IC Story Thread: Chapter 1, Gamorr - the Diplomats

Lucien smiled as the food and drink was brought over. Despite not being able to directly understand the Gammoreans, some things were universal. He wondered if his detachment had some kind of translation devices, and he inquired among the troopers, or at least among the highest in command.

"Thank you," Lucien said to the Gammorean bringing the food, as he did not dawdle with the food, and sought to try it, and then wash it down with a pull from the flagon; sampling the local cuisine and seeing what kind of profiles of taste, among other dimensions, it brought.

He kept some of his attention on the holoscreen, trying to work out who was winning, and who was losing the races, and who was favoured and who was put in the races, and what kind of vehicle configurations, and so on might be being piloted from the display. He figured he'd have to rely on visual more than audio, but he did consider how he might match up common sense visual events with translating the commentary from what he was seeing.

Dec 17, 2025 3:51 pm

crazybirdman Inactive for 19 days

OOC:

Alright, so knowing what you know, I do want to be a little open-handed for Cevron and Kolibri's choices here: actively participating in the hunt/killing would warrant as much as 6-7 Conflict, as per the Conflict table:

This is a "sport" hunt, so not necessary for food or anything, and even cruelty/killing of non-sapients does not align with the Light.

But also, I want to draw your attention to "Knowing Inaction". You will take 1 Conflict if you don't try to actively thwart the success of the hunt.

Your choice then ofc is to balance your diplomatic mission with your "values".

You can just stand by and let them hunt, not participate, and take 1 Conflict.

Or you can try to thwart their success, possibly jeopardizing your diplomatic mission of your efforts are noticed, but take no Conflict.

Please put together a narrative, for whichever way you want to go. As well as a check if necessary.

...

Lucien finds the food is similar to the fair that was on offer last night at the state dinner (though much lower quality); mostly fungi and vegetables, but prepared many different ways. There is one bowl that appears to be... something more like twigs, or woody roots, than food! No doubt able to be processed by the great gamorrean teeth and tusks, but he doubts the ability of his human mandibles to handle it.

When he takes a swig from the flagon, he finds it is some... picklely drink - but also definitely alcoholic. Not entirely unpleasant, but just.. different.

As they dive into the food and drink and spectatorship, the gamorreans raise their flagons in a toast, and say something involving "Jedi!!".

Dec 17, 2025 7:47 pm

Furmyr Inactive for 19 days

OOC:

ugh. I think Kolibri won't participate, and wont hinder them, but will help if asked directly. He's already pointed out the quizzers he's seen. He's into nature and all, so can appreciate the circle of life and all that, but as you said, they aren't hunting to survive.

Cevron Talith

Dec 18, 2025 8:35 am

Cevron hangs back. Trying to indicate that he wants to observe and learn from his new companions without directly participating himself. He feel some guilt over what is happening, but they have a mission, how many lives will ultimately be spared if they succeed in their diplomatic mission.

Dec 19, 2025 6:24 pm

Lucien at least tried all of the food, but for some of the twig-like food, he refrained from actually consuming it, if he was uncertain he could actually eat it and potentially digest it. He stuck to the fare that was more akin to what was at the state dinner that was more edible.
The drink is unusual, but given the alcohol, not a far cry from any other alcoholic drink in his opinion.

Before getting far into his feast of food and drink, he joined his companions' toast, which seemed to be to him.

"Thank you, thank you! And to the wonderful hosts here!" He added joining his flag on with the rest, before taking a pull, with the rest.

He hoped his contingent of clone troopers was doing okay, among the fun and frivolity, pulling a kind of guard duty, which wasn't much fun. He made a note to make sure not to drink too much of the drink the Gammoreans ordered, to keep his head on straight. He tested himself as he drank to see how hard the drink might be in comparison to a regular drink he might order at a cantina elsewhere, getting something more...domestic. He wanted to make sure the drink didn't affect him with the chemistry suited for Gammorean biology and endurance, whatever that was, versus his own...so he drank carefully, studying its effects.

Dec 23, 2025 6:05 pm

crazybirdman Inactive for 19 days

Testing the drink, Lucien finds it is definitely strong. On average, the standard male gamorrean must weigh close to 300 lbs - the bigger ones much more, and so perhaps the drink is brewed stronger for that reason. Or perhaps there is a biological difference in their ability to process it? Your mission primer didn't speak to such a thing tho.

It is hard for Lucien to judge just by drinking tho exactly how strong. The drink is also some sort of pickled salty-sour liquid and that striking flavor profile could be masking the full taste of the alcohol.

Lucian can tell his impromptu comrades are delighted to see him eat their food and drink with them, and from there they continue to escalate the celebration.

They each produce little pouches of wupiupi (the currency of the Hutts, which is also the primary currency of Gamorr, as their closest major galactic-neighbor, biggest trade partner - and historically their frequent interplanetary conqueror) and start gambling amongst themselves. While also keeping the food and drink coming.

OOC:

@PlebeianG please put together a narrative, and possibly one or more rolls of how you would generally like to handle the bulk of the day...

Do you gamble? If so how much?

The food is good, but the drink is strong. And these guys have no such inhibition as to not over-consume today. Do you try to keep up with them some? Maybe a Resilience check is in order? Do you outright start denying drinks? They are buying, this could be viewed as an insult, rejecting their hospitality? Do you try to hide that you're not celebrating the Accord in quite the same way as them? That might work, but you might get caught? How would you go about that anyway (skill check)?

Again, think about this in terms of your diplomatic mission vs who you are as a Jedi, as that is kind of the spectrum of consequences I'll be viewing it on.

...

For Cevron and Kolibri, you are given roles on the hunt commensurate to the hunting implements you chose. That said, much of the hunt is conducted, yes nearby each other but ultimately on a solitary basis. So if you're not actively undermining the efforts of others, it would be really unlikely that anyone would notice that you just... don't take the opportunities to kill quizzer that might present themselves, or intentionally miss.

OOC:

birdman, Kolibri is asked to fulfill specific hunting roles over the course of the hunt, "Go over there, and get any quizzer that come by after we chop down this tree."

But again, no one is there right next to him, making sure he kills quizzers, so totally up to you as to whether or not he actually harvests any.

If you do, roll an appropriate check plz

Kolibri

Dec 23, 2025 10:16 pm

Furmyr Inactive for 19 days

As Kolibri waits in the woods, mostly alone, he talks to the rawwk; "I think we should do what we can to try and save some of the quizzers, if we can." As the rawwk proudly puffs up its chest, Kolibri adds, "Let's wait on that, maybe you can yell at them later. For now, we should be more discreet." The Bothan reaches out with the force, trying to block the path between the quizzers and their doom.

OOC:

edit: ugh, probly not work using a dark side point to avoid confilct

Last edited December 23, 2025 10:17 pm

Rolls

Force Power: Alter

1 Black Force Point

Cevron Talith

Dec 26, 2025 4:49 pm

For a moment Cevron finds himself enjoying the wilderness without the lack of any other people around until he remembers the quizzers. He waits in his designated spot, ready to do nothing if any go by. Though he will not jepordize the mission by being caught helping the creatures either.

Dec 28, 2025 7:53 pm

Lucien used pace as a rough tool to guide him in hopefully keeping his wits intact. He also saw the gambling as a sign that perhaps he could perhaps try to influence the group from purchasing as much by steering their sums away from them, if he played it out right and was careful and so they might have less enthusiasm to get him intoxicated by circumstance and perhaps they might call an end to the frivolity sooner; it would mean delving into the foreign currency and making recommendations and seeing if he'd get a cut, rather than directly participating.

For now, he observed the betting and gambling to get a feel on what they were wagering over, and he tried to see if there was a spot where he could lend his insight on things to one of them. Otherwise, he nurses his drink sparingly, and made sure to eat up to balance out the drink, so when the inevitable second drink came, he had a full stomach to soak it up. Granted...he could use an excuse that the flavour of the drink didn't suit quick or much drinking. The strength aside it all. The food was acceptable, but certainly not typical in the diet, either.

He kept an eye and ear to the races too, keeping track who was winning, and who wasn't.

Dec 30, 2025 4:05 pm

OOC:

@Furmyr,@crazybirdman gonna focus on Lucien here for a moment to kind of catch him up and wrap up the day.

Lucien gathers they're making micro-bets on the pod races - how many catastrophic engine-failures will there be, will there be any spectator casualties, will Shaakor Pak'too (a notoriously violent pod-jockey) crash-out more than one of the other racers or will he himself get crashed-out in the attempt(s) - things like that.

There are also more normal bets - winner, fastest lap (any racer), multi-race parlees - but they're more interested in the kind of morbidities of it.

There are droids that come around to take the bets. And while the gamorreans are eager to engage the Jedi in the gambling, they'll only indulge him in one reasonable-sized bet on their own funds. They encourage you to exchange your Republic credits for wupiupi, to really join them.

And while exhausting their funds seems like a reasonable tactic to maintain sobriety; at least at first, the willingness of what they understand to be a mystic holy-man to engage in their frivolities only excites and encourages them - soon a multi-hose small water-pipe shows up at the table.

Additionally... while there are plenty of gamorreans having a good time, certainly some more boisterous than your table, Lucien does stand out and their exhortations celebrating the Jedi inevitably draw eyes.

OOC:

@PlebeianG Please roll an PPK Vigilance check if you'd like to maintain situational awareness.

Also, if you participate in their rather morbid gambling interests in any form (whether letting them place a bet for you, or you trying to influence their bets negatively, or otherwise) please roll a PPK Discipline check to avoid 1 Conflict, as their destructive interests in it run directly counter to the values of the Light side. (Or, you can of course just not engage in it, but this could dampen the "Jedi: they're just like us!"-vibe.)

And also, please put together a skill check to maintain your sobriety/to just generally handle the day diplomatically.

Again, could be Negotiation to just refuse as politely as possible (tho you think any refusal will be damaging, just a matter of how much), or I could see Resilience to just try to handle the drink, Deception to hide that you're not actually consuming, whatever skill you want that you can form a narrative around to defray any tension that might arise of you don't celebrate quite like them.

Using no skill use/outright refusal will guaranteed negatively impact the comradery.

Or of course you could just celebrate with them in earnest - really win them over, but take Conflict as impairment while technically on duty isn't great...

Again the challenge here is balancing your diplomatic mission with your values. That's what the gameplay here is focused on, so show us how you use your skills to do that.

Dec 31, 2025 9:35 pm

OOC:

I don't have Vigilance so I don't know what I roll.

OOC:

Rolled Vigilance, I think I did it right...

Last edited January 9, 2026 10:54 pm

Rolls

Discipline

4 Success, 4 Advantage, 3 Threat

Total: 4 Success, 1 Advantage

Negotiation

1 Success

Total: 1 Success

Negotiation Difficulty - PPK

2 Failure, 1 Threat

Total: 2 Failure, 1 Threat

Vigilance

2 Success, 4 Advantage, 3 Threat

Total: 2 Success, 1 Advantage

Jan 7, 2026 6:17 pm

PlebeianG says:

OOC:

I don't have Vigilance so I don't know what I roll.

OOC:

Sure, so Vigilance is a Willpower-dependent Skill (you can find what Skills are tied to what Characteristics in the book), and as described in the "Building A Basic Dice Pool" section: when you don't have any Skill ranks you just roll the rating of the Characteristic it's dependent upon.

Please, with every check, add the Difficulty dice as well. Default Difficulty, unless I specify differently in is PPK.

I'll edit your post to add a Difficulty for the Negotiation, if you could please edit it to add an entire Vigilance check.

Jan 12, 2026 6:54 pm

OOC:

Whoops, by having you to edit the post I didn't notice that the changes had been made, and that we were ready to move forward.

Sorry everyone!

Here we go.

As Lucien participates politely at arms length with their indulgences as they progress, the Gamorreans do begin to notice that he is not really sharing in their level of "enthusiasm". Or at least not in the same way as they are accustomed.

They do continue to try to include him at first, but with each polite refusal or excuse they grow more and more withdrawn.

Once the water pipe arrives at the table, Lucien notices two things:

First, that one of the gamorreans produces a packet of some sort of powder from a pocket, and pinches some into the bowl of the water pipe.

The gamorrean doesn't seem like he was trying to conceal it from Lucien (nor the other gamorreans in your cadre - making it fairly easy for you to spot), but does seem like he was trying to conceal it from any potential outside observers...

Second thing that Lucien notices is that one particular gamorrean a table or two away, seems to be fixated upon him. Gamorrean expressions are not as easy for the human Jedi to read, but it seems closer to displeasure than anything else ...

Jan 13, 2026 1:54 am

Lucien didn't hide his discomfort as he noticed the observer, but he also felt relief. He was more of like mind with the potential observer, if they disapproved of all this paraphernalia. He didn't want to cause a major confrontation that didn't favor him, so he simply reserved his time with a simple inquiry.

"Are you sure you're supposed to be doing all of that?" He asked sagely? He asked of his companions with a certain amount of boldness, and generally gestured to the surroundings, hoping they were a more unique gathering and would be met with some social isolation.

Jan 13, 2026 4:54 pm

The water pipe was ordered, like food or drink - delivered to the table by a servant, through the venue. But the powder does seem of course to be "extra curricular".

The communications back and forth have been fairly simple up until now, short statements dominated by common words - food, drink, good, yes, no, money - but Lucien's remark is a bit more complex here. The gamorrean doesn't fully seem to understand the implication of what he's saying.

The powder had already been sprinkled and put away, the gamorrean says something, he thinks, to the effect of "It's good! You like! Make strong!"

...

Meanwhile Lucien notices the angry-looking gamorrean at the other table, who's been fixated upon him, stand tall and snort and grunt, as he notices the Jedi looking at him as he still stares at the Jedi.

One of the other gamorreans at the angry fellows' table half-heartedly tries to pull him back to their gathering and their table, but it doesn't seem to have much effect on the bigger, angrier gamorrean.

Jan 16, 2026 2:26 pm