Duk'k: The Bounty Hunter |
A crackling from his com woke him from his half-slumber.
"Duk'k? DUK'K!!! Get the droids off the ship, pay off the port fees, and lower the lift, we're coming in hot!!!"
It was good to see that the crew's boss, exotic animal broker Ne'vet Aharo, was on top of things. They had landed on this planet for the ship repairs, as well emergency surgery for holo-vid social media star Cousin Rancor, and a replacement leg for the Pretio's main pilot, Sid. Both had brushes with a creatures suffering from a serious, deadly, and violent infection with other creatures and animals. Routine surgery shouldn't have created such a hasty retreat,
Ne'vets Aharo |
Duk'k switched on the Pretio's engines, lowered the lift from the cargo bay, and was escorting the maintenance droids down the ramp of the ship with the Piscopo, a repulsorlift cargo van, came barreling down the concourse and slid onto the lift. Duk'k hit the button for the ramp and dashed back to the cargo hold to ensure the lift worked appropriately.
The Piscopo |
Sqarl |
"Sid" |
Sqarl took Sid to the crew lounge and laid her on one of the cushioned benches with seat belts and strapped her in.
The astromech droid, R2-H8(r) rolled into the lounge and questioned Squarl.
"You know, nothing ever goes wrong in the crew lounge. We still have Cousin Rancor's blood on the floor."
R2-H8(r) |
Evus |
Evus had only climbed the ladder up to the cockpit so his torso was above the floor, but wrapped around his body was a small human girl, no older than four years old.
"Yes, she was the only person we could rescue during our escape. The rest might all be D-E-A-D. She hasn't spoken yet, but I think we can name her Terrie!"
"Were her parents in the hospital."
The little girl's lip quivered even more.
"Okay, we'll talk later. Take her down to the lounge and feed her some space salisbury steak...."
With the hour, little Terri was chowing down on brownies and cobbler, Sid was coherent enough to return to the cockpit, and H8(r) calculated a reasonable jump to a safe location so the crew could regain their focus.
GM Notes: I ran this little bit two weeks after session #101. Hoyce, Duk'k's player had returned from some unfortunate events, so we tried to tie him into the end of that session. Duk'k had originally been part of the field trip on Ubrikkia, but his absence (and some questionable acts by the others) required me to rewrite him to the stay on the ship, rather than Evus. As might be noticed, this whole session was twelve minutes long.
Next: #103 - In Media Res
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