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Actions Revealed
Actions Revealed
Departing the Mid Rim Honam III
Jedi Cruiser Vengeance
Date: 2919 AOK (Twelve Days after Auro’s Birthday)
Player Characters Involved: Auro Syrdash
Auro set in his private quarters as he spoke with the holographic image of his mother, “Auro, as you requested, I have news of Orchid from Nal Hutta. Before we go on, I need you to observe this holocording. It is important to your next mission.”
The holographic image slowly panned around the tavern showing an almost uniformed look of surprise and shock across the faces of onlookers. Criminals, mercenaries and bounty hunters alike stood around the dance floor with a sense of disbelief on their faces. It was if what they had just seen couldn’t possibly had been real. The sense of disbelief seemed to cover every face, every face but two. Orchid and Barriss set in their chairs with grins on their faces.
At the center of everyone’s attention, was a lone skinny woman with bleach blond hair with pink ends. She shifted gracefully on her toes while holding a vibro-lance over her shoulder. As she pivoted around, she shifted the lance searching for any other possible targets. Around her feet were five bounty hunters in different states of defeat. They slowly moved as they attempted to crawl away from the skinny woman who had just bested them.
As the woman slowly turned towards the angle of holocorder, she revealed her identity as being Cordelia. Her blood colored eyes and the sadistic smile on her face stood out. A small splatter of blood had been sprayed across her face. After she scanned her surroundings, she determined that there weren’t any threats around. On that note, she dropped the lance and turned towards the table with Orchid and Barriss. As she stepped over a Gamorrean, she paused and turned her head to the side.
She stood there with a blank look on her face as if someone was speaking with her. She turned around searching the bounty hunters nodding her head. “Really?!” she said blankly. Over Cordelia’s shoulder, Orchid and Barriss could be seen. They were sitting at a table with a pair of other bounty hunters. Behind them, were a pair of men known by their unique body armor. They were members of the terrorist group known as Crusade. To even the seasoned observer, Barriss actions went unnoticed (Skill Check: Spot, DC: 20 to see that she was actively doing something).
Cordelia nodded, “Oh,” she said with a smile. “I understand!” she added happily and turned towards Orchid’s and Barriss’ table. With almost a skip in her steps, she made her way over towards their table. She reached on to the table and grabbed a large wine glass that Orchid was drinking from and a wine bottle from the center of the table. Cordelia then turned back to the center of the room and skipped her way back.
As she walked in to the center of the bounty hunters, she dumped out the contents of the glass and bottle. She stopped at a Twi’lek who was trying to get to his feet. She turned her head towards an empty space, “him” she asked. Then she got up and walked over to another Twi’lek who had been completely knocked out. His bloody face bore witness to the assault he had survived.
She grabbed him by his armored vest and drug him over to a table. She dropped him on the ground with a thud. This act caused him to stir slightly. Other Bounty Hunters from that group made their own attempts to escape what they saw as a continuation of Cordelia’s attack on them. Ignoring the others, she grabbed the bottle by the neck and shattered the lower half of the bottle against the table. She placed the broken bottle on the table upside down. She rested the glass next to the broken bottle.
She reached down and grabbed the Twi’lek bounty hunter as he started to struggle. Cordelia twisted the man’s arms behind his back and pinned them with her own arms. She lifted the man up with great effort as she almost lost her balance. “Come now, you have plenty to share” she said almost laughing as she spoke. After regaining her balance, Cordelia slammed the Twi’lek down towards the table. She aimed her attack so that his neck would be impaled on the broken bottle.
He let out a cry that was fast obscured by a gurgling sound. Cordelia then lifted the man up so that the neck of the bottle, now fixed in to his neck, was over the large wine glass. “There there, see, it was easy” she added holding him in that position. As his heart pounded, his red life blood pulsated in to the glass. Everyone watched in horror as Cordelia milked the bounty hunter of his blood. Once the glass was filled, she tossed the Twi’lek aside. His blood continued to gush out of the wound. His mouth opened and closed like a fish as his eyes slowly showed his death.
Cordelia reached down and picked up the glass. Her hands covered with red blood as she walked towards the person recording the scene. It was if she was speaking to someone or something near the source of the recording, “it’s a fine year for a Coruscant blend,” she said happily as she smelled the contents of her bloody glass. “While it smells of military….” She said then lifted the glass to her lips. She turned the bottom of the glass upward and tilted her head back.
Small trails of red blood made their way from her mouth as her throat showed the large gulps she was taking of the blood. It was clear that others in the room wanted to put an end to the scene, while others like Barriss took great pleasure in the scene. Even the person making the recording seemed to want to do something but was held back. When Cordelia was done drinking the entire large wine glass of blood, she lowered returned her eyes back to the figure she was speaking to. “It was smooth and sweet. With a hint of iron” she explained.
Her face covered in blood that nearly matched the color of her own blood shot eyes. There was no doubt on anyone’s faces that the being before them was completely insane. She sold this impression when she took the glass and licked a bit of blood from it, before tossing it to the side. Her left eye twitched rapidly as if deep down in some dark gaged part of her mind someone was screaming pleading for the madness to stop.
With soft whispers that the Twi’lek was a Republic spy, all eyes turned to who Cordelia was speaking to. It was then that everyone heard the deep ominous laughter of a Hutt. A droid translate for the Hutt as he spoke, “I have heard so many rumors about criminal named Vixen” he said. “I must say, those rumors do not live up to the truth of who you really are. You and your friends can hair my bounty hunters.” The vid goes black as the recording stopped.
Chancellor Syrdash let out a deep sigh, “the man that Cordelia murdered in that video was a close friend of mine. His name was Gilad Vossle, Captain Gilad Vossle. Auro please remember his name. I am God-mother to his middle daughter. He was a good and loyal soldier, Auro. He didn’t deserve to die like that.”
She paused a moment before continuing, “the video you just saw came from an informant of Master Dooku’s. He gave me this video as a personal favor and has stated that the capture of Cordelia and her friends should remain a Jedi matter. Because of my connection to Captain Vossle and the fact that Captain Vossle served aboard the Vengeance two years ago, Master Dooku has asked that we remain out of this matter. He feels that Captain Vossle’s murder would negatively affect moral of the Vengeance. Which I agree. Something like this would drive your crew to bring these murderers to justice with great enthusiasm. So, I feel that we should honor Master Dooku’s request and allow the Jedi to do the ground work for us.”
She paused once more, “I didn’t tell Master Dooku, but I found your factory raid. A Baktoid Armor Workshop facility on the world of Druckenwell has reported a break in. It hasn’t made its way to the Core Worlds yet, because nothing was stolen. The heist was averted with the facility’s alarm systems sounded in the middle of the heist. I have reached out to Kuto Jaral of the Baktoid Armor Workship facility on Drunchenwell. He has agreed to meet with you as my personal advisor under the guise of improving security for military facilities like this.”
She lifted her hand, “now Auro, I don’t want you to take this the wrong way. Master Dooku has said that he will dispatch some of his best Hunters to bring Cordelia to justice. He was clear to me, that this should remain a Jedi matter, not one for the Chancellor’s office. I agree with him on this. I am not telling you to investigate what these murderous people are up to.”
She paused a moment before adding, “after all, there has been an increase in pirate activities in the area and we need to make sure that military facilities like the one on Drunkenwell are secure. I also need you to search for these pirates and eliminate them as a threat to Republic security. IF you happen to discover information that happens to place you on a course where you can bring Orchid and her followers to justice, then I would gladly defend your actions. Just make sure, Auro, that justice is served.”
OOC Admin Stuff: Auro, if you want to continue this conversation via Text or Phone, please let me know. If not, then this will be a one way communication. Do not post in this thread!
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Chapter Two: Worlds Colliding
