A Fool's Errand

[Bantha]

Teth 22:00​

Atlas quickly switched off the lights at the top of her helmet, leaving the harsh blue glow of the neon signs a few levels above the only illumination. She walked slowly as not to create a loud splash with her boots. It had rained off and on for the past several hours--she couldn't really say "last night," as this far down, the city was cast in perpetual darkness. No one ever slept anyway. There was little concept of normal, monophasic sleep cycles here.

'This building should have been condemned long ago,' with it's rusted balcony railings and ceilings bowing from water damage. It was the perfect place to hide, though, as the authorities didn't give a damn kriff about lowlife crime or their dilapidated architecture. They left the enforcement to the highest bidder, which amounted to jobs like this. 'Stupid, lazy-ass crime lords who send third-parties out to go hunt his cheating little cronies.' Whatever. It was fairly easy and it paid the bills. Only downside was that there was a fair amount of draw to these types of jobs, being posted on the public bounty boards rather than private contracts.

In her hand was a SA-17 stun pistol, a rather beautiful gun if she ever saw one. A "bounty hunter's best friend" indeed, as the vast majority of times clients wanted their targets more on the "alive" side of dead or alive. Bigger payout that way, too. Hugging the wall, she rounded the corner. Her target today was last reported to live on this level, so for now it was a game of search and wait.

OCC Note: Anyone is free to join in, either as a rival bounty hunter trying to get the target first or the target itself. Or, even something else. Who knows?

 

[RedTie]

Rheg was on the run. It all started when he found out that a local kingpin had been supplying a sith with weapons. He had promptly attackted his werehouse killing many of his gangsters but he had escaped. Now Rheg was hiding in a falling arpart building waiting for the first hunter who would come for him. He was cleaning his leathal blaster with his stun blaster at his side when he heard somone splashing around the sidewalk. Rheg kept up and climbed the wall onto a small ledge that over looked the first floor of the building. A armored hunter walked by the building. Rheg aimed his deadly gun at the hunter and said "Hello there please drop the stun blaster" he did not expect the hunter to comply and he by instinct reached down towards were his stun blaster would be holstered but he Rember that he had left it on the ground *Blast he thought. Better aim for that hunters legs*

 

[krano drall]

Marin was was on the hunt even though that ment nothing to him. He had found a bounty that seemed perfect a nice out of the way kill. He put his hands on his blades and walked around a corner making a loud splash as he did. He saw a building that seemed to be in a massive state of advanced decay. In front of the building he saw armored hunter. He heard somone shout from within the building. He thought it was merely a begger and he ignored it. He pulled out his blades and started walking towards the armored hunter. As he was walking towards him/her he made stepped in a puddle making a loud splashing sound. He froze like a deer cought in the head lights of a truck. He tightened his grip on his blades and waited to see how the hunter would respond to somone armed with blades sneaking up behind him/her.

 

[Danee]

Teth, a planet not many visited, far away from both the Empire and the Dominion it seemed that they didn't even bother to try and fix their own crumbling world. Daleia wasn't surprised that the Sith had avoided conquering the planet as it would add just more issues into their own empire. Numerous crimelords ruled the planet and the government didn't seem to mind it as they seemed to enforce what might as well be called 'law'.

But that was why Daleia was there. Not for some pesky bounty on some worthless target, not to aid the Crimelords either. But to bring order and justice to the planet crawling in its own filth, riddled with heresy. However she could not just expect to change it from the top, that didn't matter, she had to work from the bottom and now she had found what might as well be rock bottom on this forsaken planet. The thundering rain picked up once more as she silently leaped from building roof to building roof when she spotted a group of individuals inside the building. Grinning she decided that these heretics would be the first to accept the Sith Justice.

Moving to the edge of the roof she moved down to the balcony below her and then used that to get further down until she was on the same level as two of them, a wicked smile creeping up on her lips. Despite the darkness of the low level she saw them perfectly clear. A Human male, wielding two crude swords, a well armored N'gai woman, interesting, it wasn't something one encountered too often and speaking in the distance was another Male, wielding a pistol of sorts. While she couldn't discern the male's race she knew that he was humanoid and had a weapon in hand.

Stepping into the shadows she began to laugh, her voice echoing out from the shadows all around them.

 

[Bantha]

Hearing someone, or something, scamper up the wall next to her, Atlas quickly brought the stun pistol up and pointed it at the direction of the sound. As Rheg popped up, her eyes flickered to his regular blaster, partially disassembled. He probably had been cleaning it and got ahead of himself, not putting it back together before he intended to use it. An instant later, she fired her stun pistol twice, instinctively recognizing that his weapon wasn't a threat. She was going to assume that he was her target, stupidly exposing himself when he was a wanted man.

After firing, she heard a loud splash behind her. Keeping her left arm with the stun pistol still aimed at Rheg, she turned so she was now facing whatever was. Seeing that it was an armored man with swords strapped to his hips, her mood immediately turned to disgust.

"This is my hunt. I claimed it first. Go find another target. Tenant five of the creed-- No hunter shall interfere with another's hunt." Her words were dripping with venom and anger, the sound of her voice harsh when through the vocoder of her helmet. Her hand rested on the hilt of her other, rather lethal, blaster, ready to be drawn at a moment's notice. She was going to say more, but she was cut off by the sound of maniacal laughter.

'Good god, I go out for a bloody, simple job and I get surrounded by crazy people? Kriffing lovely!'

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@Danee @RedTie @krano drall

 

[RedTie]

The hunter fired two shots at Rheg but he jumped of the ledge narrowly avoiding the blasters he ran behind a support beam and just relized that he had forgotten to reassemble his blaster *BLAST BLAST BLAST* he thought. Then he heard the hunter outside yell at somone else and what sounded like a maniac laughing. He began to attempt to reassemble his blaster hoping the commotion outside would give him the chance to finish. He also made a mental note that the armored hunter wanted him alive.

 

[krano drall]

The armored hunter turned around while firing two shots i to the building. She told him about the creed and how this had no right to be his hunt. Just then she was cut off manical laughing. It sounded like it was coming from one of the building. "I'm not here for the bounty or the hunt I'm here to kill him if you want you can take the credit. However lets kill the that 'thing' in the building first. I'd rather aruge alive then dead". Marin thought about how the hunter would respond either way he mails most likly need here help to kill the thing in the building. He also hoped that what ever was in the building was not s force welder thos kind were exceptionally harder to kill.

 

[Danee]

It seemed that her making her presence known to the trio had caused them some distress. The torrents of the Darkside flowed through out the building, their fear and anger fueling her fury. She rolled her head and moved through the shadows, only thing keeping her separated from the duo was a thin wall. Raising her left hand she clenched it into a fist. The old building creaked and groaned as the wall collapsed on itself. In an instant her empty right hand held the life ending Lightsaber in her hand.

With a single motion of her left arm the crumbled wall was tossed aside to her side and to her right side a red plasma blade emerged, illuminating the shadows around her as well as casting new ones as she moved towards the two Bounty Hunters. She laughed again. "My my, two bounty hunters and a coward." She grinned as she spun her blade. "Either you submit and face judgment or you die as heretics. The choice is yours."

 

[Bantha]

Atlas missed her shots by a hair as the fugitive filth was able to barely dodge out of the way. The situation wasn't helped much by Mr. Sword-toting laserbrain over there, stupidly insisting on killing the target rather than take him alive. It was as if he didn't understand the concept of credits, as in, worth more credits alive. Of course she could have argued all she wanted, but it seemed now the bounty had suddenly less urgency than it did before. The wall to her side crumbled in a physics-defying way, revealing a Miraluka Sith holding their signature red glowbat of death.

The only thing on Atlas' mind at the moment was GTKO, or get the kriff out. Forget the bounty, forget the other hunter. No target was ever worth dying for. She wasn't going to stand around and reason with Miss Crazy, or submit and "face judgement." Dying as a heretic wasn't in her plans either. Ripping off an SKO grenade from her belt, she threw it behind her as she ran away. The grenade would release a cloud of gas strong enough to make a Wookiee faint for several minutes, if a being directly inhaled it. She would be safe, the airtight seal of her helmet and armor providing up to five continuous minutes of filtered air.

Atlas would sprint past the other bounty hunter as fast as she could, and perhaps even knock him out of the way if need be. While running she'd holster her stun blaster and have a hand on the hilt of her electroblade strapped to her back, ready draw it if the Sith came after her with their lightsaber. The corridor stretched on for some length, with more buildings to her left. To her right was simple railing, all that was holding back the openness of the city above and below them.

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@Danee @RedTie @krano drall