Chapter 1: Past Present and Future

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Mar 27, 2019 10:50 pm
Taryn's voice sounds slightly muffled through the breather.
"I concur with Evelynn: this is probably part of Avi's trial. It's her trial, she calls the shots. We talk a lot about trusting the Force. I suggest we actually do that, and maybe put some trust in ourselves as well."

He uses his cloak to wave a thick cloud of spores away from his face.
"... and maybe in the meantime, find a less narcotic place to wait for her? This drenn wasn't as bad where we came in."
Mar 28, 2019 2:14 pm
Alyx watches everything with a deep sense of dread that only worsens the more everyone speaks about the strange passageway and getting Avi's stone. Being the youngest, she doesn't speak up; she wishes, in fact, to be anywhere but here right now. Leading a meditation is one thing, but this kind of choice is one she's not comfortable making. Glad it's not MY stone . . .

She quietly slips in-between them as they discuss what to do, and takes Ian's arm. "Come on," she whispers. "I want to leave. Let's leave, okay?" Her dark blue eyes do little to hide the fear she is trying to calm.
Mar 28, 2019 4:51 pm
Licking his lips nervously, Ian nods. "Yeah. Okay." It's not immediately clear who he's responding to, Alyx or Taryn, but he goes to take the Zabrak by the shoulder, attempting to lead her away from the howling tunnel and towards an area without much in the way of spores. He passes her one of the blaster rifles he'd smuggled away, keeping the other slung over his back, as he gives her a grin. "Wanna learn how ta take scans?" He holds up the scanner, giving it a little shake in her direction, prompting her to take it.
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Mar 29, 2019 2:39 am
Avi stares at the floor for more than a minute in quiet reflection, her eyes closing as to try to feel the crystal better. Still, the floor doesn't unmake itself for her or anything like that. What is happening? Are the mushrooms to blame?

She rises from her foot and crosses her arms, still thinking about what to do. She clearly can't dig up the floor. Maybe there's a hole around somewhere? Or...
OOC:
I'll be honest, I'm completely lost... I want to say that I should be rolling for Vigilance, to see if Avi picks up any hidden detail, but at the same time if I have to interpret it, should I just make stuff up in this case as well? Because it's one thing to fluff an attack, for example, and another something as like trying to find, well, something. Anyways... I'll be rolling Vigilance. Let me know, Arina, at any case. And sorry guys for taking so long! Edit: Well, nevermind. I failed!
Unaware of anything that could be, well, it, Avi simply sighs. She starts moving forward once again, from rock to rock, to where the crystal originally appeared, in the very center of the room. It had drifted down toward her, after all, and that she felt it under the floor didn't really mean it was there. Even so, she was curious: Would the sensation below the earth also move with her? Or would it be stuck there?
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Rolls

Notice something

1 Success, 2 Failure, 1 Threat

Total: 1 Failure, 1 Threat

Mar 29, 2019 6:45 am
OOC:
@Avi: I'm very sorry. To me it seemed quite clear but I may not have conveyed my meaning as clearly as I had intended. Please allow me to fix that right now.

Summary:
You made it into the chamber with the mushrooms
You received a force vision of your crystal. It sank through the stone. You look around but cannot see the crystal. It is gone. Still, you feel its presence far below you. There appears to be no direct way to get the crystal from your current location. Meanwhile, your companions, through Ian's use of a hand scanner, have found a secret passage, that is clearly not natural, that leads deeper into the moutain. You think that if you follow it, it might lead you to your crystal. However, you get the sense that there is something down there...
Mar 30, 2019 10:38 pm
Cep100 says:
Licking his lips nervously, Ian nods. "Yeah. Okay." It's not immediately clear who he's responding to, Alyx or Taryn, but he goes to take the Zabrak by the shoulder, attempting to lead her away from the howling tunnel and towards an area without much in the way of spores. He passes her one of the blaster rifles he'd smuggled away, keeping the other slung over his back, as he gives her a grin. "Wanna learn how ta take scans?" He holds up the scanner, giving it a little shake in her direction, prompting her to take it.
Scoffing, Alyx wrinkles her nose at Ian. "I'm not a dog, and I KNOW how to take scans. Master taught us that." Chin up defiantly, she turns away from him. "I know I'm short but I'm not THAT young," she reminds him with a sigh as she begins to walk back towards the main sections of the cave-dwelling. "You're way older than me but you act like a baby sometimes. It's not very attractive."
Mar 30, 2019 11:10 pm
OOC:
@Ian and Alyx: Are you leaving the party at this point?
Mar 30, 2019 11:24 pm
@Evelynn: As you stand at the entrance to the tunnel leading deeper into the mountain, you are still reeling from your shock at having something interfere with your senses. Then you feel it, sense it, see it. Two points og light surrounded by darkness. They are close. Very close. You are certain that your task is before you.
Mar 30, 2019 11:43 pm
OOC:
We're not leaving the party, we thought the party was leaving.
Throwing his hands up in frustration he goes to follow after the Zabrak, "Hey, look. That's not what I meant. Things're turnin' weird an now I'm weird." Catching up to her, he lowers his voice a little, "I don' wanna hang 'round here neither but . . ." He glances back at the others, "I think we're needed here."

With that he reaches into his backpack and pulls out the cube he was handed, turning the scanner onto it. "I ain' havin' ma best day, truth be told."
OOC:
Don't know the difficulty so let me know and I'll add it in. Adding in lore check, difficulty 4.
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Rolls

Computers to scan the cube

1 Success, 1 Triumph

Total: 1 Success, 1 Triumph

Lore check.

2 Success, 1 Advantage, 1 Failure, 1 Threat

Total: 1 Success

2 more difficulty

2 Threat

Total: 2 Threat

Mar 31, 2019 2:24 am
OOC:
What is your intention? Just to scan it?
Mar 31, 2019 5:22 am
Glancing towards Avi, Evelynn feels her crystals calling her and takes a step towards the gaping dark passageway. Quietly she says, "I feel my crystals. They lie this way. As does ... something dark. I'm going to go down."

Evelynn waits for a few moments to see if any of her brothers or sisters decide to come with her before heading off down into the darkness. As she begins to step down the passage, she pushes her senses out as far as she can manage.

Rolls

Discipline check.

4 Success, 1 Threat

Total: 4 Success, 1 Threat

Mar 31, 2019 5:56 am
OOC:
You can make a discipline check difficulty 2 to see if you manage to keep whatever is effecting your sense at bay.
As you make your way down the passage you see several more frescoes covering the walls of the tunnel.

The first depicts what appears to be the same alien in two pannels. In the first pannel it bears nothing but a simple staff. In the second pannel it bears a staff tipped with a crystal.

The second fresco has three pannels. The first shows depicts an obelisk with a hand print in the center of it
The second shows a crowd watching four bipedal aliens battling a giant four legged alien.The third depicts a single alien raising his staff to the heavens in triumph.

The third fresco has two pannels. The first shows an alien swimming and the second shows the alien walking through fire.

The fourth fresco shows the alien in supplication before a giant monster with a benevolent look upon its (the monster's) face.

The fifth and final fresco shows the alien returning to its people with its crystal. The alien is hailed as a hero and you see what is clearly some kind of feast. The final pannel shows a legion or crstal armed aliens doing battle with... the rest of the pannel has been destroyed.
Mar 31, 2019 12:03 pm
Arina says:
OOC:
What is your intention? Just to scan it?
OOC:
Yeah, just to see if he can figure out what it is. He can't do anything with it if he knows nothing about it.
Mar 31, 2019 9:56 pm
OOC:
Computers won't help you figure out what it is. You need to make a lore check. Difficulty 4.
Mar 31, 2019 10:20 pm
Arina says:
OOC:
Computers won't help you figure out what it is. You need to make a lore check. Difficulty 4.
OOC:
Okay, so I added it to my earlier post. I messed up on the difficulty side but I fixed it and, added altogether I got 1 Success and 2 Threat. Do you have anything in particular you want for the threats? I have an idea in mind but if you have something, let me know.
Apr 1, 2019 2:00 am
OOC:
Entirely up to you. Far be it for me to tell you how this effects your character. However, I am happy to offer ideas. Your master gave you something very valuable and important. That might make Ian feel a little uneasy as he is not used to having responsibility.

Anyway, would you like to decide what the item is or shall I?
Apr 1, 2019 5:57 am
Taking a moment as she passes each fresco she considers the implications as she goes. If these crystals are kyber crystals, then whoever these aliens depicted in the frescos are obviously figured out some way to use them as weapons. Deep inside her that strikes a chord of dissonance and she feels slightly uneasy at sight as their Master had always taught them that a lightsaber, while an important tool in a Jedi's arsenal, was only that: a tool. And one to be used only as a last result as well. Feeling more and more disturbed as she makes he way through the darkness, Evelynn presses forward, feeling the call of her crystals.
OOC:
I added the roll to my previous post; 4 successes and a threat. Unless you had something in mind, I was going to take it as strain.
Apr 1, 2019 7:22 am
OOC:
@Evelynn: Works for me.
Apr 1, 2019 10:20 am
I'm assuming that everyone is following Evelynn. Is that correct?
Apr 1, 2019 1:53 pm
Well, see, I'm a bit of two minds about this.

There's at least three good in character reasons why Taryn would stay behind with Avi, and none that I can think of why he would leave her behind.

The only reason he would come along is entirely ooc, so that I would have something to do this week.
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