In for a penny...

[Lanta Rosa]

Lanta was very wary; he had strayed up as far as he could manage, it was a long way from civilized but it was better than the murder trap of the depths. Managing to get to the Red Light sector was hard but he had managed it now. Still without credits to his name he did worry a bit, but before anything else he needed rest. He sat down on a street corner, leaning against a wall as he closes his eyes, his pipe he used as a weapon on his lap, he just breathed slowly and tried to relax, wondering what sorts of people would be around.

 

[Serana]

[member="Lanta Rosa"]

The undercity fo Coruscant was a dark and dan gerous place if you were not careful she she was like a leaf on the wind and they were watching how she soared towards it. Allowing the jedi herself to land and walk around.. hard to deny the alient thing so she didn't even try when going into the bars to watch and try to help what people she could. Coruscant itself might never be free of crime but they could do as needed to better ensure that the people, the citizen's of the galaxy would have something safer in the galactic center. If she got lucky she might even find some of the lost souls, the neglescted padawan potentials.

 

[Lanta Rosa]

Lanta then heard a commotion nearby, following the sounds he encountered a group of gang members stood over a cowering and quivering person on the floor, not a local from the looks of them either. He approaches the group, hood up as he speaks, putting on a quaver in his voice "Please spare some change." he says, moving towards them until he was close enough, whirling his pipe out he beats two of the four over the head immediately knocking them out as the other two draw vibroknives, cutting clean through the pipe. Lanta looks down at it and chuckles nervously, tossing the remains of it at one of them, hitting perfectly to knock him out as Lanta sprinted out the alley, chased by the furious gang member shouting about all the ways he would end Lanta

 

[Serana]

[member="Lanta Rosa"]

She heard soemthing, a fight an incident and was movign quicklyk, running on all four hooves while her saber came to her horn and didn't activate just yet. Instead the jedi was reaching out with the force and allowing her mind to reach the ones she could sense was causing the problems. "What is going on here?" She said it while standing there and looking around, being tall and regal looking helped... also talking horse... She got some looks but spoke using the force itself as she spoke. "Jedi business move along." She stayed there with a look on her face that told them to go but she was using the force to kep the ones who had been attacking here. "What is going on here?"

 

[Lanta Rosa]

It took Lanta quite a while to realise he wasn't moving, and even longer to figure out what was causing it; the crook behind him seemed just as confused until the creature spoke to them, he laughs "Jedi business. This area is none of your jedi business love. It's just what we in the know call a credit dispute. See we run this part of town, and folks need to be paying us for protection. My hooded escapee here was interrupting us while we were collecting. And we also know he's responsible for disrupting our factories in the lower levels, so if you would let us go I'll finish dealing with him." Lanta doesn't speak, preferring to think of a way out of this, and also very confused at the creature that was holding them.

 

[Serana]

[member="Lanta Rosa"]

Standing there as she looked at them with a look the jedi master released the hooded man. "Stay and talk with me." She looked at him but was focusing the force around them into a bubble of stasis while her throat showed a communications device. She was signaling with a small vibration to her throat. She was signaling for a small security team. "I think shaking down people will be an important thing to explain to the security officers when they get here." She looked at them and then back to the one they were working to attack. "Now you tel me what has been happening and we will be working to try and fix it."

 

[Lanta Rosa]

[member="Serana"]

Lanta blinks, taking a few moments to take it all in, he was just grabbed by nothing as was the other person, now he was moving but his attacker wasn't and now this strange creature was speaking to him. "What has been happening? Just life down here. It's kill or be killed even at these levels it seems. I come from a few hundred levels down and am responsible for tearing down /this/ man's spice factories and disrupting his blaster distribution so I would assume what's happening here is that he is here to try to take revenge for that. It's the way things work here. We're overlooked by most security teams so people like this man offer protection for a price. And I offer protection for free." He taps his hand three times against his coat. "This is strange. I can move now. You just a hallucination yeah?" he asked Serana, scratching his head

 

[Serana]

[member="Lanta Rosa"]

"No I am a jedi." She said it like it answered everything and she didn't like hearing that this far down there wasn't as much in terms of security. THey had a great many things to take care of but the jedi master herself was walking now when they finally arrived. To take them away and leaving some fo the security droids here. THey might be able to make some small difference for now while she motioned with her head walking to the sound of her hooves clopping. "Well I can't leave the place easily. The danger down here will need to be addressed even if it is only a report to request aid." She was moving with it and her mane flowed in the underground breeze. "Come if you can, please explain it to me human. My name is Serana."

 

[Lanta Rosa]

"And what exactly is a jedi?" he asks, walking along with her nonetheless as he picked up another discarded pipe from the floor, giving it a few swings and putting it in his coat. He laughs a bit "I don't see any danger around here. Besides, this place has always been like this, nobody down here can recall actual peace. Especially not down where I was originally. It's just what happens when you sweep that much under the carpet. The gangs control each sector and nobody leaves without a big enough body count or a lot of blood credits. Neither of which folks like me get." he dodges to the left as a rock flies past his head, regaining his stride again "You just gotta keep your wits about ya."

 

[Serana]

[member="Lanta Rosa"]

She was looking at him and surprised but understood.. Coruscant while having a large jedi presence... didn't always get down into the deeper levels and deeper down you encountered creatures. "A jedi is a peace keeper, they work to try and help the people." She said it and moved her head with a wing tucking in when the rock went by. "But the jedi are not as numerous as the people and spread thin across the entire galaxy. Sadly there are places that fall through the cracks of our notice for a time." She said the last part but was looking at it and had come down here for a purpose. "The force guided me down here though so there must be a reason why I am here."

 

[Lanta Rosa]

"Peacekeepers huh? You've been missing down here a while then. Only person keeping people safe down on my level is me." he shrugs, adjusting his hood "Still, must be an interesting job, travelling around, seeing other places, seeing the sun." he listens to her speaking about the force, not understanding that he decided to hazard a guess anyway "Same force that held me in place I'm guessing? Hm wonder what anything could want from these depths. Bounty hunters picked most of the caches clean already."

 

[Serana]

[member="Lanta Rosa"]

She stopped and looked at him spreading her wings for a moment. "Well I am here now." Looking at it and then looking at him so she could be around. bringing her wings back in. "The undercity fo Coruscant has been neglected for far to long, if there is a place to help then I shall try and help within it." She saw resolved to help it was the will of the force and she could touch all of the minds here, feel the emotions and the despair compared to many of the places when the jedi master herself though came to a door that wasn't automated. "Can you get the door, I'd do it but I don't have thumbs to get the handle." She said it with a look that was close to a smile until she wondered. "Yes the force is what I was using, it is an energy field that goes to all living things."

 

[Lanta Rosa]

"Well all the best of luck to you for trying the impossible I guess. You can help some people but most in these parts are just cruel and dark. Some crazed person was running around with a red glowing stick the other day, can't remember which level but I left them to it." they come to the door, he looks it over, noting the rusted handle he tries it, when it didn't budge he took out his pipe, bringing ut down onto the handle to break it off, picking up a piece of debris from nearby to replace the handle he twists it, opening the door, he holds it open "After you and your force then."

 

[Serana]

[member="Lanta Rosa"]

She was looking at him and bowed her head in thanks going through the door. Eyes going back and forth when she stood there able to really spread out and get her full wingspan with people standing clear. The force moving her saber to her saddle bag and the wing going over it like a flap, her tail swishing back and forth, her mane rustling in the breeze before she was checking on some of the different parts all around them. She moved with the force an apple from her pack and was looking over it before pulling it apart. "Here eat." She said it and brought the one half to her mouth and started chewing with a full toothed presentation. Her version of a smile.

 

[Lanta Rosa]

He walks through the door, crouching slightly to get through it nicely. Once through he stays behind the strange lady, watching her wings adjust themselves and perhaps stretch. She was certainly an impressive creature, he'd give her that much, a unique set of shapes that he didn't see in many sentient races. Then she handed, or well floated half an apple to him, he takes it with a grubby hand, bringing it up to his nose to smell before taking a bite once he was sure it was safe to eat.

 

[Serana]

[member="Lanta Rosa"]

She had her attention on him as he ate but continued to chew and lead the way through. She wanted to know as much as she could about this area and could see the shaft, one of the massive shafts here on Coruscant that went from the top to the bottom and it could last for hours if you fell into it. The Del-Ya was curious about a few things though before she looked up. "So come on, lets keep going, we'll see about getting more help down here hopefully and help out the peoples." Her head though turned to look at him. "And you can tell me more about yourself, I want to get to know you in case I ask you to be my padawan."

 

[Lanta Rosa]

Lanta wraps the apple in a rather dirty looking cloth after one bite, putting it into his pocket as they arrive at the shaft, one of the titanic pits that apparently ran all the way to the surface of the planet and the highest levels, and of course a major obstacle, unless you knew what you were doing of course. Sadly Lanta wasn't this weird leggy creature, and so didn't kniw what they were doing, he looks to her "So you want to what, cross over this thing yeah? Or climb?"

 

[Serana]

[member="Lanta Rosa"]

"That would take a long time, we could walk up the stairs and should only take like a couple of days if we start right now but more I want to know about you. Getting to learn this place is only possible if I know the people that are here. WHat motivates them, what they fear, what they can lose. Not many will have a lot or have the means to get ahead into those upper levels... that doesn't mean shouldn't try and work to figure out what they will be able to do." She looked at him and then at the stairs heading up and heading down, getting across it would be somewhat easier for her since there was an updraft that she could feel on the underside of her wings.

 

[Lanta Rosa]

"Depends how high you want to go. May be better to head to a taxiport and blag transport from there. Otherwise you put yourself at the mercy of swoop gangs." he says, looking up the stairs "And there ain't many places to run." he listens to her speech again, getting bored of the sentiment. "Okay listen, with the best will in this world, there is no helping this place. The biggest problem is up. The politicians and rich lot don't want riff raff and the poor mixing with them, there's checkpoints at certain levels, so the only way you can get out is with identification papers, which only slaves, slavers, and spicers hold, and only slaves with their masters can use them. This is one of the oldest planets in the Republic, and it's always been like this. You want to fix this place you have to start at the top."

 

[Serana]

[member="Lanta Rosa"]

"Hmmm well then lets." She looked at him and gave a look. "Come on then... I am a jedi.. this ID gets a lot of doors opened and people generaly don't want to look our way I have sen. THey just don't want the attention so." She said it and was moving towards one of the lifts to a small area to go up. "Lets get going, bring your stuff." She had the credits, she had the ID and she was entering the small ship to head up while stomping her hoof to feel the metal and she knew it was sturdy but there was never that strong of an updraft she could use to fly up all of the way and abandon the men. "If you need more food there is some in my pack as well."