Location: The Streets
Objective: Take over Te-panicpanicpanic!
Allies: Red Ravens
Enemies: I AM BUSY WITH GHOULS, POLITICS LATER
Chiasa was not your average foot soldier She did not in fact think of herself as a soldier at all. But the Red Ravens were on the move and that meant she was expected to show her face. At least they'd had an objective she was more than suited to. Get the local population behind them? Sure. She was beautiful and charismatic, and it was easy to believe that a Twi'lek would hate the Hutts for non-selfish reasons. She'd been doing rather a good job of it too, talking cowards into fighting, organizing them, sending them to where they might actually stand half a chance and be useful.
When she saw one of hers go down, carrying a detonator for a rather well planted little present for the Hutts, she'd started moving towards the man ( [member="Ezio Kells"] ) who'd dropped and was currently screaming at him.
Until all hell broke loose.
The streets exploded, and it wasn't anything she'd arranged. She didn't think any of the Ravens had, surely they'd have given their own some warning to get clear first. She was thrown back into the air, reflexively she turned it into a flip, landing lightly on her feet, though she still would not have put the experience down as enjoyable, she bled from an array of some cuts caused by the airborne debris.
"What.."
Was as far as the majorly peeved Twi'lek got before.. things started pouring out of the cracks the explosions had caused. She was not well-trained in the Force, but every single shred of self preservation was screaming at her now. She did not recognize what was coming down the streets at her, but she knew what it was all the same. Death.
"Really wish I had a lightsaber right now.."
Or a blaster. Anything that could kill from at least a bit of a range and surely. As the first of the monsters started reaching her the Twi'lek started moving, dodging, tumbling, leaping. Using every ounce of skill at her disposal to avoid them, to not let them touch her. A shard of glass on the pavement was grabbed as she slid past and flung at one of the beasts. Embedding in its throat it died, but so much slower than she had thought. It had not broken off right away, it had stopped only when it had literally bled out. By now she had watched others begin the frightening transformation, refilling the beasts ranks as quickly as they were thinned.
This had gone from manipulation to pure survival she thought, face grim as four more spotted her and began heading her way. As if that were not enough however, a figure she could only assume had begun this new nightmare, [member="Dredge"] apparently, had set a wall of fire screaming down the street towards her. As she watched it burn through buildings she quickly appraised her situation. It didn't look as if taking cover in one of the buildings would help. Not enough in any case.
She loosed a force push at the rakghouls. A force user could have broken or evaded it easily, it was borne of desperation not skill, she needed a moment free of them. As they tumbled away she wrenched open a sewer cover and dropped through, barely managing to drag the heavy disc back over top and dropping to the.. lets call it ground, below. She could hear them scrabbling at the cover already but if her timing was correct.. She threw herself out of the path to the cover, under the.. water. A small rush of the green flames burst down the partially opened cover, fizzling out as it hit the liquid. Chiasa rose warily to her feet.
Establishing that nothing was trying to kill her at this exact second, she looked down at herself and shuddered.
"I will never be clean again.."
A rush of noise overhead had her freezing in place. It sounded as if many feet had just run over the street above. Waiting another minute after silence descended, the Twi'lek climbed the ladder leading up to the surface. Pushing the cover the rest of the way aside she popped her head up. Ready to drop and run as needed.
The creatures were all running towards the palace, behind them stalked their Master. This would be a good time to scarper in the opposite direction.
But..
But her allies might already be in there. But they still had their objectives. But maybe this was salvageable. Maybe this new enemy could do their work for them. Maybe it wasn't salvageable but these creatures shouldn't be allowed to roam free.
Maybe I just have a bloody deathwish..
Chiasa followed, sticking close to the rubble the new Enemy kept conveniently providing her with. Her mind was whirling as she tried to find a way to not only survive, but to win. Apparently the other Ravens were of the same mindset, because behind her came the sound of footsteps in perfect unison. Almost afraid to, she turned, to see a droid army heading towards the swarm. A slight grin hit the corner of her mouth, before she started trying to work her way deeper into the rubble, she'd no wish to be caught in the middle of a firefight.