Afterlife Party

*Life Day was a blast, and the group decides to head off to an after party. Drinks are had by most (Tek abstains and tells his date to follow suit), Hutt tails twitch, knives are thrown for sport, and a fantastic time is had. As the party hits a high, the group realizes that they are being stolen from, and a brawl breaks out to reveal… CLAWDITES!*

## **Previously**

*Attending the Life Day party representing the honorable ambassador Bota Zi, great times were had by all, particularly Katira, who managed to steal a code cylinder and keys to a hotel room. Looking to create a distraction, the group spread a rumor of an after party to continue on with the festivities.*

## **Recap**

### **The Katira Show**

As the official Life Day party tails off, a shout can be heard through the crowd that there will be a party at the Alisandre Hotel. The group decides to roll with the change in venue, satisfied that it will provide a sufficient distraction, and heads to the federal district to meet at the prestigious hotel known for its former status as the primary location of Ascension Day festivities on the planet. The majority of the group heads to the after party, though Droo comments that she wants to go check in on her Kowakian Monkey-Lizards to be sure that they are alright after their recent visit with a Coruscant haberdasher for the creation of her Life Day gift.

On the trip over, Katira attempts one last time to recruit Puggles Trodd with an offer to work with her outside of the New Republic. Hoping to start off with an idea of what kind of work she would like to do, she offers the Lasat contracts to hunt down General Ledger and Toln ne Yerres. If Puggles is interested in the prospect after doing some research on the pair, Katira offers to clear his bounty from the New Republic registrar (estimated 25,000-30,000cr) and pay 10,000cr for each of the individuals. Puggles agrees tentatively to look into the pair, asks a little about each, then leaves the party.

The conversation touches on Katira’s curiosity to the status of Zardra. Though the group left her mortally wounded in Teemo’s Palace, Puggles’ reticence to confirm her death leads Katira to ask Teemo if he knows, but the Hutt is as evasive as one would expect. Though he offers little in the way of information, Teemo kicks the party off by paying to open the bar when Jawa Jimmy hands the Hutt a couple shots of his Life Day alcohol.

While drinks are being ordered, Katira offers to buy the impounded pleasure yacht won by Tamiel Cureao at life day. Rather than sell the ship, Cureao offers a knife throwing competition, winner takes the yacht, and Katira wins on the first throw. She attempts to swindle Cureao out of his starship in exchange for another round. For a minute it looks like Cureao has realized that Katira robbed him, but after a short back and forth he asks if she would like to head back to his ship with him later. Feigning interest in the offer, Katira excuses herself to chat with Taz Solana.

### **Makes My Tail Shake**

At the bar, drink orders are being taken when Jowkazza’s new translator droid suddenly causes a stir.

> "*Cranberry juice?! We’re not doing that. Get this guy two Pica Thunders!*"
> ― MT-D Translator Droid
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As everyone realizes that the afterlife party has finally kicked in, drink orders start to pour in. Callen and Rusty share a few drinks, Callen’s usual drinking habits keeping him sober while Rusty begins to spiral. One of Teemo’s entourage, encouraged by his own inebriation, takes hold of Jawa Jimmy and starts tossing him in the air while laughing and eventually throwing him to the safe arms of Blaine.

Settling on the ground, Jimmy decides the best way to avoid the problem of henchmen tossing him about the room is to get them exceedingly drunk. He passes out shots of his own special liquor to the group, leaving them stumbling about and even giving a significant buzz to their Hutt boss.

As Blaine looks on, he senses an opportunity when Teemo begins to show signs of being affected by the drink. He approaches the Hutt in hopes of striking up a conversation and building a bit of a relationship with the new “leader” of the Desilijic Clan. The smuggler cozies up to the Hutt with questions on the status of Gamorr in relation to the clan, and though Teemo doesn’t seem to have much opposition the Hutt also states that he doesn’t have quite enough authority to do anything official.

> "*Does anybody have that authority, or if I stepped in… would anybody try to stop me?*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Uhh… Have you talked to Gardulla?*"
> ― Teemo
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> "*She owes me a favor. I have talked to Gardulla recently, and Teemo, wouldn’t you agree with me: she’s a charming woman.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Ohhh boy…. Makes my tail shake!*"
> ― Teemo
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The smuggler and the Hutt share a last drink, and the heavily intoxicated then gathers his crew to leave. On their way out, Katira manages to slip Tamiel Cureao’s hotel room key into a thug’s pocket in hopes of freeing herself from further suspicion.

### **Zero Diplomatic Immunity**

As the more dangerous characters begin to make their way out into the Coruscant night, Rusty and Callen agree that they both would like to try drinking some of the juice from the “lucky eyeball” jar that Al Mosfriday received at the life day party. The approach the New Republic operative, and he gladly hands over the jar in exchange for some Rydonnian Spice Wine. The trio share a round of drinks as Callen stares at the eyeball in a jar, reaching out in the force to see if he senses anything, but failing.

At the bar, Jawa Jimmy orders a drink after having passed out several shots to Teemo’s crew. As he takes a sip and looks over the room, he notices a Quarren weaving their way through his friends, and suspects that she may have robbed them. He transmits a message to Sparky, still standing near the front entrance, to trip the thief up, and watches as the Quarren spits insults at the droid.

With the Quarren held up, Jimmy then tells Tek to slow her up as well, and Tek quickly turns and sends a - tiny - wave of force at the Quarren, though the thief is unaffected, her satchel loosens a bit more at her shoulder and attention is drawn in her direction. The Quarren tries to push off Sparky, but the delay proves to give enough time for Jowkazza to step between her and the exit.

> "*Rwaaoorr Wroo!*"
> ― Jowkazza
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> "*Sounds like you’ve got some unfinished business here, missy!*"
> ― MT-D Translator Droid
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The aggravated roar from Jowkazza brings everyone’s attention to the entryway. Reaching for their non-present weapons (having just walked in from a diplomatic party), Rusty shouts out that the eyeball is missing from his newly acquired jar.

With a brawl looking like it will be breaking out, Katira rushes to the Quarren with a knife drawn. She manages to put the Quarren into a headlock with a knife to her throat, but cannot persuade her to turn over the stolen goods. Suddenly Al Mosfriday starts yelling confusedly, pointing to patrons scattered throughout the bar and asking why they all look like Clawdites. Callen quickly draws his diplomat’s blaster, and fires at the nearest dignitary (despite their looking quite like a dignitary) and stuns wounds them, but - still conscious - they do not revert to a Clawdite appearance. Tek attempts to strike another diplomat down with his lightsaber, but slices wide as the individual lets out a shout of fear.

Looking around at the situation, the team realizes that Bota Zi is missing from the party as one of the dignitaries shouts out to the group that they should let the Quarren go and surrender. Holding the Quarren as a human shield, Katira merely comments on the the Everlast Hotel key on the floor and refuses. In response the Clawdite/dignitary fires a shot, hitting the Quarren but failing to harm them.

Rusty hurries over to the individual that fired the blaster, then takes a crouching stance to deliver a heavy strike to their inner thigh and knocks them to the ground. Blaine approaches the Quarren, and with Katira holding her he slams his fist straight into her face. He pulls his hand back and shakes off a mess of inky residue, but doesn’t manage to do much more.

Across the room, one of the wounded changelings stumbles over to Jawa Jimmy and grabs hold of him. Pointing a blaster at his back, they call for surrender once again, but are rejected quickly by Blaine.

> "*No! Wookiees, kill them. Also… this is how Sparky would want this to end. Just… kind of wiggle a little bit, Jimmy.*"
> ― Blaine
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Receiving a command from Jimmy to help, Sparky lumbers toward the diminutive hostage but stops a few steps short. As the Clawdite begins to shout out another command to surrender, a grappling line fires out from the Astro-mess, leaving the Clawdite and the Jawa wrapped together on the floor. Looking to settle things down, Jowkazza approaches the dignitary that Tek failed to strike, and roars out in frustration. Taking hold of their arms, the Wookiee pulls, and the dignitary transforms into a Clawdite in front of their eyes as they bleed out, armless.

### **Hot Fuzz**

From the main entrance, the a high pitched whistle is heard as a cadre of Coruscant Police arrive. As they shout out for everyone to stand down and scan the room quickly, Katira turns her knife and cuts the satchel from the Quarren before pushing her toward the officers. The guards hold her at blaster point for a moment, but ease as she sheathes the vibroblade, instead turning their focus to the Wookiee holding two severed arms standing over the body of a dead Clawdite.

The officers tell everyone that they’ll be providing statements, including the Quarren and several dignitaries that appear to have been attacked by the team, dignitaries that only Al Mosfriday can see are Clawdites. As they do begin to round everyone up, Katira picks up the satchel, grabbing the eyeball that rolled out from it and gently placing it inside. Everyone is lead outside and placed under guard as an inspector is called to review the situation and begin formal questioning.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Callen Mutig
* Jawa Jimmy
	+ Sparky
* Jowkazza
* Katira Eve
* Roostan Steele
* Tek Krodak

### **NPCs**

* Taz Solana
* Puggles Trodd
* Teemo
* Shiri'ani
* Tamiel Cureao
* Elayne Kuat
* Merrick Kleiner
* Bernard Sanderson
* Al Mosfriday

### **Mentioned**

* Skids McDougal
* Gardulla the Hutt
* Lady Valarian
* Droo Vos

## **Inventory**

* +pink slip to impounded pleasure yacht, cost 1,000cr (Katira)
* -key to Tamiel Cureao’s room (Katira)
* +Eye (no longer) in a Jar (Callen/Rusty)
* +Quarren thief satchel (Katira)

## **Notes**

* The knife throw was set at a DC 25, Katira made the first throw at 26 to Cureao’s 23
* The Quarren walked into Tamiel Cureao, passed by Callen, Rusty, and Al Mosfriday, then bumped into Tek and Shiri’ani on her way to the door as Jimmy looked on

## **Quotations**

> "*Ahh… burns goooood*"
> ― Teemo
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> "*More?*"
> ― Jimmy shaking the mostly full bottle
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> "*I’ll have water from the moisture vaporators of Tatooine.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Are you ordering Shiri’ani a drink?*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*She’ll also have water…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I think she hates you more every time you do something.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*You can have a glass of Tek later, extra smooth.*"
> ― Tek to Shiri’ani
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> "*You guys came in and made a name for yourselves pretty quick. You’re Cal’s right hand, and our team… I just feel like we need to create some opportunities.*"
> ― Taz Solana
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> "*That’s because you’re NPCs and we’re main characters. Just being honest*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Get a clue!*"
> ― Rusty
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> "*Do you think you could talk to Cal for me?*"
> ― Taz Solana
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> "*There’s very little I wouldn’t do for you after everything you did on Kampe, Taz.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*This is getting steamy.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Whoa… Callen you hearing this? I could really learn something!*"
> ― Rusty
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> "*I only got two plans tonight: Get married, and drink some of that eyeball juice.*"
> ― Rusty
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> "*Shiri’ani, come have a drink with us. I know you don’t want any of that moisture vaporator water!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Shiri’ani… **stay with me**, and be straight edge.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*We have an ace in our pocket. What about Shiri’ani? She is a hardcore crime boss’ protege. Does she see this thief?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*She’s only been drinking water, and is pretty put off by this party.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*Look, when I take my turn I will confess my true feelings to Shiri’ani.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Ugh… nobody wants that!*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*I don’t want to kill this woman, but…*"
> ― Katira
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> "*I love that this is Katira’s first thought.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Look. You got a glimpse on Kampe, but… this is why the A-Team is the A-Team.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*…and then you fart in her face and run off.*"
> ― Blaine
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> "*Wait… you guys haven’t heard the music all night long? Why do you think we’ve had this harp player all along?!*"
> ― Blaine
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