2008-10-18 - When Remorseless Killer Droids Attack!

This forest lies on higher grounds, substituting wet and misty surroundings for widely spaced palm trees and glimpses of the sky. The leaves high above rustle whenever there is a wind, shifting around to let sunlight fall on a vastly tall rock covered in greenery and vines. Standing at least a hundred meters high, its rugged sides even support the occasional tree. A closer inspection of the little mountain would reveal that it is shaped rather like a pyramid. Its surface has caved to the weather of centuries, covering the base in rubble and fallen rocks.
Kashkah is standing just outside of the antechamber. Clothed in the robes of the Sand People, he is a mystery. He holds a Gaffi Stick with menace. To either side of the thug are platoons of killer droids. And some ways behind is another squad of droids blocking the trail towards the rain forest.
Karin is the first to leave the pyramid, eyes narrowed against the sharp sun. -Then- her eyes narrow at the assembled armies, and a most unladylike curse is hissed between her lips.
As she emerges, Anneke's mouth suddenly goes wide and she quickly tries to slip behind something, crouching down in cover as well as she absolutely can. Right back to shivering and taking deep breaths.
Joints wheezing, Karin's droid walks up behind her and stops with a rather sudden and surprised exclamation as he notices the newly arrived guests.
One hand to block the sun's rays, Jai does not immeadiatly see the gathered tincans. However when he does his reaction is much like Karin's. "Me shoulda..." He wails, wishing he had not let his curiousy get the better of him.
On Karin's tail like a sugar ant on... sugar, Liam barely catches himself from slamming into the lady's behind. "What's the hold--" the boy tilts his head around the woman's form to get a better look, then blanches. "--oh. Oh, biscuits." Then, he plaintively adds, in a tone hardly above a whisper, "I hate it when Father's right."
"Well, damn." Fiero closes his eyes, and his lightsaber leaps right into his hand. He flashes a mischievous grin and activates the weapon, letting its cool, blue light wash over everyone's faces. "Hey, folks, just act really calm. No reason to be afraid."
Kashkah steps back a little, letting Karin and her team come out of the pyramid. The blue lightsaber catches the thug's attention. "Better put that toy away... or you die first." To Karin, "Core <expletive>, we know you've got it. Now let's see it and we'll finish this deal."
Anneke doesn't emerge from her place. In and out, in and out. Deep breaths. She needs to calm her mind and that's all she can focus on right now. Hoping she's well enough hidden. Likely.
Karin offers a bright smile at Kahskah, the light from Fiero's blue saber dancing in her eyes. She carefully swings her arm backwards, attempting to shove Liam fully behind her back.
"Alright," she says, levelly. "You've killer droids, I see. Very clever. Better give him the glyph, then."
She glares pointedly at Fiero, tilting her head in Kashkah's direction.
"Uh...." Jai quickly turns around, running back into the pyramid, to cower and hide out of sight.
There's plenty of reasons to be afraid. The sudden hiss of lightsaber activating brings a small, startled cry to Liam's lips, one he quickly tries to cover by clamping his hands over his mouth. Instinctively, he moves away from Fiero, but with little space, he attempts to become one with the pyramid's walls, eyes wide and fearful, darting between the glowing blade and the thugs, falling into a ritual quite similar to the Taanabian ruler. Deep breath, in and out, through ghost-white fingers.
Fiero tilts his lightsaber to Yoruba's thug, calmly. He slowly retrieves a glyph from a pocket in his robe. "You want this, and you will have it. Will you let me tell you a story first, though?"
Kashkah points his Gaffi Stick at Fiero. "No, give me what belongs to my boss and we'll call this a done deal. Fifty thousand credits, right Morrow?"
Karin's droid lets his head tilt and turn to take in the reactions of all the various people involved in the scene, but the battle droids seem of more interest to him: "How fascinating!" He takes a few steps in their direction for a closer look, but Kashkah's irritation causes him to pause.
"Oh."
Karin's brows raises innocently at Kashkah. She purses her lips, looking thoughtful -- a few seconds before she looks very regretful.
"Oh, that thing. I'm afraid that deal is off. We couldn't find it. You can tell your boss he can keep the rest of the money! But I'll let him have this glyph on top of the deal, what say?"
She reaches out an arm again, tapping the protocol droid's metallic skin in an attempt to warn him from the combat droids.
In, and out. In and out. Anneke turns to her pack, and starts digging things out. Then she slips on a hoverpack as she looks over towards Karin for a moment. Staring, taking a deep breath.
"You don't want to be told stories, and you're carrying something that looks a little more than a nail hammered across a stick to me. Do you really think you got the upper hand with that amateur's weapon of yours?" Fiero asks of the Tuskan, clearly unphased by the threat the droids, and anything else the worker of Yoruba's might have. "Because, I suppose you should look around."
FORCE: Kashkah experiences an amused feeling and thinks of Fiero.
Kashkah chuckles at Fiero. "You're tough huh. Like I care." At Karin: "you made a deal with the boss. He knows the item is here somewhere and he's guessing you got it. If you don't, I suggest you show me your pretty little bottom while you get back to work."
Liam stares at Fiero, glassy-eyed, for a long moment. A bit too long for a regular stare. When he regains focus, he narrows his eyes, and turns away in a huff, looking to Karin instead. "Maybe... we should, ugh, go back inside... and look for it?"
"Oh, now see here!" Karin's droid objects to Kashkah's request of his mistress in an indignant tone, raising one hand: "There's no need to be crude!"
Karin's eyes narrow at Kashkah -- even as she places a calming hand on her protocol droid's metallic shoulder.
"I already said it wasn't here. We looked. You can return to your boss and say the deal is off. Or I can have my men dig for two centuries, and he still won't be any wiser."
"Lick my Hutt?" Fiero chuckles after this seemingly random phrase, before pressing his free hand against his eyes, to wipe it. "Oh, Force, that was hilarious."
More laughter, though it seems to give way to his usual daring attitude as he gets into a defensive stance, stepping in order to cover Anneke. "It ain't here, bub."
Kashkah shakes his head at Karin and starts to back up out of the kill zone. "Last chance, Core <expletive>. Produce the item you were hired to deliver or else." Still pointing his stick at Fiero, the thug raises his free hand in the air, ready to bring the hammer down, so to speak.
Anneke looks to Karin some more, she's got the Anti-grav pack on now. Then she looks to Fiero and Graham. Then back towards Kashakah and the droids. And finally she starts looking around, catching up on the terrain.
Karin's droid falls silent now as her hand rests on his shoulder. However, if a protocol droid can stare daggers, he does so at Kashkah, trying to look as impressive and threatening as possible ... ah, that works.
Fiero seems to already be at a position to attack the Tuskan fighter, but it seems to be so... lean, like a snake before it bites its prey. He deactivates the lightsaber, momentarily, and spins it one hundred eighty degrees before activating it again, with his thumb. He's wielding it in a strange way!
"Go lick a Hutt," Liam snaps, in what would appear, the general direction of Fiero. Eyes going wide at his own outburst, he slowly eyes the droids, then glares back at the blue saber-waver, clapping a hand over his bald scalp protectively and hissing, "And, get out of my head."
James Loro moves from cover in hope of finding better cover
"See? We haven't got it." Karin shrugs at Kashkah, looking to meet the man's eyes.
"We don't have it!" Anneke says from where she is mostly concealed, waving her hand slightly. "The Sith were here first! They took all the good stuff." She shivers, adding at least something genuine to this. "They attacked the expedition more than once!"
"Yeah, just some... glyph thingies in there," Liam affirms from behind Karin, trying to keep his voice as level as possible. It breaks a time or two, but that could just be puberty, after all.
Kashkah chuckles at Anneke. "You don't have it? A Sith was here first? And I bet a great big fortress moon appeared in the sky above... Tusken, be silent! You're all dead anyway. Its just a matter of preserving your bodies for display on Tatooine." The thug waves his hand over his head and then chops down."
COMBAT: From Naphoon IV: Rain Forest - Palm Tree, someone fires a blaster bolt at Fiero!COMBAT: From Naphoon IV: Rain Forest - Palm Tree, someone fires a blaster bolt at Fiero!COMBAT: Fiero tries to parry with his blue lightsaber, but the blaster bolt hits and seriously wounds him.
Peering from his, hopefully safe, hiding place inside the temple, Jai winces as shots are fired.
And out of the blue, a sniper bolt comes at Fiero, who is a moment too late and tries to parry the thing, but alas, it hits him. The Vanixian's gaze moves over the Palm Tree, and he looks at Anneke. "Stay here. Keep an eye on those rocks for me, hm? And I might buy you a drink, or something." He bends his knees, slightly, and focuses-- he's going to jump next turn!
"Ooh! Oh this is madness!" Exclaims the droid as he suddenly turns and scurries over to Liam and waves his arms, "Head for cover, young one!"
Karin curses again. She turns and runs, side by side with her protocol droid, and attempts to tackle Liam and throw him to the forest floor -- covering him with her own body, as well as using a rock as cover.
COMBAT: Karin lashes out at Liam with her fists!COMBAT: Karin hits and mildly wounds Liam.
"No!" Liam shakes his head furiously at the protocol droid. "Protect Miss Ka--Oof!" Liam takes the tackle hard, his fedora cracking in protest under their combined weight. Coughing air back into his lungs, the boy can only wiggle and protest. "--Karin.. I can take... care of.." cough. "myself!" Another cough and another set of futile wiggles. "Father taught me to.. shoot." Maybe not well.
Of course, to every tackle, there is an upside, muttered softly under the guise of protests. "Kind of.. soft."
James Loro rolls out from behind cover.
"Void!" Jai swears, drawing himself back, deeper into the pyramid's cover, hoping that no one notices him. Still, just in case, he adjusts the strap on his repeater, lowering it so he can wield it easily should it come to it. Go cowardly cowering!
Anneke closes her eyes, looking around once more. Bad things are happening, and there's little she can do. One hand falls to her side - to the dagger sheathed there, and the other raises as she looks towards Kashkah. Concetration on her face...
COMBAT: Anneke tries to rip Kashkah's Gaffi Stick out of his hands!COMBAT: Kashkah's Gaffi Stick rips free of his hand and flies into Anneke's.COMBAT: Anneke wields her Gaffi Stick.
Bewildered as Karin tackles Liam, the droid mutters: "Yes, yes of course!" to Liam and braces himself before the flattened form of the archaeologist as a form of barrier to protect his mistress: "I can take you all - you devils!" He waves his arms in what he hopes looks like a fierce gesture.
As Kashkah's prized Gaffi Stick flies from his hands, he curses vile expletives. "Kill them all! Kill them all!"
The droids march forward, each unit in a single rank for maximum firepower. With terrorific precision, their weapons swing up. Their totally advanced targeting protocals lock in on the greatest threat.
COMBAT: Yoruba's Terminators fire their Merr Sonn T90 Mega Cannons at Fiero!COMBAT: By sheer luck, Yoruba's Terminators's blaster bolt misses Fiero.
Karin remains where she is, mashing Liam into the turf with the weight of her own form -- ignoring the youth's complaints, and other comments. She draws a blaster and aims it at Kashkah.
COMBAT: Karin wields her H4RD Corr Blaster.COMBAT: Yoruba's Annihilators fire their Merr Sonn T90 Mega Cannons at Karin!COMBAT: By sheer luck, Yoruba's Annihilators's blaster bolt misses Karin.
Fiero tries to jump up to Rain Forest - Palm Tree......and he succeeds, jumping 15 meters!Fiero leaps up 15 meters from Rain Forest - Palm Tree!
COMBAT: From Naphoon IV: Rain Forest - Palm Tree, someone fires a blaster bolt at Anneke!COMBAT: Anneke tries to dodge, but Grike's blaster bolt hits and mildly wounds her.
A scream of pain follows as Anneke is hit by the blaster, but then she hits her anti-grav pack and suddenly goes catapulting up into the sky...
After by a hair's length the deadly, deadly droids miss Fiero, he initiates his jump, which seems to go on an insane speed. As he ascends, though, he drops a crysblade, some scrap armor, a blank book and some knuckles. Maybe he's got defective pockets!
Anneke actives her Sight-Seeing Anti-Grav Pack and rockets up to Rain Forest - Top of Pyramid!
Effectively mashed, Liam can only wave his hands protectively over the woman's form, grumbling protests and demands for air into feminine flesh. Some distance away, in what would appear an anomaly of physics, some rocks twitch around on the ground...
COMBAT: Liam hurls an ancient brick toward Kashkah!COMBAT: Kashkah dodges Liam's flying debris.
Fiero tries to jump up to Rain Forest - Palm Tree......and he succeeds, jumping 15 meters!
"Stupid droid," Jai mutters as he tries to conceal himself behind a hanging branch in the pyramid's door. At least he was getting a good view of what was going on. "Take blaster bolt for we, nah!" He encourages the droid, as he places a hand cautiously on his repeater, though not wielding it yet. Perhaps he was waiting to see which side was looking like it was more likely to win before throwing in his lot... Or maybe he was frozen inplace by fright.
"Well done!"
Karin yells sharply upwards at the leaving Fiero, nodding approvingly at the stones. Perhaps the lady missed who was really sending them away. She shifts her weight, allowing Liam more space to move, and fires her blaster at Kashkah!
COMBAT: Karin fires her H4RD Corr Blaster at Kashkah!COMBAT: Kashkah tries to dodge, but Karin's blaster bolt hits and mildly wounds him.
Kashkah snickers evily as the droids march in and open fire. But, rocks hurl out of no where! The thug dives to the ground just in time. Rolling to a crouch, he starts to draw a new weapon when a bolt of energy appears. A new dodge fails and the energy chars skin. This time the thug has to push himself off the ground as he draws his dagger and stalks forward.
James Loro takes careful aim at the charging Tusken and opens fire
COMBAT: James Loro fires his Masterwork SoroSuub HK3/a Rifle at Kashkah!COMBAT: Kashkah tries to dodge, but James Loro's blaster bolt hits and moderately wounds him.
Noting the Tusken stalking forward despite the blaster bolts hurled at him, the protocol droid stands his ground, trying to move his metalic body in front of his owner and the felled boy.
As the being with the lightsaber jumps away, the assassin droids' available targets are one less. New threats present themselves and the droids lock in and fire!
COMBAT: Yoruba's Annihilators fire their Merr Sonn T90 Mega Cannons at Karin!COMBAT: Karin dodges Yoruba's Annihilators's blaster bolt.COMBAT: Yoruba's Terminators fire their Merr Sonn T90 Mega Cannons at James Loro!COMBAT: James Loro tries to dodge, but Yoruba's Terminators's blaster bolt hits and shreds him.
Karin jumps forward, rolls along the ground to avoid the shot, and fires at Kashkah!
COMBAT: Karin fires her H4RD Corr Blaster at Kashkah!COMBAT: Kashkah tries to dodge, but Karin's blaster bolt hits and moderately wounds him.
"Huh!" Jai mutters as he slips deeper into the pyramid, seeing as how the people were getting massacred. time to find a nice hiding place, or failing that activate his ships homing beacon and make good his escape, yes. Quietly, the dreadlocked human creeps off.
Freed of his fleshy confines, Liam rolls away to find more solid cover, reaching into his own pocket for a tiny little blaster, just right (though still a bit large) for his hand and points it, unsteadily, at the tusken. But, aiming takes his full concentration - he does not fire.
Kashkah follows his droids in. Another being leaves the field of fire (Jai), leaving Yoruba's forces with one less scumbag to deal with. Bone dagger in hand, the thug heads directly for Karin. "The data-chip. Ha ha ha ha!" But, Karin fires her blaster. Already wounded, Kashkah's dodge is too slow and the blaster bolt connects with flesh.
Anneke rockets up from Rain Forest - Top of Pyramid using her Sight-Seeing Anti-Grav Pack!Anneke actives her Sight-Seeing Anti-Grav Pack and rockets up to Rain Forest - Palm Tree!
The protocol droid is dismayed to see his mistress in danger as Kashkah creeps ever nearer, ready to stab her. "Gah!" Is all he exclames as he lashes out at the Tuskan with his hands as he is practically next to him now.
COMBAT: SM Protocol Droid lashes out at Kashkah with his fists!COMBAT: Kashkah tries to parry with his Bone Dagger, but SM Protocol Droid moderately wounds him..
James Loro takes careful aim and fires
COMBAT: James Loro fires his Masterwork SoroSuub HK3/a Rifle at Kashkah!COMBAT: Kashkah dodges James Loro's blaster bolt.
"James!"
Karin yells loudly over the sounds of combat. She crawls, on hand and feet, towards James Loro.
"Give me the thing, or they'll kill us all! I can't allow that!"
On the ground, Kashkah suddenly finds a droid trying to batter him. His attempt to parry with his knife fails and the droid's blows are effective. Rolling away, Kashkah starts to get up but is blasted again! He snarls. "Kill them all! NO MERCY! KILL THEM ALL!"
COMBAT: Yoruba's Annihilators fire their Merr Sonn T90 Mega Cannons at SM Protocol Droid!COMBAT: SM Protocol Droid tries to dodge, but Yoruba's Annihilators's blaster bolt hits and seriously wounds him.COMBAT: Yoruba's Terminators fire their Merr Sonn T90 Mega Cannons at Liam!COMBAT: Liam raises his hand and deflects Yoruba's Terminators's blaster bolt.
Fiero leaps up 15 meters from Rain Forest - Palm Tree!
From the tree tops, a robed figure falls from a tree top after a few blue blurrs and blaster shops. The robed figure hits the brush a bit away with a sick "thump!"
COMBAT: From Naphoon IV: Rain Forest - Palm Tree, someone fires a blaster bolt at Yoruba's Terminators!COMBAT: Yoruba's Terminators dodges Anneke's blaster bolt.
Without any immediate answer from James Loro the lady archaologist continues her run towards the man. She reaches out a hand in an attempt to grab his shoulder and shake the chip out of his pockets both.
"The chip, man! Give it to me, you silly person."
His hands quiver, fingers unsteady on the trigger, second hand steading the barrel of the blaster. An effort in vain, perhaps, as blaster bolts come flying. Forget concentrating, forget aiming, Liam does what any sensible youth (with a pretty face) can do - throw his hands over his head protectively.
And yet.. the shot doesn't come, repelled by the sheer power of Corellian fashion. The bolt appears to hit nothing, then wiz off into a nearby tree, hissing through leaves. The boy slowly lowers his arms, blinking uneasily, and then quickly recovers to try and take aim again.
Following this robed figure, is Fiero and several tree branches from the heights, which all seem to be heading towards the droids, in massive little stacks! His lightsaber is deactivated, and he stops when he lands, resting a knee onto Grike. He slips some stun cuffs around the man's wrists when he gets the chance, and just studies the situation on ground before acting again.
James Loro whisper "Right jacket pocket." in reply.
We aren't attacking anyone, sir.
James Loro nods
"Oo-aargh!" The Protocol droid reels back as a mega-cannon blaster bolt pounds directly into his chest, crushing the metal plating inward and scoring it to an ugly, blotchy black as all mayhem breaks out around him. Unbalanced as he is, he does still try to strike out again at Kashkah - the main thing is for the humans to get out of here safe after all - especially Karin.
COMBAT: SM Protocol Droid lashes out at Kashkah with his fists!COMBAT: Kashkah tries to dodge, but SM Protocol Droid hits and moderately wounds him.
Karin nods at James and quickly slips her hand into his pocket, withdrawing it. She holds it high above her head and jumps onto the nearest stone. 
The lady holds the data-chip high in the air, pointing directly at it with her blaster.
"Stop!" She yells, loudly, in direction of Kashkah. "Stop the droids, or I'll vaporize Yoruba's data-chip!"
COMBAT: From Naphoon IV: Rain Forest - Palm Tree, someone fires a blaster bolt at Yoruba's Terminators!COMBAT: Yoruba's Terminators dodges Anneke's blaster bolt.
As the assassin droids distract the others, Kashkah has managed, through fire and killer protocal droids, to come face to face with Karin. Holding his knife up, the thug chuckles and looks ready to pounce. "Destroy the chip, and my droids keep attacking until everyone is dead. But there is another way. Give the chip back to your buddy there. Everybody leaves, but you come with me?"
"What?! No! You can't have Miss Karin!" Liam hops to his feet, blaster held out infront of him, scowling something serious - as serious as one can look at that age, anyway. "You.. let her go with the rest of us, and I'll double whatever was promised to her for the expedition. Triple, even!"
Through narrowed eyes and clenched teeth, the boy draws shaky breaths and repeats. "Just.. let her go." His grip seems steadier now, knuckles bone-white, fingers stiff, yet ready.
Karin lowers the chip -- but keeps her blaster's nozzle steadily against the precious pad.
Then she shakes her head at Kashkah.
"You must be mad," she says, drily. "Once I let the information out of my hands I have nothing to bargain with. Here's the deal: You'll let them all walk safely to our ships, and once we are there I will deliver the data-chip. Your boss doesn't even have to pay the fifty thousand credits for it. Savvy?"
She flickers a look at Liam, looking fondly at the youth.
"How unfortunate." Fiero says, and, still placing a knee onto Grike's back, sends the lumbering branches that probably were supposed to have fallen a long time ago down at the droids, in order to disperse and clear the way for the others.
COMBAT: Fiero hurls a sandy rock toward Remorseless killer droids!COMBAT: Remorseless killer droids dodges Fiero's flying debris.COMBAT: Remorseless killer droids fire their Merr Sonn T80 Cannons at Fiero!COMBAT: Fiero dodges Remorseless killer droids's blaster bolt.
Karin's droid is smoking and leaking oil from various areas of his metal hull, but he seems reletively unphased at this point. Taking a few steps toward the young lad, he glances to Karin as she bargains with Kashkah: "Do try not to worry, young master Liam. She has things well in hand! (I hope)"
And with that the droid steps to the sidelines examining his dinged up self, muttering as he goes: "Oh dear - I'll need to get myself repaired after this."
The droids pause in their mechanical holocaust as their commander considers the deal. Kashkah glances at Liam and then looks back at Karin. "One hundred and fifty kay. I let you go with the chip. I let your friends go. We part ways with no grudges. Thats my final offer."
Karin slowly lowers the chip and the gun even further, looking between Kashkah and Liam.
Grike is the best unconscious Kaleesh ever.
James Loro stands still watching the action.
His throwing branches at the henchman's droids apparently ignored, Fiero steps away from Grike just in time to avoid a barrage of blaster fire. He stares down at the Kaleesh, giving the other a slight kick at the side. "You're under arrest, by the way."
Jai cowers in some dark corner of the pyramid.
"I, ugh, have to make some... holomails, first, but I'm good for it!" Liam stutters. Alright, his father was good for it. "They don't, ugh, let kids go on field trip with such large amounts of credits, you know." He takes a deep breath, and continues, "But, as soon as I get back to Corellia, I will forward you the credits, to an account of your choice."
Very business-y and professional, blaster lowered to the ground, pants and shirt tussled by tackles, dirt, and grass, but ultimately, of fine Corellian make. He looks like he might have the money. Maybe. Probably.
Kashkah shakes his head at Liam. "No deal. Last chance, Morrow. You're coming with me. Your buddies and the chip can leave free and clear. And that sniper I hired, he stays too. What's it going to be?"
Karin's eyes narrow at Kashkah. Then she shrugs, taps a few times on the pad's surface, and tosses the chip to Liam. The valuable pad spins in the air, catching the sunlight brilliantly in the curved arch towards the youth.
"Very well, then." She steps down from the stone and nods at Kashkah. "If I can take the protocol droid with me."
Kashkah glances at the droid. Under his helmet, he looks wary. "Fine. But it wears a restraining bolt and I get to wipe its memories of attacking me. Can't have a droid getting ideas like that."
"Deal." Karin quirks a wry smile at Kashkah and waves at the protocol droid. With her back half-turned to the Hutt's henchman she sends a lightning-swift wink at Liam. Then she turns to leave.
James Loro puts away his rifle and moves toward the landing zone
"Ah-- but!" The boy moves quickly to attempt to intercept the flying chip, dropping the blaster in the process in a horrible wiggle of hands and arms. A near-fumble, two, three, finally safe between long, thin fingers. "Miss Karin!" Liam stares after the woman, eyes wide and (I dare say) wet.
"I'll.. come save you!" It's a hollow promise, really. Chances are, he'll be grounded until the next galactic civil war, but it hangs in the air, none the less. Naturally, he cannot resist adding, "And, I really am good for the money, Hutt-licker!"
Kashkah gives orders to the droids. Liam's words carry weight. "Then you buy her freedom, boy. Maybe next time you offer creds, make sure you have them on hand. Now get going. I want to get out of here and get these wounds bandaged."
"I can do it!" Liam offers quickly. "Bandage your wounds. I've done it before, lots of times. Certified at first aid. You.. and your," he takes a quick glance at the cuffed Grike, "ugh.. friend..."
"If you let Miss Karin go. Mind you, he doesn't look very good, from what I can tell. Your, ugh, friend."
That wheee! noise that discharging blasters give off no longer reached Jai from his hiding place and so, quietly, fearfully, he slipped out of his corner, creeping towards the door. Peering from cover, he eyes the area, trying to see where all the dead people where and whether or not the droids were standing over their rotting corpses. "Waysaa...!" He exclaims, softly as he eyes the scene.
Kashkah rips a strip of cloth from his desert robe and starts binding Karin's hands. Glancing up and over the woman's shoulder at Liam. "Kid, I don't have time for games. I told the droids to let you all pass. Get moving. I'm not going to tell you again."
Grike stirs slightly, but by all means, does not seem conscious.
Fiero steps away from Grike, with a grunt, then looks to Kashkah. "You will let her go," he says, calmly, approaching the man, in fact, before glancing downhill, at the rain forest.
Karin's arms secured behind her back, Kashkah looks up over her shoulder at Fiero. "I'm going to let her go...."
Seeing that the droids were no longer blocking the way to freedom, Jai breaks from cover, huffing and puffing as he pours on the speed, trying to get to freedom! He doesn't even to stop to see what the other people are doing or saying.
"I'll save you," Liam promises again, glowering deeper at the Tusken, but time is short, Corellia awaits. The boy turns a sharp heel and breaks into a run back into the forest, towards the shuttle clearing. With his luck, word of the whole mess had already reached a certain father's ears, and there'd be hell to pay. "Stupid Hutt lovers!"
Kashkah watches the boy run and nods. "There is a /man/ how knows when to run."
James Loro turns back from his walk towards the LZ and appraches Liam. "It will be alright Liam I've had dealings with Yoruba in the past. You'll pay the ransom and all will be well but we need to go now so you can get it together."
"You will also depart this place with your friend." Fiero adds, still calmly, to Kashkah. "and you will never return again." He looks to Karin.
Kashkah chuckles. "I'm going to get out of here and never come back...? Uh! Hey! Droids, kill him!"
WARNING: Yoruba's Terminators have blown their restraining bolts! DANGER!COMBAT: Yoruba's Terminators fire their Merr Sonn T90 Mega Cannons at Fiero!COMBAT: Fiero tries to dodge, but Yoruba's Terminators's blaster bolt hits and shreds him, destroying Fiero's Black Robe.
"I /have/ it together!" Liam snaps at James in the quick rush to the clearing. "I just need... to ask for a bigger allowance. A /much bigger allowance/." In the background, blaster fire and the boy curses rather unboyashly under his breath, all the way to his shuttle. Where, supposedly, his classmates are. Those cowards!
Oops, that one failed. And Fiero hasn't the time to avoid the barrage of droid fire, and gets shot badly. He grunts, and turns to Yoruba's thug. "Allow me."
COMBAT: Fiero ignites his blue lightsaber.
James Loro goes pale as the droids open fire, "Everyone out now! Go, go, go!" He shouts while running to retrieve the helpless Grike.
Anneke rockets up from Rain Forest - Palm Tree using her Sight-Seeing Anti-Grav Pack!
Kashkah, one arm dragging Karin along, the other holding out his dagger as if it will help protect him from the droids, starts to back away towards the Pyramid. "I'm not deactivating those things until you're all gone. If you don't want to die, leave now!"
Fiero extends a palm at Kashkah, focusing beyond- over his shoulder, in fact, as debris lifts, and seem to slowly approach the thug from behind. His concentration falters a little when he has to sidestep a blaster bolt, but, hey.
COMBAT: Fiero hurls a ripe coconut toward Kashkah!COMBAT: Kashkah tries to dodge, but Fiero's flying debris grievously wounds him.
Anneke actives her Sight-Seeing Anti-Grav Pack and rockets up to Rain Forest - Palm Tree!
James Loro nods "I'll leave Grike at the LZ or a hospital hospital which ever you prefer but I refuse to leave someone knocked out in the middle of a shooting gallery." He scoops Grike up and readies his grappling hook as best he can while holding Grike
A salvo of coconuts strike Kashkah in the head one after the other. His arm around Karin goes limp and he falls to the ground, dazed. The droids, seeing their commander down follow combat protocals and start attacking on their own, including the ones who have blown restraining bolts.
COMBAT: Yoruba's Annihilators fire their Merr Sonn T90 Mega Cannons at Fiero!COMBAT: Yoruba's Annihilators's blaster bolt hits and shreds Fiero. Fiero collapses, critically injured.
And Fiero drops after a nice little barrage of blaster bolts! To his much displeasure, one of them hits a vital and he drops to the ground, barely mustering any strength before he focuses on the Force, leaping towards where his ship might be.
Anneke rockets up from Rain Forest - Palm Tree using her Sight-Seeing Anti-Grav Pack!
Getting to his feet, barely, Kashkah uses Karin as a living crutch and starts to make his way towards the Rain Forest.
With Karin has his crutch, Kaskhah makes his way towards the clearing. The droids start to form up, in front and behind. One of them picks up Grike and another collects the gear that has been dropped during the clash.
Category:October 2008 RP Logs