The day after

With a severe headache and a dizzy mind, you slowly come to your senses. Not remembering anything that happened and having no idea where you are, you try to piece together what has happened. All you remember is, that you were in a cantina with the others... You still find yourself in the cantina, under a table, in your armour. Crawling out from under the table, the devastated remains of the used to be cantina lies in front of your eyes. Save for the walls and the roof, not much has stayed intact of the place. People are laying everywhere, windows broken, tables cut in half, blaster marks on the walls, pieces of bottles and glasses left on the floor...

Lana (confused with a still sharp headache): What an Endor had happened here...? Where are the others...?

You check the life signs of a nearby alien and calm yourself that he's alive, just sleeping. You repeat that on a few more, and they are all alive, just not awaken yet. You spot Ranvi laying on the bartender's desk and go, try to wake her, by shaking her a little after having checked her life signs too.

Ranvi (groaning and trying to push you away with her hand): Hmm, noo, it can't be morning yet...

Lana: Ranvi, wake up! We are in the middle of something here!

Ranvi (opening her eyes to look around): What are you tal...? What has happened here...? Where's Drek...?

Lana: I was just waking up myself, I haven't looked for him yet, I had hoped you could tell me what caused this mess. But look, there he is, on the floor!

Ranvi (trying to stand up, but bumping back onto her butt): Oh girl, last night must have been harder on me, that I could handle... I can barely stand, as if I had travelled a whole parsec on foot!

Lana: What, you mean, you are having a hangover?

Ranvi (groaning): Feels like it... Though my backside aches more than a simple hangover would explain... How much did I drink...? I don't remember a single thing...

Lana: Neither do I... Only that we entered the place and not much afterwards.

Ranvi: Let's take me to Drek and try to ask him if he remembers anything.

Ranvi (after you have carried her to him): Drek, come on, wake up already...!

Drek (turning to his other side): Mum, I don't want to go to school today... I'm attending the Jedi Academy at the temple on Coruscant, remember...?

Ranvi: What was he saying...?

Lana (grabbing a mostly intact glass of water from the floor): Wait, I have an idea!

You pour it at his face, to which he sits up in an instant.

Drek (scared): Okay, okay, I'm getting out of the bed and will be on my way to the....! Wait, you aren't mum! Where am I...? Eeeh, why does my head hurt so much...?

Ranvi: For the same reason ours do the same. So you have no idea what happened either?

Drek: Not the slightest one... I might do a bioscan to find out what's wrong with us.

? (slowly getting up from behind a table): Damn guys, can't you keep your voice down a little, my head is about to explode if you keep shouting like that...!

You turn towards the voice, expecting to see Barriss there, but the voice clearly wasn't hers... And instead of her, there's an other Mirialan in Barriss's robes, holding her head... Master Luminara!

Ranvi: Master Luminara...?!

Luminara (lying): N-no, what are you talking about...? I'm Barriss...! I... Oh by the ****, my camouflage!

Lana (crossing your arms): That's going to be an interesting story to hear... "Barriss"!

Luminara: I owe you that much, to be sure... First of all, let me tell you, I did not intend to cause any harm or whatsoever to you or anybody else!

Drek: Did you really take Barriss's form? For what reason?

Luminara: I believe I better be completely honest with you now... I did it yes, to finally get away from the temple and take a day off. I just wanted to have some fun, that is all!

Lana: I should have known by the time you won your game against the aristocrat! Barriss would have never won! So, how did you end up with this plan of yours?

Luminara: Maybe so... Let me start fromt he beginning. When I was a padawan, I too have given in to the temptation of gambling. I found a few other members of the order, who were keen on playing such games as Pazaak, Sabacc, and so on. Regardless of the prize, I enjoyed the feeling of victory through calculated moves, which was hindered by the will of the ****. I went as far as to let myself believe, that I have perfected the art of card games by using mind reading to my advantage... It was no problem against other Jedi knights, but when I first played with a padawan and found his mind undefended... I could not restrain myself from the temptation and used it to my advantage. I felt so bad for it later on, that I have vowed to stop gambling for the rest of my life. It went well for years, until I have begun learning of Barriss's little endeavours in the lower levels of Coruscant and Nar Shaddaa, having similar gambling habits as I used to. I decreed severe punishment on her for those, to discourage her from doing any of that, for her own good. I wanted to spare her the remorse and consequences of those things, which I knew from first hand experience. But in the end, I ended up becoming the victim of my past once again... Having brought my old memories up by her actions, I renewed my Pazaak habit with other masters, but I kept losing after such a long pause in the game. To make up for it, I turned to public institutions instead... Namely bars and casinos, where I could freely read the minds of my opponents and use it to my advantage. My pride and greed kept luring me into these dark deeds, to a threshold, I very much regret traversing... On a council meeting the day before this mission was assigned to you, I heard about Master Kota's situation on Atzerri. I was familiar with the notoriety of the planet and could not resist, but to volunteer for the mission. However, the other masters turned me down, offering to send you three instead. All I could arrange was a place for my padawan, Barriss, among you. Without her knowing about this, I sent her for a secret mission to Lothal, while I took her form via the **** and came here with you. The rest, you know...

Ranvi: That's a wild story to say the least!

Lana: I still can't believe you would have done that all, just to get to play some Pazaak here...

Luminara: I do not expect you to understand, having such a strong addiction to something makes you do questionable deeds. The thrill of a game with such high stakes, the adrenaline of not having complete control over the situation, as there's always a chance of losing or winning, no matter the odds! I was unprepared to face the dark side this time and it overcame me... But I will not allow it to happen to me again. Maybe one day you will understand and forgive me for my actions...

Lana: I don't know... I just don't know... This is a bit too much to take in all of a sudden.

Luminara: I promise you, that I will seek out Master Yoda's assistance in this matter, he will certainly be able to provide me with help and a solution to save me from my own dark temptations.

Ranvi: I think we should believe her Lana! Everybody deserves a second chance!

Drek: Besides, nobody got hurt by her actions, maybe she stole a few credits from people in casinos, but that's partly why they were there, in the first place. I see no issue in forgiving her for what she's done.

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Lana: It's easy for you to say, it wasn't you who got humiliated by her last night...!

Drek: The bet was technically agreed by both of you, wasn't it? You were doing that willingly.

Lana: Yeees, but...!

Ranvi: You are at least as much responsible for that as she was. Accept responsibility and get over that! It's a thing of the past now!

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Lana: Hmm... But...! Okay, you know what? Fine! I won't tell the masters about it, but the next time I see her doing such things with Barriss's face on her, I'll report that!

Luminara: Such a mistake will not be done again, but should I fail to fulfil my promise, you are free to tell the masters about anything that has happened here too. I accept your terms unconditionally and thank you for your understanding. By the way, what is that thing on your armour?

Lana (looking at your arms and torso): What do you mean? Oh, what in the blazes is that?!

Ranvi: You mean you haven't noticed that yet? That thing totally covers you from head to toe.

Lana (trying to scratch the slimy content off of yourself): What's that...?!

Drek: Judging by its texture and white colour, I would say...

Lana (stopping for a second): No, nooo, don't say that, what I think you are about to say...! It can't be "that"...!

Drek (taking a drop off of your armour to test in his scanner): Hmm, indeed my assumption was correct. It's semen. But not human, rather... Not only human, to be precise, it's a mixture of multiple species.

Lana and Ranvi (shocked simultaneously): What....?!

Luminara (curiously): What has happened to us all?

Drek (taking a drop of blood from his shoulder with a medscanner): I'm making a bioscan from my blood sample, hoping to learn more. Hmmm... How fascinating.

Lana: Don't waste time, just tell us what you found!

Drek (looking at the medscanner as it beeps): All the charts seem to be normal, save for one, which I can't really interpret. I'm having an extremely high amount of ixetal cilona in my blood, but I have never heard of that thing.

Ranvi: Neither do I...

Luminara: I did... And it's not good news.

Lana: Why, what's that? A poison?

Luminara: Maybe worse... Ixetal cilona is a substance, derived from the Balo mushroom of Balosar. Its only known usage is being the primary component of **** sticks.

Lana: No way...!

Ranvi: So we were ****?!

Luminara: Most likely...

Drek: That explains the memory loss and the sudden loss of consciousness of all of us.

Ranvi: But the question is, who did it?

Lana: All I know is that somebody's going to pay for pouring so much cum onto my armour!

Drek: By the amount and surface covered, my theory is that it wasn't "poured", at least not at once. A lot of simultaneous "pouring", is way more probable.

Lana: I do hope you are wrong on this one! But all the more reason to find who was responsible!

Luminara: Maybe the security cameras of the cantina could answer most of our questions. We should see what we can piece together from them.

Meanwhile Fennec's on her ship, talking to Nala Se, a Kaminoian cloning scientist:

Fennec: I have what Sidious asked me to gather.

Nala Se: Excellent. With the DNA you have gathered, his hopes to create a clone with rapid ageing but only until their 20s, might be achieved. This DNA in your possession might open new areas in the field of advanced cloning. Only a specimen with enhanced life activities, like a Jedi, might survive the procedure.

Fennec (pointing to her box): I'm not interested in the details or future of this thing, I just want to know where to drop it off and get my credits.

Nala Se: All will be well taken care of, I can ensure you. The drop point will be in Tipoca City, Kamino, a landing zone will be cleared for you, if you enter the codes I have just transmitted to you.

Fennec: I got them. Meet you on Kamino.

Nala Se: What we are about to do here, requires an **** amount of discretion. If you are leaving any kind of trail behind you and the Jedi find out about this...!

Fennec: Don't worry. I'm a professional. They won't be able to find me. Anybody who saw me or could talk is dead, the security footages of the cameras have been deleted after I was done. There's no way anybody could find out anything about this.

Nala Se: I do hope you were as efficient as you claim. If everything goes according to plan, I might require your services in the future, should a need for them arise.

Fennec: If the payment is good, we can talk anytime.