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Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731

Spider Pez

by Jedi Knight VN Ysadora

Atunda
6 Helona
12731

a.k.a.

1008:06:06 RR

 

Aboard our shuttle, headed to Stiydear Estate


 

Vanya: "Faboo. I've received more intel from Lord Vondromas --"

Vanya thumps the belt pouch in which she keeps the index card sized flimsiplasts

Vanya: "-- explaining more Everything Is Awful about that Codex jobby. In summary, it's awful, we will have to figure out a different Off Procedure every time, and so I see no reason we should ignore the 'explode a can of beans' protocol as a possibility."

Vanya looks around for where she left her mug of caf.

Vanya: "My immediate reaction to an ex-Sith insisting Everything Is Awful is pretty much the same as my reaction when I was twelve and my peers pronounced doom about the next semester's class schedule. Just go do something else."


 

 
Here in the Stiydear basement, in a room that Lord Baize is certain was empty a few years ago:
  • shards and fragments from many damaged holocrons

  • piles of other broken items

  • in the center of the room, on a pedestal framed by four ceiling-supporting pillars, one meter-tall statue -- damaged -- of Jedi Master Shal Artak.

Upon first glance, we tentatively identify all of these as things that came from the Jedi Temples at the end of the Clone Wars. In fact, that statue was part of a lot of artifacts being escorted by most of us aboard the Kylo's Star during Winter Fete!

On 12731:01:01, the Black Hat pirate gang attacked us en route, killed the shipmaster, and cleared out most of our cargo. Instead of recovering from the holiday celebrations like sensible people.

Vance raises a fair point. Now we all wonder if whoever put this statue here also loaded its hidden compartment with a bomb?

 

Farseeing the statue's past


 

Vanya makes several notes:


  • fake wall to the northwest


  • Black Hats and Tilles know how to get in here, except the Tilles shot the Black Hats afterward


  • check debris for sabers and medical scanners


  • several rare old scrolls in boxes, too, all dumped on the floor


  • OH FRAK a B'omarr!


  • is the Tilles' employer.


  • also "paid" via murder


  • three more B'omarr


  • take the Tilles corpses off to be jarred


  • B'omarr are working for Almon de Joy


  • who pays them off with a page from the Codex


  • and then talks to me. I don't want to talk to him!


  • now who wrecked stuff? and was something put into the statue of Master Artak? DANGIT


    • Did this happen within the past 6 months? Must have.


     

    Months further back! In a cargo ship with these artifacts.


  • Piotr Sparaval supervised the piratical cataloguing team, and told them to bring these artifacts to Chalcedon.


  • They wanted a particular old holocron that was not in the batch, supposedly in custody of Crimson Knights.


  • Nothing useful about a Tenocron Codex. Which might have been inside the Jedi Temple?


    • Something local to realtime is mucking up my connection to spatiotemporal history.

    I can feel minds screaming into the Force in agony. From a nearby room.

    Almon De Joy is taking a red lightsaber to the holocrons, pissed, muttering about "it's NOT HERE" and "they didn't record it!" and "it HAS TO BE here!" and, regarding the statue, "YOU FOUGHT HIM! WHERE?!! WHERE?!?!"

    He is having a full bore tantrum. He's particularly focused on two holocrons in the back of the pile.

     

     

    Master's Message Fragment


     

    The projection from Temple Guardian chip:


     

    And so I had to do what was necessary. I knew it would return. I knew my adversary too well. So therefore, to prevent his plan, I changed the rules of the game. I moved it.

    — Jedi Master Shal Artak

    It fizzles out -- message incomplete

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