Ask Putting the High in Heist

[Laren Vano]

Laren follows Taldoraks instructions. Laren was secretly appreciative of the Mando helping he and his brother through the lasers. “Appreciate the warning” Laren let out as he went through after his brother. He moved swiftly as if it were a dance. Laren was a very agile mandalorian, which was one of his best features. Once he made it through he looked agead and saw the group moving forward and so he followed. Wondering to himself “Man, when do we finally get there? A giant shoot out would’ve been suffice. Oh well at least we didn’t lose anyone on the way.” He began gripping at his westar blaster pistol and said “Should be right up here, right?”

 

[Vri Nama]

Security lasers. The little porkers hadn't mentioned a thing about security lasers, because of course they hadn't, if Vri and her team got caught in the doorway the pigs could keep the money and all she could say is that an Ugnaught helped them break in. There were more Ugnaughts on this station than rivets, how would anyone trace this back to the ones she dealt with?

"Okay, change in plans, when the heat dies down we're cooking those little pigs." She managed to just narrowly dance through the light, the same as her comrades, before motioning down the hall. Thankfully, the catwalk to the control vane was only a short distance from this point and once they got to the control center itself they'd be clear to start the real heist. She was actually feeling pretty confident about their odds when she opened the next security door, only to find a herd of six Ugnaughts standing on the other side of the door, apparently coming back from the direction they wanted to go.

"Kriff-" She barely had time to react before the little porkers started squealing loudly at them and wobbling down the hall on their stubby little legs. "Waste them!"

She didn't want any of the little runts tripping an alarm, so she lowered her carbine and opened up on the back of the fleeing herd, hoping the sound of blaster fire didn't trip an alarm or something.

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[Taldorak Trenessar]

Tal kept his visor scanning for more traps as they reached the other door. So far, so smooth. Then oinktown. As the door opened the little pork sausage links would begin to lose their minds and scurry, which was an odd mixture of amusing and adorable, watching those little legs shuffle so hard to get well.. nowhere.

Rayna unslung and he snapped to the one in the front, firing a single bolt to their head. As they fell, the other porkers would tumble over him like some almost depressing traffic accident. He couldn't even help but laugh as they little guys flailed all over each other. He would then lower the weapon, slinging it. His job there was done. He'd let the brothers show their stuff by killing toddler sized foes. He was saving himself for the shootout with the guards.

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[Rakiss Vano]

As Rakiss then went into the the room as well to see the little.....things scurry around, he was to say the least annoyed. Pushing through the crowd of the little things he let a small sigh out “Laren these things are almost as annoying as you” He said as he kept pushing through. These things weren’t worth the effort, “You can have all the fun you want with these guy just don’t tire yourself out and catch up when you can ok?” If any more got in his way he wouldn’t not hesitate to show them his is wrist mounted flamethrower and how effective it was in clearing a path. But as he pushed through he finally cleared them, having traveled a bit further he looked at the schematics he had and paused a moment then looked to the group, judging from what I have here there is a vent system nearby just up here. He jogged further and found it, as he thought to himself. Then spoke to the group, “This vent should indirectly lead to a section of this place not too far from the vault, it’s a tight fit but I could fit, if you all wanted to make initial entry with blowing the vault from below, I can make my way to it from outside the vault. There be should be a space that would allow me access in between the multiple doors involved. I’ll give most of my explosives to you. Then I’ll take what I need to set a trap for the guards that will come through that rout. If your able to you can open a way for me to escape with your or I’ll go back through the vent the way I came. Either way when we go to leave that will be one path of entry we won’t have to worry about hostiles, they would set my little trap off and not only take them out but block that path to them. Just a thought to cover us a bit better in case they try to box us in, that something you’d be interested in me doing?” He offered the idea, it was a tad risky but one he was willing to take, setting up to outthink someone was something he enjoyed, the idea of the guards getting blown sky high to his little idea was just what he was into. He started to open the vent, and looking into the dark abyss of it and a bit dusty if he had to say. Looking closer it was confirmed it would be a tight fit but just enough clearance to allow him to do this. He would be there on a knee looking at the others close by waiting for their take and offering the extra explosives he had to them with his hand outstretched to whoever wanted them. “If I’m going to do this it has to be now I wanna get a head start before you start your half of entry.”

 

[Laren Vano]

As the group started to head out leaving the clean up task to Laren, he would look at the little oinkers and call out “The more y’all move the worse it’s gonna be!” Of course the piggies just kept trying to scramble away and began to infuriate Laren. He then said to them “Alright, the hard way it is then..” he would pull out his lightsaber and start hacking away at the pigs. Each squealing for mercy as he slaughtered them like a room of younglings. He picked one up and looked it in the eyes as he shoved the saber into its chest and yanked it straight down through its body, seeing death fill its eyes pleased him. He laughed as he finished off the rest of them.. they never stood a chance. As Laren thought he was done he heard something move and looked over to see that one was left hold a blaster. “Don’t come any closer” it shouted. “Heh..ha..hahahaha” Laren laughed as he walked forward toward it and used the cable attachment on his gauntlet to pull the blaster from its hands. “No! Have mercy!” It pleaded. “Why? You would’ve killed me.. so I’m just beating you to the punch!” And he split it in two with the saber. “Wow, I could really use a drink.”

Laren began heading the way he seen the group move in and hurried in hopes of making it back to them on time. He then came across them planning their next move. Laren approached with an oinkmans finger caught in the mow hawk on his helm. “That was a blast! Let’s do it again!”

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[Vri Nama]

In the crush and confusion of mass pig-slaughter, Vri temporarily lost track of the Vano brothers in the carnage, only to find Rakiss trying to ease himself into a vent and Laren brushing the remains of an Ugnaught out of his helmet crest. Mandalorians, couldn't take your eyes of them for one second before they'd wander off to commit war crimes on you.

"Noble gesture Rak but you forgot a key detail," Vri said, taking the grate from the elder Mando's hands. "We gotta get to the control center and shut the gas off, remember? Otherwise you'll set off those charges right next to a reactor line full of unrefined blaster gas."

It was then that a beeping noise started to emanate from one of the fried little piglets, the one with the most facial-scruff and the fanciest coveralls. Vri stepped forward and rifled through the Ugnaught's belt until she found the culprit, a communicator receiving an incoming call. She couldn't make heads or tails of the message, since whoever was on the other end of the line was clearly another Ugnaught, but it was clear they were in a panic about something.

"The reactor vane should be through the next door and on the other side of the catwalk." She tossed the communicator aside and began to pick her way through the squishy, smoldering corpses of the maintenance team. "We gotta get there and clear the place out before someone sounds an alarm or something."

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[Taldorak Trenessar]

Taldorak would look at the brothers. "One of you dispose of the bodies.. discreetly, then catch up with us." he'd say. Oi, these two were likely going to ruin the op before it got truly started. As the sound of the oinking on the comm, and as she studied it, he would press the button to send a message. Maybe to those present and who didn't know it, the pig sounds he made could have possibly passed as Ugnaught. Though if anything it was a bunch of garbage that ultimately seemed to come down to being some kind of diss in their language, some outrage could be heard as the comm was tossed.

"Alrighty, no more crazy osik, yeah? Stick to the plan." He'd say to the brothers before entering first through the door. No more ugnaughts but this time, there was another set of security lasers, just like the last ones, but opposite. Taldorak would wait for several long moments, timing the rotation before he crossed through. "This catwalk has three of them. Alternating." Reaching the second one, another pause to study the lasers before passing through it safely. "Alright. Last one." This laser was much faster than the others and far more erratic. He would wait for several moments before cursing. "Hold on, I got an idea."

He would draw his dagger and kneel, wedging the blade in-between one of the floor panels before prying it free. "These beams are designed to react to flesh, clothing or armor. I think we can trick it with a floor panel." Lifting it overhead, he would watch the beams as the they shifted. "Focus on the lasers from the top.. Move quick to avoid the ones on the walls." Taking his own advice, he would lead by example, stepping through quickly as the floor panel deflected the vertical lasers. "Alright, who's next?" he would ask, passing the panel back through.

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[Rakiss Vano]

They couldn’t tell but Rakiss rolled his eyes inside his helmet and ignored the vent now. “Fine” he said taking the vibro knife out of his boot and started to pry a floor panel up as he worked talking to Laren “Clean your mess Laren, and hurry up.” He said as he finally pried a panel off, putting the small blade back in its sheath he stood up and looked at the next set of security lasers. Did he really want to do this? He hates the fact that this place was set up this way. But he wanted the pay and he had to work for that pay, starting to make the journey he avoids the lasers as he is able to, right before getting through ha almost lost balance narrowly avoiding the last laser the panel being the only thing to save him. He sat there in silence a moment as the laser sits on the panel that would have been his chest. “The moment we are done either I’m blowing this dammed place out of the sky, or I’m gonna make the owners wish I had.” He whispers to himself as he gets up, and tosses the panel, he then looks to Laren to see him trying for a lack of better words to clean his mess up. Then he takes the blaster pistol out of his right holster and holds it in his hand as it hangs and starts to move on, “Alright I’ll follow you then, if the plan works then why change it.” He said to Vri and Taldorak, following them until the job was done or it went south either way he was just ready to move on. “So what now? Anything else we should expect coming up soon?” He asked wanting to be let in on any details he should know about. Not even glancing back at Laren, he couldn’t cause too much trouble, that or Rakiss was putting too much faith in his little brother.

 

[Laren Vano]

Laren began to “clean his mess” but he didn’t know where to start. He hasn’t ever needed to clean up after himself. He began piling the pieces of pigmen and hid them under a rather large price of sheet metal. Hoping that no one would notice he had left it as such. He then walked toward the rest of the group and noticed more lasers. “Gotta be kidding..” is all he could let out when he noticed them. He was so enraged with how much security there is in the form of machines rather than beings. Gathering his self he noticed how the others got through so he would do the same. He lifted the grate and began running forward and blocking every laser that faces his way. The last laser became so close to his helm he could hear the beam over all other sounds. Luckily he made it across. “What exactly do the lasers do if I set em off? Cause they sound pretty deadly. Just wondering.. for a friend..” his stance was him with his hands on his hips and head tilted. He was looking for an answer knowing he wouldn’t get the one he wanted.

 

[Vri Nama]

With the op more or less back on track, Vri followed Tal's lead through the laser field just in time for the brothers Vano to catch up and wiggle through. She would most certainly be hunting down the little swine she had gotten those schematics off, as none of these automated security systems were on the docket. But for right now they had to clear the control vane's central room and get the gas lines shut off.

"All we have to do now is get into the control room and shut off the gas. From there we can crawl down the vane and make our opening." She gestured for the Mandos to follow her as she closed the distance on the final door and stacked up close to it. "Alright, shoot everything that moves and try not to destroy the control consoles."

Vri only took a moment to prep her carbine and let the Mandos arm up before she opened the door to reveal a long, rectangular chamber with several Ugnaughts and more humanoid technicians moving between consoles and communication centers. Unlike the Ugnaughts in the hall, they wouldn't get a chance to spot their attackers before the blaster fire started.

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[Taldorak Trenessar]

"Only one way to not risk the terminals." Tal mused with an audible grin. Slinging Rayna, he would draw his dagger. "On you, Hawk." he would stack up right behind her, weapon at the ready. He could already hear the voices and squeals behind the door. Maybe eight or nine.. well, five and a half if you counted the Uggos as quarters.

As the door opened, he raced inside, the dagger flicked from his hand into the jugular of one of the humans. Jumping off the head of an Ugnaught, he would sail towards the human he had targeted. Landing in front of him, one hand grabbed the mans shoulder, while the other ripped the dagger free with a twist of the blade. The mans fall was controlled by the Mando as he threw him onto one of the piglets.

The next move brought him into the next human, now stunned by the sudden arrival of armed assailants. He reached for a panic button but was met with a slash across the midsection followed by the dagger being driven into his throat. As his body fell towards the button, Tal would launch him back the other way.

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[Rakiss Vano]

The door opened and Rakiss filed in right behind the others, not long after the people inside saw what was going on a few put up a fight to defend against the team. One grabbing Rakiss by the shoulder and trying to punch his helm jaring him slightly but seeing it did more damage to the poor workers hand “Your not that smart” Rakiss stated after returning the favor followed by kneeing the working in the stomach finishing him off by pulling the blaster in his hand against the chest of the worker as he was doubled over letting off a few shots into him. Then letting the corpse drop he looked to the others and saw another worker trying to come behind Laren, Rakiss blowing a hole through the man called out “Watch yourself...” This was cut short by another worker hitting Rakiss and tackling him to the ground where the two started to wrestle all the while the small pig like migits wanted to start to kick the two. They dispersed while the two rolled back and forth, as Rakiss started to get the upper hand he started to reach for a small capsule like many on his belt “Your not gonna enjoy this” He stated and the attacker laughed a moment not knowing what was about to happen to him. Rakiss finally free enough to bash the worker with his forearm then head bash him of of himself got the upper hand now on top of the man he was fighting. Then proceeding to jam the small capsule into the mans mouth and punched his jaw to make the man break it with his teeth. Only then did the man realize he was soon going to die. The capsules contents were an acid of sorts that had many uses mostly to fuel his wrist we mounted flame thrower but if kept in liquid form rather than propellant was very toxic indeed. The man started to gasp and choke and tries to scream. But the acid was burning through the man too quick. Rakiss stood up and retrieved the blaster he had dropped when the man tackled him. He breathed in deep for a moment then looked to the little inconveniences that were helping the man “Who’s next?” he said in a low voice. They squealed and started to run around then holsters his blaster pistol and waits for the rest of them to finish up “More of these little freak for you Laren, and as for you two just know I wanted to set that man on fire inside and out but it would have probably killed us.... your welcome.” he said as he moved bodies making sure the consoles were still all in intact. “Laren when you done send your little droid if you have him, he can look through these console faster than me. Saves me the pain of doing it.”

 

[Laren Vano]

The doors open, and the group files in one by one. Blaster shots are firing everywhere yet very inaccurate. Laren took a moment to read the room and mark his targets. He moved forward towards one man and began to fist fight. As Laren thought he was winning the fight another came behind him and began to attack. He was dealing with a two on one assault as best he could. He then heard his brother call out to warn him, so Laren dropped to the ground knowing if he didn’t he’d be done for. After the blast he looked up to see that he could look through the man who was once attacking. He then focused on the initial opponent who was swinging his leg toward Laren. He caught the mans leg and broke it in half and followed it by blasting the mans head with a single shot. “This is much more like it!” Laren let’s out as he stands up and begins firing at any beings that weren’t in his group. After he thought he was finished his brother gave an offering of the pigmen. “You smell that? Smells like bacon in here..” Laren stated an amusing voice as he ignited his lightsaber and continued to dismember ugnaughts swiftly. As he finished decapitating the final piglet he turned to his brother and let out as he was breathing heavy “Sure brother BD has nothin better to do. And uh good job everyone, I know I had fun!” He then walked toward the console and set BD-3 on the desk and told him “Go ahead, making papa proud.”

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[Vri Nama]

It was truly, perversely entertaining watching Mandalorians work a breach-and-clear, Vri barely got a chance to pop the technician at the far end of the room before her hit-squad fanned out through the control center, leaving a trail of corpses in coveralls as they went. With the witnesses more-or-less under control, Vri moved to the control panels and began to pick through them to find out which was the console for Tibana gas flow. She had been given a pretty good image of the panel from her contact and been told how to shut off the pipes, but of course she'd nearly faceplanted into a security laser five minutes ago so she was hardly surprised she was struggling to find her target.

"Me and the droid will handle the pipes." She called over her shoulder, working her way across the frankly absurd amount of dials and switches before her. "Tal, take the kid and make sure there's no one else in the control vane who can call for help. Rak, see if you can find a maintenance skiff to ferry us to the entrance point, we'll need to move fast once the gas shuts off."

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[Taldorak Trenessar]

Taldorak would grin beneath his helm at their handiwork and when his lady love called out to him he'd nod, his gaze shifting to Laren. "C'mon kid. We're hunting piggies. Rak, try to keep it quiet."

With that, he'd lead Laren deeper into the control vane. He moved quietly and slowly, not only avoid detection, but to make it easier for them to find targets. He was still brandishing just his knife and each measured step would bring him to a stop as they approached an open door.

Four sets of voices. He'd signal to Laren and peek in, tutting to himself. Inside two humans, a pig, and some fox looking thing were gambling instead of working. "Well, well, well... What do we have here?" Tal would say, acting as if he were a security head. "Gambling on the clock."

The four would look terrified as they had been caught. Tal would lean back to Laren, whispering. "Knife only.."

His gaze shifted back to the workers. "And you're using chips.. hands on the table, we're going to make sure you aren't stealing too."

His order was complied with and he'd circle around to the two humans, knife still hiding behind his back. Once Laren was behind the other two, he'd drag his knife across the throat of each of the humans. "Take anything of theirs that you want.."

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[Rakiss Vano]

Rakiss saw Val start to work on the console, and the others go out the door to go deeper into the control vein. Now left to find a way to make a quick escape he started out the door after the other two had left “I’ll be back soon, shouldn't take long.” he said to Val as he left, once out the door he noticed their was another direction to go a narrow hall apart from the path the other two went and the way they all came. “Where does this go?” He thought to himself and started down the pathway dimly lit he walked quick paced down the path of travel he found himself on. After a while came to a lift, tilting his head slightly he saw a view port within. Stepping so side he could see what was down below. His helm having a function to zoom in to allow better view of what he was looking at he touched his wrist bracer screen on his left hand to clear the image he was seeing. He soon came to find it was a docking station, although a little ways down not impossible to reach by any means. He started the lift and it went down a ways to the dock station where working were moving back and forth as well as moving supplies on said skiffs around an array of tunnels in different directions. He would spend the next few minutes scoping it out. Making sure nothing would hinder their progress to make their get away. Nothing seemed to catch his eye at the moment. After talking to a few of the workers and some credits he had a group of them convinced he was security once again and he needed at least two of the skiffs of standby. “We can do that but why? With recent events we are busy and we need all available skiffs to haul off supplies to other work station.” “I don’t make the orders I just relay them.... Just clear the two at the end so they are set for what the boss wants, or would you want to come with me to question that?” His bluff half worked “I can go with you to the control center up a level or two to confirm just to be sure. I’ll have the boys here do what ya say and I’ll come back once I’ve checked myself to see if anything needs changed.” “Ok let’s go then.” Rakiss sighed to himself now having to deal with this worker wanting to be mister perfect employee. Walking him to the lift he brought him back up to the floor where Val was in the control room, the men downstairs were doing as he asked and now just left this loose end. Once they got close the worker opened the door and seen plainly this was all wrong with bodies scattered and Val at the consoles, “what’s going on here! What have you down to the real crew?!” In the next moment a wire cable from Rakiss’s wrist bracer wrapped the personnel up and pulled him back to Rakiss out of the room he swung his right fist knocking the man out. He continues to wrap and tie up the worker, “Sorry for this Val had to get ride of mister nosey here, he’s lucky I felt just to knock him out. Anyway I got workers down near a docking station for their work skiffs to clear it off for us I’m just gonna leave this guy here and head back down to make sure their are no more complications, see ya later” Rakiss stated and started off back down the hallway to the lift. Hoping the others were doing well in their task.

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[Laren Vano]

As Tal was saying to come, Laren looked back to Val and Rakiss and gave a head nod. In a way that without words he had said good luck to them. He then turned around and began down the hall with Tal. They approached an open door, after Laren had hit the signal he knew exactly what was goin down. He walked in and after Tals comment he then answered “You know gambling can get y’all into big trouble.. it’d be shame see somethin happen to ya.” Laren made his way behind the pig and the fox lookin rodent. He took into account the info passed from Tal being “knife only” and pulled out his. Once he saw Tal slit the humans throats, he stabbed the pig under the jaw straight up, leaving the knife in the pig he grabbed the foxes head and spun in a complete 180 degrees. “What does the fox say about that?” Laren knew his humor was a little twisted and began to chuckle at what he said but stopped as soon as Tal said to take anything from them. Laren looked on the table at all the credits and began throwing them in his bag. He took their blasters that were on their persons and put them in the bag as well, cause Laren knew he could sell them for a decent profit. He found a valuable amulet necklace on the fox and yanked it from his corpse saying “Don’t mind if I do.” Once he was finished scanning the room he turned to Tal and asked if he was ready to move on “I don’t see much else for looting that would be worth while. Let’s take what we have and keep pushing until we find what we came for so we can get our prize and go.” He stood ready for whatever direction was to come his way.

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