NJO 10

August 5, 2020

SageToday at 8:13 PM

So previously you all broke into the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and having maybe acquired the information from the databanks you then got stuck wandering through the temple.  You ran into some interesting plants and Zubi accidentaly absorbed some of a broken holocron.  You found some things in the Temple vault and made it out though Zubi was not in good condition . You then left Corusant and are currently in route to Ashas Ree

Esren'nilosToday at 8:13 PM

((And then we snoozled together.))

SageToday at 8:14 PM

((Yes))

Esren'nilosToday at 8:15 PM

will look for the sword upon waking up.

ZubiToday at 8:15 PM

just washes up and gets dressed. It takes her a bit to fully wake up.

Esren'nilosToday at 8:16 PM

"Morning."

[8:16 PM]

"...I think.  Always hard to tell in space."

SageToday at 8:18 PM

((Looking you find the sword in the cockpit where you left it))

ZubiToday at 8:18 PM

Well, whenever you wake up is morning I suppose.

CoilToday at 8:18 PM

is in the cockpit already.

Esren'nilosToday at 8:19 PM

"Ah, I was wondering where you were."

[8:19 PM]

"No issues, I hope."

CoilToday at 8:19 PM

Sword didn not come to life and kill me, so no.

Esren'nilosToday at 8:20 PM

"...I take it everyone else is still mad about the sword."

ZubiToday at 8:21 PM

... well, I'm not but we should figure out how to get the icky gem off of it.

CoilToday at 8:21 PM

Annoyed.

Esren'nilosToday at 8:22 PM

would like to try force pull to yank the stone out of the hilt.

SageToday at 8:24 PM

((Give me a straight wisdom check))

Esren'nilosToday at 8:24 PM

((16))

SageToday at 8:27 PM

((I need dex saves from everyone))

ZubiToday at 8:27 PM

((2! I'm NOT AWAKE YET.))

CoilToday at 8:27 PM

((15))

Esren'nilosToday at 8:28 PM

((9))

SageToday at 8:32 PM

Esren the gem comes out a little as you see it separate a concussive wave of force blasts through the ship Coil you manage to brace yourself and hold the ship steady Esren you are blasted into one of the walls and take 3points bludgeoning damage Zubi you are thrown to the ground and take 6 points bludgeoning damage

CoilToday at 8:32 PM

.... maybe don't do that in the cockpit.

[8:32 PM]

Are you okay, Zubi?

SageToday at 8:32 PM

You all hear one of the space goats crying out in pain and Coil you see a bunch of systems go haywire.

Esren'nilosToday at 8:33 PM

Esren: "Ooof.  Ok, lesson learned."

ZubiToday at 8:33 PM

Owwww.

SageToday at 8:33 PM

The ship stops moving

CoilToday at 8:33 PM

sighs.

ZubiToday at 8:33 PM

.... oh, the goats!

[8:33 PM]

\_goes to check on them.(edited)

Esren'nilosToday at 8:33 PM

Esren: "...that's not good, is it?"

CoilToday at 8:34 PM

starts running diagnostics.

SageToday at 8:34 PM

One of the goats seems ok the other one is pinned down by a crate

[8:35 PM]

((Give me technology with advantage Coil))

CoilToday at 8:37 PM

((12))

Esren'nilosToday at 8:37 PM

stands around, not sure what to do.

CoilToday at 8:38 PM

((Wait, no, 15.))

SageToday at 8:41 PM

Coil  It seems most things are just jostled you need to realign various systems but it won’t take too long  probably about an hour you managedto avoid anything important from breaking.(edited)

Esren'nilosToday at 8:41 PM

will go over and try to help Zubi get the box off the goat.

SageToday at 8:42 PM

You both manage to rather easily

ZubiToday at 8:42 PM

helps the goat!

[8:43 PM]

will heal it too, if it's been hurt.

SageToday at 8:44 PM

It is bruised and battered but you do get it healed and standing

Esren'nilosToday at 8:44 PM

says nothing but pets the goat.

[8:45 PM]

"...Coil, do we know what the damage is?"

CoilToday at 8:45 PM

A bunch of systems got knocked around.  It'll take about an hour to fix everything.

Esren'nilosToday at 8:45 PM

"...right...good.  ...anyway I can help?"

ZubiToday at 8:48 PM

also pats the goat, and soothes the poor thing down.

Esren'nilosToday at 8:48 PM

"...I think Zubi has the goats and...I guess you have the systems, so I'll just...get out of the way."

[8:48 PM]

goes to leave

CoilToday at 8:49 PM

It should be fine.

ZubiToday at 8:49 PM

It's nice to have company?

Esren'nilosToday at 8:50 PM

"...........right, ok."(edited)

[8:50 PM]

sets himself up in a corner on the farside of the room.

[8:52 PM]

".......I'm sorry."

ZubiToday at 8:54 PM

It'll be OK. I don't know why bad things always want to get you.

[8:54 PM]

But you should let us deal with them from now on.

Esren'nilosToday at 8:55 PM

"................"

CoilToday at 8:55 PM

Or just ask us.  Or warn us if you're going to do something.

Esren'nilosToday at 8:56 PM

"I will try and put a warning out in the future."

[8:57 PM]

"I just thought I could help."

[8:57 PM]

"I didn't expect to make it all worse."

ZubiToday at 8:57 PM

We just don't want you to get eaten by something awful.

Esren'nilosToday at 8:58 PM

".........do we not?"

ZubiToday at 8:58 PM

Do we not what?

Esren'nilosToday at 8:59 PM

"Me getting eaten by something awful would solve a lot of problems for a lot of people."

[8:59 PM]

"No more evil sith apprentice to deal with in this new post-Order world."

ZubiToday at 9:00 PM

.... that's not funny, Ezzie.

CoilToday at 9:00 PM

You're not evil.  Poor impulse control does not make you evil.

[9:01 PM]

Kinda dumb sometimes, but not evil.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:01 PM

"Then why does this stuff want me?"

[9:02 PM]

"It's all evil dark side stuff.  You two are unaffected.  So...what's the common denominator?"

ZubiToday at 9:02 PM

Maybe you're just, like... more sensitive to Dark Side stuff.

[9:03 PM]

Isn't that what happens when you train in one area? You get better at it and you notice it more?

Esren'nilosToday at 9:04 PM

"Zubi, you believe everyone is a good person."

CoilToday at 9:05 PM

You want power.  That doesn't make you a bad person, as its possible to want power for good reasons.  But of course evil artifacts are going to seize onto that.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:06 PM

listens but says nothing.

ZubiToday at 9:06 PM

I didn't say everyone was good.

SageToday at 9:08 PM

You all hear as the engines come back online

Esren'nilosToday at 9:09 PM

".........well, glad I didn't fuck it all up too badly."

CoilToday at 9:09 PM

If you were evil you wouldn't care if you were evil.

ZubiToday at 9:10 PM

That makes sense.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:10 PM

"That does."

ZubiToday at 9:10 PM

And you obviously do.

[9:10 PM]

So you're not.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:10 PM

"I don't wanna push people away, anymore."

[9:11 PM]

"...but I still want...what my master had.  Control.  Power.  Self-reliance."

CoilToday at 9:12 PM

Seems to me that these aren't bad things, you just have to go about them in the right order.(edited)

[9:12 PM]

Control first.

ZubiToday at 9:12 PM

... I don't know, control doesn't seem like a very good idea.

[9:12 PM]

You'll never be able to control everything.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:13 PM

"I can control enough."

CoilToday at 9:13 PM

But power without control leads to explosions in the cockpit.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:14 PM

"True."

CoilToday at 9:14 PM

Self-reliance comes with self-control.

ZubiToday at 9:15 PM

Well... you also have to be able to rely on other people.

[9:15 PM]

And on the Force.

[9:15 PM]

And if you just want to control things because you're scared, that's... Dark Sidey, right?

CoilToday at 9:15 PM

I'm not talking about controlling the world or the people around you.

ZubiToday at 9:16 PM

Well, no, but I don't know if he was.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:16 PM

"...I was.  The world at least."

CoilToday at 9:16 PM

There's a ton of stories of Dark Side types with a ton of control , controlling minds and the people around them, but because they couldn't control themselves, they lose.

[9:17 PM]

Sith philosphy is based around the idea that being a cackling moron is okay if you can throw enough heavy objects at people.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:17 PM

"Yeah, I don't want to be that."

[9:18 PM]

"I want both self-control and control of the world around me.  I've felt helpless to the world before...it's not a good feeling."

CoilToday at 9:18 PM

My point is just that you'll never be able to control the world enough.  look inward first.

ZubiToday at 9:18 PM

You really can't control the world.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:20 PM

"...I suppose I can't, no.  You seem to have thought about this a lot, Coil."

CoilToday at 9:21 PM

I'm a killer who decided he wanted to be a Jedi, of course I did.

ZubiToday at 9:21 PM

You'll be a good Jedi.

[9:22 PM]

You can't control the world, you just kind of go with what's there and steer yourself through what happens.

[9:24 PM]

Like... surfing, have you ever gone surfing?

Esren'nilosToday at 9:25 PM

"...no."

ZubiToday at 9:25 PM

It's lots of fun! Especially if you like swimming. Do you like swimming?

Esren'nilosToday at 9:26 PM

"I don't know."

ZubiToday at 9:26 PM

... you've never been swimming?

[9:26 PM]

Coil, you've been swimming, right?

CoilToday at 9:27 PM

Of course I have.

ZubiToday at 9:27 PM

It was fun, right? What about surfing?

CoilToday at 9:28 PM

Windsurfing, yes.

ZubiToday at 9:29 PM

Oh, that's a lot of fun too! But regular surfing you just use the board. Well, anyway, the point is, you don't control the wave--or the wind I guess--you just skim along the time of it.

CoilToday at 9:31 PM

nods.

ZubiToday at 9:31 PM

You can steer, but you have to go with the waves.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:32 PM

"My master claimed that, with time, a true force users could bend the force wherever he wanted it."

[9:32 PM]

"I had assumed this was how the Jedi were victorious.  They were just...smarter about it, somehow."

ZubiToday at 9:32 PM

I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.

[9:33 PM]

I think they probably won by going with the waves.

CoilToday at 9:33 PM

I read somewhere that a major difference between the Jedi is that while a Jedi goes with the flow of the force, that the Sith makes themselves the center of the universe.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:34 PM

"...not entirely wrong, in my experience."

ZubiToday at 9:35 PM

Trust me, going against the waves takes a lot more work than going with them, so of course the Jedi would be better at things.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:37 PM

"...I will meditate on this."

ZubiToday at 9:38 PM

Don't you ever just do things because it feels like it's the right time or place?

Esren'nilosToday at 9:40 PM

"........I'm not sure?"

ZubiToday at 9:41 PM

... what about you, Coil?

CoilToday at 9:42 PM

I don't know if I'd describe it like that.  But there are things behind your control a lot of time, and you can waste your energy trying to bend them to your will, or you can adapt.

ZubiToday at 9:43 PM

Right. And sometimes it's just the right time for things.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:43 PM

"...I can feel that, I guess.  I usually have a plan.  Regardless of those feelings."

ZubiToday at 9:44 PM

... if you spend that much energy making plans you'll miss the right moment. I want another cup of caf, I'll be right back.

[9:44 PM]

pauses, then leans over and kisses Coil.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:45 PM

"......................"

CoilToday at 9:45 PM

blinks.  ".... what was that for?  I'm not complaining."

ZubiToday at 9:45 PM

stares at him like he's an idiot.

[9:46 PM]

... it was the right time. Obviously.

[9:46 PM]

goes to get her drink.

CoilToday at 9:46 PM

.... well.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:46 PM

"...............I'm gonna need to start paying attention to those times."

[9:46 PM]

"...may I ask a question, Coil?

CoilToday at 9:47 PM

is a little gobsmacked.  "... sure."

Esren'nilosToday at 9:47 PM

"What made you want to be a Jedi?"

[9:47 PM]

"I've said why I joined, Zubi was apparently forced...what's your story?"

CoilToday at 9:50 PM

When I was a kid... I read all these old stories about Jedi.

[9:51 PM]

It was a bit of an escape for me.  I wasn't alllowed a lot of... childish things.

[9:51 PM]

I think the woman that raised me thought this was okay, since she was trying to train me in things like martial arts, self-control, that sort of thing.

[9:52 PM]

IF as a kid it was easier for me to imagine I was a Jedi padawan than a professional killer-in-training... she didn't object.

[9:52 PM]

A few years ago I started having these things happen.

[9:52 PM]

Things moving on their own.  Things occuring to me that I had no reason to know.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:53 PM

"You are force sensitive."

CoilToday at 9:53 PM

It didn't really show up until a few years ago.

[9:54 PM]

I was on a job.

[9:54 PM]

... the way I was taught to do things.... we don't use sniper rifles, or remote bombs.

[9:54 PM]

We get up close and personal with our targets.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:54 PM

"Why?"

CoilToday at 9:55 PM

She always told me that it's so the death is 'real'.  Abstraction is easy when you're looking through a scope.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:55 PM

nods

CoilToday at 9:56 PM

When the person dies in front of you, it's more... important?  It's harder to hide from it.

[9:56 PM]

Anyway, my target was a bit more able to defend himself than I was used to.  I got frustrated and crushed him into a little ball.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:57 PM

"Wow.  That's impressive use of the force."

[9:57 PM]

"Especially someone who has not been truly trained in it."

CoilToday at 9:58 PM

I also felt him get crushed into a little ball.  It wasn't great.

[9:58 PM]

Tried a couple more contracts after that... each time, I felt the target die in a way I never had before.

Esren'nilosToday at 9:59 PM

".............that's interesting."

CoilToday at 9:59 PM

I didn't want to be the kind of person who kills without thinking about it, or without caring about it.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:00 PM

"So you decided you wouldn't be a killer at all."

[10:00 PM]

"I'm assuming."

CoilToday at 10:00 PM

Either I learn not to care or I quit, yes.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:02 PM

"Makes sense.  ...if I felt it like that, I probably would've quit, too."

ZubiToday at 10:02 PM

returns and distributes mugs to each of the boys, and then sips hers.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:02 PM

will take some and drink.

CoilToday at 10:03 PM

Anyway.  I heard about the Academy.  Wanting to get a handle on my quarters became 'hey, maybe I could be a Jedi'.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:04 PM

"Makes sense to me.  Seems like a good way to use the force to help you not kill people."

ZubiToday at 10:06 PM

nods.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:07 PM

".....I promise, from here on out, I will point out any dark energy stuff I find."

ZubiToday at 10:08 PM

Good. Maybe we should just drop it out an airlock.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:09 PM

Esren: "I'll go make us some breakfast.  Think we've got some eggs left."

[10:09 PM]

will go to the kitchen.

ZubiToday at 10:10 PM

Okay!

CoilToday at 10:11 PM

looks at Zubi.  Then looks away.  Then looks again.

ZubiToday at 10:11 PM

... now you're acting weird.

CoilToday at 10:13 PM

You bring it out in me.  Why did you kiss me?

ZubiToday at 10:14 PM

I like you? And you were never going to kiss me.

CoilToday at 10:15 PM

.... that is probably accurate.  I might kiss you now, though.

ZubiToday at 10:15 PM

Okay!

CoilToday at 10:17 PM

does, in fact, kiss her.

ZubiToday at 10:18 PM

kisses him back, of course!

[10:22 PM]

smiles at him.

CoilToday at 10:23 PM

.... were the goats okay?

ZubiToday at 10:23 PM

One of them was a little scratched up but I helped her out.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:25 PM

returns with a pan.  "Turns out I was wrong about the eggs.  But there was bread and I think my attempts to force push the milk into butter were...effective enough so...hope you guys like Twi'lek Toast."

ZubiToday at 10:25 PM

Ooh, that sounds good.

CoilToday at 10:25 PM

I've... never had it?

Esren'nilosToday at 10:26 PM

((It's basically french toast, as I now know from Rebels that some Twi'leks have a French accent.   So, toast, butter, cinnamon.))

[10:27 PM]

((Oh wait, there is eggs in french toast...oh well.  Star Wars logic.  If the DM allows it.))

ZubiToday at 10:27 PM

I have, it's really good.

[10:27 PM]

definitely takes some.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:27 PM

"........."

CoilToday at 10:28 PM

has some.

SageToday at 10:28 PM

(( you used the force as a binding agent I will allow it  ))

Esren'nilosToday at 10:29 PM

((Cool!  Jedi French Toast!))

[10:29 PM]

((Can I insight check the two of them?  Wanna see if I note a tension shift in the room.))

ZubiToday at 10:30 PM

devours things.

SageToday at 10:31 PM

((Sure ))

ZubiToday at 10:31 PM

((You bet!))

Esren'nilosToday at 10:32 PM

((Ooof, 11.))

[10:32 PM]

((Esren's become so calm around you guys, he's actually letting his guard down.))

ZubiToday at 10:33 PM

seems pretty cheerful at the moment.

CoilToday at 10:33 PM

seems pretty chipper, too.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:34 PM

says nothing.

ZubiToday at 10:34 PM

Thanks!

Esren'nilosToday at 10:34 PM

"So...how long until we reach Ashee Rae?"

CoilToday at 10:35 PM

Shouldn't be long now.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:35 PM

sets up with his toast and coffee and chows down.

SageToday at 10:38 PM

You all make your last hyperspace jump and come out to the usual sight of a large green planet

ZubiToday at 10:39 PM

smiles.

Esren'nilosToday at 10:39 PM

Esren: "Kinda home sweet kinda home."

NEW

ZubiToday at 10:41 PM

Finally.