The Journal of Jorca Badagar

Entry Five.

We slept safely during the night.  Dakkin returned that morning, bearing a medkit with 6 medpacs and other medical supplies.  Crysta wasn't there when I woke, but returned shortly after Dakkin.  I sensed Dakkin was troubled & talked to him.  He told me that his sister is missing.  I assumed that the orders he brought back from Master Skywalker regarding a new mission will concern finding her.  Crysta prepared the stintaril skull from the stintaril that bit her arm yesterday and had me cut it so she could make a helmet.

Master Skywalker's orders allowed us to finish exploring the temple before reporting back for the next mission.  We explored further, finding another bedroom.  I found another door in the T-hallway.  It lead to the "main" chamber of the temple, which we have called the Altar room.  Presumably, it is used for ceremonies.  I sensed a disturbance in the Force, along the Dark Side, within the room.  I called Master Skywalker for advice.  It was decided that we would leave the room alone.  It would be educational to come back with an experienced Jedi and examine the temple further.

We went back to the sintaril room and searched it, finding a hole large enough for a human to pass through and a door leading to what seems to be a primitive fresher.  Crysta shot something in the two-seater fresher.  I don't know what it was, but she killed it.  While the rest of us examined the stintaril room, Koyi left the fresher, went outside, got a stick, returned to the fresher and somehow managed to injure himself.  I sensed something alive down the stintaril room hole.  Kang said it smelled of stintaril.  Dakkin dropped in a stun grenade, stunning something, probably a stintaril.  Koyi decided to go in with vines tied around his waste, by which Kang could control his descent.  Kang warned him that something was still moving in the hole.  Koyi encountered and killed a stintaril.  In the meantime, Crysta worked on crafting her helmet.  Koyi reached the bottom of the hole, which ended in an "L".  He shot at more stintarils.  Kang dragged him out of the hole with a stintaril attached to Koyi's leg.  Dakkin killed it with his lightsaber and we left the room, closing the doors to prevent further pursuit.

We continued exploring, finding another room with a crystal snake that Crysta calmed.  She wanted to take it with her, but Kang and I convinced her not to.  We also found a door, at which Dakkin, Crysta and I all got bad feelings.  We decided to leave it alone, despite Koyi's curiosity about it.  We found another bedroom, then I went back to the "bad feeling" door and extended my senses, seeing a pit of darkness beyond it.  Having finished exploration of the temple (at least safe exploration), we packed up and returned to the Great Temple where we reported to Master Skywalker.  He told us that our next mission is to collect a ship at Sluis Van that has been donated to the Academy.  I am surprised we weren't assigned to locating Dakkin's sister...