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[Evermourne]

The two padawans move up the stairs and enter a large hallway system. The hallways are quite narrow and just wide enough to fit 2 medium sized humanoids next to each other. While the party moves on they pass a series of rooms who all look quite the same. One bed or more in each room with a little storage space for personal belongings. Sleeping quarters for the people who worked or trained here it seems. As they two padawans walk along a shiny object could be seen in one of the rooms under the pillow on the bed. Soon they arrive in Malarika’s office.

In comparison to the other rooms seen thus far this room is much larger than the others. A large desk and cabinets fill the room and there is a map hanging on the walls. The floor is made of wood and looks like it has been here for quite a while now. The researchers have not been in here as far as the eye can see. The room is dirty and there are also some notes and papers flying on the floor. Dust is highly present and the air smells thick and stale.

((OOC: As of now I do not count Saron Itho as one of the players in this campain no more. If he wishes to return in this story he can PM me and I will see if it is still possible to re-enter this adventure without much trouble. For future actions please handle as though you where with just the two of you.))

[T'Sal]

“We have to be careful here, old stuff is fragile. Do not touch anything until it is cleared.” says T’sal while she looks to Trigiel.

“S4 will you please start a full scan of the entire room. Then I can get my tools ready.”

S4N8 bieps in acknowledgement and moves slowly past the padawans into the room with his spider legs. He stops in the middle and reveals his internal system which contains various analyses tools. He starts measuring and scanning everything in the room. From wall to wall he investigates all; he checks the material composition, text on the paper etc.

T’sal grabs her archeology tools out of her backpack and start to lay them in order ready to use. She then waits patiently for S4 to finish.

“Ones S4 is ready, we can one for one pick-up things, clean it and investigate it up close.
The dedusting will take some time, but archeology takes patience or else you destroy things.”

[Fecta Trigiel]

"Why not just use the force to pull the dust of? I believe I can manage it. But I will follow your advice and only look around, not touch anything yet.
If this turns out nothing, a few rooms back I saw something interesting in one of the sleeping quarters back."

Trigiel looked around for any clues and details. ((Check: 9 = 4 Force Level + 5 Vision -- sensitive optics: infra red, ultra violet, night vision, zoom))
As S4 was analysing the room, Trigiel carefully tried to read some of the papers lying around. Being a cyborg had both its up and downside in this situation, he could ignore the dust, but he has no means to blow the dust off, and he didn't want to touch the paper, as it could be very, very fragile.

Therefore he tried to pull of some dust from the ground by using the force to see if it was possible, and if it worked, he did it with an unimportant looking peace of paper.

((Check: 8 = 4 Force Level + 3 Energy + 1 Telekinesis -- I claim a bonus for testing first))

((OOC: I heard Saron Itho is with vacation, I don't know if this is indeed the case and for how long he will be gone))

[Evermourne]

As Fecta Trigiel tries to lift the dust of the paper and the floor it seems that it does not work according to plan. The dust is too small and delicate to be able to be moved so freely by this specific use of the force.
Meanwhile the droid continues to scan the room for any information about this room. A lot of the text on the papers has faded away over time. The text that can be read contains information about the city rulings and its transport structures for supplies. As far as the room goes the materials are what one can expect like any other room. More stone is used in here because it is build inside a mountain. S4 informs the party of a strange marking found on one of the walls.

[T'Sal]

T’sal takes a brush and moves to the wall with the signs. She removes all the dust and dirt accumulated over time. When she is done, she takes a few steps back and takes a good look at it.

((Check: 8 = 5 Force Level + 3 Vision -- using the force analyze the sign))

[Fecta Trigiel]

When T'sal has cleared the marking, Trigiel takes a good look at it to see if it says anything to him.

((Check: 9 = 4 Force Level + 5 Vision -- when the marking is just a sign, I suppose I need reason, which is 4))

If it appears to be nothing he can do with it, he takes a good look around the room to see if there is anything else.
((Check: 9 = 4 Force Level + 5 Vision -- ))

((OOC: As a reminder, I planned to go on vacation until the 5th of august))

[Evermourne]

T’sal slowly clears the dust on the marking and around it. It reveals a small picture. A symbol of some sort which seems familiar to the party.

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The symbol resembles the symbol of the Jedi order. Maybe this could be the symbol for Malarika's order. Upon closer examination the symbol seems to be more then just a picture. Maybe it hides something since a somewhat stronger concentration of the force is around the marking.

[T'Sal]

T’sal move slowly closer to the sign while reaching out with the force. She moves her hands over the sign to get a feeling from it.

((Check: 9 = 5 Force Level + 4 Energy -- ))

((OOC: You did now see picture in the news and this looks strange with the .png beneath it.))

[Fecta Trigiel]

As T'sal bowed over the picture, it would be hard for Trigiel to focus on the picture too. Instead he looked around for similar pictures, or any clues about the origin, or what it might do. Maybe there was a sheet of paper in the drawer with the required username and password.

((Check: 9 = 4 Force Level + 5 Vision -- ))

[Evermourne]

Fecta Trigiel looks closely at the symbolic picture and sees if he can match it to anything else in the room. Glancing over the room it does not seem to reoccur anywhere else in the room. Nor do any readable papers on the ground of the desk show any link to the symbol.

While Fecta Trigiel keeps on looking around T’sal focuses on the picture and reaches out using the force. As she scans the picture with the force a connection can be felt inside the wall where the symbol is located. T’sal pushes further and an imaginary click can be felt. The wall rumbles and slowly opens up by going back and sideways inside the wall. A dimly lit corridor is revealed behind the door where a few burning torches can be found. The light is not strong enough to see very far or detailed at this point though a corner can be made up a few paces from the entrance. Looking around the room it seems that the office door has been closed. Making it impossible to go back at this point.

A sudden feeling washes over the padawan’s. a feeling of uncertainty of what is to come.

((OOC: I am sorry for the delayed post of this week. I have been and will be quite busy this month because of school. but I will try to keep my one post a week))

[T'Sal]

“Kura'ran, there was a sign on the wall which looked like the Jedi order, that might be Malarika´s symbol. There was a force lock on it and it is now open and a corridor can be seen. The office door however is now closed. We will continue our investigation.”

“Let’s continue carefully Trigiel. I think we found the interesting part.

S4 make sure you record everything that you measure with your sensors.”

T’sal moves slowly into the corridor and concentrates on the force to feel what is behind that uncertainty.

((Check: 9 = 5 Force Level + 4 Energy -- ))

[Kura'ran]

Hmm that is quite intriguing. and also a little disturbing to hear you two are locked in. I will send some men over to see if we can open that door to get you out. In the meanwhile I would like you to look into this matter to see what more you two can dig up with the help of force. I do like to.... poi....th....

The signal is starting to lose strength. Making the holographic image scramble.
As T'sal pauses for a moment the signal faintly recovers for a few moments.

It seems... the signal it losing power..... the mountain. I will try to boost.... signal but for now your.... your own.

With those final words the connection is closed down. Leaving the party for the time being.

[Evermourne]

Slowly T'sal ventures forth into the corridor. Passing the first corner after a few steps. The corridor moves on slightly curvy from the crude mountain walls. The torches seem to carry for a long while showing the soft red glow of the stones. Deep into the mountain. Occasional the small symbol shows itself near a torch light. But nothing can be made of it as of this moment. The little droid S4 walks along slowly keeping the area in check. The droid gives some information about the rock formations and its material components.

[Fecta Trigiel]

"We can just use our lightsabers to get out if necessary, but my guess is the exit door will open again when we close the secret door." Did he say over the holocom, hoping Kura'ran would hear enough of it to be reassured.

Trigiel looked around in the corridor and something weird struck him immediately.
"I am more intrigued by how the torched lit themselves, and how they are fuelled. Or why there are torches in the first place, and not more useful electric lighting. Somebody went to a lot of effort for something really useless."

Trigiel moved to one of the torches to see how it worked. He just couldn't understand why somebody would lit a underground hallway with fire.
((Check: 10 = 4 Force Level + 4 Reason + 2 Mechanical Engineer -- ))

[Evermourne]

Fecta Trigiel moves closer to one of the torches as watches closely.
it appears that the torches are like the old stories where it is a wooden stick of a fair width and height. a some cloth is wrapped around the tip which has been lit. as far as can be seen there does not seem to be anything mechanical to these torches. which makes it all the more intriguing to why or how they have been lit.

T'sal slowly steps forward through the dimly lit corridor and arrived at a set of stone stairs.

[Fecta Trigiel]

"T'sal, there is a distinct posibillity that we are not alone in here," Does Trigiel say after he took a look at the torches, "it is logical to assume someone has kept these torches in working condition."

When the cyborg was at the stairs, he followed them to were they lead. At the same time he was careful enough to suspect any kind of danger and traps, so he kept a keen eye out for anything suspicious.
((Check: 11 = 4 Force Level + 5 Vision + 2 Mechanical Engineer -- Traps are probably mechanical, with triggers and sensors, so engineer is in place here in my opinion))

[T'Sal]

“Your right, these are old torches and they burn at most a few hours.

S4 could you use your sensor to determine how long these torches have been burning and also look for traces of DNA for if someone is indeed here.

Let’s continue carefully.”

T’sal focuses her senses while slowly going up.

((Check: 8 = 5 Force Level + 3 Vision -- ))

((OOC: S4 sensor check on the torches and DNA or other traces))

[Evermourne]

The party move forward over the small stone steps descending slowly.

“Your right, these are old torches and they burn at most a few hours. S4 could you use your sensor to determine how long these torches have been burning and also look for traces of DNA for if someone is indeed here.
Let’s continue carefully.”

T'sal says. But a quick glance at S4 alarms the party. S4 is having difficulty functioning in this environment. Its functionality has been greatly decreased at the moment. It looks like there is something jamming its internal systems. ((OOC: S4 can still be used. but just badly. see it as a big debuff on his modifiers so to speak.)) S4 lets the party know after a while that the torches have been burning for a good hour. But no traces of any DNA information can be found.

As Fecta Trigiel moves down the steps the end is coming in sight. The stairs was a good minute long so the party knows it is now deep inside the mountain of the city. At the end a small archway lead the party in a large open space. The celling it like a large dome making it a half circle. The ground and walls are crude mountain area once again. Though it is vastly empty there is a rather large structure in the middle of it. It seems like it is as large as a Jedi Temple. It seems the structure is not inhabited but some noticeable lights are coming from its windows.

both the padawans feel a strong presence radiating from the structure.

[Fecta Trigiel]

((OOC: I am a little confused by the terms 'jedi temple' and 'not inhabited'. The jedi temple is big enough to have several hanger bays and its personal garden. This does both mean that the dome we are in is as big as the mountain we are in, and it will be impossible to see from the outside whether the temple is inhabited or not without any scanners.))

"Carefull, I sense some damn radiation, it messes with my senses. T'sal, do you have any kind of scanner to check if it is dangerous? It would be a shame to die out of radiation poisoning."

[T'Sal]

"S4 is a walking sensor. It seems that the disturbance is many on electrical technology.
I think is has more to do to the strange force presence. But S4 can analyze on what wavelength the interference is.
As this is a temple were people life I do not think it is harmful.

Let's go to the structure, there is light coming from it."

[Mysterious Woman (mask of Evermourne)]

((OOC: Well it is quite simpel though. Of course there are many grades of Temples as well that differen in size but you can use your own imaginasion to decide how big it is. And of course you can see if something is inhabited by just looking at it. If you walk down a street you have a clear idea where people are home or not right? Lights are off or shaded off or stuff like that.The tempel has windows and other things that show that people there. the windows are dark . Plants for as far they are there are not tend too and more like that. Its completely dark except for the dim light of the presense))

The party ventures closer to the structure and the presence grows stronger. As the two padawans enter the temple the dim light grows brighter around them as they venture towards the source. Coming near the central ground floor hall.
The area seems well maintained inside here but the attention is quickly drawn towards a cloaked figure who is working on a computer.

"A there you are. I almost started to wonder when you would show up. if you would give me a moment I will be right with you . If you dont mind you can sit over at those chairs there."" a female voice calls out to the party. and is followed up by a hand pointing to a couple of chairs and benches.


Mysterious Woman

[T'Sal]

“Good evening miss….

We are sorry to have kept you waiting, but we did not know we were invited.

We were carefully approaching as my droid seems to have some problems. You never know what you can find while exploring ruins.”

: says T’sal while patting S4. She slowly walks towards the chairs. She whispers and makes gestures to S4 to analyze her and use code Niok.

((Check: 9 = 5 Force Level + 3 Fitness + 1 Stealth -- For hinting S4 silently, do not know it fitness is the right attribute))

After their infiltration mission T’sal had fine-tuned her communication with S4 under various circumstances. Code Niok meant that everything is recorded, that results were give of analyses with a certain pattern blinking of lamps and other no conspicuous actions. They had developed their own sign language.

T’sal takes places in one of the chairs and she smiles and makes a gesture to Fecta Trigiel to come along. She looks around while waiting and checking things out with the force.

((Check: 9 = 5 Force Level + 4 Energy -- ))

[Fecta Trigiel]

"Actually, I do mind sitting in a chair I do not know in front of an unknown but likely powerful person with unknown intentions." Trigiel took a good look at the woman to see if he could spot any hints of who or what she is, and what she wants. He also looked if he could see what she was doing on the computer.
((Check: 9 = 4 Force Level + 5 Vision -- sensitive optics: night-, ultra violet- and infra red vision, zoom))

"I guess this is the part you tell us not to be afraid, you are not going to hurt us and have something very important to tell?"

[Mysterious Woman (mask of Evermourne)]

Mysterious Woman

"Sit. or do not sit. As long as it is equal I don't mind what any of you do" the voice speaks.
Fecta Trigiel tries to focus on the screen to get a hint of her work. but the figure blocks the view to much to give an accurate idea of what she is doing. The party watches the mysterious woman closely but thus far no special movement or actions have been noted. it almost seems as she is quietly whistling to herself. Suddenly the screen goes black of the small computer and the figure retrieves a small disk and conceals it into her cloak. She turns around rapidly and leans back against the desk with her arms crossed over. she leans over just enough so her face stays hidden. She appears to be a medium sized female . possibly a Nautolan judging from small tentacle's coming from under her hood. She wears a Jedi sized cloak with yellow and blue tints. though the design does not seem traditional

"Sorry to keep you waiting young-lings but those little sand diggers up there we're in my way so I was forced to finish my... errands... over here. Now then. What do we have here. a little girl and a cyborg. Dare I say that this is an interesting setup. No I am not going to say that you should not be afraid. Or that i am not going to hurt you. And also I would like to ask you two some things. And judging from your answers i might tell you something important. I might not."

The woman launches herself a little from the desk to stand up straight and walks over to a cabinet in the corner of the large hall. She takes out or shoulder bag from under her cloak and put some of the papers and books from the shelves and some small mechanical devices.

"Now if you two would be so kind as to tell me why you two are here and what your looking for. We can both be on our own way very soon".

((OOC: The sign language you claim to have with S4 is something I can not find on your or S4's wiki page. For this situation it does not matter and i will let it slip. But these kind of potentially nice skills I would it to be described somewhere. Note that i did not read all story topics or read them in full. So thing described there i do not count. You can leave it now. just for future things.))

[Fecta Trigiel]

Although he knew the comm was probably non-operational, Trigie tried to use the comm to communicate with T'sal. Because he was a cyborg his comm link was build into his case making the use of vocals unnecessary. As long the female wasn't tapped in their channel, she couldn't hear him talking.

"I don't trust her, maybe she a looter or someone from this order here. I suggest we keep our origin unclear, and make her clear you are my underling. Scratch head on left side to agree, right side to disagree."