When we left off, the group was in the middle of their surprise high-speed descending malfunctioning airspeeder tour. Which, of course, they were all excited about. Excited in the “Oh god, I don’t want to die!” kind of excited, but excited nonetheless. Three Swoop bikes accompanied them, following behind. Due to great piloting ability, they managed a successful crash into the underworld, through the wall of a building, impaling the pilot on the steering column, and scattering his toy dinosaurs everywhere.
As they exited the airspeeder, they were greeted by the three Swoop bikes in front of them. the mean on the lead bike speaks. “I am Imperial Inquisitor Phage.” “We will need to take all of you into custody in relation to our ongoing investigation into enemies of the empire, particularly Jedi.” “Good thing there are no Jedi here then.” Kel said. The Inquisitor reached out with the force, but Skyron was able to resist his detection so easily, either due to fear or determination, that even Anakin Skywalker would be stumped. “Well, I do seem to be having trouble detecting him.” Phage said. “Maybe it was that guy you killed.” Skyron responded, feeling guilty for feeling relieved at the death of the pilot for a second. “Someone died in the crash? I’ll have to investigate.” said Phage.
As he was dismounting his Swoop bike, a blaster bolt came from a distance and hit the back of the bike, causing it to lurch forward and to the right, smashing Phage into a wall with a sickening crunch. One of the guards starts to fire at the group, while the other collects Phage, who is still alive, though barely. The first guards shots hit the remains of the airspeeder, shooting shrapnel and harming the group, some of whom have already started working on opening a side door to escape. Phage is taken onto the other Swoop bike, which turns around, and Skyron has to resist a sudden wave of anger, knowing he has the power to end Phage. But he manages to suppress the feeling.
While this is happening, Kal and Tarash manage to get the door open, and the group makes their way through it. They enter an abandoned office, and come across another locked door. After two more floors of this they finally make it to a Turbolift, which of course also needs to be activated. Before they can do that, they are attacked by a group of Cthon. They defeat the Cthon, but the Cthon defeat Gweedo, who is patched up by Skyron to make him stable but still unconscious. They give the job of carrying the bleeding Rodian to his droid, who is physically unable to be grossed out by the Rodian blood.
They get the lift operational and Ginger states that in order to get off the planet it seems they’ll need some help from a group who specializes in that sort of thing. Should be easy, its only a two hour walk to a disgusting bar while avoiding the overworld because of attack ships, avoiding Stormtrooper perimiters on the ground, avoiding civilians who are alerted to the criminals through news updates, and while travelling with a disguised assassin droid carrying an unconscious Rodian. Also the fear of more Inquisitors adds a cherry to the top of the trip. Somehow, the group makes it to the bar with a close encounter to being recognized by a civilian, a fight with a pack of evil dogs, and being scared shitless by the sound of Swoop bikes. The bikes wound up being a Swoop gang, the first time ever that anyone has been relieved to see a Swoop gang.
Finally, they were at the bar, Hole in the Rat, where they ate lousy food, drank warm beer, and saw ugly waitresses. They got Gweedo back on his feet, and rested for the night. The next day they met the contact, Narok Lightbender, who told them they needed to get to the nearest Starport and he could get them off planet. He joined them, and they set off, for another travel through the underworld, which worked out so well last time, that nothing could possibly go wrong this time, right?
They traveled for awhile and came across a man, the same one who shot the Inquisitor’s Swoop bike. “Hey.” said the man. “Hey, thanks for the help with that Inquisitor.” Kal said. “Oh, that was you guys? Ya, no problem, I was just in the area, figured it was the least I could do. Name’s Law Keller.” “Well, is there anything we can do to repay you?” Kal asked. “Oh, sure, plenty. Food, credits, things like that.” Law responded. Kal pulled out two rations and handed them to Law. “Thanks.” Law said.
The party set off again rather undramatically. Finally, they arrived at their intended campsite to rest. But they would not get the chance, because as soon as they arrived, they hear the not very distant sound of many feet running toward them. The group decides to try and hide until whatever it is passes, but when a whole crowd of Cthon show up, they decide perhaps it’s better to just bolt, which they do.
After a few minutes of exhausting running for their lives, they make it to a sewer tunnel with a gate. Skyron stumbles and falls, and is slashed in the back as he scrambles to get behind the gate. Gweedo gets a mini welding tool from his toolkit and welds the gate shut in several places. After travelling back through the tunnel they were now stuck in, hoping it wasn’t worse, they came across a river of sewage, the only way out. Kal went in in his vacuum sealed flight suit to see if it was indeed a way out, and fortunately, or maybe unfortunately it was. The group takes a deep breath of the only fresh air they would be smelling in awhile, and jumps in, after Gweedo ‘convinced’ Ginger to get in with a push. They were on their way, or they would be, if Kal hadn’t fallen behind, and felt something on his foot.. sort of like a tentacle.. maybe a Dianoga?!