Session 10, or .. Wow, I stuck my foot in a bucket!
The beginning of our session began with the party heading back to Sark's Place with Ledo in the lead. The trip back was much less eventful than the trip out. The were no significant incidents along the way other than Tu'la'loo trying to claim more little 'harmless pets'. Whatever impetus had driven those earlier attacks was not active ont he return trip.
At one of the last trail junctions before Sark's Place would come into view, Ledo pulled the caravan to a halt and backed up to tell the players that he saw imperial stormtroopers ahead.
"These here for you? 'cause I an going anywhere near town if Imps are in there."
He went on to suggest that they could, if the were so inclined, circle through the jungle and try to find a way into town over 'thataway'.
Packs were moved around, boxes unlimbered, skull moved from one beast to another, and finally the gang looked up and Ledo and the riding beasts belonging to the town had disappeared into the forest like smoke. Creepy.
Without further ado, the party dove into the woods, heedless of the dangers of the jungle (there weren't many), or the dangers of getting lost (unlikely, with Attonka around) and managed to navigate themselves successfully to the edge of the town, about halfway to the starship landing area. One building had grown beyond the bounds of the perimeter fence fields and a jury-rigged solution was present to keep the town protected, sort of. Ta'vakl and Bindi noticed right away that the field strength was fluctuating a lot where is was jumping down from the primary pylons to the smaller, more portable ones.
The group ran forward and Ta'vakl broke out his toolkit (using string, duct tape, and screwdrivers to make the tools long enough to work through the stun field) and managed to introduce a short in the system, dropping the field power a little bit.
They gritted their teeth and jumped through, hoping that nobody was monitoring the field remotely (even though it was unlikely since this part of the field was constantly sputtering), each person taking a weak jolt and shaking it off (mostly) on the other side. Even the narglatch went through fine.
They turned and started working through this back alley toward the spaceport, thinking that it was very likely that the imperials were, in fact, present to search for them. And since they'd been leaving a glowing, well-lit neon trail with the university, it was equally likely that the soldiers had exact descriptions for everyone in the group. And they did stand out pretty well.
So they snuck down the messy back alley, managing to trip and fall and kick every rusty bucket behind every building imaginable. All this noise inevitably drew the attention of a small squad of imperials who starting heading down the alleyway between two of the buildings near the group.
At this point, everyone panicked. To the left, the main street (Wait! Was that Tu'la'loo's cousin Blu'ta!?!) with the Bad Guys a known problem. To the right, the primary perimeter stun field...full strength and tall and thick enough to be a solid barrier. Behind them, nowhere to go. The only way out was forward..so forward they went. Fast and 'sneaky' didn't go so well together though, and Bindi (again) stepped in a bucket and made a racket.
The stormtroopers must have used their commlinks and described the ruckus because the party was brought up short when they caught a glimpse of some stormtroopers ahead of them, coming down the alley from the other direction.
Uh oh.
At one of the last trail junctions before Sark's Place would come into view, Ledo pulled the caravan to a halt and backed up to tell the players that he saw imperial stormtroopers ahead.
"These here for you? 'cause I an going anywhere near town if Imps are in there."
He went on to suggest that they could, if the were so inclined, circle through the jungle and try to find a way into town over 'thataway'.
Packs were moved around, boxes unlimbered, skull moved from one beast to another, and finally the gang looked up and Ledo and the riding beasts belonging to the town had disappeared into the forest like smoke. Creepy.
Without further ado, the party dove into the woods, heedless of the dangers of the jungle (there weren't many), or the dangers of getting lost (unlikely, with Attonka around) and managed to navigate themselves successfully to the edge of the town, about halfway to the starship landing area. One building had grown beyond the bounds of the perimeter fence fields and a jury-rigged solution was present to keep the town protected, sort of. Ta'vakl and Bindi noticed right away that the field strength was fluctuating a lot where is was jumping down from the primary pylons to the smaller, more portable ones.
The group ran forward and Ta'vakl broke out his toolkit (using string, duct tape, and screwdrivers to make the tools long enough to work through the stun field) and managed to introduce a short in the system, dropping the field power a little bit.
They gritted their teeth and jumped through, hoping that nobody was monitoring the field remotely (even though it was unlikely since this part of the field was constantly sputtering), each person taking a weak jolt and shaking it off (mostly) on the other side. Even the narglatch went through fine.
They turned and started working through this back alley toward the spaceport, thinking that it was very likely that the imperials were, in fact, present to search for them. And since they'd been leaving a glowing, well-lit neon trail with the university, it was equally likely that the soldiers had exact descriptions for everyone in the group. And they did stand out pretty well.
So they snuck down the messy back alley, managing to trip and fall and kick every rusty bucket behind every building imaginable. All this noise inevitably drew the attention of a small squad of imperials who starting heading down the alleyway between two of the buildings near the group.
At this point, everyone panicked. To the left, the main street (Wait! Was that Tu'la'loo's cousin Blu'ta!?!) with the Bad Guys a known problem. To the right, the primary perimeter stun field...full strength and tall and thick enough to be a solid barrier. Behind them, nowhere to go. The only way out was forward..so forward they went. Fast and 'sneaky' didn't go so well together though, and Bindi (again) stepped in a bucket and made a racket.
The stormtroopers must have used their commlinks and described the ruckus because the party was brought up short when they caught a glimpse of some stormtroopers ahead of them, coming down the alley from the other direction.
Uh oh.