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I wanted to see if it would be worth the effort of trying to recruit anyone for the guild.
i'm still not in the guild :v
You still haven't told me what your Republic name is! Or rather, i forgot it. And then you haven't logged in whenever I log in as Nox
akasaka
i've said it a bunch of times
yeah
but the name is like
complicated
so i keep writing asuka instead
:v
Right character ideas. I didn't really have on starting out besides making a character design I thought looked cool, but some ideas grew for Alkinell and Cityface after I thought about it a bit.
Alkinell - To understand Alkinell you must understand two things about her. The first is that she is a Miraluka and sees the world around her by seeing through the force. She can see the joy and suffering around her and wants to encourage the former and soothe the latter. The second thing to understand is that she never wanted to be a fighter. In her heart of hearts, Alkinell is a researcher, content to study archaeological finds and meditate on the Force. Maybe later in life find a mate and have some children, because Force knows the Miraluka are still reeling from the loss of their homeworld, and then go onto be an instructor, informing other padawans about the history of the order and the mysteries of the Force.
All she wanted to do when she got off the shuttle on Tython was to reunite with her master Yuon and start working on some research for the Tythonian ruins. Of course one thing lead to another and an ancient dark spirit started causing trouble and Alkinell felt the Force nudge her to investigate. Well that, and she is a bit of a pushover, and when the Jedi council tell you to investigate something, you damn well investigate it. After all her talents for research made her particularly well suited to untangling this mystery. And along the way she met her master's friend, the Trandoshan hunter, Qyzen Fess. She struck up a friendship herself with him, mostly to humor his odd insistence that she was his Scorekeeper's Herald.
All in all Qyzen was a contradiction to many of her beliefs. Alkinell had always considered violence an ugly and simple minded decision informed by cruel minds or desperate situations. Further research of the situation and diplomacy would be the best way to heal the wounds in the Force, not attacking whatever caused you problems. But then there was Qyzen. His life was ruled by violence yes, but he was a thoughtful hunter with his own code of ethics, one ruled by personal responsibility. This gave Alkinell much to meditate on.
After sorting out the debacle on Tython, Alkinell and Qyzen were called off to Coruscant to find out why her master Yuon had fallen ill. As she investigated this force plague, Alkinell decided to shield her masters, to hold off the evil until she could find a solution. Across planets she saw masters succumb to the madness and commit horrible crimes. Even if it wasn't their fault and they deserved mercy, and as much as she could she would try to show mercy and shield them. It wasn't until she reached the source of the plague, Lord Vivicar that she had her revelation.
Sometimes talking wasn't enough. She couldn't reason with Lord Vivicar as much as she wanted to, and eventually she had to cut out the dark thing for the sake of others. After that fight she came to her new resolve. She would always offer criminals mercy provided they took responsibility for their crimes and accepted punishment, but if that offer was rejected she would not hesitate to cut them out and add them to her points.
To Qyzen Fess she is the Scorekeeper's Herald.
To the Gree she is the Black Bisector.
To The Republic, she is the Rider of the Malestrom and the Liberator of Balmorra.
To the Esh Ka she is Silent Teeth.
To the Jedi she is the Barsen'thor.
In her heart of hearts she is a researcher who wants to heal the galaxy around her, even if it means cutting out the darkness herself.
Cityface - He used to have another name when he was a simple orphan on Hutta who bounced around from one gang to another throughout childhood. One day he was caught in an explosion caused by the feuding between to Hutt clans and rushed to a street doctor. The doctor patched him up as best he could, some quick obvious cybernetic eyes and syth hair and decayed bacta patches to his body left him with a very distinctive appearance. And a rather large debt. When asked how to repay it, the doc told him to check the local bounty board. So picking up a blaster and donning the pseudonym Cityface, the boy began his career as a bounty hunter.
He learned two things quickly. He wasn't good at sneaking around and con games, tracking down targets and hitting them hard worked best. The other important lesson was that killing folks when you could avoid it caused more problems in the long run. Everybody had friends and family and some of them would pick up a blaster and come at you raving about revenge and honor and all that jazz. Besides, didn't it show more skill to take a target alive, and let them spread word of your prowess to all they met?
Over the years Cityface's dream crystallized. Someday he would die and he would be forgotten. So best to tell a tale so large that people would talk about him long after he died. So he entered the Great Hunt and decided to write his legend across the galaxy.
bam
number 2!
also i noticed i was having some trouble with my class quest on corellia so i went out and bought 400,000 credits worth of mods and gear and fuck i was saving that money to buy xp boosts for my next alt
you know
i could have made you those mods
with cybertech
yeah
for free, even
fffffffffffff
i could have made you armorings too
and a purple earpiece
or, fuck, you could have even asked me to come help you with your class quest, considering i have an endgame republic character
ouch
my wallet
but spoilers
yeah
i am known for giving a fuck about spoilers.
you know
funny thing is
i actually have too much zal alloy and durasteel, i would have been happy to make that stuff for you just to get rid of some of it
if it helps
i also could have crafted high-level Artifact-grade droid parts
for free
for tee-seven, you know
While I was wasting all my money I forgot that I need to gear him up for the final battle. He's mostly still in shitty level 13 gear.
Speaking of which Nova, I think I'll hit level 50 tomorrow Nova. Would you mind throwing together some mods and armor for Alkinell? I think I already got you some purple hilts and crystals, right?
I could do that. It'll take me a while to get it together, as I need to RE the schematics and get enough Mandalorian Iron together for it (that shit costs like, 10k a pop), but it should be done by the weekend.
Alkthash: I can try. Although I did already throw you 100k for those, remember :P I'll make Forzare's stuff first, as you can get better armorings than I can make through daily commendations, so you'll be set faster than him.
Just finished the Jedi Knight story! Nova, turns out I won't need you to make those parts. The last mission actually gives you a complete set.
The ending was definitely a lot more climactic than the Agent's end, but I think the Agent story is better overall. Also, it made me really wish that Bioware would incorporate space missions into the story. One would have been perfect there.
...
squeeeeeeee
Guess what's my new solo character?
Lucky I didn't already start to make them
Anyway, my Smuggler, Nedi, is on the Fleet now. She's Level 11, has taken Biochem/Bioanalysis/Diplomacy as her crew skills, and is specced as a Sawbones (Healer).
That is your cue, Alk and Lin <_<
Forzare, since I know a few things about the Jedi Knight storyline (namely, you get to seemingly kill the Emperor because Scourge was an idiot and stopped Revan from doing it 300 years earlier resulting in the Exile and T3 dying and Revan's centuries-long imprisonment and torture, that Kira is the Emperor's daughter and that he made her suffer, that you don't kill the Emperor so much as kill his current host body and that he'll be back, that Kaliyo knows Doc and makes a cameo, and that Kira is romanceable), I'd just like to say that I'm sort of pissed off that the Emperor doesn't really die. I want him to die, I want him to stay dead, and I want him to suffer a little before it happens.
I haven't even met the guy in-story yet and I hate him. I hate that I had to even lift a finger to help him on my Bounty Hunter, to say nothing of playing a vital role in helping to capture planets and subjugate populations for him. I hate that as a Warrior I'm eventually going to have to work for him even more directly and apparently, in the end, remain his loyal servant and enforcer when he so does not deserve that kind of loyalty. I mean, "Complete Monster" doesn't come close to describing this evil fuck.
As long as I'm ranting, I'll weigh in on Zenith:
Just out of curiosity Alk, was that a typo or were you mimicking Darth Lachris' pronunciation of his name? (Which, much as I think Lachris is way worse than Zenith, was a little bit amusing.)
Anyhoo, Zenith is just...wrong. So very wrong about so much. Okay, the Empire is grinding the Balmorran population under its heel (despite light-sided Imp characters telling Lachris "You'd better treat these people well if you want them to stop resisting") and that needs to stop, and Zenith was right to try to stop it. But when you start lumping in people who cooperated with the Empire just to survive with the likes of Lachris then you have a pretty warped view of things.
As I recall, with Iresso I had to talk him out of doing dark side stuff twice. With Zenith, it seemed like I was always trying to talk him out of doing dark side stuff. But the thing that really took the cake for me was when he decided to arrange an "accident" for his political opponent's speechwriter, so that the opponent's speech wouldn't get done on time and Zenith could win the election. It was okay, he said, because it wouldn't be a fatal accident. The game really needed a "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" dialogue option for that like the one you can use on Qyzen when he talks about how awesome Wookiee-hunting is.
If it makes you feel any better
You'll hate him even more by the end of Act 3, though.
Also, the Inquisitor storyline may or may not hint that the Inquisitor is going to become the new Emperor?
The last battle was really cool, though. And the moment where he's on his knees, and he's all "you won't kill me, you're a Jedi" and I was all "aaahaHAHAHA NOPE" was ridiculously satisfying.
Corruption, purges of the common man, child soldiers...
Ord Mantell is the worst Republic planet ever.
At least with the Empire you already know what you're getting into.
Yeah, I think Belsavis wins the "What The Fuck, Republic, You're Supposed To Be The Good Guys" award.
Ord Mantell- quest you can find: You find a bunch of soldiers running a gambling thing. You can bet on whether or not a civilian can run across a field without setting off any of the mines in it.
If you go see the ethics officer about it, the ethics officer... doesn't give a shit.
^ All the time in the world, Alk.