Happier times

Things are looking up now!  We've been on Taris for a few weeks now helping out where we could while we looked for this vault that is holding the astrogation charts.  There are so many sad stories here and we've helped out where we could.  There are pirates, scavengers, and these things called rakghouls running around.  The scariest thing about the rakghouls is that they used to be regular people.  There is some kind of disease that turns you into one of those things.  We ended up working with this doctor trying to find a vaccine for the disease and I somehow let myself get talked into getting infected.  It wasn't the easiest thing to go out and find a rakghoul and then let it scratch and bite me, but I was brave and did what had to be done.  The vaccine worked though, and I haven't turned into one of those things.  The doctor said everything looks good and I shouldn't have to worry.  

It took a lot of favors and poking around, but we finally found the vault!  When Corso and I got there though, there were these stinky mercenaries standing in front of the vault door.  (I really mean stinky too, we could smell them before we could see them!  Is it some kind of rule that mercenaries shouldn't bathe?)  They were hired by that scumbag Skavak and of course figured we would be easy kills.  This girl held her own and after a quick gunfight we entered the vault and there were the astrogation charts!  We picked them up and headed back to the ship.  

Once we were back on the ship we gave the charts to Risha.  She then started to tell me a story about pirates and murder and riches and things.  Listening to her made me feel like a little girl.  I'm sure my eyes were full of wonder while Risha was spinning her tales.  I think I may have even giggled a few times!  Everything feels so right now that I have my ship back!  Everything seems to be going my way!  And then the strangest thing happened.

We ended up opening this bottle of ale that we had found on board.  Corso and I drank for a while and talked about this and that.  And then he made a pass at me!  I was so surprised at first!  And after he made the pass, I kind of suddenly realized how cute he really is.  I did what I could to encourage him, but he stopped himself and apologized to me.  He said I didn't deserve to be treated like some hutt's slave dancer.  He obviously doesn't know that that's exactly what I was for most of my life.  I didn't know what to say.  He said I deserved to have someone strong to take care of me.  I really like Corso.  I'll have to think about all of this later.  I never thought something could happen between someone like me and someone like him.  I guess I'll just have to wait and see if something does.  For now, I'm really happy.

Oh and even though we retrieved the astrogation charts we were here to find, I think we're going to spend a bit more time on Taris before we leave.  I want to keep helping people out here, at least for a little while.  No one ever helped me when I was a slave.  Doing things for these people makes me feel good inside.  I'll write again once we finally decide to head to the next system.

I've got my ship back!

Finally, a vid of me!  And it was taken on the bridge of my ship!  Yes, Corso Riggs and I did finally get my ship back!  It wasn't easy, though.  We found it docked in the Corouscant docking area.  We were hoping to catch Skavak there too, but all we found was this alien ship merchant who said he was there to buy my ship.  Unfortunately for him, my ship isn't for sale.  I figured this guy was just some weak merchant, but he ended up being pretty tough.  Corso got pretty banged up and I nearly died in the fight!  We did finally beat the merchant down and he offered to give us a few upgrades on my ship if we let him go alive.  So now I not only have my ship back, but it has a few improvements!

When Corso and I went on board we were in for a few surprises.  The first surprise was that I now have a new shipboard droid called C2-N2!  He greeted us and said he is now my property.  He calls me "Master" and I'm not really comfortable with that.  It brings back too many slave memories.  I tried getting him to just call me Twicella or Captain, but he said that would go against his programming.  So for now I'll just have to get used to him.  It really is nice to have someone (something?) that cooks and cleans for us.  And he really is a friendly droid.  He likes to make things for us when we bring him back the raw materials too, so he's pretty handy!

My slave girl feelings disappeared the moment I stepped back onto my ship!  It was like coming home!  And after meeting C2-N2 I got my second surprise.  We went to check the cargo hold and there was this woman working there!  Her name is Risha and at first I thought she was just another one of Skavak's sleazy whores.  It turns out she doesn't like him and was working to beat Skavak to this treasure vault.  It's the treasure of some guy called Nok Drayen or something like that.  The weapons I had in my cargo hold are now gone and she has all of this other stuff she said we need to trade to find the treasure vault.  After talking to her for a bit, Corso and I decided we could take Risha on as a temporary partner.  Temporary until we make sure she isn't just still working for Skavak and going to turn on us later.

Once we had secured the ship we took off right away!  First thing I get a comm from that idiot Skavak trying to threaten me.  He said he's going to catch up with me and kill me.  He's in for a big surprise because he's not dealing with the frightened little slave girl I used to be, he's now dealing with a trader captain who's won her fair share of scraps!  Bring him on!  One other problem is a guy called Rogun the Butcher.  He was who I was supposed to deliver the weapons shipment to that is now gone.  He's put a price on my head and now I keep running into these bounty hunters trying to take me in dead or alive.  What a pain in the butt!

Working with Risha we decided that our first port of call would be a system called Taris.  I'm sorry I ever even heard the name of this place.  I guess it used to have great cities hundreds of years ago, but some Sith guy destroyed most of everything.  To be honest, the planet stinks.  Everywhere we go it just smells bad here.  And the refugees that are all around...I feel so bad for them!  As a slave my life wasn't the best, but some of these poor people have nothing.  A lot of them I've met have been run out of their homes by pirates, or scavengers, or even just horrible creatures!  I went to a small overrun settlement for some of them and brought back a few of their personal items for them.  When any one of them asks me for help, it's just too hard for me to say no.  They were all so grateful for the small things I brought back for them.  I really wish I could do more.

Anyway, we need to find this astrogation chart that's somewhere on this stinky system.  I guess Skavak is trying to beat us to the stuff we'll need to find this treasure, but he has no idea where to look for anything.  Risha has most of the information!  Ha ha!  After a lot of legwork we found out that it's in this place called zone zero.  We'll be on our way there shortly.  Hopefully things will go well when we get there.  But then when has anything been easy lately?  I'll never get this smell out of my clothes, ugh!

For right now at this moment, I'm happy!  I'm so happy, I decided to dance.  But not in a cantina, I danced in the Captain's cabin on my ship, right on my bed!  And I took a short vid of myself to put on my blog.  Yes, I'm a bit undressed, but I still thought everyone might like to see me happy and dancing.  Hopefully I'll be writing in this journal again soon about how we found the astrogation chart.  Until then, enjoy the vid!