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jsemple wrote:

These are really great ideas people. Now I'll have to write a SW RPG album!

I have a feeling this will be very popular. Who knows? You may sire a whole new genre: "J. Semple, father of the RPG albums."

jsemple wrote:

Anyway, while I'm feeling generous, why don't you come up with a scene for me to score?

WOW. What an offer. My players would absolutely EXPLODE if they knew I was arranging with a real musician to score a favorite scene...the execution of Order 66 upon Bothan Jedi Knight Tau Qel Av'lon (a PC), and his "rescue" by the rest of the party of PCs.

Here's the background:

After helping Captain Arvala Chai, heir to the throne of Varonat, fight off a Trade Federation invasion on her homeworld, Bothan Jedi Knight Tau Qel Av'lon asks her to return the favor and spirit him to Utapau, where, he has just been informed, the Jedi Order's spies have located General Grievous. Also traveling with them is a small platoon of clones, sent by the Republic to Varonat as a show of the kind of military backup Varonat would enjoy if it would join the Republic.

Here's the scene itself:

Tau instructed the small platoon of clones to remain with and guard their ship, the Pride of Theed, while he went off alone to search for the Separatist leaders. Shortly after the Pride of Theed crew alighted from their berthed craft, Obseth, the crew's Mon Calamari engineer, spotted the clone troopers hastily leaving their post, armed and determined, without locking the ship down. Suspicious of this uncharacteristic behavior – and annoyed that Tau’s clone troopers would leave her ship unlocked in a public docking bay – Captain Arvala Chai contacted Tau by comlink to inquire whether he had ordered the clones to leave her ship. Tau assured her he had not, and before the com-link transmission ended, the clone troopers emerged from the lift onto Tau’s level and opened fire mercilessly on the Jedi, carrying out Order 66, which had been issued only moments before. The crack shots of these sniper experts found their mark with terrifying accuracy, obliterating the arm Tau had raised in an attempt to deflect the bolts with his yet-to-be ignited lightsaber, and removing one of his eyes in the process of executing him with a head-shot. The inertia of the hail of blaster fire threw Tau’s lifeless body over the edge of the sinkhole cavern and into the abyss below. Seeing this, Arvala hijacked an aircar and deftly caught Tau’s falling corpse. She rushed the body to her Force-sensitive Zabrak crew member Myceena "Mycki" Pimm, who, aided by her Kaiburr Crystal, and desperately calling on the power of her Iridonian Force-using coven, managed a miraculous feat no other Force User could possibly have accomplished . . . she dragged Tau’s lost life-force from the tempestuous gales of the dark eye of the "Maelstrom" (her coven's word for the Force) and back into the world of the living.

Here's the aftermath:

The Dark Side left its mark both on Mycki and on Tau in equal measure – for although the Dark Side is powerful, it never gives without cost (i.e., they both got some Dark Side Points for messing with the natural order of the life cycle). Obseth and Mycki rushed Tau to a nearby medical facility, where Pau’an medics immersed the Bothan Jedi in a tank of healing bacta, where he convalesced until he could sneak off-world and come to terms with the decimation of the Jedi Order, the only life he has ever known. (As it turns out, Tau Qel Av'lon is a favorite character of this player. This player also runs a Rebellion-era game for the rest of us, in which Tau a/k/a "Tal," was an aged, one-eyed, one-armed Jedi-on-the-run GMPC helping the Rebellion, and providing guidance to the PCs. Tal eventually died when the events of the Rebellion-era game finally caught up to the events of A New Hope.)

That's probably way more info than you needed, but I figured I'd give you the details and the context to help you get a handle on the feel of the scene and the characters. I look forward to your composition, maestro! And I can't wait to email the link to my players. They'll fall over. In the unlikely event you feel you need any further background information, the entire campaign has been chronicled in this post.