Jedi Search 2 - Slavers Synonymous

How many credits is one dark side point worth?

*Personal connections and moral convictions are put to the test as the team discovers a slaving operation in Mos Eisley. Tek Krodak’s fanboys pay 100cr for the chance to play a concert for the famous Droo, and Tek discovers that his family has moved up from slaves to slavers in his absence. Katira is surprisingly unhappy to find that someone is watching her, leading to the discovery that the entire cantina is filled with slavers about to make a big score. Deciding to bring an end to Tek’s family business, the group must make the decision between their morals and a whole lot of starfighters and credits.*

## **Previously**

*With their heads still spinning after the battle against Lord Sithspawn, a newly revived Dask Ra'tava managed to bring the team back to reality. Suddenly realizing that the Sith clone master presents a much larger threat than ever anticipated, the decision is made to create a new Jedi Order dedicated to ending the existential threat. With this in mind the team set a course for Tatooine, searching for a Vash Taalweb left in the care of Momaw Nadon by Genos Ia'danian some time ago.*

*Arriving at the Mos Eisley Cantina, old acquaintances were met by Bota and Tek enjoyed basking in the attention of some fanboy musicians. Rather than searching for the boy directly the team decided to sneak backstage in hopes of finding useful intel through some less respectable channels.*

## **Recap**

### **Krodak Family Reunion**

As Bota continues to drink at the bar and reminisce about old times, Tek, Droo, and Katira head backstage with the band. The band swarms Krodak, asking all about his methods for creating songs and requesting that he write a song with them.

> "*I’m gonna freestyle something right on the spot for them.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Wait. What? How did you get 10D6?! You don’t have a skill in singing.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*It’s not singing, it’s freestyling. It’s my slicing. I’m slicing sentences.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*He’s slicing rhymes!*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Uh… no…*"
> ― Jordan
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Rolling her eyes at Tek’s fanboys, Katira slips away and heads upstairs to investigate further into who seems to be watching her. Droo attempts to follow along, but one of the band members notices and pulls her back to the group. Thinking on her feet, Droo tells the band member that she’s famous and looking to hire a band for a party she’s having and has to meet them upstairs. Convincing the musician that she is in fact famous, Droo manages to get an agreement for the band to play that includes them *paying her* 100cr before heading upstairs to “let the other band down”.

Already upstairs, Katira finds a cyborg standing over several monitors. Not sensing any hostility in the room, Katira begins to sneak up behind the cyborg but draws their attention as she bumps into one of the screens. The person turns, recognizes Katira - they state that they recall Katira from a time that she fought against The Collective - and asks Katira for some help.

The cyborg exhibits difficulty speaking, apparently having a difficult time remembering how, and explains that they are looking for help in stopping the transport of a large amount of slaves from a nearby warehouse. When Katira asks for proof and a reason that she should trust the person, they readily bring up an array of spreadsheets showing the bill of sale for recent slave movements from the operation, showing that this particular shipment is expected to sell at roughly 2 million credits.

With Droo providing moral support, Katira decides that the team should intercede and free the slaves. They patch the cyborg into the teams comm frequency so that he can provide information and surveillance, then head downstairs to gather the group.

Arriving downstairs, Tek is still being swarmed by the now heavily intoxicated band members. Upon hearing the plan to free a load of slaves nearby, Tek manages to extricate himself from the situation, promising to catch back up at a later date, and heads back into the bar proper. Having noticed several former slaves that he knew from his own former life, Tek heads over to the group. He is stopped short when he recognizes a pin with an Imperial logo on one of the men.

Realizing that these may be the slavers the team is planning against, Tek contacts Droo and Katira to give them a heads up before heading over to see what he can learn. Taking care to turn off his own communicator first, he opens the conversation with his own dark secret.

> "*Hey, I have a planet full of slaves. Got any to sell?*"
> ― Tek
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The slavers are immediately on guard. Several of them have their blasters half drawn and ask who Tek is, but the Zabrak manages to smooth things out when he realizes that one of the slavers is his own uncle and another is a family friend.

> "*What?! It’s my nephew Tek! Can’t believe I didn’t recognize you.*"
> ― Uncle Krodak
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As Uncle Krodak pulls Tek to the side, Tek tries to build more trust by commenting on his time in *Socorro Squadron*. Though his uncle is initially a bit vague about what his group is doing on Tatooine, Tek states openly that he is looking for someone to talk with about slaves in the area and his uncle becomes a bit more open. They walk to the restroom for a more discrete location, and Tek is told that nearly everyone in the cantina are involved in the slaving operation going on nearby, one that is run by Lady Valarian.

### **Mos Eisley Buyers Club**

Now having a much better idea of just how large of an operation they are up against, the team decides to continue with their idea of stopping the slave sale occurring nearby. Knowing that even the bartender is involved, Katira takes notice of a few subconscious behaviors that he is exhibiting and discovers that the mechanism for opening access to the nearby warehouse is located behind the bar.

Looking to create a distraction, Tek climbs onto a nearby table with a plan to transform the cantina into *Coyote Ugly*. He begins to shout out a few notes of song and dance (17 on 3D6 *Dance*), but his uncle immediately tackles him to the ground asking what in the world he thinks he’s doing.

Rather than risk further embarrassment in the cantina, the group decides to contact their cyborg informant upstairs and learn the location where the slaves are being held. Heading over in the *Red Shift*, they agree to impersonate the buyers for the purchase of the slaves.

> "*Alright, so if you’re going to impersonate the buyers for this, who are each of you going to be acting as?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Well I want Boba Fett to show up, so I’m going to wear my Mandalorian Armor.*"
> ― Tek
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* Katira: group leader/purchaser
* Bota: body guard
* Tek: himself/bodyguard no.2/slicer
* Droo: getaway driver
* Cyborg: Surveillance

Tek first accesses the transponder for the ship (41 on 10D6 *Slice*), and then attempts to decide on a new name for the ship to carry but can’t come up with anything inconspicuous (14 on 5D6 *Streetwise: Tatooine*). The group decides to name the ship *SS Liberty* because… slaves are free labor?

They arrive at the warehouse to find two aliens standing guard at the door, and Katira attempts to con the group in as an advance inspection team (27 on 6D6 *Con*). Without the team having any passcode, the guards state that they will need to contact their boss for the abnormal activity. Katira attempts to convince them that this is not necessary since they just need to take a look (21 on 6D6 *Con*), but one of the guards walks off to make the call.

Knowing that they can’t risk blowing the operation before it has begun, Droo takes a shot at the first guard on stun, managing to stun them and causing them to defecate themselves at the same time.

> "*Ah man… I was going to dress up in that uniform!*"
> ― Droo
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With their cover blown, Katira draws her own blaster and fires three shots at the remaining guard, killing them outright. The team then busies themselves stripping off the one useful uniform so that Droo can take the guard’s place. Katira grabs credsticks off the guards in the process, and then the team forms a plan to enter the warehouse.

Bota heads around the back of the warehouse to cut off any escape and finds the back door open. With this information sent to the rest of the team, Bota stands by as Tek and Katira head inside - Tek being sure to stand behind Katira in case of combat.

Finding 10 guards arrayed throughout the interior of the warehouse, Katira begins by informing the two guards just inside the front entrance that there is a commotion outside involving their compatriot. As Tek and Droo both enthusiastically agree and describe the embarrassing scene of a guard with explosive diarrhea, the guards can’t seem to pass up the opportunity to watch.

> "*Guys, I need your help. My partner just shat their pants!*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Again? That’s the third time this month!*"
> ― Tek
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Hoping to capitalize on this, Katira attempts to persuade more guards to come take a look. One more guard rushes out to catch a look, cutting the number of slavers inside down to seven.

### **Just a Distraction**

The front door slowly comes to a close behind Tek and Katira and a moment of tense silence falls upon the warehouse interior, broken only by the sound of the *Red Shift* coming online outside as Droo climbs into the cockpit. In the middle of the room, a huge cluster of slaves nervously looks on at the newcomers, shifting into a tighter huddle in fear.

Suddenly the back door slams open, and the black armored figure of Bota Zi bursts into the room. Before any guards can react, Bota has killed two guards, stunned a third, and shot out half the lights overhead. Tek then turns and mortally wounds two of the guards that headed outside before locking the front door. Finally, Katira mortally wounds two guards, incapacitates one, and shoots out the remaining lights overhead. Outside, Droo fires at the one remaining guard and ends their life.

> "*How could you, Droo?! You were one of the good ones!*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I thought you just made people poop their pants!*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*This is just a dark phase. I’ll come back.*"
> ― Droo
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The two remaining guards surrender immediately, begging for mercy as they grovel the darkened warehouse floor. Apparently unimpressed at their rapid change of fortune, the slaves begin to complain, wondering how they’ll get home. With things rolling much smoother than they anticipated, the team takes a breather and tries to decide what the best course of action may be.

> "*Let’s con them into coming with onto our ship.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I’m sorry, Droo… I think our best bet is to eliminate everyone that has seen us.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*WHAT?!*"
> ― Droo
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> "*You want to kill the slaves?!*"
> ― Tek
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> "*What? No… kill the guards!*"
> ― Katira
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As they converse, a solitary figure enters the warehouse from the hidden entrance through the cantina. Somewhat nonplussed at the current situation in the warehouse, he quickly recovers his composure and asks if the team is now in charge of the sale of the slaves. Offering a squadron of 8 X-Wings, he forces the group into a serious moral dilemma in which even Droo is tempted to accept the offer (hoping that they can just renege on the exchange after receiving payment).

Realizing that this might not be a smooth deal after taking in the bodies of the guards littering the floor, the slaver states that he has the warehouse rigged to explode. He asks Katira, the apparent ring leader, to come talk to him in the office room that he emerged from. Once the pair are alone the slaver states that he can call the slaving business quits after this, but Lady Valarian expects these slaves soon. He then increases the offer to the squadron of X-Wings and 2 million credits on top if the team will just let this happen.

> "*So we have this problem on our hands that these slaves just complain…*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Yeah, they’re awful. Just let me take care of it all.*"
> ― Slaver
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Sensing that the slaver is hiding something, Katira asks “What’s to stop me from having them take the slaves out of the building now?”. She kills her communicator for the first half, effectively ordering the team to lead the slaves out while continuing the conversation. Still in the warehouse, Tek questions a few of the slaves and discovers that they are all connected to high ranking persons in the New Republic (one is even identified as the child of a Senator). Bota tells Katira that they should try to take the slaver as well so that they can get more intel.

The conversation continues with no headway for a moment or two before Katira realizes that it’s not going anywhere useful. She makes one last attempt at gaining the location of the X-Wings, and not wanting to keep up the charade any longer she quickly draws her blaster and fires three stun bolts into the slaver, knocking him out. As he loses consciousness, he mutters that he is just a distraction.

Loading the slaves and the slaver into the *Red Shift*, the group sees a squadron of stormtroopers deploying around a house in the streets of Mos Eisley.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Bota Zi
* Droo Vos
* Katira Eve
* Tek Krodak

### **NPCs**

* Random Cantina Band Member
* Tek’s Uncle Krodak - an Imperial sympathizer and a slaver
* Mysterious Slaver with an X-Wing Squadron

## **Inventory**

* +2 credsticks (Katira)
* -1 dark side point (Katira)
* +mid to high-level slaver (group)
* +dozens of high value, whiny slaves (group)

## **Notes**

* Choosing to keep his level of tact to almost zero, Tek bluntly asked who was running the slaving operation. In response, his uncle informed him that they work for Lady Valarian
* Tek rolled repeated 1D6 over his various conversations, totaling four 1’s (various bad effects, including learning that Lady Valarian has never heard of him and would hate his music if she did), one 4 (his cousin was one of the slavers), and one 6 (his uncle was one of the slavers)
* Other names for the Red Shift included: *Suspicious*, *Not Red Shift*, *Conspicuous*

## **Quotations**

> "*I can tell this mission is going nowhere, just like last mission.*"
> ― Ilya
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> "*Guys, let’s try to **not** find the Ithorian today.*"
> ― Laurel
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> "*What do you remember about last mission?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*I wanted Jedi training, and I never got it.*"
> ― Ilya
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> "*This other band was just going to do it for the exposure. Because I’m so famous, you know? You guys… you’ll have to pay me 100cr.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Oh, uh… is it on Tatooine? I think we could do this.*"
> ― Band Member
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> "*Alright. I’ll meet you in a few minutes. I gotta go… uh… let the other band down.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*You idiot! Stop talking so openly about it all. If you want slaves, we can work something out, but you can’t just go around Mos Eisley shouting that you want slaves.*"
> ― Uncle Krodak
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> "*The difference between your family and my family is that my family might be slavers, but they don’t like it.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Does that make it better, though?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Katira, did you actually roll as to whether you should trust this cyborg, or did you just have a good feeling?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*I didn’t do anything. I just had a good feeling when I saw him so we rolled with it.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*That’s what you said about Lord Sithspawn and Nago the Calculating.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Wait… is the back door locked?*"
> ― Bota - rolls 6 on 1D6
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> "*Uh, nope! It’s not even closed, it’s propped open with a cinderblock*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*All the slaves already escaped.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Don’t we have men in black memory wipe sticks?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*No… I don’t think that’s a thing.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*It’s called a blaster to the head. Erases all memories.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Last time I got a dark side point and I didn’t even kill a child Sith. This time I’ll get 500,000cr and 2 X-Wings. All it costs is my soul!*"
> ― Katira
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