2.0 - Lure of the Lost

Csillag finally sets the thermal detonator to go off -- getting rid of something she's carried with her for quite some time. It's a banner moment -- but y'all are distracted by the task at hand. With the timer set, you get moving quickly down to Dagger as quickly as possible. Roughly 20 seconds after you head down towards dagger, the thermal detonator explodes in a shower of red rock and dirt.

Dagger waits and wait...boom. He turns and sees the explosion not far away. His friends are probably not more than a minute or so from him. He hears some barked orders and sneaking a peak around his rock, he sees the one-armed stormtrooper sending off the probe droid to investigate. It raises into the air and begins to quickly hover over the terrain and obstacles towards the explosion.

The Kirtan Strider sits in a natural bowl where, in times long since past, water or wind has eroded away some of the less durable soil and rock, leaving behind a smattering of columns of hardened stone. It's a little like a broad, flat room that is held up by pillars of rock -- but without the roof. Most of the pillars reach three to four meters up -- and are flat at the top. Some of them have toppled and others have either been worn down to a meter or two. The Kirtan Strider sits in the middle of the open area, its passenger ramp down and awaiting you. There is one prominent (and broad) exit/entrance into the bowl -- and Dagger is behind cover not far from that entrance (and still slightly outside the bowl).

The seven remaining stormtroopers are alert, but continue to stay put. Three of them walk in easy circles near the ramp of your ship. The other four move about the columns towards the entrance, keeping an eye on it carefully and ensuring that they keep between the ship and the entrance to the bowl. The cybernetic stormtrooper is part of this group towards the entrance.

Heyop, Csillag and Kaveri find an easy path down to the ground level and hook up with where they thought Dagger was, only to catch site of him slipping behind a pillar across the bowl. How he managed to get over there without being seen and shot is something of a cause for alarm and amazement. But then... this is Dagger.

Dagger, not aware that his friends have just arrived at his prior hiding spot, winds his way through some rocks surrounding the bowl and hops down into the bowl and darts behind a pillar without anyone being the wiser. Urik gets in position and is ready to perform his acrobatics.

Last but not least, Mal is locked into a fairly empty closet on the Kirtan Strider with two cavetroopers standing guard. He can hear them speak in a muffled fashion to one another. It would appear some explosion has happened nearby and it has them on alert.

It is really quite dark in the closet and Mal isn't able to truly see anything. In fact, moving around in the closet is something of a hassle as the quarters are quite tight -- closets on ships weren't meant to hold people. A bit of shelving is askew as a result of Mal being jammed in and having the door shut on him after they took his blaster off of him.

Outside of the shelving, mostly it seems like foodstuffs or other supplies related to staying alive rather than a much more useful storage bin for, you know, guns or something.