Noventa - A Star Wars Story

While Quinn waited for Aislea she was fed a hearty breakfast.

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"See, I knew you're the right person for the job."

At which point she'd wait before the food arrived to devour.

"Alright," she said, looking to Quinn with disheartened eyes. Small fist forming as she lay her hand against the table. "I can't have it on my conscience hearing about you getting eaten in there and knowing I coulda done something about it but," she shook her head. Waved it off. "I'll go get ready... you, eat."

[Quinn gains Aislea's support for the journey into the Duskeen Forest but she loses a little standing with her as Aislea notices how Quinn is forcing her into the position.]

"Well, what better way to warn people off if even you, the person who keeps warning everyone and who would never take any risks in there, ends up disappearing in the forest for good? And if we both come back out, then everybody will know you take your job of seeing to people's safety seriously."


[url=http://orokos.com/roll/670135]Charm Offensive[/url]: [u]3eP+1eA+3eD+1eS[/u] [b]4 successes, 1 threat[/b]
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"Can't do that," she shook her head, "who would be here to warn the next batch off from wandering off into the Forest alone?"

[Should Quinn attempt a Charm roll, difficulty will be Hard with a Setback.]

She listened, and nodded. Little tips and tricks were always useful.

Then she pulled back. "Sounds like you're the best person to come with me, then."

"If you gotta go in, you go with protection.." she looked Quinn over once, "real protection. Don't look much like the soldier type yourself so someone who knows their way around a blaster would help. Someone who can avoid being tracked by the predators in that place."

"Other than that.." she paused, thought, then moved around the table to lean in and whisper some of the secrets she'd learned during her times back in the day. Little ways a young mind was able to figure out how to figure out where they were going.

[Quinn Gains a Boost on any Check in the Duskeen Forest toward Survival checks to find: direction, food, water, etc.]

It took a moment to dawn on her, but then she nodded at the chef, before listening to the spiel.

"So? What'd you suggest? I mean, I was kind of hoping to find the thing I need to protect myself in there in the first place."

With a soft chuckle the chef rubbed Aislea's shoulder before giving Quinn a knowing look and slipping back off into the kitchen.

"Look," she said, leaning into the table again, "just cause I made some risky decisions when I was younger doesn't mean that you should too. If anything you should know this means I understand that forest just about as well as anyone. There's a danger in there, and I almost didn't make it out back then. Not that a scared to their toes little kid like I was woulda gone and said anything to anyone but I could have died back then. So listen, don't listen to what anyone tells you about that place. You get caught in there, there is no sense runnin' or hiding, things in there know that forest better than you or I ever can or will. Gotta find a way to protect yourself."

She looked confused. "Huh? What kid?"

"The forest!?" he exclaimed with a surprised laugh, looking to Aislea. Shaking her head the woman inclined it in her direction, confirming the thought. "Well, I'll be damned. Kid like you goin' off into that forest alone. That's a spirit I've not seen for quite some time. Somethin' bout ten or so years ago was the last time I saw that kinda gumption. Well, if yer anything like that other kid you'll turn out fine little one."

"Why the forest of course," she said, looking between the two of them.

"Wonderful!" he exclaimed, slapping a hand down on Aislea's shoulder with a broad grin. Aislea herself just looked to Quinn, concerned. "So, what brings ya in to our little town little miss?" he asked, his voice deep but warm and inviting.

"Not the best advice to give to someone who likes to gamble," she said with a smile, before the chef came.

"Oh, well, what's your specialty? I'll have that."

"That could be a risk you're taking with your life," she said, a touch grimly but it was earnest. However, the bubbly chef overtook the moment when he arrived and looked right to Quinn. Boisterously announcing, "Little miss! What is it, on this fine day, that you might wish of my humble grill? You can be certain I will be sure to not allow the good name of Aislea here to be sullied by anything but the best of the best."

"Maybe. But maybe bringing someone else along will scare the thing off."

"Don't got any protection with you? A friend? Someone who might know a thing or two about keepin' ya both alive?" she asked, laying her hands out flat against the counter. Bustling and clanging could be heard from the kitchen as the older gentleman from before made quite the racket on his reappearance at the door.

"Thanks, but I don't know of any other place where I can find that guardian spirit with the blue light. It didn't want to stick around my room this morning."

Aislea gave a sharp, almost musical but not quite, whistle. Responded to, seemingly, by the shouts that came out from the kitchen immediately afterwards. "Well, you're long since passed the morning rush but we can feed you. Think I can convince you not to go off wanderin' into that forest again? There're nasty predators in there like you wouldn't believe."

"I'm going back into the forest," she said, "also I'm hungry."