Episode 5: Festival

Played: 27 december 2013
GM: Ejnar
Players and characters: Ace (Peter), Buzz (Thomas), Cinder (Jimmy), Tiny (Shuan)
XP: 10

Opening Crawl:

Episode V: Festival
Imperiets propaganda maskin basunerar ut
budskapet om ordning och fred.
På Imperial Center anordnas “carnival week” varje år
där storslagna militär parader, offentliga avrättningar
och storslagna atmosfäriska fyrverkerier avlöser varandra.

Som en motreaktion anordnar man på Alderaan
en “festival vecka” som firar året som gått…

Summary

Encounter 1: Highgate
The crew of Elusion lands on Highgate a planet among a system of planets called the Blue planets. They deliver the grain shipment they picked up during last adventure to their trading contact and sets out to find a new shipment to pay for their trip to Alderaan that is their next destination. They are aware of that Alderaan is holding a planetwide festival to celebrate the year that passed the festival is also a response to the Festival week on Imperial Center that is an Imperial propaganda monstrosity. They realise that beer should probably be in high demand on a planet hosting a huge festival so they finds a brewery and convince the factory manager to sell them a few tanks of beer. Buzz and Lilly gets the idea of setting up a streetside bar. Buzz constructs a barsign and a counter. Lilly and Ace buy some fancy clothes to make a striking performance behind the bar. They take off and head for the festival on Alderaan.

Encounter 2: Festival week
The bar is an instant hit thanks to Ace ability to sell the beer as a premium brew when in fact it’s quite ordinary. They celebrate their success with a night out and when they watch the atmospheric fireworks display Cinder spots a sniper on the roof taking aim for a VIP-repulsorbarge. Cinder and Tiny takes down the sniper with a volley of blaster fire and the group manages to catch him alive. The security personnel of the VIPs rush to the scen and tells them they just saved the mayors son Christian Desora.

They wake up from the sound of the doorbell of their ship and finds Miranda, the aid of Christian Desora, delivering an invite to a meeting to thank them and offer them a business proposal. They head to the Desora estate and find themselves at the villa of one of the old noble houses of Alderaan. The meeting is a security mission to help protect Christian against further attempts on his life. He will be hosting a huge party of nobles and political allies and fears that the assassins will try to use this moment to strike again. They are offered to use the family's private docking facility during their stays on Alderaan and are introduced to Sallak the carpet salesman that have a special equipment arrangement where they can upgrade their equipment from their poor Tatooine blasters and slugthrowers.

Buzz got a alarming communication from their ship where Lilly says the ship just died. Theres been a sabotage. Buzz throw himself in the speeder and heads back. Just when he is about to park enter the Starport he spots a Wookiee running from their spacedock. Buzz realise this might be the Wookiee from “Jarrot Bat”, the smuggler ship they stole components and a gaming table from when they left Tatooine. Buzz chase down the wookiee and a fight breaks out. After taking a beating from the wookiee Buzz manage to stun him with his blaster and reclaim the equipment he stole from the ship. To further “rubb it in” he leaves a note on the wookiee saying “give a poor wookiee some credits” and hangs over his chest. The heads to the Sallak the carpet salesman and asks for the “special equipment”. They are shown in to the back room where they find a well stocked weapons and armors shop hidden. They buy some weapons and get them delivered in a roll of carpet. They arm themselves and head to the the villa to secure the place for the party.

Encounter 3: The party
The guests arrive and the party is in full swing. The group spreads out with Cinder and Buzz with theirs rifles on the roof overlooking the outside of the estate and Tiny and Ace covering inside the house. Ace spots a lady handling a weapon under her skirt and follows her. She realise she gets followed and soon Ace finds a gun pointing in to his lower back. They slowly moves through the party Tiny and Cinder picking up a hint on the comlink that something is up with Ace. Tiny se and opening and fires away at the female assassin as a shooter outside is spotted by Buzz. The decoy inside the building keep Tiny, Cinder and Ace engaged with a close quarter firefight while Buzz engage the shooter outside. Suddenly a cry shouts out from the balcony and Christian Desora is shot dead by the assassin outside. Buzz, to late, manage to shot the assassin and the rest of the group overpower the decoy inside. But their mission is a failure. With nothing written they have no business arrangement or docking permit for Desora docking facilities and finds themselves once again looking for work.