The Last Command 2 - Hutt Funhouse

In a battle of wits with Nago the Calculating, our greatest enemy is our own overthinking minds.

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1:23:04

*Fire walks, buttons that need pressing, squib... These are some of the words that describe what our heroes went through.*

## **Previously**

> "*It was kind of like Judge Judy meets Law and Order.*"
> ― Bota
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*Returning victoriously to the planet Ibis, our heroes found themselves in hot water when Nago the Calculating returned with the New Republic at his back. A debate is held, evidence is presented, witnesses speak, and the Hutt realizes this isn’t going to work. When the time for closing arguments comes around, Nago is nowhere to be found and our heroes bravely ignore the Bothan proposal to let him go. Will the conniving worm escape, or will our heroes bring his mischievous acts to an end?*
## **Recap**

### **It's Getting Hot in Here**

As Nago the Calculating lands onboard the *Panksta*, hundreds of escape pods begin to jettison from the space station. The surrounding New Republic capitol ships move to intercept and pull in the escape pods and Katira, suspecting a ruse, orders the crew of the *Dauntless* to scan for life forms on the pods. The scans surprisingly show that many of the escape pods show life signs on board.

With the New Republic not showing signs of stopping the renegade Hutt, Tek and Bota fire up a Lambda-Class shuttle from the *Alios II* as Katira and Droo launch a shuttle from the *Dauntless*. Everyone lands in the docking bay that Nago was last seen entering, and stepping out of their shuttles they find the wreckage of a small ship as flames raging everywhere around the docking bay. Tek states that it appears that all communications are being jammed by a signal originating from the bridge of the *Panksta*.

> "*Katira, do you think you can con that fire into stopping? Just convince it that it should actually be water.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I don’t think that’s how it works…*"
> ― Katira
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Rushing onto the wrecked ship, Katira finds an extinguisher as Bota proposes a plan to depressurize the docking bay. With all signals jammed Tek states that he would need access to the nearby control panel to begin the process, but there is a raging inferno preventing access. Katira attempts to extinguish the flames, but to no effect. Oddly, as she stands nearby to combat the blaze she only feels mildly warm. Now suspicious, Katira asks Droo if she senses any danger in the immediate area. In response, both Tek and Droo reach out in the force and state that they feel no immediate danger. The ever confident Zabrak then walks straight into the nearest flames, turns, and tells the team that it’s a hologram.

> "*We were about to depressurize this whole area!*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Yeah. Thanks Bota. Way to over engineer everything.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Yeah. Why would you try to put out a fire when you can just assume that it’s fake?!*"
> ― Katira
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### **It’s All Lies!**

As Tek walks down a newly revealed hallway, he enters the first door he sees. Inside he finds the bodies of three long dead Neimoidians in matching jumpsuits sitting in what appears to be a cafeteria. Taking a moment to search the corpses for goods, Tek finds nothing of value before heading back to the hallway. Within the next room, Tek finds… more dead Neimoidians with matching jumpsuits.

> "*You don’t find anything on them. They just have some, uh… identification cards.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*I’ll take those identification cards.*"
> ― A Confident Tek
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Also scouting around Katira finds what appears to be a control panel, but when she investigates closer she discovers that it’s a decoy. Bota Zi finds the generator and control console for the fire hologram, and at the end of the hall Droo enters a room with a countdown running in front of a nearby button.

> "*What color is the button?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Uh… yellow.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Okay. I push it.*"
> ― Droo
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As Droo presses the button, the countdown appears to reset to 60 and run down again. Droo keeps resetting the presumed trap as Tek attempts to bypass the door further ahead to no avail. Circling back to the entrance, Katira discovers an ornate hold-out blaster in Nago’s abandoned shuttle but nothing of use. Bota brings Tek back to the ship, and has him access the computer for any clues, finding a single command was sent to the bridge after docking.

> "*Come on guys, use the force or something here. Can’t you like… sense or alter or something?*"
> ― Bota
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> "*I don’t even think the Neimoidians are real. Obviously these are all… you know what, we shouldn’t be pushing this button! These are all things to distract us and keep us from moving forward!*"
> ― Droo
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With no further clues presenting themselves, Droo has the sudden revelation that everything is simply a distraction, and stops pressing the button. As the countdown reaches 5 seconds, alarms begin to blare, and at zero everything goes quiet and the doors open.

### **It's a Trap!**

Moving along the team finds yet more rooms filled with dead Neimoidians leading up to another large chamber. A lone Squib is rushing around the room, obviously terrified, and what appears to be a giant bear trap is sitting in the center of the area. Excited at the chance to help, Droo uses the force to empathize with the creature and calm him down. Katira persuades the creature to help them proceed further in so that they can stop Nago, but he warms that doing so *may* set off a trap - in which case they should be ready with blasters.

The team agrees that they have no other options to move forward, and the Squib scurries off into the ventilation duct. After a few moments a faint noise can be heard within the walls, then a small click followed by… a Rathtar breaking through the nearby wall.

Tek immediately fires at the monster, only managing to anger it before Droo attempts to reach out in the force and calm the creature. Uninterested in adding another animal to the menagerie, Bota fires off four shots at the beast. Two blaster bolts fail to pierce the monster’s hide, but the other two leave the creature writhing in pain on the ground, its tentacles flailing about in its death throes before Katira steps out and finishes the beast off.

> "*Droo, are you going to be sad if I murder this beast that you tried to make into a pet?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Uh… yeah, but… it’s getting late so… just do it.*"
> ― Droo
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As the last bit of life fades from the Rathtar, the door past the room opens, revealing the Squib. He apologizes to the group, and states that the path to Nago is just ahead but that several of his brothers are being held prisoner by Nago’s guards. Caught in a moral quandary, Tek and Droo decide that they will rescue the Squibs while Bota and Katira continue on to capture Nago.

> "*There’s gotta be a bounty on [Nago’s] head. Even though we’re not allowed to collect bounties right now…*"
> ― Bota
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> "*There is no bounty because he’s a New Republic representative.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Someone will pay me for him.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Classic Bota.*"
> ― Jordan
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## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

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

## **Inventory**

* +Nago’s Ornate Hold-Out Blaster (Katira)

## **Notes**

* With a 1/3 chance that the Squib would spring the trap accidentally… of course he set it off

## **Quotations**

> "*Can Socorro Squadron pull an Anakin Skywalker on this thing?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Turn to the dark side and kill all the Jedi?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Too soon. That’s still a derogatory term.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*They all turn to the nearest child and murder them. Is that the Anakin you were talking about?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Can I roll to see what kind of a feeling I get about the button?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Yeah, roll your Sense.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*rolls 3*"
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> "*You feel nothing. Absolutely nothing.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Just to be consistent, I want to search the bodies of all these dead Neimoidians.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*More identification cards.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*I bring them to Tek, and say that I also found some sweet loot.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Guys, this is a leap of faith. Just trust me. That Rathtar is a hologram.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Note: Katira kills the sad, mortally wounded Rathtar.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Stop trying to make me feel bad about this!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Well… we saved the Squibs, right? Now you guys can gain their trust and sell them into slavery or whatever it is you do, right?*"
> ― Droo
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