Rock The Casbah

[Nej Tane]

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"WELL AIN'T THAT JUST PEACHY! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO HAPPEN! THE ONLY GOD DAMN SPEEDER I COULD AFFORD AND IT BREAKS! NOT AN ENGINE PROBLEM, NO NO NO!"Nej threw up his hands and kicked the broken speeder."THE WHOLE-"He violently kicked the speeder with the heel of his foot, causing a loud bang to reverberate through the dunes."FRACKING DESERT! IT'S HOT! IT'S TATOOINE! IT'S NOT FUN!"Nej sighed. He knew the town was only about fifteen miles from where he was, some remote outpost that held a jeweler that was interested in a jewel in some cave. Nej picked the water bottles, and his slugthrowing pistol out of the speeder.​

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And then he began to walk, a pouty expression. Fifteen miles. In this heat. In those pants. In that shirt. Hopefully no cute girls happened along his way....they'd catch him in his desert pants and desert shirt. At least he had the shawl. He trudged along, grunting in contempt for the situation.​

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"This sucks."​

 

[Doctor Azure]

Thryk was still riding the stolen swoop. He didn't know why. It would've been easier to ditch it. Then he remembered that he would've had to carry his suit all the way across Jundland....

There was a man standing there, in a shawl, with a gun. It'd be polite to pick him up, but Thryk didn't want to get shot.

He carefully came up from behind. The man didn't even seem to hear the engines until Thryk snatched him up and pulled him onto the bike.

"What in hell's name would anybody be doing in the middle of Jundland without a vehicle? Are you stupid or something?"

Thryk looked back over his shoulder, and saw that his pursuers hadn't given up. Kark.

 

[Frank "Begs" Jusik]

Jathin gave a sigh as his Hutt Boss's annoyingly spoiled adopted teen gave a shout as the luxury swoop he'd told the kid to not leave the keys in was stolen by a large Wookie as the boy and his entourage exited a local shit cantina. The child began shouting orders and a few of the less experienced enforcers took out their Blasters, about to fire when Jathin shouted at them to get in their respective high powered speeder and chase after the bastard. They hurriedly obeyed and leapt into the speeder that had been carrying most of the six before taking off. The thing took off at the urging of the teen, who's continuous shrilling was threatening to give Jathin a headache.

"Your father's not going to be happy his kid was stupid enough to let some random local jack his gear." Jathin told the teen as they sped after the Wookie.

"It's your job to protect me and my--?" Jathin interrupted promptly, "Not when you don't lock it."

"And don't tell these idiots to fire at YOUR speeder. They can't hit the broad side of a planet when it's moving that fast, much less hit it's driver."

The teen gave a grunt and sat down.

It forever eluded Jathin why the Hutt was so fond of adopting orphans and raising them to be assholes.

As the gap closed Jathin loaded his slugthrower scattergun with heavy slugs, great for those hard to kill things like wookies.

 

[SpaceCadet]

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Out in the desert the "Lady Luck" would be stationed atop the hardened sand, this being a route towards the nearest town. Leaned onto the ship that is blocking the path would be a shaded figure, covered by the ship's shade and his own clothing helping conceal this man's identity. Jayce looking to the floor would have his arms crossed as the astromech droid R9-X2 roams around the ship, seeming to make small repairs to the hull plating. Opening his mouth, a raspy voice would emit from the man's mouth saying "Damn it R9, you take this long every damn time! I have to get to the platform and pick up the shipment of spice, this is credits we're talkin'ere!". Shaking his head Jayce looks up at the sound off in the distance of some engines, reaching for his microbinoculars in order to look out into the distance. Spotting the wookie being chased by another Jayce breaks out in a chuckle, " Heh! Look at those damn fools R9, bringing up all the damn dust in these dunes. They'll attract some unwanted attention if they keep it up. Actually now that I think about it... that there bike looks like an easy pile of credits hehe..". Pointing to the stolen swoop mounted by the Wookie, Jayce waves for R9-X2 to come over. "Listen R9, spread some of those old exposed cables out in the path of that swoop that is being chased!" Nodding to himself as the Droid begins to do as told.

Having the wire set out in the direct path of the incoming vehicles, hidden by the distance and sand itself. " Perfect, we'll see what we can do here.. hehe" Jayce kneels down looking out as the vehicles get closer and closer, holding his left wrist to one end of the spread of cables. Inputing a setting into his Ion emitting brace, Jayce nods as the device is charged and ready to activate as soon as the vehicle pass over the planted wire. Jayce knows the at the wires being exposed will cause for a small cloud large enough to make contact with the metal bodies of the incoming vehicles, allowing the Ion particles to surge into through the naturally conducting metals and reach the CPU powering the engines. With this power surge caused by the Ion discharge Jayce will cause the vehicle to become temporarily useless, that is until the circuit breakers repair themselves which can take more than a couple of minutes. "They won't know what hit'em R9, they won't know..."

 

[Nej Tane]

@Jathin Fallin [member="Jayce Cadet"] [member="Thryykarr"]



Wookie. Speeder. Fast moving sand beneath him. A question. Things happened very quickly for the adventurer, to which he gulped in response. He blinked several times, stammering before he spoke again."Speeder broke. Fifteen miles to nearest outpost. Looking for a jewel."Nej turned behind him, and then to the wookie. It wasn't...built for wookies. He sighed."You stole this, didn't you..."He turned and saw dust trailing in the distance. He pivoted around on the speeder, and removed his slugthrowing pistol. He squinted his eyes. Friggin...enforcers of some kind. As they got closer, there was a speeder with two guys on it, with one shouting more than usual. Great. Nej had no qualms about helping out a fellow thief, especially one that could rip his arms off and slap him with them until he got bored. Nej was good with his little slug thrower, and the first few shots went directly near the approaching people. He also had a lot of ammo, which helped. He turned to the wookie."Buttholes on our si-!"Suddenly, as their speeder passed over some assholes ion trap, the speeder, obviously died. Nej felt the speeder go down, and turned to the wookie. The thing slammed into the sand, skimming off a majority of the metal and engine bits on the bottom as it skidded to a halt. Luckily, the sand was a nice deterrent to concrete and didn't kill the wookie and the smuggler. However, it did throw the smuggler off a good distance.


See, this is why Nej carried slug throwers. Some people laughed at him, for carrying such an archaic and dated weapon- but damn, was it useful now. This type of landing would have made his blaster rifle very dirty, and dirt or sand in a blaster rifle would jam it up and make it a big plastic stick. Nej stood up, and got into a firing position. One of the enforcers on the speeder, howling at Nej, got hit in the face, throwing his body backwards, and he flew into the sand, awfully dead. Nej hoped his wookie friend was alright.


"Man I didn't even know what hit me!"

 

[Doctor Azure]

Thryk didn't even leave the enforcers time to catch him. He activated his jetpack when he was still ten feet off the ground from the short stop, and he flew straight for the two men on the lead speeder. He made sure to fly so any blaster shots, and even slugs would simply ablate off the light armor under his vest, rather than hit his face.

One guy screamed as Thryk's boots connected with his face. The kid got shoved out of the way as the other guy on the lead bike shifted aim to hit Thryk.

"Who's next?! Come on, you little farks! Give me a real fight!"

[member="Nej Tane"] / [member="Jayce Cadet"] / [member='Jathin Fallin']

 

[Frank "Begs" Jusik]

[member="Nej Tane"] [member="Thryykarr"] [member="Jayce Cadet"]
Jathin couldn't help but grin as the speeder flipped, whoever had laid the trap had done so in a cleverly hilarious way. A few ricochets from the swoops newfound passenger skimmed by before the thing went belly up and a humongous walking carpet launched himself toward their speeders. The enforcer slammed the controls back to reduce the speed, a crash was inevitable with the Wookie incoming. Jathin pulled the boss's kid behind him as the thing attacked a couple of his men before shouting.

Jathin leveled his 12mm (.47) at the Wookie before firing three shots at the creatures chest. Jathin rarely missed. Now the speeder lacked a pilot and was drifting towards the ground and the now grounded swoop.

"This is gonna suck." Jathin mumbled.

 

[SpaceCadet]

[member="Nej Tane"] / [member="Jathin Fallin "]/ [member="Thryykarr"]
Sprinting over towards the swoop as it impacts the sand, Jayce draws one of his DX-13 Blaster pistols. Observing the damage, Jayce can see that there is slight damage to the chassis and engine that he himself can easily repair with scrap metal. Nodding and turning back towards the ship ramp and running he speakings into a commlink with a frequency set to R9-X2. "R9! Power up the engines, and spool the tractor beam systems up! We are taking us a bike yee-haw!" Smirking as he boards his ship, the engines would be spooling up as the fighting around him ensues. The tractor beam emitter would be aimed in towards the general direction of the damaged swoop and smuggler who was thrown off it. Capturing the bike and unknowingly the smuggler with this tractor beam that started to gravitate them into the cargo hold of the "Lucky Lady". Once the two were inside the cargo doors shut, sealing themselves and the rap lifted as the engines began to sound out loud while spooling. The ship lifting off the ground leaving the fight below, it would begin to take off towards the sky rapidly gaining speed. Within moments exiting the atmosphere of the planet, Jayce sat down in the pilot seat as he engaged the auto-pilot feature. "Easy pickings R9, easy pickings." He smirked, placing a cigar in between his top and bottom maulers, and chewing on it. A habit of Jayce.

In space Jayce is confronted by R9-X2, beeping frantically. "What!?!?! What do you mean there is another life form on board?" Jayce frowned at the droid, chewing rapidly on his cigar butt. "Fine, seal the cargo hold doors until I tell you to open them. I'll go inspect this myself" Jayce got up, pressing a button on his personal shield generator in order to spool it up. He moved out from the cockpit towards the cargo area of the ship, his hand on his blaster handle. "Let's see what we got in store..." Jayce thought to himself as the energy shield came over his body, enclosing him in a personal bubble.

 

[Nej Tane]

[member="Jayce Cadet"] was an nerf herder. Seriously, that guy was just a huge nerf herder. Nej was screaming and shouting curses as the speeder was pulled upwards, and him along with it in the sand. Luckily, Nej managed to nab ahold of his slugthrower. He'd probably need it for a little bit, if he could hold onto it. Nej was tumbling around in the tractor beam, and was yanked into the nerf herder's cargo bay. Nej was alone for a while, as he lay on the cargo bay floor. He got up slowly, moving to the side of the door. As soon as the guy walked in, he noticed the personal shield. Then, he smiled, and flicked the safety off his slugthrower. Slugthrowers and personal shields. Personal shields were kind of like open doors for slugthrowers, because shields protected against blasters- not bullets. Nej leveled his slugthrower to the man's head as soon as he walked in.

"YOU GUYS ARE ALL FRACKING NUTS! TAKE ME BACK DOWN TO THE PLANET! FOR THE LOVE OF THE STARS, TAKE ME BACK TO THE STARS BEFORE I BLOW YOUR BRAINS ALL OVER YOUR CRAPPY SHIP! I don't care about that stupid speeder, just get me back to the planet, get me back there! Seriously! You guys are all nuts! Who does that? Who seriously picks up a speeder with a tractor beam on a planet you psycho?!"Nej said, but didn't move his slugthrower from the man's head. Personal shielding would have helped- if Nej was using a blaster. But he wasn't."Oh, and by the way, the whole, you move and you die bit. Seriously, I don't wanna hurt anyone, or get shot, or shoot anyone, or some droid, just drop me back off at the planet. Take the bike, sell it, pawn it, whatever! JUST GET ME THE FRACK OUTTA HERE!"

 

[SpaceCadet]

[member="Nej Tane"]

"Easy there partner, I didn't take you willingly.." Jayce used his left hand middle and index finger to push the aim of the slug thrower away from his body, his right hand reaching to the cigar in his mouth. "Listen, I'll take you where you need to get, just put that damn thing away, nearly gave me a heart attack you." Jayce turned and waved his hand towards Nej for him to follow as he moved towards the cockpit. Sitting down, Jayce looked Nej up and down seeing he was obviously startled. "So tell me what were you doing out in the middle of the desert like that? You know it's dangerous, not only the heat but damn critters." Jayce chewed a bit on his cigar, pulling it out once more to speak to his droid, "R9 bring this man a drink, he must be struck down by the heat." The droid beeped and strolled away as the ship remained in the atmosphere, but was off and far from the location of the fighting. "So where was it you wanted to go? A specific town, settlement, maybe cantina?" Jayce smirked at the mention of a cantina, one of his favorite places to be. "Names Jayce by the way... Jayce Cadet." said Jayce as he took a seat, waiting for refreshments.

 

[Nej Tane]

[member="Jayce Cadet"]

Nej sighed and put the gun down. Obviously, this guy just wanted the stupid speeder. But seriously- WHO PICKS UP PEOPLE WITH A TRACTOR BEAM? Nej hoped that he didn't get super space cancer from the stupid tractor beam. The little droid brought him a water- and Nej obliged with a thank you and a large, disgusting chugging motion. Which lasted several seconds.

"I was just walking along, cause my speeder broke down. I was about fifteen clicks from this little settlement I was supposed to meet someone at."Okay. That was one a lie. He didn't want to tell the space guy about the jewel of the desert or whatever. Whatever the dealer was telling him, anyway. Coulda been anything, really. Nej leaned forward on the hull of the ship, thankful for the water."I'm Nej. Nej Tane."

 

[SpaceCadet]

[member="Nej Tane"]

"Hmm. Well, pleased to meet you Mr.Tane" Grunted Jayce, looking towards the planetary navigation computer. "So what is the name of this settlement?" Jayce searched through the list, "I'm assuming you want to get there now. I was hoping to have someone to talk to for the my trip to Bespin." Jayce sat back in his pilot seat, lifting his legs up onto the console and removing his hand from his head. Placing the hat on his stomach, Jayce chewed on the cigar and stared at Nej, awaiting a response.

 

[Nej Tane]

[member="Jayce Cadet"]



"It's an old settlement, don't know the name of it. Lost to the sands, I guess. Abandoned place. Looking for something and someone there. Sorry bud, but I guess you'll have your little droid to take with you."Nej was still pretty grumpy about well, getting kidnapped. He just wasn't about to shoot the guy. It's not like it was on-purpose kidnapping, it was actually an accidental kidnapping. It happens, believe it or not. Nej was just kinda grumpy about it, but not the 'gonna shoot you in the face' type of grumpy. He sniffed, and then sighed deeply before tapping on the hull.

Nej couldn't wait for that jewel.

 

[SpaceCadet]

[member="Nej Tane"]

Typing into the navigation computer, Jayce grunted while he chewed on his cigar. "Too bad aye." The ship seemed to change direction, now heading back towards the planet surface. "Damn people nowadays, always in such a rush. It's almost like everyone is searching for some big treasure of jewel, and they want to be the first to get it." Jayce smiled to himself, shaking his head at the thought of treasure hunting. The ship kicking up in speed would force the two against the nearest surface to them, the revolutions rising. Within moments they ship would hover over a frequent town for travelers. Turning and descending, the ship revealed it's landing gears and touched down, the ramp following shortly after. Getting up from his seat and pointing to the door Jayce tipped his hat. "Well here we are partner, your stop." Jayce looked at Nej with tired eyes. "Here you will be able to speak to some locals and find out where it is you are heading, also may score you a new ride and some food." Looking out and down the ramp, he would see the busy streets of this desert town, full of a plethora of species. "Oh and a bit of advice, don't go around that Rodian brothel, those Twi'leks are expensive heh. Last time I was there I had a "life changing experience" with one of those pretty girls. Heh life changing for my wallet that is." Chuckling and patting Nej on the shoulder, "Well then off with ya."