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    Liam walks towards the Palace Terrace, the trail of his longcoat billows in the breeze behind him as he nears..

    Saavedra she's merely sipping at some water, relaxing...inher way

    Liam nods to vedra as he heads to the bar, ordering awhisky "hey," he greets casually Saavedra "Greetings" she tries to remember if Saavedra

    knew this man Liam catches his glass without looking, as Ron slides it

    along the bar, he too tried to think if he had metSaavedra before "nice night"

    Saavedra : A little chilly Liam : quiet though, better than my last trip here a few weeks ago Saavedra : Oh?

    Liam : yeah, I had just change professions and hadn't quite felt likerevealing that, so when asked what I did for a living, I told the guy "I'm

    a bounty hunter", so he leads me to this warehouse and says "ok, kill

    this guy or we kill you"

    Liam : not one to kill an unarmed innocent who is tied to a chair, Iretaliated somewhat

    Saavedra : Is that common in this e.....here? Liam : could be, it seemed like an attempt to recruit someone for some

    organisation. There was little unusual about the fight except the guy

    used some sort of throwing dagger I hadn't seen before, I hit it withhandle of my blaster and it shattered like a crysta

    Liam : crystal or something Saavedra : Sounds rather useless

    8Darth_Seer has joined the conversation.8Darth_Seer is away.

    Liam : I can't think of why anyone would use such a fragile weaponexcept that it might pass through a metal detector. He did use some

    other equipment similar to what I'd seen someone use on D'cerris, he

    tried to set a bomb in Princess Emisen's cottage, for some

    Liam reason, his employer looked similar to Emisen" hesays describing Kate

    Darth_Seer walks to the edge of a building neighbouringthat of the GRF HQ on Coruscant. he looks through a pairof electrobinoculars, surveying the layout beforedeciding his next move..

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    Saavedra : Anything else about him? Liam : well, the one on D'cerris was somehow killed by remote means,

    like his leader had a poison or something that she activated from

    remote. I checked out the location of her base on the island, but it was

    torched by the time I got there. she sounds more well Liam : organised than her underlings Saavedra : Do you work for this government? Liam :No, I'm a freelance private investigator now, I don't generally

    trust governments unless they pay well Saavedra : And then you trust them until the credits run

    out Darth_Seer nods as he sees the patrolling guards pass by,

    he puts away the electrobinoculars and leaps down,slowing his descent with the force, landing on a ledge

    near an airvent access Liam : Or as long as whatever they get me to do, doesn't involve them

    denying my existence later on

    Saavedra : Seems reasonable Liam : What about you? what do you do? Saavedra : I work for the King Darth_Seer extends his hand toward the airvent motor,

    channeling darkside lightning at its electrical system,shorting it out before he crawls in past the now still

    airvent rotor-blades Liam : Cool, whats that like? Saavedra : Hard, most of it. He and I have a history that

    goes...a long way back Darth_Seer makes his way through the airvent, following

    its path toward the office section, he waits behind aventillation panel as he watches through the grate,waiting until the secretary leaves her office

    Liam smiles "now that sounds like a story worth hearing, ifits not prying, if it is, I understand"

    Saavedra she smiles gently, "I'm afraid it is. And much toolong a story" about 1000 years worth, actually

    Darth_Seer whispers from his hiding place, using the forceto add persuasion to his tone, altering her thoughts morethan actually speaking to her ~ you have worked far toohard.. you deserve a break, five minutes at least ~

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    Liam : Thats ok, if its as romance-involved as it sounds, I know all toowell how it can be complicated to work with someone with that kind of

    history

    Saavedra : No, no romance...he's like...family, in some

    ways. A bratty brother. Saavedra he killed me, well...it just isn't something you tella stranger

    Liam : oh.. wait, doesn't that make you technically royalty? Darth_Seer ~ the secretary stands and yawns, realising

    how tired she suddenly feels "I've been working toohard, I deserve a break, five minutes at least" she says,raising an eyebrow at her own thought, but shrugs andwalks out of the office, turning off the light

    Darth_Seer ~ lights as she leaves

    Saavedra : No. You know, when you grow up withsomeone, you're siblings, even if you aren't related....

    Saavedra or when you share a life with them, a historythat involved. She finds herself drifting further andfurther into her thoughts, a past

    Liam : that makes sense. So how did you end up growing up with theking? your parents worked with his parents?

    Saavedra : Same social class. We met a lot. Liam : sounds like you're from an aristocratic background, that I can

    relate to. My family was like that Saavedra : Was it? What did you find it like...being male,

    that is8Bunchback has joined the conversation.

    Liam : Easy to get into trouble, easy to be told how disappointing I was,easy to meet girls too

    Saavedra : Bunch)) Liam :bunch]

    8Bunchback has left the conversation. Saavedra : Sounds similar. Easy into trouble, easy

    disappointment...young women aren't supposed to befighters...

    Liam : my last girlfriend was Saavedra : I think my parents came from a different time Liam nods "mine were really old fashioned too. We were

    only so well off because we had a family friend who was

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    some kind of badass spy that owed them or something.My mother was the kind who would have had ananeurism if she knew half of what I got up to"

    Saavedra : My mother nearly did. I ran off and joined an

    academy, cut my hair...wasn't yet old enough to befound out. Mother 'fainted' Darth_Seer silently opens the airvent grate, closing it as

    he left it behind him. he moves to the still workingcomputer and transmits to the computer's hard drive, apre-made email, that includes information that when de-crypted, would suggest communications..

    Saavedra she chuckles softly at the idea of it8Wolfen_Bones has joined the conversation.8Wolfen_Bones is away.

    Saavedra : Wolf)) Liam smiles as he sips some of his drink "I wasn't nearly as

    disciplined. I was supposed to be attending night schoolbecause I convinced her that the night atmosphere waseasier to study in, I was actually at the local taverns.. er..bars" he corrects himself

    Wolfen_Bones :Tasty saav) Liam : wolf]

    Wolfen_Bones : liam)

    Saavedra : No...taverns. Where did you grow up?Wolfen_Bones lurches down the street. He is tapped onmoney and almost out of bourbon. He carries two saxcases with one death grip per.

    Liam : [Influence Success] On Isle. I know, I don't have the look oraccent for it, but I can name most streets in Budnil

    Darth_Seer .. between some unnamed GRF personneland.. the Luminari

    Wolfen_Bones pauses to drink the last of his bottle whichhe heaves in the general direction of a garbage can.

    Liam plays too much kotor2]]Wolfen_Bones lights a bent cigarette and continues

    towards the promised land where booze is free.Wolfen_Bones arrives at last at the terrace where all the

    winos go after hours. Saavedra : Naboo?

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    8Wolfen_Bones has returned.Wolfen_Bones : Bartender! Bourbon. Bottle. One glass.

    Liam :No, Budnil was a town in Isle, ever heard of the singer Botofrom U3? He's from there

    Liam glances to Wolfen, seemingly unaffected by thesmoke that drifts in his direction Saavedra : No...I...don't keep up with those

    Wolfen_Bones takes his ba-ba and glass to a table and sitswith his hairy head in his paw.

    Liam shrugs "not everyone's style of music I guess. butyeah, I'm from the emerald system"

    Darth_Seer invokes the concealment sith spell - the veil ofdarkness - and moves invisibly out of the office, headingdown the hallway to a set of stairs, that he silently walks

    up, undetected by the cameras via his sith spell. hestops underneath the camera for the

    Darth_Seer next doorway, hiding in its blindspot, as heopens the door and heads inside

    Wolfen_Bones : Paid my dues, Tatooine BluesWolfen_Bones pours and drinks.

    Liam : So what kind of academy did you run off to? Saavedra : Military. Only spent a couple months there,

    then I was taken home

    Wolfen_Bones yawns a big toothy yawn and lights anothercigarette. Liam doesn't even bother to fan away the accumulating

    smoke that drifts his way as he asks "somehow I don'tthink that was the last time you'd run off"

    Saavedra : Every chance I got Liam : And they still took you? Liam : took you back I mean Saavedra : After a while, I simply became old enough to

    move away. They're...long dead, now Liam : Sorry to hear it. My family died a while ago too, they were

    murdered by a spawn creature

    Saavedra : My sympathies Liam "Thanks. I did manage to say goodbye to them" he

    refrains from mentioning that he was in fact, this spawncreature, under the influence of a sith rune that

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    supressed his concience Saavedra there was a lot they weren't telling each other,

    then, "That must have been a comfort" Liam :Not as much as you'd think, the creature that killed them was

    never caught Liam : Seeing it happen.. its like I felt responsible for not stopping it. Darth_Seer continues down the corridor, still unseen in the

    veil of darkness as a moves out of the way of a guardthat goes to investigate a door that seemed to openitself. The guard seeing no one around shrugs and puts itdown to someone not closing it properly an

    Saavedra : I know the feeling. Mine died in an invasion ofNaboo

    Darth_Seer ~ and resumes his patrol

    Wolfen_Bones : Got a deathmark on Nar Shadda, got nopower for a cruise, got a cargoload a nada, got them olspacers blues

    Liam : which one? I've heard there were a few Liam looks to a waitress who coughs from the whispy

    cloud of smoke from Wolfen's T'bac, but he himselfdoesn't seem to react

    Saavedra she's been coughing a little, but doing her bestto ignore it, "I don't think it was named"

    Liam : There's been that many? Saavedra she smiles, but is a little lost on how to respondWolfen_Bones raises his glass, "Shistavena."Wolfen_Bones almost downs it but thinks better of it.

    Liam looks to wolfen "You're from Uvena Prime?"Wolfen_Bones : No, I'm from Endor but I take a lot a' 'roids.Wolfen_Bones mutters to himself, "Askin' if I'm real wolf..."

    Liam : A shistavanen who grew up with ewoks? Darth_Seer moves carefully across the corridor, keeping to

    oneside where the floor is still dry, the otherside isslightly moist from a recent cleaning. still concealed bythe sith spell, he moves into a restroom, dispelling theconcealment technique as he opens an

    Wolfen_Bones : It's a joke, ya bald monkey!Wolfen_Bones is well and truly wasted.

    Liam : I missed the punchline then..

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    Wolfen_Bones : Course I'm from cot-tamn Uvena. Liam : I'm amazed you can handle that t'bac there, I thought shistavanen

    had specially sensitive senses

    Wolfen_Bones :Too right!

    Liam

    :by rights you should be coughing more than the lady hereWolfen_Bones :Too many senses...too damn much. I can'tcough. I'm a sax player!

    Wolfen_Bones coughs and laughs.Wolfen_Bones - both at the same time.

    Liam looks to vedra "I hope he's not a sax-maniac too,with that amount of alcohol in him"

    Darth_Seer airvent grate and is about to climb into it, untilhe senses a guard approaching. he telekinetically turnsthe lightswitch off and flicks the darkened lense on his

    mask, down, allowing his augmented left eye to see inthe darkness as the guard gasps "wha-

    Darth_Seer - "who turned that light off?" he gets hisweapon ready as he feels for the lightswitch..

    Saavedra she smiles gently, "Thank you, but you shouldn'tworry about me in this. I'm...immune. To charms such asthose"

    Liam :Now that can be misinterpreted a number of ways Saavedra : But the question is what is the first way you

    interpreted it?Wolfen_Bones focuses on his drink. Their convo makes hishead spin.

    Liam : Hopefully the right way! Darth_Seer creeps up to the guard, easily seeing him and

    knocks him out with a judo-styled chop at the guard'sneck, k'tulan style and then drags the body into acubicle, hiding it there as he closes the door to it, beforeclimbing into the airvent, closing the gra

    Darth_Seer grate behind him Saavedra she chuckles, "So how did you?" Liam : oh, I'm not brave enough to check if I was right Saavedra : Promise I won't hurt you

    Wolfen_Bones Thinks, "ya can't get the dame if ya don'tplay her game."

    Liam : Well, you said you had short hair, ran off to the army, neglected

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    to mention any existence of a love life with a man, not even with a guy

    you grew up with and are immune to the charms of a wolf-man... the

    evidence just mounts in a certain direction

    Wolfen_Bones : No one is immune to the cot-tamn charms

    of a wolfman. Bartender! Ya got a keybed in this cot-tamn teagarden? Saavedra : In my work...you don't admit relationships...to

    anyone. They are dangers, weaknesses....Wolfen_Bones ~Ron admits the existance of a keybed in a

    storage room. Liam : Then again you may have just meant that the shistavanen's

    canine charms just don't work on you Saavedra : Moreso his drunken 'charms' are disgusting

    Wolfen_Bones : Well get it out so I can see it.

    Liam : doesn't make feelings go away, you want to hear about acomplicated relationship? my last girlfriend was an 200 year old anzati,

    who looked not a day older than what I look

    Wolfen_Bones ~Ron shrugs and has two people bring itout. It's never been used as far as he knows.

    Saavedra she chuckles lightly, "I'm sure I could beat thatone, butI doubt you'll believe me"

    Liam smirks "Try me, you'd me amazed what I'd believe"having been through a number of weird experiences,

    that include coming back from death, in his current body Saavedra : Alright...shall we find somewhere a bit morecomfortable?

    Liam : And its not like the wolf-guy will remember anything Liam : up to you

    Wolfen_Bones : Anzati girlfrient. I bet she messed with hishead.

    Wolfen_Bones more choking laughter as he walks to thekeybed and sits at the bench.

    Saavedra she moves inside, towards a simple yetfunctional room. Some luxuries she still didn't feelcomfortable with. He's beckoned to follow8Saavedra is away.

    Liam sets his glass down and follows8You have been marked as being away.

    Darth_Seer makes his way through the dark airvent

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    tunnel, not an easy feat for one with his 6'7" frame,complete with armour, but he manages. Fortunately, heopted to wear his infrared-immune armour, not as strongas conventional ablative plating but then this was

    Darth_Seer a covert operationWolfen_Bones brings the black, white and green keys intofocus. He runs through scales. The thing is in nearperfect tune and it's of rare quality with natural ebonwood with whorls you could pilot a ship through.

    Saavedra : Well...how's being a thousand year old Knight,reawoken from your soul?

    Wolfen_Bones thumps out some block chords full ofaugmented ninths and fifths.

    Wolfen_Bones settles into a II V I groove.

    Liam : Right.. no wait, you sound serious and this is Naboo. Alright, I'llsee your knight and raise you being killed by an anzati, only to wake up

    in the body of someone who's species classification, is literally dubbed

    by xenobiologists as "fallen demon"? Saavedra : I'll see that, and raise you everyone you

    knowing from that time returning, including those whokilled you

    Liam : ok.. how waking up to seeing creatures that bear an appearancethat leaves you with the conclusion that not all is well, finally to be met

    by their leader who turns out to be a sith lord that informs you, that youhave been brought back to life to be his

    Liam : right hand Darth_Seer ~ a GRF officer watching the security systems

    notes one guard not responding to his comm system andsees a motion sensor in one of the ventillation passagesis activated.. but for some reasons, thermal sensorsdon't detect anything. he puts it down to a

    Darth_Seer mechanical failure and has a technician sentdown to that level to investigate

    Saavedra : Working with the man who murdered you,because he gave a little song and dance that he was'sorry'

    Wolfen_Bones plays a jizz version of 'The Lady is a TrampFreighter'.

    Liam : Years later, meeting an ill woman who turns out to be an escapee

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    from a sith ritual that went wrong, involving a jedi spirit inhabiting her

    mind with her, instead of the sith spirit that was wanted, only to find

    that the only help near are a jedi with a d

    Liam : dark past and another spawn creature?

    Liam

    :all in the one room?

    8Grantaire has left the conversation.Wolfen_Bones : She got a Mesra eye an' a osma bag...

    Saavedra : How about having strangers treat you like theirsibling...mother. Because this body was. And you have noidea who they were8Grantaire has joined the conversation.

    Saavedra : wb)) Liam : You know, I probably could match that but not without

    incriminating myself, so well leave it as you won

    Liam : wb][ Saavedra she smiles gently to that, "So what's your name

    anyway?"Wolfen_Bones : wb)

    Darth_Seer makes his way through the air vent,telekinetically breaking the lightbulb that illuminates theroom, then crawls out of the air vent, not bothering toclose it.

    Wolfen_Bones drinks and plays and smokes and later

    staggers home.Wolfen_Bones : night, people.) Liam : Liam, you? Liam : lates wolf]

    8Wolfen_Bones has left the conversation. Saavedra : Body or memories? Liam : Both Saavedra : Nylenna Nadali, look me up in the history

    books. This body is Saavedra Callahan...indeed, look herup in the history books, too

    Liam : So how'd you end up being here as you are? I was brought backusing some kind of ritual where they snapped a dagger in my chest

    Saavedra : A ritual, Saavedra spoke some words holdingan amulet to find out the memories of her soul. We'rereally the same person, in a way

    Liam : memories of her soul?

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    Saavedra : Previously lived Liam : Oh, past lives, I've heard of stuff like that but never knew of

    anyone actually claiming it.. that wasn't delusional

    Liam : not saying you are

    Saavedra : Of course not Liam : So this whole past lives thing, hows it work? Saavedra : In what way? Liam : Well does everyone have them? Liam : Sometimes, I have dreams where I look in a mirror and see

    myself the way this body looked before it was altered

    Saavedra : It's a past life in the way that a soulis...recycled. The memories are blocked to protect thenew life and body, but the barriers can be broken

    Liam : So what happens if your soul isn't recycled but ends up in a new

    body? Saavedra : Well, that's the new life. It's always a new body.

    I don't think I'd like to be inhabitting...well...whateverhappened to my body after I died. I don't have theinformation from then, the memories rather end abruptly

    Liam : I was told the spirit of this body was destroyed in the processthat changed it and enhanced it somehow.. would the dreams be like

    some way of the past spirit trying to break free or whatever? Saavedra : In some way, I think. I'm not exactly an expert

    Liam : So do you have any of the memories from Saavedra or just yourown?

    Saavedra : Her memories still exist. Mine are merely thedominant set

    Darth_Seer moves towards the wall, glancing away fromthe door as it opens, letting in vague light which to hisleft eye, is quite glaring. he telekinetically closes thedoor after the technician enters who looks about in thedark windering what just happened.. he

    Darth_Seer ~ reaches for the lightswitch only to find itsnot working as the bulb is broken!

    Liam : It sounds like you somehow possessed her but retained hermemories

    Saavedra :Trust me, I would rather oblivion than this. Shehad a full life...I have no rights to it

    Liam : hmm... since you did die, the same ritual that brought me back,

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    could probably work for you, all you need is a coma victim who can't

    be recovered and take their body I guess

    Liam : separate the two of you Saavedra : I've had enough of life...I've...done what I need

    to do here. I wouldn't mind leaving my memories around,I suppose...but I definately need to leave this era. I'mlost, I don't belong. I'm merely doing Saavedra's job untilshe can return8grSw has joined the conversation.

    Saavedra :Tigra)) Liam : If the dagger ritual was able to put me in a new body, it should

    work for you. if it could be done, you could do what you wanted and

    choose to stay or not

    Liam : swirl]

    grSw tacklehuggles vveddie))) Saavedra : I'll consider it. But I'm not taking a life, you

    understandgrSw notes that she's not in the miliitary))

    Liam : a permanent coma isn't what I'd call a life Darth_Seer ~ the technician fumbles for his flashlight only

    to be grabbed from behind, his neck snapped in k'tulanstyle. he lets the body slumb to the floor and takes thetechnician's access card

    Saavedra :There are still memories present. Asides fromthat, I'd be stuck in that body's form...the coma. Iwouldn't wake then either

    Liam :Not neccessarily, my body was in a permanent coma and Imanaged to wake it up

    8grSw has left the conversation. Liam : But either way, it'd give Saavedra back her life Saavedra :That is...true. My thanks, I'll look into it Liam :No problem, you could repay me with some advice. You've

    adapted to your current life more or less, what would you suggest to

    someone who has some rather, unique skills and wants to use them to

    help people but without revealing to everyone what he can do?

    Saavedra : Would revealing to a couple people work? Liam : Well I guess, I don't exactly tell everyone what I am, I'd

    appreciate it if you didn't tell a great many people either

    Saavedra : I have...an ability to keep secrets

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    Liam :Nice ability to have, me too. Saavedra : My thanks Liam : But its like, this time me and a girl named Mira saw a building

    burning, I went in to see if anyone was ok, told her to stay outside, so of

    course, she comes in to make sure I'm ok. She suffocates from thesmoke after seeing me leap down through a hole in

    Saavedra : ((Exhausted, need to go sleep)) Liam : the floor, from a good two storeys up.. I tell her she was

    hallucinating after getting her to a hospital.. how do I help people

    without telling them I can do?

    Saavedra : ((Great seeing you again Kala)) Liam : [[same, BUT!you have to reply one more time at least ]] Saavedra : ((Transfer it to the ICRP boards, I'll answer

    there))

    Liam : [[lol ok]] Saavedra : ((*wants to finish this, but is passing out,

    almost)) Saavedra : ((Night!))