The party returned to Elrood after escaping from Derilyn and
met with Paz Nor to pitch him on the spice deal. Paz Nor did not seem pleased
with the deal they had struck with the rebels. To recap, they accepted spice in
return for the weapons they smuggled onto Derylin. The party would get 10% of
sales for transport and Paz Nor would get 10% of the sales for use of his distribution
system. The rest of the money is to be delivered to a rebel agent on Coyn.
Because of the large amount of spice and its high street value, both Paz Nor
and the party stand to gain many, many times the value of the weapons from this
deal. Paz Nor insists that they meet with Lud Chud, head of the crime family,
to explain their actions.
Before leaving for Lud Chud’s hideout the party took care of
some business in town. Kal put out some research requests for information on
the pyramid rumored to be hidden somewhere under Elroodeen and learned that the
pyramid was inside of an artificial hill built for the Lazer Ball Stadium. Old,
pre-burial pictures of the pyramid show that there was a lens on top. The
pyramid may still be accessible through footing inspection tunnels beneath the
stadium. IG-13 put out some feelers to see if he could learn who was leading
the various violent anti-droid groups.
The party traveled, blindly, out to Lud Chud’s hideout, but
Lockett managed to figure out where they were located. The hideout was a large
mound with a tunnel opening, the party could hear the sound of millions of
locusts coming from inside. As they ventured into the tunnel the locust sound
got louder, and they saw Lud Chud, a giant, insect-like creature in the middle
of the hollowed mound. Lud Chud was in the middle of shaking down Jegan Mor, a
brilliant doctor with a gambling addiction. Lud Chud praised them for their
initiative in striking the arms-for-spice deal and floated the idea that the
crime family should take all of the proceeds from the sales instead of
returning any of the money to the rebel agent on Coyn. The party resisted this
suggestion, reminding him that they could form a long term relationship with
the rebel cell on Derilyn that could prove profitable. Lud Chud countered that
at a 10% cut they would need to make 10 runs in order to collect what he could
get from taking 100% of this run, and he had doubts about the rebels’ ability
to survive that long.
That's 10% of 10% Flash
IG-13 came up with a plan where they would force the rebels
to take payment in credit to be spent with Lud Chud and a stipulation that no
item purchased could have more than 90% of its price covered by the credit.
This would force the rebels to spend the credit with Lud Chud and still inject
new cash in every transaction. Lud Chud congratulated IG-13 on the plan,
commenting that he did not know “tools” were capable of such creativity. Lud
Chud instructed them to take Jegan Mor with them and to use his connections
with the Children’s Hospital System to distribute the drugs.
When the party returned to Elroodeen they split up. Anoon
and Lockett went with Paz Nor to The Pit to distribute the spice to the mules.
Caitlin, Tarn, and Neelo worked on modifying the ship. Sal went to the
financial district to make some investments. IG-13 had discovered that a
dentist named Dr. Lester McCoy was the prime instigator of the anti-droid
violence and decided to bug his home and office, Kal and Jegan volunteered to
help.
They accidentally tripped an alarm while attempting to bug
McCoy’s house and had to flee. Kal volunteered to get an appointment with Dr.
McCoy at his office to plant bugs there. Kal managed to plant bugs in the
waiting room and the doctor’s personal office without incident, but had to
endure a terrifying dental procedure to plant the final bug. He escaped
unscathed.
Is it safe?
Sal finished his investment trip and headed back to The Pit, where
Anoon was waiting for the final mule to arrive after Lockett went to help with
the ship.As Sal walked into the bar, Anoon stepped out for a
deathstick, a few minutes later Anoon saw the mule approaching The Pit. He
sensed that something was not right with the mule, he was too clean cut, and
began walking away from The Pit as the mule entered. Anoon let the others know
his suspicions via comlink. Immediately after Paz Nor showed the mule the spice
police encircled the building and began arresting everyone inside,
repulsor-tanks hovered overhead. Sal, deciding that as an imperial deserter
this would not end well for him, decided to make a break for it.
Probably only three of them out there
He dove
through the front window but got hung up in the wires in the glass. After
cutting himself free, he ran full tilt towards the police cordon. Police,
crouching behind their hover car began firing on Sal, landing several hits. As Sal
ran towards the cordon, IG-13 raced towards The Pit in his speeder. He decided
to ram the vehicle that Sal was running towards, killing one of the ISB agents
firing on Sal. As the other ISB agents dove for cover, Sal slid under the ISB
speeder. Jegan, thinking fast, jumped out of IG-13’s speeder, flashed his
medical badge, and began administering first aid. In the confusion Kal and
Jegan managed to get Sal into the speeder and get away.
The party returned to Lud Chud’s lair to report the incident
and inform him that Paz Nor had been arrested. He informed them that he
expected them to step up and take Paz Nor’s place, and that he would have to
eliminate Paz Nor before he could talk. The players decided to head to Coyn
next week to investigate rumors of a pyramid there and deal with the rebel
agent.
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