1.0 - The Rescue of Hethan Romund

Heyop takes a look around, with Dagger looking gingerly over his head. It looks like whatever used to be part of this corridor fell to the ground and was blown or rolled west to block a doorway. The gaps are few and far between -- but it appears there's a pretty sizable room through that debris. As to jumping across the gap -- it's a good 6 meters. Unfortunately with the way the corridor is angled, there's no real opportunity to build up the speed necessary to do a solid long jump over the distance. That means, in the end, probably climbing down and up. Climbing down seems easy enough -- it's 3-4 meters down. Climbing up looks like it'll be a bit trickier, but doable. The underground passageway to the west dims quickly due to a lack of light and seems to turn a corner.

Kaveri moves forward to the door and reaches out with her mind -- the Force surges and responds. She easily picks up the warm, diffuse light that is Csillag nearby and at the very edges of her awareness she senses the presence of a handful of beings. Due to the distance, the taste -- or sense -- of these beings is very faint, but it doesn't have the rancid, cold feeling of the dark side. If Malefax is that direction, he is not nearby at this time.

Kaveri and Csillag make out a light moving around behind the rubble to the east as Heyop and Dagger alight upon the floor and look around. As to the men, there's nothing particularly new and exciting from this vantage point than from the they previously enjoyed. The passageway clearly continues to the east and curves around to the north. The west is blocked by rubble that appears no more movable from here than before. And ahead of you to the north a clamber up the wall looks doable to get back into the corridor you were in, just without having to jump the gap.

A climb up - either where you came from, or ahead - is an average task and will requires two purple dice.

Dagger manages to get about halfway up the climb before sliding back down -- the going is just tough enough that he finds making it up to the corridor rough going. The comms chime softly as Kaveri reaches out.

OOC: Heyop can assist Dagger - if so, y'all should own that narrative. The roll will be 3 green + 2 purple.

Heyop gets at least one foot in the face and one on the top of his head -- with bits of gravel stuck in the treads of Dagger's shoes acting as cleats. Wincing, he's nonetheless able to get Dagger up top only a little scratched and scuffled looking a little worse for wear.

Note that the threat should be strain rather than wounds. Why don't you both take 3 strain as part of the joy of climbing.

Dagger and Heyop now stand at the southern end of a corridor that stretches north for several meters before taking a left turn back towards the main body of the temple.

Alas -- unless you want to stay put for a few minutes, a Cool check would not be appropriate at this time for recovering strain. My mental sense of a strain recovery cooldown is something like 5-15 minutes of recentering/etc. I'll need to read up on that in the CRB.

I'll wait 'til you guys collectively figure out the plan to provide some more narrative.

(OoC: Void it then I'll wait until we meet back up if we have time or wait for combat to start)

Scanning the area Heyop got back on his Commlink as he looked around. "We're in the main body of the temple... If Malefax is doing all this I can see why the Gatekeeper wanted him out..." he stated looking around at the ready as they pressed forward.

(OoC: Let me know if I need perception tests or anything... Yaaay we didn't have to climb back down!)

The corridor, north, is about 2-3 meters wide and lined in faded red tile on the outer edges. On the left after about 4 meters, a series of four large pensive seated Jedi statues line the wall. 12 meters beyond that, the corridor ends in a wall -- and a sealed door -- and otherwise opens to the left. Heyop and Dagger peer cautiously around the corner and see the looming pillars of the Assembly Hall of the Temple.



The Assembly Hall is lit by brilliant shafts of sunlight from above. From their vantage point they can see 4 pillars in a curve that stake out the boundary of a wide balcony which is split by water rushing pure and quickly off the ledge into a pool below. Oddly the sound of the moving water isn't disruptive -- it's peaceful and meditative. The same red accents in the floor appear bordering the channel of water which is about a meter across.

Well past the Assembly Hall another corridor is visible on the opposite side. Heyop and Dagger wonder if that's where, perhaps, Csillag and Kaveri have gotten themselves off to. But they are both mindful, nonetheless, that they cannot make out where their colleagues are just yet. Briefly, they catch sight of an Advozse mercenary walking, on patrol at the end of that far corridor as he turns south -- perhaps towards the women.

(OOC: Csillag and Kaveri are just below the "small room" in the lower left of this picture.")

Dagger signals Heyop that there is another person out ahead. Pointing towards the corridor with the mercenary. He draws his Blaster Pistol and sneaks his way out to the first pillar above the pond. Trying to put it between himself and the mercenary.