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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Star Wars D20 Revised Session 10

Fra'll, Terrance and I are in the shuttle on our way to the surface of Korriban.  Initial scans report that there is no technology on the planet.  Rumors say that the planet is dead.  When we get closer to the planet, I am able to see the force, swirling around the planet like the swirls of an oily bubble.  When we get inside the planets atmosphere, we notice a flock of birds the size of pterodactyls.  Coming in vertically because of a dust storm with gigantic lightning bolts.  We level out at the last second and head for a valley between two peaks.  The peaks are giant statues carved into the mountainside depicting robed figures with Sith battlemasks on and are wielding unlit lightsabers.  Strange markings decorate these gargantuan stone carvings.  The walls of the valley are approximately 60 meters tall.  We had to rotate the ship to a vertical position in order to leave at the end of the valley, bank left and set down.  The ship's readings say one cave entrance in front of us and three cave entrances on the right.  We leave the ship and head for the one cave entrance directly in front of us.  Inside, the cave is pitch black.  Terrance pulls out a glow rod and calls the cave a 'tomb.'  We do see three sarcophagi with the same carvings as the statues outside.  We follow the wall to the left, but on the wall are murals.
"When in doubt, always go left."
Tomb inside cave entrance.

The first mural depicts a battle scene with blasters, droids, Siths and Jedi.  It extends around the corner.  The scene is huge and takes up three wall spaces.  I refer to this mural as one, two and three.  The next mural shows two prominent figures, one Sith and one Jedi.  I say that this mural is mural number four because it comes right after one, two and three.  Mural five and six depict a space battle with a X-wing and a Sith fighter.  Mural seven is a huge depiction of the planet of Korriban.

When we were in front of mural four I became incredibly sleepy and passed out.

When I awoke, Terrance looked like he just woke up as well, I asked Fra'll why he's whispering.  He motions toward the far corner and I look.  I see a little girl that looks exactly like my Master's daughter.  She is just staring into the corner.  A little while later, a young boy comes out and stares forward.  The little girl lit a torch that lit all the other torches around the room before he emerged.  The young boy opens the coffin in front of him and a older human girl gets out.  My Master's daughter look-alike opens the coffin perpendicular to the one the young human boy opened and another older human boy gets out.  Then they all leave down the corridor where the two had originally come from.

We started searching for triangle pieces inside the coffins.  Inside coffin one was a skeleton, the second coffin contained a young Rodian boy who I thought was dead, but Fra'll said he was breathing shallowly.  The third coffin had a skeleton and a triangle piece that radiated the force.  The fourth coffin had a young Twi'lek girl still breathing inside.

Behind the mural of a tomb, with three Sith statues on either side was a secret entrance.  On closer inspection, the statues could have their fronts removed and behind the facade were Jedi statues instead of Sith which radiated the light side of the force.  The statue next to the secret entrance had a keypad.  I entered 'hello', 'open', and finally 'ghost in the machine' like it was written before.  The secret door opened and a light inside turned on illuminating the completely metal hallway.  We move forward and the light follows our movement.  We get to the end of the hallway and the entrance closes behind us and the room in front of us lights up.  Inside, there are two coffins.  The first coffin has a white force crystal inside with dancing white light inside of the crystal.  The second coffin contains a black force crystal with dark light dancing inside.  I take the crystals.  We leave the same way we came in after seeing that there is no other way to leave.  There is a keypad by the entrance and use it to open the door and exit the hallway.

We then proceed to find where the four individuals had gone to.  We check the other two coffins before departing, but they are empty.  We enter a carved in stone hallway and follow it carefully.  We come to the entrance of a cavern that has a spiral ramp that goes down about forty or fifty meters.  There is a big guy walking around and we notice the three of the four people we saw earlier are holding the remaining triangles we need while my Master's daughter, which by this time I'm pretty sure it is actually her, is holding onto four lightsabers.  The big guy suddenly chops off the head of the little boy.  I start running down the ramp thinking to stop this profane ritual.  The big guy notices us and he uses fear on us, but too soon.  I continue down while Terrance and Fra'll make their way down as well since the big guy is out of range.  The big guy continues the ritual and chops the head off of the other boy and girl until my Master's daughter is the only one left.  By the time I get down there he is already going towards the little girl.  I step in between them and confront him.  He is a tough opponent and eventually he falls.  He stands back up again and in the process, I chop his head off.  We take the triangles and the lightsabers including the big guy's which makes five all together.  The little girl seems confused, but she follows orders.  I sense nothing but good in her.  Her eyes are glazed over.  On our way out, we save the two that were still in the coffins, the Rodian boy and the Twi'lek girl.
Cavern inside the tomb.

When we leave the entrance to the cave we hear laughter.

"You pathetic mortals, you have not stopped me, the Sith empire will rule again and we will meet again."

The entrance closes.  Fra'll says,"There is more than one of them."  All the tomb entrances close.  The dust storm is about to hit, so we climb aboard the shuttle and wait till it is over.  During this time I hide the five lightsabers in the cargo hold.

This is the end of session 10.  Come back and read Session 11 coming soon.  Until then, safe gaming and have fun.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Star Wars D20 Revised Session 9

I notice the Captain has a slash from her left hip to her right shoulder.  She tells me that it was a parting gift from her daughter.  I heal her with the force.  While I was healing her, I noticed the White-robed figure walking towards us.   The mask that it normally donned was gone and before me stood a female approximately 2 meters tall.  The white-robed female is escorting Terrance the Scoundrel and the female or oriental descent towards us.  The Captain points at the Scoundrel while staring at the oriental female and asks,"How did they know to be here?  How did they know it was here?"
   The oriental female responds,"Why don't you ask him since he's the captain?"
   Captain Lyn Me says,"I am talking to the captain - Captain Tai Lynn."
The white-robed figure in one swift motion pulls the scoundrel out of between the two female captains and puts away her lightsaber and binds Terrance.  She then puts her booted foot on his shoulders.  I notice that the white-robed figure is wearing form-fitting leather pants or a body suit of the same material.  The temperature in the room feels like it has dropped.  The doors that we initially came through open behind us and we hear,"I'm here to play" in the creepy voice of Captain Lyn Me's daughter.
   Fra'll turns to Captain Lyn Me and says,"Fine, she's your kid, you beat her!"  Right after he says that, we feel the whole space station outpost shake as a cannon blast directly hits the Scoundrel's ship nearby.  We all retain our footing, but we here an "Oww!" come from behind us.  We look and see that Captain Lyn Me's daughter has fallen down.  We act, moving closer.  I tell Fra'll to use his blaster to stun her since it worked so well last time.  All of work together to defeat the little girl.  Fra'll finally hits and she is stunned, but not before taking considerable wounds.

Later, after being debriefed, we are told that we must go down to the planet to recover the four missing triangle pieces.  We consisting of Fra'll, Terrance, and me.  The other triangle pieces were confiscated when Terrance was arrested originally, however there were four pieces missing which was deduced when we matched the writings on all the triangles together.  Other items were also recovered when he was detained and we looked at them in the lab, but two biological virus alerts later and it appears to be some writings and a piece of Sith battle-armor.
Picture of all triangles put together.
I apparently needed training to prevent the living dark side of the force to influence me.  The white-robed figure trained me using meditation.  After four days of training, Terrance prepared a shuttle and we were on our way to the surface of Korriban.

This is where we ended session 9.  Come back and read session 10 coming soon.  Until then, safe gaming and have fun.