I'd park away from the swamp but...(ask for invite)

[Vulpesen]

"Fething backwater, boggy, gross, clingy, motherkarking planet!" You could take the boy out of the street, but ya couldn't take the street out of the boy. Even if that boy had been dressed up and turned into a king of a lost race... Maybe it wasn't the most kingly manner for him to present himself, but as he slashed through yet another vine, Vulpesen growled at the surroundings. Dagobah. A literal stinkhole of the galaxy and the location of his most recent assignment. How much more he would have preferred to just sit back, maybe ride through the forest back home, but nope... He had to take the assignment of this particular crook. How was he to know that the man would go racing into a swamp filled planet for asylum. Now, here he was tracking and hoping he could pin down the bastard's location.

He let out a heavy breath and leaned against a tree. "Bastard's lucky we don't believe in killing. But I sear, if he so much as says 'pew pew...'" His hand reached up and wiped away, was that sweat? Swamp bog? He couldn't tell anymore. "Go and do missions sire... it inspires the men sire... Gonna hit that damned assistant with a shovel."

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

Deep moist jungle surrounded a dirt hut in the middle of a thick bundle of trees, something that could easily be over looked three times over by the average Joe. Inside sat a small woman on an old worn down, cut, and built over multiple times. It had a small butt spot at this point, but in front of her sat various screens and audio speakers with both news and the surrounding area around them. Her favorite, the daily podcast and the music filled in between the times.

A special sight caught her eye, something that happened every once in a while. Within a few kilos was a man, a man who didn't belong in this area of the planet. A trespasser. She stared at the camera with almost hollow icy blue eyes, then turned to mess around with a few special buttons, those which made loud sounds in the surrounding areas to the man in question, featuring some of the biggest baddest beasts on the planet. She didn't feel like talking to people today.

[member="Vulpesen"]

 

[Vulpesen]

Two distinctive snap-hiss' would be heard as a pair of black and gold blades sprung from his hands, his saberstaff being in his palms within an instant of the noises. "Oh, come on!" His voice howled into the jungle. Part disbelief in his fortune. Part challenge. As his golden eyes swept over the area, he couldn't help but think about how much he'd kill to have Shadow with him right now. The giant fox would have hated the muggy atmosphere as much as he did, but at least they'd be in it together. Instead, all he had was his best friend, Ace who sat in his pocket. Useful in some regards, but if these phantom beasts attacked, Ace's only use would be going to the ship in case he had to tell Veradune that their king died chasing a two-bit criminal through a sixth rate planet.

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

Saberstaff? That was a change in story. Another few buttons had the beast's sounds run off into the distance, trading speaker after speaker until they disappeared, returning to the normal row of nature. That didn't look like the every day acolyte one, either, but, then again she hadn't been around them for quite some time.

While a part of curiosity hit her, her want for being alone hit harder. She was going to watch the screens and hope he didn't head in the right direction. There only a few marks of light and unnatural humming could tell of her location, unless the eye was keen enough to travel through the thick bush.

[member="Vulpesen"]

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen smirked as he heard the creatures running away. "Much better..." Still, being an ex-beast trader, he couldn't help the bit of curiosity that ran through him. He'd learned of much of Dagobah's wildlife, but had always avoided the planet(for fairly obvious reasons). Now that he was here however, he'd like to see what it was that almost ate him. He reached out with the force, trying to track down the aura's of fear from the escaping animals. The only problem was, there was no fear to sense... At least, not beyond the average prey animals that surrounded him. Not only was there a lack of fear, a further inspection showed a lack of any life surrounding him that was capable of even thinking it could take him on. What there was, was an odd hum easily picked up by Zorren and Ashlan ears. Two beings well versed in the natural world, were completely stumped as to what such an odd hum would mean. That generally meant one thing. It wasn't natural. While she wanted privacy, [member="Kiara"] would be in for a bit of disappointment as Vulpesen turned and walked towards the noise.

 

[Kiara]

Immediately to Kiara's disappointment, she began to turn off her screens and audio sensors, turning low the lights until they were near a natural state. One last look was given to the screen barely catching onto [member="Vulpesen"]'s movements before it, too, was turned off, and the forest around her was back to it's natural state.

Closing her eyes, she sat on the small stump that proved as her seat and worked on her personal Force works, casually masking herself with other nearby lively beings to better hide her own mixed confused signature in the Force. Today was not a good day to wear the good robe, it appeared.

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen continued towards the sound, casting a smile down at his pocket where Ace's astral head poked out. Think its him? The man they were chasing certainly seemed like a resourceful fellow, managing to evade even Vulpesen's skills by hiding in a dense jungle. The life of Dagobah was enough to confuse even his keen senses in the force. Still, at least his sense of direction worked. Before long, his eyes would be able to pick out the hut in the middle of the jungle. Finally. The chase was over. Opening his voice, he called out to the inhabitants of the hut, unknowingly speaking to a stranger rather than his target, who in hindsight, wasn't exactly the sort to keep a secret base in the middle of a swampy jungle. "Give up and come out, by order of the Vitae alliance, you are under arrest!"

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

That was a true shame. After so long of hiding in this world - what next? Green pastures and loving fruit? That'd kill so much training that happened in the time that Kiara had been here. With less than a last resource, a slow moving barrel of a wookiee's crossbow popped its way in the edge of the door... and a single metal staff was gripped.

At first there was silence from the hut, then a massive arrow of sizzling energy came from under the door, quickly and rapidly sending an explosive charge in the direction it fired. At it reloaded, she kept her staff to her side, ready to use it when it was time.

As much as it was hard to hide, the stranger's own Force signal was that of a mess, mixes of all three sides bubbling around, clinging to each other in attempt to hold together. It may not be a pretty sight in the mess of the forest either, where several of creatures loomed about with strange signals of their own.

[member="Vulpesen"]

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen ducked behind a tree, growling as he felt the wood shudder, bark flying off of its surface. "I will drag you out of there by force if I need to!" Even as he spoke, the vitae pulled his blaster from his pocket, ready to return fire should any more shots come his way. Though, thinking on it, maybe it wasn't a bad idea to enlist back up. As he waited for a response, he reached out with the force, attempting to call the minds of the surrounding animals.

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

This one wasn't scared of a blast - that much she knew. She could also sense from her spot hiding behind a dirt hut, that it was a possibility that he was working with someone else, someone else off the range of her cameras. After taking a large breath, she busted out of the wooden door that kept her away from the outside world, raising both her staff and blaster for assault.

Her form was nothing out of the ordinary. Red hair, blue eyes, blue cloak, but it may have been an awful look-alike of the person the stranger was originally searching for, though she had no idea what his intent purpose was in the first place. "I surrender my equipment."

[member="Vulpesen"]

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen stayed where he was for several long moments, and had just managed to get a mynock under control when his ears picked up the sound fo a wooden door creaking on its hinges. Reminding himself not to immediately peek(As such might end with a missing head) he went without viewing his capture before hearing her rather surprising voice. "I surrender my equipment." That was, without a doubt, a woman's voice. And as his target was most assuredly a male, he couldn't help but peek his head out now, out of pure surprise, taking his first look of the person. "Um... you wouldn't happen to be a changeling would you?"

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

First the blaster dropped, then the staff nestled into the ground and the woman leaned on it slightly before she lost her balance again. "No, but if you need to arrest me go ahead. I'm in no condition to fight some war figure." She waved her hand sarcastically as the words left her mouth, "Never thought I'd see the day where my casual living would result in me getting arrested." She stated with a more untoned sentence. She was digging for a reason - and hoped it was audible.

[member="Vulpesen"]

 

[Vulpesen]

A heavy sigh left Vulpesen and he deactivated his saber and put away his weapons, both disappearing behind the black fabric of his coat as he walked forward. "You can pick up your weapons." Giving her the news, was to say the least, embarrassing and his face showed it by burning with a bright red. "It would seem as though we've had some mistake, and I'm sorry for the trouble." He fell back a bit, leaning against the trunk of the tree. At least the lovely heat from her blaster provided some mild comfort.

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

She did as she got permission for, picking up her blaster and holding it to her side. She blinked at the strange man - fox man, it seemed, then quietly turned her back and went into her dirt hut again, leaving the door only a crack open. "Well if all you were doing was scaring me, I think you did your job. You can leave now."

[member="Vulpesen"]

 

[Vulpesen]

He rose ff the tree, raising a brow at her. "In my defense, you shot first. More likely I would have just arrived and asked if you saw a man run by. Scruffy beard. Burly muscles. Gruff look to him overall." Maybe he could leave, but given the terrain of the planet, it would probably be best to try and get some information out of this person. She certainly seemed connected. Or at least, as connected as a hermit in the woods could be.
[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

[member="Vulpesen"]

"You and I have a different opinion of potential actions. The man you're looking for is on every planet with a bar. Thank you for your time, now get out." Turning her back on him, she went back into her hut to be left alone, with all her weapons in store at her hands, and soon to be put away where they belonged. Somewhere on the ground.

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen's nodded and started to walk away, though as he reached the trees, he simply couldn't resist asking a question. Turning his head, he tilted his head a bit to the side and looked at her. "And just what potential actions were you expecting? And also, what has you so wound up that you'd go shooting and trying to scare the living hells out of anyone who came near?"

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

The woman who had just put her things away in an organized chaos turned to hear the question just in time, just before she was going to shut the wooden door that she owed. "Why are you still asking questions? Are you truly so curious to every little hermit who loves to be left alone, to pester them even after their business was done?"

[member="Vulpesen"]