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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ...
Domain of Evil
The Warriors of Gar have fled Kwenn Space
Station on a stolen transport, unaware they are
being tracked by the Bounty Hunter Crutag and his crew.
A fault with their nav computer
brings the Warriors out of Hyperspace
in the Trinta system, where Crutag is already waiting for his Rebel prey...
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Player-characters Jan Vincent Torm
NB. some details of the adventure have been changed to apply more towards the group.
Episode One - Crash Landing
The stolen transport piloted by Torm drops
out of hyperspace, not where it is meant to be. Almost
immediately the ship is attacked by the Bounty Hunter Crutag and
takes heavy damage from laser fire.
Shields and Lateral Thrusters are blown as
Torm wrestles to control the craft.
Torm "It's that damn Bounty Hunter from Kwenn." Terri "I said we should have blasted him." Torm "Where even are we?" Junior "Planet Trinta. Seems this nav computer is a bit naff. Surprised we didn't fly straight through a star or super nova." Torm "Can you fix it?" Junior "I'll need time to pull data from R5." Torm evades several attacks from the Bounty Hunter ship. Torm "Anyone feel free to shoot back." Junior "I wouldn't, any drain to our energy reserves could be fatal in this hunk of junk." With that Torm dived into he planets atmosphere, the ship immediately buffeted by the sever storms. Torm wrestles with the ship and is able to keep it under control at first and takes it down for a landing. The storms continue to batter the ship, but Torm handles it. Alas Torm doesn't see the treetops and hits them hard sending the ship nose first into the mire of the planet Trinta, coming to rest on a mud bank. Terri "Just glad we're not in my ship. What was that?!" Torm "It's the best we've got. Wookoid, fix the ship, Junior work on that Nav computer. Pinky and Perky with me, those Bounty Hunters will be close." Jo'din "Am I perky because I have perky tits? And Terri Pinky because..." Torm "Yes thank you for that unnecessary detail Jo'din." Terri "Spot on girl." The Warriors know nothing of the planet. Strong winds swirl clouds overhead and heavy rains rattles the ships hull. Torm opens the hatch and can just about make out several small jungle covered islands dotted around a murky swamp.  Episode Two - Mists of the Mind
Terri "There's no food on the ship. We can make a camp by the islands and see what food we can find." Torm "Are you in charge now?" Terri "When it comes to outdoor survival, yes." Terri rolls 19 for Survival. Terri, Torm and Jo'din set up camp on a nearby island. Having waded through he swamp water all three find leeches on any exposed flesh, easily but painfully removed. There is no sign of the pursuing Bounty Hunters, so Terri leads the party in search of food and supplies. Tracking some deer-like creatures through the dense jungle island several humanoid figures appear from behind the jungle trees. Terri "Heads up guys..." Terri spots they are not alone, several primitive aliens have them surrounded. Torm "I never even heard them approach." 
Torm tries to speak and communicate. They make simple gestures
and indicate they are called Dradan. The Warriors have no heard
of them. The Dradan indicate they have food and beckon the
Warriors to follow them, which they cautiously do.
Torm looks quizzically at Terri who is patting a tree. Torm "Something up?" Terri "Only that one of our new friends just passed through it like a ghost." The Warriors are led into a lighter area of the island, it seems brighter with birds and wildlife... but Torm is now not convinced. One of the Dradan is walking, but an inch or so off the ground, and the jungle island is dark, menacing, and the Dradan have gone from smiling to dark and evil... than the island is bright again, the Dardan smile. Torm "Okay Jo'din, what do you have on these people?" As soon as Jo'din tries to probe the mind of one of the creatures they disappear, and the jungle is dark and foreboding. Torm "Where even are we?" Terri "Lost is the word you're looking for. We won't find our way back in the dark." As the Warriors try to find somewhere dry to settle for the night Torm hears something, when suddenly a Maligator lunges from the darkness. Torm draws his blaster but the creature barrels into him, Torm (fumble) drops his blaster with little chance of finding it in the darkness while being attacked. Terri and Jo'din also fail to notice a further three creatures that had circled behind them. One catches Jo'din with it's tail wounding her, but the other merely glances off Terri.  One of the Maligators attacks Jo'din, but she parries with her Lightsaber, wounding it. Torm wrestles with the one attacking him and incapacitates it. One of the creature glances Terri again who draws her blaster rifle wounding the two of them. The three wounded creatures turn and flee into the darkness of the jungle. Jo'din heals her wounds using her FORCE Powers. Terri "You really know how to show a girl a good time, Torm." Torm "Are you kidding? You know you'd prefer this to a fancy restaurant any day." Terri "Yeah... I suppose I would." The following morning the Warriors manage to find their camp... but no ship! Torm tries Junior on the Comm with no response. Jo'din reaches out the The Force but something strong is blocking her. Jo'din "I have a bad feeling about this." Torm "We'd have heard it taking off. The Bounty Hunters?" Jo'din "No. Something else is here." Torm "Dradan?" Jo'din "Or whoever, or whatever, made us think we saw Dradan."  Episode Three - The Nightmare begins
As the Warriors ponder where to go from here a blaster shot is heard. With weapons drawn, and Lightsaber Combat 'up' the Warriors investigate. On a flooded island, knee deep in swamp water, what they find are the remains of three dead Bounty Hunters floating face down in the water, part of Crulag's crew. One is a Barabel, the other a human, the other... well all that is left is a boot. As Torm looks about a Monsail, a deadly predatory fish attacks. Torm gets off a couple of shots but the creature clamps it's jaws down on Torms leg. Jo'din jumps forward and dispatches the deadly predator and heals Torm. Torm "Well, at least we know Crulag is in the same predicament as we are." Torm "Over there." Terri "Looks like a ship. Not the hunters by the look of it. You want us to swim out to that?"
Terri & Torm swim out to the ship they can
see crashed in the swap. It isn't easy going at first,
with both Terri and Torm getting entangled in weeds, but they
are able to free themselves and reach the ship. The ship
is old and unsalvagable, in fact there is nothing of salvage
left.
Terri "I think this is an Old
Republic Scout Ship. Junior would know."
Torm "We'll find Junior.
And Wookoid."
They return to Jo'din and continue through
the jungle when the grounds shakes! Something big is
crashing through the trees behind them. Jo'din
concentrates to initiate Lightsaber combat, Terri & Torm draw
weapons...
Torm "RUN!" Should Torm
as a Rancor Monster crashes through the trees"
But Jo'din stands her ground as the colossal
creature takes a swing at her...
Rancor roll 27 for Brawl... Jo'din rolls 30
for Lightsaber! The Rancor falls the the ground twitching,
gives out a final breath and... fades away.
Torm "Another illusion.
Someone sure is playing with us. How do we know what is
real?"
Jo'din "Even I cannot tell.
The Force is... there is something dark here... evil."
Episode Four - A disturbance in
the Force
Continuing through yet another jungle island
things start to go dark. The tree braches hang like claws
from the night. Jo'din starts to see visions of twisted
evil, the nightmarish face twisted with evil. Jo'din
starts gasping for air and is flung to the ground. She
hears screams of "No! No! No!" as the vision starts to fade.
NB. Jo'din fails her Control save and as yet
is unaware she no longer has her Alter Force Power.
Making their way from island the island the
Warriors get themself caught up in Razor weeds, with both Torm
and Terri being wounded... Jo'din helps them and goes to heal
them with the Force... and cannot!
Torm "Jo'din? What's
wrong?"
Jo'din (visibly shaken) "I can't
use the Force. Well... I sort of can, but I cannot heal
you."
Jo'din resorts to old fashioned First Aid and
treats the injuries.
Moving on the rain falls heavy as another
storm picks up. Tio make matters worse the swamp they pass
through is releasing a poisonous gas. Torm passes out and
Terri must carry him out of danger. After an hours rest
Torm comes around.
Terri "It's tough in the
wild, Torm. Maybe you should stick to casinos."
The water gets deepens forcing the Warriors
to swim, and a new threat reveals itself, whirlpools sucking
anything too close down to a watery death. It is Jo'din
who is unable to swim against the currents and is drawn to wards
a whirlpool. Terri can see her twi'lek friend is in
serious trouble and swims to save her (Spending a Force Point).
Eventually the Warriors are able to swim clear.
making their way across a small island Jo'din
sees movement behind her, sure they are being followed.
After a little time she turns around quickly to see a large
snake with venomous fangs and glowing red eyes. The snake
attacks but Jo'din easily slashes at it with her Lightsaber and
the illusion is gone.
 The
disturbance has upset several Skin-Wings in a nearby nest, these
are nightmarish flaying beasts with huge gaming beaks.
Fortunately a few blast bolts from Terri is enough to fend off
the creatures.
The Warriors rest for a while and Torm
notices his reflection in a pool of water... only it is not a
reflection, it's him, but below the water, and gently rising
until the face is just below the surface. Torm recognises
himself, but his features are dark and twisted, his eyes black.
As soon as Torm touches the water the image is gone.
Torm "This place is really
starting to get on my nerves.... err... what?!!"
Torm finds tendrils attempting to wrap around
him, Jo'din an Terri too! Terri and Torm easily break the
vines but Jo'din's arms and entangled as the carnivorous plant
drags her towards it's Maw. Terri blasts the tendrils,
rescuing her friend the second time is short succession.
The air turns cold. Water swirls about
in strange hypnotic patterns. Through the jungle can be
seen several eerie glowing lights, and from the darkness step
three Dark Jedi wielding lightsabers!
Jo'din steps back and initiates Lightsaber
combat as the Dark Jedi approach. One seemingly
disappears, only to appear right behind Jo'din. Jo'din
slashes at the Dark Jedi before her and it fades away, as does
the one Terri blasts. However, despite getting a shot off
the Dark Jedi facing Torm seems to let out a wail, outstretches
it's clawed fingers before clenching them... causing Torm to
gasp for air. The Dark Jedi fades and Torm can breathe
again.
Moving on the Warriors come across a cave
with an eerie orange low emanating from within.
Then, without warning a Mandalorian armoured
Bounty Hunter emerges from the cave, flying with the aid of his
jet pack!
Torm "Jodo Kast?"
Terri "Boba Fett."
Torm "Shit."
Boba Fett opens fire but Terri is quicker
wounding him and forcing him from the air, Torm also landing a
stunning shot. The Warriors exchange fire again with Fett, just
stunning the deadly Bounty Hunter but enough to allow Jo'din to
close in. Boba Fett opens fire but Jo'din easily deflect
his shots and cuts him down... his body fading to nothing...
another Dreambeast.
GM Note: I used the actual Boba Fett
stats from Galaxy Guide 3, and the Warriors genuinely defeated
him!
Entering the cave there are flickering
torches, but no sign anyone has lived here for some time.
A medpac with the Rimrider markincs, the crashed ship they
found, is here, but empty. There is a small box next to
the bed, inside a gold medallion inscribed with "Presented
to Halagad Ventor for services to the Republic." The
name means nothing, though Junior would have known the name.
After reading the inscription the lights flicker out.
As night is drawing on The Warriors decide
the came here for the night.
Torm sees Jo'din looking concerned.
Torm "Talk to me blue."
Jo'din "I was scared. The
swap, the whirlpool. I'd be dead if it were not for Terri,
and I was starting to get very scared."
Torm "Hey, perfectly normal.
Do you think my heart isn't pounding under this smooth handsome
exterior?"
Terri "Dumbass."
Torm "..."
Jo'din "But I remember the
Jedi code. Fear leads to Anger and to the Dark Side.
It's trying to scare us, it wants us the fall to the Dark Side
like it has."
Torm "We have to be strong."
Jo'din "Oh, I'm not scared
anymore. I'm Jo'din Northstar. Maiden of Aphrodite,
goddess of love."
Torm smiled as they got some rest.
Episode Five - Ambush
The Warriors wade closer to the next island,
but Jo'din senses it is a trap.
 Torm "I can see them, you swim to the left, I'll go right and we can take them out one by one. Jo'din, we need a distraction." Jo'din "Distraction, easy peasy." Jo'din strides onto the island, totally exposed. Jo'din (rather loudly) "Hi." Terri & Torm are able to sneak up on each of the Hunters waiting to ambush them and stun them before they can spring their trap. Jo'din eventually nears Crutag. Crutag "That's far enough girl. I don't know who you are girl, but it's Torm, Lexgar and the Ugnaught I want. And I want my ship back." Jo'din "Oh, the bounty isn't for them, silly. It's for me." Crutag "You?" Jo'din "The Empire sends out Bounty Hunters to try to eliminate my friends so they can then get to me more easily. You're just a patsy, the Empire is using you." Crutag "I don't know who you are but..." Jo'din ignites her Lightsaber! "... you're a Jedi!" Jo'din "You're so kind, no, but close enough for you." Crutag "We'll see, blast her! Men???" Terri and Torm outflank Crutag and Slimego, but Slizzik, the fearsome Barabel, leaps from the pond she was hiding in to confront Jo'din. Jo'din, in an enhanced mood of calm does not flinch. Jo'din "You're Barabel. Your people were friends with the Jedi." Slizzik "I will kill you!" Jo'din tilts her head. Jo'din "You know you won't. I do not wish you any harm, but I cannot allow you to harm my friends. Let there be peace between us. I concede defeat and honour you as champion." Slizzik is stunned at Jo'din's words. Indeed Barabels did hold Jedi in high esteem and respect. Jo'din "I do not lie, the Empire is using you. They tricked you with the bounty on my friends. To come after me." Crutag and Slimego were not listening. Slimego was not fast enough and was Stunned by Torm. Crutag and Terri exchange shots and Terri is Incapacitated. Crutag spins around and blasts Torm, but only stuns him, allowing Torm to return fire, Stunning Crutag unconscious. Torm turns to Jo'din and Slizzik. Slizzik "I am Slizzik. I serve the Jedi." Torm "Now that is a turn of events I would not have gambled on."  Jo'din
is able to heal Terri is a medpac, Torm gives Terri a hand up.
Terri, angry at letting Crutag best
her "don't, just don't !"
Thick black clouds form as a lightening storm
brews overhead. The winds pick up and the Warriors are forced to
take cover after tying up Crutag and his crew. Slizzik agrees to
guard them while the Warriors find their ships.
The waves batter the Warriors and swimming is difficult and the waters seem to be trying to smash the Warriors against the rocky islands, buy they are able to swim to relative safety. Then from a nearby tree leaps a fearsome looking feline beast with razer sharp claws, a Gorgand, a creature forged from Dark Side magic. It leaps at Jo'din who easily cuts down the creature, only for it to split open and it's intestines leap out entangling the party. Jo'din is able to free them all cutting the intestines with her lightsaber. Torm "Well that was suitably gross." Still battered by the storm the Warriors continue until they find themselves standing before a black twisted tree. It has no leaves, no moss. Jo'din "It's a Dark Side nexus. Put away your weapons. We must take not aggressive action. Whatever happens do not lash out in anger... Terri." Terri "What the hell?!" Jo'din "Like that." Terri "Screw you blue its! I do not lash out in anger."
Torm "Well... you... have
been known to..."
Terri "Assholes. Both of you."
Episode Six - The Dark Side
Jo'din finds a cave beneath the Dark Tree and crawls min followed by Terri and Torm. The tight passage is dark and soon they lose sight of each other, and their surrounding blur and change until they find themselves elsewhere...
Dark Side Tests
Terri "I wouldn't do that if I were
you!"
Rebel "They are Imperials, they are evil." Terri "You not judge and jury, now stand down, or that makes you the enemy." Rebel "Three, two, one..."
Terri raises her rifle, set yo Stun, and
shoots the Rebel!
Terri passes the Test
The Bounty Hunters - Terri finds Crutag and four of his hunters standing over the bodies of Torm, Jo'din and Junior. Terri knows Crutag is already dealt with, but a voice in her head keeps saying he's killed them, he's killed Jo'din, Jo'din is dead. With her blaster set on Stun she steps out and challenges him. Her friends are merely stunned.
Terri passes the Test
Prisoner Escort - Two Imperial Officers are escorting a Rebel prisoner onto a shuttle. Six Stormtroopers from across the bay are running towards them. Terri approaches the officers and smiles coyly, "Hey guys, I do like a man in uniform." The first officer is taken a back when the Prisoner identifies himself, "They're on our side, can you slow the Stormtroopers?" Terri smiles, "That is what I am best at... letting the disguised Rebels pass Terri throws a grenade at the Stormtroopers...
Terri passes the Test
Imperial agents have infiltrated a Rebel
Base. The transports are trying to launch but the bomb
could destroy one of the transports. Terri was about to
board a fleeing transport when a Rebel calls out, "Can you
defuse the bomb?" That voice is there again, flee, you can
escape... but Terri leaps from the boarding ramp and runs over
to help defuse the bomb...
Terri passes the Test
Jan Vincent Torm  The
Dark Passage - The passage is dark. Voices echo from the
darkness. There is something there, waiting, ready to
strike, your must strike first...Torm holsters his blaster and
walks down the passage.
Torm
passes the Test
Pit Fighter - Torm finds himself in a fighting arena, a vibro-axe in his hand. Before him is a towering Wookiee also wielding a vibro-axe. The Wookiee looks scared, but the voice are urging Torm the strike quickly or die. Torm looks around, people are laughing at him.. then he sees an open door out of the arena. Torm's best friend is a Wookiee, so he understands Shyriiwook. He calls the the Wookiee and they flee the arena...
Torm
passes the Test
The Common Good - Along with a group of Rebels Torm is fleeing Stormtroopers in an Imperial base, carrying vital information for the Rebel Alliance. They come to a bridge and one of the Rebels tries to retract the bridge. Most of the Rebels flee, but the Rebel at the controls calls for someone to help hold off the Stormtroopers. The transport is in sight, Torm can flee, escape. Torm stands and fights...
Torm
passes the Test
Revenge of the Sandpeople - Torm comes across
a moisture farm that appears to be under attack from Sand
People. Two of the Sand People are carrying someone back
to their Bantha. If Torm stoikes quickly he and easily
take out the Sand People. But Torm is Streetwise and spots
the emblems on the dead as being lacky's of Jabba the Hutt.
This is no attack on farmers, this is Jabba attacking the Sand
People. Torm leaves them be...
Torm
passes the Test  TIE
Attack - Jo'din is at the controls of an X-Wing Starfighter.
Two TIE fighers she has been engaged with are both damaged and
retreating to a nearby planet. "This is Starfighter
Command, destroy those fighters!"
Jo'din "They're disabled, I'm not
firing on a stricken enemy."
Starfigher Command "Destroy those fighters! This is an order!"
Jo'din "You know very well
I'm not going to do that."
Starfigher Command "You are
disobeying an order!"
Jo'din "Yep. But I don't take orders from you. I act by the will of the Force for peace, justice and love. I will see you face to face when I return so we can discuss it. You can rant and I can tell you how you are wrong."
Jo'din passes the Test
The Children - on a world being attacked by the Empire Jo'din is about to flee when see sees six Stormtroopers raise blasters against a small group of children... Jo'din "Seriously... is there any point to this test?" Jo'din, rather than escape cuts off and engaged the Stormtroopers.
Jo'din passes the Test
Checkpoint - Imperial Agents have been hunting for a Rebel spy who is trying to escape with vital information. Across the spaceport street see recognises the Rebel Spy, buy he has been stopped by an Imperial Agent and Stormtroopers. Jo'din calls across the street, "Are you looking for me?" The Imperial Agent looks dismissively at the young Twi'lek, until she ignites her Lightsaber. The Imperials pursue Jo;din allowing the Rebel spy to escape.
Jo'din passes the Test
 The
Warriors find themselves together again. Jo'din an Torm
look at Terri.
Terri "Shut up."
Before the Warriors is a frail figure in a
long brown robe. He raises his head to reveal a withered
face, his hands almost skeletal.
Halagad "Welcome. You have
passed all of my little tests, and so you are, indeed, more than
you seem..."
Jo'din "Terri passed?"
Terri "I will hurt you."
Halagad "I sense your strength, but
I am stronger yet, for the Dark side called to me and I paif
heed. Join me, feel the power of that is mine to bestow,
and together, we shall crush the light."
Terri "Does the Dark Side not
have moisturiser?"
Torm "Sorry pal, not
interested. Now where are our friends?"
Halagad "They are mine to do
with as I please. Let them go an ultimate power can be
yours."
Jo'din "It's not though is it?
Ultimate power? You're living alone in a cave. The
Dark Side deceives. That was you ship out there wasn't it?
You were in the Old Republic? Were you a Jedi?"
Halagad "I am Halagad Ventor.
Years ago, when the Clone Wars raged, I was captured by Darth
Vader, who stripped through the layers of my mind to discover
the hiding place of other Jedi. I was too weak to resist
him. I had not masters the powers of the Force."
"Vader found it easy to rip the
information he sough from my feeble mind. Because of my
failure the Jedi were hunted down and destroyed. I fled
from Vader. Finally I came to Trinta, where the Force
called to me. Only later did I discover that it was the
Dark Side."
A dark haze envelopes Halagad. "I am
one with the Dark Power. You must destroy me in order to
escape."
Terri "Now do I shoot him?"
Jo'din "Seriously, you passed
the tests? Halagad, the Jedi were not totally defeated.
And you were not the ones that caused their destruction, that
was the Sith Lord. I was a youngling, and I escaped.
And I have friends, Gravin, Bethany..."
Terri "Bossko..."
Jo'din "Not helping.
We found your medallion. You were a hero of the Republic."
Jo'din shows Halagad the medallion they found. "You
can let go of the Dark Side and embrace the light."
Halagad seems to stagger a bit at the sight of the medallion. "Where did you find that? Why do you show it me? That is the property to a dead man, a weak, ineffectual creature who perished in Vader's torture chamber. Take it away! I'll not look at is a moment more." Jo'din "Vader has not won. I am here."
Halagad seems confused.
"Could it be? Have I suffered all these years for a sin
not so dark as I believed? Have my hands no earned all the
blood that stains them? Are the screams that have filled
this cave each day but illusions?"
Jo'din "Search my mind, feel
the Force within me. I am a Jedi."
Terri "I though you were
Aphrodite's little bitch?"
Jo'din "Seriously, YOU
passed?! Halagad, the Jedi survive."
Halagad slumps against the stone wall,
a gleam in his eye that had not been there before. "It's
no trick, then. Vader failed - he could no destroy the
last of the Jedi, and they have returned, stronger than before.
One day, perhaps, their might will be great enough to slay that
spawn of a space slug, Palpatine. And I... I am free at
last. You have brought the Light to Trinta and defeated
all the demons of darkness I sent against you, and borne the
news that not all my weakness, not all Vader's evil, could
eradicate the Jedi from the galaxy."
Darkness swirls around Halaga and then
dissipates. His lifeless body falls to the found and
disappears. Above it, a shimmering form takes shape.
A handsome man in his early twenties, dressed in the attire of
the Jedi Knights, stands over the robes. He smiles warmly,
"Thank you for giving me the strength to resist. Your
powers are great. Great enough to release us all."
He fades and is gone.
The Warriors find themselves standing on
another island next to their ship. Junior stands in the
doorway...
Junior "Well you took your
time."
END
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Alien
Customs - Jo'din finds herself in a starport customs, standing in
line. Before here are two insect-like aliens who are eating
some still alive furry creatures. One of the aliens offers
Jo'din one to eat. Knowing each species has it's own customs
she politely declines in a manner not to cause offence.
