Session 2: Welcome To Eriadu

  With the alarm blaring and soldiers all over the place searching for this Jedi terrorist. I was starting to feel a little queasy again. Doctor Mercival, the ever helpful doctor, suggested that we head to his clinic and let me rest there. When we got there Doctor Mercival put me in a room with a small cot and then he went about his business. I locked the door and lay down on the cot. Made sure my blaster was in my hand and went to sleep.

  I am at home. My first home. Mom is mixing up some batter for some Panna cakes. I am playing with some tech on the floor. I am trying to build one of those press panna cake makers, where you just put the batter in and press down and it makes a panna cake. The door opens Dad comes in smiling and happy. I run to give him a hug. I jump up and he swings me around and gives me a big hug.

  I am at home again. The room is dark. Liquid on the ground. A coppery scent in the air. I can’t sense any heat with my lekku. I walk in. The kitchen is a mess, mom wont like that. I pass through the kitchen and head towards the bedroom. There are gashes in the walls. I get to the bedroom door. I don’t want to go in, but I must. I push open the door. Mom’s head is on the bed staring at me. “Why weren't you here to save us?! Why did you leave us?!” I scramble out of the room and back towards the front door. There is a loud knocking. Knock! Knock! Knock!

  I awake with a start. I point my gun around the room. It takes a moment for me to remember where I am. My heart slows down. I put my gun away. The knocking is back. I realize it is coming from the door. I put my smile back on and go to open the door. It is Doctor Mercival, coming to check on me. He does a quick once over, check my vitals and things before offering me a pill that is supposed to help with motion sickness. No sooner do I put the pill in my mouth, then a wave of something hits me again. I vomit all over the floor. That's like what 3 times already? Romulus, or as I like to call him, Mr.Squiggly shows up again. I thought I had gotten rid of him when I stole the chip he wanted. He seems more nervous than last time. He says that a man in dark armor with a lazer sword is heading here and that we must not be here when he gets here. I don’t know who he is talking about, nor what a laser sword is but whoever is coming sounds like one of those deathtroopers that Minister Voraxius had around him. If they are coming here it would be better if I was not here. I got up and rushed out of the room. I saw Doctor Mercival had gone out to speak with his assistant earlier and told him I was all better and had to be on my way. I rushed out of the doctor’s clinic and into the waiting room. I saw Rico Bee and Titan Bloodstorm talking with some people I had never seen before. I turned towards Rico, since I am pretty sure he had also seen Mr. Squiggly last time he showed up. I told him that something was coming and we had better not be here when it gets here. Letting them make their own decisions I ran out of the clinic and away from whatever was coming. Once I was in a more populated area I slowed down to a brisk walk. A person running through a crowd is the first suspect when anything happens. I found a stairway leading to the residential area. A place tourists or passengers were usually never allowed in. there were no guards so I switched my metallic hand into the computer jack mode and hacked the doors open. I made my way in. There were not a lot of people around. They were probably all working. There were some religious areas off to the side and I made my way there. I went into one that appeared to be a temple to the pantoran moon goddess. I only knew this because of the sign. I chose this one because it looked like the totem I had stolen earlier. I went in and chose one of the middle right pews. I sat down and took out the totem of the moon goddess I had found and bowed my head over it. I did not pray to it, but used it as a cover for talking with Mr. Squiggly. Mr. Squiggly told me that the man in dark armor was currently in the clinic talking with Doctor Mercival. Mr. Squiggly even manifested an image of the man in dark armor. It was not a death trooper. It looked like someone decided black leathers and a giant helmet was in fashion this year. It honestly didn't look that intimidating, but then Mr. Squiggly told me that this was an Inquisitor named The Scourge Lord.

  Now that was intimidating. I had heard of the inquisitors. Extremely powerful agents of the emperor that went where they wanted and did what they wanted. They are also known to use lightsabers, the weapon of the jedi. Still in the pew I kept praying. I used my tendrils to sense my surroundings. It seems Titan had followed me, as well as a man I had never seen before. The unknown figure was seated and reading one of the hymnals that are in all the pews. Titan got up and went to the priestess. He asked her for a manual of the religion, like it was some kind of instructions on how to put together a droid. I stayed in the pew for a couple of hours, making sure the danger had passed and maybe taking a little nap.

  ALARM! ALARM! ALARM! There was an explosion in the engine bay all hands abandon ship! I guess Mr. Squiggly was right, the ship did blow up. I got up to head towards the escape pods, when suddenly I was grabbed and hoisted into the air by Titan.

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  I tried to protest, saying that I could walk by myself. Titan didn’t care, he said this was faster. And I have to admit, Titan is much better at pushing through the crowds than I am. Unfortunately he was going completely the wrong way. I pulled up the readily accessible map and pointed him in the right direction. Just then I noticed that Titan had grabbed another individual and was carrying him too. I said “Who is this?” The newcomer was nice enough to introduce himself as Soren Valdoren.

  I introduced myself as well, then there were two more people with us. An old guy with a man bun and a trying to be edgy teenager, based on his clothes. It was clear that they knew Titan and Soren. They must have met while I was asleep in the clinic. The five of us rushed down the corridors towards the escape pods, Titan was complaining that his pet pig was still somewhere on the ship and that we needed to go look for it. I was thinking, Is this guy dumb? The ship is about to blow apart and crash into the planet below. But then I realized that if Roger was the one stuck somewhere on the ship I would totally leave the group and go try and find him, but I also have a tracker in Roger so I can always find him and he can always find me. I am not sure if Titan has the same thing for his pig. Also how long has he had a pig? We finally made it to the escape pods. It was the escape pods for the clergy, which were nowhere in sight, better for us. We all piled in and launched. Immediately I could feel my motion sickness coming on. My tendrils could sense everything around me, including outside the pod. And despite what space may seem, it is not empty. There are lots of tiny particles, dust, debris and other things rushing past us at many miles per hour. Feeling all those things rushing past the pod makes my head spin and my stomach shift. It wasn’t long before I called for a bag to spew chunks into. While this was happening the old man with the man bun introduced himself as Sabo, his moon wolf was named Luna and the teen next to him was Malek Shan.

  I tried to reply with my name, but a new wave of turbulence sent me back to the bag. No one was steering at the time we were just going where the pod was taking us. Titan suggested that I use my tech skills to pilot the pod. I just stared at him and then vomited into the bag. Sabo tried his hand at the controls and managed to keep us heading towards the city. During this time Mr. Squiggly decided to appear again. I was already throwing up so I don’t think he made me do it this time. Mr. Squiggly said that we needed to follow a fancy looking pod to our left. That our friends were there. I am not sure what he meant by friends, I haven't had those for a long time, but I guess he was talking about Doctor Mercival and Rico Bee. They were nice enough. Sabo changed course to follow them, but when we entered the atmosphere it seemed like he lost control of the pod. And we headed straight into an abandoned building next to Mercival’s Clinic. The pod was slammed to a stop and we were all shook like a baby with a rattle. I hit my head on the back of my seat and blacked out.

  When I woke up I was on the ground with Roger hovering over me and Malek and Soren nearby. I immediately turned over and kissed the ground. I vowed never again to get into a ship or fly anywhere. People were meant to keep their feet on the ground. Of course I knew I would have to get on a ship again eventually, but for now my statement was the same. Noticing Doctor Mercival’s clinic next door we hurried over there. Doctor Mercival came out and was surprised to see us. He looked at my head wound and patched me up. Suddenly, that wave of energy came over all of us. Luckily I was all vomited out. Though Sabo wasn’t so lucky. Mr. Squiggly appeared to all of us, well not to Mercival’s Assistant Sarah Blackstrom, but the rest of us could see him.

  So now Doctor Mercival, Titan, and Sabo didn’t think we were crazy anymore for talking about a creature they could not see. Mr. Squiggly rejoiced at all of us being together and that he had worked hard to get us all here, manipulating events to bring us all to this planet at the same time. He even gave dreams and visions to Malek. He said that he brought us all together so we could find the 7 golden rhombus’s. The empire was after them and it was our destiny to find them first. All of us looked skeptical. I have my own mission that is a lot more important than finding 7 objects that may not even exist. Malek said he had to ask his parents. I looked up at this kid and asked “How old are you?” I mean really he is at least older than me, why does he still need to ask his parents permission before doing things? Though now that I think about it, if both of my parents were still around I probably would not be here either. Others were voicing their objections to this destiny until Sabo asked Mr. Squiggly what would happen if we did not get these 7 rhombuses. Mr. Squiggly said we would all die.

  This seemed to be another one of his hunches, but seeing as the ship had blown up I figured better safe than sorry. So we all agreed to join in on this quest, and the first step in many people’s eyes was to get their weapons back. It was at this point that Titan mentioned he used a bow caster. I finally remembered I had a bowcaster hidden inside Roger. I popped open the storage area and got the bowcaster out. I told him I would sell it to him for 1000 credits, a pretty cheap sum. Instead he just grabbed it out of my hand and almost grabbed me with it. The others in the party objected with their voices, but not with their actions. I guess even here the strong get what they want. I told him that wasn’t very nice. Titan said that being nice doesn’t help. I think it is about time someone taught Titan Bloodstorm that actions have consequences.

  End Session 2