maskormenace | 10th Oration // Voice

I have a task available for any imPorts looking for work. A simple retrieval, quite legitimate.

[An image of the item in question is attached.]

Something was taken from me earlier this year. A weapon I crafted with my own hands, long ago: my lightsaber. A curved hilt, which emits a red blade of energy when activated. Powerful and elegant, if wielded by the proper hands. It is past time that it returned to my care, and I am prepared to offer a most handsome reward to anyone who assists me in this task. Should we be unable to agree on a fitting financial compensation, I am quite prepared to trade in favours or information instead.

[Dooku is kinda broke right now.]

Rest assured that I desire this item for no sinister purpose. It is my own creation and rightful possession, and I have keenly regretted its absence during recent perils.

I encourage all of you who don't have some manner of weapon or suitable powers to think carefully of how you, too, can defend yourselves. We live in dangerous times, and our enemies are many. Tell me, are you prepared to protect your own life and the lives of those around you when danger threatens? The time may come for you, if it hasn't already, when you will have to answer this question in ways beyond the hypothetical.

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[SKEPTICISM!]

Those channels answer to the same weak authorities responsible for this and so much other nonsense. Where might a grievance be actually heard and acted upon?

[ He thinks of Chauncy, remembering the rebellion in him– a glimpse of something he caught in his mind that felt almost like... an addiction, a compulsion drawing him to lost causes, to proving them not so lost after all. An inherent, indefatigable tenacity masquerading as simple obstinacy. From what he's seen of it, he knows that he wants to see more.

And he may just be the perfect candidate for this. ]

I might have a recommendation for you. An imPort who may be willing to pursue the matter.

Indeed?

[Now this is interesting. If Dooku was still recruiting for the Constellation he would have already been seeking such rebellion out to approach, but as it is now he still feels something stirring within him as he sets the exchange to PRIVATE.]

I would be very interested to learn more of this person, Kylo Ren.

My own legal representative, Chauncy Anderson. I think if you were to approach him with your... concerns, about the carelessness of your captors having misplaced your weapon– you may find him willing to take your case.

Chauncy Anderson. I see. Thank you, my friend.

I wasn't aware that you had retained legal representation. A most prudent precaution, I must say.

[And unusually civilized for someone of Ren's... passionate nature. The Count wonders if Hux might have planted the idea in his mind.]

[ Hux had, in fact, made the arrangement on Kylo's behalf, some time after he'd gotten himself banned from Exxtreme Fitness: an establishment not quite as exceptional as its name suggested, and the third or fourth of its kind to put him on a blacklist. ]

I considered it a waste of time until I met with the man. Tell him I recommended you seek his services.

[Clearly Extreme Fitness is weak and unworthy.]

I will do so. He must be skilled indeed, to have changed your mind in this manner.

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