Business on Coruscant

Slicers Synonymous enters the knowledge cartridge market, absorbing a rival Coruscant slicing organization

### Runtime

2:24:02

*Our heroes spend hours coming up with the perfect lie about how Wampa disappeared until Bota comes out of his room and and suggests they tell the truth. Once they land and tell the authorities that Wampa is not with them the heroes go shopping. Droo dolls up her Kowakian Lizard Monkeys. Tek and Jimmy hunt down some knowledge cartridges and Tek merges slicing groups with a local. Bota arranges a diplomatic meeting with Cal. Katira is just Katira and that's all there is to it.*

## **Previously**

*An Imperial attack on the planet Regamus found our heroes crash landing back on the planet’s surface. With one ship due for major repairs in the shipyard, but now having the TIE ace and long time enemy Wampa in binders, the team crowded aboard Bota’s fancy Lambda-class shuttle Veltmoor’s Pride for a trip to Coruscant to hand over the Imperial. En route they discovered the mysterious powers of their new companion Xx may be useful for changing Wampa from foe to friend, and entered her subconscious to give her the subliminal push she needed to turn over a new leaf.*

*Now arriving at the capitol planet, our heroes find themselves in an unexpected predicament: how will they explain to the New Republic that they don’t have a prisoner to turn over after all?*

## **Recap**

### **Arrival on Curuscant**

Having made contact with Blaine in transit to Coruscant, the team meets up with a cloaked *Jinxed Starhawk* and turns Wampa over to their ally before coming in to land on the ecumenopolis.

As they exit the cramped confines of the *Veltmoor's Pride*, the team is greeted by a 4 guards from the New Republic waiting on the prisoner transfer. Though Katira makes a hard push to attempt to lie about the former Imperial, but Bota steps forward and informs the guards that the group has decided to use Wampa as an instructor. Before confusion can ensue, Bota pivots and asks what information is available with regards to the recent events on Kampe.

> "*I’m really glad Bota is here. It feels like we have a grown up.*"
> ― Droo
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Bota dismisses the guards, telling the docking bay supervisor to have them guard *Veltmoor’s Pride* for the duration of their shift while he goes to speak with Cal.

Bota is then handed a message from Cal Omas requesting a meeting. Katira excuses herself to check in with the Mandalorian and take a look around, while Tek takes a moment to change out of his Mandalorian battle armor due to the uncomfortable interaction had on Regamus.

> "*Imitation is the sincerest form of loathing Goldy, so…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*So I hate myself as much as you hate yourself.*"
> ― Jordan
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Since the meeting request from Cal does not seem to be of vital importance, everyone heads out to explore for a moment:

* Katira looks for parts for her GU-Series Droids
* Jawa Jimmy joins with Tek to search for knowledge cartridges and possible parts for Sparky
* Droo goes out shopping with her Kowakian Lizard-Monkeys tagging along
* Callen heads to a bar in search of information on his family or his ship

### **Business Merger**

Heading off in search of goods, Tek spots a Key Dor with a familiar knowledge cartridge apparatus standing out in front of an open shop.

> "*Hello, slice-brain brother… point us to the knowledge cartridges.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*You have made Big Largo smile. I will show you the cartridges as long as you keep making me smile.*"
> ― Big Largo
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Taking Tek and Jimmy into the back of his shop, Big Largo asks what slicing organization the group is apart of. He surprisingly recognizes Slicers Synonymous, and after briefly joking about what a terrible slicing group the team is Tek asks if Big Largo would like to merge their organizations.

Droo assists Tek in his persuasion, managing to pass on a portion of her concentration in the force on to the slicer. Tek offers a strong argument (51 on 10D6) and Big Largo agrees to merge Largo Montigo with Slicers Synonymous, becoming the manager of operations on Cloud City.

> "*So if we join forces, we’ll be called Slicers Synonymous-Largo Montigo?*"
> ― Big Largo
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> "*Yeah, but Largo Montigo will be in really small font.*"
> ― Tek
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With the organizations merging, Jimmy and Tek pay the bare minimum for a major haul of knowledge cartridges. As they close out their tab and discuss the transportation and business side of merging with Largo Montigo, the team receives a message from Bota informing them that the meeting with Cal is set to begin soon.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Bota Zi
* Callen Mutig
* Droo Vos
* Jawa Jimmy
	+ Sparky
* Katira Eve
* Tek Krodak

### **NPCs**

* Cal Omas
* Big Largo

### **Mentioned**

* Blaine Hansom
* Xx
* Wampa
* Gold Armored Mandalorian Female

## **Inventory**

* +message from Malvessa Calipsa (Katira)
* +message from Octavian Grant (Katira)
* -6,220cr (Jawa Jimmy)
	+ +Security knowledge cartridge (Jawa Jimmy)
	+ +Languages knowledge cartridge (Jawa Jimmy)
	+ +Value knowledge cartridge (Jawa Jimmy)
	+ +Planetary Systems knowledge cartridge (Jawa Jimmy)
	+ +Business knowledge cartridge (Jawa Jimmy)
	+ +Tactics knowledge cartridge (Jawa Jimmy)
	+ +grappling hook (Sparky)

## **Notes**

* **-20cp** to boost **Sense to 2D+2** (Droo)
	+ **+Affect Mind** force power (Droo)
* **-20cp** to boost **Control to 2D+1** (Tek)
	+ **+Affect Mind** force power (Tek)
* **-3cp** to Persuade Big Largo (Tek)
* Droo and Katira attempted to see if they still had some bond through the force after sharing concentration in Wampa’s subconscious - it failed miserably
* Katira’s message from Malvessa indicated that the Wookiee Punch was being painted in the colors of House Mecetti, with the house emblem prominently displayed on the ship

## **Quotations**

> "*Is there a way to say that she killed herself in a way that would make it difficult to prove we are lying?*"
> ― Jawa Jimmy
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> "*This murderous droid ate her, don’t ask about it.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*So what’s the best lie we can come up with, guys?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Well, as a master of lies I would say… we were all sleeping, then she tried to escape…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Then the Kowakian Lizard-Monkeys ate her.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*The escape pod on a lambda-class shuttle is the entire front of the ship!*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Totally kills the resale value of the shuttle.*"
> ― Callen
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> "*I’m surprised not to see Cal arriving to meet us for such a high profile transfer of a bounty.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Well, uh… you know Alderaanians don’t like conflict.*"
> ― NR Guard
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> "*I’ll pretend like I didn’t hear that comment. I’m sure you wouldn’t want to repeat it in front of anybody else.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*You’re a part of Slicers Synonymous?*"
> ― Big Largo
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> "*I **started** Slicers Synonymous.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I always said that if they would stop trolling people online they would be a much better slicing group.*"
> ― Big Largo
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> "*We’re just trying to state our space web presence right now.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*As far as we can tell, they spend 99% of their time making fun of people online*"
> ― Big Largo
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> "*That’s true… would you like to join Slicers Synonymous?*"
> ― Tek
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