[X] Increase your Force by 3.
[X] Improve Reflex by 1.
[X] The Dice decide her fate.
When you wake up, you feel discomfort. Aches and pains throughout your body as your whole being feels sore. You try to reposition your body and your wince as the movement flares up the pain in your aching body. Letting out a groan, you try to remember what happened. Paying the docking fee, meeting Mum except you didn't because.... because the Sith ambushed you. You made your first kills, you got shot up and then...
You glance down at your right hand and you wince again as you see the cauterised stump that your right arm now ends in. You stare for a moment before looking away, uncomfortable at your hand just being missing. This is not how your first mission was supposed to go. Meeting Kira, freeing the slaves, hanging out with Aunt Mission and getting your own starship were great, but now everything is plummeting with you getting maimed in your first real fight before getting...
Oh right, you are captured.
Captured by the Sith no less. That is bad, but if they have taken you alive over just killing you, it means that you are likely to stay that way. Of course, that might not be a good thing considering your captors are Sith, but at least you got a chance of escape if you are alive.
Looking around, you take stock of your situation. You are locked in some kind of bare quarters in a base or a ship and in addition to losing your right hand, you have been stripped down to your underwear. If you are lucky, your gear will be nearby, but you will need to prepare for the chance that it isn't. You aren't chained up, but that doesn't mean much. It does mean that you have the chance to meditate, which probably won't help, but it is something to do rather than get body.
As you try to get to your feet, you slip and fall as your right hand is no longer there for you to support you as you get to your feet. That is going to be a pain, but hopefully a temporary one since if you make it out of this, Dad or Mum or someone will be able to get you a replacement. Heck, you could probably buy one with what is in your bank account.
Ughh...your body hurts. Your shoulder still feels burnt and you pretty such that you must have fallen or something because your whole body feels bruised and actually, you did fall. You were about three storeys up when you fell unconscious and that must be why your body hurts so much when you only got shot a couple of times.
Your right shoulder in particular hurts and when you look at it, it appears to be all burnt up around where you took the blaster bolt. Yet unlike your hand, the shoulder looks like it should recovery in time even if it will be painful and hindering for some time. That or some proper attention from a medpac or some other form of medical attention. Unfortunately, you don't have access to any of those right now.
***
You end up waiting only a few hours in meditation before someone comes to get you. The door to your bare quarters opens up with a trio of figures on the other side. The middle one is a Twi'lek in a skimpy black outfit that instantly makes you think slavery. Maybe you are stereotyping and she just happens to live that sort of thing but given where you are and how close she is to that stereotype, you fear the worst. The other two individuals are a pair of Sith troopers, one on either side of the doorway as they wait outside.
"The Mistress would like to speak with you," says the Twi'lek, "You are to come with me."
You debate whether or not to do that, but considering how your only alternative is meditation and you strongly suspect that the troopers with her will force the issue if you decline, you decide to just go along with it.
"I accept," you tell the Twi'lek, "Lead the way."
As you follow the woman out of your quarters, wincing with every other step, both of the Sith troopers fall in behind you, one on either side of you.
Thankfully, the journey isn't that long and you are led into a dining room. There is a somewhat long table, with two plates of food that looks decent with a glass of a drink that you can't identity. Yet the most eye-drawing thing is the woman seated at the other end of the table. Wearing black robes, the woman looks shorter than you with straight black hair that goes down to her shoulders and grey eyes that have an awfully concerning yellow tinge to them.
"Luka Shan," says the woman with a smile that seems normal, but makes you feel uneasy nonetheless, "It is a pleasure to finally meet you. I wish it was under better circumstances, but we have to make do with what we got.
"Yes, we do," you reply carefully as you eye the chair that has been left out on the other side of the table, clearly meant for you to sit judging by the position and plate of food.
"Please sit Luka," says the woman with an air of expectation.
"Who are you?" you ask, ignoring her demand.
She responds by blasting you with Force lightning from her fingertips. With no way to dodge or block it, you take it head out and you let out a cry of pain as the electricity goes through your body.
"I am Darth Malice," answers the woman as you gasp for breath, "I am willing to grant you some forbearance given the circumstances, but be fully aware that mercy is not a weakness that I possess."
You stagger slightly as your body throbs with pain, new and old, you glare at her.
"Good, be angry at me," says Darth Malice as she grins at you in an earnest, but disconcerting way, "Now sit."
Glaring at her, you take a deep breath before gentlely sitting down, wincing a bit as your sore buttocks make contact with the chair.
"I must apologise regarding the hand," says Darth Malice after she takes another bit of her dinner, "I did not tell Horack to chop it off, but the boy can get so enthusiastic. Still, he is to be no concern of you or I any longer as I left him back on Nar Shaddaa for your mother to deal with."
"Back on Nar Shaddaa?" you repeat with a sinking feeling at what those words mean.
"Well, I obviously wasn't going to stick around on the same planet as Bastila Shan after kidnapping and maiming her daughter," says Darth Malice, "So I decided to take my leave and left my old apprentice behind to take the fall and keep your mother busy. We entered hyperspace a few hours ago and we got a couple of days until we arrive at our destination. That gives me plenty of time to convince you to be my new apprentice."
"I will never be your apprentice," you snap back automatically and you cry out in pain as more Force Lightning arcs through your battered body.
"That is the punishment for disobedience," states Darth Malice with a look that is supposed to be disappointed, but the woman is too gleeful to pull it off, "But I suppose I should have expected this. You wouldn't make for much of apprentice if you just gave in. In the meantime, please eat. I would hate for you to go hungry."
You give the woman another glare before looking down at the meat and vegetables on your plan. You are hungry and getting some food in your stomach is better than getting electrocuted again. Picking up your fork, you begin to eat the vegetables, unsure of how you are going to cut the meat with only one hand.
"I presume that you know the Sith Code," says Darth Malice after a few moments of both you and her eating in silence, "Or were the Jedi to afraid to tell you it."
"I know, I just don't care for nonsense," you reply, "I will never embrace the Dark Side."
And for that, you receive another burst of Force Lightning and you clench your hand around your fork as you try to resist the urge to cry out in pain. Then you do scream as you feel your remaining hand on fire.
You drop your half-melted fork as the Force Lightning stops and you attempt to clutch your hand, only to find yourself unable to do so thanks to your other hand being missing.
"Whoops," you vaguely here Darth Malice say, "It appears I went overboard. Could somebody take her to medical?"
***
You let out a sigh of relief as the medical droid applies the kolto patch to your burnt hand, making most of the pain go away. You aren't sure if Darth Malice meant for more than just your latest injury to be tended to, but after the Sith troopers have escorted you to the medical bay, the resident medical droid begins to tend to all of your various injuries.
It doesn't do much for your hand, but a lot of your other aches and pains either go away or are lessened as the medical droid systemically does what it can to treat them. It isn't able to fully treat your injuries or just chooses not to, but it is significantly better than nothing and now your remaining hand feels usable rather than useless. Which is definitely good even if it will take some time or more extensive medical care to fully recover.
"The prisoner's injuries have been tended to," states the medical droid as it turns its attention away from you and to the Sith troopers guarding you.
"Good," says one of the troopers before turning to you, "Come with us."
He states with a confidence that he cannot be disobeyed and for that, you are tempted to disobey simply to shatter his expectations. But that wouldn't be to your benefit right now as you can't see anything good coming from getting beat up just after receiving medical attention.
So for now you oblige him, following him along as the other Sith trooper falls in behind you. As you march through the corridors, you spot an opportunity in the form of an unguarded escape pod.
All you would need to do is keep these two guards off your back long enough to make it to the escape pod. That would be difficult without your right hand or a lightsaber, but you are a Jedi and you have the Force at your disposal.
But do you want to escape right now? It would certainly be risky, but then again, would that risk really be worse than having the personal attentions of a Sith Lady whilst being her prisoner?
What does Luka do?
[] [Luka] She decides that the risk isn't worth it.
[] [Luka] She decides to make an escape attempt.
[] [Luka] Write in.
Since I've adjusted the level up system, gain two new Experience Level-Ups
[] [Exp] Increase your Vitality by 3.
[] [Exp] Increase your Force by 3.
[] [Exp] Upgrade the Trait
Force Sense.
[] [Exp] Upgrade the Trait
Tough.
[] [Exp] Improve Fortitude by 1.
[] [Exp] Upgrade the Force Power
Force Push.
[] [Exp] Gain the Trait
Defiant.
Current Stats
Vitality: 23/30
Force: 33/33
***
A couple of things. First, I changed the level up system so rather than increasing in amounts of 100, it increases by 50 each time. Secondly, Luka has a chance to make an escape attempt where she just needs to get away from the two troopers escorting her. She is pretty confident in her chances of getting away through she can't be certain of it.
For her circumstances, Luka is pretty banged up and on her own. She currently has no gear and is forced to rely upon her own body and the Force. For now, Darth Malice wants her alive to convince Luka to become her apprentice, but she seems to be happy using torture to do that and Luka doubts she will be too upset if she goes overboard.
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