luckykaa

A dagger? Odd thing to focus on at the moment with the rest of the environment, but alright. I'd argue those aren't exactly evil runes on it though. Mostly because the resolution isn't good enough for me to tell that they're anything more than a bunch of vertical lines. A more interesting observation is that it's got a couple key teeth behind the blade tip, which is probably what the GM refers to with the "spiked" descriptor. Perhaps "present this dagger at" is code for "use this key to unlock"; that'd be a neat addition to the treasure hunt comments the party are making for themselves.

As for the second part of the text, I think I can imagine quite a bit. So whatever the marvellous surprises end up being, they'll probably be a disappointment. Unless Kylo figures out the Factory location and has it orbitally bombarded just before the group gets there and can enter. Now that would be a great way to keep the contents all a mystery for people to only imagine.

Ooo! We might just get a grue! With at least one really big mouth!

Pete's got a pretty good paradigm here. But as Ben points out, all that means is that it's down to a dice roll or who the GM thinks should get attacked or trigger a trap. In which case, why not simply roleplay it? The GM might at least allow the players to test their preparedness fairly in that instance.

Though if we do end up having wild life, escaped experiments, or something else running around, that'd put a damper on my idea of this being a Dark Side pit. There's only been humans that have made appearances in them (the sleen doesn't count as it didn't attack), so a mole rat attack would be extremely unlikely if the Dark Side pit is a concept. Unless they've all got like Kylo Ren or Palpaclone faces. Now wouldn't that be a really weird idea?

Hah, of course Pete would pull a lightsaber out for light. While there's half-dead flashlights that would provide better light, a lightsaber would also be useful for attack and defence. I guess nobody else has a decent light though as I'd thought Poe's light was the lightsaber for a few moments. Though perhaps that's unfair to the characters; there's plenty of other non-Star Wars movies that have problems with flashlights and lighting as well.

I guess space-time goo causing problems here is as good an explanation as any if the GM goes along with it. It's definitely a lot more interesting than "The Force did this", which is what I bet the movie has as its explanation. But even if that is the official cause, there'd have to be something else that originally made this place. It's not like the Force is a cloud of radiation that randomly builds or destroys things; Force users make it do those things. And then at some point, that kind of explanation is just "a wizard did it" which is so unsatisfying outside of comedy scenes, and it would have been better to not explain things at all.

Anyone else want to hope an unexplained Grue shows up just to keep things weird and interesting?

Or not. No rescuing here. I guess we're not done with the movie writer confusion as it's time for a cave adventure!

I'd actually guess that BB and Poe are similar in density. BB might be made of metal, but it's not like droids are solid objects and he wasn't that difficult to move in Episode VII. Plus, a large sphere isn't going to have a lot of different moving surfaces for the ground to be moved by. Humanoid shapes, on the other hand, would have that "advantage" which would be how metal-man Threepio gets to already be standing on the floor while Poe is still picking himself up.

I do like the set-up the last comic had, even if Pete's roleplaying rule doesn't seem like it'd save him if he tries pushing it too hard. Goopy quantum soup aside.... I guess this could be another wacky Dark Side slime pit? Rey had that fall into one last Episode, and since that was on an island, it was full of slime and water. Here on probably Tatooine, we've got sand and gravel everywhere, so this is just gonna be rocks, rocks, and more rocks. Up until we find another funhouse mirror and get to see everyone have fun trying to figure that one out.