Freeman Cantina

You arrive to the Freeman Cantina, park your speeders outside and get off of them.

Barriss: Remember, let me do the talking once inside! I know how things are going in such places.

Lana: Whatever you say boss!

Ranvi: Usually, Lana's Mandalorian armour is more than enough to convince people to tell her everything they know!

Barriss: We do not want to start a fight here, there are no law enforcers, if you pick a fight with only 1 person, it becomes a city wide battle royale, with everybody fighting everybody for literally no reason.

Drek: Against the usual pickpockets and petty pirates, we would come out on top anyway!

After enterring the place, you spot a buzzing room, with all sorts of lifeforms, loud music and a strong stench of **** in the air. Everybody is drinking, chatting, laughing or gambling. Some are obviously drunk or being **** by **** sticks. The usual cantina feeling.

Lana (thinking): Yeah, exactly like the place I would have imagined for a mission with Barriss!

Barriss: Wait here, I'll go and talk to the bartender, see what intel he's got.

Ranvi: Sure, this isn't my kind of place anyway...

As Barriss turns around and makes a few steps forward, two big thugs approach you from the right.

Thug 1: Hey sweethearts, are ya lost? Do you need somebody to protect ya in this dangerous city?

Drek: I'm capable of doing that, thanks!

Thug 1: Oh, sorry pal, I thought ya were a lady! Ya are as skinny as one!

Lana: We can handle ourselves, the same might not be said for you, if you want to pick a fight with us!

Thug 2: Oh, well look a' that! The lil' Mandogirl is more cocky than her pal!

Ranvi (whispering): Lana, remember what Barriss said, don't pick a fight!

Thug 1: Is tha' real Beskar on ya? No idea how much ya paid fo' it, but I'm sure I can give ya more! Interested?

Lana (restraining herself): No.

Thug 2: Maybe ya are interested in some other "business"? Wha's your tariff for a roun' with ya Mandogirl? And how much for ya' little gray girlfriend?

Ranvi (whispering): Lana! Don't start a fight!

You don't say anything, just keep staring in front of you in silence. The thug is visibly annoyed by it.

Thug 2 (grabbing your shoulder): Hey, I asked somethin'!

You grab his arm, twist it, pull him closer and kick him in the balls with your knee, before pushing himself onto his back. The other thug couldn't even react at the sight, just stand there petrified. The cantina grows silent, all stopping their respective actions, staring at your commotion instead. You look around any notice most are having one of their hands on their weapons, just in case. All the noise in the place is the groaning of the thug on the floor, with his hands on his balls and his legs pulled up to his belly. You look left and right, but the same silent stares look back at you.

Barriss (frustrated from the centre of the cantina): Seriously?! We have barely entered!

Ranvi: I told you not to start a fight!

Lana: I didn't! It's not a fight if they can't fight back! That was just a beating!

Bartender: Okay everybody, the next 10 drinks are on the house, let's continue whatever you had been doing! Nobody got shot this time!

The music resumes and as if nothing had happened everybody continues their respective business.

Thug 2 (groaning on the floor): Ya, lil', sun of a...! I'll get ya for that...!

Thug 1 (pulling him up from the floor): Let's get out o' here! I know a Twi'lek bar nearby, they'll take care of ya balls! Come! It's on me!

Thug 2 (being carried out): It's about blasted time...! I paid for the last FIVE times!

Lana: I suggest we go after Barriss, I don't think anybody's going to bother us anymore.

Barriss (to the bartender as you get closer): Yeah, yeah, okay, I understand.

Lana: What did he say? Does he know where Bambu is?

Barriss: Yes and no.

Drek: That's not an actually valid answer.

Barriss: He knows, but he won't tell us anything!

Ranvi: Why not?

Barriss: According to him, Bambu has been a patron of this area for some time, anytime he goes on a mission, he gives away 10-20% of his profit to the locals. He's quite loved by the ordinary folk here, they don't want to give him out. Unless...

Lana: Unless...?

Barriss: Everybody has a price. For 10.000 credits, he'll tell us where to find Bambu.

Drek: Not even combined can we pay that much!

Lana: I can make him talk otherwise!

Barriss: Lana don't! I actually have a plan!

Lana: I'm listening!

Barriss: Let's join that Pazaak table and win enough to pay him!

Lana: Barriss, this is literally a terrible idea...!

Barriss: Why? I can win a few games and we'll be going after him within an hour!

Drek: Pazaak? That game is almost as boring as Dejarik!

Barriss: What do you mean? They are both great games!

Drek: Yes, but they are both built upon a limited number of possibilities, with the right calculation, you can always determine the cards/steps of your enemies before the end of the game and win all the time. They are not fun after a few rounds. Dejarik as fun for a few hours, but only when I was playing against myself to provide a real challenge, but eventually, I was rather reading about the Krayt dragon's DNA recreational researches.

Barriss: Oookaaaay, if you are so good at these games, why don't you play a few rounds?

Drek: That's... No longer possible...

Ranvi: Why? You said you win all the time! That's what we need right now!

Drek: After discovering the profitability of winning such games all the time, I went to a gambling den on Coruscant and tried my luck. After winning a few hundred thousand credits in a winning streak, the owner suspected fraud, took all the credits and put me on the intergalactic gambling cheaters list. Whenever I try playing for credits again, the face recognition systems would alert the owners about it. So, that's no longer possible.

Ranvi: Damn Drek, you never told me about it!

Drek: Well, you actually have never asked!

Barriss: Okay, so we are back where we begun this conversation, are you going to let me play for credits or not? I can win, I can ensure you!

Valare: What a waste of time! Why don't you just **** **** the bartender and get what you want?

Lana (thinking): Don't think I wasn't entertaining that idea myself! But we are supposed to lay low, after our spectacular entrance...

Lana (whispering): Ranvi, we can't let her play!

Ranvi (whispering): Why not?

Lana (whispering): Because she can't win! She's literally unable to do so! She always keeps going until she loses everything! It's a terrible idea!

Ranvi (whispering): Than what do you propose? If you do anything rush, this whole place will be up in arms within a sec! We must trust her!

Lana (whispering): You are right... But I have a bad feeling about this!