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[T'Sal]

T'sal let's miss Shebi Ajava take the lead and sneaks behind her. She takes a few seconds to focus, aim at the head of the Mandalor and shoot.

[T'Sal]

((OOC: Hope I am not too fast.))

[Shebi Ajava]

((OOC: Clarification request: is it still dark in here, or are the windows enough to make darkness not a viable cover?))

[Mercury]

((OOC: It is dark enough to not easily recognise a face without squinting, but not so dark that you cannot make out the location or shape of a person moving around. The darkness does not provide cover against a gun, but does provide cover against identification. Does that clarify properly?))

[T'Sal]

((OOC: As you described the Mandalor without helmet, I assumed that I could identify him and see good enough to take a shot with my blaster.))

[Mercury]

((OOC: You can easily identify the Mandalore because he has this huge "I'm the Mandalore" special armour, with flashy silver and gold, also he's seated on a throne))

[Shebi Ajava]

Ajava takes in the scene before her, as her mind is processing the information. With unnatural speed she takes aim at the leftmost of the two other guests in Mandalorian armour and lets loose an arrow aimed at the upper arm of the arm with which he is drawing his blaster. Without following up, she takes aim at the rightmost other guest and does exactly the same.

((Check: 20 = 10 Force Level + 4 Vision + 1 Force Speed + 5 Arkari-Renja -- Added combat rating to quickly deal with guard. Without combat rating check is 15.)) ((OOC: Feel free to call that Ajava isn't fast enough to attack two targets; I'm just hoping those are goons that simply need to be whacked once :P))

[T'Sal]

((Check: 8 = 8 Force Level -- Shooting at Mandalor))
((OOC: oh yeah my check))

[T'Sal]

((Check: 12 = 8 Force Level + 4 Energy -- Using Force to shoot))

[Mercury]

Ajava's arrows struck true, but the two Mandalorians weren't so easily stopped, their armour no doubt helping with the matter, and they began to shoot at the two Jedi (whom of course they didn't know were Jedi. T'sal shot at the Mandalore, and her aim was true, right between the eyes, but in a split second she realised her blaster shot had been deflected, and using her Jedi reflexes, she dodged the returning bolt. The black cloaked bodyguard had stepped in between, but more than that, had activated a dark red lightsaber to deflect the bolt!

[Shebi Ajava]

Eyeing the exchange between T'Sal and the saber-wielder, Ajava took another shot at the leftmost other guard, this time aiming for his left knee. 'He'll have to become a guard then', she thought as she let the arrow fly, 'No time to muck around against a sith'. In a single fluid motion only gained from practice she clips her bow to the equipment point on her back and draws her lightsabers.

With a soft hiss the two red blades, one regular length and one dagger, engage -- shining an ominous red light onto her face.

((OOC: Repeat of earlier bow check.))

[Mercury]

The arrow on the leftmost Mandalorian hit him in the knee between two armour plates, causing him to fall to the ground, out for the battle. At the sight of lightsabers being activated, the rightmost Mandalorian moved to grab the Mandalore, leading him towards the panic room as the Mandalore put his helmet on. At the same time, an explosion could be heard some distance away, no doubt further distraction by the other team

[T'Sal]

While dodging the return shot, she tumbles behind the table. T'sal decides to let miss Shebi handle the other bodyguards and the Mandalor. She grabs her light saber and changes her battle style. ((Check: 13 = 8 Force Level + 4 Fitness + 1 Stealth -- Hiding behind the the table. Ready for attack on Sith.))

[Shebi Ajava]

((OOC: Standby, I'm having a bit of trouble keeping track of the scene. I'll have to reread a few messages.))

[Mercury]

((OOC: Summary: The Mandalore put on his helmet and is moving towards the panic room (that is the only other room connecting to this one besides the door you two came through just now. One of the people you shot with arrows is now out, the other is hit, but not out, and is guiding the Mandalore to the panic room. There is a Sith (apparently) between you two and the Mandalore. There are also two ladies in the corner, a kneeling man in black trying not to die by hiding his head in his arms and pretending none of this is happening, and a waiter))

[T'Sal]

((OOC: Thanks for the explanation, I am entering combat mode against the Sith))

[Shebi Ajava]

Ajava, taking care to keep up an image of unconclusive affiliations, throws a bolt of lightning squarely chest of the guest that is currently helping the Mandalore escape to the panic room. Her goal isn't to stop the mandalore though, she wants the helping guy to stop short of reaching the panic room for later purposes.

((Check: 17 = 10 Force Level + 6 Energy + 1 Force Lightning -- ignoring the weapon switching rules due to artistic liberty. This is my 1 of 1 uses of Lightning today.))

[Mercury]

((OOC: For the sake of my sanity, sadly, I won't be going into a full, ring-based combat. It'd be too much paperwork to keep track of everything and it'd needlessly kill the action, so instead I'll let you take a "combat check" where you pick a ring to attack on and tell me your total on that ring (plus which ring you picked) and I'll make it a story from there. Apologies that this deviates from the default combat rules, but they simply aren't feasible in a chat environment))

[Shebi Ajava]

((OOC: No wait, weaponized use of lightning has no uses per day limit. Ignore that remark. o_O No worries, chat requires different rules anyway :)))

[Mercury]

T'sal dodged the return shot and tumbled behind the table, using it as cover as she grabbed her lightsaber to engage the cloaked figure. Suddenly she noticed the waiter coming towards her, not so much as an attacking party, but rather being used as a thrown object, the cloaked figure using the Force to throw the waiter as if he were a large rock at T'sal! Meanwhile, Ajava's lightning arched into the chest of the other guest, the armour offering only limited protection as he screamed in pain. With the guy and lightning in the way, the Mandalore moved towards the window instead, seeing as the route to the panic room was now blocked!

[T'Sal]

T'sal jump from behind the table and makes a surprise attack on the Sith. She forces him away from the Mandalor in a corner. He would be her target leaving the Mandalor and the other guards to miss Shebi. This was her time to use her new combat style Makashi.
((OOC: okay, then no full combat mode.))

[Shebi Ajava]

((OOC: Wait what?! The guy was IN FRONT of the Mandalore?!))

[Mercury]

((OOC: He was leading the Mandalore to the safe room, so he was AHEAD (rather than IN FRONT) of him))

[Shebi Ajava]

((OOC: Myeah, I thought that he was kinda covering the Mandalore with his body as the pair went towards the panic room, like one would expect a bodyguard to do... nevermind though. By the way, has the Mandalore "moved" there already, or is he actually "moving" there right now?))

Ajava, not happy with the Mandalore trying to make his escape, rushed past the Saber wielder,

[Mercury]

((OOC: He was, but you're at angles and such. It's almost impossible to explain in text))