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Above-Average Bad Day

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Nar Shaddaa, Market Square​
1430 Hours Local​
The busy market was flooded, flooded with smells, sights, and people. The exact opposite of what Karsan needed to be around him right now. He felt his stomach bleeding. Blood loss, he recalled, only took a precious few minutes before the person totally bled out. He turned and counted. Three. Three of them after him. They'd been after him since Coruscant. Probably friend of a friend. Not much to go off of. Not totally required right now. He just needed to-

His thought process was interrupted when they opened fire. A blaster shot went wide, striking a pan from a nearby vendor and sending the cast iron pot flying. The first of the three charged at him, the biggest Rodian he'd ever seen in his life tackled him. He was sent face first into a noodle stand, sending bowls and spoons, and a few people's lunches, flying. He grunted in pain, before he grabbed a spoon for himself. The Rodian came around for the kill, and closed the distance.

Karsan put the spoon into his eyeball. With his left hand putting pressure on his wound, his right hand jammed the spoon into the ugly bug's eye socket. He let him fall to the ground, screaming in his screechy way, before Karsan stepped on his face hard enough to make noodles pop out of his ears. More shots. He had to move again. The market was screaming, people were moving. Authorities would be on their way soon.

And Karsan was bleeding out. All in all, not a good time.
 
'Authority' on Nar Shadaa was in the eye of the beholder, and few would deny her own when it came out of the barrel of her gun.

So no, Authorities would not be coming to mitigate the screaming market square... only to perhaps, bring it back into a less lethal state. All she was trying to do, was have lunch with her son. That was her first mistake, not packing lunch ahead of time, she learned since becoming a mother, but she often forgot regardless. Stopping anywhere on the smugglers moon was a mistake, she learned that one on her own before being a mother, but often forgot regardless. Suffice to say, when you were as heavily armored as Triam often was, it was sometimes easy to forget you are not invincible... especially when you carry liabilities along with you.

"Well 'dis was a mistake," Crol, her longest standing employee, colleague, and occasional old nanny (whether or not he liked it), said as he observed the commotion coming down their way.

"And we were just about to get our drinks..." Triam stood up from the open bar table, where Cassus's little head barely crept over the tabletop sitting in his seat, looking every bit annoyed as he imagined his mother to be. After all, she always wore a mask in public, with a synthesized voice. As [member="Karsan Calnov"] ran past, Triam waited for the fools blasting their way towards him, people starting to run, and her little Casus just sat there waiting impatiently for his blue milk to arrive. Even the old red zeltron, Crol, just sat there.

As the first one came bounding through, Triam turned around quickly, with the thrum of a thin yellow-silver thread whipping around with her, passing seamless through her opponents face. The strike caused no damage, except now it was apparent Karsan's would-be assailant was now determinedly unconscious, falling flat on the ground mid step. Then as the next one came up, she outstretched her other hand and three cable shot out, latching on to bits of flesh or armor. The combatant was surprised a moment, and before he could turn his weapon on her, he found himself being pulled in her direction, thrown to the ground with his face and hands skidding across the ground, as he tried to prevent himself from getting frakked up. On the way, he dropped his weapon somewhere on the ground. A few people tripped over him as they stampeded out of the way or got caught in between. Eventually, he was at her feet, and this is when she lifted him up with the hand he was now attached to.

"You pissed me off," Her cruel synthetic voice grated against his ears. She could almost see the painful fear in his alien eyes before she started sending volts into him. After a few moments of thrashing, she hurled his ass into the pavement. Panting for breathe, not sure what to do, and looking pathetic, the alien could do almost nothing except to listen to Triam as she uncoupled and retracted her Phantom Fingers from his pathetic ass, before she decided to bark an order, "Get the kark out of here." Meanwhile as Karsan was running, Triam had sent one of her remotes to track him, and she activated her drone vision.

"Hey nerf herder, you can stop running. Get your sorry bleedin' ass over here before I have to come and get you for interrupting me and my kid's lunch." With that, Triam sat down again, and waved hand signalling it was safe for the waitress, as one of Karsan's "friends" started to snore on the pavement. "Crol, push him over before he drowns in his blood." Crol grunted, and without nuance pushed him from his seat with the extension of his wrist, sending the unconscious body into a nearby wall.

"Nice," Cassus remarked casually as the waitress finally, tentatively, poked her pretty twi'lek head out of the shops door window.
 
Someone was calling over to him. A woman's voice. High pitched. But...gravelly at the same time. Older. His vision was becoming hard to focus. Not blurred, but focusing was becoming difficult. He stumbled over not where she was, but the direction of the noise. He even stepped over one of his attackers, who was out cold below his feet. He was holding his stomach, trying to stem the bleeding as best as he could.


Kid's lunch...she was a mother.

He couldn't see the kid. Not now. He did however, manage to stop right outside the restaurant they were at. He wanted to thank her, say a lot more than gurgle and pass out, but- life had a funny way of not going the way you wanted it to. He fell face first onto the pavement, and his body went limp, and the handgun he was holding onto so dearly lay in the middle of the street.

He definitely ruined lunch.

[member="Triam Akovin"]
 
Passed out? Injured, seems to be in a spot of trouble. Nothing a little applied bacta treatment won't help. Triam thought to herself she passed out the food to her kid and companion. Slowly she turned around and stepped over the man, and considering his unconscious state, she figured he wouldn't mind being medically treated for his wounds with or without his explicit consent. He at least consented to the fact he wanted to be alive consider his running about holding his guts in, and heeding her call to come back: that's consent enough for her. She began to flip him on to his side, perhaps a little ungracefully, bio-metrically scanned for injuries, and and applied a quick spray of bacta in the wound areas. Stepping over him, she walks over to the other unconscious fool snoring against the wall he was pushed into.

"Time to wake up, nerf herder," Triam kicked the karker in the side of his stomach, who coughed loudly. When he did not rise, she stomped on his knee. There was a sharp snap sound followed by a scream, and it appeared he was awake now.

"... yer really gunna do that in front o'the kid?" She heard Crol remark as he bit into the leg of some fried animal meat. Triam looked over her shoulder briefly, glancing at the Zeltron.

"He'll have seen worse... and he knows mom means business." She turned back to her writhing victim on the floor, and considers another swift kick, before deciding it was clear they were already having a bad enough day. "Cassus," She calls back to her son.

"Mom?" He replies dutifully back, looking up from his meal.

"Stay with Uncle Crol, I'll be taking care of this. Crol, stay out of trouble," She paused, "Cassus, keep an eye on Uncle Crol." Cassus smiled at his mom, before resuming his meal, while Crol rolled his eyes with a harrumph. "Mr. Follow, I need you to pick this fellow up." Triam gestured to [member="Karsan Calnov"], as out out of the shadows a tall silver droid stepped near to its master, silently without a word, always ready to serve. With sentient care, the droid carefully collected the unconscious fellows body up, minding cautiously his various wounds. Meanwhile not so gracefully Triam gripped the back of the alien's neck up off the ground, and started to drag his protesting body through the streets. After a long while, she found a discreet pathway to throw the alien in, and place the stranger down in. Mr. Follow gently put down [member="Karsan Calnov"] against the wall.

"You're going to answer my question: why were you chasing this man?" Triam asked the writhing alien, who protested underneath Triam's heel, resting neatly on its other good knee. Triam glanced to her right to check on whether or not Karsan had woken up or not.
 
Karsan in fact, had not woken up. He was still passed out, the blood loss rendering him unconscious.

The alien (the one that Triam was with), writhed in pain a little more. He had no high-tech gear, no advanced weaponry. Triam was smart, she'd piece together quite quickly that this was in fact, a thug that got told to do something by someone for somebody for something. Karsan stirred when he was placed against the wall. He wasn't fully conscious or coherent, but he was slightly awake now, or at least, the closest he could to being awake.

The alien began to squeel and curse, before realizing that his situation, and his life, depended on telling this woman what he knew. Which, surprisingly, wasn't a lot.

"Someone tell me to come shoot human! Give me picture! Picture match, me shoot! No question ask!"

Not the best answer, but an honest one. The alien saw him move first, when he was about to say more- before Karsan reached to his ankle, as weakly as he could, and unloaded a holdout blaster into the alien. It seemd Karsan was as determined to keep him quiet as his employer was. Any more information, and this random lady with the robot could do him a lot of harm. He was growing weak, and it was hard to keep the weapon up, but he kept fighting the encroaching unconsciousness, and the barrel fixated on the woman's torso.

"Sing, or I shoot."

He didn't have a lot of time. He'd either have to shoot her or make a friend. He was leaning towards the former, just for the fact he was entirely unfamiliar with who this woman was.

[member="Triam Akovin"]
 
Beneath her mask, Triam smirked. She found it humorous given her own personal knowledge of her equipment that a single blaster would do little than irritate her, or in some cases actually empower her armor. Though she humored his threat, because she was naturally un-threatened and had no need to provoke this man on the run, her gloves were prepared to absorb the potential blaster fire, with the intention of utilizing its magnetism to disarm her opponent should he get too used to holding a weapon against her.

"Suppose I sing," She says without moving, "What would you want me to sing? If you don't know, might as well shoot, and then we can take turns singing. I promise you, I have a talent in finding others their voice..." The synthetic voice reverberated out of her helmet, as she turned over her shoulder. The arm facing [member="Karsan Calnov"] turned slightly so, such that her palm pointed outwards towards the blaster, ready to activate at a moments notice. Simultaneously, the droid just to his right (Mr. Follow) was equipped with a number of weapons, and found it pertinent to aim one of his wrist CryoBan Guns at the stranger.

"Hey, I think went this way!" A voice called out far in the distance, back in the streets. More running could be heard.

"Better make it quick..." Triam interjected quickly.
 
A single shot went under the space between Triam's arm and her torso, impacting a would-be attacker behind her in the chest. He dropped the gun. It was too much to remain awake after that. Blood loss and the possibility of a concussion was going to keep him out cold for a while. His body went limp, and his arm slammed against his thigh, and the blaster went cracking against the ground, still smoking. The other attacker, lay crumpled in the street. To say that it was a difficult shot was an understatement- he hit the man dead center in the chest, while nearly passed out on the wall.

He grumbled and gurgled, attempting to speak, but fell unconscious before he could offer any coherent thoughts formed into words. They were free from their pursuers from the moment, either they backed off, or they had lost them.

Karsan would offer the woman, or her companions, any answers in his current state. He was a bleeding, dysfunctional mess.

[member="Triam Akovin"]
 

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