To Catch a Predator (LA4)

[Col. Hala Moraal]

Devoid of their escort, Col. Moraal navigated to the crappy tenement a helpful Quarren had indicated the Rodian peeping tom could be found. She made a circuit of the block to identify all the doors then went back to the main staircase while she waited for Lord Vreysk to arrive.

[Shaisha Vreysk]

Shaisha appeared from the other side of the block, having checked that side while Hala observed the other.

"We do not seem to have drawn any suspicion."

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D4 LA Bounty Hunting w/Hala. Survival/Cunning. 1B from assist, 2B from prior roll: 4eA+3eB+3eD 3 successes, 1 advantage

[Col. Hala Moraal]

"After you, my lord?" Hala said, opening the door for her then proceeded to the apartment listing.

"We're looking for a 'Tweede Enze'" she muttered, tapping through a flickering terminal until she found the name, "He's up on the third floor, room 314"

She traipsed up the requisite number of flights, hissing softly every so often as her right shoulder spasmed or ached, until they reached the landing. She slowed, her boots barely ringing off the fake wood decking meant to make this clearly dilapidated crash pad look fancy. It came off as cheap and tawdry instead.

"310..... 312..... 314....." she said, taking a breath before she knocked.

"Tweede? Tweede Enzo?" she said, knocking on the door, "Tweede, get the kriff out here you bloody mess."

There was a clattering inside but seconds later the door cracked open and a blinky, tired Rodian face emerged through the slit.

"What'd want?" he answered back, his fingers curling around the door slightly to prevent it from being shoved open.

"You're Tweede Enzo?" answered the older woman before her voice lost any warmth in it at all, "I want you..... I want your tapes. The one of that Alderanean girl? You know.... you had to have known.... you must have seen it go up on the cortex? Knew that someone would come to collect them.... give them to me and I can protect you. Someone else, the next person? It did not take me long to find you... It will not take them long either. And they will not ask nicely. They would not even pay you, give you a retainer.... they will probably just give you a blaster burn in the middle of your chest and a footprint on your forehead as they step on your cooling corpse on the way over to get what they want.... all you need to do is hand over the tapes and come with me. I will get the job taken down and we will see you settled.... what do you say? Come quietly, and your life improves."

His buggy, beady little eyes got wider and wider as she spoke.

"No!" he squeaked, "I can't! Hutts kill me if I work for someone else! No, no I can't."

He began muttering and walking back to the door, terrified enough that he forgot to lock it. Hala sighed softly and glanced at the Sith next to her.

"Unfortunate... My lord, would you mind silencing him?"

Bounty huntin' with Shaishai/Bounty - coop for Deception: 3eP+1eA+3eD 2 failures, 3 advantage


(( failed non-lethal, so let's escalate. You lucked out Nekoinu! +1 boost to Shaisha's lethal fallback ))

[Shaisha Vreysk]

Climbing the stairs left Shaisha barely winded, but then again, she was also a young woman in her physical prime. She let Hala lead the talks, as she kept an eye out for any potential interlopers, as well as readying herself for trouble. It didn't seem like Tweede was going to come quietly.

"A pity." Shaisha said calmly, it was a waste of a potential tool after all, and quickly burst through the door

The concealed Shoto lightsaber appeared in her hand and ended the Rodian's life before he had the time to cry out for help. His collapsing body slumped against her and she casually kicked him off of her. And the lightsaber went quiet again.

"Could've been useful, but that's the way it is."

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D4 LA Bounty Hunting w/Hala. Lightsaber/Cunning. 1 Boost Shoto, 1 Boost from Advantage, 1 Boost from Hala's assist: 2eP+2eA+3eB+3eD 3 successes, 3 advantage

[Col. Hala Moraal]

"Indeed.... he had some skill. Sadly, not enough ambition to overcome his fear. Had I known that, perhaps we could have compensated, but that was only a secondary concern...."

Hala began sorting through the collection of tapes and holovids. Once she identified the ones that Celna was involved in, she began making copies. Pocketing the copies and originals, she took a picture with her pad of the remaining tapes and disks strewn around the workbench. The before image taken, she then slipped a tiny blaster from inside the sleeve of her arm and began indiscriminately firing into the pile and the computer terminal. Handiwork accomplished, she took another image of the scorched and burned ruins of Tweede's life's work.