IC Rise of the Grand Admiral - Episode I - Finishing the Fight

[Harmony]

Irizi'stal'nafis

“Does our target also have the same switches? Would our target have locked doors? If we want to shoot things for fun, throwing ourselves at it seems reasonable, but if we want to practice, perhaps we should not see it just as a practice to beat, but to train before the mission? We are all here because we can shoot. What we lack is cohesion and understanding of our target. To see that we have thought of all troubles that can arise, not that we can gun down practice drones or set some sort of score.” Zistalna sounded slightly annoyed as she spoke, but avoided eye contact.

[Thunder999]

"Oh I don't shoot things, the force is my weapon."

[RandomLunatic]

"No switches, but other objectives," Skira pointed out. "Plant bomb. Extract ally." He grinned. "Capture target."

At Coralej's revelation, Skira turned to face him. "You Jedi? Nice. Where lightsaber?"

[Thundercracker]

Irizi'stal'nafis

“Does our target also have the same switches? Would our target have locked doors? If we want to shoot things for fun, throwing ourselves at it seems reasonable, but if we want to practice, perhaps we should not see it just as a practice to beat, but to train before the mission? We are all here because we can shoot. What we lack is cohesion and understanding of our target. To see that we have thought of all troubles that can arise, not that we can gun down practice drones or set some sort of score.” Zistalna sounded slightly annoyed as she spoke, but avoided eye contact.

The clone shrugged in response.
"I've never done the course on this ship before, so your guess is as good as mine," he replied, "Seeing as others are planning the same assault though, it probably will match up with what we know about Corp Alliance HQ. Probably."

The heavy weapons clone pipes up.
"We won't know until we get in there. Let's blast something!"

[Thunder999]

Coralej turns to Skria "I never said I was a Jedi, no glowing swords here."

[Thundercracker]

A buzzer sounds, notifying that your session has started and you should start advancing.

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In an effort to move this along, and since the party has determined to split, the first post will pick a path, left, right, center, and can include whichever NPCs they want (all players and three of the clones are with you, everyone except Odi). Second player can choose to go with the first group or a different path (and take clone(s) that remain). If nobody picks a clone then i will assign them.

The proving ground will essentially be decision based, we're not going to bog down into a full combat here. You'll have to make a few quick choices and then we'll move on to the next part of the adventure; hope everyone is OK with this approach.

[Thunder999]

"CT-RH-1453, CT-RH-0509 with me, down the middle, shoot anything that gets in our way!"
Coralej heads straight for the middle, simple and effective.

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Coralej would ask another player, but I don't want to force anyone.

[RandomLunatic]

Skira cocked his head, not comprehending the difference between "Force-user" and "Jedi", but before he could question Coralej further, the buzzer sounded and he sprang into action. "C'mon!" he snarled at the medic, tugging his arm and dashing off to the right flank.

[Harmony]

Irizi'stal'nafis

"Looks like it's you, me and that clinker of yours." Zistalna tells the Jawa. "We'll take the left flank, but be more standoffish to reinforce if there's a need."

[Feathersnow]

Irizi'stal'nafis

"Looks like it's you, me and that clinker of yours." Zistalna tells the Jawa. "We'll take the left flank, but be more standoffish to reinforce if there's a need."

The Jawa nods, then gives instructions to IG-GY. The idea that deactivating IG-GY's ability to speak Basic would solve several problems occurs to T'tchiirt, but this isn't the time.

[Thundercracker]

The teams split up and go three ways. Droids pop up behind cover and as you're all reasonably experienced, along with the clones, you blast your way through, only slowing down slightly as you leap-frog your way through the obstacle course.

Coralej, with the middle team, runs into a makeshift bunker, with at least three droids firing from two covered position. Beyond them, you spot a red button which will deactivate them attached to the far wall. Trying to sprint to get to it would allow you to bypass the room faster, but whoever runs the gauntlet might get hit.

Skira and the medic charge to the right and encounter a room with pillars that rise up and down. Target droids periodically appear as some of them rise up, meaning you need to keep your guard up. You can stop and try to figure out the pattern, or try to charge your way through.

Zistalna, T'tchiirt, and the droid take the left path and fight their way to a crossroads. Blaster fire echoes from the right; it sounds like another team is there, so you could go that way to back them up, or you could charge ahead towards the team objective.

[Feathersnow]

T'tchiirt sees the objective! She chitters a command for IG-GY to lay down suppressing fire and charges forward!

[Thunder999]

"No need to get hit, stick to cover."
Coralej will do as he says until he can get within 60ft, at which point he'll try and hit the button with The Force

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As in, once he's to that close he'll either use Move Object on the button, or if that's not possible (no idea what other power it would be), he'll just use it on whatever's nearby and hit the button with that.
(1d20+14)[33] Use the Force.

[RandomLunatic]

Skira looked over the collection of pillars with a scowl. They could be here all day, trying to suss out a pattern, if there was even one to be had. Or he could let his hunter's keen senses and hair-trigger reflexes carry the day.

"Next target appear, we blast, then run," he said to -0476.

[Harmony]

Irizi'stal'nafis

“Wai…” Zistalna tries to call out as the strange creature makes a run for it. This was to coordinate teamwork, and it was already failing. There would be no magical buttons that won the fight in reality. Or it would be strange if it was. It was like the Republic was trying to keep up morale by not playing loosing scenarios, like their troopers did not mind.

“Stay cool, left team has has a member entering the objective, watch friendly fire.” She calls out on the comms. While reinforcing the other teams would have been the move here, she can’t abandon her teammate, instead advancing carefully between cover to provide support if needed.

[Thundercracker]

T'tchiirt sees the objective! She chitters a command for IG-GY to lay down suppressing fire and charges forward!

Irizi'stal'nafis

“Wai…” Zistalna tries to call out as the strange creature makes a run for it. This was to coordinate teamwork, and it was already failing. There would be no magical buttons that won the fight in reality. Or it would be strange if it was. It was like the Republic was trying to keep up morale by not playing loosing scenarios, like their troopers did not mind.

“Stay cool, left team has has a member entering the objective, watch friendly fire.” She calls out on the comms. While reinforcing the other teams would have been the move here, she can’t abandon her teammate, instead advancing carefully between cover to provide support if needed.

You charge forward but your progress is stalled as you arrive at a hardened position. At least two bunkers lie ahead of you with potentially more out of sight, and several droids fire at you from view-slots in the defensive structures. They focus their fire on you and you're forced to huddle behind a mock-desk or risk getting tagged, possibly more than once. The droid follows your lead and hunkers down against an adjacent desk.

You can try to pick off the droids through their shooting slots, or perhaps one of you could create a distraction while the others get closer.

"No need to get hit, stick to cover."
Coralej will do as he says until he can get within 60ft, at which point he'll try and hit the button with The Force

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As in, once he's to that close he'll either use Move Object on the button, or if that's not possible (no idea what other power it would be), he'll just use it on whatever's nearby and hit the button with that.
[roll0] Use the Force.

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move object works

You make you way methodically through the room, clearing out the first bunker and then hustling up against the second, which gets you in range to reach out with the Force and deactivate the droids. Your team managed to avoid taking any hits, but you're now almost certainly behind the others.

Skira looked over the collection of pillars with a scowl. They could be here all day, trying to suss out a pattern, if there was even one to be had. Or he could let his hunter's keen senses and hair-trigger reflexes carry the day.

"Next target appear, we blast, then run," he said to -0476.

You blast your way through the moving pillars, and take a stinging hit in the side, not enough to knock you out of the exercise, but it feels like an extra strong stun bolt because half your body goes almost numb. Still, you clear the pillars at a quick pace and close in on a bunker in the distance, though no fire is coming out if it for the moment. You can pause here to receive treatment from the medical clone or press forward.

[RandomLunatic]

Skira ducked behind a pillar and slumped against it, breathing hard in attempt to restore some feeling. "Sithspit, what they using? Got anything that'll give me feeling in my arm?" he asked the medic.

[Harmony]

Irizi'stal'nafis

“Left team exposed and taking heavy fire. Making sure we hold their attention.” Zistalna calls out, firing inaccurately from behind cover to keep the droids attention.

[Feathersnow]

T'tchiirt hides from the droids, and readies her flamethrower, but it is unlikely to do much unless the droids are foolish enough to break cover. What was I thinking.

[RandomLunatic]

"We through first room on right, bunkers ahead, no enemy," Skira commed back.

[Thundercracker]

Coralej

You arrive at a deserted fortified position, a series of barriers set up to make it easy to shoot out but which provide cover against the enemy. Beyond that is a 4-way intersection with a blast door leading directly away from you, and hallways both to the left and right. Blaster fire and the sound of droid movement comes from the left and you can see the reflections of flashes of blaster bolts against the wall. You could try to sneak your way past the droids or perhaps approach them from behind.

Skira ducked behind a pillar and slumped against it, breathing hard in attempt to restore some feeling. "Sithspit, what they using? Got anything that'll give me feeling in my arm?" he asked the medic.

The medic kneels down, pulls out a small case, and slaps a patch of some kind against your side where you were hit, and the numbness begins to fade. You advance farther and reach a deserted fortified position. Past the barrier, the hallway turns to the left, and the sound of intense blaster fire echoes from down the corridor.

"Seems too easy," the medic says, "think it's a trap?"

Irizi'stal'nafis

“Left team exposed and taking heavy fire. Making sure we hold their attention.” Zistalna calls out, firing inaccurately from behind cover to keep the droids attention.

As you shoot, the droids return fire, and if anything, the intensity seems to increase, making it almost suicide to leave cover; you're pinned down.

[Thunder999]

"Keep moving, lets see if we can get behind the droids to the left, give the others a little help."

[RandomLunatic]

"Aaaah! Thanks, Patches," said Skira as the whatever was in the patch did its job. The most useful piece of advice he'd ever received was "always make friends with the medic".

At the corner, Skira replied, "Yeah. Damn popups can be anywhere. Circle wide that way, I go this way. We flank it."

[Harmony]

Irizi'stal'nafis

“Is this what they teach you in basic training?” Zistalna asked, surpassingly calm. “This is why war is won by communication. I like your aggression…” she break a bit as a blast comes uncomfortably close. “But without any communication, you’d be dead, and your team with you. Learn from this, rely on your training and talk before acting, and it’ll be fine. This is a bad spot to be in, but we undeniably have their attention, so one of our other teams can hopefully bail us out.”

[Thundercracker]

Coralej comes up upon the rear of the droids firing from behind, and half of them split their attention. A fierce firefight breaks out, and the team that was pinned down suddenly finds the blaster bolts zinging around them drop in intensity.

Either team can now either hold position or press the attack.

Skira comes to an intersection with a blast door, behind which probably lies the team objective, to the right, and an abandoned fortification to the left. A firefight is ongoing ahead of you. You can press on to assist in the skirmish or try to get the blast door open.

[Harmony]

Irizi'stal'nafis

"Timely. Now is the time for aggression. Have your droid lay down covering fire and then we push from from both sides. Be careful not to get overenthusiastic and fry our friends though. Go!"

Zistalna will start firing as soon as the droid and rat go.

[Thunder999]

"Lets keep the pressure up and crush them between us!"

[RandomLunatic]

Score! Skira's face lit up as he laid eyes on the door to the objective. Having a clear shot to the target with the rest of the team engaged in a light fight was what every bounty hunter dreamed of. The lack of an actual acquisition didn't dampen Skira' spirits any as he went up to the door and opened it.

[Feathersnow]

Irizi'stal'nafis

"Timely. Now is the time for aggression. Have your droid lay down covering fire and then we push from from both sides. Be careful not to get overenthusiastic and fry our friends though. Go!"

Zistalna will start firing as soon as the droid and rat go.

T'tchiirt explains the plan quickly to IG-GY, and readies herself to do her part!

[Thundercracker]

Score! Skira's face lit up as he laid eyes on the door to the objective. Having a clear shot to the target with the rest of the team engaged in a light fight was what every bounty hunter dreamed of. The lack of an actual acquisition didn't dampen Skira' spirits any as he went up to the door and opened it.

Inside the blast door is a simple green flag, about six feet tall.


Other two teams
The eight droids are flanked from both sides, and quickly go down in a fullisade of blue training blaster bolts. Coralej takes a stun bolt in the leg, but it doesn't affect the outcome at all, and you meet in the middle, by the barrier the droids had been using to shelter behind.