Collan and Niil: Assemble the Militia

[Niil Spaar]

Niil winced as he saw Collan practically fold over the butt of the trooper's blaster rifle.  Malf me, that looked hard enough to break ribs.  Without breaking the speed of his run - he could almost feel the quartet of troopers behind him zeroing in on his back - he trained his blaster on the trooper and fired a pair of shots even as he shouted, "Collan!  Control the pain with the Force!"

[GM Craig]

[OOC: Collan could control pain.]

[Collan]

[ooc: how bad am I hurt?]

Collan winced and remembered his training. He let a breath go and relaxed. He reached/let the Force flow through him, taking his focus off the pain itself, controlling it and guiding his perception of it.

[ooc: control pain...and get out of there]

[GM Craig]

Both shots hit the trooper, and he falls backward over the rail to slide down the side of the hull to a thousand foot drop. But the pause to fire leaves Niil exposed, and blaster bolts shower his position. Thankfully, he is a much clearer target than Collan. Niil gits pinged one, shrugs it off, then gets tagged twice more. These he feels, and is forced down on the other side of the doorway from where Collan is gasping for air.

For his part, Collan reaches deep inside to find that well of peace, and lets the Force bleed away his pain. In moments he is breathing normally again and crawls out of the line of fire on the left side of the doorway.

You can hear the tromp of stormtrooper boots as they close on your position.

[Actions?]

Niil is stunned this round (no actions), and wounded. Collan is wounded x1, but controlling pain (so no stun).

Tactics: With both of you on the deck and in close proximity, you are very vulnerable to a grenade.

[Niil Spaar]

Damn, I thought luck was supposed to favor the underdog! Niil started to focus on the Force to control his own pain, and muttered, "Urgh.  Gimme a few seconds here, Collan.  Get that door shut, would you?  No sense in us chewing on grenades. And let's see if we can get a dustoff here."

[Collan]

We're boned. Was Collan's main thought. He pushed himself backwards with his feet, raised his blaster and took a bead on the door controls. He shielded his eyes from the inevitable sparks and fired.

"Juno! We may need an in flight pick up!"

"Niil! We have at least 16 stormies on the way. I'm guessing from every which way but down...so we need to jump."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil laughed and shook his head despite the pain from the blaster burns.  "If I survive this, you're not getting me on one of these floating bastards again without a jump-pack."

OOC:  Okay, if we're doing a jump/slide with the hopes of trying to land on the Rogue Shadow, Niil might have to use Concentrate next round and sink it into Climb/Jump roll (or whatever's applicable).  Depending on the DC needed to land on the Rogue Shadow without becoming a Jedi flat-cake, that is.   

[GM Craig]

Collan blasts the door controls, and the access hatch slams shut. You hear the ping of several blaster bolts hitting the other side. Collan then makes his call to Juno. He is barely finished that call when you hear synthesized voices above you. "There they are! Blast em!"

With no cover from the blaster shots, Collan and Nill run and hurdle the railing, dropping into a steep slide off the edge of the gun platform. In seconds, you clear the edge of the platform, and enter free fall.

Wind howls in your years, and you need to scream to be heard. If Juno received your communication, you can't hear any response as you hurtle through open space towards the automated factory complexes thousands of feet below you.

[Any actions?]

At this time, you are about 30' apart, spinning at different speeds, with Niil slightly lower than Collan.

You have about 10 seconds to impact.

-1D to all actions due to wind buffeting you.

[Niil Spaar]

What the hell am I doing?  Niil had to use all of his will to clamp down on the fear that was gibbering insanely in his head.  Focus, Niil, or you're going to go splat.  You've seen sky-diving on holovids.  To slow yourself down, stick your arms and legs out and slightly behind you.  To steer, it's all arm motion . . . just like the flaps on an air speeder.  Get control and link up with Collan.

Taking a deep breath and allowing his mind to focus on the logic instead of the fear, he immersed himself in the Force and focused his mind on the task at hand.

OOC:  Using Concentrate and trying to link up with Collan.  What skill would this apply to?  is there a sky-diving skill?  )

[Collan]

Collan likewise tried to link up with Niil and get them strapped together. This was insanely crazy and only the Force would be able to save them. They would hit the ground moving at around 160kmh. Flatcake city.

Unless Collan found a way to decelerate them before impact. Or Juno got there.

By the Force, he hoped Juno go there.

[GM Craig]

OOC:  Using Concentrate and trying to link up with Collan.  What skill would this apply to?  is there a sky-diving skill?  )

It's a DEX based skill, so you can use DEX.

[Niil Spaar]

It's a DEX based skill, so you can use DEX.

Oh, good.   Yeah, Concentrate to boost DEX if I can.  Focusing on linking up with Collan.

[GM Craig]

Both of you try to calm yourselves, ignore the howling wind and the buffeting, and disregard the impending death rushing at you. The wind hits you like physical blows, however, and finding a well of calm under that effect is too difficult. Neither of you are able to bring forth the Force. You still try to manoeuvre together. You both end up coming in too fast. Your hands meet, but you are not able to hang on, and your combined grasp is broken. However, you are closer together now.

Over the howling wind, you hear the sound of starship thrusters, but you cannot see the ship, not can you tell how close it is.

[Actions?]

You are still at -1D to all actions due to wind buffeting.

[Niil Spaar]

Niil didn't bother to think about the ground now; either he and Collan managed to link up and get a hold of the Rogue Shadow within the next few seconds, or they were about to meet a very messy end.  Okay, this time let's not close the distance like a damned TIE fighter.  Slower.  He pushed his legs out a hair or two straighter, and brought in his arms slightly closer to his body.

One small glimmer of hope registered in his mind . . . he could hear the sound of a ship's engines, and assumed that the Rogue Shadow was closing in on them.  Even as he moved toward Collan, he took a precious second or two to look around him in an attempt to spot the ship.

[Collan]

The starship thrusters were just barely audible over the wind in Collan's ears. He'd have smiled but for the buffetting he was taking. Also...no bugs in mouth.

Still...this was getting to be extremely difficult. With his injuries (damned stormie!) and the wind it was too hard to get to Niil. The ground was coming up fast and there weren't a lot of options. This was a multistep exercise...step 1: get Niil and he locked together.

Collan's eyes seemed to lose focus for a moment as his thoughts turned inward to the power of the Force. He let it fill him and his limbs with its strength, light, and vigor. Using its power, he made another attempt to grab Niil and lock on.

[FP. Try to hook up with Niil]