Chapter 2: Kashyyyk

[Guardian_A]

Reaching out with the Force, Vin reaches out around himself, sensing for any danger. As the turbolift decends, he begins to feel almost an aura of danger in the direction of the prison. As the turbolift slows to a stop, the aura of danger is so thick, that he finds himself preparing himself mentaly for battle even though he dosnt sense any direct threat to himself. When the turbolift doors finally slide open, he is greeted by chaos. The sounds of wounded wookiees and sperattic pulse wave fire can be heard clearly in the smoke filled area a head. It takes him a moment to realize that he can also hear the sound of dozens, if not hundreds of people yelling somewhere in the direction of the prison a head.

Rouurarca races through the skyways on his way to the prison, it dosnt take him long before he sees smoke through the canopy of foliage. Slowing the vehicle as he approaches the prison, he is greeted by a scene of chaos and carnage. Below him, he sees the dead and wounded scattered around the area. With a brief search, he spots the massive, black fured form of his brother huddled behind a damaged police repulsor car, beside him is a much smaller humanoid that he has difficulty making out through the smoke and pulse wave fire.

As Sovan starts running, Koshka rumbles happily and follows, the hulking wookiee smiling broadly as he fires several bowcaster rounds, seemingly at random, "Be ready to move when our ride gets here." If he says anything more, the sound of his voice is drowned out by the sound of the rioting prisoners surging out of the front doors of the prison. To the other side, Sovain can see red and blue flashing lights through the smoke as more law enforcement arrives on the scene.

With Caster's arm around her, the Twi'lek woman seems to snuggle a little closer to him, an amused smile on her face. In front of him, he sees Dirk half glance over his shoulder at his companions, then shoots a vicious look towards Vontyr before he seems to recover most of his comfidence. The smile that blossoms on his face exposes his rotting teeth, and another wave or rancid breath washes over Caster, "15k, credits, up front, the rest will be paid on the other end." Dirk pauses as his tongue snakes between two rotting teeth in an attempt to pry something free, seeming satisfied with the results, he continues, "The less you know about the contents of the cargo, the happier you will be." He crosses his arms over his chest, "You arent in a position to pick and choose your jobs. This is a chance for you to make a few credits and be on your way." His gaze shifts to Vontyr. Behind Dirk, Vontyr sees the two wookiee thugs focusing their attention on him.

[Jedi Skyler]

Vin draws his lightsaber, unconsciously preparing for battle as he exits the turbolift and heads toward the prison.

((OOC: Concentration, then Lightsaber Combat))

[Frandal]

Expecting more problems from the escaping prisioners than from the police that seemed that had more problems that they could handle, Rouuurarca decided not to give them enought time to recover.

He concentrates on piloting the speeder, directly towards his brother and the little human who was near him and keeping an eye on the rioting prisioners in case that anyone has the idea of joining his brother in his ride. He rumbles a curse when, due to the sharp movement of descend of the speeder, his bowcaster slides a little bit away from him.

[Wisconsin Wookie]

Caster can't quite stifle a cough as the stench from Dirk's breath comes his way. Clearing his throat quickly, Caster says: "Very well, we have a deal. Bring the 15,000 credits to our ship with the cargo and we'll get it delivered for you. Shall we meet at 0800 tomorrow morning?"

As Caster waits for Dirk's reply, he quickly scans around the bar area to see if any other unexpected parties were eyeing this deal.

(OOC - what time is it at the moment?)

[Stararmor]

"That better be the damn ride, Koshka." He watches the Red and Blue lights coming close. As the vehicle arrives and he looks at the police vehicle, "Are you what he called for?"

[Frandal]

The great wookiee barely looks to the human before reaching his bowcaster and point it towards the escaping prisioners.

"Great Trees!! You are fat!!" says to his brother when he is jumping to the speeder.

"What's this brother?" he says in Shyriiwook "A new pet?"

[vanir]

Satisfied that he's helped Caster's bargaining position, at least in the context of being muscled and bullied rather than bargained with like a businessman, Vontyr relaxes and nods in agreement with Caster.
"Looks like you've got yourself a deal, merchant. But don't even think about crossing us at the delivery point or your Wookiee friends won't save you from me."

He does keep the Wookiees in his peripheral vision, he doesn't completely let his guard down just in case.

[Guardian_A]

As Vin starts into the smoke filled area, his lightsaber in hand. As he closes the distance towards the prison, he finds increasing signs of fighting. Slowing his pace as, he rounds a police repulsor, only to find the dismembered remnants of a wookiee police officer. Lightsaber wounds. At a glance, he sees at least four different wounds that would have been fatal in their own right. To his right, he hears the distinctive hum of a lightsaber blade in the distance for a few short seconds before the sounds of rioting explodes into the open as the excaping prisoners burst out the front doors of the prison. Immediately in front of him, he sees two forms in the smoke moving rapidly towards him. Somewhere behind him, he hears the sound of a repulsorlift rapidly decelerating.

Rouuurarca's rapid deceleration makes the vehicle groan in protest. Through the smoke, he sees his brother fire off several shots with his bowcaster, seemingly at random. Even Koshka's bellowing laughter is drowned out by the deafening noise made by the rioting prisoners. If he says anything in return, he dosnt hear it over ths sudden noise from the prison.

Dirk gives the characters a toothy grin, "Deal," Looking pleased with himself, "Where is your ship docked?" He asks Caster.

Sovain struggles to keep up with the massive wookiee as Koshka heads for a civilian craft that is landing a short distance a head. Between him and the landing vehicle, he sees movement as a figure moves near a downed police vehicle. A wookiee yells something in their direction from the civilian vehicle, a split second later Koshka barks back "Fat? I'm just big boned you runt!" Behind him, he can hear the angry mob spilling out of the prison. He realizes that in a few short seconds the entire area is going to become a deathtrap.

"Deal" Vontyr hears Dirk say, looking almost too happy with the situation, "Where is your ship docked?" He asks Caster. Behind Dirk, Vontyr sees the wookiees looking at him and Caster, as if waiting for something to happen.

[Frandal]

Knowing that his brother will know what to do Rouurarca turns to the nearest figure who just turned the broken police repulsorlift.

He keeps one hand on the controls to pull out as soon as his brother is inside but the other one reaches for his bowcaster.

"Sorry meat " he says to the stranger who seems to be taking a walk " this ride is full try the other one" he adds nodding to the broken one.

(OOC: Assuming he sees Vin, if not he just wait for his brother to climb up the airspeeder and pull out of there )

[Jedi Skyler]

Vin knows he is in a somewhat precarious position; up to this point, he's been a Sith apprentice. However, the Sith have just had their collective butts handed to them; while there may be individual Sith running around - especially as evidenced by the destruction he is witnessing here - he is currently on a world that is firmly in the grip of the Republic. He also knows that their small group hasn't fully hashed out what they're going to do; popular opinion seems to be leaning towards making some kind of living as an independent shipping concern, or possibly continuing on as mercenaries, as several of them were.

Looking down at the lightsaber in his hand, he finds himself glad for once that the crystals in his lightsabers produced dark green blades, rather than the crimson blade that was common amongst the Sith. During his apprenticeship, he'd often wondered why he'd been sent on a quest for natural crystals, rather than being taught to synthesize his own, as most Sith did. However, he hadn't been a student at the Academy on Korriban, nor at any of the other Sith facilities, and his Master's directions had been quite clear. Whether this was foresight on his Master's part, or simply some lesson he'd intended Vin to learn, Vin had no idea; at this point he was simply grateful to be able to use his weapons in the open without being immediately identified as a Sith.

The only problem at the moment, he muses, is that the Sith currently laying waste to the prison area was, as yet, unknown to him. It could be anyone...perhaps someone else, like himself, who had escaped the debacle at Russan, maybe some Sith Lord who had deemed himself above joining in with the Sith Brotherhood. Either way, there was a risk of this individual recognizing Vin, and that wasn't good. He might have to fight this Sith in order to keep his Sith background secret.

He'd just finished opening himself to the Force, preparing for combat, when a voice drifts into his consciousness.

"Sorry, meat. This ride is full; try the other one."

Vin looks at the source of the voice, the look on his face clearly showing that he was not here for a ride, nor did he appreciate some uneducated nerf calling him 'meat.'

[Frandal]

Rouurarca always had problems reading the face expresions of humans. He never took the time to learn them and frankly he didn't care.

When the human looked back at him he was glad that he didn't try to enter the repulsorlift. Probably he didn't undestand what Rouurarca just said, there were so few humans with the enough evolved brain to understand such a complex and beatiful language as Swhiirook.

He smiled back to the human, showing him that he was behaving like a good human. Still his hand is grabing the bowcaster in case he needed to educate him more firmly.

Obviously due to the distance, the smoke and the havoc surrounding them Vin could tell that the wookiee driver had not seen his lightsabers yet.

[Wisconsin Wookie]

Caster pauses for a moment, before answering. Deep down he knows this deal with Dirk is probably going to cause more trouble than it's worth, but right now, trouble was a matter of perspective. Whatever was about to go down, Caster felt a little better now that he had some help in his corner.

Caster snaps out of his thoughts and looks back at Dirk to reply.

(OOC - I looked back in the thread and couldn't seem to find a docking pad number or anything. Roll for knowledge to come up with the ship's docking #?)

[Stararmor]

"Oh no..." Sovain starts moving at a fast pace to the vehicle car and looks at the wookie. "Is this the car?" He gets Koshka and himself in the back of the car.

[Guardian_A]

Outside the Prison:

Several law enforcement vehicles drop through the forest canopy towards the prison. Their sirens barely audible over the roar of the mob. Flashing lights pierce the smoke from multiple locations.

As Vin looks at the repulsorcar, his danger sense spikes. Instinctively, he ducks and rolls to buy himself a moment to identify the threat.

Rouurarca feels something hit the repulsorcar he is in, jerking it hard.

As Sovain reaches for the repulsorcar, the vehicle suddenly seems to spin away from him.

His ears ringing, Vin glances back at the repulsorcar even as it trembles to the ground, its tail end a smoking ruin. His attention turning back towards the prison, he finds the mob almost on top of him.

Rouurarca's senses start to clear, he realizes that he cant hear anything. It takes him a couple seconds longer to realize that the repulsorcar was hit by something, rocket propelled grenade? Where did THAT come from?

Sovain blinks, disoriented. Trying to sit up, the world seems to tilt on its axis. On his second try, he manages to get to his feet. In front of him, he sees the repulsorcar he had been reaching for, its back end now little more than a pile of srap. To his right, he sees Koshka lying on the ground, motionless.



The Red Bark:

Dirk gives a predatory grin, "I'll have my boys bring the cargo." He extends his hand towards Caster to shake on it.

[Jedi Skyler]

Vin ignites his lightsaber, hoping the emerald blade and its distinctive sound will curtail the mob heading right for him. However, his training has taught him to be prudent, so he shifts his focus in the Force a bit to prepare for the possible conflict to come...

((OOC: Concentration, then Lightsaber Combat))