First Lessons on Korriban

[Darren Onyx]

"Amazing," Onyx said as he eyed Darren. He turned his attention down to his notes and began to mumble to himself. But it was loud enough for Darren to hear his excitement. "It tempts. True power then. Core power that can make even the weakest man into the strongest. How does one control such a thing? Maybe through pre-meditation? Hmm possibilities are likely. Perhaps even physical strength to endure the changes of exposure to such raw and natural power."

Onyx was snapped out of his study hardy state and brought his attention back to Darren. Even though Darren was experienced with the Dark Side, Onyx was a full fledged and the effects could be different on someone like him. "How did it feel? Did you feel empowered? Different? Tempted? Come on tell me every feeling and thought that went through your head while you were touching it!" Onyx could hardly wait to hear the answers to questions that had yet been answered.

 

[Garza]

Darren was a lost for words. it was so powerful yet soft. as if it were to seap in to your soul. "Um..... I.. I felt strong, powerful, like i was alive for the first time in my life." Darren looked down at his gloved hands and took one off to see if anything was done to the skin. and nothing was different. infact it looke like he gained more color to his white skin. as if he taned in the sun for a day.

"It was smooth like a small river flowing by. yet it would become a powerful water fall when you felt it at its best." Darren felt as if he were new again. looking back up at onyx he started to laugh. "Oh the felt good."

Looking back at the well he was tempted to touch it again but smaped back to where he was and said trying to get back to his normal self "Um.. I'd better start watching the door again. shouldnt i?" when he felt a rumbling in his feet as if something big was moving thier way.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx grew slightly concerned at the last bit. He ignored it and returned to his research. He pulled out a small vid recording device, the same used to send transmissions, and began to take a video.

"Korriban, Valley of the Dark Lords, Tomb of Nihilus, Hall of the Lords, End of Day One. Today was amazing. Behind me are the transcripts of the ancient Lords of the Sith along with there powers and tips. In the center of this room we found something amazing; a Force Well. Amazing. It was simply incredible. Though I do express some concerns. The power here is pure. It is not just the feeling and presence, but there is real natural power here. The Sith Lords have left behind a dark temptation. I must say I am worried for Darren Shaw. I found him here and we agreed to journey together. Darren is unique He has the power of both the dark and light. A contraindication-a paradox. I was debating on whether or not to warn him of the affect the Well could have on him. I instead decide to watch and observe how it will work.
End of Log"

 

[Garza]

Darren then went into the hallway to see what was coming. he heard in the back ground Onxy talking to some sort of recording device. as he stuck his head hout he had a shiver run up his spine. He felt as he was being watched. looking both ways he ingnited his white lightsaber to see further down the hallway. so far he saw nothing. ending the hum of his lightsaber he turned back around and went inside the room again.

Darren was with onxy trying to decypher teh glyphs on the walls. to him they seemed like scraches on a wall. but to onyx it was lettering about powers and tips in using them. comming over to one glyph in particular it looked alittle like his family crest. a lighsaber blade with a aura cloud shape at the tip and what looked like possably fingers on the hilt. intrested he touched the glyph and it slid backwards.

Darren jumped and yelped when the letter moved into the wall. he watched as it went about 4 inched in the wall and started to turn.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx heard the sound of the wall moving and quickly turned to see Darren standing back in astonishment. He ran up and looked at the glyph. "This is the tomb of Darth Zannah, the dark one. She was trained by Darth Bane, one of the greatest Sith leaders. It appears as though her tomb is built into Nihilus's tomb. Not surprising, the two are said to communicate through the Holocron." Onyx explained to Darren as he slowly walked into the tomb.

It was like the previous room but smaller. On the walls were murals and quotes of her. In the center of the room was a coffin, presumably Zannah's. On the far wall was a large door that had more ancient writing on it. It was a door that required the reading of the words to open. It was more complicated then the others before as well. "These writings, they are written by a dark entity. It will take a while to read it," Onyx told Darren.

Onyx set up a small research station just outside the new tomb. He began to write notes and translations. As Darren approached, Onyx spoke, "You can stand guard if you see fit. It will be awhile before we can get through that door though."

 

[Garza]

Darren entered the room and saw the coffen in the center of the room. onyx told him about the lore of the two sith lords that spoke through holocrons. onyx had made his own little station where he was determing the difference between the writings.

Darren was told that if he wanted to keep a look out he could he responded with "I will do that, but could we just open the tomb here?" he pointed at the coffen and contiues "I mean if ther is some sort of trap i wouldnt open it but do you really think that the coffen is booby-traped?" Darren stared to walk over to the tomb and placed his hand on top of it and waited for onyx's answer.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx thought about the many scenarios. His mind was like a freight train. It considered thousands of possible situations, scenarios, solutions, problems, and no matter what it kept going.

He thought about it. It could be a trap. Then again it is a coffin of a long dead Sith. It was also a tomb that had never been explored in depth. He sighed and decided to answer.

"Open it."

 

[Ava Solborne]

Dominator looked at the tomb of Nihilus. It was a great place to start, so he set his steps towards the tomb. Strange Force energy was around the place... It called Dominator and the closer he went, more voices started to talk. "Dominator, come!" "What are you waiting for?" "You shall be the Dark Lord!" "There is nothing you have to worry about!" "We are here with you!" "Now, come with us!" "You MUST DO IT!" "Yes, you must!" Dominator shook his head and walked on. Some of the voices were so stupid. Dominator would never, ever join the Darkness. He wouldn't change so much, but... He had already changed. He considered The Pureness, The Light and The Darkness. He wasn't so unified anymore. That was because the stupid Darkness came in the Naval Station. Dominator still hated it very much. Kaleeya, she was so strongly manipulated by it, but is normal now. Dominator... He wasn't manipulated very much, but now suffers from the pain.

 

[Garza]

Darren didnt know if the coffen was safe so with the force he looked for anytraps and couldnt find any. Although this was a sith tomb he didnt trust his instincts. he stood back and grabed the coffen lid with the force and lifed it slowly. he checked undernethe the lid to see if there was anywires. There was none. he lifted it alittle more to see inside.

After slowly pulling the lid off the coffen revealed a body in cermional armor with some sort of blade that belinged to the Sith. next to its shoulder was a small holocron as to record one last message. Darren looked back at onyx to ask "So do I grab whatever is inside or should you check it out first, because i dont want to end up like the person inside it"

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx ignored his question and walked up to examine the holocron. He then started to use the force to slowly take the holocron out, as to avoid any traps there might be. After another minute of slow navigation, Onyx had the holocron in his hand.

He looked at it and noticed an inscription. "This is the Holocron of Darth Zannah. We can communicate with her," Onyx explained. "Should I open it?"

 

[Garza]

Daren saw the Sith retreve the holo with the force and was suprised that it wasnt a trap. "Go ahead if you want to. but I think we sould be careful about dong that. it may just be some trap." Darren was wanting to activate the holocron himself but he didnt argue. if it was a trap Onyx would feel the wrath of it. and he would be spaired.

staring intently at the holocron he waiteds for onyx to make his decision.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx slowly began to open the holocron. A dark cloud like substance began to form. Inside it, purple lightning was stirring. As if from a distance, he heard a dark and cynical laugh. He thought it was Zannah. Before anything could be said a loud screeching noise echoed through the entire underground cave system. Onyx dropped the holocron and grabbed his ears. For several seconds the screeching continued then, as the lid of the holocron shut on its own somehow, it stopped. He looked at Darren and barely muttered the words; "What... the..." Before he could finish he fell unconscious from the noise, leaving Darren alone inside the tomb.

 

[Garza]

Darren saw onyx open the holocron, and what looked to him, onyx was having some sort of ceasure. onyyx had placed his hands around his ears and he said "what...the..." and he fell to the ground.

Darren used the force to grab the holocron and trow it into the other room. he dint know if it was still causing this.... what ever this was to onyx. he came over to his fallen companion and said ""Hey, hey, wake up onyx!" it seemed that it didnt work. he grabed his lightsaber and ran into the room that they had found. he went over to the holocron and picked it up. so far it had done nothing.

he took it to where onyx had set up his little shop and was looking thought that papers to see if there was some sort of key that he made. he found his notes about what was written on the walls. he took that and the key he found and went to the coffen to try and read it. he would inspect simular glyphs that would match and wrote it down on the back of the note paper. he got some jumbled words. a word here and there. half a sentence here. and he came up with

"Here lies the great and powerful Sith Lord _____ ____. ___ who was trained in the ____ arts. Lord ___ was place in this tomb with Lord Nihilus and a Holocron of ___."

thats all he could get off of the lid and was pissed that he couldnt figure it out. Darren tried to move to the walls to read what he could from the murals that may be of some help when he heard growling sounds behind him.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx found himself nowhere. It wasn't a room. Or a ship. Or anywhere. Just utter blackness. He looked around and tried to find out where he was. His body was numb and his hands were cold. He was dizzy. Lightheaded as well. He couldn't tell what was happening. He could see something in the distance. A small light. He tried to speak but he couldn't. He tried to think but his mind was hurting to much to allow it. He breathed a heavy sigh. It was so heavy as if he was holding his breath for hours. He shook his head and began to make his way to the light. All he could do was hope that Darren could help him out of this forsaken place. Wherever that be.

 

[Garza]

the grouling had came from a Tuk'ata. darren had seen these beast before. The were huge to humans and were very dangerous. with out thinking Darren had grabed his 2 white lightsabers and ingnited them vreating a bright light in the room. the bright sudden light made the Tuk'ata flinch from being in compleat darkness. Darren tookl this oppturntity to lunge at the beast. moving away from onyx so the beast would be foucused on him. he used his blade and cut off one of the horn like apendaged on top of its head. it roared with pain and awiped at Darren.

Using the force he pushed the beast hand away from him he then used the shock force to stun it he ran at the Tuk'ata and stabed his twin blades in the back and out the chest. killing the beast. Darren had to move quick and was slightly tired and thougt about using the well to keep his strength up. and a thought entered his head. saying "Use the well. Use the well Darren shaw. Use the well!" Darren thought about his cmpanion and came up with a plan.

coming over to onyx he lifted his limp body to the well and place him infront of the well and praying to any god there was that this would work. grasping onyx's hand he placed it on the well hopeing that the well would revive his not so awake friend.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx was at the end of the tunnel but found nothing but... snow? Was he dead? He didn't know what was happening. He heard something, strikes from a lightsaber. Suddenly he was falling. Falling into more darkness.

LIGHT! He was breathing heavy. As his sight slowly returned he saw Darren standing over him. He looked to see his hand sitting in the Well. He shook his head and sat up. "How.... how did you know to use it?"
The answer was worrying him. He wondered if he was contacted by someone or something. Maybe Zannah. He would have to wait to hear the answer.

 

[Ava Solborne]

Dominator reached the tomb and sighed. Now he had to go in, but it was dangerous. Maybe there were living Sith inside? Or even worse... Maybe a dead Sith it going to kill him? So Dominator stood there and thought. He tried to force himself to go in, but he couldn't move. No, he was not attached to the ground, but his courage, newly found courage didn't let him go in. Dominator thought, that he was now freed of the extreme shyness and had confidence and courage now, but maybe was wrong? "Go In!" A voice said and Dominator stepped into the tomb. He made it.

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OOC: Could you please tell me the exact place, where you are at the moment?

 

[Daxton Bane]

From his perch, Daxton sat, greatly bemused by what was happening below. Such eagerness that they could not see the obvious. A tomb of such a great Sith lord would be trapped, and studded with various devices to tempt, bewilder and test the invader. No this was just one of the thousand tombs in the valley, a temptation yes. Perhaps even a lesson to these young ones.

Cloaking himself in the force so that he was invisible to either of them save as a fleeting shadowy form, he continued his study of them with rapt amusement.

 

[Darren Onyx]

OCC: We are currently strayed from the direct path into the tomb and are going down a different one which has led us into the tomb of Darth Zannah.

 

[Ava Solborne]

OOC: Okay, thank you!