Ask The Dungeon Crawl

[Rafe]

Rafe stood by as the Fusioncutters did their work, progress was being made, but it was slow.. it was in this instant Rafe really wished he had one or two of those lightsabers to speed this process up. Meanwhile Rafe would wait, it would take some time to get a hole big enough to matter.

The group Rafe had following with him was well covered, both hallways were covered with multiple blasters and once that bulkhead was cut through they'd have a full team ready to breach. Since Rafe would have so long he pulled a death stick from his pocket, and lit it, taking a deep drag..

 

[Harleen]

Just after @Grace Zann had leaned down to check on Harleen, she stood up, pointing her reloaded wrist rocket at the doorway that was full of retreating Materiaalaankopen and fired it, the boom that followed left at least a dozen dead, they were too packed into a close quarter to have stood any chance.

After that the blast doors all closed and Harleen followed Grace to the door she had begun to cut through. Quickly Harleen switched to her Peacemaker, with her boss so near by she didn't want to be setting off any explosives.

As Harleen watched @Grace Zann cut through the door, You got this boss... Harleen cheered her on.

 

[Grace Zann]

Grace would chuckle to herself as the lurmen cheered her on, she didn't expect the twins to be such big supporters of her, after being brought on not long ago. The young crime boss would continue carving up the doorframe with her lightsaber. Thanks to Harleen's quick action earlier, the forces behind the door would be likely weakened.

After a few more moments, the circle had been fully cut in the door, but the opening was filled with a metal disk now... Thankfully, she knew exactly what to do. Grace would stand back several meters, and shout to the Pykes "Everyone! Blasters up."

As she saw everyone get into position, she would raise her left hand toward the door. The metallic object in the center would rumble for a moment, as the woman attempted to move it with the force. After a second longer of focusing, the metal disk would be violently pushed inward, crushing one of the slavers standing behind it!

The Pykes around her would unleash a devastating volley of blasts into the makeshift entrance, forcing the Materiaalaankopen to retreat even further back. "Follow me to the crew quarters!" She would shout while she ran into the opening she created, lightsaber drawn for combat.

 

[Julius Arvo]

Stepping to the right of the door Jules cut a round hole in rhe wall after all it was easier than trying to cut through a blast door would have been. The hole was just a little over a quarter of a meter in diameter at the the same height as the tripod for the remaining rotary blaster.

That should make them regret trying for us Jules thought. He then turned back to the console and found that his two slicers had been busy they had been busy changing the lock codes on every door on the ship but believed that the blast doors to the bridge had been disconnected manually at the bridge.

This ship was filled with merchandise so he couldn't just kill the life support but with the doors now being controlled by them he could lock down every section and they could carve out the Materiaalaankopen one small piece at a time.

 

[Rafe]

Rafe had waited longer than we wanted, but was able to feel it when the ship's engines cut, which meant the plan was at least progressing correctly, he would have no idea how the rest of the groups were doing, but at least they were dead in the water which would buy them more time. Rafe needed to get into the fhtagn bridge so they could move the ship and prevent any Materiaalaankopen backup from arriving...

Finally the fusion cutters stopped and the Pyke slicers pulled them out and backed away. The door was heavy.. very heavy.. but Rafe pressed his claws against it and pushed with all the might a more than ten foot frame packed with muscles could.. it gave way and started to fall inward, Rafe heard screaming inside and the sound of blaster fire before it even hit the ground, with this Rafe backed up to the side of the doorway for cover as the former door hit the ground with an echoing thud that rang through the hallway..

Rafe's Pykes rained blaster fire into the doorway and return Materiaalaankopen blaster fire flooded the hall outside. Rafe had brought a back up tool.. he armed the stun gernade and tossed it inside low to the floor. A half second later it popped with a loud bang and a bright flash. The bang had made Rafe's ears ring, and the effects were shared to a lighter effect to the rest of Rafe's soldiers, but they maintained fire inward.

The outward blaster fire slowed second by second, but was still coming..

 

[Harleen]

As soon as @Grace Zann pushed the circle through the door Harleen pumped a handful of blaster bolts inside before catching one in the lower left side of her armour that send her sprawling backward. The armour had absorbed the blow, and Harleen's skin was unharmed, but the blast had definitely knocked the wind out of her, making her take a second to regain herself and stand back up. By then @Grace Zann and more hand handful of Pykes had already breached the door and were following Harleen's boss. Harleen was happy in this instance to take up the rear of the pack, she'd let someone else take the next hit...

They'd get to the crew quarters not long after the remainder of the Materiaalaankopen in the hallway were on the retreat, though what they'd find in the quarters was considerably different, they had cornered them, and when you back a dog into a corner... they were fighting for their lives, with every effort they could. Harleen watched as half a dozen or so Pykes hit the floor, luckily more than that of the slavers were going down, the slavers were sparsely armoured, not expecting an attack on their own homes, but most of them still carried their weapons..

 

[Grace Zann]

Though Grace pressed the offensive along with the pyke's foot soldiers, the Materiaalaankopen were being backed into a corner, and it was their own living space no less. It was no surprise that both she and her company would be met with heavy blaster fire from across the room

While Grace attempted to raise her lightsaber as quickly as possible, a blaster bolt would find it's way into her shoulder. Grace would shout in pain before backing up and taking cover behind a bunk bed in the quarters. She would use the force to pull it down and gain a little extra protection against the incoming fire.

Meanwhile, the pykes weren't fairing especially well in this little killing field. Many of them had fallen to blaster wounds already, but they were far from done. Grace would use her abilities yet again, this time levitating a bunk bed from across the room into the air before tossing the piece of furniture into a group of huddle up slavers.

Now would be the perfect time for some explosives, "Harleen! Some assistance please!" She would call out to her mercenary.

 

[Julius Arvo]

In the areas of the ship that Jules was sure the Pykes had not gotten to and were now sealed he reduced the oxygen content to seventeen percent. While there were some species that could work and withstand such an environment most couldn't. They would typically fatigue quickly and fall asleep waking later with a raging headache.

At this moment the rotary blaster began firing clearing the hallway his team was good when necessary they changed the power packs. They seemed content without showing any excitement, the one gun keeping up with the flow of Materiaalaankopen crew trying to retake engineering.

Jules broadcast on the Pyke com link frequency, "Pyke 3 to all units do not enter or attempt to enter any sealed hatch or passage way, environmental control is underway. Team leaders call up reinforcements to join you in the unsecured areas as needed."

 

[Rafe]

Rafe rushed into the bridge, his Peacemaker and his Wookie side arm firing separately at each target he saw, he would take three light bolts, one to the shoulder, left breast, and right thigh, all of which damaged the armour but provided negligible bleed through, with this many Pykes had rushed in as well, while many of the Materiaalaankopen were still laying on the ground as a result of the stun gernade Rafe had tossed in. There had still be some two dozen men at the ready until Rafe had rushed them with the crew.

Rafe sat down at the bridge, many of the capable Pykes doing the same to start the jump, Julius I need engines back, we have the bridge.. Rafe called over the comms, all the other systems were online, and the Pykes started bringing the full shield back online, Rafe wanted to get the hyperspace jump done as quickly as possible, they'd be jumping back near Sleheyron, where many more Pyke reinforcements awaited their arrival, but most importantly to get out of here before the slavers reinforcements arrived..

Nearly everyone was doing their job, the handful of Pykes that couldn't fly were finishing the execution of the stunned Materiaalaankopen, and watching the hallway to stop anyone coming up here, but it seemed the ship's reinforcements had been sent elsewhere.. one of the Pyke slicers had the cameras online now, and were preparing to operate the riot control measures, why those hadn't come online yet was anyone's guess.. luckily the biometrics for the ship's current crew was already on file, which would make creating a target file much easier, once online this would allow the ship's anti-riot blaster turrets to target only the Materiaalaankopen men on file. If there were any more not on file yet they may need to be taken down separately, but this would at least take out the largest chunk of them..

Sir.. One of the Pyke slicers spoke up, The prison cells are at eighty percent capacity.. he said. Rafe had expected some, but that amount would make this not only a greatly successful mission with the ship alone, but also thousands of additional slaves they could sell off for profit, in fact that amount would fully cover the payment of the non pyke mercenaries he'd brought, as well as hopefully fix whatever damage they'd done to the ship, Rafe nodded appreciatively at the Pyke and returned to his business getting the hyperdrive online.

 

[Harleen]

The crew quarters was a fhtagn death trap, the Materiaalaankopen were dug in, and Harleen had seen another dozen Pykes go down, blaster fire riddled their bodies. Harleen had been firing back as best as she could until she watched @Grace Zann take a hit to the shoulder and fall back behind one of the bunks. Harleen was enraged, and dove forward, holstering her Peacemaker and drawing both micro missile guns, her HUD was working overtime as it targeted and fired all of the rest of the whistling birds she had, Harleen then began firing her Micro Missile guns until they were empty, pounding the other side of the room with explosion after explosion after explosion. Once they were empty she holstered both took a plasma gernade from her belt, incredibly illegal and very inhumane weaponry but she armed and tossed it to the far side of the room nonetheless...

A second later, as Harleen dove for cover the opposite side of room was consumed in a cloud of superheated green plasma that ate the flesh of the Materiaalaankopen, and the few Pykes, dissolved the bunks, and just about everything else, even damaging the floor and wall of the room, thankfully this was an interior room and didn't lead directly to open Space on the other side of that wall. The cloud lasted only a few seconds, and once it was gone a field of carnage lay where their enemies once stood..

Harleen scrambled over to @Grace Zann, pulling her up from her crouched position, You ok boss? Harleen asked, worry heavy in her voice.

For the moment, it was silent... the Materiaalaankopen no longer controlled this portion of the ship.

 

[Grace Zann]

Grace would give a sigh of relief, as her destructive friend came to the rescue by imploring an incredibly deadly plasma grenade. What slaver forces who were dug in were quickly eliminated by the blast, and the crew quarters had fallen into pyke control. It was then that Harleen asked about Grace's condition. Her left shoulder was certainly wounded, but she would live. Ironically, this wasn't the first time someone shot her there, she would have to get some armor for that spot...

"I'm alright..." She would then stand up from behind the bunk, taking a look at the carnage filled room. She would give the lumen mercenary a smirk before saying, "Nice work."

It would be then that she heard both Julius and Rafe over commlink. It appeared they had secured the bridge and maybe even taken control of the life support systems! If that was the case then they would be at a huge advantage. Deciding to report her own success, Grace would respond back "This is Zann. We've cleared out both the mess hall and living quarters of all Materiaalaankopen. The bulk of their forces should be dead."

It would be then that Grace had an idea... "Hmmm... If this is a prison ship, then it should have an armory..." She would then inform the pykes who remained, "We've taken most of the ship, but we're not done just yet. I think the next best move is to find the armory. We'll take their gear and resupply ourselves while the others attempt to get the security systems online."

 

[Julius Arvo]

The engines took only a moment to come online and less a minute to get them underway again, Jules then transferred control to the bridge. The rotary blaster had been swapped for a second one in order to ensure that it didn't overheat and melt down.

When the second gun had gone silent for almost 5 full minutes Jules announced that they would reopen the doors. For the sake of speed he simply cut through the welds with his light saber. When the doors opened he got his first look at the carnage. Leaving five to secure the area Jules stepped through the door.

The smell of burnt flesh mixed with the smell of urine was nauseating. The moans of the few remaining Materiaalaankopen brought out a sigh from Jules. " Finish them, " Jules ordered and started walking through the littered hall. When he reached the end he estimated that there were nearly two hundred dead counting the ones that they had taken on the way to engineering Jules estimated that he and his team had put down nearly four hundred without taking a single injury.

Heading towards the bridge Jules and his platoon put down any injured they found along the way, Jules didn't count them

 

[Rafe]

Rafe felt the ship's engines kick back on as he pulled the ship forward, aiming it toward the jump coordinates, the ship was equipped with a class one hyperdrive, much to Rafe's benefit, the calculations were just being finished, and the ship lurched as the far off stars, one of them surely being their destination, turned to long white streaks on the transparisteel windows in front of them, it was a very short jump, only about one full sector to their destination in the Sleheyron system.

Just as they came out of hyperspace, the ship's interior anti-riot blaster turrets would come online and start spinning to life, spitting out blaster bolts at the biometricly targeted members of the Materiaalaankopen. Not every room and hallway had the ship's turrets inside of it, but Rafe peeked over at the cameras his subordinate was watching, and the red streaks could be seen on nearly every screen. Rafe sighed relieved. The rest of the mission would just be to check every nook to ensure a full take over.

The crew Rafe had was enough to jump the ship, but not to fully operate it, and after the jump Rafe spotted the multiple Pyke ships in the distance, Pyke fleet, you're clear to board.. we have control of the ship, just need the rest of the trash taken out.. Rafe would say as the more than a dozen ship's that were awaiting them at these coordinates started moving toward the docking ring of the dungeon ship, each one was loaded down with Pyke Syndicate members, this ship would be their new assignment, and Rafe would breathe a sigh of relief as the hundreds of reinforcements would arrive.

Rafe opened his own comms again, Pyke reinforcements are on the way ladies and gentlemen.. He hoped this would ease some of his troops already on board, and wasn't looking forward to seeing how many casualties he'd sustained..

 

[Harleen]

Thanks! Harleen replied to @Grace Zann's compliment of her, the recognition rang with Harleen, it was always nice to be noticed. Hundreds were already dead, but there were probably hundreds more. As Harleen followed @Grace Zann's lead toward the armoury she felt the ship enter hyperspace, she remembered Rafe saying he had the bridge, which must of meant they controlled the ship now.. but the fight wasn't over yet..

They had just arrived to the ship's armoury when the blaster turrets spun to life, blasting the four or so men that resided within, Uh.. are those gonna shoot us too? Harleen asked Grace, stepping in front of her to be the first one to enter the armoury just in case the little blaster turret did target her.. harleen sighed in relief when she wasn't fired at. Let's load up! Harleen called to everyone behind them. That was probably Grace's order to make, but Harleen was excited as she dove into the crate that had an explosives symbol on the outside.

@Where

 

[Grace Zann]

Grace too would feel the ship moving at an increasingly fast speed. This either meant they were about to enter lightspeed, or they were caught in a tractor beam... She really hoped it was the former. Thankfully, their trip to the armory had been assisted by the automated security systems.

Many of the pykes would follow Harleens lead, grabbing loads of power packs and concussion grenades from the racks. "Take what you can. We've mostly won, but there is still fighting to be had..."

The woman would then think for a moment. If she was a bunch of gang foot soldiers in a losing battle, where would she go? "...The escape pods! We need to find the escape pods and set up defensive positions... Can't have these nerf herders running."

Exiting the armory from a door located on the opposite side, several pykes would follow her down a mostly empty hallway toward a room filled with escape pods. None had been used yet, so the slavers would be looking to escape soon. "Everyone, defensive positions!"

 

[Rafe]

Rafe finished his death stick and dropped it in the trash after extinguishing it. Rafe left the bridge a minute later, making his way back to the docking ring to meet the onboarding Pykes, when he'd get there he'd be surprised to see the hallways filling up quickly as they spilled in from the docking freighters. Rafe addressed the ones he could see, expecting them to relay the message back the line to those who wouldn't be able to hear him.

eighty percent of the prison cells are full, anyone not a pyke on board needs to be executed.. find the rest of them.. Rafe would say. This Mission was over, massive success for the Pykes, and a devastating blow to the Materiaalaankopen's forces, and their operation.

Rafe would stand to the side as the Pyke foot soldiers funneled into the ship. The reinforcements alongside everyone already on board would make quick work of cleaning up.

 

[Harleen]

Grace had hit rhe proverbial nail right on the head, not more than half a minute after they had bunkered down in the escape pod bay had they started to hear the frantic footsteps of men running toward them. Incoming! Harleen called out.

With extreme patience, Harleen waited with her Micro Missile gun pointed toward the doorway, as soon as she saw a body in it she pulled the trigger, though dozens more would charge through the smoke, the pyke soldiers fired off blast after blast, but the sheer numbers of the Materiaalaankopen just kept coming. Harleen was forced to switch back to her Peacemaker as the close quarters was likely to cause collateral damage if she'd kept her missiles flying, she pulled the trigger twice before receiving a baton to the side of the helmet, which sent her tumbling to one side, it had definitely rang her bell, but she was able to point her blaster at the man who'd done it and fire three times from a prone position.

 

[Grace Zann]

It seemed her assumptions had been correct, as what remained of the slavers began charging toward the escape pods. The other pkyes had already began shooting, but were taking heavy resistance.

Grace herself would draw her double-bladed lightsaber and began blocking every blaster bolt she could. The weapon would move like a rowboat's oar, slapping away each blaster shot as it came. There was no way she could keep that up for long, especially with the damaged shoulder, but it should give the other pykes enough time to focus their fire.

Thankfully, that's exactly what they did. While the woman's big glowing weapon drew their attention, what remained of the Materiaalaankopen would find themselves swiftly blasted to death by either Harleen or another member of the Pykes. It appeared things were finally calm.

"Well... I think we did it." She would remark with a relieved sigh.

 

[Julius Arvo]

Jules and his remaining team moved from section to section unsealing each section since he and his platoon were all either in vac suits or had armor compatible with low oxygen the atmosphere in these sections did not effect them. They did a thorough search of each section. When one of his men asked if they should take prisoners Jules explained that if they were left alive we would just end up having to fight them again. "Our goal is to make their organization completely combat ineffective and destroy their ability to conduct commerce. " Said Jules

The unfortunate side effect of this total kill in every section that wasn't the slave pens was that some of the merchandise may have been destroyed. However there were absolutely no Materiaalaankopen left to ever stand up and stab them in the back.

Jules would never give an order to his men that he would not follow himself. So Jules participated in the grim task of destroying the unconscious crewmembers and when they had cleared each section he returned the atmosphere to normal prior to moving to the next section. He ignored all com link traffic while involved with this dirty but necessary task.

Jules remained radio silent while completing this task having left the remaining unsecured areas to Rafe and Grace's larger forces. When he was finally done he had turned back on his com link and notified Rafe," all secured areas clear and ready for trash pickup,"

 

[Rafe]

Rafe had returned to the bridge, one of his lieutenants would be taking over as the captain of this ship, it's operation was simple, a constant back and forth from Sleheyron and Zar IV. Anyone could handle that operation. Once he for the all clear from @Grace Zann, @Julius Arvo, and the other pyke teams he would begin his disembarkment, the ship would need repairs, but at least it belonged to the Pykes now...

Lets get out of here.. Rafe would say over the secured line that included his strike force members and the contracted units.

[EXIT THREAD]