OTHERSPACE: Episode Five: Enter the Nest

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


Zardra snorts at Jackson, a dangerous glint in her eyes for a moment, before her casual, half-smirk/half-smile reappeared. "Of course I remember YOU from the Celestial; she says to the Engineer, while she remains carefully bland to the others.

"After our escape and crash-landing on.....this.....place.....our little band quickly broke into two groups. That scheming bastard Ravik and his lickspittle minion Nothos went their own way; trying to make deals with these....aliens. Cellis Mott, the Assassin Droid and I went our own way, until we ran into a pack of Rebels from that prison ship and a fight broke out. Half-way thru the fight, some kind of red mist fell around all of us and Mott and some of the Rebels starting acting incredibly strange. One moment they were friends of us....the next, they were paranoid and holding weapons on us. The rebel crew members seemed to follow Mott though, which was even stranger."

"Anway, I think the helmet which had an air-filtration system built into it that I was wearing, plus the fact that EL-343 is a Droid is what kept us from being affected. Well, we broke off from Mott and his new minions and made our way up to that....arena, or whatever it is. I took a shot to my helmet, which left me dazed for a bit and EL-343 floated off somewhere and I made my way up that crawltube just a few moments before you lot did."

"Well....we're stuck here together and while I could certainly kill you all where you stand and try to bring you back for the bounties on you....the truth is, I'd really rather not have to drag half-a-dozen corpses around looking for a ship and a way back to our Galaxy. So, I think we work together to get out of here, what do you say?"; she finished with a wry grin....

While she had been talking, Professor Clark pocketed a Medpac (updated on your character sheet); and taking a deep breath, he used the other Medpacs and got to work on himself and the others. In a fairly short period of time, the academic had manage to get himself, Zinn, Jackson and Gavin back into good working order.....(I spent one of Clark's 2 Force Points for the Medicine rolls, hopefully this is okay!)


*Vale: Zardra's Force Pike is NOT a Jedi weapon, rather it's basically a staff with a metal tip that can generate enough of an electrical charge to kill or stun. Think of the weapons that the red robed guards of the Emperor in Return of the Jedi carry

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Zuul

During her speech, Zuul eyes narrow and he subtly tenses. As she casually suggests killing everyone, Zuul lets out a low growl.

"He will not speak for the otherss, hiss job is to protect. From all dangerss." Zuul waits the suggestion of those wiser than he, while watching Zardra closely.

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Vale calmly raises his hand to everyone. "I do not think idle threats will do us any good. A reward is no good if we are not around to use it. At the moment we are all in the same predicament and our chances of getting out safely are shrinking every minute, so we might as well join together in good faith until then."

He then turns to Zardra and addresses her directly. "We have as much reason to capture you, but we are not adversaries today. I think in both of our cases, helping each other to live another day is certainly reward enough. Perhaps we can strike a deal that when this is all over we walk our separate ways, to meet again under different circumstances?"

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Gavin "All I care is getting the hell out of this galaxy and back into ours."
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Jackson nods in agreement to Gavin's statement.

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Clark also gives a grunt of approval to Gavin.

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


Zardra smiles at Zuul when he growls, but the glint in her eyes is hard and dangerous.....however, Gavin's comment makes the look disappear as quickly as it came. "Agreed" she says simply to the Smuggler and then shrugs and says; "Well, let's get to it then, shall we?" while motioning with her Force Pike towards the exit out of the room. The Rebels all look at each other and with a nod, the group follows the Bounty Hunter cautiously out thru the exit....

They exit and come to a hallway that branch in two directions...a long, tunnel-esque looking corridor and a short ways away in the opposite direction a much larger room opens up from an archway and from which a strange combination of sounds could be heard. Some of it sounded like the humming of engines while the other part of the noises sounded more 'organic'...like the rumblings of a stomach or beating of a heart. Zardra cautiously moved in that direction and stepped silently into the large room, followed by the Rebels....

The room looked to be a bizarre combination of mechanical engines and....pulsating organs?....with wires and cords and perhaps...'arteries' connecting various parts...but there was little question that this room was the 'Engine' room of the spaceship/space station they were all on. Crodowski was thrilled to see that in the bizarre jumble of parts and....things....there was a T-axial Stabilizer...the last part needed to fix the Hyperdrive on their ship! Before he could point it out to the others though, Vale Starcloud suddenly clutched his head and dropped to his knees with a scream of pain....and the sounds of a large creature landing on the ground near them echoed through the large chamber....

Everyone spun around and they saw what appeared to be some kind of large, 6 legged cat with a body over 3 meters long and a massive head with 4 or 5 inch long teeth prominently displayed from his open maw, staring at them. Its eyes though were the same, bizarre 'zombie' eyes they had seen in the constructs and former crew members in the 'arena'; while the 'tail' of the creature was CLEARLY grafted onto it. The tail was made out of some kind of flexible metal and numerous spikes protruded from it, made all the more scary looking as the tail seemed to swish and flex in every direction in random patterns....

While no obvious cause of Vale's distress was apparent, Professor Clark theorized that perhaps it had something to do with the mysterious 'Force' the young man had proved he had access too. There wasn't much more time for thinking about it though as the 'cat' suddenly went into a crouch and claws flexed on the ground and tail thrashed in the air....clearly, it was about to pounce on them....

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Clark wastes no time in firing off his blaster carbine.

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Gavin fires his blaster twice at the torso of the strange monstrosity without hesitation.
“All men did have darkness. Some wore it in the form of horns. Some bore it invisibly as rot in their souls.”
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Jackson moves to reclaim the missing part if at all possible. Otherwise he will fire at the cat-like creature while making his way over to the part.

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Zuul

Zuul moves to block Vale, and fires one shot at the beast. "Get up! Thiss iss no time for sitting!"

He yells at the beast, trying to draw its attention. "Over here you petting zoo escapee!"

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Vale Starcloud, Young Jedi

"Yyyiiiaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Vale thrashes about on the floor, head in his hands, trying to clear his mind of the pain. He pushes out all thoughts and seeks only quiet, emotionless calm.

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The Rebels reacted with alacrity; Clark and Gavin snapping up their blaster carbines and pouring a barrage of fire at the strange cat-creature-zombie as Jackson Crodowski made a sudden move to race towards the T-axial Stabilizer and Vale Starcloud fell to the ground screaming in pain while Zuul moves in front of the Jedi in anguish and Zardra in a sudden burst of whirling motion, spins away from the cat-thing with her cloak trailing behind her and her Force Pike whipping around in a circle that she suddenly snaps into a thrust towards the thing....

The creature lands right in front of the band of Rebels with its front pair of claws lashing out towards Jackson and Vale while its other four limbs keep it stable on the floor and its mouth lunges at Zardra while its tail whips around toward a stunned and non-moving Zinn....

Jackson throws himself forward into a dive/slide that sees the claw flash over his head and then he's sliding under its large, shiny belly and between its 'other' four limbs, before ending up past the creature and near the T-axial Stabilizer that he snatches up and into his hands....

Gavin Storm puts a pair of Blaster bolts right into the center mass of the creature and his eyes widen in shock as the bolts seem to dissipate and/or 'bend' away from the shiny/metallic body of the 'cat'....

Professor Clark notices the same thing happen with his shot and his eyes narrow as his keen intellect attacks the problem of 'how' is this happening. He rapidly comes to the conclusion that the creature/construct must have some kind of device built/grafted into/onto its body that creates a magnetic 'ray shield'....

Zuul steps in front of Vale, yelling at the creature to get its attention and raising his Blaster to take a shot at it and he gets a claw intended for the Jedi that slams into him with enough force to knock his large body back a few steps and ALMOST lose his balance and the claws were sharp enough to snap his Blaster Carbine in half....

Vale falls to his knees and after wailing in pain, he does his best to grit his teeth, close his eyes and concentrate on peace, but it's an incredibly difficult task when it feels like a sharp spike is being jammed into the brain....

Zinn is caught completely flat-footed by the cat-creature-construct's pounce, and the tail zips across like a metal bar that slams into the big pilot with enough force to lift him off his feet and send him crashing down on his back.....luckily for him, it just knocks the wind out of him, leaving him on the ground, looking up at a dizzying sight of a swirling ceiling and gasping for air.....

The creature's massive head snaps out at Zardra; attempting to chomp the Bounty Hunter in half, but she spins away, her cloak flowing behind her, whipping her Force Pike around in an arc and thrust that slams into the side of the creature's face with enough impact to smash a gash in its metal hide and causing it to flinch back from the blow for a moment.....

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Clark quickly changes tactics, and attacks the cat with his vibro-bayonette. If he can determine/guess where the ray-shield generator is located he will try to stab at it, otherwise he'll just attack the best available opening.

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Jackson secures the part in his bag and shouts, "We've got what we came for. If we can get out of here, lets do it." He'll take a shot at the creature to try and draw its attention from the others.

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Gavin unsure how to fight this creature and no idea where to flee to back away from the creature and tries to shoot at the things head.
“All men did have darkness. Some wore it in the form of horns. Some bore it invisibly as rot in their souls.”
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Zuul

Zuul curses colorfully as he tosses his ruined carbine to the side. He pulls Bertha, his slugthrower, and fires at the beast. "Dodge thiss!"

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Vale Starcloud

Vale, still overcome with pain, reaches his hand out at a random loose piece of junk. Using the Force, he attempts to hurl it toward the creature from the side.

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The battle continued to rage between the band of Rebels, a Bounty Hunter and a bizarre, 'mechanical zombie' large cat....

Zardra attempted to slam her Force-Pike into the creature again, but this time it deftly dodged back and then swung its tail out in a vicious arc that caught the Bounty Hunter in her ribs and the metal on metallic armor CRACK sound echoed throughout the chamber as the deadly female hunter was hurled back from the force of the strike....

Vale Starcloud, attempting his best to block out the pain and concentrate on the Force, was able to clumsily 'grab' a piece of....something....with his Telekinesis power, but he was unable to propel it with much velocity or accuracy and instead of slamming into the 'cat', it just rattled on the ground next to it....

Zinn Valimar was able to shake off the effects of the tail hit and was just starting to get up when the flung female bounty hunter landed heavily near him and the pilot managed to ask, "Are you okay"....only to get a sigh and an...."Owwww"....from the bruised, but not battered Zardra.....

Professor Clark was NOT able to deduce where the magnetic ray-shield might be originating from on the Cat-like-Construct's body, so he just took the best chance he got to slam his Blaster Carbine with its attached vibro-bayonet forward and had the satisfaction of landing a solid hit that tore a good sized gash into the things armored hide.....

Gavin Storm backpedaled and attempted to land a shot on the Creature's head to distract it, but in the midst of its thrashing; his shot narrowly missed, but the one-time Smuggler managed to dodge a clumsy claw swipe aimed his way, for which he was quite grateful.....

Jackson Crodowski also moved back and away from the creature while firing a couple of blasts in the hopes of distracting the creature and one of his shots hit...and was deflected away....from the creature's flank leaving the Engineer to wonder what to do now.....

Zuul, angry over the loss of his Carbine, pulls forth the heavy slug thrower and yelling out "DODGE THISSS!"; he pulls the trigger and with a deafening roar the pistol kicks hard in his hand and a .48 caliber slug tears into and through the creature's center of mass....leaving it shaking for a moment before collapsing noisily to the ground.....

Suddenly the party was in the bizarre 'engine' room alone.....filled with the numerous mechanical hums and organic 'squelch' sounds that truly identified this place as "ALIEN" to anything they had known. Looking around, on the far side of the chamber from where they had entered, they could see a tunnel/hallway opening.....


OOC: Zardra is fine...just stunned for a moment......Zuul's slugthrower currently has 3 rounds loaded (out of 6 possible) and 6 spare rounds in a pocket

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OOC: Is Vale no longer in pain now that the creature is dead, or is he still reeling?

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