Ok so, I wrapped up my Star Wars campaign about a month ago. For a bit of back story you can check out For in the cave they found... So starting where we left off last time, the party makes contact with another clan of survivors on the planet known as the Axe tribe. Having access to fire, water, and shelter in the form of a large research vessel, they are not as brain-fried as some other tribes on the planet. Turns out cooking the local lizards removes the DMT from them, who knew?

So one typical "Hey we are missing some tribe members, can find them?" quest request later, the party sets out on a series of skill encounters to find out what happened. After most of a day in the sun they finally tracked down the missing tribal members to a tunnel entrance in the side of low hill. They stealthy take out the guards outside and wait for a shift change to get the rest of them. When the ambush party hears a group coming up the tunnel, Kara and Grayson basically turn it into laser filled blender and take out all the Sandtroopers.

Heading down the tunnel they find a large cave that had been converted into a makeshift barrack and guard post. The cave had one other exit and the distinct outline of a dead gazebo in the center of the room. While searching the room they hear the telltale sound of about twenty Sandtroopers coming up the tunnel from deeper inside, so once again they set an ambush and just decimated the encounter. Its a long fire fight but at the end there are no more Sandtroopers in the facility.

The party proceeds down the tunnel to find holding cells and the missing tribal members. Hooray! But the children were taken deeper inside. Ahh damn it! So now the big plot arrow is pointing deeper into the complex. So the next room is this strange mix of a morgue and stasis chambers. There are bodies on slabs and these strange alcoves with red orbs above them. The party realizes that the orbs are full of blood, because examining the bodies shows that while they are missing blood. However the blood had been replaced with something else, and at that point the corpses get up off the tables and attack.

So these are Gazombies, bodies animated by the spores of the dread gazebos. They have these crystalline growths on there body that, in theory that, would reflect blaster fire. It never came up, the party was just rolled over the encounter. So after defeating the Gazombies the they proceed to rescue the people in the alcoves. While they are freeing the prisoners a crazed voice begins to yell at the party. They go proceed into the next room to find the voice.

The Final Encounter

They enter into the laboratory of Dr. Steve Spengele and his Gazombie minions. So this is the big climatic show down, the endgame, the final encounter. I had it all planned out. A multiphase combat with dozens of minions, a mad scientist, the lab itself, and my BBEG Moff Dardano. While Dr. Spengele is monologuing the group does what any group would do, shoot him. Which I expected. So combat starts, Gazombies flood into the room from all sides. The door locks behind them, they are now trapped.

Kara and Grayson unload on Dr. Spengele and one-shot him. He spends a Desinty point so summon the Moff from his chamber below the lab. The laboratory is actually an enormous gazebo, know as a Grand Research Center. It lashes out at Kara with its power. Grenade are thrown and lobbed, its going as planned. They are fighting off the Gazombies, the Moff is showing up later in the round, its amazing.

Or it would have been, if not for Amy. So @jacobtothe had done something that I didn't know about. He bought a his careers signature ability, Last Man Standing. He makes a Hard Resilience check, passes with one 1 success and then kills ALL THE GAZOMBIES currently in the encounter. I am now nettled. So now the Moff enters the combat.

Now up until this point in the game, I have never used a force user. Moff Dardano is an Imperial Inquisitor, a Dark Side force user. He pulls out his double-bladed lightsaber and shoots Force Lightning at Amy for killing the Gazombies. Then starts the SECOND round of Combat.

So Kara and Grayson decide to do a "parry this" and fire a cannon shot at him. So he deflects part of it, but still takes a big hit. He follows up with a force leap from across the room and strikes down Kara and Grayson. Kara is now critical injured and Grayson is damaged. Amy continues to fight off Gazombies per her ability. So now everybody piles on Dardano. Grug runs in to finish him off, manages to knock him down with a might blow that breaks his lightsaber. I spend the next Destiny point to have him use the refined super drug, Vigor. This gives him +2 to all Skills and Characteristics, fully heals him and grants +10 Wounds and Strain. Now he still takes the critical injury and gives Horrifically Injury, which lowers his Brawn by one. This matters later.

So we start phase two of the boss fight. So Dong Det-Tapes two grenades together and throws them at Dardano but it also hits Kara and Grug. Big explosion, but Kara is already down and Grug soaks a lot, but is hurt. Dardano is down to 2 wounds left after the explosion. Zen fires his Heavy Blaster Rifle at Dardano, who deflects with his fists, but still manages to get the last 2 points of damage.

As he is knocked senseless, the room shakes and falling debris crushes the remaining Gazombies. Crystal tendrils lash out from the wall striking the Gazombies and Dardano. The Grand Reserch Center absorbs the Gazombies and begin to work Dardano like a puppet. It screeches out "YOU DARE COME TO MY PLANET, KILL MY MINIONS! I WILL DRAIN YOUR ESSENSE PUNY MORTALS!"

Begin phase three. Yeah, I know, super cheesy but its the last fight. So mechanically, the Grand Research Center had wounds equal to the number of remaining Gazombies. Which was 16, so they only had to do 16 wounds to it. Pun then makes a Medicine check Kara, gets a Triumph. Ok so now Kara is up. Dardano the Gazombie Lord smashes his broken lightsaber and absorbs the kyber crystals into his hands. Now he has Saber-fists (sue me, I'm immature). Amy moves and gives Kara a stimpak, then punches Dardano in the junk. And crits, granting a Gruesome Injury, further lowering his Brawn by 1 permanently. Grug moves into to swing at it. He takes three wounds from his crystal barbs. And does manages to deal 4 more damage and another crit. And gives him another Gruesome Injury to its Brawn, lowering it again. Dong begins applying Det-Tape directly to the Grand Research Center's exposed struts. Zen fire his Grenade launcher (aka the Painbow) at the Grand Research Center and deals some damage. And finally Moff Dardano, Gazombie Lord finally get to gets to go. He swings his Saberfist at Amy, and he MISSES. The only time I get to attack with him, and he fails to connect. Thus ends the second round of combat.

Top of the third, Pun boosts Grug's Brawn by 1, Grug then swings and decapitates Dardano ending the encounter. The room is now collapsing, since they just killed it. On the way out Pun, being both greedy and a Toydarian, cuts off the hands to keep the kyber crystals. Grug collects the head and they run for the newly opened passage way. This leads them to the hanger and Dardano's Personal ship. Inside the ship are the children. They fly the ship back to the Axe tribe. On the way back Pun begins to check the children and finds that they are all in good health. However now they are all force sensitive. So now they have to figure how what to do with all the children.

Epilogue

And that's how it ends, with the party babysitting a group of newly force sensitive children. My original plan was to do a third Star Wars game with the players making new force sensitive characters based on the rescued children. However after running Star Wars for 2 years, I want to take a break from that galaxy far far away. Maybe in the future we will revisit those adventures. But for now, I just need my winter break.

At this time I want to thank my player for a great game and for making possible. Without them, it literal would not have happened. Thanks gang. And now some choice quotes from the final session:

"Call it The Temple of Poon!" - Kara, @generikat.
"The gazebo committed one of the classic blunders, gaining testicles!" - Me.
"Get the Fuck off my ship!" - Zen to the children on the ship.
"Hey, wanna see something cool?" - Amy right before using Last Man Standing, @jacobthothe
"It's weird how slavery is meaner than just killing them." - Pun (Poon) Bizloo
"He literally doesn't have the balls to do that now!" - Grug
"Gazeeballs! Gazangas are good too!" - Dong

Have funny story from the last session of a game? Share it down in the comments. Happy Gaming everyone! Victory by Dice!