Thursday, November 15, 2007

To Rodia!

They've got a bead on a Dalt base that he hid on Rodia. Over drinks, they talk about heading there next, and also discuss the possibility of prophecies being involved in all this somehow, considering the Skywalker seal keeps turning up in a significant position.

Suddenly Kedrihm'Val reaches up and catches a dart, right in front of Ree's face. Ree spots some people out front hastily climbing into a vehicle--probably the culprits. Ree and Z catch up to the guys and discover they're hired bounty hunters: hired by Thule to pursue the seals of Ree, Dalt, and one other. Z pillages the armor of one of the hunters.

Next morning, the Abindosani curse-taint-thing is particularly active, and Kedrihm'Val coughs up black sludge. This happens to his people now and then, so he's not particularly worried. Oola spots a listening device under their usual table at the eatery, however, which clues them in that maybe they'd better get there before their enemies do.

So they've got a bounty put on them by Thule, and they're going to visit a planet populated by an entire race of bounty hunters. This should be exciting.

Actually, the Rodians don't give them much grief. Possibly they're smarter than to tackle an alert Jedi when everybody knows where she is, or maybe Rodians aren't keen to help a fleet of bad guys who're invading their galaxy.

anyway, when they get to it, Dalt's base is on security lockdown, and the place is trashed. There's a secret panel that's been wrenched open via the Force, and a sense of residue from Force-attuned objects inside--probably where Dalt had been keeping the other seals, but they're gone now.

The only thing they find intact is a kind of command chair sitting in the center of a command center/lab area. It has been used recently...by Drath, Ree can sense, and the chair is hooked into something...the Oracle at Pelgrin! Dalt built himself his own farseeing chair. Who knows what visions Drath got with it? Luke's interested in the chair when they tell him about it.

Now it becomes doubly important to find the rest of the medallions, along with any duplicates they may have. What's more, Oola digs up some information that indicates Ree's got family in the Tapani sector, in House Pelagia. They'd better head there and check things out.

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