D4 MA - Slumming it [open]

[Ru'ni Wayne]

Ru'ni was not fooled by the latest Empire tactics to try and convince the locals of their good intentions. The men he now saw rebuilding the slums are the very same ones that only a few weeks ago did most of the damage to the place and though Ru'ni too was working to rebuild the area, he was not working in concert with them.

When the earthquake hit, from the hypermatter drilling Ru'ni assumed, he was not as badly shaken as many of the Imperials, and in fact he saw an opportunity to right a few personal wrongs.

Yes, that's the one, he thought as he negotiated the rubbled building that he had been working on. The one who but his blaster to Chuwar's head.

Ru'ni drew near to the soldier as he staggered back to his feet with a few cuts and scrapes. "This is for Chuwar, you space devil, he was only 8 years old." Ru'ni whispered into the soldier's ear as he drew his knife across the man's throat.

He wouldn't be the first to die in an earthquake, and Ru'ni tried to disguise the corpse under some debris to make it look that way, rifling through his pockets as he did so.

D4MA Earthquake Resilience: 3eA+2eD 1 success


D4MA Earthquake Taking advantage: Survival: 1eA+2eP+1eB+3eD+1eS 4 successes, 2 threat


((400 credits found, +3 conflict))

Moving out from the body, he found the chaos strangely comforting as he looked around...

[Dapper Dog]

In the time it took Ru'ni to finish the soldier he noticed an Aznuri woman reach out for aid but the building shifts and she is buried under more rubble with a scream and then nothing.

If he had not been so focused on his vengeance he could have saved her.

OOC: Threat used.

[Ru'ni Wayne]

Ru'ni dashes towards the woman, but he is indeed too late, receiving nothing but a blast of dust in the face as she is crushed beneath the building.

He knows that he will be hearing that scream in his dreams for years, as he scrabbles ineffectually to dig out the woman's remains.

[Daunt]

In another part of slums, Daunt was not so lucky... An earthquake opened a cave-in he plummeted into, bumping off sharp rocks until he reached rock bottom. [8-6=2 Strain]

MA4. Earthquake Roll: 4eA+1eF+2eD 1 failure, 5 advantage, 1 Dark Side


Where was he...?

[Using Advantages to perhaps discover the passage to the under-city that once was ancient Rygor or to some other interesting place/curious discovery uncovered by the earthquake]

[Djanik]

Djanik, who was walking with Scrap to a nearby cantina to watch the races, was caught in the same cave in.

Grabbing a hold of the girl, he held on as they fell through the darkness, bouncing off several pipes and rocks, before landing with a crack that drove the wind from him.

Wheezing, he tried to get to his feet, Scrap pushing at him and asking if he was ok. He could see the Zabrak not far away in the dim light of the sinkhole, but couldn't seem to get air.

It was one of those days.

8-3=5 strain.

average coordination check, raw agi: 4eA+2eD 2 failures, 5 advantage


(Another 5 advantage toward finding something interesting.)

[Rannek Nire]

Rannek just finished a cheap lunch and walked out to the street as the ground started shaking. The moment before things started to get really ugly it seemed that Rannek was reacting to the next few moments. He gazed around and saw a tall building about to collapse down on a person a short distance away. His body reacted before his mind could really contemplate was going on... and he bursted across the distance and grabbed the person with amazing speed and dove out of the way.

The building came crashing down behind them and the dust swirled around them as Rannek stood up and offered a hand to the person he had saved...


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D4 Earthquake avoidance: 2eA+1eP+2eD+2eF 3 successes, 1 Triumph, 3 Light Side


Succeeded with a triumph and 3 advantage... DD is free to pick a person who I might have saved.

[Sinnya]

Sinnya was one of the few customers in a dingy public comconsole cafe on the second story of a nearby slum building when she felt the floor lurch and shudder under her chair. After the second or third shock there was an ominous secondary crunch that must have been a load-bearing pillar giving way, and her edge of the room began to tilt away from the rest of the floor...

Oh, shit! Skidding down the rapidly steepening slope, she scrambled free of her chair and managed to fling it through the nearest window, letting the battered metal-and-plastic furniture break the glass ahead of her much squishier self. She dove out the window and rolled to safety in the street as the face of the building collapsed behind her.

D4 MA--Earthquake Coordination, average: 4eA+2eD 1 success, 3 advantage

Ru'ni dashes towards the woman, but he is indeed too late, receiving nothing but a blast of dust in the face as she is crushed beneath the building.

He knows that he will be hearing that scream in his dreams for years, as he scrabbles ineffectually to dig out the woman's remains.

Dazed and dust-coated but intact, she shook out her lekku and stared about herself, looking for the source of the awful wail still echoing in the street. There was an Aznuri digging frantically in the wreckage of another building nearby. Without recognizing Ru'ni under the clouds of dust, or really even thinking, she scrambled over to help.

D4 Earthquake--help the helpess! Hard Survival to dig somebody out. Did not mean to roll 10x, that's just too confusing, here's a clean one?: 2eP+1eA+1eB+3eD+1eS 3 successes, 1 threat


((Can I perhaps spend that Advantage on my own earthquake resistance roll on noticing somebody still alive in there? A child or family member we could dig out?))

[Dapper Dog]

Sinnya finds a family of Aznuri trapped but is able to aid them in time to keep them safe.

Meanwhile...

A woman took his hand, the same one from the bathhouse all those weeks ago, it looks like she had been out shopping, thankfully she seems unharmed.

[Rannek Nire]

"Miss Delia? Are you alright?" He asked as he began to dust himself off and check on that question himself.

[Delia]

"Miss Delia? Are you alright?" He asked as he began to dust himself off and check on that question himself.

"I am better now, thank you... I should be more careful," she said looking shaken.

[Rannek Nire]

"I'm glad I was here to help... Pretty nuts. Where are you headed? Perhaps I can help get you there safely..." He asked as he looked around at the unfolding commotion.

[Delia]

"I'm glad I was here to help... Pretty nuts. Where are you headed? Perhaps I can help get you there safely..." He asked as he looked around at the unfolding commotion.

"Back to the clinic where I work, I think some company would be good," she said kindly.

"Just in case."

[Rannek Nire]

He nodded and took a position alongside her as he let her lead them through the streets towards the clinic.

[Bowze Coppa]

Bowze had been searching for a few missing pieces for something totally legit when the earthquake came in.

''By the maker!''

Earthquake! coordination: 2eA+2eD 0 successes, 2 advantage


The nemoidian was thrown into a pile of rubble but was alive and aware.

An earthquake? Here?

[Dapper Dog]

He nodded and took a position alongside her as he let her lead them through the streets towards the clinic.

Delia seemed glad for the company and said, “That was fortunate that you came, I was just thinking of you. I apologize if our last conversation left you unsettled. It wasn’t my intent.”

[Ru'ni Wayne]

Realizing the lost cause he was fighting against as his fingers bled as he dug, Ru'ni offered a prayer for the soul that his anger ha condemned to death and moved to help Sinnya.

"What, what was that? Did the mining cause it?" He asked as they worked frantically.

[Bowze Coppa]

Bowze took a time to recover at least some of his senses.

cool, ma: 1eA+2eP 3 successes, 3 advantage


Finding a place to sit on a nearby crate he took a look around

''Are we even on a seismic line?'' he asked to himself.

Is this man made? By accident or by intent?

[Dapper Dog]

In another part of slums, Daunt was not so lucky... An earthquake opened a cave-in he plummeted into, bumping off sharp rocks until he reached rock bottom. [8-6=2 Strain]

MA4. Earthquake Roll: 4eA+1eF+2eD 1 failure, 5 advantage, 1 Dark Side


Where was he...?

[Using Advantages to perhaps discover the passage to the under-city that once was ancient Rygor or to some other interesting place/curious discovery uncovered by the earthquake]

It did look old who knows what it could be, it was dusty stone and metal from some bygone era… though anything of use was long since got to rot or worse.

[Rannek Nire]

Delia seemed glad for the company and said, “That was fortunate that you came, I was just thinking of you. I apologize if our last conversation left you unsettled. It wasn’t my intent.”

He shook his head, "Nah, sometimes it is good to be unsettled. Can't rest on your laurels too much in life... every now and again it's important to think about what you are doing. So... really I should be thankin' you."

[Daunt]

It did look old who knows what it could be, it was dusty stone and metal from some bygone era… though anything of use was long since got to rot or worse.

He wasn't really looking for things of use. He slowly rose to look at the haphazard underbelly of the city, out of curiosity for some grafitti engraved in stone or other archaeological fun facts.

[Dapper Dog]

It looks like an old apartment possibly.

[Djanik]

Djanik finally managed to wheeze while the Zabrak had a look about.

Oh yes, that was an improvement.

"Breathe you git!" Scrap encouraged him.

She was so helpful.

[Delia]

He shook his head, "Nah, sometimes it is good to be unsettled. Can't rest on your laurels too much in life... every now and again it's important to think about what you are doing. So... really I should be thankin' you."

“Well then you’re welcome,” she responded.

“If you like I can offer you some tea for helping me, I don’t have much.”

[Rannek Nire]

"Maybe just a cup to make sure you're situated... I gotta check on someone. Little boy that I've been looking after." He replied.

[Sinnya]

Realizing the lost cause he was fighting against as his fingers bled as he dug, Ru'ni offered a prayer for the soul that his anger ha condemned to death and moved to help Sinnya.

"What, what was that? Did the mining cause it?" He asked as they worked frantically.

"Earthquake, and I don't know." Sinn had her chin tucked down to avoid a shower of duracrete dust as she levered at a loose block. "This part of Givak's supposed to be seismically stable. At least that's what they told us in primary creche."

She whuffed sand away from her nose and stepped back for a moment to tug the thin scarf she wore over the lower half of her face, in the process getting a proper look at him for the first time. "Hey, it's Ru'ni! Are you okay? You're all over blood..."