[So this shall be the first half. Second half to appear soon.]

Episode 3: Commie Hippie Paradise


Welcome class.

We are continuing the adventures of our heroes on Taris as they try to find Bastila. So far, they have had some success.


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[Turning in the bounty on Selven)


[The payment]


[The Hutt is happy]


[Rewards I get]


[A minor quest, one that I don't think appears in the Quest Tracker]


[You can help out]


[He is looking for new dancers]


[Another person stuck because of the Sith]


[Lyn is the other Twi'lek]


[If you want to do this quest, ask this]


[Lyn needs a partner]


[If you don't say this, you won't do the quest]


[Bib isn't sure about you]


[But then, he really doesn't have anyone else]


[Lyn isn't happy]


[You will have to convince her]


[If you don't succeed, just try until you do]


[Yeah, Lyn isn't impressed]


[Convince Lyn, and you get to help out]


[Here, Lyn has a shot]


[You have to sell it]


[You only get three attempts]


[Basically, just pick how to dance]


[I picked the simplest to start]


[Lyn isn't real thrilled with my choice, but it means less chance I ruin matters for her]


[Dancing with Lyn]


[You want to make Lyn look good]


[Lyn wants you to try, but you still ruin things]


[Bib likes when you do well]


[After the third dance, Lyn will say this]


[If you don't botch all three, Bib will say this]


[Quest was successful]


[So Lyn will get to be a star]


[I think that if you botch somehow, Lyn may say different words]


[Lyn is friendly because I passed all three]


[Lyn leaves with Bib; You can wreck it and thus lose XP. The Irony is that Taris will be blown up anyway]


[Shopping with one the Pazaak card merchants. YOu can buy better cards]


[This Pazaak card is one of the type you want, since you will be better able to win]


[Entering the Hidden Bek Base]


[We have to convince her to let us in. I think that maybe if you visit the guard to the Under City, you learn that you need to see Gadon]


[If not, the game won't really point us in this direction. As far as I know]


[This information really doesn't mention anything, considering that the Sith don't show up down here, and the Vulkar attack everyone]


[The [Persuade] means using the skill. The attempt won't ever work though]


[If you wear the Sith Armor, she won't let you in]


[Yeah, pretty much true]


[She says this, but really no one is watching]


[No name is ever given. She dies with Taris]


[The Hidden Bek base]


[So Brejik is leader of Vulkars but was a Hidden Bek]


[Gadon and his henchwoman Zaerdra]


[She will always react, you can't avoid it]


[Game. We could try, if the Game would let us]


[Game, Z, Game. Gadon is quest vital so we can't hurt him]


[Lousy reasoning here]


[We really can't do anything anyway]


[The War started because Brejik took over the Vulkars]


[What problems? Why does Z think Gadon can't take care of himself? Answer: Gad's eyes are replacements]


[Gadon got replacement eyes, which somehow means that he is disable. Also, the pods relate to the main quest]


[I like what Z says, but still, Game]


[Gadon makes a point, but it fails because, why would the Sith not use spies like us?]


[Game. Gadon trusts us too quickly, and the Sith are incrediably stupid here]


[So, this sets up our next objective]


[First Mention of Bastila. It's also weird that Gadon knows]


[Davik appears again, but the explanation is lousy]


[Carth. He says this loud enough to everyone in this place to hear]


[Seriously, Carth, Gadon heard all that]


[So, we have to compete in the Swoop Race]


[Gadon will fail to mention that he made Brejik leave]


[Actually we could fight everyone. We will end up doing so]


[Again, another must. We have to race]


[Gadon tries to make a deal]


[Due to Game, we must follow this]


[Gadon will let us race, and so we race]


[So, our quest item. Get the part back]


[Despite every door being locked in this place]


[We get to retrieve the part]


[A question that we should be asking]


[Irony: Mission will tell us that Gadon does not like her exploring the Undercity Sewers]


[So despite Gadon not liking what they do, he offers them anyway]


[If you learned from the guard that the uniform won't work, Gadon offers a solution]


[Yeah, I probably already talked to that guard, Gadon]


[No comment about how long ago it was that he got those papers]


[Why he feels the uniforms are better is not explained]


[You must hand over the Uniforms]


[Not sure what practice we end up having later]


[This guard will let us through now]


[Apparently. I don't know why wearing a Sith Uniform doesn't count as official]


[He says this if you are wearing the Uniform]


[Apparently, the papers just work. Game]


[Our new enemy, Rakghouls]


[The door is open. We could have fought, but there are 6 turrets]


[The elevator down. If not everyone in your 3 person party is not there, the location bar will be grayed out]


[Because Bioware. This actually makes no sense. Do they do this to the Sith?]


[Not sure why. If they owned it, why wouldn't they go up?]


[Carth interjects here. Given how crazy the planet, why wasn't Carth expecting this kind of crap?]


[Apparently, the toll is little. Too bad we can't use other methods to pay]


[Asking who these twerps are]


[Sadly, it actually doesn't look that Filthy or Dark]


[How many villages are there? Just this one?]


[You can give them 5 credits or 20. Response is the same. If you threaten them, then they flee your wrath]


[I may have given them 20. Seriously, 5 or 20 ain't much]


[It's like she has to apologize for being here]


[This response of Carth's is actually rather insulting. Welcoming Committee?]


[Shaleena wants to know about the above areas]


[Apparently, nobody has mentioned to her that upper Taris is a dump]


[You can be mean or nice to her]


[Rukil, an old guy]


[So, the Promised Land. Which will end up a quest]


[So, basically, the old guy believes in a nice place]


[She sends us off to Rukil]


[And will tell us how to find him]


[More about Rukil]


[The Village here is a nice little Commie Commune]


[Her response about the Pods]


[So, others have been down here]


[Basically, the Undercity is a giant Gulag]


[A giant Gulag of outcasts and the descendants of Outcasts]


[Considering that if you are born in the Gulag here, you stay there, how good can upper Taris really be?]


[Gendar is the leader of this little Communist Commune Gulag place]


[She likes talking to us. I think Carth has been just staring at her chest, if the eyelines are right]


[This is Igear. He sounds shifty and suspicious]


[Seriously, Bioware asked the Voice Actor to talk with a snake-like lisp/rasp for every line]


[Igear is channeling sleazy merchants the whole time]


[Just a sleazy merchant, with nothing to say]


[Igear doesn't like Gendar, and Gendar doesn't like Igear. Maybe if Igear didn't sound like a snake?]


[Igear lives in a Communist Commune. What did you expect?]


[Weirdly, we can only really support the Communism. Bioware]


[YOu live in a Communist Commune. What did you expect?]


[He does have stuff though]


[Nothing really valuable though]


[It's not much of a selection]


[So I only bought a few things, and sold stuff]


[So little to buy]


[Probably buying stuff]


[Selling excess junk]


[I don't need everything]


[Selling anything you don't want or need to keep is worth it]


[The Permacrete Detonator is used to help Matrik fake his death, otherwise you just kill him. K Yurt has it in the Uppercity for sale]


[Some things we won't be able to sell and they won't appear]


[Items will have a price listed if any, an amount, and a description]


[I don't recall what I sold]


[Finished with Igear]


[Gendar, leader of these Commies]


[I could use a bath]


[So, suddenly this place is popular]


[Yes, Gendar knows Mission. Also how hard is it to find sewers? They smell don't they?]


[If you ask about the Rakghoul Serum. Turns on a sidequest]


[Basically, the Outcasts are criminals that turned into Commies]


[Gendar is the hereditary Communist leader]


[This is actually a lie. There are no roaming bands of Rakghouls. Instead, there are a few groups, which re-spawn]


[Maybe not everyone agrees with that Communist lifestyle?]


[Because, apparently, talking about doing what you can makes you sound like an old geezer]


[It's a rather shoddy Gulag]


[I don't know what I said here]


[Rukil. Chief Commie Elder]


[This just weird]


[Carth defaults to Carth, which means being a jerk to everyone]


[??? I don't know]


[So, Carth calls him crazy, we think Rukil is crazy]


[Fine living in a Communist Commune]


[He keeps the book of Marx]


[He has a much older copy of Marx's book, I think]


[His apprentice went looking for Rukil's Communist Paradise]


[So, he wants us to find out what she found]


[Not sure what we would expect to get, considering everyone here are Commies]


[Our reward: Secret Marx Knowledge]


[Secret Commie Knowledge sounds good]


[Rukil reminds us to cash in the quest. Game]


[The village is made to look properly like a commune]


[What happens in Commie Village stays in Commie Village]


[Not actual water. Just weird effects due to graphic limitations]


[The Evil Capitalists are too close!]


[We will get affected by Capitalism!]


[A rakghoul. They are basically zombies]


[Bad Rakghouls! Bad Rakghouls!]


[You can volunteer to fight]


[We run out to help]


[There is just one, but it can cause a total party wipe. Also Hendar can die]


[Rakghouls have poison as part of their attacks. That's why Carth's health bar is green]


[Rakghouls are tough, mostly]


[The Poison effect continues until cured or wears off. It sucks]


[We saved Hendar from the Capitalist]


[The guy who guards the Commune from Capitalists]


[It's a Communist Commune. Nobody has anything, expect Igear the filthy Capitalist]


[This lady does different dialogue if you let Hendar perish]


[They head off further into the village, probably to have more Communist children]


[The Undercity beyond the Commune. It is really small]


[Mission spawns out of nowhere or hidden, meaning we get her line, but can't see her anywhere. This happens with the HK unit on Peragus in the Second game]


[Game. If you have meet Mission, in the Lowercity Cantina, this will still be your line. PC, your memory is short]


[She totally knows who Gadon is, she just doesn't like him]


[Carth being Carth. Not sure what happened with his eyes though]


[Running away like a PC? Yeah, she is definitely going to joining us]


[Gamorreans are those pigmen from ROTJ, the ones who worked for Jabba]


[Basically, Gadon tells her not to go where she goes, or where he tells us that he knows she goes. He won't stop her though]


[Essentially we need her help. Doesn't matter what you say]


[Carth. She already told us that Z is in the sewers]


[Newbie Companions will get level-ups to our own, if we are higher level than their level when they join]


[Because she is 4th, we can upgrade her attributes]


[An odd Constitution means a +1 to Con item will increase her modifier]


[Or we could up her Strength]


[We get to increase skills]


[So I upped her Strength, to make her Attack/Damage better shortly]


[We will encounter other Red armored Sith. I don't recall what it signifies]


[We BS him about that we looking for a missing patrol]


[Non of our options are polite. Game]


[He says this unless we threaten him. Which you can totally do. I don't know if it is worth it]


[More Rakghouls]


[Attacking from distance means they take more damage before arriving at us]


[Close range fights. Which will be common in this game]


[I think Mission ran down and Aggroed the other rakghouls. That happens with enemies]


[Due to level or something, Rakghouls aren't worth 300xp anymore]


[They are really annoying for being worth so little experience]


[The bodies in this lower area should have the Rakghoul serum. Or it's somewhere else]


[Walking towards the body]


[Just looting]


[More lootables. Also the poison wore off]


[Another set of bodies]


[One of the sewer entrances. There are 2 or 3]


[An effect of graphic issues]


[I had to tweak the Graphics to get rid of the weird effect]


[More Rakghouls to fight. Am using Carth's Blaster, I believe]


[The Game AI for enemies does this sometimes. One enemy will move to attack, while the others just chill]


[Having to shoot at another Rakghoul]


[It may take a few times to get them to finally move]


[I gave Mission her named vibroblade]


[Another body, might also be another sewer entrance]


[Since Mission went up a level, I get tweak her skills]


[And pick a feat]


[Some of the different feats]


[More feats. I may have to identify what is available to take]


[Running off to a new area]


[Debris that is impassable]


[We return to the Communist Commune]


[Heading off to Rukil...or not]


[Off to complete a sidequest]


[The sealed area holds infected outcasts]


[We talk to the healer]


[The rakghoul plague is basically a zombie plague]


[We are risking it]


[Instant transformations as soon as we enter]


[There are 3 outcasts that all transform, who we have to kill]


[It's annoying]


[These Rakghouls are worth more XP]


[And are apparently tougher]


[And we have been all poisoned]


[Healing up]


[We can use the serum to heal people here]


[It gives us goodies]


[It also helps the Commies, for when we complete Rukil's other quest]


[The door opens and shuts]


[Off somewhere]


[We are heading out to clear the entire Undercity]


[Mines. Which are dangerous some]


[You can recover mines or disable them]


[Course, they do blow up]


[Mission has a higher Demolition score than the PC, so she gets to deal with them]


[We can use recovered mines, so you should always do that instead of disabling]


[There is no point to disabling them]


[More mines are great!]


[The Rakghoul Soldier: if you cure him with the serum, rakghoul will kill him; if you don't have the serum or use it, he becomes a rakghoul. Game]


[If you cure him, then he will tell you information]


[Given that he is doomed, He will doom soon]


[He's pretty much screwed]


[Further on, we encounter these idiots]


[A fight ensues, and any number of Davik's thugs may die. Or all, which can happen]


[This line is ironic if all of the thugs died because Canderous will always say it]


[Canderous tells us that we should beat it]


[Again, says this if all thugs die. Which makes it all really funny, since he says that Davik's thugs are cutout for it]


[Some container, and it only gives us a repair kit]


[Just pausing for some reason]


[More rakghouls, which is all that is here]


[Attacking from distance]


[But they close, and must die]


[More enemies]


[Running off]


[Mission runs]


[Terrain bottles them up, so only one person gets attacked]


[Of course, that knocks Mission out. If everyone runs out of health, then we die]


[Did I mention that enemies are a bit stupid?]


[The rest of the Undercity]


[Loot]


[I think this is the corpse for Rukil's Apprentice]


[Just another body]


[The body]


[Mine, and Mission is up]


[We have explored nearly all of the Undercity]


[I don't know why the mine is there]


[Mission will recover it for us]


[Back to Rukil]


[The Main Gate, which is weird because there are no others besides the one by the healer, remains closed]


[Rukil is waiting for us]


[Rukil. He hopes that we are the Marx Messiah]


[Yeah, we found her]


[Put her in "Hero of the Soviet Union" Medal then]


[For looting the dead...]


[Oooh, Destiny]


[His communist buddies didn't like his interpretation of scripture]


[Taris is one big City-Planet. Also no land?]


[They failed at Environment. Cue the Revolution!]


[Carth makes a point. One of his rare ones]


[REVOLUTION!]


[Revolution failed, so they made gulags]


[Why can we ask such a dumb question? Game]


[The Rich used the gulags]


[If you felt any sympathy towards anybody on this planet, this is intended to make you lose it]


[Promised Land, which is Commie Paradise]


[It's Commie Paradise]


[Rukil is trying to find Commie Paradise, like his ancestors]


[Nice Carth, jerk. Nice way of pissing on them]


[I have the entries on Wikipedia about the books]


[My predecessors kept notes of their doodles]


[Again, he offers his secret Communist Knowledge]


[His father and grandfather both died in the sewers. That's were we will find their bodies]


[Our Communist Hopes go with you!]


[So, yeah]


[Rakghouls respawned, that means I can get more XP]


[Rapid Shot is Flurry for blasters]


[I am using two weapons because it means more attacks. You should always dual-wield]


[The Rakghouls are worth 30xp instead of 50xp now]


[Awareness increases finding mines, while Demolitions will allow mine retrieval]


[Put in skills]


[Clearing out any other respawns for XP]


[They respawned over here!]


[Mission runs over, due ot having a melee weapon]


[A message that you should expect to see frequently. The game pops it up and pauses the game]


[I think Carth is shooting past us]


[Rakghouls are really weak if you take them from distance]


[Exploring to see if there are other respawns]


[The escape pod where we found Rakghoul soldier]


[It's a nice looking pod]


[So, pod...]


[They respawned over here]


[Trying to get them to come so I blast them]


[When I try to attack, it makes my character move closer. Don't want that]


[Mission likes rakghouls]


[More attempt]


[I don't know if it worked]


[Game]


[A rakghoul party]


[Well that was invirogating]


[To the sewers!]


[The Sewers has Rakghouls, Mines, Gamorreans, one Wookie, some droids, bodies, a Rancor(Thanks Mission) to discover]


[Mission gets her bombworking on]


[Annoyingly, if you send her to do something, but switch back to your PC, then she coming running back. So I have to control her]


[Then I get to switch back. This will become an annoyance greatly]


[Rakghouls fiends are supposed to be tougher]


[I don't the others joined me]


[Maybe not all are Fiends? Maybe some normals?]



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[So, that was long.

We can go to Igear after getting the quest to get the other promised land journals, where Igear will offer us money. It is a bit pointless like the quest from Gurney since there is almost benefit in doing so. Why bother?

I am going to cover the Journals from Carth, our hero, and others in the second half. I probably also going to have a short-lived Mission one, since we will dumping her pretty much all of next episode and just in general. Since I have yet to come up with how companions that aren't currently traveling with us that are not Bastila would know what was going on. Carth would probably hear about stuff, with Bastila possibly able to have her connection work. I don't know how some of others would.

With the second half, we will be almost completely off Taris. So Episode 4 will definitely be the last episode of that. Which means a vote for you folks.

What Jedi Class should we be picking up? And what lightsaber colors should I giving our lightsaber users: the PC, Bastila, Jolee, Juhani(if ever)? Also, for each, Double-bladed or Dual-wielding?

Voting will last 48 hours.]