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Just a small forewarning to allay any potential worries: I'm working on the update, there's just @Darth Bob's suggestion to account for before it's done. However, I'm trying to meet a deadline IRL which has been hogging away the majority of my spare time.

We're also, on a good estimate, two updates away (not counting this one) from the end of Chapter 11. Chapter 12 is going to have a pretty significant and detailed opening which means that there will also be a non-standard waiting time between the last update of Chapter 11 and the start of Chapter 12. From then on, it's smooth sailing till the very end.

 

I don't think Fux would ever appear without his loyal aura of protection. They're about as inseparable as Mynock and Kestrel.

Oh they'll be getting a *pitch*, alright!

Thanks! It's done for now, but as I mentioned, the complexity of the updates is increasing and I am very interested in making the climax of Act I a proper one. Hopefully we'll get a bit of a reset with the next Act.

I can't believe I've been hyping Act II for so long, several months, really, and we've yet to even start the final chapter of the current Act. I don't mind the longer length of Chapter 11 personally, as I feel it makes up for the short Chapter 5 that we received, but it also presented the interesting outcome of upgrading the status of Darth Saber from supporting protagonist like Missy and Jun to fully fledged main hero like Doop. It's no longer just Doop Skychafer's story, but the story of both Doop and Saber - in the sense that instead of having one "Luke" to follow, we now have two of them.

This, of course, doesn't mean that Missy, Jun and the Consular won't be any less defined as characters or have less importance to the story. I am only taking Act I as a point of reference. Depending on what the focus and main plot of the other Acts is going to be, you'll see the perspective shift more often to other characters, and I can guarantee that by the end of the adventure, all five of our heroes will have a fully completed character and story arc guided by you, and animated by yours truly.

SABER: "Well, isn’t that heartwarming? Looks like the experiments have found their way back to Mother."
MISSY: "Is everything a joke to you?"
SABER: "I’m a light-sided Sith, Red. When you live your entire life as a joke, you tend to find humor in curious places. Like funerals."
MISSY: "That’s disgusting."

SABER: "Hey, it’s not like you usually know the deceased! Lavish funerals and dark humour are particularly popular on Dromund Kaas and often go hand-in-hand."
MISSY: "Remind me to never visit Dromund Kaas."

SABER: "And here I was hoping to take you out on a date there! There’s all sorts of fun themed attractions like slave whipping, venomous jungle beasts oh, and don’t forget tomb excavations!"



MISSY: "I fail to see how flagellation could ever possibly be a turn on for anybody!"
SABER: "Depends on your social circles, Red. Let’s just say that there’s a particular reason why I pursued holocrons instead of romance in the Sith Academy."
MISSY: "A-ha! You admit to lying about your Zabrak sweetheart."
SABER: "Guilty as charged, Red."

SABER: "How did these clones even enter the Enclave? I thought we sealed all entrances."
COLUMBO: "They entered through the main gate."
MISSY: "Don’t you have guards posted there?"
COLUMBO: "They work on an algorithm to shoot any living being on sight, which would leave only our brobots alive."



MYSTERY SOLVED. Is anyone here really surprised about this?



Your game is WEAK, SABER. You can't WIN MISSY'S AFFECTIONS by quoting OBESE SPACE SLUGS from the FUTURE! You NEED to UP your ANTE.

Luckily, you have a PLAN on how to deal with the CLONE NUISANCE the OLD-FASHIONED SITH WAY. You GESTURE to COLUMBO to TAUNT the ENEMY like a PROPER TANK and bring them over to the PLEASURE ROOM.

It's TIME to OIL UP!



In the MEANWHILE, after PLANTING the RANCID REMAINS of what was once EDIBLE SUSHI on a POND of MR. SABER'S ARMOR CLEANSER, you take up the BOTHERSOME TASK of GRINDING SOME LIGHTSABER CRYSTALS and CAUSING POORLY-DRAWN SPARKS to SCATTER around the OILED UP POOL.

Yep, absolutely NOTHING is going to GO WRONG with this SUREFIRE PLAN!



By SUREFIRE, you literally mean SURE FIRE!

Get it? Because the pool is-



Two EXTRA CRUNCHY GUNGANS coming RIGHT UP!



A TAD TOO MUCH, SABER? OVERKILL?

OR SHOULD I SAY... OVERDONE?



Nah. You GET TWO BLUE POINTS for your INGENIOUS DEED of VALOR!



GOTTA GO FAST.

The BACKTRACKING in this CHAPTER is REAL.



You now ARRIVE in front of the CONTROL PLOT ROOM as a FAMILIAR FACE REENTERS the ADVENTURE. Why, it's YOUR PILOT RATCHET and this time, she's FOR REAL!

Looks like the CENTENNIAL TURKEY has LANDED without COMEDIC COMPLICATIONS this time around. What a SHOCKING CHANGE of PACE.

What do you do?

 

Oh, you've no idea...

Glad you're still lurking around the thread, Colonel!

...FART JOKES!? In PAINT ADVENTURES!? Why, sir, you OFFEND ME! We're talking about ARTISTIC INTEGRITY here! We can't LET the HIGH-CLASS TONE of our COMIC be DEFILED in such a HORRENDOUS WAY!

"RATCHET!" You CRY OUT for a HUG, but FAIL to REGISTER BASIC BODY LANGUAGE.

You have PAID the PRICE for your LACK of VISION.



SABER: "Come on, Ratchet. That was kinda mean."
RATCHET: "You know me. Definitely not a hug-person."
SABER: "Well, I deserve it, after all the nightmares you've made me undergo!"
RATCHET: "I told you to wait, moron! I was only gone for a couple of hours to the tech shop."



MISSY: "Saber? Who is this... repulsive harlot you brought to our Enclave?"
RATCHET: "Repulsive harlot? What?"
MISSY: "Your uniform hardly befits your station as a pilot. In fact, it hardly befits you at all! What kind of lady purposefully dresses in those incongruent scoundrel rags anyway?"

RATCHET: "Listen here, Miss Prissy, I don't know who you are and what's going on here, but we were doing just fine before *you* came along."
MISSY: "One of your crew is missing. The other was nearly killed if it weren't for my intervention. I'd hardly call that *just fine*.
RATCHET: "Saber, where did you find this posh sh*t?"
SABER: "It's a long story..."
RATCHET: "Please. By all means!"

You bring Ratchet UP TO SPEED by CLUMSILY DOWNPLAYING your SCREW-UPS. Luckily, MISSY is there to CORRECT YOU.



MISSY: "If you're quite done explaining every minute detail of our adventure to this barbaric harpy, I'd be happy to see us resume our quest. You know, while no one has gotten suspicious of us yet."
RATCHET: "Who's there to be suspicious of us? I don't see any droids in this room, apart from Mr. Detective over there."
MISSY: "Don't question your betters, wrench wench!"
RATCHET: "Oh well, EXCUSE ME if my questions aren't poshitically correct, Your Radiance!"

RATCHET is CLOSE to STARTLING the WITCH.

SABER: "So, Columbo, wanna see my ship? It's called the Centennial Turkey."
COLUMBO: "*You* have the Centennial Turkey?"
SABER: "Yep. Mynock's ship, right? I have a feeling you used to know the guy."
COLUMBO: "He wasn't my favorite person."

UNDERSTATEMENT of the ACT.



Okay, this is STARTING to LOOK UGLY.

You DECIDE to DIVERT the ATTENTION back to the PLOT by USING your BACKPLOT to OPEN the WAY FORWARD.

And what a FINE PLOT it is.



MMM... SMELL that ARTISTIC INTEGRITY.

Well, AT LEAST RATCHET and MISSY are UNITED by your STUPIDITY.

Wait, wait, you SERIOUSLY THOUGHT RUBBING your ASS across the TERMINAL would MAGICALLY open the DOOR to the PLOT ROOM? WHAT is THIS? A NAL HUTTA BROTHEL!?



MISSY decides to SHOW YOU how it's done. As usual.

You see, SABER, instead of FLAILING your ASS upon the VIOLATED TERMINAL that will most likely have to FILE SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSUITS, you could have just used the PASS KEY you acquired from COLUMBO and still keep your HONOR INTACT.

ALSO, you note that RATCHET can't ACCOMPANY YOU because you've REACHED the PARTY CAP.

RATCHET is TOO AGITATED to CONFORM to your DUMB GAMEPLAY CONTRIVANCES!



SABER: "So, Red, why don't you tell us why you brought us here?"
MISSY: "See this little console here? It's controlling the planetary communications scrambler that's been interfering with all outgoing transmissions."
SABER: "Meaning?"
MISSY: "Whilst you can have some degree of correspondence on ground, all attempt to contact anything beyond Dantooine would be met with failure."

SABER: "So, we shut this thing down and we can notify the Imperial military about the state of chaos down here?"
MISSY: "In theory. However, this terminal also allows you to interface with the Secret Wire units and shut them down."



SABER: "Wait, wait, isn't the whole shtick about the Secret Wire that they're free droids?"
COLUMBO: "This initiative was constructed as a last "kriff you" to Grand Admiral Snote. In the case of defeat, to disallow the Ascendancy from making use of my brobots' software advancements, this terminal would erase all data stored on individual units down to zero. They would, quite literally, be a scrap of metal."

SABER: "But you wouldn't be affected?"
COLUMBO: "Nope. I am an older model and not of Chiss making. Even though I would advise against using the terminal on ethical grounds, as the pass key was entrusted to just me and one other Secret Wire Master, deactivating the droids would leave you defenseless against the clone army."



SABER: "Ratchet, care to weigh in?"
RATCHET: "Shutting down the droids and calling for Imperial aid would do just fine, really!"
MISSY: "You'd subject Dantooine to occupation?"
RATCHET: "It did alright with the Imps before the Republic started mucking things up."

SABER: "Wait, what's stopping us from just shutting down the scrambler, contacting the military and leave the droids as they are?"
COLUMBO: "My brobots would know what's up the second you use that terminal and would likely flood this room with an electrical overload."

SABER: "Okay, so why am I the one to choose?"
MISSY: "You're the currently playable character."
SABER: "Oh..."

GEE, MISSY, THANKS for BREAKING the FOURTH WALL RATHER ABSOLUTELY there!

SABER: "Okay, I'm gonna do it! I'm gonna do it!"

He's GONNA DO IT. He's GONNA DO IT. May the FORCE have MERCY on the GALAXY!



You are now FACED with a BUTT-CLENCHING TRIPLE CHOICE that will FINALLY put this CHAPTER out of its MISERY.

You can ABSTAIN the use of the TERMINAL and ally with the SECRET WIRE, at least TEMPORARILY, against the CLONE ARMY of GRAND ADMIRAL SNOTE. The increased SECRET WIRE presence in KHOONDA will affect DOOP'S MISSION to find the IMPERIAL VAULT. The FINAL FATE of DANTOOINE will DEPEND on your ABILITY to HOLD the LINE and on choices previously made by JUN BLAND. This CHOICE will shift SABER further towards his APATHY for the EMPIRE'S FUTURE. The EMPIRE is BEYOND SAVING.

You can USE the TERMINAL and CONTACT GENERAL FUX for the FULL SUPPORT of the SITH EMPIRE. This will PIT you against the CLONE ARMIES with IMPERIAL ALLIES. DOOP'S MISSION in KHOONDA will be SIGNIFICANTLY EASIER and there's a GOOD CHANCE that he will COME OUT UNSCATHED in this SCENARIO. The FINAL FATE of DANTOOINE will DEPEND on your GRASP of STRATEGY and the ART of WAR. This CHOICE will shift SABER towards a NEWLY REIGNITED SENSE of PATRIOTISM. You will SAVE the EMPIRE from WITHIN and PROVE STEVE WRONG.

You can USE the TERMINAL but AVOID CONTACTING GENERAL FUX. This will SURRENDER the FINAL FATE of DANTOOINE to the CHOICES PREVIOUSLY MADE by JUN BLAND. DOOP'S MISSION in KHOONDA will be CONSIDERABLY EASIER as you'll ATTEMPT to RENDEZVOUS with him at the EARLIEST CONVENIENCE. Your MAIN OBJECTIVE from that point forward is going to be ESCAPING DANTOOINE SAFELY. This CHOICE will shift SABER towards the ROLE of a RECLUSIVE SITH LORD EXILE. The GALAXY is going to SORT THINGS OUT on its OWN.

This CHOICE has MAJOR CONSEQUENCES for CHAPTER 12 and will DETERMINE the WAY that ACT II STARTS.

What do you choose?