Nathan Bloodscrawl
House Bloodscrawl Patriarch
Wearing: Unknown Jedi Armor
Armed With: Nathan's Synth Crystal Lightsaber
Kytrand , days prior.
Nathan tried to meditate. Genuinely meditate. For the first time in years. But he never could.
Each time he tried, he was beset by nothing but visions of his wife being drained of her life, and having a Force bond to her killer did not help.
Stuck aboard this old Centurion Class Battle Cruiser , controlled by his fiance's clan, orbiting over Kytrand , he had grown restless. Since the attack on Jakku, with that bastard
Aziraphale
having mind tricked him into attacking a pregnant
Lossa Darcuhl
, he had been steadfastly trying to increase his resistance to Mental Assault, to stretch it beyond his already considerable abilities. He was haunted by his failure to keep that abomination out of his head.
When he had once more failed to properly meditate he sighed. His mind would only still itself when his wife was avenged. Sleep brought different nightmares, and he would often wake up during those. Discipline forbade screams.
He had gone down there wearing a seized armor he had found on Exagol to do his business once he was aware of special properties it possessed properties like disguising his aura.
He had brought medical supplies. Bacta-Works brought wounded refugees sometimes, due to the planet's pacifying nature. Keeping a patient calm and serene would greatly aid in healing.
He had busied himself unloading crates filled with Bacta, getting stares from everyone due to his Jedi Armor, which fully concealed his features.
"Didn't know the Jedi were involved with Bacta-Works..." One Woman, a middle aged peasant from Ukatis remarked as he dropped off Bacta ointment in a waiting basket by her repulsor bed.
"They aren't. Remember that NDA you signed." Nathan answered back.
The woman rolled her eyes. "And no bedside manner either..."
"You're good to go..." Nathan replied as he continued pushing his repulsor cart along, the mask disguising his voice also. One of the Soldier Biots suddenly calmly walked up to him.
"Sir...you should come with me. There's an issue that requires your attention." the catsuit clad killing machine with supermodel looks said quietly to him.
"There's always an issue." he grumbled but stopped his rounds and followed her to a command tent on the outskirts of the tentative settlement they had started building. Other Soldier Biots scurried about, rushing reports and monitoring scans and transmissions
"Alright, what is it?" Nathan asked.
"This..." The Biot answered, showing him a holorecord of several different individuals, graduates from Nytesmyth Academy on Susevfi.
Nathan watched as the Graduates were captured instinctively healing patients with the Force, and being perplexed when they pulled it off by accident.
"They tested high on ethics and sense of duty in corporate reviews. The ones you instilled." she whispered.
"Has anyone else on the staff seen this?" Nathan asked.
"No. The security drones that recorded it have already had their memories wiped."
"Good. See to the destruction of this footage immediately. Where are they?"
"They're still working the camp close to those cave systems in the northeast."
"Transmit a recall to all of them."
"We've tried. Something at the site is interfering."
"I'll go get them." Nathan replied, sighing as he went to the nearby speeder and took off, knowing where to go, unable to shake the feeling of at the seeming convenience of it. All the healers, drawn to that cave network...
The Force was trying to tell him something. And even though he wasn't exactly fond of the Boss, when it told him something, he listened.
Upon arrival he saw a lot of the settlers were arguing at the fort-like center of pre fab shelters when one of the gate guards noticed him.
"Hey guys! It's a Jedi Knight!" He called out in surprise
"There are no Jedi Knights on Kytrand." Nathan repeated as he walked past the guards, the other settlers, all refugees, stating at him.
"I'm a consultant. Except I'm not here, and none of you are speaking to me." He explained to them. "I'm looking for the team of medics that visited you this morning. Where are they?"
"They all went into the cave. Got a funny dazed look over them..." one of the women called out. They've been there an hour. We were debating going to look for them. We tried calling Corporate, but no signal got through."
"You were wise to avoid going in hastily. I'll take it from here. Thank you." he replied in a brusque way before heading back the way he came. "And remember the NDA you signed."
He went out the gate, spotting the large mouth of the cave in the distance, and getting out his lightsaber. He teleported to the entrance and headed inside.
There hadn't been much scouting in this location conducted so far, so he felt surprise at seeing steps the further he went, then the walls smoothing out, Jedi hieroglyphics carved into them. He descended down carefully, spotting Jedi statues of glowing white stone in a massive carved chamber, and each of the graduates, suspended in a pillar of light near each Jedi Statue. There was a great pillar of empty light at the center.
He tried calling out to them, but they were unresponsive. Great. Just fethin' great.
Nathan cautiously crept into the chamber. This place had called them to it, and they had responded. Now they were trapped. Why?
With terrible, sneaking suspicion, he suspected he was the actual reason they had been called here.
The damned planet felt like testing him.
So be it.
Instinct told him to go into the central pillar of light, even though he really, really didn't want to.
He was levitated up the moment he stepped into the light. A surge of great and terrible power flowed through his body, and it was so painful he thought he was going to die.
Nathan, calm yourself... He heard Syd call out through their bond. Don't fight the Light's power. Let it flow through you. Let me help.
Nathan, through his agony, saw the medics, still trapped. If he failed here they might he trapped forever. He had no choice if he wanted to save their lives. He, at the very least, didn't want to be responsible for their deaths.
DIRECTIVE TWO: PROTECT THE INNOCENT
Nathan reluctantly let Syd into his mind, their horrible memories merging as she showed him the way to stabilize the power, to harness it from destroying his cellular structure. He let the Force guide itself through his body rather than instinctively resisting the strange God he no longer held any real feelings towards except distaste and a lingering sense of having been betrayed by said God. He trusted it only because there was no other option to get out of this situation...
The Force's power may have flowed through him, but he absolutely took no comfort in that. He just had to accept it and obey. Comfort or Like was not a pre-requisite for obedience.
He felt the Light's power. Perceived it as ambivalent towards him. He kept calm, not indulging his darker emotions, which even he knew to be dangerous.
He felt a focal point in the Force and reached out and grasped it, feelings it's countours before sending a pulse through it
The pillars of light that had entrapped the medics ceased to function. Nathan dropped to the floor coughing...he felt different...
(Plasmid Acquisition Theme Plays)
(Nathan's Force Reserves have been permanently increased)
(New Force Potential achieved!)
(Key Force Powers Enhanced!)
ENHANCEMENT: ELECTRIC JUDGEMENT
ENHANCEMENT: PYROKINESIS
ENHANCEMENT: STASIS
ENHANCEMENT: FLASH
(New Force Powers Unlocked!)
Power: TUTAMINUS
Power: FORCE LIGHT
When Nathan woke up, he was staring up at the faces of all the medics he had rescued. He was still wearing his armor. They were still in the now inactive chamber.
"Are you all ok?" He asked as he rose to his feet...
"We're fine Master Jedi...just... surprised. We didn't know the Jedi Order had a presence on Kytrand." One of the Medics, a woman with young looks and dark hair spoke.
"The Jedi Order doesn't have a presence on Kytrand." he said sternly, sensing the Force in all of them.
"And there are no Jedi Knights on Kytrand." he continued. "Just me."
"And who are you?" One of them, the burliest of the bunch asked, his size and musculature reminding him of Master Caltin Vanagor.
"A Consultant, and Talent Scout..." Nathan answered. "Answer me...why were you all drawn to this place?"
"There was like...music..." one of them answered a scrawny fellow with glasses "We all heard it. And we followed it. Then we couldn't move for I don't know how long...then we were free, and we spotted you."
Nathan looked at them all a moment.
"How would you folks like a special internship?" he asked slyly. "The pay is fantastic..."
Present: Dagobah
Wearing: Covert Jedi Robes
Armed With: Nathan's Lightsaber
Nathan didn't like wearing Jedi Robes.
For all the Order's claims of humbleness, it no longer meshed with practical reality. Classic Jedi Attire could be spotted a parsec away now, and put a massive target on your back. He'd met Jedi who had tried wearing it anyway, wanting to be a beacon of hope in dark times. They were often dead within six months if they didn't stop immediately. The Jedi who survived the Plague often were the ones who functioned in a clandestine manner.
So he didn't understand why these 'Covert' Robes were called such. He saw no appreciable difference between them and normal Jedi Attire. But it was useful for not raising questions from the Jedi at the Dagobah Temple, who cast funny looks at the eternally unhappy looking Jedi Wayseeker who visited them to drop off supplies.
Today , he was on a different mission, in its swamps. A cave network had been located by a Padawan, who had then vanished in it's depths. Nathan had volunteered to go in, and he had asked
Elias Edo
to help. Elias, who was probably the closest he had to a friend in the Trade League Jedi other than Kinea Lewellyn of the Wild Knights.
Nathan still was not sure he could trust him with any knowledge of Kytrand. But he had tentatively given him a piece of its secrets in the form of an anonymous Lightsaber he had sent to him, careful to remove any evidence of his own involvement. Edo knew Nathan had considerable strength in the Force, but otherwise knew very little of Nathan himself...he was just as mysterious as the day they had first met on Sullust, a discomforting, silent spectre in the darkness of the temple ruins, who had been there for reasons of his own.
Who knows how Edo or his friends would react if he or they learned the sullen, terse scavenger that Trade League Jedi referred to in a derisive manner as The Vulture had once been a very dangerous Knight from the Plague Era. It would beg all sorts of questions Nathan was not yet prepared to answer.
Nathan waited by a speeder bike on an old trail leading to a path through the deeper swamp into the cave systems. He hoped Elias was prompt. The more time wasted, the lesser their chances were of finding that Padawan alive. Nathan didn't get his hopes up. These scenarios usually had unhappy outcomes.
Armed With: Nathan's Synth Crystal Lightsaber
Kytrand , days prior.
Nathan tried to meditate. Genuinely meditate. For the first time in years. But he never could.
Each time he tried, he was beset by nothing but visions of his wife being drained of her life, and having a Force bond to her killer did not help.
Stuck aboard this old Centurion Class Battle Cruiser , controlled by his fiance's clan, orbiting over Kytrand , he had grown restless. Since the attack on Jakku, with that bastard
Aziraphale
having mind tricked him into attacking a pregnant
Lossa Darcuhl
, he had been steadfastly trying to increase his resistance to Mental Assault, to stretch it beyond his already considerable abilities. He was haunted by his failure to keep that abomination out of his head.When he had once more failed to properly meditate he sighed. His mind would only still itself when his wife was avenged. Sleep brought different nightmares, and he would often wake up during those. Discipline forbade screams.
He had gone down there wearing a seized armor he had found on Exagol to do his business once he was aware of special properties it possessed properties like disguising his aura.
He had brought medical supplies. Bacta-Works brought wounded refugees sometimes, due to the planet's pacifying nature. Keeping a patient calm and serene would greatly aid in healing.
He had busied himself unloading crates filled with Bacta, getting stares from everyone due to his Jedi Armor, which fully concealed his features.
"Didn't know the Jedi were involved with Bacta-Works..." One Woman, a middle aged peasant from Ukatis remarked as he dropped off Bacta ointment in a waiting basket by her repulsor bed.
"They aren't. Remember that NDA you signed." Nathan answered back.
The woman rolled her eyes. "And no bedside manner either..."
"You're good to go..." Nathan replied as he continued pushing his repulsor cart along, the mask disguising his voice also. One of the Soldier Biots suddenly calmly walked up to him.
"Sir...you should come with me. There's an issue that requires your attention." the catsuit clad killing machine with supermodel looks said quietly to him.
"There's always an issue." he grumbled but stopped his rounds and followed her to a command tent on the outskirts of the tentative settlement they had started building. Other Soldier Biots scurried about, rushing reports and monitoring scans and transmissions
"Alright, what is it?" Nathan asked.
"This..." The Biot answered, showing him a holorecord of several different individuals, graduates from Nytesmyth Academy on Susevfi.
Nathan watched as the Graduates were captured instinctively healing patients with the Force, and being perplexed when they pulled it off by accident.
"They tested high on ethics and sense of duty in corporate reviews. The ones you instilled." she whispered.
"Has anyone else on the staff seen this?" Nathan asked.
"No. The security drones that recorded it have already had their memories wiped."
"Good. See to the destruction of this footage immediately. Where are they?"
"They're still working the camp close to those cave systems in the northeast."
"Transmit a recall to all of them."
"We've tried. Something at the site is interfering."
"I'll go get them." Nathan replied, sighing as he went to the nearby speeder and took off, knowing where to go, unable to shake the feeling of at the seeming convenience of it. All the healers, drawn to that cave network...
The Force was trying to tell him something. And even though he wasn't exactly fond of the Boss, when it told him something, he listened.
Upon arrival he saw a lot of the settlers were arguing at the fort-like center of pre fab shelters when one of the gate guards noticed him.
"Hey guys! It's a Jedi Knight!" He called out in surprise
"There are no Jedi Knights on Kytrand." Nathan repeated as he walked past the guards, the other settlers, all refugees, stating at him.
"I'm a consultant. Except I'm not here, and none of you are speaking to me." He explained to them. "I'm looking for the team of medics that visited you this morning. Where are they?"
"They all went into the cave. Got a funny dazed look over them..." one of the women called out. They've been there an hour. We were debating going to look for them. We tried calling Corporate, but no signal got through."
"You were wise to avoid going in hastily. I'll take it from here. Thank you." he replied in a brusque way before heading back the way he came. "And remember the NDA you signed."
He went out the gate, spotting the large mouth of the cave in the distance, and getting out his lightsaber. He teleported to the entrance and headed inside.
There hadn't been much scouting in this location conducted so far, so he felt surprise at seeing steps the further he went, then the walls smoothing out, Jedi hieroglyphics carved into them. He descended down carefully, spotting Jedi statues of glowing white stone in a massive carved chamber, and each of the graduates, suspended in a pillar of light near each Jedi Statue. There was a great pillar of empty light at the center.
He tried calling out to them, but they were unresponsive. Great. Just fethin' great.
Nathan cautiously crept into the chamber. This place had called them to it, and they had responded. Now they were trapped. Why?
With terrible, sneaking suspicion, he suspected he was the actual reason they had been called here.
The damned planet felt like testing him.
So be it.
Instinct told him to go into the central pillar of light, even though he really, really didn't want to.
He was levitated up the moment he stepped into the light. A surge of great and terrible power flowed through his body, and it was so painful he thought he was going to die.
Nathan, calm yourself... He heard Syd call out through their bond. Don't fight the Light's power. Let it flow through you. Let me help.
Nathan, through his agony, saw the medics, still trapped. If he failed here they might he trapped forever. He had no choice if he wanted to save their lives. He, at the very least, didn't want to be responsible for their deaths.
DIRECTIVE TWO: PROTECT THE INNOCENT
Nathan reluctantly let Syd into his mind, their horrible memories merging as she showed him the way to stabilize the power, to harness it from destroying his cellular structure. He let the Force guide itself through his body rather than instinctively resisting the strange God he no longer held any real feelings towards except distaste and a lingering sense of having been betrayed by said God. He trusted it only because there was no other option to get out of this situation...
The Force's power may have flowed through him, but he absolutely took no comfort in that. He just had to accept it and obey. Comfort or Like was not a pre-requisite for obedience.
He felt the Light's power. Perceived it as ambivalent towards him. He kept calm, not indulging his darker emotions, which even he knew to be dangerous.
He felt a focal point in the Force and reached out and grasped it, feelings it's countours before sending a pulse through it
The pillars of light that had entrapped the medics ceased to function. Nathan dropped to the floor coughing...he felt different...
(Plasmid Acquisition Theme Plays)
(Nathan's Force Reserves have been permanently increased)
(New Force Potential achieved!)
(Key Force Powers Enhanced!)
ENHANCEMENT: ELECTRIC JUDGEMENT
Bolt Range + 1 (Ten Meter increase without cohesion loss)
Bolt Accuracy + 1 (Singular bolts are far more precise)
Bolt Chaining (Can chain up to three enemies with a single bolt)
Sphere Judgement + 1 (Unleash a condensed ball of Electric Judgement, firing weak bolts off in random directions as it speeds past)
Bolt Ricochet +1 (Singular bolts ricochet off surfaces up to two times)
Sky Judgement +1 (Coalesce the Light Side into a singular, heavy bolt that erupts from the sky to the surface to incapacitate or kill Dark Side users (Only heavily stuns everyone else)
Bolt Accuracy + 1 (Singular bolts are far more precise)
Bolt Chaining (Can chain up to three enemies with a single bolt)
Sphere Judgement + 1 (Unleash a condensed ball of Electric Judgement, firing weak bolts off in random directions as it speeds past)
Bolt Ricochet +1 (Singular bolts ricochet off surfaces up to two times)
Sky Judgement +1 (Coalesce the Light Side into a singular, heavy bolt that erupts from the sky to the surface to incapacitate or kill Dark Side users (Only heavily stuns everyone else)
ENHANCEMENT: PYROKINESIS
Stream Range +1 (Increases the range of manifested fire streams by ten meters)
Fire Ball +1 (Condensed mass of flames that, once launched, explode on contact)
Fiery Touch +1 (Touch can now literally burn people)
Fiery Repulse (Explosion of flames from User that rivals the devastating effects of a Force Repulse
Cohesion +1 (Greater cohesion of flame Constructs, allowing more precise shapes to be created
Construct Duration +1 (Constructs of fire last longer)
Construct Durability + 1 (Constructs are now harder to disperse)
Fire Ball +1 (Condensed mass of flames that, once launched, explode on contact)
Fiery Touch +1 (Touch can now literally burn people)
Fiery Repulse (Explosion of flames from User that rivals the devastating effects of a Force Repulse
Cohesion +1 (Greater cohesion of flame Constructs, allowing more precise shapes to be created
Construct Duration +1 (Constructs of fire last longer)
Construct Durability + 1 (Constructs are now harder to disperse)
ENHANCEMENT: STASIS
Radius + 1 (Can now possibly put targets in a seven meter radius around the user in Stasis)
Duration +1 (Targets in Stasis might remain in Stasis longer)
Stasis: Bolt Catching +1 (Freeze up to two blaster bolts using Force Stasis)
Wound Stasis +1 (Place heavily injured people into a Form of Stasis where their wounds will not get any worse for a period of 24 hours)
Duration +1 (Targets in Stasis might remain in Stasis longer)
Stasis: Bolt Catching +1 (Freeze up to two blaster bolts using Force Stasis)
Wound Stasis +1 (Place heavily injured people into a Form of Stasis where their wounds will not get any worse for a period of 24 hours)
ENHANCEMENT: FLASH
Blindness Duration +1 (Enemies who fail to resist such a power may be blinded slightly longer)
Flash Trap + 1 (Coalesce a globule of Force Energy Imbued with the aspect of Force Flash) a stick it on a wall, acting as a flash mine when anyone but the creator comes in proximity)
Disorient + 1 (Enables blinded by the Force Flash may possibly also have their equilibrium disrupted for a few moments)
Flash Repulse +1 (Unleash a powerful burst of blinding light in a wide radius that may blind a lot of enemies temporarily)
Flash Trap + 1 (Coalesce a globule of Force Energy Imbued with the aspect of Force Flash) a stick it on a wall, acting as a flash mine when anyone but the creator comes in proximity)
Disorient + 1 (Enables blinded by the Force Flash may possibly also have their equilibrium disrupted for a few moments)
Flash Repulse +1 (Unleash a powerful burst of blinding light in a wide radius that may blind a lot of enemies temporarily)
(New Force Powers Unlocked!)
Power: TUTAMINUS
Absorb Energy non violently from inorganic sources, using it to heal wounds or strengthen Force Powers. As rank increases, greater and greater amounts of energy can be absorbed.
Power: FORCE LIGHT
Coalesce Light Side Energy into the form of a spear, hurling it at Dark Side enemies. As Rank increases, more powerful effects may be unlocked. May be able to damage dark side infused flesh and objects
When Nathan woke up, he was staring up at the faces of all the medics he had rescued. He was still wearing his armor. They were still in the now inactive chamber.
"Are you all ok?" He asked as he rose to his feet...
"We're fine Master Jedi...just... surprised. We didn't know the Jedi Order had a presence on Kytrand." One of the Medics, a woman with young looks and dark hair spoke.
"The Jedi Order doesn't have a presence on Kytrand." he said sternly, sensing the Force in all of them.
"And there are no Jedi Knights on Kytrand." he continued. "Just me."
"And who are you?" One of them, the burliest of the bunch asked, his size and musculature reminding him of Master Caltin Vanagor.
"A Consultant, and Talent Scout..." Nathan answered. "Answer me...why were you all drawn to this place?"
"There was like...music..." one of them answered a scrawny fellow with glasses "We all heard it. And we followed it. Then we couldn't move for I don't know how long...then we were free, and we spotted you."
Nathan looked at them all a moment.
"How would you folks like a special internship?" he asked slyly. "The pay is fantastic..."
Present: Dagobah
Wearing: Covert Jedi Robes
Armed With: Nathan's Lightsaber
Nathan didn't like wearing Jedi Robes.
For all the Order's claims of humbleness, it no longer meshed with practical reality. Classic Jedi Attire could be spotted a parsec away now, and put a massive target on your back. He'd met Jedi who had tried wearing it anyway, wanting to be a beacon of hope in dark times. They were often dead within six months if they didn't stop immediately. The Jedi who survived the Plague often were the ones who functioned in a clandestine manner.
So he didn't understand why these 'Covert' Robes were called such. He saw no appreciable difference between them and normal Jedi Attire. But it was useful for not raising questions from the Jedi at the Dagobah Temple, who cast funny looks at the eternally unhappy looking Jedi Wayseeker who visited them to drop off supplies.
Today , he was on a different mission, in its swamps. A cave network had been located by a Padawan, who had then vanished in it's depths. Nathan had volunteered to go in, and he had asked
Elias Edo
to help. Elias, who was probably the closest he had to a friend in the Trade League Jedi other than Kinea Lewellyn of the Wild Knights.Nathan still was not sure he could trust him with any knowledge of Kytrand. But he had tentatively given him a piece of its secrets in the form of an anonymous Lightsaber he had sent to him, careful to remove any evidence of his own involvement. Edo knew Nathan had considerable strength in the Force, but otherwise knew very little of Nathan himself...he was just as mysterious as the day they had first met on Sullust, a discomforting, silent spectre in the darkness of the temple ruins, who had been there for reasons of his own.
Who knows how Edo or his friends would react if he or they learned the sullen, terse scavenger that Trade League Jedi referred to in a derisive manner as The Vulture had once been a very dangerous Knight from the Plague Era. It would beg all sorts of questions Nathan was not yet prepared to answer.
Nathan waited by a speeder bike on an old trail leading to a path through the deeper swamp into the cave systems. He hoped Elias was prompt. The more time wasted, the lesser their chances were of finding that Padawan alive. Nathan didn't get his hopes up. These scenarios usually had unhappy outcomes.
