philippines ♔ may you find my darkness

[flyingsolo]

WHO || Jaina, Miles, Han, Rey, Poe [closed]
WHAT ||The Knights head to investigate the death of a Jedi Master
WHERE || Kudat, South Asia & Luzon
WHEN || March
HOW || Actionspam

[  Jaina Solo has been searching for more information about the Jedi Order and the Force for years now, certain that she and her family can't be the only ones who fell through from a galaxy far, far away.  It would seem that her search has finally paid off:  a Jedi Master may have been recently seen in Malaysia, taking a boat to the island of Luzon, where she was discovered dead on the slopes of a volcano.

With the fallen Jedi's lightsaber in hand, Jaina has asked her friends and family to help her investigate, and try to recover the lost item that the Jedi was carrying on her person - one that was not left with the body.    They've decided to head to the port first, to see what rumors may be left in her wake.  The beautiful Malaysia port of Kudat looks out over inviting blue waters, a number of ships lined up here of all shapes and sizes.  ]

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[forcevisions]

[ To a certain degree, the port flooded with bodies is overwhelming: the closest Rey has come to seeing this many people in one location was Starkiller Base, where she'd made it her goal to encounter as few people as she could during her stay. The comparison carries more weight than she'd like to admit, given the fact that they were now too hunting a Jedi killer.

She swallows thickly and stepped out onto the dock as they come up on it; the plan is decided, so she doesn't wait to discuss it a second time. They'll look for information here, then determine if their time is better spent at the place where the body was found or elsewhere, so she sets about soliciting the sailors and locals with the description of the woman (gather information 20 total). ]

[cuivre]

[He's pretty comfortable around this many people and it shows.

However, as Miles roams the dock, it's clear that he's distracted by this fun place he's never been before, or he's getting unlucky, or he's asking the wrong questions (gather information 8).]

[parsecs]

[Han's plenty comfortable with the situation, but in his experience, you get more information from the people who hang around the local tavern. ...his intentions are good, but once he gets to the tavern, he gets a little more invested in the alcohol than he means to and ends up in a high stakes game of poker where he forgets exactly what he's supposed to be asking until it's a little too late (gather information crit fail). #fatheroftheyear ]

[newgenwraith]

[Poe isn't really doing much better (gather info 7). Of course, this is also someplace new so he is just looking around with the oooo, shiny face and smiling at the cute people. BB-8 is going to stay on his heels, his little head twirling around almost in mimic of his master]

[flyingsolo]

[ lmao jaina's was an 8, because I guess she is just literally asking the same bad questions with miles #romance

bb-8 gets a lot of weird looks and smartphone pictures taken, while han finds himself in a game with some guys who really seem to know what they're doing... (make a gamble check, han).

rey is the only one who actually finds someone who recognizes the description. he's an older man futzing with a net, and he looks at her strangely for a moment, his english apparently not that great, before nodding a few times.

"Yes, yes. She came for a boat here. Took a boat to Luzon." ]

[forcevisions]

[ Noticing the strain he puts forth to understand her, Rey slows her speech and breaks it into short, digestible phrases, experienced with language barriers. It took her some time to learn Teedo, and she still could only half-understand shyriiwook. Patience would help, or so she hoped, offering the old man a grateful smile and urging him further (diplomacy 26 sO CLOSE TO NAT 20 OMFG). ] Can you remember what day she left? I'd like to know if anyone else went out that way on the same day or shortly after. Maybe someone strange was lurking near the docks.

[flyingsolo]

[ he seems to recognize the effort she's putting forth, and looks grateful for it, which possibly makes him all the more willing to talk. he nods when she starts talking about others leaving the same day.

"There was one... other boat... that put out the same day. I knew the man who took the job - he has not come back from that trip yet. I did not think he would be gone so long." ]

[forcevisions]

[ For a moment, Rey's eyes light up—hope, or at the very least, the start of a lead. They might just find the trail of this woman yet. But it dims a moment later with concern that whoever had killed Jaina's hopeful Jedi master had likely also killed this man's friend. Rey tries to hold out hope. ]

If you tell me more about him, we can let you know if we see him. [ She keeps her words as simple as she can, short sentences only. ] What did he look like? Or better yet, what did his boat look like? Did you see the person who hired him?

[flyingsolo]

[ he nods. "I have a photograph." he takes a few shuffling steps to a door nearby, heading in and then returning with a picture that seems to have been pulled off a tackboard, of a middle-aged man with some gray hair around his temples, holding up a big fish with a grin on his face. "He has a larger boat, with the name 'Summer Wind' on the side." he hesitates a moment before he says: "The person who hired him... they were very strange. I did not see their face because they had covered it." ]

the volcano

[flyingsolo]

[ they hire a local taxi to drive them out towards the volcano, taking in the beautiful natural scenery on the way. it certainly doesn't seem like a sinister location, but then again, the majestic beauty of the dormant volcano conceals its own deadly nature just as readily.

they beat the police to the scene of the crime, recognizing it by the cordon around the area. ]

[forcevisions]

[ With a spot of 22, Rey climbs earnestly up the side of the volcano and looks out across it, examining the landscape with equal earnest as she scopes out the crime scene with because thiS IS ALL SO COOL. ]

Looks like we got here first. [ She's not sorry for it. It allows them the chance to nose around. She's ducking under the tape that keeps them back to get a better look. ]

[parsecs]

For the best. Means we can avoid any... interruptions. [Whoops the smuggler still isn't crazy about law enforcement. He slips in after Rey and starts looking around to get an idea of the area (spot 12).]

[cuivre]

[Miles is happy to have arrived first as well. He starts to immediately check out their surroundings after heading into the crime scene (search 19).]

[flyingsolo]

[ jaina steps slowly into the area, lifting the cordon and ducking under it. while there is vegetation on the side of the volcano, there is also a lot of bare soil, and it's in this that rey and miles notice remaining tracks. two pairs of booted feet seem to have collided here, and the series of scuffs, some deep where a heel dug into the earth, seem to indicate that a struggle took place here. there's no sign of blood, however. ]

[forcevisions]

They fought here.

[ Rey crouches beside the spot where heels dug into the Earth, her fingers brushing forward against the ground. It takes an action point because farseeing 17 was her first roll but then it was FARSEEING 21!! as she tries to reach back through the Force to see how the battle might have gone. ]

[flyingsolo]

[ scavenger - emilie autumn

it's the most disorienting sensation, as if those around her are suddenly ripped away, or she's ripped away, into the middle of something furious, a clash of two buzzing blades, one the familiar violet that jaina had displayed earlier, the other a black blade outlined in furious red light, coming down in heavy strokes against the other, which parries against it with quick, dexterous twirls, that aren't enough in the face of that kind of onslaught. she can't make out more than a mask that meets that description of the one she received from the dock worker-- and then a woman's voice, defiant, saying 'You will not spread your lies to this world as well!' before the silencing thrum of a lightsaber cuts them off completely.

a gloved hand lifts something cube-shaped, covered in strange markings, examining it from behind that mask-- and then she snaps back into herself. ] Rey? Are you alright?

[forcevisions]

[ She staggers back, falling away from the spot where the woman had fallen, the surge of panic at watching her get cut down still forcing blood in a rush through Rey's veins, adrenaline pumping. Blinking hard, the sun seems to blind her as she looks back towards Jaina and tries to reorient herself to the real world when that felt so real. Just a piece, just a flash, but as real as anything else, as real as anything she'd seen under Maz Kanata's castle.

Wheezed breaths even out and she nods to Jaina in a hurry, then turns her attention back to the patch of dirt where the woman drew her last breath. ] She knew him. She knew the masked man, the one that killed her.

Town

[newgenwraith]

[Poe.... really knows better than to go off on his own, but there is something nagging at his gut that there is information in town that they will miss if they didn't follow up on this thread. And he wasn't alone, really. BB-8 was his sidekick and had a few tricks inside that little ball.

So they are just going to stroll along, trying to blend in which, let's face it, is hard because what guy in the Philippines walks around with a robot? are they filming a sci-fi movie in town?!]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ yeahhhh the droid draws a lot of stares, and bb-8 would find himself surrounded by tiny adorable children who come up and start gawking at it and chattering eagerly in the local language. one of them has a stick and gingerly tries to poke it as the others look on eagerly or ask poe questions he can't understand. ]

[newgenwraith]

[BB-8 chitters at the children, somewhere between excited and annoyed. At least they weren't ewoks. he's heard horror stories about those creatures from... well, someone. His databanks were still fried like his master's main brain CPU. But these little creatures were just being curious and obviously not intelligent enough to know how to speak droid.

Poe laughed and crouched down to look at the children.]

Come on, Buddy, it's not that bad. Hey, kids... I don't know what you're saying. Any of you speak Basic? English?

[and to show he was friendly, he reached into his pockets and pulled out the few sucking candies he had. Little peppermints that were at the front desk he kept taking handfuls on his way in and out]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ these children were apparently never taught anything about not taking candy from strangers because they find that almost more exciting than the robot. almost.

the tallest little boy, maybe nine years old, speaks up, lowering his stick. ]

English, yes. [ he points at the robot ] Did you make it?

[newgenwraith]

No, he was a gift. His name is BeeBee-Ate. Say hello, buddy.

[BB-8 looked at Poe, and then chittered for the children. None of them matched the facial scan he was doing and he let Poe know that, making the man laugh]

No, I think these guys are a little too young to be the man we're looking for.

[behindcloseddoors]

[ the boy looks up at him, curious ] Who are you looking for?

[newgenwraith]

I'm looking for a man with a boat. Here, want to see something cool? Hey, Buddy, show them the picture.

[BB-8 pulled up the holograph of the photo from Rey's phone, the blue image hovering in front of him]

I heard he came here with some guy in a weird mask.

[behindcloseddoors]

[ all the kids suddenly look more excited, which initially might seem to be because of the hologram, but-- ] Oh yeah! The man in the mask! We saw them!