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FAMILY TIES
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After not getting any sleep due to a little kid knocking on my door and
a fire drill, I got up in the 
morning
and reported for duty to be transported to a capital ship. All I took with
me was some clothes, my blaster, blast vest, and a thousand credits. I
really wouldn't need any more than that. The Empire was transporting a
World Devastator to Mon Calamari--my planet--and
we were going to stop it before it got to the planet.
I was met by a bunch of my buddies at the transport and we climbed in andwaited
to get going. We 
eventually
got off the planet and headed toward the nearest Mon
Cal Cruiser.
When we docked and entered the ship, we got our station assignments and
went to our rooms. I left my stuff in my room and then went to my piloting
post in the command tower. Soon we jumped into hyperspace.
And arrived near the Mon Cal world, the World Devistator and two Star Destroyers
approaching.
We
took our battle formation and the battle was on. Several of our ships in
our fleet were destroyed and both the Star Destroyers were also destroyed.
My ship, the command ship, was severely crippled and we were told to evacuate.
As we left the ship in an escape pod, someone was listening on a communicator
and heard that the World Devastator was deactivated by an R2 droid.
We
had to intercept another escape pod that had been shot up pretty bad. Several
commanders and some young Rodian in flashy
clothes (Mike DeVuyst's new character) stepped in. We soon landed on the
planet and I spent a few days visiting my family and telling them of my
journeys.
When I was done with that, I was taken back to Yavin IV. As I was walking
home from the docking bay, I saw that Rodian again. He stepped into a bar.
He looked to me to be under age. But what was worse was that there was
a man following a short distance behind him, also stepping into the bar.
They didn't seem to be together. I thought I'd check it out.
I sat in the corner watching the two. They were not sitting together. Eventually
the Rodian got up and approached the other man's table, then sat down.
I ordered a drink and watched some more.
Some funky looking, drunk lizard guy sat down beside me and laughed. His
wallet was practically falling out of his pocket, so I carefully knocked
it out. Then I hid it under my foot. I got the bartender's attention and
pointed to the lizard guy. Eventually another guy came and took the lizard
outside. I checked the wallet. Five hundred credits. Not bad.
I looked back at the other two just as the man got up and left. Then I
went to talk to the Rodian. I asked if everything was all right and told
him my side of the story. Well, the ungrateful little puke lied to me when
I could obviously tell there was something wrong. And then he tells me
he's a Senator. Yeah, right. Then he just left. Well, I finished my drink
and left too.
I went to the gym and punched the bag a little and swam a bit, then went
home. I wanted to get some sleep. I had to go see Aronac, Morroc's Jedi
teacher, in the morning to get started on my Jedi training.
(End of Game Play Six)
When seven o'clock rolled around, I got up and was going to get breakfast.
The only problem was that I didn't have any food in my apartment. I hadn't
been shopping in a while. I went to O'Donald's instead of shopping. I needed
to get to Aronac.
I met him in a park about a mile from my apartment. He had two other students
with him. They were 
juggling
rocks between each other without using their hands. I introduced myself
to Aronac and said I was a friend of Morroc and wanted to be trained in
the ways of the Force. Then another student stepped up. This Human's name
was Thorne Pierson (introducing....Brandon
Miller) and I soon befriended him.
Aronac tested our control over our minds by
telling us a story while distracting us with noises in our heads and sounds
around us and pebbles floating from the ground and hitting us in the face.
We both cought a little of what was said, but not much. We got his point.
Then we climbed a mountain and stood on our hands on the top. He told us
something else there and 
we
didn't catch much of it. I eventually fell and hit my head, knocking me
unconscious. Thorne fell too, but not as hard. Six minutes later, I woke
up and we went down a path through a forest.
He tested our sense abilities there and both Thorne and I sensed small
life forms around us. We then went back to the park and he gave us our
finishing speech. It was a little past 1:00 p.m. Aronac thought we'd had
enough training for today.
So Thorne and I went to O'Donald's for some lunch. As we were eating, we
were interruped by a Rodian. A Rodian in fancy schmancy clothing who claims
he's a Senator. In his selfish, cocky little way, he insults me while telling
me he wants me to fly him and his friends to a place that he can't tell
me the name of, but is in Imperial territory, for some personal business
and won't give me any details of what he wants me to do. Then he hits up
my friend for a Jedi position he needs filled.
Well, I suggest that his friends join us and we discuss the matter as a
group. So he gets his friends from the corner and we all talk a
little bit. The Senator [Gwarden Quixe] suggests continuing the conversation
somewhere else and I suggest the gym that Thorne and I were about to go
to. We could meet in the privacy of a locked sauna and no one would hear.
An argument arose as to who 
would
pay for a cab and I ended the argument by declaring that I was paying.
Even though the Senator has an unlimited amount of money, I wound up paying
the twelve credits.
We got in the sauna and started talking about the "mission". The group
consisted of myself, Thorne, Quixe, Quixe's assistant
(named Van, played by GM, Mike Heimburger),
and a blue-skinned, near-human bounty hunter they
hired (Darryn Le'Chuelykk, played by Ben Sommers)
to come along with them. He took his gun into the sauna. Bountyhunters:
I don't need that scum.
A little argument rose because I still wasn't getting details and I didn't
want to stick my head out for this little green freak if I didn't need
to. I said that there were a lot of crazy people out there and then the
little brat called me one of them. That's when I lost it. I'd had enough.
I socked him one good right in the face.
Van dragged him out of the sauna and Thorne and I had a little fist fight
with the Darryn after dodging a few of his shots. I'll tell you one thing,
the blue guy can take a knee to the groin like no one I've ever seen.
(End of Game Play Seven)
In an attempt to make peace, the injured Thorne suggested sitting downand
talking about the situation. I just grabbed the bounty hunter's head and
smashed it up against the wall. BOOM! The ceiling came crashing downand
the walls caved in. A wall hit Thorne in the side and pinned him to the
ground. The same happened to me, only I was knocked unconscious for a minute
or two.
When I woke up, I found a chunk of the wall covering
me from the waist down. The blue guy was trying to lift the wall
off Thorne and I sat up, grabbed the chunk on me and tried to lift. Nothin'.
A fire was spreading toward me. Thorne used the Force to help the blue
guy lift and rolled out from under the heavy slab of wall. I yelled forhelp
and I got some. I could stand up but my right ankle 
was
broken. The door was covered with a pile of rubble and fire surrounded
what would be the only exit.
Just then, Van's hands appeared, digging through the blocked exit. Then
Darryn jumped through the hole and Thorne helped me to the hole. Just then,
the wall behind us collapsed, creating a huge and easily accessed exit.
Why crawl through fire when you could just walk out unscorched? The hole
opened to the hallway leading to the locker room.
After starting to get changed, the little Rodian twirp and the other two
came in and got dressed too. Some guy got me a doctor and he fixed me up.
Quixe said to meet us in a bar in a half hour and left. Then Thorne and
I went to sit in a whirlpool to soothe our burns and bruises. When we were
done with that, he went to a bar and I went home to read about the Force.
I told him to call me when the meeting was done.
I was reading some pretty cool stuff when Thorne called. He said that some
guy on some remote Imperial planet had some weapon that could bring the
New Republic to an end. Doesn't everybody? But the Force told me that the
Rodian meant it. And that worried me. So I told him I wasn't a definite
"no" anymore and I'd think about it.
Later I got another call--a conference call--from Thorne and Senator Quixe.
They eventually talked me into flying them to that planet. The Force pulled
me into it. Quixe hung up and I told Thorne to buy some Play Doh for the
three day trip there. We'd have the chance to get one more lesson from
Aronac before leaving. And maybe, just maybe, he'd come with us. I needed
my rest, so I went to bed.
In the morning, I stocked my ship with consumables, refueled, and went
to see Aronac. I met
Thorne
(he had the Play Doh) and his R2 droid and we learned some stuff about
altering our environment. Then we asked him about going with us. He told
us it was a personal mission and we needed to do it ourself. Sowe went
to the docking bay and met up with the other three. We all got in and flew
away to a planet called Barthan.
While on the ship, Thorne and I practiced levetating the Play Doh and reshaping
it. We also sent telepathic messages to each other and Quixe. We talked
with him about being paid and I warned the Darryn about smoking on my ship.
He was hung over and he apparantly got high on some multicolored "cigarettes"
last night. I don't even think Quixe trusts him.
Upon reaching Barthan, we were greeted by a TIE fighter.
The bounty hunter is a good shot with my turret guns. He didn't
blow it up, but he crippled it and sent it spinning away into space. Then,
once above a small city, two airspeeders escorted us to a docking bay,
where I prentended I was going to land, then took off. They shot at me
but we shot right back and outran them.
I landed in the woods about ten miles away from the city and we geared
up and left. The hike was fairly easy and we found the city to be really
freakin' small. We went into a bank where Thorne and the Darryn distracted
the tellers and Quixe and I tried hacking into the ATM. I don't know what
Van was doing. An alarm flashed after we tampered too much with the machine
and we escaped. We confronted four storm troopers and fought them for a
while. After we took them down, we stole their guns and ran away.
(End of Game Play Eight)
Well, the residents thought it looked a little weird, so they stared or
ran away. We escaped to a nearby alley and waited as a airspeeder flew
by and landed at the corner. Thorne jumped into the dumpster and I hid
behind it. The others just stood there.
As the door to the speeder opened up, six storm troopers
marched out and opened fire. As Thorne, 
Van,Darryn,
and I shot with trooper rifles, Quixe whipped
out this monster of an illegal repeater and filled a few troopersfull of
holes...well, at least the ones he didn't blow the heads off of.
When they were all down, we stepped up to them to check out the damage
and the speeder started up again. Darryn jumped in immediately and I soon
followed. Before anyone else could jump in, the speeder took off and pointed
its nose to the sky.
Darryn and I fell back into a box of storm trooper uniforms and the pilot
started shooting at us from the cockpit. We climbed up to him and Darryn
blew a big hole in the back of the pilot's head. I flew the speeder back
to pick up our acquaintances and Darryn stole what he could from the dead
man.
We saw a tall building (about eight stories high) in the center of the
city. We figured we'd want to go there. But how do we get in? I had a plan.
If Darryn, Van, and Thorne dressed as stormtroopers and Quixe as the pilot,
we could sneak in acting as if they had captured me.
I landed on the roof and we went inside. At the end of the hallway was
a secretary's desk but no secretary. So we decided to hack into her computer.
We found out as much stuff as we could about some Moff Lexins guy and got
a map of how to get to his place outside of the city.
Once we got what we needed, we went to an elevator and walked out the front
door. Then we hailed a cab in our own unique and forceful way and had him
take us to the edge of town where we could rent a landspeeder.
We rented one cheap and went to my ship. We ate some food and rested a
little bit while we thought up a plan on what we were going to do when
we found Lexins. A noise kept distracting us, and strangely enough, it
was coming from the trunk of the speeder. We opened it up and found a skinny
terrified little man curled up in there.
He told us his name was Coewardinus and had
escaped from his "employer", a man named Magnus. 
He
had been hiding in the trunk for a few days now and was hungry, so we fed
him. Quixe asked him a bunch of questions about Lexins and Magnus and the
simple Coewardinus just kept saying of Magnus, "evil," and he controlled
Lexins. Magnus also sought after a great artifact. He knew where they were,
so we asked him to lead us there and show us the way he had escaped so
we could get in. He agreed to do it.
We packed up and headed where Coewardinus pointed us. We stopped near a
large clearing in the woods, hid the speeder, and wondered what was next.
It was strange that such a large clearing was out in the middle of nowhere.
Van got smart and tossed a rock into the clearing. Electricity engulfed
it in mid air and sent sparks flying in all directions, then dropped the
rock to the ground. A force field. Coewardinus warned us about that and
took us toward the mountains.
We came to the foothills and had to crawl through a tiny little crevice
in the wall. Coewardinus slid through with no problem, but I almost got
stuck. Quixe, Darryn, and Thorne got through, but when it was Van's turn,
something pulled back. We pulled harder and Van kicked and eventually got
through the narrow part of the tunnel. Darryn shot at whatever was pulling
back and something hit the ground, but no one saw anything.
We kept going though the tunnel and came to a door. I heard a blaster shot
behind me. Darryn shot something. So Thorne and I decided to see what it
was. We could see blood. We could feel the body. But we couldn't see it.
What's going on here? Coewardinus stepped up and flipped a switch near
the invisible man's waist. The lizard-like creature
then became visible. Coewardinus simply said, "Hide box," and went
back to the door. I took the "Hide box" and Quixe took the special goggles
that it was wearing and could see through night vision, infrared, X2, and
X4. Infrared allowed the men with hide boxes to see each other. These and
the hide box could come in handy.
We went through the door and hopped onto a primitive elevator that only
three people could fit in at a time. Coewardinus ran the elevator and every
time he came to the top again, paused, closed his eyes, then opened the
door. I sensed the Force was strong with him. Very strong.
Once we all were upstairs, we looked around at an enormous room. No one
was to be seen, so we looked around for anything that could help us in
any way. We came across a small room filled with guns, explosives and other
gadgets. We picked up some stuff from there and kept looking.
As we looked, Quixe was reminded of some coin he had bought in a bar back
on Yavin IV. He asked Coewardinus if he'd ever seen something like it before
and all Coewardinus could answer with was, "Magnus seeks....Magnus seeks.
"Quixe had this "Maximon Key", the link to
that destructive 
weapon,
the whole time and we've practically handed it to Lexins and Magnus!? Was
Quixe really here to keep Lexins from getting it or was he here to give
it to him? My suspicions rose, but the Force told me that he did, in fact,
intend to keep it from Lexins.
I wanted to destroy it then and there, but they wouldn't let me. They wanted
to get it back to Yavin IV where it would be "safe." If we could sneak
into a place like this, these guys could do the same to us and steal thecoin
from us. I say it's only safe if it's in pieces.
But we heard voices in the next room so we took another elevator to the
ship bay a few floors down. I used my cloaking belt and listened at the
door to try to make out any dialogue. I could make out voices, but I couldn't
make out any words, so I ran to the elevator and met everybody else downstairs.
I de-cloaked and we decided to steal some ships. Darryn peeked around the
corner and saw some transports, some fighters, and some landspeeders. I
cloaked and found out some more information about the room by walking around
the room. I came back and told them what I'd learned. They went into another
room and changed into pilot outfits and I checked out the control panel
that two guys were working on.
When the other five guys came back out, I punched a bunch of buttons, confusing
the guys working at the panel, and setting off an alarm. My crew jumped
into two TIE bombers and a TIE interceptor while I roughed up a guy and
got him to open the doors so we could fly out of there. Once the doors
were opened, I joined Darryn and Thorne in a bomber and flew away.
As we flew up, we noticed the clearing we looked at from the outside 
was
below us. We were on the inside of the force field. Now how were we gonna
get out? Some space transports escaped the palace as I fired nine proton
torpedoes on the structure, just completely leveling
it. The force field dropped and we escaped but were soon confronted
by some TIE fighters. We were almost out of ammo, but we got rid of all
of them. We all flew back to the Osprey, ditched our TIEs, and left the
planet. As we got out of the atmosphere, we were heavily fired upon by
a hideous looking ship behind us. I set a course for Yavin IV and jumped
to hyperspace.
Beep. Beep. Beep. We were being followed in hyperspace. I didn't want this
ship following me to Yavin IV. Too many innocent lives would be at stake
and there'd be no way to warn anyone quick enough to battle this monster
of a ship. And there's no way I'd lead an Imperial ship to Yavin IV. So
I dropped out of hyperspace and set a course for Yooper. I punched it and
we were off again.
Upon reaching Yooper, we were caught up in a cloud of debris. We weren't
being followed, but just as we entered the atmosphere, all my engines failed.
All of them! I sent Thorne's R2 unit to fix them and he got one going.
I could land with that much. And I did.
We landed at the bottom of a canyon and I taught everybody to help fix
the engines. As I was down below, I was knocked unconscious. Great. When
I woke up, Darryn, Thorne, Quixe, and Van were fighting something that
didn't appear to be there and the whole ship was rocking. I was more 
concerned
about my ship so I went up to the cockpit and saw a terrifiedCoewardinus
staring out the window. I took a look and saw a giant ugly-looking
thing with eight legs, two mouths, and two scorpion tails.
I high-tailed it to the gun turret and ran into something. A lizard-man
de-cloaked and I pulled my gun. He said, "No. I help," and ran out the
cargo hold door. He cloaked and ran toward the monster, firing wildly.
I manned the turret and fired for the mouths. The beast eventually stabbed
the brave soldier, cutting off his legs and de-cloaking him. He held his
chest and everything went BOOM! All that was left were a few legs and a
tail.
I went back to the cockpit and found the others had captured one of these
invisible assailants. Apparently there were three and now two are dead.
I don't like people who sabotage my ship.
(End of Game Play Nine)
I chewed the lizard guy out for messing with my ship and found out his
name was Crasa. He claimed he'd help from now on, but I had Quixe watchhim
while everybody else helped me fix the damage done to the hull of myship.
Just one panel on the top got knocked off and a few wires were hanging
out.
Then Quixe called me on my comlink and said a red light was blinking. I
went in to check it out. It was a distress call from about a mile down
the canyon. I radioed to Van, but he couldn't see anything. The canyon
forked. Once we were finished fixing the ship, we'd go answer the call.
A little while later, I got everybody inside and flew down toward the source
of the call. We found a pile of rubble, what used to be a mining base or
something. Caves lined the base of the cliffs. I traced the call coming
from one of the caves, so I lowered the ship slowly, flipped on my spotlights,
turned on my loudspeaker and asked for a sign of life. A blaster shot zipped
past the Osprey, the source being from the cave straight below me. I landed
in front of it and commanded them to show themselves while I opened the
door and sent some firepower to the ramp.
A strange-looking droid quickly emerged from the cave, blaster in hand,
shooting at something coming from the rubble. Something that looked likea
miniature version (seven feet tall) of the huge monster
we faced earlier scrambled from the 
wreckage.
I started to take off and the droid boarded the ship. He put his gun away,
so we let down ours.
He told us of his mission as I flew us to the city I visited earlier. His
name was H2SO4 and was a combat droid. He and twelve others remained of
a large fleet which was destroyed--the debris floating above the planet.
The New Republic was mining Strontium 90 on Yooper and upset the community
of these creatures, which lived underground. They took to the surface and
destroyed whatever they saw. That's probably why I didn't see anybody the
last time I was here. This fleet is probably here in response to what It
old General Falloc about what I saw.
The fleet had what they called the Payload and were going to plant it into
one of the mine shafts, activating the Payload, setting off a vicious chain
reaction within the planet and destroying 90% of the surface. Ouch. He
kept saying "The mission must be completed." I kept saying we'll do it
later.
I docked us high in some docking bay tower in the city and told everybody
to scrounge up some certain materials needed to make another turret for
my ship. Quixe wanted to take a walk, so he took Coewardinus and Crasa
and strolled through the city. Thorne took Crasa's "hide box" to make sure
he didn't pull anything funny on Quixe while they were gone and then joined
everybody else building the turret.
It took all day but we got a good sized chunk of the turret made. Another
couple days like this and it'll be done. I tried to sense for any lives
other than ours, but never felt anything. We weren't in any danger.
However, a little after twilight, I got a message from Coewardinus saying
something about a monster. So I told the other guys and we ran to the rescue.
Once we got downtown we followed the sound of the gunfire. I saw Coewardinus
on a roof so I climbed the fire escape and the others followed.
Quixe was firing his repeater at some more of those mini-but-still-giant-monsters,
Coewardinus curled up into a ball in the corner, Crasa was firing a pistol,
and some guy I've never met lay down dead, head sideways on his shoulders.
Two of the creatures were also dead, one splattered all over the place.
If it weren't for that gun of Quixe's they'd all be dead.
More creatures were jumping from the other roof, so we all shot at them.
Some made it to our roof; some didn't. H2SO4 kicked butt all over the place
in actual hand-to-hand with those things! Huge ol' blades retracted from
his hands and sliced through the monster's head like butter. In the end,
I counted eleven dead aliens.
Suddenly, we heard a familiar sound. A high-pitched squeal and a low-pitched
growl in one. A big one. We ran over to the fire escape and high-tailed
it back to the ship. Two big creatures followed us, but we were faster.
Once back at the ship, I fired her up and took off.
As we left the city, we spotted eight big creatures and countless smaller
ones entering the city. Their tracks led back to the canyon, which is where
we were flying. "The mission must be completed." I got so sick of hearing
that!
I landed in the same place as I did before and H2SO4 took Van and Darryn
into the cave. They eventually came out with six people, three more droids,
and an eight foot long pole. Payload. I called to Van and Darryn and some
seven footer creatures showed up in the rubble. Oh crap! Thorne manned
the turret and Quixe shot from the ramp. The six people carried the poleinto
a hole dug in the rubble and the droids continued to fight.
Van and Darryn got on board and I closed the door. Nobody on my ship thought
those guys down there had any intention of living anyway, so I took off.
As we left the atmosphere, the whole planet pretty much turned itself inside
out. I set a course for Yavin IV and we were gone. Quixe talked with Van
while Thorne and I played with our Play Doh.
(End of Game Play Ten)
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