Tribal Wars

[Zef Halo]

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Reports have been coming from nearby Kilmaulsias of a maddening disease among the native avians that spark within them an unquenchable bloodthirst. Victims of those who had went berserk have risen up to 65 but are drastically increasing as more Kilmaulsi are afflicted. A state of emergency has been announced and zones have been quarantined. The Commonality, a dire enemy of Avendahl and Corondex, has dispatched numerous teams of biologists and experts to help. Nothing has yielded results yet.​

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The opportunity to bring the Kilmaulsi to Vorzyd's independent stance and under the influence of Avendahl is evident.​

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A local Kilmaulsi working for Avendahl has learned of troubling, mysterious rumors regarding an old labyrinth of caves being suddenly used.​

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Within these caves Varric and Vitor find themselves.​

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The sound of water dripping from the walls of the caves kept the two company throughout their investigation of the cavern maze. The strong flashlight engraved within his belt lit their path ahead that seemed to go for ages with no distinctive marks. It seemed as if they were going in circles.

"Concentrate, Varric. Concentrate to feel the Force."

If he did and was able to tap unto the flow of the ethereal, he would be taken aback by the malicious lingering aura around them.

This cave was not a simple cave and something told him it had everything to do with the mental disease outbreak on the planet.

"Do you feel it?"

[member="Edward Varric"]​

 

[Edward Varric]

Edward, a few weeks ago he pledged himself to the Sith Vitor, he has yet to meet the repercussions of doing so but so far, it has been a fruitful and interesting experience, he even got the Cyborg armor installed that Vitor promised, which is working exceptionally. He has learned some basics of the force already, Vitor however didn't give anymore lessons to Varric believing that experience in travelling and learning on the go is better. Edward didn't necessarily agree with it but it was what his master wanted.

However, back to the matter on hand. They were at a quite interesting place, he could feel something was wrong with this place but couldn't quite put his finger on it. Vitor made the suggestion to "feel" the force, Edward got the idea that he should focus on the feeling that was erupting around them. He stopped for a second to focus and he could feel a malicious force, he attempted to dive further into it but nothing. This cave felt entirely... wrong.

"Tell me Master, why are we here again?" he has yet to see the reason why they were bothering with the reason as to why the natives were going berserk.

[member="Vitor Avendahl"]

 

[Zef Halo]

"To extend our influence in the sector." Vitor replied. The picture was big and a complete answer would take him hours of explaining."Also, the Kilmaulsi are renown warriors. Should we help them, both you and I can learn a lot from them about combat."

"Something you need intense practice in." The Knight admitted. His apprentice had the mental aptitude to fight, he had the fierce stubbornness but it was all unrefined. Today would be a good lesson for him to learn and should they win the Kilmaulsi's trust, Edward and Vitor can both learn something new.

The duo kept on going through the endless darkness when a source of light was spotted that made him stop abruptly. "Let's turn off our flashlights and proceed silently."

As they crept in closer to the source of light, the intense feeling of the dark side grew stronger. Vitor's suspicious might be proven right. The mental disease outbreak could certainly be a product of the dark side of the Force.

Approaching the source of the light, they both could see it was just a tiny hole in the wall. Voices rumbled behind it but a peek through the tiny hole could not discern how many were behind it. Thus, Avendahl tapped into the Force, the colors of his eyes burned lighter as the Force gave him view of what was beyond. No walls, artificial or natural could stop the Force.

The lifeforce of 4 beings behind the wall was clearly illustrated in his Force enhanced vision. He wondered for a moment whether his apprentice could at least feel them or he possesed visual receptors in his cyborg body that could see in the infrared or thermal spectrum. "Prepare yourself, Varric. The moment I crush this wall, there is two on the left and there's two on the right. I will take the two on the right. Be quick to dispatch them lest they alert the place of our appearance."

Stealth was paramount and that was yet another lesson for Edward to learn.

Vitor focused on the wall before him and the Force gave him the picture of the wall in a way even a microscope could not. It allowed him to see the wall as a mass of components connected to each other with the sole idea of becoming what it was - a natural cavern wall. Avendahl tapped vehemently into the Force and exerted pressure upon various joints of these unseen to the naked eye components.

Abruptly, the wall broke down and Avendahl dashed in with Force enhanced speed. Red blade came seemingly out of nowhere upon the two armored foes. Their throats vibrated with sound but before it could reach an apogee of coherence, the two foes fell down dead.

He only hoped Varric was quick enough for the other two.

[member="Edward Varric"]​

 

[Edward Varric]

Edward was walking with Vitor as he explained why they were bothering with this cave, and it did bring up a fair point. Edward didn't have a lot of experience in hand-to-hand combat or any fighting at all, the only time he ever truly fought hard was when he was being dragged to a mental hospital back on his home planet, he managed to beat two security guards fair and square and he was proud of it, but other then that he has no actual fighting ability

Per the request of his master, Edward turned off his flashlight but turned on his night vision installed in his cybernetic head, he could still see through the darkness but it wasn't lighting up anything. Vitor proceeded to a stop as he went next to the wall that had a small hole in it with light coming out.

Edward prepared himself, being told that there are four lifeforms in the next room and prepared to take on the other two. When the wall was broken down, Edward quickly rushed to the first man by grabbing his throat and snapping it with his left hand, which had superior strength due to it being metal, however the second man was trying to run to a nearby button which might've been the alarm, Edward quickly ran to the man and caught up quickly due to the man wearing heavy armor, Edward pushed the man to the ground and forcefully put off his helmet, then proceeded to kick his head in a couple of times with his metal boot... a rather brutal way to die.

"Well... at least he's dead." Edward said, but now his right boot is covered in blood.

[member="Vitor Avendahl"]

 

[Zef Halo]

Vitor watched with visible disgust as Varric finished off the last man. Well, at least they did not trigger any alarms. "Next time - cleaner. We are not barbarians."

Only through criticism could someone improve.

The way before them was open, a wide staircase leading upwards which the Sith immediately went on climbing with his acolyte at his side. Right after they climbed the staircase into a large empty hallway. Massive columns held the natural roof intact and Vitor was surprised to see such a structure within what seemed to be caves.

Someone had been working extensively here.

Or someone had overtaken this place from its previous owners.

Abruptly, a dreading roar echoed through the hall and Avendahl could not help but move to the side behind a column seeking a place to hide. "Behind a column quick!" He told Varric.

The roar did not seem friendly.

[member="Edward Varric"]​

 

[Edward Varric]

Edward could see that Vitor wasn't happy with how he handled killing the last guy, "Well, you did tell me to try and adapt to situations without the use of a weapon... but I guess using my sword would've made it cleaner." he received the criticism, while it would be important to handle situations without resorting instantly to his weapon, he could've saved himself a clean metal boot if he actually used his weapon.

Vitor went on ahead up to a staircase which Edward followed, and when the large roar could be heard across a huge hallway Vitor did warn Edward to go behind a column, but he barely just saw the hallway and soon enough saw a tall-armored Trandoshan with a huge weapon, the Trandoshan started firing across the hallway with a massive spray of bolts, Edward got hit by one but luckily it hit his cyborg armor which was covered in Phrik, so he barely took any damage, he quickly rushed behind a column and soon enough the Trandoshan stopped firing.

There was silence for a few seconds, but then approaching footsteps can be heard with words from the Trandoshan saying "I can smell you..." Edward activated his portable shield on his left arm and unsheathed his sword to his right arm, ready to fight the Trandoshan when he turned the corner.

[member="Vitor Avendahl"]

 

[Zef Halo]

The Trandoshan was no fool despite his goofy looks. Neither were his pals. The moment Edward and Vitor hid behind the two columns parallel toeach other, one of the Trandoshans took a grenade from his belt and cooked it.

Two seconds passed and the familiar dangling of steel on steel echoed across the hallway as the grenade.

Vitor would've done something about it had it not been for the heavy repeating blaster fire on his position that tore the column in holes and had the Sith activate his blade to deflect the bolts as he moved away.

Hopefully, Edward would not be blown by the grenade into bits.

[member="Edward Varric"]​

 

[Edward Varric]

Edward managed to kill one of the Trandoshans with his sword that were passing through, one of them turned the corner and he managed to slash through one of them, killing him, all though this little satisfaction of his didn't last very long as he saw a grenade that was activated and thrown near Edward's location.

Edward ran as fast as he could, but a spray of bolts managed to hit him, he managed to ignore the hits and duck down in cover and from a reasonable range from the grenade, when it exploded not much of the impact hit on Edward, Edward then tried to get back up and run but was limping on his left leg as he went behind one of the columns. His left leg was hit by one of the bolts, every other bolt only hit Edward's metal parts.

"Ahhh damn, that hurts..." Edward definitely felt the pain. He might be able to shake it off for a bit, but he won't be able to run that much anymore.

[member="Vitor Avendahl"]