The Last Command 3 - Flargo the Hutt

In an attempt to escape justice, Nago the Calculating took the extreme measure of carbon freezing... himself

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*Truth, honor, nobility, goodness, just down right decency; none of these words describe this mission. As our heroes battle through a web of lies and deceit they come upon a convincing copy of Nago the Hutt. But with the help of their Squib friends (and Tek's excellent joke telling abilities) they discover that Nago had secretly frozen himself in Carbonite. What will become of the frozen Hutt? And what adventures await ahead?*

## **Previously**

*With negotiations not appearing to turn out in his favor, Nago the Calculating made a break for the Panksta rather than face the New Republic judicial system. In hot pursuit, our heroes land just behind the conniving Hutt and discover that they have entered a fun house. Boobytraps, misleading holograms, dead Neimoidians, decoy panels, and monsters all slowed their progress. Just as they seem to be through the worst of it, the biggest diversion of all - little bugs asking for help - drives a wedge between the party. Bota and Katira continue to pursue Nago as Droo and Tek, unable to say no to the pitiful creatures, run off with a Squib. Splitting the party is obviously the best tactical decision here. Right?*

## **Recap**

### **A Tale of Two Teams**

Continuing on their quest to assist every creature in the galaxy that calls for assistance on the basis of proximity, Tek and Droo follow the squib that asked for help earlier. They turn a corner and run right into a small room with three squibs being held prisoner by a group of three battle droids with holoprojected heads. Before the duo have time to take aim, the droids open fire but fail to score a hit.

> "*What about the squib? Did he dodge?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*The squib stabs a knife into your back.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*You know what… I wonder. I wonder about this squib actually.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Is he the Judas squib?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Well, I mean everything else was a trick. He’d be the only non-trick in a hallway of tricks.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*He did greet us with a kiss now that I think about it.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I saw some silver jangling in the oatmeal in his pocket.*"
> ― Droo
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Returning fire, Tek and Droo manage to damage a single droid. Rather than taking cover as the round ends, they decide to stand their ground and enter into a deadly dodge-off with one another. After another round of successfully avoiding incoming fire, Tek fails to hit any active opponent but bravely succeeds in finishing the prone droid on the floor. Droo then has a rare successful blaster shot for light damage, and the pair readies for another round of dodging.

Meanwhile, in pursuit of Nago, Katira and Bota spot a grouping of five similar droids blocking their way and they open fire without restraint. Katira blows the face and right arm off the nearest droid, then blows a leg off another. Not to be outdone, Bota rushes past the two smoking piles of droid and brings his repeating blaster to bear on the remaining three droids. The head of his first target is blown clean off, and the bounty hunter simply stares as the other two droids beg for mercy before he shuts them down for good.

### **A House Divided**

With five dead droids littering the hallway, Katira sneaks up to the next corner and takes a peek around to see what they are approaching. Just ahead, Nago the Calculating can be seen atop a small dais screaming at his majordomo Jayche Freeman. Taking a look at the surrounding space she notes miscellaneous machinery surrounding the stage, which look to serve some special purpose, and what appears to be a control station a short distance away. Passing this information along to Bota, the pair decide to wait and watch rather than rush in. With no clear means of escape present, they hope to gain some additional information as to Nago’s plans while providing Tek and Droo with some additional time to catch up.

Still in combat with the same three droids they found earlier, Tek and Droo perform a rare synchronized dodge before returning fire. Apparently not wanting the dodge competition to end, the pair both miss their shots with Droo running out of ammunition to cap it all off.

Jayche activates a control mechanism, and the door next to Nago begins to open slowly for the impatient Hutt. Not wanting to press too far ahead of their allies, Bota and Katira look for a back entrance to the area Nago is entering. Finding a ventilation shaft, Katira peeks in and sees a room filled with cabling and hydraulic lines while Bota shouts to Tek and Droo to hurry up.

> "*Come on, guys. We gotta go. Nago is on the move.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Well… headshot these droids for us. If you’re **so good** at it.*"
> ― Droo
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Not wanting the Hutt to escape, and unable to quickly climb through the vent, Katira fires her blaster into the room. Several of the hydraulic lines rupture and some sort of liquid oozes out, beginning to smoke. Katira recognizes the odor emitting from the liquid, but is unable to place the scent.

Still battling their droids off in the corner, Tek and Droo succeed in another round of dodges before both hitting one of the remaining droids.

> "*You hit that droid. He is mortally wounded, you have one left.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Alright. We’re gaining ground… but losing sunlight.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*This is what we get for trying to be \*\*\*\*ing good guys. \*\*\*\* this, I’m gonna be a Sith.*"
> ― Droo
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### **Flargo the Hutt**

No longer willing to wait for the “Jedi” to come help, Bota and Katira head back to engage Nago. On the way back, Katira lifts a key card and a spare blaster rifle - because she can’t help but look for free stuff. Bota turns the corner, steps into the open, and demands that Nago surrender. In an unexpected turn of events, Nago… surrenders?

At the control console, Katira finally puts all the pieces together and discovers that the entire area is built to support a carbon freezing chamber. Bota demands that Nago come with them, and Katira tells his majordomo to close the adjacent door. As the pair realizes that the carbon freezing chamber is below the dais, Nago offers 100,000cr and the *Panksta* in exchange for his freedom.

> "*Hey guys… what if I just gave you guys each 100,000cr and you just let me go?*"
> ― Nago the Calculating
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> "*Let’s be honest, Nago. I just turned down over 500,000cr and a squadron of X-Wings. All because I wanted to get over killing some small child. Why would I let you walk away after you screwed me over? I didn’t even know that child.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Don’t unload that trip on me…*"
> ― Droo as Nago
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Still in combat, Tek and Droo finally succeed in defeating their opponent and freeing the squibs. The overjoyed bugs shout thanks and begin to kick the deactivated droid before following their saviors to the surrendered Hutt.

> "*Nago, I just finished defeating your entire force. Don’t you delay me further.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*The Squibs start laughing.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Okay, \*\*\*\* these guys.*"
> ― Droo
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Worried that the Squibs have been holograms all along, Droo reaches out in the force to sense that they are actually alive. Somewhat insulted, Tek realizes that the Squibs began laughing sooner than he thought they should. Swapping in his Languages cartridge, Tek asks the bugs what they thought was so funny, and they reply that the group isn’t talking to Nago, but Flargo the Hutt.

The Hutt shouts that the bugs are liars, but it’s apparent that he is stretching the truth. With their life sense skill up, Droo and Tek feel that the real Nago is held below the dais. Katira attempts to convince the team to take a moment and gain what loot they can from the Hutt, but is vetoed by the rest of the team. Making contact with the New Republic, the team escorts Flargo, Jayche, and a carbon frozen Nago into custody.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

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

### **NPCs**

* Flargo the Hutt
* Jayche Freeman

## **Inventory**

* +*Panksta* key card (Katira)
* +spare blaster rifle (Katira)
* +Nago the Calculating in carbonite (group)

## **Notes**

* As Bota successfully commanded Nago to surrender, Tek and Droo had still not defeated their droid. Their final shots landed when the droid ceased its attempts to dodge and stated that it had received a command to stand down.

## **Quotations**

> "*Last time that I was separated from Bota I was kidnapped and tortured, so I’m gonna go ahead and stay with him.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*But this time he might be the one kidnapping and torturing you…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*You know what. I’m strangely okay with that, even though he looks a lot like the guy that kidnapped and tortured me.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*You got some weird psychological issues now, Katira…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Will this door provide any cover?*"
> ― Bota
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> "*That will give a +1D to hit.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*+1D to being hit? Great. Thanks.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Does that moving to cover cost an action?*"
> ― David
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> "*That’s -1D for the sass, another -1D for tossing your hair to the side unnecessarily, -1D for snapping your fingers in a Z-motion. We can keep going.*"
> ― Ilya
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> "*Pay no attention to that blaster noise. It’s just my blaster fire white noise machine.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*It belongs to some very specific kind of PTSD or something. Or fetish, or psychological issue, or… something.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*What sucks is that we’re on the wrong side of the wall. We both have force powers for this.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*You’ve been on the wrong side of the wall the whole time.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*And Tek definitely knows what this is.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Yeah… I’ll get to it. Let me finish over here.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I’ll grab a blaster rifle to give to Droo later so that she has a useful weapon.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*You’re gonna walk over, give her a new weapon, and walk away?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Just toss it around the corner. “Hey. Hurry up by the way, we got things to do.”*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Do you have any more holograms and boobytraps on this station?*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Absolutely!*"
> ― Flargo as Nago the Calculating
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> "*I’m pretty sure the Jedi are just fighting a simulation over there.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*If we hadn’t revealed that we knew Nago was frozen, we could have passed off Flargo as Nago and kept the real Nago all to ourselves.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Wow… that’s really dark Katira…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I mean, we could still do that.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*What… what do you want to do… just act on all your darkest, most wanton desires?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*I just want to know where all of Nago’s most valuable items are, and what boobytraps there are on the way.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Uh… I’m not gonna tell you that.*"
> ― Jayche Freeman
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> "*Katira just has one question: Why didn’t Nago want to do business with me? Just tell me. Did he tell you?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Why didn’t he like me?*"
> ― Jordan as Katira
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> "*I felt like we had something good going, and then there was just an abrupt end.*"
> ― Tek as Katira
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