posted February 08, 2000 09:41 PM              

Agent: I'm now twenty meters from the training complex.
Sythspawn: Hold position, what do you see agent**Deleted for security reasons**?
Agent: The lights are on, but I'm not detecting ANY living life forms.
Syths: Proceed with caution agent**.
Agent: What the hell? Looks like some sort of...(gurgling forced noise) blue...(thud)
Syths: Agent**? Agent**! Respond.

"At that point the signal was totally lost." Sesswanna said softly. "Now, let's get working on this." his voice grew more forceful, as if he had full faith in his High Command, "First off, what does everyone make of the "blue" line near the end?"
Athran spoke first "It could be some sort of assasin dressed in blue and in anti-sensor equipment."
"But the agent seemed to be choking, and quickly, it wasn't quite suffocation, too quick for that. Possibly some sort of blue gas?" said Crysus.
Syths spoke up "He would have been able to see a gas coming though, nothing diffuses that rapidly."
Everyone was silent at that. Finally, Viper who had been scribling down apparent gibberish in his horrible handwriting the whole time spoke up.
"It was a death ray. Probably killed him through targeting his heart and blowing it up."
"Viper, that is simply proposterous, everyone knows death rays are impossible to create, it defies biology and physics." said Sesswanna
"It's the only solution, however improbable, it must be the correct one . The lights were on and no one called an alarm, therefore death happened quickly and it took everyone nearly simultaneously." Viper replied.
"Let's get a few more minds in on this, alert the High Council." Sesswanna said without comment on Vipers theory into his comlink.
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Add on to this as you wish, but please don't write yourself into the plot unless it is important that you be there, not everyone is involved in EVERY crisis the Vast Empire has.

Viper

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General Ramses Viper
Executice Officer of the Vast Empire Army
Scourge of the Erewhon System
Keeper of the sword Gamdring
Servant to the dragon Smaug

XO/SM Ramses Viper/HCA-2/ISD Nemesis

posted February 18, 2000 02:41 AM               

hehe, j/k :P

Somehow your story reminds me of a short 1930s radio shocker called, "The Dark" where two men in an ambulance respond to call from a house and .... Hmm. Anyway. If I was not so tired I would add onto your story

posted February 19, 2000 02:52 AM               

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I was bored and decided to write a lot of dialogue, hehe.Spar

posted February 20, 2000 03:34 AM               

"How do we know where this Mrs. Angus Payne lives?" Crysus asked, as he and Sithspawn sat in the back of a racing taxi speeder.
"I typed Angus Payne's name into my datapad," Sithspawn explained, eyeing the female taxi driver, "It gave me the street address."
"Blistering blue barnacles!" Crysus gasp, as the speeding taxi speeder swerved to miss another vehicle.
A few moments of silence passed.
"So do you know any good jokes?" inquired Crysus, disturbed by the silence.
"No," barked Sithspawn.
"Okay," Crysus thought momentarily, stroking his unshaven chin, "How about . . . 'What do you get when you play a Tattooine country song backwards'?"
"How should I know," Sithspawn mumbled with disinterest.
"You get your speeder, your bantha, and your girlfriend back! Hahahaha."
"Hilarious," Sithspawn remarked, clearly not amused.
A few more minutes of silence passed.
"How about this one," Crysus started up again, "A man said, 'I think, therefore, I am.' Then he took a walk and he bumped into someone and he said, 'I am sorry, I didn't think!' and *POOF*! He disappeared!"
"Now where in the Sesswenna system did you get that one from?" Sithspawn said gazing out the window of the taxi speeder.
"Threeof4 told it to me."
"Oh," Sithspawn thought momentarily, "Then I guess I had better laugh next time someone else tells it to me."
Another few minutes of silence passed.
Crysus face lighted up, "How about the one . . . "
Sithspawn jerked Crysus by the collar, "Look. Just shut-up or I'll knock ya cross-eyed!"
"Okay!" Crysus gasped when Sithspawn finally released his grip.

Sithspawn leaned forward, "This is it driver."
Both Crysus and Sithspawn exited the vehicle. Sithspawn leaned in the forward window to pay the driver, "How much?"
"Fifteen Imperial credits," the attractive female said, and took the credits Sithspawn handed her. She handed him a card.
"Here, this is my phone-number in case you ever need me to drive you anywhere again."
"Day or night, sister?" Sithspawn asked.
"Night is better, I work during the day," she responded as she drove her taxi speeder away.
The two men turned to gaze at the haunting house which lay before them.
"Blistering blue barnacles!" Crysus remarked.

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* K N O C K * - * K N O C K *
A young woman answered the door of the house of Mrs. Angus Payne. Two men garbed in trench-coats stood outside. One, Crysus, timidly had his cap held humbily in his fragile hands while the other, Sithspawn, non-chalantly puffed on a corellian cigerette.
"Are you Mrs. Angus Payne?" Sithspawn inquired as he blew a puff of smoke.
"No, I am Miss Antionette Var . . ." the woman began.
"Then you ain't the dame," Sithspawn barked, turning to leave.
". . . but this is the residence of Mrs. A. Payne."
"Is she here at the moment?"
"She might be here," Miss Var replied cautiously, "What do you two big lugs want?"
"I'm a shamist," Sithspawn jabbed a thumb into his chest, then gestured at Crysus, "and this is my caddy."
"Shamist?" Miss Var echoed, "Well, you are not getting in with that story. You look no more of a holy man than . . ."
"I mean I am a private dective, lady."
"Oh," Miss Var hedged momentarily, "Alright. Come in."
Sithspawn swaggered into the house with Crysus hobbling in after him.
"Why is your face so ugly?" Antionette leered, looking intently at Sithspawn.
"Darth Vader beat me cause I wouldn't marry him," Sithspawn voiced, his lip twitching, "But what you see is nothing. I have a Twi'leki ballerina tattooed on my chest."
"You are not very tall are you . . . " Miss Var remarked, glancing at pale Crysus.
"I try to be," Crysus responded, trying to tilt slightly forward on his feet without being noticed.
"Really . . . . " Antionette said, moving seductively towards Sithspawn, "You're cute."
"Yeah; I am getting cuter every moment," Sithspawn growled, "Now where is this Mrs. A. Payne?"
"Upstairs."
"Thank you very . . ." Crysus began.
"Yeah, whatever, thanks a lot, ma'am," Sithspawn moved towards the stairs abruptly.
A terrifying shriek sounded from the stairs. Sithspawn lunged at top speed up the stairs while the curvacious Miss Var seemed to act as though she never heard the cry.

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Sithspawn rushed to the top of the stairs and was faced with two doors. Chancing fate that whichever one he picked would be the correct one, he smashed one in with his massive bulk. A second shriek was heard from the shower-room he had now so rudely entered.
"Oh! I am terribly sorry . . ." Sithspawn vainly apologized, as a wet towel caught him in the face sending him backwards. He closed the little remnants of the shower-room door and burst into the only other room at the end of the stairs, "V.E.S.! Everyone freeze!"
An assassin clutched a vibroblade, with copious tentacles instead of arms, dressed in a dark navy blue stepped over the corpse of a middle-aged woman. Crysus entered the room behind Sithspawn, "Blistering blue barnacles! Its the blue blister! I mean the blue barnacle! No, the blue assassin!"
Sithspawn automatically pulled out his heater, er, I mean his blaster, and aimed it at the blue goon, "Alright, put 'em up! I eat Lornian squid everyday for breakfast so don't think I ain't scared to take you on!"
The assassin turned, clearly unintimiated.
"What do you want me to do?" Sithspawn yelled, holding his blaster out at arms-length, "Count to three? Just like in the holo-movies?"

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Hehe. Viper is probably like, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY STORY!?!?", hehe.
I think I am so bored and tired that I lost the Star Wars angle and have gone into ...Ok, enough for tonight. You will have to wait for the next thrilling chapter of this ripped off, 1930s film noir!

posted February 22, 2000 09:44 PM               

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Add on as you like, just be sure to include the information that Sesswanna is giving...

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Brigadier General Crysus
Commander of Personnel
*Vast Empire Army*
CoP/BG Crysus/HCA-3/Erewhon/VEA

posted February 25, 2000 12:47 PM               

After another hour of walking and passing through security; General Sesswanna finally came to the Field Marshal's Office. Two Imperial Troopers clad in Royal Guard uniforms stood guard when the General approached. "You will let me pass. I need to see the Field Marshal immediately," commanded Sesswanna.

"No you won't sir, you will have a seat behind and you wait until he is ready,"said the unknown trooper.

Quickly getting mad, Sesswanna tried some force techniques to convince the troopers to allow him to pass, "General, if you try that childish force nonsense again I will arrest you. Now sit down and wait until you are announced!" said the Royal Guard calmly. Sesswanna knew that the Field Marshal's protective guard was highly trained but these new troopers can easily block the force? Sesswanna definately wished that he had the time to investigate this further.

Meanwhile inside of the Field Marshal's office....

"Thank you Three, this new equipment that you have sent to me is gonna increase the security in our sensitive areas ten fold. Anyway, I have a High General outside of my door so I better let him in. Thanks again, Majere out."

Majere then clicked a button on his desk, "Let the High General enter." It was only a few moments later that Sesswanna entered the office, and saluted the Field Marshal. Majere returned the salute, "I take it that this is about the urgent message you sent me earlier? Sit down General so that we can go over the details."

A couple of hours later Field Marshal Majere and High General Sesswanna was back on their way to the Erewhon System in the SSD Mustang. "I know that you are conserned for everyone under your command sir, but really. We can take care of this ourselves," urged Sesswanna. After not getting anywhere, Sesswanna left the Field Marshal's office and headed to his own Jedi Knight quarters to work on his admin work. Sesswanna knew that the Field Marshal was a hard person to understand, and he did tend to stop everything to concentrate on something. However, he has never stopped everything for the death of one trooper.

General Sythspawn stood at the viewport looking outside, "I am the last Intelligence Director in the Vast Empire and I still cannot get access to that blasted boat. You would think that a High Command officer would at least be able to board it." Sythspawn grabbed another drink while thinking about his past attempt at trying to board the Mustang. He finally decided to join the Dark Jedi, which he probably overstepped his bounds. He thought about the humility of failing his Phase I training, completely eliminating his chances of getting access to the SSD Mustang or even the Palace on Lorn 4. Sythspawn took another drink and almost spilled it on himself when the door to his office suddenly opened up, "What the..I thought I said nobody is to..." Suddenly the Sythspawn's office was full of Royal Guards, 1 High General, and 1 Field Marshal. "Ahh, good to see you again Sess and Majere," smiled Sythspawn. Field Marshal Majere walked up to Sythspawn and through the use of the force, forced him to sit down, "First you will address your superior officers the way you are supposed to." Majere then grabbed Sythspawns drink and tossed it in his lap,"Then you will go home. I will not have my officers drinking while on duty. No more of this frequent breaking of the Vast Empire Code of Conduct. Either my officers shape up or I will fill the hangers full of Tie Droids as well as the new Tank Droids that I am also having our Engineering Corps research. Do I make myself clear Brigadier General Sythspawn," angrily questioned Field Marshal Majere. "Y-yes sir. I will leave at once sir," said Sythspawn as he tried to get up. After realizing that he could not get up just yet he asked, "Is there something you need of me sir?" "Yes, lets go over this current problem that we have. I want to test out a new detection device that our friends in the Engineering Corporation developed. It can fit under your clothes, and not only will it protect you from minor ion and blaster blasts. Say from a small hand gun, but it will also tell you where it came from when you connect it to a datapad." Over the next few hours High General Sesswanna, Brigadier General Sythspawn, and Field Marshal Majere discussed in detail exactly what went on, and how to go about capturing this new threat.

"Now gentlemen, you have your orders. I want these devices installed in the areas that I have described around the base. Once Sythspawn returns tomorrow I want you to put this device on him and have him re-visit where the murder took place. If you need me I will be in the Mustang heading to the Devastator. I want to inspect the officers on board there as well," Majere commanded as his staff filed out of the office.