Revenge of the Body Swappers

The group prepares their raid on Jabba’s palace. Butt’tons has provided some rough drawn maps and information about what they should expect to encounter. Jabba is currently on Nar Shada conducting business with some of the other Hutts, so the timing could not be better.

Once the suns have set and under the cloak of darkness, Butt’tons leads the group up to the door and uses the guard codes to let them in. Upon entering the main hall way is empty and the group separates to scout the first level of the palace. Eclipse goes to the entry level security terminal and begins slicing the computer. Lishi goes to the back of the hall and peers through the doorway there, spotting a Gamoran guard asleep and sensing another one, through her montrals, moving in the connecting hallway. Bromm, who is carrying Muh'kine's lifeless doppelgänger, makes his way down the stairway to look into the throneroom. Ushutwasho and Quyn join him. They find two sleeping guests passed out at the tables.

Lishi makes her way to the sleeping guard and dispatches him quickly and quietly. She then moves to the second one who is still patrolling and significantly less quietly introduces him to the long sleep. With the snorting and thrashing of the Gamoran’s death one of the guests starts to stir. Eclipse makes her way towards some storage closets after checking the Security schedule on the terminal. The group has roughly twenty minutes to finish this mission and make their exit before new guards arrive and notice something is amiss.

The stirring wookie is noticed by Bromm as he scans the throne room and he rushes over to him noiselessly to smother him with his makeshift pillow. Ushutwasho, at the same time, goes over to the other sleeping alien and similarly removes his ability to continue living. Quyn makes her way into the throneroom heading for the stairs to the second level.

Lishi, while checking one of the storerooms finds an old lightsaber hidden among tons of old seemingly forgotten junk. Eclipse, in the next room over, finds a locked ornate looking box that she carries off. Eclipse was not as stealthy as she would have liked to be and while rummaging around the store room Lishi can feel in her mantral that someone has started moving in the last room and is heading for the door. As the storage room door opens Lishi is frightened and isn’t quite sure what to do. She, not fully knowing what she is doing, reaches out to the force and, in her fear and uncertainty finds dark power there waiting for her. Whoever was just opening the door pauses and then slowly closes it, unable to remember why they had gotten up and tried to leave. (if the players had explored this last room they would have found two wealthy looking humans partially clothed and wrapped up in some blankets on the floor. There were several empty bottles of alcohol around them and the walls would have been covered in booze as this was the liquor room.)

Bromm begins moving the bodies to the trap door to the rancor pit and Quyn checks them for anything useful before they go down the chute. They find a vibro knife, a few cudgels, and some keys. All bodies are hurled unceremoniously down into the rancor’s activity room. Eclipse goes to the throne rooms terminal and continues slicing into the palace’s security. From here she isn’t able to find anything real useful but she can see that there is another terminal which is much more heavily guarded.

Ushutwasho jumps down the chute to the rancor pit behind all the dead bodies. Eclipse and Lishi follow behind him. Bromm and Quyn begin making their way down stairs, walking fast, doorways passed, and they’re home bound. (There were three doors here that got passed up and never opened. If the group had explored these rooms they would have found some makeshift hatching chambers with several Krayt Dragon eggs inside. One would have been hatched. If anyone had read any of the info dump or current contracts Jabba has in the works this would have been hinted at.)

Ushutwasho scouts the doorway past were the animal tamer handles his pets and finds a couple of Gamoran’s. One standing guard at a doorway and another walking away towards the barracks. Eclipse while waiting for something to happen begins a sketch of the sleeping rancor. Lishi comes up and with her mantral can feel a third guard nearby guarding the other entry to the room. Bromm attempts to cross the animal pens without disturbing any of them but is noticed by a very hungry ape like creature who goes into a frenzy when it smells the dead meat residing on Bromm’s back. The commotion attracts a yet unseen guard who erroneously gets within reach of the hungry ape creature and becomes a midnight snack. 

Eclipse, after getting a rough outline of what she would like to draw, moves on to help Lishi take out the guards. She reaches out with the force and the Gamoran standing guard at the door begins to get tired and is having a hard time focusing. Lishi can feel the other guard moving away so she quickly spans the gap between herself and the guard and brings his life to a quick and painless end. Ushutwasho makes his way to the tertiary guard, who is heading to the barracks, and snaps his neck. 

Bromm and Quyn move to the other side of the animal pins where they are waiting for the secondary guard to come see what is happening. Shock gloves at the ready Quyn places her hand against the guards skull and releases a blast of electricity into his brain. He falls dead to the ground twitching grotesquely. They move forward to join the rest of the group. Eclipse moves into the formerly guarded room and finds a hidden computer terminal. She begins slicing it. 

Ushutwasho scouts ahead again, while the rest of the group moves more bodies into the rancor’s play room, he can see several closed doors up ahead. Only one has lights on. Lishi joins him and can feel someone walking down the hall opposite their current position and some very slight movement a little further back. Bromm and Quyn join them there at the last hallway waiting. 

Ushutwasho goes to stand guard at the door to the barracks and as the hall guard rounds the corner he sees Ushutwasho. He gives a little incredulous snort of surprise as Lishi’s reinforced gauntleted fist comes crashing into the side of his face. 

Lishi picks up the body and Weekend at Bernies him down the hallway while hiding behind him. Bromm hands the body double over to Quyn and readies his ax as he follows Lishi. Eclipse successfully enters the terminal she is slicing and begins a data dump of all of Jabba’s contracts. Ushutwasho opens the door to the barracks and finds 3 Gamorans asleep inside. He jams the door shut and maintains his guard position. 

Lishi, now entering the guard captains room, feels some slight movement off to her left but looks and cannot see anyone. Bromm joins her and also, even with his enhanced night vision, can’t see anyone in the room.  Lishi moves further in and faces the area where she felt motion and ignites the lightsaber she found. The room is bathed in red light. Suddenly there is movement behind her and she jumps away from the wall and turns to look but there is nothing there. Bromm comes in swinging his ax at the area where Lishi jumped away from and an unnaturally dark shadow leaps away from the ax and then bares its teeth at Bromm. Lishi and Bromm are both looking at a pair of floating red eyes and white grinning teeth as Lishi again feels movement behind her. Startled and confused, not fully understanding what she is seeing and feeling, she lets her feelings guide her as she turns, swinging her new lightsaber, dark energies guiding her movement, the saber bites into shadow wrapped flesh and splits it in two. The other Defel, now alone and feeling less confident, lunges at Bromm. 

Eclipse has sliced further into Jabba’s main terminal and has gathered information on his main rival as well as the location of Jabba’s primary hord of goods. While in the system she finds the main security system and completely disables it. 

Ushutwasho hears a thump and some confused snorting coming from the barracks as the next round of guards is getting ready to head out. He snorts back at then some reassurances and they all go back to sleep. 

The slave doors all open once the security system shuts down and Muh’kine comes out of her room, coming face to face with Quyn who is holding her dead lookalike. Quyn seeing the shock and disgust on Muh’kine’s face quickly reassures and calms her down. 

Bromm quickly brings his ax up batting the Defel’s attack to the side. It drops to the ground scrambling trying to blend back into the shadows. Lishi notices the alarm button on the console ahead of where the motion can sense is heading. Bromm, getting a sense of what he needs to do from Lishi’s force sensitivity, brings his ax down into the Defel’s back. It growls and howls in horror as blood spouts from it coating all of its dark fur and bringing him fully into the visible spectrum. 

The rancor starts to wake up, smelling so much blood nearby, and begins to scream and bang at the bars of its cage. Lishi can feel movement up above her as more guards come into the palace. Thinking quickly Eclipse runs to release the rancor as a distraction. It begins to feed on the slain guards and guests greedily and the new guards stand above and watch as limbs and bodies are torn to pieces and devoured. 

Bromm steps up to the downed Defel and draws his blaster. He fires one sizzling shot and then heads back to Quyn. 

The group all head back to Jabba’s royal chambers and quickly find the treasure he had listed in the computers. They make off with 50,000 credits. As the rest of the group run ahead, pushing the two new guards into the rancor pit, Muh’kine and Butt’tons have an embarrassingly romantic reunion there in front of everyone besides Lishi and Eclipse who both decide to search Jabba’s room more thoroughly. 

Eclipse immediately begins cutting paintings from their frames and rolling them up. Behind one she finds a safe. Lishi feels drawn to some display cases showing some large and gaudy Hutt jewelry. She notices a small ring set among all the other jewelry and is directed to it by the force. It’s a small wooden ring that twists around itself. A Dolina seed ring. It makes the wearer able to take up to three maneuvers each round. 

Breaking into the safe Eclipse and Lishi find a deed to some lakefront property and the coordinates to an unnamed planet. 

(There was a small room at the back of the hall where all the slaves live. Nothing specific was in there but the group would have gotten to do a few loot rolls. Also if they had taken the time to check out the guard captain's office there would have been blasters and armor as well as medical supplies.)