Adelle Bastiel
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Dec 8, 2016 20:58:36 GMT -8
Adelle looked up at the tapping on the door. That was not Na'an. It was too light and not her way. When Z'har asked his question, it made more sense.
"Yes, we're all set back here, captain," she said.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Dec 8, 2016 20:47:57 GMT -8
Burning flesh. The smell hit her like a freighter in lightspeed. Adelle faltered for a brief moment, memories flashing before her. She snapped out of the focus she'd fallen into and noticed the droid's hand on her blade as if for the first time. It was moving backwards. Moving towards her head. Her arms strained as she tried to fight the assassin droid's mechanical strength. It was a losing battle. The blue blade inched closer and closer to her own forehead. Disengage the blade and a super-heated metal hand would fly towards her face. Keep the blade and it would inevitably touch her skin. Or she could preempt it.
She gathered as much of the Force as she could to her left hand and grabbed the blade itself. The skin around seared at first before she started to absorb the energy. The comm link in her pocket buzzed twice. Adelle focused on the droid, its lifeless solidarity in the Force, trying to find a weak point. Anything to give her an advantage. The knee was off but not enough. The shoulder had promise. The head, undamaged, held vital parts. If onlly. She breathed in deep, staring through the droid at the shoulder she now tried to pry off fully.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Dec 8, 2016 16:17:19 GMT -8
SURPRISE JEDI!
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
Posts: 338
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 30, 2016 13:13:27 GMT -8
Banned because you said it, not me.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 28, 2016 9:53:05 GMT -8
A jolt of adrenaline jerked her focus back into the room. The gun swept by her head as she sidestepped and raised a hand at the passing droid. She blasted a Force push at KR-04's back. Adelle hoped it would be enough to send him crashing into the wall facing the Strategy Center's door. Its chassis had resisted her blade; perhaps pummeling it would bring it down.
She followed it out into the hall, bringing her blade down at its neck. Until she could figure out how to crush it without exhausting herself, she'd settle for keeping it on the defensive.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 20, 2016 18:40:03 GMT -8
Adelle rose to her feet as the droid scrambled to its own. Even as it reached for a weapon, Adelle felt the impact of the shot. She spun as she sidestepped. Her lightsaber swung behind her back to deflect the bolts speeding towards her. Some of the bolts fired had burned through her shirt only to be stopped by the armor underneath. Her comlink buzzed in her pocket. She let it go unanswered: She dared not transmit any wireless frequencies with KR-04 in the room. It was bad enough it had a mobile platform now. Adelle planted her feet standing between the droid and the door.
In the next instant, her chest tightened and she felt breathless in a way that felt second-hand: Na'an. She felt more than heard the plea. Her eyes looked past KR as her mind found the Grand Audience Chamber. Found Na'an, forcing her body through its physical limitations. Found the lungs and airways desperately trying to recover. With a whisper of a thought, she breathed the Force into the straining bronchial tubes, speeding their recovery. She withdrew her focus as soon as she dared. KR-04 was not to be underestimated.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 20, 2016 14:26:19 GMT -8
Banned because bow chicka bow wow?
And also for the pun.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
Posts: 338
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 17, 2016 16:48:41 GMT -8
Banned for not beating me to banning Rutil and mentioning that in the first place.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
Posts: 338
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 16, 2016 17:27:17 GMT -8
Banned for not realizing how blind to the Light you've actually become.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
Posts: 338
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 15, 2016 17:33:43 GMT -8
Banned for an animated style avatar.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
Posts: 338
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 14, 2016 17:10:07 GMT -8
KR-04 seized Adelle by the wrist on with one hand and grabbed her opposite shoulder with the other. Its grip, while strong, was not crushing. "I am not your enemy." Adelle looked up at him. "Give it—" Shit. The grip on her shoulder tightened and she felt herself lifted, flung across the room. Adelle rolled with the motion, keeping her blade pointed away from herself. She landed in a half-crouch, one knee on the floor. The droid strode towards the door. Adelle lifted her palm at its back and found the synthskin, the endoskeleton that resisted her blade in the Force. She Pulled as hard as she could, aiming to toss him into the back wall. Turnabout was fair play.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
Posts: 338
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 14, 2016 15:09:23 GMT -8
Banned for having no depth perception.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
Posts: 338
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 13, 2016 18:48:00 GMT -8
"Now you're just toying with me." Adelle moved to the bunk and picked up the pack she'd left on the mattress when Na'an had entered. Their spar had disturbed very little of the items she'd laid out for packing. She checked the contents of the pack and hooked it onto the utility belt, moving onto the next pack. Every time she breathed though, she could smell that earthy rain scent surrounding Na'an. Adelle took in deep breaths, allowing the room's normal scent to filter through her nostrils. With that taken care of, she focused on the task at hand.
"In all honesty, you probably should see that she's not beating herself up," she said. "She seemed flustered."
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
Posts: 338
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 13, 2016 18:29:50 GMT -8
She heard the crack at the door and felt another spike of adrenaline. The oracle had sealed her in and dithered about in its explanation. The black snake rose up from its coil, still hissing. Adelle called her hilt into her hand as two screens popped on and she almost felt a third screen pop on. Surveillance camera footage displayed on the two activated screens. Wireless interfacing. The Oracle didn't need to display camera footage for her question. Which meant he was activating signals. If no further monitors had been activated, he had to have activated a different signal. But there was nothing else in the room that could interface like that. Just the normal computers and stations that comprised the Strategy Center, herself, and the second KR unit.
A droid built and programmed by the same man that taught Eliana Shan to create the LE units. She had a bad feeling about this.
". . . designation: KR-04." The snake lunged at her, disappearing into thin air.
"Kriff me to the nine hells," she muttered. The droid had mainly ranged weapons, though she'd briefly caught sight of a bulge and a sheath on its left side. Better to close the distance and try to literally disarm the droid. The royal blue blade snapped to life, a hiss more familiar, comforting, and terrifying to her than the illusion of the snake she'd seen. It hummed through the air as she briefly took up a Soresu stance then charged forward. The droid would almost certainly turn to face her.
Within a few steps of the droid, she flicked the blade across where the hips would be. Demobilize and disarm.
And hope this droid was nothing like the predecessor's platform.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 13, 2016 17:53:01 GMT -8
Adelle frowned, Leigh's projected smile saying far too much and not articulating enough for her liking. She looked out the doorway into the hall where Na'an had disappeared.
"Can and needed to," Adelle muttered. She turned back to Leigh. "Should someone check on her? Now that... whatever that was is out of her system?"
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 13, 2016 17:31:46 GMT -8
"Base code," Adelle repeated. Something like thunder rolled through the Praxeum and in a flash of the light, she could feel Na'an standing alone against it. But the snake and the poison remained. There was something rotten in Yavin's Praxeum. In her home.
"Identify origin of base code," she snapped. If the Oracle refused, fine. She'd let the KR unit handle it and go help Na'an. But if there was an unseen threat, she wanted to know about it.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 13, 2016 17:06:41 GMT -8
She stepped aside as the droid moved past her, feeling her heart beat in her ears. The Force still felt tense. She still felt on edge and not because a new iteration of KR-04—albeit with a different directive—stood in the same room she did. Na'an was safe from him; his programming said so. And since neither Leigh nor herself were criminal associates, they too were safe. Adelle watched rigidly as the droid approached the hologram. The black python she had seen earlier sat coiled beneath the hologram, hissing at her. Adelle blinked, trying to remove the hallucination from her sight. The snake remained, breathing out a green-tinted gas now. Hallucinations usually didn't persist without psychosomatic causes. To her knowledge, she was only sleep-deprived.
Still, she hesitated to call it a vision, despite her misgivings.
"Oracle," she said, "how is it you incorrectly identified KR-04 upon entry into the Center?"
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Adelle Bastiel
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Right or wrong? I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell.
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 13, 2016 16:35:46 GMT -8
"No, I—" Adelle cut herself off, trying to gather her thoughts. Na'an had always seemed so uncomfortable with simple physical touches before. The awkward moment they had shared in Na'an's borrowed freighter came to mind. The sudden embrace seemed unusual for Na'an. And then she ran, as if embarrassed or ashamed of her actions. The scent of her hair lingered in Adelle's nose and she could almost feel where Na'an's arms had been, where she had rested her face in her shoulder. Could almost feel the heat of her body again. Adelle rubbed her face and tried to put into words everything she felt about the embrace.
"I didn't think she hugged people," Adelle said at last. "I don't even know why she hugged me."
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Adelle Bastiel
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 13, 2016 16:29:58 GMT -8
Adelle had to look up at the droid as it straightened, dropping all pretenses of humanity. Well at least that was out of the way.
"Identify mission parameters concerning human female, Vidalu Na'an," she said.
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Adelle Bastiel
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Post by Adelle Bastiel on Nov 13, 2016 16:14:51 GMT -8
The Oracle A.I. confirmed her suspicions as the door slid shut. KR-04 was in the same building as Vidalu Na'an. Worse, he hadn't yet answered her question. Her lightsaber hilt felt firm in her grasp without her even touching the metal. The air in the Strategy Center had taken on a close, stuffy quality. The edges of shadows cast by the overhead lights seemed sharper. Adelle could smell dust, the lingering traces of another organic here, the faint smell of death and copper that clung to the assassin droid. Could feel the adrenaline start to hit her bloodstream as her body reacted to the subconscious fight-or-flight signals. The comlink in her pocket buzzed and chirped but she had more pressing concerns.
She swore she could hear the hum of servos and machinery. The Oracle's warning sounded distant and muffled.
"What," she said, biting off every word, "is your primary directive?"
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