Jedi Search 4 - Terror on Raita

I’ve got some organic space milk for sale here

*Arriving at the mysterious Raita Space Station, the team lives out their dream of being characters in Final Fantasy. We hire six bounty hunters only to lead them to their ignominious doom, meet the two droid hating, rustic inhabitants of the station, and wander the terrifying passageways against the advice of our resident Jedi Master. Tek decides he would rather not play anymore and abandons the team, only to watch a man be consumed right in front of him as his friends find themselves face to face with the terrifying atrocity that Sithspawn has become. Oh, and Bota buys some lamps. A LOT of lamps.*

## **Previously**

*As Tek frantically worked to disable some slave tracking devices, the rest of the group headed out to investigate. Bota and Katira came across Imperial impersonators, and tried to bring a vibroblade to a blaster fight as they went toe to toe with an AT-ST. The duo was… less than successful as they attempted to hijack the walker, and in the end Katira was incapacitated in the rubble of a nearby building before Bota called for support from the Red Shift. The team managed to stop the false Imperials from escaping to space, but their fear of whoever is in charge of them kept them from divulging anything useful. All that our heroes have to go on are the last words of Momaw Nadon written in the sands of Tatooine: “Raita”*

## **Recap**

### **Research**

The group boards the *Red Shift* as the dust swirls over the needless wreckage of their most recent encounter. After a cursory look over Katira, Droo realizes that she is not in any mortal danger. Since nobody is confident in their ability to speed the recovery process, they decide to let her sleep it off as they head to Raita Space Station - making a quick stop to unload their freed slaves in Mos Eisley.

4-LOM performs a customary review of the station, noting that there are a two New Republic Bounty Hunters that previously departed for the space station but never returned:

* **Waron**: A Mon Cal bounty hunter. Formerly a New Republic assault tank pilot, he appreciates clear instruction and dislikes traffic. His left eye has been blown off.
* **Cerd Jesha**: A Duro bounty hunter. She never joined the New Republic or the Empire, though she was previously imprisoned by the Empire. She does not like government or authority, and prefers to work alone. She is known for being cool under pressure, but hot under oppressive regimes.

He informs Bota Zi that there are active bounties on the space station for:

* **Globrob**: an Aqualish merchant wanted for embezzlement
* **Aieena**: a Gand fighter pilot that stole ship plans from a local government

With this little bit of intelligence, the group decides to stop off at the *Hunters’ Tribunal* to enlist the aid of any bounty hunters that would like to help. Bota manages to recruit six hunters to aid in the mission in exchange for the rights to split one of the bounties. The slaves that were rescued are offloaded as well to facilitate their transport home - though they complain openly that they are not being returned home right away. Finally, Dask states that he will be coming along with the kid, and the group heads off toward Raita Spacestation.

### **Arrival on Raita**

The *Red Shift* exits hyperspace and begins their approach to the space station without any problems. Tek attempts to jam the space stations sensors (11 on 4D6), but a nearby bounty hunter offers to perform the operation after watching Krodak struggle for several moments. The other hunters hurry about the ship, turning off lights and minimizing any detectable operations on the ship as Bota pulls in to an empty docking bay.

As the team walks off the ship and into the space station Dask tells them to be careful, noting that he feels an odd presence on the station - but providing no additional information in his standard Jedi fashion. Bota gives assignments to the group, leaving two bounty hunters and 4-LOM to guard the ship, and sending the other four off in the opposite direction of the team. Tek slices into the station, and passes information and a station map to all parties. As best as he can tell, it appears that traffic to and from the space station has been going down over time but there are no indications as to why.

The group begins to question what is going on on the station as they make their way in from the empty docking bay. Originally they assumed that they had successfully snuck in by jamming the stations sensors, but the lack of any personnel in the docking area raises concerns that are only amplified when they enter into the main concourse. By all appearances the inhabitants of Raita have abandoned technology as much as possible, with the majority of the inhabitants departing the station completely. The concourse itself is only dimly lit, and after walking for a few minutes with no encounters the team is surprised to find a solitary man tending what appear to be some form of cattle.

Katira approaches the man, asking what is going on and why the man has so many cattle and so much hay simply laying out in the middle of the passage. Introducing himself as Marik, he informs the team that have abandoned technology in search of a simpler life. The primary rule that must be followed is the exclusion of droids, much to the disgust of Tek.

> "*We don’t appreciate droid here. We just want to go back to the old tried and true methods on this space station.*"
> ― Marik
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> "*…on a space station…*"
> ― Katira
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The team continues to seek information from the farmer, but quickly realize that the conversation is going nowhere. Though the rest of the team is content to enjoy the rustic appeal that Marik has to offer, Bota ushers the group ahead “before he starts more conversation”.

Further down the concourse, there are stands displaying goods for sale built up in front of the now boarded up station storefronts. Though there appear to be dozens of different stands in the makeshift bazaar, all of them appear to be empty until the group hears a voice from just ahead call out to them.

> "*What are you selling, fine lady?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I’m selling these lamps.*"
> ― Tabira
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> "*Lamps?!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Have any of them had a blue, ghostly person living in them previously?*"
> ― Tek
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Though Bota tells the team that they really need to get to the control tower and figure out what is actually going on, the kind and patient demeanor of the lamp lady is too much to simply pass by. Tek inquires into her sales figures (she’s not sure how many she has sold), Katira asks for her life story and how she came to be at the station (she stopped in as part of a convoy and decided maybe she could sell my lamps here - her convoy of one), and Droo asks about who is in charge of the station (there’s an office, but they’ve never had a commander).

Katira assesses the value of the lamps, but there does not appear to be anything special about them. As Tek and Droo continue to faun over the woman, Bota finally has had enough.

> "*We need to get moving, guys.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*No, I think our quest lies with this lady. We need to keep asking questions.*"
> ― Tek
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Purchasing every lamp so that the group will move along, Bota hands over 200cr. He tells the team that they can keep wasting their time here, but he’s heading to the control tower to see what’s going on. Sufficiently castigated for losing focus, the rest of the group follows the now jangling Bota Zi further into the station.

### **Dread Premonition**

Making their way to the Commander’s Office, the team gains access to find the space completely abandoned. Notes litter a table in the center of the space, surrounded by empty chairs laying on the deck. To the side, a flickering holoprojector displays a distant landscape in what appears to be the actual office space.

> "*Captain’s log. The lamps are multiplying. I don’t know where they keep coming from. They will overtake me soon.*"
> ― Ilya
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> "*Like Balin’s failed expedition to Moria.*"
> ― David
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> "*I hear the drums of the lamps. They are coming. They are here.*"
> ― Ilya
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Tek manages to bring much of the equipment in the office online, and locate the Commander’s log. Skimming through, he finds entries from the Commander Garrup Yandala talking about the day to day goings on of the station. Older entries talk about how the commander can’t wait to get hoe to his wife and child, but at some point the entries shift and only talk about his son, with the most recent entries having no mention of loved ones at all before mysteriously ending six months ago.

> "*No mention of sacrificing his wife and child to some new space cow god that he now worships?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Maybe his wife was too busy making lamps…*"
> ― Bota
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Tek contacts Dask for guidance on the situation, and Dask says that he can’t help much at this moment because there is “something going on with the kid”. Katira takes a moment to look around for anything of value, grabbing the key to the Commander Yandala’s personal quarters and a golden amulet with a picture of his family. Katira pockets the amulet before passing the photo to the rest of the team.

Deciding to head toward the Commander’s personal quarters, the group passes cheerful Tabira in the hall. Droo comments that she may recognize someone in the photograph, and Bota begrudgingly agrees. Heading to the woman, Bota proffers the photograph and asks if she recognizes anyone.

Suddenly the ambient noise of the station fades away, and a heavy silence falls on the concourse. The color fades from Tabira’s face as she takes hold of Bota’s hand with a look of sheer terror.

> "*Run! It’s eating us!*"
> ― Tabira
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Just as quickly as the noise faded it returns, and Tabira returns to her cheerful disposition. She comments that she doesn’t know anyone in the picture, and has no recollection of mentioning anyone being eaten.

More than a little unsettled by the experience, the group nervously backs away from Tabira and heads to the control tower. The group begins the ascent, but their turbo lift stalls halfway up. Bota carries Katira up in his jetpack - and returns to ferry Tek and Droo after they fail at their attempt at climbing up - and the team emerges into a pitch black control room.

Bota lights several lamps to illuminate the space so that Tek can bring equipment online. Tek mentions that it appears that the equipment shutdown after not being in utilized for an extended period of time. Bringing cameras online, Tek has a look around the station but only sees Tabira and Marik. It appears that the majority of the cameras are offline, in keeping with the disdain for technology mentioned by Marik.

Bota attempts to contact the bounty hunters, but receives no answer, then contacts Dask. The Jedi says that he thinks the group should return to the ship and get out of here. With no signs of what exactly is going on in the station, a service lift is identified nearby as the best means of moving elsewhere. Everyone boards the service elevator, intending to head down to the power generator, but Tek asks them to drop him off at the concourse so that he can return to the ship. The elevator comes to a stop, and Tek abandons the team without further comment.

### **This is Very Scary, Jordan!**

The service elevator then continues down, and the remaining three members of the team exit at the power generator for the station. Walking in, they are met with a blast of hot, moist air that reeks of spoiled meat. Just past the entrance they spot a mercenary helmet and a snare rifle on the ground, and across a catwalk scattered with miscellaneous equipment above there is another service elevator, but no other signs of anyone else.

> "*Is this some… is this station literally eating people? Like some Akira \*\*\*\*?!*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Well… we’ll see.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*No, it was the lamps all along. Like little tiny vampires.*"
> ― Tek
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Katira picks up the snare rifle and helmet as Bota scans for abnormal heat signatures and Droo attempts to sense life. Bota and Droo both find nothing, and Katira simply notes that there appears to be fresh blood on the helmet, but nobody can seem to recall whether the helmet belongs to anyone that they came here with. Looking around a bit more, they find a New Republic Bounty Hunters' Guild identification badge but do not recognize the hunter’s name. Katira continues to look for clues, and becomes a bit frustrated at the lack of credits laying around.

> "*Alright, Bota. What else do you want me to look for. Also, you really need to pay these people better.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*I told them they could split a bounty. Guess we don’t have to worry about that anymore.*"
> ― Bota
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Bota attempts to call the bounty hunters that they came with, and an active communicator can be heard in the room. Moving about the area, the group cannot seem to locate the noise as a growing sense of terror works its way among them. Katira asks sarcastically if Dask has any more “useful” information to pass along, but the Jedi simply repeats the urgent need to leave.

> "*This is very scary, Jordan!*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Can I start walking back to the ship?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Yep. Are you going to talk to anyone else, or just walk out?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Nope. I’m done. I’ve had it with this space station.*"
> ― Tek
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Climbing onto the catwalk above the sense of terror abates somewhat, though a feeling of being watched continues to haunt Droo, Bota, and Katira. Bota tells Katira to fire that snare rifle at the floor of the room, and she readily unslings the rifle from her back and fires.

Back in the concourse, Tek is en route to the *Red Shift* and passing by Marik when Katira fires. The same silence that the group experienced when Tabira suddenly told them to run falls on the passage. Marik suddenly appears uneasy, looking around in fear before a fleshy arm shoots out of the ventilation duct and pulls the farmer in.

In the power generator room, the empty floor suddenly is flooded with a 14m tall monstrosity. A writhing mass of flesh, appearing to be the consumed bodies of everyone that once lived on the space station, fills the space below, and the eyes of the team on the catwalk are drawn the the unmistakeable face of Lord Sithspawn staring back at them from the center of it all. In the far corner, a cage is barely visible past the grasping arms and voiceless faces of the creature, and inside the young Ithorian Vash Taalweb is huddled in a ball.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

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

### **NPCs**

* 4-LOM
* Dask Ra'tava
* The Kid
* Six Nameless Bounty Hunters
* Marik the Space Farmer
* Tabira the Lamp Lady

### **Mentioned**

* Globrob the Aqualish Merchant
* Aieena the Gand Fighter Pilot
* Waron the Mon Cal Bounty Hunter
* Cerd Jesha the Euro Bounty Hunter
* Raita Commander Garrup Yandala
* Vash Taalweb

## **Inventory**

* -200cr (Bota)
* +20 “Hand Crafted Artisan Lamps” (Bota)
* +Raita Station Commander’s keys (Katira)
* +golden amulet (Katira)

## **Notes**

* **-12cp** to raise Melee Combat to 5D (Bota)
* Yes, the team enlisted 6 elite bounty hunters for no reason other than to lead them not only to death, but also to being forgotten by anyone that ever knew them

## **Quotations**

> "*What do you guys remember about last session?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Didn’t work out as well as we hoped it would…*"
> ― Luke
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> "*Is Katira even cognizant of any of this?*"
> ― Bota
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> "*She’s knocked out, so…*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*She’ll just end up a quadriplegic.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I don’t know how to apply a medpac, so I’m not gonna try.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*I think Katira has a strict “Do Not Resuscitate”. Just let her die in peace.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*She’s always trying to pickpocket people, now we’re pickpocketing her body.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Silence is acceptance. She would have wanted it this way.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Can I re-roll for friendship?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*No, but you recognize that she’s not mortally wounded, and will awake in a couple of hours.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Yet you proceed to make incisions anyhow.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*First rule is no droids.*"
> ― Marik
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> "*Well I’m basically a droid. It’s okay though, this isn’t an actual droid thing. It’s decorative. I’m making fun of droids.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Well then take it off, sir!*"
> ― Katira as Marik
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> "*No. It keeps my head warm… and balanced.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*What brings you strangers to these parts?*"
> ― Marik
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> "*Just shopping for some, uh… organic vegetables.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*I’m interested in some of those droids. Do you have any?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*If you want any droids, we melted them up and burned them.*"
> ― Marik
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> "*They melted them, and then burned the remains. Great.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Do you have any old space trinkets? Perhaps some that glow with an aura of force power?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I don’t know what you mean. I don’t care for that talk.*"
> ― Marik
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> "*I just figure since you don’t get many customers here, you would remember if you met this guy.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*We get plenty of customers here. This is as busy as its ever been!*"
> ― Tabira
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> "*This is basically final fantasy. They’re all trying to sell you the same crap, and you just want to get out of there. You have one person to talk to and you don’t know who it is to help with your task.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Can I ask her about how many lamps she usually sells?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*NO! Come on!*"
> ― Bota
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> "*I don’t remember… well, I must have sold a couple in the last few weeks.*"
> ― Tabira
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> "*I want to ask her how this all started. Tell me your story old woman!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*You guys!*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Bota. They’re not worth it. They’re not quality lamps.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*I’m so happy. I knew there was a reason I came to this place!*"
> ― Tabira
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> "*I’m gonna turn around and sell a lamp right back to her. She’s not gonna have a lamp anymore and she’s gonna realize…*"
> ― Bota
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> "*That she can’t see her way through this space station?!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Yep. Want a lamp? 200cr.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*I guess it’s time for me to make some more lamps!*"
> ― Tabira
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