1.0 - The Rescue of Hethan Romund

(OoC: Csillag has an extra boost dice from my action to roll btw)

Heyop’s blaster lines up and fires -- the short range enabling a nice clean shot that significantly injures the ice wolf, blasting into its hindquarters and met with a yelp and a snarl. Csillag kneels and gets another shot into the beast, and it falls to the side, dead. Kaveri, halfway through shipping her rifle spins and shoots from the hip -- landing a hit that dispatches the last icewolf with the much more powerful blaster rifle she carries.

And the moment passes -- almost as if it didn’t happen. But there are three nearby, dead, icewolves to give lie to that fact. You each feel -- a rightness -- like your actions were coordinated, and correct. Each player recovers 2 strain if they have any strain damage.

The plaza is now empty of predators and the temple remains. How do you proceed?

Heyop wishes the ladies luck before nodding to Dagger and moves out to the far side after taking a breather. "I thought you would just walk in see Malefax and slap him in the face to get his attention..." jeered back before he quieted down.

Heyop and Dagger sneak forward into a small antechamber shaped like a pudgy reversed L. At the top corner of the room, the wall has collapsed into a riot of rubble that suggests a passageway beyond -- but looking at the rocks, the effort to move that way is clearly too great. Closer to hand, a doorway leads up a small flight of stairs into another room. Not having anywhere to go but up, the men careful head up the stairs into some form of communications room dominated by a holonet projector/receiver. However the machinery of the room is powered down and silent. In the far corner of this room, a passageway leads out. When followed, Heyop and Dagger are stopped a few short meters later, standing on a ledge where the corridor has obviously collapsed into a roughly hewn... cave-like thing. From their vantage point, they can see the corridor they are in continuing along about 10m north -- across the way. It appears that the cave otherwise leads west into another room and east deeper into the mountain.

Kaveri and Csillag enter their room -- and while also L-shaped, this one has been rotated onto its side. Upon entry they see a statue of some long-dead Jedi, seated in a contemplative pose. Around the corner of the L there are three options. North into a small room. West into a room that has several flights of stairs lining its outer wall up to another level and east, through a large door into what looks like the antechamber of the temple -- where the main entrance would no doubt lead.

The small room is regularly shaped -- a square with it's northeastern corner cut out by a large curve. It's pretty nondescript, having been in some form of disrepair for some time. There's a couple old crates that have been busted open and long-since plundered, but it is otherwise empty. Perhaps this was some sort of small reception room.

The antechamber is large -- this is the wide open space with columns -- although only 4 -- that Kaveri was expecting. Red tiles line a broad promenade north-south through the room and the large door from where Csillag and Kaveri are standing provides a cross-path of similar width, effectively splitting the antechamber into four panes. Each of the panes are bordered by four small steps around the inner edges (along the walkways) leading to small sunken areas where you can imagine Jedi of years past gathered to practice, meditate or quietly discuss the issues of the day. The four pillars that dominate the room, one for each of the sunken areas, are towards the middle of the antechamber reaching up high into a roof well above.

Like much of the rest of the temple, the room is in disrepair, with foliage running amok -- mostly in snaking vines -- and rock cracked and/or crumbling here or there. It's unclear just how old this temple is, or when it was last occupied, but it clearly looks like it's seen much better days over the past few years.

Directly across the way -- to the east -- the large doorway which is the analog to the one they are looking through appears to have suffered some form of rocky collapse, and it is cut off. North, out of the antechamber, one of two large double-doors is missing leading further into the temple, the other standing lonely sentinel.