Hot Coruscant Nights 2 - Bar Fight

Lannik Rakto's personal Assassin Droids proved a difficult opponent for our heroes

### Runtime

2:21:51

*Our heroes spend their energy taking down 3 war droids, a Clawdite and a crime lord. Why would a crime syndicate attempt to impersonate Bota Zi. There is lots of stunning, harem pouches and Greco-Roman wrestling.*

## **Previously**

*While looking after clues as to why a Clawdite was impersonating a representative of the Praji Family, the group decided exactly what everyone always says: split the party.*
*While Blaine and Tek met with a very willing informant, Katira and Droo put on their best upper class outfits and made their way to the Bar at Meteorite Towers. Stunned to see Bota Zi already there, they quickly sensed a trap when they found Bota had two good eyes instead of just one. Before they could form a plan, they were approached by a mystery man and his trio of assault droid compatriots.*
*Drinks were thrown, fake Bota was knocked unconscious, and just as Katira and Droo reached relative safety inside the bar a stun grenade rolled right between them and into Droo’s waiting hands.*

## **Recap**

### **Intermission**

Droo and Katira share an awkward glance at the stun grenade clutched tightly in Droo’s hands just before Katira screams at Droo to throw the grenade back over the bar. Droo fumbles with the grenade before tossing it hot potato style away from herself. It lands directly on top of the bar, rolling slowly away before it loudly explodes in a terrific blaze of light. Katira and Droo are immediately left with stars in their eyes and a high pitched whine blaring through their heads, but luckily so is their new friend who threw the grenade to start with.

Unfortunately, the three assassin droids that were pursuing the duo were almost completely unaffected by the blast. They moved quickly down the far corridor approaching the bar, unhindered by the ice littering the floor.

Blaine and Tek, meanwhile, stand in the turbolift. Hampered by its crawl up to the bar, they stare awkwardly at each other as the soothing sound of *Intermission* plays as a backdrop to the din of combat blaring over their comlink. Tek slowly closes his eyes and concentrates in the force as the floor indicator turns over to their destination. The doors fly open, and the pair rushes out with blasters firing. Blaine scores hits on each of the assassin droids and Tek hits the Clawdite on stun. Though the droids show no sign of damage, the Clawdite - previously just starting to come to - slumps to the ground unconscious.

### **Let the Bodies Hit the Floor**

With targets now available, the droids return fire at Tek and Blaine, but miss.

> "*If I ever get hit in my Lobot thing, I die!*"
> ― Tek frantically dodging
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> "*No, I said you get mentally handicapped.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Well… that’s just about the same thing.*"
> ― Tek
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Blaine rushes toward the droids, drawing his Cortosis blade and attacking two of them and damaging one. Tek then fires a shot off at the droid nearest the bar, scoring minor damage. Somewhat groggy, the human controlling the droids shoots Blaine but sees his Cortosis armor absorb the blaster bolt’s energy. The assassin droid that Tek damaged then turns toward the Zabrak and hits him with a blaster bolt, stunning him. Inside the bar, Katira moves to a better position to attack and tells Droo to bring the lights back online while Droo attempts, unsuccessfully, to reach into the force to help her concentrate.

> "*I’m so glad the ringing in my ears is keeping me from hearing Tek right now*"
> ― Katira
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Blaine rushes the droids, opting to draw his heavy blaster and fire at two of them. One is effectively taken out of the fight, but the other shows no sign of damage. As Tek stumbles to take cover and regroup after being shot, the assassin droids return fire at Blaine but miss. Distracted, Blaine fails to note the man who shot him once before. A blaster bolt strikes the smuggler in the back, knocking him to the ground.

Taking advantage of the attention focused deeper into the bar, Katira sneaks around behind the human and stabs him with her vibrodagger for no damage. Droo looks over the bar and fires at the human as well, but he seems to shrug it off with no problem. With the man who keeps shooting him well in hand, Blaine manages to rise to his feet and avoid the incoming attacks from the assassin droids while returning fire. Feeling much better after a round off, Tek fires off at all of the droids - removing 2 of them from combat completely.

> "*I’m so sorry droids!*"
> ― Tek
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Back at the entryway, the human turns to attack Katira, but is parried easily. While Droo fires off a shot toward the last droid for no effect, Katira moves away from her opponent and onto the top of the couch they were hidden behind to draw him out from cover.

> "*Typical Katira, relaxing on the couch while everyone else does all the work…*"
> ― Tek
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Blaine then fires shots at the last remaining droid and the human, damaging the droid and incapacitating the man with a shot that hit him directly in the face. Tek shoots down the barely functioning droid. Leaping off the couch, Katira finds a datapad on the unconscious man. Tossing it to Tek, the team is able to initiate a shutdown command to the assassin droids and settle the bar. After an intense internal debate, Katira opts not to cut off the man’s hand in order to avoid any dark side points.

As the dust settled, Tek accessed a scomplink to find any information he could on their new friend: Named Lannik Rakto, his previous operations included providing war droids to the Imperial Remnant. He has been known to have an affinity for the Sith, even hiring cultists to act as bodyguards on some missions. Often hired out he is willing to work for pay, but his own criminal enterprise has been known to associate with the Hutts at times.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Droo Vos
* Katira Eve
* Tek Krodak

### **NPCs**

* Al'Teese
* Lannik Rakto

## **Notes**

* Attempting to lob the grenade over the bar, Droo rolled a 7 on 3D6, leaving the grenade sitting precariously just on top of the bar.
* When shot a second time Blaine rolled an 8 on strength, skirting closer to death than he has been in recent memory
* Throughout the mission, Blaine and Katira repeatedly tried to convince Tek to name his new YT-2000 the “Shanky Hawkpunch” or the “Harem Pouch”

## **Quotations**

> "*Nope… the droids do **not** slip on the ice… engineering has come a long way*"
> ― Luke
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> "*I’m part of a species that’s been evolving over thousands of years and I slip on ice all the time*"
> ― Droo
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> "*You’re welcome… ladies*"
> ― Tek
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> "*What would this ottoman looking seat be called?*"
> ― David
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> "*I’m going to call it a lounge couch*"
> ― Luke
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> "*I’m pretty sure that’s called a harem pouch*"
> ― Ilya
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> "*That droid just exposed it’s droid penis on top of that harem pouch!*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Screw it. I wanna stab him. I’m going rogue.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Alright, this guy is going to try to restrain Katira and use her as a hostage*"
> ― Luke
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> "*You know what, I’m alright with this*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*I’m just gonna have to warn you, Katira. If you stab an unconscious man in the hand to permanently injure him, you’re gonna get a dark side point*"
> ― Luke
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> "*ughhhhhhh… you guys and your dark side points!*"
> ― David
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