IC Story Thread: Chapter 1, Gamorr - the Diplomats

Master Barouk is still under attack. I believe she wants us to get to the Citadel he says in common to the other jedi.

He then looks at the diplomats What is the fastest way to get to the security platforms? they are firing on civilians with you safe, it may be time for them to stop...attacking those who can't fight back and weaker.

OOC:

going to just make it Leadership roll just in case they aren't going to just freely give the information would want to appeal to that sense of honor and being stronger, picking on the weaker isn't good form which was mentioned about their culture

Rolls

Leadership

1 Success, 1 Advantage, 3 Failure, 3 Threat

Total: 2 Failure, 2 Threat

Aug 29, 2025 6:59 pm

Cevron is halfway on his way back to Master Barouk when he hears about heading to the Citadel. He hesitates for a moment, before nodding to Miica. He remains silent to see if anyone replies to Miica.

Sep 2, 2025 3:41 pm

OOC:

The gray oval is your shuttle/where you guys originally came out onto the landing pad.

The red dots are basically where the ceremony was and where the attack happened.

The blue arrow is the last known position of Master Barouk, and the direction she was heading.

The yellow arrow was the direction you guys went, and the yellow dot is your current location.

So to get to the Citadel, you're either going back out into the landing pad, or navigating the building.

The two diplomats look at each other and kind of shrug and shake their heads, one of them points up, indicating that perhaps an upper level of the structure would be your best bet.

But clearly this is something outside of their area of knowledge.

Sep 3, 2025 7:52 am

"Lock the door behind us, do not let anyone in!" Cevron tells them. "We will be back."

At least he hopes they will be back, but he won't let his doubt show.

He starts looking for stairs or ladders that can take them up quickly, and once he's found one starts climbing to the upper level the diplomat pointed to.

Sep 3, 2025 5:05 pm

Miica follows Cevron's lead and looks for the best way up as well.

We have to get back to Master Barouk stop this madness

Sep 3, 2025 6:01 pm

OOC:

Just to verify, you're leaving the diplomats here.

Off in the back corner of the maintenance bay, there is an open spiral stair that goes up to another level. You rush up it and find that it enters into what appears to be some sort of command or air traffic control room - as it has a large bay window over looking the landing pad, where you can see your shuttle outside.

There are a few Gamorreans at consoles tapping about at holo-terminals rather idly, and a couple grunting and squealing impassively over a commlink.

Most of them tho turn, startled, to look upon you both at your arrival.

Sep 4, 2025 8:42 am

OOC:

Figuring they may be safer staying put than following us right into more danger. But if there is some side room they can lock themselves into.

"Just passing through," Cevron says. "Could you point us to the Citadel?"

Rolls

Charm?

1 Success, 1 Triumph, 3 Threat

Total: 1 Success, 3 Threat, 1 Triumph

Sep 4, 2025 2:41 pm

OOC:

No check necessary, and really your character knows where the Citadel is, they can see it out the windows of the control room here. If your want to go there, just say you go there.

I thought you guys came up here to try to do something about the assault platform.

Sep 5, 2025 1:20 pm

Cevron was caught by surprise by the Gamorreans. He mentally struck himself for such an inane question. He could see the kriffing Citadel from the window. He'd never advance to a proper Jedi if the mere presence of people would shake him so. He shook his head, trying to shut down his own self doubt and ask a more pressing question.

"Or can you control assault platform from here?" he asks. "Or point us in that direction."

Sep 8, 2025 3:31 pm

The Gamorreans squeal and grunt in reply, but it's difficult to make out the exact gist of their response which is likely fairly technical given the question.

However they also show you that there is another assault platform outside on the rampart of the wall, which is unmanned.

It could be piloted in an attempt to stop the other skiff, which is straffing above the chaotic and dispersing crowds.

Sep 10, 2025 5:17 pm

Let us get to the other platform and see if we can stop this madness already. Miica says and begins to head for the platform

Sep 10, 2025 6:57 pm

The assault platform is a pretty basic aerial skiff with a mounted repeater. The other assault platform, manned by 2 Guards, is strafing overhead of the chaotic and panicked crowd. Many Gamorreans are trying to flee, but the obvious exit points are pinch points for volume. And there are some last remaining individuals of the dissidents harrying the Citadel and diplomatic guards as they try to get to the main Citadel doors and close our barricade them.

The assault skiff is focusing on the area of the dissidents, but there are certainly non-combatants who either are panicked and aren't moving, or have tried to take cover but there's not much to be had, and are in danger of becoming collateral damage.

OOC:

Whatever you do, it will certainly require a Piloting (Planetary) check, so maybe narrate what you're trying to do and provide that roll.

Sep 11, 2025 9:33 am

"You know how to fly one of these?" Cevron says scratching the back of his head. "How hard could it be?"

OOC:

I don't have any pilot, but can do it if you don't have it either Miica.

Sep 11, 2025 4:03 pm

No idea but trust the force Cevron

OOC:

My piloting is abysmal haha

Sep 12, 2025 6:30 pm

Cevron tries the controls hesitantly first, before going forward at higher speed than is recommended. "You want to do a frontal assault?" he calls out to Miica, trying to get above the other platform in case Miica want to jump down on them. Otherwise he'll stay at a distance, letting Miica handle the armaments.

Rolls

Piloting or Agility

2 Success, 5 Threat

Total: 2 Success, 5 Threat

Sep 15, 2025 11:40 pm

OOC:

Oh jeez all the Threats! Diff would only be average, so only PPBlk, so we'll lose one of them.

1 Strain to Cevron and I'll use 3 of them upgrade the Difficulty of the next check.

I'll also then flip a Destiny, to upgrade the next check a second time! Really putting the pressure on the resolution of this effort...

The platform is narrow and squirrelly, and Cevron finds it difficult to pilot at first, it is stressful and is a poor foundation for Miica and whatever action that he plans to take.

However you do make it over by the Gamorrean's on theirs...

OOC:

What does Miica do?

Sep 17, 2025 10:45 pm

Turning to Cevron before anything else Miica mutters I got a bad feeling about this

Miica takes a deep breath and leaps to the next platform below.

OOC:

so upgrade so one purple being a red?

edit: oh wait I see it was upgraded a 2nd time. sorry missed that. so one more red (take away 2nd purple?)

Last edited September 17, 2025 10:46 pm

Rolls

Brawl

1 Success, 1 Advantage, 2 Threat

Total: 1 Success, 1 Threat

upgrade

2 Threat

Total: 2 Threat

Sep 18, 2025 4:13 pm

OOC:

Well dang lol

Nice/lucky roll!

So... there's two Gamorreans on this platform, one piloting, one gunning. I'm assuming you're going for the gunner - if for no other reason than going for the pilot could lead you all to crash (plus the gunner's the one... doing the shooting)!

Difficulty for a Brawl is just PP. So my two upgrades change that to RR - upgrading a roll changes the color of the dice, it doesn't add them (the setback can stand).

Which means the roll nets-out to be the same! 1 success, 1 Threat.

I'll use that that to Strain Miica 1 point!

I think that roll was probably really about the only interesting/impactful roll that is likely to emerged from this encounter, and you got through it without Despair or failure, so I'm gonna push us forward a little bit on a narrative basis so we can move on to more interesting things, which I might not normally do in a combat encounter... We never rolled initiative anyway and so hadn't technically entered Structured Play anyway! :P

Hope that's okay!

Miica leaps down onto the Gamorrean assault platform. And they're basically unaware of the Jedi's presence - or that they're going to act against them - until their small craft shudders from the Guardian's landing!

With a swift combative engagement the gunner topples from the platform, at which point the startled pilot steers the platform back towards it's dock.

Sep 18, 2025 6:08 pm

Miica breathes deeply as he watches the crowd from the platform as it moves back towards it's dock. Maybe he is ready for this roll as a Jedi Knight...

Sep 19, 2025 7:32 am