The Taris Event Chapter 1

[Dood]

Dood sizes up the two men before responding.

Perception 8 + (5) = 13

[OOC fucking dice]

[Bulwark]

Bulwark approaches the two older men while wiping some dust off his pants, “we’re looking for traces of starships landing in the area. It doesn’t appear there have been any in quite some time. “ Nodding towards the church and those inside, “Other than the motley crew that arrived today, have you seen any new faces around here lately?”
Gather Information = 16 + (0) = 16

[Reese]

"Clearly these are not any Republic Army or Sith soldiers. They are sloppy with their moves. Joun just got unlucky with the amount of blasters pointed at him." Klak spins around and goes back to his ale. "Have you found anything So Leet? And what about those scouts? Im getting antsy to find these guys." Klak settled back in to his seat and drink thinking to himself I hope by Alvis they give me at least an hour to drink off this hangover before I have to fight anyone.

[Furiel]

"oh come now friends don't be so thin skinned. If we are going to get Joun back we are all going to have to get along and learn to take a joke" clearly Klak was not sorry but embarrassed and trying to make himself look better to the group. He stumbled towards the monitor, was he still drunk or just really hungover?

"After my years in the Army I would agree these don't seem like soldiers to me but let my eyes focus on it for a minute." staring at the monitor Klak knows he can help. he wouldnt be here if he couldnt help. But his eyes were so blurry, he just hoped he could prove these arent soldiers. A soldier just wouldnt do this. Perception = 7 + (6) = 13

"I fail to see how being able to take a joke is necesary for us to be able to get along. But you do have a point, we will need to work together to be able to unravel this mystery. I see So is checking that tattoo for any relations to any criminal organizations. Klak, do you recall any military or quasi-military units that may have used that imagery? I understand that sometimes units do things like that to build comraderie between members."
This entire time, since entering the room, watching the video and discussing the possibilities, other than to make room for Syric to search where he was standing Eli has yet to move. He has continued to stand toward the back, arms folded, and so stoically and quietly you almost forget he is there until he speaks.

[Reese]

Clearly starled by a the person talking to him Klak looked at Eli "No, its no military I know of. But Joun and I werent in for very long, we could have missed a few groups. I still think they arent Republic or Sith, those fighting skills look like they were never trained." Klak settled back to his drink still pondering the stinging between his ears.

[Blackferne]

Bulwark and Dood:
The old Rodian starts babbling off on one long riff in Rodese. The old human nods and from time to time interjects with phrases like "You can say that again." and "No good indeed." After about three minutes of this the looks on your face betray that neither of you speak Rodese so he looks at his friend and makes some kind of comment while gesturing at you two. The old man chuckles "That is right I don't think they do."

"Well I'm not quite the story teller my friend here is, but the gist of it is we have not seen any spaceship land here in say 3 harvests when my farm had quite the bumper crop of lokian wheat. Now that crop was quite a cash cow for me, and held me over the past few weaker crops. But I digress. We haven't seen any ships. We did hear some shouting, blaster fire and some kind of explosion a week ago and as we peeked out our windows we saw three armed men load Jounville's body onto a speeder before taking off to go up north. Now we ain't heroes so we just called Arillius to say his boy was in trouble."

"We don't get many visitors around here so this has been a rather crazy week."



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Inside the church:

So Leet's computer hack pretty much reveals Jounville's computer is a mess of disorganized files. There is nothing of immediate note that is interesting. Some religious essays, a couple poems. Various vid feeds he had downloaded to watch.

The database connection is still processing the image he grabbed from the security feed. The image is poor quality, the database is huge, and the connection is slow so this is taking a lot longer than he originally anticipated.

[Dood]

To Bulwark: Sounds like they headed toward the spaceport.
To the two jerks: Anything stand out to you fellows about the folks escorting Jounville? You ever seen them before?

Gather Information 2 + (14) = 16

Dood folds his hands behind his back, where he can get at his hold-out blaster in the small of his back.

Stealth 9 + (20) = 29 [OOC: Now THAT is how you waste a natural 20]

If deception is the correct roll instead:

Deception 2 + (19) = 21 [OOC: Remember that I rolled like this when I'm shooting rocks and bushes]

[Arrican]

So leet (apparently getting quite frustrated at the level of equipment he has to use) spouts a stream of curses about "blowing money on crap whiskey instead of the good stuff which would have worked better and then you could have gotten some equipment that didn't run like it had two womp rats running on a treadmill to power the connection".
"Look, this is gonna take a little bit longer than expected to figure out thanks to Joun's love of crap whiskey and disdain for at least keeping his equipment up to a moderate level of ability. So if you folks who tend to enjoy the big fiery balls in the sky want to get out there and check things out I can keep plugging away at this thing."

[Blackferne]

Dood/Bulwark:

The Rodian again goes on with the Human waving at him to slow down.

"Now these two don't speak Rodese you gotta give me a second. So it was late afternoon and we had come back from tending our fields and making supper when the commotion started. Now we are use to Jounville getting drunk from time to time and shooting things. We told him not to shoot our stuff and mostly he has complied. I guess that is about as considerate as you can expect from a drunk in his usual condition. The thing about Jounville is while he shoots crazily sometimes he rarely pops off more than a few shots for his own amusement. Now this blaster fire was different. First it started with an explosion which is not like Jounville at all. So I stuck my head out the door and noticed a speeder parked in front of the church over there. That combined with the blaster fire and the explosion caused me to duck back in and just peek out the window at what transpired. After a few minutes the blaster fire stopped. There was some quiet and then some sounds furniture being tossed about. I think that crack on the front window was caused by them, but I can't be sure about that. Finally after about 15 minutes they walked out. The big green one with the snout had Jounville slung over his shoulder, and he dropped him in the back seat and loaded into the speeder and sped off. Jounville screamed get help call my dad Arillius before one of the big headed ones in armor popped him in the mouth and told him to shut up as they passed through the gate."

[Dood]

To the duo: Have you noticed anything strange about Jounville leading up to the incident? Has he been acting odd - well odder than usual? Has he been entertaining guests, traveling more/less? Anything out of the ordinary for him?

Dood's fur above his eyes is slightly wrinkled in a look of curiosity.

[Blackferne]

To the duo: Have you noticed anything strange about Jounville leading up to the incident? Has he been acting odd - well odder than usual? Has he been entertaining guests, traveling more/less? Anything out of the ordinary for him?

Dood's fur above his eyes is slightly wrinkled in a look of curiosity.

"Well he is a strange gurk to begin with, but I reckon you might know that already. He was back for probably two weeks before they took him. He was a bit more jittery than normal. No guests I can recall. As for his travels he usually swings by once every few months and stays a month or two. His last trip had him out a bit longer than usual by a few weeks. I didn't think much of it to be honest. His delusions often take him to new places." The old man replies.

The Rodian just nods his head.

[Dood]

To the duo: Have you noticed anything strange about Jounville leading up to the incident? Has he been acting odd - well odder than usual? Has he been entertaining guests, traveling more/less? Anything out of the ordinary for him?

Dood's fur above his eyes is slightly wrinkled in a look of curiosity.

"Well he is a strange gurk to begin with, but I reckon you might know that already. He was back for probably two weeks before they took him. He was a bit more jittery than normal. No guests I can recall. As for his travels he usually swings by once every few months and stays a month or two. His last trip had him out a bit longer than usual by a few weeks. I didn't think much of it to be honest. His delusions often take him to new places." The old man replies.

The Rodian just nods his head.

Any idea where he went?

[Blackferne]

Any idea where he went?

The old duo shrug their shoulders.

[Dood]

Dood tries to ascertain if these gents are being entirely forthcoming with him.

Perception 8 + (7) = 15

*Rerolled - original was a (5)

[Blackferne]

Dood tries to ascertain if these gents are being entirely forthcoming with him.

Perception 8 + (7) = 15

*Rerolled - original was a (5)

To the best of your knowledge these gentlemen seem as forthcoming as they can be. You have a tough time reading the Rodian, but that could easily be the language gap.

[Reese]

So Leet's cursing and incessant clicking on the equipment was getting louder than the ringing in Klak's ears. You are right So. We can probably get an idea of what's going on by looking around outside." The sun would be no better than the cursing for Klak's head, but it may wake him up. He grabbed his travel mug of ale which still bore faint hints of the Republic Army seal on it. Klak held onto this mug because of the generous discounts a tavern owner offers the army on refills.

Slowly walking outside Klak reeled when the sun hit his eyes trying to catch his blance on the front window of the church. The cracking of glass roused Klak even more than the sun. Examining the fist sized hole in the window of the church and his own hand for any damage he called out "Sorry Arillius, sometimes I don't know my own strength" ignoring the larger crack that was in the glass he had noticed on their arrival that was the culprit and not his strength.

Resting against the door frame Klak allowed his eyes to adjust and looked around the area outside the church. Maybe a soldier can see something around here that a scout could ignore". He looked up and down the street for any clues

Perception = 12 + (6) = 18 (rerolled a 3)

Before reviewing what is around him he saw the two scouts across the way speaking with some locals out of eavesdropping distance. They looked harmless enough and he was sure his new colleagues could handle themselves if anything happened. But he took comfort knowing he was only a few steps and a blaster shot away from helping out.

[Happyclam]

Solumnos watches the going ons with interest, studying the pair as they talk to Dood.

Perception 12 + (20) = 32

[Blackferne]

@Klak

Your looking around shows no particular signs of interest. Blaster fire and explosive damage mainly occurred inside the church. Little to no blaster or explosive damage occurred outside the church.

@ Solumnos

You watch the quartet conversing outside of earshot, but the body language tells you a great deal. The bothan and human scouts show signs of apprehension. Trust does not come easily to either. And while the two locals didn't notice the bothan reaching for a hidden weapon moments ago you did. This was aided by your point of view and the fact that the deception was not targeted towards you. Impressive you thought since to the untrained eye the bothan was merely "scratching" an itch. The locals are a melodrama of anxiety. The Rodian is clearly more uneasy than the human. Both by the best you can tell yearn for a non-eventful existence and clearly are not happy that so many strangers are walking around the settlement. They don't appear to be dishonest to the pair of scouts per their body language, but the scouts do make them nervous. They however realize this and are putting on their bravest most calm face.

Also the Zabrak nearby is more intoxicated than he realizes.

[Blackferne]

So Leet's attempts to compare the poor quality image return a nugget of information. Various minor crime bosses in the exchange have tattoos that symbolize their power. There is a large directory of known tattoos held on a remote server in the Galactic Republic's law enforcement database. So Leet will need more time to hack into the database and download the files.

[Bulwark]

Bulwark turns to Dood, "Maybe that computer kid can backtrace Jounville's arrival and figure out where he came from."

[Dood]

To Bulwark: It might also prove useful to look around the starport. As remote as this planet is, someone standing around the port is bound to notice a group loading an unwilling passenger onto a ship.

To the Duo: Thank you for your help.

Dood takes his hand off of his pistol and begins walking back to the church.

[Gandolfini]

Solumnus notices a light knocking on his chair followed by a squeaky voice saying "Exsqueeze but wherea ganna missa find da house of drink?" When Solumnus turns he sees a thin Gungan male wearing a Jedi robe and a vacuous expression. The Gungan smiles and his eyes blink rapidly for a moment."Missa m here to see Arillius Blackferne."

[Blackferne]

"And who might you be?" Arillius says with a tone of complete surprise to the new visitor.

[Reese]

Klak turned his squinted red eyes and attention to the voices to the side of him. He thought, A gungan Jedi, guess nothing should surprise me on this trip.

Klak shifted his stance so he could hear the conversation better while keeping one eye on Dood approaching the Church. Looking at the Jedi, Klak smiled a big ugly Zabrak smile as if reminded of his past and mumbled softly "and I was too tempted by the dark side to be trained. Humph." and loudly "Dood any news worth sharing?"

[Gandolfini]

Yousa Arillius? Mesa Padawan Wailer Master Jada sent missa to help yousa and said da yousa can inform missa of missa mission whena missa arrive. Missa ve arriv! What is weesa doin? Wailer's head nodded rapidly as he spoke.