1.0 - The Rescue of Hethan Romund

Kaveri looks down the barrel of her blaster rifle and takes her time, letting Malefax and Heyop weave back and forth -- and her spot opens! Squeezing the trigger, several bolts fire out of her rifle and hit Malefax in rapid succession. Peppered by the onslaught the Devaronian staggers back one step, two steps, three.. then four. His pistol clatters to the ground as he falls backward and lies still upon the ground. Kaveri takes 1 strain due to the intense concentration to land those shots.

Heyop stands over Malefax guardedly, but it seems obvious he's not pining (or biding his time), but passed on. Romund sits down against a pillar next to Dagger and looks at each of you in turn. "My friends -- I am so happy to see you. Is he... gone?" Her face darkens a moment, "Wait -- there was another. Someone Malefax referred to as his apprentice. I'm not sure where he got placed -- at some point he was bound by Malefax and beaten senseless." She pauses, "Honestly I'm not sure he's really an apprentice."

Heyop uncovers an unused stimpack, but otherwise finds nothing of interest on the Devaronian who, despite the chill in the air, isn't wearing a shirt. On closer inspection, Heyop realizes that Malefax is still breathing -- so he's quite clearly unconscious, but not dead. Fear and anger continue to pulse through the sword that he holds, and it's pressing and pressing at his mind. This being is dangerous. I should just kill him and be done with it. Surely the galaxy... and Hethan would be safer without him.

Hethan calls after Dagger and says, "I don't know -- a youngish looking human boy. He was wearing the robes that you all seem to favor to keep you out of sight and out of mind, so I didn't get a good look at his face."

Dagger and Kaveri wander into the archives, but mostly see pandemonium and damaged records and devices. A cursory check of the archives doesn't reveal anything of note. There's enough debris and scattered items around that a more thorough review will be required to see if anything interesting has survived the neglect and Malefax's temper. There certainly isn't a sign of a bound human present. It's hard to tell what Malefax was doing in here since the amount of chaos seems pretty total.

Urik awakens to find himself in the temple's assembly hall. He can hear people talking, and through the muddled haze hears things like "Is he dead?" and "Oh he's not dead... yet." Looking around it looks as if Malefax dumped him on the other side of some sort of altar or plinth towards the back of the hall...



...then the head of a Togruta female pops around the heavy stone base and sees Urik, blinking furiously. This is, of course, Kaveri who has swung by on her way to check out the other archive room that she spots across the hall. Kaveri, for her part spots a disheveled looking human male -- perhaps not quite fully adult, it's sometimes hard to tell with humans -- bound by hand and foot.

Hethan nods to Heyop, "I'm feeling much better now, thank you. Despite all his threats Malefax didn't cause me serious harm -- it was..." she considers, "It's hard to explain. I felt the fear very intensely, so that even his lightest touch was somewhat scarring. Much more so than the physical weight behind the blows." Nonetheless, Hethan does sport a few fantastic bruises. "I'm so glad you all got my signal -- I was worried that I hadn't been fast enough. I barely had time."