In-Character Thread - Chapter 1, Vur Tepe

The R1 blurts out a series of short arpeggio beeps, "Easy! Outside of Receiving Bay 4! That way, your second left...", and extends a utility arm pointing to the north and east.

The pneumatic hiss and squeal of an opening door draws both of your attentions back in the direction you came - south, from the staging area... Could they really have gotten that blasted door open? There are crates obscuring your view.

Tov and Wrrock set off following the R1's directions. You hear some initial hushed shouts behind you coming from the staging area, "Shhh! Listen for them!"... "No way! We gotta get out of here!", but you quickly leave them behind.

The pair turns up the second hallway on the left, and follow it for several dozen meters, there are marked doors but nothing to indicate a "Receiving Bay 4". They pass a couple more branching hallways and just about when they're about to re-evaluate, there is a large set of blast doors on the left marked with a '4'.

Though there is the occasional worker passing down halls or through doors, neither of you see any indication of Rossa or your Ryo charges. Then as things fall silent while you're evaluating the situation and what to do next, you hear - it's not quite a commotion, but - a distant jumbled stream of conversation echoing throughout the halls, many people talking over one another. You hurry over another 10 meters to a hallway branching right, and you see down at the end of it is Rossa and the Ryo Clan members engaged in some sort of conversation or argument with a Sullustan.

Just as you're about to head to them, someone shouts, "Hold it! Don't move!"... from the periphery of your vision you can see two people dressed in emergency response clothes with blasters leveled...

When Tov begins to advance on them they halt and shoulder their rifles tightly, she can see their fingers going inside the trigger-guards...

"I SAID DON'T MOVE!!", the responder screams.The responders seem confused by the stream of information Tov is throwing at them, but they seem to get the sense that there is more to the situation than appears. They relax the posture of their rifles slightly but still issue further commands, and continue approaching.
"You are in a restricted area! On your knees. Hands over your head.

Coming down the hall towards his allies, Rossa sees the mirilan and wookie drop to their knees, hands overhead.

You all hear voices echoing up the hall before you see anything, "... I think we came from that way... here this way...", and then footsteps rounding the corner some 10 meters back.

Looking back over their shoulders Tov and Wrrock recognize two of the three people they'd skirmished with in the shop.

All parties spend just a couple of moments looking at everyone, looking at everyone else, everyone trying to figure out what's going on and what's going to happen next.

Then one of the responders shifts their aim to the mob members and shouts, "You there! DON'T MOVE!!", and begins advancing on them. The two from the mob, looking like bantha in a spotlight, turn and begin to run the way they came.

The remaining responder stays put, just a few meters from Tov and Wrrock, and reaches up to a comm fastened to his shoulder.

The sullustan keeps an eye on Rossa as he creeps down the hall, but is quite occupied with the flood of information coming at him from the Ryo Clan, and so doesn't follow.

The responder gets on his comm and says, "Central, send a unit to Receiving 5, o.t.d. 2 perps inbound, Unit 8 in pursuit. Send another unit to Bay 4. I have 2 perps in custody...", then he slides a pair of restraints at Tov which come to rest against her knee. "One end on your ankle, miss, the other goes on the wookie's. Got it? No sudden moves."

Speaking into his comm, he doesn't appear to have heard Rossa's words.