#swtorpadawan asks

Ah! Finally getting to this! Corellan and Kira having a thumb war....

For sure, Kira would cheat. She'd "distract" Corellan somehow. Probably with wiles.

Corellan wouldn't mind.

How do you come across posts that are 10-15 years old? 0o0

*You have jumped down the rabbit's hole.... take 392 Psychic Damage*

So! Many of the Shadows who worked for Jaric - not all, but many - are as puritanical as he is. If they see or hear of a Jedi whose ideology deviates from their version of Jedi orthodoxy, they view that Jedi as a threat that must be exposed and eliminated at all cost.

This includes "undercover" missions where they'll be assigned as someone's padawan so they can gather information about them until they get something compromising.

(This obviously involves lying to other Jedi.)

When this doesn't work, they start to interrogate someone's friends.

In my AU - a Jedi friend of Corellan's, Unaw Aharo, is taken into custody by the Shadows. One of the Shadows, obsessed with the idea that Unaw knows something compromising about Corellan, starts to take things too far.

She winds up losing it and torturing him to death.

Afterwards, the first instinct of most of the other Shadows on her team is to cover up the incident.

One of the Shadows disagrees. They record evidence of the whole thing, and eventually they take it to Corellan.

He doesn't take it well.

Quite frankly, he blames Satele. The woman who put Jaric on the Council in the first place, let him take command of a special group of Shadows to serve as the Order's "internal affairs" division, and basically took a hand's off approach to the whole thing, even after Jaric's death. Basically, she just assumed it was doing it's job correctly.

This... doesn't go well. For anyone.

Anyone else notice the "Movie Tag Game!" posts suddenly reappeared in their Activity tab, despite them having been posted in January? 🤔 I know i did mine.

Ooooh... Thank you for this one.

The P.O.V. character for "Delusions" is not really an OC of mine. Nor is it a proper NPC from the game.

A concept that has fascinated me was the ability of groups to believe in something so much, they are literally able to make it true through sheer mass delusion.

So suppose you have a cult dedicated to bringing a certain Emperor back. So they reach out and call out to him.... Except... he doesn't answer. He's dead. Completely gone. Never. Coming. Back. Nevertheless, you have all these people calling out for him. Most of them using the Force. Something is going to answer them. Something is going to emerge. Something is going to convince them that they are right.

And that Something is the P.O.V. character of Delusions. I hope I write it someday.

Sadly no.

Also, if you are still accepting asks about NPCs, can I ask about Lieutenant Kieral and Captain Biron, as well as their respective Sergeants (Katcho and Ennlicher) if their paths differ?

Thank you so much for this!

I will absolutely accept inbox asks!

That planetary storyline on Hoth is definitely memorable. I'm rather surprised that none of those characters appear on my massive NPC spreadsheet. We don't often meet Imperials who are reasonable and honorable on the Republic side.

I've added them to the sheet, and now i have to decide which of my Republic-side OCs encounters them, and if any of those characters are still alive.

Biron definitely seems like the type who might join the Alliance, doesn't he? Maybe Kieral, too.

My answer feels insufficient; so here's the letter i got from Kieral when i ran through Hoth with Corellan.

Thanks for this!

For the first - this poor bastard NARROWLY beats out Doctor Aphra.

For Baldur's Gate 3 - I am a simp for Shadowheart.