smashrising | Make 'em go, "Aah, aah, aah", as you shoot across the sky-y-y!

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Make 'em go, "Aah, aah, aah", as you shoot across the sky-y-y!

Who: Newest Island Resident
What: Crash Landing
Where: The Woods, south of the Mansion
When: Tonight! Right now! Go Outside and you can hear it!
Warnings: Angry, confused Wookiee might make for a bad time? (No it's fine I swear.)

Rear thrusters: DISABLED
Reverse Thrusters: NOPE
Ventral Thrusters: NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT
Ion Engines: NOT HOME RIGHT NOW CAN I TAKE A MESSAGE

There was a resounding BOOM that echoed through the starry night, paired with the splintering of trees and the yelling of some of the woods' more vocal denizens.

Dare you approach?

Dare You???

....no you totally should.

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Rene was still getting her bearings, and trying to figure out what this "moon" thing could have been, when suddenly KABOOM FROM THE SKY COULD IT BE RELATED?!

She darted off in the direction of the explosion.

Congratulations Rene. You are the first to see a large, hairy, bipedal monster emerge from a gently flaming wreck of a small, combat oriented spaceship and give a deafening roar.

"HROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAUUUUGH!"

Stupid, faulty Imperial garbage!

He was unhappy with the craftsmanship behind the ship that he stole. You can't have it your own way all the time, right?

HOLYCRAPASPACEAPE

Well, it still wasn't in the top three of weirdest things Rene had seen since coming there. Was this just another of what passed for people here?

Still, it HAD just come out of an aircraft. That had crashed.

She hung back behind a tree to watch what it did next.

You get to see him sniff the air, kick the ship, and then start throwing dirt on it. Because if he's to have any hope of fixing it at any point in time, it needs to be Not On Fire.

His hands aren't really made for digging, though, being long fingered and short nailed. Maybe you could help him? Or just keep watching. That's fine too.

Oh yeah, that could be dangerous. "Um hi..." she said as she moved slowly into view, her hands up around shoulder height and visible. "I'm going to try to help you with this...is that ok?"

Wait was this creature wearing a bandolier? Apes didn't carry weapons...

"Ggrgrgrgrgrg!"

Yes! Please! Thank You!

He continued heaping dirt on the ship, glad that the soil here was at least soft and pliable. It wasn't sand, like Tatooine. But still. Easy enough to pile on.

It seemed friendly enough at least. She smiled as she picked up a piece of scrap metal to use as a makeshift shovel blade. "So uh...are you from around here? The first person I met was a bird, and I'm not used to that."

Huh. Interesting. Why would a Human wonder if he was from Endor? Did she not know the difference between an Ewok and a Wookiee?

.....how was another Human even here? That wasn't a Resistance uniform and she was definitely no storm trooper. (Unless storm troopers were really friendly seeming young females under all that armor?)

"Grrrhyyyk? Grrrrooo...."

I'm from Kaskyyk? Not here.

He did appreciate her helping him out, though, so he gave her a thumbs up.

Ah, that she understood! She returned the gesture. "Were you driving this? I've never seen a vehicle like this."

Chewbacca dumped on another handful of dirt and kind of slapped at the flames, stirring the dirt over them and putting them out as best as he could.

"Grrr. Hrrrrgh, bwooo?"

Really. What planet have you been living on?

Probably an extremely serene place, if she'd managed to avoid seeing these things in the sky. TIEs were known for being able to engage in some pretty intense atmospheric conflicts as well as being used out in space.

Maybe she lived ON Endor? Who knew?

Anyway, he nodded. He had flown this thing here. He hadn't even taken it into the upper atmosphere before it started acting screwy and dropped down into this patch of forest. (Which, come to think of it, seemed pretty different to the giant trees around Bright Tree village. Must be a different temperate zone.)

Uh...it was asking her a question. "I'm sorry, I don't understand you. But you understand me, right? Can you write in my language?" She still had the scrap of paper on her, and felt around her pockets for a pen.

He rumbled a little embarrassedly in his own tongue.

Sorry. I didn't know you couldn't speak Shyriiwook. I can write in Galactic Basic, yes.

He waited for her to produce a pen. At least the fire was out, now. (Though now that he wasn't concentrating on flames, he could see that this stupid ship was busted pretty well.)

"Ah, here we go!" She pulled a pen from one of her multiple pockets. "Sorry, there's writing on this paper already, but I don't need it any more."

He gave her a thumbs up and started writing.

'My name is Chewbacca. Can you point me in the right direction to get to Bright Tree Village?'

Because if she knew, maybe he hadn't travelled THAT far. He could cover a lot of ground quickly if he needed to.

Oh! He should clarify, just in case. He wrote a small note under the initial one.

'You know, the Ewok village.'

....considering Ewoks apparently ate people, though, he would understand if she and her kind tended to avoid contact with the fuzzy little humanoids.

She looked at it for a second. "Uh...I just got here myself. I don't know where that is. Heck, I barely know where I am right now."

After a moment of looking around, she continued. "Chewbacca, huh? I've never heard a name like that before. My name is Rene."

His name always sounded so funny to him in Basic. He made an amendment to the note.

'Chewie is fine too. Any information you can give me would be useful. Do you know where there is an Imperial base?'

Because then at least he could just take another vehicle. One that wouldn't break on him, hopefully.

'If you're not from here, where are you from?'

"Uh...Imperial? Gosh, I don't know." He wouldn't be asking about Cordelia, and hopefully not about House Gassenarl. Neither of them could really be considered imperials, but they were the closest she knew of. "I'm from Gallia. Have you heard of it?"

Chewbacca thought a moment. Then he nodded.

"I know it. It's a city on Prakith, right?'

A planet he'd never been to, but he'd heard plenty about it. It was under pretty strict Imperial rule.

She chuckled. "I don't know what Prakith is, sorry."

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