.

What the creature didn't reckon on, however, was the return of Tahiri's blade - the lightsaber twisted and spun through the air on it's attack run, slashing across the creature's back as it passed. The creature seemed to feel the pain, flinching for the first time in the fight and staggering forward in place slightly, keeping the creature off-balance even as it did its best to crush Kaos' forearm bones and cover him in the acid.

Spoiler: Lebowski Outcome

As Lebowski has missed a turn, he is autohit. He is disorientated and hurt by the collision with the metal sheet - which is now currently wrapped around his torso, beginning to squeeze him to death.

Spoiler: Known Details

• Banvhar Combine - The Company sponsoring the prospecting mission and a mining corporation well-known throughout the Galaxy. They are not the largest but they are successful.
• Location - The planetoid is currently listed as Object N51920. It is without a sector of the Outer Rim largely unknown to the Galaxy and can be reached only through the assistance of Banvhar Combine due to the only safe routes through hyperspace to Object N51920 being charted by their Prospecting teams.
• Prospecting Team - Lanowen the Gran Surveyor, Ezzo Skeck the Rodian droid technician and Chirzo the Mirialan Force 'Expert'.
• The Call for Help - While investigating the planetoid and beginning probing mining operations, Chirzo reported back to Banvhar Combine that there is a strong presence in the Force that seemed wild and unpredictable. The reports grew more urgent as the team dug deeper until the team has refused to dig further until the company hires actual Jedi/Sith to investigate further. Chirzo believes that the presence she is feeling is incredibly powerful but also unstable.

@Killa Ree @Wit
@Charles @Sreeya @Versok
@Altaris @Fantasy Liver @Phoenix @Valen Pelora @Taygood

 

[Kaos Tyr]

Kaos was an experienced Matukai warrior, one stronger than most, and so when the creature grabbed and stopped his uppercut, it would take almost no time for the Matukai to try and strike him with his other hand, which had already been up to defend himself regardless. The Matukai called upon the force to increase his strength greatly for a short period of time, enchancing it to a point not many force sensitives could in order to strike the creature to the side of its face with his other arm as the monster turned its head towards him, his strongest hit yet.

Kaos was aiming to either finish off the creature that had had its head attacked several times now or at least force its head the opposite way with that blow in order to avoid what was being spewed his way, hopefully before the acid managed to get to his shoulder...If not, he just prayed the shoulder piece would be able to handle the brief contact with the acid and protect his shoulder then. Fortunately for the Matukai warrior.

The beast would also need to take his sweet time in order to do anything to his forearm as it tried to crush it, seeing how Matukai gauntlets extended up to the forearm and elbow while also having some good reinforcement and magnetic field, which made them able to resist such things as vibroblades and lightsabers. So they could withstand some grip strength for a good time, even if it came from a creature as strong as this one.

Spoiler: TLDR

Kaos tries to stop the creature from spewing acid all over him by...you guessed it, punching it so hard it either dies or turns its head the other way, also using the force to enhance the strength of said punch quite a bit

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[Lebowski]

The metal squeezing around the Enforcer's body made it impossible to breathe or even speak. Every gasp of air he took, the metal squeezed tighter and tighter, suffocating Dash to the point where he could only focus on his breathing that was quickly failing. Man, this was not the way he wanted to go out, and this whole ordeal was bad news. Lebowski was too young to have even lived and now his life was being cut away bit by bit.

Panic rose in the slicer as he slowly but surely lost the last of his breath. Slowly, everything became black for Dash as he struggled to no avail. A single tear ran down his cheek from behind his helmet. I don't wanna die!... Please, oh god, I don't wanna...

I... I don't...

L o s t.

Spoiler: TLDR

The big sad boi be ded unless someone attempts to rescue him I guess.

 

[Varyn Atrix]

Varyn started moving immediately as the creature came at him, saber flicking around as the creature tried to cleave through his belly. A backward leap kept him out of the line of attack while his saber would hopefully sever the creature's arm if not through the heat, then through the sheer percussive power of the strike.

Hopefully it would also give Edin time to get this kid to... he didn't even know. Stop trying to kill them, he supposed.

 

[John Q]

When John had recovered, he got into the pilot’s seat of his ship, turned the engines on, and flew away.

 

[Indy Sati]

Damn it.

Between Kaos wrestling with it and the panicking Enforcer, Indy found herself split in what she should do. Keeping the creature stalled would make a convenient target of the thing while the rest of the party could kill it at leisure. But... at the sounds of panicked struggling behind her, she hesitated.

I should just let him be.

The thought made her teeth grind. The man was a hindrance, but... dying that way would weigh on her conscious.

"Damn it."

She had to split her focus; between locking the creature in place, and attempting to release the damned non-Force User. With one hand, she kept in a claw motion to lock the acid-spewing creature in place. With the other, she clipped her lightsaber to her belt and reached out a hand, attempting to make the very metal itself bend away, to uncurl from around @Lebowski. Though he had slow reflexes... what a pain.

Hopefully the others would keep hammering down on the chitinous beast while she tried to do two things.
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Spoiler: TLDR

Indy's being a good little Jedi and trying to both keep the beast slowed down with Stasis, and telekinetically unfurl Lebowski from his current predicament. Her attention is currently split between the two.

 

[Charlotte Le'Anna]

She wasn’t dead. She wasn’t dead. Charlotte barely had a moment to breath. The writhing insect still stood. Now spewing acid directly into Kaos’ face. Pieces of metal were suddenly alive…chocking the life from Lebowski. Her head whipped around, searching for a source. Nothing.

The only feeling she could sense in the Force was Indy suddenly splitting her focus. Fucking do-gooders. She did not have time to be pissed. Keeping her attention on the suddenly very dangerous durasteel, Charlotte quickly added her strength to Indy. Hoping to lock the creature in place so that either Kaos or Tahiri could kill the damn thing. For good measure, Charlotte let forth some acid of her own. “Must you risk our lives for that.” Jerking her head in the general direction of the slowly dying idiot.

Spoiler: Charlotte's Actions

Charlotte keeps her wits about her and works with Indy to hold the insect in place.

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[Tahiri]

Indy was a Jedi Master, and she did what Jedi Masters do best, try to help everyone. Tahiri was a Jedi Padawan, and she tried her best to not do what padawans do best, act the fool and get everyone killed.

She knew the enforcer was in trouble, she knew that Kaos was in trouble, but she also knew that she could not help both of them. It went against everything she had been taught, but in that moment she knew she could not be the hero she wished she was. So she did the best she could.

She rushed forward, second lightsaber in her right hand, fingers balled into a fist on her left hand. She darted to the left and approached the creature from the side, hoping to flank it even as it was dealing with Kaos. She moved in with a slash, at first thinking of going for the arm that was trying to crush Kaos's hand but deciding to go for the more permanent solution and instead aiming for its neck.

Spoiler: tl;dr

Tahiri tries to flank the creature as its grappling with Kaos and tries to strike at its neck with her blade.

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[Edin Frost]

Edin wasn’t going to waste ammo on the monsters in the room when they could just be reset. He glanced around the room, looking for anything to help with the situation. Not spotting anything right away, he decided perhaps getting out of here was the best idea. The Firrerreo looked over at the child, “Gold is the color gold is meant to be at each step of the hardening and melting process,” He said, once again not exactly an incorrect answer but also not an exact scientific one. Edin recalled when the child mentioned his scars, “How’d you get your scars, kid?”

Inviting the kid with if he wanted, he zoomed across the room on the hoversled in an attempt to cross the pit and over the monsters to get to the other side. Perhaps he’d get some answers there. Edin purposely kept high above the monsters and zig-zagged past them to avoid detection. The Sith were doing a great job keeping their attention anyway.

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