Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by Rece Charak » Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:50 pm

Rece looks around. "Nice town. We'd better keep a low profile. Probably split up to cover more ground. I'm going to find a diner, try to warm up, and not look too much like a cop. Maybe get some pie. And then start looking for clues. You know anyone in town you could talk to, quiet-like?"
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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by Snowflake » Sat Feb 25, 2023 2:48 am

"Ugh... It's been a while since I was here last, and usually we came by for just a short time to run errands with the clan, so I'm not...", the Gigoran says as he takes a good look around. After a while, seeing a particular sign in a side street, his expression lightens up. "Huh! I'd forgotten 'Brook & Burgers' had a unit here besides those in the Tawny Brook area!" He seems pensive for a while. "I wonder if..."

Nah... it would be too much of a coincidence. Right?

"I suppose I'll go and see if I see any familiar faces there. Sure you don't wanna come with, Mr Charak? Their Nerfburger is one of the best this side of Rytai!"

With or without Rece by his side, he'll eventually make his way to the restaurant and look around to see who he recognises.

Not before ordering the good old Nerfburger with a side of chips and tartar sauce, of course. The best combination - and exactly what he had recommended to...

Krannor? He was here!

His mouth already full, the jokul-like humanoid waved somewhat awkwardly towards the door as he saw the familiar face entering.

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Investigation roll 1: Burgers with Krannor (Writing the set-up for the scene instead of the meeting itself for now

Big Trouble & Little Chadra. Investigation roll 1. Get a burger with Krannor! Resilience vs Average
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Net Successes: 1; Net Advantages: 2

1 investigation point; 1 boost for the next roll (Snowflake's only, if I understand correctly?
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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by Rece Charak » Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:08 am

In search of something resembling a diner, Rece wanders through a ramshackle part of town, where the buildings seem to be made largely of corrugated plasteel. The insulation is thin, the water pipes are frozen over, and... is that a tarp for a door? This can't possibly be up to code.

Rece sets out to correct the worst offenses immediately, much to the concern of the nearby townsfolk. But once they find out that he's here to make things warmer - and for free, no less - they become more amenable to both his aid and to his questions. No one even asks if he's a cop. Still, he can't shake the feeling that someone in the crowd has an ulterior motive.

But in the end, homes are safer, folk are happier, and someone even buys him a slice of pie. He's had better, but at least it's hot.

Big Trouble and Little Chadra - Mechanics to help out around town
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Net Successes: 2; Net Advantages: 5

1 Investigation Point
1 Roll for Ja'cque
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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by Snowflake » Sat Feb 25, 2023 6:58 pm

A good burger and an energic, friendly chat (and possibly some more friendly punches) later, in which he promised to show other good restaurants to Krannor if he decided to stay behind in Obroa-Skai later, Snowflake leaves the Brook & Burgers restaurant. Seeing Rece nowhere around, he finds himself walking first to the marketplace, then to the are where loggers, gatherers, harvesters, miners and the such ply their trade and/or store their bounty - the places he's most used to in any city, after all.

It doesn't take much time or many offers for help before some of them get accepted. Hauling logs, barrels with ore and a variety of other things was the bread and butter of what Snowie usually did, and it often warmed the hearts of townsfolk. Failing that, at least it often opened their mouths a bit.

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Big trouble, little chadra. Investigation roll 3) Athletics at hard + upgrade to help around.
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Net Successes: 3; Net Advantages: -1

Big trouble, little chadra. Investigation roll 3) Forgot one boost, as usual.
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Net Successes: 1; Net Advantages: 0

4 Successes = 2 investigation points

1 Threat = 1 Strain, I suppose?

If so, 14/15 strain
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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by GM Nicha » Sat Feb 25, 2023 9:08 pm

Ja'cque roll 1/2
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Net Successes: 0; Net Advantages: 0

Ja'cque roll 2/2
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Net Successes: -1; Net Advantages: 3

Maybe Ja'cque wasn't as popular with the townsfolk as he thought...or maybe he was concentrating on something else entirely?

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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by GM Nicha » Sat Feb 25, 2023 9:53 pm

Part 2

Snowflake and Rece do a surprisingly good job of investigating through the town without drawing any (visible) ire. You both put in some hard work and although it takes the better part of the day you're able to put together Ja'cque's location.

As Rece's repairs one elderly couple's home he overhears them discussing the old sawmill out of town that he used to work at. Once it closed a couple of years back the town fell into an economic depression.

Snowflake's burger rendezvous goes well as Krannor is overjoyed to see the Gigorian again. After their 3rd serving he mentions seeing someone almost as big and hairy as Snowflake on the day he arrived in town. But the stranger had brown fur and seemed to be heading out into the woods.

Snowflake's hard work hauling logs and barrels sees him and Rece invited for supper with a local family. The matriarch, fully aware of the hunger of Chadra-fan and Gigorians prepares a truly massive serve of stew and you enjoy a pleasant respite from the investigation. After food the children excitedly ask Snowflake if he's 'Like Mister Ja'cque'. It seems they usually play near the old lumber mill...

Having heartily eaten (+2 wounds max) and with an excellent idea of where Ja'cque is (you can start at long or medium) you find yourselves heading for Duke's Sawmill....
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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by GM Nicha » Sat Feb 25, 2023 9:59 pm

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Duke's Sawmill is an expansive and derelict ruin about an hour's walk out of town. Anything of value has been picked clean long ago, but the gigantic saws that were once used to cut timber are still in evidence.

It's dark too, Obroan night's tend to be but this far from town and in the forest it's truly oppressive as the weak moonlight only seems to make shadows more threatening.\

(( 2 setbacks to all rolls from the darkness ■■))

As you two approach the outskirts a deep voice speaking Shyriiwook sounds from...somewhere.

"I'm a wookie with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.”
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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by Snowflake » Sun Feb 26, 2023 12:53 am

The words would sound like growling and howling to Snowflake - which he instinctively understood might be deeply meaningful, but he didn't understand himself.

He did feel it communicated something like rancor and bitterness, though. So he answered with a howl and a shriek of his own (something akin to a garbled "I feel your pain" in Gigoran) before adding something in common, speaking to where the voice might be coming from.

"We know you hurt people. We need you to come with us and stop hurting people. Can you do that?"

Simple, naïve, and all that. But maybe a chance to calm down and rethink things was all he needed?..
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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by Rece Charak » Fri Mar 03, 2023 8:02 pm

Rece loosens the strap on his scanner goggles as far as it goes and hands them off to Snowflake. Between his own senses and his optics suite, the darkness doesn't bother him. He begins looking around the clearing, trying to pinpoint the sound of the voice.

"Hey Ja'cque. It's me. Been a while. Listen, I know you got your rule, but I got mine, and like my buddy says, we can't have you hurting people. You wanna talk about what happened?"
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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by GM Nicha » Fri Mar 03, 2023 8:09 pm

"Rece? They roped you into this too?"

As he continues talking you're able to tell the sounds are coming from a small speaker retrofitted to the balcony of the main building.

"I'm just hurting people who need hurting. I don’t care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things. I killed the bug smug people who took my brother. But I didn't kill any of our own." His voice is rising with anger.

"How do I know you aren't part of it Rece? You coming up here with some local muscle all quiet like? Makes me suspicious."
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Post by Rece Charak » Fri Mar 03, 2023 8:46 pm

"If you haven't noticed, there's a war on. Not a lot of sentientpower to spare. I would have come with my team, but they got stuck taking a prisoner back to Coruscant on a cargo shuttle because someone was taking up the whole brig. So yeah, they roped me into doing my job."

Rece motions to Snowflake that he's going to go check out the speaker, then starts quietly advancing towards the main building, moving cover to cover.

"And right now that job is figuring out why you put Republic soldiers in the morgue. Ones who weren't on your guy's crew. You think command is lying to me? Or did you forget to check your targets, Ja'cque?"
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Post by Snowflake » Fri Mar 03, 2023 9:27 pm

This all was sounding complicated - and personal, to some degree. That the wookie was hurt was more or less obvious. But... could the captain have lied? Could someone have lied to the captain?

That sounded really complicated...

He nodded to Rece as the Chadra-fan started making his way towards the building, and tried to take slow steps to move closer as well, but kept quiet for now.
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Post by GM Nicha » Fri Mar 03, 2023 9:33 pm

"I always check my targets. I live in a world where I don't start fights, but I sure as stars finish them. The whole thing was a setup. Someone high up in the military used me. Someone with pull. When they found out I escaped they came looking for me again, asked that Alpine Clan lieutenant to bring me in. But it didn't go down like that."

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If you guys want to try and talk Ja'cque down you may! He's obviously highly strung. However, Snowflake positively radiates good guy energy and he knows Rece. Each of you can make me your choice of an average difficulty with two setback charm, negotiation, streetwise, lore underworld or perception. This represents you either just chatting him up, or quickly putting the pieces together on your feet. Snowflake may take a boost dice to any charm or negotiation check.
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Post by GM Nicha » Sat Mar 04, 2023 12:35 am

It's unclear for a few minutes whether Ja'cques hears you, but then a battered side door swings open.
"Come on in, first stairs on your left, every 3rd step is trapped. I'll make us some caf."

The inside of the lumber yard is dark and oppressive, even with your night vision. The sheer amount of cover, the numerous routes, it would be a nightmare to assault. But once you're up the stairs you can easily find the old foreman's office which has been repurposed as an adhoc HQ.

The resourceful wookie has rigged cameras all over the place connected to a wall of small black and white screens which he checks every few seconds.

Ja'cque has setup a small portable stove and is boiling some water in some old cans. He barely looks up at you two as you enter, acknowledging you only with a grunt.
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Post by Rece Charak » Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:13 am

It was, in fact, some kind of The Escapee situation. Luckily, Rece isn't blind.

"Nice place you got here." Rece's tone is only half-joking. He taps on one of the vidscreens. "Old school."

He drags a folding chair over to the table and hops up on it, leaning over his hands on the table. "So, tell us everything. They barely even gave our hapless PDF middleman the cover story - no evidence, no names, no locations, no nothing. Which was my first tipoff. Details... well, I don't have to tell you."
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Post by GM Nicha » Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:27 am

"No details is even more important."

He finishes with the caff and hands a cup to Snowflake and Rece, being very delicate with his massive paws.

"I was tracking the head of an illegal merc company, real black bag stuff. These guys were all Republic ex-special forces. They were getting hired to do assassinations, sabotage, kidnapping, real stuff. My brother worked at Republic logistics, high up. He got suspicious that stuff was disappearing. A gun or two and nobody would notice, but ships were being taken, so he started investigating."

With an angry wookie sound. "Found out this group, New Age Defence, was taking orders from senior senators. But they had people all over, including at HQ. Word got out and they lured him down to the planet and took him out. He'd kept me update on the situation and so when he went dark...I started looking. To cut a long story short, I found the men who'd done it and dealt with them. Even had some help from my old squad. But the senators moved first, they had me arrested, framed me for murder. I have no doubt they would have organised for me to be killed escape prison if not for the war."

Gesturing to the pick of a smug white haired looking man he's pinned to the wall.
"That's New Age Defence's leader, Edward Leene. Ex-Coruscanti magistrate."

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Post by Snowflake » Sat Mar 04, 2023 6:51 pm

Snowflake's paws try to be equally careful when they receive the cup of caff. There's some clumsiness there - probably even more so because he was trying so hard to be careful. But the effort is noticeable.

The Gigoran keeps looking at all the screens, traps and devices with something between confusion and awe.

His eyes showed what must have been an attempt to not be too trusting, too easily. That was exactly the sort of thing he was infamous for, of course... and hearing the wookie's story, the attempt at keeping careful quickly went down the drain.

"Ugh..." The Gigoran scratched his head, knitting his brow. "So... someone even higher up set your brother up, and now set you up.", he said as if trying to sum that all up for himself.

"And you think... we're being set up as well?" He seems uncertain, looks at Rece, then back at the Wookie. "Or maybe the Cap'n just heard part of the story?" He shakes his head. "This is complicated...", he mutters to himself.

"... this New Age Defence clan... thing. They're here in Obroa-Skai?"

He pouts his lips and knits his brow again in thought, tnods to the Wookie. "You sure went through a lot, Mr. Jacques. We'll help!"

He then remembers to look at Rece again, speaks in a lower voice, remembering that care that'd been forgotte a little too late. "We will, right?
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Post by GM Nicha » Sat Mar 04, 2023 9:55 pm

"Yes, I believe the mercenaries are on planet and hunting me, they can't afford to just leave me as a loose end."
Ja'cque looks over Snowflake.
"That's right. I bet the conspiracy was covering its tracks, just told your captain his orders with the highest possible encryption, he'd have no reason to question them. Best case scenario you found and killed me. Worst case they might be able to track you to my location."

He steps forward standing straight. "Snowflake, this isn't your battle, so I can't ask you to fight with me. But if you stay and fight with us, well I've never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it because I never could. But I'd be lucky to have you." He extends a paw.

((Snowflake and Rece both roll me an easy vigilance check with 1 setback dice))
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Post by Rece Charak » Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:00 pm

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Re: Big Trouble & Little Chadra -Snowflake and Rece (Closed)

Post by Snowflake » Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:20 pm

GM Nicha wrote:
Sat Mar 04, 2023 9:55 pm
"Yes, I believe the mercenaries are on planet and hunting me, they can't afford to just leave me as a loose end."
Ja'cque looks over Snowflake.
"That's right. I bet the conspiracy was covering its tracks, just told your captain his orders with the highest possible encryption, he'd have no reason to question them. Best case scenario you found and killed me. Worst case they might be able to track you to my location."

He steps forward standing straight. "Snowflake, this isn't your battle, so I can't ask you to fight with me. But if you stay and fight with us, well I've never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it because I never could. But I'd be lucky to have you." He extends a paw.

((Snowflake and Rece both roll me an easy vigilance check with 1 setback dice))
The whole story had a horrible stench of betrayal, and betrayal was not a feeling Snowflake was fond of.

"It's not luck, Mr Jacques. I'll be happy to help set things ri..."

Snowflake's head turns even before he manages to finish the sentence.

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