TheElvenJedi

You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

It does seem to have that effect hahaha I tend to hop on and play a bit every evening after a couple of posts funnily enough XD

Loving the sound of Darth Jungze so far just from that one paragraph! OuO Hopefully that's not moving TOO fast in terms of an ending point for this next post, gives them time to discuss it a little bit before actually picking who gets to go do what haha

You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

With a few more disgruntled mutterings, the room appeared to settle as Yerbol reappeared at her side again, shortly followed by their appointed pilot and commander Dorne.
Aria dipped her head gratefully to Neta as she asserted that she would back up their tale, glancing sideways at Yerbol before they stepped into the center of the room together to once again recount their experiences from their first encounter on Korriban to the trials they had experienced on the True Sith homeworld. This was somehow entirely different to the time they had presented the very same evidence to the Jedi Council on Tython, instead of the quiet scorn they had been met with then, every pair of eyes in the room was trained on the holoprojector as it played back the disks they had retrieved from the tower library.

There was a moment of silence where even the hounds at the doorway didn’t stir, before Matthew’s question broke the silence. Ailel nodded in agreement with her comrades, leaning forward slightly in her seat as she seemed to study the young duo before them. “Indeed. While I don’t doubt the troubles you two have faced, it seems an awfully inefficient if not hypocritical final goal to have; there are so many Force users in the galaxy there is surely no way he could kill all of them. And it does not eliminate the chance of more being born at a later date after the so-called purge is complete, either. Are you certain Bracknell isn’t the orchestrator of the whole thing?”
Aria met the Jedi Master’s gaze and gave another firm nod. “With all due respect, ma’am, I would know Bracknell’s voice when I heard it. The voice in the visions was different, neither of us had ever heard it before.”
In answer to Kira’s question, Roan offered:
“Like many of the Dark Council, Bracknell is certainly privy to a great source of power honed over years of training. It’s not surprising that he would be able to put such talents to use in order to bend those of weaker will within the Galactic Senate to his cause.” a smirk coloured the Sith Lord’s face as he continued, in a somewhat smug tone. “It’s been done before on many occasions, even to some of your own Masters, if you recall. I won’t mention names, though some of you wouldn’t be old enough to recall a relative of your late Grand Master.”
Oh, please, don’t irk them. Aria fought the urge to roll her eyes at her father’s outward display of scorn towards the Jedi members of the meeting and silently hoped they wouldn’t decide to settle this by whipping their sabers out later.
Cheriss cut into the conversation at that point, continuing along the original trajectory by explaining.
“Lord Bracknell’s skillset lies within tactics and planning, it’s quite possible that he has been plotting such an uprising for some time without the knowledge of the other Sith Masters. He was always one to speak very little, though when he did his words were often well thought of by most. There were some of us,” a glance was exchanged with the other Sith beside her, “who suspected that his motives may have been his own, but he covered his tracks well and there was never anything to provide solid proof on the matter.”

Heads would turn from the current speaker back to the doorway as the hounds waiting there yelped excitedly to announce a new presence, to discover the Miraluka who stood in the doorway. She didn’t appear to react in any way to the pair of tomb beasts bouncing around her, but regardless they were making such a fuss of the newcomer that it became difficult to hear anyone speaking.
“Down.” a softly spoken command from Roan brought both Tuk’ata’s backsides back to the floor with quiet grunts of affirmation. Another minute or so of silence was punctuated with Ailel clearing her throat and speaking to Aria and Yerbol again.
“HOW he did it is of little importance now, whether it IS Bracknell behind the whole series of events or not. We need to know what they plan to do next if we’re going to have any chance of counteracting it.” resting her chin on her palm, she brought forward another query for the duo. “This library that you visited, you said it was full of archives and scrolls, yes?”
After they had nodded, the Jedi Master continued: “It may be worth us re-visiting this world to access more of the archives, perhaps try to find a name, or an outline of teachings, that could have been extrapolated to lead to this goal of mass genocide.”

You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

It ususally is, we like to go through all the old games like Wii Sports Resort or Cluedo/Monopoly just for the nostalgia sake hahaha thankfully we're all not too bad as winners so that's a plus side at least XD

I'm sure it'll be fun though! XD

Oh, definitely! I kept meaning to ask and then forgetting xD I shall have to add you later today, FINALLY got to actually make Roan because they brought out a Tuk'ata beast companion today/this week (!), which I've been waiting agess for, he's got a lot to work on to catch up with Aria now XD

You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

heehee, Cheriss is a proper lady and she doesn't appreciate having to share a room with dogs that slobber all over themselves ;) XD

Hahaha I knoww, I lost track of time while writing and ended up staying up wwaaaaaayyy too late O_O but I did go to bed straight afterwards don't worry! lol

Pahaha don't worry, I totally forgot about Master Sparr too so I just sneakily shoved her in there :P

Oooohh, good luck to them! I remember what exams were like, don't miss them AT ALL haha. As far as I know we're not going out or anything but we'll be following the usual family tradition of plenty of food (*cough* enough food to last us four days *cough* my dad tends to over-cater, quite severely XD) and lots of board games/Wii games which are always hilarious (everyone in the family is horribly competitive and nobody is a gracious loser...yeah, you can see where this is going XD)

You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

This took shamefully long to type out, I apologise XD Hopefully it's a good enough post that it makes up for it haha (it ended up running away with itself and being waaaayy more than what I had planned O_O XD)

Left out Havoc joining them because it was a long enough post already (and I'm soo tired haha) but feel free to include them joining the gathering in your post! OuO
Let me know if you want anything added or changed, should be able to make them at a relatively quicker pace tomorrow as it's my day off XD

You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

Aria’s gaze flickered sideways to meet Yerbol’s, the corners of her mouth turning upwards in a smirk as she answered his question.
Well, everyone at the Academy always used to say that the reason they called her Darth Lash wasn’t JUST because of the Lightwhip!
She followed up by confirming that their newest addition was indeed as powerful a Sith Lord as Roan, which would come in handy for their rebellion’s forces, but might prove the other Sith Master to be...difficult to get along with. She turned her attention towards Janika and Manso as the young duo expressed their concerns, assuring them with another snort of laughter that “As long as you stand up straight and say ‘yes ma’am’ when she tells you to do something, you’ll be fine. With any luck she’ll be so occupied with the Masters she won’t even notice the rest of us.”
She had been trying to shake it off while they greeted Cheriss and tried to wait for the other Masters but after the two had been dismissed to seek help from Havok squad, she realised that her limbs felt like they were weighted down with lead. It was difficult to tell, with the link between them as substantial as it had become, how much of the fatigue was her own and how much of it was trickling along the thread from Yerbol’s mind. Either way, it became clear to them both that when he couldn’t even lift one of the crystals off the ground without effort, they should both return to their room and rest up before their other guests arrived to the summit.

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[10 hours later (approx)]

To hope that they could have an entire night’s rest undisturbed was wishful thinking, of course. While they managed to get a good several solid hours in, it was still the middle of the night when another premonition disturbed Yerbol’s dreams, as a result rousing Aria as well. She wasn’t able to hear the ENTIRE conversation, more like snippets of the exchange between the two had wormed their way into her own dreams through the link, jolting her awake about two hours prior to Yerbol waking himself. Aria sat bolt upright, stifling a yelp as the top of her head connected with the ceiling due to the force at which she was jolted awake. Groaning softly, she slid out of the bunk to find the Knight still tossing and turning in his sleep; she had contemplated shaking him awake as she rubbed the sore spot on her head, then decided against it (there were old superstitions about interrupting people’s nightmares before they were done that she felt probably applied to creepy Force-related visions, too). Instead, she slipped out of the room and headed for the main entrance to check whether there was an extra shuttle parked alongside the others yet. Though she found that wasn’t quite the case yet, the fresh air allowed her to clear her thoughts enough to recognise that the voice from the vision had been the SAME voice as the one they had heard before docking on Manaan. So whoever had begun the True Sith’s crusade was still watching them. He had talked about the same things the projection in the temple had told them. Balance, harmony and re-stabilising the Force….Did he know where they were, would he tip off Bracknell and Soto to their location? She would have to discuss these things with Yerbol later when they got the chance. The gravity of that insinuation began to sink in and made the hairs on the back of her neck prickle uncomfortably as she began to pace back and forth in the main meeting area, not wanting to wander the halls in case she disturbed any of the others from their rest.

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Only a few hours later, Neta had reappeared in the communal area and informed Aria of the incoming spacecraft as a few of the others of the group could be heard shuffling about in their quarters as well. As she was already awake, Aria volunteered to come with the redhead to greet the other Jedi Masters, in the hopes of putting a good foot forward in terms of their co-operation with the Sith representatives. It would help for them to meet someone who wasn’t as stuck-up about their (former) allegiances as her father and Master Matare. As Master Naylan and his wife entered the compound, she dipped into a formal bow she had seen Academy tutors use to greet her father or other Sith Masters when they came to check on student’s progress in training, hoping the gesture was a universal sign of respect for Masters of higher rank and that it wouldn’t have the opposite effect by offending them.
“Master Naylon, Mrs Naylon. It’s good to see you again.” she followed Kira’s gaze to see Roan situated in one corner of the room, apparently asleep himself though it was always hard for her to tell. “Everyone else is resting now, but by eight or so we’re hoping to get the meeting underway.”
Aria hadn’t returned to her bunk after showing the Jedi Masters to open quarters and bidding them a good rest, instead halting in the hallway after a few steps and propping her back up against the wall. She had meant to just take a few moments, until her legs felt like they could ACTUALLY move again, and then go back to check on Yerbol...but had ended up sliding down into a sitting position and drifting back into a dreamless sleep right there.
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[13 hours later]

She was abruptly jolted awake at about eight am by Cheriss’ voice in the hallway immediately adjacent to the main room screeching:
“NOCTIS, YOU BASTARD! KEEP THOSE FILTHY DOGS OF YOURS ON A DAMN LEASH!” followed by an overly-jubilant cackle from Roan. Opening her eyes, Aria would find an agitated Kira seated alongside her husband and another older man and woman (the other Jedi Masters, no doubt) in the middle of the room. Cheriss had given Roan a wide berth to join the Jedi in the room, every pair of eyes present trained on Roan who loitered in the doorway with the tomb beasts chattering eagerly as they observed the newest additions to their ragtag group.
“You are NOT bringing those….THINGS in here!”
“I can’t help it if they would rather follow me around. They make their own decisions, Naylon.”
“LIAR! You’re telling them what to do!” the other female Jedi snapped, glowering at the Sith Lord as Roan smiled smugly and shrugged his shoulders, retorting.
“So what if I am?”
Aria groaned and pushed herself groggily to her feet, muttering to herself under her breath. “Oh, you have GOT to be karkin’ kidding me!” apparently she had slept through the start of the meeting. As expected, it had already descended into petty squabbling that had NOTHING to do with their current situation.
Fumbling for the thread that linked her mind to Yerbol's she latched onto it and called out, still laced with tiredness.
Hey, Bol...you wanna help me break this up? They're bickering already and I don't think we've even started talking about any of the important stuff.

You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

Yeah, I think Bracknell was going to somehow run into them there to spawn 'the mom talk' thing with Ari and Bol during the ambush on the Sith Homeworld once they got back....but other than that I think you've got everything else spot on! XD *checks own notes* yeeep, can't see anything else glaringly obvious that's missing so let's roll with that and see how it unfolds and go from there once we reach the information warfare/assassination part? :3

You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

Pahaha exactly! They're going to be stood there like "This is why everyone hates us, WHY do you not see this? T_T" XD and probably eventually get bored and take up Yerbol's suggestion of goofing off to go find food (though it might not be ice cream given the rations they have with them lol)

XD For the most part it's usually funny, because we let him and his brother out to play and they just sort of bounce around and trip over themselves, and its hilarious :P, but this one has a habit of deciding to chew the fabric parts of certain armchairs/cushions and my dad will KILL me (and him) if he actually managed to break any of them O_O pahahahaha

You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

Indeed! Ari and Bol are gonna have a blast laughing at them all bickering like school children in the playground, that's for sure! XD *rubs hands together evilly*

Excuse the minimal characterisation with Cheriss and (inevitably) Master Sparr for now, they're fairly new characters and they're still trying to figure out where they want to go with themselves lol
also sorry this one took so long, I kept getting halfway through and having to get up to chase a renegade ferret around before he wrecked all the furniture .__. XD

You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

She wouldn’t get the chance to enquire about what had happened with the droids, because at that point Neta breezed back out of the compound and bellowed for all of the Force users to join her in order to help the newly arriving shuttle get down to the ground easily. It was a lot trickier than their own descent had been, given that they were all standing OUTSIDE of the shuttle planetside, and had to collectively extend a barrier upwards into the air in order to shield the incoming craft from being battered to bits on the side of the crystalline mountains. Due to the difficult parameters set out before them, they could only push the barrier up about a hundred feet or so, any more The process went a lot more smoothly than Aria had been expecting, and after the sphere had dissolved out of existence they were faced with a somewhat bedraggled-looking crew of soldiers who eyed the small gathering before them warily while Neta made introductions and explained what they had managed to achieve so far.
It wasn’t until the blonde had started to speak and the thickness of her Imperial accent became clear that Aria realised the Havoc squad Bek had talked about was well...THE Havoc squad.

The squad trooped past them on Neta’s tail as the former soldier ushered them towards the compound to give them the not-so-grand tour of the place. The effort of bringing Havoc’s shuttle down to safety in their makeshift landing area may have tired the younger Force users out, but they wouldn’t get the chance to rest and recuperate just yet as they could hear the squeal of another hyperdrive breaking through the atmosphere.
“OH YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS!”
“Who even IS that?” a few groans of complaint came from the tired youngsters. Aria didn’t blame them, she felt like joining in with their protests if it hadn’t been for the disapproving scowl her father shot in her direction that meant she kept her lips tightly sealed.
“Stop complaining and help me with the barrier!” Roan snorted, throwing the beginnings of the bubble up again with a simple flick of his wrist. Something about the look in his eyes gave away that he knew who the shuttle belonged to, as well.
If it were at all possible, this shuttle was actually EASIER to maneuver than the previous one. In fact, it almost seemed as if...as if they were getting help, from a person inside the shuttle! Whoever they were, they seemed to possess enough strength with the Force that it gave them the ability to add their own influence to the air currents in order to aid the group as they guided the ship to the ground.

The person who stepped off the shuttle as the engines cut off was so sallow in complexion that they could only have been one of the Sith survivors, the Dathomirian’s stride was somewhat haughty as she approached them, the timbre of her voice equally abrasive as her walk as she barked out. “Noctis! You good for nothing Hutt slime! I almost walked into a death trap on Coruscant, you couldn’t have warned me sooner?! I should string you up by your toes for that!”
Smirking, Roan stepped forward to meet her and responded. “The feeling’s mutual, Lash. Cut the crap, we’re the only Council members left and we don’t have time for it.”
Cheriss growled, her gaze passing over the young flock gathered behind him before she snorted at noting Yerbol, Janika and Manso among them. “You brought JEDI?”
“Allies of circumstance only, I assure you. I would have killed them if I could. They’re more able than they look, trust me.”
She stepped forward so that she was nearly nose-to-nose with her fellow Sith Lord and hissed. “I wouldn’t trust you as far as I could THROW you!” as if to enforce the point, at that moment Roan was thrust backwards a few paces, thankfully able to catch his balance again with little more than a startled grunt as Cheriss asserted: “And need I remind you from last time that is far enough!” she was more than likely capable of throwing him even further than she had, if she'd been so inclined, but apparently a few inches was enough to enforce her point.
Despite her protests however, the Dathomirian agreed to hear out their plans thus far and follow Neta and the squad back to the complex while they waited in case there were any more impending arrivals….