(Star Wars: Going Into the Dusk) Ep. 1, Ch 3: Landing Party

[Tenshi]

Captain Akar Kessel

After Keiko had gone, Akar stepped up to his two teen lovers. Resting his hands first on the fair skinned clone warrior's shoulders, he looked down into her eyes tenderly for a moment, then kissed her softly. Leaning in to her ear, he whispered, “Yai, my precious Saber. Be excellent and victorious. But more importantly, come back to me safe and whole.” he kissed her again, then moved to her other ear and whispered with great tenderness, “ Your master commands it.”

Next he stepped up to Mia. After firmly embracing the young jedi, he stepped back and looked down itno the blond girl's eyes, resting his hands on her hips. “You are precious to me, Mia. I wanted to say that. I wanted you to remember.” He leaned down and kissed her gently. “I treasure our time together. I always will.”

 

[The Pillow Princess]

Mia listened closely to the conversation and was surprised to find her Captain suddenly growing so angry with the words of Dani. She had to admit, Dani had a point, this whole mission seemed very unnecessary, but if there was Dark Side presence down there then there was no choice but to go deal with it. Although she had to admit, she would've only sent herself and perhaps the other force user, not ships containing such important members of the crew. She and Nyxia was more than enough trained in diplomacy to be international ambassadors for any force that was on the side of good, and she was more than enough trained in how to deal with Sith or whatever may be waiting down there.

She decided however after his fury it was best not to bring it up. Instead, during her thoughts, a totally different set of emotions flew up as she saw him kiss the girl he called Yai. If glares of anger could hurt people Yai would have noticed a very significant sting as Mia glared at her, only to move her eyes away as he moved up to her, blushing a bit as he wrapped around her, hands on her hips. She felt her heart beat rapidly, cheeks flushing into deep red as he kissed her gently. "I-I... w-will too... C-Captain..." She stuttered embarrassed as her cheeks went into a deep shade of red. She felt as if she should say something more. As if she should get the words out now, while she still could. "I-I... I-I l..." She hesitated, feeling as if she should say it, out loud, while she still had the chance. But she couldn't. "I-I liked them a lot." She said finally, giving him a nervous smile.

 

[Tenshi]

The Zeltron pilot was covered almost entirely by bandages soaked in bacta, burn cream, topical antibiotic, and pain killer. Dry bandages covered that, making a mummy of the normaly scantily clad pilot. She smiled easily at Dani and leaned in to kiss her on the corner of the lips. “It's okay, Dani,” She replied softly. “Thank you for coming to see me. I'll have to get better fast so I can see this planet soon!”

Nyxia Vors


At first, the precautions seemed anticlimactic. Despite two of them flying fighters and every station on the shuttle manned and ready—including Yai on the guns—they made it down with no sighting of airborne—much less spaceborne—threats.

Coming out of the cloud cover—but well before they got to their landing point—they could see one of the massive stone cities on the horizon, surrounding a pyramid who's sheer scope was awe inspiring even from 15 kilometers up and four times as many away.

Not much later, the girls landed their ships in the jungle. They locked down the ships and covered them with vines for camouflage.

Guided by Nyxia, the girls made their way through a few miles of pristine rain forest, with chameleonic lizard-monkeys dancing through the trees to watch them. They avoided toothed frogs the size of ewoks that guarded bundles of colorful and beautiful bromiliads high in the trees.

“Oh, here!” the young blond exclaimed softly after a while, crouching. “This is more than just a game trail,” she explained, indicating some elaborate prints with one hand. “Bipedal,” she explained, “But with taloned feet. Five of them moved along this trail last night. Maybe their sapient...”

She followed the trail a little ways before a grin spread across her lips. The blond indicated three little branches folded inside one another and tied together. “They didn't grow this way,” she explained. “It's a trail marker.”

 

[Junior]

Gekki spent most of the trip down staring into the screen on her bracer computer. A close look over her shoulder would reveal that she was reading some sort of novel. A closer look would find a steamy tale of romance, followed by the rapid approach of her palm. She only bothered with an equipment check once the landing gear had engaged, finding that all of her stuff was light enough to take with her and nothing would have to be left behind on the shuttle. The young slicer was last out of the craft when it touched down, less than eager to go from its comforting metal shell to the primitive wilderness outside. She helped a bit with the camouflage, but ultimately seemed more interested in checking the maps and making sure they were in the right place.

The walk was not a pleasant one for their white-eyed tech expert. She visibly cringed at the sight of wet mud and jumped back with a frightened yelp when a particularly bold animal brushed against her hair on its way through the branches. Nyxia's announcement was the most welcome sound Gekki had heard in what felt like hours. If bipeds were walking around nearby, maybe there was a settlement! With walls, and baths, and local psychoactives strong enough to make her forget she ever went on this trip! The spoiled Arkanian was so pleased to hear this, she didn't care that the residents were certain to look even freakier than her present company. "Okay, so, like... Do we follow them?"

 

[dancrilis]

Dani - Medical

She was happy the other Zeltron was taking her condition well "just relax and get better - you have plenty of galaxy to explore even if you miss this one" she leaned in and gave the woman a return kiss on the forehead "goodbye".
She had a bad feeling about this trip and was glad to at least say goodbye to someone if everything went wrong.

Dani
Dressed in full armour and helmet she checked her weaponry and gear on the trip down carefully and made her way through the forest professionally if not carefully - her training had not really be wilderness focused.

Approaching Sha Lyn she snapped a quick salute "sir, what parameters do you want to focus on for potential contact - and do you seek to observe them prior to initiating it? Or should we avoid them and see if this area has anything worth claiming?", either should work in her mind but both had risks.

 

[DuxT]

Sha Lyn helped guide the shuttle down and did a quick systems check before they camouflaged the craft, didn't want it to fail them for a hasty get away. Proceeding forward, Sha Lyn kept close to the front, still wearing her hazard suit, a modified flight she typically wore around engineering, it served as some protection, plus would let her risk more dangerous environments. Speaking of dangerous environments, she was sure to check the atmosphere wouldn't be lethal to them, not because of atmospheric composition, that was checked from orbit. No, she checked for airborne toxins and other hazards, though found nothing of note.

Finding the trail, the Twi'lek thought about how to proceed, after all she was the senior officer on the mission and the Captain hadn't put anyone else in charge. Soon Dani came up asking her directly for orders, bringing up some very good options. "Captain ordered we try and establish some form of trade with the locals, as such our priority should be on finding them. We are to locate and observe the locals, try and find out what we can about them. Last thing we need is to stumble into a potentially hostile species, clearly an intelligent one at that if that pyramid is anything to go by."

Sha Lyn paused for a moment, before adding another point. "Also, we are not to engage the locals in any form of combat unless absolutely necessary. Would certainly hurt our chances at positive diplomacy." The Twi'lek began to move then, leading the group along the path, though keeping to one side of it, to allow them to take cover at the first sign of contact.

 

[dancrilis]

Dani

She nodded to the officer and stepped back ready for any hostile action - a scout she wasn't so she hung close to the commanding officer.

Considering briefly she decided to speak up again, "sir - as a word of caution, we are invaders on this world and it is in my diplomatic opinion that the natives are likes going to be initially hostile. Further as an culture lower developed than ourselves they may respect a show of force - or even mistake us for religious icons, positive or negative. Finally we do not know what they look like" she pointed to a rock "unlikely but could be an egg of the species we are looking for - we have little method to check".

Pausing a moment "my point is that as we do not know how they look, or how they will react even a random animal attack might actually be the protector of the village. It may be prudent to order weapons set to stun regardless of opponent - baring clear a lethal solution being required".

It was a very roundabout way of reaching her point but she didn't want to be seen as second guessing or assuming authority beyond her - she was in enought trouble already without that.

She was very unsure of how much combat or diplomacy Sha Lyn had been involved with however and both were why she was here so better to offer the advise than not.

 

[Tenshi]

Nyxia Vors

A few minutes further down the trail, the girls were starting to catch the sound of the river up ahead. The reptilian primates went silent at a sudden barage of tones yielding to cracks yiedling to hisses.

“That's blaster fire!” Nyxia gasped.

It was followed by a series of screams. Though the voices were subtly inhuman, and the words in no languege any of them recognized, cries of pain and fear had universal qualities...

The blond grabbed her metalic disk from her belt and darted down the trail!

 

[freeko]

Keiko would accept the blade offered her by the captain. Making as good of an attempt as she could manage to return the salute to show that she was dismissed to ready herself for the mission, Keiko would examine the blade along with everything else she planned to bring with her. In her head she needed to be ready for anything since she had no idea what manner of medicinal capabilities that this planet had. It was a fine line for her to cross in that she might need to do something that could be viewed as sorcery or witchcraft by a primitive person.

At least the voyage down was easy enough since nothing was going to interfere with the shuttle and escorts. Though Keiko could sense that something was wrong with Dani as she seemed to be moving a bit differently now as opposed to when they had fought each other in a sparring session some time ago. Maybe it had something to do with a treatment she was getting? It was something she would ask Doctor Fandomir about when she got back aboard the ship, but unless Dani did anything that made it clear she needed Keiko's help it was probably something best left alone she figured.

When it came to combat or diplomacy, Keiko could not offer an opinion. It was not her place to make decisions based on that. If there were people in need however, Keiko would do what she could to solve whatever problems they were having. With her miniaturized medical and surgical kits along with a liquid cable dispenser with a grappling hook stored inside as well, Keiko felt that she could handle most anything that the local population could throw at her if her services were needed in some way. She almost looked like a bionic woman with all the kits and things wrapped around her waist and arms, but she could still use the blade given to her by the captain which was strapped to her back at present. Keiko intended only to use it to defend herself in an extreme situation as there were plenty of women with her that were far more capable fighters than she was.

Following the rest of the women, Nyxia would instinctually run off and Keiko hearing the pain and anguish coming from those screams would do the same. Not sure what to expect however she made sure that Nyxia at least had someone going with her. If Keiko could focus on treating whatever wounds were caused, then that would be the best possible outcome as far as she were personally concerned.

 

[Junior]

For someone who shrieked like a little girl at the sight of strange fauna, Gekki reacted with surprising calm to the sound of blaster fire. By pure instinct, the young woman's four-fingered hand reached to withdraw a concealed pistol. Her thumb flicked a switch on the side from Safe to Stun as she broke into a run that would leave her just close enough behind Nyxia to spot the aggressors around the same time. To nothing in particular, the speeding Arkanian prayed again and again that they'd be just behind the next tree. That she and her shipmates would be there before one more wounded cry, one more crack of energy, and one more fallen body resounded through the air.

 

[dancrilis]

Dani

She noted the blaster fire and the cries of the wounded with somewhat clinical detachment - an advanced people were present at the least, which may be useful for trade, and than the others started running.

Her voice was a bark "Hold!" it was a military command the harshness of it it perhaps amplified by her helmet, she than stood back to allow Sha Lyn to issue commands as needed her order still clear in Dani's mind locate and observe the locals, try and find out what we can about them. Last thing we need is to stumble into a potentially hostile species, this was sensible to Dani as they knew nothing about the conflict - but it was the Twi'lek's decision as to how to proceed now that they were near a conflict situation.

 

[DuxT]

Sha Lyn listened to Dani's point, nodding along as she listened. Dani had far more combat training than Sha Lyn, that was clear and Sha Lyn would not forget that. Sure, Sha Lyn had fought in the rebellion, she might well have more combat experience technically speaking, but that was never her job. Her job was to keep the starships working, only going into actual combat in the event of a boarding action, she luckily never saw many Storm Troopers in her service, not up close.

"Very well Dani, okay everyone, blaster's set to stun an..." Before she could speak, the sound of blaster fire, unmistakable in the relative quiet of their surroundings could be heard. Not only that, but Nyxia, eager to help it seems, rushed forward, leaving the landing party behind.

"Wait! Damn it..." Too late, Sha Lyn looked to Dani and sighed, turning to the rest of the group. "Everyone advance, stick to cover as best as possible, weapons ready! Do not fire without mine, or Dani's orders." Sha Lyn trusted Dani's instincts in a fight far beyond her own, she was not going to just blindly follow the chain of command.

With that said, Sha Lyn pulled her blaster out, moving forward. She wasn't about to abandon one of her fellow crew mates to run into a battle. She just had to hope Nyxia didn't get into too much trouble before they caught up.

 

[Asuarah Garretson]

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Saber 7-9 Code Named: “Yai”
Tagging: the Landing Party​

Yai had been quiet, very very quiet.. "As you will Captain." She said curt and sweet. Yet she caught Mia's gaze, and replied with a simple narrowing of her eyes towards the other.

This girl thought she could intimidate a weapon? Psh.

She had followed the others quietly. Yai wasn't too good at tracking, or.. well.. anything that didn't involve guns. She had hobbies to be sure, she loved reading secretly.. But what she did best, was shoot things and make them stop living. "Tell me who to shoot." She said firmly, as she held her gun taught. "I don't like this." She said in a growling sort of tone.

"Not one fucking bit."
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[Tenshi]

Nyxia Vors

At the command to hold, Nyxia winced in sympathy for those crying in fear and pain, but pulled up short, drawing a blaster in her off hand and set it to stun. In response to Sha Lyn's command, she replied, "yes, sir."

They advanced in a more or les ogranized fashion. Yai moved out tot he side. Her skin tight body stocking shfited collor to match the shadows 'til she was nearly invisible.

Yai's Stealth: 29

It wasn't much longer before they came to one of the many fingers of a great river. Bellow them was a village of well woven grass--more than one burning despite the moisture--with large canoos docked on the river.

A saurian people hid among the houses. They had fine green and brown scales and somewhat trandoshan looking faces. They had high heads topped with a dome of thick bone ringed with little horns. Two legs, two arms, one long, supple tail. Their feet were made for traction and running, tree long, powerful toes and not much soul. Their hands were cunning and supple, but the knuckles were bony and spiky, and there was a sort of horn opposite the thumb. They didn't show much sense of modesty. Many of the women were bare breasted. In fact, few of the villagers wore more than a loincloth.

Several of these aliens lay still on the village green. Many others hid behind the houses or in the water. More than a few, though, were fighitng back. They returned fire with well crafted bows and stone headed arrows. Some—men and women—seemed to have grabbed bows and spears at the beginning of the fight, but more than a few were better prepared. These men wore armor of dark brown hide with thick scales reinforced with long slats of bone. They were carefully coordinating concentrated arrow fire at the invaders. They, too, had spears across their backs, and also heavy knives strapped to their thighs.

The invaders were the same species, but the similarity ended there. They wore fine crafted armor of what looked like duraplast and some matte black metal alloy. The same black metal made up sleek and deadly blaster rifles. Though a few wore fetishes of tooth and claw, they handled the advanced technology weapons with practice and precision. There were 20 of these men down in that double line—a good 12 meters from where they emerged from the jungle. The midnight purple bolts of death they fired would have to be very advanced and specialized to stun at 45 meters at the cloest.

PCs have enough surprise to win the initiative. Roll perception with your first round of actions.
The aliens using advanced technology weapons to slaughter the primitives are 9 squares from us. Typical stun range is 8 squares, so a 5 foot adjustment will put you close enough to stun, but won't allow you to move to new cover. That will take holding back or using a move action.

 

[dancrilis]

Dani

Looking at the scene she remembered training with a trandosan instructor of hers but shook off the sentimentality, and turned to Sha Lyn.

"Sir we don't know the situation here - these could be legitamate security personal dealing with primitive terrorists. Or any other situation we could think of" watching the scene she wished she had studied more tactics or cultures "my recommendation is to not engage and see about making peaceful contact with either group later".

She didn't think her commanding officer would listen - few could watch a massacre and do nothing, but even if the older woman could she had doubts about the Jedi and the younger members of the expedition.

"If you feel intervention is needed I suggest I approach on my own - I am well trained in presuasion, and on the off chance that these are an offshoot of a Trandoshan group ... well I do speak Dosh" the last thing she wanted was to escalate this to armed conflict, they didn't know the terrain, numbers, culture or anything of worth about the enemy to her mind.

 

[Junior]

All Gekkalin could do at the moment was stay behind her cover, wait for further orders. Dani had raised some valid points, but even if the riflemen were acting out of legitimate authority, the way they carried out their duty was nothing short of brutality. The experienced scoundrel had seen enough of what passed for legitimate authority back on Arkania, and even that was nowhere close to the heartless violence playing out before her eyes. She wanted to take aim and start knocking oppressors out. She wanted to leap from her cover and draw fire long enough for the primitive warriors to organize a spear charge. She wanted to do anything but crouch there and hope there would be at least some survivors left by the time a decision was made.

Gekkalin started taking in details. Things that would help her landing party, and maybe even the hopelessly outmatched villagers. The rustle of leaves in the distance. The make of their rifles. The insignia marking a row of armored left shoulders. Quietly, she relayed every piece of information to her teammates. "Sniper by the river." She pointed to a barely visible presence some distance off, which became more obvious once one could see the bolts coming from their position. "Standard blaster rifles using non-standard gas." Her attention returned to the only marking of rank or affiliation she could find on the apparent aggressors. "Black pyramid with a golden, rising sun. Does that mean anything to anybody?"

 

[DuxT]

Sha Lyn paused at the sight before them, biting her lip she tried not to get the emotional. She shouldn't care, here they were, on an alien world were two sets of people, one obviously more advanced than the other fighting. This was a single planets issue's, like Dani said, why should they get involved? Memories burned within the Twi'lek woman, old atrocities of the Empire, a people who very much were the advanced tyrants, slaughtering and enslaving the helpless primitives... That is why Sha Lyn simply couldn't walk away from this, those years fighting, even decades passed wasn't enough to wash away the emotion.

But Dani was right, we couldn't just run in blind and start shooting, too many unknowns. Gekkalin also pointed out some more observation, very helpfully. "Dani... proceed, be cautious though." Turning to everyone else, the Commander spoke up. "Everyone, take up firing positions and take cover. If something should happen to Dani we are to help her out, stun if you can, kill if you must."With that, the engineer pulled her modified rifle into position and made an advance, taking position behind some cover.

Actions: Take a look at the enemy before stealthily moving at half speed to some cover, closer to the enemy.

Rolls

Perception:
Stealth:

 

[dancrilis]

Dani

She nodded and started to move before she stalled ... "sir, from a tactical prespective even if things go poorly for me they are unlikely to kill me. They will want to interrogate me first as an oddity - I recommend that it I am attacked you simply observe and have Gekkalin track my com signal back to there base. If they had the military capability of a figher craft this conflict would not be needed - so we can likely win this with ease if retreat to the fighter craft and authorise their use against ground troops. Further you and the craft are much more valuable to the ship than I would be regardless of my life or death, you should not risk either for me" she left unsaid that she didn't think that the primatives were worth the lives of any of the crew, than saluting respectfully she went to follow her orders to make peace "I will approach from a different angle to avoid our position being given away".

Moving away from there main force she strode out of the bushes confidently with the manner of a soldier "Hold" her voice crackled through her helmet, blaster rifle in hand but not pointed.

Allowing both sides to take in the formidable appearance of of an armed and armoured figure in storm trooper - an appearance still feared across much of the galaxy - she locked eyes with who she thought of as the leader.

"I am Dani of the HMS Shaak'ti and I seek to parley for these people" she repeated this in Dosh, than in High Galactic in case they respected the Empire or old Republic - before if she had to allowing her comlink to issue her words in Binary, her hand signals designed to show her intentions were for the primative culture but her tone of voice was neutral to them - intended to put both groups at relative ease.

Her words measured to leave some ambiguity as to if she was parlaying on there behalf or for securing there lives in trade - Trandoshians practiced slavery.

Her body language was a mix of commanding and respectful but it also maintained an alertness for hostile action from either side.

Actions:

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Step out, use full defence (Reflex Defence is now 30).
Persuasion to get them to make there attitude to her (more)positive so she can see about resolving this somehow peacefully: 24 (1+23, - well I was due a few bad rolls, hopefully they don't start off hostile and can understand her and don't have significant Will Defences, might just get away with it if a 1 is not treated as an auto fail mutter mutter accursed dice)

 

[freeko]

Keiko soon realized what was going on and decided she was ill equipped for any manner of engagement when it came down to it. Sure she might be able to hold her own when it came to hand-to-hand combat, but that was blaster fire. Thinking the better of doing something incredibly stupid, Keiko would instead look to find herself a hiding place of sorts.

At least she could do something of value from her hiding perch she felt. Even if it was simply only whispering that she had everyone's back if they ended up getting hurt in some way over the comms, it would hopefully be enough to give her allies the confidence they needed to win this encounter without having to use any of her medical supplies to do so.

Move: HIDE!
Action: Inspire Confidence

(Inspire Confidence: As a standard action, you can inspire confidence in all allies in your line of sight, granting them a + 1 morale bonus on attack rolls and a + 1 morale bonus on skill checks for the rest of the encounter or until you're unconscious or dead. Once inspired, your allies don't need to remain within line of sight of you. You can't inspire confidence in yourself.)

 

[Junior]

Action was being taken, and though she was already dripping more sweat than the hot jungle environment warranted, Gekkalin was going to do her part. With a low whisper, she turned to her commanding officer. "I've got the sniper." Close to the ground and surrounded by brush, she moved toward the cowardly native's hiding place. She knew the pitched firefight likely to happen was no place for her, but at least the young slicer could be a match for one of them.

Move: Stealthing toward the sniper. (Stealth: 18)

 

[Tenshi]

Nyxia Vors

Though Nyxia new her way around such weapons, she didn't actualy carry a blaster. The blond--face pale with empathy and fury--took cover behind a tree, smoothly drawing her sword and diskblade.

What are we waiting for? the blond gave a quiete whimper as the Force spoke to her of the fear and anguish in the village. We have to stop this!

 

[Tenshi]

Sha Lyn: Before Dani's approach

The villagers are rugged, and spirited. A few of the downed villagers look like they can be saved with medical attention. Their arrows have managed to bloody two of the attackers and drop a third. The villagers may be able to wound or even slay a few of their foes, but it doesn't look like they're likely to survive—and it may be that the defenders are mostly buying time for the non combatants to get into the boats.

The attackers are spending ammunition freely, but it looks like they're all carrying more than one extra power pack.

The attackers jerked to a surprised halt when Dani came out onto the scene. After only a split second of hesitation, one of them barked a few orders in an animalistic languege and four rifles trained on the girl in storm trooper armor.

After a moment of looking at Dani in a perhaps confused fashion, that alien barked antoher order and the other attackers resumed firing into the village. He gave a few curious chirps, then a warble, and then...

A strangely familiar string of sounds? Not Dosh or any trandoshan regional dialect she'd ever heard, though.

Sha Lyn:

You're pretty sure no one addressed understands a word of Basic. That last series of sounds? You heard a cop shout something really similar on an outer rim space port once...

Gekki, Nyxia, and Yai:

That sounded like Bocce, a demand for surrender.

From this close, it was clear to Dani—even in such alien faces—that the aggressors had no intention of standing down. At another triple, the four holding a bead on her reached for what looked like a stud used to change blaster modes...

Everyone is sucessfuly stealthed but Dani, making a surprise round possible.
Everyone who is going to take it may make a standard action or a charge attack.
Post in whatever order you can. We're using iniative, but playing fast and loose with it to keept hings moving.
Don't forget that--wtih soft, sweet words of encouragement--Keiko has given us all a bonus to attack rolls and skill checks.

 

[dancrilis]

Dani

She really didn't regard this as any of her business - but she had her orders, and if they didn't speak a language she was familiar with they may respond to intimadation.

Speaking into her comlink "Sir with your leave I would have Yai deliver a single shot into the air or ground to indicate that they are in an ambush and should stand down" Sha Lyn had given her leave to engage lethal fire - but actively utilising the personal and giving away the location of such should be a command decision - still she included Yai so baring an order she could act on her judgement.

Gesturing to some of the bushes where she was confident none of her allies were hidded - she shifted her tone to threatening and made as if to ready her weapon on the leader - while still maintaining a defensive stance, "stand down" her tone indicated an order as she pointed to the ground where she hoped a shot would appear.

If she could get them to flee without issue she would consider this only a light failure.

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Persuasion (Intimadation): 34 (15+18+1 (for inspire confidence))

Still full defence (reflex 30).

 

[Tenshi]

Nyxia Vors

"What the Hell are we doing?" Nyxia hissed into her com, gritting her teeth not to scream it. "Warning shot? This is a masacre!"

The leader's eyes went a little wide, and it's lower neck wrinkled a little. With a snarl, it took a step back--leaving it's subservient's closer too the front. The alien barked quickly and the entire line spun on Dani and filled the air with hot purple plasma!

With great defensive skill and old comfort with her armor, Dani barely managed to evade any meaningful damage from the twenty shots, but she could feel both her hair standing on end and her armor getting hot!

Then the sniper in the tree hammered a carefully aimed shot into her torso!

Dani can't fight defensively and demoralize in the same round, sorry. Intimidating is a full round action. The leader is demoralized, but not prepared to flee without his superiors approval. (might get shot in he back.)
Between skill, armor, one demoralized enemy, and luck, Dani evades 20 shots.
Then the sniper spends his one destiny point for an automatic hit and critical.
Dani, you can spend a destiny point to downgrade the critical to a normal hit.
If you don't, you take 39 damage.
if you do, you only take 20.

Initiatives:
24 Keiko
21 Gekki
18 Dani, Nyxia
17 Yai
15 Sniper
14 Alien Soldiers
13 Demoralized Leader

So, tag the PCs in whatever order you can post. Don't wait for your turn if it will make it harder to post on time.

 

[Junior]

Seeing the air around Dani light up with blazing projectiles was just the excuse Gekki needed to open fire. All of the tension building inside of the young woman released itself through her trigger finger. Unfortunately, tense hands do not make for accurate shots. She took aim at the scaly sharpshooter who still imagined himself to be concealed, only for her stunning bolt to crackle harmlessly against a tree branch next to him. Before he could turn to ascertain the attack's source, she had already ducked back down into the brush, hoping that nothing would give away her position.

(Attack: 12. That's gotta be a miss.
Stealth: 16.)