Game Night 6/8 - Body Snatchers

Returning to the Magellan after the battle in the city, the group received some healing from Mater Dee and then divided up to accomplish some different tasks.

Bar Bar and Joruss continued to heal Taloe.

Grarwarr started looking at the files from the computer and comm system.

Beaker and Mater Dee made their way to the bridge to scan the system and planet for more bad guys that may be coming after them.

Grarwarr cracked open files that showed numbers and locations of the troopers and droids on the planet. The mission goals of the troopers - get the holocron, kill the party - except for the Jedi. He also found that two personnel files were deleted.

While Grarwarr was hacking and Taloe was being healed, Mater Dee and Beaker stopped an electronic infiltration of the ship. The only thing left behind was a message, asking the party to set their comm system to the following frequency for a message. After alerting the rest of the crew and having them gather on the bridge, they set the comm system and responded.

It turns out that the bad guys wanted to trade McQueen for the Jedi Holocron. After fierce and painful negotiations, a time and place was agreed upon, and then the real planning began. The Bad guys stay confined to the temple, and deposit a stasis capsule with McQueen at the designated coordinates about 5 km away. They also agree to stay clear of the exchange site. The party will come to the site, confirm it's McQueen, and leave the Holocron

After more discussion, the parties real plan is to:

Make a fake Holocron loaded with explosives and a 1 hour timer to leave at the exchange site.

Fly down to the exchange site at the appointed time with the Magellan and the Y-wing.

Have the Y-wing fly over to the Comm relay site, and destroy it.

Stop at the exchange site, and deploy a swoop with Bar Bar and Joruss to fly cover, while Mater Dee and Grarwarr collect McQueen and leave the 'Holocron'.

Continue on to the Temple, and teach the Bad Guys the errors of their ways.

Things were going as planned, (comm relay destroyed, swoop deployed) until Mater Dee and Grarwarr tried to bring McQueen out of Stasis. Mater Dee visually identified McQueen, and then immediatly scanned the stasis chamber for explosives. Finding none, he started the process to awaken McQueen. Most of the way through the process, a group of Snow Wookies surprised the group on the ground, and attacked. The Snow Wookies were being ridden by evil little dark side ewoks. In the ensuing battle, Mater Dee tossed the exploding Holocron, seriously damaging two wookies, mildly damaging Grarwarr and himself, and outright killing two evil ewoks. Beaker tried dropping the ship on one of the wookies, and succeeded in slowing it down, but it joined the battle after a short delay. Bar Bar saved the stasis chamber by moving it with the force into the ships airlock. After the first few rounds, the cavalry arrived in the form of Joruss and Taloe with blasters. In the next few moments Mater Dee was able to jump onto Bar Bar's swoop. Taloe and Joruss, using a variety of hand held and ship weapons were able to kill most of the remaining wookies and ewoks, and Bar Bar moved Grarwarr (who was near to expiring from his injuries) with the force into the ship allowing Beaker to take off.

However, just as Beaker is getting ready to orient the Magellan to allow Bar Bar to pilot the swoop into the cargo bay, he feels the muzzle of a weapon on the back of his neck, and a womans voice says, "take this ship to the temple - now." He glimpses a slender, green hand as it pushes the button to close the cargo bay doors, leaving Bar Bar, Joruss and Mater Dee on their own.