Call of the Deadly Nightshade 7 - Welcome to the Jungle

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## **Previously**

*The group decides to leave the Pirate base instead of venturing in further and upon their exit, they're met by a few confused guards. Trying to move past them, they decide to play music to get through the pirate guards and move towards some speeders to make their exit.*

*Jumping on speeders, they then fight their way out as the Lumini pirate base is seemingly destroyed by the unknown interlopers that the group just missed in the earlier missions.*

*Blaine takes a wrong turn away from the rest of the group on his speeder, while Bota, Jowkazza, Jimmy and a host of others (including a kidnapped pirate) head into the jungle on their heavy landspeeder.*

## **Recap**

### Call of the Wild

Heading away from the now destroyed pirate camp, the group quickly discerns that based on the distance to their ultimate destination of North Haven, alongside their fuel level and no clear path through the jungle, they won't be able to take the Freerunner they 'borrowed' from the pirate camp the entire trip. As night begins to fall, they make it to near the end of where their landspeeder will traverse. Asking Maxie for information, the group have to make a decision on how they want to move forward.
> *"I'm not gonna lie, if yawl can leave that droid behind [Sparky] we'd make better time..." - Maxie*
> *"Shut your mouth, Maxie,.. this droid saved my life." - Bota*
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As Bota takes the leadership role, he at first bemoans the loss of Sparky's arms (which he envisions would help knock down trees to build a campsite) and then sends Jowkazza to climb and scout the area. Easily able to scale the tree, he sees the lay of the land - including seeing what looks like the pirate base filling with water from the nearby river - allowing a river they need to cross to be at a record-low level. Debating whether or not they should make camp or cross the river at night, Sparky continues to cut down trees.
Speaking up, the kidnapped Lumini pirate asks to stick with the group since he's now also lost in the jungle. Agreeing to take him, they take the landspeeder as far as it will go with the plan of blowing it up, the same pirate points out that there are glowrods and rations they should carry. Directed by Bota to carry them all by himself, he complains but does the job.
> *"Look, I'm carrying a huge box with Droo in it, I don't want to hear you complain." - Jowkazza, while swinging through the treetops and holding a giant box*
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Soon, the group arrives at the receded riverbed.
### Fording the River

At the riverbank, the group sees that the large body of water blocking their route has reduced to a small stream. Debating how to best cross, Sparky continues to cut down trees.
> *"All right, so we're going to let this droid cut down enough trees to let us build a raft to cross the river? I'm just going to jetpack." - Bota Zi*
> *"He just loves cutting things." - Jawa Jimmy*
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Between Bota's jetpack skills and Jowkazza's jungle climbing expertise (which includes carrying Bana Keeg, who is now bring referred to as 'Dennis' by the group). Jawa Jimmy decides to make it across on his own, and using Sparky's felled branches, builds a small raft and the two ferry across.
As they all land on the other side of the river, the group sees several things at once: the sun retreating from the sky, the smoke and fire in the distance from the destroyed pirate base, and a group of large and solemn jungle cats observing them from a distance. As day becomes night, they need to make another wilderness survival call - where to spend the night?

Nightmare

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Bota Zi
* Jawa Jimmy
* Jowkazza

### **NPCs**

* Rusty
* Sparky
* An unconscious Droo
* Maxie
* Head of 8t88
* Bana Keeg, kidnapped Kyuzo Lumini pirate leader

## **Inventory**

* -1 armored Freerunner Transport (- Group)

## **Rewards**

* +4 CPs

## **Notes**

* The Lumini pirate base is likely underwater and destroyed at this point
* Sparky's felled tree count: 12
* No one could remember Bana Keeg's name and Jay suggested that they call him "Dennis"

## **Quotations**

> *“Let’s just role-play the entire move Twins. I’ll be Danny DeVito.” - Jay*
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> *"Where's Sparky? Can he help us pitch a tent?" - Bota Zi, demonstrating his wilderness survival skills*
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> *"There aren't many things that can kill Wookiees. It helps to be at the top of the food chain." - Jay*
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> *"I want to split her character points between the 3 of us if we have to carry her." - Luke, referring to Droo's unconscious body*
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> *"The river, the river, whatever it takes to get us to the river. River time - go." - Jay, after 20 minutes of debating what to do next*
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> *"Eh, someone will appreciate all the timber someday." - Bota, referring to the trees felled by Sparky*
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