Coruscant Redux - Life Day 2.0

*Gifts are given/taken/stolen, join the hilarity of an evening of situational comedy. Everyone whose anyone is invited to the White Bantha on Coruscant; Blaine, Puggs, Wolfman, Old Rich guy with a crown, Shiriani, Teemo, Cal Omas, Snuffy, Al, Leo... Little Moe with the gimpy leg, Cheeks, Boney Bob, Cliff... I could go on forever, baby. Besides the gifts some serious business is going on, Blaine works out a Tibanna gas deal with the Hutts, Katira gets under-the-table favors and deals, Jawa Jimmy gets some junk (and he's happy about it), Droo gets a live animal saddle, Tek gets a Kyber crystal belt, then Ilya falls asleep and wakes up towards the end of the mission.*

## **Previously**

*The team fought their way through the sewers of Coruscant, battling cyborgs, spider monsters, and spider cyborgs on their way to discovering the source of the K2 Virus. Now successful, they arrive at a meeting with Cal Omas to debrief before proceeding to a Life Day White Bantha party.*

## **Recap**

### **Introductions**

Returning to a debrief with the prestigious Cal Omas, the team is roundly celebrated for their recent success. Cal repeatedly refers to the team as “Aurek Team” - both in reference to their string of successes for the New Republic, and with respect to their status on the previous mission to Kampe - and deposits 15,000cr into each of their personal accounts, with all other requested rewards being willingly provided as well. After a night’s rest in an extremely comfortable surrounding considering their previous lodgings in the sewers, the team spends the next day preparing for the evening’s event: a celebration of Life Day.

> "*Please, make yourselves at home in the salon before we begin the main event. Feel free to mingle, everyone here is friends or soon to be friends.*"
> ― Kenneth
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> "*…and lovers.*"
> ― Tek whispering
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> "*ugh…*"
> ― Shiri’ani
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Filtering into the aforementioned salon, a variety of former friends, enemies, and acquaintances are already filling the room, and the group is announced upon arrival:

* Charlie Team is represented by Taz Solana (stunning in her evening attire) and Skids McDougal (as awkward as ever)
* Teemo is present with a small entourage
* Cal Omas is speaking with Al Mosfriday and a handful of well dressed delegates
* A cluster of Trandoshan’s are quietly sitting in the corner, glaring at every new arrival
* Blaine Hansom walks arm in arm with Elayne, followed by Barry Hansom
* Tek Krodak enters with Shiri'ani by his side
* Katira walks in alongside a visibly unhappy Puggles Trodd
* Roostan Steele and Callen Mutig enter while still in the middle of a heated argument
* Jowkazza has brought along a nurse from the nearby hospital that treated Jawa Jimmy following his near death experience
* Droo Vos enters alone, her boyfriend sorry to miss the event due to previous commitments to provide humanitarian aid to a refugee camp
* Jimmy shuffles in, despondent after being rejected when he invited a woman on his way over
* Finally, Bota Zi arrives alongside the Senator from Ibis

> "*This is Shiri’ani… my **girlfriend**…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*We heard you try to make that happen the first time.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*I’m starting to doubt this guy.*"
> ― Rusty
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> "*…nope.*"
> ― Jimmy
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A brief introduction is given after all guests have arrived, and the attendants are all invited to enjoy the free bar, mingle, and enjoy the celebration while the gifts are arranged for the White Bantha exchange.

### **Life Day Mixer**

While others are lining up for drinks, Droo approaches a nearby Defel that is standing off on his own. With her characteristic innocence and charm, she passes along a business card for her still in progress animal park and sparks up a conversation.

> "*You know, we could have a really great exhibit for you at Droorassic Park. If you’re looking for, you know… a new family. A forever home. Just think on it.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*We’re terrible people. Even when we’re being nice, we’re terrible people.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*You’re trying to get this sentient being to be an exhibit?!*"
> ― Blaine
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Across the room, Katira strikes up a conversation with Puggles Trodd. She attempts to explain that she asked him to the Life Day celebration in hopes of erasing the past conflict between herself, her friends, and Puggles’ crew. Though Puggles is (understandably) reticent to discuss their shared past, Katira continues, asking Puggles to come work for her as a hired hand for a team she’s looking to assemble hunting slavers, spice runners, and the like. After a bit of back and forth, Puggles agrees to think on the matter, but makes no promises. In response, Katira can’t help but toss a threat to the former bounty hunter before heading off to enjoy the party.

> "*Look, Puggles, give it some thought. If you’re interested, you have my contact. If not, you might want to get off Coruscant tonight, because your bounty goes back up tomorrow. I couldn’t get much more leniency than that.*"
> ― Katira
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Slowly crawling his way over to the group, Teemo seems pleased to see the group, much to their surprise. He jokes about Tek’s former escapades through the cellars of Mos Shuuta, and mentions to Droo that R1-N60 is still doing well, though he may be missing a few parts since they last saw the protocol droid. During the conversation, Blaine notes that Teemo’s tattoo is a bit crude and lacking the “official” state of Blaine’s own scarred face. He asks off hand whether Teemo has faced any opposition to rule of his clan, which Teemo states has not been an issue.

Tucking Teemo’s comments away for later use, Blaine saunters off to another Hutt across the room, but is a bit uncomfortable when the gargantuan creature turns about and is revealed to be Duke Syndik. Syndik himself is none to pleased to see the former smuggler, bearing no good will toward one of the men that embarrassed his neice. When the Hutt makes comments to laud his own organization at the expense of Blaine’s pride, he manages to hit a nerve and draw some sharp comments, but the conversation ends in a more or less agreeable nature when Blaine offers his apologies for previous acts and invites Syndik to Cloud City - whether for business or pleasure.

Rusty and Callen exchange some banter with Al Mosfriday, who encourages Callen to continue in his support of the New Republic. The conversation turns comical when Mosfriday begins to unconsciously mimic Rusty’s characteristically rough voice, and as it trails off Rusty and Callen walk off together with the Aqualish picking at the Alderaanian who just wants a drink.

> "*Hey, Callen, doesn’t that guy look a lot like your dad? You know… your dead dad from Alderaan?*"
> ― Rusty
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Tek has a short conversation with the Thyferran Delegate at the celebration. Drawn to the man’s gaudy appearance - a crown with flowing robe - Tek gives the bullet points of his life story, and Shiri’ani has an awkward introduction, but the delegate seems amused at the slave turned slicer turned ambassador. He hands Tek a vial of bacta “from the people of Thyferra”, and excuses himself when Tek attempts to push the man away using the force.

With the guests all present and comfortable, Cal Omas calls everyone to attention to begin the White Bantha gift exchange. As everyone begins to move to the exchange location as Cal explains the rules, Katira takes advantage of the opportunity to pickpocket Tamiel Cureao, the Corporate Sector Representative that the group had previously met - and robbed - at the starship expo on Regamus.

The theft goes off completely unnoticed, though as Tamiel catches sight of Katira a short distance away, he waves her over. While Tamiel seems pleased to recall their previous meeting, Katira responds in her typical caustic manner before apologizing, and the two part on amicable terms.

> "*Well, happy life day!*"
> ― Tamiel
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> "*Happy life day. It’s been a good one for me so far…*"
> ― Katira
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### **White Bantha**

The White Bantha party proceeds with no major problems, and many gifts draw disdain and interest of varying levels:

* Droo picks out a beautifully wrapped gift, revealing a broken holocron with a label indicating it comes from the home planet of a Charlie Team member
* Blaine grabs a nondescript envelope containing 50,000cr from a New Republic Senator
* Tek opens a simple box that begins to emit a mist once the latch is released, revealing ownership documents for a live mount with instructions for raising it
* Jawa Jimmy opens a ammunition box, finding *mostly* junk: starship expo SWAG, a painting requiring an assessor, and a bottle of booze
* Katira opens a floating orb that spins apart to reveal a worn Sith pendant
* Callen approaches a tarp, pulling it off to reveal a large jar holding the eye of an unidentified creature. The tag reads “This thing always brought me luck when I was carrying it around. Hopefully it will do the same for you.”
* Jowkazza unwraps a small cage holding a Loth-cat
* Bota goes to the largest gift, finding a well used Wookiee love seat with an antique throwing knife in the side

After the initial round of gifts, a round of stealing commences (see final dispositions in notes) and the White Bantha comes to a satisfying conclusion.

### **Into to Afterparty**

With the gift exchange completed, the guests continue to mill about until the bar closes. Katira approaches Taz Solana to say hello and invite her to an afterparty at the Everlast Hotel room that they have access too care of Tamiel Cureao. She gives the pilot the hair care kit (also stolen from Cureao) as a personal life day gift, much to Taz’ confusion.

> "*You always are a surprise to me, Katira. I can’t ever tell if you’re serious or just pulling my leg. The way you treat me and the way you treat Skids McDougal is night and day. I don’t understand, aren’t we all on the same team?*"
> ― Taz Solana
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> "*Nope.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*The way I act sometimes is a mystery to me sometimes too.*"
> ― Katira
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Blaine makes a bee-line for the Gamorrean that he noticed during the gift exchange, and enters into a conversation with the intent to form an alliance with their home planet. Knowing that the nearby planet of Anoat is relatively uninhabited, he offers to enter into formal negotiations to allow the Gamorreans to settle the planet as a secondary sphere of influence. The Gamorrean is skeptical, but interested, and passes their contact information to Blaine.

With things wrapping up, the group begins to quietly spread word about the after party that they plan to start at Tamiel Cureao’s room, being careful not to pinpoint themselves as the originators. The Gamorrean, Teemo, Puggles, and Charlie Team are among those that expressed definite interest.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Bota Zi
* Callen Mutig
* Droo Vos
* Jawa Jimmy
* Jowkazza
* Katira Eve
* Roostan Steele
* Tek Krodak

### **NPCs**

* Kenneth
* Cal Omas
* Shiri'ani
* Puggles Trodd
* Taz Solana
* Tamiel Cureao
* Al Mosfriday
* Duke Syndik
* Teemo
* Barroka - Gamorrean Delegate
* Thyferran Delegate
* Perobas the Defel

### **Mentioned**

* General Ledger
* Balancesheet
* Toln ne Yerres
* Barry Hansom
* Skids McDougal
* Solo Mon
* Yamble Biskin
* Jagged Fel

## **Inventory**

* +vial of bacta (Tek)
* +unknown animal mount (Droo)
* +50,000cr (Jowkazza)
* +broken holocron (Tek)
	+ *Note: holocron was given by a member of “Charlie Team”*
* +protocol droid that always talks about their home planet (Jawa Jimmy)
* +Sith pendant (Katira)
	+ *Note: Tek and Droo used **Sense Force** for Katira, feeling both light and dark in the pendant*
* +belt with cyber crystal buckle (Callen/Rusty)
* +throne of an ousted monarch (Bota)
* +concert & artist meet and greet (Blaine)
* +Tamiel Cureao’s code cylinder (Katira)
* +Tamiel Cureao’s credstick (Katira)
* +key to room at Everlast Hotel (Katira)
* +Tamiel Cureao’s hair care kit (Taz Solana)
* -Suuji’s Vibroblade (Tek)

* Final Disposition of *other* Life Day Gifts:
	+ Cartons of Green and Red Life Day milk - unclaimed
	+ Empty Bacta Tank - Defel
	+ Ship Transponder Codes with Bobblehead & Large Decal - Trandoshans
	+ Munitions Box - unclaimed (brown gargle water taken to afterparty)
	+ Wookiee Love Seat - unclaimed
	+ Loth-cat - unclaimed
	+ Eye in a Jar - Al Mosfriday
	+ Montage of Ithor’s Greatest Hits - unclaimed
	+ List of Mercenary Groups guarding valuable assets - Gamorrean
	+ Ownership of an Impounded Pleasure Yacht: 2,000cr to obtain - Tamiel Cureao
	+ Mating Pair of Dewbacks - Teemo
	+ 1,000cr worth of vouchers to a mid-level Coruscant strip club - unclaimed
	+ All Expenses Paid trip to Cloud City - Sullustan Senator
	+ Suuji’s Vibroblade - Kuat Drive Yard Representative
	+ Bottle of Starshine Surpise (recommended only for non-humans or the most hardened drinkers) - Republic Reforms Committee Delegate
	+ Small Chunk of Alderaanian Ore from the Triplehorn Mountains - New Independent Trade Delegate
	+ Designer Tunic, hand woven from the finest naturally grown and humanely harvested Kowakian Lizard-Monkey Hair - Duke Syndik

## **Notes**

* Blaine provided his contact information to Duke Syndik for possible future dealings

> "*I’ll give it to him, but I’ll also keep in mind that he may want to rob or kill me.*"
> ― Blaine
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## **Quotations**

> "*So glad you could join us again for this lovely celebration of life day! It feels like it’s been a year since I’ve seen you all!*"
> ― Kenneth
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> "*This is Shiri’ani, my… girlfriend*"
> ― Tek
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> "*\*elbows Tek in the side\**"
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> "*Are you a part of the New Republic?*"
> ― Defel
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> "*I honestly don’t… yeah? Kind of by default. I just hang out with a lot of people that make decisions for me, and I think that one of them is that I’m part of the New Republic.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*You’re an ambassadorial aide!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*I’m sorely tempted to throw out all my ideas and talk to the representative that we robbed and still have information on, but…*"
> ― Katira
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> "*I love that this is a huge dilemma for Katira.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*You annihilated half of my group, and left me basically for dead!*"
> ― Puggles
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> "*We let you go pick up Zardra, and I didn’t take your ship.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*You killed most of my crew, and blew up my ships!*"
> ― Puggles
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> "*They were trying to kill me, Puggles. Fair though… fair…*"
> ― Katira
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> "*By the way, how is Zardra these days?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Still dead, or?*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*We’ve all been waiting for this moment, when we get to hear what Tek Krodak’s girlfriend sounds like.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*Uh… Heeeugh?*"
> ― “Shiri’ani”
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> "*What?*"
> ― Thyferra Delegate
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> "*She just said hi.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Oh! I didn’t even recognize that as a hello. Hello young lady. You are looking ravishing tonight.*"
> ― Thyferra Delegate
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> "*Thank you… big… boy…?*"
> ― “Shiri’ani”
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> "*Wait! I think I remember you. I think I saw you at the expo.*"
> ― Tamiel
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> "*Oh, yeah… you were one of those people that left me destitute with my ship in ruins after I saved your life. Thanks.*"
> ― Katira
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