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Sith Erik and Jedi Charles meet Sith Dusk
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Directly up, and there's a particularly complicated immobile whatsit to jump through on the way.

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Hm.

This jump is challenging, but he makes it.

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From there, the path leads back to the other side of the structure, with the required leaps mostly increasing in difficulty as he goes; a few of them are very easy, instead, though. He passes several more cloth-mimicking bits on the way, and a few saber-mimicking ones in the early bit of the path.

The leap from the third level to the fourth is particularly complex; rather than going from one stable spot to another, he has to leap forward to a single bar, and then bounce off of that, back the way he came and up.

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...And what happens if he misses it?

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He'd probably just crash into the scrub, rather than going far enough to land in the rock pile beyond it.

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Yeah okay he'll try it.

It takes liberal application of the Force but he makes it. Barely.

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Success!

His reward is: more jumps. But only a few relatively simple ones, and then he's at the pinnacle of the structure, where the lump is revealed to be a sculpture of a Sith, defeated, lying prone beneath him.

There's a latch in the center of the figure's chest, situated where it won't be seen from below, picked out in fluorescent yellow.

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...He unlatches it.

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The sculpture's head falls, forward and away from its body, coming to hang a foot or so below on some kind of bar. Meanwhile, red streamers fall from the neck of the sculpture, looking more like viscera than blood.

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Um.

What?

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The sculpture doesn't appear to do anything further.

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...Okay.

He climbs down.

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This is straightforward to accomplish.

 

If he looks back up - yeah, that sure is a beheaded guy.

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Quite.

...He doesn't really feel like seeing what Sithy thing is going to be next right now. He wanders back towards the houses.

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Nothing stops him.

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If he doesn't see anyone outside he is going to go back into the guest house.

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Pradnakt is outside, doing forms with her lightsaber; it looks like she's just getting warmed up. She is far enough from the houses that he should be able to get to the guest house without a problem, though.

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He would probably try to talk to her if she hadn't warned them that was a bad idea while she was doing lightsaber things. He goes inside, hugs a still-studying Ekkreth, and goes to sleep.

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She'll be at her saber practice until nearly midnight.

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Ekkreth is still awake.

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She stops by the guest house, and waits for Ekkreth to be less engrossed before knocking, quietly.

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After a minute she opens the door. "Hello."

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"Hey. I thought you might want a snack before I go to bed, if you're going to be up for a while."

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"No, I'll probably go to sleep soon."

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"All right. See you in the morning."

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