The Dark Academy on Korriban

Death From Above

Event Type: Mandatory
Participants: All
Timeslots: Mid Morning

Reputation Affected: No
Description: The students are given a disposable hydro glider and hydro chute and are instructed to do high altitude drops into the Yavin IV jungles. The students need to survive free fall hit the ground and then report to the rallying point.

Count to Three: Cool or Discipline check at average, this is considered a fear roll, a failure gives a setback die to all rolls.

Time to Fly: This is a Piloting Planetary check at Average difficulty with a setback due to the weather as they deploy the hydro-glider. Failure on this roll adds two setback die on the next roll.

Stick the Landing: Deploy Coordination or Athletics check at Hard difficulty with an Upgraded die (2 difficulty and a challenge die), suffer two setback for the bad weather. Failure on this roll means you arrive at the Rallying point in the Early Afternoon instead of Late Morning as you have a mishap deploying the chute, suffer 4 strain, advantage can be used to reduce this and threat increases this. Despair means the user suffers a Critical Injury.

Rewards: You arrive at the Imperial Encampment in the Late Morning.

GM Usage of Destiny: Flipping three Destiny to upgrade the difficulty, one purple to a red, of one roll of their choice for the following players; Zeno Deathwright, Sylvain Torsin, Moyr Ahaya, Kristal Serasai, Rumun Gol, Leilani Miraan, Grenda, Shaisha Vreysk, Layne Hoshin, and Khalim Tsaikzu.

"Fuck. This. Noise."

Jo'ren didn't enjoy the plunge as much as he had hoped.

"Woohoo!"

But the actual flying was great fun.

"Mother#@"*** piece of @#-;"£!!!"

He ended up landing way off target though, so the hike to the camp was a real slog. No broken bones though, so that was nice.


Day 9. Count to Three: Discipline check at average: 1eA+2eP+2eD 0 successes, 1 advantage


Day 9. Piloting average 2 setback: 2eA+1eP+2eD+2eS 1 success


Day 9. Stick the landing. Athletics. Destiny. Hard, upgrade, 3 setback: 1eA+3eP+1eC+2eD+3eS 1 failure, 2 threat


Fail. 6 strain taken, arrive Early afternoon.

Use Second Wind: 1/Encounter recover 1 strain as an incidental.

5 strain taken.

Preparing for something daunting like this was never something that could shake a Serasai, certainly not Kristal. Given it didn't come as a surprise due to Harad just made it all the more simple to prepare herself for the jump. With that, on the count she launched herself from the jump platform.

Piloting was never her strong suit. More so under these difficult weather environments. Kristal was going off course, but she pulled hard to bring her back on target nearing the end toward a open area at least. Sticking the landing went well right up until the last moment the wind still kept in the chute and dragged her forward off a small cliff. Unable to pull herself from the path of it in time Kristal went tumbling down. Receiving a rather nasty sprain. Luck had brought her close, but making her way there was going to be an agonizing process.

Day 9 | Death From Above | Discipline, Confidence, [Dapper's Upgrade]: 2eP+1eA+1eC 3 successes


Day 9 | Death From Above | Time to Fly, Piloting, Agility: 2eA+2eD+1eS 3 failures, 1 advantage


Day 9 | Death From Above | Stick the Landing, Athletics, Enhance: 1eP+3eA+2eD+1eC+4eS+1eF 3 successes, 3 threat, 1 Despair, 1 Dark Side


Critical Injury - 56
[Critical Injury, Successful Landing, 2 Threat Overall (Force Enhance)]

''They us to do what?''

She looked down, looked at the glider and resigned herself.

Cool check death from above: 2eA+2eD 2 successes


''Allright, just make sure my droids are safe...R5, I leave you to take care of Victoria so that it does not start to shoot stuff.''

And she jumped

time to fly: death from above roll: 2eA+2eD+1eS 2 successes, 1 threat


''Wooo...not going so bad right now''

Stick the Landing! Death from above: 2eA+2eD+1eC+2eS 2 failures, 1 advantage, 1 Despair


''Wait what, NO!''

*Crash*

critical injury: 1d100 97

Baesal is now crippled until healed

Zeno was trained for this. He'd done this plenty of times before. And he could tell looking down at the treetops and the sway of the craft that this was going to suck. The wind was going to be a bitch today. Not that that scared him, he relished the challenge.

He dove out of the vessel with a giant smirk on his face, hidden behind his tuk'ata helm, screaming with excitement letting himself freefall straight down with his his hydro glider. Eventually he turned up after reaching a pretty insane speed and felt his whole body tell him that was too fast to change direction. But he didn't listen to his body, he listened to his pulse, telling him that he needed to enjoy this while he could. Rather than heading straight for the rallying point he took the scenic route, doing little tricks and looking for warm air updrafts to stay in the air longer.

Eventually though he remembered he was on a time schedule, and he damned the fact that he had to call it quits. Undoubtedly others had made it back first but he had the most fun. He could guarantee that. Struggling to make the mark on time he redirected with the wind and went into a gentle dive in the direction of the landing zone. When he picked up enough speed he let go of the glider then instantly pulled the ripcord for the chute. He could feel the cables pull him back with extreme force as he slowed almost instantly to snail pace.

He hit just outside the landing zone and let the wind dragged parachute drag him the rest of the way, land skiing a few feet before hitting the release cord and doing a rough tuck and roll to slow down so that he didn't face plant.

His adrenaline high, he races to the the rallying point as quickly as he can, to join up with those that hadn't played around.

Death From Above, Count, D9 MM, Cool, Destiny Difficulty Upgrade: 1eA+1eP+1eD+1eC 2 successes, 1 threat


Death From Above, Time, D9 MM, Piloting (Planetary): 3eA+1eP+2eD 0 successes, 4 advantage


^ Missed a setback die, but I can't do worse than failing on this roll so meh.

Death From Above, Stick, D9 MM, Coordination, Destiny Upgrade, 2 Setback weather, 2 setback fly fail, Hard Upgrade 1: 3eA+1eP+2eD+1eC+4eS 1 success, 1 threat


Success.

1 strain

So now I jump and have to start the thing during the free fall? Just fucking great.

"One-Two-Three!"

Moyr closed her eyes, feeling sudden pressure on her bladder as free fall began.

It's cool, girl, you can do it., she comforted herself.

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LM9. Death From Above. Count to Three. Cool. Challenge Upgrade.: 3eA+1eD+1eC 1 failure, 2 advantage


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Hey it's not that bad. It's just piloting. It's just like up there, just down there. Gravity doesn't make much of a difference? Okay, it makes all the difference, but so what? See, the engine is on. Now, that set of trees fast-elapsing-kilometres-away looks nice for... landing! Yes, it's going to be a nice, comfortable landing.

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LM9. Death From Above. Time to Fly. Piloting (Planetary). 2 Setbacks.: 3eA+2eD+2eS 1 success, 2 threat


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Okay, now to angle it and right down into those branches, a comfortable hop. WHY THE HELL THOSE STONE OUTCROPPINGS LOOKED LIKE TREES FROM UP THERE?!?! MERDE!!!

*tumble* *boom* *blast* *crash*

"Owwwww... Hey, where am I? Why Syl is out of bed already?"

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LM9. Death From Above. Stick the Landing. Coordination. 3 Setbacks. 1 Challenge. Hard. 1 Destiny.: 1eP+2eA+1eC+2eD+3eS 2 failures, 1 advantage, 1 Despair


LM9. Critical Injury.: 1d100 68 - Scattered Senses

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Jolly Fail with 5 Strain and a Crit!

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D9 - Yavin Death From Above; Count to Three; Discipline/Willpower; GM upg 1 Dice: 2eA+1eP+1eD+1eC 0 successes, 2 threat


D9 - Yavin Death From Above; Time to Fly; Upg 1 dice using destiny: 1eA+1eP+2eD+2eS 0 successes


D9 - Yavin Death From Above;Stick the Landing; Hard dif; 3 Setback; 1 Upg;Coordination: 2eA+2eD+1eC+3eS 5 failures, 1 advantage


Strain: 3 [ 4 - 1 (advantge)]
Imperial Encampment: Early Afternoon

(Witty text to come)

D9 MM - Death From Above - Discipline: 2eP+1eA+2eD 3 successes


D9 MM - Death From Above - Piloting Planetary: 2eA+2eD+1eS 1 failure, 1 advantage


D9 MM - Death From Above - Coordination, Destiny to upgrae 1 die, use Sense Danger to remove 2 setback die: 1eA+1eP+2eD+1eC+1eS 2 failures, 2 advantage, 1 Despair


Critical Injury: Sudden jolt
Critical: 1d100 11

Niriti drops from high above the clouds, her tears fall behind her as she screams falling into the jungle below. Despite the fear of the fall, she grabs hold of the hydro glider and manages to deploy it successfully, holding strongly to the grip and making it safely on land, though as she reached she stumbled on the ground and hit her head against a nearby tree trunk. Dazed and disoriented, she layed there for a couple minutes trying to grab a hold of herself. When she finally stood up, she was unable to determine her location, which made her take a longer time than expected, or required.

-Death from Above, D9. Count to Three - Average Discipline: 0 successes, +1 Setback Die
-Death from Above, D9. Time to Fly - Average Piloting: 3 successes, 3 threat, Success
-Death from Above, D9. Stick the Landing - Hard Coordination, +1 Setback: 3 failures, 1 advantage, 1 Despair, How did I know Critical.

-Death from Above, D9. Critical Injury: 62 Slightly Dazed

Total. Arrival EA, 3 Strain and Critical Injury

Remmington is a little hesitant but leaps out the shuttle. He tries to fly the hydro glider but loses control and spins out due to the bad weather. He ejects from the ship and his chute jams. Somehow he lucks out with some branches and trees breaking his fall. All things considered it could be worse. Still he is far from camp so he starts walking.

Count to Three
Cool/Presence. 1eA+1eP+2eD = 1 success, 1 threat


Time to Fly
Piloting - Planetary/Agility. 2eA+2eD+1eS = 0 successes, 1 threat


Stick the Landing
Athletics/Brawn. Conditioned removes 1 Setback die. Destiny upgrade. Failed piloting. 1eA+2eP+2eD+1eC+3eS = 5 failures


3 Strain, Imperial Encampment - EA

To PF

Layne had never piloted anything before. Something she'd loudly declared to everyone before launch, as if it was some sort of badge of pride. It didn't frighten her in the slightest. Not even when it turned out they were heading straight into bad weather. Turned out she could actually totally fly pretty well, despite having never done so. She was right on target. Perfect approach. Let's...

...crash!

No shit that wasn't what she was supposed to be doing!

Fortunately she managed to turn it into something of a controlled crashlanding instead of a 'oh my god why is everything exploding' type of crash.

Any landing you can walk away from and all that.

Discipline check: 3eA+2eD 2 successes, 2 threat

(+2 strain)

Piloting. Setback removed from blade of woe. DESTINY. Upgraded die.: 1eA+1eP+1eD+1eC 2 successes, 2 threat

(+2 strain)

Athletics, 1 setback removed from blade of woe: 1eA+2eP+2eD+1eC+1eS 2 failures, 2 advantage

(+2 strain)

I am the coolest: 1eA+1eP 2 successes, 1 advantage

(-2 sux)

(4 strain total, arrive in EA)

Sylvain jumped out of the transport and immediately his glider started to malfunction.

"Damn it! Piece of...." Sylvain started to get a bit concerned, but he was no simple coward. He was M.F. Sylvain Torsin! No glider? No problem. (OOC: Triumph on Fear means Success by DD's Ruling)

D9 Gliding Event, Disc/Will, Upgrade from GM: 1eA+2eP+1eD+1eC 1 failure, 2 advantage, 1 Triumph


Shortly after that the glider wing expanded correctly, and he began flying down to the surface with ease.

D9 Gliding Event, Pilot/Agil: 2eA+2eD 1 success, 1 advantage


The last little bit with the trees however, that was something that even his unflappable self couldn't deal with perfectly. He smashed into the branches of a large tree that had a soft cotton-like collection of seeds waiting to be blown onto the wind in its upper canopies.

"Well that was lucky." Sylvain said to himself as he brushed off the cotton balls and found his way down a tree and began the long trek to the camp.

D9 Gliding Event, Coord/Agil: 2eA+2eD+1eC+2eS 1 failure, 2 advantage


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(OOC: Failure on last roll 2 strain taken)

D9 Gliding Event, Cool Roll for Strain Recovery: 2eA+1eP 5 successes


(OOC: 5 Strain regained because he's M.F. Sylvain Torsin)

Grenda was completely at home in jungles as she came from a swamp/jungle planet. At . . . home . . . in . . . jungles. Not doing a HALO jump from several miles above the jungle.

"Join the Sith they said. It'll be fun they said. Force choke anyone you want they said. Didn't bloody say anything about chute drops into a jungle from near orbit." she muttered as she jumped.

Once in the atmosphere though, her training in piloting almost any craft imaginable kicked in and she guided herself easily to the muster point. She opened the chute and pulled up just in time to stick the landing with some aplomb . . . face first in the ground . . . not her best landing of all, and then she dropped her glider on her foot. Then she realised she wasn't even at the right place.

"POO DOO!!!!!"

She rather spoiled her score for Artistic Merit with the outburst, better hope the one for Technical Content was good enough.

/ooc

Death From Above: Cool. Upgrade from Destiny. Upgrade from Dapper Dog: 1eA+1eP+1eD+1eC 0 successes


Death From Above: Piloting(Planetary): 2eA+1eP+2eD+2eS 2 successes, 3 threat


Death From Above: Coordination: 2eA+1eP+2eD+1eC+1eS 1 success, 1 Despair


Death From Above correction to Coordination: 2eS 2 failures


Death From Above: Critical Injury: 1d100 12

Khalim gives the crew of the ship an incredulous look as they hand him a hydro glider, and then he sighs knowing that there's really no getting out of this.

Idiots.

He looks down and steels himself for the flight (or probably lack there-of) that he's about to endure, and then steps off the vessel.

Death from Above - Count to Three - Discipline - GM Destiny: 2eA+2eP+1eD+1eC 2 successes, 1 threat


However, having never flown a chute, he has absolutely no idea what he's doing, and immediately gets caught in a crosswind.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!

Death From Above - Time to Fly - Piloting: 2eA+2eD+1eS 0 successes, 2 threat


He goes hurtling through the jungle canopy, but fortunately his fall gets broken by the multiple levels of foliage so nothing is too badly injured. He's bruised up a bit, and finds himself dangling from a tree branch.

Fuck.

Death from Above - Stick the Landing - Athletics: 2eA+2eD+1eC+4eS 0 successes, 1 threat


[5 strain taken]

After cutting himself down, he starts to head toward the rally point.

WE'RE GONNA DO WHAT?! Shaisha blinked in surprise as they were given the run-down... and then could barely contain her excitement. OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH... This is going to be so fun!

When her turn came, she was more than ready. SHE WAS BORN READY!

Even the flight down, she couldn't help but to enjoy the experience in full. Never before had she done anything like this, and it was such an amazing rush!

The landing did leave some things to be desired, but she managed it well enough without any injuries.

"WOOHOO! Let's do it again!"

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D9 Death From Above. Count to Three - Discipline. GM Destiny Upgrade: 2eP+1eA+1eD+1eC 2 successes


D9 Death From Above. Time To Fly - Piloting: 2eA+2eD+1eS 2 successes, 4 threat


D9 Death From Above. Stick the Landing - Athletics/Agility. Conditioned removes 1 Setback. Destiny Upgrade: 2eP+2eD+1eC+1eS 1 success, 1 threat

Facing the thread of the Dark Side was something which Jun-Tsu had become quite accustomed. She had thrived on the thrill of its power and knew that if she opened herself up to it, it would not harm her. But this was not that. As she stared at the jungles below with her glider, she felt fear grip her knowing that if she were to do this wrong she could, quite suddenly, die. There was no denying gravity, not with what she knew.

She wished she had been gifted the lessons of her great-grandmother on how the old matriarch flew, dissipated into the Dark-light, and moved from place to place instantly. She looked back there was no getting out of this. It was live or die, and so, with fear in her chest, she lept from the shuttle.

Discipline (Willpower) - 1eP+2eA+2eD = 2 failures, 1 advantage


She tried to steel herself, but any sense of composure went out the window when she hit the wind and rain. She caught a sudden updraft and was hurtled through the air. It was all she could do not to scream at her own obvious impending death. She gripped her hydro-glider as though it were life itself and just prayed to the Dark Side that it would somehow see her to the ground.

Piloting: Planetary (Agility) - 2eA+2eD+2eS = 0 successes, 2 threats


Another crosswind clipped her and that was it. Jun-Tsu was screaming into the rain as she dropped from the sky like a bird hit by a rock. She tried to deploy her chute, but it did little more than slow her the few feet before she hit the canopy. Through the relatively soft foliage, she felt branches and leaves whip at her face until a sudden jerk brought her to a stop high above the ground, her parachute a shredded, tangled mess hooked on a dozen branches.

She looked up, then looked down, then looked to either side. How the hell do I get down?

Athletics (Brawn) - 2eA+1eC+2eD+5eS = 2 failures, 4 threats


OOC: 8 strain

Yavin was here. Finally. All she had to do was survive a drop. And though she'd never done this before, she was filled with strength. Strength she'd gained from a place she did not know of before. And when it was her turn to jump, she did not hesitate, she did not speak. She took her equipment, closed her eyes, and walked out into the open air.

As she dropped, her robes swung out like wings, flapping in the wind. She deployed her hydro glider with ease, but when she began to pull her chute, her robes were suddenly in the way. It took her some time to push past them, but eventually opened the chute. By then, it was too late to hit the target point, and she was going to be very late to the camp.


D9 MM Event: Count to Three Discipline: 2eP+1eA+2eD 2 successes, 2 advantage, 1 Triumph


D9 MM Event: Time to Fly Piloting Planetary: 2eA+2eD+1eS 1 success, 2 threat


D9 MM Event: Stick the Landing, Coordination, Destiny Upgrade: 1eA+1eP+1eC+2eD+2eS 1 failure, 2 threat


Total 6 Strain, arrive EA