Log:Hutt Cartel: A Bug to Squash

Hutt Cartel goes to subdue the Green Guerrillas

OOC Date: November 6, 2015 (Optional)
Location: Loo-Ahn
Participants: Zerna Ka, Usha, Yoska Lash, Xan, Daven Ohtani

[Usha]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=

On the outer skirts of Hutt Space is Loo-Ahn, a small planet of very little consequence to the galaxy and a brand new venture for the Cartel in general. Its lush, arable land make it ideal to grow raw goods, but its low count of inhabitants of beings make it open for development. It had only been colonized by the Cartel year ago, and to oversee its growth, they placed the Nuxe clan (a fledgling Kajidic, bent of proving its worth to the rest of the organization) in charge.

But as with all things new, there are bound to be a few challenges. In the case of Loo-Ahn, it is a small native human population called the Green Guerrillas has formed a resistance movement against the Hutts. And while their gear is rather primitive, their knowledge of the local geography have made them a very difficult to squash.

So why is our fine crowd from Nar Shaddaa here today?

A few weeks ago, the Green Guerrillas blew up a Hutt compound, killing a significant amount of Nuxe Hutt's fighting force as well as a few Loo-Ahn native laborers who were willing to work with Nuxe. The attack was led by their leader, a mysterious figure named Vernin. The mission today is to capture Vernin, with very distinct orders that he should be delivered alive in return for a nice, hefty sum of credits.

Intelligence has traced the movement's home base to a basic, cabin-like shack in the mountains, which our team now finds themselves just outside of, crouching among the foliage. Wielding a blaster, Usha whispers to the group to recant their plan: "Remember, when I give the signal, Zerna will plant smoke bombs into the shack. And the rest of us will man the exits as people try to run out. Daven and I in the front. Yoska and Xan in the back. Set your guns to stun. We want to make sure this guy is alive. But first ... let's make sure the coast is clear."

[Xan]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-

In the back? Xan sighs and looks up to Daven as if he should be able to read her mind. "I don't have gun. I can get hammie." Hamstring. She glances out carelessly and quickly, itching for the action. "Does he need good walk?" she asks to Usha as the others are checking for themselves.

[Daven Ohtani]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Special ambush operations might be a tad out of Daven's wheelhouse. But the man steps through the mountains and the treeline with practiced ease. Once crouched down, he'll wait to listen to Usha, nodding towards Xan. "I don't see anybody." But Daven knows he isn't that best at that sort of thing, so is quite willing to wait to see what the others might see.

[Zerna]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--

Zerna shockingly shows up to meet the others in....armor. Her montrals and headtails hang free as she squats down, fiddling with a smoke bomb. "Alright...." Her voice was quiet as she glanced over to the others but says nothing. Pursing her lips she just looks ahead. "I don't see anyone either but...."

[Yoska Lash]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Yoska Lash is here because... he's here. The Cartel has its allies, degenerates who are willing to go along and help the Hutts do whatever nefarious deeds they might need done, and this skinny Ryn kid is one of them. He seems to know Usha, he owns armor and a gun, that means he's qualified, right? Right! Yoyo seems totally unbothered by the fact that he hasn't met anyone else very well before this, operating with a general air of camaraderie regardless, and he takes a place near Xan at the back as directed. "Ai yah, you people see the guard a ways up ahead, right?" he points out, in a whisper-shout. "I'm not the only one that sees that? He's picking his -- nooooo he's gonna eat it awwww naaaaahhhh oh never mind, just a wipe. Okay. Yah anyway there's a guard there."

[Usha]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=

Usha brought Yoska, because its easy to get him to say yes to anything. But the real question is, why the eff is Usha here? Because whether or not her team knows it, she just learned how to shoot a gun yesterday. Apparently there were some very valid doubts about her ability to do anything but party and do drugs. And so she agreed to this little mission to capture some dinky Loo-Ahn farmers to try and prove that wrong, and hopefully not get killed in the process. "Yeah, I see him too Yoska ... I think he's the only one. Xan, you're sneaky right? Go take him down. Daven, you go with her. Hit us up on the walkie talkie when its done."

[Xan]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-

Xan is wearing some kind of weird onesie fiber armor thing, and when Usha asks if she's sneaky, somehow two vibrodaggers appear with a smile. Before Usha can finish with the instructions to phone back home, so to speak, Xan's already slipping away to lead the route to her and Daven's target. Maybe she can get there before the target hears anything at all. Already low to the ground, she gets lower and sneaks in quickly to try to have the element of surprise. But, she's got Daven with her and she expects that to be ruined, so right when the guy's attention is drawn, she activates the blades with a little whir behind him to draw his attention again and leaps up at him to just...slit his throat? Maybe stab him in the liver? The throat slitting has two purposes. Keep him quiet and what if he has armor?! Either way she's going to have to roll off of his body if it works.

[Daven Ohtani]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

A flubbed approach. Of course, because Daven isn't all that good at SNEAKING up to people! Cracked branches, shifting sand and dirt alert the guard to their approach. They accidentally settle into a good ambush, with Daven's movements attracting the guy's attention, then Xan handling business. Daven moves quick to catch the guard by the clothes to help lower him down. A subdued stun blast into the stomach in case Xan hadn't done well enough to finish the job. "Guard down.I think that was the only one."

[Zerna]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--

Zerna just watches as Xan goes all sneak but then theres....Daven. Shaking her head, she just exhales as she slowly stands up then, hooking that smoke bomb on her belt. Taking a deep breath she simply rolls her shoulders as she looks to Usha. The word? She's waiting on it. Her left hand rests on that pistol as she looks around then nods. "Ready when you guys are."

[Yoska Lash]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Yoska seems totally down not to be the one creeping up on people and secretly attacking them. Then again he seems pretty down with everything, is that some chemically enhanced easygoing nature afoot right now? Surely not. He's drawn up near Usha's general vicinity, watching as Xan and Daven launch their attempt to incapacitate the guard. "Dope," the Ryn praises, with an approving nod.

[Usha]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=

"Good work," Usha's voice says over the walkie, "Alright, places everyone. Make sure we also keep an eye on Zerna's back while she's busy. And remember, no killing anyone until we figure out which one of these Guerrilla nuts is the leader." Looking over to her side at the Togruta she says, "Zerna, no matter what keep setting off those smoke bombs. We will cover you. Its important that we get everyone out of that shack." Taking a moment, she picks up some white dust from her pouch and takes a quick snort of it before saying into the walkie, "Alright, on three. 1 ... 2 ... 3." The Zeltron keeps low and sneaks through the foliage, making her way to crouch by the front door.

The cabin they approach is really just a glorified shed. Its walls seem somewhat rickety, as if they could be taken down by a barrage of blaster shots. There are a few windows scattered about. Some of them are open with some very delicious smells coming through. Quiet chatter can be heard through them as well. It's surrounded by greenery, which the team slowly sneaks their way out of.

[Xan]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-

Xan smiles to Daven when their target goes down and mouths, 'Good distraction,' presumably about his fumbled approach. There's a reason she went first. She joins the others and listens to Usha carefully for instructions, but keeps her eyes on their surroundings. A quick nod and the word, "Hammies," seems to mean she understands? Results will tell. She tries to stay to the front of them as much as possible, which is definitely bordering on if not outright violating Usha's initial orders. Her vibrodaggers are switched off so they aren't humming and giving them away as they sneak.

[Daven Ohtani]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Daven is awful at /this/ part of it. Give him a straight up firefight and he'll do fine. But skulking isn't in his skill-set. No killing? Oops. A glance towards the downed guard then a shrug. He moves up behind Xan, much slower than her and trying to be quiet. Failing definitely. But a blaster pistol in hand is ready for whenever someone tries to take care of the approach. "In position."

[Zerna]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--

Zerna simply waits quietly as she listens to the Zeltron. A slow smirk tugs at her lips under that helmet as the 'dancing girl' crouches low. Once she hears the one, she quickly takes off towards the shed..because no way that's a cabin. If this was her homeward she'd probably blend in but bright orange and green grass does not mix however....she's quiet. It's obvious she's done this before as she moves her way towards the shed. Each hand then pulls off a smoke bomb and shrugs as she just....starts tossing them in there. HOPEFULLY someone really /is/ watching her back.

[Yoska Lash]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Yoska Lash doesn't blend in AND he's not quiet. The only benefit he's offering to the whole sneaky team thing is making Daven look slightly less terrible, because along with stepping on foliage and twigs that make some sound, Yoska also jangles very slightly. Listen, you cannot show up to a special forces anti guerrilla sneak-n-shoot underdressed, okay. He doesn't seem to care much about his lack of stealth, however, no one either on his team or off has shot him for it yet, right, so it's all good. Smoke bombs fly, and Yoyo's watching Ze's back, but more with like 'daaayyyum son' than with I AM READY AND PREPARED TO ENGAGE THE ENEMY. "Outstanding. I would totally let that woman dismember me with a grenade. I would."

[Usha]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=

Usha's eyes practically widen with annoyance as Daven joins her by the front door. But before she can silently scold him the chatter from within the cabin stops suddenly except for a voice that quietly yells, "They're /kriffing/ here." A second later blaster shots come from out the window, aiming at Yoska who sounds like a hi-hat with every step and Daven Thunder-Feet Ohtani.

Their defense move is short lived however, as Zerna barrages smoke bombs into the shed. Heavy coughing and some frantic shuffling is soon followed by both the front and back doors opening. Out of them comes the shed's occupants, covered head to toe in green, with green scarves wrapped around their faces to both obscure their identity and prevent smoke inhalation.

[Xan]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-

Xan cringes as she hears every little damn jingle and clomp from the men as they try to do this thing called sneaking. When the smoke bombs fly, that's when Xan darts in, definitely /definitely/ not staying in the back line as instructed earlier. "IT'S HAMMIE TIME!" she yells, since the element of surprise was lost when the blasters started going off. Xan goes for one of the 'baddies' coming out of the back, low, quick, sliding in to try and hamstring one of the scarier looking ones. Only there's so much smoke that Xan misjudges and ends up short. Her slash hits air. The guy tries to turn around to train his knife on her so she uses her other vibroblade, activating it with a whir before she aims it at his spinning ass...like literally a slash to his buttocks.

[Daven Ohtani]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Thunder-Feet Ohtani has a thunderous blunderbuss in left hand as the plan goes off. Smoke billowing everywhichway and the ocupants coming pouring out. A quick smirk for Usha, because he has time for that as left hand carrying pistol levels out and away towards an 'escaping' Green Guerrilla. A cyan colored bolt crosses the distance between the two and plants itself between the guerrilla's shoulderblades.

[Zerna]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--

Zerna sees them running out of the building then blinks. Raising her brow she pulls that gun from her holster as she sees the one firing upon Yoyo and narrows her eyes. "Oh no you don't...." Spinning around, she takes aim upon that Guerrilla and pulled the trigger. Smirking as it hit him she stands up slightly looking back to the one who had her tail. "You good?"

[Yoska Lash]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Yoska gets his jangly ass shot at from the window and gasps, shouting back, "RUDE?!" and then the real fun begins. Zerna's smoke chases the crew out of the the Love Shack, and the firing starts, pew pew pew pew. "Nah I'm good. Hell of good. What're you doin later?" he asks the Togruta, but doesn't wait around for an answer. He tracks the last un stunned, un hammie-timed assailant with his pistol, but doesn't shoot just yet, instead he's yelling. "Ai yah, save us some time, where's your leader at?" the Ryn hollers in the direction of the green scarf. "You got like two seconds to answer before this crew is gonna shoot you so hard you'll be throwin up lunch and wake up in a dungeon with no safe word, ya feel me? Make a good choice!"

[Usha]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--= Daven's two shots hits an armored Green Guerrilla. His frame is tall and he falls to the ground like a great old tree. A minute of stillness indicates that he's knocked out. Zerna's mark wears no armor, and is rather rotund. He goes down unceremoniously as well. Another unarmored green man, limps out the front moving with as much speed as he can manage. Usha tries to take him out, but misses, giving him the opportunity to pull out his blaster and shoot her back. It a bolt of fiery light hits her arm.

Xan manages to booty slashes another armored Guerrilla. She growls to turn around and point a blaster back at the Echani. "Shut up, you filthy Ryn. All of you mindless aliens can go back to your dirty slug masters and go kriff yourselves." A trigger is pulled, and a blaster bolt just barely misses Xan's head.

Great. The Guerrilla humans are space racists.

[Xan]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-

"Hit me!" Xan taunts back to the space racist. "Filthy and pretty. I don't need no mind to slice you bitch." She launches at the woman (named Hammie Time) right when the blaster shot singes her hair if it's been forcibly /parted/ down the side...only it hasn't. She misses her slash and reaches up to touch her scalp. "It was in way anyways. Someone shoot her?" she asks, looking to Daven quite exasperated.

[Daven Ohtani]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Yup. All of those damn mindless aliens. Out here, working for slugs and stuff....Wait. Daven straightens up a second in confusion. "Hey. You're blind! I'm human!" Thats the part that offends him apparently. And offends him enough that when he tries to shoot her it goes way way wide. Probably cuz Xan is nearby and in the way. Yup.

[Zerna]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--

Zerna sighs as she just watches the big one fall with a tsk but was caught off guard by Yoska's question. "....wait what?" Her expressions aren't see but she just laugh as she moves around to building. "Well...it seems they want to do this the hard way..." With a shrug she looks to her gun but hears that comment. Space racists. Slowly she takes that gun off of stun to kill but stops....only to put it back to stun. A snort as she turns to see the one shooting Usha only to take aim and blast that one. "Sit down!!" Or fall down. Whatever.

[Yoska Lash]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

"RUDE?!" Yoska yells again as the space racists call him a filthy Ryn. Which is not inaccurate, but perhaps feelings were hurt. He fires off a shot toward one of the green Guerrillas, and then scratches his head. Did something just jump out of his hair? Must have been the light. "Why would I go kriff myself when I can definitely kriff other people," he complains, like that's actually the most important thing involved here. "I can roll with Mindless, though. I mean, fair. Usha, if you die I'm taking your stash, yah."

[Usha]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=

The woman manages to dodge Xan's swipe, and breaks out into a flat out run which allows her to also miss Daven's shot as well. Hiding behind a large rock, she takes aim at Xan once more yelling, "Eat bantha shit you pasty bitch." But before she can pull the trigger, Yoska's pistol hits at just the right angle, and she goes down, unable to move.

Meanwhile, the limping guerrilla that Usha missed is blasted backward from the impact of Zerna's shot. He doesn't get up again. "Thank you," the Zeltron nods to the tall Togruta. "Everyone tie up the ones that are knocked out. Gather them to the front and take off their green scarves. I wanna see their faces," Usha says to the group, wincing as she takes a look at her bloodied arm. Shaking it off she says, "Yoska and Xan, go check inside the cabin to see what they can find. I'm gunna go alert the cavalry."

Into the walkie, she looks over at a distant hill where Nuxe and others are parked and says, "I'm pretty sure we got them all. Come on down."

[Xan]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-

Xan sighs and aims a, "Thank you," to Yoska as well. "Bitch talked too much." She deactivates her daggers and slips one of them away before going into the cabin as instructed. Once inside, she scans the cabin and rifles through stuff like a cyclone. Things fly everywhere, including into poor Yoska's area of searching. "I'm done," she simply announces and lights up a pack of smokes she found inside right before saying she was done. She puff puffs and walks out. "I found smokes. Anyone want?"

[Daven Ohtani]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Its a long few seconds that Daven waits and doesn't do anything. As if the fight may kick up again, but when nothing happens a soft whine emits from his blaster as it powers down and he tucks it away into its holster. The people search the cabin, but Daven starts moving bodies around, securing wrists and leaving them sitting up against the shack, and scarves off and looped through his belt. Oh? Smoke? Yes. "C'mere Xannifer. I'll take one of them."

[Zerna]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--

Zerna slowly pulls that helmet from her head, exhaling deeply. "Oh that's so much better...." Blinking a few times she holsters that gun before tucking that helmet under her arm while facing away from the captives. Taking a deep breath she get some air before pulling that helmet back on. Looking around she then steps up to those tied, looking them over. "Hmm...."

[Yoska Lash]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

"Oh, hell yeah," Yoyo wants a smoke, and is apparently unperturbed by the way that Xan is flinging items into his search area. He's a dude, which means his idea of searching is probably looking vaguely at the area and then yelling I DUNNO at someone, anyway. He does linger a little longer inside the cabin though, and happens upon something interesting. "HEY I FOUND A THING," the Ryn hollers. "It's like an altar with burned out candles all around it!" He pauses trying to pry off something sparkly that turns out to be the edge of the picture frame, "It's got a picture of some old guy hugging a little girl! It says 'Arcadius Vernin and Poppy, in loving memory.' I thought Vernin was our dude. But like, Vernin is a little girl, and that old man must be grandpa, Poppy?" No, Yoska. That is wrong. "What's with the candles. OH MY GOD IT'S A CULT." No that is also wrong.

[Usha]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=

The GM is taking some creative liberties here and is saying that the Green Guerrillas are temporarily paralyzed from the neckdown, but at varying degrees of consciousness. The most alert happens to be the talkative woman, who spits at Daven as she get dragged. "What pretty boy? Haven't gotten enough out of every other damn planet in the galaxy. Gotta come and take what's ours too. We were fine before worthless trash like you floated onto this planet. Yeah I saw you miss that shot at me. You don't know how to do /anything/ except destroy, do you?" When her scarf is removed, it turns out she's not a woman at all, but a teenage girl who looks like she just turned 18 yesterday.

Her fallen comrades include the rotund man, who is elderly and mostly bald save the grey hair growing out the sides of his head. He breathing is labored, its a miracle he lived through attack. The limping one is also a woman, but middle aged. Motherly lines of worry mark her face. As Zerna, steps up to take a closer look at her, she sobs a little, timidly looking down to the ground. The tall man is perhaps the second youngest, but he's been so shot up by Daven that he's quite unconscious.

Usha sighs and holds out a hand for a bogue, "Good grief, I know I do." Raising a brow at Yoska's discovery, she calls back, "Yoska, why don't you leave the thinking to the adults." Looking around the pathetic collection of Guerrillas she frowns and points her blaster right at the leg of the sniveling middle-aged woman. Addressing the captives as a whole she says, "Okay. Tell me which one of you is Vernin or we will start cutting off some limbs." Usha signals to the rest of the group to choose a limb on a captive and be at the ready.

[Xan]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-

"Ryn have gods?" This is apparently the most interesting thing Yoska said, at least in Xan's mind. She offers the pack out to Daven so he can take one and then flicks another one in Yoska's direction. He's either going to have to come over to get it lit or just...use his blaster. Next she lights one up for Usha. Lastly, she looks down to the barely 18 year old, stoops down, and puts a smoke in the girl's mouth. "So annoying. Smoke before I kill you." With her free hand she whips out and activates her vibroblade. "I can turn off blade for slow cut," she offers casually to Usha. Is that for effect or is she serious? Either way, she's smiling.

[Daven Ohtani]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Daven has done enough here, he steps away a bit and finds himself a nice place to sit and smoke. An upturned log gets his backside bestowed upon it, and his legs kick out. "Don't we have a picture now? Yoska?" He'll glance around for the loudmouth, who is easily locateable by sound. "Any of'em look like the picture?"

[Zerna]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Zerna stares down at the woman who cowered away from her only to move to the loud mouth. Sighing the just shakes her head at Yoska and leans in to look at the picture. Staring at it she just seems to be in thought before slowly looking over to the young woman. Moving over towards her, she slowly squats as she looks her in the eyes through that helmet. "Alright....Poppy is it?" A tilt of that horned head as she continues. Her voice was coming off much kinder than she intended but....oh well. "....where's the man in the picture with you? It said in loving memory? Is he already dead?"

[Yoska Lash]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Yoska Lash has REVEALED TOO MUCH. His tail puffs up in alarm at Xan, then he tries to play it cool by smoothing his hands down the front of his armor and replying about the gods, "/Maybe/." He's in the process of applying his blaster to the end of the cigarette when Daven speaks to him and distracts him. "Huh?" the Ryn replies, and everyone is saved from the chaos that would have been Yoyo shooting his own fingers off. He pockets the cigarette and holsters the blaster, picking up the picture from the altar and walking it out towards the people on the ground and his comrades. "I dunno," what'd I tell you about those search skills. "You should check, yah." He holds out the picture toward whomever wants to take it. People who are capable of actually focusing for 15 seconds consecutively may notice something more than he did. Like Zerna!

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Usha leans in to get her cigarette lit, and how good it feels, almost like a massage. "Thank youuuu," she says very gratefully to the Echani and purrs, "Ooo a slow cut sounds sexy. Do the sexy thing." Exhaling her drag into the middle-aged woman's face, she watches the rest unfurl.

The very tall Togruta does manage to scare the old man with her accusations, and he immediately chimes in. "It's me. I'm the guy you want. I'm Arcadius Vernin. Do what you will with me, but spare the rest of them. They had nothing to do with the bombing. Everyone who took a part in that is dead," he falls into a fit of coughs.

Face-to-face with Zerna, the loudmouthed brat can do nothing but shake with anger. Unafraid, she spits the cigarette that Xan gave her into Zerna's face. "No! /I'm/ Vernin. Poppy Vernin. Arcadius was my dad, and your slug masters murdered him when they first got to this planet. For what? For some lousy credits, while the rest of us were either forced to work for their fat asses or were executed." Glaring at the group she says, "That's what you're gunna do to us now, right? Execute us? Execute a bunch of Loo-Ahn farmers?"

[Xan]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-

Xan smirks up to Usha from her crouch, takes a drag from her cigarette, then blows it into the brat's face after her tirade at Zerna. "Teenage angst. Aww. Your father dead. You are only one this ever happen to." Then the blade turns off. The whir stops. The silence of the thing is even more chilling in light of Usha's words and Xan reaches out to take the girl's hand to start some little song sung in Echani. "Eesha deepa ovin fo..." She taps each limp paralyzed finger with the tip of her blade with eerie precision, pricking the last finger at the end of each clause until each one has bled one drop. Once she lands on the girl's thumb, she looks up to Usha. "This one?"

[Daven Ohtani]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Daven lets his cigarette hang from between fingers and approachs the stunned prisoners. His free hand settles upon Xan's shoulder to stay here for just the moment. "Heres the thing. I, and the rest of us? We couldn't give a crap less which one of you is Vernin. Because it doesn't actually matter. The more you fight them, is the more come through to fight you. And this isn't a fight you can win."

The Teenage Girl gets booped on the nose. "Good luck with this up'n'coming huttslug fuckoff, Poppy. Unless you think you can settle everything down yourself. Then we can talk. Nobody dies."

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"All signs seem to point to that one," Usha shrugs at Xan but then says, "Be gentle though. Like Yoska said we need her alive." Poppy squirms and huffs angrily at Xan whilst her fingers get pricked. It's unfortunately all she can do. Hot tears form in her eyes as glares at Daven, "I hope you choke on your deals and die. You don't have a clue what it is to fight and die for something you believe in. You spineless, flaccid dick. Your friends have more balls than you." To be fair, Poppy looks a LITTLE too young to know what a flaccid dick looks like.

From the near distance a faint whirring sound can be heard. It grows louder and louder until a hefty speeder comes into view. It's hefty because it's carrying Nuxe Hutt, who is predictably a large creature, but is still quite small and youthful in comparison to other Hutt Lords. Accompanying him are two well-geared Gamorean guards. "Well, well. You all have certainly cleaned up house. I must say this is some excellent work. Have you discerned which one of them is Vernin?" his droid translates.

Usha immediately switches into a more professional demeanor and bows deeply with reverence to the Hutt. "My Lord. My colleagues and I believe that she is this girl here. There's a picture of her that this Ryn has found, and she's admitted as much herself." Grunting to the guards, Nuxe has them pull up some footage on a datapad, where they play footage from the compound bombing. The Vernin in the video matches the height and movements of Poppy, and that's about enough evidence he needs. Not a word later and the guards, head toward Poppy to pick her up and throw her into the speeder. "Excellent work here. Execute the rest and we will wire the funds to your accounts," Nuxe Hutt's droid drones out in a monotonous voice.

[Xan]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-

Xan nods to Usha and starts to drag her dagger over the palm of the poor girl right after she calls Daven a spineless, flaccid dick while Yoska complains. The insult garners a little laugh from the echani. But when she hears the whir of the speeder and sees the whole parade, so to speak, she holds back and rises to let the captives be inspected. "You not so lucky," she says to the girl.

[Daven Ohtani]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Such ungratefulness. A lot probably could have been done here to make things easier for all involved. Daven rolls his eyes at the teenager's words, and steps aside for the Gammoreans to take the girl along. Killing defenseless people makes his shoulder squirm just a touch and he moves away from the prisoners. An appraising gaze given to /this/ Hutt. "Perhaps you'd do best to to pay an eye towards Majun's example, young Hutt. He hasn't had any of his holdings bombed." Because Daven can be snarky.

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Xan reaches out to slit one of the weaker looking one's throats while Daven's quaking in his loins.

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Zerna raises a brow as the Hutt arrives. Still in that helmet she moves just in time for the the Gammoreans to take the girl away. Watching Xan just slit someones throat she doesn't seem phased but just put her gun back in her holster. For now she was quiet as she stares at the prisoners but glances back to the Hutt. Seem Daven was doing all the snark for now.

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The local hutt and his enforcers appear and Yoska puffs up a little bit when This Ryn is mentioned in the context of something actually good; that doesn't happen a lot. Then Nuxe goes on to say 'execute the rest' in connection with 'wired funds' and he is ON IT, going over to the old man and taking a moment to toggle the blaster to kill instead of stun. "Sorry brah," he issues an elegant farewell, then points the weapon at the defenseless farmer, and shoots!

[Zerna]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--

Zerna just simply pulls that blaster back out of it's home and shoots the last farmer once in the head and without batting an eye, holsters it. Folding her arms back, she looks around before seeming to just wait for her next instructions.

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Yoska Lash seems satisfied with a job well done as everybody caps helpless innocents, holstering his weapon and fishing out the cigarette again, followed by patting down all his pockets in search of a lighter. There it -- nope, that's sabacc cards. Other pocket -- nope, that's a comlink. One more try -- nope, that's a ring that definitely belonged to Usha at some point. "What, you don't like money?" he wonders at Daven, "Ya girls on point."

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Poppy yelps at the cut hand, and screams even louder at Nuxe's order to kill her friends. "Nooo! Please no! They were defending their land! No!" And for once, she does sound like a girl her age as she wails and squirms about. "Shut her up," orders the Hutt, and a guard pistol whips her unconscious. Purple eyes narrow at Daven as he booms, the droid throwing out his words, "Majun's kajidic might not be too pleased with this new direction he's taking, so you shouldn't be so sure. He to turn a profit before you can validly sing his praises. But if this is a pressing issue for you, you can have a word with me and my guards." The guards take their seat in the speeder, and Nuxe says, "Excellent work here. Thank you all for your help. Please come by to my estate where a bountiful feast will be waiting for you, and you can take your rest." A ping comes from Nuxe's datapad, indicating that the funds have been transferred to their accounts. "Farewell." The speeder leaves in the distance, eventually leaving the team in silence.

Subtly Usha shakes her head at Daven, muttering something under her breath before placing a hand on his shoulder. She pauses to take another bump of her white powdery drug. Her gun is set to kill mode, takes a deep breath and plants a blast into another farmer's head. The dead captives all slump on the grass in a pile. It's silent for the first time in hours. "Alright then. Guess we'll bury the bodies and then head back?"