DT: Darling? You wrote this early in the month we were apart.

DT: Any memory of what made this a separate "Problems" flimsicard?

V: Oh! yes. He came along on Boba Fett fetching me to Nar Shaddaa.
Not by request or invitation.
Just walked onboard. Converted a cell to be his cabin.

V: I think my busted arm bothered him?

V: Anyway. He was gonna stick around on Hutt Central and make trouble.
Which meant he was going straight back into the pit.

V: I persuaded him to go back to Chalcedon system.
Update parties as to the Arena thing.
And Grakkus versus Grakor.
Be a Big Damn Hero.

DT: Great! Thanks for expanding.

V: np

DT: It stays in the "Problems" pile, because
upon return to Chalcedon, none of that is what he did.

V: What?!?

DT: Except the "Big Damn Hero" bit.

24.

3.07.03

Originating Date: 12731:05:12

"Vance Kerplocken" has been assassinated
several times
Uh oh.

25.

3.07.03

Originating Date: 12731:05:12

Danar Vorpadaran has been "burned"
=} and has no money/funds

26.

3.07.04

Originating Date: 12731:05:13

Gilberto Bartlebee the Cub Reporter
got blown up

28.

3.07.04

Originating Date: 12731:05:13

Piotr Sparaval
* is probably a clone of Piotr Sparaval
* is working for/with Almon D'Joy
* kills himself to keep quiet. That's extra creepy.

AK: Update 29 Nelona 12731: has been named as a conspirator
in the assassination attempts of 'what's-her-name'

32.

3.07.06

Originating Date: 12731:05:14

We rescued Genog Druqod. We acquired a new travel companion/information resource named Talow Kit'Sedda. We got into a kerfluffle with the Bloodsmith Raiders that is not going to endear us to anyone. Mostly good, except the kerfluffle shows the Adepta Sororitas got robbed by the Bloodsmiths and that is going to result in fireballs. Inevitably.

39.

3.07.09

Originating Date: 12731:05:14

I am not as stable as I thought.

40.

3.07.09

Originating Date: 12731:05:14

Everything I do makes things worse.

48.

3.07.08

Originating Date: 12731:05:14

In order for Vanya to get through a populated area of the Kotera in a reasonable amount of time, an associate impersonates her for autographs and selfies.

49.

3.07.08

Originating Date: 12731:05:14

According to Lord Solicitor Londo Mollari, the Kotera can no longer do long-distance travel.

V: Update: Captain Rath Ores of Bureau of Ships and Services
says he'll loan us a shuttle to get to the Star
provided Cap'n Kolene agrees to meet him for a booze-date later.

52.

3.07.10

Originating Date: 12731:05:14

There is something OLD and SUPER EVIL on Dotera

V: Update '731:05:15 morning: Might be traveling with us now in spirit.

57.

3.07.11

Originating Date: 12731:05:15

Copied from earlier flimsi:

V: Who said "hey six free Thermal Dets" in our team?

DT: Good question. I did not notice.

Split 'em even Steven between me'n Mr. C. -- H

DT: That's a relief!

left Lord Danar a couple of Cee Fourteens in trade. -- H

DT: YOU WHAT?!?

V: You what??

Needed room on my belt. -- H

61.

3.07.11

Originating Date: 12731:05:15

I wonder if Eborreans are any relation to Quarrens?

DT: This is a Problems card?

Yeppers. Follow:

1. This would indicate that not all of the Eborreans left this galaxy after the war against the Exclamation Points.

2. Which suggests that even back then, the Eborreans were no more a monolith culture than the Aw'akeen.

DT: We don't subscribe to the Planet of Hats philosophy anyhow.

3. Ergo, some jackass is working hard to keep it "All Eborreans" vs "Team Snacks".

DT: I nominate D'Joy.

4. Quarrens evolved to thrive in high-atmospheric-pressure environments. Deep sea. That kind of thing.

5. They're going to be really good at high-G maneuvers in space combat.

6. In space combat, I'm about as useful as a kloo horn at a sniper fight.

Vanya, Razak won a bar bet once by turning a kloo horn
into a controller for a drone weapon. - H

V: Funny guy. Missing my point!

7. So I'm more use to the effort if I figure out a way to get a Quarren pilot dizzy and then apply it to our Eborrean problems.

8. Such as: ruin their concentration on firing solutions.

63.

3.07.11

Originating Date: 12731:05:15

I don't know if this is a Facts card or a Problems card: the Eborreans are infected with the creepy parasite puppeteer things!

67.

3.07.11

Originating Date: 12731:05:15

The Thousand Stars have firmly adopted a policy of "Murder 'em all, it's the only way to be sure."

68.

3.07.11

Originating Date: 12731:05:15

What the heck does Caressa Drakon have to do with the Eborrean raiders?

69.

3.07.11

Originating Date: 12731:05:15

What the osik does the Infinity Gate and/or the "hyperway" have to do with Caressa Drakon, the Eborrean raiders, and the Thousand Stars?

71.

3.07.11

Originating Date: 12731:05:15

Where'd the dark side ghosty guy go?

V: Oh, he's still around.

74.

3.07.12

Originating Date: 12731:05:26

Here we are in Chalcedon system.

What the CROM is going on here?!

You guys didn't leave the everybody-fight-everybody turned on when you departed, did you?

75.

3.07.12

Originating Date: 12731:05:26

Long-term problem: in a dogfight, I'm mostly dead weight.

DT: Hon, in starfighter combat, most folks are dead weight.

DT: Your perspective is skewed because you spend a lot of time around amazing fighter pilots like Aerena.

V: You're pretty amazing yourself.

77.

3.07.12

Originating Date: 12731:05:26

per Master Sergeant Jenkins via encrypted comms

Count Gavril Vorpadaran has officially stated that his youngest son Danar Vorpadaran is getting married.

I'm pretty sure this is unexpected and unwelcome news to Danar.

V: Also I hesitate to describe this as in any way characteristic of milord Count.

DT: Also also: that whole "a different culture says a prior marriage exists" thing.

86.

3.08.03

Originating Date: 12731:05:29

Either Aerena Kolene or Spukamas
or both?
are comfy with inflicting light torture.

I should have known this was possible. Ex-pirates are used to having to humiliate and/or physically force their rivals into compliance. It's part of the social contract in their society.

Fear rather than respect.

I don't want to give either one the impression that I think less of her. Or want to confine her somehow. Because I don't!

But. Fierfek. I can't just pretend this never happened, either. Or that it's peachy by me. Hurting people to get what you want is something people do when they feel powerless. If a badass accomplished fighter pilot is feeling powerless around manacled prisoners, then I missed something important.

89.

3.08.08

Originating Date: 12731:05:30

Tenocron Codex

one page at a time

they want their "readers" to bring them all together at a specific location, but the pesky readers keep dying of the ambient corruption

Wow, ask one knowledgeable source if he has handy tips regarding these "pages" and their power down functions, and you receive several urgent

lengthy

soliloquies to the favorite Sith melody of "Doom; doom; all is doom; everything is awful; all paths lead to tragedy!"

90.

3.08.08

Originating Date: 12731:05:30

Sir Tam, can't you use your influence to bring the Commander onboard with our whole "maintain digital security for a happy datapad" policy? I have diagrams and example scenarios, if that helps!

DT: I cannot.

C'mon, you have to have some idea how to make this happen! - G

The security fallout is becoming a unit-wide pain in the shebs. - J

V: The Force shall reveal the time for that sort of thing.

Wait, how is "Nah!" the reasonable answer here? - J

DT: Sorry to disappoint you, Jenkins.

91.

3.08.08

Originating Date: 12731:05:30

Fun fact!

Killian Pirate Clan wear wrist-mounted bracer "stimpacks" that are spice plus Boost!

When Vanya goes all ‘I sense darkness in you!’ I’ve learned that’s the time to makes sure I’ve extra power cells for my blasters - H

92.

3.08.08

Originating Date: 12731:05:30

The Killian nitwits got blueprints for

Saber-Carapace Armor

from the Tenocron Codex.

They decided this was a keen idea!

Keen enough to shove involuntary prisoners into. Not keen enough to don it themselves.

I expect to encounter these again.

93.

3.08.10

Originating Date: 12731:06:06

The long-ago

Jedi Master Shal Artak

Battle Master
tactician
scholar
tinker
puzzle maker

self-selected nemesis of "Darth Tenock" the alleged inventor of the Tenocron Codex, or possibly nemesis of the Codex itself

dismantled the physical storage components of his journal and at least one of his nifty tools. He (or the next figures in his lineage?) distributed his accumulated discoveries across multiple caches concealed in various artifacts, such as a bust of himself that spent a long time in the library of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.

Mentat Almon D'Joy is frantic to recover a specific piece of information from Master Artak's experiences. He needs to know where Master Artak fought somebody.

We're going to have to solve enough of this puzzle ourselves to understand what is really going on with d'Joy.

D'Joy is sufficiently convinced that his target is not present that -- after venting some frustration -- he left all of this here for whoever might visit the chamber next.

94.

3.08.13

Originating Date: 12731:06:06

I doubt they actually call it

The Anti-Life Equation

but the Mentat Order has an experimental meditation in the form of a compressed mathematical construct. If I understood the much-simplified explanation given to me later, they call this experiment "a modification to the Thotar Theorem".

All I can explain is how it felt:

It felt like a Matres, a willfully corrupted Bene Gesserit or Adepta Sororitas, rewriting my mind and soul to make me a fountain of entropy.

This is a thing Mentats can transmit in a datapacket?!?

95.

3.08.13

Originating Date: 12731:06:06

99.

Vance Kerplocken's new father-in-law is Grakkus the Hutt

Solved in the sense that this is not Vance's problem any more.

NOT solved, in the sense that now he's Captain Aerena Kolene's father-in-law. One of the proposed solutions I heard was to politically assassinate Grakkus as a final step to taking over the Ponua Kajidic.

Purpose

This is a collection of heavily-worn small plastic flimsies, each labeled in the upper right corner "Problems", originally written between 15 Elona 12731 and 29 Nelona 12731. It closely references events going back more than those six months -- the Crimson Knights vanished in the last quarter of 12730. These basic notes have been scribbled down and frequently reshuffled by Jedi Knight VN Ysadora and Knight Errant Sir Davish Tam, with many useful or humorous comments from traveling companions.

When time and resources permit, the entire stack gets entered into the shared inventory of Mystic Mob Investigations with some edits on sensitive details, so that it can be organized into a future report to the client.

Document Structure

Publication Status

This stack of flimsiplast segments is private, but easily accessible by anyone determined to get a peek. Its only confidentiality is that it is a physical record instead of a digital one, kept in a memo pocket for one of two individuals, and will eventually be wiped clean for reuse once it is no longer relevant.

Historical Details

Background

On 1 Elona 12731, instead of ringing in the new year, we were on a transport case for a valued client.

We got attacked. The job went wrong.

By 15 Elona, we compiled a mental list of the complications manifesting in this case.

We might have been on Thyferra by the time we decided this list should probably exist in a physical form somewhere, so we could spread it out and look for hidden connections.

VN Ysadora wiped clean some scrap flimsies and started rewriting the whole stack on 17 Telona 12731. It has since been reordered a couple of times, and expanded far past the listed twelve flimsies of that rewrite.

Latest update scrawled during the afternoon of 29 Nelona 12731. More expected by close of date.

Type

Record, Memo

Location

Mystic Mob Investigations

Authors