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Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731

Intersections

by Jedi Knight VN Ysadora





Episode 3.08 Kanter's War, Chapter 11


Plot
| May 30, 2022


Heading deeper into the ruin, the heroes push on into the ancient ruins. But they face the challenge of rampaging B'omarr Monk security droids while contending with ancient security of the ruin itself!







 
Atunda
6 Helona
12731

a.k.a.

1008:06:06 RR

 
Now that the room is calmer: we have a yellow crystal to investigate. It's about the length of my tibia but convex instead of concave. The crystal is more like a salt lamp than a NSFW malachite meme. It's a tightly packed molecule, definitely NOT a kyber thank goodness and probably more durable. Could it be synthetic? If yes, could that tight packing contain and conceal encrypted data?

It's still not really in construction range of hardness but maybe as electronic component range? It has some copper in it. I think it also has some sulfur, which is what usually tints rocks in the quartz family toward yellow spectra.

Regarding the semi-concealed door that leads back to the room where we found the statue of Master Artak: This lock is YOUNGER THAN ME. Not military grade or even Corporate Sector grade. But definitely a post-B'omarr instruction.

 
We think the glowy yellow crystal thinger -- which Vance has now got attached, mace head style, to a metal rod -- may have come from Monorik 12? One of the moons of the gas giant Monorik, where some sorta-bees liked to eat these yellow crystals to create fuel.

 
Vanya to Davish, on seeing the skull stacks: "Uh. Well. Ain't bees, at least."

 

 
I wish we had Highlight Reel of most of our companions trusting in the Force, and in us, to have Davish and me lift them up and move them most of the way across the trapped hallway so So'Zen could ease them to the safer floor of the first cross intersection!

O'course, once we'd served the rest, Davish and I pulled the transparisteel lids off the empty bacta tanks. We set those on the floor to block the emitters hidden in the skull stacks and the whatevers in the quillvines.

 

 
This place is full of intersections. Nothing is exactly straight. Is this meant to be a visual metaphor for something? Or is it an indicator that the original complex was not droid-built? Maybe it was originally a surface level settlement, gradually buried under shifting dust. Or maybe some of the local fauna had a warren here.

Oh good, there's a heartening thought: we're in an ancient sand shark burrow, repurposed by B'omarr.

Gee! Thanks, brain.

 
Even heatening-er: Actual saywix! Two of 'em!

They're adorable!

They are hungry and scared.

Fun fact: Saywix can bite straight through zombie spider droids.

Further fun fact: A saywix has no objecting to eating seven-month-old heturam jerky.

 

Continue reading...

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  5. Sequential report: Lights Snuffed Out
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  6. Thirty-six days completed
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  7. Give that Mentat a cookie!
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  8. Faultline
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  9. Pumpkin Dinner
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  10. Four against One? Okiedokie.
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  11. Ysalamiri
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  12. Intermezzo 3.07.8.5
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  13. More and More and More Every Day
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  14. Jawas in Spaaaaaace
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  15. Ides of Nelona Client Progress Report
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  16. Welcome Back Kal Holst
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  17. the Ghost of Future Vegetable Peeling
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  18. Aggressive Negotiations Fremen Style
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  19. Nobody knows I'm a detective.
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  20. Reese the Battlefield Sportscaster
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  21. post-hurricane
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  22. Braiding is a skill.
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  23. Aboard the Loaner Shuttle _Shenanigans_
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  24. The droid did WHAT?
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  25. Chausid Station
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  26. We Do Not Touch the Creepy Artifact
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  27. Thin Darkness
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  28. Perspective Adjustments
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  29. Spider Pez
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  30. Intersections
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  31. Unauthorized scan detected
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  32. The Anti-Life Equation
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  33. one of WHOSE children?
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  35. Threes
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  43. chuck the faux Gamesman to the crowd
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  49. Library Card
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  53. Cleanup
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  55. Four Crisis Monte
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  56. Clusterflock
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