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Current Sometimes you spend so long looking for peace in someone else, you loose sight of that peace you can give yourself. Don't forget that guys.
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3 yrs ago
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today? Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present." -Master Oogway
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6 yrs ago
So many writing ideas, so little time to write. Being an adult sucks...
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6 yrs ago
It's the most fattening time of the year!
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7 yrs ago
There is a madness to my method. Or is there a method to my madness?
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Yeah, no, I don't know where I'm sending Riven. Maybe I'll think of somewhere by the next round of posts XD
So Zarkun has a gang now. Interesting.


To be fair, I don't anticipate their being relevant for some time XD
Damian Gerard|Path to Crocus



Hitting up the bookstores had crossed the swordsman's mind a couple of days prior, see if there was any record of other mages suffering similar penalties or even some kind of blow back like he did from over using their magic or anything like what was going on for himself, but had dismissed the idea initially. After all, what kind of famous mage would own up and admit that for years at a time they couldn't handle the full power of their own magic? The kind that doesn't want fame or fortune, but never met a mage that didn't want at least a little confirmation in their lives...

As he opened his mouth to reply to Ria, the sound of a nearby scuffle caught his attention and his two companions perked their ears up as well before growling softly. "Odd, why would there be a street fight before the drunks come out for the night?" Following Carmilla and Jaëger around the corner and towards the sound, he finds three men, clearly two on one, fighting. Steel Hydras marks, even though one was harder to see with it being on his fist. The other Damian had seen in the guildhall in passing, and was pretty sure that he was in Fenixtear as well. "Sorry, Miss Ria, but two on one doesn't quite sit right with me, so if you'll excuse me. Carmilla, Jaëger, stay put." The two wolves sit down next to Ria and watch as Damian intercepted the mage with the mark on his neck, catching the blow while it was pulled back and pinning his right arm firmly behind his back. "Now, now, boys, I'm sure there was no need to get rowdy with my guildmate here. I imagine we all have better things to do today."
Riven Je'and


She couldn't believe what had just happened, as she sat in the back of the ship bound for Coruscant's moon resort. Despite all their precautions, all their care and caution, that they would have been caught...Everything had been going well enough considering their order had been all but exterminated in its entirety, with the Council members all having likely fallen to their clones in battles across the galaxy, and so far, their small group of survivors had avoided drawing any unnecessary attention to itself as they moved from the apartment that they'd been hiding out in. Even before that, they had avoided unnecessary attention, moving as a group through the crowded lower levels and only speaking to those they had to. Fortunately for the group of Jedi, it would take time for the Clones to do a complete sweep of the Jedi Temple and even with that done, they may never find the secret exit. No one's noticed us, which is good. Probably think we're a gang hitsquad or something, which works even better for us. If we can just get to the rendezvous...

But they didn't make it before trouble found them. Riven must have missed a tail or not noticed some being taking interest in her dealings with the gangsters earlier, because as soon as they got within four hundred yards of the ship that would deliver them to safety, the boarding ramp in sight with a pair of nervous looking gang members aiming blaster rifles at the alleys and playing guard, the Jedi Master got only a moments warning, and it wasn't enough. A flurry of blaster fire came from behind the group, the blue bolts crashing into the backs of the Jedi Knights and Padawans even as Riven's lightsaber flew to her hand and ignited, the twin orange blades snapping to life too late to save anyone but their owner. "No!" The gang members flew into action, as their source of payment was at risk as they took cover and returned fire on the clones as they moved forwards. Riven, grief gripping her heart, lashed out with the Force, locking the squad of six clones in a Stasis Field that held them in place as the two gang members put blaster bolts in their heads.

Stumbling over to the bodies of her fallen charges, she removed each of their lightsabers form their hiding places, clipping each one to her belt and swearing to keep their memories alive. However, when she reached Knight Rolan, he was still breathing raggedly, and struggled to offer her his own lightsaber, a sad smile on his face. "Guess it was *cough* too good to be true." Riven hurried over to him, struggling to stop the bleeding.

"No, Rolan, no, don't talk. I can stop this, we can both get out of here alive, and find other survivors. I won't have lost all of you." The Nautolan gently stopped her panicked fawning and put his crossguard saber in her hands, still smiling softly.

"No, Master. We were outplayed here, but the fact you're alive, and that other Jedi have likely survived, means there's hope. Go, before more clones come to investigate. The *cough cough* Force will be with you," the light began to fade form his eyes as he finished speaking, the last word say with his last breath, "alwayssssss...." And with that Jedi Knight Rolan passed on to become one with the Force, and leaving a Jedi Master who felt like she had failed those under her protection alone in the alley way.

"Lady, we need to move. Lookout says three more patrols are zeroing in on our little shootout here." Riven forced herself to her feet and past the gangsters, boarding her lift to Coruscant's moon and taking a seat after giving the person she'd made the deal with, Joseph Caronat, a Corellian with a big head, twenty thousand credits. He gave the word and the craft lifted off. Silence reigned as she grieved in silence for her lost fellows, but eventually, the Corellian spoke and revealed he not only had a big head, but a big heart as he also handed back the credits.

"Look, Master Riven. I know what the Empire is saying about the Jedi, about the war that just ended. Me and the boys, after you left, did some talking and something doesn't add up. We've all, at some point, had dealings with Jedi. They were the last to get violent and the first to try and talk things out. So this whole conspiracy that the new Emperor cooked up..." Riven looked at him with hard eyes.

"Get to the point please, Joseph." The man nodded.

"He's runnin' the biggest scam this side of the Maw and we can see it a mile away. Consider me and the boys at your service. Your eyes and ears on Coruscant and your personal tools for getting wetwork done. The Ravagers will answer to you." Riven took a moment to think, closing her eyes and focusing on her breathing to help. Having a source of information on Coruscant even after she fled it would be a great way to determine courses of action in the future and would also potentially allow her to return after the heat had died down and investigate on her own terms. Over all, she could find no down side, or at least, not yet.

"Very well, Joseph, I'll take you up on that. Having eyes and ears on the planet would certainly not hurt."




As the ship took off to return to Coruscant, Jedi Master Riven Je'and felt a small glimmer of hope as she made her way through the back alleys of the resort to her secret safe house and the ship she had stashed at it. The Ravagers would be able to reach her anywhere on the encoded channel she'd provided and she'd made it to safety, at least for the time being. The door to her safe house came into view and she approached quickly, entering the keycode she had custom made to beat burglars and entering. In the span of two hours, she had resealed the safe house, secured the provisions she'd need to get to the Outer Rim, and had taken off in her modified XS Freighter, the Yggdrasil. She set a course for the Outer Rim and jumped to light speed.

In the captain's quarters hung the lightsabers of the Padawans and Knights she had failed to get to safety, with Knight Rolan's saber hung one row above the others. I will do what I can for the galaxy, I will try and save the other survivors, I swear it.
Spartan Lucas Ryker


As the mounted machinegun opened fire towards Ryker, he was already diving with a startled curse. If he was honest, as he rolled part way down the ramp, the SPARTAN IV had hoped that the rebels wouldn't have bothered setting up any kind of defense on the walk way since they had seemed confident they'd control the doorway. Turning off the active camouflage system, he tucks into the wall of the ramp and swaps the SMG for his DMR before, risking a quick peak at the far end before ducking after a couple of the larger caliber rounds rebounded off his shielding. Hearing that Grikgar was on his way, however, gave the Spartan an idea and he waited for the Grunt to arrive.

The little guy has a fuel rod launcher and lots of explosives. I'm a decent shot and brought a few frag grenades. The problem is obscuring smoke wouldn't do us any good up here...but a series of progressive explosions could force the men behind that barricade in to cover long enough for me to rush them.
Two more from me.










And here are the ones who need CS's that I have finished.

























































































Riven Je'and


A cloaked and hooded figure hurried through the crowds as the rain began to fall on the lower levels of the new capitol of the Galactic Empire. The broadcast of the Sith Lord turned Emperor Palpatine had just finished and there were people in the streets celebrating the end of a horrible war. But the end of that war came at the cost, one that no one was going to see coming until it was too late. The form stopped outside a doorway and knocked six times, paused and the knocked three more. The door slid open and they ducked inside quickly before it slid closed and locked again. The figure took off her hood, revealing the dyed purple locks of Jedi Master Riven Je'and. The Nautolan Jedi Knight who'd let her in watched outside the door as a clone patrol passed by. "What's happening? Suddenly the streets came alive." That's right, she made them keep all the holoterminals in this apartment off until she had made sure they weren't being traced by their holoaccess terminals.

"Former Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is now Emperor Palpatine, and the Republic has officially fallen. We are now on the capitol planet of a Galactic Empire. We must get off world before the Clones realize that there was another way out of the temple they didn't know about and begin searching places like this." Riven looked around the corner to check on the Padawans, who were busy distracting themselves with a board game while the Kel Dor knight meditated in a corner, floating slightly off the ground. "I see everyone is trying to remain calm. This is good." The Nautolan shrugged.

"There isn't much else to do. How'd the meeting go?" Riven grimaced.

"They've agreed to do it if we can get them fifty thousand credits. Then the announcement came about the Jedi being 'traitors' and the price climbed to one-hundred thousand. So I mind tricked them. I'm not proud of it, but-" The Nautolan knight cut her off.

"You what?! That's not how we-" Riven's look practically froze him in place.

"We are fighting to survive, Knight Rolan. The laws and rules of the Order no longer apply to the situation. It isn't as though I strung them up with the Force and beat them with metal rods." The Nautolan nodded, his face one of apology and the Jedi Master sighed. "I apologize Rolan. I did not mean to be so harsh, but we cannot adhere so strictly to the Code, not while we're surrounded by enemies. I promise, this will not become a regular thing. Now gather the others and get them to the back door," replaces the hood on her head, shaking the water from it, "we need to move as they will only wait so long. Once we're on the moon resort, I have a ship we can take to the Outer Rim. We'll wait for word from Masters Yoda or Kenobi until then."
Spartan Lucas Ryker


"Well hello to you too, assholes!" Lucas's shout was really more reflex as he dove into a nearby piece of cover alongside Vael. Of course they would walk into a nearly literal wall of bullets as they entered their half of the two paths and now found themselves pinned by heavy fire. However, be it fortunate or unfortunate, the SPARTAN-IV still had a pair of frag grenades, and those two fully automatic, lead spitting death machines would drown out the sounds of a grenade bouncing behind the gunners. Turning off his external speakers, he speaks into the internal comms channel for their small team. "Grenade out."

Throwing it over, the idea was for the arc of the grenade to put it just between the two machine gunners and in the laps of whoever was posted up between them and send them all flying in pieces ideally. Though he would also accept just sending them scrambling away from the grenade, since that would still mean that the mounted guns would stop firing and the team could move up. "I'm moving for the high ground, camo should keep me out of sight. I hope."
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