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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
I figure that Maya would provide the info. should we all accept, but in case she doesn't, Ara will ask what type of droid 'Switch' is.
She'll also ask for directions to 'Deep Storage Bay V-14', since Maya would probably know a surreptitious way to get to the cargo bay (via maintenance tunnels etc.)
Oh and maybe a comlink that we can contact her on?
Posted on 2009-06-07 at 09:22:05.
Edited on 2009-06-07 at 09:23:16 by Ginafae
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Topic: Dawn of Defiance: The Traitor's Gambit
Subject: Another offer...
‘Does he care about anything except money?’
The thought troubled Ara as she followed Maya through the winding passageways and service elevators that led to the apartment. Ordinarily her attention would have been drawn to the scattered parts of the astromech droid that lay in one alcove, and her mind would have begun to compute what needed to be done to re-assemble it. But at that moment all Ara could think of was whether Mars would betray them for a handful of Imperial credits.
She had no answer. Her blue eyes fell upon the quiet, almost sullen, mercenary but she could read little emotion in the implacable mask Mars wore as his face.
“You’re hurt,” Ara remarked at last to Mars, pointing at his midriff where a blaster bolt had scorched a hole into his jumpsuit.
“Like I said on the Promenade, I’m Maya,” a voice interrupted before Ara could offer her aid. Which was just as well, as her skills lay in welding broken circuits rather than healing bleeding arteries. Maya continued by talking of her employer, the droid and cargo she needed to recover, and the chance to make a new start in Alderaan.
“I don’t suppose you’re going to tell us what this cargo is?” Ara asked after Maya had finished. Her fingers fished for another cigarra and her laser welder-cum-lighter. She lit the end of the thin tabac stick with another puff of sweet-smelling smoke. “Not that it matters. I’ve done my share of smuggling in the past. And, if you can make good on your promise to get us to Alderaan, I’m in.”
Posted on 2009-06-07 at 09:04:02.
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
Yep looks like it.
Still surprised that Mars resisted the lure of that armour. I had a whole host of stormtrooper-related gags lined up. 
Posted on 2009-06-03 at 18:00:32.
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
Glad you liked it. 
Now I just want to see if Mars can resist the lure of Stormtrooper armour. 
Posted on 2009-06-02 at 19:38:02.
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Topic: Dawn of Defiance: The Traitor's Gambit
Subject: Between a bantha's behind and a rancor's breath...
She knew her reaction ought to have been different. Her blue eyes ought to have widened in surprise after the woman – Maya – pressed two thousand credits in her hands. The black sticks trimmed with gold constituted more hard currency than she had ever held, or had dreamed to hold. And at that point, when she needed to get as far away from Imperial Space and the Empire as she possibly could, it could not have been more timely.
But they didn’t. Ara’ala was not a killer, and the thought of what she and her companions had done in order to earn the reward weighed heavily upon her.
“Look, I’m not a merc,” she mouthed, as the credits remained unclaimed upon the palm of her gloved hand. “I can fix things, and can build things and can fly, but…I don’t kill for money. I…I don’t have it in me.”
Out of the corner of her eye Ara could still see the blackened, grizzly image of the man she had shot at point-blank range. She turned her head, causing her long, white hair to drape down over her pale face as if it wanted to shield her from the sight. But it couldn’t, not completely. She knew she would be seeing that face in her dreams for months to come.
“But then I – we – don’t have much choice, do we?” she reasoned sadly, as she peered down once more at the credit sticks. “We’re caught between a bantha’s behind and a rancor’s breath.”
Ara’s left hand finally closed around the credits placed in it. She had little choice and if she was not a killer, she had been forced into that role. Her brown clad legs stepped over the corpse of the man she had shot, and knelt to pick up one of the carbines the Stormtroopers had wielded. ‘Blastech DC-15s,’ a voice in her head registered.
“But what about my door?” another remarked. Ara turned her head to Gundark, waving frantically at the hotch-potch of laser and plasma scorches that now laced the front of his cantina.
“Here,” Ara murmured, throwing the small credit stick that Falon had given her in Gundark’s direction. “That should cover the repairs.”
“We better go with Maya,” she added to Ithiria and Mars. “Unless you two are keen for more Imperial entanglements.”
Posted on 2009-06-02 at 13:15:19.
Edited on 2009-06-02 at 14:22:44 by Ginafae
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
Ooh exciting. I'll post tomorrow. Although I figure Ara'ala will 'appropriate' a blaster carbine for her own use. We're already wanted criminals after all...
Posted on 2009-06-01 at 18:57:37.
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
I do like the quick turnaround you've implemented Ayrn. 
It's especially nifty for combats which can be (for me at least) a real bore when they drag on for month after month.
Posted on 2009-06-01 at 10:11:06.
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Topic: Dawn of Defiance: The Traitor's Gambit
Subject: Backing her blaster...
Another blaster bolt screeched over their heads, and that, and Ara’ala’s hypo-needle, was all the woman needed to regain her senses.
“Thanks,” she murmured, as she edged away slightly behind the durasteel container, took a glance at the remaining Stormtroopers and produced a small blaster.
“It’s alright,” Ara replied as she took careful aim with her own blaster. “Of course it isn’t going to do us much good if the Impies get hold of us. I hear they don’t take too kindly to wanted criminals shooting at them.”
[OOC: Ara’ala will take aim at ‘ST3’ since he isn’t in melee]
Posted on 2009-05-30 at 08:14:43.
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
Posted at last. Sorry it took so long.
Posted on 2009-05-28 at 18:19:49.
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Topic: Dawn of Defiance: The Traitor's Gambit
Subject: More in hope...
Ara’ala cursed, closed her eyes, and an instant later the Imperial that had tried to clamber his away towards her lay a spasming heap upon the floor. She shook her head, willing away the bile that rose in her throat as she inhaled the sickening smell of charred flesh. The short, brutish fire-fights she had been in in the past were nothing like the holovids claimed. She had yet to see anyone who had been shot fall down neatly without a sound. They all bled, and whimpered and cried, and in death their lifeless eyes always stared accusingly at their killers.
Ara’ala shook her head once more, willing the feelings of guilt to go away as she tried to focus upon the woman that now lay perfectly still in her arms, except for the blood that bubbled out from her side.
“Don’t die,” she pleaded, fumbling open a medpac and spilling its contents all around her. The desperate Arkanian chose a small needle and injected it into the woman’s arm, more in hope than in expectation that it would work.
[OOC: Untrained treat injury check to administer first aid. Ara’ala will also use a force point.]
Posted on 2009-05-28 at 18:19:21.
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
Sorry it's late, but I'm working on a post now. I take it Ara'ala doesn't know yet if the woman is alive or clinging on to life (since she wouldn't have the time to examine her and isn't a medic)?
Posted on 2009-05-28 at 14:46:50.
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
I'll be away from home over the next couple of days, so it'll be Wednesday before I'm around and posting again.
Posted on 2009-05-24 at 20:47:40.
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
 Just read your brief response from Mars, Skari.
Posted on 2009-05-23 at 07:26:15.
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
Okies posted. And it was quite a fun post to do as well.
I'm assuming that there's some cover that Ara'ala can dive for (a table, a crate a big flower-pot, etc.). If there isn't I can change that.
Posted on 2009-05-22 at 09:39:22.
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Topic: Dawn of Defiance: The Traitor's Gambit
Subject: Ara'ala Kreiss: the intro...and possibly the end?
“Seventy-five creds,” the tall, pale woman murmured, rolling the black and gold metal strip through her gloved fingers. “Not exactly a hutt’s bounty is it?”
She sighed and shook her head, causing her long, white hair to flutter and curl around the swirling, blue tattoos that laced her cheeks and shoulders. It had been four years since she, Ara’ala, had left Arkania. Four years in which she had seen, learnt and done so much. She thought she had found a place where she belonged and had even given herself a second name like other species in the galaxy. Only to suddenly find herself back where she had started: homeless, without friends, and scrounging for a few meagre credits just so she could get by.
The credit chip soon vanished from sight, and was replaced in Ara’ala’s hand by a short, thin cigarra. She lit it carefully with a laser welder, and puffed a pall of fragrant smoke in the direction of the cantina-owner ogling her from afar. He had suggested that she, and the twi-lek she was travelling with, could come and dance for him if she so wished – a proposal that suddenly made her previous employment a whole lot more enticing.
“I’ll see you in a couple of days,” she added at last to Falon, her tone noticeably more resigned than it had been before. “I’ve got nowhere else to go.”
She puffed quietly on her cigarra as she watched the spacer leave, and as she cast her eye around the Station and over the two people she found herself travelling with. They were a strange duo. The twi’lek – Ithiria – was quite possibly the calmest and most thoughtful member of her species she had come across, and had obviously been unfamiliar with the day-to-day routine of being a crew-member aboard a freighter. Mars, on the other hand, was the opposite. He was tensed-up like a coiled spring, and seemingly more concerned with keeping his ugly-looking slugthrower in prime condition than he was in managing the ship’s hyperdrive.
“See them?” asked Mars suddenly, pulling Ara’ala out from her thoughts. Ara’ala turned her head subtly, her blue eyes focusing upon the two men that first Mars and then Ithiria pointed out. They widened in alarm, as they caught sight of their awkward attempt to mingle in the crowd.
“They’re talking to someone,” Ara’ala noted, trying to make her voice sound more calm than she felt as she noticed they were talking into a comm unit hidden inside their collars. “Informants, likely.”
A moment after the words left her mouth, a woman broke from the crowd and ran into Mars’ arms. It was obvious from the way she clutched her side that she was hurt.
“Please, help me,” she pleaded. “There are credits in it for you, five hundred each. Just help me!”
There was no time to react, there was barely time for the thin cigarra that Ara’ala had been smoking to fall unceremoniously from her blue lips before the shooting began. First a small squad of storm-troopers appeared, then the hot-headed Mars pushed the woman behind him and reached for his gun, and then…then Ara’ala swore…a lot.
“You fraggin’, bantha-poodoo mulchin’, nerf-herder!’ she rattled off at a dizzyingly fast speed as she dived for cover, and pulled the injured woman down with her. “They’re fierfekin’ Imperials! You don’t fight them, you run!”
Even so, Ara’ala reached for the pistol holstered by her side. Running or talking her way out of this seemed, now, to be an unlikely option.
Posted on 2009-05-22 at 09:36:51.
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Topic: the new Star Trek movie
Subject: ...
So he is. I didn't notice it was the same actor until you pointed it out.
Posted on 2009-05-16 at 10:45:25.
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
Oh and I'll be away on a train and at a conference on 25-27th of this month, so my posting may be slightly delayed. (I'll be able to write a response, but may not be able to actually post it until after I come back).
Posted on 2009-05-15 at 15:27:37.
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Topic: SW: Dawn of Defiance Q/A
Subject: ...
I completely missed the creation of this thread, so apologies for not replying before now.
Regarding the height and weight thing, the character is really quite tall and is pretty thin too. Arkanians as a rule are apparently quite tall, and, having not lived a pampered life, I figure Ara'ala would be thinner than most humans.
Having said that I don't want her to come across as so thin she'd be anorexic, so could I pump it up to 65 kg?
Oh and I'm looking forward to the game starting.
Posted on 2009-05-15 at 15:15:04.
Edited on 2009-05-15 at 15:25:47 by Ginafae
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Topic: the new Star Trek movie
Subject: ...
I saw this last week, and it is a great film for all the reasons people have cited above.
I really liked the chap that played Kirk, and the bloke that played Bones is absolutely brilliant. The only think I would say is that Simon Pegg who played Scotty is great except for the terrible accent. As one film critic over on this side of the pond commented: 'the original Scotty had an accent that was 99% Canadian and 1% Scottish...sadly Pegg has managed to lose that 1%'.
Posted on 2009-05-14 at 21:28:16.
Edited on 2009-05-16 at 10:43:48 by Ginafae
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Topic: Last Flight of Dragoon IV - Star Wars
Subject: Awesome
I really liked it. It's certainly the most sympathetic account of a Mandalorian I've come across (except maybe for the KOTR games).
The one thing I wondered, though, is whether a Mandalorian would be a bit more 'klingon' about his father's death. Kind of swearing a blood-debt of honour or some such weirdness...
Oh and you should definitely read some of the SW novels. I've only read a few myself, but those that I have read have been great.
Posted on 2009-05-07 at 11:34:09.
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Topic: Star Wars
Subject: ...
Ayrn that does sound awesome, so, if you do decide to DM, you can count me in too.
Posted on 2009-05-01 at 06:45:51.
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Topic: Star Wars
Subject: Saga Edition
I also heard that the Saga edition is a pretty big improvement on the previous d20 versions. So I'm curious to try it out.
Posted on 2009-04-30 at 15:55:57.
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Topic: Star Wars
Subject: ...
I didn't mean to sound as if I was ignoring you either Geraint.
And I pretty much agree with what Ayrn said (he used his force powers and forced me to say that... )
Posted on 2009-04-30 at 15:53:43.
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Topic: Star Wars
Subject: ...
I'm not too fussed about form the game takes really. Playing Mandolorians sounds interesting, and Ayrn's description of a game too sounds fun.
Does one of you want to GM more than the other?
Posted on 2009-04-30 at 12:06:56.
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Topic: Forgotten Realms: the Unsung Heroes Q/A
Subject: No kidding
Yeah we could have used Bronwyn in the Mines, but, as she's not there, we'll have to make do.
Aelistae doesn't have any offensive spells that could be of use against several swarms. But anything that may cause an area effect from Talus or Dylan would be nice.
Posted on 2009-04-30 at 10:43:25.
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