Educate Thyself (Mandalorian Empire Dominion of Obroa-Skai Hex AA24)

[Adara Raxis]

“Blue like Baba’s eye-yeeees
Red like Shi-Shi’s insiiiiides
Yellow like Befthy’s coaaat-ieeee… uummm…
la la la laaaa. Hum hum la laaaa
Paint, paint, paint, paint, painteeey paint.”

Adara trotted through the snow, kicking up little drifts of it as she hopped around. Her feet looked funny after! They showed like wuggly circles or jellybeans in the funny white stuff Mommy and the other older ones called ‘snow’.

If Adara thought about it, she was beginning to get cold, and her tumbly was rumbly, like it always was. Amara’s tumbly always rumbled. Even when her belly was full with tons of yummy food, her other tummy never felt any better.

Buir and Baba didn’t understand, when Yasha talked of her other tummy. How could they? Buir and Baba didn’t have another tummy.

“… la la la paint, paint, paint… paint red stripes from Shia’s brain… save Adara from… oh! Doggie!” Adara watched the massive, wraith-like beast of a creature [member="Skorvek"] walk by, and the closest he walked, Adara felt her other tummy burble.

“Oh! Doggie! Black doggie!” Adara scrambled after Skorvek, coming in out of the snow to the library he walked into. She didn't realize Stardust's little girl was following her, and that the library door was open for Brigh to pop right in.

“Doggie, wait for Adara!” Adara looked around for the creature, she could get her rumbly tumbly full!

“Doggie!? DOGGIE!!” The more Adara yelled, the louder her voice became, reverberating through the Force. “My legs are liddle, yours are big! Wait for Adara! WAIT!!!”

[member="Stardust Bloodstone"]

 

[Skorvek]

And as he suspected the little child followed him and screamed to wait he didn't stop until he felt her voice bellow through the force, Where he stopped was a small open grove of snow when he stopped he used several of his gifts to place runes in a circular area around them to suppress people from picking up on them or sensing his work, He set down the books before turning to [member="Adara Raxis"] and walked over to her before kneeling down too her a little. She was small but her eyes where black and red as ever...this child was unique and he will find out more about her before continuing as he spoke his tone was deep and echoey but understandable to her.

What is your name little one......and where is your parents? are they here somewhere?

Last thing he wanted was one of the mandalorians to walk in looking for there child and arise complications.

 

[Ravenfire]

It had been a long time since anyone had seen or heard from Rex. A very long time indeed. Yet he stood not five feet away from the mand'alor and her party. He had always been a good hider and such a good spy. But now things were different. He was of two minds in one being however they spoke in unison.

The girl she is the creature we have searched for. ​

The one we need​

we must follow her and [member="Skorvek"]​

He has much to teach​

and we have much to learn​

when we are ready ​

we shall approach the creature​

the one they named [member="Adara Raxis"]​

Until then follow.​

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Rex would quietly follow them through the snow. He used alter environment so he made no sounds. He used the force to hide his body and signature from sight or sense. They would not know he was here. At least not until much much later. He knew [member="Tom Taff"] was here and he didn't care. His son would either join him one day or strike him down. It was a eventuality he had already prepared for and the part that was still Rex relished in the knowledge at his own son would destroy that which he could not.

 

[Leilani Paaie]

Downstairs was just another step closer to her goals but down here the lights were all that gave off the warmth. Warm golden light lit up the hall the feel of the cold stones under her feet and then another droid just as the one upstairs had said.

"Excuse me I'd like to see this book." Book it sounded weird at times to say that word books were ancient used for documenting and telling stories. At one time everything had been in a book until technology stepped in and made it easier to carry a pad with a hundred books. But there were the purists they loved the feel of paper, the smell of a book that had never been opened, one that waited to be explored.

Perhaps that's what this was about a book that she had not seen maybe it was begging to be explored. It certainly had piqued her interest.

The droid studied the image and the name, "This book can only be viewed from outside the display case. There is no touching"

No touching well feth that was half the fun of a book wasn't it?

"Ok...I get it look no touch, can you tell me anything about the book."

The droid moved slowly stiffly as it walked like an old matron slow and stead, "It was written 200 years ago it is the story of a single family. It details their life, their ancestors, and their holdings."

"Interesting" She noticed that the name had not said.

"Do you know the family name?"

"Yes."

She half smiled the bot wanted to play 20 questions, or it was just so old that it only responded but didn't know how to expound.

"what's the name?" She arched a brow and waited the droid kept moving...no answer.

"name?"

"The library does not share the name of the family since there are living descendants" Then they stood before the case. "This is the book."

Leilani looked now her curiosity getting the best of her, "it looks very well kept. From what quadrant of space is the family from?"

If she couldn't get a name maybe she could get an idea..."The inner core."

"the outer rim"

Then it stopped again it optics staring at her.
"interesting." She touched the glass over the book, " The symbol is it a family crest?"

The droid turned slightly and tilted it's head down, "it is ....not"

A hesitation...why? hmmm...Leilani moved around.....was the stranger a descendant or something else....Leilani stood there staring at the cover....she needed to know more..

[member="Cynthia Solus"] | [member="Tom Taff"] | [member="Petria Breguet"] | [member="Kista Bralor "]| [member="Atheus Voidwalker"] | [member="Shia Kryze"] | [member="Adara Raxis"] | [member="Beth Australis-Mantis"] |

 

[Adara Raxis]

“Doggie!” Adara huffled, stomping her patent leather white dress shoes in the snow. “You crummybummy! Adara said wait! Mean doggie... mean. You’re like Mummy’s helmet but you’re not metal.”

Little fists balled up, Adara stomp, stomp, stomped her way over to the now kneeling [member="Skorvek"], stepping into the circle with a shiver.

“Oooohhhhh this place makes my tumbly tickle.” Rubbing at her nose, Adara walked straight up to the Anubian, and without a single pause or fear of danger, crawled up onto his knee, and burrowed her little body into his warm chest.

“You don’t know who I am? You must not be a Mandablorbian. My name is Adara Vigdis Nussyn Mantis Raxis. My Buire are [member="Yasha Mantis"], [member="Kaden Mantis"] and my Baba is [member="Kaine Australis"]. Baba is the best Baba in the whoooooole univewse. Mommy has a blood sister, and her name is [member="Shia Kryze"] and Shia wants to send me to the bad place, like when I sleep bad, and the doctors run awound and nuwses start yellin, but evewybody thinks I can’t hear them and they put these ouchies on my chest and they go ZAP and I cry... And I have a sister and her name is [member="Beth Australis-Mantis"]! And she makes me tickle in my other tumbly! Just like ba’buir [member="Gray Raxis"]! He makes my tumbly tickle loads and loads and I like laughing with him and he loves me verrrrrry much even when he gets scawed and hates Baba but I don’t know why.”

Cuddling in for warmth, the physically frail child unconsciously reached out to Skorvek’s aura, clumsily attempting in its subconscious way, to leech the darker energies for which Adara was starved. She sniffled and rubbed her hand on her nose again, looking up at Skorvek’s face.

“And I’m gonna name you Pabasloobian Karamaboo the Third. Sloobieboo for short. You are now my Sloobieboo. I adopteded you!”

Completely incapable of sensing [member="Rex Taff"], Adara had no idea that she was a beacon for the Dark, nor was she cognizant of any danger. There was no such thing as danger, when Buir was Mand'alor the Infewnull and Baba was Wawmastheer Kaineek Austrabloos. And with ba'vodu Ambierose constantly on woof woof duty. What did Adara know of fear?

 

[Ursula Vizla]

She landed her ship near the precise coordinates. It was smelling like a library in hell in that Mando'ade forsaken place, she preferred jungle and forest worlds, where she could hide with her sniper rifle and blow the targets head off, and it was a great place even for hunting, but the snow worlds were the worst for that, you always had problems finding food and running after and from the food. Her steps led her to a very unpleasant bar in the middle of nowhere in the galaxy, and right upon entering that smelly place, she could see a lot of eyes starring at her in the full bes'kar metal plate ancient armor, painted in dark pitch black, with orange lights coming from the T visor helmet that she wore, walking tall, with her chin up and with a "don't farkled with me" attitude holding the Disruptor rifle with one single hand, the other laying calmly over the pistol grip, her long and thick cape leisurely swung from left to the right side of her body. Behind the mask, her thick eye browns joined together in a frown, a hard frown that would make anyone stop laughing in any minute. As she walked to the bartender, she slammed her hand wrapped in the gauntlet against the table of the bar, gaining the filthy aliens attention all to herself. "I'm looking for something to in here", she said in the common tongue, "Did you hear that?", she did not had knowledge she was a sensitive, she could feel things. But in her experience, the name of those things were 'instinct' nothing more than that, and nothing less, but sometimes, her instincts screamed like a evil or dark thing would happened, Ursula shook her head and raised the hand, asking for a drink.

 

[Yasha Cadera]

“Blue it is, sunspot.” Yasha couldn’t help the genuine smile as she looked at her eldest daughter. The Infernal couldn’t help the blush on her cheeks as [member="Beth Australis-Mantis"] told her she looked good, one might think after five years of parental affection between her and her adopted daughter, taking a compliment would get easier.

“Thanks, cyar’ika. Pass my girl the blue, peeps! Bethy’s taking her first shot!” Nnnnnope! Nothing Yasha could do didn’t have the capacity to lack some form of violence.

“Bethy handles Adara and Ram’ika, pretty sure she can take Brigh on, too… aw, come on, Cynthia! If I have to get through this ordeal without my helmet, you can get through it in a rocking dress that makes you look fab.” Yasha made her finger into a gun and winked, “Pow.”

Exiting with the rest of the Mandalorian ladies, Yasha held back for a moment to pull something out from behind a hidden compartment. She held it behind her back, trotting out from the limo while the sorority girls made sure everyone had the right coloured ammunition.

“Never forget, sunspot.” Yasha leaned down to talk into her daughter’s pointed ear, putting a long coat on Bethy’s shoulders. “It’s our limo. Light up this shabla building. Get this party going.”

Yasha grabbed a paintball gun and grinned. “We ready Shia?”

Maybe some much needed violence would get the party going, and get Shia to open up. Little did Yasha think to look for Adara, the girl was singing just a second ago!

And Tamar was with them, she wouldn’t let Adara out of her sight.

[member="Stardust Bloodstone"] [member="Kista Bralor "][member="Shia Kryze"] [member="Adara Raxis"] [member="Ursula Vizla"] [member="Leilani Paaie"] [member="Rex Taff"] [member="Skorvek"]

 

[Mykes Vatak]

Mykes had gone off elsewhere while [member="Tom Taff"] had been at the bad, he didn't very much enjoy crowds. Too many people to talk to, and as he came back he found that the one he had been with was not there right now but rather elsewhere. Where had Tom gone? Mykes looked about, seeing that most of the guys in fact had gone off elsewhere. So with that, he decided to go off, using the bond he held with Tom to seek him out.

Eventually he was coming close, he could very much sense that he was coming close. And others were there too when he was getting close enough to see them. "There you are" he said, coming up to him. And he saw [member="Kaine Australis"] was by him, giving a nod in greeting in his direction. Though he hadn't exactly known about what exactly was happening here. "What's going on here, Tom?"

[member="Atheus Voidwalker"]

 

[Garza]

The bar setting was familiar. It reminded me much of my youthful days. Hanging out with comrades in the Makrosian military. Shots all around and letting our minds wander, with our heart's desires being fulfilled. It had been a very long time since I have been in such an establishment. As the bartender dealt with his other customers, and what looked to be his vod, he soon addressed my presence. Asking what I would like to have. Honestly, I could hardly think of what to drink. What did I want to have?

I had been sober since... well, let the past die Atheus. No need to rehash old nightmares. Shaking my head to myself, I smirked very lightly as I answered the man. Reaching for the wide-mouthed glass.

"Corellian Whiskey, if you please."

A moment later, the lad handed me the bottle. The familiar sound of glass scraping against the wood bar made me only reminisce more of the past. Pouring myself about half a glass full of the liquid courage. I didn't need ice for it. Swirling the liquid in the glass as the bartender pronounced that there were games to be played. Standing up from my seat, I picked up the bottle of whiskey and slid it into my back pocket. Considering they were large enough to carry a hold-out blaster, it could fit a large portion of the base.

Downing the glass in a quick second, I followed this bartender. His explanation of a paintball game. Take the paintball gun, and shoot at the droids, and the building in general. I was a little confused. Was this some form of a game, or a tactical operation practice simulation? I guess I took myself a little too seriously at this moment. Reaching over to one of the standard paintball guns, it was already filled with little balls filled with paint. multi-neon colored, it was to tell the difference between clothing and the actual shot.

Shrugging my shoulders, I held the rifle in the low-ready position across my chest. Turning around to the bartender, I had to ask.

"So is there some kind of prize at the end of this or just for the hell of it?"

[member="Tom Taff"], [member="Mykes Vatak"], [member="Kaine Australis"],

 

[Ravenfire]

Tom watched as Reyn ran off with one of the paint guns almost immediately. Tom smiled the small boy reminded himself at times. [member="Kaine Australis"] then spoke "I certainly hope so, good luck in there. These droids might not target Reyn, well not all of the, I programmed maybe 5 of them specifically to hunt him down and capture him. In any case have fun in there." Tom would turn to [member="Atheus Voidwalker"] "A reward, hmmm how about the bottle of war master's Kaine's special reserve that I managed to pinch. It is 200 year old tihaar, you won't find a drink more potent then this. So wreck things and cry havoc, if any of you remember about the prize I might just hand it over." Most of the men laughed and began there quest to destroy buildings or kill droids.

Just then [member="Mykes Vatak"] arrived. Tom would embrace his lover in a hug. "Sorry dear, I thought I would spice up the boring party letting them destroy what they want." Tom then got a buzz on his comm link. "Wait what happened, run me over it again. Kark and the local government? Armed response. Great just perfect. Yes slow them down, if you can't I will deal with them. He is just a kid, I know he asked the AI to do it. Hang on." He would then turn his settings over to Babuir and a hologram of beth'ika would appear. "Tom'ika what can I do for you today." "Babuir I need you to take command over some of the droids in storage here and turn their live ammo setting, then get them to follow me." "Very well Tom'ika" The hologram would disappear.

Tom would give everyone present a smile "Please continue, I just have a small matter to deal with, Mykes here will look after the challenge unless people would like to help me with the very, very small Wrinkle we have." He would put emphasis on small so no one would know what he was really up to. He would then give Mykes a kiss on the cheek. "Look after them dear, I have something to deal with and then a very very naughty three year old and AI to find." He would then walk out with the droids and whoever had elected to come with him.

The forces of obroa skai

"Sir someone took over all of our automated defences and power gird, we think they may also have our comms as well." The officer would look up "Kark who did it?" "from our back slicing we figured out the perpetrator is one of the mandalorian AI. We can't remove him from the systems." The officer shook his head. "Very well man, this is an act of war on the mandalorians part, gather as many men as you can and move with what we have against them." The computer technician would look at the officer. "Sir we don't have many people, but we do know where to find the mandalorian men sir, not far from here." The officer would nod "Very well then lets go and try to capture someone important then, maybe we can get our world back that way." The computer technician would look uneasy about it but follow his orders.

Before long the 30 not drunk military men were armed and armoured. On the move towards all of the mandalorian men. It wouldn't be long now and they would deal with the problem themselves.

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

[member="Yasha Mantis"] [member="Adara Raxis"]

Brigh was...somewhat good at sneaking around, she peeked through the door as she saw adara and some...dog? She didnt like the feeling she got from the two....it was like mommy sometimes when she was meditating yet more....scary like. She watched carefully from her hiding spot unaware of [member="Rex Taff"] in the snow behind her.

i..I should go to mommy...I dont like this

She turned, and started quickly back the way she came not really caring to hide her movement, she needed to go tell momma! But then she ran right into [member="Rex Taff"] and fell back ad dhe blinked...she didnt see anything wen she hit! But now she could see the man

ow!...huh....w..who are you...

she started movung back quickly and standing as she shivered...it was cold and she didnt like anything she felt here! She radiated fear...

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

"We also have to negotiate with the local union for concert employees, stagehands, and whoever else we need to hire. That could a day or up to eight days, but three days would be my best guess" Voice of Striker added.

"We should probably hold off talking to the union until we get the auditorium: it's entirely possible that, if the venue has its own set of stagehands or concert employees, it would be included in the venue rental fee"

"But let's assume for a moment that the auditorium doesn't have stagehands or concert employees. Hiring the stagehands can take as few as two days but as long as seven. I imagine it will take about four days. We should also get student ushers at the same time once we get union approval. That could take only a day, but it has taken five days in the past; three is the most likely"

If it took them more than one day to get stagehands and whatnot, then they would be most likely be getting one of those limited-capacity, low-end venues, or they think their audience would prefer outdoor venues, she thought, while even a backwater like Eredenn Prime had a dedicated theater for musical performances or other shows of performing arts. Obroa-Skai, on the other hand, would have at least one auditorium specifically for music, one for dancing, one for drama, because the university has a department of each large enough to hold performances frequent enough to justify a need for permanent stagehands. In Petria's mind, their first choice would likely be a music-specific venue, as large as they think the Bloodless Coup can draw. So she entered a scenario where the stagehands would not come with the venue and another one where they do. And yet, the 18-day timeframe may still be feasible even if the venue had no stagehands or other concert employees of its own. But would that include performance by outside artists?

"We need to arrange a press conference" FX Guy lamented, leaning against a wall. "This is a heavy group, big-time"

"But doesn't a press conference usually take place at the hotel?" Kotkaniemi asked.

"Yeah, that's right. We can't make arrangements for the press conference until we work things out at the hotel. When we do that it should take about three days to set up a press conference, two days if we're lucky, four days at most"

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=9pt]Location:[/SIZE][SIZE=9pt] The Balcony > Library [/SIZE]​

[SIZE=9pt]Wearing:[/SIZE][SIZE=9pt] Dress[/SIZE]​

[SIZE=9pt]Tags: [/SIZE][member="Leilani Paaie"]​

[SIZE=9pt]Post:[/SIZE][SIZE=9pt] 2[/SIZE]​

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[SIZE=9pt]Something caught Kista’s hazel eyes and peeked her curiosity. She did not know if it looked suspicious. It had that distinct possibility though. The pink skin stood out in contrast to the white snow. The natives of these parts had pale skin. To see a Zeltroain here was not to entirely out of place but had to be not common.[/SIZE]


[SIZE=9pt]This had caught Kista’s attention. The specious mind of the young woman went to work trying to imagine what this woman could be up to. So when he companions went out the front door. Kista jumped up onto the railing of the balcony in the back of the building. The house was located on a hill. The front of the house was level with the street but the back of the house was one story above the cobbled street.[/SIZE]


[SIZE=9pt]Kista, to be bale leap into the air from a standing position, that is without a running start. She did this in the snow, in high heels, and without the aid of the force. Her high heels touching down upon a snowy stone railing, maybe twelve inches wide….then began a light jog without slipping.[/SIZE]


[SIZE=9pt]The Vong shaped young woman then leapt from the balcony grabbing hold of a banner hanging from the side of the house. The precise uncanny movements were in-human as she scaled down the side of the building with ease.[/SIZE]


[SIZE=9pt]Through the cold snowy streets she followed this woman to the grand library of Antiquities. Just following enough behind to keep track of her prey by foot prints and staying out of Leilani’s sights.[/SIZE]


[SIZE=9pt]Once the Zeltronain went through the doors, Kista waited about ten seconds before she too went through the doors. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]The warmth of the library greeted her and she welcomed it. In she went to find her prey. [/SIZE]

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

"What else?" Kotkaniemi asked.

"Although I feel this is more of a case for outdoor venues, or those low-end venues, once we hire the stagehands, they have to set up the stage. I think that could be done in two days,but it could take up to six days, with three most likely. And we can also assign the ushers to their jobs once we hire them. That shouldn't take long, maybe only a day, but three days at worst. Probably two days should be a good time to put down" FX Guy commented.

Wow. Do they seriously think the Bloodless Coup concert is going to be staged outdoors? They're planning this concert as if it was all but guaranteed that it would be held outdoors, she thought, while inputting the two activities in the scenario where stagehands and ushers have to be hired separately of any venue-provided concert employees, and omitting them when venue-provided concert employees are part of the game. But what's in it for HoldoWare for sponsoring this concert is marketing, in which case she will sponsor the concert up to the advertising fees, and the ticket printing costs. Here comes the marketing part, and where she will announce exactly what HoldoWare is paying for, assuming there are no cost overruns or no penalties charged to them. But she would also expect that most of the additional sales scored as a result of this concert would pertain to password management systems, and she would be lucky to be scoring additional sales of the ERP system that she could readily attribute to this event. She would also need to be at the press conference, too.

"As much as HoldoWare is sponsoring this concert, so as to advertise password management software and enterprise resource planning systems, and offers to pay for the advertising fees and the ticket printing fees, we also have to do some advertising and sponsoring if we want anyone to show at this thing. However, I feel we need to wait until the tickets are printed first so that we'll have something to sell. That depends on the media, the paper and radio stations, and I know from experience it can take two days if we make the right contacts, but it can take up to twelve days if we hit any snags. Six days is the best estimate"

 

[Skorvek]

Normally he wouldn't let such a little one so close but he let little [member="Adara Raxis"] do what made her feel comfortable as she spoke she told him her full name, This was [member="Yasha Mantis"]'s offspring which means he needed to be extra careful with this child for there are few he fears but he would prefer not to invoke the wrath of The Infernal if he can avoid it he sensed that this child was feeding off his aura like a food source which made him curios even further it was as if she needed it to survive which would explain why she followed him so much, This child has been through a great deal and yet she still has much more to go through in her life, He was about to speak again but he perked up when he heard and felt the presence of Brigh who probably followed them here, With a low deepish growl of annoyance the runes in the perimeter he made started to glow bright for a few moments before to anyone outside the perimeter he therunes the books and even Adara seemed to just disappear from sight to a different location entirely. To him and Adara the environment only seemed to change from the grove to the inside of a cave of some sort as the runes he had stopped there glowing and continued there resonance, He used Alter Environment to seal the cave but leave enough of an opening in the ceiling to keep the air flow in before he turned to speak to the little one now that they where truly by themselves.

Forgive the new scenery I prefer to be undisturbed, Now then little one are you hungry little one? I might be able to help keep you fed so you wont be so hungry....If you'll allow it.


He had a few ideas in mind to help her but if the child didn't want the procedure then he wont force it upon her.

 

[Ravenfire]

Rex watched as [member="Skorvek"] put down runes. He recognised them as runes that stopped others from listening in and yet some more to take them to a separate location and bring them back at the rune makers insistence. He found that rather annoying that was until a small child ran into him. She said something about telling her mother. It took him a while to recognise the small girl as Brigh. Darben's and Stars daughter if he had his info right.

She has seen what cannot be seen​

We must not allow her to tell others​

She must be silence​

we shall kill her​

we shall ​

do it​

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No, this is [member="Stardust Bloodstone"] ​

You kill her and the mother will hunt us​

The CSA will hound us​

And the ME will find us​

The plan isn't ready for that yeeeet​

If this was later on, I would agree​

But this child could bring so many ends​

We shall change her memories​

She will remember none of it​

Then we shall leave her somewhere warm ​

Somewhere her mother will find her​

Then we flow-walk to learn ​

Learn what [member="Adara Raxis"] is learning​

She is our only concern until we are ready​

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Very well​

Agreed​

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Rex tap the girl's forehead sending her to sleep. He then altered her memories. She had accidentally wandered off into the snow. Some nice man had saved her and brought her to a warm location then she had fallen asleep, tired from the cold. The warm filling her up. He then looked up, as predicted they had gone somewhere else. He could sense where they had gone. Not that it mattered he would flow walk soon enough and discover what was learnt.

He picked up Brigh and took her to a small bar. With her he left a small comm-link that was adjusted to the mandalorian frequency. In her head he placed one critical though. Momma, she would now speak it for a time while she spoke, it would stop any nightmares of what he had done. So the mandalorian comm's would be filled with the sounds of a small girl looking for her mother. That should be enough time for Adara to return. Enough time for him to leave silently. Then the chiss man disappeared.

 

[Mykes Vatak]

Mykes found himself in a hug upon greeting to [member="Tom Taff"] and then Tom was talking on his comm link. He sighed as he guessed just what exactly that meant, with him going...till he then realized that Tom had said that he was basically responsible for them now. And he didn't even know what the challenge was, he was so confused standing there, looking from Tom to the others there.

"W-Wait, you want me to...but I don't" he tried arguing yet Tom was already gone. And he had no idea what was even happening. So he just turned to whomever was left, looking around laughing nervously. He just noticed [member="Kaine Australis"] was off elsewhere too. He was just left so confused now. "Funny guy he is...so uh...what are we doing?"

[member="Atheus Voidwalker"]

 

[Adara Raxis]

“Sloobieboo!” Adara shut her eyes extra tight and clung as [member="Skorvek"] whisked her and himself away from the snow. The cave made Adara’s arms and legs tingle less from the snow and cold, so much so that she pushed off a little from Skorvek.

“My head is spinny Sloobieboo... spinny...” Adara tumbled down, rubbing her palm along her nose. A tiny sniffle of red tainted her nostril.

Looking up at the creature, Adara nodded, rubbing her eyes. “Buir and Baba don’t believe Adara has two tumblies. They fill my rumbly tumbly, but my other tumbly is always hungry. Can you give Adawa a tumbly that doesn’t rumbly?”

[member="Rex Taff"]

 

[Shia Kryze]

Shia grinned at Yasha and eyed the paintball guns, before shaking her head and going around to the back of the limo.

"It's okay, I brought my own." She said when offered.

It was less a paintball gun than a paintcannon used by artists (and the Sundari municipal workers) to paint on the sides of buildings... because Mandalorians, right? Fitted with a rotary selector for multiple colours, advanced 'target and forget' fire modes and even a full-burn laser impression pattern generator for those artists too lazy to climb the sides of their immense Mandalorian cubist murals. It could paint the side of a small building in a very short period of time. If you didn't mind the mess.

She grinned cheerfully, casually hefting the immense overcompensation as if it were nothing.

"Okay, first shot to Beth!"

[member="Yasha Mantis"] [member="Beth Australis-Mantis"] [member="Cynthia Solus"]​

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

"Hey, if we're going to promote this, shouldn't we also have a preliminary act, some other group?" Voice of Striker asked.

"Wow, I forgot about that. Hiring another act will take between four to eight days; we can probably do it in five. I can start on that right away while you guys are arranging for an auditorium" Kotkaniemi said. "But we really can't begin to work on the promotion until we get the lead-in group. What's left?"

"Sell the tickets!" Petria shouted. "We have to wait until they are printed; however, thanks to truth in advertising legislation, we have to wait until the preliminary act is hired before we can sell the tickets, or advertise, so that people know what they're buying a ticket for. Yet promotion should cease once the tickets are sold out. Just keep in mind that how many tickets there are to sell can affect how long it takes to sell them out"

Truth in advertising legislation. That one was an item the marketing department back on Oorn Tchis, the legal headquarters of HoldoWare, had to tread lightly around. The pink-haired slicer knew that they could always tout asymmetric 512-bit encryption, two-factor authentication, but she knew that, so long as she held a copy of the private keys of every copy sold, none of the customers were 100% safe. She had to omit any mention of that backdoor method entirely but they were typically not concerned about any risks internal to the company. Yes, HoldoWare was only partially legitimate, and the bulk of its business was legitimate, with the illegal activities taking place out of the Nar Shaddaa offices. Just that she knew the main variable that could affect how fast tickets would sell would be how many tickets there are to sell in the first place, which in turn would affect how fast they would be printed, too, in which case the 1-4 day estimate for printing the tickets is actually a function of the venue size as well as how busy the printing shop is.

"It can take only one day if we have only a few hundred tickets to sell" FX Guy commented.

"Or it can take longer. I remember that it took twelve days to sell out for tonight's Cosmic Modem concert; then again, that concert is open-air and had twenty-five thousand tickets to sell" Voice of Striker added.

"OK, so it's between one and twelve days to sell the tickets, but I think five is more likely, and also it's more likely we will sell about five to seven thousand tickets then" Kotkaniemi commented before Petria could finally run the project management program in full for both cases.

"In fact, there's a 94% probability of being able to stage the concert within 18 days, and virtually 100% if it's an indoor facility that has its own stage-hands and ushers; on average we could expect everything to be ready by day 15 or 16 in the first case, and if we luck out on the facility and get an indoor facility with its own concert employees, we can stage it in as few as ten days, so HoldoWare will, in fact, sponsor the concert"