Sep 19, 2025 9:34 pm
Moving back to Cevron he nodes and says Let's go then.
IC Story Thread: Chapter 1, Gamorr - the Diplomats
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Sep 23, 2025 5:34 am
Cevron nods and waits for Miica to get aboard before flying towards the Citadel. He's concerned for Master Barouk, but refuses to let it show, putting on a stone faced face as they rush towards the Citadel.
Sep 23, 2025 3:29 pm
There is no great place to land the platform on the ground near the Citadel, without landing in the midst of the ongoing melee of the crowd dispersal effort. Plus it looks like the main Citadel door out to the greater landing pad area is shut now, and could very well be sealed.
But there is a walkway on top of the radial wall, which leads out to the flight control room were you both can't up and found the docking platforms for the unmanned assault skiff. You can land on that walkway, albeit with minor damage to both the skiff and the walkway, right next to a door that enters into the main Citadel building.
Upon doing so, however, you find the door locked. There is a control panel for the door. Or there is the walkway back out toward the flight control room.
But there is a walkway on top of the radial wall, which leads out to the flight control room were you both can't up and found the docking platforms for the unmanned assault skiff. You can land on that walkway, albeit with minor damage to both the skiff and the walkway, right next to a door that enters into the main Citadel building.
Upon doing so, however, you find the door locked. There is a control panel for the door. Or there is the walkway back out toward the flight control room.
Sep 23, 2025 4:36 pm
Miica walks to the control panel and looks for a button for communication or something to signal the intent to enter
Sep 23, 2025 4:57 pm
There is an intercom button, and he receives a squealing and grunted reply back from... someone... on the other side of the comm.
i.e. you may use the highest of your two Intellects and the highest of your two Xenoligy skills. If neither of you have Xenology, or if one of you has the highest in both? Then you just make the check at highest Int with a Boost.
EDIT: (Looks like it will be Miica with GGGGBPPK)
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You can give me a (combined?) Knowledge (Xeno) check to put your Mission language-primer to work here if you would like?i.e. you may use the highest of your two Intellects and the highest of your two Xenoligy skills. If neither of you have Xenology, or if one of you has the highest in both? Then you just make the check at highest Int with a Boost.
EDIT: (Looks like it will be Miica with GGGGBPPK)
Sep 23, 2025 7:10 pm
Trying to recall his Gamor
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what is the K? Edit: oh duh setbackLast edited September 23, 2025 7:10 pm
Rolls
Knowledge (Xenology)
4 Success, 2 Advantage, 3 Failure
Total: 1 Success, 2 Advantage
1 Failure
Total: 1 Failure
Sep 24, 2025 6:42 am
Cevron is getting impatient as Miica tries to understand the talking. He pulls his lightsaber. "I have a key should it be needed!"
Sep 24, 2025 2:02 pm
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I'll take one of your Advantages to give you some insight into what was said, of that's ok? How would you like to spend your other Advantage @valdattaMadun ?And yes, blue already starts with B so I'll do K blacK or setback.
Sep 24, 2025 8:21 pm
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I will recover a strain with the advantage. Got a little high on it.Sep 25, 2025 9:55 am
"Then we just have to use the direct approach," Cevron sighs and turns on his lightsaber. He hesitates for a moment, realizing they'll look like the agressor here, but his need to get in and find master Barouk wins through and so he starts cutting into the door, hoping to create an opening for the two of them.
Rolls
Lightsaber if needed
1 Success, 2 Failure
Total: 1 Failure
Sep 25, 2025 2:21 pm
OOC:
No check needed! Just time and the will...However, this is fairly close to "Unnecessary Destruction" in the Conflict table, but doesn't seem to warrant 3 Conflict to me (I would envision that more like Kylo Ren's rages where he just essentially is throwing a temper tantrum with a lightsaber)...
But you also didn't exhaust other (less destructive) options before pursuing this route, like Slicing or looking for another way.
You have the opportunity to retcon, as again, I don't want to deploy the Conflict mechanic as a "Gotchya!" but would you still do this is it incurs 1 Conflict?
Sep 26, 2025 9:10 am
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I'll take one conflict, unless another solution presents itself in the few seconds where he hesitates.Sep 27, 2025 3:53 pm
Cevron plunges his lightsaber into the metal surface of the door and begins working it around to form an opening that is big enough for them to step through.
It's not a reinforced blast door and so the work goes fairly quickly, and soon enough you're both able to just step inside.
The hallway is empty on the other side of the door - if there ever were guards at it, they have no doubt been redirected to help secure the main Citadel door - but it does leave you in an unfamiliar place, with just a series of identical looking doors and turns ahead of you.
Still, the dissidents outside have all been subdued or dispersed now, and it would seem that the "excitement" is over. And you're able to get ahold of Master Barouk and rendezvous with her and the other members of your contingent son enough.
...
You all meet in a large and ornate audience chamber, there is the Master, your Jedi Service Corp survival specialist, a couple of the Clone Trooper squad captains, and Cevron and Miica. In addition to the Gamorrean diplomat's and their guard.
Master Barouk looks upon the other two Jedi with relief as they enter and says, "Well... that was exciting, hm?"
Please feel free to join us IC
Kolibri has been here the whole time, from approach to landing to the mayhem on the pad (you were with the Master when the group got split).
We just didn't zoom in on them until now. So please play it accordingly, all.
It's not a reinforced blast door and so the work goes fairly quickly, and soon enough you're both able to just step inside.
The hallway is empty on the other side of the door - if there ever were guards at it, they have no doubt been redirected to help secure the main Citadel door - but it does leave you in an unfamiliar place, with just a series of identical looking doors and turns ahead of you.
Still, the dissidents outside have all been subdued or dispersed now, and it would seem that the "excitement" is over. And you're able to get ahold of Master Barouk and rendezvous with her and the other members of your contingent son enough.
...
You all meet in a large and ornate audience chamber, there is the Master, your Jedi Service Corp survival specialist, a couple of the Clone Trooper squad captains, and Cevron and Miica. In addition to the Gamorrean diplomat's and their guard.
Master Barouk looks upon the other two Jedi with relief as they enter and says, "Well... that was exciting, hm?"
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@crazybirdman I still need to do a final review of your PC, but we should be able to wrap up any outstanding questions that may emerge from that, before we get back into too much more gameplay. Please feel free to join us IC
Kolibri has been here the whole time, from approach to landing to the mayhem on the pad (you were with the Master when the group got split).
We just didn't zoom in on them until now. So please play it accordingly, all.
Sep 27, 2025 5:21 pm
An older Bothan with dark brown fur gives a little cough. He is holding a meter long shockprod as if it's a walking stick, and there's a deceptively cute flying creature using it as a perch. He's wearing some armor, but you can tell it's new and he isn't used to it yet. "Forgive me for speaking out of turn, but are Jedi missions always this perilous? Should I be expecting danger from touchdown to takeoff?"
Sep 29, 2025 2:18 pm
Cevron nods at Kolibri and Master Barouk when they are reunited. He's unable to hide the relief in his face, but he quickly cover over it with his usual bluster. "Nothing we couldn't handle," he says. "Though I am glad you made it out in one piece as well."
Sep 29, 2025 10:48 pm
The Master smiles wryly, "Where the Jedi go? Peril tends to either lie in wait, or follow, Specialist Kolbiri... This bit however was largely unforeseen...
While they are a very war-like people, Gamorr gave us no indication there was such a ... protest... as this awaiting us.
The danger should be mostly over with... There is the potential for other outbursts such as this at the Tribunal when the Bloodroot Accord is re-negotiated and reinstated. But the Matron has already done the legwork to ensure she has the necessary support from the leadership, and the Tribunal is mostly a formality.
But that doesn't mean there won't be objections from their people....
Still, they know now. And should be better prepared."
While they are a very war-like people, Gamorr gave us no indication there was such a ... protest... as this awaiting us.
The danger should be mostly over with... There is the potential for other outbursts such as this at the Tribunal when the Bloodroot Accord is re-negotiated and reinstated. But the Matron has already done the legwork to ensure she has the necessary support from the leadership, and the Tribunal is mostly a formality.
But that doesn't mean there won't be objections from their people....
Still, they know now. And should be better prepared."
Sep 29, 2025 11:20 pm
Kolibri strokes his chin in thought "Sounds like we also need to be prepared. Have any of today's attackers been caught? Maybe we can question them about future planned attacks?"
Sep 30, 2025 3:04 pm
OOC:
So, we have ended the encounter. You guys can make a Simple (no dif) Discipline OR Cool check to recover Strain if you'd like, as well as any other checks if there's anything else you want to do.The Gamorreans have their own process and these are their citizens in their jurisdiction. We are not here as a police force. Only diplomats and learners.
Now I s...", at this point a Gamoreean guard has approached and bangs the pommel of the haft of his polearm on the ground and utters a short series of grunts and squeals. The protocol droid from out on the landing pad translates.
"Master Jedi, the Matron requests an immediate audience. If you will please.", and it motions the Master toward a wide and deep extended dais where the Matron sits at the peak with the Ganorrean diplomat's flanking her.
Master Barouk nods and addresses you all before turning to go, "Well, there was to be a tour before we're shown to our quarters, but, eh... I don't know if that's still the plan. Standby, and, well, just try to relax?", then she goes to the dais, with the Captain of the Clone Troopers accompanying her.
...
Meanwhile some of the other Gamorrean guards approach you three, from over by the closed blast doors where they just got done fighting the dissidents. They approach with a swagger and bobbing their heads to you all, vibro-axes slung on their backs. A couple mimick the moves of an invisible lightsaber in their hands, a couple mimick blasting with an invisible blaster, and they follow that up with a genuine-appearing, but brief applause.
They circle round you three, clapping you each on the back and jostling you maybe kind of friendly-like?
And they grunt and squeal to each other and you, a couple display some bleeding wounds, one wipes blood from the snout of another, slinging the red-mucousy mixture to the floor, some swipe at the blood from their mouths - wiping it on each other. One even wipes theirs on Cevron!
They tug at your robes and grunt and squeal and beckon you each to show your moves and flex...
Sep 30, 2025 8:51 pm
"I understand that you Jedi aren't supposed to 'show off' as it were. But perhaps a little would be warranted here?" he says to the others.
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wait, are Cevron and Miica Jedi? Oct 1, 2025 9:16 am
It takes all his training to not show disgust as one of the Gamorreans wipe their blood on his padawan robes. "I'm assuming this is some kind of custom?" Cevron asks. While the day has taken a mental toll on Cevron, he has no visible wounds to show or wipe. Luckily, he thinks to himself.
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