Hot Coruscant Nights 6 - Out of the Frying Pan

The biggest obstacle turned out to be ourselves as we couldn't quite remember our own passcode

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*Wandering out of prison, our heroes find themselves on a deserted platform. Realizing that a family heirloom was left behind, they decide to return to prison only to find that they didn't quite finish closing it down and are forced to beat a guard over the head with a blaster before heading off to regain the last of their equipment. Pager code is explored, and a lock is discovered on the Jinxed Starhawk*

## **Previously**

*A forced meeting with the mysterious mastermind of the Clawdite Conspiracy introduced the group to the enigmatic Governor Parnot of Eriadu. Rather than answers, the group finds themselves pressed to yield their claim to the doonium mining facilities on Lok. When they refuse, they are quietly escorted to a secret prison on Coruscant against their will.*

*A prison riot was incited as Tek sliced into the prison mainframe. While droids bled and died in the halls, guards came to full alert. Katira showed off her skills with a blade, inspiring Droo to the same. Tek force pushed a guards hat, but not quite off of his head. Blaine proved that he was much more effective with a blaster than with his bare fists while he freed the only other prisoner around. As smoke filled the primary prison control room, more antics ensued, and the team was finally successful in carving a path to freedom behind a one in a million shot from Blaine.*

*Finally free from prison the group stepped into the hot night air of Coruscant, looking for their next steps as they finally have a name to put to all of their recent troubles.*

## **Recap**

### **There and Back Again**

Stepping into the illuminated evening of Coruscant, Blaine notices the *Jinxed Starhawk* a few space-scrapers away, indicating that the prison they have just left is only a short distance from where they had a meeting with Governor Parnot. Debating the multiple loose ends they have to tie up, an attempt is made to contact Bota Zi over their recovered communicators. Bota informs them that he is en route to a requested meeting with Governor Parnot. After dissuading Bota from the meeting, they take a look around for a means of escape.

Just as they bring a skiff online to obtain the *Jinxed Starhawk*, Blaine realizes that he still hasn’t recovered his Cortosis Sword. Powering down, they head back into the prison to find the family sword. As they enter, the last conscious guard jumps from around a corner and fires a shot at Katira, just missing wide. Blaine steps forward, flips his blaster around, and pistol whips the guard over the head. Katira then first her blaster at the guard, only to be disappointed that it was still on stun as he slumps down against the wall.

Finally reunited with his sword, Blaine begins to leave just as 2 new guards arrive responding to the prison alert. They call out for Blaine to drop his weapons, and he responds by telling them they need help now that they’ve subdued the prisoners for little effect.

> "*Why are you dressed like that?!*"
> ― security guard spotting Blaine
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> "*It’s space Halloween, idiot!*"
> ― Blaine
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Katira then turns from just around the corner and fires off several shots, knocking out the two guards. As Katira takes their ID and insignia Tek searches their bodies, taking their equipment and finding a key FOB for some unknown vehicle. Tek decides to send out an archaic scout droid to search for the vehicle the FOB is assigned to, and Blaine requests that he send out a second in search of the Ghtroc freighter that he is missing as well.

### **Lockdown**

Taking a skiff over to Governor Parnot’s tower, the group heads in and finds that everything is eerily quiet. It seems that most of the official operations on the planet are winding down currently in preparation for a celebration that has replaced *Ascension Week* after the fall of the Galactic Empire.

Locating the locker that they placed their remaining equipment in is no problem, but nobody is able to remember the passcode that they placed on the locker. “80085”, “55378008”, and “07734” all fail to work, before Blaine enters “143-823”, opening the locker. Everyone retrieves their remaining weapons and equipment, and begins to take place around the Jinxed Starhawk on the landing platform in case of ambush.

The group contacts Bota to establish a new meet location, localized to the Jinxed Starhawk’s landing platform. As she looks for a possible trap in the area, Katira notices that the Starhawk has been magnetically locked to the platform by some unknown means. Unsure of how long it will take to disable the mechanism, they call Bota off as Tek begins unlocking the ship. Bota proceeds to the Senate building in search of official support in their fight against the Governor of Eriadu.

## **Featured Characters**

**Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Katira Eve
* Tek Krodak

**Mentioned**

* Bota Zi
* Governor Parnot

**NPCs**

* Covert Prison Security Guards

## **Inventory**

* Key FOB to unknown vehicle on Coruscant (Group)

## **Notes**

* Countdown begins for the archaic droids sent out on Coruscant by Tek: 7 missions remaining for unidentified FOB, 20 missions remaining for Blaine's Ghtroc Freighter
* Translated, the attempted locker codes are: “Boobs”, “Boobless”, “Hello”, and “I love you, Thinking of you”

## **Quotations**

> "*Then Black Blaine and the Quaker Oatmeal Man show up and throw you back in prison… the end*"
> ― Luke on the plan to re-enter the prison
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> "*I **like** hitting people*"
> ― Blaine pistol whipping for the first time
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> "*Coruscant… this whole hell-hole of a planet has been trouble ever since we arrived. This is why we never come to Coruscant, and why I never want to come back*"
> ― Katira
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> "*We gotta establish how Tek’s head thing works, because this is confusing*"
> ― Luke
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