Jedi Search 5 - Endgame on Raita

Sithsludge turns out to be the least of our concerns. This guy, however...

*Sithsludge scares everyone off and a new bounty hunter clone appears. Many character points are used, there's lots of dodging, injuries and stunning going on. Katira gets herself tangled in a jungle of robotic tentacles and then gets shot until she passes out on Lord Sithspawn's ship. Our heroes barely make it out of the living ship in time.*

## **Previously**

*Having tracked a long forgotten, force sensitive child from where he was left on Tatooine to the space station Raita, it didn’t take the group long to realize that something wasn’t quite right. Finding empty passageways, a cowherd, and a mysterious woman selling lamps, the team appeared to be living a nightmare when - in a moment of clarity - the woman mentions that something is eating them all. Exploring further as Dask recommends that they all just leave, the team heads toward the power generator, but is down a man when Tek runs away. They discover mercenary gear that they can’t quite place, and in a moment of sheer terror the fleeing Tek sees a man eaten alive just as Katira shoots the power station’s floor, breaking a force illusion and revealing the grotesque monstrosity that is Sithspawn: Body Snatcher.*

## **Recap**

### **Sithsludge**

> "*His main head turns slowly toward all of you. He starts positioning himself toward you, and a really long tongue starts slowly coming out of his mouth.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*What?! Stop it Jordan!*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Stop it Jordan, it’s too realistic!*"
> ― Bota as Droo
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As the hulking mass of bodies that is controlled by Sithspawn turns its gaze to the team, a shudder runs through each member of the party. Katira, noting that it looks like the Raita Space Station power lines are somehow feeding the monster, fires shots at two of the overhead cables. One of the lines is heavily damaged but intact, and the other slips down, causing the beast to react in an odd matter of surprise. Droo notes this response and fires at the damaged line, but misses. Bota then finishes off the remaining cables, causing Sithspawn to erupt in a horrific roar that causes Katira and Droo to immediately flee the room in terror.

> "*Everyone roll their Willpower skill. It is under knowledge.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Knowledge? That’s not a good idea.*"
> ― Bota
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Dask quickly messages Bota, telling him that he will need to jump down and save the Ithorian boy. Rushing forward, the Jedi Master flings the yellow blade of his lightsaber into the air and severs Sithspawn’s head from the monstrosity. Reaching out, he summons his lightsaber and the detached head to himself and turns to escape as the mass of bodies begins to fall in on itself.

Bota jumps from the catwalk and rockets to the caged Ithorian on the floor. Firing his blaster, he breaks the lock and grabs the child, noting that it appears he is out of both jetpack fuel and ammunition for the moment being. Though he doesn’t remember who Bota is, the boy joins him as they rush out the lower level exit from the power station, heading toward the safety of their ship.

### **The Skulldugger**

Coming back to their senses somewhere in the passageways outside of the power station, Droo and Katira hear Dask over their comms telling everyone to get back to the ship. Recognizing the need to escape, Katira turns into the first docking bay that she passes in hopes of discovering an abandoned ship and sees Sithspawn’s personal shuttle, *The Skulldugger* waiting in the dark.

As Katira slows to a halt, Droo whispers that Sithspawn had a pilot that stayed with the ship. Attempting to call on the force, Droo is able to sense that there is someone in the ship but not much else, prompting a Katira that is far too committed to her plans for a free ship to approach the ship with a vague plan to con the pilot.

Back in Sithspawn’s lair, Bota manages to make his way past the monstrosity as Dask clears a path with his lightsaber. Dask impresses the importance of getting off the station to the group once again, to which Droo responds that they have found the *Skulldugger*.

> "*Dask says get out of there.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Why?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*He never explains. It’s the Jedi way to be vague and yell things at people.*"
> ― Tek
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Dask simply responds that he senses a malicious presence on the ship and they need to leave quickly. Suddenly the space station begins to shudder violently as Sithspawn’s body shudders in pain, and the *Skulldugger* shows signs of coming online. Katira accepts that this isn’t a ship she’ll be able to steal, and the two head toward their own ship as Droo senses that the pilot had taken notice of their presence. Waves of nausea and terror pass through the team as they all arrive at the *Red Shift*.

### **Dark Side Dreams**

Suddenly a massive pulse of dark side energy flows through the group. Suddenly each member of the team opens their eyes, finding themselves alone in a room, facing a computer monitor. The words “Operation: Rebirth, Test 00” appear on the screen, before six options appear below, each with an image:

* 1. Cross-spliced sample 001: a freak of nature, fingers ending in razor sharp claws, and what appear to be sharp bone spurs protruding from his body
* 2. Qymaen jai Sheelal: General Grevious, pre-cyborg enhancement
* 3. Torgue Ka’mada: The Grand Inquisitor
* 4. Myn Donos: Genos Ia'danian wielding a red lightsaber
* 5. Montross sample 2: a younger Bota Zi
* 6. “M”: Darth Maul without any tattoos

The screen requests which sample to proceed with, and in the reflective surface the face of Sithspawn stares back. Every member makes a choice, and options 2 and 4 are set aside. After looking for a moment later, Sithspawn can be seen smiling in the reflection as he moves to make his selection, and everything goes black.

### **The Pilot**

Everyone wakes up in the docking bay of the *Red Shift*. Slowly coming to their feet, they hear the entry doors at the other end of the room open and look to see a man step into the room wearing a full set of snow white Mandalorian battle armor.

> "*So this individual walks in, and throws a thermal detonator.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Just like a typical Bota. It’s like all of Bota’s worst attributes.*"
> ― Tek
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As everyone dives for cover, they discover that the detonator was aimed not at the group, but the Red Shift. The ship rocks from the explosion, and the blast wave throws the group to the floor. Bota, Droo, and Katira are all wounded, and the Ithorian boy is mortally wounded in front of them.

> "*So he threw it under the ship, looking to destroy the landing gear.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*That’s not even cool. I’m already paying for one ship to get repaired, I don’t want to pay for another.*"
> ― Bota
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Tek - his strategy of running away paying off - responds to the threat, quickly firing the onboard weapons of the *Red Shift* at the threat. Though he failed to hit him directly, Tek succeeds in stunning him for a moment. As the rest of the group slowly come back to their feet, ears still ringing from the explosion, the bounty hunter walks up the ramp of the *Red Shift* and fires his blaster at the Zabrak that harmed him. When Tek somehow (32 vs 31) manages to dodge the blaster bolt, the hunter proceeds into the cockpit.

From the rear of the ship, 4-LOM manages to lock down controls and prevent the bounty hunter from taking any major actions. Tek manages to sneak to the back of the ship, rigging the ships escape pods to malfunction and reaching an exit. As Bota begins to plant thermal detonators on the hull of the ship, Katira attempts to make a plea to their opponents common sense.

> "*We could just give up the Red Shift and go steal another ship.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Why are you so willing to give up my ship so quick?*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Because I’m scared of this guy. I’m scared of him more than I’m scared of you.*"
> ― Katira
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Stating that Sithspawn has been beaten and is dying at last, Katira points out that the bounty hunter is trapped onboard a ship that he cannot pilot, surrounded by enemies that will do whatever it takes to finish him, one of whom shares the same genetic template as the hunter. If the man stands down, the team offers to free him from a life of serving Sithspawn at last.

Taking off his helmet, the team gets a glimpse of the hunter through a viewport on the *Red Shift*. A clone that is obviously identical to Bota Zi, the main differences are scarring across a face that has both eyes, and snow white hair. He fades from view as he walks back into the ship, boarding the escape pod that Tek disabled. Katira then moves to the dying Ithorian and manages to stabilize him before he dies.

Bota Zi commands 4-LOM to cut off oxygen to the ship, and in response the group watches as the escape pod detaches from the *Red Shift* and rolls to the side. 4-LOM returns oxygen to the ship, Bota begins to remove the thermal detonators, and Tek hurries to bring the ship back online with a plan set to lock the escape pod into a tractor beam and drag it into space.

### **Katira's Finest Hour**

Against all better sense, Katira turns and runs toward the hangar bay where the *Skulldugger* was standing by in hopes of gaining flight logs and files showing what Sithspawn has done with the clones that were taken from Phrike and any others - but also because she wouldn’t mind taking the ship.

As Droo is dragging the Ithorian boy back onto the ship, the hatch on the escape pod suddenly blows open. The bounty hunter rockets straight to the exit of the hangar bay, heading back to the *Skulldugger* as well. Bota takes a shot, managing to hit him in the back, and the bounty hunter pauses to touch the scarred armor while looking back at Bota Zi.

> "*Get back here, you owe me money!*"
> ― Bota chasing Mysterious Bounty Hunter
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Tek brings the Red Shift to a fully operational state with the help of 4-LOM, and Droo loads the wounded Ithorian safely. Katira enters into the hangar bay, discovering the *Skulldugger* standing unattended but noticing what appear to be auto-turrets at the loading ramp.

> "*Bota, I’m going to board this thing. Are you coming to help me, or do I need to turn around and run back down that hall like a coward? Because I can’t fight that dude by myself.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Sure you can.*"
> ― Tek safely aboard the Red Shift
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The Red Shift manages to contact Dask, asking how things are going and whether they should wait for him. In the background, guttural noises, screams, and the hum of a lightsaber are heard for a moment before Dask says that things are going well, and he’ll be to the ship soon. Sensing that time is running out, Bota turns around and heads back to the rest of the group.

Assuming that Bota is backing her up, Katira makes a run at the *Skulldugger*. The auto-blasters open fire and she dodges nimbly before reaching the boarding ramp. Suddenly a tangle of cables drop from above, and snake their way around Katira before she can react.

> "*You can probably call for help.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Hey guys… this was a bad idea.*"
> ― Katira
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Struggling to free herself, she sees the hangar bay doors open and the white armored Mandalorian enter.

> "*Oh, hey… long time no see.*"
> ― Katira
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As the team calls Dask, they hear blaster fire over their comms from Katira. Closing the loading ramp on the Skulldugger, the bounty hunter knocks her unconscious before loading her into the back of his ship. Dask arrives in the hangar bay, finding it empty.

> "*He’s going to shoot you on stun, and really he’s just going to shoot you until you pass out.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Sorry it took so long. I wanted to save Tabira.*"
> ― Dask
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> "*The lamp lady?!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*He saved Tabira, not Katira.*"
> ― Jordan
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## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

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

### **NPCs**

* Lord Sithspawn
* Dask Ra'tava
* M-1

### **Mentioned**

* The Kid
* 4-LOM
* Vash Taalweb

## **Notes**

* -3cp for resisting thermal detonator damage (Droo)
* -4cp to fire at bounty hunter with quad laser cannons (Tek)
* -2cp to struggle against *Skulldugger*

## **Quotations**

> "*You guys want to talk about what you remember from last session and where we ended up?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*That was where Ilya ran away because he got scared.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*Ilya didn’t run away. Tek made the wise decision to not run to possible doom.*"
> ― Ilya
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> "*I know we were exploring a dark, kind of abandoned facility and found a giant Akira monster, but I forgot why we were on this planet.*"
> ― Laurel
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> "*Our actual mission.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*Oh, that’s right, our mission. Yeah, I forget the important part, but…*"
> ― Laurel
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> "*The actual reason we came in the first place.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*We heard there was a lamp sale. I’ll cross the galaxy for that!*"
> ― Ilya
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> "*All of a sudden, the lights turn off and it goes into…*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Ha! Lamps!*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Wait… how did Dask get here?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Uh… Tek came back to the ship and told me*"
> ― Dask
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> "*You’re welcome!*"
> ― Tek over comms
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> "*Can I go to another docking bay any see if there’s another starship to starjack?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*There’s just a bunch of lamps jammed in there.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*They melted down their starships to make more lamps.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Look. This is a space station with a cowherd that doesn’t think we need electricity, and a lady selling lamps. Everyone else has been completely forgotten about, so it’s not **really** a crime to steal their ships.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Droo, did you want to follow Katira or go back to the docking bay where our ship is?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Um…*"
> ― Droo
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> "*It’s okay to be cowardly, Droo.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Or pragmatic.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*How are we gonna kill this pilot?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Um… we’ll go “yoo-hoo!” and when he comes out, we’ll trip him!*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Just roll your Strength really quick.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*My 2D6?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Yeah, roll 2D6, and you may want to throw in a character point or two… or three.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Alright, that’s it. Everyone is on the ship, including the lady that makes lamps, and next mission David is going to role-play as the lamp lady.*"
> ― Jordan
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