Cast:
Fumpa
Trash Cannon
Snow Biscuit
M'Nak
C-3DO / HK13
Departing in their fleet, the crew of the WHITE RABBIT head to the desert world of TATOOINE to rescue the infamous commander ADAR TALLON! On arrival, they find the planet full of BOUNTY HUNTERS intent on beating them to the prize.
The fleet arrived at Tatooine and landed at Mos Eisley. When the customs inspector boarded they suddenly panicked remembering that they had a headless corpse in the freezer. M'Nak distracted the inspector by showing him around whilst Fumpa took out the corpse, hugged it tightly and used the force to go invisible when the inspector entered his bedroom. Apart from a few violations they escaped with a fee of 150 credits. He revealed that a lot of bounty hunters had been landing recently, he had recently searched The Flying Scream, The Discourteous Doubloon, The Night Deceit, The Filthy Strumpet, The Impolite Princess, The Barbaric Minnow and The Savage Jewel.
With that drama over they emerged into the street, Jawa's skittered everywhere around them. A huge and diverse group of aliens crowded the streets, everyone with there own price. A jawa bumped into Fumpa and the crew decided they needed to get off the streets. They swiftly agreed to split the party so they could visit as many places as possible. Fumpa was going to find the local bar, M'Nak, Snow Biscuit and HK headed to the Casino whilst Trash Cannon headed off to register as a licensed bounty hunter.
In the bar, Fumpa met an alien called Lobster Face who was drowning his sorrows in lum after being attacked by sand people. Beckoning over the tiny kushiban he challenged him to a drinking game. They managed two rounds before Lobster Face suddenly dropped his glass, vomited and emptied his bowels. Fumpa patted him on the head and asked the paralytic alien where he could find Adar Tallon. Before passing out, Lobster Face told him to come back tomorrow as Labia will be here. He is sly and tricky but if anyone knows anything about Tatooine it is him.
M'Nak went to the casino where he joined a sabacc game. Welcomed to the table by Ealancia, a human professor of applied mathematics, his other opponents were Kris, an Arkanian sage, Wynge, a shifty looked Twi'Lek and Lando, a dashing, charismatic rogue. It costs 1000 credits to buy into each round, with a total pot of 14,000 to win in round four.
In the first round, the ever welcoming Ealancia was dealt a poor hand and was out of the game. In the second round the Twi'Lek Wynge overplayed a bluff and was out of the game. Round three, against just Kris and Lando now, M'Nak made a risky gamble which didn't pay off. The ever-gracious Lando patted him on the shoulder and M'Nak stayed to watch as Lando claimed the pot at the end of round four. Declining a second game (having just lost 3000 credits) M'Nak never the less swapped numbers with Lando and agreed to keep in contact. Before leaving M'Nak asked Lando about Adar Tallon, he advised heading to the snakehole lounge tomorrow and asked for Labia - but not to trust him for a moment. As they left the casino, HK bumped into a street urchin called Kyra and they chatted for a while, the poor urchin becoming infatuated with the droid. After debating Kyra's phobia of bee's HK made his excuses. Before leaving Kyra revealed that he hadn't always been a street urchin, he had used to be a member of a rich noble family who were exiled to Tatooine. Recognising a potential side quest, HK asked no questions and just walked away after being given a gift of a Monomolecular Oscillator Mark II.
Trash Cannon headed to the Bounty Hunter Registration booth, after queuing for over an hour, he registered with Puggles Trodd, a small, furry alien who gives him a bounty puck and offers to pay 100 credits a day, with a 1,000 credits for finding the mark. Adar Tallon. Accepting the offer, Trash agreed to set off at dawn, he used his remaining time to buy five speeder bikes with underslung blaster cannons.
Deciding to stay at the local inn instead of sleeping on the ship (140 credits), they were forced to listen to itinerate street preacher who is standing on a box outside. He was a follower of the Order of the Sacred Bantha.
“Listen, my children! For we have been given a great mystery to unravel, a message of importance if only we can see! And what is this mystery? It is the Bantha, that sacred, noble, elegant creature that can be found the galaxy over. The Bantha is a gift from beyond whose meaning we have not yet begun to fathom! For when we do finally come to understand why the Bantha has been placed throughout the galaxy, we will achieve the AGE OF BOUNTY! Wherever we go in our space vessels, no matter how far, the Bantha is there to welcome us, to love us, and to make us feel at home. Do not harm the Bantha, do not eat of its meat or wear its regal hides! Would you harm a cherished wife? No! So love the Bantha, touch the Bantha and above all respect the Bantha.”
Waking to a brand new day, the crew again decided to split up. Trash Cannon went on patrol, Fumpa returned to the Snakehole Lounge, M'Nak and HK went to the local Jawa sand crawler whilst Snow Biscuit went to the Reginal Government Office.
Whilst patrolling on his speeder bike, Trash Cannon met a Bantha herder who he utterly confused by paying him 750 credits for a bantha and then getting aggressive and stealing it back.
M'Nak had been trying to avoid the jawas as he had fled Tatooine to get away from his family, sadly, he realised that he had to bow to the inevitable and pay them a visit. His mother was so grateful to see him as she had a wide variety of stock to sell him at reasonable prices. He eventually after a minimum of haggling bought a piercing fighting hilt and a shotosabre, inscribed with a signet of a carrot, signed by Fumpa for 11,000 credits. After a quick call to Fumpa it appears that yesterday a jawa had stolen one of his shotosabres and the absent-minded kushiban hadn't noticed. M'Nak then bumped into his cousin B'Bop who had also built a giant suit of fighting armour. Heading to the local arena, the two jawa's duelled to determine which suit was superior with M'Nak finally coming out on top. As his reward, along with the adulation of the crowd, he took his cousins jet boots to mount onto his own fighting suit.
Snow Biscuit went to the regional government office, sitting in the queue for over an hour he got frustrated and confused so by the time he made it to the clerk, he demanded to know "Where is the man I am looking for?" Of course, the clerk hadn't a clue what he meant so asked for details which enraged the wookie, leading him to bellow "You know who I am looking for. Where is he?" At this point six stormtroopers moved in to arrest the wookie and he was forced to flee.
At the Snakehole Lounge, Fumpa bumped into a couple who were weeping about the loss of one of the last old-timers Heff. Again, sensing a side quest Fumpa asked no questions what so ever, and just drank lum with them until Labia, a giant devonian arrived. Labia knew that Fumpa had been asking around for Adar Tallon and recommended he went and spoke on of the three original old-timers Slag Fats. An Ithorian who lives on the outskirts of town. Taking a speeder bike and flying off on his own without notifying the crew, he arrived at an old water silo to be greeted by a scene of ghoulish slaughter. The Ithorian and her guards had been massacred, she had died from a dart to her neck. Looking at the desk, Fumpa saw that her claws had scratched "Save Old Arnie".
Suddenly, the door slammed shut and the silo began to fill with water. Fumpa turned on his gripper boots and ran up the side of the silo, using his shotosabres to open the hatch at the top. He saw four Mandalorians drive off in a sand speeder and pursued on his speeder bike. Attempting to take them on singlehandedly, he was greeted by a hail of immensely accurate sniper rifle fire and had to flee.
A message arrived at the White Rabbit for Fumpa from Labia saying that Old Arnie had been spotted at the Snakehole Lounge. This time the crew regrouped and went together, at the lounge they were accused of Slag Fats murder by labia and ambushed by six Mandelorians led by Puggles. “Money is tight my friends. Competition is bad for all. You understand, yes? Don’t be mad with Puggles. This is just business.”
M'Nak barely survived with his armour having to resuscitate him, Snow Biscuit and Trash Cannon were critically wounded and they only just managed to escape.
Old Arnie was outside and led the crippled team to his camp outside the town. “You have made some enemies I see. Good thing I have just come back from the desert or I might have ended up like Heff and Slag. I’m Old Arnie and I got a message from Slag Fats to look you all up.”
Taking a long rest they were able to chat around the campfire and learn more about Old Arnie.
“I figure Slag and Heff were terminated because they may have known about this Tallon. Seeing we are the only locals who date back to that era. Seems to me there was a group of people who arrived right around the time of this commander persons death. They settled out in the wastes, purchased some deserted homesteads. So that is where we will start in the morning. We will check out them places and see what we can find. Lankies farm, Tuskan Fort and Seedie Fists desert manor. Yes, it’s going to be an interesting day."
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