PART 32 – I have to leave. Goodbye.
Tatooine/Ebon Hawk
And so we finally leave for the streets of Anchorhead.
Duros Miner:
Never thought I’d see moisture farming as a better living than mining.
Anchorhead Tradesman:
I hear Czerka is closing their Kashyyyk operation. Nobody seems to know why. Czerka is claiming that their operation on Kashyyyk has become to[sic]
costly to maintain. Sound like a cover-up to me.Light side! Totally the heroes here, guys! After all, who cares if our actions cause a bunch of people to starve to death?
Now for the obligatory sidequest.
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Speak, I’m listening.
Normally, I would just transcribe, but
something happened to her face. For the whole damn deal.
Sharina Fizark:
My husband was a hunter… killed out on the dunes. This wraid plate is all I have left. Please, will you buy it? I don’t need a handout. I just can’t sell it to Fazza without a licence. Please, I’m worried about having it. They are so rare…:
What is a wraid plate? Where did you get it?Sharina Fizark:
It’s the bone plate from the head of the desert wraid. My husband was so proud he found it. He had just started hunting. He said he felt sure the next hunt would bring in more, so we waited to sell this one. Then he never came back.:
Let’s get back to my other questions.Sharina Fizark:
Will you help after? I’ll try to answer what I can.:
I want to ask about your husband’s death.Sharina Fizark:
I still can’t believe he’s gone. What do you want to know?:
Any leads on who killed him?Don’t worry, we’ll get to be a douchebag soon.
Sharina Fizark:
Nobody saw anything, and most of the other hunters never even knew him. He had just started. I don’t trust any of them, but those Gamorreans… they just laugh when they see me. I think they did it.:
You aren’t looking for vengeance?Deth Sord needs his blood money in order to distract him from his gambling habit. He doesn’t have a problem, though, he can stop whenever he wants.
Sharina Fizark:
It doesn’t matter. There’s no justice on Tatooine. I don’t care what happens to them. I just need credits. I’ve got to think about my family, not those vicious pigs.:
Let’s talk about what to do with this plate.Sharina Fizark:
Will you buy it? I can’t sell it myself. They are worth more than 500 credits!:
Perhaps I will buy it from you.Sharina Fizark:
You will? Oh, thank you so much. Please, I know it is worth at least 500 credits.:
I will pay you what you want. Here.We are hemorrhaging money, so why not. We leave a trail of Republic Credits in our wake anyway.
Sharina Fizark:
Thank you. I hope it is enough. You have been a great help. I appreciate it. My children will too.Though this does raise some questions as to the value of a credit. Is it worth about as much as a current US dollar? More? Less?
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Wow, sometimes helping people feels pretty good, you know?
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Thank you for helping this woman. It may not seem like such a great thing to you, but you are making a difference.Sharina Fizark:
For whatever it means, may the Force be with you. You’ve saved us.Problem: This gave us light side points. How we’ll fix that: by being Literally
Hitler Genghis Khan later down the line.
And now for something completely random:
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Information, if I could trouble such a worthy hunter for a moment.Komad Fortuna:
Spare me the flattery, human. Such talk is rarely sincere.:
Who are you? What do you do?Komad Fortuna:
I am Komad Fortuna, a hunter and member of this lodge. It is not the life for everyone, but I am content.:
Where is the best hunting?Komad Fortuna:
The best hunting is wherever the best hunter is. It’s a trite answer, human, but the only one I can give. It depends on what you seek. Wraid are plentiful and are the spoils of the sport hunter.So the woman lied to us about the rare bit. Of course.
Komad Fortuna:
Dragons appear only to the true hunter.Wait, what.
Komad Fortuna:
Patience is key. Krayt dragons hunt alone, and their prey is whatever can catch their attention.:
So dragons are rare? Are they dangerous?Komad Fortuna:
They are both rare and dangerous, and an honor to hunt. If you survive, you are blessed and favored. Respect them. Some try to lessen the risk by mass-hunting with battle droids. I would rather hunt solo, taking the risk as my own.:
Who uses battle droids?Komad Fortuna:
I will not speak of it while they live. It is their shame to admit or hide. They know the effect it has. Perhaps they will kill so many wraid they will also kill the hunt. After that, perhaps the solo hunter will still prosper.:
How long have you been at this?Komad Fortuna:
A decade? Two? I don’t enslave myself to time, human. There is day and there is night.I’ve mentioned it a few times, but Star Wars aliens are kind of speciest. Human this, human that.
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You really don’t know anymore?Komad Fortuna:
Tatooine will not change in my lifetime. Why bother trying to keep up with the rolling of years.:
What can you tell me about the other hunters?Komad Fortuna:
Probably not as much as you would learn speaking to them yourself, even if they tell you nothing. The most obvious are the gamorreans, however. Gurke and his crew are not the best company. They hunt, but often come back with salvage instead of hides or pearls. I think their prey walks upright.:
Wouldn’t the guards have something to say about that?Komad Fortuna:
The dunes are far from their blasters. Besides, Gurke spends his money in company stores.:
What about hunters besides the gamorreans?I imagine this conversation may be kind of boring, but damn it I transcribed everything thus far and I’m not stopping now. Besides, this hunter thing is the planet subplot, like Zaalbar’s dad was in Kashyyyk. Though Tatooine has a second subplot that involves our last party member.
I missed a screenshot here, unfortunately, but we’ll learn about the other hunters.
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I’m looking for something. Who knows the planet best?Komad Fortuna:
No one that will return your questions. To truly know the dunes you have to live there, as the Sand People do. Only they truly explore the land, but they attack without debate, if you see them at all.:
What about the Jawas?Komad Fortuna:
The Jawas may know the land as well, but are more interested in trading than talking. They scavenge to escape jobs akin to slavery. Their language is difficult. If you can get anything more than the price of a droid out of them, I’ll be impressed.:
Have you ever seen the sand people with anything odd?Komad Fortuna:
The sand people carry nothing but weapons and bloodlust. To them, outsiders are invaders to be repelled.This is the part where I stop caring about capitalizing Sand People.
Komad Fortuna:
Once or twice, however, I’ve seen them emerge from older ruins with sacks and other containers. I’ve always been driven off, and I examine the site later, there is nothing left.The sand people are the second sub-plot, specifically them vs Czerka. You can guess which is the dark side option.
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What kind of ruins were these? Where were they?Komad Fortuna:
They were old storehouses of some kind, but you couldn’t find them now, human. The sand covers all. The only ones who would know what was there are the sand people, and you would have to take it by force. Finding their encampment is easy enough. Walk south until you are attacked.:
I have to leave. Goobye.Komad Fortuna:
Good hunting.
Next up is this guy.
Fazza Utral:
This planet may not have much, but it does have the meanest predators on this side of the Galactic Rim. A hunter’s paradise.:
So what do you do in here?Fazza Utral:
This is a hunting lodge. I purchase what the sportsmen bring in. It’s not a bad little job.:
I want to ask about Tatooine.Fazza Utral:
Not much to tell. Barren place. Can’t support much, but I’ve managed to get some off-world hunters to show up. I suppose there’s trouble here, like anywhere else, but you’ll just have to ask someone else about that. I keep to myself.:
Anything out of the ordinary happening?Fazza Utral:
You mean here in Tatooine or just in general? I heard about the destruction of Taris. Don’t know anything specific.Fazza Utral:
I’m not surprised something like it happened. I remember the Exar Kun war, and how the Sith and the Jedi fought across worlds. Don’t have much interest in either group. Both act like they’re above my concern, and I guess they are.:
Know about anything more local?Fazza Utral:
Ah. Czerka Corporation is always complaining about sand people. I stay out of it. We hunt animals, not people.I actually ended up adding Czerka to word’s spellchecker.
Fazza Utral:
And I guess the Jawas are being pushed around again. At least, that’s what I think they said. Tough to tell sometimes. You’ll have to talk to these groups yourself for more. I keep to myself.And yet you know so much.
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I’ve got questions about hunting.Fazza Utral:
You’ll want to know how to get in on it. Just pay 200 credits for a license down at the Czerka office. No license, no hunting.:
Why do I need a license?Fazza Utral:
You need a license because nobody gets out of the city without one. Czerka Corporation uses it to keep track of people. They want people to know that if they step outside the gates, they are on their own. Only serious hunters pay the 200 credit fee.Yeah, it’s so expensive. It’s almost like amateur hunters don’t know about the wonders of Pazaak.
Fazza Utral:
Once you have a license, I’ll pay for whatever spoils of the hunt you bring back. I have off-world buyers that take them.:
What is there to hunt on Tatooine?Fazza Utral:
Most of our boys confine themselves to hunting wraid. Large fleshy beasts, as tall as a man. Er… a tall man, too. Desert wraid have a large bone plate on their head that I pay well for, but that’s not where the real glory of the hunt is. You’ve probably heard about the big prize, the krayt dragon. The most fearsome predator in the system, they are. If you can find one, and I doubt you will, I’ll buy the stones polished in their gizzard, the dragon pearls.:
The dragons are rare, then?Fazza Utral:
You’d think it’d be easier to find such a gigantic creature. Komad’s father took one down, but that was years ago.:
What’s so special about Komad’s father?Fazza Utral:
He’d been a hunter for years, using strict traditional methods. Komad is just like him. Maybe he’ll show you a thing or two out on the dunes.:
I have to go. Goodbye.Fazza Utral:
I’ll be here. I keep hunter’s hours. Fazza’s is always open.
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What do you do?Kudos:
I fill the days with games of Pazaak. Not that there’s many people to play with, but a person should keep busy somehow.This awesomely named person is our
enabler money maker. He can make you some beautiful, beautiful money.
Kudos:
I’d play with that fellow in the cantina, but I find him… distasteful. He does not play for the same reasons that I do.:
Why do you play?To grind money?
Kudos:
The sport of it!Bah.
Kudos:
Even if I lose there is reward in having played to the best of my ability. I don’t dwell on the credits given or taken. To most people the game is gambling, but I choose to get more out of it than that. Not many players see my way.:
I have to go. Goodbye.“Shepard: I should go.” Never change on this aspect, BioWare.
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Come now, I just want to benefit from your experience!Dorak Quinn:
Well, you sure know how to get on my good side. You’re just trotting out bantha pats, but thanks all the same.What?
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Who are you? What is it you do?Dorak Quinn:
My name is Dorak Quinn. I’m a hunter. I hunt. Is that enough, or should I start listing my family birthdays?:
Where is the best hunting?Dorak Quinn:
If I knew the best place, why would I tell anyone? It would be worth too much to me to let it get out. It doesn’t matter, anyway. This season has been dry for me, as it has for almost anyone. Perhaps someone else is holding out, but there are simply fewer wraid out there.:
Why are there fewer wraid?Dorak Quinn:
It used to be a one-on-one test, a hunter against hunted. Now, people just want the credits. I could stomach a pair, or even a team of hunters, but some use battle droids! Where is the sport in that?What a synthpobe.
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Who uses battle droids?Dorak Quinn:
That’s not for me to say. I won’t be a trouble maker in so small a community. You will see. Hunt, and you will see.:
How long have you been at this?Dorak Quinn:
I’ve tracked wild beasts my whole life, but I’ve only been hunting here for five years. I’ve much to learn yet.:
What do you want to learn?Dorak Quinn:
Komad is the one I respect, but I also trust that the only difference between us is experience. I will learn.:
What can you tell me of the other hunters?Dorak Quinn:
I don’t go telling stories about other people. You want to know what they think, you go talk to them. Ah, one word though. Watch yourself around the Gamorreans. Gurke and his buddies aren’t to be trusted. Everyone else I respect they have skill. Those guys… they go for easier prey.:
What makes you say that?Dorak Quinn:
Just watch your back when you hunt. The dragons aren’t the only dangers out there.:
I have to leave. Goodbye.Dorak Quinn:
Good hunting.
Narkal:
Ha! Yeah, you tell them Gurke. *snort*:
Sharina Nal thinks you may have killed her husband.Narkal:
Er… who?Gurke:
Fizark’s mate.Narkal:
Bah! *snort* Her snout lies! Fizark got lost. You leave now, or maybe you get lost in the duns too.:
I’m inclined to believe her. You won’t escape justice.Gurke:
The dunes gots no justice.Narkal:
Gurke, we have to… uh… go do that thing.Gurke:
What? Oh! Yeah, you lucky, humee. We got to go do some business… somewhere… yeah. We’ll see you again, though. Just you wait. *snort*Last guy now.
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I’m looking for experts. You seem knowledgeable.Tanis Venn:
Oh, of course. Who put you up to this? My wife? I meant what I said about having no credits.:
I want to ask you about hunting.Tanis Venn:
Hunting is a dirty and tough business. What can old Tanis tell you about it?:
Where is the best hunting?Bunch of shots got corrupted here and I can’t be bothered to go back for something completely and utterly trivial. Anyway, he’s the droid hunter.
Tanis Venn:
Of course, it’s better than going alone. What if I stumble on a bunch of sand people? These solo hunters are crazy.:
You hunt with battle droids? Is that sporting?Tanis Venn:
What do I care? I need to eat. I also need to pay for parts so the wife can keep the droids running. It’s all about the credits. Some guys talk about honor stuff, but they still sell their plates to Fazza. I guess honor needs creds too?:
Don’t you need to take more kills to keep your droids running?Tanis Venn:
I suppose so, but so what? When the resource goes belly-up, I’ll just move on. I’m just a wandering spirit, I guess. I’m not real popular with the others, but they just fool themselves. They’re in for the credits too.:
How long have you been at this?Tanis Venn:
Too long, but it beats smuggling. You ever run into a Sith dreadnaught in the desert? No, you haven’t.:
You crossed paths with a Sith dreadnaught?Tanis Venn:
Hell, I married her. Ha ha ha! No, no, seriously now, I had this friend that crossed Sith-space and got stripped of everything. It’s not like I have much now, I guess, but I still prefer sand people to getting ambush on unproven trade routes.:
You go on about your wife a lot. What’s the deal?Tanis Venn:
Ah, she doesn’t understand me. You know the drill. It’s not my fault; she knew who I was when she married me.:
What can you tell me about the other hunters?Tanis Venn:
Uptight and cold, like my wife. They don’t like me streamlining the hunt with droids. I don’t fit in, but I don’t let it bug me. You know how it is, you don’t take any backtalk either. I heard about you and Gurke. I should have you deal with my wife.:
What about the hunters besides the Gamorreans?Tanis Venn:
Dorak is reasonable. Komad is a pain, but he keeps his distance. I can tell he doesn’t like me much. Ask around the lodge if you want information on the other guys. I don’t really talk to them much.:
I have to leave. Goodbye.
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