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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[cuivre]

[Miles helps out with a navigate 17, his expression tense as fuck because holy shit is squire is gonna die or something. HE WAS SUPPOSED TO JUST GATHER INFO GDIT POE. He should have gone with him this is horrible.]

[newgenwraith]

[oh hey look, there they are. BB-8 is going to spy them and will head in their general direction, beeping to get their attention.

He may or may not have a little legion of children around him, but that is all Poe's fault, which he will lament about later to anyone who can understand him]

[flyingsolo]

[ it was a drive to the volcano, so it's a drive back as well, but they do manage to find bb-8 when they get back. jaina's head whips around looking for poe, worried instantly. ] BB-8! Where is he?

[forcevisions]

You left him alone?!

[ She's stressed and pressed but not blaming BB-8 exactly, just sharing her concern. ]

[newgenwraith]

[that is an indignant noise he make at you, Rey. He's just following orders, even if his master is an idiot at times. Which he is going to now call Poe as he beeps that the idiot went to a weird town that kids see strange lights and told me to come get you to bring you there]

[forcevisions]

[ Nodding her seamless understanding, Rey straightens and points back in the direction BB-8 had come. ]

Lead the way!

[cuivre]

We'll be right behind you.

[So go as fast as you can, little droid.]

[parsecs]

Kids. Always running off without taking a second to use their brains.

[But he follows the droid, drawing his blaster just in case.]

[flyingsolo]

[ it's a long trek though :( the kids start to follow them, asking more questions.

"Hey, do you know this robot too??" ]

[newgenwraith]

[and it isn't long before BB-8 has them at the top of the steps leading down to the creepy town. He makes a mournful noise, because it looks just as creepy as the last time.]

[cuivre]

[Miles looks down at the kiddos as they walk.]

Yeah, we do. Did you see the guy he was with before us?

[forcevisions]

The man we're looking for is named Poe. He would have had dark hair. It's important we find him as soon as possible.

[flyingsolo]

[ they nod, the oldest one speaking up.

"We took him to the Valley. He was looking for the man with the mask." ]

[forcevisions]

Was he there? The man with the mask. You left Poe with him?!

[ omg fuckin children ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ "We don't know, we didn't see him. But we showed him where he was staying." ]

[cuivre]

[Crap. Crap. Crap.]

We need to hurry.

[Master of the obvious, always.]

[forcevisions]

Show us.

[ stated firmly, and accompanied by a slow pace pick-up to a run. ]

[parsecs]

[As they run, Han keeps his eyes peeled, looking around, though he's more focused on running than looking (spot 15).]

time for init~

[flyingsolo]

[ it won't even take a spot check to see this:

down in the valley, near one of the little shacks present there, probably 300 feet away, poe is on his knees, a blaster in his hand, pointed at a figure whose back is to them, wearing a dark cloak. purple lightning arcs from their fingers at poe, whose gun seems to run out of power after just a couple ineffective blasts, and he's struck full on by the sparks, which course across his body briefly.

an activated lightsaber is in their opposite hand, striated black and red. the kids freeze in place, staring in wonder and horror at the scene below, rooted to the spot.

jaina moves in front of them, holding an arm out across them: ] Stay back.

[cuivre]

[For once he rolls a high enough will save to actually listen to Jaina's suggestion (whether or not it was intended for just the kids lmao), and though every bit of him is screaming to run in there and help his squire, he remains rooted in place.]

Poe! Run!

[Aaaand hold action.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ poe, however, had jammed another power cell in and fired off more shots at the dark sider - who, now prepared, takes only the first shot, before that lightsaber whirs in front of their body, deflecting the next (25 deflection) right back at poe (atk 22, dmg 15 if that hits him), and the next (16 deflection), although it veers away from him, and the next, which rebounds with sinister precision (deflection 31, atk 18, dmg 16), black and red blade moving almost too fast to see as it intersects each bolt.

their free hand lifts abruptly and poe would feel the blaster rattling in his hand as they attempt to rip it right out of his grip (move object 30 vs... a str check from him). assuming he doesn't nat 20, the gun goes flying out of his hand, well out of reach some two hundred meters away from them. ]

[parsecs]

[Han has his blaster up already and starts shooting (atk 16, dmg 9 on the off chance that hits).]

[forcevisions]

[ Pausing briefly at the ledge to watch the scene play out, Rey's eyes widen as Jaina, Miles, and Han react. The blaster fire and the rattle of Poe's gun from a ways off sparks her back to herself and demands action; he's going to be unarmed and alone in a second there, against a lightsaber of all things.

Rey draws Luke's lightsaber from the bag at her hip and barrels down into the fray with a bellow, disregarding Jaina's warning fully. ] LET HIM GO!

[flyingsolo]

[ han's shot comes nowhere near the figure and as rey starts sprinting down into the thick of things, jaina shoots a look back at the kids, her voice firm as she insists: ] RUN.

[ their eyes widen and they waste no time obliging, at which point jaina draws the lightsaber off her own belt, glances between it, the black and red blade in the distance, and her father, who can see the momentary uncertainty in her eyes.

she depresses the button and the purple blade hums to life, at which point she starts running after rey. ]

[cuivre]

[Oh shit, here we go. Everyone's running in there and the kids are running away and he's not just gonna stand here like an idiot.

So he starts booking it after Jaina and Rey, too.

Time to save his squire...hopefully.]