1.0 - Acquisition: The Hyperdrive Specialist

The Green Mamba himself is able to sneak into the bar without any trouble and the ease with which he does so makes him feel just that much happier with himself (recovering 1 strain). The bar is, more or less, as he expected it to be. A bunch of humans, a handful of aliens -- many of whom are his crew -- and Lin somewhere in the middle of a storm trying to get a good old-fashioned bar brawl to take place. It occurs to him that any brawl is liable to go horribly lopsided given the human vs. alien count -- but as the thought wanders into his brain, Lin flips a table.

Unlike last time, the Trandoshans have clearly had enough of this pink-skin's poodoo. Moving quickly, the one nearest to Lin stands up and takes a swing and.... pow! ... Lin has a bunch of green fist swelling into view before it connects with his head.The others stand up to back up the one taking on Lin and the mood of the bar turns from your typical after-work grind into a simmering cauldron of violations and demerits. There's a bunch of furtive movement near your mark -- but given how much is going on, it's difficult to say for sure what is afoot.

Lin is able extract himself from the immediate brawl by adding a little extra oomph to the Trandoshan's punch. In so doing he does manage to ding himself up here and there between the legs of the clientele and the furniture taking one additional strain. He is able stand outside the immediate ring of trouble and draw his blaster... Someone next to Lin, looks like he makes a grab for Lin's blaster, concern on his face. "No blasters man!"

There is a tangible change in the tenor of the room. Acaatha, especially, is assaulted by a collective chilling -- and the edges of her vision darken slightly, and briefly, in response. Acaatha and Ahkrirar see a couple people gathered around the mark leading him out of the brawl to safety. Acaatha specifically notes that one of the escorts was no where near the mark earlier -- so he must be traveling with some kind of bodyguard.

Mala carefully aims the speeder and eagerly watches the back door -- through which no one exits. Over by the front door, there’s a bit of a commotion as one of the men accompanying your mark peels off slightly and begins to drub someone by the door. There is a lot going on there, but it looks like even though the man by the door was taken by surprise he’s putting up a surprisingly competent defense while seated, using his Blue Milk glass as some kind of shield. It’s a milky blue blur as it connects with wrists and elbows of the man trying to take him down. However, the milk does go flying in the end, as its wielder’s chair is upended by the bodyguard -- laying him flat on the ground.

Your mark is unceremoniously pushed outside the front door as his other minder swings in behind and gets them to the street -- where what brief glimpse you catch is that they start to run. Lin somehow manages to surf the crowd, catching someone’s nearly spilled drink and handing it back to them on his way to the front door. He reaches the front shortly after the mark and his bodyguard have started booking down the boulevard.

Akhrirar gets around the brawl, quite sneakily, somehow managing to blend in and be unobtrusive despite the fact he is both a Noghri and wearing bright green. It is a testament to the confusion of the unfolding brawl and his own ability to be unobtrusive.

Fuzil saunters towards the door -- arriving shortly after Lin as he calmly picks his way around the edges of the chaos blooming around the Trandoshans.

Speaking of chaos -- the fight is in full swing, and people have mostly edged away -- the five Trandoshans are easily fending off nearly a dozen off-duty Imperials and they are being quite careful to keep everything non-lethal. Here on this Imperial garrison planet, they know better than to go killing people they don’t have to. It appears the brawlers are somewhat enjoying themselves -- and there’s a certain sense that they’d better have their fun and be done soon before a platoon of Stormtroopers shows up and shuts down the party...