domingo, 19 de febrero de 2012

When all else fails... Improvise!

[Since I'm really really tired for some reason, but I don't want all of the info to be forgotten, I'm going to do this one post-it note style]

- Our heroes arrived at the Mandalorian citadel, where the Clan Elder from Clan Kander explained the problems in his backyard and how the heroes could help stabilize it. He also mentioned in a recording, that he's found out of a weird starbase in the middle of nowhere that dates back to the Mandalorian Wars.
- Unsure that helping the Mando's is their best course of action, our heroes instead decided to investigate more about the Cathedral of Shadows, and got the clue that Den had found out about a similar building in Ziost, the ancient Sith Capital world.
- They also found out that, surprisingly, an Archaeologist had survived the trip to the planet, so they decided to visit him to check if he had found anything on the building.
- After traveling to Ryloth and going through a rebel blockade, they landed near the village of the Archeologist Orn Free Zebb, a somewhat scatterbrained and daring twi'lek.
- Orn was happy to share info with them, and gave them access to his documents, droids and colletion of items from the planet, which included lightsabers, sith swords and diferent parafernalia like robes, decorations, etc...
- Among the info was a recording of a building like the one Quin had seen on his visions, this building was empty on the inside and had different carvings on Sith that Orn had been unable to translate. To everyone's surprise, CR-0 knew how to speak old sith (since he was created to fight them it was an useful asset) and discovered that the carvings gave a set of galatic coordinates, a mantra that repeated itself over and over (...before the darkness of our Empire, before the darkness of King Adas, in the shadows it was born and it the shadows it awaits...) and also that this was some kind of Sith heresy, as the temple had been close down with big "keep out" symbols only reserved for this occasions.
- Right then, a trio of force adepts from the Cathedral assaulted them, but the heroes dispatched them with easness, better yet, they were able to capture one of them, and after stripping him of his suicide capsule via surgery, they interrogated him.
- He was locked in a weird mantra, but strangely enough a couple of words in old Sith startled him enough for Quin to dwelve a bit into his weakened mind, and discovered to his surprise that his mind was broken and mangled beyond belief, modified via de use of potent force techniques that had basically overwritten it and added complex orders and force techniques.
- Armed with all of this info, the team traveled to Tython and shared the information with the Jedi there, which were concerned about the evolution of the war and the part that this organization is having on it, the Masters agreed that the best was for the heroes to return to New Duro and investigate further there to see if they could find more info on this group.

TELL ME IF I FORGOT ANYTHING!

martes, 7 de febrero de 2012

The attack on the Relentless

Ok!

This update is easy, thankfully.

After 6 months, the sides on the war have been properly defined and the conflict has escalated.

The Rebel have established a base in Balmorra, citing the planets historic last stand and rebellion against the Sith as a symbol that they want to protect (unbeknownst to everyone that they originally planned to use New Duro as headquarters). Most of the elite armed forces and big capital ships (since they had high ranking officers in them) have defected to their side, and they have hired multiple mercenary units and enlisted some PDFs.

The jedi are also split on the war, as of now, there are 3 Jedi councils. One in Tython, where the masters that are trying to find a peaceful resolution for the problem are located; those that have moved back to Corusant, and support the Loyalist forces and a final group that has established a council in Balmorra, giving their support to the Rebels.

The adventure began with our heroes coming together to take down the Battlecruiser Relentless, which was in hand of the mandalorians that sided with the Rebels and had been used to harass the system defenses and transit.

4 fighter squadrons, one led by Jan attacked the ship from all sides while 2 assault transports and a boarding pod (with Quin, Nagroth and CR-0).

After finding out the hard way that the ship had faked some of it's damage to lure a smaller strike force in, our heroes managed to board it while Jan and his fighters pummeled the already weakened turret positions.

Quin, Nagroth and CR-0 fought their way across several floors till they managed to get to the bridge, where to Quin surprise, he found his Master Rymobe accompanied by the Red One.

Rymobe demanded their surrender, but Nagroth initiated the attack. Unfortunately, Rymobe was to powerful for our heroes at this stage, and in an act of fury seeing his apprentice raise his blade against him, he blasted the bridge with the force, sending our heroes out into the vacuum of space.

Luckyly, Jan was able to catch them in the nick of time with the Endless Resolve (and with some help of Nagroth's jetpack).

While the Relentless survived the attack, it had been severely pummeled by the fighters and damaged inside by the boarding parties, to the point were it was crippled so much as to be out of the fight for months if not years.

Our heroes falled back to the Mandalorian moon, were they will plan their next move, if they don't get caught up first in the clans conflict...