Doomsayer Session 18

16 October 2022: At a former Republic safehouse, the PCs show the artifact to Lilikai Singan, an experience that raises as many questions as it answers. They make their plan for how to rescue Sekar Mirah from the Citadel, and begin to carry it out by ambushing Seth Iscandar on Ord Mantell.

Previous: Doomsayer Session 17

Plot Summary
It took two days for Rogue Ronto to travel from Hapes to Lilikai's safehouse. During this time, everyone used the bacta tank to heal their various injuries and caught Brawln up on what he had missed while he was unconscious. Vic Dantor modded the energy shield on his new armor, and also helped Nomi Amersu enact her plan of falsifying some of the documents taken from L-343 to make it look like Damasa Kovani had been taken to the Citadel and died there, which Nomi hoped would get Korrda the Hutt off the party's back. Nawah Masin practiced using a head-worn shield (read: the Fifth Brother's stupid hat) she had purchased on Hapes, with Somi Amersu as her sparring partner. The PCs also experienced another vision from the artifact, this one recounting a celebration.

The PCs arrived at the safehouse, which was built into an isolated asteroid. They were met there by Lilikai, who had arrived in an extremely battered starfighter. (Vic later made sure it would remain spaceworthy, but cautioned Lilikai that he didn't know how many more hyperspace jumps it would withstand.) Seeing that they were alone, they brought the artifact out of the methane chamber to show it to her, tell her about the various things they had done with it, show her the holovids of Firith, and ask her if she knew what any of it meant. Lilikai said she had never seen it in its current form and could not begin to guess at its purpose, but that she recognized many of its individual components as objects that she, Damasa, and Firith had retrieved during shared expeditions to the Outer Rim. She was perplexed by the idea that Firith would have put it together since she thought working with a mixture of technology and Force artifacts was pretty far outside of his skill set.

When the PCs asked Lilikai about Damasa, she said it had been more than a decade since the two of them had spoken and that Damasa had effectively ghosted the Jedi Order around that same time. (Rhen said she didn't blame Damasa for doing this after the Jedi Order refused to believe her warnings; Lilikai said she didn't agree.) Lilikai also admitted that their friendship had soured after Damasa said and did some unspecified hurtful things to her, and that her belief that Damasa was dead could certainly be wishful thinking. After viewing the holovids of Firith, Lilikai was reminded of how Firith had always been more fatalistic than Lilikai with regards to Damasa's prophecies, and how he had singled out the Jedi Archives as "a single point of failure" if the Order were to ever fall. She wondered whether the artifact might have been his attempt to preserve some form of knowledge. Lilikai also agreed with Zernvik Akawoi's belief that Firith might have wanted to give her the artifact and send her to find Damasa as a way of mending the rift between them, though Lilikai was clearly skeptical about the whole idea and in no rush at all to reunite with Damasa.

To be continued

Things To Remember

 * If any of the PCs ever need to make a roll to cook something, they are entitled to a boost die due to all the Hapan cooking opera they overhear on board the ship
 * Nomi rolled Despair on the Deception roll to lure Iscandar to Ord Mantell (and the GMs not-so-secretly rejoiced). This Despair will come into effect in the next session.
 * We suspect the Mandalorians died out as a people due to their penchant for attaching grappling guns to their crotches

Next: Doomsayer Session 19