Search for Sithspawn 3 - The Clone Master

*Our heroes corner Lord Sithspawn in a cloning facility. He is a lot stronger than they realized and after an unsuccessful negotiation by Katira, or should I say, death threat, the battle begins. Tek gets knocked out for most of the battle, Droo sets a naked Ithorian on the loose, Bota throws shields and flames but Lord Sithspawn only seems angered by these attempts on his life. More clones appear and a Jedi Ghost (coast to coast) assists in the battle. Will our heroes do any damage to this replicated freak? Tune in next bi-week to find out.*

## **Previously**

*Chasing after Droo, our heroes arrived at a mysterious and creepy castle on a mysterious and creepy planet in the unknown regions. The castle proves far more disturbing than they might have guessed, as they unveil disturbing murals, see friends turn against one another, and work past a space time disrupting, body swapping hallway. Finally passing through the last of the puzzles and traps in the castle, they now enter into the central chamber, where the clone master stands amidst a number of cloning cylinders waiting for them.*

## **Recap**

### **A Surprisingly Transparent Sith**

Two imposing metal doors slide open with disturbing speed as the group is finally back together and prepared. Contrasting the dark castle that they previously made their way through, they are greeted by a much more technologically advanced, well lit room. Along the walls there are some 16 cloning cylinders, most containing bodies in varying stages of development. Adjacent to these are control and monitoring panels for each cylinder, showing information recorded for each body, with a master control panel situated on the far side of the room. Large drains are situated in the center of the floor, positioned to collect whatever fluid fills the cloning cylinders upon completion of the clone development. Finally, laying next to the master control console is Droo Vos, slowly coming to consciousness and appearing physically unharmed.

Standing apart from all this, dead center in the room, is the foreboding figure of Sithspawn. Bota, Tek, and Blaine seem to recognize the figure as he addresses the group, commenting that they both saw him cut in two previously and are uncertain what is going on. Tek immediately grasps that the man must be a clone, and questions who he is.

> "*I’m a clone of… me.*"
> ― Sithspawn
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Katira asks what the Sith has done with Droo, and Sithspawn awkwardly turns toward the Nautolan, seemingly noticing her for the first time as she stands. Continuing on the only line of questioning that she can find available, Katira asks what the man was doing on Ibis. His response that he was after the bodies of a former Jedi and a force sensitive Imperial prompts Droo to ask if his goal is to clone force sensitive persons, which he flatly claims as fact. Continuing in holding nothing back, Sithspawn also notes that Katira’s suspicion that he survives by transferring his consciousness between clones of his own body is accurate.

Not feeling threatened by the wayward heroes in the least, Sithspawn goes on to expound that before the Emperor died, he was given the task of creating clones to protect the Emperor’s treasures throughout the galaxy. Though he won’t reveal the location of his own clones, Sithspawn does commend the group on their successful mission to the second Death Star against his clone of Kit Fisto. Commenting that it is unlikely they would fare as well here, Sithspawn offers to release the group unharmed in exchange for a genetic sample from each member.

> "*Honestly, that sounds like the worst deal ever, Lord Sithspawn.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Genetic samples of this body cost more than that. If I want to leave, I’ll leave.*"
> ― Katira
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With Katira making it clear that the group has no intention of providing much of anything to the clone master, Sithspawn merely shrugs. At the back of the room a door opens as two figures enter the room, drawing lightsabers.

### **Beat Down**

The team is caught unprepared, despite the obvious fact that they were about to be entering into combat with the Sith Lord. In the blink of an eye, Tek and Bota have their blasters ripped from their hands and deposited at the clone master’s feet, Blaine and Piven are thrown back into the hallway from which they recently emerged as the doors slam shut, and a red blade emits from the hilt in Sithspawn’s hand.

Leaning on her previous dealings with an ancient Sith that was easily blown up onboard the *Glorious Republic* and the sometimes impressive, sometimes falling flat on his face Genos Ia'danian, Katira tries to end the battle quickly by firing three blaster bolts at Sithspawn. The error in her logic is quickly exposed as Sithspawn easily deflects all three blaster bolts directly back at Katira, leaving her heavily wounded on the floor.

With Katira serving as an example of what not to do, and also because they have no weapons at the moment, Droo and Tek decide their best chance of success might lay within the nearby cloning cylinders. Droo takes a moment to choose the clone that she releases based on knowing that the being held inside is a clone of a Jedi, and Tek just opens the first cylinder he comes upon.

With the rest of the team hurt or hiding, Bota decides to go for broke in his attack. Launching into the air, he ignites his flamethrower as he passes over Sithspawn, setting the enemy’s robes ablaze and stunning him for a moment. As he comes to a landing on the opposite side of the room, he turns and hurls his Ibissian energy shield back at Sithspawn, but is disappointed to see it deflected.

In response to the successful attack and the freeing of his clones, Sithspawn angrily unleashes an attack through the force on Tek, Droo, and Bota. Waves of excruciating pain sear through the trio, dropping Tek and Droo to the floor immediately as Bota struggles to keep his footing. At the entrance Katira stumbles to the controls, managing to open the door before collapsing behind nearby cover and applying a medpack.

In the corner, Droo taps into the force on her own, succeeding in absorbing the energy from Sithspawn’s recent attack and coming back to consciousness. Waking, she sees the same ghost she glimpsed on Ibis pulling the lightsaber to itself from the unsuspecting Cerean clone before launching into a fight with the two clones that entered previously. Droo turns to see the Ithorian clone she just released, and through another impressive use of the force she empathizes with the clone and convinces them to help the team fight. Meanwhile, Bota succeeds in another flight above Sithspawn, burning the clone master again and retrieving his shield before crashing back down atop his nearby droid and discovering that it is designed with the face of the deceased Emperor Palpatine.

Increasing in power as his rage grows despite the continued assaults by Bota, Sithspawn unleashes another blast of pain at the resurrected Ithorian, dropping him to a knee. He then rushes toward Bota Zi as the bounty hunter works to untangle himself from the Emperor droid and unleashes a devastating blast of force lightning, incapacitating Bota and screaming in rage as yet another cloning cylinder adjacent to an unconscious Tek opens.

Still trying to remain relatively unseen, Katira uses another medpack on herself before accessing the nearby cloning cylinder. Uncertain as to who is held inside, she decides to risk releasing the person, hoping her persuasion will prove more valuable than her ability to fire a blaster. Meanwhile, Droo asks her new Ithorian friend to use the force and return blasters to Bota and Tek (he fails) before rushing to the main control console nearby.

From the now open cloning cylinder adjacent to Tek steps a nude Twi’Lek steps forward confidently into the room. He strides forward to the near dead Bota Zi, and with a comment of recognition for the bounty hunter, he reaches into the force and manages to heal Bota’s wounds, bringing him back to consciousness. Sithspawn responds by launching force lightning at the newcomer, but they simply raise their hand and absorb the attack before pulling the lightsaber from the Cerean Jedi’s grasp as the force ghost finishes him off and turns to the remaining female clone.

> "*Do you have any guess at who this person is?*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Is that uh… someone’s brother?*"
> ― Bota
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> "*I don’t think so.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Well there was that one time, at that one bar… All Twi’Lek’s look similar, so…*"
> ― Bota
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Sensing the tide turning, Sithspawn backs away slowly toward the center of the room.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

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

### **NPCs**

* Lt. Nera Piven
* Lord Sithspawn
* Dask Ra'tava
* Dua Corrobb

### **Mentioned**

* Ki-Adi-Mundi Clone
* Aayla Secura Clone

## **Inventory**

* -pride (Katira)
	+ even at -7D Sithspawn was able to deflect 3 of Katira’s blaster bolts back at her, hitting on all despite her *Dodge* roll of 26

## **Notes**

* Immediately upon combat, Sithspawn summoned the clones of Ki-Adi-Mundi and Aayla Secura
* **-5cp** for initial fly-by on Sithspawn (Bota)
* **-1cp** for second fly-by on Sithspawn (Bota)
* Rolling 33 on 2D6 to recover from Sithspawn’s attack, Droo learned *Absorb/Dissipate Energy*
* Reviving Dua Corrobb, Droo rolled 20 on 1D6 for *Empathy*, convincing the clone to assist the team
* **-1cp** to apply medpack while wounded twice (Katira)
* A lucky roll on who would be released from the cloning cylinder resulted in Dask Ra'tava being discovered by Tek

## **Quotations**

> "*He looks like he’s into cyberpunk with his jacket.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*He’s really into 90’s Nine Inch Nails.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Have you guys seen The Matrix?*"
> ― Droo as Sithspawn
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> "*Alright, Katira roll dodge.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Uh… 26*"
> ― David
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> "*You got hit. Roll damage.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Yeah, roll the damage of your own blaster bolt on yourself.*"
> ― Luke
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> "*That pretty face ain’t so pretty any more, is it?*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Thrice wounded.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I want to see you try to flirt your way out of this one.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Bota, you’re going to wake up regardless.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Your eye has a built in alarm.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Wake up, Bota. You’re dead.*"
> ― Dask Ra’tava
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> "*You’re a dead man. You were engaged to my sister and you left.*"
> ― Tek
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