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Welcome to the Maze

In the Outer Rim jungle planet of Son-tuul a competition has been organized in a massive and ancient labyrinth. The rules are simple. Be the first one to reach the maze's center, and win a massive horde of credits. So many you'd be set for life, so many your children's children will be set for life.

Things aren't always as simple as they sound, and sometimes things are too good to be true. There were no rules for the competition, aside from no running along the top. Which means weapons and attacking other contestants is a go. The identity was also a mystery, the only clue that there is an organizer are the informative protocol droids directing people towards the dozens of different entrances into the labyrinth. Speaking of droids apparently there were dozens of aggressive ones lurking within, just waiting for unsuspecting guests. And traps. So many traps.

Rumors flew over who it was. Some said it was some wealthy old madman, some claimed it was actually run by a criminal organization as a cover to heard up good quality slaves for sale. There were even a few claims that it was being run by some secret Sith cult luring people into an ancient dark temple at the heart of the maze for nefarious reasons.

(( ooc: this is a general open post for people looking for a bit of action and adventure! Feel free to use it as a start off for whatever you'd like. Are you looking to investigate the shady rumors going on around it? Or are you involved in them? Maybe you're just another adventure seeking looking for that tempting prize. Tag around and have fun! ))

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[This'll be easy. After all, weapons are allowed, and no one's said blowing up the walls is against the rules. Sure, it's possible it was implied as being against the very nature of a maze, but if Sabine was the sort of girl who played by the rules when she could make something go boom instead, she's probably never have left the imperial academy.

She places her explosives carefully, then ducks behind a corner to set them off, peeking out to watch the show. She stands up, ready to get going before anyone can tell her off for cheating, but....

Well. She can't resist leaving a signature. Out comes her spray paint, and after a few minutes, she's done. She smirks, admiring her handiwork. All in all, something that will probably piss off whoever is running this, which is, in a way, its own reward. Now if only she can get some credits on top of that....]

[On your way through the maze, you might happen to glance down one of the twisting paths and spot Kylo Ren lying prone on the ground. He's straining for his lightsaber, just out of reach on the ground ahead of him.

A second glance will reveal his leg is caught in the space equivalent of a bear trap. All too close by, you can hear a Rathtar screaming.]

Don't just stand there! [Despite the voice distortion of the mask, Ren sounds as though he'd like the person who's found him to hurry up and get him out of this before something eats him.]

Hold on. I'm coming.

[Anakin, himself, is dealing with a few creatures. The lightsaber makes quick work of them and he dashes around the corner to the voice he heard.

Someone in distress and oh a lightsaber. Obviously a Jedi, though honestly Anakin doesn't stop to think about it much. He just knows he's stuck in an annoying maze and he just stumbled upon someone who needs help.

With a smooth movement Anakin both shuts off his lightsaber and skids to a kneeling position beside the trapped man.]

Don't worry, I'll get you out of this.

[With a fluid motion Ren pulls his leg out of the false trap and calls his lightsaber to himself. He's a little surprised to find a Jedi coming to his aid. It will make the next step harder, but he's confident in his abilities.

With precision he ignites his saber, not intending to hurt the Jedi yet, just to threaten them. He expects no opposite as he brings the saber to hover just above the man's shoulder. Under the mask he smirks.] Foolish Jedi.

[There's a faint feeling like he's missed something. He ignores it.]

[Blast. Anakin should have seen this coming. In fact he's quite sure that's exactly what Obi-Wan would say.

Sliding backwards a few spaces, he ignites his own saber.]

Wouldn't be the first time I've been called that.

[Unfortunately for Kylo Ren, Anakin does not feel very threatened. At least not yet.]

I did cut off the head of last dark side user who called me a fool though.

option a- before the start

[ Galen didn't necessarily want to be here. He really didn't care about the prize money and honestly, there had to be something sinister going on behind the scenes. But his new mentor Rahm Kota insisted that investigating and getting down to the bottom of things was the good and proper Jedi thing to do.

Grudgingly the former Sith apprentice agreed and now he was in some hole in the wall planet waiting to get into this maze he didn't want to even do. There wasn't much to do until the droids opened the entrances except do a little information gathering. He shrugged and approached another nearby contestant. ]

So what have you heard about the people setting this up?

option b- five minutes after the start

[ So the only rule was you couldn't run along the top, huh? That meant there was no rule saying you couldn't use Force jumps to hop over walls. Which was what Galen decides to try. Unfortunately after a few successful jumps without inccident he's not paying as much attention to what, or who, he might be landing on. ]

option c- a few hours in

More droids?

[ And these one had spinning blade saw... things. Galen sighed in annoyance. How many had he run into so far? It was getting tiring. The ones he'd run into so far he dismantled via lightsaber but he knew a quicker way. He knew he really shouldn't be throwing powerful dark side techniques around, it wouldn't look good for a 'Jedi' to be doing so. But he was pretty sure there wasn't anyone nearby. And shorting them out with Force lightning is really the quickest way to dispatch a droid.

So smiling, he holds his hand out, fingers spread slightly. Electricity crackles around his fingertips as an arc of lighting shoots out of them hitting the first of the droids in the torso. Yes. This is so much more satisfying. ]

[Han slows to a stop and just stands there... looking down at his son with a thoughtful expression on his face.]

Actually, this seems like a good time for a heart to heart. How've you been, Benny? Still getting into trouble?

[While Padme still wasn't quite so sure what was going on, she knew enough. Blaster in hand, she ducked down another path in the maze, frowning as she heard the Rathtar screaming nearby. That wasn't a good sign.

Catching sight of the man- a Jedi- on the ground with a trap around his leg, she rushed over.]

Just hold on- let me help...

[She was quickly kneeling at his side, glancing over the trap to try and find the best way to remove it.]

[Padme wasn't in the maze for the money- to be perfectly honest she had no need for that. The rumors that were swirling around about who was in charge of the maze, on the other hand, piqued her curiosity. So, armed with a blaster and in a far more practical outfit than her usual, Padme navigated her way through the maze. If she could make it to the middle and uncover the secrets of who was in charge, she might be able to negotiate terms with them if it was one of the more troublesome rumors. Criminals and Sith were not above a particularly compelling negotiation... Not always, at least.

Springing back from a particularly nasty trap, Padme turned the corner to a different path, blaster pointed at whoever or whatever was in front of her.]

Edited (seriously ota to everything, awkward timelines and all) 2016-01-13 03:39 (UTC)

[Rey had come through the maze mainly because she was amazed by it - pun not intended. It was unlike anything she'd seen before and curiosity drove her inwards, wanting to see what else she could find. She hadn't heard any of the rumours - and the idea of the competition didn't actually interest her, as much as she could use the money. She just really wanted to explore the Labyrinth and see what she could find.]

[That didn't prevent her from getting stuck however, by one of the more aggressive traps. She was very glad that she hadn't given up her staff just yet]

[ Luke's training is difficult, and sometimes, it feels more like a scavenger hunt than an actual training regimen—luckily, Rey excels in that area. Son-tuul is unlike anything she's used to: the moss- and vine-covered stone is slick and unforgiving, towering as barriers that stifle her at every turn in direct opposite to the expansive deserts of Jakku where she'd grown up.

But the winnings will give her what she needs to bring back to prove that she could complete the task he'd set her to, and cheating be damned, she'd use the Force to do it. The fate of the galaxy rested on his aged and obtuse shoulders.

No lightsaber, today. She wields her staff, pulling it off her back as she descends a series of steps into an aged temple, dark and dripping. She takes the last step faster and whips around a corner to drive the base of her staff up through the underside of a droid's head, sending it flying back into the wall as three more descend from other corners of the room. The droids are ancient, rusted, and of a design that even Rey doesn't recognize as she pivots to deal with them. ]

This had better be worth it.

It'll be worth it.

[ when he decides to accompany her, it's not for the credits, but for the sake of her training. (there's no denying that he also may be a teensy bit curious.)

Finn's still recovering; he's scarred from tail to the back of his shoulder blades, leaving a melted band of flesh still knitting together and covered in sweaty bandages. sometimes it hurts to move, and he ignores it admirably, pushing along like a good soldier more than he ever realizes. ]

All we gotta do is focus. [ and use the Force. he's thinking use the Force. ] Keep our eyes peeled and focus.

[You'd think he would know better than this.

Over the course of his life Han is pretty sure he must have heard of or seen a dozen games like this, shrouded in mystery, promising huge rewards for anyone stupid or brave enough to risk their necks. One thing he knows is that they never turn out how they're meant to.

But now and then they turn out well, and lately his luck with honest work-- or at least only acceptably-dishonest work-- has been pretty slim. Granted, a run of terrible luck isn't the most auspicious way to start out a competition like this, but he's never let that stop him before, right? The only kind of lead he's got right now is someone looking for rathtars, and there's not a chance he'll be able to manage that without hiring a much bigger crew, which means he needs this payoff.

Stalking along a narrow passageway, shoulder to the wall, Han pauses at a corner, listening for any clue of what's around the bend.]

[ When he hears the explosion nearby, Galen's first instinct is to just ignore it and continue on his merry way towards the heart of the labyrinth. But he's trying to be a good person and all and if he ignores someone in need or whatever Juno probably won't talk to him for a week.

...And of course he's not expecting to see someone signing the smoking ruin of what was once probably a pretty sturdy wall. ]

Is that your work? Impressive.

[ Wanton destruction is practically his middle name after all. ]

( On the opposite side of the bend, down a couple hundred yards and around a corner, Kylo Ren stalks through the maze with one ear kept to the ground, so to speak, and the other trained inward, making an active effort not to plunge too recklessly into the thick of things following the last dead end he'd come across. His wrists still smart where the sprung trap had held him hostage while droids advanced for the better part of two minutes. A long time to be so tightly detained, but it's a small setback in the grand scheme of things and well worth the potential and substantial reward waiting for him at the center of the maze.

The Supreme Leader had seen it as a twofer when the word got out. Regardless of the outcome, it would be a good test of his apprentice's skill to navigate the labyrinth, adequate practice for him and three of the other Knights who had elected themselves to the challenge of the task, and well worth the reputation should it come about that the bloodhound of the First Order bested the maze. Personally hoping to find something of greater value than credits at the center, Kylo makes his way carefully through the hedges, a slight rustle creeping along, shoulder to the wall of native Son-tuul flora.

It doesn't take him long to grow impatient with his pacing, and he lengthens his strides, dismissing the nagging, tugging feeling that settles in at the back of his mind as nothing more than the blaster fire that chases after him as a droid comes careening right through a wall of the maze to fire at him. He deflects it easily, without hesitation or thought. The droid shatters in a shower of sparks, but the feeling persists until he pinpoints it exactly and - )

Han - ( Turns the corner last moment to collide heavily with the old man coming around the other side. ) Solo.

[Well, on the list of things he was expecting to hear from whoever was coming, his own name was pretty far down, a few notches above that annoyingly catchy song they always play at the cantina and definitely well below every variation of explosion. It takes him by surprise, especially since whoever it is hasn't actually laid eyes on him, enough so that he doesn't recognize the voice until it's followed by the little other clues. Such as Ben's ridiculously tall self smashing full-on into him.

Blame it on the fact that last time they were on speaking terms, he was still just dad.]

Ben-- [he starts, once he's steadied himself enough to say anything at all, but he cuts it off almost immediately as an oddly uneven clanking sound starts up from around that same corner, getting unmistakeably louder.

Instinct takes over, and he does his best to shove the younger man behind him, momentarily ignoring the fact that they're not only competitors but also technically sort of mortal enemies. No way is whatever that is getting to his son except through him.]

[Death might actually be preferable to that.

A gloved hand reaches up and grips the hand. Sorry, Han. You're getting Force choked.] That is not my name.

[The woman doesn't look like much, but she'll do to get him out of this. After that... he can hear the Rathtars screaming somewhere close by. She'd do to distract them if it came to it.]

The springs on either side- [He forces himself to sit up, gritting his teeth under the mask as the angle of the trap changes on his leg.] Help me compress them.

Really? I thought I'd killed all the Jedi left in the galaxy.

[The Rathtars scream again, closer. Ren knows he hasn't got time to fight this Jedi, he just needs him to distract the Rathtars so he can get past them and further into the maze.

He holds his saber between them and begins to circle, hoping to get the Jedi's back to where the Rathtars were.] I apologise for overlooking you until now. It's a mistake I'll rectify presently.

[Padme frowns at him as he sat up, biting her tongue to keep from reprimanding him for doing so. Setting the blaster down, she applies the pressure needed to the trap wordlessly, hoping to keep it applied long enough for him to remove his leg.]

You'll need to at least get that wrapped up... Will you be able to get to safety?

You must be really bad at math. Last I counted there were ... oh ... a few thousand of us.

[Just who is this guy? Anakin also hears the screams, but stopping this dark side user is more of a top priority. He holds his saber up as Ren circles, moving only slightly as a result.

If anything, he'll try to piss off this guy to get him to attack first.]

Dooku must be really desperate if he's recruiting people like you.

EPISODE I

Conspiracy on Son-tuul! A mysterious competition draws contestants to the Outer Rim with promises of fame and notoriety.

Sensing a darker purpose, the Jedi Council agrees to dispatch General Kenobi to the jungle world in order to investigate the anonymous gamemaster and to substantiate the rumors of a Sith stronghold said to be concealed within the massive maze...

EPISODE II

Every journey begins with a single step! A great disturbance in the Force prompts Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi to turn inward.

By the will of the Force, the veil between eras lifts and all becomes one. The future is the past; the past is the future. Projecting into another time and place, General Kenobi enters the battlefield one more time...

Edited 2016-01-11 09:48 (UTC)

[OH MY GOD BEN YOU ARE THE WORST SON. Han scrabbles at the invisible pressure at his throat, one hand automatically going for his blaster.]

Do you want.... to get... eaten... rathtars...

[Han wouldn't be alive today if he didn't know how to tell when a deal is too good to be true. And this contest definitely is. He's not so sure he even believes there is a prize.

But that doesn't mean he can't make a profit. There are a lot of people here, people who might need his assistance acquiring certain items that might help out contestants but might not be particularly legal. He's gotten plenty of credits this way, and even better... information. Everyone knows that whoever's running this contest, they sure ain't a bored philanthropist. Information to who might be behind this conspiracy and what the hell it's for could prove even more valuable than the credits. Assuming he can find the right ears for it, anyway.]

[It is pretty impressive. Sabine twirls her paint cans and holsters them, turning around. She has her helmet on, of course, but she still manages to sound like she's smirking.]

Thanks. I figure if they didn't want us blowing the walls up, they would have built them better.

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