fgs_sessionceli

Session Summaries According to Celi

Session 1:
We made it to the station without any trouble and I quickly occupied the museum's tour droid so that my companions...on so that Mudaka could do something useful without being spied on. As we passed the auditorium door, I flicked the sensor with the force, but the door was locked. It looked like the only place we could go was the museum anyway. Security checkpoints barred the hallways. Mudaka went and got into the station computer with his artoo droid while i asked the droid about any useful information about the vong and farrina's web. Stephanie went off to harass the guards. Is this going to be typical behavior for her? We'll see if it ever works. Eventually the droid told me all he could and I turned him off using TK. Poor thing never saw it coming. Mudakka and I broke into the currator's office and Mudaka's droid pulled up a terminal for Mudakka to get all the information he could. The ducts had an opening in the auditorium we could get to. I failed at unlocking the auditorium door, but Mudakka suceeded. I went and sat in the duct, trying to get through quickly before the currator discovered the present I left under his desk (the tour droid) but my companions went and checked out the other tunnels without finding anything of interest. Well, Mudaka found a repair closet.
When they returned we went down the duct and found a guard nearby our exit sleeping. Mudakka 'assisted' me in removing the grating covering our exit. Then I jumped down, with an unexpectedly quiet landing, and checked out the surroundings. When I was sure the coast was clear, Stephanie jumped down making a racket, but fortunately ther guard didn't wake up. We then levitated the droid down with only a minor slip. Mudakka dropped himself. Then I realized I had a rope and grappling hook on my belt. Oh well, I can't always win.
I went into the ship bay first, while Mudakka and Stephanie hung back in the doorway. And of all the people to be confronted with, I run into a medical jedi who thinks we are all crazy. She is probably right about me, but I'm not sure about my companions. I wave my companions to stay out of sight while I walk to her and start talking to her. I get a little annoyed when she scans my mind about something. I never did like invasive powers when they aren't necissary. I also get into a slight debate with her over the intelligence of the Jedi Council. I think this is the point where my companions came out. She sensed their presence. She wanted us to go to her office so she could talk us out of our quest, but I wasn't going to let her put distance between us and the rocket. The farther we were when she finally decided we couldn't be dissuaded, the harder it would be to get back.
When she realized how stubborn I was, and how 'sick' I was, in her opinion, she threw a needle at me. I parried it with my lightsaber, then I tried to stun her. my blaster doesn't pack much of a punch against one person, especially a jedi. She threw another needle...this time at Mudaka, which I parried as well. Stephanie tossed me her blaster with more of a kick so I could try to stun her again. Mudakka tried to tackle her, and succeded but she eventually wiggled loose. I tried to stun the woman, Jinn, once more, but missed and hit Mudakka...never get a wookie angry.
Jinn decided to go into a trance at the bottom of a ladder leading to controls, with he lightsaber extended. Mudakka didn't take that so he jumped over her onto the platform and turned the controls on which opened the ship's docking clamp, along with some other stuff. We all then ran to the ship, but Jinn jumped up on the control platform, probably to undo what we had done, and threw a needle into my back! I took it out and hurled it back at her, and hit her in the chest. Then Stephanie, Tweak or twink and I all ran for the ship while Mudakka blew up the controls.
On board I set our course to the capital of Farrina's Web, then the autopilot took over. I let Cerberus out of his pack for which he was grateful. I wonder if I should have left him with a friend instead of taking him on such a journey.
Mudakka went to examine the engines, and Stephanie decided to ask me about my past, since I got huffy with Jinn about the Jedi Council. I don't know why I decided to divulge anything to Stephanie. I am not a very open person. But I thought that there were some things that should be known if I was going into danger with these people. So I told her that my dad is a historian so I could tell her any bit of history of the Republic, but my speciallity was the Jedi Order's history. And I told her that my mother worked for the Jedi Council before she vanished on one of their missions. But I don't think they need to know more than that. Then I decided to go to bed, but first I let them know how well armed I was. Just in case situations became tough.

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Session 3:
We Well, what can I say? It was an exciting day, but it wasn't over yet.
   We went to the local library and had Tweak do an info search on headlines in the last 75 years, on Jedi deaths, the dissapearance of the Jedi, the Vong attacks, Skywalkers, any suspicious murders like Larra's attack on the homeless people in the alley. We also got a copy of the Spider Bible.
After a few hours of information dump, we went out to eat then headed to the palace.
   Back at the palace we met with the president about Darco being called off planet, and about the latest news on the supposed crime lord that hired the Yuuzhan Vong to attack Mudakka. Apparently Darco, and anyone else that had the authorization the night of the attack was sent off planet to be investigated in a place where they would pose no threat, and would each be back once they were clear. I asked if General Skywalker was in the area, temped to meet a family relative around here, and to find out if he had any traces of latent force powers in him. But when I actually met him I blanked on anything that I had wanted to ask him. He was in his 40's, most likely didn't know any of his Jedi relatives, though he told me about a few of them. He also said I had the family resembalance.   Once we had talked about the Crime lord and I had stood blankly in front of General Skywalker, we were asked to leave as they started talking about some top secret stuff.   We went back to our rooms and caught up on some sleep.
   At around midnight we snuck out of our room to go talk to Larra's mother. We couldn't go through the main chamber as there were too many people, so we decided to go up stairs a few flights and come down in the other corridor. Fortunately we didn't run into any guards. I, again, failed to pick the lock so Mudakka 'tapped' it in the way that only a Wookie can and it opened. I went up to face Larra's mother with the news about her death. Mudakka came with me and Stephanie hung back in the corridor out of sight. I described to her the circumstances under which her daughter died and that I had tried to stop her and help but that I made no aggressive moves on her daughter. She was suprised when I said that her daughter tried to eat the charm she had given us. Bat-Am-Ad said it released a pheremone that was supposed to repell her.
   I explained to her that Larra had been addicted to six, and that it was slowing or satisfying her hunger, or that was the impression i got from talking to Larra. And that she could no longer afford the drug. I also told her my hypothesis that six was somehow processed spider web. Though I wasn't sure what made it edible. I also mentioned that Larra said all thepeople she tried to eat were empty. She appreciated everything we tried to do and asked us to let her know anything we could find out about this drug, six. If we could get her information about it then she might be able to get us in touch with more powerful spiders who could help us with our quest. We took our leave and headed back the way we came to sleep.
   In the morning we went and rented an airspeeder to go to the Jedi Academy. When we got there we went around the buildings searching for anything. At one point Stephanie noticed someone following us. We tried to catch esh but esh managed to evade us into the forest. We went on into the art building where we saw a picture of two people dancing, the woman had a spider tatooed on her face. Then Stephanie caught a glimpse of the person in the doorway. Before esh* could run, I called out "You can come out" so out came a female Lomp. She said she was a pilgramage, to where 'She' had recieved her training. She told us about Arriella, the 'She,' the betrayer of Morriartus. The Lomp was a Morriartus worshipper. She told us how Arriela had seduced many male Jedi and drained them, but not eaten them to stave off her hunger and fell in love with a Skywalker. She had eventually fled, and when Morriartus asked her to be her mate so that they could raise pure spiders that wouldn't eat other beings she called in the military on him. Mark Skywalker vanished when he had gone to find her and. She was disposed of after Morriartus's death. The Lomp was trying to get an understanding of what made Arriella.
   She went off again and said that she would like to show us some of the other important sites to her religion when we were finished at the academy. We went into the office building and in the Jedi Master's old office we found an encryption box hooked up to what used to be a computer. Probably where the encoded message had come from but nothing left to decode it with. We then went to the old Jedi Council's second room where there was a large black marble table in the middle of the room. Muddaka sensed mechanical type stuff in the center of the table, so when we couldn't figure out what to do to it, I wanted to lightsaber it. I didn't get very far before Muddaka stopped me. It turns out that was a good thing. It was interesting to see what were the different Jedi Master's titles in the Academy. Their title cards were still on the walls. We went out of the room looking for anything to tell us how to open the table do-hickey. We went to a pond, and I took off my jumper and jumped in to see if there was anything left by the Jedi on the bottom of the pond. I forgot that Stephanie was watching and she saw my tatoo. So I explained my sect to her, and then to Mudakka so he would know what we were whispering about.
   So we didn't find anything at the bottom of the pond except some pond scum. We also went to the gym where there were harnesses on the ceiling for holding ysalamiri at one point. Then the Lomp showed up only to be attacked by a vornskr. I levitated him so that everyone else could stun him. I then levitated his body out into the forest.     So we headed to the Statue. And when we got to the Statue of Palpatine, Stephanie got a vision of how the table worked. Good thing I hadn't chopped the darn thing up. So we went to the table and opened it. It was much harder than I expected. Poor Muddaka was having rotten luck levitating the blocks and kept knocking my grip off. But finally we got the table open. We rested, I let Cerberus run, and chatted, then went to the room below and found a passage in the duct. Tweak went back to the speeder, while we went searching. We followed a tunnel with a light running across the top, that led to an open chamber. In the middle of it was a platform. I used my grappling hook <finally> on a pipe so that we could each swing across to the platform then to the other end of the tunnel.
   Then we went through an open chamber where we ran into a few Vornskrs. I levitated one until we could pass, and the second left us alone. Then down in the passage, we walked into a ysalamiri bubble, where there was a faint clicking and the tunnel took a sharp turn up. We tried to carve hand holds into the wall with our lightsabers, while the ceiling over the path up came down. We ran out of time and it came all the way down, but a wall also came down to block our escape. We then fell through the floor into a net where ysalamiri were stationed all around the net. But there was a pathway out. The path out, took us up parallel to where the place we tried to climb would've been. Through a panel we saw laser holes to blast whatever made it up. It was also a dead end. It appears that we weren't meant to suceed. So we went on into a chamber where there was another statue and a holocron. We listened to a Jedi Master talking about them having hidden. He invited us to find them though the path would not be easy...no kidding since I bet he expected more powerful and experienced Jedi than us...we could help them fight the many evils, we could join them in hiding, or let them be. But they left a trail for other Jedi to follow...the next clue was the painting we had found in the old Jedi Council office already. :-)
   So we left and went to let the Lomp show us to where Arriella had hatched and awakened. We noticed a lot of spiders in the woods, and one tried to attack us. I levitated it, but it was out of range for stun shots. I wasn't thinking so I let Muddaka shoot it, then I jumped in his way, but Stephanie shot it. When the Spider thing exploded I collapsed on the ground and after a few moments felt a little better, but it still gnaws on my thoughts occasionally. The Lomp asked me if I was a spider worshiper. Not likely. I told her I respected all animals. She didn't agree with my logic. We then went to her pod, where the Lomp found a spider's web underneath it. Muddaka and I levitated the Lomp's paper and charcoal out to rub the inscription for her, then she copied it for us. Then we headed off to the cabin where a good jedi hermit had been bound to his bed and consumed by Arriela...when she awakened.
   The cabin was old and had colapsed in on itself somewhat. The first floor was gone and the second story was on the ground where the first had stood initially. we sensed a warm presence in the force, until we got to the door, then we felt a person inside. After a quick discussion we decided to go investigate. We went into the building where we found a slightly insane...ok....beyond insane dark jedi that was using the light Jedi's 'presence' in the force to hide. He had been hunting and killing spiders with his 'void' powers. He blew the door shut then injected himself with something. I took out my lightsaber, but didn't do anything. His presence increased rapidly in the force, then decreased to lower than it had started. Then he did something so that Stephanie couldn't breathe, but it wasn't like she was choking. So I lightsabered the dude. Mudakka did the same, while stephanie tried to run and breathe. At Mudakka's blow the guy fell down, and we left the house. When we were outside we waited for the death explosion to come. It didn't. Instead the dark Jedi came out, again and called up one hell of a force storm. We all were knocked over, so I did the only thing I could think of. I threw my lightsaber at him. He was chopped neatly in half. He then fell down, completely dead, and started to quickly rot. We went into the cabin while the Lomp explored where Arriela had awakened, and we copied down the writings on the wall made by the dark Jedi. Man was he crazy. Then the lomp told us she was in debt to us for saving her life three times. And that anyway her people could help us would be ours. Then we headed back to the airspeeders with the Lomp and headed back to the Palace. Do we have any normal days? Oh wait, we're Jedi. This is normal.

Session 2:
   I had a dream on the ship though I refuse to tell anyone what it was. I woke up with a start when our ship was jerked out of hyperspace because of the shifting of the planet's gravity. I went to the cockpit and put "my half" of the ship in orbit. I listened on the comm until the local fighters found our frequency, then we got them to put us and the rocket's back end into a holding orbit, then they gave us a ride down to the planet to meet the president. We decided to let Mudakka be the only obvious Jedi. I pretended to be Mudakka's translator, and I don't know what Stephanie was supposed to be, but anyway, they scanned us for diseases and such, and found that Stephanie and Mudakka were clean, but I had something they had antibiotics for. We all took the pills for local diseases, and went down to the planet on the local shuttle. The Captain of the ship was head over heels over the Jedi which was nice, it made Cerberus less attention grabbing. He barely got a look next to the lightsaber weilding wookie.     When we landed on planet we were led into the palace to meet with the President. A scatterbrained employee of the president named Darco met us and led us to the president's chambers. the president seemed like a natural charmer. He was thrilled to have a Jedi back to give the people an image of hope and offered to put us up in his house. He wanted to salvage our ship for parts to fix the transmitter. Poor Mudakka didn't want to part with the ship, but unfortunately there was no way for us to salvage our ship to get home so he finally agreed. The president let us head to our rooms for food and rest since we had a long trip.
   Darco accidentally took us down the wrong hallway, and Cerberus went nuts at something in the ceiling. He scared the people around us, being a hyper barking vornskr and all. Stephanie sensed a lot of lives in the ceiling and we decided to come back and investigate. Back in the room we ate, and decided to rest then investigate the empty space in the morning, when we could get guards to back us up if necissary. We all talked about our dreams, and what to do about the empty space. Though Stephanie was not satisfied with my answer. Twink camped out by the door as a guard, but I decided to stay up as well. I read over the datapads, and when stephanie got up to watch, we talked a little about our dreams. Much to Stephanie's dismay, I don't like to tell much about myself. We talked about the Yuzzhan Vong for a while. I divulged as much info as i could remember. Eventually I headed to sleep.
   After I had been asleep for roughly 10 minutes Twink sounded the alarm as someone broke into the room. There was a loud "blasphemy" and poor twink flew across the room under the blow of a Yuzzhan Vong. Mudakka was not going to be happy. Cerberus hid underneath the bed, and I jumped up, sleeve blaster in hand, lightsaber in the other hand. I shot the Yuzzhan Vong with a stun bolt, and Stephanie tried to hit it with her lightsaber, but he parried. The Yuzzhan Vong threw some blorash jelly at mudakka and fortunately missed after i cut it in two. The Yuzzhan Vong then threw a thud bug at Mudakka, but Mudakka was too far forward for me to parry it and the bug hit him in the side. Mudakka used his lightsaber on the dude and suceeded, and Stephanie failed again, but I finally brought him down with a second stun bolt.
   The strange thing about the Vong, was that he had a small presence in the force, and that he had blue crystal shards through his body. I bound him with torn up sheets then sat with a vibroblade at his throat until he woke up. Mudakka tended to his own wounds. Mudakka also hit the red button to call security. I tore one of the crystal shards out by hand and put a bacta patch back on where the wound was. The Yuzzhan Vong woke up and asked for life and six, referring to his crystal. We found out from him that he was hired to kill us in return for more 'six' which he said was something the Jedi had. So somehow he was sort of injecting himself with the force, like a drug, but not exactly. I am not sure myself. He broke his ties and provoked Mudakka into decapitating him.
I hid the crystal shard and went and cut open the blast doors for the security team. Darco's jaw couldn't fall any farther at the sight of my lightsaber, <grin>. The medics headed down to check on Mudakka, and I talked to Darco about the Yuzzhan Vong's infiltration and that only about 25 people had the access codes to lock the doors. We then took the security team, while they were up, to investigate the lives in the ceiling.
   We met a spider demon up there with her 50 or so offspring. she had forsaken eating people, and wanted ua to find her daughter who was in some trouble. She told us about the crystal shard from the yuzzhan vong-it was from a spider's web and conducted power. She gave us a token for her daughter as protection and we headed out before her brood decided they were really hungry. We decided it was best not to tell the locals there was a spider in the ceiling so I said that Cerberus must've smelt something off earlier. We then went back and rested up. In the morning Darco told us that he traced our assasin to a local crime lord and that the next day they planned a raid and invited us to join them. We declined on behalf of Mudakka's injuries and went to town to get the parts to fix the droid instead.
   The workers at the local hardware store took an interest in Mudakka's droid, but left us alone. We aquired all the parts and Mudakka began to fix him when tried to do something to my mind, when i resisted they went for poor cerberus, who let me know there was a message he didn't understand enough to pass on. Then he got us all to head out, to look for the spider's daughter. A mind power was used on me, and i didn't resist, so the spider sent me a message to hurry, then she did something to my mind so that i felt the urge to hurry.
   When we were in the bad part of town, a few people tried to sell us some drugs, but left when Mudakka glared at them. Gotta love having a wookie around. Then a mugger had the misfortune of picking us as good subjects of a robbery. Now who would rob anyone travelling with a wookie is beyond me, but anyway, he held me at gun point. I tried to levitate his blaster away but it just jerked in his hand and he shot me. I should have lightsabered the damn thing. Mudakka shot him with a stun blast that threw him down the alleyway, and his friend in the alley cowered in terror. We kept his gun and ammo, served the sithspawn right, and I put a bacta patch on my shoulder. The moron shot me!
   When we were about a block away we heard a scream and i went running around the corner. There was an old woman who looked like she lived on the streets, jumping the people near by and biting them on the neck. She brought down three in all, and said they were empty and she was hungry. Everyone around her scattered and started shooting her. A blue aura around her flashed as they shot her. I ran towards her and tried to stop her. I kept her mother's talisman in my hand hoping it would get her attention. She grabbed it when I threw it and tried to eat it, then turned on me to eat. I told her her mother wanted to help her. She said her mother would wither like she (larra) was without food. She ran at me, so I pulled out my lightsaber, which got her even more interested. When she jumped at me I levitated her into the air. She began to convulse so I moved her down the street away from the people around us. Then she exploded and pieces of her fell from the air-ashes and bones. I tried to comfort a little girl who had known Larra. She said that Larra had been adicted to six, but couldn't afford it anymore. The local cops came and investigated, and I told them what happened. They wanted to take me downtown until I proved to them I was a Jedi by levitating something. Fortunately the people who saw the battle backed me up. Though a Trandoshan took interest in us. Another government agency showed up in black cars, and took over the crime scene. They also questioned me, and were quicker to believe my story except the part abotu being a jedi. When they asked for my name I gave them my full name, and that seemed to make them much more trusting of me...as much as a government agent is willing to trust anyone. I told people that they could reach me at the president's place. Then was free to go.
We went to the bounty hunter's guild to get a small taste of the local underworld. I asked about the Jedi at the bar, and kept myself separate from my party so that if the trandoshan came and said i was a jedi the rest of the party would be safe. apparently no one at the bar knew about the assasination on the jedi and didn't even know that a jedi had come. or they werent' telling. Mudakka went and talked to a wookie over in the corner of the room. Eventually the trandoshan told someone i was a jedi. you could see it in his face, so we decided to head out of the guild before too much trouble stirred up. We then headed to investigate the old jedi council room.
   At the building they asked us to leave our weapons, but their security door didn't actually detect weapons, so I only left my blaster, and mudakka left his crossbow. When we got to the room, the only thing of interest we found was pictures painted on the wall, and a balance symbol very similar to the one I had tatooed to my back, though with different writing. And in the middle there was clear glass. It said something about where the dark and the light meets there is nothing. It was very strange, and not a view of the force I had heard back home. Stephanie realized that there was something familiar about the wall painting to me, so she questioned me. I told her that a particular group back home thought the force was all about balance and that they had a similar symbol but they thought there was a neutral area in between dark and light not absense. I also told her about the names written underneath the symbol. Master Yoda and the Sith Lord that he had fought on Dagobah. The writing was weird, and not reproducable by tweak. I found it odd also that there was any reference to such an old battle that wasn't all that important in the life of master yoda to anyone almost five hundred years later. Twink scanned the pictures and we headed back to the capital with much to talk about and think about, and many people waiting to talk to us there. I don't know how we will tell the spider mother about her daughter and how she will react.

Session 4:
When we got back from our adventure at the Jedi Academy we found out that Admiral Skywalker wanted to meet with us about some of the president's business, and wanted to talk to his fellow Skywalker ar a little more leisure the next morning. Then Finally we got some sleep.
   Nothing much happened in the middle of the night. During my watch I let Cerberus run around without his tail wraps for a bit, but put them back on in the morning, so that he didn't accidentally hurt anyone. Then the three of us went to a restaraunt in the bad part of town for lunch. We started talking about the Jedi, then i mentioned that I didn't think it was something to talk about in public. Admiral Skywalker said that it was plastered all over the papers - the Jedi arriving on the planet. The waitor brought Admiral Skywalker a copy of the paper, and there we were on the cover. Even though the article was written when they only thought that Mudakka was the Jedi, they made it ambiguous as to whether all three people in the paper were Jedi or not. The waiter was a little overawed to be serving us once he realized who we were.
   Admiral Skywalker talked to me about his family and my family. Sadly, his branch of the Skywalkers doesn't really have any jedi in it. We also talked about the Jedi Academy and the dark jedi we ran into there. We gave him the drug we took from the dark jedi and asked if he could get it analyzed for us. It was amazing at how little attention Skywalker drew to himself.
   Two people came in carrying concussion rifles, and Stephanie recognized them as vong. A waiter asked them to leave their weapons at the front and said that weapons weren't permitted, even though the room was teeming with bounty hunters armed to the teeth. Stephanie said that the vong wanted to destroy the aliens. The vong on the right threw the waiter, so I tore the concussion rifle out of his hand at the same time that admiral skywalker shot his hand. The second vong shot the tank in the back of the room filled with 25 slulini . Mudakka threw the second vong out the door with tk, then all the bounty hunters in the room filled them with laser bolts. I levitated two tables onto the hole in the side of the glass of the tank to slow the water draining from the tank, then i brought another one over. Some of the brawny guys near the tables held one up, but shortly thereafter they ran...good thing i didn't drop my grip.
   Eventually I was holding 4 tables while mudakka was holding 2 physically and he was fixing the 9 broken suits the slulini had to wear to survive outside of the water, while the slulini in the tank were stuggling to get into the remaining suits that were slowly dropping into the tank. Skywalker held one of the tables when he saw how much strain i was putting into holding a shattering tank together. Once a good number of them were suited up they came and grabbed the remaining tables while I collapsed, having spent all my energy on levitating table, after table, 6 in all at one point or another. I felt weak for a moment, as i suppose i should given all that had just happened, but i couldn't help collapsing to the floor.   The bartender brought glass to cover one of the holes, and a pump. Finally all the slulini's had working suits, so the bartender sucked up the water, Mudakka went to the bar for a strong drink and i got up and went to the bodies of the vong, that Skywalker was examining. I offered him a vibroblade to cut through the human exterior they were wearing. The bodies were run through with the same blue crystals as the others.The MIB dudes showed up around this point.
   Skywalker told me a little about the criminal they had suspected was behind these vong attacks. He figured that the boss was behind it because he was the only boss that really had dealings with the Vong. They were planning an attack on the boss's main base and would like us to go with them. I told him that I gave one of the crystals to Darco, and tried to remove another, but was unsucessful. Anyway, Skywalker told me what little he knew about the vong ramming these crystals through their bodies, which was only that he'd seen it done occasionally.
   I went out into the street looking for poor cerberus who had run away at the start of the fight. I found him down the street in the dumpster, where he found the vong's stash of their normal weapons
which i took, along with my pup, back to the bar (glaring at the people in the alley who though i was interesting). I showed Skywalker the weapons, and we all decided to head back to the palace. Skywalker offered me an arm, but Mudakka came over and took it instead, being drunk and all. Stephanie took Mudakka's other side. I grabbed the concussion rifle I had taken from the Vong and Skywalker waved off the MIB from stopping me, then I walked on his other side and we all headed back to the palace. We slept through the night, then the next day we talked to skywalker once more.
    He said that the president wanted to help us bring back the jedi and make a place for them in the goverment. He told us a little about what that would entail and asked if we thought it would help set it up and give them info about the jedi in our galaxy. We discussed more about our spider encounter (larra not bat'am'ad) and asked him to get us info about more of the attacks. we asked him about the mitochlorian project and the dark jedi who used to work on it. we also said that we'd get back to him about helping him on the raid against the mob boss who had tried to have us assasinated. ialso told him my guesses about six. after skywalker left, we decided that we would go with them on their raid unless something else came up about the jedi, as that was our primary interest.
Things are going to get interesting very quickly. i hope we can go find the Jedi soon

Session 5:
First thing in the morning, tweak said that he had shut off in the
middle of the night for about ten minutes for no reason. Mudakka
better have that droid examined. Hopefully we are safe enough as long
as one of our flesh and blood members are awake as well as tweak, the
odds of both him and us falling asleep at the same time are small.
Anyway, Admiral Skywalker came and talked to us about his civilian
Jedi order...thing for a while. He got frustrated with us explaining
our moral training and the details of our small society. In the end i
think he got the jist...that jedi function the way they do because of
the level of respect and trust they have earned from thousands of
generations of peacekeeping, and not just because of the powers they
throw around. He also listened to us when we said these people need
to do first, then talk later. They should be given a test run to
start earning people's trust right away, before the president says
'look at these jedi like peace keepers, trust them!'
    Anyway, next stop was the jedi council's old toom again to see if
there was anything more to the clue that was left there. When we got
to the room we found that dust was starting to settle over the image.
which means that someone, either ally or enemy, had dusted it off just
before we got there the first time. Cerberus found the wall very
exciting. I levitated the glass out of the wall, with suprising ease,
and i borrowed stephanie's mirror and used a flashlight, to check out
the room behind it. there was a red streak on the wall. i levitated
a scrap of my robe to try and make sure it was blood but if it was, it
was dried out. But i did get a little spider...which Mudakka
squished...I went to the main desk, and left my blasters with a pair
of security guards, and got a tourist map which i brought back to the
party. It turned out a utility closet was behind the room. we went
and asked the guards if we could get into the room. they said that
they couldn't. we tried to persuade them through levitation and
newsclippings that we were the jedi, but he wouldn't be swayed because
we didn't have any concrete proof that we were allowed in there and
weren't spider demons instead of jedi. fortunately admiral skywalker
was in the building and came over to get us through.
    In the room behind the symbol we found a recently hatched egg sack.
And blood all over the wall telling us that the spiders would find the
jedi before us. Tweak photographed the writing. I left while mudakka
called in an exterminator to wipe out the spiders.
Once we were all satisfied that we had all the evidence there was to
find about the Jedi we went to the freedom brother's hide out. There we
found an abandoned 200 year old underground bunker. There were
skeletons all over, dust on the ground and lightsaber gouges everywhere.
There must've been at
least 20 jedi, most likely more. That wasn't the work of a single dark
Jedi. As we explored we found foot prints in the dust, which we
followed. They eventually led us to a creature, which turned out to be
a fully force present Yuzzhan Vong with a lightsaber.
    This was not something I was able to wrap my head around. A Yuzzhan
Vong stood there talking to us, completely present in the force with a
communicator and a lightsaber. And he was talking about his dead
kin...the non force present Vong. He knew for sure that Mudakka was a
Jedi but it took me a while to admit it. He was there on the mission of
his goddess...the trickster spider demon. She had also given him the
lightsaber. He said that he was sent there on a mission and wanted to
know ours, in case it was either the same mission or we were his
mission. He was there with 12 Vong who were not Jedi but were present
in the force. He wasn't sure what his mission was, but I told him ours
was that we were there to investigate a dead dark jedi that had lived
here previously and was now dead. we were hoping to find past info on
him. He also said that the jedi were fellow warriors. this was also
something i couldn't readily accept.
    We went down a corridor he said that held booby traps, to explore.
There were stones in the floor at various heights, and a corridor off
to the left labeled Tirriel's hideout and a tunnel to the right
labeled death to all who pass...lotsa booby traps. So we took the
tunnel to the left. In the tunnel we ran into a huge crystal spider web
thing running along the ceiling, which went through a cavern and along a
stream down a corridor. Over the stream there was a wedge taken out of
it. Mudakka touched the web away from the broken spot and felt like it
was a power conduit i suppose. then the Vong Jedi came and walked under
the wedge. Then something else odd happened...nothing odd about that
;-) He started fighting people who we couldn't see. we saw him and
another vong take a hit or two i levitated one of the invisible dudes
away from the vong, then he got knocked down and lost his lightsaber. I
levitated the lightsaber through the field back to him and saw the flash
of Admiral Skywalker's cousin, Joseph Skywalker. I walked into the
field hoping to see him and see if he was the one the Vong was fighting.
But I saw Void Jedi instead. He wanted to try and kill me again. I
fought him brielfly, then stephanie came into the field with us. Then
the Vong assasin showed up. We fought the two for a while, then I left
the field, and pulled stephanie with me. Then we grabbed the 'good'
vongs with the force and pulled them out of the field.
    He explained that surely this break in Farrina's Web was the
disturbance they were sent there to check out. We explained that you
saw people who you had killed in the field, and I immedeately
interrogated the Vong about who he had seen, did one of them look like
me? Had it been a Skywalker/Jedi? He said he saw human soldiers, he
didn't remember what they looked like. They were going to clean out the
people in the gap, while we charged through. Mudakka ran through, then
Stephanie and I ran through with the intention that I would throw them
out of the way. I decided not to throw them when it seemed
uneccisary and decided to run instead. Stephanie did something with an
illusion to make one go away, then ran past the vong and tripped, so I
levitated her out. We found an old tram track that had been destroyed
by renegade jedi so we had to climb the long steep track, Mudakka with
the droid on his back...no one was all that happy.
    In the room at the top we found Void Jedi's old hideaway. I read
over his research notes...after mudakka 'kicked' the datapads. Though
he was narrow minded, the void Jedi actually had been a fairly
nice/normal Jedi when he had been researching. his research basically
said that he wanted to put his test mitochlorians (after the project was
abandoned) in a force stream, to see if that would help. but that all
the mitochlorian substitutes caused auto-immune sickness or something.
and even when he put his substances in the mysterious force stream, it
still made him sick for weeks. Then he gave up and went to the city to
check out something called six, that had a promising reputation.
    I put all his datapads in my backpack, and went to talk to Mudakka. Mudakka downloaded all available information from the Jedi's computer into Tweak.
Stephanie at this point was meditating in the corner. Mudakka
explained to me what the force stream was - this crystal (like the web)
that seemed to channel the force and spirits of the dead. Standing in
it also amplified the force in your body temporarily. Mudakka convinced me to go into the stream and help him open the massive windows in the wall. The stream was creepy.
    When we had the windows open, Mudakka and I went to talk to Stephanie and find out what was up. She said that she made an illusion of Dustin, her friend, but that he came alive. He talked to her about where he was out here, and that he was very sick with what looked like radiation poisoning, and sunburned. he was also in what he thought was a metal room but he didn't have all his memories, though the longer he talked, the more he remembered. I told Stephanie that it could be her mind.    The Vong Jedi showed up. He was battered and bruised, and said that they had cleaned the space where the spirits were though 3 vong died in the fight. I offered him a bacta patch then asked if i could borrow his lightsaber for a moment. naturally he was unwilling to part with it, but he handed it over, and i took it to the wacky stream, hoping i could get a force sense of it. I didn't get much, but Mudakka was able to with his massive machine abilities. We then gave the lightsaber back to the Jedi and headed back to the cut in the crystal. We explained that he may have purified it of his dead spirits, but whenever anyone else stepped into the space, they would see dead spirits from their past. He was very distressed at this news. Mudakka asked him if we could meet his spider goddess, and when th evong agreed, Mudakka pulled me aside and explained the back history of the lightsaber. It had belonged to Joseph Skywlaker, and had passed to the Vong's spider demon...though not by force. So I was wrong, the Vong hadn't killed Skywalker (damn there's a lot of em) he was killed by the spider, perhaps willingly, perhaps not. i need to figure out how to approach this spider on the subject when we meet her without getting myself eaten of course. So we all agreed to come alone to the freedom brother's place in a week, and meet the spider demon. The vong went on their way, while we decided to go explore the 'do not enter' section of the place.

Session 6:
Stephanie asked the Jedi Vong if we could borrow one of his warriors for a
minute. The Jedi Vong was suspicious, and probably upset with us for not
helping in the 'fight' against the spirits. He let Stephanie borrow a
warrior again, and went back to the open spider web wedge, hoping she
could do something-i don't know what, but there were no spirits left. She
let the Vong go back to his group and we went into the room with the floor
sections at different levels.
In the room I decided to go see if there was anything interesting
at the bottom-most level. Stephanie and Mudakka came, and Stephanie found
a hidden doorway. Inside there was a pile of 20 smooth fistsized
stones. I took three, and gave one to each party member, then we went up
to the path of death and traps. (sounds like fun for a bunch of Jedi)
In that pathway, there was a slot on the wall. Mudakka put his
rock thing in the slot, and there was a bunch of mechanical clicking. I
walked forward, and in the middle of the hall a floor plate sunk down
below my feet, more mechanical clicking, but nothing more
happened. Stephanie put a rock in and the same happened for
Mudakka. Then since i had her rock she was tempted to go step on the
platform and see what it did. We convinced her to go get more, since
there was another slot on our (Celi/Mudakka) side of the trap for getting
back I assume. Stephanie grabbed about 12 or something, and came over.
We then went up a staircase to a door, Mudakka oiled it, and I
opened it w/TK. Nothing happened. I leaned in and saw that the ceiling
was segmented into two rows of squares, going along the wall our door was
in. There was another door across the way, and a room with two doors down
the hall to the left. Mudakkka dropped a stone into the square in front
of us, and the ceiling over that square dropped. A few lightsaber hacks
later, it was in pieces in the adjoining squares...and set off another
square down the way to the left. I went out and stood on broken
rocks and cut up the new fallen rock, then I was free to go in the room
and check out the doors. Mudakka and Stephanie followed. I checked out
the door to the left. In that hallway there was a skeleton, with a hole
in its head,so I crawled down the hall until I was near the skeleton, then
levitated the bones to stand up. Nothing happened, so I dropped them and
a spear came out of the other end of the hallway (around a bend) and went
to the wall around head height, and shattered. I crawled underneath, and
set it off again - with pieces raining on me and cutting me a little - to
see around the bend, but the hallway was a dead end.
We then went to the right hand door in the room. There we found a
corridor that went to another room on the other side of the wall we were
in. In the room there was not anything, but the corners of the rooms were
weird. Mudakka tried pushing the wall between the room we were in then
and the room we had just left. The wall moved a little, then got
stuck. Mudakka and I both pushed the wall across from the door, and it
moved. We moved it all the way, 180 deg, and we exposed another door. We
went down another corridor, and came to a shaft. in the shaft there were
2 doorways below us at different levels, some ropes in the shaft, and a
platform below with a wheel on it. I used TK to turn the wheel which
conviniently raised the platform to our level. Then Stephanie made sure
there weren't anymore doors below the platform and that it would hold
weight. When we were assured of these, we all stepped on, but it gave
under Mudakka's weight, so he had to hold the wheel and brought us down to
the lowest door. Inside we found a cavern full of water in which there
was a big hungry fish. Good thing I hadn't dived in yet.
I used the force to see through the fish's eyes and find a
door. When I found it, I opened it with TK, and the fishy went free...he
was very happy. Then I dove in and went through the door as well, and
came up in another cavern, much the same as ours. I got out of the water,
where there was a lever and pulled it...it drained all the water, and
somewhere the fish was suprised by this as he swam along. Mudakka and
Stephanie came through the door, dry, with Cerberus and my stuff.
We then went through the corridor on our end. We found a
spiraling stair case. First we went up, and found cells, one of which had
a lomp body in it. Then we went down, and found a big pretty room. Tweak
sat in a ray of light from the ceiling, and Mudakka checked to see if we
could climb out a drain in the room. there were drains in the floor, and
an altar in teh front of the room. When we didn't find anything
interesting, we went out into the hallway to go down, and the floor became
flat. We went back into the temple, and a moment later, a gigantic ball
came rolling down the corridor, to stop about 20 meters below us. But it
wasn't blocking anything. We climbed back up and I noticed that each
hallway had been off of the staircase at 100 meters (jail) 60 meters
(cavern) and 40 meters (the temple) so shouldn't there be something at 80
meters as well?
We went back to look, and Stephanie found a secret door this time
around. In the room there was a pretty book on an altar/boobytrap, and
there were two slots in the wall that looked suspicious. Mudakka
recognized that the altar was a weight trap, and would register when the
book had been removed. We couldn't guess how much weight we should make a
substitute so I just TK'ed the book to myself, and then spiders came out
of the slots. I tried to TK the door shut but failed, so mudakka got
ready to shoot an explosive quarrel, but I got the door shut on the second
try. We started running down to the cavern, and the spiders started to
get around the door. I sent everyone on ahead, hoping that the lever
would bring the water back, unfortunately it didn't. I ran through the
corridor, and as soon as i was clear Mudakka brought the underwater
passage down on the spiders. Who were only slowed a little.
We ran back and closed all the doors behind us, and as we headed
up the shaft we checked the other door. It was a fall away floor behind
the door. We then went to the moving wall section, and moved the walls
back to get back. At this point the spiders seemed to have lost
interest. We then checked out the last door in the falling ceiling room,
but it too was a trap door where there was no floor on the other side of
the door. We then went back to the safe part of the fortress, and checked
out the rest of it. we then went back to the speeder, after fighting
about carrying the book. I won :-) I wanted to keep the shiny book for a bit
before giving it up.
So we got back to the palace and read about Arriela from 'her own'
point of view. We then went to the bounty hunter's guild (me in wig and
pilot's uniform) to get some info. Stephanie went to talk to the six
dealers. Mudakka went to find out about weapons. Unfortunately no one
had quarrels or stolhki sticks. I asked about the crime lords on Cirdus,
and found out a little about the structure of the crime section.
Stephanie got in a little over her head with the drug dealers, and
Mudakka and I followed back to their meeting warehouse where they were
taking stephanie. She made an illusion that we weren't there and we
followed into the building, but tweak stayed outside with Mudakka's
lightsaber...d'oh. Mudakka took up sniping position on the office where
they went, and I went to stand outside the door. I listened in on the
converstation for a bit...a bunch of bad boys. Then I tk'ed a wind gust
to blow the door open so i could enter without being too
suspicious. Then i went into the corner. When they had the knife near
stephanie's face a grabbed it in the force so he couldn't move it, then
when they brought out guns i allowed myself to be seen and grabbed both to
me.
I then had them put their hands behind their backs and one tried
to pull out a grenade, which i promptly took (stephanie had noticed it) We
tied them up, and we got some info from them. Unfortunately Stephanie offered to let them go, though i tried to stop her. Mudakka called in the authorities...who never showed, and one guy got lose when we ran into Mudakka. I caught the other one and tied him up again.
The first one alerted security, and a bunch of guards came after
us. They hid around a doorway, and I played living sheild while mudakka
and stephanie tried to shoot the people as they popped out. I got one
good shot in my shoulder, though nothing i couldn't handle, but stephanie
insisted on taking the time out of battle to put a bacta patch on, instead
of shooting the morons. I tried to throw my flash grenade, but failed, so
I grabbed some guy's gun in the force and stunned him. Mudakka threw
another flash grenade and i believe he suceeded, so we had our time to
run.
When we were outside and being chased, i pushed the button on the
beakon caller i was carrying. we dove inot an ally, and a weird ship came
into the clearing, which then shot the guards on our tail. but it
identified us as intruder and left. Then we tried calling it again, and
tweak managed to convince it we were fine. we then hopped on the ship the
second time it came, and talked the airpolice out of being too upset and
got them to escort the ship to a military base for us.
Aboard the ship we found that it was a spider's ship and that she
had a tourture room...and stephanie stole some of her (the spider) books!
Mudakka learned that the spider was one of the biggest
spiders in the world, and that she flew around and ate people and tortured
them cause it was fun. We left the ship and I told Admiral Skywalker
about it. He decided to use the ship as bait for the spider. I warned
him how dangerous she was, then let him do as he pleased. We then went
back to the palace and slept.
Stephanie apologized for trusting the drug dealers and she and i
had a quick talk about being careful with tossing around the mind powers
lightly. And i still insisted on keeping the book despite the fact that
stephanie could conceal it better, and i had a vornskr pup in my bag.
And that is all for this week...

Session 7:
Stephanie asked Mudakka if she could try out one of her mind powers
on him to practice. I went to take Cerberus for a walk instead of staying around. When I got back Mudakka told me that Stephanie had learned to alter minds, but that it hadn't worked on him. I was tired, so I went to bed when i got back as did my companions.     In the middle of the night I had an awful nightmare and woke up from it tied up in my blankets in a cold, fearful
sweat gasping, nearly screaming with my companions screaming around me.
    We all told our dreams. Mudakka's was that his dream ship belonged
to the spider who owned the ship from the previous day. I don't
remember stephanie's anymore. I got out my holo of the last time I saw
Oni, and told them that Terellia had eaten him in my dream and then come
to me as him and bound me to the wall, then disolved. I said that we shouldn't've upset such a powerful spider.
    In the morning, A guy called Daniel Mace came to brief us cause Admiral Skywalker was too busy. He talked to us about how they wanted us to go in and get out their contact who is a human disguised as a vong. Then they wanted us to go and capture red sully, the crime dude. we were going to sneak in a vong ship as buyers to the vong port. Mace also explained that they were hoping not to have any vong survivors so that their contact could still be used. I didn't like the sound of that. Mace saw my annoyed expression, and told me that he would rather the vong die than his own men. I don't think he realized why I had reservations. When the briefing was done we went to our room to prepare.
Mace came to get us and Cerberus didn't like him at all. He barked and growled. Mace got annoyed that I was bringing him along, and that Cerberus wasn't well trained, and was not appropriate on a stealth mission. I explained that he was my force detector, he goes where I go, and that my cover story would be that he was a force detector, because vong would only use life for such a thing, so it would be perfectly in character with the sudden reapperance of the Jedi.
    Stephanie had her lightsaber and mudakka's. When we got there, the vong were immedeately suspicious that we weren't taking off our skins, and then we spoke to our contact in basic and he responded in basic, so the other vongs attacked him for speaking our language, then he spoke vong to them, but they were too intent on hurting him. So Mace took out a throwing knife of something and hit one of the vongs fighting our contact. I threw my rope with tk and wrapped it around one of the vong, tying him up. Mudakka fired the concussion gun at 2 vong, and accidentally missed, blowing up the tied vong, our contact (who lived...though he didn't feel so good)and one or two others. Mace and I ran off to cut up the turrets while mudakka and stephanie stayed at the ship until the contact made it on. When the contact got on, the ship took off, and Stephanie telepathically announced that he was actually a vong. great, but it coudln't be dealt with at the time. They fought with the Vong a little, while we took out the first turret. Mudakka and Stephanie both took thud bugs to their sides, and called for help just as we were on our way to the second turret. Unfortunately a vibroblade wouldn't suffice for cutting up the turrets. I didn't want to run into battle without my own lightsaber blazing, but the turrets needed to go down, and my friends needed another blaster. So I tossed Mace my lightsaber and ran back. I levitated Stephanie's lightsaber, and used it to deflect many a thud bug, and stupid staff. I took off one arm, and stunned one vong with a blaster, and two with stun grenades. Mace seemed to be handling my lightsaber competently...a little to competently for someone whose never held one.
    Then stephanie pulled out a funny blaster, that made no light or noise, but disintegrated a vong's stomach. And kicked up some dust on another shot like a blaster bolt hit the ground, but again no light or sound. Finally they were all taken care of, by crossbow, or stun grenade, or lightsaber, or funky blaster. Mace took care of the last of the guns, accidentally making a bit of an explosion with one (oops, that was attention we didn't need). I took my lightsaber back, and asked where Cerberus was going to be more of a problem than Mace, by being noisy anyway.
Tweak went off with the slicers and took control of a gun that Mudakka took control over. We kept open comms to keep us safe.
We broke into the rest of the base, and headed through a foresty area on our way to the palace to catch red sully (i lost 2-1 palace v caves in guessing where he was hiding. fortunately i was wrong). Then a spider snuck up behind us. Stephanie noticed it, then Cerberus. I noticed it was about ready to awaken with animal empathy and sent mace to take care of it, it attacked the party, but was shot down before getting very far and went poof. I felt awful for this...I ordered the execution of a spider, because I couldn't do it myself. I sent someone else to do my dirty work. Later, I apologized to my mother and to oni for being weak, and promised to do what I knew needed to be done to protect the innocent, no matter how hard it was for me. Mace patted Cerberus's head for finding the spider, and he bit Mace. <smirk>
    Mace said something about testing the new troops, and I got the feeling he wasn't referring to the ones we saw take a blaster shot who were wearing the special defense armor that Skywalker talked about for civis pretending to be jedi. We also got some personal shields from mace for each of us. We went and snuck into the palace and went most of the way into the palace before stephanie found Sully. We went and busted open the door - stephanie warned us that there were 3 humans and 2 aliens. Mudakka and I threw stun grenades. Poor mudakka wasn't having a good day with the weapons, his grenade ricoshet and hit us. Mine went where it was supposed to, but there wasn't anyone left there anymore. (behind a barrier). There was a Sirdian with a whip, poor guy...I cut his whip up, then stephanie I think cut up his second one. We all kept running after Red Sully, who was running to get into the tunnels. He went through a secret door and we persued. Stephanie got there first and shot a stun shot at Sully. We managed to take him down and search him. Stephanie tried to steal money from him but Mace saw, so she turned it over. Then Stephanie noticed Mace had power. I accused him of being a Jedi because he handled my lightsaber reasonably well-not losing hands - and he had power, and Cerberus didn't like him. He admitted that the new troops they were testing were Jedi. He then said that Skywalker was their master, and that we had to go back for testing to be sure that we weren't spiders, and not to talk about it.
    Then everything went to the sith. ships came and they had ysalamiri. we grabbed red sully, and ran up to the ships, announcing that everyone should get to the ships the rest of the troops arrived in. When we got up to the normal airfield, we decided to steal the smugglers ships and shoot the blocade style ships to let the aircruisers escape for the rest of the troops. Stephanie went with red sully and another trooper in one ship to go and get to New Corellia. Mace, Mudakka, a trooper, and I went in another ship and went to fight. Stephanie got on the comm to Skywalker, but was having trouble explaining the problem, so I jumped on the comm, and told Skywalker our situation. He flipped that someone had known about the mission and either known the Jedi were going along, or that Skywalker was sending his own troops that were Jedi. Either way was bad, he sent a ship to our aide, and said that Stephanie should run to New Corellia and that Skywalker was currently dealing with Vong out with the fleet.
    Mace had a strange ability to tell ships to run from him and handfuls would. Even though they couldn't hear him. Mudakka took the turret, while Mace and I were in the cockpit. I think Mace was flying. The blocade people were holding where we took out the guns earlier, but eventually we cleared them enough for the ship to take off with our troops. We got to the rendevous point and jumped to hyperspace.