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"Karzel, if you can't talk me out of it over chess, what makes you think you can talk me out of it in the market?"
"I can leave it alone for now," the man beside her concedes.
She sighs. "It's not as though you disagree that Darth Svahe needs to die. I don't understand why you're so dead-set on me not doing it."
"You know why."
"I know, but I don't understand."
Interesting.
He sits there looking at it for several minutes before moving on.
The next piece is, frankly, kind of disturbing. A twist of metal, constructed of a variety of parts, that doesn't quite come together into a coherent animal, but coalesces into various threatening animal parts - extended claws, threatening gaping jaws, piercing eyes, muscles coiled for leaping.
Very Sithy, but more in a way that fits his preconceptions than the first one. He doesn't linger at that one very long.
Yeah, reasonable.
The next thing he comes to is a giant metal frame, tall enough that it's hard to judge its height in the darkness - a few stories, at least, rising from a slab of concrete. Examination of the lowest level reveals a collection of metal objects attached to the frame, each balanced so that a slight push on one end will result in a few seconds of clothlike rippling on the other.
All the bits on the bottom level do the same thing, except one immobile thing near one end, just above head height.
Closer exploration does turn up a red-painted metal rod, about lightsaber length, and a lightswitch, at the base of the structure opposite that.
A pair of lights come on, a few feet away on the other side of the trail, set carefully to only illuminate the lowest level.
Pradnakt is rather full of surprises, yes.
There are three more levels to the structure, with more things attached to the frame; it's too dim to see them well, but some appear to be similar to the ones he's already seen - both the fabric-ripple sort and the immobile sort - while some have a protruding rod, instead. There's also a solid, dark lump at the very top of the frame, in the center.
It's not an especially climbable frame, but it'd only take a bit of Force enhancement to jump up to the second level for a closer look.
When he grabs the frame, his hand lands on another lightswitch, this one turning on a small spotlight pointed at him.
With the added light, he can see that the protruding rods are painted red - all the same shade, slightly more orange than true red, while the bar at the bottom of the structure was a different, redder shade.
There's an obvious place to leap to, from here, and if he looks very closely, he'll see that the natural place for his hand to fall would place it right under another lightswitch.
This lightswitch also bathes him in light. The nearest added bit is one of the ones with the rods; there's an insect wing shaped bit of metal on the inside of the frame that could be pushed, by hand, if it was a little closer, or with telekinesis. And again there's an obvious place to leap to, ahead and a bit above, outfitted with another lightswitch, easily spotted now that he knows what to look for.
The bits in between the wing and the rod fold, and the rod swings toward him, mimicking a lightsaber blow.
It doesn't come close enough for that to be necessary, and swings part of the way back up to its starting position before stopping.
He's near the side of the structure, now; the next jump from here isn't as immediately obvious.
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