KOTOR V: The Force Plague

[Tysyacha]

Tysy nodded at Coryn. "Everything you say is true. Tysyacha Dvukhsotnaya,

Dark Lady of the Lawful Sith, was my grandmother. However, shortly after

giving birth to my father, Kilian, and his twin brother Zoltan, she died of

asphyxiation by one of the other members of her star-crossed order. I do

not intend to follow her former path, but she was turned back towards

the Light by one of the Jedi Masters who helped to rescue her and

defeat Darth Sion. I have a dark past, but that does not mean I have

a dark future by default." She gazed into Coryn's eyes pensively.

 

"Excuse me, Master and Mistress," interrupted a certain nervous

protocol droid, "but it seems we have made our landing upon the

surface of Korriban. I suggest we disembark from aboard the

Myriad and explore our barren environmental surroundings."

 

"Good idea, D-452," replied Tysy, "but you're coming with us.

Someone needs to stay here and guard the ship. If there are

any organic--um, I mean living and sentient beings--here on

Korriban, whether they be Sith or not, they might try to steal

this vessel. As far as I know, Korriban is not very famous for its

easily-accessible exits. And--we need someone more than a droid..."

 

"How about you?" said a sly, smirking voice. "Tysy, you yourself admit

that your combat skills are very weak. Who's to say that you won't

get tricked or ambushed upon the surface of this Force-forsaken

planet? If you guard the Myriad, perhaps you will be in less

danger than you would be if you ventured to discover the source of

the plague. If we have no ship, then we have no lifeline, no salvation,

no portal into hyperspace or onto other worlds. What do you think?"

 

(OOC: I'm thinking that if Tysy stays with the ship, perhaps Lord

Vereck or Darth Sinister could capture her. Otherwise, she will go

onto the surface of Korriban looking for the plague, and thus meet

our new female Twi'lek companion. Also, feel free to take possession

of "the sly, smirking voice." It sure wasn't Tysy who said that!

What do you think of this idea, Tysy getting captured so early on?)

[RobQel-Droma]

(((That is an ok idea of her getting captured early on. The rest of us would try and discover the plague and find Tysy. But you could wait and go through Korriban and meet the Twi-Lek companion, then after we leave get captured. And is the "sly smirking voice" a new character on our ship, or is it somebody specific?)))

[TreeX]

((Na, I dont think so, currently Tysy's character is a bit raw, and to play in tune we'd have a psychotic Coryn, maybe get captured later on in the story but certainly not now. Star Characters gotta stay on for a bit before getting bumped ^_- and the voice shall be Kharne.. afterall none of you lot like him... yet))

[DarthSion101]

Sinister sat in a room, filled with his top officers, and scientists. They chattered eagerly amongst themselves, until the shadowy dark lord rose to his feet. The room grew silent as his staff waited for him to speak. "My Dear friends" He spoke in his familiarand cold tone. As he began his speech, the monster of a Trandoshan, Tretiak entered the meeting room, and took his place at his masters side, and folded his reptilian arms accross his chest. Sinister continued." As you all are well aware, my mutant wookies passed their test on Taris. They exceeded even my expectations. But they were just an experimental group. The true prize, is Project Omega, which is in its final stage. But I say why stop there, when we can infuse my Meta-human brutes with the force. imagine that an army of unstoppable drones, who wield the force, and bow to my will. A new supersoldier, to usher in a new order."

 

"But sir, it is impossible to infuse the force into beings who do not already possess it." A scientist spoke.

 

Sinister regarded this man with a cold calm. "All life is touched by the force, all I need is a sample of pure untainted blood, from a force user, from a powerful line, one who is strong in the force, but yet has not been tainted by either side of the force. Then and only then can the sample be converted into a serum, infusing the brutes with the darkside of the force. Search the galaxy, bring the one I require. Dispatch assassins throughout the galaxy, find me my specimen."

[TreeX]

Kharne suddenly shivered, one hand clutching his blaster while he thought of the burning Taris caused by the Sith fleet. Without waiting for an answer he spun on his heel and left towards the exit.

[RobQel-Droma]

Coryn angrily looked at the retreating Kharne. "Yes, perhaps she would be in less danger, but she was the one sent on the mission, and so I think that it is best that she comes with us. I doubt any of us - with the exception of Soludis - would know how to discover a force plague. But that still leaves us with the question: Who is going to stay and guard the ship?"

 

"We will probably need Tysy, and Soludis, they are Jedi and would sense the dark side here. As for Graothar, he would be helpful too, and I am not sure that he would want too stay. Of course, then Kharne might stay here for his fighting skills, which I am sure are so superior to ours. But I think that he would be helpful on this planet too."

 

Kharne smiled, "So, that just leaves you Coryn. Are you good enough to come with us, kiddo? Of course, I suppose so, since you are the important one." He said sarcastically.

 

Coryn managed to control himself and retorted, "As for me, now, I will let you decide. I am not arrogant enough to believe I am the best here."

[TreeX]

"Mmm... You think I believe I'm so ignorant as to believe I'm the best in the group?" Kharne smiled thinly, "Perhaps the most expierience but hardly the best, the strong survive and the weak suffer, that is life's cycle, you never see the cannok eat the zakkeg, why? Because the zakkeg is stronger. Even if she was appointed for this mission, she is still the weakest link. Though perhaps, she should not guard the vessel... I would rather not have a dead girl lying next to where the Myriad "Should be".

Frowning suddenly his eyebrows furrowed together and he scratched his jaw.

"This... Force Plague... Does it aim specifically for Force Sensitives or those who use the Force regularly? If it is the latter Soludis and Tysy need to keep an eye on their force abilities, if I'm right this Plague would strike like the plague on Derson II, ripping apart the males before they realise they have the plague. Pah, I worry too much, you lot keep discussing if you wish I'm heading down for a look." Kharne turned his back on the murderous gaze of Coryn and headed down the cargo ramp, twirling his blasters in each hand.

[steven]

"Accutaly I have seen a cannok eat a zakkeg. But I shall stay here. The force plauge only attacks the ones who use the force of light. They objectives are pretty simple. Dont use any force power and Find information on the force plauge. I would check the Valley of the dark lords."

[RobQel-Droma]

"Well, then-what are we waiting for? Lets head out." Coryn got up and grabbed his weapons from a nearby footlocker. He looked at the rest of them. "Is D-452 coming with us too, or is he staying with Soludis? We might need some of his sensors, but then again he might be better at guarding the Myriad," he asked.

[steven]

"He can go with you. Protical droids bore me." Solidus threw a com-link at Tysy. "Take this. If you need to contact me, use it. Using the force at this point is too risky"

[Tysyacha]

Tysy, Coryn, D-452 and the others set out upon the surface of what was

supposedly a barren planet. However, what the group discovered as soon

as they disembarked from the Myriad was a Czerka Corporation

outpost, complete with customs officers roaming around collecting fees!

 

"Excuse me," said one of these same customs officers matter-of-factly,

"but there is a docking fee of 2,000 credits per vessel for landing rights.

If you cannot afford this fee, please contact Mira Handarr, a bounty

hunter over at the Czerka Cantina, for debtor's work at that facility. Do

any of you have any questions?" he asked. He didn't seem like a bad sort.

 

"For starters, I don't have 2,000 credits," said Tysy meekly, "and, no

offense to any of you in this group, but I don't think we do, either. If

I'm wrong, however, please feel free to pay up!" A short, sheepish laugh.

No one did. Tysy backtracked. "Um, I thought that Korriban was a barren

world, covered with nothing but tombs of the Ancient Sith." She coughed.

 

"That used to be true," said the customs officer, "but since we discovered

the valuable artifacts in those tombs, Czerka Corp. stood to make a killing.

Pardon the pun, miss, but we have. See Mira Handarr over at the cantina

if you're looking to make credits in a hurry. You don't have to hunt. Dancers

make twice as much in an hour, and there's not all that searching to do!"

 

"Speaking of searching, we're searching for information on a mmm-mmgh!"

Coryn gently slipped his hand over Tysy's mouth. This Czerka man could be trouble.

 

"Sorry, I only know about the credits I'm supposed to collect," said the officer.

"Good day, and I hope all of you can earn the requisite landing rights fee soon."

He turned to leave, and Coryn and his party strolled toward the Czerka Cantina.

[steven]

Solidus used the com-link to talk to the Tysy and her party. She explained the situation. "A landing toll, heh? I would take the ship and fly it around for a while. That way you dont having to pay a toll. How about it?"

[Writer]

Taa'la was in the middle of a rather strange conversation with a pilot. Two Czerka men stood by and listened.

 

"So then they told me I'd have to pay them a rather large sum of money or I'd suffer public humiliation," he told her. "And I don't know what to do."

 

"They're bluffing," Taa'la told him. "Keep your credits. There will be no humiliation. Your reputation as a good pilot is too solid. Nothing Czerka could say about you would change that."

 

"Oh, we can change things, Twi'lek," one of the Czerka men growled. "In fact, we could have your docking permit revoked. Don't push us or we'll do just that. It'd be better for you if you just left Korriban and took up a career of dancing!"

 

Taa'la laughed. "Is that so?" She waved a hand in their faces. "Go back to your jobs... there's nothing to be gained from this verbal confrontation."

 

The Czerka men backed off and Taa'la shrugged. The other man turned to her.

 

"You're a Jedi?" he gasped.

 

"Was," Taa'la answered. "Now go on. Your reputation will never be ruined by Czerka."

 

The pilot thanked her and ran off to his ship.

[ForceFightWMe12]

There was darkness all around...the man could hardly tell floor from wall from ceiling. There was a hiss of a lightsaber behind him and he turned towards the noise. There, before him, was a girl and a Mandalorian. He thought he could discern shapes behind them, but the darkness shrouded around them. The man smiled cockily, igniting his own blood red blades. Crossing them in front of him, he spoke. "So, you have come." He didn't even try to attack, and instead gathered the Force around him. "A pity that one so young will have to die in a place like this." He fired the gathered power, using the Plauge, and it enveloped around the woman. The man beside her howled and jumped at him with a sword drawn. The man sneered and put up a lightsaber, stopping the Mandalorian's blow easily. "Pitiful." The man struck again, and again his blade was stopped, this time by the other lightsaber. "I thought that Mandalorians were supposed to be able to fight." Once again, the vibroblade whistled through the air, but the man stopped it with one saber, knocked it from his hands with the other, then blasted a kick into the Mandalorian's gut. The warrior was sent sailing through the air, landing hard on his back a few feet away. The man walked over, standing above the Mandalorian, and put a humming blade just beneath his neck. "And so ends the great Mandalorian protector."

 

 

((By the way, that was a vision. Just a little FYI. ))

[ExtreamJedi12]

Graothar approached the Czerka guy."I have 2000 credits. I will pay the mantanence fee." he said to him. He took the credits. "Very well. It has been payed." the Czerka guy said to Tysy."There goes the last of my paycheck." he thought.

[Jedi Atomic]

Scur hurried over to the base and the receptionist asked, "Excuse me, do you have permission to enter?"

"Yes, an officer told me to tell you that i killed the beasts in the hangar." said Scur.

"Oh, well go down this hallway to the end and he is in that room." told the receptionist as the door next to her opened.

 

Scur walked down the hallway to the end and pressed the switch to open the door. When Scur walked in, the commander was standing waiting. Both greet each other, "So, your the man who killed the beast/wookies?"

"Why, yes I am."

"Well, thank you for killing them, because we need to research on what the Sith used to attack us with. Oh, and here's some credits to thank what you did for us."

"You didn't......."

The commander turns around and walks to the control panel.

 

Scur walked out and thought. If the Sith are going to keep invading planets, what's the use restoring them?

 

He decided to back inside and asked, "Could I get a piloting job and train here?"

"Of course, just head to the barracks and ask the officer."

"O.K. thank you."

Scur heads down to the barracks and asked the Officer if Scur could learn to be a pilot. The Officer agrees and brings him to a hangar. When Scur walks in there are many young men sitting down and learning how to be a pilot. The Officer stops and says, "O.K., here is the ship you'll start with."

 

Scur jumps in and waits for the officer's command. The Officer tells him the controls and says "Once I get into that ship over there launch whenver and shoot the targets. Scur wais for him to get in his starfighter and he launches out of the hangar, followed by the officer.

[DarthSion101]

Darth Sinister Entered the mines, what he saw, was the typically familair sight, of his men and the trandoshans beating, and abusing the poor fools forced to work there. He continued up the stairs, to the main watch center in the mine, as he approached the guards snapped at attention, and saluted their dark master.

 

Tretiak turned from the observation window to greet his master. "Lord sinister we are honored by your presence, what brings you to my little slice of paradise." The trandoshan hissed sarcastically.

 

Sinister smugly smiled." I have an important job for you my fine reptillian comrade."

Tretiak nodded in agreement. Sinister continued "Several spies working in the cezerka outpost on Korriban, have claimed that s rather unique band of spacer has arrived. Asking all kinds of fascinating questions about the ruins, adn the academy. Also I have felt a strong force presence there during my meditation, like beacon calling for me. Your task is simple, find the source, track it, get a sample of its Dna for me, and return here, So I may complete the final stage of Project Omega."

 

"I will leave immediately" Tretiak turns to Krewell "You are in charge until I return"

The second lizard nods in approval.

 

"You have trained me well master, I will not fail you." Tretiak proclaimed. "of course not, I have forseen your victory" replied sinsiter confidently.

[RobQel-Droma]

Coryn looked at Groathar. "Thanks, but I had enough credits to get through that. I will pay you back; I have a lot more."

Graothar replied, "No, keep it."

Coryn pulled out the credits and gave them to Graothar anyways, "You might need it."

 

LS Points Gained: 20

 

Coryn, Tysy, and Graothar walked through the Czerka outpost. There were a few spacers here, a lot of Czerka employees hounding people for fees -Just like them, he thought- and a few aliens. Looking out of the outpost he could see some of the ruins and the academey. "I think that we will have to get outside and into the Valley of the Sith Lords. I doubt there is anything here in this outpost. Besides, I can't stand the Czerka anyways." D-452 chimed in, "I agree with him, mistress. The exit is over there, shall we make our way there."

 

They attempted to head outside, but, yet again, they were stopped by a Czerka employee. "Hold it there, I don't think you would be wanting to go out there. We have men working out there, but it is not safe. Unless, of course, you can-"

 

"Hand over 2000 credits, I know." Coryn scowled at the Czerka. "Everything is about money, isn't it."

 

"This outpost is Czerka's, and is in control of Korriban (here Coryn tried very hard from laughing in his face). We are excavating - "stealing you mean, " Coryn cut in - this area here. I must insist that you pay, if you die out there, it is not our fault. I cannot let you go otherwise."

 

"Oh really- don't worry, if I die out there, I make sure you don't get blamed for it. Now out of my way." Graothar growled at the guard, and the Czerka started to protest, but then thought the better of it, and opened the door.

 

Skill Gain: Persuade +1

DS Points Gain: 5

 

They headed outside and came up to the door of the Sith Academy. "Well, somehow we are going to have to get through their and into the valley. What do you think we should do, Tysy?"

[ExtreamJedi12]

"Coryn, something is bothering me." Groathar said to the Mandalorian. "What?" Coryn responded. "It was that attack over Taris." the Wookie said to him."It seemed too small to be a full scale attack. Plus, Tysy said there were mutated Wookies on the surface. I have never heard of mutated Wookies in the Sith army." Graothar told Coryn.(sry about the charecter control RobQel-Droma)

[RobQel-Droma]

"Maybe Darth Sinister wasn't trying to assualt the city completely. It might have been a test attack; Those mutated wookiees are some new edition to his army, he might have been trying them out. I only wish we knew where his base was." Coryn replied as they headed threw the old academy

[Tysyacha]

"I think," replied Tysy, "that we should all watch our steps very carefully.

This academy is, in fact, deserted. My grandmother Tysyacha, the Jedi

Exile, also had to explore this place in her quest against Darth Traya.

Perhaps if we masquerade as new trainees, new students, the ruins

of this school of the Dark Side will let us pass. Hopefully, the Dark

Side presence here will mask the Force sensitivities of myself and

Solidus." Tysy squared her shoulders and prepared to advance.

[Writer]

Taa'la watched as Tysy and co. walked past the cantina and frowned. They were headed toward the deserted Sith Academy. As she watched them, she forgot the drink in her hand. It slipped and shattered on the floor, startling her out of her concentration. Interested, she paid for the drink and slipped out of the cantina.

 

"I wouldn't enter there if I were you," Taa'la called, hurrying up to the group, one hand on her lightsaber to prevent it from coming loose from her belt. "Though deserted, it is still dangerous. Creatures from the Shyrack caves and the Valley of the Sith Lords have entered through the broken doors. For this reason, the gates of Dreshdae remain shut unless fools decide to pass through."

 

She examined the group. "Most of you are not fools, I think," she went on. "Therefore you must understand that you are in need of a being who has entered this place... and come out of it alive." She gave a short bow. "I am Taa'la Vel."

[DarthSion101]

A small Sith shuttle came out of hyperspace just above korriban. It flew in low, and landed in the small docking area of Dreshdae. The ramp extended, and four heavily armed Trandoshan guards exited, and stood at full attention. They were soon followed by a huge hulking monster of a Trandoshan, as Tretiak made his way down the ramp and into the settlement, he was in his typical full Sith uniform. He approached the docking bay customs agent, who whispered information into his ear about thecrew of They Myriad. He smiled a cold smile, bearing his mouthful of razor sharp fangs. He gestured to his troops to guard the bay, as he exited the landing zone, and made his way through the czerka settlement. As he struuted quickly through the colony, he recieved his usual reaction, sentient beings quickly scurrying from his path, he always found this to be supremely amusing. HE passed by what was the cantina, and stared at the bouncer guarding the door, the Rodian simply gestured towards the academy, as if already knowing that which he pursued. Tretiak pulled his Black Lightsaber hilt from the belt of his Sith uniform, and held it in his left claw, as he prepared to stalk his prey.

[TreeX]

The door suddenly opened and through them stepped a Mandaloriuan and a Kel Dor, Kharne and Aegis. " You are not the only one who managed that Twilek Jedi, I had to scramble aorund that pit to find this ole ugly looking pal!" Said Kharne, punching Aegis's arm as he said so.

Indeed? Thought Aegis to the groupWhen I came I found you, you were having the time of your life shooting up the creatures!

 

Tysy warily approached the robed and masked Kel Dor, "Hello, my name is Tysy, who are you?"

I am Aegis Valheru, someone you do not want to cross and also a friend, mainly because you managed to temporarily cow this brute standing next to me.

Tysy distinctly got the impression that if his eyes showed Aegis would have rolled them then suddenly worked out that the sentient before them had spoke in her mind!

"What? Did you just siddle in my mind?"

No. And if I wished to I would have harme dyou and left you a pathetic gibbering mass... Then he seems to be considering, Or perhaps not... You are more powerful then you look... much more powerful... Perhaps I should explain why I speak to you like this. Unlike Malak I was not a wealthy figure to have my throat replaced, even though Malak had his jaw lopped off. I was part of bastila's strike team against revan all those years ago, I was captured when during our escape a Sith got lucky and a blaster hit my side, I was captured, during torture my overzeolous overseer struck my throat with a vibroblade, you can see what the result was... Aegis raised his chin showing a thick ugly scar from the left of his throat running to the right. I will explain my relationship with Kharne later, he has filled me in with what you plan to do and for the sake of alleviating my boredom, I wish to join you, if you will have me I will help guide you if you wish.

 

((Sorry for borrowing your characters ppl ^_- next time I gotta look at the coversations more... just didnt want to drag this out like on the damn ship -_-))

[Writer]

((TreeX, my suggestion would be to do less 'borrowing'. Let other people answer for themselves. Taa'la would not have been surprised at being called a Jedi. She openly wears her lightsaber at her belt.))