The Taris Event Chapter 3

[Whiteness]

Syric pulls out his flask and takes the first of many long drinks. He is in the cockpit, alone with his thoughts.

[Blackferne]

I do not know where Tsont'Ar took Migs but was under the impression it was of planet. I could check with the Port Master to see if they left and the destination. Also could attempt to track their jump.

Eli and the rest of the crew are heading to Bothawui. It certainly seems plausible that they are working for Tsont'Ar. My impression is that the group called Tsont'Ar when Migs was arrested.

"Checking with the Port Master could be losing valuable time. Tsont'Ar is a master of corruption when he needs to be, so the time it would take to work those avenues would probably be better spent doing other things. I would like you to follow Eli and the others to Bothawui. If you hunch about them being involved is true, you should find out pretty quickly. I will have some padawans start research on Tordassium and later we will send it over a secure channel. Is there anything else you need to aid your investigation?" He asks.

If yes say so.
If no he will conclude with "May the Force be with you."

[Gandolfini]

I do not know where Tsont'Ar took Migs but was under the impression it was of planet. I could check with the Port Master to see if they left and the destination. Also could attempt to track their jump.

Eli and the rest of the crew are heading to Bothawui. It certainly seems plausible that they are working for Tsont'Ar. My impression is that the group called Tsont'Ar when Migs was arrested.

"Checking with the Port Master could be losing valuable time. Tsont'Ar is a master of corruption when he needs to be, so the time it would take to work those avenues would probably be better spent doing other things. I would like you to follow Eli and the others to Bothawui. If you hunch about them being involved is true, you should find out pretty quickly. I will have some padawans start research on Tordassium and later we will send it over a secure channel. Is there anything else you need to aid your investigation?" He asks.

If yes say so.
If no he will conclude with "May the Force be with you."

I need nothing at this point. May the Force be with you.

Jax and Slick get into the fighter and take off. Slick makes the calculations for the jump and we go. How long will it take?

[Blackferne]

@ Jax
You will arrive about an hour after everyone else. Please go to the bathroom BEFORE you depart and get your meditation on.

[Gandolfini]

@ Jax
You will arrive about an hour after everyone else. Please go to the bathroom BEFORE you depart and get your meditation on.

Was it a bad roll? My hyperdrive multiplier is 2 and not 3.

[Blackferne]

@ Jax
You will arrive about an hour after everyone else. Please go to the bathroom BEFORE you depart and get your meditation on.

Was it a bad roll? My hyperdrive multiplier is 2 and not 3.

Nope. I'm having everyone arrive at the same time (even Nolan) so I don't have to juggle different progressions. After everyone is synched we go to the new 1d20xhyperdrive modifier system.

[Cuspar]

I don't think we have anything to really do in space. At every opportunity, Cuspar will talk about togetherness and the importance of us not sabotaging ourselves. I will let Eli know that I would like to mediate a discussion between he and Bulwark when we see him again.

[Blackferne]

I don't think we have anything to really do in space. At every opportunity, Cuspar will talk about togetherness and the importance of us not sabotaging ourselves. I will let Eli know that I would like to mediate a discussion between he and Bulwark when we see him again.

So by my count

Dood and Klak are already on Bothanwui

Eli, So Leet, Cuspar and Syric are on the Sweet D

Jax is on his starfighter

Bulwark is on Nolan's Ship

Fandango is ????

So that golden rule of never splitting the party really fell to shit.

[Gandolfini]

So that golden rule of never splitting the party really fell to shit.

Don't worry about it. I'm sure it will get worse.

[Cuspar]

So that golden rule of never splitting the party really fell to shit.

Don't worry about it. I'm sure it will get worse.

So I've heard.

[Bulwark]

So that golden rule of never splitting the party really fell to shit.

Don't worry about it. I'm sure it will get worse.

So I've heard.

There is a difference between splitting the party and splitting the party members. Soon we will all have a piece of Eli we can carry around with us.

[Gandolfini]

So that golden rule of never splitting the party really fell to shit.

Don't worry about it. I'm sure it will get worse.

So I've heard.

You better watch it. I'm wearing a Lightning McQueen band-aid on my finger today!

[Whiteness]

I don't think we have anything to really do in space. At every opportunity, Cuspar will talk about togetherness and the importance of us not sabotaging ourselves. I will let Eli know that I would like to mediate a discussion between he and Bulwark when we see him again.

Syric will ask for Mr. T's retainer so he can consolidate company credits.

And drink.

[Cuspar]

I don't think we have anything to really do in space. At every opportunity, Cuspar will talk about togetherness and the importance of us not sabotaging ourselves. I will let Eli know that I would like to mediate a discussion between he and Bulwark when we see him again.

Syric will ask for Mr. T's retainer so he can consolidate company credits.

And drink.

Cuspar will drink. And suggest we wait to see what Mr. T's job entails before we merge the funds into the company funds - stressing the possibility that some people may not want to take on the job and the confusion as to payout that would cause.

[Furiel]

I don't think we have anything to really do in space. At every opportunity, Cuspar will talk about togetherness and the importance of us not sabotaging ourselves. I will let Eli know that I would like to mediate a discussion between he and Bulwark when we see him again.

"You can try to mediate between us all you want but I don't see how that is going to change my views. Best case scenario is he deliberately sabotaged our mission and he has gone through my personal belongings without my knowledge or permission. And that's the best case. Explain to me exactly why I should trust him, or why ANY of us should trust him when he not only deliberately sabotaged our mission, but then refused to cooperate with the authorities in their investigation into Ro's death that he supposedly had no hand in, all while advocating a path that would have made every one of us wanted fugatives to the Tatooine authorities. There is alot I will do in the course of this investigation to find Jounville and also to stop the Sith from producing these super droids. But as you can obviously see, I am unwilling to compromise my beliefs and morals to bail someone out from their own stupidity when that stupidity directly contradicts what we are trying to accomplish.

What I don't get is why all the rest of you are so ready to defend him and welcome him with open arms. He attacked Ro and sabotaged our mission and our contact. And you don't see that as a betrayal? Shouldn't your Alvian beliefs be demanding righteous vengence upon him for that sabotage and betrayal? But instead you want to hug it out with him. And all is forgiven. Explain that to me please..."

[Whiteness]

"You can try to mediate between us all you want but I don't see how that is going to change my views. Best case scenario is he deliberately sabotaged our mission and he has gone through my personal belongings without my knowledge or permission. And that's the best case. Explain to me exactly why I should trust him, or why ANY of us should trust him when he not only deliberately sabotaged our mission, but then refused to cooperate with the authorities in their investigation into Ro's death that he supposedly had no hand in, all while advocating a path that would have made every one of us wanted fugatives to the Tatooine authorities. There is alot I will do in the course of this investigation to find Jounville and also to stop the Sith from producing these super droids. But as you can obviously see, I am unwilling to compromise my beliefs and morals to bail someone out from their own stupidity when that stupidity directly contradicts what we are trying to accomplish.

What I don't get is why all the rest of you are so ready to defend him and welcome him with open arms. He attacked Ro and sabotaged our mission and our contact. And you don't see that as a betrayal? Shouldn't your Alvian beliefs be demanding righteous vengence upon him for that sabotage and betrayal? But instead you want to hug it out with him. And all is forgiven. Explain that to me please..."

"You see sabotage, I see a miscalculation. You see him refusing to cooperate with the authorities, I see a logical response to backworld authorities on a powertrip. Things weren't as clear cut on Tatooine as you seem to think. But as to hugging it out? I don't see that as an option, besides, who knows what happened after we left? For all we know Mr. T was all talk and left him for the authorities to deal with, or maybe he is a part of something larger and did have a hand in Ro'talths death, which I still maintain he coudln't have done on his own after we shot him up. Anyways, we have to remember the bigger picture, and why we're all here...to find Jounville Blackferne. We need to stop acting on our own and start working together or we might as well just call it quits."

[Cuspar]

You know what I see? I see a bunch of people who don't really undertstand each other. I'm not defending what Bulwark did. I'm just saying that we're all just taking it on faith that we're in this for the same reasons. Clearly, we're not going to find Jounville tomorrow - and even if we did, I'm sure he'd hop right on the Delia and tell us what we need to do next to further his mission.

So here's what I'm saying. Everyone needs to lay out all their cards on the table, for each of us to see. Our histories. How we know Jounville. What we want to do once we've found Jounville. Some have done that - and some have some gaping holes in their personas that are contributing to the distrust. And if the group isn't convinced that someone shares the same altruistic motivation for being here, then it's time to throw them out the airlock. Seriously.

I don't want to hug it out, either. It might well be a matter of punching it out. And the great thing is that if we share a motivation and we truly have just been miscalculating and purely communicating morons, then we CAN punch it out and it's water under the bridge. But if there was deliberate sabotage of the mission, then I'm ALL FOR the punching only stopping when the head comes off.

[Furiel]

"Ok, say it was a "mistake" as you put it. So after Bothawui we go to Ord Mantell to talk to the mineral guy there and he's a Rodian. For the sake of arguement say I don't trust Rodians and have an irrational hatred of them. So after we talk to him and he says he will have our data tomorrow and we leave his office. Then as soon as we get outside I say I forgot my hat, I go back into the office and I beat the crap out of him and now he won't work with us. Would I be forgiven for my "mistake" and you would continue to work with me, or would you throw me out an airlock?"

[Cuspar]

You wouldn't do that, Cuspar says with a wink.

But in all seriousness, you might be forgiven. I'd want you to explain it to me. And if your explanation was total shit, then yeah, I'd (try) and throw you out of the airlock. I might also hear your explanation, and even though I don't agree with it, see the "reason" behind what you did, and because we share a common goal, I'd probably be willing to overlook it.

All I want is a discussion where we find out the motivations behind all the actions. I want Bulwark to tell us why it made sense to shoot Ro'Talth, why he's so skeptical of the droid, and why he's hanging around other than the money.

It would go something like this - and this is my personal accounting of what I did wrong on Tattooine.

Jounville is my friend. I don't care what he's mixed up in, but I will help him.

Ro'Talth was mixed up in Jounville's abduction. Because he was our best lead to Jounville, I was willing to set that aside temporarily. So, when the conflict happened, I tried to talk Ro'Talth into hanging around, and when he asked me if he could leave the ship, I said that "I wouldn't stop him from doing so, but I couldn't speak for the others." So, I gambled and lost. Granted, the damage to the relationship was already done, but I thought I could save it by letting him feel somewhat free. Maybe if I had said "No - you can't leave the ship", none of this would have happened.

But you know what the crazy thing is? I was only SETTING ASIDE his role in Jounville's abduction. As my Alvian vengeance, I had every intention to eventually kill Ro'Talth. Yeah. I just said that. I was going to put a blaster bolt right between his eyes. I just wanted to get every bit of information possible out of him first. And if he IS alive, I'm still going to kill him.

[Whiteness]

"You still don't seem to understand the situation...your scenario has nothing to do with what happened Bulwark. I'm not excusing his actions, but he thought Fandango was a possible enemy, he then stunned Ro'Talth when he tried to buy weapons for Fandango. Droids weird some people out, I don't understand why but I've seen it before. I don't think he thought ahead and saw how his actions could have impacted Kitani and his decision to work with us. We could have worked around his altercation if Ro' hadn't gotten away and gotten himself killed"

"Now, had he taken out Fandango back on Bryx when he was trying to get us past the Sith, then you better believe I wouldn't overlook it and he'd be headfirst out the airlock. I'm surprised he didn't when he had the chance. When it comes down to it, we're just a group of individuals. I don't see how we are going to work together. We need a leader of some sorts and I don't think anyone here qualifies, so if we can't put an end to trying to work our own angles behind everyone's back and actually make and stick to plans...well I'll see what job Tsont'ar has for us, but after that if shit hasn't changed I'm out."

[Whiteness]

Ro'Talth was mixed up in Jounville's abduction. Because he was our best lead to Jounville, I was willing to set that aside temporarily. So, when the conflict happened, I tried to talk Ro'Talth into hanging around, and when he asked me if he could leave the ship, I said that "I wouldn't stop him from doing so, but I couldn't speak for the others." So, I gambled and lost. Granted, the damage to the relationship was already done, but I thought I could save it by letting him feel somewhat free. Maybe if I had said "No - you can't leave the ship", none of this would have happened.

"Actually fishy, if you had let me in on your plan with more information than just 'have fandango track Ro' if he leaves' none of this would have happened. The same goes for Bulwark, if he had wanted Ro' dead he wouldn't have been stunning him. I think he had some plan, but of course no one tells anyone shit around here."

[Cuspar]

All my scenario has to do with Bulwark is that I'm willing to forgive what happened when I'm convinced that he's in this for the right reasons. And I'm asking you guys to forgive me for my part in the fuckup on Tat based on my stated, and hopefully believed, motivation for being here. Namely... save Jounville. Little else matters.

[Furiel]

"I'm prefectly willing to talk this out, but one other thing that I need to hear out of Bulwark before I'll even consider working with him, and it may not be a big deal to you, but it is to me. And that's why he felt he needed to go through my belongings. Operating under the assumption that he miscalculated and he isn't working for someone else who briefed him on all of us to better infiltrate the group, and if we see him again we can probably assume that's true otherwise Tsont'ar wouldn't be shipping him back to us, that leaves the only way for him to know any of my background was by him going through my datapad. And if he went through my stuff, who else's has he, and again why? I need a satisfactory answer to that because I will not tolerate people invading my privacy and going through my belongings without my permission and I can't trust people like that. And I can't work with people I don't have at least a level of trust with.

And as for forgiveness, we've all made mistakes. I'm as guilty as anyone, the difference is that the mistakes we have been making have been us doing what we thought was the right thing at the time while still trying to progress the mission. That cannot currently be said for Bulwark, and that's part of why for me it is so difficult for me to forgive him."

[Bulwark]

(Ooc: the" wae" was a foobar on my part. I thought Arillius mentioned it on lok. If you want to RP it out that bulwark knows about it, we need to come up with a convincing backstory. Right now, bulwark doesn't have the computer skills to program a vcr, much less hack a databad)

[Blackferne]

(Ooc: the" wae" was a foobar on my part. I thought Arillius mentioned it on lok. If you want to RP it out that bulwark knows about it, we need to come up with a convincing backstory. Right now, bulwark doesn't have the computer skills to program a vcr, much less hack a databad)

What Arillus said in the introduction:

“Eli there is some kind of pit fighter or something.” Arillius points to an imposing young man who has a piece of iron rebar fastened to his side. His arms folded show the definition of a fit man. “Actually I remember Joun saying you were pretty devout and a focused soul, whatever that means. I’m glad you came out.”