Kampe Campaign 7 - Lab Partners

Three darts is too much...

*Our heroes continue on their slow takeover of the Eriadu Authority outpost. Tranquilizer darts turn out to be a poor substitute for alcohol, and soon blasters and knives are brought in for a solution as our team works their way in to an underground laboratory. With a medical team on the way and the room to themselves at last, can they manage to press further in, or will they soon need to beat a hasty retreat?*

## **Previously**

*After clearing out patrols and planning a mountainous descent into an Eriadu Authority outpost, the team has all their hard work thrown out when a mysterious Code 54 is called out. Scrambling into the canyons to hide, the team is forced to take their chances entering into the cavernous home of an unknown creature to escape two incoming Juggernaut transports. Finding several squid spiders hanging from above, most of the team enters into the outpost through a hole in the wall discovered by Droo. Unwilling to leave the cave before it has been fully explored, Tek brings the mess that is Skids McDougal to seek out treasure. Several methods are employed to take out a handful of death troopers patrolling the area, and the team reunites when Tek discovers a ceiling access. With a pile of bodies and an unexplored armory laying behind, the Jedi plunge their lightsabers into a blast door to continue deeper into the complex.*

## **Recap**

### **Captain McDougal**

Alone in an armory with two unconscious death troopers, Katira rolls her eyes at the rest of the team rushing ahead before she looks around for useful equipment. In the first crate, there are a variety of brawling and melee weapons. Knives, combat gloves, armored gauntlets, and other pieces of gear litter the box.

> "*Combat underwear?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Yes. Dirty underwear.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*I said combat underwear.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*They might have gotten dirty when they were in combat…*"
> ― Luke
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Below the rest of the equipment, she finds a cybernetic arm that ends in a blaster rather than a hand, though it is unclear whether they are meant for a droid or as an implant. In another crate there are a mix of blaster carbines, assorted pieces of trooper armor in a variety of conditions, and a few modified blaster clips that are labeled “Nerve Agent - Handle With Care”.

Glancing around the rest of the armory and seeing the death troopers laying unconscious on the ground, a smile crosses Katira’s face as she loads a dart into one of the death troopers’ heavy blasters. With nobody to convince her to do otherwise, Katira takes aim and fires a dart into the nearest trooper. The drunken body suddenly becomes even less tense as his breathing slows to a near imperceptible rate and the trooper slips into a near coma.

> "*You’re such a scientist, Katira…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*She formed a hypothesis, made some observations, and now she has a conclusion.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*…and no regard for human life.*"
> ― Tek
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Content that the darts have a useful effect, Katira grabs a few clips and the cybernetic arm, then takes a moment to grab the combat underwear before heading out. Handing the arm to Skids McDougal she convinces him to carry it for her against his protestations,

> "*Hey Skids. I know you don’t have your rifle, but I figure you could carry this cybernetic arm.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Charlie Team would never debase me like this…*"
> ― Skids
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> "*This is a reconnaissance mission for the New Republic. This could be a technological breakthrough. You could have a promotion coming. Captain McDougal! I can see it now.*"
> ― Katira
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With his team arguing behind him, Tek finishes cutting through the blast door. Directly beyond the door, a death trooper is standing with his weapon raised as he stares at the Mandalorian armor clad Zabrak wielding a lightsaber, flanked by several death troopers - two of whom appear to be drunk. Blaine stumbles to the still hot hole in the door, draws a blaster and fires, immediately knocking the trooper unconscious.

An overzealous Skids McDougal rushes forward after their recent success, rallying the team to follow behind him as Katira sarcastically cheers for “Captain McDougal” and hangs back. Taz begrudgingly follows, telling the team they better watch after Skids before he gets himself into more trouble.

Back in the antechamber, Katira convinces Callen to look into the crates in hopes of finding some more booze. While no alcohol is discovered, the duo manages to find miscellaneous surveillance equipment, medpacs, some macrobinoculars, and a few empty canisters that seem to be designed for use in the facility. Discouraged at the lack of liquor, Callen opts instead to accept the cybernetic arm and a few tranquilizer darts, while Katira grabs a few slave tracking devices that appear to have been meant for the Ugnaughts.

> "*Are there any tranq darts left? I could use a few.*"
> ― Callen
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> "*Like you want to use a tranquilizer dart on yourself?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*No no… I just want to carry some, you know?*"
> ― Callen
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> "*I mean some people are into some weird stuff.*"
> ― Katira
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### **Naptime**

The door ahead begins to open as Skids approaches, and a flash of light erupts from the space before anyone can see inside. An enthusiastic Skids falls to the ground, wounded by blaster fire. The death trooper - apparently unaffected by the fact that Skids was wearing death trooper armor as well - steps over Skids’ body and into the room as he calls for help to stop a potential infiltration.

In response, Taz immediately returns fire, wounding the trooper. Before the death trooper can make another move, everyone in the area opens fire and riddles his armor with blaster bolts. He falls to the ground, unconscious and alone in an underground lab. Tek walks over and concentrates to see if he can help Skids, Callen notices a conveyer belt to the side of the room and jumps on it for fun, and Blaine heads through the doorway behind the trooper to attempt to remedy the situation further in the facility.

Entering the laboratory proper, Blaine states that they have handles the insurgents and require some help tying them up. Initially one of the lab technicians tells the two Ugnaught slaves in the room to help, but Blaine rejects the idea and manages to make the technician come help. With just a bit more coaxing, he manages to get the technician out of view from the rest of the lab, at which point Katira takes a shot with her new tranquilizer darts.

> "*What the…?! This heavy blaster just discharged on its own!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Holster your weapon soldier! What the hell are you doing?!*"
> ― Technician
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> "*I haven’t seen any action in a long time. All these insurgents just have me on edge.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*So your first instinct was to go for my butt?!*"
> ― Technician
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> "*I just told you… I haven’t seen any action in a while!*"
> ― Katira
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Confused, Katira glances at her blaster wondering how these tranquilizers managed to put a death trooper into a coma, but can’t knock out an unarmored scientist. After a moments pause, she shrugs and shoots two more darts into the technician.

> "*Alright, he’s gonna start getting sleepy and…*"
> ― Luke
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> "*The dude has been shot three times with tranquilizers… I sure hope he get’s sleepy!*"
> ― Katira
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As the group enters into the laboratory, they see another - much larger - squid spider like those that they saw in the caverns leading to the area. The creature is chained down and appears to be connected to an apparatus that is harvesting the fluid that is used for their cord. The fluid is being filled into several containers that look similar to the fuel cells, the same type of containers that Callen and Katira found in the crates just outside the lab.

### **The Mission Wasn’t to Kill People…**

Finally entering the lab via the conveyer system that he jumped onto earlier, Callen is questioned by the death troopers standing guard in the area and told to report his call sign. Callen taps his helmet, signifying that his transponder isn’t functioning properly. As one of the troopers approaches to help, Callen follows him to one of the terminals in the lab and removes his helmet for repairs. The trooper states that the shift is almost over, and that he assumed Callen was coming to relieve the watch for the next shift, to which Callen states that there was a problem back in the armory.

Back in the entryway, Katira is hauling the bodies of the men the team had previously knocked unconscious away while Tek tends to the wounds of Skids. Just as the bodies are finished being hidden, the three death troopers in the lab follow Callen out and toward the armory to check everything out. Everyone falls into line and walks toward the armory. Initially attempting to fall in behind the guards, Blaine acquiesces as the guards insist they show the way, taking the lead.

> "*Alright, well where is this disturbance?*"
> ― Death Trooper
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> "*Over in the armory.*"
> ― Callen
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> "*Well take us there so we can see what you’re talking about.*"
> ― Death Trooper
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> "*You know where the armory is!*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Well if you’ve already secured the position I want you to take the lead.*"
> ― Death Trooper
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> "*No, I need to handle your rear!*"
> ― Blaine
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The death troopers are confused upon entering the armory and finding several other soldiers unconscious on the ground. They ask why the team reported this on channel 44 rather than a standard channel 7, and a mention of some stormtrooper drinking ring barely covers the situation. The guards call in for a medic - noting the location as “Sector Level 4” - and tell the group to head back to the lab in case there are other infiltrators around.

With things getting a bit out of hand, Blaine responds by opening fire as Katira takes a chance in the confusion to attempt to stab another from behind. A somewhat uncertain Callen draws his blaster, fiddles with the tranquilizer clip for a second, then decides this is too much trouble and simply pistol whips the death trooper in front of him. Entering from outside, Tek shoots at two guards to knock them unconscious as well.

Seeing Callen do what he’s always hoped for, Blaine rushes in and swings his blaster pistol at the only trooper that is still conscious. The dull thud of his blaster on the soldiers armor is the only reward for the smuggler however, as the trooper turns and give Blaine what can only be assumed to be a confused stare. Katira ends his bewilderment, drawing a second knife and plunging both into his exposed neck.

> "*This one will bleed out if you don’t apply medical aid.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*Well, there’s medpacs in here. If no one else is gonna help…*"
> ― Callen
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> "*Stop spending all of our time saving death troopers! What is wrong with you people?!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*These guys aren’t like the Empire, man.*"
> ― Callen
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> "*They are literally the Imperial Remnant!*"
> ― Katira
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Against the repeated protestations of Katira, Callen attempts to apply first aid to the mortally wounded trooper, only to have him die right in front of him.

### **First We Free the Squid**

Blaine changes over to channel 7 so that the group can keep better track of what the Eriadu Authority is up to. Hearing chatter about miscellaneous check ins and a report of troopers not reporting back to the laboratory following the medical request, he points out that they may want to head back to the lab soon. First though, the group decides to open the only other door on the way there.

Tek swaps in a knowledge cartridge, and succeeds in opening the door. Inside the group finds a room filled with rations and alcohol. Callen scores a fair amount of Corellian Whiskey, Blaine discovers some rations for the Ugnaught slaves, and Katira opens a crate containing medical equipment, droid parts, stimulants, and a plasma protein replicator.

Continuing over to the lab, Katira pauses for a moment to give Taz a compliment on her shot at the death trooper that wounded Skids earlier.

> "*Taz, that was some really amazing, quick thinking there. That death trooper… I’ve seen some people that thought they were harder than you crap their pants at the sight of those guys.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Ugh… this conversation stinks!*"
> ― Callen
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> "*Hey! Enough already with the jokes!*"
> ― Skids
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Arriving at the lab, it appears that several other guards have come to take the watch due to the missing troopers that should have been here sooner. Katira takes the watch turnover, and receives the report that there may be an infiltration in progress after patrol discovered two scrappers, several speeder bikes, and some dead stormtroopers outside. As the guards head out, they tell their “relief” to keep an eye on the south entrance and make sure that they meed the quota on the vials.

Turning to the lone technician remaining in the room, Katira asks where the other one is - pretending she wasn’t in the room earlier when he left - but is met with even more venom than she normally dishes out. She walks away and signals for Tek to attempt to slice into the system.

> "*What are you doing here?*"
> ― Lab Technician
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> "*I gotta calibrate these systems. They’ve been alarming… sending… SNMP triggers… all the way to the planet Mandalore.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Well let me see your work orders.*"
> ― Lab Technician
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> "*Alright… I’m gonna stun him.*"
> ― Tek
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Tek attempts to con the scientist, but quickly gives up and simply draws his blaster to stun him. Though he succeeds, the technician falls unconscious onto the control console. Alarms begin to go off on the console, and sirens sound in the vicinity of the creature. Tek manages to silence the alarms, but discovers that the technician has started the process for disengaging and transferring the squid to another location.

> "*First we free the squid…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Then we find out whether or not that was a good idea.*"
> ― Katira
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## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Callen Mutig
* Katira Eve
* Tek Krodak

### **NPCs**

* Skids McDougal
* Taz Solana

## **Inventory**

* +tranquilizer darts (Katira)
* +combat underwear (Katira)
* +cyborg blaster-arm (Katira)
* +several slave tracking devices (Katira)
* +several cases of Corellian Whiskey (Callen)
* +plasma protein replicator (Katira)
* +tranquilizer darts from Katira (Callen)
* +Ugnaught rations (Blaine)

## **Notes**

* High average roll of the night: Blaine rolled 27 on 3D6 for initiative - while drunk

## **Quotations**

> "*I stick my lightsaber into everything.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Are there any more tranquilizers? Maybe I can distill something later...*"
> ― Callen
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> "*Yeah.. yeah, you can have a couple. Just pop these into your blaster. Can I load them in for you now…? I don’t want you to prick yourself later. You’ve been a little wobbly bud.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*I just... I mean, we've got a whole room of distillery equipment somewhere is all.*"
> ― Callen
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> "*Dodge, Skids. Like I taught you in our cave training!*"
> ― Tek
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> "*He does not dodge…*"
> ― Luke
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> "*\*suppressed laughter\**"
> ― Katira
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> "*Dark Side point for enjoying it.*"
> ― Callen
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> "*Blaine, why don’t you try to con those guys. Convince them that we stopped the infiltration.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*I’ll do it, even though I know you’re trying to make me do this. I’m just arrogant enough to think I can make it happen.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Alright, what do you need help with?*"
> ― Eriadu Authority Scientist
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> "*Target practice!*"
> ― Tek
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> "*We’re about to use this robot arm we found to spank ourselves, so get in the hallway already.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*I just need an extra pair of hands to tie up these insurgents. I don’t trust these Ugnaughts because I’m obviously racist.*"
> ― Death Trooper Blaine
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> "*I want to shoot this guy with a tranquilizer.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Where do you want to shoot him?*"
> ― Luke
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> "*As everyone knows, tranquilizers go right in the butt.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*He doesn’t even know you’re going to shoot, so he doesn’t dodge.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*You’ve completely destroyed his left buttocks.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*May he never have a butt again!*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*They’re gonna smell alcohol soon.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*This just turned into a **weird** sex party…*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Katira just comes running in from nowhere and starts shooting at them.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*Did somebody say kill???*"
> ― Blaine imitating Katira
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> "*You guys need to return to your posts right away in case someone else is around here!*"
> ― Death Trooper
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> "*Shut up scientist! Are you threatening me?!*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*These are death troopers, not scientists!*"
> ― Luke
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> "*Oh… uh… I found the intruders!*"
> ― Blaine shooting at the troopers
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> "*It will be a difficult roll to shoot at the one by Katira and not hit her.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*Well Katira… I always liked you*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Piss off, trooper.*"
> ― Lab Technician
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> "*Excuse me?!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Shoot him in the science!*"
> ― Blaine
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