As The Wheel Turns... [SSC]

[Rayliav'enci]

Previously on The Wheel of Fortune...

[member="Kaileann Vera"] found herself in rather rude company who are keen to take her to the bowels of the Wheel, while [member="Connor Harrison"] received an ominous warning about the station's owner down in Dock 19.

[member="Kurayami Bloodborn"] and Raylia find themselves on the wrong end of deal gone bad, their sabers confiscated and their destination unknown as they are steered away from their ship and towards certain trouble.

Spoiler

If you want [member="Valiens Nantaris"], you can continue to DM the encounter for Kaileann and Connor or I can jump in and take over. It's also wide open for anyone else to join in as well.

Raylia didn't betray their private telepathic conversation to the guards around them with a reaction but only because she was used to masking her emotions with a facade of indifference. They walked for a couple more minutes until the turn onto the docking ring made it unavoidably obvious that they were being lead somewhere other than their ship.

<<We'll talk about making this up if we get out of this alive. Just follow my lead.>>

She slowed her steps and stopped so that the guards right behind her were not surprised by her motions. She turned to the commander behind her, a sense of serenity emanating from her.

"Our ship seems to be parked in a different way. If you'd give us our weapons back, we'll happily be on our way."

It wasn't a mind trick so much as she flooded the immediate area around her with empathy, a strange sense of calmness and peace and the feeling that the pair of force users wouldn't hurt a soul. The commander seemed to be taken by the tide of emotion she was pumping out but he blinked and shook his head, clicking off the safety on his blaster.

Raylia sighed. Kark.

She grabbed the barrel, spinning to the right so that when the commander fired, he hit the man behind Raylia. She jammed the butt of the rifle back into the abdomen of the commander, as hard as she could physically manage.

 

[Kurayami Bloodborn]

Kurayami didn't outwardly react to the telepathic conversation. Korriban had kinda gotten him used to voices in his head. Raylia's voice being the only one instead of thousands of whispers at once? Yea, it was a little easier for him to deal with. The turn onto the docking ring solidified her theory that they had indeed been taken in the wrong direction, likely not by accident either.

<<What, you think we really won't make it Ray? These guys are basic guards and unless we run into an actual Sith Lord there shouldn't be much of an issue. We'll work out food once we settle the misunderstanding here, I'm starting to get hungry. Getting shot at too much in a day tends to have that effect on me. You know I'm going to follow your lead anyways, you tend to have less suicidal plans.>>

Kurayami did his best to match her pace as she slowed to a stop. As she turned around he could feel the calm emanate from her in waves. As an empath it was stronger than he had expected from her and given their relationship it was even more potent to him. While not a bad thing usually, if a fight broke out it could slow his reactions just a bit.

"My associate speaks the truth. We have no wish to harm any here, the incidents from earlier were brought upon us and we did only what was needed to survive. We would be more than happy to get our weapons and not even touch them until we were off the station, if you would be so kind."

These were perhaps, the most diplomatic words Kurayami had ever spoken. It was clear he was not cut out for such things. For a short time it seemed as if she had managed to pull it off. The sheer serenity that could be felt was surprising. He nodded his head in recognition of the impressive display. Then a click was heard. The safety of the commander's blaster was off now. Well that went to hell in a handbasket far faster than expected. Raylia's quick actions snapped Kurayami out of the calm state he had been in.

He reached out with the Force and pulled the nearest guard towards him, spinning to the left and slamming his elbow hard into the man's solar plexus. The guard dropped like a brick to the ground gasping for air. A swift kick to the temple knocked him out of commission for the time being. The other guards looked a bit worried and understandably so. He doubted it was every day that this much action took place on the Wheel that involved Force Users of any alignment.

They regained their composure after a couple seconds though and began to move towards the pair. Kurayami just smiled happily. In their state they had forgotten about their blasters. A quick Force pull brought them from their holsters into his hands, he tossed one to Raylia and switched the other to stun firing at the one in front of him. Looked like everyone here was going to feel like they had a bad hangover after this. He took a shot at the commander as well, though it being a snapshot there was a chance he would miss even at this distance.

[member="Rayliav'enci"]