Drugs, Credits, and Blood

Part I

The Dirge of Cerberus departs Ord Mantell for Dantooine with it's crew and passengers. Along the journey the crew socializes with the passengers in their various ways, but isn't able to get much information from the cautious travelers. Astarri Flyn, a Zabrak, seems to be the leader of the group which consists of two male Humans and one female Rodian. Just before they arrive, Nexu is able to convince Astarri that he was supposed to pay them for transport, though Randyl has specifically said otherwise, and he gives her 500 credits.

Once they arrive at Dantooine, they see an Imperial capital ship in orbit around the city, and it's soon revealed that the planet has an Imperial Garrison on it. Though Jet is able to get the ship into orbit without being noticed by the capital ship, in his attempts to fly low he stumbles across the Imperial Garrison itself. When the ship doesn't quickly ground itself, the base fires their Ion Cannon, but doesn't cause enough damage to prevent The Dirge from escaping the base. A group of TIE Fighters pursues, but the crew is able to destroy them before they cause much damage. However, once again as Jet tries to stay low to the planet to avoid detection, he finds himself attempting to navigate unexpected canyons and rock structures, this goes poorly and a series of collisions eventually leads to The Dirge crash landing into the planet. Before the Imperials find them again, they get the ship airborne and into a hiding place in a nearby forest. They complete their drop of Astarri and his companions here, and wait out a few Imperial patrols during the night before making their escape from the planet. Though the see more Imperial patrols, they successfully outrun them and jump into hyperspace bound for Coruscant.

The Dirge lands at a public spaceport on Coruscant and arrives without incident. On the surface, Jet negotiates with a protocol droid for ship repair rates and to avoid a customs inspection, he successfully avoids the inspection and gets a reasonable rate for Cerberus to perform ship repairs. (Dirge: 10 Hull Damage, Level 3 Critical - Engines Damaged) The group also makes contact with Randyl who is too angry with their conning of Astarri for 500 credits to even complain about their current location on Coruscant. (Group Obligation to the Alliance is not reduced as a result.) Then the group gets the drop location for their package from Janos Holgor, deliver to a Duro named Dagmar at a repair shop in the Coruscant underworld. Jet and Nexu rent an airspeeder to make the drop while Cerberus works on the ship, though they have some trouble navigating the Coruscant streets they arrive at the repair shop. They enter and find themselves surrounded by rough looking thugs, none of whom outright claim to be Dagmar. The thugs look over the package, which the group sees is a shipment of drugs, and takes possession.

With the drop complete Nexu calls Janos and gets his information on Boskone. Janos sold Boskone an Incom A-36 Pathfinder-Class Force Recon Vessel called The Black Sun which Boskone was specifically after for a journey into The Unknown Regions planet of Ilum.

Given the remote location of Ilum in the Unknown Regions, the group agrees that the ship needs repairs prior to attempting a journey to Ilum, they head back to Ord Mantell to find good paying work and let Randyl know their intentions. When they arrive on Ord Mantell, Jet and Nexu contact Cormin Tachi, Doja's right hand man, for some work. They end up assigned a mission to eliminate a rival drug gang and turn over any confiscated contraband, Cormin will pay 10,000 credits for a successful mission with a possible bonus depending on the amount of drugs turned over.

After their meeting with Tachi, they contact Randyl who reveals that he knows Raena Coral, and they should contact her for work. Raena offers the group a mission, apparently more trusting of them with Randyl vouching for them, and assigns a mission to pick up a plant from Ithor and deliver it to a religious sect on Dathomir, paying 3000 credits for the successful completion. Surprisingly to Nexu, Raena also agrees to dinner with Jet, though she invites the entire crew of The Dirge to Jet's dissatisfaction.

While Jet prepares for dinner with Raena, Nexu starts their mission in searching for the rival drug gang, starting at the spaceport that Cormin pointed them towards. The drug smugglers rotate ships frequently enough even Cormin does not know what vessel to look for, so Nexu starts by talking to a street level drug dealer nearby. She bullies him into giving up his dealer once she realizes he is too lowly to have any good info. With an address to a drug safehouse, she boldly knocks on the door and proceeds to threaten the thugs inside. Finding them uncooperative, a fight breaks out. Nexu quickly kills the doorman, but when 6 more thugs arrive as backup a long and bloody battle ensues within the safehouse. Eventually Nexu kills the 6 thugs, but she hears two more make an escape out the back door. She searches and loots the place, finding only a little bit of drugs, and credits, along with a few weapons and the comlink of the doorman. She returns to The Dirge with her loot to Jet's surprise.

Raena, Jet, Nexu, and Cerberus go to dinner, where the group finds out more about their mission to Ithor and Dathomir as well as Raena's relationship with Randyl Khan. The two are old friends and it becomes clear that Raena is a fellow Alliance sympathizer.

Experience Awarded: 20

Part II

The group starts out by selling the loot that Nexu picked up from raiding the drug safe house previously, and goes about contacting another local junkie which leads them to another local dealer. Nexu and Jet head to the corner to question the dealer while Cerberus works on repairing the ship. On the corner, they meet Slick Eddy who they start buying drugs from and discover he has abnormally low prices, before the suddenly back out of the deal and confess that they work for Doja and were just testing his loyalty. Slick Eddy takes offense, and suddenly they find themselves in a shootout in the streets with Slick Eddy and his gang. Nexu and Jet engage in a bloody battle in the streets, and narrowly escape the police afterward, but make it back to the shipyard with Slick Eddy's datapad and comlink.

Analyzing the datapad they discover that Slick Eddy worked for Doja, but had a pickup with a different unidentified dealer the next day. Later that night, Slick Eddy's comlink chirped and a man named Jazzy Jeff demanded a meeting with who he thought was Slick Eddy immediately. To Jet's surprise, Nexu successfully impersonated Slick Eddy and set up a meting at the Hyperdive Cantina, the same cantina that Slick Eddy's meeting for the next night was set up for.

When they arrive, Jet goes into the bar to scope it out, while Nexu goes around back to spring an ambush and Cerberus watches the front door. Unfortunately, as Nexu waits to spring her trap out back, Jet takes a direct approach with the already on edge Jazzy Jeff, and a shootout breaks out in the bar before anyone has time to set up a trap. Cerberus joins the fray while Jet takes cover behind the bar, and eventually Nexu arrives to finish off Jazzy Jeff with her vibro-knife. When they return to the ship and break into Jazzy Jeff's datapad, they discover that he works for Doja as a collector.

Experience Awarded: 20

Part III

After selling what they had collected from their previous fights with the drug gangs of Ord Mantell, the crew waited around until the time of Slick Eddy's arranged meeting with an unidentified supplier at The Hypderdive Cantina. They arrived early and scoped the place out, with Jet staying outside as the most recognizable member from the previous night's fiasco. They didn't have much initial luck, and Nexu too was told to exit the far once she was recognized. They catch a break when Slick Eddy's comlink chirps and Jet spots a man watching from an apartment across the street.

Though Jet is spotted, he looses the thugs in the crowd which allows Cerberus to ambush them and gun them down in the street. Meanwhile, Nexu sneaks up the fire escape of the apartment building, but is heard before she can enter. A fight breaks out between Nexu, another group of thugs, and the apparent supplier. The prolonged battle lasts long enough for Cerberus to join in and swing the tide in their favor, with Nexu eventually cutting the man's face off before Cerberus gets the final blow. Unfortunately, the prolonged and public combat draws fast attention from the police who join the fray despite Jet providing a distraction. The police who enter the building stun Nexu, but are gunned down by Cerberus; while the officer who stays outside with Jet is eventually gunned down in the street as well.

A chase ensues as Jet takes out with Nexu's unconscious body, hoping to draw police attention away from Cerberus who continues to investigate the apartment and recover the body of the supplier. Jet is successful in drawing the attention away from Cerberus, who is able to escape the scene with the body of the supplier, his personal equipment including datapad, and a sizable stash of Booster Blue. The chase itself does not go as well, Jet attempts to loose the cops in the underworld of Ord Mantell, but just as they reach the shadowy areas of the city the numerous crashes the police forced upon Jet and Nexu's speeder causes it to crash and burn. Though Jet is still healthy enough to run, he finds a locked door and is stunned by the pursuing police.

Both Jet and Nexu wake up in Police HQ where they are questioned thoroughly by the police. While both Jet and Nexu maintain their innocence, through a series of fortunate circumstances, and by willingly throwing Jet under the bus Nexu comes away from the situation with relatively minor charges. With the help of a lawyer, she is able to make bail. Spending the remainder of her 400 credits, and putting a 600 credit lean against The Dirge. Jet on the other hand is pinned with the death of all 4 police officers, among other crimes, and is still being held at Police HQ awaiting trial. His bail is set at 100,000 credits. Both trials are scheduled to take place the following week.

Experience Awarded: 20

Part IV

Jet calls Raena from prison now that bail is set, and first tries to explain his innocence, which is mostly unsuccessful, though she does eventually agreed to spring him from jail. Raena picks Jet up from prison and they have a semi-awkward drive back to the spaceport. Meanwhile, Nexu spends the morning scouting out Dexen Lavar's partner (Bejo) where their ship is docked. Once the group convenes back on The Dirge together, they agree the best course of action is to complete Doja's mission and ask for a favor to help with their legal trouble.

They put a rotating watch on Bejo's ship at the starport, and after a quiet night, Jet spots Bejo and his crew leaving the spaceport with a suspected haul of product. He trails the group, but his cab is spotted following the drug lord, and when they pull over to park, Jet realizes he is being followed by another car. He uses the force to aid in intimidating the cab driver over the cab fee, and tries to blend into the crowd, but soon finds himself pursued by a group of four thugs. Cutting through a Bantha Burger restaurant, and a series of alleyways Jet loses the group and meets up with Cerberus and Nexu. They had back to where Jet last saw Bejo, and find his van is still there. While hot wiring Bejo's van they encounter the thugs who previously chased Jet and gun them down.

Jet keeps the van running while Cerberus and Nexu exchange gunfire with thugs in the house that Bejo entered. After the first round of gunfire, Nexu bursts through the front door but finds another group is inside and waiting for them, including Bejo. A long, bloody gunfight breaks out between the two forces and nearly turns against the crew when Cerberus' leg is blown off by Bejo's gunfire. However, when Bejo's own arm is blown off the tide turns back in their favor and they are able to overwhelm Bejo and his crew, eventually taking Bejo unconscious but alive. They flee the scene before the cops arrive, laying low in an abandoned warehouse until the heat blows over.

They set up a meeting with Cormin Tachi, and discover it to be at one of Doja's casino/pleasure palaces. After going around back they meet directly with Doja and Cormin, turning the bodies of the rival drug lords over as well as the reclaimed drugs. Cormin is pleased with their work, despite some collateral damage, and agrees to up the reward to 15,000 credits. Jet separately brings up his pending legal trouble, and Cormin agrees to help, not for credits however, but for a favor to be named later. Nexu capitalizes as well, rather than leave her fate up to Ord Mantell's fickle law system.

The group spends several days recovering their bodies, as well as finishing the repairs to The Dirge and fencing the various gear they had accumulated as well as spending some of their hard earned credits. Nexu's lawyer contacts her and tells her that her charges had been dropped to a misdemeanor that carried essentially no penalty, other than a small legal fee. Jet on the other hand is contacted by a lawyer affiliated with Doja and told he will have to stand trial but has little to worry about. When the date rolls around, Jet finds that the prosecution is unable to find any witnesses to his crimes, other than the stolen police car. With the lawyer slick arguments, he is acquitted of all murder charges and is only convicted of stealing the police cruiser which is negotiated down to a misdemeanor with a stiffer legal fee than Nexu paid.

Experience Awarded: 20