When at last we left our villain, Cicero, he had lost his Master and was allied with a small party of Jedi Padawans on the run from the Republic Clone Army after Order 66 was issued.

My party, having very little knowledge of the planet Eradia, traveled to the check point. It turns out, a little more knowledge was imparted to select members of the group. We were on the planet (initially) to negotiate with the Eradians a treaty for them to join the Republic against the Separatists. If you aren’t certain what an Eradian is; it’s a reptilian-avian like creature with glider wings under its arms.

When we arrived at their doorstep, the Eradians took us in with open arms, expecting us, but not the grave news we carried. Cicero, being exactly as I made him, did very little of the talking. He didn’t want to elude one way or another the amount of power he truly masked, in addition to a bit of a shift he felt within himself, so our self appointed leader, a Bothan by the name of (Well unfortunately, my friend can’t remember his character’s name, so today he is blessed with the name Bothan) Bothan did all the talking.

The negotiations were obviously far gone since our trip had been marked with danger, however we gathered as much information as we could about the situation with the Republic, and warned the Eradians to be weary of any Republic ships in the near future. We thanked them for their hospitality and the transport ship they gave us to aid in our escape from the planet. We never did find out what happened to the Eradians, but as players hoped that good triumphed over evil.

Soon after leaving the atmosphere of Eradia, five Republic ARC Fighters took chase. Using my basic knowledge of Republic Fighter formations I was able to distinguish which fighter was the lead, and used Mind Trick to force the pilot to stop his pursuit. Taking it as a cue the rest of the clones called off their pursuit as well, and we jumped into hyperspace with the intentions to head to Bothawui.

After meeting with Bothan’s father, Bothan was taken behind closed doors for a private conversation with his father. Cicero used the Force to listen to the conversation. He soon discovered that Bothan’s father wasn’t exactly the most reputable of characters. In truth, both father and son had a background filled with deception and subterfuge.

Cicero smiled at this, it was his first mark, someone already on the edge of the fence, teetering, looking to fall either way. Unfortunately, the next game I had to sit out and found out that Bothan left our group to find himself, we had also managed to pick up several human slaves (we had freed them) and again while we broke atmosphere, we were tracked by a pack of ARC Fighters, but this time, without my devious use of Force powers, the pilot plotted a course on the star map, and jumped into hyperspace.

Apparently, he botched the roll terribly and we ended up in the orbit of an apparently mythical place. It’s name… Iago.

Apparently, around the orbit of Iago are angel-like creatures that conveniently are called Angels that “pull” passing ships into the planet. Guess where we ended up crash landing?

As a little side note, our DM really wanted to send us to Iago, he just couldn’t figure out a legitimate way of doing it. Our pilot botching his role was a great and even more so a legitimate reason.

After mere moments of pulling ourselves from the wreckage of our ship, we were greeted by several difference races of travelers, all pulled to the surface of this planet as well. Here is where my party met Alacath, a Zeltron of nearly 10,000 years in age. He was a Jedi Knight from a much more archaic era whom crash landed on the planet many years before.

A bit of information about the Zeltron; they are ruled by the most dominant mood in the room, so if someone is angry they thus become angry. This makes it much harder for them to become a Jedi Knight because of the strict rules on emotion. He informed us that we were trapped on the planet and could only leave with the aid of the Star Dragon, a powerful entity so intelligent it lost the necessity for eye sight.

However, before we could travel to meet with the Star Dragon there was another force on the planet called the Demons. They would raid the small enclave often, killing many of the settlers. Their numbers were far too imposing even for a highly skilled Jedi Knight. It was quickly agreed that the situation would be resolved with the Demons, and our party put the other people to work taking parts from all of the ships to make a patch works transport vessel.

We prepared several defensive structures, but essentially the fight was left up to three Jedi Apprentices, and a very old Jedi Knight; a Jedi Knight so old in fact that his light saber was attached by a wire to a power pack. It was an interesting time, we had only spent a short time before the sounds of battle were nearing us. With simple fortifications ready to go, and each Jedi Apprentice as rested as possible, we stood at the top of our hill that I’ve affectionately named Hamburger Hill, and awaited the thousands of Demons below.

It was only a matter of time before we expected to be overrun. Soon our fears had become a visible threat. Thousands upon thousands of Demons poured out across the horizon, until the base of the mountainside itself was just one big moving mass. For fear of not being an efficient fighting machine, Cicero exposed himself to the beasts, diving off the top of the very steep hill and landing in the lot of them. He looked around for several minutes until he spotted a cave he could take refuge in. From here I used several Dark Side powers, with the justification of defending my friends. Force Lighting was a very common occurrence.

I tried to mask the Darkness within me, but it was becoming very apparent from here. We killed hundreds, but it began to seem hopeless as I was very low on hit points but I had several Force Points. In an act of desperation I rolled and ended up with 25 on my Mind Trick. Not enough, so I pumped three; count ‘em three Force Points into my roll ending with a 40+ roll. With this I drained several of my hit points nearly killing myself, and actually Mind Tricked the whole army of beasties into fleeing.

With this I had Cicero use a few Force Healings, and had him climb back up the hill, never explaining why the beasts just up and left, but acting into everyone else’s paranoia. With a grin on his face Cicero lied to his whole party.

Now with the Demons dispatched, we shifted our attention to traveling to see the Star Dragon. It took several days, and we saw strange things along the way, but finally we approached the cave of this “Dragon”. There was a strong affiliation with the Force coming from this cave, so we entered, and soon came face to face with the Star Dragon.

As a reward for staving off the Demons, and finding her, the Star Dragon gave us the knowledge we needed to leave her planet, and also take from her cave whatever treasures we found. Each of us gathered up enough components to make a new lightsaber, thanked the Star Dragon and began to leave. As we left the Star Dragon looked blindly at Cicero and a frown befell her face. “There is much Darkness is you.”

To Be Continued…