Dal and the Bugman Story 4: "By the Numbers"

For the sake of simplicity Rudy Too's stats are the same as Greedo [p.68 Trilogy SE] Rudy is the Rodian from the previous game.
Rudy Too has a plan that he has been waiting to hatch. After his slave market was shut down in the last raid, his bosses have had him in the desert doing patrols (looking for Captain Seprine if she was able to escape the events of last adventure.) Rudy is subordinate to two Nimbanel brothers Jhumjo "the Greater" and Jhumjo "the Lesser." "The Greater" is likely the Nimbanel clerk the players have encountered most in past games. He is a competent servant except in his loyalty to his lesser brother. "The Lesser" is addicted to spice and is beginning to cause a series of mistakes that others are noticing. Until the events of this adventure, his older brother has always been there to bail him out. Both have the same stats as Lhojugg [Star Wars Adventure Journal volume 11 p. 109] While exploring the desert, "The Greater" found a BT-16 parameter security droid [Cynabar's Fantastic Technology p.80] in decent working order which the Jawa merchants from a passing sand crawler were unloading at a bargain price. In possession of this droid, he plans to use it as his assassin to cement his power under Jabba. Rudy has enlisted the help of Sy Snootles [p.104 Trilogy Sourcebook SE] Of course, she has secretly tipped Jabba off to the whole plan, but the boss doesn't care if he looses a few lieutenants to their own incompetence. "The Lesser's" addiction and behavior are already a poor reflection on Jabba. Jabba would very quickly feel differently if he was implicated or threatened by any of his Lieutenants' actions, but they have wisely left him out of their plans.

Story 4: Episode 1

Mos Eisley is hosting shore leave for "The Virus," a Kuat Drive Yards' Escort Carrier. This is not a typical activity for the community, but it is also not unheard of. The TIE compliment in the belly or the ship has taken a beating and it just so happens that Mos Eisley has enough docking bays to put the fighters back into rotation in a matter of days, which would be much faster than the carrier needing to go out of its way to travel to a military starport. This means that at any given time there are at least six TIE pilots [p. 42 imperial soucebook] in town with credits to burn. Any goods the imperials might want are doubled in price and starport services are impossible to obtain until "The Virus" leaves port.
One TIE pilot, Drond Kruggs, is from Travnin and used to the far rim lifestyle. He purchased a raffle ticket from Jhumjo "The Lesser" which has a winning number. He asks his friend pilot Gins Statmeyer from plant Coruscant to join him in revelry, but Gins is homesick and having trouble with his wife. Dround mentions to Gins that he bought the ticket at Heff's Souvenirs [p. 61 galaxy guide 7.]
Drond goes back to find Jhumjo "The Lesser" and soon learn that the Nimbanel spent the money on spice and has no money to pay the pilot his winnings. A fight ensues behind the shop and away from prying eyes where two of Jhumjo's henchmen Gomorrean [p.213 core book] armed with knives will stab Dround to death.
The players are alerted to the body which has been moved to nearby a trash heap, but all they have as a lead is the fact that Lon (Dal's little brother) saw Drond and Gins together before Drond died. Lon has a job distributing news leaflets printed by droids who collect information from the space travelers. The service and the droids owned by a news service that spans many systems. Lon's new occupation should be a convent tool for the game master. Gins [p.42 imperial soucebook] is furious, but is dead set on solving the problem by himself. He has a pretty good idea where and why his friend died. The detectives will need to use some form of coercion to get Gins to cooperate, but it's obvious he's in a nasty mood and has become unpredictable.
If the players investigate Heff's, Moplin Jarron [p.62 Galaxy guide 7] will be terrified to point the finger at Jabba or anyone associated with him. However with some good role playing, some of the local urchins can be convinced to mention Jhumjo "the Lesser's" regular activity near the business. The players can also find that the Nimbanel frequents the cantina.
When the players arrive at the cantina, Gins is there keeping a low profile but doing a substantial amount of drinking. Everybody witnesses a discreet scolding of "the Lesser" by his older brother. Using sneak or perhaps some sort of listening ability, the players can hear the exact nature of this discussion, but both of the clerks are careful with their words. The only exact information they get is that "the Lesser" sold Drond a ticket to a non existent raffle in order to feed an out of control spice addition. The murder itself is not mentioned, but guilt and anger are strongly implied even if the players can't hear a word. Gins is obviously upset. He continues drinking and muttering to himself about how he "can't believe they are going to get away with it." The players are distracted by having to separate a kind fight between two Abyssin [Galaxy Guide 4 p. 5] customers. When they take care of the problem, the Nimbanel clerks and Gins are gone.

Story 4: Episode 2

The players start their day with another high profile murder. At Jabba's Town House [p.45 Galaxy guide 7] there was a shooting. In his drunken stupor, Gins left the cantina with Sy Snootles [p.104 Trilogy.] What truely happened is that Rudy's BT-16 droid was waiting inside just as Rudy and Snootles planned. "The Greater" who had been using the house and keeping Snootles as a guest, heard that Snootles had come back to the house with another man, and dismissed the guards for the night. In a fury, he stormed after her. When he arrived Gins was completely passed out from overindulgence and the BT-16 droid shot "the Greater" dead. Afterwards, the droid crept away and Sy Snootles runs a computer program provided by Rudy that corrupts essential sports of the recordings in the monitoring room. Therefore the BT-16 was able to escape unrecorded due to what looks like a malfunction. Gins wakes up confused to find "the Greater" shot to death with a blaster. He flees the scene. After a successful attempt on his boss's life, Rudy then has Sy deflect the blame onto Gins. She says she had no idea Gins had it in for "The Greater" but that when Jhumjo cane home, Gins shot him dead.
Gins and the droid are nowhere to be found, and the players may find evidence, in tracks or by the nature of the blaster wounds for example, that Sy's story is not entirely accurate, but they find no concrete evidence of any additional wrong doing and certainly nothing to convict her of. Harburik, the player's chief, warns Snootles not to leave Mos Eisley until the department determines exactly what happened.
In the meantime Jhumjo "the Lesser" is terribly upset about what happened to his brother. Rudy has convinced him wrongfully that Jabba will view him weak if he doesn't avenge his brother. Jabba never would trust "the Lesser" with any of his brother's responsibilities, but through Sy Snootles he is carefully able to keep an eye on the situation.
Let up on the players a bit and allow them to do some shopping or networking with their contacts. As they do so, suddenly have an officer call them on the comlink stating that he saw Jhumjo in a shoot out with Gins and the officer is in pursuit.
Obviously the players will need to travel to this location and you should make it difficult to do so, whether it's running through all the merchants and shoppers in town, pressing for the imperials for a landing zone when nearly all those in town are taken, or racing in to town on a speeder. Make it suspenseful, but when the players arrive "the Lesser" is dead and Gins is gone. One thing that should be obvious is that these light blaster pistol death wounds are very different than what the droid did to Jhumjo with his repeating blaster.
All of his plan's success is going to Rudy's head. He thinks that Jabba can't see through his plan, but he is wrong on that count. He also makes another foolish assumption in thinking he can close the investigation simply by eliminating the detectives. He has been careful to keep his image out of the BT-16 droid's memory by using other droids to interact with it, so he sets the droid on to the detectives while they are still at the crime scene which he orchestrated.
If things are going too good for the players (perhaps they have the Dayrider), then introduce some potential collateral damage such as civilians to present a sense of urgency. If things are going too poorly, have some officers or militiamen show up to help.
Rudy was careful to keep his own image out of the droid's mind, but he was not careful with Sy Snootles. Her image is still in the droid's memory. The droid is programed not to attack her and she was there at the murder of "the Greater." Players obviously need to use the next day finding Sy Snootles.

Story 4: Episode 3

Players have been listening to rumors and patrols for reports of Sy Snootles. They hear that she just fled out to the desert to board a ship, specifically the Oo-Ta Goo-Ta [p.84 Tramp freighters] it looks like she is going somewhere on Tatooine, but being flown the long way around the planet to avoid "the Virus."
Players will get into either a chase or a fight in "the Dayrider." They must keep Snootles alive, but she paid a pretty penny to get to Jabba's palace intact and Chordak [p.84 Tramp Freighters] will do whatever it takes within reason to get her there. He is not opposed to surrender, however, if pressed.
Sy Snootles will fall on the mercy of the detectives and confess everything Rudy did. She will do whatever it takes to save her own hide. This includes confessing that Rudy has urged her to send a message to Gins telling him to meet her out in the desert. The coordinates lead to the Sarlacc pit. Where Rudy hopes to murder and dispose of Gins without leaving a trace.
Rudy assumes the detectives are dead, and he brings who are now his Gomorrean guards out to help him hunt Gins down. Gins rented passage out to the desert, but he was told to meet Sy alone so he only has a comlink which Rudy is hoping won't reach anyone in time. If Rudy is met on the ground, he attacks with just the guards. If he is truely threatened and has time, he calls in headhunters for backup. If Gins is successfully saved, he will own them his life.
Award the players XP