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"Why is it that even when I succeed, I still fail?" I reflect while watching the Twilek dancer move suggestively around the room.
It started as they all do, me thinking I had a shot at hunting one of the Jedi. I don’t hate them, but the bounties certainly pay better then your average assassin or fugitive. I check with the local terminal in Kaderra and find a mission worth a modest 150k or so. "Why not?" I think. "Perhaps the low bounty means the mark won’t be able to stop four out of five of my ‘trusty’ carbine shots."
The spynet operative gives me the usual flack about being too slow, but hands over the bio-signature anyway. I duck the shots sent by those thugs that still hate me for some reason, call a probe droid, and await the launch. Away he goes searching the galaxy as I head to the starport and prepare my luxury ship for launch. "Tatooine," reports my droid, as well as the fact that it lost contact with the mark. That doesn’t really mean much, the probe droid seems to be almost as incompetent as I am at my job.
I land in Bestine, only to be told that my mark was actually closer to the squill caves. Nasty critters those, I’m glad I have on some armor, even if it is useless against a lightsaber. I take a quick bite of Synthesteak with a quick gulp of brandy and find a shuttle to a nearby town.
When I arrive at the caves, my mark is busily swinging his double bladed weapon and wiping out mobs of squills around him. "No better time than the present." I open fire with fire knockdown, followed by a sprayshot and a couple of crippleshots. The jedi is hit, but not down. Instead he flees! Crap, I hate the runners. At least those who stand and fight and destroy me take less time. I give chase trying to knockdown as I go, but no avail. He escapes the cave and puts on a burst of speed clearly aided by the force.
With no chance to catch up and only a miserable 64 meter range on my weapon, I dispatch a few of the quills who thought I was now easy pray, called my bike and gave chase. Fortunately my seeker droids where doing a pretty good job of keeping me updated. I caught up to him on my speeder bike, only to see that he now had two friends following him close behind. Well, ever since a few weeks ago, it seems friends don’t interfere with me trying to get a legal bounty. I guess the empire is good for something.
I stop ahead of the jedi and shoot away temporarily bringing him to his knees. His friends come near him, and attack him! Crap! They are not friends but other bounty hunters with no weapon skills apart from their bare hands. I try to move quickly, the hunters hands were faster than my carbine and he delivered the lethal blow. Is there no honor among the Hunters anymore? Apparently.
I head back to Bestine, cursing my carbines, my fellow BH’s, but most of all my own failure.
I try to leave but he wont break combat.
I quickly get dressed and head for the terminals, sending in a call to my informant to cancel the offer of my services on my previous mark. Any more failed hunts like that and my reputation is going to irrevocably damaged. I swing by the terminals in Eisley and scan the screen for marks more suited to my seemingly antiquated skillset ,clasping my brand new DE-10 in hand. I look scornfully at my newly acquired weaponry - the first instalment is due today and with my bank account looking decidedly empty I need a successful hunt.
After a few more scans, I pick a mission paying out an average reward - 90k. I head to the Lucky Despot, where I will meet my informant who will hopefully be able to provide me some means of tracking this guy. I pick up a bio-sig from the informant and start the tracking process - it turns out my mark is hiding out on Corellia.
I fire up my ship and head to Corellia, the initial scan indicates that my mark is in a small town called Redemption so I head for the shuttle and begin my preparations. Weapon check, spices, foods for the wait... yep there all here - I fire off a seeker droid and board the shuttle. I touch down in Redemption and my seeker droid updates immediately, my mark has left town but is not far from the outskirts. I take up a position in a local store, peering out of the door every now and again to check for my mark. My seeker updates again, he’s heading back into town - my heart skips a bit and then takes off into overdrive. I step outside the store and try to stay inconspicuous, a blip appears on my radar - my mark is closing in on my position.
Suddenly my mark comes into view and my heart jumps, I know I have to attack but somehow I can’t bring myself to do it, the previous night’s hunt is weighing heavy on my mind - I need more time to check him out. He stops adjacent to the shuttle, I can tell he has medical enhancements - so this isn’t going to be an easy fight. I prepare myself to attack but before I can he has boarded the shuttle which I hadn’t noticed had landed. I curse my ineptitude and fire off another seeker - next time this guy won’t be so lucky.
The seeker updates, wow this guy is brazen - he’s landed in Coronet - a merchant hub and not a good place for a criminal with a price on his head. I hop on the shuttle and hope for better luck when I land. The descent into Coronet is smooth, I’m more relaxed now having assessed my mark and ponder my tactics as I chew on some stale Pikatta Pie from my backpack. I leave the shuttle bay and my heart almost bursts from my chest, no more than 10m in front of me is my mark - he is queuing for medical enhancements. A quick check reveals that his previous buffs have worn off - he is bleeding too, from deep wounds on his leg.
I smile happily and unholster my DE-10, I aim for his head and he drops in two, I slowly walk over to his still body, he is still breathing but unconscious - I apply the final blow and smile to myself knowing that not all my hunts will end this easily. Before I have chance to celebrate though I hear a commotion behind me - my actions have not gone unnoticed. I depart quickly from the scene and avoid further confrontation - all in all it’s been a good morning I think to myself, as I watch the credits roll into my account.
So we're back in kaad getting another mission. We pick a fightclubbed 425k jedi(rank2). We're shuttling to dant when we get seperated, and only the rifleman makes it. So the rifleman sees him solo in imp op but he manages to kill the jedi alone. Woohoo, he was coming from his wedding reception as well. So we all are back in kaad, together again, and one of the tkm's has to leave. We still have a supergank squad, a tkm a pikeman dot whore and a rifleman with an exceptional t21. We all get a mission, 326k(rank 1), not fightclubbed. He had just returned to the game from a 3week break he took, and we found him in coronet. We loaded in to see him load-killing some rebel. Luckily he was on fr1 already, so there was no escape. I start pounding with the health fire and keeping him knock-downed, 3 or so ticks later he can't keep up with all 3 of our damage(mind you he's been 1-shotted before by this rifle). Another easy kill, he logs just after.
We take another mission, and find the target to be in imp op. So we chase here about 4k from imp op to her city. This one had forcearmor2 going so we weren't able to kill her by the time fr2 took her 64m away. She abused the go in and come out while tefed bug. We hang there and let the noobs shiit talk us for a while(considering we had just killed their leader coming from his wedding, I don't blame them).
We head back to the terms, and see that the tard for 209k is already back, so we take him again. This time we find him in a house, and I decide I'll bait him. I shiit talk him a bit, since he's prideful. He comes out, I health fire him and start pounding away, he runs to the water to put out the fire, at this time the other two bhs are riding in. I start slapping him around when the other two come in and finish him in like 4 seconds. Can you say gullible. I would have felt bad if this guy wasn't the most absolutely retarded whiner on the server.
Good night all in all I needed the money, hope you enjoyed.
As usual I take a mission, and its late so not too many jedi are up, but I found one named gregory for 136k, and I figure, I guess thats good enough I'll take it. Anyways I find out hes grinding in dant, so I decide I'll be nice. Once in a while (out of the respect to my fellow friendly players on scylla and before pub 21) Id offer them a duel to the incap, if they lose they pay me mission payout, simple as that. Most people on scylla know me as an honorable bh and one who just wants a good fight, they know I speak the truth. So I gave him the offer no db duel and if I win you pay if I lose you dont have to pay at all so this way I wont ruin you and your friend's grind.(everyone there was jedi)I thought it was fair enough but he was the first jedi to EVER not agree. Im like uhhh you do realize then Ill just kill you. (everyone in his group is like uhhh not too smart) So I go after him, Kd/paralyze then stick the dots I wanted and made him heal to reduce mind blah blah blah. Well everyone includding him knows for a fact he wont live, he has almost no mind left and I have more than half, he's doomed.He runs away I try to kd shot but it said I missed (GRR!!!) so he gets into his friend's vehicle and gets away. Of course Im mad I use a seeker and take out my speeder. I find him in a cantina. I challenge him to face me again and he says he will but I wait there for 45 min and he doesnt come out. His jedi buddies (well one wasnt a jedi, he was a fellow bh but the other 5-6 were) were all yelling at me how I screwed up their grind. I told them I gave him a fair offer dont yell at me. Anyways I decide to give up the mission and head back. As soon as I click off the abort mission he walks out of the cantina and laughs. I go away anyways. One of his jedi friends pmed me and said "They are all talking %$#! about you back there, especially gregory and he wont shut up he said that he was winning, you rand away from himand all that." Im thinking thisis just to make me MORE angry but then he says "But dont worry about them, everyone knows you were the true victor, that kid is just a whiny brat, I am mostly a bh so I understand" (guy's name was apple btw) So I send a tell to gregory and I tell him he better watch his back because I WILL come after him again to finish the job. He says NOTHING.
Message Edited by Khanji on 09-15-2005 04:34 PM