Where are you, old man? [D1, EM]

[Xyll Vanth]

Xyll closed her eyes, and listened.


Discipline + Force, upgraded difficulty: 3eP+1eA+2eD+1eC 3 successes, 1 threat

Forgot Force dice: 2eF 2 Light Side, 1 Dark Side


Flipping another destiny to flip lightside. 3 Total DS. 3 strain taken.

[Dapper Dog]

She finds herself sitting alone but not in a cave but a dark chamber... and then there are shadows passing by her in this large open area.

They do not seem to notice her as they walk around.

[Xyll Vanth]

She opened her eyes, and stood up. This was a vision, of course. She was presumably still sitting. Or perhaps she walked freely, vision clouded, as Spindrall watched her stumble. Either way, what was Korriban telling her? What were these shadows? Who?

She decided to observe them, to get a closer look.

[Dapper Dog]

She heard words, “We should have…” “No… mercy is the best…” “She is too…”

She sees herself bound now as the Jedi perform the ritual but it is hazy, she sees her put into carbonite and then freed as things speed up… her conversation with Darth Arya and then the journey… and then Spindral’s black toothed smile and then she was back in the cave but where Spindral sat was a little girl.

She has a little dagger in her little fingers, but it was keen and bloody.

She said sweetly, “Hello.”

[Xyll Vanth]

The Jedi. The wall of light. What that one's name... she knew of her... couldn't remember. Then the darkness. Seen now from the outside. Yes. Memories, replayed. She knew all this. Why was this what she was seeing? And then...

...then something new. Someone new.

She stared at the girl. At the dagger, for a moment, but mostly at the girl.

"Hello..." she said, smiling.

Let's see what this is, then.

"And who are you?"

[Dapper Dog]

She spoke with Spindral’s voice and said, “Would it make you feel better if it was Spindral?”

Then with Arya’s voice, “Or do you prefer this one?”

“Perhaps you like this one?” she said with Xyll’s voice. The child was of crimson skin but her hand only had three fingers, well two and a thumb.

[Xyll Vanth]

"I have no preference," she said, observing the child closely. Committing her appearance to memory. "I am Xyll Vanth. Once known as Lord Nychtus. Now known as Lord Nyx. You know what they did to me. Do you also know how to undo it?"

[Dapper Dog]

“Fragile beings.”

The red child said, “It is mine now, returned to the endless void from whence it came.”

[Xyll Vanth]

Xyll glared daggers at the child. The vision. But she kept her voice level.

"Tell me how to get it back," she said. "What must I do?"

It would not have appeared to her if there was no way. She was certain of it. It wanted something. It. The force? Korriban? Whatever it was. It always wanted something.

[Dapper Dog]

“Loyalty unto death,” she said using a raspy male voice.

[Xyll Vanth]

"Speak clearly," she said. "I was loyal until *all* of their deaths."

She tried to identify the voice, the words. Were they familiar to her?

[Dapper Dog]

Now she spoke with a thousand voices, “The power you seek can be found only through the Dark Lord of the Sith.”

“Will you be a knife at the back of greatness or will stay true?”

[Xyll Vanth]

"The Dark Lord of the Sith? That is a title many claim, child. Do you speak of the Emperor, or another?"

Betrayal... surely this was not what she had spoken of?

"My master betrayed the Dark Lord of the Sith, and now her ashes are scattered across a thousand lightyears. There must be a way toward my own greatness, without sharing her fate and ending another empire in the process."

[Dapper Dog]

"There can only be one true Dark Lord of the Sith," the child replied in her meek little voice.

[Xyll Vanth]

"That may be," she said. "But what does it mean? Why only him? Why speak of betrayal? Another spoke of it as well. I do not wish to end this empire."

[Dapper Dog]

“Is there another that has such strength as the Emperor?” the girl said speaking in the voice of her master.

[Xyll Vanth]

An obvious answer to a foolish question.

"Then, will staying true grant me the power I seek?"

[Dapper Dog]

“It will get you closer to your goal than any other path… it will not come easy but when the Dark Lord rises, answer the call and the power will be yours,” the girl responded with no voice at all.

[Xyll Vanth]

"And the betrayal? Where would *that* path lead?"

[Dapper Dog]

"A true Sith Empire," she said her skin melting away.