Jail of Jewels

[Rowan Harlow]

The Forbidden Temptations​

The intermediary tunnels leading from the slums to the city proper stank with chemicals and spice. At one time, Rowan had been taught, these tunnels had seen bloodshed unimaginable as his ancestors fought off the forces of the corrupt Queen Lucille during the Alderaanian civil war. Now the defensible warren was used by criminal Spice creators to line their pockets and serve as a kind of barrier between the lower city and the denizens of the mountaintop. Unlike the slavers who had died to a man, and woman, below, these people might just be useful to Rowan. Or at least the Venatori. If they were a bit careful here, they might have the ability to turn this to their own benefit.

Just before the entrance to the first set of caves, Rowan paused with his two companions to show from his holoprojector a small map of the area. "Sometimes it pays to be the descendant of the rightful owners of a place you're invading. I don't think these fools even have this kind of map of these tunnels. This will give us an edge, though only a slight one. Now, we can either just blow through and kill everyone, or we can take out the guards and force these Spice cookers to work for us instead. I leave it to your discretion on which route to go, though obviously the latter is a more perilous path. We move when you two are ready."

@christhebarker @Nightfall

((OOC: About to make a dice thread, feel free to start rolling with your first posts if you want))

 

[Darth Inheris]

"It'd be worth a chat I think, as angry and addled as they're likely to be" she glanced around at her companions, trying to plan out a strategy "If they've got any know how they might be able to move from spice to stims and then we'd have something really valuable on our hands" she said with a wink, ready to get to work.

Taking point, she drew her blaster pistol in one hand and her lightsaber ready to be ignited in the other, and begun to stalk the catacombs at the head of the group. Rowan's map was a good one, and meant that they weren't exactly likely to get lost as they went.

Though, useful as it was, it couldn't know everything that was in store for them, something Saorise was very soon about to find out.

Taking a corner, blaster first to keep herself covered, she found herself at the opening to a larger hall, a drainage room or cleaning centre of some sort, she couldn't be sure. Not that she had much time to study it further though, with the sudden piercing sound of a blaster zipping below her, and the sudden sharp pain as a bolt ripped through her thigh, forcing her to the ground in an instant as she cried out in pain.

The spice dealers clearly weren't ones for intruders.

In moments a trio of scrappy looking spicers leapt from the corners, surrounding her in her weakened state, two with blasters and another with a dark and rusted knife that looked like it had been used on all manner of beings,

"So. We keeping this one?" the knife man said to the other two as they studied her. Words could hardly form in her throat as she tried to hold herself together through the pain.

Hopefully the other two hadn't been right behind her and could escape this mess.

@christhebarker @Insalius