Log:Wanted Alive: Kaelyn
Wanted Alive: Kaelyn
OOC Date: February 27, 2020
Location: Meltdown Cafe, Nar Shaddaa
Participants: Errod Zand, Kryll Red, Kaelyn, Terek Rosol, Erisi Auslese, Malik Ren, Sumi Kora
Errod takes a moment to drain the next glass straight-up, chugging the whole thing from the rim to the bottom of the glass before thumping it down on the countertop. It actually takes a few seconds for this to happen, because that's a lot of beer to swallow. When he's finished, he glances over at Kryll again. "Birds of a feather, flock together, would you not agree?" The smile he wears is mostly visible through the curve of the thick mustache that hangs down either side of his lips towards his chin.
A knowing finger indicates Kryll and then Terek. "Did I not find the two of you, both bounty hunters, together at this place? Are you any different than this person?" he questions, referencing the departed holoimage. "One burned on the spot, yours, a few days later after you deliver them. I don't see much of a difference myself. They both wind up in the same place."
She's baaack! Kae, dressed in her usual armor wanders into the outdoor cafe and looks arund curiously, before tugging the t-visored helmet off her head and looking up "Yup out of weather." She mutters...
Kae looks around then occupies a place at the bar, hooking her helmet onto her belt as an after thought, before she looks over the menu curiously, fingers tapping her chin while she glances from one thing to another... "Doop... Doop... Ooh that looks good." She mutters, then waggles lots, trying to get the attention of the barkeep....
Finally, she points at the listed menu item and calls out "That one!"
The arrival of a Mandalorian was marked by the loud rocketpack that vented bright orange and low blue flames, easing the transfer of the small armored warrior's weight. Beneath the light, the beskar'gam glimmers with the drops of rain, accentuating the difference between beskar and durasteel. This warrior was known as Sumi Kora, and she reveals her face once she's beneath the awning of the bar. A lift of her helm frees long dark hair, and she shakes it out before speaking. "The brandy..yeah, that one." It was poured, and she set her helm down and took the glass for a sip.
Kryll nods, "You have found two of us here, but we did not travel here together. It appears we both simply wanted something to eat. Most hunter's work alone from what I have seen, unless there is a reason to join together." he considers the question. "I have done all manner of things to people, I am not saying that we are not similar, but, that is the same for everyone. Didn't you say we are all the problem?" he turns about as Kaelyn appears, and then Sumi /arrives/ in Sumistyle. Kryll looks to her and bows his head, "Hello Sumi." he looks over to Terek, "No, they are not bounty hunters."
"Me? I'd never hurt a fly." Terek states, clearly joking, as he grabs his glass and finishes it off, setting it back down on the bar, "It's true I'm a hunter, yeah, but I've only recently joined the guild. I don't really have as much of a reputation as some of the others do." Something he hopes to change in the future. The cathar takes a quick look at the other arrivals, and then pours himself another glass.
"That's exactly my point," Errod replies knowingly, though he gives the distinct impression of someone who is never unknowing in his demeanor. "This perpetual grinding of the cosmic gears, so to speak, it would go on with or without us, but gentlemen, /we/ are the grand discordant note in the symphony of entropy and destruction. All of nature runs end to end in a spiral gyrating down to nothing, and in the middle of it all, us people, convinced that the whole show is all for /us./ Because we're so damned important. Nothing could be further from the truth."
His slow, meandering, raspy speech is interrupted by the two new arrivals and the bottom of his third beer. "Ladies." Evidently it's meant as a greeting. "Are you bounty hunters as well?"
Kae tilts her head, blinking, then shrugs "Me? nooooo, I'mma freighter captain and a Merc... Though I guess you could switch it. I dunno." She says and peers at Sumi now before beaming. It's time for her to practice what little Mando'a she's managed to pick up, having been around them a bunch! "Su Cuy'gar." She says to Sumi, smiling a bit, before looking back to the folks that addressed her...
She then ohs "I'm also an engineer... maybe Combat Engineer?" She says and shrugs "Also a combat pilot too..." She says and taps her chin then stretches her arms above her head "I do a looooot of things!"
Sumi returned the nod, a solemn look on her face. She sets her glass down and settles on the stool, wide legged and propping a foot on the seat rung next to her, the boot hung by its arched sole. She's content to be left alone but Mr. Zand's greeting draws Sumi's dark eyes, but before she could answer, a Sephi's voice clues Sumi in on who the other lady was. She turns slightly observing the freighter captain combat engineer. A heavy sigh follows and she picks up her helm, sliding it back on.
Zand is gifted his reflection in the dark T visor before it washes out with silver, indicative of her HUD. That's when her gaze shifted to Kaelyn, and she turned her body sideways, as a soldier often did, to appear a smaller target. <"I see you, Kaelyn."> She answers in custom, then points with her offhand while brushing her cape back to reveal the handcannon at her side. <"There's a bounty out on you, Kaelyn, and I'm obligated to carry it out. I respectfully request that you surrender and come with me willingly.">
BB-6A "Six" (BB-Series 10148) looks to Sumi Kaelyn and Kryll then projects a bounty posted to the guild board confirming Sumi's statements.
Kryll furrows his brow, "I understood that first part, when you said that was your point. And then, you went somewhere completely different with it." and then, Sumi is drawing a weapon and pointing it at Kaelyn. He looks over to six who projects the bounty. "And when were you going to tell me about that? I do believe I need to learn binary much sooner than I have been so far." he lowers his hand to his Glie pistol, drawing it but not pointing it at Kaelyn yet, allowing this to play out.
"You see, gentlemen? Soon will come the fire," Errod remarks with a wry grin, his bloodshot eyes sparkling with morbid amusement as he quietly excuses himself and steps back out into the rain.
Of course now guns are being drawn. This is not how Terek saw this day going at all. He sighs, and then takes his glass, chugs it, and then grabs his bottle and gets out of the way, "Hope it's not a dead bounty. He seems nice enough."
Kae sighs and shakes her head... "Sumi? I don't wish to fight any of you. But I won't go to a First Order Detention Cell..." She says simply... "I fought along side your clan several times, and I respect you greatly, even consider you a friend, even if it's not returned." Kae says, she's real still right now. In the background a red optic sensor can be seen now, it's a visor like look with a single bead that slides back and forth.
Kae's hadn sits on her blaster pistol and she sighs and slowly slides her helmet back in place. "I'd like to continue going on fighting and helping you guys. I know you have, I do to... And I can't do that being tortured and eventually beheaded by the First Order."
<"This has nothing to do with friendship. This is business."> Sumi replies dryly, her voice low and cold. <"If you are refusing my mercy, then there is only one thing left to do."> Now her pistol his drawn and Sumi's thumb engages the stun feature, the receiver putting off a high pitched whine. Sumi allowed another moment to pass, to give Kaelyn an opportunity to make her choice.
Kryll readies the pistol, aiming it at Kaelyn. "If you attempt to flee, or draw your weapon, we will both fire. That is not a threat, simply a statement of fact. If you feel you are truly Sumi's friend, then accept mercy and go willingly. You know she is mandalorian, and would welcome another attempt to prove her worth in battle. Then myself and Terek here are both of the guild, while initially ignorant, the bounty has been declared and confirmed. This path is locked. You still have a choice."
Even though he's moved off to the side, Terek pulls his blaster from its holster anyway. It's hardly as fancy as the ones the others have, but he'd rather have it than not, "Look, I don't know you, so I don't know the reason for your bounty, but if there is one, then like they said, we're obligated to take you in. Unless you got a squad of commando droids sitting just outside of the door, I think you might be outnumbered."
Kae tilts her head and smirks "I stood up to the First Order." She says simply... "And Kylo Ren..." She adds thens hrugs slowly. "Probably says it on the Bounty boards exactly what I did. Which Means, the minute I get to them, they're going to happily start torturing me, trying to get the location of my sister, and get everything I know after that. Which isn't really much..." She says and shrugs slowly, she's gotten a kind of calm aspect, seemingly relaxed. Probably not a good thing. " But after they're done getting what little information I have, they'll try to get more.. Then they'll probably make an example of me... So my head will roll, on live holovid. Then after they find and capture my sister, her head rolls too... I can't let that happen." She says. Voice completely convinced that no matter what, she'll die if she gets taken...
"Sooo, with all due respect. I won't be coming along quietly. So here's everyone's choices here. Ya'll shoot up the gand's bar... I don't know if I'm going to draw my pistol or not... I might just try and take y'all's weapons. I don't know yet. But I don't -want- to hurt anyone here... I just want to get back home and get on with fighting pirates, by the way, the First Order is a -huge- part of that pirate thing, and fixing folks ships. It's what I do..."
There's a reason Kae earned that Skyripper... And it might become painfully appparent, as she goes from no action to suddenly exploding into action. She spins off the stool, flinging first one then the other at the two mail bounty hunters, all really in one motion.
She's then kicking off the counter as she's diving at Sumi's legs? It's a tackle, something she's trained long and hard on, hand to hand fighting, as she tries to take the Mandalorian to the ground, then climb to mount as it were, going for Sumi's weapon hand all in one quick flurry of well practiced motions.
BB-6A "Six" (BB-Series 10148) SCREEEEES as all of a sudden the female is throwing a stool that he's sitting on at Kryll and therefor sending him flying off the stool. "What did I do to youuu!" and then he fires a couple of cables into the bar to secure himself to it. "This is not dignifying. Just because I confirmed your bounty is no reason to throw the messenger around."
And all of a sudden Kaelyn is a fireball of action. There are stools flying, Six is flying, and they are both flying at him! He goes to catch the droid but then its attached itself to the bar and seems fine, the stool however catches him against the legs and he growls at the impact, looking to where Kae has already made a move towards Sumi and tries to draw a bead on her.
Terek was honestly expecting that they'd not want to fight three armed bounty hunters. Goes to show him that crazy people gonna crazy. He just gets whacked full on in the face with the bar stool, stumbling backwards and landing on his butt, blaster in one hand and bottle of booze in the other.
Sumi smirks. The Sephi had a pair, and going down in combat, in a test of blood, /that/ was honorable. Kaelyn jumped toward Sumi and Sumi stepped into the rain, firing her first stun blast, a blinding blue array that emitted as a spreading circle which collided with the charging spacer!
Sumi was struck in the stomach then and taken backward, sliding across the wet duracrete before landing in a puddle with a loud, <"HMPH!">
Her arm overlapped the back of Kaelyn's neck, holding her close and denying her the height she needed to seat a full mount and height advantage to strike. That's when her blaster, despite Kaelyn's effort to reach for it, angled inward and planted two more stun arrays at near point blank! If Kaelyn was made unconscious by this, Sumi rolled her off, and rose to a kneeling stance above, aiming her blaster at the lady. <"I believe.. she's down."> Said, heavy of breath but cool and calm.
Kae doesn't really go down easy, mind trying to will her through being stunned as stun bolt after stunbolt blasts her... Her hand even manages to contact Sumi's blaster? Hand twitching, body twitching as the stun bolts take their affect... She's pretty silent, except the quiet whisper of "Kissaaaahhhhhh...." That fades to nothing as the Sephi finally goes limp...
Honor, pair, whatever, the only thing that is obvious as Kae passes unconcious is her thoughts on her sister. Finally Kae goes limp, head resting on Sumi, before she's rolled off the Mandalorian, her beathing shallow, but she's breathing...
Kryll sighs and lowers his blaster, putting it back into its holster. "I should hope so." he bows his head to Sumi. "Good work, and, apologies." he gestures to Kae, "Would you like assistance in bringing her in?"
Terek rubs his face where he got smacked with the stool, grunting a little bit, "Not very impressive for my first real outing." He mutters, as he puts his blaster away.
<"I can take it from here, Mr. Kryll. I appreciate both of your willingness to support me. She went down a warrior, a choice I would have made. Perhaps she has the spirit to survive what awaits her yet."> Sumi begins to frisk Kaelyn, disarming the Sephi meticulously, and searching without modest hesitation. When Sumi is satisfied she possesses no tool or weapon, she fastens her wrists with binders and hefts her unconscious frame up. Their first stop is the BHG headquarters, then.. where ever Lord Malik dictates. Such is the way of things, and this is the way.
Kryll chuckles at Terek, "Look at it this way, this was your training run. When you have your proper kit, then that is your first real outing." he exhales and looks about for Six, who is detaching himself from the bar. "Ok, you and I need to work on our communication. From now on, every morning, you update me on any bounty announcements so we are properly prepared during breakfast."
Sumi takes Kaelyn to the Guild, then to the FO. They arrive at the FO headquarters in the HUTT District.----------
A holo communique was sent ahead of time, informing the staff that a Mando Bounty Hunter called Sumi Kora arrived with a Bounty mark named Kaelyn. She awaits further instructions.
This is not the first time Sumi Kora has found herself in possession of wanted individuals, and the pattern is perhaps by now familiar. Despite the changes in the First Order, in the Galaxy at large, the process remains the same -- meet at Ziro, and turn over the prisoner, and get paid an impressive amount of that minty fresh FO currency.
Sumi knows the man waiting for her, or perhaps what he used to be; the mask is new, the height is the same. He is not alone, and his vocoder-distorted Coruscanti voice remarks while waiting, "So efficient. I appreciate that in a person."
Erisi is in full robed regalia, complete with mask and hood drawn, hands clasped in front of her abdomen as she watches the prisoner and Mandalorian arrive. She says nothing for now, instead stands in silence, towering below Malik, nodding her head approvingly at the Mandalorian female.
Sumi is carrying the unconscious Sephi like a soldier carrying another over her shoulder. She sets the female down, revealing that she has been stripped to just a prisoner's jumpsuit and white slipper shoes. Kaelyn's face is clearly visible, and her head is eased back, after she is set on the seat. When Sumi turns back, it's to briefly stand between the pair of Knights and the unconscious Sephi. A respectful bow, and Sumi straightens. <"There is honor still in the Guild. This contract is fulfilled, my Lord."> Sumi knows who is beneath the mask of one, but not the other. Erisi gets a glance, and a respectful tip of a helmeted head, then Sumi looks back to Malik. <"The matter of my payment?"> She indicates, refusing to move until she has been paid.
The extremedly curvy Sephi is limp as a rag doll. There's muscle tone and all, but really, given her height, she isn't all that well heavy, or big. All the muscle she has is lean, flexible. She lays there, just breathing, not moving, with hands bound.
Malik Ren spends a long moment looking Sumi over; his expression is hidden by the mask but the tilt of his head, his posture, conveys the thoughtfulness of someone who is studying her. Someone mapping what he sees in front of him onto some other mental structure, like a man who's been told about someone and then meets her for the first time. He has met her before, or at least some previous iteration of him has, but eventually this processing seems to conclude and he withdraws a credit chit from some hidden pocket within the opposite sleeve.
"As always, we appreciate your professionalism... and as I'm certain you recollect, I always pay my debts. My regards to the Guild, Sumi Kora."
Erisi's mask tilts as she takes in the figure presented to them, only for a moment, disinterest there, more held for the Mandalorian presenting the bounty, "Indeed, Sumi Kora, as always you do not disappoint." Her mask alters her voice to sound deeper and reedier than it might without, "You bring honor not only to the Guild, but to your Clan." Then another tilt of the mask as it stares down at the creature, "We're going to have to deep clean the cells after this one is transferred."
Disdain, annoyance - both clear in the woman's tone as she makes the comment as an aside to Malik, "Well, I guess we should transfer this ..thing to the cells. Sooner we do, the sooner it can be moved again."
Sumi is standing between an unconscious chaired Sephi and Malik and Erisi, the newly minted prisoner having been delivered, trussed up and already outfitted in a prisoners uniform.
Sumi accepts the payment and deposits it on her belt without taking her gaze from either Knight. <"Kind words. I thank you both."> Sumi moves then, allowing the Knights to claim the unconscious Sephi named Kaelyn. Without looking back, the caped Mandalorian makes for a curt exit, swaggering in her way, her cape bouncing against the heels of her boots. So ended the bounty contract for Kaelyn, the deep space freighter Captain and combat engineer.
