In the Dark of the Night 7 - Hit the Showers, Team

We could just kill all of them

## **Previously**

*Having landed on Kampe on mission to strike at the Eriadu Authority, the group has laid waste to everything in their path. After devastating a trio of AT-ST patrols outside the main communication station and destroying the communications tower, the group made their way into the station itself. Finding a number of Imperials inside, they proceeded to stab, slice, shoot, squash, and otherwise eliminate all threats before trading their airspeeders for a juggernaut tank. They then slowly made their way through the slot canyons toward the main base, killing more Imperials, rescuing a number of Uggnaught prisoners, and stealing the cargo they were transporting. Coming near the end of the canyons, they were surprised to discover Al Mosfriday in a downed New Republic ship.*

## **Recap**

### **Al Mosfriday**

Getting right down to business, Al explains that he was intended to be the means of escape for the team from Kampe. While he will need to remain with his ship in order to perform repairs for the time being, his droid can give their tank access to Imperial chatter in the area as well as a change of codes to allow it access to the main base. Combined with the current Imperial order for all units to return to base, this should allow the team to pass through the upcoming checkpoint and access the hangar bay beyond for their mission. Finally, he passes along a remote to Katira, explaining that if she signals one time he will meet the group for a pick up and if she signals twice he will drop a concussion missile on the transmitter’s location.

The rescued Uggnaughts are put to work moving the juggernaut’s cargo to Al Mosfriday’s ship and left back to help with repairs, and the team attempts to piece together a strategy to carve their path ahead. Recognizing that they will need to have some semblance of a disguise to pass through the upcoming checkpoint and into the base itself, Zuda searches the juggernaut and manages to find a handful of Imperial uniforms. With Zuda dressed as a stormtrooper, Genos looking the part of a long haired Imperial Commander, Bota decides to complete the deception by donning a mechanic’s outfit. With a little help from Katira, he disguises his jetpack as a tool bag and declares himself ready.

> "*You don’t have to do much to make me look like a scrubby mechanic.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*I will tell you this Bota: if you light the jetpack off with this on, it **will** set you on fire. Just roll with it. It will look really intimidating.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Just stop, drop, and roll with it.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*No one can grab you if you’re on fire.*"
> ― Zuda
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> "*You’re just gonna look like a flaming demon out of hell.*"
> ― Katira
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### **Checkpoint**

Satisfied with their disguises and plan of approach, the group loads onto their still bloody tank and begins to move ahead. A group of speeder bikes briefly calls in for the tank to stop and inspect for damage, but they manage to convince the patrol that the call to return to base supersedes the concern for the moment.

> "*Jawa Jimmy, pull it over.*"
> ― Genos
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> "*Don’t pull it over. Give me the comm.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*They’ll get suspicious if we don’t pull it over.*"
> ― Genos
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> "*Isn’t the debris those stormtroopers we ran over?*"
> ― Bota
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More concerning, the team realizes that they will likely need some sort of code to pass through the rapidly approaching checkpoint. As Genos calls for everyone to look behind the sun visors and under seats, Jawa Jimmy manages to slice into the main computer and find a list of 5 previously used codes: gomsesuL, navI, sunaD, senenA, and evadroS

> "*Guys, I think we should use the third one. It’s Ivan. Use it.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*What’s giving you the hunch?*"
> ― Genos
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> "*One - I’m a freakin’ genius. Two - You heard them say the Colonel is in a bad mood. You know his name, right? You don’t know his name. I don’t know what you’ve been doing for the last couple years. Well not much as far as I can tell in the galaxy, but Ivan Cronus is the commander of the base.*"
> ― Katira
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Approaching the checkpoint, the majority of the team hides out of sight as Genos takes the lead impersonating an Imperial officer. Giving assurance that he believes Katira’s logic, the Jedi quietly affirms the decision by reading the mind of the incoming guard and finding the passcode is the one being looked for. Easily passing through the checkpoint, the team heads on toward the main Eriadu Authority base.

### **Just Kill Them All**

Pulling in under the main base, the team finds a pristine regimented, and very full vehicle storage bay. Four juggernaut tanks have arrived already, their crews standing in orderly fashion just outside the vehicles as they await inspection. Uggnaught mechanics scurry about the space performing receipt inspections and carrying about repair equipment to fix any minor issues noted. Twelve speeder bikes sit in similar fashion, their scouts nearby, and several airspeeders wait in the far corner alongside a modified speeder and a handful of high level officers and their personal guard.

The arrival of the “Ham Sammy” is very obviously unexpected as the team slowly rolls in, and Genos and Zuda suddenly realize that they do not actually know what they have come here to do.

> "*Wait… who do they milk? What? I’m not understanding how this fuel is made.*"
> ― Genos
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> "*They take the squids and they milk them for their fuel, then they put them back in their cave.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*They have live creatures that they’re milking for their fuel?!*"
> ― Genos
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> "*Didn’t see that coming.*"
> ― Rem
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With a quick briefing, the team comes to a general consensus that the best course of action is to simply blow the entire location off the planet. Though Katira urges them to consider sneaking into the base and Bota points out they might want to have a solid plan before they do anything drastic, Genos assures the team that they can just kill everything in the way, and the Jedi’s inspirational confidence holds sway.

All eyes turn to the incoming juggernaut, and an officer at the far end of the bay approaches at a hurried walk at the obvious breach of protocol when the bay erupts into chaos. Zuda launches a rocket into the open rear bay of an adjacent tank, knocking Imperials and Uggnaughts to the ground as Katira launches rockets at every entry point she can before oveheating her turret. From the observation turret, Bota begins shooting out surveillance cameras as the juggernaut’s laser turrets flash to life, with Rem, Sparky, and Jowkazza opening fire indiscriminately and Genos shooting out more cameras. Meanwhile inside the tank, Jimmy manages to slice into the facility and disable any alarms that could be triggered.

The Uggnaughts begin to run for cover, but before the Imperials can organize a counteroffensive Zuda fires off a number of grenades into their midst, maiming a number of them. As Katira jumps from her turret to shoot out the remaining cameras and more laser fire fills the bay from Rem, and Sparky.

Still inside and content with the lack of blaster fire coming his way, Jimmy contemplates running over everything in front of him, but instead takes a moment to run the tank’s sensors for a scan on the path ahead. He notes a number of humanoid bodies ahead, as well as one larger, unidentified organism. Sitting nearby, Jowkazza encourages violence but accepts the sensible decision by Jimmy before seeing just how many holes his repeating blaster can put through the cluster of Imperials nearby.

From atop the juggernaut, Bota lights his jetpack off and rockets out into the bay and eliminates another stormtrooper, but as he starts to look for the best route deeper into the base, a heavy black smoke obscures his vision and he remembers that he was warned about using his jetpack with his current disguise. Flames rapidly surround the professional bounty hunter turned ambassador, reminding him that why he changed career paths. As Bota intimidates the room at the sacrifice of his body, Genos decides that laser cannons aren’t his style. A blue glow begins to emanate from the front of the juggernaut, and Genos steps into the bay ready to make good on his guarantee that it would be easy to kill all the Imperials therein.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Bota Zi
* Genos Ia'danian
* Katira Eve
* Roostan Steele
* Jawa Jimmy
	+ Sparky
* Jowkazza
* Rem Chanceux
* Zuda Zorbo

## **Inventory**

* +1 Stormtrooper Uniform (mediocre condition)
* +2 Imperial Mechanic Uniform (mediocre condition)
* +1 Imperial Commander Uniform (mediocre condition)
* +FOB to communicate with Al Mosfriday’s ship (Katira)

## **Notes**

* Al Mosfriday provided some general information that you would think the team was given before the mission, but somehow missed:
	+ The use of juggernaut tanks has been reduced on planet
	+ AT-ST have been replacing the majority of patrols in the area
	+ Imperial routes have been adjusted recently, but the reason is unknown

* Current disguises being worn:
	+ Genos as an Imperial Commander
	+ Zuda as a Stormtrooper
	+ Bota as a slightly charred Imperial Mechanic with jetpack

* The juggernaut code name was changed to the “Ham Sammy”
* The Wilhelm Scream Award was created, giving the winner a 1cp bonus

## **Quotations**

> "*He (Jim Scrimshaw) opened my eyes to the idea that the force, aka space whales, can secretly control anyone’s mind. It’s the reason why anything bad happens. Obviously.*"
> ― Zuda Zorbo
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> "*I need to bring up the valid point that we only have a handful of uniforms. Best we can do is stick out heads out and say “Hey, we’re who we’re supposed to be”. If any kind of inspection takes place we’re probably gonna be had.*"
> ― Zuda
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> "*Well they don’t have to walk through the gunwells to look at the loading bay, and if they* do *want to walk through the gun wells we’ll get another uniform.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*That Jedi mind trick stuff… that stuff really work, or are you just messing with people?*"
> ― Rem
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> "*Just keep driving. Ignore those speeders.*"
> ― Genos
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> "*Keep your distance, but don’t **look** like you’re trying to keep our distance.*"
> ― Zuda
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> "*Drive casual.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*We gotta return to base. We can’t mess around with this right now. Everything’s fine to get back in there. We’ll have ‘em fix it up when we get in.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*We’re all fine, it’s all fine here.*"
> ― Zuda
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> "*Uh… how are you?*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Makes sense with the mood that the Colonel’s been in. I do have to warn you, it looks like you ran over some of the Uggnaughts.*"
> ― Sniggle Leader
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> "*You don’t have to warn us about that, we already know. They were getting uppity.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Milky fuel from the squid creatures, check. List of things I was not expecting when I signed on to this mission.*"
> ― Genos
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> "*Are we sure they’re still using squids, because they may have moved on to blue crabs now.*"
> ― Jowkazza
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> "*We did run into some blue crabs, but I didn’t see any nipples.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Just run somebody over, Jawa Jimmy. There’s a big group of people right in front of us.*"
> ― Jowkazza
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> "*Including Genos and Bota.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Yeah… well…*"
> ― Jowkazza
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