I know, right? I kinda got choked up writing that myself. As an older brother, it's hard to imagine my little sister in any kind of danger, let alone life threatening *shudders*

Yay! Looking forward to it as always :)

Next post shall be with you in the next couple minutes, apologies for the delay as I actually had to figure out how they would figure it out too and I was scratching my head a wee bit but got it figured now haha XD

Some thoughts/considerations I've had about the progress of the battle itself and such:
-In terms of Ari and Bol (and some other help which shall be later revealed mwahaha) ACTUALLY taking Bracknell out after he offs Roan, how do we want that to play out? I've got two possible ways thought of myself: they pursue Bracknell through the ship and intercept him before he reaches a ship to 'escape' planetside and kill him, OR Bracknell flees while they are preoccupied saying final farewells to Roan and flees planetside to locate/join Soto and they pursue him back to Zinuthra and hunt him down and kill him then OR something else entirely different that I haven't thought of?

-While that's going on, with the ground forces below, do you want them to find and kill Soto before or after the duo finishes off Bracknell? OR alternatively they could take her prisoner and interrogate her about where Bracknell suddenly got the power/knowledge he got, I guess (then kill her afterwards, if they feel she's too dangerous to be left alive, or instead lock her up in maximum security "for life" if they're feeling merciful?(which I find doubtful but hey Ailel and Matt might advocate unnecessary manslaughter still *shrug*)? Thoughts? O_O

-Thoughts on Ari and Bol arriving back at the compound in time to (help) negotiate the peace deal with Saresh? Perhaps she refuses to speak to anybody else and demands to speak to them as the initial "orchestrators" of the rebellion in the first place?

Haha, no worries!

-I like the first idea, seeing as I would LOVE to write a fight scene where Ari and Yerbol get to face Bracknell down. Sort of like their first major "boss fight" if we're using video game terminology. It'll mark a huge step in their progress towards becoming Masters of the Force AND fulfill what Renso wanted them to do(I'm assuming Renso would want them to face Bracknell in isolation without any help from Soto, seeing as he would want the duo to face a major obstacle together and win?)

-Soto taken prisoner would most certainly help. We can have the ground forces manned by Voldon, Kira and the others to take Soto in themselves. I can write in a conflict between Voldon and Soto if you wish. There's a...bit of backstory between the two that I think you'd enjoy ;)

-Yeah, they'd get back with Saresh in tow. I'm going to say that Yerbol and Aria would be involved WITH the help of leading diplomats. Saresh can talk with the duo alone at FIRST, THEN the political details can get hashed out by diplomats and such.

What say you? Additions, subtractions, comments?

-Haha boss fight, yes I like that way of looking at it actually XD I concur, I imagine Renso would like to see first-hand what our dynamic duo are capable of when they're working PROPERLY in sync instead of stil just being 'forced' into it like the last time he witnessed them fighting in the temple on Quensu. Mwahahaha I can't wait to write that bit either, it's going to be GREAT :D It'll be a real turning point/growing point for them both too for sure, especially for them both to finally get some closure/vengeance after everything that they've been through because of Bracknell's doing o:

-Excellent, that works quite nicely since I added a little bit of the ground force troops from Vano's POV into my latest post which ends with the decision to hunt down Soto so that leads into that very nicely actually :P

-Sounds good! (I don't imagine the duo would have terrible interest in blabbering on about poltical nonsense more than they have to anyway so I'm sure they'll palm it off to the other diplomats the first chance they get so they can deal with more important matters! XD)

Tah dah! didn't want to cram TOO much into one post so hopefully I set up them finding Bracknell well enough o.o *fangirls uncontrollably* this is so exciting XD

Awwwwwww snap! I actually need to get going, but FIRST THING Monday morning I'm writing a reply! I might even work on it some during the weekend, which I normally never do.

*hops up and down uncontrollably in excitement*

Hahaha, aww no worries, there's no rush! A brief interlude, is all! XD Have a good weekend! :D

*works on stat sheets and other little things in the meantime to contain own excitement* xD

DON'T READ MY POST YET!!! Working remotely so I had to post for wifi reasons. I'll get the rest up later today! No peeking! xD

Edit: I misspelled peeking. I hereby revoke my English degree xD

Hahaha, I very nearly peaked, oops! *covers eyes* I'm not looking I promise! XD

Ok! Finished. Sorry for the brevity of Yerbol's part, but I felt like you should handle Bracknell/Roan...cause, you know, you're good at writing Sith xD

Hahaha well thanks, I guess? They're quite fun to write, actually, I love having characters that are so brazenly powerful and not afraid to 'throw their weight around' a little XD It's a great contrast to Ari being so inexperienced or the usually refined and restrained Jedi Masters :P

Maaan, I was NOT expecting that little tidbit with Voldon and Soto (also noooo not Kira!! D':) O_O

Time to pile on some more feels in the next couple posts mwahaha *cackles evilly*

It's a compliment! You do Sith really well. I'm not very good at writing Sith because they turn into Jedi xD

It's not what you think, bellieevveee me. Voldon didn't cheat on Kira, but...well, if it comes up again in the flow of the story, I'll explain it.

Yesssssssssssssssssss! Pile it on, my friend!

Hahaha, it's quite hard not to slip into my usual "grey" side trope actually so it's comforting to know that I've kept up their 'Sith-ness' consistently XD (To your credit though Jungze is absolutely kick butt, I love her XD)

Oh no, I wasn't thinking that at all...but still completely wasn't expecting them to have had a thing at any point though O:

Mwahahahaha oh I will be :K He's not gonna die in this one, that'll be the next one, but I've got some super feels-inducing dialogue planned out I promise *cackles*

Indeed you have! Roan is so lovably evil xD

Oh yay! I think I'm going to try and bring her back after Act/Season 1, seeing as I've really enjoyed writing her as well. We can talk more about how to throw in all our beloved side characters later, of course, but I'd LOVE to have Jungze come back...Neta, too.

Well, it's a bit hard to explain, but it'll come up to where I explain it in more detail.

Yessssssss

Also, check this out! This might be helpful for our thread/others that are heavily involved in lore building

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I'll take a closer look at it later, but on the surface it looks good!

Totally! I'd definitely want to keep appearances of our side character gang in the next Act/Season, I've gotten quite attached to Vano and Cheriss as well, and even Roan's Tuk'ata actually :P They'll be sticking around too, and I actually gave them genders and names over the weekend since it made sense Roan would want to be able to call/command them individually sometimes as well as together (and names are much snappier compared to "hey, you! *points at*" XD)

I look forward to it! O.O
Ooooo that DOES look wicked good O.O I shall look into acquiring it XD

Google docs is being a bum and decided to crash on me halfway through my next post (booo T_T) but I am ALMOST done with it now, so look out for the start of the feels train, it's about to get roouughh as sin xD

Aw nuts...I really wanted Roan to make it. Really did. I do love how in his dying moments, he's going out with a smirk. I request that you have him come back somehow...someway! Force projection? Force ghost? I don't know, something xD

I also want the Tuk'ata back as you said. They're so darn cute in an ugly sort of way

So quick question: should I have Yerbol start fighting Bracknell and then you can finish him with Aria? Also, I feel like at this point, the Master would infuse them with strength? I can write that in if it fits

I can totally work him in as a Force ghost or something, for sure! XD Couldn't see him going down any other way than smirking tbh XD Gonna be a lot more feels in the "last dying moments" exchange with Ari in my next post before she goes to kick some Bracknell butt with Bol's help :K

Minor spoiler alert, they are totally staying around! I was actually going to have them sort of attach to Aria as self-imposed guard dogs since she smells like Roan and they've been following him around so long they don't remember how to NOT be under someone's control (sad confused doggos incoming D: XD) And Ari is going to sort of attach to them as well so her and Bol are going to inherit some creepy, ugly guard dogs pahahahaha

Mwahaha this is gonna be grand! Yep, I figured they'd need the Master helping them somehow or Bracknell would steamroll straight through them like he did with Roan :P Sounds good to me, can't wait to see what you've got! O.O *bounces excitedly*

Double post...silly Guild servers! XD

Ha, no worries, I just triple posted in our IC xD

Wow, I can't believe this is it...Bracknell's going to die...so surreal

Wahahahaha, these server errors seem to be intent on making us look impatient XD

More ambience: youtube.com/watch?v=ASj81daun5Q Ari and Bol are gonna kick some Bracknell butt! *fangirls uncontrollably* I can't believe we've finally gotten to it mwahaha!

EDIT: Aaand another double post oops T_T