OTHERSPACE: Episode Four: The Great Contest

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Third level of Strange alien ship/station in 'Otherspace'


After checking for any of Zinn or Jackson's lost weapons or armor and finding nothing; the party of Rebels quickly moves across the last 'web-bridge' and comes to a plateau that has another crawl tube leading up about 20 meters in front of them. The ceiling above them is thickly covered in webbing and the Agents take a moment to catch their breath....

Doing a quick assessment of the situation; everyone except for Vale and Zuul were hurt; though all were ambulatory and able to take action* and looking at their weapon situation; while Jackson and Zinn were completely unarmed at the moment, the rest of the party had the following equipment....

-Professor Clark had his trusty Blaster Carbine with attached Vibrobayonet that was a souvenir from a defeated foe from the past; Crutag the Taloran hunter. He also had a Blaster Pistol and a Vibroblade.

-Gavin Storm also had a Blaster Carbine and a Heavy Blaster Pistol on his hip along with a Vibroblade as well.

-Vale Starcloud had his Lightsaber and a Blaster Pistol at his side.

-Zuul Ksska had quite an arsenal of weapons. He too had a Blaster Carbine, but he was also lugging around a Double-barrel Flechette Launcher (giant shotgun); though he only had 2 canisters left for the weapon, both currently loaded, one in each barrel. He had a large, .48 caliber 'Enforcer' Slugthrower pistol, a pair of large knives and 1 frag grenade.

As the party took stock of their weapons and figured out who got what; they all suddenly began to hear a strange scratching sound coming from the ceiling.....

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Clark is in the middle of handing his blaster pistol over when the sound is heard. He tosses the pistol to Zinn as he shouts: "Quickly, let's move!", then points towards the crawl tube about 20 meters away. He begins to hustle in that direction, while directing worried glances towards the webbing overhead.

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Gavin hands over his heavy blaster pistol to anyone without a weapon. "Anyone need a weapon take this."
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Zuul

"Lead on. He will secure the rear." Zuul pulls his carbine and watches the ceiling as his companions enter the tube. He will enter last.

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Jackson takes a hold of the blaster pistol offered by Gavin and with a nod of thanks follows the others.

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"Thanks," Zinn says as he catches the blaster. Checking the charge, he mutters, "I am NOT gonna become the next of these frackin' things."

Upon hearing the noises coming from above, he makes a visual scan, bringing his weapon to bear. "Contact above!" he warns the group, looking for the source of the noise.

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Third level of Strange alien ship/station in 'Otherspace'


As Jackson takes the Heavy Blaster Pistol from Gavin and Zinn takes the Blaster Pistol from Clark; the noise above causes the Rebel operatives to look up and they see the terrifying sights of DOZENS of the alien spider-like Warriors moving in the webbing perhaps 20 some meters over their heads....

Professor Clark doesn't waste any time and he immediately sprints towards the Crawl-tube that contains a 'ladder' leading to the level above them....

Zuul steps to one side, his Blaster Carbine at the ready as he prepares to cover his comrades as they rush towards the Crawl-tube and a way out. The Barabel sees 5 or 6 of the aliens drop down to their level on strands of webbing, coming to a rest perhaps 10 meters away as his teammates rush past him. The group of aliens is clustered together in a group and all hissing at him as they stare menacingly at the big, Reptilian alien...

Gavin Storm follows the Professor and the two of them are just about at the crawl-tube when they look back and see 5 or 6 of the alien spider-like warriors 'drop' from the webbing above them while another 20+ aliens continue to scurry about some 20 meters or so above their heads.....

Vale Starcloud follows Clark and Gavin and like them, he now stands next to the crawl-tube and looking back he sees the horde of Spider-like warriors above them and 5 or 6 now on the 'plateau' with them; perhaps 30 meters away....

Jackson Crodowksi follows the herd of rebels, keeping his newly acquired Heavy Blaster Pistol at the ready and reaches the crawl-tube with the Professor, Vale and Gavin before looking back and taking in the sight of Zuul staying back to cover them; half-a-dozen warriors dropping down in a group to their level and 20 or more warriors still skittering about in the webs above them...

Zinn Vallimar, a new Blaster Pistol in hand keeps his eyes on the horde of aliens above them as he back-pedals towards to the crawl-tube; getting within about 5 meters from the 'ladder' and perhaps 25 meters from the half-dozen alien warriors that have dropped to their level....


*So the crawl-tube is basically a tunnel or pipe with a hole big enough to walk into it at 'ground level' leading up and inside of which is a series of hand/feet holds.

**Right now Clark, Gavin, Jackson and Vale are basically at the crawltube with Zinn perhaps 5 meters away from them and Zuul a good 20 meters away and about 10 metes from the group of aliens on the 'ground' (the same group of aliens is about 25 meters from Zinn and 30 meters from everyone else)

***There are 20+ aliens in the webbing above the Rebels at ranges varying from 20 meters away (directly above them) to maybe 40 meters away

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"We're here, Zuul, time to move!" Clark shouts. He will wait to cover Zuul's approach to the tube. If Zuul gets close without undue incident, Clark will head up the tube.

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Gavin "This is not good. We need to run."
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Zuul

Growling and hissing at the spider aliens, Zuul is torn. Part of him wants to fight and rend. Another part is able to hear Clark's shouts.

Zuul decides.

"He will not be killed in this cursed place." He growls as he slowly walks backwards towards the tube. "He is not retreating from battle, he is strengthening his position."

If the spider things attack, Zuul will turn and run to the tube.

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Gavin not liking the odds in this being vastly outnumbered the smuggler turns with Zuul to try and help hold off the enemy so the others can catch up. After all they don't have a way off this damned place back to the normal galaxy/space. "Guess I may was well go down fighting then."
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Zinn takes aim at the closest alien, but does not yet fire; he maintains cover for Zuul and Gavin as they make their way towards the rest of the party.

If the aliens attack, Zinn will fire.

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Jackson keeps his eye on the tube to make sure there are no aliens in position to block their escape. "Come on Zuul! I have no desire to spend my last remaining minutes in this world with mutant spiders! Lets get out of here!"

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Vale Starcloud fires up his lightsaber and stands by the entrance of the crawl tube, ready to parry incoming fire while the others climb through.

"I don't understand, why aren't they firing?" He reaches out with his feelings and tries to sense whether the spider aliens are full of bloodlust or if something is making them wary and cautious about attacking.

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Third level of Strange alien ship/station in 'Otherspace'


The Rebels broke and ran for the crawl tube as the dozens of alien warriors skittered along the webbed ceiling and a group of 5 dropped to the ground near them....

Professor Clark was the first to reach the crawl tube up and the academic wasted no time in darting into the structure and started to climb up as quickly as he could....

Jackson Crodowski, upon seeing Zuul see reason and rush towards the crawltube with the rest of them, quickly followed on the heels of the Professor and moved into the tube as well and rapidly began to climb up as fast as he could as well...

Gavin Storm reached the crawltube and stepped to one side, turning around and deciding to open fire to give his teammates some cover fire as they attempted to make their escape. He saw two of the 5 aliens that had dropped to the ground take aim with their bizarre plasma launchers as the other three remained bunched up close and rushed after Zuul. He snapped his Blaster Carbine up to his shoulder and fired a shot that could not have been any luckier as it drilled the strange alien right in the head and it dropped to the ground on wobbly legs that seemed to stiffen and cruel inwards, laughing a globe of greenish energy high into the ceiling...

Zinn Valimar had rushed almost to the crawltube, when he too decided to give his teammates some cover fire to help them escape. He took aim at the center alien that was closest to getting its claws into Zuul and he fired a bolt from his newly acquired Blaster Pistol. The reddish hyphen of energy slammed into one of the alien's legs, briefly causing it to stumble onto the ground and let loose a hissing roar of pain and anger before awkwardly lurching back up and stumbling after the Rebels again as well. Seeing Zuul lumber past him, the pilot turned and raced to the crawltube after the big Barabel....

On the opposite side of the crawltube as Gavin Storm, Vale Starcloud was just starting to wonder why the aliens hadn't started the attack, when the attack came. One of the aliens launched a greenish-white blob of energy at the young Jedi Student and without conscious thought, Vale swung his lightsaber out and deflected the blast to one side. At that moment, Zuul and ZInn reached the crawltube and it was suddenly clear that the Rebels had a chance to escape....

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Clark, already part way up the tube, continues climbing onwards will all haste.

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Gavin continues to help others get into the tube by covering them blasting at any of the aliens trying to prevent any of the smugglers allies from getting away.
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Jackson continues to climb up the tube as quickly as possible so the others could follow suit.

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Zuul

Zuul races to the tube and starts climbing. Seeing and hearing the battle begin behind him, he calls out as he runs past

"Thank you! He thought they were not going to attack. He was wrong. Let'ss go!"

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#100 Post by Jedi Skyler »

Zinn will continue to fire at their enemy until he can climb the ladder after his comrades. As Zuul clears rungs above him, Zinn starts up, keeping an eye on the enemies behind them.

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