Kampe Campaign 5 - Weekend at Callen's

*Our heroes knock out Stormtroopers with Tatooine Sunburn, which knocks Callen out as well. Tek and Droo dyad it up with sensing, healing, and pushing. Sparky is finally outdone by the murderous bloodlust of Katira. Finally, our heroes find a way to sneak into the secret base after Tek's archaic scout droid reports finding a back entrance.*

## **Previously**

*After rescuing the Ugnaughts, Keko Natub and Wilks Broadsky, our heroes are given a brief history of the Eriadu Authority and their time on the planet. As they plan to set out, they are intercepted by the ever ambitious Charlie Team and enjoy a few laughs at their expense. Alpha Team establishes themselves as the dominant squad, convincing Taz Solana and Skids McDougal to come along with them while the rest of Charlie Team escorts the Ugnaughts to the mission rendezvous location.*

*Heading into the slot canyons with a few people riding double, the group makes nice time until they are ambushed once again. This time around the entire team faces the threat as a single unit. As the rest of the team provides cover fire, the ever heroic Blaine Hansom rides his speeder straight up the cliffside and manages to stun the enemy into submission. With a few more pieces of gear, and most mission objectives complete, our heroes now must make a decision. Is it worth risking major conflict with the well armed stormtroopers of the Eriadu Authority just to prove that Governor Parnot is connected?*

## **Recap**

### **Tastes Like a Sexy Battery**

With the slot canyons a known concern and Blaine having a safe location with a great view of the area from up above, the team opts to gather at the mesa above. Katira takes the recovering Taz Solana up with her, and everyone makes their way up easily enough until Skids McDougal nearly kills himself again on the ascent. After everyone settles up above, Katira scouts the area with the use of some New Republic issued macrobinoculars.

In the Northwest, the reported barracks outpost is clearly visible. There is a mix of stormtroopers between the team and the outpost, consisting of sand troopers, shock troopers, and a few generic troopers. A squadron is currently patrolling in the direction of the group with a few other cadres milling about in the general area. The entrance appears to be well guarded, with transports arriving and departing intermittently at the landing bay of the outpost.

Everyone agrees that the best method seems to be for Blaine and Callen to impersonate Eriadu Authority stormtroopers and have them intercept the incoming patrol, then con them in some manner to gain entry into the outpost.

> "*If you wanted to use the scavengers, you might have to kill prune face since they know you’re with the New Republic.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*That’s mister prune face.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*It’s actually doctor…*"
> ― Callen
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> "*I’m a doctor in scavenging. I’ve made THOUSANDS!*"
> ― Blaine
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Several plans are proposed while the group conceals their speeders, each with it’s own pros and cons:

1. Hand over the scavengers to gain access - the scavengers know the group is with the New Republic
2. Hand over Tek so that he can slice their systems from inside - they may have to save him later
3. Hand over Skids so that he doesn’t try to fight his way in - they may have to save **him** later
4. Take out the incoming patrol and masquerade as stormtroopers - Jimmy, Tek, and Droo can’t wear the armor and will need to be brought in as prisoners

In the end, a modification of the last plan is utilized. Recalling that the troopers at the previous outpost readily violated their general orders in exchange for a chance to enjoy some Brown Gargle Water, a plan is established to take the patrol off their guard by using the Tatooine Sunburn that they obtained from the scrappers earlier, then lure them into an ambush. Telling Callen to come along and follow his lead, Blaine heads down toward the incoming patrol.

The patrol immediately asks if the pair is checking in from patrol as they approach. Blaine launches into his planned con, stating that a few of the patrols have been communicating on comm channel 44 to discuss any alcohol that they have been able to score - whether by defrauding scrappers and Ugnaughts, brewing on their own, or any other clandestine means. As the troopers all change over to the channel, Blaine produces the bottle of Tatooine Sunburn and proposes they all enjoy some.

> "*Tastes like a sexy battery. You guys should try some.*"
> ― Blaine
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Providing some believability to the lie, Katira changes over to comm channel 44 in case the patrol tries to talk over it. At the same time, she takes advantage of the conversation to sneak around behind the troopers while their attention is focused elsewhere.

Though two of the troopers jump at the opportunity to imbibe in the liquor, the others aren’t quite as sure. To help convince them, Blaine and Callen each take a shot as well. While Blaine manages to hold his alcohol, the (relatively) recently carbon frozen Callen does not fare so well, and neither do the two troopers that expressed an interest. All three black out and collapse, and unbeknownst to anyone one of them begins to die from alcohol poisoning.

> "*What are we gonna do with these guys? This is a foot patrol area.*"
> ― Patrol Guard
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> "*Let’s go back and take out these Ugnaughts that poisoned us!*"
> ― Blaine
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With two enemies and his friend lying unconscious at his feet, Blaine finds himself in an awkward situation when the still fully functional stormtroopers from the patrol state that they think that the best course of action is to drag everyone back to the barracks to recover. Thinking fast, he draws a blaster and fires on stun but only manages to alarm the guards. As they reach for their weapons, Katira jumps up from behind and stuns one guard. The remaining guard fires a shot at Blaine but misses as Tek and Droo come running down toward the action. The last thing the trooper sees is a Jawa and an Astromech rushing in his direction, when Jawa Jimmy fires off the shot that knocks him out. Sparky loses interest when he arrives to find nobody conscious to fight with, and rolls back to the speeders, disheartened.

### **The Force Giveth, The Force Taketh Away**

Running up, Droo reaches into the force to sense the state of the unconscious bodies and points out the dying trooper to Tek. Tek hurries over and concentrates for a moment before using the force to heal the dying stormtrooper.

> "*You don’t know that this stormtrooper is dying, but you DO know that Callen is passed out on the ground… and you’re going to help a **stormtrooper**?!*"
> ― Katira
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Somewhat disgusted, Katira moves ahead a short distance to scout for any more incoming enemies. Much to her surprise, another foot patrol is moving in their direction - currently 300 yards off and closing.

> "*While you’re sitting there holding your hands over that unconscious guard like some flippin’ magician, we’ve got another patrol heading over. What are we gonna do with these bodies?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Let’s just roll them down into the canyon.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Yeh… thanks for healing that guy. We’re gonna throw him off a cliff now.*"
> ― Katira
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As Tek and Droo finally turns their attention to Callen lying unconscious on the ground, Katira returns to a covering position and Jimmy heads back to the speeders. The Jawa finds the prune faced scavenger stirring and stuns them into another dreamless sleep, then fastens Sparky securely to the speeders to prevent the droid from running off on its own again.

With Callen coming around - but still obviously intoxicated - Blaine heads toward the approaching patrol to provide a distraction. Telling them that his squad is a short way off after subjugating a few scrappers, he asks them to change over to comm channel 20 to coordinate rounding up the prisoners. When they ask for his call sign, he states that it is C-494 (the call sign of one of the troopers that passed out drinking earlier) and tells them they don’t need to call anything in, but hope to handle it in house.

Heading over, the squad is surprised to find the unconscious troopers with several non-Eriadu Authority personnel and an astromech standing over them. Blaine watches helplessly as they train their weapons on Tek and move forward to cuff the Zabrak.

> "*Call in a skiff to transfer the prisoners*"
> ― Patrol Leader
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> "*Alright… uh… skiff please?*"
> ― Blaine
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As Blaine looks on, hoping that his friends will jump out to neutralize the situation, Tek concentrates before turning around and sending a wall of force in the direction of the patrol.

> "*Wait… LARP this out… you’re gonna turn around and just force push these guys?!*"
> ― Luke
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> "*Yes.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Are you gonna say anything to them?*"
> ― Luke
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> "*I’m gonna say…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*See ya next fall.*"
> ― Katira
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Taken completely by surprise, the troopers fly backwards. Three of them fall off the cliff immediately, but one rolls directly into Katira hiding just over the ridge. Not missing a beat, Katira draws her vibrodagger and stabs into the guard three times to end his miserable existence. She climbs slowly back over the edge of the hill, covered in blood before kicking the body of the trooper back down the hill and onto the canyon floor.

> "*Wow. Even Sparky feels bad for that stormtrooper.*"
> ― Callen
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### **If You See Something, Say… Nothing?**

With two patrols out of the way, but no end in sight to the reinforcements that the Eriadu Authority can send, Tek decides to send one of his archaic scout droids out to get a better idea of how the group can infiltrate the outpost. As team strips the remaining four guards of their armor and shoves them down into the canyon below, the droid manages to sneak past the now limited guard and provide a layout of the outpost.

The report comes in that a troop transport is docked on the far side of the base, out of view from the current angle. The outpost appears to be too small to be a permanent base of operations in the area, and instead seems to serve as a waypoint to transfer troops between outposts as well as off planet. A few hauling skiffs are parked just inside, and troop exchanges appear to be occurring at an hourly basis. The best point of access for their mission parameters seems to be to enter from above, coming in the back of the facility rather than the front.

Waiting for the droid to report in, Katira takes time to scan in the opposite direction of the outpost to see what other problems the team may encounter. Looking along the slot canyon that they just dumped eight troopers into, a giant lizard monster is seen a ways off heading in that direction.

> "*I make no comment to the Jedi that have spent so much time saving stormtroopers that there is a giant monster heading over to eat those guys alive.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Well you don’t know that it’s gonna eat them.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*I mean… in my dark heart of hearts… I **hope**.*"
> ― Katira
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With their immediate safety assured, the team huddles up to plan their next course of action, sketching out a plan to enter the outpost from above, gain the necessary intelligence by slicing into the network inside, and exit without notice if possible.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Callen Mutig
* Droo Vos
* Jawa Jimmy
	+ Sparky
* Katira Eve
* Tek Krodak

### **NPCs**

* Skids McDougal
* Taz Solana
* Dressellian Scrapper
* CK-494

### **Mentioned**

* Wilks Broadsky
* Keko Natub

## **Inventory**

* +4 sets of Stormtrooper Armor (group)
* -1/2 bottle of Tatooine Sunburn (group)

## **Notes**

* Countdown complete: 0 mission remaining for Blaine’s Ghtroc Freighter
* The legitimate term for someone who collects and sells poop is a gong farmer - thank you Jordan for that nugget
* Callen rolled a 25 (on 6D6) for strength of alcohol, but only a 4 (on 2D6) for his ability to handle it - thereby immediately passing out
* Highest average roll goes to Katira - 35 on 7D6 with the only kill of the night

## **Quotations**

> "*Plum face, that’s my son. I’m prune face, and my father is raisin head.*"
> ― Blaine Hansom mocking the unconscious scrapper
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> "*Just give them Skids McDougal.*"
> ― Callen
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> "*This is how Katira get to keep that rifle.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*This is how? Just let him keep driving that speeder and it’ll take care of itself.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*We could say Tek has a bounty on his head.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*I hope none of them are my fans, because they’ll know it’s a lie right away.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Skids, you look like you’ve been having a rough day… maybe the best thing you can have for the team right now is to offer yourself up as a sacrifice so that we can make our way in.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Skids… you’ve failed at so much already. It’s time to redeem yourself.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Hey buddy, how would you like to clean up poop on Droorassic Park?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*So let me get this straight. We’re just saved this stormtrooper’s life, and now we’re going to take his armor and leave him passed out, exposed to the elements, and breathing the toxic atmosphere after we shove him off a cliff. Because that’s a better way to die than from alcohol poisoning in his sleep…*"
> ― Katira
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> "*I wash my hands of him. I’ve saved him once.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Can you guys force heal Callen?*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Yeh, but we gotta save this stormtrooper first.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Alright. So three of these stormtroopers just fall down the canyon wall, but one of them rolls right into Katira hiding just over the hill.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*That was completely planned.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*We can do life detection, Droo, if we need to. I can too.*"
> ― Tek expressing concern over the monster
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> "*You **don’t know** to life detect it!*"
> ― David
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> "*I’m just gonna start life detecting all over the place.*"
> ― Ilya
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> "*Who’s wearing stormtrooper armor? Raise your hand.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*I don’t think it will fit over my tendrils.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*I don’t think it compliments my figure… And I don’t want to take off my Mandalorian battle armor.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Well then… you wait outside.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*We can just concentrate. Concentrate on how much we love each other!*"
> ― Droo
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> "*I feel like everyone is just rolling their eyes at Tek and Droo right now.*"
> ― Blaine
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