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maramijade Registered: Feb '00	Date Posted: 12/6/02 7:30am Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/06
	Yeah I'm sure I'll have all the math I'll ever want.. . I'm a business major, I'm just hitting calculas. . . I thought Matricies were hard enough. . . . sith. . . . but once I get it down it's not that much of a problem. ..well except for factoring quadratics. . . ughhh. . . . anyway. . . mathematics aside. . . That was a great post LP!! I loved how Vader held back and his internal thoughts about Luke. . I also really liked how Luke was able to pull up Obi-wan's advice.... It was a nice touch. . Can't wait for more! -----signature----- If computer Geeks were wizards. . . . . . I'd be a second year at Hogwarts, born to muggles
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Kirana_Ti Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 12/6/02 8:46am Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/06
	Hee, hee, I tend to find action sequences humourous. Especially Luke telling Vader "You're evil." haha, so Luke-like, such an understatement. Next he'll tell the Emperor "You do bad things" Ah well. Yes, RebelMom, history is fun. I've had a course on the history of architecture for the past two years and it has certainly been good. Marimijad: Matrices, eh? Ah, I loved those back in the day. And factoring quadratics... meh, it just takes practice. I've spent more hours doing that than I'd care to imagine. But why in the world would you need that for business? Matrices I can see, but not quadratics... Well two more exams to go. Anyone have any idea what would be on an exam in the theory of architecture? That one has me a bit scared........... And let's get some more Leia/Han action! I can't wait for them to find Luke... but I would like something to happen before then, so that there's a tension between them that Luke senses.... yes yes, I know, I will write my own fanfic. If you're lucky, I'll write one over this winter break. Just give me another week and we'll see if I've started yet. And I seem to be especially long-winded today.... Kirana Ti -----signature----- The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.- Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
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inez_the_swampgirl Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 12/6/02 8:47am Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/06
	oohh! Poor Lukie, always getting maimed, etc. Anyway, I think I can see now how this will not be AU. Good job, LP. inez -----signature----- I'd Do It All Again - http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=9359730&replies=0 Ex-Padawan to Excal
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LadyPadme Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Sep '02	Date Posted: 12/6/02 6:26pm Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/06 - Date Edited: 12/6/02 6:33pm (1 edits total) Edited By: LadyPadme
	RebelMom: Thanks! * Pauses to take another handful of popcorn - Yum! * LovelyLea: Thank you. primps a little before mirror maramijade: Glad you liked the Luke/Vader encounter. I always liked Vader a lot, too. Kirana_Ti: Nice to know the action scene brought some enjoyment. As for the H/L tension etc...hmm...I'd like to see your version of events. How long is your winter vacation? (hint, hint!). Hope you did well on all your finals. inez: Whew! Sighs in relief that this can still be considered canon! Poor Lukie, always getting maimed, etc.: At least the poor boy gets some action these days. In my original concept of the story he wasn't going to be in it at all! -----signature----- Crest MD Naimé Evil Twin of Gabri_Jade When a baby smiles the world is happy VOTE OBAMA '08
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Miska Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 12/6/02 6:54pm Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/06
	I absolutely love this story! There are so few fics written in the pre ESB time period, and even fewer really GOOD ones. I love reading about Han and Leia and Luke, so keep up the good work!!! -----signature----- You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. H/L and L/M fics in my bio!
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Kirana_Ti Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 12/6/02 8:22pm Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/06
	It seems we have a new reader! Welcome, Miksa! I apologize if I've just misspelled your name. The brain's a little swiss-cheese like. But welcome... not my story, but I like to be ... um... welcoming... Lady Padme: Actually, I have two more exams left, m'dear. But these are not so bad as the first three... and in fact, I have nearly a month off. So if someone can help me brainstorm, that's enough time for me to get a short fic written. I love writing, however, since entering architecture I've done little of it. And I'd also need a beta reader... looks around hopefully And can't wait until the next post! Kirana Ti -----signature----- The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.- Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
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LadyPadme Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Sep '02	Date Posted: 12/8/02 2:00pm Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/06
	Welcome to the story, Miska, I'm glad you liked it. Kirana_Ti: waiting breathlessly for your story! More later... -----signature----- Crest MD Naimé Evil Twin of Gabri_Jade When a baby smiles the world is happy VOTE OBAMA '08
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LadyPadme Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Sep '02	Date Posted: 12/8/02 9:05pm Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/09
	Chapter Thirty-one Luke surfaced from the water gagging and coughing. It was pitch dark, and Luke had no idea where he was or how far down he had fallen, or even what he had fallen into. Was it an underground lake? An ocean? Or merely a water-filled mineshaft? And where was Vader? The lack of light and disorientation was making him very nervous. Luke treaded water for a few minutes, trying to calm his thoughts and to come up with a way to escape. At least the cold water was acting as an anesthetic for the pain in his leg. He slowed down his breathing, and closed his eyes. Just as he felt his heart rate was under control again, he sensed something in the water. Something very big. Luke’s eyes opened wildly, futilely searching in the dark for any trace of light. He decided to start swimming. Anything was better than staying where he was. His lightsaber was still in his hand; he rehooked the lightsaber to his belt and began doing a crawl stroke. As he swam, he thanked his lucky stars for the fate that led him to meet that Corellian scoundrel Han Solo. It had been Han, during a mission to the watery planet of Zalopine, who had insisted Luke learn how to swim. The swimming, and the sensation that he was actively doing something rather than waiting for fate, made Luke feel calmer, more relaxed. The attack came suddenly. One moment, Luke was swimming smoothly, and the next moment, he felt himself pulled under the surface of the water. Something had grabbed hold of his right foot and was dragging him down. The attack came so swiftly that Luke hadn’t been able to take a last gulp of air. Now, as he felt himself dragged down, he was starting to panic as his lungs began to cry out, painfully, for air. Unable to think of anything else to do, Luke made a wild grab for his lightsaber. He pulled it off his belt and switched it on. Something amazing happened when the lightsaber was activated. The strong photoelectric pulse of the lightsaber created an electromagnetic charge that was powerful enough to split the water into its components of hydrogen and oxygen, and created a bubble of air a meter in diameter around the blade. Luke quickly tilted his head into the air bubble and took a quick, satisfying breath of air. The rush of oxygen re-energized Luke, and he was able to relax enough to look around. The creature that had captured him was a large, serpentine beast at least five meters in length. It was of a bright, poisonous green color and had beautiful, multicolor, diaphanous fins. The creature had clamped down on Luke’s boot with its spiky teeth, but wasn’t biting very hard, although it seemed to be swimming very fast. Other underwater creatures, now visible in the glow of the lightsaber seemed to be scurrying away from the light. Wherever the creature was planning on taking Luke, he didn’t really want to go. He quickly bent himself double, and slashed down against the creature’s underbelly with his lightsaber. The creature thrashed violently, flinging Luke from side to side with a speed that made him dizzy, and then suddenly let go. The creature slowly began to sink, and it appeared that the creature had died or was dying. To Luke’s horror, he saw thousands of smaller creatures, miniatures of the water-serpent that had captured Luke, swarming out of the gash in the wounded beast’s belly. With a mighty lunge and holding his lightsaber before him, Luke began swimming for the surface, kicking as hard and as fast as he could. Luke broke through the surface of the water, and almost immediately hit his head against hard rock. With the lightsaber’s beam, Luke was able to see that there was rock above him in every direction. He had no idea how he would be able to get through the rock, but decided to swim straight, using the lightsaber-formed air pocket to breathe. Luckily, no more creatures attacked Luke as he swam. Perhaps they feared the glow of his lightsaber. Even so, Luke swam for what felt like at least two hours, feeling more tired and cramped by the minute before he saw the first opening in the rock. A dim shaft of light illuminated the water under the opening, and Luke sped up his pace, feeling the first glimmer of hope he’d felt since he landed on Cordenia. When he reached the opening, Luke stopped, treading water in dismay. He had reached a circular opening perhaps twenty meters in diameter. The Cordenian moonlight reached down through a cylinder cut into over one hundred and fifty meters of solid rock to shine on Luke’s upturned face. He swam toward the rock wall, and reholstered his lightsaber then lifted his arms and tried to grasp the rock wall, attempting to establish enough of a handhold to hoist himself up. Initially, he was lucky. He was able to pull himself up about five meters, and then found himself slipping, unable to stop the downward slide. He fell with a large splash back into the water and tried again. Luke ended up trying five more times, reaching no more than ten meters before he gave up, and fell back into the water in defeat. He was starting to feel very tired, cold, hungry and cramped now, and the rush of hope he’d felt before had evaporated. He lay back and floated on the water, resting and thinking. He felt so tired, and wanted so badly to close his eyes, but knew this would be disastrous. He studied the rock wall before him, trying to think of a way to scale the wall, and then unhooked his lightsaber. He swam closer to the wall and then activated the lightsaber. He placed the tip of the lightsaber’s beam against the rock, and then cut a smooth niche ten centimeters deep and ten centimeters wide. A shoulder span away, Luke cut another niche. A few centimeters above those niches, Luke cut two more. He pulled himself up using the niches. This was a vast improvement. He was now much more steady. He looked up and sighed. At least another one hundred and forty-eight meters to go. Luke positioned his lightsaber and cut again. An hour later, Luke was nearing the top with about four meters left. His clothes had finally dried although he was still shivering from the chill of the night. He had passed beyond the stage of exhaustion and was now nearing a trance-like state. Cut-climb. Cut-climb. Cut-climb. Suddenly, he heard a rumbling noise from below. When he looked down, Luke saw that the water, still lit by the Cordenian moonlight was starting to roil and bubble. For a moment, Luke stared down stupidly at the churning liquid and then realized that he was in a geyser tunnel, and that the geyser was about to blow. “Oh, not good!” Luke muttered to himself as he started to stab into the rock faster with the lightsaber. The brief panic, the pain in his left leg which had returned, and the fatigue made Luke clumsy, and he slipped and started falling. As he fell, Luke quickly deactivated and rehooked lightsaber with his right hand while with his left, he pulled out the hooked cable he always wore on his belt. Moving hand over fist as swiftly as possible, he yanked out the cable and quickly threw the hook against the rock wall where it caught. Luke had fallen over sixty meters by the time he stopped himself. The water below was now churning more rapidly than ever. Luke quickly stuck his feet back into the niches he created, unhooked the cable and started scrambling up the rock face as quickly as he could. With about thirty meters left, he saw that the water was starting to rise rapidly. Luke scrambled up even faster, trying to outpace the water. At the last six meters, Luke took a deep breath and leapt up, letting the Force catapult him over the edge of the geyser tunnel back onto the surface of Cordenia. As soon as his feet touched the ground, Luke, ignoring his aching leg, began sprinting as fast as he could. The geyser water shot out behind him towering nearly a hundred meters into the air, and he was drenched again as he raced away from the mighty column of water. After running for a couple of minutes Luke was finally far enough away from the spurting pillar of water to avoid getting more water splashed on him. He slowed down and took stock of his location. He was on flat land, with a mountain range a few kilometers to his left and seemingly endless stretches of featureless plain in all other directions. Knowing that Artoo was likely still waiting anxiously for him in the mineshaft cave, Luke headed back toward the mountains. The walk took him over forty minutes. By this time, he had dried out, but was exhausted, dusty, and shivering with cold. Instead of wasting time looking for the cave where Artoo was waiting, he headed into the nearest mineshaft entrance. Using his lightsaber for illumination, he saw that the mineshaft entrance was large and empty with no leftover, rusting equipment that might fall on his head. Gratefully, Luke sank down on the dusty ground, and curled up into a well-deserved sleep. As Luke slept the deep sleep of exhaustion, two small sentients crept into the cave. They slowly made their way to the back, to the edge of the mineshaft and sat in the dark shadows, watching. -----signature----- Crest MD Naimé Evil Twin of Gabri_Jade When a baby smiles the world is happy VOTE OBAMA '08
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LovelyLea Registered: Jan '01	Date Posted: 12/9/02 5:13am Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/09
	Great post!!!! More soon, I hope!
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Sologal Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 12/9/02 9:51am Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/09
	Once again I find myself playing catch-up, but it's always worth the effort. You really write all of these characters well, LadyPadme. Poor Luke. Trouble seems to follow him around almost as much as it does Han.
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inez_the_swampgirl Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 12/9/02 10:02am Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/09
	You know, with as many situations he is able to get himself out of, he should have been named Luck, not Luke. inez -----signature----- I'd Do It All Again - http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=9359730&replies=0 Ex-Padawan to Excal
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Kirana_Ti Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 12/9/02 12:47pm Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/09
	MMm... a monster carrying thousands of mini-monsters inside of it... definitely worthy of the Lucas universe. And as soon as I have an idea of my own, I'll start writing Kirana Ti -----signature----- The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.- Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
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LadyPadme Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Sep '02	Date Posted: 12/9/02 4:23pm Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/09
	LovelyLea: Thanks! Of course, another post after midnight EST... Sologal: I'm flattered! Don't stay away too long, though, I'm winding up to the conclusion, soon... inez: Luke has to stay alive to complete the trilogy, right? Kirana_Ti: ooh...I'm not through with monsters yet... -----signature----- Crest MD Naimé Evil Twin of Gabri_Jade When a baby smiles the world is happy VOTE OBAMA '08
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RebelMom Title: TFF Secretary Registered: Apr '00	Date Posted: 12/9/02 7:12pm Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/09
	I'm exhausted just reading that. whew -----signature----- Short Story: Pressure Point http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/26961243/p1/?7 Jacen Solo and Anakin Skywalker - as it should have been. TFF: Cheryl
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inez_the_swampgirl Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 12/9/02 8:03pm Subject: RE: Of Spies and Sabacc (Pre-ESB/Leia, Han, Luke, Chewie) Updated 12/09
	Kirana_Ti, LP I thought those were thousands of baby monsters. inez -----signature----- I'd Do It All Again - http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=9359730&replies=0 Ex-Padawan to Excal
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