NJO 19

February 15, 2021

[7:22 PM] Caleb: Ok so previously you all left Hutt space after acquiring some information and with your one lead on the group tracking you dead you are heading to the planet hypori where they had a rendezvous to deliver information.

[7:24 PM] Caleb: You decided to head there ahead of the meeting date and we pick up with you in hyperspace getting close to your destination.

[7:24 PM] Esren'Nilos: ((Do we have a precise meet-up location?))

[7:25 PM] Caleb: ((You have coordinates ))

[7:25 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Coil, how close could you get Last Chance in before we'd be spotted?"

[7:26 PM] Coil: Not terribly. We're not really built for stealth.

[7:26 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...any chance we could land her somewhere hidden?  I'd rather go in on foot, we'd be quieter.  The speeder might get us detected."

[7:27 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Zubi, anything you have to help move quietly?"

[7:28 PM] Zubaidah: Um, not really?

[7:29 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...what if we pretended we were them?  Maybe intercept whatever they were getting before it happened."

[7:29 PM] Esren'Nilos: "I know some very old First Order codes."

[7:29 PM] Zubaidah: We could just ask?

[7:30 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...these people they're working with are trying to kill us, Zubi."

[7:30 PM] Coil: Even if we just ask we'd have to get close enough first.

[7:32 PM] Zubaidah: Well, yes. ... I'm just not very good at sneaking and stuff.

[7:33 PM] Caleb: As you are talking suddenly with a rather violent jolt the ship is unexpectedly in real space.

[7:34 PM] Coil: checks the sensors.(edited)

[7:34 PM] Zubaidah: ... I'll check on the goats.

[7:34 PM] Zubaidah: scampers off.

[7:36 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...I think the real question here is what are we really after.  Information?  Names?  Or finding out a way to throw them off us?"

[7:36 PM] Coil: Information.

[7:38 PM] Caleb: Coil. you are in the very edge of the Hypori system you were another hour in hyperspace be about six now,  you detect  a unusually large interdiction field preventing hyperspace travel that seems to cover the whole system also a lot of metal shrapnel and rocks and remains of ships between here and the planet.

[7:39 PM] Zubaidah: returns.

[7:39 PM] Zubaidah: They're all right!

[7:39 PM] Zubaidah: ... and I don't think they did it.

[7:39 PM] Coil: There's an interdiction field. No hyperspace.

[7:40 PM] Zubaidah: What? Why?

[7:41 PM] Esren'Nilos: "How far are we from the planet?"

[7:44 PM] Esren'Nilos: "What are our options?"

[7:44 PM] Coil: Find the source of the interdiction field, kill everyone there, deactivate it.

[7:45 PM] Coil: Land and figure out what's going on. Maybe Zubi's right and they'll be reasonable.

[7:45 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...ok, so we start with the direct approach and fight when that doesn't work.  I can do that."

[7:45 PM] Zubaidah: ... I definitely don't think we have to kill everyone.

[7:46 PM] Esren'Nilos: "We will only kill the minimum number of people necessary...probably."

[7:46 PM] Zubaidah: Which is none.

[7:47 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Ok, now you're being unreasonable."

[7:48 PM] Coil: I mean, there's a good chance they know we're here, they probably detected us breaching the field.

[7:48 PM] Zubaidah: We can do a lot of things, we shouldn't have to hurt anyone.

[7:49 PM] Caleb: ((Coil roll me technology))(edited)

[7:49 PM] Coil: ((18.))

[7:53 PM] Caleb: Coil the field seems to be being generated by the planet, also most of the shipwrecks you are detecting are very old models , haven’t been used since the clone wars and early empire.

[7:54 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Can we send them a message?  Maybe convince them to let us through."

[7:55 PM] Zubaidah: Are we through?

[7:55 PM] Coil: Hmmm.

[7:55 PM] Coil: Weird.

[7:55 PM] Coil: The field comes from the planet.

[7:55 PM] Coil: Maybe they haven't detected us.

[7:55 PM] Coil: points the ship toward the planet.

[7:56 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...could it be something natural about the planet?"

[8:02 PM] Caleb: As you all head closer to the planet with Coil avoiding the various debris elements in the way you all to varying degrees start feeling something off it doesn’t feel like the dark side this is more wrong on a physical level and you can’t describe why.

[8:02 PM] Coil: Could be.

[8:02 PM] Coil: This place doesn't feel right, though.

[8:04 PM] Esren'Nilos: "No...I feel it too.  But I don't think it's a Force thing."

[8:05 PM] Zubaidah: frowns.

[8:06 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...wonder if that's what attracted these people here.  ...might be dark Jedi."

[8:07 PM] Coil: Could be. Something could have happened here, a battle or war?

[8:08 PM] Esren'Nilos: "I don't know anything about Hypori, sadly."

[8:10 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...we have coordinates.  Can we scan for cities?  ...is that a thing we can do?"

[8:11 PM] Coil: scans in the provided coordinates.

[8:13 PM] Zubaidah: ... it's not part of the Force.

[8:13 PM] Zubaidah: Like someone cut it out of it.

[8:14 PM] Caleb: Coil with your technology roll from earlier once you are near the planet you detect  the coordinates are for a large industrial area which seems to be the only sign of civilization you see in your scans, it looks like an abandoned droid factory from the clone wars

[8:15 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...how do you do that?"

[8:16 PM] Coil: The coordinates look like an old droid factory.

[8:16 PM] Zubaidah: Do what?

[8:17 PM] Coil: Clone wars. Whatever messed up the planet happened after then.

[8:17 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Fits with their ties to the Confederacy.  And how does someone cut the force out of a planet?"

[8:19 PM] Zubaidah: I don't know! I didn't think you could.

[8:20 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...well...that's scary."

[8:21 PM] Zubaidah: It is.

[8:22 PM] Coil: fairly terrifying.

[8:22 PM] Coil: But who knows what Palpatine was getting up to in these days. Maybe he needed a place the Jedi couldn't see.

[8:25 PM] Zubaidah: I didn't even think there were places like that. I don't... I suppose we won't be able to feel anything down there.

[8:28 PM] Coil: Can you feel anything now?

[8:30 PM] Zubaidah: Just... the edges, kind of.

[8:30 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...this is....it feels familiar.  But I can't place where."

[8:32 PM] Coil: Hmm. Maybe we shouldn't be trying to feel anything.

[8:33 PM] Zubaidah: ... oh?

[8:34 PM] Esren'Nilos: "How do you do that?"

[8:35 PM] Coil: .... just... you know. Shut down. Focus on the task.

[8:36 PM] Zubaidah: ... I don't think I can do that.

[8:36 PM] Coil: ... PRobably not.

[8:36 PM] Esren'Nilos: "I can.  ...somewhat."

[8:37 PM] Coil: The sensors aren't reliable, but I don't think there have been any ships through here in at least a month.

[8:40 PM] Zubaidah: How can that be?

[8:41 PM] Caleb: Now that you are closer to the planet you can see it is mainly ocean and rocky land mass from what you can see.

[8:42 PM] Zubaidah: It would be pretty if it weren't so... dead.

[8:43 PM] Coil: is headed toward the coordinates, looking for signs of recent industry.

[8:44 PM] Zubaidah: rests a hand on Coil's shoulder.

[8:44 PM] Caleb: Looking over the coordinates it is odd some of it looks really old some of it newer it does look like some parts of the facilities might be functioning hard to tell from the air.

[8:45 PM] Caleb: Also now that you are closer you all feel a push to leave because of how unnatural  it feels up close.

[8:46 PM] Caleb: Coil the coordinates are to the edge of the facility towards the newer area that seems to be functioning, the field however seems to be emanating from deeper in the center of the abandoned area.

[8:47 PM] Zubaidah: shivers.

[8:47 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...Something very wrong happened here."

[8:47 PM] Coil: The origin point is close to the coordinates.

[8:47 PM] Coil: reaches up and squeezes Zubi's hand.

[8:47 PM] Zubaidah: Of course.

[8:48 PM] Zubaidah: squeezes back.

[8:50 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...we need to see this through."

[8:50 PM] Zubaidah: I didn't say we shouldn't.

[8:52 PM] Coil: gets closer to the newer area, looking for life signs.

[8:52 PM] Esren'Nilos: "I know.  I'm just...reminding myself."

[8:54 PM] Zubaidah: Oh. Right.

[8:54 PM] Zubaidah: takes Esren's hand in her other hand.

[8:54 PM] Esren'Nilos: smiles and grips it.

[8:54 PM] Caleb: Coil you detect maybe some non sentient life but not much of that and while you don’t detect life signs you do detect signs of droids

[8:56 PM] Coil: No life. Just droids.

[8:56 PM] Zubaidah: We'll stick together, and it'll be fine.

[8:57 PM] Esren'Nilos: "If they're droids, we may as well go in guns blazing...so to speak."

[8:57 PM] Caleb: (( you all are about a day before the scheduled rendezvous time))

[8:58 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Also, we have plenty of time to scout the area and set up for base camp."

[9:00 PM] Zubaidah: We're going to stay here? ... you're probably right.

[9:00 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...we can probably sleep on the ship, at least."

[9:02 PM] Coil: We probably want to park away from droid central.

[9:02 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Probably."

[9:03 PM] Zubaidah: Yes.

[9:04 PM] Zubaidah: Is it still producing droids?

[9:04 PM] Coil: Seems to be. The droid factory is the only thing that works here.

[9:05 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...think this new mystery organization is looking to rebuild the confederacy armies?"

[9:05 PM] Zubaidah: Those armies didn't really work.

[9:07 PM] Esren'Nilos: "No.  And now with an established Republic...I can't see them being much of a threat."

[9:08 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Can you find us a nice cliff-face to park in?  Somewhere good and hidden?"

[9:08 PM] Caleb: ((So you all park away from the favctory?))

[9:09 PM] Coil: tries to find somewhere hidden.

[9:09 PM] Coil: They weren't supposed to work, were they? They weren't supposed to win.

[9:10 PM] Esren'Nilos: "True.  The Emperor played all sides, as I'd heard it."

[9:10 PM] Caleb: ((roll perception for parking space))

[9:11 PM] Zubaidah: Wouldn't that just use up all your resources?

[9:11 PM] Coil: ((21))

[9:12 PM] Caleb: Coil you find an overhang on the other side of the facility from the new bit that seems isolated and hidden enough.

[9:15 PM] Caleb: the goats by the way do seem more distressed than normal and are very agitated in their pen

[9:16 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Steady!  Steady."

[9:18 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...once we're set, we should head out and check out the location.  See security, points of entry.  Get a lay of the land."

[9:18 PM] Zubaidah: snuggles the goats and tries to get them to calm down.

[9:19 PM] Caleb: they calm down a little but do not seem comfortable at all

[9:19 PM] Zubaidah: ... they hate it here too.

[9:21 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Every living thing is connected to the Force.  They're now experiencing a break from that connection.  And unlike us, they don't even know what that means."

[9:22 PM] Zubaidah: ... do you think it's easier to know, or to not know?

[9:22 PM] Coil: pulls out the crystal he got from the pool. Is it reacting in any way?

[9:22 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...I don't know."

[9:27 PM] Caleb: Coil you pul the gem out and you all see it both glowing and completly lifeless and dull at the same time it kind of hurts and twists your mind just looking at the two versions of the same object.

[9:27 PM] Coil: Well, that's weird.

[9:27 PM] Coil: puts it away.

[9:27 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...I am aware I like some...messed up things but...this is especially messed up."

[9:28 PM] Zubaidah: ... what kinds of things?

[9:29 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Well, I just...reach out to dark things sometimes.  You know this."

[9:31 PM] Caleb: Anakin starts chewing Esrens sleeve as you are talking

[9:31 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Hey!  Ani, no!"

[9:31 PM] Esren'Nilos: jerks it away.

[9:31 PM] Zubaidah: I think sometimes they reach out to you.

[9:34 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...Coil, you ok with us starting a scouting party?  Check out the area?"

[9:34 PM] Coil: Seems necessary.

[9:34 PM] Coil: ((Did I get a location for the source of this weird disruption field?))

[9:35 PM] Caleb: (( yeah kind of the center of the old section of the facility ))

[9:36 PM] Coil: The source of the interdiction field need to be investigated too.

[9:36 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Should we start there?"

[9:36 PM] Coil: I'd say so.

[9:37 PM] Zubaidah: Right.

[9:37 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Ok, we stick together.  Like Zubi said."

[9:37 PM] Coil: nods.

[9:38 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...I'm still uncertain if bringing the speeder is a good idea.  Might be smarter to go on foot."

[9:39 PM] Zubaidah: We always break it.

[9:39 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...that's a bit of an exaggeration."

[9:40 PM] Coil: She's not wrong. Let's go on foot. The speeder would be easier for others to detect anyway.

[9:40 PM] Zubaidah: Right.

[9:41 PM] Esren'Nilos: Yes.

[9:41 PM] Esren'Nilos: heads out.

[9:42 PM] Zubaidah: sticks with him.

[9:43 PM] Coil: ((Do we have any explosives?))

[9:44 PM] Esren'Nilos: ((I don't think we got explosives before, did we?))

[9:44 PM] Coil: ((Don't think so but you never know!))

[9:44 PM] Coil: ((I guess we have lightsabers.))

[9:44 PM] Coil: ((We dont' need explosives.))

[9:44 PM] Zubaidah: ((I figured Coil had some. It seems like the kind of thing he'd have.))

[9:46 PM] Caleb: Heading out of the ship you find the air a little thin but breathable enough you smell the saltwater from the ocean  and see the facility nearby(edited)

[9:46 PM] Zubaidah: We should go to the beach on a planet that isn't horrible.

[9:47 PM] Esren'Nilos: Next break we get. We'll go to a beach and try cakes.

[9:47 PM] Caleb: ((Coil would have some and there would have been some basic explosives and a couple thermal detonators on the ship when you got it))

[9:48 PM] Caleb: It is chillier than it seems it should be with the sub high in the sky you see ice on the rocks around you

[9:49 PM] Coil: (Coil will grab those.))

[9:50 PM] Caleb: ((Ok))

[9:51 PM] Caleb: You see a rough path that heads to an entrance to the facility kind of built into a cliff.

[9:52 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...seems like we're not the first to go investigating here."

[9:54 PM] Zubaidah: We aren't?

[9:55 PM] Coil: Well, someone must be using the location.

[9:55 PM] Esren'Nilos: "This path seems carved out.  Whoever wanted in found an interesting way about it."

[9:56 PM] Zubaidah: Oh! That's... strange.

[9:57 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...well...gives us a way in.  Let's see what's up."

[9:57 PM] Esren'Nilos: heads for the entrance.

[9:58 PM] Caleb: Heading to the entrance you do notice signs of heavy turbo laser fire in the last and signs that some of what you are walking through is rubble from parts of the facility that wasn’t rebuilt.

[9:59 PM] Zubaidah: ... there was a blaster fight here.

[9:59 PM] Coil: From orbit.

[10:00 PM] Zubaidah: Why would...

[10:01 PM] Coil: Probably attacked during the clone wars, if I were to guess.

[10:03 PM] Zubaidah: That doesn't explain the... cutting off.

[10:03 PM] Coil: No, it doesn't.

[10:04 PM] Caleb: Reaching the doorway you find the door shut

[10:04 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...a way to shut out the Jedi, maybe?"

[10:06 PM] Zubaidah: .... maybe.

[10:06 PM] Zubaidah: ... is it locked?

[10:07 PM] Esren'Nilos: tries the door.

[10:07 PM] Caleb: The door opens

[10:08 PM] Esren'Nilos: "No."

[10:08 PM] Esren'Nilos: peeks inside.

[10:08 PM] Caleb: ((Perception Esren))

[10:08 PM] Esren'Nilos: ((7))

[10:09 PM] Zubaidah: follows, and also checks.

[10:09 PM] Zubaidah: ((8! No better.))

[10:09 PM] Coil: also looks.

[10:09 PM] Esren'Nilos: ((A tiny bit better))

[10:09 PM] Coil: ((25.))

[10:10 PM] Caleb: Esren and Zubi just glancing in you see nothing except a hallway

[10:14 PM] Caleb: Coil looking in you see a hallway not as dusty as you would expect, still lit and you see empire symbols on the hallway you also see a sign saying “project celestial power”. You also see that this hallway at least has been reworked a number of times and it also looks like it was a research area at one point but you only see ruined terminals from a quick glance

[10:14 PM] Coil: Imperial markings on the wall.

[10:14 PM] Coil: 'Project Celestial Power'.

[10:15 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...ominous."

NEW

[10:16 PM] Zubaidah: ((10 on Lore. I assume I know nothing!))

[10:17 PM] Zubaidah: ... I wonder what it is.

10:19 PM] Caleb: Zubi  it sounds ominous but you don’t specifically have any knowledge of it

[10:19 PM] Esren'Nilos: "....it was...they'd talk about it, sometimes."

[10:20 PM] Zubaidah: ... who would?

[10:21 PM] Esren'Nilos: "The First Order.  When they were...on Starkiller Base."

[10:21 PM] Zubaidah: Oh. What was it?

[10:22 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Don't know."

[10:22 PM] Esren'Nilos: "I only heard it mentioned around.  But no one ever told me what it was."

[10:22 PM] Caleb: ((Do you actually enter the hallway?))

[10:23 PM] Esren'Nilos: will.

[10:23 PM] Zubaidah: ... it must have been something terrible.

[10:23 PM] Zubaidah: follows him.

[10:23 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Probably some sort of super weapon."

[10:24 PM] Coil: It usually is.

[10:24 PM] Coil: ignites his lightsaber for light to examine the walls.

[10:26 PM] Caleb: Entering you find the hallway somewhat  lit  still shadowed areas most computer terminals are destroyed some research stations are scattered around you see some fallen droids and stormtrooper armor scattered around

[10:26 PM] Zubaidah: checks the armor for corpses.

[10:26 PM] Caleb: Coil on the walls you find directional arrows that indicate this was originally further in a previous destroyed version of the facility

[10:27 PM] Caleb: Zubi  you do find some skeletal remains in the armor.

[10:28 PM] Zubaidah: Oh, they're dead. Still here.

[10:28 PM] Caleb: ((Are you looking for anything in particular coil?))

[10:30 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...why would someone come through here, still?"(edited)

[10:31 PM] Caleb: Coil you also see further down the hallway a door with that combination first order confederacy logo that you have been seeing

[10:31 PM] Coil: ((Nope, just trying to get a feel for the layout.

[10:31 PM] Coil: Ahh, here.

[10:31 PM] Coil: points it out.

[10:31 PM] Esren'Nilos: looks.

[10:32 PM] Caleb: You all see a door in the flickering light further down it looks in better condition and it has the first order confederacy combo logo on it

[10:33 PM] Zubaidah: Maybe Ezzie can open it. ... and if you can't, Coil definitely can.

[10:33 PM] Esren'Nilos: tries it.

[10:33 PM] Caleb: ((What do you try?))

[10:33 PM] Esren'Nilos: opens the door.

[10:34 PM] Caleb: ((The door is locked there is a pad next to it))

[10:34 PM] Esren'Nilos: will try an old First Order code he's pretty sure would work.

[10:38 PM] Caleb: The door opens

[10:38 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Knight level First Order code."

[10:39 PM] Zubaidah: But you weren't a knight, were you?

[10:39 PM] Caleb: Inside you see a much cleaner and intact large research area

[10:39 PM] Esren'Nilos: "No.  But I had to be able to follow my master."

[10:39 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...whether or not he knew I learned that code off him is a mystery."

[10:41 PM] Zubaidah: ... this part wasn't blasted, was it?

[10:41 PM] Caleb: Coil  your scan for the source of the field shows that some of it is coming from in this room

[10:41 PM] Coil: The field is being generated in this room.

[10:41 PM] Coil: looks for a console.

[10:44 PM] Caleb: Eneyering the room you see many consoles and diagrams there are also analysis of the Death Star and starkiller base also you see in the center a large cylindrical tube inside is something that hurts to look at, it can only be described as an absence of anything.

[10:44 PM] Esren'Nilos: ".......that's......I can't even...."

[10:44 PM] Caleb: And I think we will end here

NEW

[10:45 PM] Zubaidah: ((Sounds good!))