How's the accommodations? [EM, D7]

[Dapper Dog]

OOC: you can do Enhance you are going to need a maneuver for the lightsaber.

[Layne Hoshin]

((understood, guessing baras goes first))

[Dapper Dog]

Darth Baras keeps his weapon lowered and raises a hand as lightning arcs out towards Layne, “Show me your desire for power!”

Purple lightning lances out towards Layne sizzling her form.

OOC: Darth Baras is at Short range, uses Unleash and suffers a strain for a total of 12 wounds done and has Adversary 3 and Defense 3 increased to Defense 4 for Melee Defense.

Darth Baras Unleash: 4eP+1eA+2eD+1eS+3eF 4 successes, 1 advantage, 3 Light Side, 2 Dark Side

[Layne Hoshin]

Layne was already moving toward Baras when the lightning struck her; and though the pain was immense she bit on through and allowed momentum to propel her forward. Soon enough, the force's assault on her body ceased, and she unhooked and activated her lightsaber.

"Laynebot!" She yelled, too distracted to be annoyed by the name. "Get in here!"

And then their lightsabers clashed, Layne had indeed learned a lot. Enough to get past her master's defenses after the weapons clashed a few times. And that in itself, perhaps, was enough to inspire some fear.


Lightsaber! DESTINY, 2 setback ignored from mod+blade of woe: 4eP+2eC+1eD+2eS 2 successes, 1 Triumph

Critical: 1d100 89

((Layne suffers 6 wounds after soak, takes 2 strain for additional maneuver, inflicts 11 wounds before soak; 1 free advantage from curved hilt to critical: Compromised, Increase difficulty of all skill checks by one until the end of the encounter. Triumph used for Laynebot! Procs Fearsome 2))

Defense: 1
Soak: 6
Wounds: 8
Strain: 4

[Dapper Dog]

Baras clashes with Layne their blades crackling with each contact and even as she finds advantage he quickly deflects the blade away from his vital regions but still suffers a a distracting sizzling laceration to his shoulder.

Her Master hisses, “Good… you have grown strong indeed.”

He is a cunning fighter as the Layne-Bot activates and charges into battle. He easily raises his weapon to counter the strike and then begins an assault on Layne with finesse and precision each strike probing her defenses, until he finds an opening and exploits it to deadly effect.

He disarms his apprentice and catches her blade in midair igniting it and says, “You think you are my equal?”

The droid clashes with Darth Baras who finds a way to reduce the damage to something far less lethal and then the cunning Sith takes advantage of the droid’s eagerness and knocks it flat with a kick and a shove through the force.

OOC: Baras knows no fear. 3 advantage to disarm, spending 2 advantage for a free maneuver to grab her weapon and the Triumph to critical her. He does a total of 13 wounds, Breach 1. Layne Bot hits for 11 wounds, Parry used to reduce that to 5 wounds and then the bot is knocked prone and grants Baras a boost die against it.

Baras suffers 5 wounds after Parry and has suffer 5 strain.

Darth Baras Fear check: 4eP+1eA 2 successes, 3 advantage


Darth Baras Fear check: 2eD 0 successes, 3 threat


Darth Baras - Lightsaber + Aim: 5eP+1eA+2eB+3eD+1eS 4 successes, 5 advantage, 1 Triumph


Layne-Bot vs. Baras: 2eP+1eA+2eC+1eD+3eS 3 successes, 4 threat

[Dapper Dog]

OOC: Baras Critical: 1d100+30 35 - Stunned target is stunned till their next turn.

[Layne Hoshin]

"Fuck you!" She spat as her saber clashed and clashed with that of Baras, before he completely overwhelmed her. She got knocked flat on her back, and though she momentarily looked like she'd take out her other lightsaber and retaliate, she instead collapsed to the floor.

((at precisely 17 out of 17 wounds after Soak, Layne still had a critical, so the critical injury inflicted would have been bowled over instead))

[Dapper Dog]

Layne comes to with Ensign Reshir stabbing a stim-pack into her. Bars sits in a chair using the force as her dark-saber floats above his palm. He says, "Leave us."

Ensign Reshir leaves quickly.

[Layne Hoshin]

Why was she not dead? She should be dead. Slowly, Layne sat herself up, checking to see if her shoto was still in place as she looked at Baras with a mixture of anger and uncertainty, a quick glance was also spared to see if Laynebot was still intact.

((12 wounds))

[Dapper Dog]

It was in two neat pieces and Daz peaked from the doorway... a mixture of horror and fascination.

"You are confused," Baras says. "Your life and your death belong to me. I am your Master, and I will decide the moment of your passing when it suits me. You flirt with the Light, and it did nothing to aid you. Only through me will you achieve your true Destiny."

[Layne Hoshin]

"I don't belong to *anyone*," she hissed, still defiant.

[Dapper Dog]

Darth Baras says, “You are either my apprentice, or you are not.”

[Layne Hoshin]

"And to not be your apprentice is death," she spat, "right?"

[Dapper Dog]

"You would lose everything I have given, I offer you a chance to walk away with nothing. Then I will find you and kill you for this betrayal if you walk away from me," he says calmly.

"The alternative is to serve me with diligence and be my second when I achieve my Destiny."

[Layne Hoshin]

"I almost killed you today... master," she said as she stood up. "And there's people stronger than than me who would see you dead before this destiny of yours is achieved."

[Dapper Dog]

“You can labor under your delusions Layne, strength is not just in the lightsaber. You wounded me,” he admits dryly.

“I did not get this far simply because I was the strongest fighter, apprentice. Power is more than simply dominating your enemy is destroying them with a word, crushing their dreams from afar, and having them fear what would happen if you did die.”

“Attack me again, and I will show you no quarter. You are a skilled fighter, but I am your superior.”

[Layne Hoshin]

She gritted her teeth, considering her options, trying to sense his feelings; to no avail.

Without Laynebot, there was no chance she'd manage to defeat him, considering he'd probably had some medical attention while she was unconscious. And Daz would be useless in a fight right now.

So she relented. At least on the surface.

"...What is your will, master?"

Yet she was already considering running away from all this. The Republic perhaps. Or somewhere neither Sith nor Jedi could find her. The faintest of hopes.

[Dapper Dog]

OOC: Deception check versus 5 challenge dice.

[Layne Hoshin]

Deception: 2eA+5eC 3 failures, 1 threat, 1 Despair

[Dapper Dog]

He stares at Layne and says, “You hate me… you are poor liar and a poor apprentice but this rage, this ambition to defeat me will make you stronger. Nurse that hatred… the weakness you felt before your inevitable defeat and turn it into a virtue.”

Darth Baras rises still balancing the darksaber with the Force and says, “I do not fear you or your anger towards me. I don’t care for blind loyalty, Layne. I only need you to serve my goals, you fight for me and you will be rewarded. Betray me and I will end your life in agony.”

OOC: Despair activated. Layne suffers 4 wounds and another Critical Injury (Average)

She feels a tightness around her throat and she lifts off the ground and great pain rips through her body. “I can teach you to become more than you are Layne, I did not choose you as my apprentice because I expected your blind faith. You know pain, you have suffered it and prevailed. You are good material for a successor. I do not like wasting good material.”

“I do not like repeating myself either. You have the potential to be the strongest of Sith… I have foreseen it. Of my apprentices I have seen you to be the first among them. Do you wish to rule and change the Empire for the better or be a petulant child and nothing more than a footnote.”

She is still floating with agony coursing through her.

[Layne Hoshin]

Today was not a good day for Layne. As the force lifted her up from the ground she could not help but claw at the imaginary hand around her throat while Baras rambled on and on. When would the pain stop?

[Dapper Dog]

He releases his grip and says, “Remember this, Layne. I have shown you a rare mercy.”

“Clean yourself up, you have work to do.”

[Layne Hoshin]

She coughed and gasped for air once released; then looked at Baras again.

"And what work will I..." another cough, "... be doing today?"

[Dapper Dog]

“Compose yourself, I need you to root out a cell of Magpie’s agents, Jaina has rooted out the others, I leave this task to you,” he says.

“Finish this task to my satisfaction.”

He moves her darksaber within reach of her hands. He says, “I sense your confusion, choose your next steps carefully, Layne.”

[Layne Hoshin]

She grabbed the darksaber and clipped it to her belt before giving a half-assed nod.

"It'll be done," Layne said.