Life's a Beach...
The party takes Taren's advice and decides to lay low on
planet Haven. Haven is a smugglers secret. It's a world in
the middle of nowhere that only smugglers and the like know
of. They arrive and are greeted by Mr. Mxil, a Mon
Calamarian who runs what passes for a bar there.
(As he sleeps, his dreams shift, in a swirling mist.
Suddenly a bright point of light flares to life in the
midst of the swirling shaplessness. As he looks at it, it
glows brighter and suddenly bursts with glaring light. As
Janus' vision returns he finds himself standing on a high
cliff surrounded by an ancient looking forest. The cliff
gives way to a pristine lake far below. The sun is out and
shining brightly as a cool wind blows past him. Suddenly he
feels a familiar taint in the force. Janus looks in the
direction of the edge of the ciff to see two people
standing there. One is a young, twenty-ish attractive
female dressed in a very revealing black leather body suit.
She has long brown hair pinned back in a ponytail, and her
beatuiful face is marred only by a hungry look of hatetred
and smugness as she looks apon the other person who she has
trapped, back against the cliff. In her delicate hand is a
deactivated lightsaber. And then Janus comes out of it to find he's still in the beach
house. Janus begins searching the house and eventually finds a book case, like he saw in his vision, in Taren's
bedroom. With a little bit of work, the group figures out that it's a secret door and how to open it. It reveals a set of stairs down into
what looks like a bomb shelter. The first room it opens into has a bunch of comm and holo transmission equipment. A small room off to
the side holds a bunch of weapons, armor, and other equipment. And a third room is found to be another bedroom, much
cleaner than the one upstairs was. They get down there just in time to catch Taren sending a holo message. He tells them
to meet him on Kuat, and from there they will go to Coruscant to go pick up a family member in need. When Janus asks him who,
Taren tells him that it's his mom. Janus' mom has been working as a secretary in the Imperial Navy HQ. She's been passing information back to the Wylds family, who in turn
routed it to the Rebels. She got information that Janus was alive and being hunted and tried to contact her ex-husband. Right after that
she was declared a criminal and traitor to the Empire and had to go underground. Taren wants to bust her off planet. The party gathers what they need and they head for the Kuat system. When they get there, they use one of the
top secret codes that Camara managed to hack from the star destroyer. The code turns out to be Lumiya's. They dress Camara up and give her Janus'
lightsaber and off they go to find Taren. On the way they are stopped by an Admiral who they convince through Camara's disguise and Janus' use of force,
that Kuat will not be attacked by Rebels and that he should loosen security. After picking up Taren, the group preps the ship and heads to Coruscant. On the
way to Coruscant, they send a message to Castile letting him know that now may be a good time to attack the starship yards at Kuat. Once on Coruscant, they manage to track down Janus' mother just in time. She has just been taken prisoner by the Imperials in the apartment building
she was hiding out in. With a quick shoot out, the party manages to eliminate the Imperials inside. Unfortunately, the ones outside hear the noise and call in for
back up. They cut a hole through the wall to the building next to them and escape that way, sneaking out the back door. They hole up in a seedy little bar in the
bowels of Coruscant.
They are directed to Tarens beach house, which turns out
to be a garishly painted, and poorly constructed out of
trees from the jungle and and scrap metal. Inside, isn't
much better. It's an ecclectic mix of high end Corellian
entertainment equipment, and wood carved idols and such
from different tribes of natives from around the galaxy.
All meshed into a junk heap.
The party immediately begins
claiming bedrooms. With Camara taking Taren's. Almost three
weeks later, as they begin to wonder if Taren's ever gonna
show up, Janus gets the following vision.
Janus' Vision.
The other person Janus quickly
reconizes as Taren. He looks like he's seen better days.
His coat carries many rips, tears and burn holes in it. His
white correllian silk shirt has a gaping slash in it to the
left of the stomach region showing a small amount of blood
and a horizonal cauterized cut in his flesh that appears to
have come from a lightsaber. He seems to have at some point
lost his blasters, because their holsters are empty. His
face has a tired and resigned look to it, as if he already
knows the outcome of what is about to happen, but strangely
no fear. He also has a gash running accross his forehead
over the left eye, blood still trickeling down his face,
staining his shirt crimson.
Lumiya glares at him and
says in a superior voice "You may have bought him some
time, but I will find him." Her mouth twists into a
surpressed grin, "Look at you, for all your reputation, the
great criminal Taren Wylds, caught like a bantha waiting
for slaughter. You might as well tell me where he's at."
Her eyes seem to go unfocused for a moment and Janus can
almost feel a kind of reaching from her directed at Taren.
He remains looking at her, impassive even as his right hand
reaches behind him, under his trench coat. Lumiya's face
becomes disgusted and disappointed, as if she didn't find
what she wanted. "No matter, I will pick his trail up
again, and your death will be meaningless you drunken
fool."
Taren's hand appears again from his coat
revealing a light saber. Lumiya looks suprised for a moment
and then begins laughing mirthlessly. "Your no Jedi." She
spits at him cruely. "You don't have the skill to face me
with that, you can barely get your boots on the right feet
you lecherous rear of a bantha."
Taren brings the
lightsaber, still deactivated, to a ready position in front
of him. His other hand, which Janus didn't even see move
into his trench, reveals a small flask which he takes a
swig from and then smiles sweetly at her. "No, I'm no Jedi,
and I may be a drunk and a lecher, but that doesn't change
one simple fact sweetie pie." She seems almost offended at
his choice of reference to her and confused at his actions
as she says in an almost dead voice, "And whats
that?"
Taren drops the point of his saber directing it at
her even as he says "You've just been screwed by Taren
Wylds." His finger presses the activation button and
suddenly theres a large booming sound and a flash of light
from the saber as buckshot rockets from the hilt of the
saber at Lumiya. She starts to throw up her hand as if to
ward it away and then rethinks in a heartbeat and dives for
the ground as the shot pelts and grazes her back. Taren
drops the ruined saber, turns, and takes three quick steps,
then dives off the cliff laughing gleefully. Janus notices
the reflection of the bright sun in the water far below as
Taren falls. The reflection grows brighter and hazier, and
suddenly blinding again. Janus finds himself standing in
darkness, the only thing he can see is a well made, wood
book case. Somehow he feels it beckoning to him.)