CH 1.1-b: Shank's Pre-Owned

Dice roll for Hawke's keypad slicing.

Result: 1 Success

As Lexi keeps an eye toward the intersection near the Espo and the vagrant, her eyes are drawn to something lying on the ground. Kneeling down to get a closer look, she determines that it is a stimpack. Upon closer examination, she also notices that it's clean, and not covered with the usual layer of grime one would expect in a neighborhood like this, especially on such a heavily polluted planet.

Just as Tajanna is about to add her two creds to Hawke's attempt to slice the keypad, he finally manages to overcome his lack of training with computers and more subtle electronics, bending it to his technological will. The door slides open with an audible hiss, followed by a thunk as it completes the process of opening. Comlicating your efforts to remain undetected was that right before the door thunked, there was a break in the Espo/Vagrant argument around the corner.

Silence for a moment in time, then you hear the Espo. "Who's back there?" After that you hear the Espo's voice lower, from which you can make out "might have --------- ov-- here. Req------- ----up." The glowlight shines across the intersection again, then starts to creep forward, bouncing slightly with what you assume are the Espo's footsteps toward the intersection.

The vagrant gets a final shout in. "That's right brown-spo! Git outta m'home! GIT!"

Peering into the building, it's pitch black, the minimal light from the alley suggests it's an open space inside, rather than a hallway.

Flipped a destiny token there to have the break in the argument and the Espo hear the door open.

None of you have glow rods with you, so in this case I'll allow that Hawke can see well enough to navigate very slowly (helmet scanner allowing a slight improvement using the faint light from the alley, although not allowing full on nightvision like scanner goggles do, but the ability to see about 3 meters in front of you; given the creds and parts/time, Hawke could upgrade this), while Tajanna could navigate at normal speed (Chiss nightvision). I'd also allow for lightsabers to provide about 3 meters of illumination.

What's this?

Hawke began to make his way towards the human, before stopping. They didn't have time to examine random bodies that may or may not be dead. They needed to leave. With a sigh, Hawke reached up to his helmet and activated the sensor suite within. His view of the warehouse became grayscale as lowlight amplification was activated, while all sources of heat in the immediate area were outlined in red.

Hawke's scanner doesn't have nightvision. It's more like a lowlight amplifier that would shift his vision into a grayscale of sorts (it only removes one setback dice for checks, whereas true nightvision would eliminate all setback dice for such checks). It does have the thermal vision, however.

No, she just took a close look.

It would be pitch black inside the building once the doors closed.

Krosus, in the red glow of your lightsaber, it isn't difficult to determine that the man is very, very dead. Upon closer inspection, the only real question is how he was killed. Parts of his head seem extremely swollen with pulpy, splitting skin, the kind of damage you've seen in the past inflicted by severe blunt trauma, whereas you also discern that there is blaster scoring on his neck and forehead, from what appears to be two or three shots.

From what Krosus and Tajanna can tell, this corpse has been thoroughly picked over, as there is not a single credit or bit of gear to be found, save for the man's dark colored, casual attire. There are no markings on his clothes or skin that would indicate any insignia or organizational affiliation of any kind.

As Lexi moves stealthily toward the opposite door, she doesn't hear anything from outside as the door behind her cut off the vagrant and any other external sounds as soon as it was closed.

Drama, you can have that stimpack from outside if you like. I wasn't suggesting that you couldn't take it, just stating that you hadn't. We can always assume you took it if you like, just let me know.

Krosus only has one XP. Next Monday is the start of our game month (first Monday of every month is XP day).