Callen Mutig and The Cold Dish

The memory deficient, alcohol craving, hibernation sickness enduring Callen Mutig joins the crew on a ship heist!

### Date Played

Apr. 22, 2020

*Finally free from the terrible palace of Teemo the Hutt, the group splits up at Mos Shuuta. While Tek Krodak and Jawa Jimmy fly off with their new friends toward Cloud City, Katira leads the rest of the team to her new ship courtesy of the left for dead bounty hunter Zardra. Goodness gracious me are there a lot of droids walking about offering no security as our heroes free a man from carbonite freezing. Their meal is cut short as they realize that the droids were playing them all along, however, and they find themselves in a shootout with Puggles Trodd and the rest of Zardra’s group that they knew nothing about. Will Bota Zi ever start keeping a diary of the people that want him dead?!*

## **Previously**

*Having escaped from the lower levels of Teemo’s Palace, the group was surprised to be welcomed back to the party as if nothing had happened. All that it took was for Bota Zi and Tek Krodak to trade away their empty Slave Colony in exchange for what may hopefully turn out to be the location of a hidden bounty hunter fortress. Blaine attempted to distract Teemo as Dengar crawled through the ceiling vents, but all that came of their good intentions was the brutal near murder of a poor slave dancer.*

*Furious that the people she had come to trust turned out to be slave owners, Katira coped with her emotions terribly as she attempted to drink them away and invited Barquin D’an to perform on Cloud City. As Tek finished wiping away any chances he once had with Shiri’ani, Jawa Jimmy nabbed himself two free R1 droids before having Sparky provide some combat entertainment. Most everyone bet big and won big… in Teemo Bucks! Disheartened, Tek and Droo saved the poor slave dancer while Katira - still venting her anger - convinced the bounty hunter Zardra to attack Bota Zi before prison shanking her and robbing her blind.*

*With nothing else to do, Teemo Bucks were spent like they were going out of style to purchase the freedom of two slaves and everyone left with a souvenir shirt to meet up with Jedi Master Dask Ra’Tava for a Jedi School field trip.*

## **Recap**

### **Goodness Gracious Me!**

Returning to Mos Shuuta proper, the group splits up with Katira leading Droo and Bota to landing bay Besh in obtain the VT-49 Decimator, a ship that they had spotted on their initial landing and to which Katira had obtained the activation cylinder from Zardra when she robbed her blind at Teemo's Grand Estate.

Arriving at the *Cold Dish*, the group makes their way into the ship without any incident and are greeted enthusiastically by a droid designated G-U5 (Gus). Asking after "Miss Zardra", the droid is not overly concerned with the exploring group and states that they can signal the rest of the group for assistance as needed. When asked what rest of the group the droid is referring to, G-U5 states that Puggles Trodd and the rest of the group is in orbit and ready to support as planned, leading the group to suspect that there may have been a larger trap set for Bota than initially expected. Taking a look around, Bota runs into a nearly identical droid, designated G-U6 (Gub) but doesn’t find any easy solutions to the problem orbiting the planet currently.

Droo senses a flicker of life from a nearby room and notifies Katira. Looking to get the ship in motion, Katira opens the door against the protesting of G-U6

> "*Goodness gracious me! That’s where they keep the weapons!*"
> ― G-U6
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The door opens to yet another droid, this time designated G-U1 (Gul), who responds to the arrival of strangers with the same good natured response as the rest. Inside they find a carbonite slab with an ornate frame built around it.

As Bota brings G-U6 with him to prepare the ship for departure, Katira insists that G-U5 and G-U1 drag the carbonite out of the armory without use of the built in repulsorlift equipment. The droids comply and slowly drag the item out the door as Droo comments that whoever is frozen inside doesn’t seem to be evil at all. With the container safely away from the weapons, Droo reverses the freezing process and the pair watch as a light flares brightly and fades slowly to reveal a man sleeping on the floor. Concerned, Droo adjusts the body and brings it to a more comfortable position as the human male comes to consciousness.

> "*Well Droo, I think we just found your next exhibit for Droorassic Park.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Ah, what a great idea! Hey, how would you like to… no… I should wait until you’re more awake.*"
> ― Droo
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Slowly coming around, the mysterious man asks if anyone can help him get up. Droo approaches cautiously as Katira states plainly that she has no intention of doing anything of the sort, instead ordering the droids to assist. They manage bring him to a handstand before he vomits *everywhere* and the droids collapse to the floor in the slippery mess.

### **I Knew This Was Too Easy**

Katira tells the droids to clean themselves up and stow the frame to the carbonite enclosure - a fine wood piece decorated with sail barge carvings - while Droo assists the man, unsteadily, to the dining area and tries to learn a little more about him.

> "*My name? Oh… yeh… my name’s Callen Mutig, but can I please lay down?*"
> ― Callen
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Everyone meets up in the dining area, and Bota Zi orders the droids to prepare a meal for the group. While they eat, they talk over what to do next and question Callen Mutig but don’t glean much information. So far as they can discern, he’s an Alderaanian bartender/alcoholic who last remembers mixing drinks on Zeltros - though the droids point out that he was picked up from Nal Hutta by Zardra before coming to Mos Shuuta. Suspecting that he is *just* a bartender intended as a gift for Teemo they are unsure what to do with him.

As everyone eyes the slowly recovering man, a red light starts flashing on a nearby console. Puggles Trodd, the leader of Zardra’s support team, is requesting an update and approaching the ship. Katira succeeds in imitating Zardra, telling Puggles that she got a shot off at Bota Zi, but she’s in a bad way. Everyone looks to be in the clear, but Katira presses her luck too far when she asks to meet up in Mos Shuuta, raising red flags as it was not apart of Zardra’s plan. Everything falls apart when cross-talk from the room comes in over the comm to Puggles.

> "*Classic Zardra*"
> ― Puggles
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> "*Really?!*"
> ― Bota
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> "*No… Wait… Who was that?*"
> ― Puggles
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> "*I unfroze that stupid bartender.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*She brought back two dates, or… no… what she said… that’s much better*"
> ― Droo
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Worried that the facade may be exposed, and wondering what prompted the communication from Puggles’ group, Katira heads out in search of the fourth droid that was noted as being a part of the ship’s compliment. As she approaches the stairs, she runs into one of said droids and all hell breaks loose. Suddenly the droid at the stairs, as well as the two in the dining area, begin to glow red from their heads and one arm on each transforms into an integrated blaster.

Thinking fast, Katira draws her blaster rifle and destroys the one in front of her before rushing back to her friends. Droo fires at another but misses, and Called jumps onto the table, creating a distraction that Bota takes full advantage of to deactivate the two remaining droids. As everyone takes a moment to gain their bearings, the ship is rocked by weapons fire. Against Droo’s advice, Katira slips a throwing knife into Callen’s pocket as everyone heads toward the control level.

### **This Thing Packs a Punch**

Arriving in the upper level of the ship, the final droid can be seen in the pilots chair. Katira dispatches it quickly, and everyone rushes to control consoles and weapons stations when they realize that while Callen was destroying the bathroom and they were all enjoying a delicious meal the missing droid G-U9 (Gup) had taken control of the vessel and brought them into weapons range with Puggles’ group.

Bota adjusts the shields to the forward sections of the ship just in time as Callen attempts to pilot the vessel but fails miserably. Several salvos of laser fire are absorbed by the shields, and Katira and Droo destroy an escort TIE-Y Ugly while damaging a second.

> "*Someone tell me why we let the blind guy pilot the ship?*"
> ― Bota Zi
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A dogfight ensues, and Callen manages to recover from his early mistakes as the hibernation sickness wears off. With repeated heroic maneuvers he dodges the majority of laser fire as Droo and Katira whittle down all the escort star fighters and Bota hammers Puggles’ transport ship with turbo laser fire. Just as the group is looking for a clean sweep, a final attack is made by a TIE-Y Ugly. Having focused on weapons fire, no one took note of the changing angle of attack, and the ship was caught unshielded from the side, disabling Katira’s quad laser cannon.

Luckily, Bota Zi managed to land several turbo laser blasts on the enemy transport. With no shields and minimal maneuvering available, Puggles is forced to surrender and follow the group to a landing at Mos Eisley spaceport below. Bringing the ship into atmosphere, Droo goes to clean up and finds the mess left behind from Callen as he “recovered” from hibernation sickness in the bathroom earlier.

> "*We should have had the droids clean the bathroom before we destroyed them!*"
> ― Droo Vos
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## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Bota Zi
* Droo Vos
* Katira Eve
* Callen Mutig

### **NPCs**

* G-U1
* G-U5
* G-U6
* G-U9
* Puggles Trodd

## **Inventory**

* Several broken GU model droids (Katira)
* Wooden Carbonite Slab frame with elaborate sail barge carvings (Droo)

## **Notes**

* Countdown continues: 7 missions remaining for Blaine’s Ghtroc Freighter
* Welcome to the crew: Callen Mutig!

## **Quotations**

> "*Do you have any idea hot to use the weapons on a ship like this?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Yeh, just point and shoot…?*"
> ― Callen
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> "*This… is gonna be… great*"
> ― Katira
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> "*So, you continue doing loops while you fly forward.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*No wonder we can’t hit anything. Stop doing all those loops!*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Were you aiming for anything in particular?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*uh… the ship*"
> ― Bota
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