Open Event Mines of Perdition

[Darth Tempest]

Vahliri’s eyes narrowed harshly, fixed upon the creature that rushed towards her. The half-Annfyn wasn’t the least bit surprised - albeit irritated all the same - to see the molten monstrosities melt and reshape themselves, effectively rendering their Cryokinesis a waste of time. Nevertheless, she wasted no time in responding to the sudden assault.

Pulling the other saberhilt from her belt, Vahliri pushed off her left foot - darting to forward and to the left to dodge the incoming scythe and put herself on the creature’s flank. While it’s oversized weapon missed it’s mark and continued towards the ground, the half-Annfyn turned to face her opponent - following up with a horizontal slash of her right arm, in an attempt to sever its its skeletal leg from its body and cut through the weapon it wielded.

Whatever the reason, Vahliri took a step backwards - attempting to draw the monstrosity further away from the pool. If the streams of gold were anything to go by, distance from the supply of molten metal was likely a good thing.

“Since we answered one of your questions, maybe you could answer one of ours!” She called out to the child, her sensitive hearing meaning she was able to pick up on the majority of what was being said. “That only seems fair.”

“What is your name?” If the child was indeed the one Chorizo had hurt, the name ought to have been a familiar one.

 

[The Gatekeeper]

OOC - First Map Available on Discord

With Ezzo Skeck

@R5 9A @John Q​

Out in space, both Ezzo and John would be free and clear of the gravity well of the planetoid within a few moments of flying. As Ezzo was ahead of John in the quest to escape, the Rodian was the first one to begin powering up his hyperdrive to fascilitate his attempt to leave the system far behind. What he had done, however, was overly focus on the hyperdrive and his attempt to escape the system - he had ignored the multiple radar pings that seemed so distant to his mind.

John would be in a position to watch as rapid-fire lasers lanced out from the darkness of space, slamming into the rear of Ezzo's ship and causing him to burst into flames.

This was unfortunate for Ezzo but it gave John a chance to see that there appeared to be a trio of starfighter-sized craft patrolling the planetoid - they had destroyed Ezzo's ship in a strafing run and they were ahead of his ship now. They began to bank as he watched, beginning to turn towards his ship instead.

With Chirzo

@Vahliri Kahtal @Varyn Atrix @Edin Frost​

The golden figures seemed to be hardier than regular gold should have been, Varyn's blade would catch the forearm of his attacker and the gold would visibly glow from the heat of the blade but something seemed to be reinforcing the metal itself. Rather than cutting through the 'bone', Varyn's slash with the lightsaber pushed the creature's arm and allowed him to avoid the blow. Though, perhaps, the almost immediately back-swing aimed at his neck might be unexpected, considering that lightsabers did so often cut through anything in their paths.

Likewise, Vahliri would find that her lightsabers did not carve through the metal like she had likely been expecting. Instead as she was attacking the leg and weapon of the creature, it would glow as it was heated but otherwise not react. It responded with violence, however, dragging its scythe to the side, tearing up chunks of rock and sending them flying at her side as it rounded on her with intent, bringing both hands up to hold the scythe so as to keep it's swings more controlled.

Above these pitched battles, the child seemed to regard Edin like he was some kind of puzzle before deciding that he rather enjoyed this whole thing. He smiled, bright and wide, before moving to sit on the corner of the hoversled.

"I think that's right!"

The creatures that had been moving to continue their attacks on Varyn and Vahliri took steps towards the Sith before they began to collapse, the force that had been controlling the bones, animating them, seemingly falling apart as the child clapped his hands. Unlike before, however, they didn't reform. Instead, the child just nodded as Edin began to ferry the two of them over the pools.

"Mommy and Daddy couldn't have me in the 'real way' because of stuff they say - so they needed to look for things from the minds of others. Zoe had some memories of someone they thought would be their child and so they used parts of him to make me. Said the scars forced him to grow up smarter and nicer." he explained like it was the most natural thing in the world to be created by the will of your parents using thoughts stolen from the unsuspecting minds of miners, "Mommy calls me Star - keep up grumpy!"

The last bit was thrown over his shoulder at Vahliri and the other Sith as he floated away with Edin. Chirzo shared a look with Vahliri where she would silently shake her head, letting the Sith woman know that the name was very different. Chirzo would quickly begin following on foot, rushing along the rail lines that had been set up to help facilitate the removal of material. As they were not immediately on the move, however, they would be the first to notice the other group, now suddenly visible and perceptible to them as having been nearby the whole time.

With Lanowen's Squashed Corpse

@Indy Sati @Charlotte Le'Anna @Tahiri @Lebowski @Kaos Tyr​

Before they became visible again, however, the group still needed to deal with their own threat.

Kaos lurched forward and swung for the fences, swinging his free hand as hard and as fast as he could at the creature's face in an attempt to disrupt the flow of acid that it was spewing forth. With the Force enhancing the blow, this was achieved though success was likely not what the Matukai had expected. Smashing the lower jaw of the creature clean off of it's head was, typically something of a kill-shot when it came to most creatures of the Galaxy.

Instead of a controlled stream, the acid instead gushed outward in a barely controlled splashing torrent, much of it splashing against the captured arm of Kaos, sending acid up and down his arm up to the elbow. It would burn through flesh and armour alike, dissolving through to bone where the liquid was thickest. This was only possible, however, because of Indy splitting her focus in the Force - with it already using its prestigious strength to properly resist the hasty reapplication of the stasis effect from the Jedi Master before. The only reason Kaos didn't get an uncontrolled face full of the acid was the timely inclusion of Charlotte to the stasis effect.

Splitting her focus was, in a word, a bad idea for Indy and a worse idea for both Kaos and Lebowski. Even as an experienced Jedi Master, Indy splitting her attention in two different directions, in two hasty applications of very different Force techniques against powerful forces was untennable. Kaos had the grace of Charlotte to save him but Lebowski did not - the metal would bend in some places as Indy tried to wrestle control of it from the spirit deeper within the mines but would be unable to assert control of the whole sheet of metal. There was a tearing sound as the metal was sheered by the duelling forces, chunks of it pulling away from Lebowski - even as jagged chunks of it speared through his insides, snapping closed into his chest like a metallic venus-fly trap.

With a sickening series of crunches and squelches, Lebowski was killed.

To the flank of the group, away from the chaos of the rest of the battle, Tahiri did what Jedi Padawans typically did not do - she stayed very quiet and only struck out to help someone when she was certain it was a good idea. With the creature at least partially in stasis and so focused on dissolving Kaos alive, it was not aware of Tahiri and it paid the price for this, stiffening as her lightsaber sliced through it's neck from the side, cutting it almost three quarters of the way through. Though her lightsabers encountered some resistance, the neck was still a weak enough point that it was not enough to protect it.

The creature fell to its knees, a mixture of blood, acid and slime bubbling out of its sizzling neck wound even as the light left it's eyes and it died before them.

Just as the other group had found, the defeat of this obstacle illuminated them to the truth - they had been to the side of each other the whole time. Indeed, the group would be able to see Edin hovering deeper into the mine with the child riding alongside him.

Spoiler: Lebowski

Two half-attempted rescue attempts in the same motion results in neither being successful on their own. As Charlotte aided in the stasis, Kaos is saved from all but pain and disfiguring injury. Unfortunately, no one else attempted to assist Lebowski and Indy was not able to best the spirit on her own. Combined with the previous auto-hit, Lebowski has perished.

The Chamber
@Edin Frost​

Edin and the child, Star, would arrive first.

The chamber had obviously been within the planetoid long before the mines themselves, the way through needing to have been broken through to reach it after all. There, within the chamber, lay the answer to who the Mother and Father truly were. Within a perfectly square chamber, a large stasis chamber rested atop a plinth of the native stone.

Held within were two human figures, a man and a woman, dressed in robes with lightsabers attached at their waists. The Mother in light robes, the Father in darker, it was plain to see that they were Force Users. The statis chamber they were sealed within was of an almost ancient design at this point, rusted in some areas with wires and tubes trailing off of it in many different directions - all of them disappearing through holes in the walls of the chamber.

Holes dotted the walls and the ceiling of the chamber itself, some as small as an inch across and some as wide as eight inches in diameter. All along the floor, lines in the stone were filled with a bright blue, fizzing, liquid that seemed to be resting there rather than flowing from anywhere else.

The child, Star, smiled as he gestured to the unmoving faces of his 'parents' within their stasis.

"Say hi to Mommy and Daddy!"

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.

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[Varyn Atrix]

Varyn was still moving because of his own fighting style and the fact that he wasn't convinced his saber would do anything, so he managed to just narrowly duck the follow up strike that would have otherwise taken his head off.

When the creatures collapsed into nothingness again Varyn let out a sigh of relief. He had to give major props to their mercenary counterpart who had really gone above and beyond in this whole exchange. He couldn't even complain about being left behind.

He moved along, following Chorizo and Vahliri as they made their way after the vehicle and wherever it might lead.

 

[Indy Sati]

Surprisingly enough, the Sith assisted, though Indy didn't bother with a quick quip. Perhaps it was a doomed cause, trying to help the dying panicked gunner, but she had to at least try.

When the metal killed him, she didn't bother anymore. There was nothing left to save, after all, so she merely returned her focus to the fight, which ended with the other two Force users finishing it off, with the cost of the Matukai fighter's arm.

Releasing her hold to let the creature slump to the ground, she flicked her fingers to dispel the stasis and glanced at the Sith coolly.

"Would have tried anyways, even if it was you. Still, good work."

With that said, she then spotted movement on the other side of the cavern. So they weren't far off after all...

She could try to heal the Matukai warrior, but the way it currently looked would be quite difficult, even with a medical droid. It seemed like the others were moving ahead, but to what, she wasn't sure. They'd have to keep moving on as well. The child was there again; she had no idea who they were. But they didn't seem violent... for now. They needed to keep moving; she didn't want the ceiling to suddenly come alive again. But she would offer to patch the Miralukan Matukai fighter if he would accept it.

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Spoiler: tldr

Indy acknowledged that splitting her attention wasn't a great idea, but she would have still tried, even if it was the Sith. She sees the other party, and begins to follow their trail.

 

[Charlotte Le'Anna]

One of them died. Charlotte felt nothing but relief that is had not been her. Charlotte clicked her tongue. Watching as the insect finally died. Its last gasping breaths spraying acid over those close enough. She congratulated herself on great decision making. No need to get close to that thing. Her eyes did quickly note the color of the girls lightsaber. A Jedi away from home? “How noble of you.” The Queen Mother did not want to die. Her new friends seemed the best way to avoid that. But she would be damned if she was going to risk her life for them. There was strength in Indy Charlotte did not expect. Dangerous strength. She simply shook her head, finally noticing they were in a large cavern.

The rest of their number seeming to be standing beside them all this time. Huh. A powerful illusion if that’s what it was. She just barely caught a glimpse of vanishing child while it led Edin away. Charlotte clicked her tongue again. There was nothing she could do for the Matukai warrior. “Good luck with that.” She followed after Indy. Her senses still sweeping around. Following…wherever that might lead her. That meant heading deeper into the cavern.

Spoiler: Charlotte's Actions

Says some sass and follows the other after Edin and the spooky kid.

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[Kaos Tyr]

"FUCK!" The Matukai warrior screamed in pain as the acid began to eat his arm, the Matukai warrior quickly stepping back and retreating as he gritted his teeth in deep pain, trying to shake as much of the acid off as he could...to little avail. During those moments of deep pain Kaos wouldn't be able to tell what was going on, gritting his teeth as the burning pain washed away only once the acid was done with the nerves, phantom pain and the pain from what had narrowly avoided being consumed being what followed.

Kaos would accept the help of the jedi, not really knowing just what Indy would be able to do for his arm, but if she managed to take enough of the pain away for him to function it would be enough. The Matukai would let a long exhale as he sensed his surroundings, noticing the illusion and Edin moving forward...Well, at least someone would be happy about the fact that Lebowski was dead, part of him wished he had died faster so Indy didn't feel the need to split her focus, but Kaos couldn't help but blame himself for that, trusting others to take care of things he couldn't was foolish, should've been prepared, should've done better.

"One arm...will have to do." The Matukai muttered in response to Charlotte, pain noticeable with each word spoken before turning his head towards Indy "...If I am a liability in this state like that moron was, just leave me to die, you can't save everyone." The Matukai bluntly stated before following the others, a cruel fact, but one the jedi would hopefully take to heart, because Kaos sure as hell didn't want to die like a pitiful fool, being a burden to everyone else.

Spoiler: TLDR

Kaos is in pain, accepts Indy's proposal to help, talks and follows after the others.

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[Darth Tempest]

Of course they were lightsaber resistant. Why wouldn’t they be?

Though momentarily caught off guard by the revelation, Vahliri wouldn’t allow it to slow her down. The half-Annfyn had preemptively begun to distance herself from the metal-coated monstrosity at the apex of her swing, and she only furthered that distance by stepping back once more - right-handed saber moving into a defensive guard in front of her body.

As the monstrosity attempted to throw chucks of rock at her, Vahliri lifted her left hand - lifting three fingers off the saberhilt she was grasping. Allowing the Force to billow through her, Vahliri unleashed an abrupt burst of concussive energy to meet the chucks of rock - stopping their trajectory before they ever found their mark. The sudden nature of the maneuver meant that the concussive blast lacked the force to blow the rocks back into her opponent.

Rather than pressed the attack once more, Vahliri continued to withdraw on the defensive - up until the moment they collapsed into a golden puddle of metal. It was only then that the half-Annfyn glanced up, watching as Edin zipped away to the other room. Due to her sensitive hearing, she had heard the entire conversation - and was thus completely aware of Edin’s bullshit answers. It was ridiculous but given the result, she.. Couldn’t even be mad about it.

She silently thanked the Force for Edin and his bullshit answers, and proceeded to follow Varyn and Chorizo into the adjacent room - twin sabers moving into position in preparation for whatever was to come.

 

[Tahiri]

Tahiri had never taken a life, and despite the hoirific nature of the thing they had just fought, it had been live. She hadn't felt it in the moment, when it had been it or her, when she had no time to question the moral ramifications of what she was about to do, when she had adrenaline coursing through her veins to wipe away any thought or worry.

Now though, now it was starting to sink in. She had killed something, she had taken a life, cut the chord that connected something to the Force. And that left her shaken, left her...she didn't have words to describe the pit that was beginning to form at the bottom of her stomach. She had known something like this might happen some day, it was a possibility, an occupational hazard. But it had always been just that, a possibility, something for the future. Living it, experiencing it, she wasn't prepared for that.

Charlotte's sarcastic comment got nothing but a blank stare, and even the sudden appearance of the other group got barely an acknowledgement from the padawan. She risked getting left behind, and only the realization that everyone had moved on finally made her force her feet to move.

She walked by her second blade, which was still lying on the ground after its second salvo with the creature, scooping it up ans clipping both blades back to her belt, and began trailing the others. Moving as if on auto-pilot. Quiet, subdued, cold. So very cold.

Spoiler: tl;dr

Tahiri deals with having taken her first life, and follows after the others.

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[Edin Frost]

Edin hovered into the new room. He noticed the other group on the way in, wondering what happened to the obnoxious idiot from earlier. Maybe he got what he had coming and got dead. The Firrerreo grinned to himself, focusing back on the task at hand. He spotted the two figures in stasis. He had done okay so far without engaging in unnecessary combat, and he was in no rush now. Edin kept his distance on the hoversled, floating in air and looking around the room.

“Hey kid,” He called out to the child. He intended to continue the game, but he had to be clever about it, “How many of those holes does it take to kill someone?” This would tell Edin how the holes worked and if they were dangerous, “Andddd what are colors of liquids that can change form and kill a person?” The Firrerreo asked as he glanced down at the blue, wondering if the kid would rattle off a list of colors. Edin made a point not to ask any direct questions, but just enough to draw out what he needed to navigate the room.

For now, he kept his blaster set to kill, prepared to react to any sudden movements.

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[The Gatekeeper]

OOC - First Map Available on Discord

Space!

@John Q​

Without a reaction from John's piloting, the trio of starfighters would continue and complete their move to turn in for an attack run on the escaping ship. As they were ships designed for agility in dogfighting, they were able to quickly about-face and accelerate toward him at an alarmingly fast rate.

As they began streaming towards him in a loose semi-circle from each other, they opened fire with a trio of light laser cannon shots each. The barrage would race toward John's ship, leaving him barely a moment to react and account for this sudden attack.

With Lanowen's Squashed Corpse

@Indy Sati @Charlotte Le'Anna @Tahiri @Kaos Tyr​

Kaos had fared better than Lebowski but the fact remained that he had not gotten away from the battle with the creature unscathed. With the assistance of the remorseful Indy, Kaos would find that the pain was dulled to a constant, aching, pain rather than the white-hot searing pain that it had been before. Acid would have consumed parts of his skin and muscle by the time that it was safely neutralized, leaving the man's forearm badly damaged even if the acid's damage had also served to keep him from bleeding too badly.

Despite their moral differences, and despite handling the sudden realisation that sentient life was fleeting and easily snuffed out, the splinter team was able to pull together to at least advance together once more. From where they were, they could see Vahliri, Varyn and Chirzo following after Edin and they would be but a few paces behind said group as they arrived at the Chamber.

Arriving in time to hear the Child speak.

The Chamber
@Edin Frost @Vahliri Kahtal @Varyn Atrix​

Edin and the child, Star, would arrive first, but the others would find their way quickly in their pursuit of the hovering assassin and ghostly child. Vahliri, Varyn and Chirzo would find that nothing seemed to stand in their way as they were able to navigate the halls of the mine to arrive at the edge of the Chamber. Upon reaching the edge of the chamber, Chirzo would stop and stand to one side, allowing the Sith to go on ahead even as she lingered in the doorway. Her eyes wild, she looked around the chamber quickly.

"We have no idea what that liquid is." she reasoned, gesturing to it where it seemed to fizz idly, "And I don't think we want to find out by stepping in it..."

As for the questions posed by Edin, the ghostly child seemed content to leave them be for a moment - instead he moved over to the stasis pod that held his 'mother and father' and gave the old machinery a hug. Or as best as a non-physical being could attempt to give something a hug.

"Mommy says the holes aren't the danger - its what comes crawling through them that can be dangerous." he answered as he moved to sit atop the stasis pod, swinging his dangling legs, "But mommy and daddy both say that the liquid-stuff here won't kill you. They say it does worse than that, something about getting in your head or something?"

He seemed puzzled.

"They want you to leave, though. They say that it's not safe for you to stay here. Though..." his face scrunched up slightly, "Though... D-daddy is asking if you'll do them a favour and... and kill them on your way out..."

The reunited groups would be able to peer into the stasis pods from this distance, able to see their neither of the people within appeared to have been frozen in time during a pleasant time. Both faces were twisted in horror and pain. As Star laid out the final request of the two people locked in time, shadows seemed to move within many of the holes within the walls but only Edin would be able to actually catch sight of them as they began to move, able to react in time as they became clearer.

Varyn and Vahliri had no such time as the creatures fell from the ceiling onto them, one of them landing on Vahliri's right shoulder while three of them landed on Varyn's head. Creatures akin to armoured centipedes (each as thick at least an inch, some of them half a foot long) with pincers sharp as durasteel and disgustingly bloody appetites began to bite through their cloth and metal, aiming to tear into their flesh and burrow within. Dozens were already beginning to pour into the room through the other areas, the other holes, as the ghostly child seemed to cry.

"Mommy and Daddy wanted you to leave... now you've got the attention of the monsters..."

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

 

[Varyn Atrix]

Varyn made his way into the chamber, distracted by the horror of the two trapped people in front of him and the look of sheer agony on their faces. Even in the Force they radiated fear and pain, and the thought was entirely unnerving to him.

Apparently, it was unnerving enough to him that he had basically completely failed to notice the absolute abominations on his head.

He felt it hit him, saw others falling in front of him, and put quite the horror together. The shriek that came out of his mouth was, unfortunately, quite far from being masculine.

He swiped generally at the creatures out of instinct, but then his training got the better of him. He pulled the Force to himself and shoved outward, using a repulse to send them off of direct contact with him hopefully before they got through his armor.

Fortunately, they were small enough that it should have been possible and he immediately leapt to "kill it with fire" as he spewed flame from his hand at the nearest creatures hoping to kill them or keep them at bay for the moment.

 

[John Q]

John would attempt basic maneuvers in his ship, flying to the left to avoid the attack, then loop back around the asteroid in an attempt to lose his pursuers. Nonetheless, one of the lasercannons did graze his ship’s underside, damaging its landing gear. John had mostly recovered from his decompression ordeal– the blood flowing back to his brain, heart beating, lungs pumping. Since he had no connection with the people on the asteroid, he didn’t really have motivation to defend them from whoever these attackers. John was more concerned about preserving his own life.

So, he would try to run away again by activating his hyperdrive. After it charged up, he would try to follow it to wherever it took him.

Spoiler: tl;dr

John attempts evasive manuevers. A lasercannon grazes his ship. He activates hyperdrive.

 

[Indy Sati]

Healing was the least she could do, but hearing the Matukai fighter's words, she merely gave him a golden-eyed stare.

"You walked ahead with me when the others seemed motivated to stay behind." That was all she would speak, however. She ignored the Sith's barbs, content as she was for now to be a defensive shield. She didn't expect the others to risk their lives for her; the fact the Matukai had, had earned her respect. And, in a way, the Sith had as well, with the excuse of saving her own skin.

Still, the sound of screams made her move faster, skidding to avoid the odd, fizzling liquid to behold the sight of the scuttling creatures. Some seemed to land on the Sith, and she gritted her jaw. Perhaps they could handle these things on their own, but she didn't want to risk relying on that.

Planting her feet, she flicked her fingers out, to use the Force to fling those creatures who seemed to scuttle towards her companions off of their feet, and towards the Sith's fire. Her lightsaber once again sprang to her hand but remained unactivated for now. She would keep on guard, and attempt to keep the monsters at bay while the others could try to kill them as she liked.

Still... seeing the Child in this way tugged at something inside her heart, and she frowned. No, she couldn't be distracted now. There was time for answers later.

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Spoiler: TLDR

Indy helps heal Kaos, and then follows to assist the assaulted Sith in flinging the monstrous millipedes off of them and fend off the other ones that are scuttling up to make them easier targets, mindful to avoid the mysterious liquid.

 

[Charlotte Le'Anna]

Charlotte continued to move forward cautiously. There was no telling whatever other creatures might waiting in wings and she was no keen to find out. The only way out was forward. The cavern expanded and she found herself staring at the ghostly child as it bounced around the suspended figures. “Lovely.” Visages twisted in horror greeted the adventures. Whatever those two were meant to be had not met a happy ending.

The theme of absolute misery continuing when bugs dropped from the ceiling. Why the bugs. Charlotte carefully looked around to ensure none were falling on her before she reached in the Force. She attempted to fling the bugs of Vahliri before igniting her lightsaber. The ruby red glow casting an ominous shadow.

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[Edin Frost]

Edin saw the weird centipede things burst out and he jerked back to avoid the initial attack. His blaster was already leveled and he fired off a few bolts in quick succession in an attempt to take out the ones near him. Thanks to the hoversled, he was able to zoom around the room rather easily and avoid the liquid on the ground.

“Hey, I thought we were friends,” He quipped at the ghost boy, “I’m playing games with you. You should ask your parents not to mess with me,” Edin requested, wondering if that would work.

Based on the strange request from the dad, the Firrerreo aimed and fired a shot at dad’s pod, aiming for a follow up shot while trying to avoid the centipedes.

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[Kaos Tyr]

The Matukai warrior said nothing in response to the jedi, if she wanted to stick her neck out for him, it would be her choice, he knew jedi were like that, he just hoped her life wouldnt end abruptly because of him.

After they reached the kid and creatures started to attack, Kaos didnt do much, simply enhancing his vision with the force to see what would try to attack them, the sith had been taken by surprise by the small bugs, he would make sure no one else would be surprised. "We'll grant your parents' wish should we survive, but for that we need your help, any tips when dealing with these "monsters?" " Kaos asked the kid, he didn't know if he had anything useful to say, but it was better to make sure

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Tldr: force sense to be alert, trying to asl the kid for advice[/abox3]

 

[Darth Tempest]

Only a few paces behind the fellow Sith, Vahliri entered the chamber - one saber held in a defensive guard, while the other hilt unignited and returned to her belt for the moment. The moment she crossed the threshold, the half-Annfyn’s honeyed gaze flicked from Edin and towards the two individuals frozen in stasis. She didn’t miss the horror that was etched into their features, and the sight of it immediately caused her body to visibly tense. It was palpable in the Force, and it kept her attention above everything else in the room.

So focused, in fact, that the half-Annfyn didn’t notice the centipede-like creatures until they landed on her shoulder.

There was a split moment of realization that flashed across Vahliri’s expression, followed by a shriek of horror. There were few things in the Galaxy that caused her stomach to turn like abnormally large creepy-crawlers, least of all when they entered proximity to her hair. Clear panick replaced any sense of collected and measured response.

Feeling the pincers of one insect sink into her arm, Vahliri immediately began swatting and pulling the insects away, frantic to get them off of her. After a moment or two, she opted to follow suit just as Varyn had done - drawing the Force into herself and unleashing a concussive nova, in order to repel the centipedes.

While Varyn attempted to incinerate the insects, Vahliri extended both of her hands towards the ground - lightning crackling between her fingertips as the Force billowed forth. Rather than a concentrated stream from her fingertips, surges of violet and blue electricity abruptly burst up from the ground - a few inches from their feet, effectively leaving Varyn and Vahliri on an island of safety - to form a circular lake of Sith Lightning. She momentarily poured her focus into the lake, attempting to cook the centipedes from within, if they approached.

It was an exceptionally unique application of Sith Lightning, and something the half-Annfyn had only gleaned from the Holocron herself, Altair and Sol located.

 

[The Gatekeeper]

OOC - First Map Available on Discord

Space!

@John Q​

John would be able to hear it, inside the ship, as the laser cannon shot exploded just off the belly of his ship. Almost immediately, his ship began to scream warnings at him about how his landing gear had been destroyed. This wasn't, however, the most urgent of the warning lights as another was advising him that his ship's shielding was wildly fluctuating and leaving the 'bottom' of his ship almost entirely unshielded.

This was in addition to the hyperdrive, which seemed to groan and scream in the background at the sudden demands being placed on it without warning. Without letting it properly start up and complete its boot sequence, there were real risks associated with using a hyperdrive that John had simply not had time to consider.

As he was beginning his turn, the ships raced after him. He would be able to tell that they were fairly standard model starfighters, comparable to some of the older-school X-Wings. Following him round the tight turn, they would open fire, this time from behind with another barrage of two shots each.

Spoiler: Hyperdrive

@Taygood has been offered a choice on the discord between jumping to hyperspace immediately in response to this post, but rolling for a potential mishap, or having the hyperdrive only engage after the next DM post.

The Chamber
@Edin Frost @Vahliri Kahtal @Varyn Atrix
@Charlotte Le'Anna @Indy Sati @Kaos Tyr @Tahiri​

The creatures that fell onto Varyn and Vahliri clung on with a tenacity that might not have been expected on such things. They were, after all, rather small considering some of the larger insectoid creatures out there in the Galaxy these days - but something about the sheer number of legs probably terrified them more than anything that they might have actually managed to do to them. With the aid of the Force, Varyn Vahliri, Charlotte and Indy all managed to fling the unwanted guests far from themselves - and at pace.

This backfired in one case however as, in his haste to be rid of them, Varyn hadn't fully registered that one of the creatures had managed to bite down and pieced through his clothing. Specifically, the creature bit down into the flesh at the right side of Varyn's neck. Though the adrenaline and the fear-response caused him to largely miss the initial bite, Varyn would be very much aware of the creature's presence when it was flung boldly from his body by the Force - taking a chunk of his flesh along with it for the ride. Even as the young champion began the tried and true method of Killing it with Fire, Varyn would notice that he felt slightly woozy, the blood flowing lazily from the wound itself but the edges of it seemingly burning red hot all of a sudden.

As the modified lightning of Vahliri stunned the recovering creatures, including the remains of the ones that Edin had instinctively shot on their way down, Varyn was able to start the process of burning the insects alive. The creatures seemed to bulge from the flames, screeching an unholy sound before they began to burst, bright green blood painting the immediate area around them as they perished.

"We are! You're my first friend!" the child desperately reassured Edin, floating behind the assassin as he nimbly dodged more of the creatures as they began to multiply in number, falling from the ceiling in far greater numbers, "This isn't mommy and daddy - this is their neighbours! Daddy always said that they were loud... like a million voices in his head all at once."

Glass shattered as Edin's first blaster bolt managed to break through the glass casing of the stasis pod that the two figures were trapped in. Bleeding through, the father seemed to jerk in place from the shot before a second - the double tap - caused him to fall limp as his died almost immediately. Within the now malfunctioning stasis pod, the woman began to stir, as if trying desperately to wake up after a sleep too deep and too long by far.

Hanging back at the rear of the group, Kaos called out to the child for advice when it came to dealing with the monsters and he was answered without issue - the child assumed that the man was feeling pretty bad because of his hand so he wanted to be nice to him.

"Um they don't like fire and um... don't drink anything they give you? Its bad to drink things offered by strangers so drinking things offered by monsters is much worse."

At the rear as well, Tahiri would find herself caught stock still at the sight of the centipedes attacking from the ceiling. With her eyes craned up, she would not be quick to spot a trio of the creatures racing forward on three hundred legs, aiming to crawl up her legs and bite her while she was distracted.

As well, Kaos would be the only one to hear something as he tried to focus on things not immediately around them. Dozens upon dozens of armoured centipedes fell from the ceiling, swarming like a writhing tide towards the ground-based members of the party but Kaos was able to push his perception beyond that. Sinking into the Force to sense beyond the physical, Kaos was rewarded.

He could hear things beyond what he typically would have been able to on his own, he could hear deeper, louder, chittering as rocks were broken and insectoid grippers tore at the dirt. Not from above or below this time - but from ahead, from behind the far wall behind the stasis pod, Kaos could hear things burrowing their way, edging closer every moment.

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

 

[Varyn Atrix]

Varyn was acutely aware of his injury as he continued cooking the bugs. What he wasn't expecting, however, was the wooziness and pain that seemed to scorch the area around where he'd just been bitten or clawed or whatever in the kriff these things did. Not again, he thought, suddenly getting flashbacks to that stupid party where he'd been poisoned before.

Buy me a second! he said toward Vahl and Chorizo as he moved over between the two of them. It wasn't exactly an ideal scenario, but something told him that leaving his wound alone was going to be... bad. Of course, he didn't have time to detox the poison in the middle of combat.

So he did the next best thing. And by "best" he meant "really profoundly terrible, but no other real choices." He took the fire still in his hand and pressed it to the back of his neck. He felt the agonizing burn of the poison turn into the excruciating pain of real fire and he screamed and swore.

The fire only went superficially along the wound and should cauterize the vessels in the area, preventing more poison from seeping into the wound and closing the smaller vessels in the area to trap whatever had already gotten inside. At least, that was his hope and the only real option he had in the middle of a fight.

 

[John Q]

John kept flying in evasive maneuvers, narrowly avoiding laser after laser. It looked bad. But then John remembered the terrible grievance that had been done to him. He must not die here. If he did, justice would not be served. His target would go on to live a peaceful life and never know his vengeance.

Two starfighters fired at him from behind. As John dove around the far side of the asteroid, they barely missed, grazing the rock's exterior, kicking up dust.

The belly of John's ship was wheezing and stirring up a terrible racket. He smelled smoke, and feared something was on fire. But he didn't have time to worry about that now. He had to get out of here. The only way to do that was with his hyperdrive. John tried to prepare the hyperdrive to launch. He couldn't afford it messing up now.

@Nefieslab