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Characters can, like real people, have all sorts of different bonds. They can be related by blood or by marriage. They could have grown up together or worked together. They might be master and apprentice, or liege and servant. They may have been through a shared experience together, either traumatic or enjoyable.
Or they may be connected by weird circumstances. Successive hosts of the same brain-manipulating parasite. Linked by Fate to die together. Haunted by the same spirit for crimes against it. Cursed by the same malignant item. Mutual reincarnations of each other in a time loop. Two parts of a hive mind.
Find interesting and unusual ways to link characters. Either PCs to each other, or PCs to significant NPCs in your campaign. Don't overdo it though - not everyone needs to be a long-lost brother to the king or a magical clone of an evil wizard.
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
A Force Phone call is like a Force Vision right? It's a little weird to have it be Kylo yet again, but perhaps some info drop about the knife or the helmet will happen during the fight. Actually, thinking about it, almost every Force Vision has involved Kylo somehow. I wonder if I'm just reading into things because Kylo's the only other Force User that's actually active and doing things, or if it's a mostly intentional thing by the writers.
Having a surprise lightsaber fight like this is certainly a choice here. Especially since it's likely just as confusing in the movie if Rey started this fight or if Kylo did. Also interesting is that Kylo seems to be completely on the Steadfast now as that is definitely a parry with no Kijimi in the background. Force Teleport or whatever it was like Luke in the last movie? Or is this some other kind of Force power doing things this time?
Transcript
GM: <roll>...
GM: You feel a chilling breeze behind you.
Rey: I turn, laser sword drawn.
GM: Kylo Ren’s cape ripples as snowflakes swirl around him.
Rey: Snowflakes? He’s on Kijimi.
Kylo Ren: Rey. To what do I owe the pleasure of this call?
Rey: You didn’t contact me?
Rey: There’s some weird Force bond here. Luke mentioned it.
[SFX]: whmmm... {Rey’s laser sword hums}
Kylo Ren: I sense you’re close, but where are you?
Rey: It’d be pretty funny if I told you, but also dangerous, so I won’t.
Rey: I’m going to cut the link.
GM: How?
Rey: With my sword!!
[SFX]: Whooom!
GM: Sally, roll to parry.
Kylo Ren: 13.
Rey: Wait. He can parry the sword?? That’s crossing the streams!
[SFX]: kzzrzzkk! {their swords are locked}
Kylo Ren: Finally, a long-distance relationship with real connection.
[SFX]: kzzrzzkk!