Dapper Dog wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:13 pm
Music for the Scene
Layne was falling... tumbling through the void.
She tumbles through the darkness until she lands hard in the mud and rock… no snow and ice. An alien world that seems familiar. It is dusty and arid and a man approaches and behind him more and more… perhaps hundreds.
Thick red hair and beard, muscular and scarred, on hand replaced with prosthetic of fine make, crystalline and metallic in a beautiful melding. Behind him were faces she did not recognize but they were all shades of herself.
“Been a long time, cousin. Since all of this,” he raised up the prosthetic limb.
“You came into the dark to find something,” he reached out and placed that same hand on her shoulder. “I want you to know that even when you Fall, when you murder innocents, when you do everything you think you must do, I will always love you. Not just as a cousin but as a sister.”
“What happens next is how it has to be.”
A young woman peered around his shoulder and said, “This is her?” Daz stepped aside and allowed her to speak, “Kriff she looks kind of badass, we could have used someone like her in the fight. But I guess we got by.”
A young man placed his hand on Layne’s shoulder, “So this is part of our legacy, Master Daz. Wow. She was your inspiration, through the dark times. Without her, there would be no us. Too bad you don’t know what happened to her after the war.”
Daz sighed and said, “I lied, I lied to you both. Petra, Jax, all of you… stay awhile and listen.”
His form shimmered and then darkened as he took on a lotus pose, the halo of his light obscuring reality in waves. He continued speaking, “Layne fell to the Dark Side, trying to achieve some greater good but there is no greater good in the dark. She turned her back on the Jedi, on her friends, and on herself.”
“When the war came, she was already lost. Darth Baras had twisted her into the very thing she had tried to destroy. She always needed more power, for some phantom Emperor… some phantom menace just out of sight. Every conspiracy was the Sith Emperor, she convinced herself it was the only way.”
“She told herself killing her friends was just one step, they would forgive her when the ends finally justified the means. The galaxy burned and still she was consumed with this need to prove herself right, to defeat an already dead Emperor.”
“It had to end and so I tracked her down, alone.”
She can see them dueling as Daz stepped aside her two blades, fierce and powerful, unrelenting and filled with hatred. In the end they stood apart her blades ready, as Daz faced her with his singular green blade.
They came at each other and everything was still. Then Layne fell, her head, neatly, severed. Daz collapsed to one knee and then fell forward as he crawled to Layne but his strength gave out before he could reach her.
“That is the truth,” he said, then all of the shadows and faces fell into Daz and he pulled before exploding outward with abundant light.
She was alone now with all of her choices, her decisions.
When she pulled herself from the vision she was laying in the snow stained red from her own blood, her face was sore and bloody. She could not see… she had torn at her eyes she would recover with fancy Star wars tech but for now… she was cold in the inky darkness.
OOC: Layne will be found after the time skip with a Blindness critical, it can be healed just outside Echo Base.
Luth suffers 5 Conflict, Layne and Shyyyo suffer another 10 Conflict for the ordeal due to how long they stayed.
