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Episode 01 - Réaction en chaîne (Chain reaction)

While the rebel forces are attacking the Death Star II, a group of mercenaries is trying to escape from it. They were on a secret mission from Captain Solo, a leader of the rebellion, to retrieve a map leading to a hidden treasure. They steal a starship and successfully escape the Death Star II thanks to Tyzen's pilot skills, but several Stormtroopers are still aboard. Apple is hiding in a containment box, but quickly realises that a rathtar was already contained inside. She cuts one of its tentacle with her blade, and the enraged beast throws her through the wall of the box, its freed tentacles now wiggling through the hole. 808, whose head was connected to the command board in order to hack it, asks Gaarkkata to bring him back to his body. As he grumpily obliges, a Stormtrooper enters the cabin but is immediately shot dead by Gaar. On the other side of the cabin, 808's blind body, its left arm partially on fire, clumsily tries to shoot the soldiers without much results. Gaar throws 808's head at it but the body fails to catch it, and the head rolls to the Stormtroopers' feet.
  • HIT — Tyzen (03/65): For the very first roll of the game Krayn rolls a 3, allowing Tyzen to leave the Death Star II quickly and without any damages.
  • HIT — Gaar (01/55): An astonishing 1 allowed Gaar to immediately see the door move and to act before the Stormtrooper opening it (a close ranged shot with his laser crossbow, killing the mook in one shot).
    Seb: I feel everything through my thousands of hairs.
  • FAIL — 808 (97/60): 808 failed to catch his head clumsily thrown at his body by Gaar, and it bounced right next to three Stormtroopers in the next room. (It is even funnier when you know that it actually was Mahyar who rolled the dice, Bob asking him to do his body's rolls when his head is dissociated from his body.)
    808: Greetings! I am Unit 808. Welcome aboard Master Tyzen's ship. May I interest you in a cup of tea or any refreshments?
    Stormtrooper: Execute it!!

Episode 02 - Day of the tentacle

808 bluffs and makes the soldiers believe that his head will trigger an explosion, and the Stormtroopers take cover. A tentacle grabs a soldier and begins to slam him to the ground. Now outside the box and between a rock and a hard place, Apple pushes a Stormtrooper near another tentacle which grabs his leg, then crosses the room to take cover, avoiding with a certain grace the tentacles going crazy. Using 808's body as a shield, Gaar approaches the head to directly give it to its body, but while 808 literally pulls himself together a Stormtrooper ambushes them and hit Gaar. 808 counterattacks with a heavy blaster shot, killing him. Tyzen dodges the ships fighting outside the space station but can't go in hyperspace: a tentacle apparently hit the hyperdrive which is now overheating.

Episode 03 - Le Choc des Titans (Clash of the Titans)

Apple goes to fix the hyperdrive but doesn't know how to do it, and 808 and Tyzen's confusing and overlapping instructions are not really helpful. 808 still manages to pull out a great shot, killing another Stormtrooper, but is shot by another one who knocks his already burning arm. But Gaar misses his shot, which ricochet on the wall and ends up in the containment box lock, opening it. At the sight of the monster, the last standing soldier (the two grabbed Stormtroopers reduced to mush at this point) hides in a sas. Tyzen, still avoiding the enemy ships, suggests to his friends to retreat in the cabin and to open the airlocks to drop the creature into space. But as Apple leaves, her leg is grabbed by the rathtar which bends and breaks it. Avoiding the tentacles, Gaar decides to throw his flask of booze at the monster, intending to ignite him. Apple cuts the tentacle holding her leg and fells on the hyperdrive which miraculously reboots on impact.
  • HIT — 808 (04/50): While he was (unsuccessfully) giving instructions to Apple to fix the hyperdrive, he still managed to pull out a wonderful shot at a Stormtrooper, killing him.
    808: Would you kindly stop breathing, thank you.
  • FAIL — Gaar (98/65): A missed blaster shot did a ricochet on a wall (don't ask) and landed in the control panel of the container box keeping the rampaging rathtar, opening it.
    Mahyar: It is opening ; what do you say, Gaar?
    Gaar: (Beat) …Grhr?
    Krayn: Not a single "release the Kraken"? I'm disappointed.

Episode 04 - Saut dans l'inconnu (Jump into the unknown)

Tyzen is finally able to jump into hyperspace to the coordinates he got from the map. As 808 tries to deal with some burning hair on Gaar with a fire extinguisher, the latter throws 808's detached and on-fire arm at the soaked rathtar but misses. Apple suddenly notices a grenade thrown next to Gaar by the last Stormtrooper hiding in the airlock, tries to warn him but it is too late. The grenade explodes, burning a good portion of his left side. The explosion apparently damaged the oxygen reservoirs and Tyzen is forced to shut the air distribution in the rear of the ship, but then passes out leaving the damaged ship pilotless as it travels in hyperspeed. He wakes up some times later: the ship crashed on a planet with a dense vegetation and the floor is slightly tilted. He finds his three companions shaken but alive, but the rathtar thankfully didn't survive the crash. They retrieve their belongings (including 808's arm) and leave through a hole in the hull. Gaar, who is the first to leave, sees that the ship is actually dangerously pitching above a precipice and will fall into it in no time.

Episode 05 - Premier contact (First contact)

One of the rathtar's tentacles grabs Tyzen's leg, but he and 808 quickly understand that it only was a postmortem reflex. They all leave the ship, which soon falls deeper in the ravine. 808 scans his environment and concludes that they are now on the planet Jabiim. Using his jet-pack, Gaar ascends to get a better point of view and potentially see signs of civilization ; he sees a desert of dirt several miles aways, but also perceives some tiny figures lurking in the forest, assumed to be cannoks (little canine creatures) according to 808's database. Apple decides to scout their surroundings but suddenly receives a rock in the face that knocks her out.
  • HIT — Gaar (02/65): Thanks to a good roll, Gaar used his jet-pack without any problems to have a good view of their surroundings, and noticed some furtive silhouettes spying on them.
    Bob: He leaves our coordinates, our names and put his signature below with the smoke. "HELP!".
  • FAIL — Apple (87/60): Due to a +10% critical failure malus, she receives a rock in the face that knock her unconscious while scouting. This pun ensues:
    Mahyar: You "tombe dans les pommes".note 
    Fred: That's funny! Because "Apple"… She "fell in the apples"…
    (Awkward silence…) (credits roll)

Episode 06 - Disparitions (Disappearances)

Episode 07 - Face à l'ennemi (Facing the enemy)

Episode 08 - L'humiliation (The humiliation)

Episode 09 - Changement de cap (Change of course)

Episode 10 - Fierté blessée (Wounded pride)

  • HIT — Gaar (07/60): Gaar gets one thanks to his risk dice, and gets to know not only that the old man they are talking to is pointing a blaster at them, but its brand, type and current setting.
    Fred: That's the first time that [the risk dice] system is useful.
    Bob & Seb: The system works!! The system works!!
  • FAIL — Apple (99/50): She rolled a 99 when trying to patch her leg up, causing her to stab herself with a metal stick and falling unconscious (and she is supposed to be The Medic of the team). When she woke up, her kneecap was missing and was replaced with an exoskeleton.
    Mahyar: You fall unconscious.
    Fred: I'm not making that joke again.

Episode 11 - Une entrée remarquée (A grand entrance)

  • FAIL — Tyzen (97/55): When trying to make a good impression on a suspicious barman, he rolled a 97 and spilled the barman's tea.
    Bob: Now Krayn, what do we say?
    Krayn: This is a Critical Failure.

Episode 12 - Offensive musclée (Muscled offensive)

  • FAIL — Gaar (96/65): He rolled a 96 when trying to shoot at one of the stormtroopers they were fighting with and ended up blowing an ally's robotic dog to pieces.

Episode 13 - L'odeur du blaster chaud (The smell of the hot blaster)

  • HIT — Apple (04/50): She rolled a four when trying (true to Fred's usual "policy") to threaten two aliens they just met into stopping harassing a human and leaving, which they did without any trouble:
    Krayn: (sarcastic clapping) Congrats, congrats for breaking the roleplay.
    Fred: Screw you, I successfully did what I intended to. They saw the danger in me.

Episode 14 - La carte au trésor (The treasure map)

  • HIT — Apple (03/90): Right after her previous episode's crit, she did another one when analyzing the treasure map. She found out that the hill that they were facing actually was the crashed ship covered with dust and arid vegetation, eventually discovering a trapdoor. It's made even more epic by the fact that it was "the check the plot didn't want to fail" and that she had a 40% bonus thanks to the help of Hal, a random droid scanning the area, and a risk dice improved by her advantage point, and that none of that actually mattered.
    808: Congratulations, Lady Apple. You found the entrance. Your acuity is only matched by your… asymmetry.
    Apple: …What?

Episode 15 - Explorer l'inconnu (Explore the unknown)

  • HIT — Tyzen (03/65): When trying to interact with the computer of the old starship they found, he rolled a 3 which allowed him to put the power back on in the whole ship.
    Mahyar: It lights the platforms above.
    Seb: With the Windows XP jingle.
    Fred: Dun-dun-duuuun!

Episode 16 - This is the end, Part 1

  • FAIL — Apple (98/70): Rolled a 98 when trying to discretely explore the ship, did a slide, a roll… and ended up passing a laser detector, activating the defense systems of the whole ship and making a canon appear and point at her head.
    Bob: Mahyar, you've been our GM for more than a year now, so can Apple fail but still do a handstand?
    Mahyar: Only if Fred actually does it.

Episode 17 - This is the end, Part 2

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