Hoist the Colors and set Sail! (Expeditionary Fleet/Open)

[Venris Helion]

[member="Vassara Raxis"] [member="Zavzen Sae'ryx"]

"Well either we can heroically stop these pirates from committing what is obviously a coup to take over the island....or help them with said coup." Venris offered. "I'm just throwing out suggestions here though, whatever you guys decide on I'm all on board." He found an unopened bottle behind the bar and held it up. "Ah ha! Victory!"

He poured himself a glass and took a sip. "Whatever you decide, do it before we all find too many intact bottles of this."

 

[RC 212]

[member="Ark Tallen"] [member="Detorin"] [member="Shane Zion"] [member="Tyranus Collik"] [member="Venris Helion"] [member="Larana Holst"] [member="Areiana Slayer"] [member="Daniel Imura"] [member="Zavzen Sae'ryx"] [member="Ali Hadrix"] [member=Ire]​

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The Next Morning, Outside the warehouse.​

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Vassara and the crew had slept after a drunken night. When they awoke they locked the Tavern up and made their way down the cobblestone streets to the warehouses at the end of the docks. They were unassuming little buildings, but still large enough to hold kilo tons of goods. Outside a crowd had gathered and Vassara stood behind them in the back somewhere listening as they roared.​

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"Oy this dock belongs to use you devils!"​

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"Yeah, no taxation no tarrifs, you've been ripping off our profits!"​

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Vassara could sense the tension building in the force. The emotions of the crowd was high, their passion ignited like a furious blast furnace. In moments the situation would devolve and the crew might have to make a choice. In that end she turned to the crew.​

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"What do you think, help them take the warehouse and claim the goods? Or help them defend it, and strike a deal for part of it?"​

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Either way was sure to be challenge. On the step pirate guards in black armor and many different types of headgear stood. In their hands vibro cutlasses and a multitude of blasters...​

 

[Venris Helion]

[member="Vassara Raxis"]

"Those gentlemen guarding the warehouses don't look too agreeable," Venris threw in his own two credits on the situation while scoping out the area, marking area where at least two pirate guards were posted on roofs with rifles. "Now that we're here, I think I'll vote in favour of ransacking the place and taking anything we can get our hands on along with this charming lot of disgruntled civs." He pointed to the crowd with one thumb.

"And if we are doing that," He added, glancing up at the marksmen discreetly. "We may want to handle those two first so that the odds are more in our favor."

 

[Daniel Imura]

Daniel awoke to a dull noise in the background, something like voices, and a lot of them at that. As soon as he got himself ready, he followed the crew to the warehouses, where crowds were bunched up on the outside, demanding better rights, or something of that nature. When his captain spoke of a couple of options, he shrugged mildly. "I think I agree with Venris here. Let's take them on, see what they've got. In the end, we'll get the goods, so why not?" Noting the guards Venris had pointed out, Daniel plucked Icebreaker from its holster and started twirling it around his finger a few times. If anything, the weight of the weapon alone was good enough to strengthen his trigger finger when he did that. He was sure it'd come in handy eventually. No telling what a single finger could do. Dropping the pin to make sure it was loaded, he quickly closed it back up and holstered the weapon again. "So? What's the call?"

[member="Vassara Raxis"] [member="Venris Helion"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Ark Tallen"] [member="Detorin"] [member="Shane Zion"] [member="Tyranus Collik"] [member="Venris Helion"] [member="Larana Holst"] [member="Areiana Slayer"] [member="Daniel Imura"] [member="Zavzen Sae'ryx"] [member="Ali Hadrix"] [member="Ire"]​

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"Ok we'll help the crowd, but first let me see if I can turn the guards with word, before this all kicks off. Daniel on me, Venris take the roof, prepare to remove the snipers. By remove I mean incapacitate, unless they try an' kill you."

She was trying to tread more lightly now. Trying to honor the code more and the sword less. Still her instinct said to open fire right there, before they even knew what happened. Beside when this was over she was confident she could convince the townspeople to give them a part of the warehouses.

Vassara cut through the crowd, moving people aside to stand toe to toe with the first guard, the leader.

"Hey buddy!"

"I aint your buddy girl, I seen what happened at the tavern."

"All a misunderstanding. Say this crowd seems pretty eager for your blood. Would you be interested in making a deal?"

"What kind of deal?"

Vassara smirked.

"You leave and the crowd leaves, we settle this in single combat. I win, you give us a part of the warehouse and lower tarriffs and taxes down to five percent. I lose, well.... Either way the crowd will rip you apart."

It was a useful try. As she braced for his answer her hand curled silently around the stock of her Void Ripper Revolver and she simply stared.

 

[Daniel Imura]

Nodding, Daniel followed Vassara closely, keeping his senses alert for any trouble. Knowing this town already, there was bound to be plenty. As the captain began talking to the man, he made ready use to his own revolver. He still had the thunder gun on his left side, but he was more comfortable with a weapon that had been proven beforehand. Besides, it was also easier to get to, and a quicker draw. If the man in front of them made any wrong moves, he'd have at least three holes in his chest each from himself and Vassara. He understood how badly ah was trying to be peaceful for whatever reason, but he knew what was necessary, If a man needed killing, he'd always be happy to do the job.

[member="Vassara Raxis"] [member="Venris Helion"]

 

[Venris Helion]

[member="Vassara Raxis"] [member="Daniel Imura"]

Venris smirked beneath his hood and nodded. "Right away." He vanished into the crowd and managed to make his way up to the roof of one of the buildings with some Force Stealth or good old fashioned regular footwork to avoid being spotted. He waited until he was sure that the other sentry or somebody down below would not notice him before wrapping his arm around the neck of the first sentry and dragged him back out of view. He tugged the man down and kept him in a head lock until the man finally blacked out and ceased his struggling.

Venris ejected the power cell from the man's blaster rifle and peered at the second marksman, who had his rifle resting on Daniel and Vassara. Likely he was also one of the pirates who remembered just why these two were not to be trifled with, but his intense focus on the obvious targets left him a sitting duck for Venris as he began to maneuver his way across roof tops and over cables hanging between buildings.

When Vassara voiced her offer to the pirate Venris was perched above the second marksman, who was on the balcony of a second story building. Venris saw the man tense and quickly hung upside down from the roof, reached down, and grasped the man's shoulders before applying a brief shock of Force Lightning to the man. The effect was similar to a taser, reducing the man to a crumpled mess on the floor in seconds without him making so much as a noise. And with it being the middle of the day and Vassara having all the nearby attention nobody noticed the brief flash of red, allowing Venris to hop down to the balcony and watch the proceedings from the comfort and safety of the sniper's perch.

 

[Jsc]

Another male slid open the sliding door and joined [member="Venris Helion"] out on the balcony. He raised his hands to show Helion he was no threat. Chewing easily on a toothpick and a small pistol encased under his left shoulder. He wore only grey clothing.

"Whoa. Easy there buddy. I'm with you. Don't taz be bro."

He smiled and leaned his back against the railing. Comfortable and slow. He nodded to Helion,

"So. What's she doing down there anyway? Ladies first. ...Is that it?"

Smirking he rested his elbows on the rail and chewed his wooden stick. Hm. This should be fun to watch.

 

[Tyranus]

[member="Vassara Raxis"]
Tyranus just stood their in the crowd, with his mandalorion helmet on. He crossed his arms comfortably and then breathed lightly and continued to watch the guards. He slowly made his way to the front of the crowd to look out. His blasters laid on his thighs and he continued to cross his arms but when he saw a man approach Vassara he gave off a slight unhappy expression hidden by his helmet. He looked around to see if anybody was approaching him but none were. He looked to his sides and then gave out a breath of relief. He then gave a comm to Vassara.

Vassara, the crows it clear of any guards, over an out.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Ark Tallen"] [member="Detorin"] [member="Shane Zion"] [member="Tyranus Collik"] [member="Venris Helion"] [member="Larana Holst"] [member="Areiana Slayer"] [member="Daniel Imura"] [member="Zavzen Sae'ryx"] [member="Ali Hadrix"] [member="Ire"]​

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The other man would have none of it. He scowled and stepped back, eyes darting nervously to her hand where it rested on the pistol. Vassara grinned, already reading his next thought. She hadn't even used the force, just his natural body language. This was the time for a riot then, but a productive riot.

She whirled, showing her back to the guards and drew her pistol, spreading both arms high in the sky.

"You lucky day has come citizens! I Vassara Raxis and the Expeditionary Fleet have come to stay! We'll take the guards, we'll take the warehouse! You give me your promise that it belongs to the Fleet, and I'll lower your tarrifs. Resist and you'll find the guards have our support!"

There was no way around it really. The crowd cheered it's approval as the pirates raise their blasters and swords were drawn. Vassara turned back around raising the pistol with one hand, feet set apart one behind the other. A phrik fighting knife appeared in her off hand and she grinned.

"Leave now, give us the warehouse and you live. You are an oppressor of the people and this is your only warning!"

The Pirate spit.

"Snipers fire!"

But then nothing happened. When he realized there would be no snipers to support him the pirate captain roared.

"Kill them fools! Kill them all!"

"Your funeral!" Vassara shouted. As the chaos unfolded she pulled the trigger. A sixty calibre round left the Void Ripper with a deafening crack. It sailed clean and true and the explosion of the captains head added to the chaos. It was a shot that would be heard around the galaxy....

 

[Venris Helion]

[member="Grant Pherson"] [member="Vassara Raxis"]

Venris spun as the man stepped onto the balcony. "Damn it man, don't go sneaking up on me if you really are part of the Fleet." He glanced down at the crowd and heard Vassara's speech. "Well, if you really are one of us then time to show it. Let's not leave our brothers and sisters to have all the fun!" He vaulted over the railing and leaped down into the fray, dashing through panicking citizens who were trying to get away from the fight.

As Venris got into range, one of the pirate guards tried to swing his cutlass at Vassara only for a knife to puncture one of his eyes and go into his brain. Venris then kicked one guard in the chest with both feet and rolled backwards over one shoulder before launching himself back up onto his feet with his own sword in hand. "Now, now, gentlemen! That's no way to treat a lady nor a proper Captain, now how about you all put the toys down and run home before you wind up like your friends."

 

[Tyranus]

[member="Vassara Raxis"]
Tyranus vaulted over the barricade in front of him and he drew both of his blasters and flew up into the air with the help of his jetpack. Tyranus fired both blasters upon some guards getting ready to fire upon Vassara. He landed upon the roof of the warehouse when suddenly a guard opened a hatch and ran up behind him. Tyranus sheathed his blasters and drew his shotgun and he pointed it towards the incoming guard, ready to fire if the guard got any closer. The guard continued to run towards him and Tyranus fired. The Steel bullets exploded from the Shotgun barrel and pierced into the Guards's armor and into his soft flabby skin beneath his armor. The Guard got out a yelp of pain as blood sputtered everywhere and onto Tyranus's armor and then the Guard fell to the ground, dead. Tyranus loaded another round into his shotgun as two more guards got out of the hatch and ran at him. He fires once, the steel bullets piercing into the fat guards thick skull and then exiting out of the other side sending blood everywhere. He then turned to the other guard as the guard tackled him, making the shotgun fly out of his hands and to the ground below. Tyranus used both arms and threw the Guard off of him and then he drew a hand to his chest and drew a knife and ran up to the Guard and then jumped onto the guard and stabbed the Guard repeatably in the chest and stomach, causing blood to flow freely from the open wound and onto the roof of the warehouse. Tyranus got off of the guard and continued to hold his knife ready for another enemy to charge towards him.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Ark Tallen"] [member="Detorin"] [member="Shane Zion"] [member="Tyranus Collik"] [member="Venris Helion"] [member="Larana Holst"] [member="Areiana Slayer"] [member="Daniel Imura"] [member="Zavzen Sae'ryx"] [member="Ali Hadrix"] [member="Ire"]​

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Warehouse​

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As the battle kicked off Vassara holstered her pistol and made her way through the crowd, a bastion of calm amid a roaring storm. She pulled the force in close to herself, allowing it to cast it's net and alert her of the dangers. Two pirates fell by the hands of her comrades as they attacked her, their presences diminishing and returning back to the force.

A pirate came at her, swinging his sword in a viscous over head slash. Vassra reacted, crouching and brining her fighting knife parallel to catch the blade. As her arm came up and the sound of steel clashed with Phrik her other hand opened up into a flat palm. With a zealous strike she slammed the pirates exposed chest, sending him tumbling back.

He lost his grip on the cutlass and fell flat to his back. For a second blind battle adrenaline filled her veins and she moved to strike him dead. Her blade hovered above his head, but at the last moment she stopped. He was unarmed now and his killing would be unjust. Instead she spit onto his body,kicking the cutlass away.

"Go home dirtbag, you lost."

Without a second thought she stepped over him, barrelling into a cluster of adversaries spartan style. They were tangled in an epic duel between crew, citizens and pirate lords. She stepped in close, bowing at the waist and running head first in. Her back swept under the first man's legs and she rose, flipping him over her, to land. His breath was gone.

She moved on. The second was grabbed suddenly by the lightning quick snatch of her open hand and hurled to the side with the aid of the force. Another pirate rushed her, swinging for her legs. This one caught her off guard. her side step managed to escape al but the end of the cutlass and blood and pain manifested in her thigh.

Vassara growled, puling him close, stabbing, twisting and hurling him aside.

Be wary, do not fight with passion, lest the darkside awaits....

The force whispered it''s cooling thoughts into her mind. Vassara nodded to no one in particular. The battle still raged. She was feet from the doors.

"Press the advantage, take the warehouse entrance!"

 

[Venris Helion]

[member="Vassara Raxis"] [member="Tyranus Collik"]

"On it, Vas!" Venris called while delivering several blows to the jaw of another guard and then leaped up, ramming his knee into the man's face hard enough to break his nose and knock him out in one blow. "Hey Tyranus, catch!"

In mid run Venris kicked Tyranus' dropped shotgun up into his hands and then threw it towards Tyranus before continuing on towards the warehouse entrance. He slid under the swing of a pirate's vibro axe and cut through the man's leg at the same time before flipping his sword around as he stood up and jammed it back into the pirate's torso as the man began to fall over backwards. Venris shoved the man off of his blade and continued on towards the doors as a panicking guard scrambled to bring up his blaster.

With a single flick of his wrist Venris used the Force to tear the man's weapon from his grasp and then held his blade out, tip to the man's throat. "Run home and you'll live, boy." He grunted, shoving the young pirate aside and rapping his blade against the warehouse doors once. "Right here! Doors secure!" He parried an attempted stab from one of the remaining pirates and rammed the hilt of his sword into the man's face before then punching him hard enough to knock the man down as blood spilled from his mouth. This left Venris open to an attack from the side however, and a pirate managed to stab him just under his ribs and cause the hooded man to stiffen as the pirate jammed a dagger into him...

Venris dropped his sword and grasped the pirate by his neck with both hands. The man's eyes bulged as Venris rammed him up against the warehouse wall, squeezing tightly as blood flowed from his wound...

In balance with chaos and harmony...

Venris coughed and dropped the man, backing away from the pirate to set both hands over his wound, the knife still stuck in his flesh. The pirate saw this as a moment of weakness and quickly snatched up Venris' own blade to finish the job, charging the man with the blade raised overhead for a clumsy but lethal chop that Venris barely dodged, too caught up in trying to fight back the surge of anger that had been unleashed. He repeated the Je'daii Oath in his head while trying to keep from being decapitated by his own sword.

 

[Zavzen Sae'ryx]

[member="Venris Helion"] [member="Vassara Raxis"] [member="Tyranus Collik"]

Zavzen sat whimpering on his bed, his mind torturing him with hazy images of demons and monsters and of his past. He was curled up in a fetal position, almost as if he was trying to imagine himself back into the womb where he would of been safe from his illness as it slowly ravaged his mind, turning fiction in reality and reality into fiction, twisting his own knowledge of what was real and fake, making it hard to trust his own senses any more.

The zabrak broke from his pain filled haze though as he felt a cry of pain rippled through the barely formed Master and Student Force Bond between him and Venris. It had formed as soon as Venris had accepted his offer of teaching him the ways of the Je'daii, although he was unsure if Venris was even aware of it. It would grow into a full bond, he was sure, when Zavzen started to teach Venris and they spent time around each other.

Reaching out with his senses, Zavzen worked to find Venris and check on him. He found him at the docks and a hazy memory of planning to go there floated across the zabrak's mind before he disregarded it as currently unimportant. Focusing on the Force Presence of his student, Zavzen used his budding Empathy skills to get a read on Venris. He jumped up in shock when he felt Ashla whither inside of his student as Bogan slowly started to worm its way in using the pain the human was feeling as fuel. Growling, Zavzen ran out of the room he had rented, pulling on his tunic, cloak, sash and swords as he went, no caring about how many people he ran into along the way, all he knew was that his friend and student was hurting and was now suffering the risk of walking the Grey Path.

Sprinting towards the dock, using the Force to go fast, Zavzen began to gather Bogan in his left hand and Ashla in his right. Lightning started to form and crackle in the palm of his left hand as a result while his right began to have a maelstrom of white mist form. Seeing the crowds, Zavzen pushed harder, pressing his exhausted body to its limits, something he usually enjoyed, to get there fast.

As soon as he saw Venris and the man that was trying to kill him he smiled in a feral manner, canines showing. Leaping, he used the Force to go further and aimed to land next to Venris. As he arched down he lashed out with his left hand and the lightning arced off, striking the pirate. As he landed, Zavzen's right arm came out and the ball of Force he had been gathering rocketed out to slam into the man and send him flying through a wall.

 

[Tyranus]

[member="Venris Helion"] [member="Vassara Raxis"]
Tyranus turned and the grabbed the shotgun in his hand and dropped from the roof onto another guard. He slammed the shotgun into the head of the pirate causing the pirate to stutter and fall back but he soon recovered from the hit. Tyranus landed on and then fought the pirate with his shotgun, he slammed the butt of the shotgun into the Pirate's chest probably breaking a rib. In response, the pirate grabbed the shotgun and broke it in both hands. The pirate grabbed one of Tyranus's fallen knifes and stuck the knife deep into Tyranus's chest breaking a rib. Tyranus growled in pain and then put a hand to the wound and took the knife out of his chest causing blood to flow freely. He threw the knife towards the Pirate and it landed in the Pirate's face killing the pirate. Another pirate ran up behind him and without warning swung his Vibroaxe at Tyranus's head. Tyranus ducked quickly and then grabbed a free knife from the ground and stabbed it into the knee of the Pirate causing the pirate to yell out in pain. The pirate threw Tyranus over and then grabbed his VibroSword and threw it downwards causing blood to flow freely everywhere. Tyranus fell to the ground with a grunt and he looked towards to where his left foot should be and he saw it missing. Tyranus sighed deeply and flinched in pain, he grabbed a fallen blaster from his belt and aimed it at the Pirate's head and then fired, the shot whizzes through the head of the pirate causing the Pirate's body to fall to the ground limp and dead. Tyranus slowly but surely got slightly up and leaned against the wall of the warehouse, breathing deeply and panting. He comms Vassara with a sharp tone of pain in his voice along with exhaustion.

C-Clear of..........P-pirates and a-also Can you have somebody lend a help over here?!

 

[RC 212]

[member="Tyranus Collik"]

As Vassara fought Tyranus Voice cut into her head. She felt his pain through the force, felt the disturbance in his signature. He was wounded, and in need of dire help. With a last snarl Vassara finished one last pirate, spinning full circle and slashing his throat. As he fell backwards she was moving, pushing friend and foe alike aside, cutting the crowd.

Tyranus lay on his back, a nasty knife in his chest. Vassara was still bleeding from the leg and as her steps faltered she approached, landing beside Tyranus in an awkward fashion. Her breath was slow and rhythmic and she pushed up off the ground, kneeling.

"Hold on man, I got you!"

Her hands made a quick sweep over arms, legs and back scanning for blood. So far just his chest was wounded. She was stuck in between a rock and hard place. She couldn't pull the knife. She had no idea whether his arteries had been cut of not and it might have been the only thing holding them together.

Or was it.

"Stay with me buddy."

She closed her eyes, wrapping her gloved hand around the blade. everything else drowned out of her mind except Tyranus. She could sense his organs and projected her sight into him, feeling for any severed veins and arteries. She was able to find them all and grimaced, knowing the next part would be painful.

"Center yourself, let the force calm your nerves."

She yanked the blade clean, and for a second the blood of his severed arteries squirted, before the force clamped down on them, squeezing them shut.

She had to move quickly. Luckily the supplies from Kathan station had proved valuable and she always carried a small medkit. She popped it open, unravelling gauze and beginning to stuff it into the wound...

 

[Tyranus]

[member="Vassara Raxis"]
( Sorry gonna post this part since you forgot this part )
W-what a-about....

Tyranus gestures to where his left foot was with his eyes. His ankle down was cut off from the VibroSword causing blood to flow out onto the ground. He hated the feel of his left foot missing and grimaced in pain as the knife was taken out of his chest. He leaned his head against the wall and breathed deeply trying to calm himself sown. He tried to breath deeply but he kept on hyperventilating due to his missing foot. He began to continue to speak again a little calmer.

....m-my left f-foot it's m-missing

 

[RC 212]

[member="Tyranus Collik"]

Vassaras eyes widened as she saw his foot. It was leaking blood, and much too fast. Somehow her sweep had mised that. She cursed, knowing that diverting the force from one wound to another would split her focus too much and likely kill him. While she slammed more gauze up into the wound and continued to pack it tight with one hand she called Tyranus lightsaber to her grip.

The smooth cylinder met her palm and the orange blade crackled to life. Vassaras wild piercing gaze looked straight into Tyranus eyes, into his soul.

"Sorry man, this is the only way to save you."

Holding the gauze with one hand she swept the blade over the wound, searing the flesh and cauterizing the stump. The blazing saber sealed the wound and the blood stopped. With a sigh Vassara placed the hilt in between his teeth with it powered down.

"Bite hard, the last part sucks."

A self sealing foam canister appeared and she jammed it in with the gauze spraying a mixture of bacta and synthetic fleshy foam. The mixture hardened like concrete, airy enough to breath but not enough to let blood through. The pressure held and he would stabilize soon she hoped....

 

[Venris Helion]

[member="Zavzen Sae'ryx"]

The pirate dropped Venris' sword as he was propelled back, and Venris was finally able to collapse to one knee without risking his neck in the process. "Well..." He managed to force a grim smile. "When you come riding to the rescue, you like to do it in style, don'thca?"

He groaned as he gripped the handle of the knife. "I don't suppose you know about healing using the Force, do you? This thing's gotta come out soon and I'm not exactly a qualified healer."