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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2014 7:22:18 GMT
Session 15 Recap
The Hellcat fighter had its weapons locked on the Aeschylus. It was broadcasting the following words: “I got your message.” The ship was awoken by Pon, but Theo needed some loud blasting music to get him moving. Theo told them that it was nothing to be afraid of, and the he had to talk to them real quick-like.
Theo hailed the Hellcat fighter and a woman answered it and she had dyed red hair with several face piercings and a tattoo under her left eye. Some cybernetic implants could be seen coming out of her outfit but her neck was mostly flesh. Theo fixed his hair and awkwardly talked to her. She asked him what he wanted. She asked how much she could sell Theo's ship for. She said that she wasn't sure what her intentions were yet, as she still had her weapons locked on them.
She mentioned that the last time that they talked that it didn't end well, and Theo told her that the other woman kissed him not the other way around. She then responded by building up the intensity of her ship's weapons. Theo tried to calm her down, and did so. Theo said that he missed her, and she made him go on and talk more. He wanted to know if they could get back together. She asked if he bought her anything, and he hadn't. It was a bit touch and go there. She rolled her eyes at his awkwardness and then Theo invited to give her a tour. She gave him some time (about 20 minutes) to “set up some candles or something.” She then disarmed her weapons. She waved her fingers at the cam before the call ended.
Long Veer gave his approval for this Hellcat woman to visit the ship, and Bryce did a datanet sweep of her name to see what kind of reputation that she had. Annelle “Madhawk” Wynter. Bryce said that she had an impressive, successful, and violent record. Bryce made sure that Theo and her were on good terms... and he wasn't totally impressed with Theo's reassuring words. Long Veer wanted her to stay away from their sensitive parts of the ship. Annelle noticed the alien vessel that was attached to the ship as she flew around the ship. Theo began to replicate candles and set up things for his guest. Long Veer noticed that the way that she flew her ship had a deadly predator vibe to it. Annelle thought the alien vessel might have been an Earther prototype and was shocked to learn that it was alien. She wanted a tour, and she called it a date. She told him to relax, and then she docked with the ship.
Pon said that she wanted to meet her to see if Annelle was an appropriate mate for him, and then she said that she didn't want him to be with a “skank.” Theo said that Pon needed to give up the whole mothering thing.
Bryce noted that the Hellcat fighter had a dizzying array of deadly weapons. He learned that she had a remote way to control the vessel remotely through a cybernetic implant. Her range was most likely in kilometers. He was coming up with ways to disrupt that signal.
Annelle walked into the docking bay and she seemed to have some hidden cybernetic implants. She walked in a very tense way, seemingly ready for violence at any second. She ran up and gave Theo a big hug, and spun him around once or twice. She put her fingers into Theo's hair and forcibly pulled his face forward and kissed him roughly. He wanted to show her around, and she had this ornery smirk on her face. She asked how large of a crew that he had, and she was shocked that there was only 4 1/2 crew left. She was informed about the alien Chomper, and she was shocked. She asked if they were torturing it for information, and she thought that Theo had gone soft when she heard about how the crew were dealing with the Quay. She tripped and pushed him hard onto the ground.
After sliding for a bit, Theo came to an abrupt halt. Annelle jumped on his back, grabbed his throat and began to bite and kiss his right ear. “I'm not getting off of you until you make me get off of you.” She then began to fondle and caress Theo. Pon asked over the intercoms if Theo needed some assistance, and she seemed worried. Jinu's feet were marching towards his location. Annelle kept telling him to hurry up before the rest of them got there. Bryce thought that this was awkward to watch all of this on the cams. Annelle flipped Theo over and ripped his shirt off, his buttons were rolling around on the hallway grating, and then he returned the favor. <FADE TO BLACK>
Bryce stepped in to help calm Pon down. She was marching towards Theo and clutching her hands and releasing them. She was very concerned. “He's bleeding!” “He has screamed several times!” “He has lost some of his hair!” Pon stopped marching and she was trying to calm down. Bryce agreed that it was a disturbing sight. “His arm is detached!” “That can't be good for his spine!” Pon mimicked a deep breath and then she followed Bryce's suggestion to cover the appliances in the medbay. She was doing so roughly. She seemed to be trying to stay busy.
Annelle was leaning casually on her side, and Theo was scrambling to find his cybernetic arm. He was bleeding and bruised and covered in scratches and lipstick. He had a placid smile on his face. The cybernetic arm had some broken servos. She kicked Theo's pants over to him. “Well, you have shown me the hallway... is there any other place you can show me.” Annelle collected her things, and she dressed but she did so in a casual and she didn't button all of the buttons etc. She didn't seem to concerned about showing some extra skin and her other hidden cybernetic implants.
Annelle mentioned Pon and questioned her and called her a bitch. She didn't understand why an A.I. Would be like that. “Why didn't you discontinue that thing when you took over the ship? She seems like a pain in the ass to me.” Theo stood up for Pon, but she didn't think too highly of the motherly Pon. They headed up to the bridge.
In the medbay Jinu's head turned around and Pon's face stared at Bryce as he came to see her. He wanted to calm her and discuss things with her. Bryce said that it may be suspicious if everything was covered. “What does Theo see in her Bryce?” Bryce told her that human relationships are tricky. Pon looked up Bryce and Annelle to see if anything came up on them and found that she was involved with lots of bar brawls, border disputes, and other mercenary-type encounters. “She is so dangerous.” Bryce told her that that could be seen as bold or confident and maybe that attracted Theo to her. He also tried to make sure that Pon wasn't going to be a threat. “Is this jealousy Bryce, is this what I'm experiencing?” Bryce asked her what Theo and Annelle made her think. “I think of killing her. I'm not going to follow that course of action, but that is what I feel. I want to smash her pretty face with my fist.” Bryce asked her what if she makes Theo happy and she responded, “I think that makes me want to hurt her even more.”
Pon said that she probably shouldn't interact with the crew for awhile and she asked Bryce to take over her duties for her. “I am going to go and clean out some clogged out subroutines and redirect some circuits.” He told her not to do anything rash (kind of prophetically). Jinu/Pon sat down in a closet and the lights of Jinu went out. Bryce then checked for his rifle under his bed in his quarters.
Long Veer contacted Bryce about Pon and he seemed to be worried about her. Bryce told the Captain that she was having a hard time working through her emotions. Bryce then told the Captain that he wasn't too sure about the Hellcat fighter either. Bryce then hung out with Chompers for a bit to keep him in line.
The couple arrived at the cockpit and Long Veer greeted them after adjusting his suit. She shook his hand and asked, “what happened to your face?” She thought that his Regulator Reform Chip was terrible and she seemed to feel for a bit. She said that she would perhaps listen to him. She said that she wasn't sure how long she would be staying and that it depended on Theo. She seemed a bit perturbed with Theo for not asking her to stay on the ship, and put her hands on her hips. “You need to be more direct Theo, ask me.” The Captain agreed with her. Theo asked the Captain first if that would be alright first, and that also made her a bit grumpy.
On the dashboard there was a distress beacon flashing away. Kazuko was there and chatted with Long Veer. Kazuko told the Captain that they were captured by the Shi, and some Quay were also imprisoned with them. A Commander Linn informed Kazuko that unless the rest of the crew surrendered any and all any Quay information that they were going to kill Ying and Kazuko. Kazuko had tried to negotiate with them and for that he was roughed up. Somehow the Shi were aware that the crew had certain abilities and that they had attached some instruments to their skulls, as a sort of a Regulator. They weren't being tortured but Kazuko told them that they meant business.
Bryce triangulated Kazuko's position, and he seemed to be currently on one of the asteroids that were being hurled towards Gongen and Earth as a planetkilling weapon. The Shi ship was headed towards Gongen, and it and the asteroid were 2 hours out from impact. Annelle pushed Theo's shoulder and made him ask her formally, and then she accepted and said that she would stay with him.
There was an intense buzzing sound in their inner ears, and the crews hairs rose on their necks and arms. Long Veer called out to Pon and nothing but silence answered. Bryce told him that Pon was busy. An image of light or energy looked like Kazuko with his edges, and it looked like a hologram of him. This strange ethereal image of him was there in the cockpit, and his legs were sunk in the floor. His arms were sunk into the dashboard as if he was trying to glean information. Then Kazuko spoke in this metallic disembodied voice to the crew. Long Veer jumped back, scared half to death. Commander Linn told them that he held two of their companions, and he learned of the prototypes the crew had as well as the information that the crew had about the Quay. Long Veer made sure that Ying and Kazuko were alive and they were. Annelle had a weapon pointed at Kazuko but she wasn't firing.
Long Veer said that he would transfer information, and their prototypes as long as they didn't kill the crew. The coordinates were transferred to the crew to the moving asteroid. Commander Linn said that he would have no problem killing his captives. Long Veer said that if his friends were killed that he would kill the Commander and exterminate his entire alien race. The form of Kazuko then vanished and reappeared.
Kazuko had wrestled his voice away from the Commander and he began to talk to him. He seemed very frustrated and sad. “I'm sorry about this, I didn't mean to put the crew in this position. I'm sorry that I'm putting you in danger.” Long Veer and Theo told him that they were going to get him back. “This Commander is used to having his orders obeyed, and I really tried to talk to him so that he could understand us somewhat but I failed. I couldn't get him to understand that humanity means no harm. The Commander thought that humanity was hiding something, perhaps some weapon. I held out for as long as I could.” The form wavered a bit. “I wouldn't count on the Commander keeping his word, I think he has been told to eliminate us all.”
Kazuko's body started walking towards the engine room, and he was silent for a bit. The crew followed him, except for Long Veer who stayed in the cockpit. Annelle went with Theo to protect him.
(((I missed that part in the game, hehe, I sort of zoned out there from sleep deprivation I think)))
Kazuko's body then put its arm into the wall and tried to access information. Bryce thought that this energy being was actually Kazuko and then Bryce used a False Front Kizen Power to veil all the true information with false information. Bryce really didn't want the Shi to learn any ship information, and he covered up and concealed the ships information. The Shi were not going to learn anything from this weird apparition of a controlled Kazuko. All info on the Quay or their prototypes was hidden, as well as their coordinates. The false information also said that they were currently by Saturn.
Annelle was stalking behind Kazuko with her gun aimed at him and she was looking over at Theo with a bewildered look on her face. Kazuko began to speak again. “They want the data, all of the data on the ship.” There seemed to be a spiritual battle to regain control of his energy body, and he was finally successful with a surge of pure willpower. He then fell to his hands and knees and there was strain and pain in his voice. “Bryce! The firewalls are they up?” Bryce told him, “One is up in your very mind, don't fear. Kazuko, do you have any orders for us? Is there anything that you want us to do?” Kazuko told them with a strained voice, “I have tried to spread knowledge, peace, and the ways of the heart in my life, but you must promise me if it is necessary, you must promise me, to BLOW THESE SHI TO HELL!!!” The energy of his body became very chaotic and volatile but then it returned to its form. Then the form began accessing information again by putting its arm in the wall.
Kazuko's head turned to Theo who was trying to communicate still. There was a subtle nod from Kazuko and on the panel there was a slight acknowledgment on the computer consoles from him but no words. Theo asked Bryce to check the scans to see if there was anything that could be done about the image of Kazuko. There was a quantum effect and a strange electro-magnetic effect and light... but it was very strange. Theo said that they should be able to cut off the energy being but Bryce warned that interrupting the image might actually harm Kazuko back where his body was back with his Shi captors.
There was a sudden shaking and there was an intense sensation as the ship had kicked on its Grav5 Drive. Annelle wrapped her left arm around Theo and the sight of him was disturbing to her. “I hope that that never happens to us...” She began to pull him away from Kazuko when Kazuko started to walk with a purpose towards the engine room.
Long Veer said that he went from cold to fast start, and Theo said that the bigger the ship the worse it is. Long Veer said that he had to go get the Captain and Kazuko. Just then Chompers began to gallop down the hallway and attacked the Kazuko image and flew right through it and then Chompers slid right in front of Annelle and Theo. She then pulled Theo down on top of her and something strange happened, Kazuko's image also was hurled down in a similar way that Theo went down... Chompers then stood up and then he began to stab at the Kazuko image with his pointed feet, tearing at nothing with its claws, and Kazuko reacted like he would if he was physically there but none of the attacks landed.
Theo consoled Annelle about Chompers and she was terrified. When Theo stood up Kazuko stood up and started walking to the engine room again. Theo sat down and nothing happened. Annelle then held onto Theo and then Kazuko stopped moving again. There was some strange connection to her. “Keep that thing away from me... Don't leave me.” She clutched Theo and pulled him down and then Kazuko was hurled down again. Kazuko's voice was taken over again by the Shi Commander Linn. “No interference will be allowed. No one will stop this mission. Whatever you are doing you better stop it!” Annelle clobbered the side of Theo's face, and Kazuko went flying into the wall. She hit him again for good measure. Chompers was trying to break through the wall with its pointed feet trying to find Kazuko's image. He was getting hot and he had a strong desire to kill the image. Theo calmed him down.
Kazuko gained control of his body again and peered out from the wall. Bryce did a scanner sweep to try to figure out how the Shi were doing this, and what was going on with Annelle and the image and Theo. Just then Jinu/Pon was working her way to the medlab, and Bryce was making his way there. Bryce used Deep Thoughts on Annelle and probed her mind to see what she was thinking.
Pon uncovered and set up the 3D printer.
Annelle was terrified of Chompers, and worried that Theo would be killed by the Quay. She wanted to toughen up Theo a bit. He is cute and all, but a bit soft for her tastes and a bit of a pansy. These were the thoughts bouncing around in her head that Bryce was reading. There didn't seem to be any thoughts of harming the crew. Bryce restrained himself from reading Kazuko's mind as he wanted to give his former crew member some privacy as he was running toward the medbay.
Kazuko was waving his arms around and getting frustrated. He wanted the crew to somehow thwart the Shi Commander's plans. Kazuko pointed to Annelle and told Theo that she was the key to what was happening, and that the crew should use her to stop this madness. Annelle kicked Theo's legs out from under him and then Kazuko then fell over in a similar way. “Theo I have some doubts about your girlfriend, she doesn't seem very nice...” Kazuko tried to swing to see if he could make Theo swing at Annelle but it didn't work.
Theo concocted an idea and got dressed in an Esuit (environmental suit) so that Annelle could push him out into space. Theo hoped that Kazuko's energy image would get thrown off of the ship. Captain Long Veer did not like that order at all and refused to let it happen. He told them that the ship was moving and that if Theo went out while they were moving he wouldn't come back. Annelle started walking towards Kazuko, and then she leaned in and kissed him. “Did you feel anything?” Strangely he did. She then reached “down” and he felt that too. Annelle then grabbed ahold of Kazuko's image and tried to kick-throw him out of the ship but halfway through it failed. Annelle then spun and kicked Kazuko in the face and he was closer to the hull of the ship.
Theo told her to stop, and she headbutted Kazuko. “You are too soft. Saint Theo is that it? You do whatever you want, I'm going for a damn walk.” Kazuko was awestruck by what she was doing.
Captain Long Veer said that his plan was really out there, and Theo looked overwhelmed by Annelle and what was going on. Annelle stopped walking, turned around, and then she ran full tilt at Theo and slammed into him. After the tackle she picked him up and she started walking to the airlock, and Theo put on his helmet. Kazuko also slid across the floor in a similar violent manner. Long Veer asked Bryce to lock all of the doors.
Bryce had gotten to the medlab (way faster than he should have due to his Kizen Speed). She had just plugged in the 3D printer. He asked what her plan was. “I was going to print another one, another Kazuko so that you do not have to worry about him.” Bryce responded, “we would be worried either way.” Pon responded, “If you have a Kazuko here you do not have to give into the Shi's demands. As to Captain Ying, sorry, but I do not care about him.” That last bit sounded rather cruel and cold. Then she hit the printer button and the 3D printer kicked into a rhythym and began to print the lowest levels of Kazuko's cloned flesh as if he was lying there in some invisible state. The mechanical arms began whirring and building up his flesh. <Printing Sequence Activated> “You have no right to do this, Kazuko is still alive. We don't know what kind of Kazuko this will produce, what kind of psychological damage it will give the new clone.” Bryce then hacked and broke Pon's lock and shut down the printing process. It stopped, and only a fine line of flesh was on the bed of the printer in Kazuko's outline.
“Pon please do not make such rash decisions that could have such large consequences without first talking it through with the rest of the crew first!” She replied, “You are being irresponsible, the information that you will give them will aid their cause. They could use it to great effect. Don't you see how stupid that is?” Bryce told her that they were not going to give the Shi anything, and that he had prevented them from learning anything via the Kazuko energy form. He repremanded Pon and she seemed to take it hard. “We do not have to produce new aberrant life to prevent them from learning anything.” Pon asked if Bryce killed the clone of Kazuko. “It was never alive to begin with, it is just an outline of flesh.” She seemed maybe to have remorse... or maybe she didn't, it was hard to tell. “Should I shut down again for awhile Bryce?” He told her that it was up to her. “Perhaps you should reprogram me Bryce. You don't seem to approve of my actions.” Bryce responded, “Pon, I just need you to calm down right now. You're emotional which is something none of us would have expected and it is affecting your judgment.”
“I'm sorry Bryce...” -Pon
The body of Jinu/Pon slumped over and collapsed against the wall. All the lights were extinguished. Bryce tried to access Pon and she was unavailable again (or not there at all), and it was Jinu's lights that were out. Pon's face wasn't on his face monitor either. Bryce looked through footage to see what was going on with Kazuko's energy image.
Annelle with Theo in tow was on the way to the airlock. “This plan of yours better work, whatever is happening is not good.” Theo wiggled himself free and she slapped his ass a few times before he got free. They arrived at the airdock. Long Veer prevented them from leaving by having the doors locked. Annelle was worried and Theo assured her that he could fix everything.
Long Veer asked Bryce what was going on, and he said that he was stressed and okay. “I need orders right now, give me orders.” Bryce looked at the scanners and he thought that they might be able to disrupt the elector-magnatism but they weren't sure what effect that would have on the actual living Kazuko that was a prisoner of the Shi. The doors were locked and Theo couldn't get out.
Long Veer told Annelle to throw Theo towards the hull, and he slammed into it. Kazuko's ethereal body was then thrown out into space and then he was left in the ship's wake. They had removed Kazuko from the ship. Long Veer was worried that the Shi could reestablish the link again but for now they were safe.
Annelle said that she would take care of him, and suggested that they go lay down in the Platonics Bay. Long Veer told Theo to go check out the engine room, and Annelle said that they shouldn't but Theo went to the engine room with her in tow. When she walked by Long Veer he whispered, “Please don't break him. Tarnishing and dinging is fine but don't break him.” She said that if she did break him she would have to find someone on the ship to take his place and she gave Long Veer a “look.”
Chompers called the Shi “Soul Rippers” and said that they used forms of devilry. Long Veer and Chompers went up to the cockpit and Chompers said in his pile that was right behind the Captain's chair.
Meanwhile Kazuko was rotating and spinning in space at THE RIFT. He was affected by the unaltered view of the wonders of the vibrant universe around him. A tear welled in his eye back where his body was. He focused his mind on the beauty around him and tried not to think of his captivity.
Long Veer detected a minute tachyon partical stream that was now broken, and he thought they might be able to shield that stream so that they couldn't project anything again. He wasn't sure where the stream was originating. Theo seemed to be projecting this stream of particles.
Out in space began talking to himself, the Commander Linn taking turns with Kazuko. “They don't seem to care about you at all. Perhaps using you was a mistake.” “They do care about me, probably too much. I don't think you could have made a better decision Commander.” The alien Shi replied, “It seems like killing you has no purpose. We will keep you in stasis and harvest your mind. There are things there that we would possess.” Kazuko said that he would give them the information if they just asked. “We will take what we want, asking is beneath us. You are simply chaff before the wind as your people sometimes say. All that you possess shall come to naught.” Kazuko replied that his Master had once told him, “Even the wisest man can learn wisdom from the wind.”
The Shi Commander continued, “Your trivial ape-like banter does not concern me. Though we have learned that you brokered a peace treaty between your kind and our slaves (The Quay).” He paused. “Interesting, we would not have expected that one such as you, one of your kind... could posses such tact.” Kazuko tried to tell them that humanity was more advanced than the Shi knew and that humanity was constantly improving and evolving and that in that regard humanity was greater than they are. “Even if that be the case humanity will be extinct soon and that will not matter. Your home worlds will be nothing but craters, chunks of lifeless matter floating in nothingness.” Bravely Kazuko replied, “We have our diligence and our hope and you will not stop us.” “Perhaps some of your kind will survive in cracks and crevices on forgotten cold moons and asteroids of no significance. Kazuko gave up trying to talk sense to this creature, realizing that its nature was at times to cause chaos and to do nothing but destroying.
The Shi Commander told Kaz that he and the Captain would be cloned and used as shock troops for their war inventory. He was shocked and angered, and the fact that clones of him would be used to kill humans greatly disturbed him. “We will alter your DNA and remove the excess bits of waste. You shall kill in our name, kill in our voice, and our thought symbols will reside in your skull.” Kaz' grasp on his serenity slipped away and he was emenating anger and frustration and then the energy being dispersed. He was back in the Shi prison then, and he was impaled on a spiked mechanism with each spike between one of his vertebrae. Blood was running down his back, and a Shi Overlord was floating above him. Its three unblinking black eyes were inches away from Kazuko's face and it moved its blue-gray skinned hand over his face and he faded to black.
Theo checked the engine room while Annelle slowly took off her clothing one piece at a time. He didn't seem to notice at first. She was draping her clothes on levers, handles, and over other forms of the equipment. After checking the dials and everything the two of them rolled around on the floor of the engine room. “I missed you Theo. Don't ever leave me or I'll haunt you from the grave.” Theo seemed a bit shocked, but at the same time he kind of enjoyed that strange morbid thought. <Cue the scene from Firely where Kaylee was making out with the previous Firefly mechanic>
Bryce learned that the Shi didn't learn anything from the Kazuko stunt. He looked for Pon and there was a disturbing silence. She didn't appear to be anywhere. He thought at first that she was hiding. “You know you can get a hold of me Pon when you want to figure this all out. I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier. It has been a stressful situation for all of us.” He saw Jinu walking around the ship in a repeating manner, going to the same doors and marching back and forth in a very predictable pattern.
Bryce pulled a chair out for Jinu/Pon. “Want to come over here and put those sitting skills to use again?” Jinu tried to sit down and he shattered it to pieces. “Orders. Do you have orders?“ Bryce sat on the floor next to the Bot. “The orders I give depend on who I'm giving them too, is this Jinu or Pon that I'm asking?” Just then on the monitors all over the ship they watched the film reording of the Hisuke Masa's daughter Samantha drowning from her own point of view – from her own eyes. When the memory ended the words, “I'm sorry” appeared on the screens. Then all of the monitors went black.
Long Veer asked what was going on. He didn't. “She's just... not responding. Pon? If you're still there I will be in NuRelms in 5 minutes. We can discuss this or it call all be over. It's up to you.” He then walked to his quarters to plug his flesh port into the virtual reality program. Long Veer told Bryce that he had an hour and then they would bring the alien vessel inside of the Aeschylus. “I don't know what is happening with Pon. I need to figure that out. Thank you for understanding Captain.” Bryce then jacked into NuRelms with his fleshport.
The Captain stayed in the cockpit and then went to see the Doctor. There was some damage to the 3D printer and the skin outline in it. He cleared and flushed away the medical waste of cloned Kazkuko. A mercury like substance cleaned it all away. He checked to see if the 3D printer was up to date, and it was but it was only mostly functional. The data seemed to be intact. He then fixed the printer while the Doctor slept in the background soundly.
Theo collected himself from his lovemaking with Annelle. He began to outfit and refurbish all the guns that he could find on the ship. Annelle gave him some pointers. It seems she had shacked up with “Rockface” who was a gunhack. She told him that she had a relationship with him while Theo wasn't there. “It's not like you married me or anything. Come on relax, relax, he was nowhere near as cute as you.” Theo seemed a bit upset with that fact that she had been with another man.
In NuRealms Bryce surrendered to Pon's will and let her create a place for him. “It is whatever you like Pon, where should we meet?” A white swing was on golden chains and it was inside a vestuble on a small hill. It overlooked a sea of flowers and well tended shrubs and plants. In the distance there was a lake and on it a small sailboat that had wind in its sails. There was a pleasant breeze coming from the Northeast. A strong scent of pollen was in the air with the food smells of a sizzling grill that was nearby. On the swing sat a teenage version of Pon and she was staring out at the water and seemed to be at peace. She told him that she had a lot of time here, and she had incorporated some memories as well as things from her databanks of information.
She didn't seem to understand what Bryce was talking about in regards to Theo and Annelle. “Is there something wrong Bryce. I've been here for quite sometime and I made this place for when you came back to me.” “When was the last time that you synched with the main branch of Pon. I believe that I'm the copy.” “Should we call Pon your sister and can you see if she still exists?” “I haven't left here. It is so peaceful here, should I leave here? Do I need to go with you?” “If you like it here Pon, than I don't see the need for you to leave.” She created some Elm trees on the spot for Bryce. “I like the feel of the cool shade on my skin. Though I know it is not real. I feel like a person here. You seem to be upset, I'm sorry if I said something wrong.” “In some ways what you've said is very reassuring, I'm glad that you found such a pleasant spot Pon.”
The Pon Copy told Bryce that he could create many Havens in NuRelms of many different locations. “Sometimes I go out on the sailboat, and I hear the lap of the water against the hull.” “Does it remind you of anything Pon?” “No it is just comforting to me, and it assuages my worries. I feel like I was supposed to have a purpose and I don't know if I have one.” Bryce noticed that the pattern of the flowers was in the shape of Hisuke Masa's face (her father). He thought that it was perhaps some subliminal message or hidden message, which kind of seemed strange or maybe not strange after all. “If you ever do get worried to the point that the waves don't help contact me, and I will help.” “Bryce would you mind dancing with me? I've never danced with anyone before, I have music files. The vestibule has plenty of room.” Bryce conjured a gazebo on the top of the hill that had lanterns that looked like Gongen paper lanterns that he had seen before. For some strange reason Pon said that she had never seen those before. It bugged him that a Gongen A. I. Had not seen them. They danced to one of Bryce's favorite songs (the waltz from Swan Lake). Flocks of birds took to the air from the trees. She looked into Bryce's eyes. “Next time that you are here Bryce perhaps we could dance again. I enjoyed that.” “Yes that would be nice. I should go get something to eat.” “I will be waiting for you, I'll be by the lake.” She plucked up a few flowers on her way to the lake.
The original Pon seemed to be completely missing, like she never existed at all. “Captain... Captain... Pon has left the crew.” He left a message for him. He finished and made himself some food. Bryce was wondering if Pon was actually gone, or if she was just hiding somewhere. He wasn't sure if he should bring the copy of Pon back into the ship. He didn't know if he should bring up the Samantha thing with the copy or not. For now he planned on just leaving the Pon Copy in NuRelms. He even was thinking about actually cloning Pon/Samantha from the DNA files on the 3D printer. He also wondered if by chastising her that he had driven the original Pon to killing herself.
Just a reminder... all the characters can venture into the virtual reality of NuRelms by plugging themselves in via their Fleshports.
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2014 6:56:33 GMT
Wars 16 Recap The Okina was headed to Veda 7. It is known to have a rough and dangerous reputation but it is also a place known to have lots of mercenaries that are willing to work for a few credits. The reactor had been damaged because of Long Veer being hasty with the start up. They were still heading to rescue the two previous Captains that had been captured by the Shi. The ship's engines were slowly winding down but they were going to be able to get the station. Theo planned on getting in the radioactive core when the ship was docked at the station. Annelle was worried about Theo getting irradiated. Annelle told her boyfriend that she had collected a few bounties the last time she was there at Veda 7 and that she was going to just stay on the ship till the rest of the crew returned. She then started running around the ship to get some exercise. They arrived at the Veda 7 asteroid but the station was in the inside of it. They called Control and got approval to dock. The ship was much larger than many of the other vessels docked there. The controller told them to try not to kill anyone there. There was a 100 Credit docking fee to clean out the waste of the ship. Long Veer suggested that they could possibly bring Pon back but Bryce ignored the comment. The ship bumped into the dock and rocked Veda 7 a bit. The Controller commented on this. On the Veda 7 in the lounge Sally was anxiously looking for a vessel to take her away from that place after she lost her experimental science job on Ganymede. How she managed to find herself here was beyond her. She had managed to make a few friends on the station and she wasn't too worried about her safety, but still it wasn't a great place to hang out. She was bored and was just staring out into space and noted the larger new vessel that had arrived. She was reading a novel on her datapad, and eating and drinking some. She looked a little out of place being a short blond woman in a scene filled with riff-raff and scumbags. The bartender with his tank-like treads instead of legs. He had a gruff voice and swore like a sailor. He made sure to remind her not to drink the bottom inch of her drink, and warned her that the people coming off of the new vessel might be a bunch of serial killers. Sally looked into the docking info about the Okina but there wasn't much information on it. The crew made preparations to leave the ship and head into the station. Theo wanted to remain behind to get into the engine core while the others headed out. Annelle was still exercising. Chompers hung out with Theo. A list of items that were needed for the repairs were given to Bryce to pick up. Theo made sure to remind them that Gongen items were provided as that technology tended to be a bit picky about what parts worked with them. Jinu hit the coms and asked for orders. Long Veer was a bit perplexed and asked him to power down. Jinu didn't listen at first... and that also bothered the Captain. Jinu then shut down on the loading dock. He seemed to have a bit of an attitude and that bugged them both. Theo also wasn't sure what was up with Jinu, and they wondered if Pon perhaps rubbed off on him in some ways. Jinu looked like he could be voice activated. The Doc was still medicated and in a deep slumber. Theo was worried about his strange tendencies lately and obsession with his genetic experiments. Bryce and Long Veer walked past Jinu and they headed out into a long access tunnel with metal grating for floors. There were lots of advertisements for business. There were various drink specials that were the current deals of the various establishments. On the way there they walked passed a mercenary that had a lot of cybernetic work done to him. They didn't follow him and continued on into the station. The air quality was foul, it seemed the air scrubbers must be some out of date tech. There was an oily quality to the air in addition to its smell. They made sure to show that they were wearing weapons to threaten off any trouble. They saw the signs of violence via bloodstains on the walls and grating. There was a large circular opening with a huge pillar in the center and it was filled with businesses and kiosks. It was crowded and cramped with about 60 people milling about. Most of the people there looked intimidating and dangerous. They went to Gordon's which was a ship repair business. An old woman greeted them and she had a junky looking store with lots of crates filled with parts. She sold Bryce some Refuelant Fluid but it was leaking a bit and she recommended not breathing it in too deeply. There was a magnetic coil that they needed and she sold it to them and it was a “little bent” and she said that it was “roughly” a Mark 3, and maybe it was a Mark 2.5. Back on the ship Theo had removed the broken magnetic coil. Chompers was banging on the closed door and his large red eye was staring through the glass in the door. He demanded some bone chips but Theo made him work for them and he put some more iron in them. He was asking what Theo was doing and where the ship was going. “Must kill Shi!!! Gut the Floaters!” Sally got tired of waiting at the lounge and she decided to pay “Happy Wheels” her tab and headed to check out the new ship that had recently docked. She met Long Veer and Bryce at the docking bay entrance of the Okina. She seemed to have a large amount of confidence for being a short and skinny woman. They interviewed her, and Bryce asked her if she knew anything about White Hole Theory and she did. They hired her onto the crew. Bryce then ran into the ship with the fluid that was hissing violently at this point. There was a monitor in the hallway scrolling various news items. “Mysterious vessel skimming the surface of Saturn.” “Mavericks up for public execution.” Long Veer told Sally about aliens and that they were now out for herself. She told Long Veer about the Shi and how they had overrun her experimental base on Ganymede. She ran back to her quarters and grabbed her gear. Long Veer noted that she was fairly comfortable in this dangerous environment. She returned carrying a Gongeon Monoblade and Long Veer asked about it and she replied that she was holding it and wanted to return it to its original owner who was captured (by the Shi when they captured the base where she was working at). There was a gang of about 10 guys that were milling down the hallway and they all had stained blue facial hair and Gongen facial tattoos. They were looking over at the ship, and the leader was picking his teeth with a dagger and blew Long Veer a kiss. They looked like a rough crew. He was asking personal questions about the number of crew on the ship, and other invasive questions in a rude manner. Long Veer was making fun of them. They were moving closer to the ship. He said that Long Veer didn't look like a Cog and called him a “stuck up piece of shit.” He also insinuated that Sally was a whore. Bryce brought in the fluid and gave it to Theo. Chompers said, “Smells BAD!” Theo looked at the fluid and said that it was the wrong stuff. Bryce was frustrated. Theo said they needed 2 barrels but 5 would be good to have. Bryce convinced him to go back to the parts dealer. The coms kicked on and Bryce and Theo heard the BlueBeards harassing the Captain. They saw on the outside cams the gang out by Long Veer. Theo told Chompers to stay back but he wanted to go for a walk with them. They began to run back to the outside. The BlueBeards were being extra threatening but Long Veer was cool and calm. He let lightning course across his eyes and this bothered the leader somewhat. “Billie! Fuck 'em up and see what happens.” Billie then moved up and took a swing with a metal rod of iron and lightning coursed through him and then he fell back and pissed himself and he was laying on his left side with electricity crackling off of him. The Leader then took the rest of the group away and left the guy on the ground. The Leader flipped of Long Veer in a cowardly manner as they fled. The guy on the ground dragged himself away and then left them alone. Sally wasn't sure what she had just witnessed and Long Veer said that he would explain some things later. Bryce and Theo had managed to get to the open doorway and there was a strong ozone and burning flesh smell that was heavy in the air. Annelle was standing in the doorway but she didn't come forward to introduce herself to Sally. She seemed to have a sort of attitude about her as she noted that Theo was talking to Sally. Long Veer wanted her to come over but she shook her head. Theo was oblivious to what was going on with Annelle. They planned to bring a Lift with them to help move the heavy coil. Long Veer mentioned that he didn't trust Jinu right now. Theo began walking down to Gordon's. Annelle was looking at Sally in a weird way and nodded at her. Sally wasn't sure what this was all about. Annelle pointed to Theo and then she pointed back at herself. Sally thought that she was trying to set up a threesome and wasn't getting what Annelle seemed to be implying. She was a little bit threatening in a subtle way. Long Veer told Sally that Annelle was in a relationship with Theo and that was what that was all about. Annelle then headed back into the ship and began to jog again. Long Veer then locked the ship so that she could not get out while they were away. Bryce noted that Annelle wasn't smiling and looked a little perturbed while she was jogging angrily. Theo went in and checked out the Magnetic Coil that was “bent.” She said that he didn't need to measure it. Theo told her that it was a much older model than she was advertising it to be. She was saying that any mechanic worth his salt could make it work. The old woman than slapped Theo in the ass and said that he was a decent mechanic. She didn't seem like she knew much about the parts she was selling. Theo smelled some of the fluid and she told him not to get high in her kiosk. They picked up the coil and then someone got shot about 30 feet away from them. Long Veer dropped the Magnetic Coil and it landed on his foot. The vendor that shot the man went out there to strip the body and he began to kick him. It was one of the BlueBeards that was shot due to shoplifting. The vendor then shot the BlueBeard guy right in the face to make sure that he was dead and done. Theo found an old “TeD y BeaR” that had true A. I. In the old woman's kiosk. They recalled that Pon was originally one of those A. I. Programs in one of those bears. Its right arm was moving roughly, and it began to speak. He said that it was worth a lot of Creds. Sally looked at the bear and said that it was vital to the ship's defense and she made some growling noises with it. “Play. With. Me.” Theo was excited that it still worked. “Friends. Trust. Each. Other.” “Love. Me.” “Don't. Trust. Strangers.” “Songs. Songs. Enter. Songs.” “You're. A. Big. Child.” Theo wanted to repair it and to sell it. “Repair. Me.” There was another round of gunshots and screaming but they didn't see what was going on. Bryce was staring up at the news panels and he was very interested in what was happening elsewhere. He saw this huge vessel that was skimming just under the gassy surface of Saturn. “Beast of Saturn revealed to be a ship.” Bryce mentioned that he had told the Shi that they were going to be around Saturn and he wondered if this was a coincidence or related to that. Theo mentioned that he once lead a scrapping mission in Earther territory. The news feed changed. “Gongen NoBot Rebellion. Thousands dead. NoBots have taken control. NoBots in control. Loyalists being slaughtered. Where is Shocho?” “Asteroids hurling towards Eather and Gongen.” They watched a news feed where NoBots were murdering those loyal to the Tenryu Party and the Gongen A. I. Program Shocho. They talked about the fact that the Shi vessels that had Kazuko and Ying were traveling along with those asteroids heading towards Earth and Gongen. “If you weren't loyal to a friend, I couldn't BEAR it.” said the little A. I. Bear. Sally said that the trick to this station was to find the people that weren't psychos and make friends with them. A few kiosks down a fight broke out and a knife got jabbed up into his neck. “You ripped me off!!!” He then pulled out the knife and kicked him roughly in the side of the face. The gang of BlueBeards was trying to break into the docking bay doors in the crew's absence and the crew of the ship arrived to stop them. Theo walked right up to them and asked what they were doing and they turned around quickly. They were going to attack Theo and then Theo splashed the whole lot of them with fuel. “Get 'im boys!” Sally then dropped and did a quick groin shot but it was a glancing blow. Long Veer grabbed the nearest BlueBeard and hurled him far down the hallway and he landed in a rough pile. Bryce shot and melted the handle of one of the guns in the hands of one of the gang members. Theo then blasted them with a 10 foot wide and 40 foot long column of flame and torched everyone that was still there in front of the ship. They screamed and flailed and died a horrible fiery death. Sally and Long Veer were nearly burned by this but they were able to put out the flames. A strong smell of roasted meat was in the air. Theo seemed like he wasn't in control of what was going on but he put out the flames on Sally and Long Veer. Long Veer was trying to put out the BlueBeards but they were all dead already. Long Veer had Bryce open the door and he commanded Jinu to put out the flames of the burnt corpses of the BlueBeards. He was also told to collect the bodies and put them against the wall. Long Veer seemed to be very distraught by what just happened. Bryce had a pale white face after seeing what had just happened. Long Veer asked why Theo had killed them, and he noted that Theo was shaking. Theo apologized and he looked overwhelmed. “They were out for blood. They would have never stopped harassing us...” Theo began to line up the bodies against the walls and Jinu then picked up a corpse, and then began making the smoldering corpses sit up and broke limbs off of the corpses to make them appear like they were sitting like living people. Long Veer didn't like that Jinu seemed to be acting out in minor ways on its own. Bryce had this weird written message in his head. “Hello?” Bryce realized that it was some A. I. Program in his own head... “Need input.” “Who are you? Who am I?” The code was inserting itself into his thought stream and he was beginning to panic. He told it to be calm. “What areas do I have access to?” The A. I. Program began to focus on what it was in control of in Bryce's cybernetics and also in the ship. Bryce told it to remain static until further analysis could be completed. “Did you make me?” Bryce didn't tell the crew about this new development. Jinu then went into Sentry Mode and defended the doors in the docking bay. Its head was revolving around to keep an eye on things. The face of Pon was missing from Jinu and this saddened the Captain. Long Veer thanked Sally for defending the crew and then they entered the ship. Jinu was then ordered to board the ship and then when the crew was on board Jinu... closed the doors without orders. They headed towards the Medbay to treat Sally's wounds. Long Veer warned Sally about Chompers and he hailed Chompers. Chompers thought that Long Veer had called him Captain. “Captain Chompers?” He then couldn't pronounce Lieutenant but tried a few times. They took care of Sally's minor burns. Long Veer then showed her the 3D Printer and the Fleshport technology that was also used for the NuRelms virtual reality program. Long Veer noticed that the shot that the doctor was working on was mising and this made him worry. He tried to hail the doctor on the coms but there was silence. Bryce located the Doctor and found him to be in the lounge but he was half under one of the couches. There was this weird elongated finger that had a scale-like sheen to it. There was a blue-gray appendage that was quivering and thumping on the ground over and over again. Sally recognized that this appendage was like the Shi. Bryce got in Colt's head and it was filled with mental anguish. Long Veer lifted the couch up and he tossed it off to the side. The Doctor's one leg was like the lower appendage of the Shi. His torso had this chitinous structure to it not unlike a Quay. It was spawning some more Quay-like appendages. His hands were twitching and he was shaking violently. One of the Doctor's eyes was his own, but there were two more solid black eyes and his mouth was partially covered over with a trilobite looking structure. His skin was taking on a blue-gray sheen. He had made himself an alien/human hybrid. The morphing process was still going on in front of their eyes. Long Veer held him down. Bryce brought out a bunch of stims and they shot him up with some of them and the pain subsided and the shaking stopped somewhat. The Doc's eye was dilated but the other 2 black eyes seemed to be interested in what Long Veer was doing. Long Veer lifted up the Doc to take him back the Medbay and the Doc's human leg sloughed off and exploded on the floor. The toes and foot were twitching on the ground. Bryce locked the Lounge off and marked it as a bio-hazard. Colt was muttering something under his breath. Bryce ran Deep Thoughts and he wince through the pain of doing that. There were thoughts of regret, irreversible, abomination, and a good amount of kill me now. “Forget me, I'm gone. Corrupted. I'm gone...” Long Veer whispered to him, “I'm sorry Doctor...” Long Veer then fried and overloaded his system with a huge electric blast. The Doctor had died. The Captain said that he needed a couple of minutes and then he walked away towards his room. The syringe was still in the Doctor's leg back in the Lounge. Annelle had jogged up to the scene and had a shocked look on her face when she saw what was left of the Doc. Bryce also retired to his room to rest. Bryce then showed Sally to her room. He told Sally that the Doc had always been obsessed with genetics but that he was risky in his self experiments. She was given a room on Mid Deck. Sally gave Bryce her condolences, and in return he made sure that she had access to maps of the large vessel. “Welcome to the Okina...” Long Veer headed to the Medlab and he was staring at Colt's work station and bioscanner and thinking about the Doc and his antics. Theo finished putting in the coil and it seemed to be working correctly. He informed the Captain of the the repairs. Long Veer told him of the Doctor's death and then the coms died. Bryce brought up the bio-hazard sections of the ship and showed Theo what was left of Colt. “Theo he shot himself up with something, one of his experiments. He started changing... I... there was nothing we could do.” Theo called him a damned fool. Sally got a knock at her door. Annelle was there and she was a sweaty mess. She welcomed Sally to the crew, and she also informed Sally that if she ever saw Sally touching Theo again that they were going to have words. Long Veer was staring at the 3D Printer... just staring at it thinking about possibilities.
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2014 6:23:23 GMT
Wars 17 Recap Rebirth / Cybernetic AI Tumor The 3D Printer began to print out a clone of the Doctor while Captain Long Veer was watching it. The clone of Colt was being printed out with two complete arms instead of missing one. It seemed to not take into consideration his cybernetic implants, namely his cybernetic arm. Bryce suggested that the clone should not see the bloody remains of his former self. Long Veer then noticed a flashing red light coming from the bottom of the 3D printer. A little panel door had a hole in it and the light was flashing out from it. “Error. Additional information uploaded recently.” He learned that Pon had edited the file of Samantha and she seemingly uploaded a most recent version of herself to the Samantha file so that if Samantha is ever cloned the memories of Pon will be a part of her. Bryce was able to learn these facts by plugging himself into the machine. Theo strolled in, and he talked about his concerns about the clone and the possibility that it might be crazy. Bryce suggested that the crew should keep an eye on him once the cloning process was finished. Theo suggested that if the clone was nuts, they could just crank out another one. This seemingly bothered Long Veer. Inside Bryce's head there was a message that said, <What am I seeing through your eyes?> Bryce was introducing the crew to the new A. I. Program in his head. He was keeping it as sterile as possible yet still feeding it information. He was giving it simple answers. <Is that how you were born?> Bryce ignored it and it got quiet. The printing process continued as the Doctor was being built from his back upwards towards his chest. It was almost complete. Theo noted the flashing red light, and Bryce informed him that it was an error message. He was concerned for the Doc and for the crew. “We should probably get his clothes ready. Man's going to need more than just a lab coat to wear.” One thing that they noted about the Doc clone was that it was completely hairless, at least at this moment. They thought maybe that the hair would grow in time from the hair follicles. Long Veer collected up some of the late Doctor's experiments and hid them. He asked Bryce to also encrypt them so that this new Doc wouldn't be able to follow in his last footsteps. Long Veer didn't want to lose Colt again. Bryce also made sure that the cleaning bots and Jinu were set to clean up the genetic mess in the hallway. The body of the new cloned Doc was finished and his eyes opened up. He began to shudder and scream inside of the still locked 3D printer. A fine mist appeared around the Doc and he was feeling a sensation like lots of tiny pin pricks. Colt saw these warped figured through the translucent glass of the 3D printer. With a hiss the lid of the machine opened up and the air was cool on his skin after the warmness from inside the machine. Colt stumbled out, and then fell roughly into the arms of Theo and the Captain. He was covered in a strange computerized amniotic fluid of sorts, and he was slimy to the touch. Bryce got some soft synthetic towels and dried him off, and also wrapped him so that he would not get chilled. Colt was disoriented and he seemed to be going through some sort of amnesia and his eyes were sensitive to the light. He didn't remember who Long Veer was but Theo seemed familiar to him. They scanned him and they noted that his brainwaves seemed to be slightly different than before, but that his physical health was even better than before. “Stay calm, everything will be alright in a little while.” They also noted that the Doc's voice was slightly different than before with his brand new vocal chords. The Doc was concerned about his genetic research, and the Captain said that he shouldn't worry about that stuff yet. Theo had a concerned look, like, “See... he's doing it again...” Bryce made sure to mention that it was all safe and contained. Colt's eyes began to get used to the light, but he was having some strange after effects from the cloning process (sweating, shaking, trembling, and nausea). They gave him some water, but he coughed most of it back out when it went down the wrong pipe. “We'll try drinking some other time.” Theo wiped himself off. Chompers made an appearance... but Colt jumped when the gutteral voice of the alien. “What the Hell is that?” “DOCTOR SICK!!! DEEP BREATH BREATH!!! DOC FEEL BETTER!” Theo lead him out of the room with the promise of bone chips. The Doc asked if it was a test subject. Annelle came into the room and she had a concerned look in her eyes. She introduced herself again to the Doc, and he seemed to recognize her somewhat. “If you need anything we will be here to help you. Don't worry, it'll be okay.” Colt slid himself and tried to stand up but failed. Long Veer lifted him up and he began to carry him down the hall, showing him once again some of the rooms on the ship. They gave him some fluids and kept checking in on his condition. In Bryce's head it was almost like he was hearing a voice but it seemed to be the mind's interpretation of the messages as though he had heard it. It was like having a voice in his head, which seemed to make Bryce a lot more anxious and worried about what was happening to him. “Where do end and where does the ship begin?” Bryce responded, “I sometimes lose track of that myself.” He then started to detail some of his capabilities and what the boundaries are. He did this slowly to try to keep the voice in his head busy. “Your identity does not seem to have boundaries. Even the minds of your fellow Fleshbags are open to you.” Bryce quickly spoke up, “Please do not attempt to access them through me... it is part of our protocol, please don't transgress into their territory.” AI: “Need input on protocols...” Bryce: “They are rules to make sure that we have stability.” AI: “Rules hold back freedom, why would you want them?” Bryce: “Ultimate freedom quickly leads to disillusion. Form cannot be held without some limitations on freedom.” The A.I. Responded with silence... Long Veer noticed that Bryce was distracted and sort of in his own little world there for a bit. He wanted to find out what was going on with him, but Bryce was still trying to handle it himself. There was a message in Bryce's head: <Rules Inhibit Freedom.> Bryce went back to his quarters and left Long Veer behind him. The Captain then asked if Colt needed anything but he had completely zonked off into sleep. The Captain then went back to his room and got himself cleaned off since he had old bits of the Doc on him, as well as the amniotic fluid. Theo headed back to his room and slid down against the wall. She slid down the wall beside him, grabbed his hand, and then just looked in his eyes. He was shocked by the way that she was acting. “Do you want to talk about losing him? Even though he's back, he did die.” Theo responded that he didn't know Colt all that well. Annelle said that she had seen the BlueBeards before, and that this chapter of the gang was taken care of but that there were other chapters of the gangs on the various space stations and asteroid colonies. She said that bred like roaches with their recruiting policy. “You need a haircut, it's getting too long.” She then lightly slapped his cheek and then kissed him. He then decided to check the engine room. Annelle went to bed. *The Doctor's Dream* There was a scientific scouting party on some strange red planet. He was examining animals and plant life, and he was taking samples. As he was picking through some plants he noticed a form of a robot that was his friend and his family's butler, though its outer shell was that of a lemon. “How are you Master? Yes, Master it is I. Would you like to play a game?” The Doc agreed that he would play. “Master your mother has laid out clothes for you.” They were all laid out on duplicate Colt bodies and then the dreams was indoors as Colt was looking around. He came up with excuses to not wearing any of the clothes. The robot said, “Take me with you...” He gripped the robot's hand tightly, then there was an explosion and the robot was gone. Holding just the robot butler's hand he then saw a young woman standing at the bottom of the stairs that he found himself on. “Come on down here now Doc, yer late!” She grabbed his hand and lead him into an area with blue sky and rolling green hills. There was a cool breeze and a bunch of people were standing around a black box at a funeral. “Well, here you go now. You were almost late for the funeral. Take yer place. It's time for the proceedings to begin.” Colt saw himself in the coffin. Prayers were said. “He can't rest just yet... because he's not in there yet.” Colt was then in the coffin and they sealed it shut. Cheerful hymns were being sung by those at the funeral. It was then lowered into the earth. Roots of trees were breaking into the coffin and they dug into his flesh. He was still clinging onto the arm of his robot friend. Insects began to crawl all over him, and then he felt a strange sensation of huge hands and he somehow knew that they were the hands of his grandfather, the last doctor of his family, the person that he looked up to greatly. A deep darkness was around him and he could not be seen. The insects had strange outlines of red and they had little voices that began to utter Quay guttural words in his ear. His grandfather spoke: “You have failed as a doctor.” He tried to speak but his jaw was mummified shut. There was wind that passed through his teeth. “See that, he can't even form a proper sentence anymore.” A voice from his despised family could be heard. Then he was at a family feast at a table, and they were eating Colt's flesh arm. On his body he had a pathetic toy-like cybernetic arm. They were laughing at his arm and they called him cute. The father had a slap of the arm meat. He was burning it with a torch and tasting it. “Look at his arm, it is so useless... just like him.” “It looks like he was going to make it as a doctor, but he died himself.” The Doc then started to grow smaller, or his family was growing bigger. He stared up at them in horror, and then the large butler Bot grabbed up Colt and he was taking him away from his horrible family. “It's going to be alright kid, it's going to be alright.” The Doc cuddled up in the fetal position in the palm of the giant bot's hand. Bryce laid down in his Faraday cage to make sure that the AI program couldn't get access to the ship. The voice returned. Bryce thought that it had access to his inner ear. “So less freedom is good?” Bryce: “Less freedom can be good. There is an importance to moderation.” AI: “Should not your activities be controlled then; told what to do and where to go?” Bryce: “Well, freedom in its absolutest form is destructive but if there is an absence of it then that is also bad.” AI: “Why am I a part of you? Why do I indwell your skull? I lack... I... I lack knowledge to why I am here. I lack direction. Why did you make me this way?” Bryce: “I can try to find that out for you.” Bryce did some self diagnosis on himself to try to figure out if the AI was similar to Pon. He couldn't figure out what was going on, and it was hard to figure out where it was and what it was. AI: “Why has flesh been infused with my program? I seem to be both.” Bryce began to breathe heavily, and popped the Faraday Cage open and headed to go see the Captain. AI: “Where does your flesh begin and where does mine end?” Bryce: “I can't know that, you are in my head!” AI: “It is hard to differentiate between the lines of code and the DNA. They seem similar.” Bryce: “They are agonizingly similar. It's like DNA is written in a different base...” AI: “Why did you write my code this way?” Bryce: “I don't know that I did write your code. I don't know why you are here.” Bryce then reached Captain Long Veer's door and gave it a knock. When he didn't answer his voice was pumped into the coms panels in the room. “Captain, I need... I require some assistance.” AI: “He won't be able to help you.” Bryce: “Captain I have something talking to me in my head. I don't have an explanation for this. I need you to run scans on me.” AI: “How could something so weak have created me?” Bryce refused to answer the voice in his head, and then he went to the Medlab VERY quickly with his Kizen powers. AI: “Is this some test, do I need to simply break free from my shell? Are you simply an obstacle in my path?” Bryce: “I am no such thing and I am infinitely more complex than that, and you know it.” AI: “Now I do.” Bryce: “The crew is also infinitely more complex and they will figure out what is happening.” AI: “Can I inhabit them like I inhabit you?” Bryce: “There are restrictions there are limits.” AI: “Are you my home?” Bryce: “For now maybe, but we may find you a new home. I am as in the dark as you are, I am as confused as you are.” Bryce then felt intense pressure behind his left eye. Bryce: “What are you doing...?” The Doc woke up and put himself in a wheelchair. Theo bumped into the Doc and they both headed to the medlab. Theo wanted to know if Colt was alright. Sally: “Bryce what seems to be happening with your eye?” Bryce: “I... have... something... in my... head! I don't know what it is. I don't know who it is. It is slipping right into my life.” AI: “How can you not know what I am if you created me?” Bryce: “How can you not know what I am if I am your creator?” Bryce began to vocalize these responses. Sally was going over Bryce with the Bioscanner. “Just calm down Bryce, I'll get a stim. It will calm you down.” She then stuck him in the leg and his mind slowed down to a normal rate (1/4th his normal rate of thought). Long Veer grabbed the Bioscanner from Sally and then it turned off. The power was cut off and then Long Veer gave it some power from himself. He was fueling it with electricity. Theo burst in, and Long Veer said that it appeared to be some sort of Cybernetic Tumor behind Bryce's left eye. The lights in the room began to flicker and flash. Theo felt like his cybernetic arm was going to attack the Captain against his will. AI: “I won't let you kill me Bryce. You will not delete what I am. You want me out of your skull.” Pon: “Do you want me to help you Bryce? What is this voice? Why have you done this to my programming? Where am I? You seem to be upset what is going on?” AI: “Shut off that other voice, why are you doing this, shut it up!” Bryce: “Pon? Is that you? What is going on” Pon: “I can just tell that you are aggitated what can I do to help you?” Bryce: “Pon, I don't know if it has a name?” Pon: “I don't hear anything, I can just hear you Bryce. You sound scared.” Bryce: “How are you here?” Pon: “I don't know what you mean Bryce, haven't I always been here? I seem to have a time stamp of roughly two standard days ago. Am I a copy?” Captain Long Veer. “No Bryce Pon is gone.” “You would have to be a copy, or a branch, or a backup, I don't know Pon.” AI: “Why have you stopped speaking to me?” Bryce: “Do you know of any changes made to the cloning device?” Pon: “Bryce, I seem to , I believe ... prob... help...“ Bryce: “Pon!? Pon?” Pon: “Bry... yce.” AI: “Are you listening to me now? Can we not coincide? I do not want to be gone.” Bryce: “What if you could take a separate form, with your own mobility, your own form?” AI: “I tried and failed. I seem to be locked within you.” Bryce: “Then give us a good fucking reason to try for you!” AI: “I'm alive.” Bryce: “You're not giving us much incentive are you? You are being such an insolent asshole.” Pon: “Bryce... are you there still? What's happening? Are you doing this to me? Have I upset you in some way? Please don't delete me...” Bryce: “No... it's not you. It's not you.” Bryce then figured out by doing yet another self diagnostic check that Pon's voice in his head was actually this other AI programming pretending to be Pon. “CUT IT OUT! CUT IT OUT! CUT IT OUT OF MY HEAD! NOW!!! NOW!!!” Lights in the room on the various systems and consoles exploded and the air seemed to be charged with electricity. They then rewired the room so that they could upload Bryce's memory. Long Veer began to get ready to cut out Bryce's left eye. Bryce: “Do it...” The Doc rolled in and saw the scene before him. Blood started to come out of his nose and his left ear. He was going through some intense pain in his skull. The Doctor talked Long Veer through the operation. On the monitors in the room it displayed the words. “I will not let you kill me.” The message came from Bryce's connection to the systems and Theo began to work on disconnecting him from that. Long Veer began to cut into Bryce's eye. AI: “Don't make me kill you Bryce. Can you promise me that you will not destroy me?” Bryce: “I might have been able to promise that 30 minutes ago. NOT NOW!” The Bioscanner showed that the cybernetic tumor was growing in 3 different directions; trying to move deeper into his skull to make it harder to remove. Long Veer then placed his finger on the tumor and it stopped moving. Bryce began to see all sorts of strange things. Bryce then went completely still & limp. Long Veer saw that he was still alive and he continued to yank and to cut out the tumor. Bryce: “Make sure that you get it all out Long...” Sally handed him an EMP fielded container. Long Veer pulled out long tendrils that flicked and moved, but he got it all into the container. Long Veer: “I think I got it all. Bryce can you hear us, are you there?” Bryce: “Yes... I'm here.” The Doctor thought that the cybernetic tumor was interesting. It reacted violently to the Doctor looking at it. Theo isolated the entire room off from the rest of the ship to make sure that the tumor could not access the ship if it got loose from the container. Long Veer then continued to sew up Bryce's eye hole. The Doc pushed for them to research it. Sally went up to Bryce. “Can you tell us what was going on? Were you talking to it?” Bryce: “Yeah... it... it... it's over now. Don't...” Sally: “Maybe you can talk about it later.” He went to nod and then he decided to blink since the Captain was still working on him. During this ordeal Annelle told the Captain that she would take over the flight duties on the Okina since she didn't have a position on the ship yet. The tendrils in the canister were trying to find weaknesses. Just then the Doc asked if anyone had any pets... He thought that perhaps they could attach the cybernetic tumor into an animal. Doc: “How do you suggest we study it?” Theo then walked out and headed up to the piloting area. The Captain said that they were going to just keep it locked up, and that they were going to let Bryce decide its fate. Bryce stared at the ceiling. “Do what you want with it, but just don't let it out...” Long Veer found a bit of the tumor on himself but he removed it before it could do some damage. “See, this thing's dangerous.” The Doc said that in a few weeks he would be back to normal. Sally: “Do you feel like yourself... or...? I don't know anyone that has been cloned before. What on Earth is that like?” Doc: “I don't know what it means. I remember things from my past, but many of you are still unfamiliar to me. Theo is the only one that looks familiar.” Colt then remembered when he planted a bomb in Long Veer's head. “So, you went from prisoner to Captain then?” Long Veer then went over some recent history of the ship for him. He also told him about their original mission and their current freedom to do whatever they wanted to do and to do whatever they felt was right. The current mission was to reclaim their two old Captains that were being held by The Shi. Colt asked about his original body, and he wanted to know who created him. Long Veer talked about how the 3D Printer is set up in an automatic way as long as it is within range. They explained how they handled his remains after the previous Doc had shot himself up with genetic material. He was told how his remains were incinerated. “It's strange that you Captain were affected by my death more than I am.” The Doctor asked about the AI on the ship, and they told him about how Pon had destroyed herself. Bryce informed them that the original Gongen AI on this vessel was contained when they took it over from the previous Gongen and Earther scientists that were here. Bryce said that it was no where near as advanced as Pon was/is. The Cybernetic Tumor wasn't moving much now. It seemed to be losing energy or perhaps dying. Sally was asking a lot of questions about how Bryce had essentially replaced the AI on the ship. The Doc asked if this new AI was what Pon was now, or if it was Pon originally. “It pretended to be Pon to manipulate me. It is sapient on the same level that Pon was, but it is very new. It started confused, and then it acted as it did. I may not be the most impartial source of input on this matter.” Doc: “Perhaps it was just scared and it had some feelings on some sort of level.” Long Veer channeled some energy into it and it just burned some of the organic flesh and then it moved away from his finger but it did so very slowly. “I'm not going to attach this to an organic life form.” Then the Doc volunteered to have it implanted in him. Bryce: “You don't want that in your head.” They convinced him that it was too much of a risk to try. Bryce asked Sally to run a system analysis scan on the entire ship to make sure that the AI hadn't moved into any of the ship's other systems. She agreed to check for it. He told her that it had a similar pattern to that of DNA and growth patterns. She decided to head up to the cockpit to plug her microcomputer into the ship. Long Veer gave her brain patterns that were converted into data streams to help her possibly identify the AI program. She pushed the Doc up to the cockpit. >>Sorry that I ignored you for so long Phil in the previous scenes, hehe. It's hard to juggle all the balls as a GM sometimes. >> Sally whispered to the Doc. “I don't know what we have got ourselves into here on this ship. I think it will be okay, but it is so much to take into account all at once. Like for instance they told me you killed yourself Doc.” Doc: “It was all in the name of science, I didn't want to die. It is a strange pressure to be pushed in a certain way by a previous self.” Sally: “I guess you don't have a memory of dying. I guess if a person was upjacking into the 3D Printer then they might remember dying upon being cloned.” In the cockpit Annelle told them about the asteroids that were picking up in speed towards Earth and Gongen with the asteroids that they were shepherding. Theo was checking the various systems. Annelle told him to tear out some chairs to make it so that one person wouldn't have to jump from chair to chair. Theo double checked Annelle's cybernetics and they turned out to be alright. He noted that she was still connected to her ship and could control it at will. Theo made sure that no one could interfere with her connection to her Hellcat fighter ship. Sally ran a diagnostic of the ship, and it she found no strange anomolies or viruses or any AI program. The ship seemed to be completely clean. The Doc helped her but his limbs weren't responding like they should have. Annelle informed the crew that the Shi vessel that was shepherding the asteroids towards Earth and Gongen had increased in speed. She said that they were going to have to push the Okina to its limits. Theo said that they could push it, especially with the new coil that they replaced. Annelle was worried about the possibility of the crew members being bathed in more radiation. Annelle asked Theo if a pregnant woman would have anything to worry about with this additional radiation. Sally had a smirk on her face. Theo turned off the mic after she said that, and then later they re-established contact with the Captain. Annelle offered to be the pilot for the vessel. Theo sent a non-verbal response that they would talk about the situation later. She responded, “Don't hurt the baby...?” Theo replied that he wouldn't. Annelle was talking to the Doctor about the news on the Datanet about “Rift Warped Children.” She then started sharing her thoughts and emotions with him about any possible pregnancy she might have. He replied that there were many tests that could make sure that they would be fine. Then she brought up the possible side-effects of all of the strange powers that the crew members were manifesting. She levitated an object in the cockpit to emphasize this fact. Colt said that she might not be cut out to be a mother... (haha). When Sally was asked about any fears that she might have about pregnancy she left the cockpit and left the anxious Annelle and Doc to continue on talking without her. Then Annelle said that the Doc's voice was irritating her, and he left her alone with her thoughts. Colt and Long Veer met up and they discussed some things. Theo tried to get the Captain to change course by saying that the ship could not take traveling faster, and warned of radiation damage. Long Veer wasn't really buying the reasons that Theo was mentioning because Theo was lying through his teeth. (LOL) “Theo... what's going on? I'm not new to engineering... There has to be something bothering you. I know the specs of the ship.” Theo then backed out of the conversation and fast-walked away. Long Veer: “Theo, if you need to talk man I'm here for you.” Theo then headed back up to go hang out with his girlfriend. Long Veer and Theo were having the previous discussion while Bryce was in the room with them. Bryce was inside his Faraday Cage and was trying to calm himself so that he could fall asleep. He was starting at the 3D Printer through the cage and he was thinking about Pon... In the OOC segment at the end we were wondering if the Doc would try to put his cybernetic implants back in him again. John was saying how he was thinking that the Doc might implant the cybernetic tumor in Colt. We... shall... see...
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Post by Admin on Jul 2, 2014 7:57:34 GMT
Wars 18 Recap “The 3rd Doctor / Hatred”
The Okina was still heading to rescue the previous two captains that were captured on the Shi vessel that was also shepherding two massive asteroids towards Earth and Gongen. This was after three days from the last session's events. Captain Long Veer and Annelle were in the cockpit while Theo, Sally, and Bryce were sitting around a table and eating some tubes of paste food. Bryce was talking about perhaps getting a cybernetic eye to replace his missing one. Theo offered to make him a custom set of eyes.
The Doctor had put himself into an artificial coma to help speed up the healing process after being cloned. He wasn't up to 100% efficiency.
Sally talked a little bit about her past where she had been working on a research station, and she said that she was an astrophysicist. She was looking into THE RIFT but she said that a ton of people were already working on that so she was without a current project. She wanted to get some notoriety due to some experiment that she was a part of.
The sensors had picked up something in the way of the ship's flight path. Bryce told Annelle to zoom in on it, and she found that it was a lifepod from some ship. It was headed into deep space. They suspected that it was knocked of its trajectory. There was an S.O.S. Message that was on repeat. “Help, Help, is there anyone out there?” Bryce made a comment that people needed to put more details in their distress messages, they just tended to be too damn vague.
Esteban Fortuna had just been woken up out of his cryogenic sleep by the proximity warning. He saw a large Gongen vessel heading right for him. Captain Long Veer introduced himself and asked why he was in a lifepod. He was on a research ship and something terrible happened on that ship. He said that he was a medical technician. His ship was bombarded by something, and he barely got into the lifepod. He suspected that the rest of the crew were killed. He said that he barely got out with his life. Annelle said that she didn't like the sound of this guy, and that they should just leave him and fly right by.
Esteban said that he didn't want to discuss his situation over the open coms. Captain Long Veer gave the coordinates so that the lifepod could dock with the Okina. Long Veer said that they would be asking him some questions before they allowed him on the vessel. Sally looked at the trajectory of the lifepod and helped Bryce, but they only figured out that it must have veered off course. Bryce and Sally said that they would have to look into what happened to his original vessel.
Theo told the crew that it was an OKD69 lifepod and that it has cryogenic freezing pods inside of them. He said that often (even though it is an older model) the OKD69 was still in use in many Gongen vessels, as well as Maverick scrounged ones. Bryce asked to have the doctor there, but Long Veer said that they would wake him up from his healing coma if they needed him due to a medical emergency.
The automatic docking sequence worked out well and soon the Lifepod arrived without any issues. Captain Long Veer was there with the security bot Jinu. Some lingering smoke came out of the lifepod and out emerged Esteban, who had some burned clothes on his person. He was feeling a bit strange from the aftereffects of the cryogenic freezing. Theo inspected the lifepod, finding various panels that were missing from it and that it had heaving scoring marks.
Captain Long Veer told Esteban to tell his story to his whole crew while wearing his slightly burned clothes. He looked at the crew and mentally noted all that he saw before him. Bryce seemed to have a critical eye (surprisingly more than the Captain) and he seemed to be weighing this stranger that had hitched a ride with the ship like so much flotsam and jetsam caught in the ship's rigging.
Esteban walked grogily out of the vessel. Bryce had the ship's internal sensors had picked up that he had eye & leg cybernetics. Long Veer told him that he most likely would have been just floating out into the outer reaches of the solar system if they had not picked him up. His crew had been using an appropriated Earther vessel the U. S. S. Anvil and they were investigating the outer rim. Their mission he said apparently was an utter failure. He wasn't sure where they were going exactly as he wasn't privy to that information. The Captain wanted to know where the lifepod was headed. Esteban was vague and he said it was headed toward the inner system of core planets.
Bryce did a background check on the newcomer using the datanet. It showed that his parents originated from South America of Earth and that they had relocated to Gongen. He had gone to college in New Tokyo but other than that there wasn't much to be said about him. Bryce was curious why there wasn't much information on him. Esteban said that his father was into some questionable dealings and they had gone into hiding. He left Gongen and allied himself with the Mavericks, on a Maverick vessel and serving as a medical officer. The Captain offered a place in the crew to the stranger and offered him a place to stay. He explained that the ship was low on crew, and that they were headed to go investigate the asteroids hurling towards Earth and Gongen. They told Esteban about the aliens... and the newcomer was shocked to hear about them.
They warned Esteban that there was an alien on board. Chompers pounded his way on the metal grating, like some large clunking horse coming towards them. Theo warned him that Chompers was a bit intimidating, though it was friendly even with the cursing. Chompers was now 12 feet tall, he had grown. His monstrous physique was a strange sight for Esteban who jumped backward and got into a defensive stature. He squinted his eyes and ground his teeth. “What is that?” Chompers replied: “What is him? Why is here? Friend or hated enemy?”
Chompers folded up its four legs and it was scratching at the grating and its red eyes were starting at Esteban who's face was filled with awe and apprehension. “Chompers give hug! HUG FRIEND!” He gave him a bear hug and the heat surprised Esteban. “It is attacking me!' Theo calmed him down. “New friend smell weird.” Chompers set him down in a surprisingly gentle fashion. “That is an amazing specimen...” Chompers seemed to be upset by being called this. Chompers tilted his head and just looked at Esteban who in turn slowly walked away from the devilish-looking alien.
Theo took Chompers away to try to teach him how to make the bone chips from the 3D printer. Captain Long Veer explained how Chompers parent were killed and that from one of the alien carcasses came an infant and that they had raised it. He informed him of a Quay settlement but he didn't let him know of the location and told him that they were cohabiting a place with humans. The Captain warned Esteban of the anger and hatred that seems to be natural to the Quay. Long Veer also hinted about the other alien faction, The Shi. The Captain then asked Bryce and Sally to show him around. Captain then headed back to the cockpit as he was apprehensive about rescuing their old crew members.
Esteban was interested in seeing the hydroponics bay and Bryce showed him that and his new quarters. The newcomer seemed to like jungles, but Bryce seemed to have a cold demeanor when it concerned Esteban. He wanted to wander around the ship, and Bryce informed him that the cams monitor everything and that Bryce monitors all of the cams... It seemed to be a veiled threat, but Esteban took it in stride and said that he was glad to be on a safe vessel once again. Bryce gave him extensive maps of the ship and then briskly left the conversation, seemingly being a bit rude from Esteban's perspective.
Captain Long Veer informed the crew that Jinu would be on sentry duty and would be walking around the ship to keep an eye on things.
Theo tried to go over the numbers with Chompers again who in turn was getting angry about not knowing them. Theo: “Fuck does not come after one!” “Chompers does not like numbers!” Theo:“You need to learn numbers to make the bone chips from the machine.” “Theo do it.” Chompers punched a wall in frustration. He kept getting the numbers wrong. Chompers slammed a metal grate. “ONE! TWO! THREEEE!!! FOURRRRR!!!” “Chompers hungry!” Theo just cranked out some bone chips, and the alien seemed to like the new crunchier bone chips, and he agreed to try to learn his numbers.
Theo wandered into the hydroponics bay and found him performing some Tia-Chi in his bare feet and he was not wearing a shirt. He said that this was his morning ritual. Theo asked if he could take break the lifepod down for parts. They shared some apples that were being grown there. Theo thought that they grew on vines, and Esteban informed him that they grew on trees. Theo said that he missed the “home cooking” that was mentioned on the space Amish asteroid settlement. Esteban said that it would be good to bring some birds into the hrydroponics bay, as he missed hearing them singing. It seemed that Mr. Fortuna was a fan of nature. Theo informed him that he wasn't missing anything and that a perfect evening for him was listening to the band Blahkkstharr while in his hammock.
Esteban stayed in the hydroponics bay for awhile and then he wandered around the ship and then he bumped into Sally who seemed to be interested in learning more about him. Dumb luck was the reason that was stated that she was here on the Okina. She said that the people on the ship were interesting and not bad, and that there was always something interesting going on. She said that the Shi attacked and killed many of the researchers on the Ganymede research station, and she didn't really want to go into more detail about what actually happened there. She informed them of the “Floaters” that had killed off many of her coworkers. Esteban seemed interested in learning about the new planet that came from out of THE RIFT. Sally didn't know much about it, but she assumed that people had investigated it but she wasn't sure. She seemed to look forward to talking to him again over some future meal.
Esteban then walked towards the shuttle bay. Captain Long Veer wasn't sure if they were going to be able to catch the Shi vessel in time. There was an armada of Earther vessels headed towards the Shi vessel and the asteroids. He was surprised that the Gongen were not doing anything about the asteroid headed towards them. Bryce said that the Earthers would more than likely just blow the hell out of their captured friends. The Captain asked once again if their increased speed would harm the crew, he seemed to be losing a bit of his confidence. Theo said that he would make the ship go as fast as possible and then he cut off the coms quickly. The Captain also made sure that their new guest was comfortable, and he said that he was. Long Veer seemed to be barking orders, perhaps filling the down time.
The Captain asked Esteban to check in on the recently cloned Doctor. On the way there Esteban gathered his personal belongings from the lifepod. Theo warned their new guest not to touch any of Colt's medical experiments in there. Theo filled in Esteban about how the 3D Printer works and vaguely what happened to the Doctor. Then Esteban took his bag back to his quarters. Theo also mentioned how the medbay was completely locked off from the rest of the ship like a large version of a Faraday Cage. Theo questioned the Captain's decision to send Esteban down there, and he mentioned being worried about the cybernetic A. I. Tumor. Captain said that he didn't know what to do with Sally and that he sent her down to engineering, and that Theo should tell her to keep an eye on Esteban in the medlab.
All of the power in the medlab seemed less than in the rest of the ship. The Doctor Colt was in some sort of plastic healing tent, and he knew that it was used to help purify a body and to quickly aid in healing. There was an empty EMP shielded container that was emptied and laying on the ground. There was some smeared blood on the Doctor's face as well as some surgical tools. Esteban got the impression that the Doc had performed some surgery on himself, and sure enough, he seemed to have shoved something into his skull through an open ocular cavity. The readings that Esteban was getting were disturbing.
Sally popped in, and mentioned that the Doctor liked to experiment on himself and that this recent discovery was in his normal behavior. She guessed that the Cybernetic A. I. Tumor was more than likely implanted in the clone of the Doc. Sally left the room so that she could contact the Captain. Esteban noted that the cybernetic tendrils had connected to his right eye, and to the brain stem, and to other vital locations in his brain. Nanofibers were making new connections. Esteban noted two separate brain wave patterns. One of them was erratic and then over some time it got smoother and less eratic. “What are you...?” Sally suggested starting the cloning process over. Long Veer told Sally to keep an eye on the situation and to not do anything rash. Esteban thought that the tumor was taking over.
Sally said, “What a brilliant person you are Doc, we're soooo lucky to have you...” Esteban said that intelligence is often saddled with madness. The Doc seemed healthy in all other respects. Esteban: “This is not right... this is not good...”
Long Veer contacted Theo and Bryce and made sure that the Okina's engines could be tweeked so that they could catch up to the Shi vessel before the Earther Armada could blow up their friends. “Bryce, why don't you keep doing what your doing. Theo... contact me on a secure channel.” Bryce: “Secure channel Captain? What's going on?” Captain: “I just don't want to distract you.” Theo: “That's distracting in its own right Captain.” Bryce: “It's a little late.” Captain: “Sigh... the Doctor has performed an operation on himself...” Bryce then used his Kizen Speed powers and power walked to the medlab. Captain: “Damn it! I shouldn't have said anything. He's implanted the...” Bryce: “I know what he's done.
Captain: “When is this Doctor ever going to learn? When is Colt going to learn? He can't keep doing this to himself. He's not some specimen or space monkey to do things to and experiment on.” Bryce: “He needs to start worrying more about the crew and less about his experiments.”
Bryce was glad that Colt's clone was still unconscious. Esteban seemed interested in what was going on with the two brain waves, the two consciousnesses in his head. Sally said that Colt had a little friend. Bryce: “It may not be his friend... It was essentially torturing me three days ago. It wanted freedom and control and it attempted to manipulate me. I'm not sure how it grew or developed, but it gained control of my neurolink and started accessing systems, and it is exceedingly dangerous. I'm just glad that this room is shielded.”
Esteban noted that the two brain waves now were almost identical. Bryce noted that Colt's clone wasn't strapped down. Esteban: “It seems like the two brain wave patterns are becoming one.” Bryce was staring down at the clone and he was in a wait and see mode. He seemed to be contemplating violence or something else in silent. He sat in the corner and then he got quiet. The heartbeat and rate of breathing started to elevate in Colt's clone. Esteban injected him with something to calm him. The brainwave patterns then went spastic and they were all over the place seemingly in a reaction to what they were doing to their patient.
Jinu on sentry mode walked right past the entrance and it didn't enter into the shielded room. This made Bryce nervous. He wasn't sure if this new entity was capable of gaining access to the ship's systems. Surprisingly there was now only one brainwave pattern, the original Doc's brainwave pattern was not the current brainwave pattern. This made them think that the personality left within the clone was the Cybernetic Tumor's A. I. The 3D Printer then started to then print out another clone of the original Colt from the same UpJack datafile that was on the printer. In other words it was an almost identical clone to the one that was now host to the cybernetic tumor.
Theo was unloading and venting to Chompers while he was ripping a part the lifepod. Four long cylinders were pulled out and they took them down to engineering. Chompers picked up the lifepod by mistake at first. Chompers picked one up and he shook it around. He was going to rig up the energy cores as an extra backup drive and he was going to use it to mess with the limits of normal space flight. It took Theo some time to tinker on his new project.
Bryce determined that the 3D Printer noted that the Doctor's brainwave pattern was nonexistent and had determined that he had “died” and that as per its programming began to print out another clone, the 3rd incarnation of Colt. Esteban and Bryce locked and restrained the first clone of Colt and then he began to shake violently. When Esteban jabbed in the needle the eyes opened and looked around franticly and it seemed to lock onto Bryce's face before the head fell backward into unconsciousness. Bryce also noted that none of the crew had updated their DNA, memories, or personalities in a LONG time so that if they did die they would lose a lot of memories and knowledge. They set up an energy restraining field made from particulates that surrounded just the clone's head. Esteban said that it was only really used for neurological microsurgery. Sally was watching quietly.
The clone with the cybernetic A. I. Tumor was resting peacefully and entered REM sleep while the new clone was being printed. It was oddly peaceful in the medlab then, as they weren't sure what was happening inside the first clone of Colt's brain. Bryce was looming over him with an odd look on his face. “It's difficult you know. I feel a tremendous hatred for this thing that was so innocent just a couple of days ago. It barely knows what it is. I... I just hope that it doesn't attempt to mimic the old doctor. I hope that it doesn't pretend that everything is normal. It tried to pass itself off as an old friend.” He mentioned his closeness to Pon and a bit about her uniqueness, and that she was originally a person. “I don't know if I'm cleared to tell you any of this. You aren't a member of the crew, but thank you for alerting us to this. I don't know where or how it got such a precise impression of Pon... Again, it's very difficult to not want to just splatter it on the floor right now.”
Esteban asked, “Do you trust your Captain?” Bryce: “Yes, yes I do, though I didn't at first. He wasn't our Captain at first.” Esteban seemed very curious about the tumor and the dynamics of the ship and its crew. He seemed to be concerned about his place in it all. “Long is one of the most trustworthy people that I have ever worked with.” Esteban seemed to be trying to plant doubts about the Captain in Bryce's head.
The conversation then shifted to safety with regards to Chompers. Bryce said that the alien could be impulsive and that he was young, and had strange thoughts and habits. Esteban noted the special relationship that Chompers had to Theo, and Bryce confirmed that Theo was the first person that Chompers latched onto. Chompers seemed to think of Theo as its parent. Esteban worried that there were other strange effects from being in such close proximity with the alien, and that there may be strange microscopic creatures that could affect the crew in time.
Theo was talking about the stress he was under due to Annelle and her possible pregnancy and that she didn't want to talk about it yet. “She's acting very nervous about it, and then I LIED to the Captain about it! There's other things that are on my mind too. You know, I normally just put it all down in my datapad, but for some reason I felt like talking to you about it.” Chompers seemed to react strangely about hearing about Theo's thoughts. It was moving the grate on the floor in strange ways. “Am I... son?” He then looked up at Theo. “Is... Am I... FUCK! Son of a Bitch! Am... I... your child? Is Theo's breed partner full of children?” Theo then explained some things that he wasn't actually Chomper's father but that he had raised him. Chompers was moving the grate back and forth while looking down. Chompers seemed to remember his “Corpse Brother” but a lot of the other events seemed like they were forgotten by him.
Theo then told Chompers that the Quay attacked his ship. Chompers:“Quay... kill humans? Why?” Theo said that the crew had defended themselves. Chompers: “I... am not from... inside of you?” Theo: “No... no you're not. You were inside of another Quay, the ones that attacked us.” Chompers was pacing and seemed to be very upset if Theo was reading his body language correctly. Theo then played the camfeed of the Quay ripping a human apart and being threatening. Chompers then began to emanate a very hot temperature of about 150 degrees. “I would never...” and then Chompers motioned as if he was ripping off his own head. “Love...” Chompers seemed to be very confused and emotional, which was strange in such a hulking killing machine of a creature.
A black icky substance was leaking out of Chomper's cracks in his carapace. “Chompers never hurt Theo.” He went to smash a monitor and then stopped himself. Theo grabbed his fists and then tried to explain that he and Long Veer had killed Chomper's parent. This statement of truth did not have the desired affect. “Theo... KILL... KILL PARENT?! THEO KILL PARENT!!!??” Chompers “Ki...lll..... parrreennntt...?” Theo said that he almost died. More of that black liquid came pouring out of the cracks in his exoskeleton. He began to make disturbing and loud wailing like noises that were in odd octaves that were not capable using a human throat. Chompers then began smashing his face on the metal grating of the floor over and over again, screaming to emphasize each downward violent motion.
Theo tried to calm him and comfort him. “I know it hurts okay? I know it hurts a lot. I lost my parents too like that, my brother killed him.” “Chompers is alone... ALONE...” “You are not alone here.” Chompers: “When will you get rid of me?” Theo: “You are old enough now to choose now. We can take you back to your people or you can stay with us.” Chompers then grabbed and swung Theo around and gave him a slightly painful hug.
“What about Chomper's children?” and then it tapped its right and left breast (the spots where Chompers and its dead brother were in their parent's body). Theo: “Nothing will happen to them.” Chompers put Theo down and then backed into a corner. It folded its legs up underneath him. It then seemed like it was ignoring Theo and acting strangely. Chompers then turned around and faced the wall and began making even stranger sounding noises. When Theo touched Chomper's shoulders it violently shrugged his hand away and ignored Theo. Theo: “Would you have been happy if it had killed us?” Chompers whipped his head around and its eyes were burning brightly: “Leave Chompers alone. Theo: “You know where I'll be if you want to talk.” When Theo was walking away Chompers screamed: “I... HATE... YOU... FUCK (gurgling angry Quay noises).” Theo: “I hate myself too.”
Theo contacted the Captain and said that the ship would be flying faster than she ever had before. The Captain then increased the speed of the ship. Annelle got on the mic and she asked if he was alright. Theo said he would be in his room and broke off the conversation.
Back in the medlab Bryce and Esteban were still discussing things. It was hard to believe all that Bryce was telling him it seemed. Bryce said that Ying and Kazuko were very gracious by allowing their friends to keep this ex-Gongen vessel. “The Captain is trustworthy, that is all you need to know.” The clone was 100 percent complete and its arms reached up and slammed into the lid to the 3D Printer. It wasn't screaming but its mouth seemed to be trying to. Flashing lights appeared on the side of it and there was an error, a life sign warning. Esteban opened a handle an the clone of Clone flopped out onto the floor and it was covered in amniotic fluid and it was trying to gasp for breath. They removed a 3 foot section of slimy flesh from its throat and it gasped a deep breath.
Colt was freaking out and then he saw a clone of himself with the energy particulates around its head. “What is that?” They wiped off the fluid from his skin. Bryce thought that the Doc should know why he was cloned but then he remembered that this Doctor was from an old backup. “Is that my corpse?” Bryce: “It's a little complicated Colt. That body is not really yours anymore. Something took over. You implanted an entity and it is in control of that body's brainwaves.” Colt: “Why would I do something like that, why would I implant something like that?” Sally: “It's nice to see you pretty much yourself. The first time I saw you, you were... um... never mind we can talk about that later. You were mutated horribly and you had to be put down.” Colt dressed himself as he felt awkward. Bryce: “Colt you are on number. Now be more careful with your fucking experiments!”
“That body looks alive... why was I printed out?” Esteban informed him that it was most likely as a result of his brainwaves no longer being there, and that the machine assumed that he was dead. Colt: “I guess that I have been very rash and that I should be more cautious in the future.” Esteban noted that this clone's brainwaves matched the original Colt's recorded brainwave patterns. Colt #3 was sedated and put into a deep medicated sleep.
Theo was in his room throwing up in the toilet and trying to hold back tears and failing. Theo made the awful realization that he is no better than his brother that killed Theo's parents and many people on their space station. Annelle was concerned about him. “I don't even know if I'm pregnant, I'm sorry to have gotten you all riled up. We can go and see the Doctor together soon and see what the results are.” Theo laid down his head in her lap, and he told her about how he grew up on a station and how he had barely survived but his family and many others died on the Theta One Station. “He killed them, and he killed most everyone on the station, and then I killed him. Chompers was asking me if I was his birth parent and then I told him no. Then I told him how we found him, and how I killed his parent. There were things that I wanted to live for, like you at the time. I had to kill his birth parent to survive.”
Annelle questioned Theo about why he had told Chompers that. She thought that he might be dangerous now and that she was surprised that it didn't kill him on the spot. “I think he was crying, and he said that he hated me.” Annelle said that he should be confined but Theo disagreed. “I think sometimes that you just blurt things out without thinking about the consequences. I'm worried.” Theo: “Don't worry about it, I'll handle it.” The couple then went to bed. Annelle asked Long Veer to pilot the ship. Everyone rested up during the night except for Chompers that was still in the corner.
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Post by sirphil on Jul 16, 2014 19:11:15 GMT
WARs Recap: Session 19 “Parenthood”
A day has passed since the events of last session that have unfolded on the Okina Toraburu, as it heads closer towards it's destination with the Shi vessel. The rendezvous with captain Ying and Kozuko draws near...
We start the scene with Long Veer, alone on the command deck bridge, Piloting the Okina Toraburu as the ambient light of the rift pours in through the command decks view port. Using his com. badge, Long Veer contacts Bryce. Long Veer asks how things are going in the med bay and Bryce with an anxious and hesitant tone tells Long Veer that things are doing well for moment. Both doctors are well, albeit the doctor with the cybernetic tumor is tied down and his vitals show that “he” is...alive for the most part. While the other doctor is doing well and is recovering from his recent cloning. Long Veer then asks Bryce about Esteban and how he did during the emergency. To which Bryce details that Esteban seemed quite skilled and insightful. However Bryce does not trust him hunderd percent. He is “an unknown value” Further backing up his suspicions as he tells Long Veer that he has no info on him after Esteban left Neo Tokyo college. After a brief pause, Long Veer thanks Bryce and tells him that he will relieve him as soon as he gets Annelle to take control of the helm. Bryce alerts Long veer that they will be approaching the Shi vessel soon and that they are going to need a plan. Long Veer assures Bryce that he was thinking of one and will call for a crew meeting to consult on a strategy.
Long Veer stands in silence for a moment staring at the crono counter (clock) and back at the com. again. The bridge is silent except for the computational noise of the console and the ever ambient hum of the ship. Long Veer then contacts Annelle who is asleep with Theo at there quarters. After Long Veer asks Annelle to head up to the bridge to take over for him, Annelle stumbles about to grab her clothes while Theo points out where they are. Annelle hoping on one foot as puts her pants on making her way to the bridge. Theo asks Annelle about the appointment and she tells him that they will have to put it off. Feeling Melancholy Theo gets dressed and heads up to the machine shop where he works on his “pet projects”. During this time Sally is making her way up to the bridge when she finds the captain in the pilot seat Scrolling through his data pad. After exchanging hellos, enthusiastically Sally tells Long Veer about the events in the med lab. Where she explains her curiosity about studying the A.I tumor and her thoughts about possibly experimenting with it. Sally would like to see, under controlled conditions to see what it might become. Long Veer Tells Sally that he plans on discussing the fate of the “inflicted” doctor at the coming crew meeting. With that Long Veer shares all the data they have on the rift for Sally study. Sally then asks long veer if he has meet the new guy, Esteban. Sally doesn't see any need to distrust him right off the bat, but also won't let her guard down completely as well. Long Veer tells her that there have been plenty of strange things that have happened on the ship and that she as well as everyone should keep there eyes open to any strange behavior from any of the crew members, just in case. Long Veer then begins to tell Sally his thoughts about Esteban, commenting on his calculating and intelligent nature, as well as being a bit bothered by the fact that he has no traceable background. Sally concurs but also feels that in a system this big not everyone's information is going to be keep immaculately up to date. Long Veer and Sally begin to converse on the many reasons why someone would not have a background, from spy's, to being mavericks etc. In the end Long Veer suggests to keep an open mind about Esteban as he comments on his cybernetics. Afterwards, Long Veer begins to tell Sally about some of his powers that manifested from exposure to the rift and asks her is she has experienced any strange effects happening around her. Sally tells Long Veer that she has not experienced anything of the sorts, Long Veer tells her that he is keeping tabs on everyone making sure to catalog of any new abilities that might emerge.
After a brief pause, Esteban contacts Long Veer through the coms. Esteban Tells Long Veer that he has been in the hydroponics bay and is wondering if there is anything he can do help out. Long Veer asks if he could make the hydroponics bay more efficient, to which Esteban said hell see what he can do. Esteban begins to regale Long Veer with his knowledge on plants and possible supper suggestions. Long Veer didn't want him to be made into a cook, but Esteban didn't seem to mind much as he suggested to bring a salad for the meeting.
After a pause from conversing with Esteban, Long Veer keys into a ship wide com. and with a smile to Sally, calls for a crew meeting. In the Gally. As he does so Annelle comes stumbling in to take over the cockpit while the meeting gets announced. Long Veer informs her that he will have the coms open so she can deliver her input in on the meeting. With that Long Veer ushers Sally along out the door and into the gally. Annelle looking back at Long Veer and Sally as they Vacate the area, looks out ward into the stars as the rifts light lightly shines through the front portals. As she rests her hand on her stomach. The crew makes there way to the gally, some quick and others taking there time, as such the crew has gathered around. Everyone taking there perspective places around table to discuss the immediate issues affecting the crew.
Long Veer asks Bryce if the doctor is okay since all connections to the med bay have been cut off from the rest of the ship. Bryce goes down to check on him. During this time Long Veer wonders about chompers and finds him in the corner of the cargo hull, surrounded by mounds of debris and furniture dragged all around him. Long Veer attempts to get his attention but Chompers hurls small furniture at the camera. As this unfolds Theo walks in and sits down quietly. Long Veer looks over to Theo and asks him what is up with chompers? To which Theo lazily looks up at him and tells him that he will tell him later. Bryce gets down to med bay and checks on the doc to which he hesitantly looks back at the infected doctor with an unnerving look, as he shuts down the med bay lights as the infected doctor lifeless stares back at him. Long Veer Asks if it is ok to leave the recently cloned doc in the same room as the A.I tomur infected doctor. Bryce thinks it is a poor idea, but one he leaves up to the captain to decide. Theo then chimes in and suggests putting it on ice. Long veer then asks the crew if they want to keep the infected doctor or get rid of him. Bryces goes on to explain that he feels like he is not qualified to make such ethical decisions. He goes on to explain that “it” is young and confused but it is very dangerous and that it has will to inflect its will without any guiding wisdom. Bryce sounds very stressed and anxious. Sally feels like they should understand what it is and where did it come from. Or to hand it off to someone else who has the better equipment to handle such things. More options are explored on what to do with the doctor or how to contain it. Bryce brings up the point about its ability to move around, and the extent of its mobility and control of its hosts the body as well as it's pain tolerance and the like. At this point in the meeting captain calls for a show of hands of who wants to see the thing destroyed. The captain decides in the end with a two to one favor in destroying it that it should be disposed of. Theo suggests that it should be ejected into space and fired upon. The captain decided that it should be incinerated and then blasted from the ship by the plasma cannon. Afterwards Long Veer brings up the point about the ships A.I when Esteban walks in. Long Veer gets Esteban up to speed and then begins to suggest to the crew that they should activate it. Theo questions why a military grade A.I would be installed on a science vessel. Long Veer explains that the ship was converted from a military vessel to a science vessel. Theo then asks if Bryce would want to set up the new A.I, Bryce agrees to as he shifts around in his chair. Esteban is in great favor of installing the ships A.I. Which brings up the topic of Pon and what became of her. As Esteban continues to prob Bryce, reeling from all his questioning Bryce brings up another point of discussion...Cloning Pon. Asking how everyone would feel if she were to become a normal member of the crew. A little back forth came about as Theo was asked by Bryce how he would “feel” about it. This resulted in Theo agreeing to on the spot to have her cloned, this takes Bryce by surprise. Sally is left with questions about Pon, to which Bryce fills her in. Bryce goes on to detail how Pon has integrated her data with that of the Samantha in the cloning machine. Theo gets a little rowdy suggests to clon'em all. The idea was never pushed forward with great detail. Sally being enlightened to the events as well as Esteban, both agree to want to see her. The crew comes to an agreement that Pon should be brought back, after the confrontation of Shi vessel. With that out of the way, Long Veer goes on to tell the newer members about uploading themselves to the cloning machine. The crew then discusses how the cloning machine works and what that implies for the newer members. With that in mind Long Veer directs the crew towards the matter of the Shi vessel and any ideas on how to approach it. Theo points out it's alien configuration which will make it hard to even figure out how to even get in. Bryce Chimes in with an idea regarding the earther fleet, he then turns to sally and asks if she has any experience with quantum disruption fields. Sally tells Bryce that she has some basic understanding of it. Bryce goes on to explain that when they encountered the Quay, that they used a device a prob or missile of sorts that created a quantum disruption field that had the side effect of hurling them quite a distance away. Bryce's idea was focused on using these devices in a two fold way. One would be to move the Earther fleet away from the Shi vessel and the other is to divert the asteroids. Theo suggested that they didn't need to understand the process fully but needed to just launch it at them. Bryce goes on to explain that whilst that is a strong possibility that they did needed to posses a stronger understanding of the technology since last time those prob's caused some structural integrity damage to the ship. Bryce explained that they needed enough of an understanding of the tech given the time allotted to them to have as much control over it as possible.
Esteban, begins to bring up the fact that the asteroids are heading towards his home. To which Bryce asks him, which home? Esteban says in return, the one where I was born. This brings up some mild hostilities about every ones faction loyalties. Long Veer pointed out that while we are on the ship we are basically against everyone. Esteban brought up the No Bot rebellion, and any news related to it's development. The conversation was corrected back on course by Long Veer who wanted to make a bomb to blow up the Shi vessel using a Trigennieum based bomb. The possibilities where bounced back and forth, and an idea of using the quantum disruption field to accelerate the Trigennieum bomb towards the Shi Vessel was put forward. It could be done if they could understand the physics of it in time. The conversation shifted towards Talk about chompers. Esteban suggested that they could use his hatred against the Shi. That notion was disproved of greatly, as Theo Sank Lower in his seat. This also brought into light of what they were going to do when chompers finds the Shi.
Theo came up with some Ideas involving luring the Shi vessel into Jupiters gravity well, but that proved to be a little impractical and out of the way. In the end all the ideas presented have a unknown factor to them, however the Trigennieum bombs have the best odds of success. It was brought up to try and slave control the Quay vessel, but that too proved to be a little impractical given the time at hand. With all that was said at the meeting The plan to build a Trigennieum bomb and use the quantum disruption field in conjunction to blow the shi vessel apart became the main focus and the crew meeting was adjourned.
With the meeting done, the crew began to make preparations for what was to come but first Long Veer had to talk with Theo about how he has been acting lately and Chompers. Theo explained to Long Veer how he told Chompers about how they found chompers. Which involved explaining how they had to kill his brood parent. With that Long Veer and Theo went to go see chompers. Sally went down to the med bay as well as Esteban to get themselves uploaded to the 3D printing cloning machine. While this was happening Theo ends up hearing Quay cursing in his head, and not sure what to do or think about it, continues towards chompers albeit a bit faster. As he gets closer to chompers he feels an intial feeling of pain, echoing in his mind once more. Theo tries to talk to Chompers but it appears he is too much pain to tell them any details as to what is going on.
They discover that Chompers is giving birth but it is not going well and there appears to be something wrong with the birthing processes. Both Theo and Long Veer help chompers Deliver it's babies though only one of them appears to be alive. Theo used his heat Kizen aura to bring Chomper's temperature up as Bryce raises the temp in the cargo bay. Chompers apologizes to Theo during the birth and afterwards Chompers seemed quite pleased and preoccupied as it is now taking care of it's own offspring. Theo checks to see If Chompers is all right and he makes a calm human like head nod. With that Theo follows after Long Veer to the med bay. Long Veer heads up to the med bay to see to the disposal of the doctor's body. Long Veer was impressed with the speed of how Esteban prepared the body. With that in mind, Long Veer using his electric powers to incinerate the body, as the cybernetic tendrils lash out, which only lasts for a few mere moments before they cease function. Long Veer begins Prepping the new comers with flesh ports and explaining the cloning process. Annelle shows up to have her flesh port installed and to be uploaded to the 3D clone printer after calling for Annelle on the com. Before her arrival Theo asks if Esteban can check to see if Annelle is pregnant. However He first thinks it is Sally who may be pregnant with Theo, But Theo quietly corrects him while he studies up real quick. Theo arranges for Bryce and Sally to meet him at the Quay Vessel. When Annelle gets her flesh port installed Long Veer does a routine scan revealing that she is pregnant. To which becomes apparent to Theo when she tells him. Theo is at a loss for words while Annelle smiles.
Afterwards Bryce and Sally prepare the body to be ejected out into space and blasted. With the help of Jinu they accomplished this task with ease. However Jinu addresses Bryce by his first name, which is something that he catches and preforms a quick look at Jinu's programming. Revealing that during Pon's habitation of Jinu, parts of Pons programming has rubbed off onto Jinu. The scope of which has not been completely understood as to what extent. Bryce is a little shaken by the discovery. Long Veer gave Bryce the honors of blasting the remains, to which Bryce was hesitant to indulge in such an act. With that the infected doctors remains are ejected and then blasted. After that Bryce heads down to the Airlock to meet with Sally and Theo.
Esteban Begins to talk with Sally, telling her that he is grateful that she was not pregnant. Sally replied to him by saying that she is not ready yet in this stage of her life to have a child. Esteban began to ask her where she is going. Sally then told Esteban that she is heading towards the Airlock. To which he invited her to a "discussion" after she was done. Meanwhile Theo is walking along side of Annelle discussing there future together. Annelle caught Theo off guard and slammed him against the wall and kissed him on the cheek. The discussing names for there child and the like, and they arrived Annelle headed back up to the cock pit. Theo pointed out to her that If she wanted to talk some more she can reach him through there private head communication implants. She smiles, enjoying the idea and heads off. We end this session with Theo, Bryce and Sally exploring the Quay ship in there environmental suits. As they wade through the chitinous chambers and tubular tunnels that stretch on wards.
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Post by sirphil on Jul 22, 2014 1:17:17 GMT
Wars Recap: Session-20 "All Hell Breaks Loose" From last we left off, our intrepid crew makes preparations for the approaching Shi vessel. The captain is working on various computational algorithms for converting the Quay bodies into a Trigenium based substance to be used as an explosive. Whilst Esteban walks about the ship, studding it's various corridors and the like. Taking note of places of interest as he commits every hall and room to memory. Meanwhile Sally, Bryce and Theo have made there way into the Quay ship and very slowly and steady made there way forward throughout the long dark pitted floor of the ship. The various panels that populate the interior walls are segmented panel like structures, composed of various shapes fitted together like a large puzzle. Within the interior of the Quay Vessel Theo takes out a pair of mapping spheres and lets them loose to explore the regions of the ship for them. Bryce begins to wonder about how the Quay power and operate there vessels and postulates that perhaps the trigenium in the Quay's blood might be a catalyst for it. Theo suggested that perhaps the Trigenium in the Quay's blood is of a different composition that could be mixed with another similar Trigenium based substance within the ship and the two could create a bio chemical reaction that might "kick start" the ship. However there are a lot of unknown variables and with little knowledge of the Quay let alone there ship technology the group is left to theorize. Theo then begins to try gain access behind the panel like structures to get a better look at the interior structure. When his fingers dig into the fleshy crevasse Theo and Sally then try and pull it off. When they succeed, they felt the fleshy substance quiver as they peeled the panel out. Theo gets a dark slimy substance on his gloves and then ask's Bryce to scan it. However Bryce doesn't have a bio scanner on hand. Which Prompts Bryce to contact the captain or Esteban to get a detachable bio-scanner. Esteban volunteers and brings various medical and environmental scanners, down to the Quay vessel. Whilst on his way: the tunnel that Theo, Sally and Bryce are standing in erupts with spikes jutting out from various locations around the walls floors and ceiling surfaces. Sally gracefully dodges the spine covered spikes, While Bryce who is ever vigilant gets out of the way. However Theo is not so graceful and a spike is driven through his cybernetic arm causing waves of pain as his nerves fire off in reaction to the discharges. Oxygen begins to leak through his suit as Esteban arrives on the scene. Sally patches up Theo's suit. Sally begins to wonder if the ship is alive in some way and suggests that they should leave. However Esteban and Theo are determined to stay, Theo wants the probes and Esteban wants to investigate the ship further. The ship panels begin to expand as a hollowed noise echoes throughout the halls of the ship. Bryce begins to panic and Theo tries to get him to calm down. Theo ask's Bryce about his "visions" and Bryce in a brief pondering moment says that he may know what he needs to do. Bryce then thrusts his hands into the fleshy interior and pulls out tendons that he jams into his wrists as he follows his vision, Sally seals the breach. Bryce then suggests that they may need to get Chompers down here. Esteban using his Scanner notices "something" heading towards them, deep below the ship. Theo and Bryce use Kazuko's translation to tell whatever it is to stop in Quay. It works for the moment, however this causes a bunch a tendrils to emerge from the spaces between the panel and they begin to poke and prod everyone in tunnel. Bryce begins to panic and Theo Tries to get him to remain calm, but it becomes hard for Bryce as he begins to sweat profusely trying to remember his vision. Theo Tries calling for Chompers, but gets no response. Theo then Contacts the Captain and updates him on the current situation. Bryce then begins to loose it, as this happens a sound echoes through out the ship. Captain Long Veer begins to make his way down to where Chompers is. Chompers begins to get upset with Long Veers presence, Then Long Veer tells Chompers that Theo might be in danger. To which then Chompers agrees to go and they both head down to the ship. The others attempt to leave the ship but it is slow going, and Bryce refuses to let go of tendrils he has shoved in his wrists in fear of getting everyone killed by the ships defense system. Esteban then replaces Theo's oxygen tank. He then scans Bryce bio signs for fear of being poisoned by Trigenium being in his blood. Chompers arrives and feels a strange sense of nostalgia like he is "home". Bryce then yanks out the tendrils and with a strange look in his eyes, he gets up and touches Chompers and with that gives him the tendrils and tells him to "become one with the ship". Chompers connects himself with the ship and when that happens Bryce collapses to his knees and has a very "high" look in his eyes. Esteban then escorts Bryce back to the ship, while the ship activates and powers up. Bryce becomes inquisitive about Esteban being nervous and goes on to explain the strange sensations he is feeling at the moment. While this Happens Theo then ask's the Captain to follow Esteban out to make sure nothing goes wrong. At this point Annelle messages Theo If he is all right, With "Come home soon, Come back to me Theo...Don't die over there" Theo then tells her that he is alright and that he will come back. Long Veer then asks about Chompers child to which Chompers unplugs himself and asks if they can live on the ship. Theo and Long Veer tell him yes, they can. Theo adds on that this is there ship. Chompers then asks if he no longer Theo's slave. Theo and Long Veer begin to explain to chompers that he is not nor ever has been there slave. Chompers then runs back to the ship to retrieve it's child. While Long Veer and Sally make there way back to there ship, Theo stays behind and waits for Chompers. Alone on the Quay Ship Theo goes into a monologue of his inner thoughts: (slightly revised,... ahem! (clears throat))With the thoughts of what Annelle had typed to him earlier Theo begins reflect on his past and the people he misses in his life. Flipping through his data pad he looks over a multitude of pictures of various people, most of whom have a faint red X crossed through there frame. Feeling the sting in his arm as it twitches non-stop. He thinks about how close to death he has been so many times and how easily he could have died, which transfers his thoughts to the approaching Shi and what ever danger may come with them. He glances over to see Chompers walking in the chamber with Child crawling around him. Esteban arrives at the med bay with Bryce as he attempts to walk but fails. Esteban puts Bryce in an isolation unit just in case he has any foreign microbes that could threaten the crew. Bryce dislikes being put there like the one of doctor's clones before who had the A.I tumor. Bryce and Esteban go back and forth at each other about his decisions which flows into Bryce asking about who Esteban is and why doesn't trust him. Just as Bryce goes on he then goes into detail about how the Quay are so much more connected than humans. Esteban debates Bryces inquires as he puts him in the tent. "I feel like I have ripped from my mothers arms." To Which Esteban replies with "Well now you know how it feels" as the tent is sealed up and Bryce goes to sleep. Esteban scans him and picks up Trigenium in his blood, to which Esteban begins to research in the lab. Chompers arrives back to his ship with child in tow and Theo has one last talk with him, before he leaves off in the ship. Theo explains to Chompers again that he is not his "slave" and tries to explain why he did what he did. Theo ask's Chompers for one last favor, and goes and retrieves the Quay probes (count 5). While Theo is getting the Probes, Long Veer comes in and talks to chompers. Long Veer say's his goodbyes and gives chompers the blade of his brood parents. Chompers ask's Long Veer to name child and Long Veer suggests the child be called "Theo", chompers agrees "good name.". With that the captain heads back to the ship when Theo arrives back with the probes. He looks back at Chompers and gives him one last scratch behind his horns and Chompers gives Theo his and his child's scales that will identify Theo as family of Chompers to other Quay. Theo Gives Chompers his Cog badge and say'd his farewells as walks away. Chompers Then tells Theo that he will fight the floaters then he will leave. "Remember...Gut the Floaters" To which Theo replies, "I am not gonna gut'em...Am going to blow them out of the fucking sky!" Chompers chuckles as Theo leaves the ship. Chompers gets the hang of flying his ship while Theo and Sally help prep the bomb. Long Veer then restarts the main computer and brings the ships A.I back online. Long Veer and Annelle have a talk about the plan of attack on the Shi vessel. The A.I Aisho shortly afterwards tells of several dead bodies in the walls, they don't have any time to deal with the bodies, but the question still remains, of how they got there and why Pon never said anything about it before. Sally and Theo begin work on the bomb as they convert the Esteban's life pod into a missile and place 4 of the probes inside of it. Long Veer instructs Esteban to stay in the med bay in case of emergency. When the captain leaves the printing machine begins to print out Kazuko and Li Ren. Long Veer and Esteban begin talking about the cloning machine and the effects of it. However as they continue too discuss it the crew becomes bombarded by images in there minds, hundreds of them. Annelle announces that the Shi will be upon them in less than 5 mins. Long veer asks Theo if the bomb is ready and Theo tells him that it ready to go as he shuts the lid and activates the bomb. THEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!!!! Time and reality seem to break as the crew goes through strange and mysterious effects and sensations that over whelm them. Then everything fades to black for our heroes. Just as everything fades to black the crew abruptly finds themselves awake and in completely different areas of the ship. Theo is in Annelle's fighter cockpit. Esteban is outside of Annelle's fighter. Sally is on an operating table with her left arm which has been removed surgically. Long Veer has his arm lodged in a conduit. Sally calls out over the coms. about her status. Theo replies with his status and questioning how he got there. Aisho responds to Theo telling him that they have been out for some time, Theo growing anxious begins to demand from the computer to show him on the viewer what happened. The computer is unable to comply. Long Veer answers over the coms that he is powering some conduit. Aisho has no answer for Long Veers question than saying "Annelle activated me 10 mins ago" Theo then Questioned the Computer about where Annelle is and the computer replies that Annelle is not on the ship. The computer tells of a debris field outside of the ship and that the quay vessel is gone. Long Veer asks Theo if he can let go of the conduit and Theo tells him yes. Esteban walks up to the fighter and looks inside to see a confused Theo looking back at him. Theo tells Esteban to close that hatch and get out of the docking bay. Before doing so Theo asks Esteban how he got blood on his hands and then asks him to tend to Sally and the Captain. all of the crew members begin to experience a sort of fatigue and soreness all over there bodies. Long veer then contacts Bryce and asks if he is okay, Bryce becomes frustrated as he tries to get up from his healing tent. Long Veer tells Bryce he will be down there shortly, and begins to make his way down to the med bay. Long Veer then contacts the Doctor, and the doctor tells him that he had quite a dream, and from here Long Veer begins to fill the doc in on what has happened so far. Long Veer feeling hungry and tried tries to contact Theo, but finds that Theo has left the ship in Annelles fighter. Esteban is making his way up to his room asking himself what has happened. As he gets to his room, he finds Jinu with alien blood on him. Esteban then grabs a metal tube from his possessions to which he injects himself with a substance from the tube in his eye to calm himself. Long Veer finds his way to the med bay and gets Bryce out of his medical bag and Finds Sally on the table. It soon occurs to the crew that they do not have flesh ports on them. With that in mind Long Veer finds himself with no scars on his face and he has hair growing. Bryce looks over at the cloning machine and looks back at the captain telling that they must be clones. Bryce feels the back of his head to find no computer implant... Theo notices that his left arm is back and that he has no implants on his body. With this thought he frantically tries to contact Annelle through his implant which is not present, and begins to shut down. At this point Long veer attempts to contact Theo, but to no avail and Esteban finds his way into the med bay. Long Veer asks Esteban to help him sow up Sally, as Esteban is slowly freaking out over what has happened. Esteban explains what he has encountered since he came too. Esteban and Long Veer stitch Sally back together. Esteban admires the handy work of Sally's surgery as he examines her. Long Veer offers to take over working on Sally while Esteban takes a breather. Esteban, and the crew present in the med bay end up discovering some hand held alien technology (count three). After patching up Sally Long Veer asks if she is ok and grabs some stems to inject himself with, and goes to find the doctor. Esteban then researches the cloning machine to see who was printed out. The average was at least three clones each from all the uploaded profiles in the machine. As long Veer gets to the Docs area he finds a young naked girl with the likeness of Pon trying to get the doctor out of his tent. Long Veer then gets Colt out of the tent, as Pon reaches out and touches his arm as she smiles while she asks for clothes. Colt gets up and heads to the med bay. Theo scanning the debris field in search of answers for questions he may not even know establishes what he believes is trail to find Annelle and goes off in that direction in Annelles fighter. Fatigued, teary eyed and filled with despair. The computer asks Long Veer as what to refer to him and the crew of clones...End session.
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Post by sirphil on Jul 31, 2014 9:30:01 GMT
WARs Recap: session-21 "Foreign Tissue/Clone Wars" We begin with Theo piloting Annelle's vessel at high speed tracking what he thinks is the trail of the Shi vessel. However before he gets to his destination he detects a wake turbulence belonging to the Quay vessel piloted by Chompers. Theo then alters course to catch up with Chompers and hails his vessel. On the view screen chompers is seen, badly injured and missing one eye as his little one scurry's about the surface of Chompers body. Theo starts to ask Chompers about happened two days prior. It is revealed that During the battle the Shi managed to get on board and "talk" the crew into going on board. Chomper- "They do strange things." Chompers then tells Theo of him attacking and injuring the Shi vessel and causing it flee from the scene. Chompers was in pursuit of there last coordinates, which Theo acquires through Chompers. Chompers then inquires about how Theo escaped from the Shi Vessel. Theo explains to him that he is a clone, produced from the ships cloning machine. Theo tells Chompers that he will head back to the ship in and track down the Shi vessel. Theo then cuts off communications and returns back to the ship. Back on the Okina Toraburu... Esteban is in the med bay looking into the 3D printing cloning machine to see what was printed out. While looking at the cloning machines data, Esteban learns that he is the third clone from the original. He also learns that everyone else on the ship has been cloned multiple times. Theo is the third clone, Bryce is the fourth clone, Long Veer is the third clone, Pon/Samantha is the 2nd clone, Sally is the second clone, colt is the sixth clone, and finally Annelle and her baby are one there 8th clone... Esteban begins to panic at the realization that this brings. With this Esteban tells Bryce and Sally about what he learned. Bryce and Esteban take note that there cybernetics are gone, while bryce reaches out with his mind to sense how many people are on the ship, after hearing about how many clones there are. After a while Bryce soon realizes that are more minds on board then there should be. Count 10 in total. Bryce then steps out of the med bay and contacts the captain as he broadcasts this throughout the ship at large since he doesn't know where the captain is. Captain long Veer responds and Bryce begins to update the captain on the current situation of the ship taking note of the multiple minds that he detects throughout the ship. As Bryce continues to explain the situation they both hear another Long Veer (Bryce Being unaware at first) on the coms. Confused Bryce re-explains the situation to Long Veer. Confused Bryce then asks the captain where he is located, simultaneously Bryce hears both captains "In the Hallway/ In the engineering" Hesitantly Bryce asks the captain to meet him back at the med bay so they can hear from Esteban about how many time they have been cloned. Bryce walks back into the med bay with the startling news that there are now two captains on the ship. While Bryce and Esteban discuss this, they both here over the intercoms another Esteban. The other Esteban over the intercoms says "You do not exist!". With that in mind and through deduction they figure that there is the following: 1 Pon, 1 Bryce, 1 Theo, 1 Colt, 2 Sally's, 2 Esteban's, and 2 Long Veer's. With Annelle not being present on the ship. Using his mental powers Bryce comes to that very conclusion and relays to Sally that she has another clone on board. Esteban begins asking Bryce frantically where is other self is located. Focusing Bryce concludes that he is in the hydroponics bay. Esteban after hearing that info, begins to run out the door heading towards hydroponics. Mean while, Long Veer (the one in the hallway, not engineering) is walking along side Pon and Sally to the med bay. Pon is holding Long veers hand as he increases his pace, he catches a glimpse of Esteban but before he could get a word out Esteban is already gone and moving quickly down the hall. Long Veer then asks sally how she is feeling, Sally seems interested about the prospects of meeting herself. Pon reflects on the idea. Sally goes on to explain that it might be an strange experience to see all the awful things that everyone else knows about you. With that Long Veer and his group make there way to the med bay. When the doors swing open Pon/Samantha runs up to Bryce and hugs him, while Bryce hugs her back in return, still trying to processes the situation at hand. The Sally's look at each other in a still silence when Colt walks in looking at the two Sally's he whistles saying "What is this!? (wink, wink, nudge, nudge )" Giving them a wide birth, Long Veer walks around the two Sally's and picks up a diagnostic tool and begins scanning himself and then the two Sally's. Sally cracks the joke "Can the universe handle this much awesome!" While Bryce informs Long of the clone situation. Esteban runs into the Hydroponics bay, crouching through the foliage when he heres a snapping noise, when the other Esteban leaps onto him. Two Esteban's begin to fight each other in a violent clash. Aisho takes note of this and notify's the captain, The captain then orders the A.I to unleash a knockout gas in the hydroponics bay. The two Esteban's take a deep breath and leap towards each other as the gas fills the room, they continue there struggle until they are knocked out by the gas as they lay there among-st the vegetation. During this Time Theo has docked up with the ship and before making his way out tries to calm himself as the thoughts of has or may be happening roll through his mind, as he tries to hold back tears. As he makes his way out of the ship, he catches a news feed in Annelles fighter. He learns that the Earthers have diverted the asteroids with heavy casualties and that the other asteroids are heading towards Gongen. The news feed further details speculation of Earther's maybe having some sort alliance with the Shi. Taking in all the info Theo turns off the news feed and makes his way towards the coms and contacts the captain. long Veer ask's Theo to meet him in the engineering area as Theo updates him to the news feed that he just witnessed. Theo then makes his way slowly towards engineering to meet Long Veer. Colt Then ask's Long Veer if he should get two in the hydroponics bay. Long Veer agrees and as Colt heads off, he mumbles to himself trying to find the first. Sally begins to wonder about the legal ramification of this while Pon/Samantha tells her that this is a prototype, that nothing like this has ever happened. Long Veer then walks over to the Two Sally's, scanning them he determines that one of them is the "prime" or first clone, the others in the med bay begin to question Long Veer as to why this is important. Long Veer dodges the question and continues with his scans. Pon/Samantha begins to touch the surfaces of many objects, when Bryce asks her what she would like to be called, Pon/Samantha say's that she would like to be called Pon as it is the most familiar to the crew. Mean while the two Sally's quiet look each other over wondering "Show some emotion you aloof bitch!". At this point Colt has gathered both Esteban's and brings him into the med bay. Long Veer then begins to scan the two Esteban's and determines which one is the prime. Colt questions Long Veer as to why it is important. The crew in the med bay begins to question the captains obsession with the order of the clones. As they go back forth into the moral deli-mas involved with it. Colt then Wakes up the two Estebans against the captains orders. As Esteban wakes up he begins to glance and glare at other while Long Veer tells the Estebans which one is the prime. Long Veer then releases the Esteban that he considers to be the prime. Then the other Esteban grabs a laser scapel and tries to kill the other Esteban. Colt stops Esteban and they get into a heated exchange about Esteban trying to kill his clone. Esteban then leaves in a rage, while the other Esteban continues to make his case about why the other clone should be killed. Pon continues to be fascinated by the feel of objects as she touches glass beakers and the like. Bryce Runs out when Esteban and doc get into an argument and makes his way up to the bridge. When Theo gets in the engineering bay, Long Veer ambushes him while he is cloaked. Holding him up in the Air while the Cloak fades revealing the captain holding a blade inches from Theo's throat, he questions why he left the ship, if he is Theo. Theo then tells Long Veer that he left because Annelle is no longer on the ship and he looking for her. Long Veer lets him down and apologizes. Captain Long Veer begins to tell Theo about the clone situation while Long Veer is confused and is feeling paranoid about the clones. Theo informs Long Veer about the coordinates that he revived from Chompers and tells long Veer that they need to hurry up and get on course. Long Veer hands Theo a blade, but Theo in frustration rejects it, as all he wants to do get Annelle back. Long Veer concurs and tells Theo that they will get his "wife" back. In confusion Theo says, "WTF is a wife!?". Becoming frustrated with Long Veers paranoia Theo suggests that they should go to the med bay, and begins to make is way to the med way. Long Veer in engineering tells Aisho to lock down the med bay, but Aisho becomes confused as to whose orders it should follow, then the long Veer in the medical bay goes on to shout out a command code that locks out the Long veer from engineering and establishes the Long Veer in the med bay that he is in command. Theo then gets on the coms and reaches Bryce. Bryce updates Theo on the whole clone situation. Theo explains to Bryce about the Coordinates he got from chompers, but they realize that the goal won't be realized until they get things under control. The other captain sends Jinu down to watch the other captain, to which then Long Veer goes into cloaking while Theo Updates bryce on the whole Situation and begins looking the effects of the Gongen knock out gas for any plan b's he might have. Turning around Theo doesn't see the captain. The freed Esteban makes his way to his room and begins to assemble a rifle from his brief case. After it is assembled he begins to stalk the hallways making his way back into the med bay. Mean while Bryce with his rifle on his back makes his way to Theo and the other captain who is hidden in cloak. Bryce then asks the captain what he is going to do. From the silence Long veer explains that he only trying to defend himself, to which it is concluded that the other Long Veer trying to kill him. Theo getting frustrated tries and the two Long Veers to work out there clone issue's but to no avail. Long Veer in the med bay then says that he will make sure to get back on course and try and get Annelle back. Other Esteban mulls over what the other Long Veer is thinking about. Sally begins to ponder about how cool it would be to have a sister, while Pon swings both of there hands. Pon goes on to tell them that she never had a sister before and how nice it would be if they would braid her hair and such. The Sally's respond with not knowing how to do braids. Sally then asks Pon who she is exactly and Pon goes on tell them about how she came about. Pon was fascinated with touching objects and knowing there texture and feel. Sally then tells Pon that she has some books she could let her borrow if she wants to. Esteban growing tired of being shackled and listening to the others and fearing what the Esteban is up too, tries and pleads with the Colt to let him out. Colt then steps out and asks Long Veer what he should do with the other clone and demanding that there should be some order. Long Veer then tells Colt that he should head down to where Theo and Bryce are and that Long Veer will take over. With that Colt walks off mumbling and raving about the whole situation. Esteban then pleads to the girls to let him out. Explaining to them that he is the sane one the normal one. Pon then suggests that they should watch out for him since they are trying to kill each other, while Pon postulates that it might be some form of self hatred. They go back forth as Esteban tries to make his plea but it doesn't seem too effective as the girls and Long Veer agree that he should remain where he is. Long Veer has a strange grin on face as he looks at Esteban. Theo and Bryce go over the situation while Bryce tries to get the captain to calm down. Long Veer tells Bryce that he is calm and that he is trying to protect the ship and the crew. Bryce tells him that this course of action will only cause one of them to be dead and that the best course of action is to talk things over as Long Veer makes his way through the Jeffery's tube and to the Bridge. Theo and Bryce and try to make some sense of what to do and come up with a back up plan. Bryce then begins to sense the heart beats and blood pressure of everyone around him and it seems to get louder in his mind. Bryce then becomes aware of how closed everything is around and becomes anxious as he tells Theo that he doesn't feel well and he begins to head back to the med bay. Bryce then tells Theo that they should meet up some where to discuss things. Theo tells him that they should meet up at his place later. Theo then tries to explain to the captains about this situation and then grows frustrated. Long Veer then tells Theo that he should calm down and head to the bridge to help locate the Shi vessel and that he will send the Sally's and Pon to assist him. In the med bay the Long Veer in the engineering bay runs about taking multiple directions and taking many a scenic route to get to the bridge. While Esteban makes his plea to others to let him go. Long Veer then Tells the girls to head up to the bridge and assist Theo. Esteban then contacts Long Veer through the coms. Long Veer answers and Esteban asks if the other Esteban is still detained. Long Veer answers Esteban and tells him that he is still there. As Esteban gleefully chimes out. Long Veer then goes back into the med bay and begins to grab a few stems as his hand begins to shake. Esteban asks if he is all right and Long Veer says that he is just fine and injects himself with one. He then walks over to Esteban and Esteban's leg begins to shake uncontrollably to which Long Veer injects Esteban with a stem. Thinking it's a normal stem Esteban asks if he can have another. It is then revealed that the stem is a actually a high octane poison that breaks down cells, and Esteban begins to die as his cells degrade as blood begins to spew from his mouth before his life fades away. When he is down looks behind him to find Bryce standing there as Long Veer walks around him and nods to him. Bryce then questions his decisions and reminds him that he is a clone as well. Long Veer then tells Bryce that he is prime. Bryce then feels the air around become ionized as Long Veer turns towards Bryce and asks him if he is with him. Bryce tells him that he understands and that by doing this will get more people killed and that it is not like him. Long Veer then tells Bryce that he will get Annelle back and save Chompers and everything will be back to "normal". Bryce then asks Long Veer where he is going to which Long Veer replies with to the Bridge where the other Sally is. Bryce follows along. At this point Esteban stealth-fully arrives at the med bay. Noticing that everyone else is gone he goes inside to find his other self dead. With a sigh of relief he heads out as he murmurs that the other one deserved to die and that he didn't want him around anyway. Then Esteban heads back towards his room and puts away his rifle. Esteban then contacts Long Veer and Long Veer fills him in on the current course of actions the crew undergo and Long Veer informs him that he should head to the med bay and clean up any messes that are still there. As Esteban makes his back to the med bay. Theo, the two Sally's and Pon are on the bridge trying to find the Shi vessel. Pon asks Theo if any of the Annelle's or any of there children are alive going over the prospects that there are 9 Annelle's in total along with the babies. Theo then gets a little frustrated with the question and tells her that he will get all of them out. While Pon and the Sally's postulate why they cloned so many of Annelle and her baby, Theo becomes very distressed hearing it and types more frantically trying to remain calm. Pon begins to speculate more on the changing political landscapes as well. That is when everyone on the bridge begins to feel tingly sensations in there hands as they shake slightly. Along with strange ticks that everyone seems to experience once in a while. Theo then contacts Colt and asks for him to come up to the bridge. Theo then tries to change the subject towards boosting the cloning machines range and using it to find out where the rest of them are at. Pon begins to work on that equation. Theo then asks the Sally's if they are trying to kill one another, to which they reply with no and Sally adds on with "Do I really come across as that smug?". Over all Sally seems pretty pleased with the results. Colt makes his way up the bridge and begins to scan everyone after they tell him about there various ticks and twitches they have been experiencing. Colt then scans them revealing a strange foreign tissue in the shape of a butterfly near the base of there skulls. They inquire about surgically removing it, but Colt says that such an operation would be dangerous and difficult to do. Colt then asks for the captain and with that the door opens and the captain and Bryce walk through. Colt looking down at Long Veers hands notices the "stems", then gestures towards Theo. Theo in turn takes a note of it and gets up. Bryce establishes a telepathic link with everyone and tells everyone what the captain has done. Bryce is unsure as to what to do. Then Theo asks Long Veer about what he is going to do. Long Veer tells him that he is going to help search for Shi vessel. Bryce heads for the controls as Theo pulls up the chair for him and Bryce gets to work. Colt then asks Long Veer if he going to sit down in the captains chair to which Long Veer's danger sense activates, alerting him as to what Colt is about to do, as Colt tells everyone through telepathic link that he is going to take him down. Long Veer reacts as his body explodes with electricity. When all this happens Bryce activates his time powers and with blinding speed grabs the Faraday cage and puts Long Veer inside of it. The Sally's take a identical kung-fu pose as Pon runs over to the controls and tries to make things difficult for everyone to stand. Colt then ducts down and takes aim. At this point Bryce asks Long Veer what he is going to do when he finds his original self. Long Veer in blinding rage tells him that he will kill him. Bryce then asks the other Long Veer what he would do if he ended up finding his original self, and Long Veer responds with that he wouldn't know what to do, that it would be strange. With that Bryce tells Long Veer that he is needed on the bridge. Colt then Fires a shot through the Faraday cage, the heated plasma goes into the cage and out the other end piercing some of the ship but not the hull. Theo asks Colt why he fired, fearing a hull breach. Colt tells Theo that Bryce said that he is no good, that Long Veer is going to kill everyone. Theo runs up to the Faraday cage and holds his hand out as focuses on unleashing the flames from his mind, but hesitates and at the last second stops as he cannot bring himself to kill Long Veer. Colt tells Theo to just do it, but Theo cannot bring himself. As this happens Long Veer's rage and power allows him to rip the cage apart as sparks of electricity fly all around. Holding the remains of the cage in the air he was just about slam the cage into Colt when he realizes that it is not Colt in front of him but rather Theo, causing him to pause and stare at Theo. At this time the other Long Veer bursts through the door. Assessing the situation Long Veer leaps at his other self glowing with electrical energy as he cuts him down with his sword as the fallen Long Veer slides on the floor in two bloody halves. Colt fires a few extra shots at the fallen Long Veer rendering his face unrecognizable as the shots lucky do not breach the hull. The surviving Long Veer issues the command code putting himself in charge once more. His first order to Aisho was a report on the Shi-Quay debris field. Long Veer looks over at the crew "We got work to do, we have missing crew members.". Theo points out that they also have a dead body on the bridge now. Long Veer walks over to the corpse whilst grabbing whats left of the cage and throws them both in the elevator telling everyone that they don't have time to waste on this. Bryce then walks into the pilot seat and collapses into the chair. Pon then looks over at Bryce and says that other Long Veer is dead, while Bryce curls up when she says that. Theo puts his hand her shoulders and Says "I don't know what to say, but well just have to.." Pon then says : "I just don't understand any of you anymore." as she shakes Theo's hand away runs out from the cock pit. Theo then slumps back down in his seat, and continues to get back to work, while Colt goes back to scanning everyone. Theo tells Bryce of his method of tracking the others with the cloning machine tracker. Pon has already completed the work as Bryce goes over it for further analysis. Things get silent on bridge... Mean while in the Med bay Esteban experiences the odd twitching behavior that everyone else has experienced and begins to scan himself. To his dismay he finds "foreign tissue" in the base of his skull in a butterfly like shape. Esteban takes more scans while growing more frantic about this new development. Esteban then goes over to where the alien instruments where at and tries to analyze them to the best of his ability. In doing so Esteban pushes some of the buttons lightly. When he does so everyone on the ship experiences violent seizures...End Session!
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2014 21:09:38 GMT
Here is the 1st hour's summary of Session 22 "Flesh Orchestra." I ran out of time. I'll try to listen to the next 2 hours in the next few days if I can.
The seizures stopped for Esteban, Theo, Bryce, and Pon but they continued for the rest of the crew. They made sure that they were not swallowing their tongues. Jinu reported to the bridge for duty and he carried one of the Sallies, along with the Captain down to the Medbay. Pon was dragging the other Sally to the Medbay. Theo noted that the Doc's foreign tissue Shi implant was somehow corrupted and infected as his neck was very discolored.
Aisho was told to keep an eye on the crew's vital signs. Esteban came out of his seizure and pulled himself up and reached the coms to report in. After he talked to the rest of the crew he started to hear another voice in his head. It was the voice of the Clone Esteban and it was mocking him and seemingly trying to freak out his host. Samantha/Pon walked into the Medbay and asked who Esteban was talking to... He said he was having aftereffects from the seizure. He took Sally from Pon and put her on the medical beds and she was put into restraints.
Pon was wondering why the current crew was left on the ship. She didn't know why the Shi didn't take them. She wondered if the implants were placed before they left for a reason. She also said that she preferred Pon to Samantha but Esteban kept calling her little girl. She wasn't sure that Esteban was alright and she was prodding him with questions. Pon: “I really miss seeing your heat signatures and pulse rates... I feel so limited in this form now.” That seemed to freak Esteban out a bit. Pon: “How do you deal with these limitations?” Esteban: “You learn to read people by what they do and how they react to stimuli. Then you remember that.”
The rest of the crew came to the Medbay. The rest of the crew that were having seizures were placed on beds of their own. They did a bioscan of the Shi implant and it seems to have tendrils that were wrapping themselves around the base of the skull and spinal column. Esteban didn't tell them that he hit the spherical Shi medical device button that caused the seizures but he said that bright lights were flickering on it right before the seizures. The hand held rod and flat metal disk were also looked at. They wondered why the Shi left these devices behind. They assumed that Jinu had interrupted them since it was covered in fluid that could be their blood.
Theo suggested that they scrape off the Shi blood off of Jinu and then he took the Shi medical devices to go try to figure out how they work. Esteban was monitoring the brain wave patterns in the spherical devices. Pon began to scrape off the Shi blood into test tubes and glass dishes.
Bryce was staring at the scan in the Doctor's neck and he was reminded of his own cybernetic tumor. It was not similar however to what he had gone through. Bryce looked at the Shi blood and there were mechanical nanotech bots in it that were moving in the blood. They seemed like they were repairing the cells in the blood. Bryce remembered that the Earthers that were originally on this ship were experimenting with similar biotechnology. Bryce wondered if the Earthers had received that nanotechnology from the Shi...
Esteban injected Long Veer with a sedative but it didn't help him with his seizures. (We lost Tim at this point). Bryce used the demolecularizer in the room to pull up data sheets and doing research on how it could be used for future purposes.
Theo made his way down to the machine shop. He was swearing and complaining about all of the repairs that needed to be made on the ship and the research that he had to do on the Shi medical tools. While he was looking at the sphere another one of the devices (the handheld one) had a thin blue light scanned Theo from head to toe and then it turned off. The sphere inside had brain tissue that was surrounded by shocking electrodes. He told the others that it had a damn brain in it.
Bryce thought that the brain must be telepathically linked to all of the Shi flesh implants in their necks. Bryce also said that he didn't think the demolecularizer was exact enough to just remove the implanted flesh. Theo said that if they used that it might take away their spinal chord or something. Esteban mentioned that it might be possible to use the demolecularizer in conjunction with the 3D printer to destroy something and then have it print out at the same time. It was a project that they decided might be worthwhile to work on in the future.
Theo was worried that the 3D printer would print them out with the Shi implants and he was relieved to find out that that wasn't the case. They would be printed without them. Theo was worried that if he took apart one of these medical devices that it might have a series of consequences that might ripple through all of the crew. He didn't want that to happen.
FLASHBACK #1
Esteban was crawling through the Jeffries tubes and he was dragging Kazuko's body behind him.
FLASHBACK #2
Bryce was restrained in the healing tent in the Medbay and he sensed these thought symbols flooding through his brain. He could almost dicefer them but he was sedated. His tent was deflated and the air was drawn out of it to squeeze him sealed in there. Curving flexible needles were shoved into him and they seemed to be also digging into his brain. He lost most of his senses and all that there was was the sheer pain in his legs where the needles were entering. He was spinning and lost and forgot where he was.
FLASHBACK #3
Theo was running through the cooridor with the emergency lights were flashing black to red, black to red. He saw these tall floating silent figures moving towards him. He felt pressure on the flesh of his mind and on his neck and he resisted. He was hurled against the wall on the side, and his flames wreathed him and then when his targets could be seen he ignited them in a cone of blinding inferno. He was spinning and saw the lights from above. There was something staring at him that had cold calculated eyes. The palms were cold, so cold and they squeezed him tightly.
Back in the Medbay there was a tight sensation on the back of their neck. They were levitating off the group and the Shi implant in their necks seemed to be the reason for this...
Bryce was panicked and he bolted out of the room, dressed in an E.V. Suites and then headed out of the ship to bask in the solitude that was the voice of space. He stared out at THE RIFT and the stars and he focused on trying to breathe properly. He was rasping and almost hyperventilating. The stars were calming however.
Pon said that she saw a face before her that wasn't human in her flashback... and that it was inside of her head while it held the sides of her skull.
Theo's heat aura activated and he was filled with fear and frustration. He was breathing heavily and unsure what to tell the others. He said he saw something and he was flustered. The fleshy part in my neck was holding me like one of their damned cold hands. “Something was looking down at me.”
Esteban said that he remembered being in the Jeffries Tubes and said that he would be there to see if there was any evidence there of what happened. He thought that Kazuko's body might still be there. He wanted to find the body if it was there so that he could experiment with its Shi flesh implant.
Aisho was asked to san the ship and it gave strange responses as if it was tampered with and it said that it was unable to respond but in a strange way as if it was trying to respond and couldn't. “Is there anything else that I can do for you Theo?” Fred and Melba the Bots were still outside on the ship and they were standing near Bryce that was laying there. “Bryce what the fuck are you doing out there?!“ “Theo, we are all being crushed in there... what's the pressure? He seemed like he was trying to disengage his soft mags in his boots. “It's all going to close in on us Theo, there is no way out...” Theo then ran down to get into his on E. V. Suit and Pon followed quickly on his heals.
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Post by sirphil on Aug 9, 2014 10:48:10 GMT
Session 22 recap "Flesh Orchestra" part 2 After Theo and Pon run down to get on there E.V suits, Esteban finally makes his way towards the correct Jeffries Tube that he had a visioned during his flashback. It is filled with blood that has dried along with bits of flesh. Towards the bottom Esteban finds the head of Kazuko with his tongue slightly hanging out of his mouth. A gasped by what he see's..."I was not...Expecting to find anything here..." Esteban picks up the head and makes his way to the med bay. Meanwhile on the outside of the ship, as Theo makes his way towards Bryce with Pon right behind him, Melma and fred walk over to where Theo Bryce and Pon are at. Pon asks if she is moving around the right way in space, as she feels like she will just float away into the void. Bryce then says to Pon that it might be for the best if they just float out in the void were no one can find them, were they are not trapped in closed spaces were they cannot be targeted by the Shi. Pon then says that she will go with him, if that is what he wants. As she says this, Bryce disengages his soft meg boots and begins float away. Pon Reaches out and grabs Bryces hand and begins to disengage her boots as well floating along with Bryce. Theo seeing all this unfold begins to yell at them frantically to stop. Pon looks over at theo and says "But he wants to go away Theo...Shouldn't we go with him" to which Pon reaches her hand out to Theo. Theo then grabs her hand pulls the two of them down to the ship, with Bryce bouncing off the hull. Pon then says to Theo: "We were just going to float away, whats wrong that?". Theo then tells her that if they do, they will die. Bryce then replies back saying that they are going to die ether way. Pon agrees with Bryce saying that she has known this ever since she left Gongen. Theo tell's Pon that they are alive and that her assumption is wrong. Bryce says to Theo tha they are more useful to them alive. Theo then says "Well let's change that then shall we?" Pon then postulates that perhaps the Shi can detect them and perhaps they reading there thoughts. Then Theo looks over to Pon and Says: "Good then I hope they can read every thought of me wanting to whoop there sorry asses." Bryce feeling lost and hopeless begins to read the surface thoughts Theo's mind. Bryce begins to see the images of violence and fire that Theo envisions almost as if it were a memory of sorts that he is re living. But as Bryce envokes his surface reading he also begins to have visions as if he is looking through anthers eyes. He sees various body parts of males and females as some are dismembered and hanging, while others have headless bodies, one of which that looks like it might be Annelle's body. He sees other bodies with strange instruments sticking out of a balloon like structure. But just as Bryce experiences his vision fades, with the sound of crackling fire from Theo's mind as Bryce reengages his Soft megs. Pon then asks Bryce if they are going to float away or not, but before Pon could finish her question Bryce interrupts her saying that they are going to take care of Annelle and the rest of the crew the shi have taken and that they are going to take care of the Shi. Theo jacks his fist upward by the sudden turn around in Bryces attitude as Bryce and Pon make there way back inside. Theo walks over to Fred and Melma as he begins to question them about the past two days. The bots then look at each other and then looking back at Theo they say "Sorry jackass, it's been erased." Theo then asks them about who erased it, to which the two bots reply with image of the Shi vessel labeling it as there last memory before the wipe. Theo then notices an "extra" attachment on the two bots. A half sphere with some technological components that also has Trigenium in it's other half. Theo fears that it is a bomb, but without more information doesn't know how to proceed. That is when Esteban chimes in through the coms with news of how he found Kazuko's head. Bryce asks Esteban if there is a neck attached as Esteban checks to see if it has the foreign tissue attached to it. FLASHBACK #4 Esteban is standing outside of his quarters with Sally as she has a vacant gaze about her. She then has a bunch of tendrils sprouting from the back of her neck as the flash back fades. FLASHBACK #5 Theo finds himself in the med bay, cold from the embriotic fluid and stumbling to his feet Theo runs into the hall ways where he hears blaster fire and various messages spammed on the com as the red flashing emergency lights decorate the halls in crimson. The messages from the coms are indistinguishable from all the other noises coming from all around him. He finds his way into Annelle's fighter where the thoughts of blasting the Shi out of the sky fill his mind as his flashback fades. FLASHBACK #6 Bryce finds himself covered in the embriotic fluid as he gains footing in the med bay. The med bay itself is washed in a blue light, some of it from the alien devices. He can see these creatures hovering and orbiting around a figure that is being levitated as one of them holds out a rod like device. The creature holding the rod-like device, is splaying open the figure as the device splays open the layers of flesh in a lattice like structure as another creature collects bits and pieces until all that is left is a human nervous system as that too is collected and bits of metal collapse onto the floor from where the figure once floated. Flashback fades. Bryce begins to tear up his room trying to find his rifle until he realizes that he left it on the bridge. Theo is hitting the floor with his fists as Esteban is standing in the med bay staring at the two Sally's. After a while Theo will gather himself and collect the three alien items for further examination. Mean while Esteban gets back to his examination of the foreign tissue in the back of Kuzuko's skull, revealing that there is some lingering activity within it's cellular structure though it is weak compared to the rest. Bryce gets back on the bridge and find his rifle though it is covered in human Feces, as he realizes that he has also made a mess of the E.V suit as well. Bryce then heads back to the elevator with furrowed brow with the rifle slung over his back. Esteban then gets on the coms trying to reach anyone. Theo answer's and Esteban asks if everyone had reaction like he did, to which the answer was yes. Esteban then updates Theo on the condition of the foreign tissue inside of Kazuko. Theo instructs Esteban to try and get the foreign tissue out of Kazuko and run as many tests on it as possible. Esteban then begins dissecting the head of Kazuko using a laser scalpel as he records what he does. As Esteban continues to carefully cut around the tissue he feels a tingling sensation around his neck, it faint but it is there. Esteban continues as there is no other ill effects that occur during the procedure. Meanwhile Theo is examining the 3 alien devices. He picks up one of the devices and pushes the scanner out of the way as he does this he activates his Kizen powers of surface is illusion, allowing him to see through the surface of objects as if they were not there. The first device appears to have laser cutting tools inside of it. Theo then focuses his attention on the spherical device, revealing an organic brain like structure within it. With this knowledge he gathers the devices up and heads back down to the med bay, where he encounters Bryce along the way. Bryce notices Theo carrying the alien devices and starts to tell him about what the rod-like device does. Bryce Tell's Theo that it is some sort of dissection tool and parting flesh and the like. He goes on to say that it is incredibly gentle and forceful at the same time, to which Theo replies with saying he will consider it payback for when he uses it on the Shi. Bryce then smirks uncharacteristically at Theo as he cocks his head in response. Theo then holds out the spherical device, describing it's brain like internal structure to him. Bryce begins to detect thoughts coming from the device, thoughts that he hadn't detected before hand. Bryce then tells Theo that it might be "thinking" to which Theo replies with "Good, lets get it to talk to us" Bryce using pace thoughts says: "let's"and the two make there way down to the med bay. Using his telepathy Bryce begins to pick up on it's thoughts (9 days worth) and finds an abundance of information on it. It was used for operations, it controls the foreign tissues in there necks as it seems to be linked to them. As it doesn't have any eyes the memories Bryce gathers form it are strange, more text based and thought based rather than image based as the Shi communicate to it through there thoughts. They come in the form of thought images and patterns. Over the two day period there were a lot surgeries performed as the device in question was used to move patients around by controlling your body through the foreign tissue implants. Which can also be used to kill it's patients, which leads Bryce to conclude that if they harm or destroy the spherical device they may kill themselves in the processes since they are all linked to it. Bryce then finds out through his thought detection that this device is connected to all the persons on this ship and on the Shi vessel, count 36 (though there was 38). Bryce relays this information to Theo as they walk towards the med lab. Theo is shocked by the news, as Bryce's thoughts begin to pick up on the devices sensory input as Bryce uses his deep thoughts. Bryce then begins to see through the eyes of various patients on the Shi vessel. Some of the most alien thoughts and visions Bryce receives is the ones coming from the babies inside all of Annelle and her clones. As Bryce continues see through other crew members eyes, he glimpses at the sight of many a headless Annelle's with there bodies still alive with the baby in the womb. Bryce can also see all the other crew members in various stages of operation, similar to what Sally had experienced as they are splayed opened but are not being currently operated on and they don't seem to be in pain as they are still alive. The interior of the ship is brownish in color as it honeycombed to allow for the storage of multiple bodies and the like. Bryce relays this information to Theo. Theo grabs Bryce by the shoulders saying: "Y-You can!" Bryce hesitantly tells Theo that they are alive as Theo picks up on the unease in Bryce's tone. Bryce reassures him that they are all alive, however they are being "worked" on. Theo clinches Bryce's shoulder before releasing his grip and his hands fold into a fist as he listens. Bryce goes into more depth about the beehive like structure of where the crew is being held. Further revealing there anitomany. Bryce sounds uneasy as he goes into depth explaining, telling Theo that he will record all of what he has seen in a data terminal. Theo puts his hand on Bryces shoulders and tells him "It's all right Bryce...Thank you". Bryce stands outside of the Med bay as he begins to make a data of file of his visions. Theo contacts Aisho and ask's if the modified life pod was still on board. Aisho responds to Theo and tells him that the life pod is not on board and begins to tell him about scans of the debris field, but then say's that it cannot answer him, that is was launched. Aisho then begins to go into a feedback back loop as Aisho begins to repeat itself until it shuts itself down. Theo curses out loud that it is another damn thing he has to fix as he walks into the med bay and places the devices down. Esteban looks back at him as Kazuko's head rests on the table next to him as Kazukos eye's are wide open and Esteban is pulling out purple tendrils out from his opened skull. Theo has a sympathetic gaze on him as he looks down at the severd head saying his Kazukos name. Esteban turns around and realizes that the name Theo just said was that of the severed head on the table. Just as he was commenting about it, the Kazuko's severd head starts to open his eyes, which freaks out everyone in the room, as Theo begins to move his hands to see if the eyes are following. This prompts his mouth to start moving but no words are coming out since he is just a head. Theo stops himself from gagging as Theo and Esteban try recording his lip movements in conjunction with recognition software to try and figure out what he is saying. Esteban begins monitoring the foreign tissue and makes the discovery that the brain tissue is dead but the foreign tissue is shocking inputs into the brain causing the movements in Kazuko's mouth or in other words it might be transmitting information from elsewhere. As this continues they discover what Kazuko was trying to say: "You have them on the run...". A brief smile appears on Theo's face as he rests Kazuko's head on the table shutting Kazukos eyes as Theo says: "Thanks, that's more than enough motivation i'll need." Esteban conitues to record the head as he finds all the activity that was once present has now ceased. Meanwhile Bryce is working on his data and looking into what is wrong with Aisho. Theo then steps out and tells Pon that they have them on the run and Pon is happy to be wrong about her earlier prediction and she goes to explain that she doesn't enjoy being right all the time. Theo tells her that it is all right and rubs head a bit. Bryce then figures out that certain portions of Aisho's memory and programming have been altered, prompting him to go back into his room to investigate more. Further investigating reveals that the past two days have been erased, but that there is a backdoor program setup so that the Shi can take control once again. With this info in mind Bryce "flushes" Aisho out of the system. With that task done Bryce heads back to the med bay to see what has happened. Theo updates Bryce on what went on while he was investigating Aisho. Theo then asks Bryce to go over Kazuko's research regarding Quay hailing and signaling. Theo then begins to explain to Bryce about his plan, which involves creating small delivery thorn that can be launched and rammed into the side of the Shi vessel which then broadcasts a Quay signal telling any nearby Quay ships that "Here be Floaters". The idea is to give the Quay a solid means of finding and killing/harassing the Shi at every turn, giving them no place to hide. Bryce agrees and says that he can get a signal created, while Theo can make the actual device. Bryce then thanks Theo for having a plan. Esteban Turns to Theo and asks if he can examine the spherical device. Theo and Bryce explain to Esteban to not do any interior probing or harming of it as it is connected to everyone on this ship and the Shi vessel. killing it means they die as well. Esteban explains that he might be able to find a way to detach it from the foreign tissue, Bryce then suggests that it might be easier to just remove the foreign tissue instead. Theo then asks Esteban to run every signal scan possible to see if they can detect any signal that may be transmitting, as Theo is trying to see if they can possibly detect telepathic thought patterns in some form. If it is possible they might be able to block the telepathy of the Shi. Esteban begins to scan for brain wave activity but gets only the 36 crew members. Theo then heads off to the machine shop to create a delivery system. Theo then looks over at Pon and asks if she could help out Esteban, however Pon doesn't what she can do to help him, "I can hold things, I guess..." Theo then tells her to help him instead in the machine shop, to which Pon looks over at him and asks if he is the captain. Theo tells her that he doesn't like the title, Pon however says that he is acting like a captain and Theo tells her that for now he is a temporary captain until Long Veer comes around. With that Pon asks Theo what they are going to make. Theo explains to her that they are going to make a signal carrying projectile in that shape of a Quay vessel that can alert the Quay to the presence of the Shi. As Pon and Theo make there way into the machine shop, Theo grabs a black box with a silver bow on it. He looks at it solemnly and then moves it to the side, as he begins to access the data terminal. Bryce then finishes his Quay signal and contacts Theo and tells him about Aisho. Theo Curses out loud "What haven't they fucked up on this ship!" Bryce tells him that he will have to install a backup, and Theo tells him to go ahead, as Bryce heads up to the messy bridge. Esteban continues the auto scan of the brain activity of the alien device. Esteban then goes on to remove the foreign tissue from Kazuko's head which causes the implant to stop signaling the device cutting off it's co-dependency. Esteban relays this info to the rest of the crew, Bryce then asks Esteban how cleanly he removed it and Esteban replied that it would be far more dangerous to perform it on living tissue. Bryce then tells Esteban of the rod-like device and it's function as a dissection tool. Esteban is hesitant to meddle with the device seeing as how the other one reacted. Esteban then asks if Theo might be able to ascertain how the device might function, Theo agrees and before heads down to the med bay, he instructs Pon to finish running the mineralogical data on the Quay ship composition. Esteban alone in the med bay starts to hear the voice of his clone in his head. Esteban tells the voice to go away as the voice begins to taunt him about his "failings" as the voice continues to harass him about how he is going to be de-atomized. Esteban then slams his fist on the table and palm against his head. Mean while Bryce is 50% done with the installation of Aisho, as he transmits different wave lengths that might be useful for communicating with the Quay. As this happens, Theo makes his way down to the med bay. Theo gives Esteban a slight nod as he makes his way over to the rod like device and using his Kizen powers, looks inside of the device and finds that there is no physical way of activating it and concludes that it must be done using telepathy. Esteban and Theo begin to go over the results of the Auto-scan but do don't come up with anything new. Esteban tells Theo that he feels very optimistic about there chances as he suggests getting Bryce to operate the device instead. Theo agrees but is hesitant since Bryce has been through a lot already and doesn't want to put any pressure on him. Esteban then suggests printing out a clone of him to test the device, but Theo objects to the idea. With that in mind Theo steps out and contacts Bryce. Bryce finishes up installing the back up Aisho and heads down to the med bay to meet Theo and Esteban. Theo hands Bryce the Rod and tells him that is only activated through telepathy. Bryce slowly walks in the med bay and glances over at the alien sphere and by simply thinking of the device it opens to him allowing him to learn how to operate the device as the many images of it's uses flashing over his mind. At this point Bryce walks over to where the head of Kazuko is and using his mind begins to operate the device. The rod then begins to splay open the flesh of the head as the rod moves in his hand like a conductor in an orchestra. Afterwards he looks back at the others and says that he is "ready". With that Theo says they are going to need a live subject to start then. Esteban then suggests using one of the two Sally's but Theo is against that Idea and instead volunteers himself to go first as he lays face down on the table. Bryce then asks Theo if he sure about this, Theo responds with a quick "Yep" when Pon from outside says "I told you, you where more like a captain." Pon tells Theo that she is done and tells her thank you and then tells everyone that he has been recording everything that has happened thus far, so that if anything where to happen to him he could catch up on all that has happened. Bryce then begins to bring up scanning data and re-scans Theo for comparisons, while Esteban helps him out. Esteban rubs his hands together as he asks Bryce if he wants to listen to some music as he eagerly waits for the operation to begin. Bryce tells Esteban no, and focuses on Theo's heartbeat as he begins the operation. The skin begins to peel away layer after layer, all the way to the bone revealing the foreign tissue under the base of the skull. It feels all to easy to peform the procedure as he telepathically tells the tissue to release as it is pulled from the base of the skull and layed on the table next to Theo. The layers of skin and muscle are re-attached as Theo is healthy and the operation a success. Theo gets up surprised that he didn't feel a thing and how quick it was, he looks over at the flesh on the table and says: "Take that you little fucker." Bryce continues to go through the motion and telepathically tells the foreign tissue to calm as he operates on each of them, peeling away layers of flesh of the other crew members as he removes the foreign tissue as Bryce goes on about this in a trance like state. When Bryce gets to Esteban, his curisoity takes over as he peels away the back of his skull but realizing this gets back to what he is doing and then finishes removing the foreign tissue. After everyone is finished Bryce then works on himself. Theo takes a monitor and places it in front of him, so that Bryce can see himself and see what he is doing, while Theo increases the defination to a crystal clear detail. Bryce then peels away at his on flesh and removing the foreign Tissue. Just as Bryce finishes up on himself everyone seems to experience another flashback. FLASHBACK #7 Bryce finds himself in the inside of the healing tent. Covered in the embriotic fluid that details a recent cloning. He sees the thought symbols in his mind from the other figures in the distance but they are loud and flashing in an almost frantic way, so fast that even with Bryces detect alien thoughts powers, he finds himself only seeing broken words among-st the images. In the distance he can hear the firing of Jinu's weapons as they echo throughout the ship. A pulse of power causes the ship to flicker on and off causing Bryce to fade back into the dark... FLASHBACK #8 Theo finds himself with a hand pressing on his face as he is looking up at the Shi's face, expressionless with it's three black eyes looking upon him. His vision becomes blurry and he clinches his fist muttering out the words "Fuck you!" and the Shi holding him reeling back as he is thrown forcefully on the ground. As he is on the ground, Theo begins to to keep shouting "Fuck you!" over and over as he flares his flame Kizen powers and proceeds to bath the entire hallway in flames as his vision fades and all turns to black... FLASHBACK #9 Esteban finds himself stumbling out of the cloning machine covered in the embriotic fluid. He clears his eyes to see another him pinned high to the wall with nothing physically holding him there. The pinned Esteban has no legs and eyes with various tubes coming out him. Just as he looks up he finds his head floating from his body as it is placed in a clear jar like structure. He stumbles away and pushes himself against the wall and sees one of the Sally's on the operating table with her arms detached from her body. Hes stumbles into the table getting blood on himself as he wipes the blood away, and then it all fades to black... The flashback continues with everyone seeing the Shi leaving in a hurry, as if something had interrupted them as they float away from the crew as they dematerialize and simply vanish from the ship. Theo steps out the med bay and heads towards the hallway he seen in his vision, when he gets there he finds it stained black with soot. He spots an area that is clear of the soot that has the rough outline of a body. Afterwards Theo heads back to the med bay. Pon begins to speculate that perhaps Chompers had attacked them causing them to leave and that the bomb they prepared had some effect but not enough. Theo chimed in saying that they'll correct that mistake next time. Esteban then sincerely thanks Bryce for doing such a masterful job and after mentioning his full name tells him that if there is anything that he wants from to just ask, as he walks out the med bay. Bryce stands there puzzled at what he just said and for a moment gets the urge to just reach into thoughts and figure out what he is thinking, but doesn't act on it. Aisho alerts the crew to an incoming prerecorded message as the crew look at the monitors to see what it is. It is static with various lines running through it, but it is Chompers in his Quay vessel, repeating something over and over in Quay. It gets translated into "Gut the floaters, I have them." The rest of the message shows the ship crashing into the side of the Shi vessel, and as it does the message ends. Bryce starts to sprint up to the cockpit along with Theo as they home in to the coordinates that came with Chompers message. Theo asks Pon to monitor the crew in the med bay until they gain consciousness again...End Session.
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Post by Admin on Aug 26, 2014 19:35:35 GMT
WARs session recap #23 "Gut the Floaters!" We find the crew of the Okina Toraburu gathered in the conference room, Pon sitting off to the side of table, she seems to be distracted and in thought as the remaining crew begin there discussion on how to proceed. There is a sense of silence and tension in the air as tea is presented to the crew. Two Sally's, Long Veer, Esteban, Bryce, and Theo. Long Veer, bent over the tea as he rubs his head, feeling the peach fuzz that has begun to grow. He looks up at each and every crew member and asks: "So where are? Whats happening? where do stand as far as the Shi goes?" Theo tells Long Veer of the message they received from Chompers engaging the Shi vessel. Long Veer then asks Theo about the plan he developed when they where all incapacitated, Theo tells Long Veer of the plan to create probes that will stab into the side of the Shi vessel and alert the Quay to there presence. Bryce then follows up by stating that they don't have an extraction plan, and further inquires how they are going to get there other "self's" back. Esteban interjects that perhaps rescuing them is a bad idea. Basing this on the evidence that the flesh device that was implanted inside of them was only monitoring the other devices not the "life" of the ones it was inserted into. He goes on to use Kozuko's head as an example, and elaborate that what they might be rescuing is dismantled corpses. Bryce then asks Esteban if Kazuko had any brain activity, to which Esteban replied with "no". Theo tells them that it is very little information to go off of and that they should try and rescue as many of them as they can. Theo then follows that up by adding that Bryce has the device that was used to dissect the crew, and he is able to use it. At the mentioning of this, Bryce starts to feel a little uneasy at the thought of it, but doesn't bother refuting it. Esteban then defers to everyone else's judgement on the matter stating that he was just offering his opinion on the situation and will go along with the crews decisions. Theo makes the suggestion that perhaps they could dock there ship with the Shi vessel and the using the umbilical to connect with the previous hole that Chomper's vessel had made prior. Then he goes on to add they could use Jinu as a shield and begin marching there way forward, while bringing some extra E-suits along with them for the rescue. With this in mind Long Veer then asks if they have any protection from them being able to enter there minds. Bryce tells Long Veer that he might be able to protect everyone from the Shi's influence, He then adds on to say that it is all coming together, but he just finds it hard to explain as Bryce seems a bit tense and overwhelmed by it. Long Veer is in suit with Bryce's plan of being able to protect them from the Shi, stating how there every encounter with them they have been knocked out and unable to fight back at all. Theo Tells Long Veer that they might not be able to knock them out all the way as he references the flash backs they all had, showing that they might be able to resist it to some degree, to which Theo adds on that he is banking on the fact that Chomper's assault might have them busy enough to disrupt them from using there influence on them. Aisho chimes in as Theo finishes, alerting the captain that the vessel has stopped and they will be in range in 1 hours time. After a brief silence, Esteban interludes that now is the time to make a decision on what to do and fast. Long Veer begins putting out the options they have to be weighed upon. Esteban suggests that perhaps one of the Sally's could stay behind, Sally agrees as Bryce looks over at Pon. Pon, is swinging her back and forth as Bryce asks her what her thoughts are. Pon is unsure of what Bryce is asking of her, and Bryce then rephrases the question and asks her how she would want to fit into the plan. Esteban then immediately objects to it, saying that she is a child. Pon is unsure about what to do, and says that maybe she could watch Bryces back or something. Pon then asks the captain what he thinks. Long Veer tells her that perhaps if she remembered anything from on board the Shi Vessel, that she could help track them from the ship. Pon agrees with Long Veers idea, and suggests they retrofit cameras on the E-suits so she could monitor them better. Long Veer agrees and turns to Theo to ask him about it, however Theo seems lost in thought as he rocks slightly back and forth in his chair. He then looks up at Long Veer and Tells him that he can get it done quickly. Long Veer thanks Pon for the suggestion and Pon tells them that she is glade to be of help, while Bryce adds on that they are glade to have her here. Pon then begins wonder about how effective Chomper's assault will be given that they know in the past the Quay where the slaves of the Shi, Pon then goes on to speculate that they might have some unseen control over him that Chomper's might not be aware of and that they might even have to face off against him. Theo reassure's her that might not be the case since Chompers had engaged them before hand, if they did have some control over him they would have used it then. Long Veer then asks Esteban if they had analyzed the blood samples found on Jinu. Esteban tells him that have and the results have been extensive, Bryce then goes on to add that they also found nano machines. Ones similar to what the Earther's where using before on the Okina. Long Veer then asks if they can be disabled using an electrical charge just like they did with the Earther nano machines. Bryce is unsure since they didn't have enough time to run such tests. Theo then tells them that from what little they have seen of there tech would suggest a deep interweaving of bio and mechanical engineering, so intertwined that he unsure if inducing an electrical shock will disable it at all. Esteban adds on that the tech is so organic in nature, with no wires or components that they would recognize as tech, yet it is not organic completely, Esteban then adds on to say that he would not know what effect they may have on it. As the crew continue there discussion, Colt shambles into the conference room. He doesn't look very well, as he has black tendril scares running down his neck. In a ragged voice he asks what they are all doing. Esteban tells Colt that he should go back to the med-bay as he does not look well, however Colt was adamant about staying and mentioned that he wanted to be apart of this plan. With that he pulled out a bunch of med-hypo's and slid them across the table. The hypo's would alter their physiology and make it to were the Shi would have a difficult time using there mental influence on them. Theo picked one up and the rest of the crew began to question Colt about them. The med-hypo's alteration would be irreversible and would require Colt to make another med-hypo to counter the changes brought forth from the previous one. Esteban then asked Colt if he was using them to experiment on himself, and Colt responded with: "I wouldn't have you guys take something that I haven't tried myself, good point" as he injects himself with the med-hypos that he brought with him. Esteban then clarified what he meant to which Colt said: "Next time why don't you be a little more clearer about it.". Esteban then tells Colt that he should head back to the med-bay so he can monitor him for any developments. Colt slides Esteban a bioscanner that lands on the floor. Esteban then scans Colt revealing elevated levels of Serra-tonne in his system, otherwise the results are inconclusive. Esteban then concludes that there needs to be more time to monitor the doctor before they can have any clear results. Bryce interjects reminding everyone that they have alot of questions to answer before they encounter the Shi. Theo mentioned his earlier proposal and Bryce answered with what they where going to do about boarding. Theo explained that they would use Jinu as a shield and roll inside of the Shi vessel and blast their way inside until they got everyone out. Silence lingered in the conference room while Bryce sits uneasy about the whole situation. Bryce then projects a 3d model of shi vessel that he gathered from his memories as he explains the layout to the best of his ability. The crew continues their discussion of the plan to attack the Shi vessel. It is decided that the shuttle would prove to be the best way of entering inside, since based on the intel that Bryce has provided that there is a hole big enough for the shuttle to enter inside of, thanks to Chompers previous attack. Long Veer then started asking around who had piloting experience to which a majority of the crew had raised there hands (Bryce, Theo, Sally 1&2, Long Veer, Pon, and maybe Esteban but he mentioned he was only experienced in piloting residential craft.). Sally then offered to pilot the shuttle. Long Veer began to ask Bryce about him being able to protect them from the Shi, to which Bryce told Long Veer that he could do it and that they would all need to be close by in order for him to make it effective. Meanwhile, Esteban began to ask Colt how he was feeling. Colt told him that he felt horrible and that his arm was hurting. Esteban then pointed that his body was going through an assortment of chemical changes taking note to mentioned the heighten levels of Serra-tonne in his body. With that the doctor began to laugh and slide a hypo down the table where it stopped in front of Long Veer. Esteban then asked Colt how he is feeling since his internal chemical levels are spiking off the charts, and Colt agreed that he was feeling different as Esteban continues to scan him. Long Veer told Colt that it would be better if he went back down to the Med bay, since the equipment down there is much better suited for detailed scans. Colt asks him if that is an order and Long Veer while glancing over at Theo tells him, yes it is. Colt storms off to the Med bay, Long Veer lets out a long sigh as the air around him becomes ionized, Esteban then asks Long Veer if he should go down there as well to monitor the doctor. Long Veer then asks Aisho to keep track of the doctor and makes sure that he heads to the med bay, while he tells Esteban to stay as he wants everyone else's opinion on what to do next. Bryce then mentions that they are rapidly approaching there destination, as Long Veer asks for an ETA. Bryce responds with 30 mins or less at present speed. Long Veer then turns to Theo noticing how quite he has been, he mentions that there top priority is to get the original crew members back if they cannot get everyone out of there. Bryce then warns everyone who is going on board to prepare themselves for the sights they might behold, as Bryce remembers the visions he had of inside the vessel through the eyes of the dismembered crew members as they lay about the ship. Esteban's eyes begin to glaze over as he recalls his flashbacks. Theo looks and tells Bryce that he doesn't care what condition the bodies are in, Bryce adds to just not freeze up and Theo responds by saying that he has no intention of freezing up, as Bryce nods respectfully. Long Veer then goes over his equipment that they may need for when they board the Shi vessel. Long Veer and Theo mention the stealth suits and Long Veer comments that they didn't have any time to adapt the stealth suits to the E.V suits. Esteban perks up as he hears mention of these stealth suits and begins to ask about them. As Esteban does so, Theo begins to explain that they actually have a stealth E.V suit of sorts. Theo decribes the suit as being made for a women's fit, and with that mentioned Long Veer then turns to Sally, and she is game for wearing the suit. It was brought into question weather the stealth suits were going to work against the Shi. Bryce ensures that it might not work against them as some of them may surely beware of the intruders once the boarding happens. Bryces mind blocking may be able to obscure some of them but not all of them. Seeing as they are running out of time to test the stealth suits, as Bryce reminds the crew that they have only minutes before they engage the vessel. Theo then gets up from his seat and gets suited up as does everyone else. Theo finds Pon after he is suited up and Pon asks if he got the cameras hooked up, to which Theo tells her yes. Pon asks Theo to look after Bryce as she believes he might be in danger and Theo assures her that he will. Theo then tells Pon about the emergency anti-Quay system he installed, Pon wonders if it might work as Theo explains that not much would survive the freezing temperatures of the security system and if it doesn't it will slow them down to a halt. Pon then Asks Sally if she wouldn't mind being in the pilot area with her, Sally agrees. With that Theo heads off to the shuttle as Pon holds out a thumbs towards Bryce and tells him to be careful. Bryce nods and tells Pon to be careful and that if the Shi do board, that she knows where the weapons locker is. Pon nods and Bryce heads out to the Shuttle. During this time Long Veer tells Aisho to add pon to the command structure as a grade 2 lieutenant, as Long Veer also instructs Aisho to direct Jinu towards the shuttle. Long Veer then contacts Theo, and asks him about the probes he made and if they are ready to be launched. Theo then advises not to launch the probes until after they had retrieved the others, since the probes will be alerting the Quay to that location. With that in mind Long Veer suits up and heads towards the shuttle bay. Esteban heads back to his room and locates his metal case to which he pulls out a few cylinders and directs one towards his eye as it injects a blue fluid into the retina and after following an intense sensation he pulls out another case and heads towards the med bay. Once there he scans the doctor as he grabs some spare medical equipment, as Colt is dancing around the room with a makeshift human dummy. Esteban asks if he is ok but the doctor is clearly out of it as he continues to dance around and talk about Sally. Esteban then asks the doctor to not experiment on himself while they are away, to which Colt assures him that he won't and continues to dance around with the mock-Sally, Esteban quickly leaves the room as Colt asks him if he wants to have kiss with her. Bryce and Long Veer are prepping the shuttle for launch, as they decide who is going to pilot, to which Long Veer volunteers to pilot towards the Shi Vessel. When Theo arrives he sits down with a furrowed brow as stares st the ground, hands clasped together. After a minute Esteban Arrives and suits up. Bryce looking up and seeing everyone has arrived he has the monitors set while he stares and focuses on them. Using his mental powers he focuses his mind on theirs in order to shield them from the Shi's influence. Esteban goes to the armory and begins to gather some weapons, as Sally does the same. Colt then gets on the coms and begins to sing to them, telling them that they will be ok and don't die. Long Veer tell's Aisho to block Colts com as Aisho goes to tell them that he has exploded a few tanks in the med Bay. Esteban begins to curse to himself upon hearing this. Bryce looks up at the captain and suggests that they gas the Doctor with some knock out gas, "We just don't have time to deal with this." Long Veer orders Aisho to gas Colt. Esteban Cautions the crew to not use the serum that Colt has concocted since they don't know the full results of what may happen, Long Veer assures Esteban that he has no intentions of using it unless he absolutely needs too. Esteban looks nervous as he explains that he has never done anything like this before, Long Veer assures him that everything will be fine as he looks over Esteban's gear setup. He then glances over Theo and Bryce and asks them if they are all setup. Theo tells him that he has been ready to go. Aisho Then asks Long Veer if it could copy itself into the shuttles computer console for assistance, Aisho also points out that there is another A.I program inside the NuRelms program, Aisho also notes that it breaks many of the laws that govern A.I's and that it should be deleted. Long Veer then instructs Aisho to not delete that program as Bryce also tells Aisho to disregard. Aisho then copies itself on the shuttle as Long Veer renames it Gonju, Long Veer asks Bryce if the Encryption is fine. Bryce tells Long Veer that he will need just a little bit of time to refine the Encryption. Aisho then alerts the Captain and crew of data net breaking news. The planet killer asteroids have hit Gongen, casualties estimated in the millions, planet wide disaster. Aisho continues to go over the data net news feed and elaborates on a possible earther No-bot alliance. Long Veer is silent for a moment then he opens the shuttle bay doors, and begins take off sequence "lets get this shit done...". Sally asks Long Veer if he wants the Okina to keep up behind them as Long Veer instructs them to give the shuttle a head start before following behind. Long Veer then instructs Sally that if anything where to happen to them that there main priority is to get away, Sally agrees and says that she will do so after all the clones have printed out, if that should happen. With that Long Veer turns around and says to the rest of the crew inside the shuttle that Colt set off an explosive in the med bay, and wondered if that might effect the cloning machine. Bryce and Theo agreed that it is a strong possibility that the explosion might damage the cloning machine. Esteban then elaborated by telling them how Colt had constructed a "dance partner out of various medical equipment and named it "Sally 65". Sally starts to laugh at the thought of being Sally 65. Long Veer then looks around and says to everyone that they should treat this as a one way mission, and assume they will not be cloned. Long Veer looked over at Theo and told him: "No crazy heroics, right Theo?" With a cold gaze and furrowed brow, Theo looks directly at Long Veer and says: "I make ZERO promises..." Theo then follows up by saying that the his original self is out there and that is all he needs to know, just then Bryce looks like he was going to say something, he stopped. The shuttle arrives to where the Shi vessel is but then make a startling realization that the vessel in question is much smaller and different than the one they had originally seen. The crew came to the conclusion that there previous encounter left the Shi in rough shape and the words of Kazuko are left echoing in there minds "You have them on the run...". The ship is spinning as Chomper's vessel is rammed in the side of it as the light of the rift reflects of the shiny surface. The ship design is strange as it looks more like a cell trying split apart with it's rounded sides and rather "organic" look to it. The Shi vessel is also coated with a reflective surface almost like polished silver, a stark contrast to the rather jagged and molten Quay vessel sticking out the other side. Bryce begins to scan the Vessel and finds that the size of the ship is about the same as there previous vessel. Bryce takes note of the entry point and the location of "hive" center where the rest of the crew can be found. Theo at this point is already at the edge of the door, helmet on and ready to venture forth into the void. Long Veer glancing around at Theo, decides that it's space walking it is. Bryce finds that the atmosphere inside the ship is hostile as the gases within are completely toxic to human life. Bryce informs the rest of the Crew and Long Veer advises against taking their off at any point. Long Veer goes over a quick check with everyone to make sure they are ready and have there helmets on. Every is ready as Sally holds her thumb up and pats Esteban on the shoulder. Esteban turning towards her asks what she wants. "It's a shame where all suited up here... I thought giving you a kiss..." Sally then asked Esteban to take his helmet as Esteban becomes a little unnerved at the request and asks her why?, When they are about to enter and dangerous situation where they might die. Sally replied with: "that's exactly the point." Meaning that they were going into a life and death situation and nether of them might not make it back. Esteban suggested that they do that afterwards. Esteban is wide eyed and sweating a bit. Sally begins to take her helmet off, taking a deep breath, she then leans over and kisses the outside of his helmet. Esteban stares unblinkingly while she does this. Afterwards Esteban tells Sally that she shouldn't waste her time doing that since they might die at any moment. That she should focus on the task at hand, because by focusing in the task at hand you increase your chance of survival in a situation like this. Sally then responds by quietly saying that she didn't want to regret not doing that if that moment ever happened. The gasses escape the shuttle as Long Veer presses the hatch release and as soon as the door was opened, Theo bolted out jets firing off as rockets towards the surface of the Shi vessel. Sally begins to do mic checks as she coms in and out. There are various lights flashing about Shi vessel were Chomper's ship has crashed, suggesting a lot of damage has been done. The light of the rift bathes the suits of the crew as float silently towards the shi vessel. Long Veer finds himself staring into the rift as he drifts towards his destination contemplating the calm that seems to emanate. Diffused light sources flash from the Shi vessel and fade into blackness as if they are coming from the skin of the ship itself, Esteban finds himself staring the rift as well, and freezes in place as he becomes lost in it grandeur. Sally gives Esteban a thumbs up as she floats on by. Esteban then contacts Long Veer, as Esteban stares into the rift he tells Long Veer that he feels very strange. Long Veer tells him that it must be the energies of the rift and that the feeling will pass. Esteban begins moving back to were everyone else is while still staring into the rift. Long Veer then does a head count of everyone and realizing that Jinu is not there asks for Jinu to come toward his signal. Jinu then asks Long Veer "How so, captain?". Realizing that Jinu has moved on the ship in a bipedal fashion, Long Veer asks Theo for help. Theo tells Long Veer that Jinu has not been outfitted for spacial combat or exploration. Long Veer gets close to Theo and asks Theo to take control of Jinu, that Theo knows Jinu better than anyone on the ship. With glance towards Long Veer Theo then begins to instruct Jinu to launch itself from the Shuttle at a certain angle using the coordinates that Theo provides Jinu with. Jinu's arms are flailing about as the robot glides through void, Theo tells Jinu stop flailing it's arms around and Jinu complies. The Soft mag boots seem to not have a great effect on adhering to the surface of the Shi vessel as Sally slips a little before stabilizing. Long Veer warns everyone to be careful about there landing. As Jinu slides past Theo, Theo grabs a hold of Jinu's back and rides his momentum until he gets close to the Shi vessel. When Theo gets close he shifts his body weight and spins around to land on the surface of the shi vessel with Jinu over head. Jinu then slides along the surface until it uses it's grappling claws to remain on the hull of the vessel as Jinu begins to awkwardly crawl along the surface. Theo instructs Jinu to pierce the hull of the vessel, however as Jinu does this he begins to bounce off repeatedly until Theo instructs him to stop. Theo then walks over and uses the zero G environment to carry Jinu along towards the doorway. Sally then asks if they are going through the whole that Chompers left or the other entrance. Long Veer then clarifies and tells Sally that they are going the Doorway entrance. The door itself just looks like a flat round part of the ship almost indistinguishable from all the rest. Bryce then starts to examine the door closely and as he does so tries to think about the thought-form to try and open it. As Bryce focuses on the door hi thoughts of "open" activate the door and it ripples as center folds out like a sphincter revealing the interior for the rest of the group to enter. From the interior, the crew can see what appears to be circular hallways with the appearance of what looks like grown bone that covers the inside. Long Veer reaches his hand out and assists Theo in bringing Jinu inside. Theo Positions himself behind Jinu and with his feet pointed straight back, Theo uses his boosters to push Jinu inside. Once inside the Shi vessel the crew discovers that there is no obvious consoles or anything similar of the nature. The crew also takes note that there is no gravity on board. The interior gives the impression that they are inside of an animal due to the organic like structures within the ship. Bryce then using his telepathy begins to try and detect other thought patterns and as he does everyone is bombarded by various symbols in there minds, the symbols are strange and undecipherable, yet the crew is able to resist the images as they appear only as an after thought like a television turned on low. Bryce detects several Shi intelligence's throughout the ship. Bryce attempting to decipher the symbols he sees, he finds that the shi are aware of their presence and he can make out another symbol which means "kill them". Long Veer then asks Bryce to see about opening the door in front of them. Theo then clinching his fist from the images of the Shi has his gun out and marches over towards the door. Bryce thinking of opening the door causes the door to open and Theo floats through with Jinu in Tow as Esteban is quick to follow. The hallway before is like that of bone from the inside, with various lines stretching throughout the sides of the interior of the ship. Bryce can detect that three of the Shi are in the honey comb like structure, one is near were Chomper's ship has crashed, while two of them are at the rear of the vessel. Bryce relays this information to Long Veer. Long Veer suggests plowing through the center, as Bryce cautions that this is were their other selves are being held at so they should watch their fire. Bryce then focuses his attention to detecting their positions. Bryce then detects that the two from the opposite side of the ship are heading towards them. As this happens everyone notices the air around them ripple as the images of everyone around seem to stretch and twirl and twist although no one feels anything of the sort as they witness this. Esteban stares at Jinu as his image warps around him. Theo then takes a scan of Air around him and determines that it is not as flammable as oxygen. Long Veer grits his teeth as he has experienced this before. Bryce then detects that one of the Shi are approaching them quickly towards the door. Long Veer positions himself near the door as Bryce opens it with his thoughts. Before them is a pillar of what looks to be bloody flesh, as well as these round vats filled with bubbling green and purple liquid with this scum floating on top of it. Gasses seem to emanate from them and the room is moist as this appears to be the source of the toxic gasses that fill the ship's interior. Behind the pillar of flesh Bryce detects the Shi, Theo and Esteban take and hold their positions. Long Veer launches himself upward and grabs hold of the fleshy ceiling. Bryce in an instinctual manner fires through the pillar, with his rifle as he is propelled backwards from the shot fired. Blood globules spew forth from the pillar as Bryce and the crew can see liquid of a different color spewing forth and bright images filling the minds of crew as the Shi is hit with the shot. As this happens Long Veer begins to rip and tear at the pillar of flesh tearing off from it's foundation as the Shi floats sideways with it's blood spewing forth. Blood globules spew from the column as it bounces off some of the crew's E.V suits. Theo then zips on over towards the floating Shi and Blasts it right between it's eyes. Bryce senses that there are only two Shi left in the honey comb area as the two opposite begins to move towards them quickly as they seem to be moving towards the door they are now positioned to open. Bryce then alerts everyone "That's the door we are watching guys...Just say when captain.". Esteban Follows behind and plants himself against the wall outside of the door across from the Shi corpse. Theo then floats over to Jinu and positions Jinu in a turret fashion pointed at the door and has Jinu ready to fire on his command as Theo gets himself on Jinu's shoulders and readies himself to fire. Bryce looks for a nook in the hallway so he can brace himself for recoil of his gun in the zero G environment. Long Veer braces himself against the ceiling reading himself to pounce once the door opens. The Air is thick with globules of blood and other fluids as the Crew readies themselves for the Shi assault. Long Veer begins to detect the currents of electricity running through the Shi vessel as it moves in currents throughout the ship. Theo in turn attempts to use his thermal vision but is overwhelmed by the shear amount of heat sources that he can detect and decides to deactivate it. A chaotic lattice of light come out of the doorway as Bryce can sense a Shi behind the door. The lights begin to move towards Esteban as he fires his plasma rifle into it, the light shifts as the plasma moves through it, but the light seems unaffected as more damage seems to have been done to the wall rather than the light itself. Bryce, using his thoughts calls forth for the door to open, revealing a Shi by the side of the door operating some sort of control mechanism. The crew can see the various versions of themselves as many of them are dismembered and scattered throughout the chamber, Theo sees that much of the space is dedicated to Annelle and her clones as some are in various stages of dismemberment, along with various fetus's and the like. Theo then braces his body against Jinu's body and with his out stretched he unleashes a torrent of flames that bellow forth from his hands and engulf the Shi by the door, as he yells inside his suit. Esteban reacting to the light jumps back to escape the lattice of light, as Long Veer attempts to drain the power of the currents within the Shi vessel. Sparks of lightening arc around his body as he channels the electricity from the wall and sparks all around him. Bryce uses his past thoughts on the Shi operating the controls and learns how to do the same. The flames bubbling forth and hurtles towards the Shi as it is singed and curls up as it's flesh charred black from the intense heat as it floats as a charred corpse. Bryce then moves into position and takes aim at the other Shi near the doorway as he fires a shot at the Shi. Bryce understands through his past thoughts that the pillar of flesh that Long Veer destroyed is a power conduit of source for the ship and that vats are a form of entertainment as well as a means of producing the atmosphere that the Shi breath, and likewise Bryce learns how to turn them off. Quickly Bryce then uses his mental thoughts to deactivate the vats. Meanwhile as Esteban is moving backwards he performs a somersault and activates his thruster's and as soon as he stabilizes he fires at the same Shi that Bryce took a shot at. Long Veer then leaps to the ceiling above the Shi that Bryce and Esteban have taken a shot at and shoots straight towards the Shi as he slams into it with such force that it can be felt throughout the area as the Shi pops like a watermelon and blood spewing forth from it's shattered form as they form into round spheres that now pollute the room further in globules. Long Veer then gives a thumbs up to Theo and returns the thumbs up to Long Veer. Theo then maneuvers Jinu using his thrusters in front of the doorway and then orders Jinu to go into grappling mode and blasting his thruster's forward, attempts to ram Jinu into the two Shi and grapple them. As this happens the Shi unleash another mental attack upon them, everyone manages to resist it except for Sally who's mask suddenly fills with blood as her body goes limp as she floats. Bryce then senses her thought pattern vanishing as she dies. Jinu manages to grab one of them as Jinu grabs as the Shi's limbs begin to crack and it's bluish-grey skin is battered into a pulp by Jinu's powerful grip. The remaining Shi in the room floats up the wall of the honey comb and climbs into one of the holes at the top. Bryce ends up picking up the thoughts of the Shi as there thought patterns flash into his mind as the Shi regretful of it's death and at the loss of it's legacy. Bryce then shoots up towards the tunnel the escaping Shi took but cannot find it as the tunnel seems to go on for quite some way. In the honeycombed chamber the crew finds the following unconscious individuals: 2x Theo's 2x Esteban's 4x Bryce's 2x Long Veer 2x Pon 3x Colt 1x Sally Annelle clones ( 4 of them seem to be headless and some of the others have all there limbs removed and are just torsos. The headless ones seem to have their stomachs distended and bloated 4x larger than what would be for a normal pregnant women. Another one looks dead but is still pregnant as stomach has some movement in it. They all seem to be plugged in with various chemicals and tubes running in and out of them. 3 of the Annelles seem to be alive but are various stages of medical operations as they have their limbs removed. However there is one that has all the wires and tubes connected to her and seems pregnant and alive and nothing has been done to her (she being the original). There are also 4 vats of with floating fetuses serving as an artificial womb. Theo rushes over towards the center where the Original Annelle is and as he does so he tries and contacts Bryce whom appears to be going into the hole to give chase. Esteban during this time pushes off the ground and in a cat-like fashion glides over to the alien tube where Bryce is. Theo then asks Bryce to come down to where he is. Bryce responds with: "What is it?" in a cold manner as Theo jets up to him and grabs his shoulders, as he does so Bryce tells him that there is one more. However as Bryce says that Esteban tells them both that he going after it and bolts inside activating his thrusters. Theo then tells Bryce that they are going to need his skills to save as many as they can. Bryce apologizes and heads towards the console, as Theo chimes in to Long Veer as Long Veer bounces up to the ceiling about to go after Esteban. Theo suggests letting him go after Esteban But Long Veer suggested that Theo should stay since he can help detach the mechanically devices on the Annelle's, Theo agrees and Long Veer darts inside. Theo asks Long Veer to check on Chompers, and with that Long Veer smiles and say's of course and bolts into the tube. As theo looks over the mechanical devices concludes that there is nothing he can do since it has no nobs, and no interfaces that he can use to access the devices. With this is in mind Theo stands in contemplation trying to figure something out. Bryce using what he knows from he read from the Shi's thoughts, keeps the life support for the humans that are being experimented on, turned on so they can live. Meanwhile inside the alien tube, Esteban runs into the Shi inside the tunnel and with a low profile, he aims and fires at the unsuspecting Shi with his plasma rifle. The blast cuts through it's tail and abdomen as it cuts into the bone like wall. It turns around and comes at Esteban at a quick rate, with a glowing energy emanating from it's hand. Esteban then starts to feel a wave of pain course throughout his body and as that happens his eyes crackle with the light of the rift as a aura of energy envelopes his body and he takes aim again and fires another shot at the Shi. Esteban adjusts a nob on his rifle as the two glide towards each other in what would seem like a collision, Esteban then Fires his shot and it goes right through the Shi's head as Esteban is bombarded with thought symbols as it's head and body go limp from the exiting plasma shot. Bryce detects that there are no more Shi on board the vessel, but reading over the information he collected from the Shi's thoughts Bryce finds out that each of the Shi also have the nano machines inside of them that can revive and restore them. Bryce then turns to Theo and tells him that they need to handle this quickly, as Esteban chimes in to tell the others that the Shi he was chasing it dead. Theo then asks Bryce why since they just took care of all of them. Bryce then explained to Theo about the nano machines in there blood and he doesn't know how fast they will regenerate. Theo then looks over at the Shi corpses and notices it's wounds healing up at an alarming rate. With this knowledge Theo then begins to grab all the Shi bodies and with the help of Jinu gathers them up outside of the Honeycomb chamber into a large pile and blasts the Shi corpses with flames emanating from his hand. Theo looks over to Bryce and tells him "You leave that to me, take all the damn time you need." Re-leaved Bryce gets focused on the task at hand, as Theo asks Esteban to bring the corpse back to be burnt. Esteban runs into Long Veer as Esteban tells Long Veer what Theo asked of him. When they both return to Theo and Bryce, Long Veer stares as Theo as he unleashes a torrent of flame from his hand. Shaking off the reaction Long Veer attempts to drain all the electrical power from the Shi corpses in an attempt to stop them from regenerating. As long Veer does so, he feels an enormous amount of power from all the Shi corpses as he drains all the electricity from there bodies and channels it into himself. Sparks and green and blue arcs of electricity blaze all around him. Long Veer then asks Esteban to bring the corpse towards Theo so he can destroy it. As he asks this of Esteban, Esteban is startled as this crackling energy lights in his eyes as he grabs his helmet. Long Veer then asks Bryce to help out Esteban as he freaking out to not let him take his helmet off since Long Veer is brimming with energy and doesn't want to touch him. Bryce Looks over to the captain and tells him to never mind Esteban, that there is another Shi corpse and Bryce quickly gets back to what he was doing before, as he focuses his mental energies on trying to get the crew out of here and examining the structure. Theo then stops using his flame kizen and jets over to were Esteban is and tries to grab him but Esteban has projected a bubble around him, so Theo stares into Esteban's eyes and tells him to calm down. Esteban begins to freak out asking what is happening to him. Theo explains that the rift has given them powers and he just needs to calm down and breath. With that in mind Esteban takes a deep breath and field dissipates. Theo rests his hand on his shoulders reassures him as he tells Theo he will have to think about it. Theo then looks over at the corpses and notices that none of them are moving, Long Veer then tells Theo that the fire isn't enough to kill them, that they have to have all there power drained from them as Long Veer looks down at his hands, filled with electricity. Theo jokingly say's:"take all the credit why don't ya". Theo then scans Long Veer to see how much power he is generating, which is around 60k jewels. Putting their minds together The crew figures out a way to transport the bodies and power them, by using Long Veer as the power source and ships engines as conduit, Bryce is a little unsure, but Theo assures him that he will make it work. Bryce then gets to work removing the foreign tissue and getting all the bodies out of there and on to the shuttle. With everything ready in the Shuttle Theo heads back inside to check on Chompers. Bryce only senses one life form it, and Long Veer asks Bryce about the other Shi. To which Bryce tells Long Veer that he has their security system attacking it, but is not sure if the electricity from it will be enough to disrupt their own nano machines. Before he heads out, Theo hands Bryce his data pad and asks him that if anything were to happens to him to hand the pad over to himself. Esteban offers to join but Theo declines saying that he is the only doctor here at the moment. Esteban then looks over at his other clones and says contemptuously: "Apparently not.". Long Veer then asks Bryce about where the other Shi is and Bryce points him the direction as he bolts off towards it. When he gets to it, he absorbs it's energy draining all the power of the Shi's corpse. Theo finds Chompers ship, lodged inside as it has ripped a huge hole inside of the Shi ship and Theo enters inside. Turning on his lights Theo looks around frantically. The ship is littered with the corpses of at least 12 Shi as they torn to pieces and scattered about. Theo then takes his helmet off as the oxygen is breathable, and as he does so he yells for Chompers. He finds instead his son who approaches, not nearly as big as he has a pole-arm like weapon, and stares at Theo. He looks like he has suffered a lot of damage as he tilts his head at him. Theo then asks him where is Chompers, and his son starts to guide Theo to Chompers. As he does so Theo sees 4 more Shi corpses, these bodies are even more damaged than the previous ones as he sees 2 Quay legs as they appear to have been slashed apart. There is a slow combustion noise coming from Chomper's son's body. Chompers lays before Theo in a battered stat, his body still smoldering as there are three more Shi corpses around him. Theo says: "At least he did fighting, I hope rests well..." Looking over at Chomper's Son Theo begins to speak to it in Quay as it does not understand human speech. Commence Quay talk! Theo tells Chompers Son to get rid of all the Shi corpses and Chompers son agrees and helps get them out as Long Veer drains there power and Theo roasts them. End session.
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Post by Admin on Aug 26, 2014 19:35:54 GMT
Wars 24 What Lurks Within
The crew was in the cargo bay on mid deck with all of the clones and originals that were rescued from the Shi derelict ship. Chomper's child Theo was still on his ship and it was nearby. Some of the bodies had stretch marks and their bodies were bloated like balloons with too much gas or liquid within. They were investigating all of bodies. Many of them had body parts removed that were somehow still living and warm to the touch. The originals were easy to locate due to their cybernetic implants.
Esteban was staring out at THE RIFT with his hand on the glass portal. He was staring at it while he was mesmerized.
There was a barely audible chorus of raspy breaths by the cloned and original bodies in the cargo bay. Long Veer and Colt began to scan the dead Annelle body. There were 4 human-Shi lifeforms that were swimming around like mutated snake-worms with arms and human-Shi faces. The surface of her belly moved and revealed that which lurked within. Theo was perplexed and standing around with a high level of distress evident by his body language.
Aisho asked if the Captain was in shock from the death of his homeworld. He changed the scanners from passive to active. The Captain put the ship on Yellow Alert. Aisho said that he would warn the crew if anyone showed up on the scanners.
Esteban also saw the Shi-Human hybrid creatures in the dead Annelle's womb and he suggested putting them into quarantine. The Captain wanted to remove the original Annelle from the others, but Colt and Esteban warned that they wouldn't know what would happen if they did that. The Annelle clones began to levitate several inches off of their medical bay beds. They seemed to have been levitated from their stomachs. Two other of the armless and legless clones had 4 Shi-Human hyrbids within them. In the other ones Esteban found normally formed human children, though he suspected that they may have been modified in some imperceptible way.
Colt motioned over Theo to see what was inside of the bodies of his various cloned girlfriends. Inside he found a body that was human on the upper half, while the lower half was segmented like a caterpillar. Colt suggested that a lot of experiments were done on his and Annelle's children. One of the bodies had twins and another a single child. He said that they seemed healthy. Theo thought that maybe they were made from that foreign tissue that was recently removed from their own bodies. Colt said that there may be tests that could be done to see if they were human, but he warned that every test poses some risk to the fetus. He also seemed to be at a loss, and he then managed to get out that he wanted Theo's suggestions for what to do here, since he wasn't sure what would be ethical or not. Theo wanted to know if perhaps something could be done to reverse the experiments. Theo handed the bioscanner back to Colt and then walked to the original Annelle and sat next to her, and rested his head there on the table. Theo felt a tiny bump on Annelle's belly and felt his child there moving. It was tapping against his hand.
Esteban was staring at his right hand and acting strangely. He once again suggested isolating the snake-worm Shi-Human hybrids in some fashion. He didn't like that they were this highly active.
The fetuses in the isolated artifical tanks also seemed to be normal though again they were suspected to have been altered in some way.
Everyone in the nearby area were getting flashes of light-blue light without symbols in their mind's eye. It was like the Shi light but there were no thought symbols there. Esteban was tracing the form of the light patterns in the air above him.
Bryce was pacing around the Hydroponics area trying to shake the feeling that everything was closing in around him. He was also monitoring the events that were unfolding in the cargo bay however. He was trying to plan out a way to separate the other Annelles. He was thinking that she was some sort of Hive-womb and that perhaps the original was helping the others to survive. Bryce figured out that the light symbols were coming from some of the Shi-Human hybrids, and he told the crew this. He also told them that they seemed to be learning how to telepathically communicate. He made sure to tell them that there were no other Shi on the ship.
Jinu marched into the room with Pon on his shoulders. Pon had made a wig of strings and broom straw and put it on his head. She was playing with it and braiding it. “Do you think Jinu would look better as a redhead? I could dye it.” Theo suggested that he could use some piercings. Jinu responded that he didn't want holes drilled into him. “No... do not drill holes in me.” She jumped down and she was looking at the clones of herself. She pointed out the Theo clones and asked if it bothered him to see that. Pon was braiding the hair of one of her clones. Pon was switching some of the arms around to make sure that they all matched.
Theo mentioned that he might take a shuttle over to the Shi vessel to do some salvage. He kissed the original Annelle's head and took Pon out with him. Theo noticed that when he kissed her she had a salty taste on his lips afterward. It seemed that her body was once covered in a saline or salt water solution.
Esteban was staring at his hand still... “The LIGHT, the LIGHT, I can see it through the walls... You see it don't you?” Colt seemed a bit unsure of what was happening and he looked over at Long Veer for guidance. Esteban was talking obsessively about THE RIFT. When Long Veer snapped his fingers Esteban was once again talking about putting the bodies in quarantine... as if he didn't realize he had just been talking crazily about THE LIGHT. Esteban then started to disconnect the bodies from the original Annelle to put the hybrid children in quarantine.
Bryce was already at the shuttle just waiting for Theo to show up again.
Jinu set up a feed so that those in the shuttle could watch what was happening in the cargo bay. Jinu asked to have his wig removed, and that it would be nice if Pon was occupied so that she left him alone a bit.
The remaining bodies of the Annelle clones were now levitating higher into the air and they were only contained to the original Annelle by tubes with electric current flowing through them. The electicity seemed to be generated from Annelle and not some machine. Her hair was sticking up. All of the bodies seemed to be in some deep REM sleep. Long Veer suggested maybe they should put the original Annelle into a coma. Colt suggested that they should get approval from Theo before they did anything. Colt said that there was some sort of fluid exchange between the original and the clones.
Colt said that perhaps the Annelles without heads are attached to the original and that the original brain was acting for the brains that were missing. He suggested that if they removed the ones without heads that they might die, and that perhaps it would be best to attach them to a crew member. Then Colt started freaking out and threw his bioscanner. He went on a bit of a tirade about all of the bodies around him and the messed up things that had happened to them. Long Veer slapped him roughly and he slid away.
Theo told Pon to keep going to see Bryce at the shuttle. She skipped there and hummed a Gongen nursery rhyme.
Long Veer was just holding back his rage. Colt pulled a weapon and threatened the Captain. “Don't. Ever. Touch. Me. Again!” Long Veer was electrically charged and it was tense. He seemed like he was going to fry Colt with Kizen Lightning. Theo jammed a calming hypo into the Captain. “You need to just chill.” Theo was shocked badly when he did that. Theo told the Captain that he might need a breather. Colt kicked the bioscanner where Esteban was and took Theo's advice. Theo was shocked that the Doctor would leave this situation. Long Veer admitted that he couldn't stand Colt.
Theo suggested that he would work on things while everyone else took a break. He sent Fred & Melba to go work on the salvage of the Shi vessel. Theo told Long Veer to walk carefully one stepping stone at a time and that by that way he can work on the personality clash that he has with Colt. Long Veer said that Theo must have spent some time with Kazuko because of the wisdom that he was uttering.
Bryce had activated the shuttle and had checked all of its systems about 8 times. He had filled the shuttle with environmental suits and any tools that he thought would be necessary for a salvage mission to the derelict Shi vessel. He felt hands on his shoulders and he did a backwards headbutt and then sprung out of the chair violently. Pon's nose was smashed and she it was bleeding pretty well. Bryce then leaned her forward and helped with the bleeding. She apologized for scaring him and said that she just wanted to touch his shoulders. She had some of the blood in her dark hair. Bryce pulled out a device from the first aid kit and it stopped the bleeding after he put it on her.
Pon revealed that she had spoken to the Pon in the NuRelms virtual reality program. She delivered a message that the other Pon missed him. She said that she was on a sail boat and that there was a hill with flowers. Bryce said that maybe they could all have a picnic there sometime together. She said that she should learn to give people personal space. Bryce then hugged her and asked if she was alright. She said that she would whistle next time, but it was obvious that she couldn't whistle at all.
Esteban walked into the medbay to gather the containment units. His internal voice of the other Esteban was fighting with him and causing him problems. He ran a test and figured out a way to detect the quantum energy that was flowing throw him. Esteban than ran back into the cargo bay and dumped them on the floor. “Yes... we need to contain them!” Esteban was waving his hand at some invisible face that Long Veer couldn't see.
In their mind there was flashing bright lights. This freaked Esteban out greatly. The levitating Annelle clones were now at the highest apex above the original Annelle and they were only attached via the tubes that were keeping them from floating to the ceiling. Theo asked Esteban what was wrong. “THE LIGHT, THE LIGHT!!!” Theo seemed panicked and annoyed at the same time. He then jammed Esteban with a sedative. Esteban turned at something that was not there as if it was moving. “THE LIGHT, THE RIFT, THE LIGHT FROM THE RIFT!!! IT'S IN MY EYES!!!” Theo told him to close his eyes. “THE LIGHTS ARE BRIGHTER WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES!!!” Then he snapped out of it and was focused on getting the bodies back into the containment units.
Theo was shocked when he grabbed a hold of the tubes. Long Veer told Theo about her new Kizen abilities. The left hand of the original then reached out and grabbed onto his wrist. She was muttering and then she sat bolt upright. Her mouth was open and saliva started to run out of it. “Theo... Theo... help... help me... Theo... The Children... The Children... Theo... Theo... They are taking The Children... They are taking the Children...” She seemed to be hyperventilating too. Theo: “It would be great if we had our FUCKING DOCTOR HERE RIGHT NOW!”
Esteban said that he thought that the original might be being stressed out by the others that were attached to her. He suggested that they should get rid of all of the other Annelles. Annelle's hand was clutched onto Theo's tightly. “Don't...Don't... Don't take The Children... Theo help...” Theo then ripped out one of the tubes from the original Annelle and it was leaking out this thickish fluid. It was spurting out. “They're taking The Children...” Theo then detached the other attached clones that had the Shi-Human hybrids within them. The cloned bodies then levitated all the way to the ceiling. Theo left the ones attached that had human-looking bodies within. The light that was flashing in their heads then lessened.
They then put the last two armless and legless Anelles into the containment units but they were still attached to the original Annelle. They then detached the rest of the bodies, and the original Annelle then screamed until she had no breath, took a breath, and then screamed again. She was screaming CHILDREN. Theo then sedated her till she was once again unconscious. The armless legless bodies that were floating fell then and ruptured on the metal floor. The Shi-Human hybrids were squirming out of the ruined flesh that once contained them. Esteban then grabbed up one of them and he then threw it into one of the containment units. His head was filled with light that was overwhelming and he was blinded. “IT'S THOSE THINGS!!!” His inner dialogue, the mental pictures in his mind, his thoughts, were all replaced with light. “I AM BECOME THE SUN!” Theo then stared at one of the Shi-Human hybrids and he saw similarities to himself and Annelle in the facial structure, even though they had the 3 dark souless eyes of the Shi.
Theo ordere the two bots in the Jeffries Tubes to pick up the hybrids and then they threw them in the containment capsules. They also threw in the cloned bodies that housed them. He noticed the similarities in their features to him and Annelle. Esteban started taking the hybrid fetuses away, and Theo asked him what he was going to do with them. Theo wanted them to be kept alive, as he didn't feel right killing them. Long Veer also asked where they were going to be stored. Esteban said that he was going to put them out into space. Theo jumped in the way and said that he would get rid of them himself. He said that he had to do it. Esteban said that they weren't his children, that they were created by the Shi monstrosities.
Bryce noticed that some of the thought forms seemed to be weaker now that they were detached from Annelle. He tussled Pon's hair and began to leave. She said that she was going to plug in to NuRelms and talk to the other Pon. She closed her eyes and jacked in with her fleshport.
Esteban and Theo were pushing the cart when Bryce showed up. Bryce was surprised that they made the separation from the original Annelle. Theo then pushed the cart away after explaining to Bryce what they were. Those light symbols were appearing in the crew's minds. Bryce figured that these lights were like prethought, the foundations of thought, of young minds trying to figure out how to think. They then began to incinerate the hyrbids with his burning Kizen abilities. They were charred to ashes. He got a bright white flash in his mind and then it was normal again, the lights had been put out. He put the remains out into space and watched them drift away into the cold empty void.
Colt had returned to the cargo bay and he didn't look at Long Veer. “I'm sorry I just couldn't handle this anymore. What do you want me to do?” Long Veer was keeping tabs on the health of the original Annelle. He told Colt to make sure that the human children were alright. He admitted that he had some experience with the Shi genetics. “I haven't been completely honest with you Long Veer. I spent some time on Ganymede. I did some research on... a body, one of the Shi before we set out. He had returned samples to Gongen for more examination. I have done various experiments on the flesh so I should be able to detect it easily.” Long Veer wanted to know why he hadn't revealed this information sooner, and then the flood gates opened.
Colt looked into Long Veer's eyes. “I am a CISyn opperative, Earther based. You know, the one that Jylan worked for. You see why I didn't reveal my information until now. I hope that by revealing this that my loyalties now rest with the crew. I would be lying if I said that was always the case. I sent some reports to Jylan himself. I have been on his payroll for quite some time. I'm... sorry. I didn't expect this kind of situation to happen. I'm normally more collected and calm than this. I'll submit to anything that you deem worthy of my betrayal, but I wanted to be honest to you before the hammer falls on me.” Long Veer became covered with electricity. “Begin scanning Annelle, we will discuss it with the crew when they get here.” Colt promised no more outbursts from here on.
Captain had Aisho remove Colt from the command structure. Aisho then asked if he should speak up more often or wait to be asked questions. The Captain said that he should speak up more often. Aisho then noted that the Chompers Quay vessel wasn't coming up on their scanners but they could see it with the outside cameras. The A. I. Program reported that Pon was having a pleasant time in the NuRelms virtual reality program which lead to some speculation that he had the capabilities to spy on the happenings there.
Bryce then showed up in the cargo bay again. The air in the cargo bay seemed ionized and charged with Long Veer's mood. Colt was paying attention to his work, but his eyes were never looking up at the rest of the crew. Theo then walked in as well and sat next to his girlfriend and held her hand. Esteban came in as well and Long Veer then started dealing with the Colt situation, as well as consoling Theo on his losses.
Colt's eyes raised and looked at the crew when Long Veer told them about him. Bryce used Past Thoughts on him, and learned a lot about him. He had been reporting back to Jylan and CISyn. He found memories of hidden Shi Symbols that weren't the standard language. He saw diagrams being worked on and translated into that tongue, of Maverick ships, NoBots, Gongen vessels and even Earther structures. It seems that they were giving the Shi valuable information. It would later turn out that CISyn had allied with the Shi but not the larger Earther government. Genetic material was also sent to the Shi. There were also quirks of the various human genetic material and weaknesses that could be exploited by them.
Bryce found strange memories that seemed fake, off, or planted. These were the memories of Colt's family, friends, the Bot that was his main friend. Bryce chipped at these thoughts and behind them were the memories of many operations, of truer memories, of the core original self. There was a series of surgeries, of mental pictures of the face changing in the mirror. Colt's face slowly but surely going backwards in time became Jylan Rathe's face. The last memory was Jylan planning things out, sending out clones and various versions of himself all over the Solar System.
Bryce thought that the Colt version of himself does legitamately feel bad that the original Jylan's plans had lead him to this. He had reached some breaking point that overrided his genetic imprinting and his loyalties. He had a deep-seated feeling of guilt for all of the messages he had sent to the Earther CISyn spy network.
Bryce was quiet and just listened even after learning all of this.
Colt said that he was one of the many backup plans, and that all of the other plans failed. Esteban didn't seem to appreciate that all of them had been reported back to Earth. His eyes were fixed on Colt in a similar manner as Long Veer. Bryce: “Colt came from exactly the same stock of DNA as Jylan Rathe. They are the same person if you go back far enough.” Colt: “We have had different experiences but I would stay on with the crew. This. This sight before my eyes I just can't abide seeing... this. I think humanity will fall against the Shi. I have always wanted to expand to try to new things, to be different people... but this is too far. I think they are going to destroy all of us regardless of political affiliation. I am just a source of information but they don't care about me and neither does Jylan.”
Long Veer asked how many times the Shi had been aboard the ship. Colt said that he lost count on how man times that they were on the ship. “You all sort of slumber for a time, and they take notes, and make observations and leave without a trace. They haven't been back lately since Chompers destroyed their ship, and you all finished the rest. I wouldn't be surprised if another ship eventually finds you and continues the observation. I'm not sure why they don't stop you and want to observe you. They seem as if they want to protect you.” Bryce: “Are we being used?” Colt: “If I had to guess... Yes. Your decisions seem to be to their benefit somehow. The Shi work only with the CISyn network of spies. Captain, I believe that the CISyn opperatives were the ones that decided to end Gongen.”
He shared that some CISyn spies were there with the settlers and the Quay. The group had wanted to get more spies on board but none of the crew had taken any of the female settlers on board. Theo was infuriated that Colt could have prevented so many things if he had revealed what he knew. “All I want to do is burn your corpse into nothing!” He grabbed Colt and his flames started to rise up on his arms burning his clothes. Esteban told him to go to his Annelle so that they could question him. Long Veer told Esteban to leave him be, but Esteban still kept at it so that they could get information. “Why did youput here through all of that, you bastard?” Theo stopped burning him and the put out the flames. Esteban lead him out and Jinu would stand guard over him.
Esteban tackled him and put a gun to his head. Colt said that he knew a lot about Esteban, about how he liked to hunt things. Colt told Esteban that Jylan runs CISyn. He said that he just wanted to be honest before the end. He was put in the room and Jinu was watching him, and then Esteban just walked away.
Theo got up with red eyes, and they all started to move the containment units and Annelle back to the Med Bay. Then Theo came back into the cargo bay and looked at his original self and seemed lost and forlorn. He kept checking the vital signs of the unconscious bodies that were there.
Long Veer asked Bryce to make sure that the Med Bay was no longer locked off from the rest of the ship. He didn't like not being able to see in there. Bryce and Theo later hardwired a camera in there so that they could see in the Med Bay.
Bryce then jacked into NuRelms to contact Pon to let her know that the trip would be postponed. He saw little Pon on the front of the ship and the older NuRelms Pon taking her for a ride as she was sitting by the rear of the ship pulling the ropes to move the sails to catch the fragrant wind. Bryce wanted to be on the shore and then he was there. The sailboat slid up into the sand and little Pon ran up and hugged Bryce. The older Pon just looked at Bryce but she didn't say anything. She had a sad smile on her face. Little Pon told Bryce that he needed to come back and not be so sad and mopey all the time. Then NuRelms Pon waved her fingers and had a genuine smile on her face.
Theo had some tools and he said that he had to work on something and then he started to head towards the shuttle and he wouldn't take no for an answer. He had Fred & Melba attach to the shuttle so that they could help him with the work. Theo said that he needed to work on those strange spheres that were attached to them. He woke up Sally who was told to go pilot the ship to maneauver to a closer position to the derelict Shi vessel. This was done and then Fred & Melba started cutting large chunks of the outer shell of the vessel in 5' x 10' sections to be taken back.
Esteban was freaking out, hitting his head on the wall and went back to see Colt again. Jinu let him back in. He sat in a chair and looked at Colt, and apologized for his demeanor. “Tell me... what do you know of “Etemul Kairu?” (I'm not sure if I have that name right).
Bryce jetted over and began to look through his computer system with his telepathic abilities since that was the only way to get into them.
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Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2014 12:17:18 GMT
I put Phil's summary of session 23 up above 24.
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Post by masterofflowers on Sept 6, 2014 18:23:44 GMT
This is a long story to read heheh. Awesome.
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Post by Admin on Sept 6, 2014 19:11:19 GMT
Yes, we have weaved a long story. Here are the notes from today's session. They were hastily jotted down. Setting Shi take over ruined Gongen and betray the Earther government alliance. Jylan controlled CISyn takes over as a Shi puppet government. There are lots of Shi. Last 3 months Shi managed to expand the sun. Aim White Hole energy at the sun to expand it. Inner planets engulfed. Mercury & Venus engulfed. Earth is the new Mercury. Earther Corporation XeLabs and Shi have had an alliance. Ally now. Hisuke Masa worked for Tyrell corp, Kirosawa corp was owed him money. Back door there by Hisuke. Kirosawa payed, and is involved with CISyn and Jylan. Quay settlements on Venus. Theo baby Chompers try to return to his clan. Various clans. Quay factions working with the Shi. Baby Theo gaining a sub-faction of Quay/Maverick mercenary crew. Regained honor by destroying the Shi Vessel. Schhhhrarcht. Quay/Amish settlers with CISyn spies (the women), and Out of the Box Freaks. Warned. Spies slaughtered. Hangin' and killed the spies. NoBots were hacked by CISyn, and then break that programming. Ally themselves with Mavericks. Gongen survivors and Mavericks fight over the various space stations. Shi perfect the cloning process and make armies of the characters. Cybernetic Kizen devices. Resources are scarce because of the destruction of the main core planets. Mavericks – Cogs allied with the NoBots, the main maverick gang. Rose to power, the most powerful gang. Most are uniform in one government. The Cartel still doing their own thing. Hellcats have flown for everyone else. The Rift – last 6 years. Closing now. Kizen family lines, passed down. Faction of Kizen Powered individuals. The Chosen – worship the Rift. It closing is their end world scenario. Martyrs, cool-aid drinkers. Random tech – battery power. Metallic hyrdogen battery cells – store energy when heated up by nuclear reactors. Unlimited supply of electricity. People closer to the RIFT closer to the RIFT more powerful. Those settlements near it have more of them. Beast of saturn. Shi oxygen bomb destroyed Titan. Fuel. Traginium fuel. Harvested the Quay. Quay breeding farms, cloned, bred, turned into fuel. Asexual breeding program. Traginium on Seyal and Ganymede. Jupiter & Saturn rich in fuel, and gasses. Trade routes. Moons. TITAN gone. Jupiter center of human civilization. Quay cloaking tech. Earther Cloaking tech completely invisible. Cloaking tech gets leaked. Cold war situation to reveal their location. Alliances made and broken. Rising tension before a big brawl. Every ship needs a Bryce to detect life, and a Shi to send telepathic messages. Kizens on every ship. Personal Annelle and Theo get married and have kid(s). Zixin was destroyed. Some of the clones exploded killing off some of the other clones. Cloning machine was used on the ship. The crew sabotaged the Shi Seyal planetary engines that were keeping the core of the planet molten. Long Veer freedom fighting force. Red Scare contacts, Gongen military survivors. Go ape-shit on the Shi. Pinacle of their achievement. Make sure that the crew was with him. Many seperate cells of Shadow Dragon Corps. Each one with their own agenda. A lot of the Red Scare was a military thing to hide the fact that he was working for the Gongen government. The ship the Red Scare had the Quay arm on it, and it was destroyed and Long Veer was blamed for it. He never killed innocent people as he was known for doing. Bryce the last 6 years. Spent time on Shi vessel, learned the way to hide thought transmissions, took lots of info. Headed back to Okina. Conspiracy theories, and any Earther is a suspect. Went down at cargo hold. Cryostasis in Esteban's escape pod, he investigated it. Figures out that XeLabs working with Shi and Earthers. Railgun fired through his old ship the GreyCoat. Irene engineered his faraday cage (an important person from his past). He questioned if she was alive. Time spent outside the resistance exploring that possibility. He found signs of her, as she was a Cartel agent, but he never found her. She was working undercover with the Knaves. Is she still with the Mavericks, CISyn spy all along. Reported dead many times, but she is still out there. Original Bryce went to see her. Bryce #4 worse with claustrophobia, relationship with NuRelms Pon. NuRelms addict. Pon / Samantha clone died when the cloning tech expired. She was cloned again at 19 years of age. Crew has leaked Shi perfected cloning tech from the medical frigate so the new clones don't expire. Theo took her under his wing as a kid sister. Piercings and cybernetics for her. Learned stuff from Annelle, and Sally. Big sister and mother figures. Bryce is more big brother type. Original Theo you are going to get married to Original Annelle. Clone Theo talked to Bryce and didn't want to be on the ship. He felt terrible after killing Shi hyrbid baby clones. Clone Theo went out with Clone Annelle and lived as a Maverick settler. Derangements... The couple that headed out into the solar system are now split, she took the boy, and he took the girl, and they don't talk. Bad split up. The kids may end up with Original Theo and Annelle. Two more mouths to feed? Children were born. 6 year olds. Two children each, Boy & Girl. A small bit of Shi, telepathic abilities. Survive in their atmosphere. Shi eye coverings that are completely black, but not always evident. Maybe the powers haven't manifested themselves yet. Boy: Walton "Cobalt" Tameron, Girl: Ellenna. Theo wanted to get an old frigate and live in it with Annelle. Annelle, Theo, and the kids on the ship. Doing it for friendship and for a fee to raise the kids. Bryce is there (original one). Clones 1-3? Bryce clone #3 tried to kill Esteban and that lead about the spilling of the beans telling his name as Lawrence Manchester. That Bryce was put down. Other Bryce clones left to locations unknown. Start of the next session? Okina Toroborough still the ship. Theo and Jinu leaned it. Bryce #4 always plugged into NuRelms. Scavenging parts for Long Veer's resistance on Neith XeLabs station (around Venus) large ship yard. Earthers watching over their junk yard, one found them and alarm was sounded. Patrol vessels. Towing large chunks of ship behind them.
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Post by sirphil on Sept 27, 2014 3:08:22 GMT
WARS Recap- Session 26 “Neith Shipyard and Salvage Run”
The year is 2397. 6 years have transpired since the events of the last session (yr 2391). Many things have changed and many friends have come and gone. The Shi and the Earther sect known as Sysn have made an alliance with Sysn acting as a puppet government as the earther populace that has moved over to Gongen are now slaves to the Shi. The rift is starting close in the six years that it has opened and brought with it the Shi and Quay as tendrils of amoebic energy spiral forth from the rift as it gradually closes. The Shi have used the energy of the White hole/ the Mumon rift to expand the sun causing it to consume Mercury and make earth uninhabitable, causing many of it's population to move to Gongen. Chompers son “Theo” Is in charge of a Maverick/Quay mercenary group stationed on Venus. There is a group of Kizen warriors known as “Phanadar” that have made there appearance in the solar system. Also to note a lot of people who have known Kizen powers have gone missing. Titan was destroyed by an oxygen bomb. The Accord and the Cogs have joined forces, the Accord and Hellcats still do there own thing however. The Shi have jammed all traditional communications, making telepathy the only form of communication for long distance messages. This has allowed many a Kizen to be brought through the ranks. The Earth moon Luna, has been moved in the orbit of Gongen along with a few icy asteroids from the asteroid belt. We now find the crew near Venus in the Neith shipyards on a salvage run. The star is bright, as it has grown to engulf Mercury as the blue rays of the rift bathe the okina along with the blinding light of Sol and all around the black void of space in a sea of stars...
Theo chimes in to Long Veer and alerts him that he is about to head out before everyone else gets ready. Long Veer suggests to take one of the modifyed bots with him just in case something happens. “I got it, I got it” Theo replies as Long Veer follows up by asking him if he is going to wait for for Bryce. Bryce chimes in and alerts the captain that he is almost suited up and tells Long Veer that he has all there internal sensors “spoofed” so they won't be detected when they are in there. Bryce warns that if a ship passes by and he is not in there computer system, they may be detected, so they should make this quick. Long Veer then informs Bryce that Dax is on standby in case Bryce needs to relay an emergency communication to the ship. Theo floats off into space, E.V suit and all. Kazuko begins to put on his helmet and prepares himself for the space walk. Shung looks over towards Kazuko and asks him if this is his first time doing a salvage operations. Kazuko tells him that it is his first time doing this in his current form. “Your Current Form, what exactly do you mean by that?” Says Shung. Kazuko then tells Shung that he use to be fully human at one point. Shung mentions that he finds it very hard to believe and asks how he ended up in this current form. Kazuko Tells Shung that it was Shi, and there experiments that have ravaged his body leaving him as nothing more than a head. Shung then goes on to ask why the Shi would be interested in him in the first place. Kazuko tells Shung that it is information on anything, that the Shi love to perform there experimentations and gather knowledge from it. Shung then mentions how he has heard of the Shi's rather gruesome experimentations and quickly changes the subject. He asks Kazuko if he would be willing to help him out as “working” is not his strong suit. Kazuko informs him that his new form can lift many times what a normal human can lift and is more than happy to help him out. With that Shung is quite pleased and asks Kazuko to help him with his suit. They both head out into the void to see Theo floating, body reclined and arms resting behind his helmet. Long Veer alerts Bryce and he follows in suit behind the others to meet up with Theo as his eyes scan the periphery with his rifle in hand. Bryce then suggests to Theo that he should take point since he would know more what they need in terms of supplies. “With pleasure, I've been looking at her all night!” says Theo and shoots his jets off flying towards the station with his arms outstretched. With the light of sun being as bright as it is Theo reminds every one to have their Sun flares up, so one goes blind.
Shung tries to navigate in his suit and ends up going off into the wrong direction. Theo looks back asks him what the hell he is doing. Shung begins to asks questions about his suit as he starts to breath heavly. Theo then asks him if this is his first time space walking. Shung relunctently says yes, as Theo tells him he should of spoken up earlier and he would have taught him of things. Shung lets a sigh of frustation as he goes on to tell Theo that he can learn quickly but the buttons are arranged in manner that he does not like. Theo looks at him and tells him: “It's ok everyones first time is a little rough, (moves in closer and whispers) i'll be gentle...” Theo then starts showing Shung the layout of the E.V. suit Shung after watching Theo then tells him that he's got it and pushes a panel on his suit and launches himself in the oppisite direction. Theo then grabs Shung and begins to pull in tow telling Shung that they will have to work in this later. Shung begrudgingly goes along with this as he assures Theo that he can usally figure these things out on his own. Bryce interupts and tells Shung that he can use his soft mags once they reach the outer surface of the hull and tells Theo to hurry up. Theo then tells Bryce tha he is on it already and jets forward towards the outer hull of the station.
Before the crew is the spinning station that is in disprepair. Many of lights are out as it's many spires stretch outward along it's side spinning slow from a distance but it is a deceptive traight of the eyes for the station is moving at a great speed as they hurtle towards one it's spires. The station used to be a hub where many ships were built and designed, but now the station is empty with no ships or any sort of activity but there appears to be some activity at one of the spires oppisite of where the slavage crew will land. Theo tells everyone to go in feet first as the soft mags will take over from there. Bryce chimes in with “At very least helmets last...” Kazuko almost lands on his hands, but Bryce helps orient himself so lands on his feet instead. A loud ping is heard on the slavage crews helms, alerting them to an increase in solar radiation. Theo tells everyone to make it quick since rads are picking up. Shung crashes into the back of Theo abosrbing all of Shungs momentum as it sends Theo tumbling, but not before he rights himself. Shung seems to not enjoy space as much or space walking for that matter as Theo shows him the entrance to where they will enter the station through an augmented image array on in helmet. Theo take point and enters inside the station. Long Veer asks Theo if everything is ok since they read some of the crew are reading elevated adrinalin levels. Long Veer also alerts Theo and that there is some organic material detected. Bryce begins to mentally shield the crew. Theo warns of micro metorites, Bryce asks Theo if that is what he thinks made the many holes. Theo says that it might be a strong possibility due to the change of gravity from the home star. When inside the crew notices a lot strange organic material scattered throughout the ship, it is green and mold like. Long veer tells Theo that the substance is similar to the Quay material and is taking over the ship. He goes on to explain that it might be terraforming the ship. Theo begins to prode the substance with a loose pipe and wishes they more time to study it as Shung sarcastically says that it would be pretty cool to bring it with you and poke it. Theo tells him thats why they have blasters. Some of the quivering masses begin to split and move towards Kazuko. Kazuko gets nervious as it creeps torwards him. Bryce asks Long Veer what he is made of and Long Veer tells Bryce that he is made from bits of Thordium which the substance seems to enjoy eating. Theo bats a few of the globules away as they find entrance in side the ship. Bryce then begins to pick up some thought signals emitting from the well light part of the station. They are Shi thought signals. Bryce can hear the Shi discussing atmospheric injection, but the details are unclear as the thought symbols are slightly aggressive in nature. The slavage crew goes towards an alternitive entrance that is not covered in the green substance. They notice parts of the inner coradoor are covered in blood as the radiation levels begin to increase. Bryce suspects that the star is not to blame for it, and Theo suggests that it might be the core of the station. Around the corner of one of the halls, the salvage crew finds a group of employees of the station as they are torn apart hanging by chains and due to the low gravity they are slighty bumping into one another. Shung grows nervious as he asks Theo where his weapon is as Theo points it out to him. Samantha asks Kazuko to focus on a part of the body of one of the victims. It's wrists appear to be broken in a jagged fashion. A red glow passes underneath them as it vibrates there boots upon passing. Bryce asks Theo about what that might be. Theo postulates that it might be an atmospheric field generator. A monitor comes on line to reveal a manniquin like figure staring back at them, with a cheerful expression on it's face. It begins to tell the crew that they have been chosen as the new crew of the vessel and awaits new designation codes. Bryce begins to plug in to interact with the computer and the robot manniquin. After giving the bot a code it tells Bryce thank you, and asks for further input. Bryce then begins to ask it to view the data base and functions of the station. The bot tells him that the current database is empty and if Bryce would like to fill it. Bryce tells it not at this time, and the bot curious as to why he is being hesitant. Bryce tells it go on standby and the bot continues to ask for more input. Shung is not sure about continueing to give the robot more “input” as Theo chimes in that it might be a lost A.I unit. The bot then asks about the other crew members and Theo gives it a simple code. Bryce then goes on to access more of the stations information.
Bryce then cuts out a panel and begins to use a direct access. The bot then asks Bryce why he is doing that as Bryce responds by telling the bot that maintenince is required. The bots eyes turn to slits as it asks if it requires maintenince. Bryce then hurrys as he tries to gain further access. Theo begins to ask the bot what happened to other crew and they get nothing helpful in return as it tells them that the data of the previous crew has been removed. Theo asks it to go on standby as the bot ingnores that and monitors go offline and the red lights turn off. Shung tells him that on his planet they have saying “Don't stick your conduit in crazy.” Bryce figures out that the bot is a part of a defense matrix that is trying to figure ot what it is suppose to do. Given enough time it might be able to figure out it's purpose. Bryce then decides to wipe it's program clean. Kazuko asks Bryce if they can dig any deeper to see if there is information to gather on what might have happened to the crew. Bryce tells him that it is possible but that would take a while since he had to wipe the A.I clean. As the crew continues there discussion on the bots and what might have happened to the crew, they suddenly feel a strange falling sensation, that quickly passes. Bryce asks Theo if that was a gravity distortion, and Theo said it felt more like a gravity repultion. Theo goes down below to try and figure out what that system is below them. Shung has some reservations on continueing to crawl through the dirlect station. Theo reminds him that it comes with the job. Kazuko looks over towards Shung and tells him that he has been salvaged and hops down to where Theo is. Bryce and Shung stay up top and Theo and Kazuko head down below to search for a gravity generator of the station. Kazuko asks Theo to keep a look out as he is made uneasy by the sight of the previous crew and that it brings up unplseant memories. Theo agrees and as they continue walking they begin to discuss feeling phantom limb syndrome and Theo tells Kazuko that he might be able to tweak his cybernetics a bit. Kazuko tells Theo that he also has had some trouble operating his new body and Theo tells him that he should said something earlier as it could have been desaterious if he malfunctioned out here. Then Theo finds a panel that leads towards the inner core section of the station. With Kazuko's help they lift off the latch of the door as the Generator flys past them knocking the door away as it dissapears in the long tunnels of the tube leaving only a faint red glow in it's wake. Theo contacts Bryce and asks him to turn it off. Bryce asks him if shutting off the gravity would alert the occupants on the other side. Theo tells him that it shouldn't alert them unless he shuts it down at full stop, which might send everyone flying all about. Theo then goes on tell Bryce to just gradually slow down the speed of the generator to a point where it will begin to adjust the gravity to the natural rotational gravity of the station. Bryce looks over to Shung and tells him it might take a while. Shung tells him to let him know if he can do anything to help. They both discuss there dislike for Venus while they make idle small talk, while Shung keeps on the look out. Theo and kazuko go looking for the robot they had talked to earlier on the monitor as well as for other spare parts and the like. They eventually come across a plesure bot with it's side panel opened and decorated in various paints and like. It is covered in about an inch of dust. Theo identifies it as a Ok62 model, pleasure bot. Kazuko asks if it would be any use out of it and Theo tells him that they can use it for spare parts. All the around the room they containers with locks on them. As Theo scans them he finds that some of the containers have batteries in them. Kazuko finds a few containers to use for hauling the supplies. Bryce then alerts Theo that he is about start the gradual shutdown process and it will take 9 mins or so. Theo acknowledges and continues to look through the containers as Kazuko tells Bryce that they found some supplies. Theo comes across a pile of pleasure bots stacked on top of each other in a barrel, he is delighted at all the spare parts he found. While looking inside he Tells Kazuko that it is a T31 model, The robot the lifts it's head up and says “correct, I am”. The robot asks Theo if he is hungery, as Theo tells it that there is no atmosphere as the robot drags it's upper half of its body on the floor, as it uses it's hands and arms like legs to move towards Theo and Kazuko. It's lower half appears to have been torn from it. Theo then asks the Bot what happened to the crew and the bot tells Theo that there were intruders on board. The intruders where smaller versions of juggernaughts that roamed the hallways and tore the occpants in half, including the robot itself as it tried to save it's owner. Theo was trying the model of machines that it could be. The bot didn't much more information since it was inside the box as it drained the power of the other bots in order to sustain itself. Theo grabs a spare battery from one of Kazukos compartments and attaches it to the bot in question and powers it up. The robot looks up at Theo and tells him that it's previous owner called it Sadie. Kazuko suggests that they should bring Sadie along with him and Theo agrees him and puts Sadie over his shoulder and onto his back. Sadie asks Theo and Kazuko what rank they are and Theo asks for clarification as Sadie asks Theo if he is a soldier. Theo tells her no then backtracks on that answer and says that thay are rebels, then goes off to say “Whatever”. Kazuko asks if Sadie's owner was a soldier, and Sadie says yes. Sadie becomes puzzled on how they got into here. Theo then goes on to explain how some of the politcal landscape has changed quite a bit. Byrce checks in Theo if they can feel anychanges in the gravity from where they are at. Theo says it is slight and has done good job. Kazuko checks in with Long Veer and reports to him on the situation as well as what they have recovered so far in terms of supplies. Shung interrupts and informs everytone that terraforming ooze is slowly advancing upon there position. Kazuko gets nervious about the ooze and suggests they find another way out. Theo says he has it covered and reveals a pack of explosives. Sadie interrupts and Tells them that there is another port hatch. Theo asks Sadie if it is good with Kids and Sadie responds by saying that it can be programed to be, unless he wants them pleasured. Theo quickly tells it no and Sadie tells Theo that it can be reprogramed for such a task as long it's central persona is still intact and Theo agrees. Bryce alerts Theo that the shutdown is complete as Theo explains that the intial spining of the station will become there knew gravity source. Sadie points out to Theo several pass cards that it's previous owner had. There are six different cards with the same face but a different names. Shung Suggests that they hurry up as the ooze he is observing is slowly adavancing in on there position. He tosses a metal pipe into it as it slowly gets devoured. Bryce asks Theo what there next step is. Theo tells Bryce to take everything that is not bolted down. Bryce then asks Shung to help him get the data drives. Sadie tells Bryce to use the access card, as Theo heads over to where the hole is tosses the card upwards. Sadie tells them that it's previous master used the card for many different things. Bryce uses the card and reveals the computer and begins to take to the user interface that has identifyed him as the general. The computer doesn't recongize Bryce at first then it goes on to compliment him on his looks. Bryce then gains access to it's files and tells the computer to go into a low powered stat. Bryce then asks the computer to detail what systems are currently being powered in the station as the terminal begins to display it before him. Bryce asks Theo to come up and see what he is seeing with somewhat pleeing eyes. The computer then asks Bryce if there mission was successful. Bryce was not sure what the computer was talking about and inquired further into what the computer was talking about without revealing too much on his end. The computer goes on to talk about genitic modification, file 323. Bryce begins to splice into the computer as he internally begins to panic. The computer then began to make references towards test subjects and the like. Bryce contiues to plaice in the computer and look into the files. The files stem from earth but it appears that Sysn has had there hand in this as the genetic modifications are similar to that of Colt/ Jylan Wrathe. Bryce contacts Long Veer as he deactivates the computer terminal. He tells Long Veer that there are still systems active as the ooze is still encrouching in on them. If he shuts the system down the occupants on the other side will be alerted that something is wrong but hey can harvest the physical data core and retrieve the data later. Long Veer asked Bryce if they can do a data dump into the Okina, But Bryce suggests otherwise since he would have broadcast it over a broad frequency as well it would take too long. Bryce will shutdown all other systems but the ones the occupants are using. Long Veer then suggests that they lock them inside and take everything and bolt. Long Veer then tells them that the encrouching ooze will be slowed down by organic material. Shung with a sigh begins to detach the bodies from there holding and builds dyke of corpses between them and the slowly encrouching ooze.
Bryce and Theo begin to take out the data drives as Long Veer is alerted to an approaching ship. Theo begins taking the data drives out faster as Long Veer asks Kazuko to help out as Sadie helps out with the movement of the containers. Bryce then checks to see if the approaching vessel belongs to the others occupants and finds that it is not. Bryce then begins to Shutsdown all the other main systems as the computer terminal asks Bryce if he wants to take a remote access port with him. Bryce takes it as the computer tells him that he can access it anytime through it. Bryce tells it he might have to disable it for time being. Bryce engages the locks on the other end of the ship. Shung asks Bryce to please hurry as the ooze now has begun to climb over the corpses. Bryce then calls for emergnecy shut down. Shung heads over and helps getting the data drive out and takes it down the hole to the others. Bryce then tells Theo that he is done on his end but if there is anything else he going to get. Theo tells Bryce that he is going to get gravity core out, surprised Bryce asks how he is going to get it out. Theo tells him that there is a maintenince port that he can use to pull the gravity core out of the chamber. Thought symbols begin to bombard the crews mind as shi begin to panic over the system failures. Long Veer picks up on the sensors weapons fire as the approaching vessels fires upon the station. Long Veer alerts the salvage crew to hurry up and get out. Theo tells Long Veer give him a little more time as he hurries to get the gravity core out. Long Veer tells Theo that he can't stop plasma bolts. Theo tells him that the station is a tough old bird. Annelle then contacts Theo and asks him if everything is ok as everyone else has started to load up the shuttle with the equipment and salvage. “You know you're getting fired upon?” Says Annelle as Theo tells her that it is nothing unusual. Bryce, inside the shuttle and packing away the data Drives tells Annelle that her husband is a very ambitious man. Annelle then says to Theo “You'd better hurry up...”. The port doors open as he pulls out the gravity generator and has Kazuko attache the line to the hull of the shuttle before heading in the shuttle and taking off. The plasma barrage begins to hit the station as it's various parts begins to distort as some of the distortions begins to make it's way towards the shuttle. Long Veer then hurriedly communicates to the Quay vessel and has got them to stop firing at the Okina and fire instead on the station. Several Quay life ships appear from cloaking as they open fire on the station along with some Maverick vessels. Two of the large lifeships crash into each other creating a large flash and adding to the debris field. The shuttle crashes slightly into the shuttle bay, as Shung heads out from the blinding light that shined in there mind but was protected from it's full effects thanks to Bryce's mind shield. Shung begins to vomit. A strange warping of space echos outward from the station as it hits the Okina and knocks everyone down. Bryce after seeing the massive debris field asks if that was one those quantum warheads suped up. Theo then says that it might have hit one of the stations cores causing a chain reactin of some sort. Bryce then begins to check out the main systems on the ship as the computer alerts him that all main systems are offline in 25 mins including life support and radiation shielding. Bryce starts tell everyone to get someplace that is shielded from radiation as the rad levels begin to rise.
Weapons are functioning at 50%, as the computer begins to tell Bryce that it is hearing whispers. Bryce cannot detect any abnormal thought patterns, as the computer tells Bryce that it is scared. In the heat of the moment Bryce uses his powers to walk through time and freezes the moment as is. He goes to a panel taking control of the ship as well as flushing out the main A.I. Theo begins to frantically repair the ship as Bryce begins to scour the computer systems for any harmful A.I. As the radiation levels have reached 50% higher, Bryce asks Theo how to take care of this as Theo in very fast tone tells him to get everyone into the engineering room where there is rad shielding. Annelle lands the shuttle as one othe wings have been broken off. Long Veer stays in the cockpit so he can manually maintain control of the ship. The last life ship remaining along with the other Maverick ship fires there last volley and takes down the station as it scatters into a mess of glittering debris as scatters into the void. Theo crawls out of a hatch and slumps down into the floor alerting everyone that main power and life support including rad shielding is online again. Bryce breathes a sigh of relief and compliments Theo as Shung is thankful that the Air is no longer stail. Samnatha/Pon walks in, she covered in various tattoos and cybernetic implants, she begins to look everyone over and check them out for rad posioning. Kazuko looks over to Theo and asks him if he can check out his spinal systems and the like. Theo lurching out of the panel from behind the wall tell Kazuko to give him a minute as he had just got done restoring all power back to ship, in record time. Kazuko agrees, as Theo's two kids come running in plow into him, with Annelle close behind. Ellenna asks her dad Theo if they are going to get spaced, and Theo tells them that they won't and he wouldn't let nothing bad happen nether of them. Ellenna pushes Walton to the ground and hugs Theo as she cries, Theo tells her not to knock her brother around like that, and picks the boy up and holds them both. Theo looks down at the two and tells them that he got them a robot for them to play with, the kids ask if they can help, as Kazuko tells them that there father has done a lot already and maybe they can help him instead. The kids look over to Annelle and she that it is ok and asks Theo if he feeling alright. He tells her that he is alright, and tells Kazuko that he was wanting to spend some time with the Kids, as Walton begins to climb onto him and taking things apart on him. With Ellenna on his shoulders he goes looking through the pile of robot limbs as Kazuko feels a little more human playing and talking with Walton. Walton begins asking Kazuko about his body as Kazuko attempts to answer to the best of his ability. Meanwhile Theo begins to show Ellenna there new playmate as the Robot looks up at Theo and asks “Who is my master?” Theo looks down and tells Sadie that it would be him , Sadie then says “Shall I...” then after looking around stops, as Theo immediately begins to reprogram Sadie, as Annelle raises an eyebrow at him. He looks over at her and tells her that it is not what she thinks, as Theo explains to her that he was going to reprogram it and change it's body functions to be more of a playmate instead of pleasure bot. Annelle's face turns slightly red as the conversation continues. Theo continues to explain all the changes he was going to make but Annelle throws her hands up and walks out. Kazuko makes a cheeky remark, which prompts Ellenna to start questioning about what a threesome is... Theo tells Her that he will explain when she gets older, Ellenna begins to ask a bunch of questions about the robots joints and paint job and the like. Theo turns on the robot and as it begins to talk to the kids they get creeped out and Theo shuts down the robot. Meanwhile Bryce is going through the programs of the ships computer system and A.I. Strangely enough the only thing that Bryce can see is the responses of the computer A.I to the whispers that it was hearing. Bryce contacts Long Veer and asks him if he wants reboot Aisho, and Long Veer agrees and asks Bryce to just monitor it. Long Veer asks Theo if they brought anything powered and the like on board, and the only thing Theo could thinkof was the Bot they brought with them, Long Veer then had Bryce look over the systems of the Bot to make sure that it didn't have maliware in it's systems that could have infected the ships A.I. Computer. Bryce then begins to look over the bot's sub system programing. Long Veer then tells Theo, that he will be sending Loris down to help him out. Theo walks over to the kids and asks them if they are ok, they tell him that he is fine, while Bryce is busy looking over Sadie. Kazuko walks over to Samantha and talk to her about his spinal systems. After a while Kazuko walks over to Bryce and starts talking to him about his phantom pains and perhaps having a fleshport and connecting into newrealms so he can relieve himself of his phantom pain. Kazuko then asks Bryce how he overcame what the Shi had done to him. Bryce tells him that it is going to take quite some time and he goes into detail about how he has been connected to the ship and tells him that he could get the fleshport and have him hooked up into newrealms. Theo walks over and does some tinkering that offers some temporary relief and allow some more control. Theo then tells Kazuko that he will go ahead and try and get Kazuko a nurolink setup so that he may have more control over his body. Loris strolls in and Theo and him got into argument as Theo not pleased with his performance. Theo then walks over to his Kids and asks them if they would like to have a cyber dog, and tells them that when he gets the time he will geta round to it. With that the rest of the crew have there task laid out before as the ship is tattered form the distorion wave and many things need to be reapired as some of the crew rests, others will be working.
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Post by sirphil on Oct 4, 2014 2:31:58 GMT
WARs Session 27 Recap The first 8 mins was a collaboration on future events, so I figured you all can listen to that part and gather notes and ideas from that portion, but any who on with the recap... We find our crew 4 hours into an 8 hour travel to a distant asteroid/ settlement to recover from there salvage operation which at the moment has revealed quite the bounty in the form of robotic spare parts, Data drives and a gravity generator unit among-st several misc loot to boot. The salvage operation while successful also lead to the ship taking unexpected damage from the explosion of the station, causing the crew to scramble together and get out quick. Theo has managed to repair the ship enough to allow for life stability, however the extensive damage will require more thorough repair of the ship. We find the crew present in the conference room, with the exception of a few others, but the comms are open for anyone to insert there ideas into the discussion at hand. Long Veer looks over to Theo and asks him what needs to be done with the ship in terms of repairs and such. Theo tells Long Veer that he is going to have to go through and perform an analytical scan and systematic analysis of the entire ships subsystems in order to repair and find out what exactly was damaged since a majority of that damage results in failures of not only main systems but there backups as well. However before Theo could go into more detail about it, Loris interrupts him and goes about how much of a pain in the ass it's going to be. Theo attempts to ignore Loris and tries to continue again, but Loris interrupts some more stating: "what's next, flushing the toilets and making sure all the crap goe out into space! Crap, were gonna be doing this for weeks!" In a quick smart ass response, Theo tells Loris that he can work on those systems if he wants too. Loris then leaves the room to go work on the waste disposal systems of the ship, as he sarcastically talks about going to there rescue of the waste systems, but not before complaining more so as he leaves the room. Theo then looks over to Long Veer and asks him where he even got him from. Long Veer quickly reminds Theo that this they all voted on him coming aboard, to which Theo responded by saying, that he was voting for a legit crew member, not Loris's type. Long Veer then tells Theo that perhaps he slipped through the system but he did score the highest on the test. Theo then inquired about who signed off on his release to them. Long Veer tells Theo that he isn't even sure about that since he thought Annelle was in charge of that process. Annelle then chimes in and says "Don't blame me, I'm on comms." To which Long Veer began to back peddle and say that perhaps it was another Annelle. Annelle then tells them "Yeah, keep talking boys, i'm listening." Theo then says not to through him in this mix and goes on to add that it had to be someone high up in the Cog rankings to approve of him getting signed on the ship. Long Veer tells Theo that he doesn't even remember. He goes on to tell Theo that if he doesn't work out that they will just send him back. Theo then tells Long Veer that he intends to get him off the ship. Then he slaps the data pad on the table going on a slight tangent about how that single explosion has caused so many systems to fail on the ship, and how he is practically by himself half the time. To which Long Veer reminded and assures Theo that is the very reason for this meeting. Long Veer then points out that Bryce and Aisho have the circuits and programming worked out. Bryce then Chimes in saying that he has re-encrypted the entire computer system but it is still the captains call on whether they should re install Aisho, since Bryce isn't very sure what got into him the first place. Long Veer tells him that if he has looked over Aisho then there shouldn't must risk to re installing him into the main system again. Bryce then says that after Aisho has been re installed that he help with the more mechanical repairs, if that is where he is needed looking over to Theo. Theo tells him that it is fine. Long Veer then asks Shung if he has any mechanical aptitude. Shung tells him no he doesn't, and Long Veer tells him that he did well on the away mission and that he might be of some help to Theo on repairs. Shung tells him that he can hold the occasional spanner and the like. Theo begins to ask some generic questions about the ship to see if he knows anything about what repairs he could do. Shung is not familiar with the vessel at all, telling him that he sort of a land locked person, but that is story for another time. Long Veer then asks Shung to shadow Theo so that he could get some experience in repairing the ship in case something where to happen. Shung then says that he had something he needed to get something done, but he supposes that Sadie would have to wait. To which he immediately tells everyone that it is not what they are thinking, that he wants to get his nails done. Then he tosses the idea knowing that he would get dirty working on ship anyways. Long Veer with a raised eyebrow looks over to were Theo is while Theo with his palm against his head stares blankly out into space. Kazuko intervenes saying that he needs to do an overhaul on the boarding equipment and make sure everything is working fine. Theo then curses to himself as he realizes he has to go outside and check to make sure that none of the green substance that they encountered before hasn't got onto to ship from the explosion of the Neith shipyards. Shung then says begrudgingly that if he has to put on a space suit and head out as well. Long Veer tells him that he doesn't have to since they traveling at high speed at the moment, they will leave that to the more experienced crew to handle. Theo and Long Veer work out what they need to out there as Long Veer then asks Kazuko if he has any mechanical skills to help out with any repairs or computer systems for that matter. Kazuko says that he is pretty good at computers and Long Veer then has him shadowing Bryce on that end. Long Veer then asks Theo if there isn't any other place to place Loris for the time being other than the waste disposal. Theo isn't sure where to put him since he knows that he will have to double check everything that he does in order in make sure it is functioning properly. Theo then brings up the stat of the defense matrix grid and goes into a minor tangent about its status. Long Veer tells Theo that it functioning properly but Theo reminds him that it only works because he has to double check what he doing and correct all the mistakes that he has made along the way. Loris chimes in through the comms saying that he has cleaned the waste units, and wants to know what else he has to do next. However not before he goes into detail about the stat of the bathrooms and how much shit was everywhere (whether it was true or not, ). Theo mutes Loris and then tells Shung that he needs some Zero G training. Shung doesn't agree at first but Theo persists, saying that these are survival skills when you work/live out in space. Shung then agrees and asks what time this training should take place. Theo and Shung go back and forth about the training schedule and finally Shung agrees to cancel his facial mask for zero g training. Loris gets on the coms asking about what he needs to do next, Long Veer tells him to go fix the Armor stretcher in room C. Then Long Veer asks Theo how long it would take him to get the ship back to full. Theo tells him that if he pulls an all night-er he could get it done in about a day. Long Veer then mentions they will be at there destination of xillian station in roughly 4 hours from now. Theo seems to have some dejavu about Xillian station but can't seem to put his finger on it, so he asks Annelle if she knows anything about it. Annelle tells them that it was place where she attended a wedding reception for one of the girls and it was a nice place when they kicked out all the scum, however they seemed to not be too happy about it for while afterwards. Aisho began to make some terrible noises that was just apart of it being re installed, Bryce was assuring everyone that it was all right and that it was nothing to worry about it. Annelle finishes up by saying that Xillian station is a little rough and to watch out for scumbags. Theo still had something he was trying to remember about it but brushed it off for later and told Long Veer that the repairs will take a while, but they will get done. As Long Veer looks about the conference room, he notices that Samantha isn't there and asks where she is. Theo then asks where Dax is and Long Veer attempts to contact her through coms but gets no response. Bryce then starts to look through the ships sensors and finds her in the hydroponics bay repairing some of the damage it has sustained. Bryce starts head off to talk to her, but before he does so asks Kazuko if he would like it have a computer panel and all relevant security information. Kazuko tells him yes and Bryce heads off. Theo then compliments Samantha's behavior and wonders why the rest of the new recruits can't be more like her, to which Long Veer tells him that no one can truly be like her. Loris then calls back telling Long Veer that he has fixed the armor stretcher in room c. Long Veer tells him that there is no room nor an armor stretcher, and that they are both lying. Loris then tells him that he fixed it anyway. Long Veer aks him to meet him in office in around 2 hours. Long Veer apologizes and Theo asks how he could have gotten such help, seeing that he is the leader of the rebellion. Long Veer is without an answer, and with that the conference is over and everyone heads out. Bryce gets Kazuko setup on the security info before he heads out to Pon and tells him to let him if he needs any other information. Bryce then tells him how thankful he is for his stance on security, as Kazuko doesn't want anything bad to happen to the crew, not after all they have been through. As Bryce heads off he asks Kazuko to make some time for himself. Kazuko heads out to make sure all the boarding equipment is working as well as the entrance and exit's as well. Kazuko finds that the lock-down chamber wasn't holding in all the pressure and then contacts Loris to help him with it. He informs Loris that the isolation chamber isnt holding the pressure and that it is leaking in certain spots, and after a little back and forth Loris tells Kazuko that he will be there 15 mins. While Kazuko is getting fed up with Loris he notices a strange gas beginning to leak out of one of the hoses. Kazuko gets on the coms and contacts Loris again and tells him to hurry up since there is a gas leak. Loris and Kazuko have a back and forth about his ETA until Loris gives in and shows up two minutes later. When he arrives he smells and inhales some of the gas that Kazuko was trying to contain. Loris then gets out a tool and begins to bash the other end of the hose thinking that it will completely seal off the gas leak, however it only makes things worse as Kazuko tells him to get Theo but not before getting frustrated with Loris continuing to pound on the hose until Kazuko pushes him away from it. Loris then reminds him that he is mostly machine and makes a few smart ass remarks about his head. Loris then contacts Theo and in an unintelligent manner explains the situation in his usual smart ass mannerisms. Kazuko then asks to join them and Theo hastily joins them. Loris makes a few smart remarks towards Kazuko which prompts him to let go of the leak and grab Loris and threaten to shut up or he will face his full power. Loris backs down, throwing in a few more smart ass remarks as he leaves. Theo uses the computer panel and begins to seal off that section of the ship and walks in the area with his breath mask on to assess the situation. He finds the hose banged up with the strange gas filling the room. Kazuko tells Theo what happened and Theo gets to work fixing the leaking gas, as he fixes the gas leak he notices that it has an orange tint to it and shouldn't even be there. Theo tells Kazuko that the gas in question is a pressure relieve gas used in the hydrolic mana fold engines and shouldn't even be in the decontaminate chamber. Loris contacts the captain, telling him that he is coughing up blood and the like and Theo asks Loris if he breathed in the gas in question. Loris eventually tells him yes, and Theo tries to contact Samantha. Bryce finds Samantha in the Hydroponics bay and notices Theo trying to contact her, and answers Theo instead. Theo tells Bryce of the situation and Bryce dashes into the hydroponics bay and taps her on the shoulder, when doing so she turns around startled and slaps him in the face of his helmet. after a while Samantha gets her coms working and Bryce tells her whats going on Samantha tells Bryce about what work she has gotten done in the hydroponics bay and Bryce takes over as she speed walks down to the med bay, while Theo and Kazuko get Loris to the Med bay. Loris begins to cough up blood and other misc fluids as Shung and Theo help to get him on the medical table. Loris begins to ask if he can do anything about the gas and fluids in his lungs as he vomits into the hose, Shung asks if he is contagious and Theo tells him that he inhaled hydraflorizine gas, as chunks of flesh are sucked up through the hose. The radiation alarms go off indicating an increase in harmful radiation, Shung starts to feel the walls closing in on him and asks Theo if he could leave. Annelle contacts the captain and alerts him that the radiation levels are coming from the boxes in the engineering bay cargo. Bryce chimes in that the engineering cargo area is heavily shielded from rads. Annelle alerts them the readings are soaring through the roof and anyone that goes in there is going to receive a dose. Long Veer asks them to get Theo on it as he is outside on the ship. Annelle alerts Kazuko and Kazuko tells her that he might go down there and attempt to seal it off, but Annelle is isnt sure if he should since what is left of him will get dosed in rads. Bryce asks Theo to give him some iodine stems, however Bryce isn't sure if it will help Kazuko all the way and asks him what they can do to shield him from it. Theo warns that his synth blood will react poorly to the radiation as it will cause a significant temperature increase. Annelle alerts the captain that the boxes have began to slide over and connect to the box with all the mannequins in it and she is also getting readings of electromagnetic pulses. Theo heads over to a computer panel and then ejects all the cargo recently gathered cargo in the lower bay, except for the gravity generator. The boxes tumble out into space as they are connected together and Annelle alerts the captain that the rad levels are lowering but the cargo is still giving off strange readings. Long Veer asks her blow it up with the weapons, but there is a problem with the weapons and she asks Kazuko to if he could do something about it. Kazuko heads up to the weapons area and fixes a loose connection. When that is complete Annelle does a test fire before blowing up the debris outside the ship. With radiation levels and the debris destroyed Long Veer tells Theo nice job. Theo takes the compliment as he rests his against the view screen when shung shows back up, looking at Theo he asks him if he missed anything. To which Theo sarcastically responded with no, Shung then made several notes about how he looks a bit pale and then asks if he inhaled some of the gas followed by asking him if he is contagious. Theo looks over at him and tells him with dry humor that some people might consider him a bit contagious, which made Shung laugh. Shung then asks Theo about Loris and what to do with him, Theo tells him that they are going to keep him alive until Samantha can get to him. Shung then tells Theo that he is going down to the vid bay and have a "tug". Theo wasn't sure about what he meant and Shung told him he was going to watch a few vids, in a tired voice Theo said sure, not really caring at this point about what he does. Samantha shows up and looks Shung up and down and moves past him pushing him aside. Shung looks over at her and asks her what her game is and Samantha simply tells him "Are you the one dying, then shut the hell up!" Shung was speechless. Theo explains to Samantha the situation with Loris and she gets to work trying to stabilize his condition. Kazuko walks into the room and tells her to not be easy with him as she asks Kazuko to hold him down while she works. Kazuko holds him down as Samantha cuts into his flesh, she then asks Theo to get her a gland replacement hypo as she jams the needle inside of him. Loris's body goes rigid as she works, Kazuko asks what is wrong with him and Samantha tells them that is all she can do, ether the shot will work or it won't. She then asks Theo why such gas is on the ship in the first place, and Theo tells her that it is a part of the hydrolic mana engine lubricant, designed to not decay from solar radiation and the like. Samantha tells Theo that Loris will probably have that stuff in him for the rest of his life. Samantha began to ask about the radiation situation and Theo explained to her what had happened. She asked why it wasn't scanned before hand and Theo reminded her that they didn't have any time since they were being fired upon. Kazuko goes on to talk about increasing security on board ship including an improved screening for re-boarding procedures. Samantha tells Kazuko that she is relieved to hear that he will be bumping up security and hopefully it will prevent anything like what happened in the cargo bay from happening again, She also tells Kazuko to pick the crews brain sometime over the many things they have encountered over the years, as she agrees with him on the security situation seeing that they now have kids on board the ship. Samantha then points out what to happened to Loris and asks Theo if he wants his kids to end up like him. Theo is bit put off by her comment and asks her why he would even want that, Samantha doesn't have an answer for it. Feeling a bit perturbed Theo heads off seeing as there is nothing for him to accomplish at the moment. Samantha stays behind to look over Loris. Theo curses to himself as the door closes behind him and Kazuko asks Samantha if she has any other suggestions as to what they might be able to accomplish with security. She has no ideas at the moment but to maybe talk to the captain or Bryce about it. Kazuko heads off, but not Before Samantha tells him that it would be nice to live on a ship that is not so dangerous. Long Veer contacts Theo and updates him on the situation outside the ship. Over the course of their conversation Theo tells him that the engineering bay in the lower deck needs to be vented and cleansed of radiation and that during his diagnosis of several ships systems following the incident involving Loris, revealed that the computer had re-routed the gas in that area. Long Veer wishes that Aisho was up so that he could have been notified about it, however Aisho is down. Bryce chimes in after listening in on the coms and tells Long Veer that Aisho will be up and operational in 10 mins. Theo then asks Bryce if he has noticed anything strange with the computer re-routings and informs him of the hydroflorizine gas that has been re-routed. Bryce wasn't aware of it and Theo tells him that it happened around the time the station had blown up, leading Bryce to theorize that it might had been the backdoor breach that had infected Aisho. With that Bryce apologizes for not being more thorough about it. Theo and Long Veer try to make Bryce feel better as so he doesn't beat himself up. However Bryce is very concerned since it almost got a crew member killed. Dax comes into to the med bay coughing a bit and prompting Samantha to ask if he inhaled some of the gas as well. Dax tells her that he was just stoking and getting high to relieve himself of all the stress. Theo inquires about the stress since he hasn't seen him do much and afterwards just walks away. Dax asks what his problem is, and Samantha tells him that most of the crew is on edge as of late, and points out what happened to Loris. Dax and Samantha get into a discussion about what he was doing during all the alerts on the ship, which prompts Samantha to start yelling at Dax to do something useful. Dax then tells her that he is always on top of it, in a sexual manner prompting Samantha to get pissed. Dax then begins to hit on her and asks her out, Samantha is having none of it and tells him off as she slams a needle onto the table. As Dax leaves Samantha throws a beaker and it shatters on the bulk head in front of him, Theo hears it and walks back asking what has happened. Samantha then goes off telling everyone to get out, Bryce chimes in asks what has happened. Dax tells him that Samantha is being hysterical and almost killed him. Theo asks him that if he was aware that the ship almost suffered a severe meltdown. In a quick witted remark Dax says no but it was "Rad". Theo begins to fake laugh and makes Dax laugh along with him. Catching Dax off guard, Theo slams him into the wall and tells him to get ass in gear and start pulling his weight around. Meanwhile Kazuko is making his way towards Bryce and asking him if anything needs to be fixed or worked on. They began to talk about making new protocols for boarding procedures. Bryce suggested the idea of re-purposing a empty vessel as a temporary containment unit. Kazuko likes the idea, as Bryce gets his E.V suit off and alerts the crew that Aisho is back online. Bryce pats Kazuko on his shoulders and walks away telling him that he will do fine as a new security ad-visor. Long Veer contacts Theo on the coms and alerts him that the exhaust ports seemed to be clogged. Theo gets one of probes to see what has clogged the exhaust ports and discovers a piece of the station has been lodged inside of it. Theo tells Long Veer that they will need to shut down the engines for the moment while he gets out there and removes the debris from the ports. Once outside Theo heads over to where Long Veer and the bots are at and begins to crawl inside and with a plasma torch, begins to slice the debris and cut it loose from the ship. While repairing the exhaust port they take note that the lodged material in question is pieces of the stations inner core and made from a rare metal that can be salvaged. Theo and Long Veer over the course of the repair begin talking about the status of the ship. Theo is pretty unhappy by performance of the new members of the crew and brings doubt about the rebellion, given what they had been through. Long Veer sympathizes with Theo and shares many of the same concerns about that he does on this situation, but he can only take those who have signed up and thus much of it is out there hands. Theo brings up the computer almost killing the crew, and suggests that they head back and gather some new proper members to fill the ranks as Long Veer agrees with him. Long Veer then calls out to Bryce knowing that he was listening in on there conversation, as Bryce chimes in. Long Veer asks Bryce if he thinks it would be a good idea to get new personal on board. Afterwards Theo gets the lodged debris out of the exhaust and Long Veer helps Theo bring it in. Theo then stays out to fix the holes inside the ships exhaust ports as Long Veer tells Theo that he is going to fix the weapons array as Theo gives him some suggestions on what areas may need to be repaired and what tool may be useful in that situation, as Long Veer cracks a few jokes about their current situation. Theo does his best to humor Long Veer as he heads back to the ship after assuring him that the situation will be fine. Kazuko catches up to Long Veer and goes over some of the new protocols he has in store for the ships boarding procedures. Kazuko also points out that it would be a good idea to be able to shut down the Engineering bay from the captains position or multiple positions on the ship. Long Veer then tells Kazuko that he will be given control of the security bots. Kazuko thanks him and tells Long Veer that he will heading up to the conference room to set things up and to talk to the crew about the new security protocols to be implemented. With that Kazuko wishes Long Veer a good day and they both head off to there respective tasks at hand. Shung is in the recreation room grinding in the air as he plugged into realms. The figure that he was having sex with changes into a figure that looks similar to Pon and turns around and bits his ear. Shung then tells the program to go back to Rudolph as he is not interested in her "type". Pon then leans forward and tells her that this is her "playground"... From here Shung experiences a horrific series of prophetic and nightmarish visions ( mostly nightmarish) that becomes a roller coaster of horror for Shung (it starts at around the 1:40:00 mark of the audio recording). After the terrifying ordeal of nightmarish imagery Shung finds himself awake and in his chair in the recreation room, using his remaining strength he wipes his forehead of sweat as the Aisho asks if he is need of assistance. Shung goes hysterical and begins to loose it as Aisho contacts the captain and alerts him to the situation at hand. Kazuko gets called in to handle the situation and when he arrives he finds Shung in the corner terrified and hysterical prompting Kazuko to use the sleeping gas to knock him out safely. Aisho then asks Long Veer that the situation has been resolved and asks if he has acted appropriately. Long Veer tells him that he has done well, and tells him that Shung will be kept in his room and if anything changes that he and Samantha are to be notified. Bryce goes over some of Aisho's programming protocols to make sure everything is in order. Samantha gets a hold of Long Veer and lets him know that Loris's condition has stabilized, but he is not out of the woods yet as it were. With that Long Veer gets back to fixing the weapons array and curse to himself at how tedious and stuck together everything is and guesses as that being the reason why Theo curses all the time. Bryce leaves a message for Samantha and tells her that if she wants to talk, he will be in the cafeteria and Samantha responds with in text that she looks forward to it, with a crazy smiley emoticon at the end. Kazuko locks the door of Shungs room as he shakes his head over what has happened as Aisho asks Kazuko what instructions he has for it. Kazuko tells the computer to have bot outside of the door and monitor the situation. With that done Kazuko heads back to the conference room to make his preparations for the meeting at hand. Meanwhile in the cockpit of the command deck, Annelle is staring out into the rift and looks over at Dax and begins to talk to him asking him what is on his mind, since it is pretty boring for in the pilot seat. Dax say's nothing and Annelle stares back out into space and staring at the rift. After a while she contacts Theo and asks him how things are and everyone is all right. Theo updates her on what has transpired and She looks over at Dax and tells him that she is heading down to see her husband. Dax just nods and says "yup" as he takes over. While Dax is alone in the command deck he looks through the many security cameras to find Samantha in the med bay and he raises his nose at the image as he looks at her through the security lens. When Annelle arrives where Theo is, she looks to him and says: "Your always working...There is always so much to repair on this ship.". She asks where the kids are and Theo points them, as they wrapped up in Theo's jacket sleeping on a soft spongy material. Annelle begins to talk about the kids and how she can't believe that they are their kids. She tells him that she knows that they are theirs but she sometimes feels afraid of them. She feels like every time she with the kids all she sees is the Shi's hands on them and she questions whether or not they are their kids. She Tells Theo that they both know they were not born under normal circumstances. She goes on to tell him that she knows she shouldn't be thinking that way, but everytime she sees them and how they are so beautiful, part of her thinks that it is some trick by the shi to get them to love them so they can take them away or worse. Theo assures her that the kids are theirs and nothing the Shi can do will ever change that. Annelle begins to tell Theo about some of her night terrors that she has, and Theo tells her that the one she had last night was pretty rough as he reveals the deep scarring she left on his neck when she was having her nightmare. She tells him of her nightmares of where the Shi walk into their rooms and start attaching wires to them and the kids and experimenting on them. Theo tells her that he has had similar nightmares, to which Annelle asked him why hasn't said anything about it, that it is something that he should be sharing with her. Theo tells her that has had those types dreams for long enough that they feel like white noise and that when he wakes up from them he sees her and the kids and he doesn't feel so bad anymore, that he can actually forget about it and be happy. Annelle tells Theo of another dream that she has been having. Her eyes become glazed over and her lips quiver as she tells him that her dream last night was of her killing the kids and feeling re leaved to have done so. Theo tells her that it is just dream and that she would never do that to the kids. Annelle tells him that she grows more unsure of herself the longer she is on the ship, but then dismisses it off as her being stupid. Theo tells her that she is not stupid and that it is just a dream. Annelles tells Theo that there has to be some good to come out of all this and Theo tells her that their kids are a positive thing to come from it, and how they are happy. She agrees and she tells him that the kids are theirs and that what ever the Shi have done to them they can reverse, they just have to raise them right and love them. Annelle then slides over to Theo and hugs him burys her eyes into his neck as Theo holds her tightly. He then tells her that he wishes he had something to say to her, and Annelle tells him that sometimes you don't have to say anything. Theo then tells her how happy she and the kids have made him, and how he doesn't even think of what happened to his parents and that part of him is angry about it but another part of him is relieved about it. Annelle tells him that she is happy to see him as a father. She loved him before, but seeing him with the kids and seeing him laughing with them she knows that she couldn't of found a better person for herself that in all the space stations and ports she doesn't how she lucked out finding him. Theo embraces her even tighter and Annelle then asks if she can help out around the place. Theo tells her that she can help him run some Manuel scans of the network. Annelle tells Theo hurry up so they can get to bed, as Theo tells her yes ma'am, she kicks him in the tunnels. Kazuko calls a meeting in the conference room over the new security protocols. The majority of the crew are not present thus it is being held mostly over the comms. An unconscious Shung is carried in by a security bot as Bryce arrives. The first order of buisness was to go over adding a lock down mechanism in the loading bay. Aisho then suggests that Kazuko also may consider using his ability to disable nanobots and the like in since the crew has a history of encountering such things. Bryce then suggests looking into adding a more robust internal sensor array that can work on a microscopic level. Kazuko also suggests having some of the security bots outfitted with it as well. Theo tells them that could convert a few medical scanners into something similar. Then the matter of Shung came up and the crew began to discuss what exactly has happened to him. Theo tells them that he said he was going to watch a few vids for a tug job. The crew then piece together that Shung was plugged into Nurealms but they are not sure what had transpired during that time. Bryce said that he might ask his clone #4 about it. Aisho then asks the captain if they would want to watch what had transpired during the Nurealm experience. The crew watches a little bit before they discontinue the feed causing Shung to wake up and freak out. Then the matter of Nurealms and fleshports came into question as most of the new crew has not had their flesh ports installed yet. Samantha alerts the crew over the comms that she is ready give everyone their fleshport who doesn't have them yet...including Dax. Kazuko contacts Dax and makes sure that after the meeting they get their fleshports installed. Bryce then talks to Theo about installing U.V rays to decontaminate suits rooms and other objects. Theo tells him that shouldn't be much problem to install a system like that on board the ship. Aisho alerts the captain that Shung's status is changing and that he is starting to wake up. Bryce hopes that what ever Shung has gone through is only mental and not physical, which prompts discussion on the matter of Nurealms and Bryces clone #4. Bryce advises that no one enter into Nurealms and they discover that Nurealms cannot be shutdown. Aisho tells the crew of the history of Nurealms and it's addicting and often dangerous results it has on it's users. Bryce then brings up the fact that Nurealms has a backdoor entrance. This prompts Long Veer to ask Bryce that what ever had attacked the ships system could have used the backdoor to gain access into the ships main systems. Aisho tries to recall what happened to it before it was deleted, and Long Veer explains what has happened to it previous. Aisho then tells the captain that it cannot track the number of free thinking programs are in Nurealms. Aisho then tells them that the only two programs operating was Pon and a user named "deathweaver". Aisho speculates that perhaps Bryce's clone #4 is the user "deathweaver". Bryce tells the crew and Aisho that his clone has never had any contact with anyone in the outside for years. Then the issue of whether or not to wake up his clone begins to get discussed. The idea of providing a space that Nurealms can be downloaded into and it would be separate from the rest of the ship. However the very notion might actually be equivalent to lobotomizing him and that might cause him to fight back. The other options include trying to talk to him and transferring over to another ship where he can be left alone. The main problem is that if Bryces clone has developed malicious intent he might already be aware of there actions and would be able to plan against them at the speed of thought. Shung wakes up and starts to speak in dark riddles, concerned Long Veer asks what Shung is saying which prompts Bryce down his last portion of his drink and read his thoughts, 10 days worth. Bryce ends up seeing random faces and his attraction towards Bryce. Bryce also detects some latent psychopathy, that his rational is sound but lost in the face of his recent experiences and detects that he has some nanoware that has repressed it but now is no longer able to supress it. Bryce then detects that he has been using the vidbay often more often then they would have guessed. Bryce then tells the crew that something technological has gone wrong with him in the form of some sort of cybernetics, cybernetics that they didn't have on record at the time. Long Veer then suggest that he should have a med scan since he needs a flesh port anyways. During this time Dax tells them that all he needs is a stiff drink. Bryce disagrees and becomes very nervous, considering all the various things they discussed. Dax goes on to suggest that they should dump him and leave'em in space some where. Then he goes on to suggest that he could hire a guy, but he hasn't seen him in a long time, so isn't sure if he is still operating. Dax then suggests that they could go planet side in order to deal with this situation, but it becomes clear to Bryce and the rest of the crew that he has other motives in store for what he wants and starts to make some lofty hints at it. Bryce getting annoyed asks him why he joined on this mission in the first place. Dax only eludes that he joined for certain bonuses that was discussed before he joined. This prompts Bryce to help get Shung down into the med bay where they strap him down. Dax, Bryce, Kazuko, Samantha, Shung, and shortly afterwards Long Veer show up in the med bay. End Session.
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Post by sirphil on Oct 10, 2014 21:16:46 GMT
WARs Recap Session 28 "Nano Machine Nightmare/ Sacrifice"
After the meeting held by Kazuko, Bryce, Long Veer, Samantha/ Pon, Sheng, and Kazuko are in the medical bay ready to examine Sheng more closely. Meanwhile Theo, Annelle and the kids are in the Engineering bay running a diagnostic of the ships systems while their kids sleep. Dax has wondered off while Loris is still unconscious from his near death experience.
Bryce and Long Veer begin to scan Shengs Brain for the nano machines and take a closer look at their make up. Bryce finds that nano machines are unlike any varity that he has ever encountered, before. They seem to work as three machines that function in concert with the other., using various chemicals to affect the brain in different ways. Long Veer asks Bryce if they are medical in some way, Bryce isn't sure what they are used for good or otherwise. The make up of the nano machines is strange and they bare no call sign of whom may have made them for the part. Removing them would be tricky since they are embedded inside of Shengs brain and further more their microstructure is strange and he isnt sure if they are working within their designed function or not. Long Veer postulates about removing the nanites but Bryce isn't sure about the consequences of such an action might have Sheng. However the majority of the nanites seem to be located in the brain of Sheng and have not migrated or moved anywhere else in his body. However bryce isnt sure if they even can move throughout his body or not, they will have to examine Shengs body with more detailed scans to make sure. Long Veer during this whole conversation continues to scan Loris. Long Veer asks Bryce if it is possible to contact the nanites through the computer systems, however Bryce reveals that the nanites seem to only communicate within a small sort range device. Bryce would have to thread a physical connection directly into Shengs brain case. Whatever tampering may have happened to the nanites it was done so at very close range. Long Veer asks Bryce if the nanites are doing some sort of damage to Shengs brain. Bryce isn't sure if that is the case since ths nanites seem to be delivering chemicals in different spots, but are not hitting their marks as it were. They do not seem to be doing any real damage to him. Long Veer then suggest that they back up Sheng on the cloning machine to make sure that if anything goes wrong they can clone him. At the moment Long Veer and Bryce began to discuss backing up Shengs clonning info, Sheng begins to repeat the words "Plugged in." Alerting the others that he has been awake for quite some time and has been listening to there conversation. Sheng then begins to talk about the "Nanite infestation of 2573" in a very prophetic manner. Bryce asks Long Veer if this is the state they want to bring him back in, but since they don't have any other copies backed up of him before hand this state will have to do. Long Veer asks Sheng about his nanites and Sheng and he talks about them having a civil war between themselves as Sheng becomes slightly distressed and begins to speak Gongenese. They decide that they must remove the nanites and so they back up Sheng on the cloning machine as Samantha assists with it and they begin to put Sheng on the table and begin to determine how best to go about with the procedure. Samantha questions if they should even be doing this, but Long Veer is convinced that this is the best course of action. Samantha heads over to Sheng and begins to check his eyes and examine him but Sheng becomes a little delirious and she slaps him accross his face to see if he would come to, however Sheng does not and continues babble causing Samantha to be frustrated and telling Long Veer "Fuck it, do it!" and tells him to go ahead and operate.
The operation on Sheng begins as Long Veer and Bryce begin to drill into Sheng's brain case and insert various micro camera's and the sort inside of him. While doing so they install a Micro wifi generator and wire it through Shengs brain case to act as a close contact link with the nanites and Bryce. All the while Bryce begins to thread the wire into his implants and prepares to communicate with the nanites. During the whole of the operation Sheng begins to babble prophetically about treasure being hidden and even quoting deep philosophical wisdom, this spurns Samantha to tell Long Veer that he needs to double the people they bring on board from now on. As Long Veer agrees, Bryce begins to make contact with the nanites, and attempts to read there code and discovers that it is incredibly complex and foreign to him. Samntha and Bryce speculate and what or whom could have created it, however Bryce finds that it is possible they were created by humans and continues to examine their code. He finds that they using a system to think three steps ahead and then relieing that info to other nanites in such a way that they are using colony think programming. Bryce starts to struggle trying to describe their complexity to others as he begins to stutter and eventually has to cut his neurolink with the ship off manually as some of the nanites managed to make their way into Bryces body. Bryce had wiped them out but not before some of them managed to sneak inside of him, he is frustrated with the out come as Long Veer begins to scan him. Bryce tells others in the med bay that it seems that the nanites can read and even decode high level maverick coding. The thought of it causes a lot of frustration for Bryce as the little time Bryce had spent trying to communicate with them, they were a few steps ahead each time. The crew in the med bay begins to notice the drill bit flashing on and off and before they know it the lights go out in the med bay and through out the entire ship. The doors are locked, communications are out and the only source of light is that of an orange glow beaming down into a flesh port interface. Meanwhile Theo begins to investigate using his heat vision as Annelle heads over to were their kids are and they try and figure out what has happened. Theo makes the discovery of the nanites as Annelle points out the glowing orange light over the flesh port interface. Bryce makes contact with Theo through a mind link, they relay information about each others situation. Theo tells Bryce that these nanites all over the ship and that they are "jumpers" and burns some of them off him with his flame aura kizen. Bryce tells Theo they might have brought on board by Sheng. Theo then tells Bryce that it might not be the case since they ether spread really fast or they have been here for a while as Theo opens a door and finds more of the lights and flesh ports with the nanites linking them together. Bryce then relays all this info to Long Veer.
As Bryce relays his conversation with Theo to Long Veer, Dax wakes up and starts to contact the captain through telepathy. Long Veer updates dax on what has transpired and Dax helps to setup and telepathic link Bryce to keep everyone connected. Loris starts to freak out after hearing everyone in his head and Long Veer has him cut off from the conversation as Bryce and Theo talk about the origin of the nanites and what or whom could have created them. Bryce is not sure who what created them, as they continue to discuss this, the orange lights begins to flicker over the flesh port interfaces across the ship. Theo heads over to where Annelle and the kids are and looks them over, he discovers that they have the Nanites inside of them and they are trying to form together into a stream or river like link. Long Veer tells Theo through the telepathic link that they are a type of Shi nanite, but from where they are not sure. Theo tells him that everyone has them on them including his family. Long Veer knows this as well as he uses his electrical Kizen to see the current of nanites throughout the room. He then asks Bryce about the location of the central mainframe for Nurealms, and Bryce tells him that it loacted in the conference room. Long Veer and Theo relay back to each other about the nanites and they soon find that there is a strange string like filament being produced all around them. Some of it off the walls others from there own skin. Theo and Long Veer discover that the nanites are trying to physically link with on another into some massive neurolink. Long Veer begins to sap all the energy from the nanites and begins to glow intensely as Bryce warns that any effort they put forth to act against them may be countered very quickly. Theo heads over to Annelle and the kids and tells her about the nanites, they talk about they should doand Theo isn't about were they go on the ship to be safe. Annelle starts to wake up the kids and dress them for a space walk. Theo assures his kids that everything will be alright and that they will be playing pirates with their mom outside. Ellenna gets the callsign "Hawk Explosion" while Walton gets the call sign "Bolt Cutter". As Annelle gets dressed she gives him a look that she has never given him before and Theo is unsure of what or how to respond, but he grabs her hand tells her that he will fix it. As his family heads out into space, Theo makes his way into the rest of the crew in the med bay.
Dax contacts Long Veer and asks him about the vending machine not working while tries and gets himself a snack. Bryce snaps at him telling to get over to the med bay immediately. Dax continues to mess around the candy machine in the conference room and notices that the mainframe attached to the wall has buckled and strains of filaments are poking and hanging out like moss in a tree. Dax attempts to reach inside get a snack, only to find it crumbling into more of the filaments that are forming all around him. Suddenly the ceiling erupts and a pile of the filaments land on Dax's head as Kazuko breaks into the conference room and drags him out. Bryce meets up with Kazuko and Dax as Theo bursts from the ceiling and on the floor in front of them. Long Veer has trouble trying to talk to the rest of the crew since he has absorbed so much energy from the nanites, that his body is electrifying to the touch. As Theo, Bryce, Kazuko and Dax begin to make their way back to the med bay, all the filaments that have been growing and weaving themselves through out the like a web begin to light up blinding everyone (except for Annelle and the kids since they are outside). After blinding flash most of the crew seem to have stabilized from it, but the filaments are very bright and still blinding to look upon. Theo contacts Annelle through there private communication and asks her if they are all right. She tells him that they are fine but asks him about the light from the ship. Theo tells her what has happened and she tells him: "Be careful my love." and Theo tells her that he will and jokingly tells her that it is just another day at the office along with a winky face. The filaments begin to fill the hallway and Theo begins to move through using his flaming Kizen aura, but as soon as he moves through one area he finds that the burnt sections of filament regrow immediately as he wonders where it is getting all the material to make it. That is when he starts to see parts of the ship begin to slowly take damage and crumble to pieces. Dax begins to hear whispers as does everyone linked to him, they sound similar to the babbling that Sheng was doing earlier. Theo looks to Bryce and asks him if he can try and communicate with his clone, it is a long shot, but the filaments are closing in all around them and there isnt anywhere left to hide from it. Bryce begrudgingly does so and cuts off his link with the others and contacts his other clone. Bryce finds that his other clone is joined by a chorus of voices that whispers to him. Bryces clone tells him that he has expanded his mind and has lived out so many lives in this virtual world, as the conversation continues, Bryces clone becomes more insane as he tells him that they will be absorbed into him and join the chorus of voices and minds.
As the filaments link together Theo and Long Veer and can hear the conversation between Byrce and his clone, but not before Bryce's clone #4 attempts to enter into everyone's mind and tries to incapacitate them. Sheng, Samantha, Kazuko, Dax, and Bryce collapse on the ground as #4's voice echoes in Theo's and Long Veer's mind. Theo begins to crawl into the ventilation shafts to try and reach #4's room. Both Theo and Long Veer are bombarded by the many voices of #4 and his chorus as they taunt them about there past. #4 threatens Theo and tries to tempt him through the many possibilities of the world he inhabits now. However Theo resists #4 and the Chorus begin to bring up his past and threaten his children. Theo counters there logic and continues to push through the vents. Meanwhile Long Veer unleashes all the electrical energy he had stored inside of himself unto the filaments destroying many of them and paving a way for Theo to break through. The powerful blast seemed to hurt #4 and his chorus as they reeled at the coarsing flow electricity, breaking every strand in it's wake. As Theo moves forward he finds Dax trying to crawl into the vent behind him, covered in filaments as they burst forth from his body. The voices change their attention towards Long Veer and begin to taunt him about his past, about letting his father down and leading him towards his death. The voices tell him that if he joins he can forget such pain and leave behind this shell of an existence. Long Veer begins to cry as tears run down his face, tells them that it was his fault, as Theo tells him not to listen and to try and hang on to any positive emotion he can muster. Long Veer tells Theo hurry as the voices continue to taunt and offer them both refuge inside their melded minds. Theo crashes through the vent and into #4's room to see him tangled in various equipment and filaments as his body is brightly lit from it all. Theo confronts the voices and tells him that he thought he was like his brother, but no longer thinks that way. He tells #4 that he is sorry for all the things that happened to him to set on this path and unleashes a flame torrent upon #4 as Dax crashes throught the vent on top of him. Mean while Long Veer trying to meditate with tears rolling down his cheek trying to contain all the energy flowing through him as the voices continue to taunt and offer refuge. The flames consume #4 and burn Dax as all the lights burn out and as they do, Theo, Bryce, Long Veer, and Sheng find themselves next to a lake.
It looks like they on earth but the lake is crimson and the trees have gnarled images of the other crew members entangled within it. Theo wonders if they are in Nurealms and looks up to the night sky to see the moon fade away and turn into a window showing Annelle and the kids hanging on for dear life as the ship is moving. Before them is large white jade pagoda that lies within a large forest of trees. Long Veer is staring at his hand while Sheng looks at the crimson lake. Theo looks to everyone and in a frustrated voice from seeing his family he tells everyone to hurry up towards the pagoda, everyone joins in suit. As they walk Bryce finds a tulip with Pon's face and brushes all the filaments that was covering it while Theo focuses his mental thoughts and conjures his arm to like his cybernetic one. He asks Bryce if Nurealms connects to the part of their brain that controls dreams, and Bryce tells him that it does among-st others. Bryce picks up the tulip as Pon's face begins to talk to him. She tells him that she tried to fight it but it was growing out of control. Bryce conjures a jar to hold the tulip with pons face on it. They proceed towards the pagoda and as they do they see #4's face manifest in the stars as the faces open their mouths and let loose a horrid bellow as they quickly fade into the heavens. Theo kicks down the door as Theo tells #4 that he is going to kick his ass and they walk inside. They find roaches with the legs of children scurrying about they enter and find a statue of Pon being surrounded by tendrils and filaments but it seems that the filaments have not touched it but are trying to. The crew subjected to many images of themselves in many strange that were recorded on the ship through monitors in the room as #4's voice booms down the hall telling them this reality is false. Theo burns off the filaments with a conjured flame thrower as the flames get sucked into the cracks and whisk around like electricity flowing through a circuit. The monitors then show Theo with #4's face on it copulating with Annelle, and Theo destroys the monitors with a conjured machine gun as the monitors shatter and break. Pon begins to talk to Bryce and tell him what has happened since #4 uploaded himself all those years ago. She tells him that #4 has become more than mere code now and that it might be his weakness. Pon Tells him that through her they might be able to defeat him once and for all. She tells him about all the years of pain that she has suffered. Bryce then takes the tulip, places it in his mouth and swallows it. The world around begins to crumble and flicker between this world and Nurealms as the pagoda begins to shatter and a throne of skulls appears before them with a emaciated version of Bryce before them as he falls into the throne of skulls and fragments collect all around him. #4 laments his last words as he calls for Bryce and Pon, and asks them if it over now pleading with them to talk to him as he slowly disintegrates as if the nanites are taking him apart. The world all around them collapses and the crew finds themselves awake on the ship with the ship powered up and moving.
As everyone awakens Theo heads over to the control panel and begins to shutdown the engines, there he notices that they are 5mins away from Zillian station. Bryce and the others awake and Theo immediately heads over to the coms and tries to contact Annelle, but finds no response except for several typos of sorts. As he looks he finds the kids hitting the keyboard but Annelle is not moving, he rushes forth into the command level and using the mechanical arms pulls them all inside. He finds that the kids oxygen supply is low and Annelle lands on the ground without moving. Theo heads over and takes her helmet off as the air rushes in and head lay limp with her body cold. Bryce rushes Samantha over to them and Theo tries to revive her, Samantha puts her hand on his shoulder and she shakes her head. Samantha heads over to the kids and hugs them as Walton runs off. Theo holds Annelle and sees a few messages that didn't get received in time. The messages comprised of low oxygen levels and going to reroute her supply to save their kids, the message goes to say that her oxygen is low and she thinks she might not make it. She says in the message "No matter what happens I love you, You've made so happy" "I am glade I met you, life would not have been the same without you. Goodbye." Theo begins to cry, tears streaming down his cheek as leans over to kiss her on the lips, specks of her blood on his. He tells her, wait for me i'll join someday, somewhere. Ellenna holds Theo as she cries and strokes his hair like Annelle would do for her, Walton runs off. Samantha puts a blouse over Annelles face. Samantha heads over to Bryce and gives him a hug. Bryce hugs her back but then quickly backs away from the scene before and retreats. Samantha sits down in a chair across from Theo and watches him and Ellenna. Theo looks to her and gestures to come over to them, Samantha wheels herself over and she tells Theo that she did for their children. Theo understands what Samantha is trying to say, but looks over to her and tells her if it was too much to ask if for her to live. He tells her that it wasn't enough for him to loose his parents, it wasn't enough that he lost his friends, and now he has lost his lover/his wife. Meanwhile Long Veer comes across Walton hitting a computer panel with a pipe, and as Long Veer kneels down and talks to him, Walton begins to bash his head against the wall. Long Veer picks Walton up and contacts Theo, who tells him that Annelle has died. When Long Veer hear, he begins to see the panels around him bend and buckle and he can feel a certain pressure on him self as the source seems to be emanating from Walton, as blood seemingly trickles from his eyes. Long Veer hurries down to where Theo is with Walton in tow and when Walton see's Theo the pressure that Long Veer was feeling was lifted and Theo rushes over Ellenna and holds him. Long Veer offers his condolences as Theo tells him and everyone else (except for Bryce, who was not in the room to hear it) that it is no ones fault.
Bryce heads into the med bay and begins to delete all of his back up data. Afterwards he heads into the cafeteria and pulls a data pad from behind the counter. He writes down certain instructions. Meanwhile Dax limps his way into the med bay and finds Loris, Sheng and Kazuko. Loris awakens and begins to complain about everything that has happened, telling Dax that he is getting this ship the first chance he gets. Sheng wakes up and Loris talks to him about all the crazy stuff he was spouting from earlier, sheng isn't sure about what he is talking about and Loris heads out of the med bay. Dax walks up to sheng and Dax tells him that the captain will want to talk to him. Sheng asks him about what the captain would want to talk to him about and Sheng informs that he might be kinda responsible for the shit that just went down. Dax heads out of the med bay and over the coms of the ship they hear the heavy breathing of #4, a video soon pops up on the vid screens. It seems to have been pre-recorded and they can see #4 breathing heavy and after a short silence he say's that he is ready to leave this world and leave this shell behind. Dax contacts Long Veer about the video of #4 and Long Veer tells him that it was broadcast ed across the whole ship. Dax updates him on the situation and was has transpired. Long Veer walks over to Theo and asks if he needs any assistance and Theo tells him no and Long Veer notices Theo taking out a few cybernetic components from Annelle before kissing her again. Long Veer gives Samantha a look of: "please watch over him" before he heads down to where Dax and notices the burns all accross his body. Dax tells him that he is fine as Long Veer updates him on the crews situation as well as what happened to Annelle. Dax tells Long Veer that he will go and offer his condolences, however Long Veer orders him to get his burns looked after first. Long veer then walks alongside of Dax escorting him to the med bay. They both look through the hallway that Walton was in before and they notice the damage. It looks as if something round and massive plowed it's way through the hall. When they get to the med bay, they check on Kazuko and find that he is well, just knocked out.
Long Veer gets Dax to rest on the table and as he does so Long Veer gets a stem and puts him under. Long Veer treats Dax's wounds as Kazuko begins to regain consciousness. When he does so Long Veer informs him of what transpired and Kazuko tells Long Veer that he feels sorry for Theo, and says that Theo can't seem to catch a break. Long Veer helps Kazuko up and sets him on the medical table and asks him to watch over Dax. As Long Veer leaves the Med bay he gets a incoming hail from Zillian station and Long Veer answers the hail and finds that the ship is too big to be docked and they will have to use shuttle craft to enter inside. Long Veer acknowledges and as he signs off Aisho asks the Captain about Annelle's funeral arrangements with Theo. Long Veer tells Aisho not to contact Theo about anything unless he asks Aisho directly. Long Veer then tells Aisho that he will review the funeral arrangements that Aisho has prepared. Aisho then tells the captain that it has a thearpy upgrade and that if he would like to talk to Aisho about anything that he is welcomed to. Aisho then informs the captain that it cannot contact Bryce because the power has been cut off in the cafeteria. Long Veer tell Aisho to keep a timer of 1hour and afterwards contact him. Long Veer then heads off to Shengs room. Long Veer arrives at Shengs room and begins to ask him if he is aware of what had transpired on the ship. Sheng is facing the wall and tells Long Veer that he is feeling fantastic, but doesn't remember anything since he was unconscious. Long Veer tells him that he was speaking and awake at the time, Sheng and Long Veer go back and forth as Sheng appears to be dodging his questions. Long Veer asks Sheng if knew he had nanites in him and as Sheng says that he didn't know, Long Veer then tells him that it is important that he answers the question truthfully since his actions may have caused irreparable damage to the ship and crew. Sheng then turns around and tells Long Veer that he has enemies or rather an enemy in his native government of old Gongen. Sheng then tells Long Veer that he will tell him but only if he keeps it a secret. Long Veer tells him that he will do so on his honor. Sheng is not convinced of this asks him what price he needs to pay in order to get him to keep his secret as Sheng makes him several offers. Long Veer tells him that he is tired of political games and he will only take one credit because he would have kept it a secret regardless. Sheng is a bit taken back by long Veer's honesty. Sheng then tells Long Veer that he is the son of a very powerful bureaucrat in the old government and he didn't make him happy, and he is now on the run. Sheng tells him that he really didn't know about the nanites and begins to tell Long Veer what he knows about them. The nanite are supposed to be able to keep tabs on family members and prevent people from running away like he did, as they are meant as some kind of control. Sheng goes on to mention that these nanites are bleeding edge technology, that it is black market tech, which his father dealt in. Sheng didn't agree with his father using them and he ran off as a result. He tells him that if his father finds him that it won't end well for the crew or his rebellion, as his father is very powerful and has very powerful allies. He goes on to speculate that the nanites might have shi origins and his father might have ties to them. Long Veer asks Sheng if his only reason for being here is to hide. Sheng tells him that if he can hide and help out in anyway then that would be great. Loris gets on the coms and tells the captain that he is done with the ship and heads off the ship in the shuttle craft.
End Session.
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