The Other Side of Nowhere Session 11 – Into the Mystic RECAP
[17:15] <@ENGM> You spent last session using your human yo-yo, Thomas, to test the swirly mist thing in the cargo bay. You created a portable radio to try to boast/receive better transmissions from the anomaly. First you tried sending a hand held which so stopped transmitting....
[17:16] <@ENGM> Then you sent a radio controlled plane in who’s last transmission was a loud THUD. Now you’re trying to decide what to do next...
[17:18] <@ENGM> questions?
[17:18] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((IIRC, I was extending some probe-on-a-stick into the fog and it was sucking me in with my wooping 5..))
[17:19] <+DirkVonTowers> ((next we're sending a remote control Thomas in!))
[17:19] <@ENGM> toward the end of the session you did hook up a cart with a camera that you attached to a spool. Thomas was sending it in as we left...
*GAME START
[17:21] * +DirkVonTowers watches curiously. "Is there any way we can get better sensors in the bay?"
[17:22] <@ENGM> ((Sam linked the camera to the ships security cams))
[17:23] <@ENGM> The probe rolls into the mist, Thomas follow as his tether snaps behind him.
[17:23] <@ENGM> It disappears.
[17:24] <@ENGM> Thomas goes with it, whoosh, the mist sucks him in. (no fate is not reloaded)
[17:25] * +DirkVonTowers moves towards the bay. "Uh oh."
[17:25] * +SamuraiHanson shouts into his comm, "Thomas! Thomas! Say something!"
[17:28] * +DirkVonTowers checks the fog to see if its changed at all.
[17:28] <+SamuraiHanson> ((is the tether still taut?))
[17:28] <@ENGM> it snapped. And the spool went with him.
[17:30] <+Sebastian`> "What do we do now. Wait?"
[17:31] <+Nevka> "Don't see how we have much choice."
[17:32] * +DirkVonTowers checks to see if the same signal is being repeated.
[17:34] <@ENGM> You still hear the distress signal loud and clear. You haven’t heard anything from Thomas yet.
[17:37] * +Thomas_J_Atkins is coming through the static "H..Hello, Nevka? Sam?...Dirk? Anyone, do you copy?"
[17:37] <@ENGM> Sam, you look at the camera. The cart seems to be on its side or a weird angle. You can seem heavy wooden furniture and a stone wall.
[17:38] <+DirkVonTowers> "Ah, Thomas. Good show."
[17:39] <@ENGM> The visual transmission becomes spotty bad after a while all you get is static.
[17:39] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Not quite; 'Had a hard landing, I..am still shaky from the impact."
[17:40] <+SamuraiHanson> "He's in some sort of stone building from the camera feed. Where ever this cloud is coming from, it's not another ship. Unless that ship crashed and was scrapped for parts."
[17:42] <+SamuraiHanson> "Thomas, can you see the fog cloud from your side?"
[17:43] * +DirkVonTowers peers at the screen. "We lost the visual signal."
[17:47] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "No, no but I see the stars and a moon, Let me get up; DO plan on flipping when you enter the fog, 'else you'll land on your head."
[17:48] <+Nevka> "This smacks of Ancient bullshit."
[17:48] <+SamuraiHanson> "Ancients?"
[17:48] * +DirkVonTowers shrugs.
[17:49] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Well, this has a close similarity to a study."
[17:51] <+SamuraiHanson> "Can't say I've ever seen one, which is probably why I ended up in the scouts...."
[17:52] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Well, do not be a stranger, There are som- ha, pardon me, I am n-"
[17:53] <+DirkVonTowers> "You're breaking up."
[17:54] <+SamuraiHanson> "I have a bad feeling that the survival kit I got on the Crazy Ivan will be more than just lucky. Be right back captain, we need to go get him."
[17:55] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Sorry, There was an apparition."
[17:55] <+Nevka> "A what?"
[17:56] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "An apparition."
[17:56] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "A Spectre."
[17:57] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "A Man, he was wearing a ship Captain's Cap."
[17:58] <+DirkVonTowers> "Oh, very interesting. I wonder how you appeared to him."
[17:59] <+SamuraiHanson> "Captain, permission to go after him?"
[18:00] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "There are 4 bodies sitting here, all seems recently dead, but stiff. They all appear to have been frightened to death."
[18:04] <+DirkVonTowers> "Very strange."
[18:04] <+SamuraiHanson> "Captain?"
[18:05] <+Nevka> "We don't have much choice. Go ahead."
[18:06] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((To boldly go where the Butler already went before..Imperial Scout away!))
[18:07] <+SamuraiHanson> ((Fire 1!))
[18:07] <@ENGM> (you going in Sam?))
[18:08] * +SamuraiHanson takes a deep breath and runs toward the fog and goes after Thomas
[18:08] <+SamuraiHanson> ((of course, to boldly go where others have already triggered the traps!))
[18:08] Caleb will man the comm and what’s left of the camera.
[18:08] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((Hence why we'll need to buy a 10 feet space pole next stop))
[18:09] * +DirkVonTowers eyes the fog distrustfully.
[18:10] * +DirkVonTowers waits to see if Sam winds up in the same place as Thomas.
*
[17:26] <ENGM> Thomas, the mist initially has a chilling affect but it soon passes. You soon find yourself or rather feel yourself plunked down on a cold hard floor of some sort.
[17:27] <ENGM`> There is dim light coming from somewhere so you can look around.
[17:27] <ENGM> You landed hard on your head and wind up with a nasty bump that disorients you for a few seconds.
[17:29] <ENGM> what do you want to do. you’re a bit groggy
[17:30] <ENGM> you do see light streaming from above but your vision is hazy at the moment
[17:30] * +Thomas_J_Atkins lands on his head hard. feeling like fading out of it. He stays on the groups for a short time, regaining some of his senses, before trying to get his bearings (observes surroundings with details)
[17:33] <ENGM> You're not sure if it's the blow to the head, your dreaming or what but you look around. You find yourself in a dark room illuminated dimly by moonlight coming in through narrow windows that are high overhead. You seem to be in a study of some sort judging by the books and tables around you. The walls appear to be stone. At a table you see four figures sitting in contemporary style chairs which seem out of place with the other heavily wooden furnishings.
[17:34] <ENGM> You also hear your radio babbling.
[17:36] * +Thomas_J_Atkins tries to get up, going on his comm "H..Hello, Nevka? Sam?...Dirk? Anyone, do you copy?"
[17:40] * +Thomas_J_Atkins turns to look at the four figures.
[17:42] <ENGM> You stumble up to the table and knock one of the figures over. It doesn’t move. The other three don’t move either.
[17:43] <ENGM> As you get your bearings you see a whispy apparition form. It appears to be the transparent form of an Imperial ship captain. He turns to the table and speaks...
[17:44] * +Thomas_J_Atkins excuses himself, stopping as the apparition revealed itself.
[17:44] <ENGM> "I am without hope. No soul can right the sins of my greed so I am banished. Leave me as I must endure my misery alone." His head droops and the vision fades away.
[17:46] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((The original captain of the lost ship?))
[17:46] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((Can I still communicate with the others?))
[17:46] <ENGM> You don’t know.
[17:46] <ENGM> You can communicate with the ship still.
[17:48] * +Thomas_J_Atkins looks at the figure he tipped over, seeing if it matches the imaged Captain's resemblance.
[17:49] <ENGM> No it’s a woman.
[17:50] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets the figure back in its place, excusing itself to whatever may be here or in there.
[17:50] <ENGM> On closer inspection none of them look like the captain in the vision. You do notice that all of them are well preserved as if they just died. All bare a look of horror on their faces.
[17:50] <ENGM> There are two men and two women.
[17:50] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> All Imperials?
[17:52] <ENGM> They’re human but from where you’re not sure.
[17:53] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> Any visible exits from the room?
[17:53] <ENGM> One. A heavy wooden door.
[17:58] * +Thomas_J_Atkins will wait for the others. He will risk touching another figure, to see if there will be another apparition or just the same- or anything else really.
[18:00] <ENGM> All the figures are real and very dead. The three you haven’t knocked over still have their hands clasped together forming a ring around the table.
[18:01] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> Did the figure I tipped over had its hands with the others, i.e they peel off?))
[18:01] <ENGM> You knocked her over and her hands released.
[18:02] <ENGM> slipped out.
[18:02] <ENGM> she pulled the figure on her left slightly over towards her as she fell but not out of his chair.
[18:03] <ENGM> There are some study lights on the table you are able to turn them up for some additional light.
[18:04] * +Thomas_J_Atkins goes for the light for now, he will have to do with for the time being, so might as well not push his senses more than need be.
[18:05] <ENGM> There are cards on the table as well as a strange metal device. Also there are a few books.
[18:06] * +Thomas_J_Atkins checks the cards and device, without touching either of them, before looking over the books.
[18:07] <ENGM> The cards look like tarot cards. Three of the people have a hand of 5 cards dealt before them; the other has the deck in front of him. The device looks like a sensor reader of some sort.
[18:09] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((typical imperial machinery?))
[18:09] <ENGM> It looks like imperial tech maybe in the tech 10-12 level.
[18:10] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((and- anyway I can know what the tarot cards are and what they mean?))
[18:11] <ENGM> Thomas as you start to examine the cards Sam comes crashing thru the wall behind you and slams into the table.
[18:12] <ENGM> Sam you smash you thigh pretty well.
[18:12] <SamuraiHanson> "You weren't kidding about that reentry! Having fun?"
[18:12] <ENGM> The table shakes and the woman falls to the ground again. The other three figures remain seated but shaken.
[18:13] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Bloody hell I told you about spinning!"
[18:13] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets the woman seated back.
[18:13] * +Thomas_J_Atkins checks if the cards are not scattered about too badly.
[18:13] <SamuraiHanson> "Didn't do me a whole lot of good either, but I made it."
[18:14] <ENGM> Sam you find yourself in what appears to be a study. A stream of moonlight filters in from above giving the room a dim light. There are also two lamps on the table that are also giving off light. Four figures, now three sit in contemporary chairs around the table...
[18:14] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Well, at least you're not with blurry vision and disbalancement."
[18:14] <ENGM> Their hands are clasped together, each has a look of horror on their face. The other figure, a woman, lies on the ground.
[18:15] <SamuraiHanson> "Who knows, not that you all'd be able to tell the difference. Did I interrupt something?"
[18:15] <ENGM> The room is furnished with heavy wooden furniture and the walls are made of stone. There is a single heavy wooden door that is closed that is a possible exit.
[18:16] <ENGM> Thomas was examining the table when you "flew" in.
[18:17] <ENGM> The door is on the opposite wall of the wall you appeared from. The mist is not present.
[18:17] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Yes, they seems to have been in some esoteric séance, drawing tarot cards and the like. They were possibly scanning for something with this #motions towards the tech 10-12 scanner#. There are also those books that soften your landing as well."
[18:18] <ENGM> Sam hit the table pretty good. The cards are all over the place Thomas
[18:18] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Thought it seems the tarot cards are no longer of use for us as a possible clue.
[18:18] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets the woman back into her position, and straighten everyone as well.
[18:19] <ENGM> Sam your comm link buzzes.
[18:19] <Sebastian`> The bodies are all rearranged around the table in their proper places.
[18:20] * +Thomas_J_Atkins raises a point to Sam as well while moving the Captain "This one appeared to me. He said that no soul can atone for his sins of greed and he was banished before bidding me to leave as he must suffer his misery alone."
[18:21] <SamuraiHanson> "He spoke to you? Have any of these spoke to you?"
[18:23] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Only him, in an apparition. But I was more foggy than before and the lights were well dimmed."
[18:24] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Perhaps that scanner and those books can reveal more information.
[18:25] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "I have not exited the room as well, I'd though it be best to not venture too far alone."
[18:25] <ENGM> There's about a half dozen books scattered on the table. There are more on a shelf along one of the walls.
[18:26] * +Thomas_J_Atkins checks the first open one on top, logically it must have been the last one they consulted.
[18:27] <ENGM> "The Occult of the Abyss" by Dr. Benard Vuuton.
[18:27] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Lovely."
[18:29] <SamuraiHanson> "Thomas, ...did we die? I don't feel dead."
[18:29] <ENGM> the book was written in 1080 Standard Imperial Calendar.
[18:29] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((and we're in what year, SIC?))
[18:29] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "No, dying is a bit more..out-of-body than this."
[18:30] <ENGM> 1106
[18:30] * +Thomas_J_Atkins checks the title of the other books on the table.
[18:31] <ENGM> The other books on the table are by Vuuton too.
[18:32] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ?All related to Occult subjects?
[18:32] <ENGM> All occult.
[18:33] * +Thomas_J_Atkins goes to check the books on the shelves
[18:34] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Sam, would you mind seeing if you can get some reading logs from that device on the table?"
[18:34] <SamuraiHanson> "I"ll see what I can do."
[18:35] * SamuraiHanson pushes himself to his feet and limps over to the table and examines the device.
[18:35] <ENGM>The books are as follows: "Tarot and the Stars (1081), "Strange Ways of the Ancients (1078), Dark Space and Daemons (1079), The Void (1075) and The Empty Rift and The Unusual (1076)
[18:36] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ??All Vuuton as well???
[18:36] <ENGM> All Vuuton.
[18:36] <ENGM> Sam it's a scanner of some sort. You think it might be a psi scanner
[18:38] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Well, whoever owns all of these seems to have been quite a fan of Dr. Vuuton. And the good Doctor has a fascination for the Occult, Ancients, Daemons and other sinister ideas."
[18:39] <Sebastian`> Both your comms are buzzing.
[18:40] * SamuraiHanson starts playing around with the antenna on the scanner while poking around for a log of some kind."
[18:40] * +Thomas_J_Atkins readies himself for the Arrival.
[18:41] <ENGM> Sam you turn the device on. It lets out a series of blips and beeps. Red and Green lights flash across the front of it then it goes silent.
[18:18] * +DirkVonTowers checks the time. "Did you make it through?"
[18:20] <+SamuraiHanson> "I'm here, although I'm not sure where here is or what is happening. Thomas is trying to fill me in."
[18:21] <+Sebastian`> ##"Is it safe for the rest of us to come thru?"##
[18:23] <+SamuraiHanson> "Yes, but be careful on reentry, it's a bit rougher than Thomas said."
[18:24] <+SamuraiHanson> "Rougher than a Argellian Brothel when you realize you're 3 credits shy of what you owe. If you know what I mean."
[18:25] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((What kind of scout were you?))
[18:27] <+SamuraiHanson> ((I'm not ashamed of what I did, and I didn't do anything to a man that I wouldn't do to a woman! So there!))
[18:27] * +DirkVonTowers shrugs and heads back to his room and picks up his sword and laser pistol. He gets ready to go to the next plane of existence.
[18:29] <+Sebastian`> "Captain should we all equip up?"
[18:30] <+Nevka> "I...suppose we should."
[18:31] * +Sebastian` heads to his stateroom for his gear.
[18:33] * +DirkVonTowers gears up and gets some supplies.
[18:36] * +Sebastian` returns with a blaster on his hip and some survival gear.
[18:37] <+DirkVonTowers> "Are you two still there?"
[18:39] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Yes, we're here still, do be careful when you arrive, flip and twist."
[18:39] <+SamuraiHanson> "We're here."
[18:39] <+SamuraiHanson> "Flip and twist like a spaceship in flight, not like the pilot."
[18:40] <+SamuraiHanson> "Good advice."
[18:40] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Yes, no need to disperse more clues or break any bodies."
[18:40] <+Sebastian`> "Very well."
[18:42] * +DirkVonTowers makes sure his blades are safe and his gear is ready and safe for a rough trip and moves through, flipping and twisting. [18:42] <@ENGM> ((you enter the bay and go in?))
[18:42] <+DirkVonTowers> ((yeah))
[18:43] <Caleb> to Nevka "Are you going with them babe? I'll stay here at the comms with the girls. I'll get some blankets and they can sleep here tonight"
[18:44] <+Nevka> "Yes, just be careful and you stay out of whatever this is."
[18:44] * +Nevka will head in
[18:44] * +Sebastian` also follows
[18:45] <@ENGM> Dirk comes stumbling through the wall towards the table....
[18:47] <@ENGM> Dirk splits both Sam and Thomas like a football thru the uprights and slams into the table upsetting the cards again and knocking the woman to the floor once more
[18:47] <@ENGM> Both Nevka and Sebastian walk casually thru the wall and into the room.
[18:49] * +DirkVonTowers coughs and winces where he's lying. "Sorry, was that flip and twist, or twist and flip?"
[18:49] <@ENGM> You all are in a dimly lit room. It appears to be a study of some sort as the room is filled with heavy wodden furniture mostly tables and bookshelves. Moonlight streams in from high narrow windows in the ceiling offering some light to compliment the lamps on the table in the middle of the room...
[18:50] <+SamuraiHanson> "Dirk, at least the judges gave you 3 points, I just got a 9, 1, 1"
[18:50] <@ENGM> Sam, Dirk and Thomas all surround a table where three figures are seated and additional figure is lying on the floor. On the wall opposite of you is a heavy wooden door the only visible exit.
[18:51] <+Sebastian`> "Fascinating. We appear to have gone back in time or to a more rustic planet"
[18:54] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets his bearings once more "Yes, or simply someone with a different concept of interior decoration."
[18:54] * +DirkVonTowers sits up and checks himself and his gear. "Maybe this is just a fancy room on that yacht?"
[18:54] * +DirkVonTowers then notices the additional figure and looks them over.
[18:54] <+Nevka> "I really doubt it."
[18:54] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets the woman back onto her place.
[18:56] <@ENGM> The other figure are all situated around the table hands clasped with looks of horror on thier faces. The circle/chain is broke by the one woman who keeps getting knocked to the ground
[18:56] <+SamuraiHanson> "There are just way too many questions here for me. Where did this scanner come from? I don't think it was on the Lucky Strike. If Thomas keeps helping the woman back into her chair, why haven't they tried to contact us?"
[18:56] <@ENGM> there are tarot cards scattered on the table as well as some books. Sam is playing with a square scanner device.
[18:57] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "They were doing what I believe was an esoteric session, each had 5 cards drawn in front of them, except that woman here, but Samurai's arrival tipped them all over the place."
[19:00] <@ENGM> On examination of the room you find the cart/camera on its side halfway in the room. Nevka find the remote control plane smashed on the floor in front of the wooden door. Thomass finds the hand held under the table.
[19:00] <@ENGM> All the tethers have been snapped.
[19:01] * +Thomas_J_Atkins takes the hand-held and checks the recording.
[19:01] <@ENGM> The hand held was just a portable radio.
[19:01] <@ENGM> There is no distress signal anymore.
[19:01] <@ENGM> there is no distress signal anymore
[19:02] <@ENGM> Thomas do you try to use the hand held?
[19:02] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> yes, to check the recording.
[19:02] <@ENGM> Theres no recording its just a comm unit like a walkie talkie
[19:03] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> Does it still work then?
[19:03] <@ENGM> It seems to. You listen and there’s static.
[19:04] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Caleb, can you hear me, it's Thomas, over."
[19:05] <Caleb> ##"Roger to that Thomas. What’s your status? Are you all in the same place?"##
[19:07] * +Sebastian` looks at the books.
[19:07] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Yes, some stoned wall, wooden furniture, we're all here, safe and sounds, if a little banged up for Sam and myself"
[19:08] <Caleb> "Excellent. Keep your comm on and give me status reports every 1/2 hour unless something unusual comes up.##"
[19:09] <Caleb> "I'll try to monitor you from this end as well as I can. I’m going to try something to boost the signal."
[19:11] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Any luck?"
[19:11] <@ENGM> ((You asking Caleb?))
[19:11] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((Yes. I suppose it's just putting wires together or something, I'm not engineer))
[19:12] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((or flicking a switch or two))
[19:12] * +Nevka tries the door.
[19:13] <Caleb> ##"It's going to take a while Thomas. I have limited access here in the bay to the ships systems and I don't want to go walkabout on the ship and leave the girls alone while all this is happening. I'll buzz you when I'm done"##
[19:13] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "All right Caleb, I'll keep in touch."
[19:14] <Caleb> #I'm going to attempt to tap into the ships sensors and focus them on the anomaly. Oh by the way, I don't think we're going to be leaving jump soon. All the clocks still read 2000 hrs.##"
[19:15] <+DirkVonTowers> ##Spooky##
[19:16] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Understood Caleb."
[19:18] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Any luck on that scanner Sam?"
[19:19] <+SamuraiHanson> "Not really, I thought I had something but then the device went dark."
[19:20] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Dark? Like turned off or lack power?"
[19:20] <+SamuraiHanson> "Almost like it turned off, but I didn't think it was anything I did."
[19:21] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Does it still work then?"
[19:21] <@ENGM> The device is actually still on. It occasionally beeps. The lights fluctuate between red lining on the meter back to zero, red lining and back. It can't seem to focus on any one reading.
[19:21] <+SamuraiHanson> "It should, but I'm trying to not accidentally do anything that could interfere with our link to the Lucky Strike."
[19:23] <+DirkVonTowers> "Might be for the best."
[19:23] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Right. But some data would be of use."
[19:24] <+SamuraiHanson> "Nothing like the real thing."
[19:24] * +SamuraiHanson tries to poke one of the seated people with his hand.
[19:24] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "I keep thinking of Vuuton's books..."
[19:25] <@ENGM> ((yes whats your edu?))
[19:25] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((12))
[19:25] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((12))
[19:26] <@ENGM> The people are all pretty rigid which is strange because it looks like they just died [19:26] <@ENGM> ((add 2))
[19:26] * +DirkVonTowers checks the view out of the window.
[19:26] <@ENGM> The windows are high up on the ceiling. You can see the moon and the stars
[19:27] <@ENGM> You've never heard of him Thomas.
[19:28] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Anyone knows of a certain Dr. Vuuton? All those books are from him; all between from 1075 to 1080."
[19:29] <+Sebastian`> 'I was looking at the books trying to see if I've ever heard of him but he's done nothing that I can recall"
[19:30] <+SamuraiHanson> "Sorry, can't say I ever had time for pleasure reading."
[19:32] * +Nevka will flip through one of them.
[19:33] <@ENGM> None of you seem to have heard of him. He's obviously not a well-read author
[19:33] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((Well, we may have got time..))
[19:34] * +DirkVonTowers shakes his head as he checks the windows. "Can't say it sounds familiar."
[19:35] <@ENGM> Nevka you may have seen a few of his books on newsstands or webs. He was the equivalent of something like that "crossing over" guy. A self-proclaimed modern mystic or seer.
[19:39] <+Nevka> "Some kind of spiritual twaffle here. Although, given wht's going on..."
[19:39] * +Sebastian` looks at the door.
[19:40] * +Sebastian` will walk back to the table and look at the bodies.
[19:40] <+Sebastian`> "Any ID on them?"
[19:41] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Hmm..yes well, I don't know, I haven't searched them, rather groggy from my landing."
[19:43] <+Sebastian`> "Landing? Oh right, you hit your head"
[19:44] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Rather strongly. I would need some medical aid after this."
[19:45] * +Thomas_J_Atkins searches the figures.
[19:47] * +SamuraiHanson goes over to the window and looks out and sees if anything can be seen or heard.
[19:47] <@ENGM> You find basic ID on them, there’s also a few credits. The woman who keeps getting knocked to the floor is a Ulaya Naarka from Regina. The man and woman across from each other are a couple, Harren and Julie Borr. The man at the head of the table is none other than Dr. Benard Vuuton himself. You also find a small device in one of his pockets.
[19:47] <@ENGM> ((The windows are all in the ceiling))
[19:48] * +Thomas_J_Atkins takes the device to look it "Well, Do say hello to Mrs. Ulaya Naarka, Mr & Mrs. Borr, and Dr. Vuuton himself."
[19:48] <ENGM`> Sam, the lights are pretty you sit and stare at them for a while.
[19:49] <@ENGM> The device looks like a remote of some sort.
[19:49] <+DirkVonTowers> "Interesting twist. We stumbled upon a book signing.
[19:50] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Perhaps..and he had this on him..a remote."
[19:50] <+SamuraiHanson> "Maybe some sort of Informational Commercial?"
[19:52] * +Thomas_J_Atkins looks at the remote.
[19:52] <@ENGM> There’s a bunch of buttons on it. Some correspond to numbers. It looks very similar to remote for a TV or a DVD player.
06[19:54] * +Thomas_J_Atkins presses the power button.
[19:55] * +SamuraiHanson walks over to the door and peeks out.
[19:57] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Hard to say..this is not your usual remote. At least not a model I'm familiar with."
[19:57] <@ENGM> you hit what looks like a power button. You hear a whine of some kind of device in the room. Soon the room is illuminated by normal lights, the gothic decor is gone replaced by what looks like a pretty ordinary star ship stateroom. The stone walls are replaces by metal/plasteel walls the door is now a standard metallic sliding door.
[19:57] <@ENGM> Sam as you open the door it changes from being a heavy wooden door to a typical star ship door.
[19:57] <@ENGM> Sam as you open the door it changes from being a heavy wooden door to a typicla
[19:58] <@ENGM> The only thing that doesn’t change is the table in the middle of the room. Everything is still there including the bodies.
[19:59] <+SamuraiHanson> "Thomas, did you turn it on? or off?"
[19:59] <@ENGM> The windows in the ceiling are also gone. There are portholes along one wall of the room now, more like viewing windows
[20:00] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "I did not press anything, I do not even know where the power button is on this thing!"
[20:01] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "But at any rate, we seems to be in more familiar settings."
[20:02] <+DirkVonTowers> "See, we were in a really fancy ship's cabin..."
[20:03] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((your everyday multi-billion dollar holo-projector))
[20:04] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Right, surely on the ship Captained by Dr. Vuuton."
[20:06] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((Are the books and scanner still there?))
[20:06] <@ENGM> Yes as well as the table and the people.
[20:06] * +Thomas_J_Atkins moves toward Sam and the door.
[20:07] <@ENGM> There is now a bed, a couch, coffee table and a bed stand. All replacing the bookshelves and other tables.
[20:08] <+SamuraiHanson> ((Does the coffee table contain a terminal outlet?))
[20:08] <@ENGM> The table by the bed does.
[20:08] <+SamuraiHanson> "This at least, is a bit familar."
[20:09] <@ENGM> the room looks like a hotel room. No mini bar.
06[20:09] * +SamuraiHanson tries to get some basic data (date, last known location, course, date, ship's name/type/compliment)
[20:10] * +DirkVonTowers checks the newly revealed furniture for any new items.
[20:10] <@ENGM> Are you tapping into the system with your computer or using the consol on the stand.
[20:10] * +Thomas_J_Atkins checks down the hall/room beyond the threshold.
[20:10] <+SamuraiHanson> console on the stand.
[20:11] <@ENGM> The console is an older model used on old star ships. You can tap into the menu. A screen comes up and a voice like Siri says "Welcome to the Ecliptic. How can I help you?"
[20:14] <+SamuraiHanson> "Ecliptic, what is the current date, location, and heading?"
[20:15] <Computer> The date is 1085, we are currently in jump to D'Ganzio"
[20:15] <@ENGM> the date is 1085, we are currently in jump to D'Ganzio"
[20:19] <+SamuraiHanson> "Computer, how long has the ship been in jump?"
[20:19] <Computer> "3 Days"
[20:21] <+SamuraiHanson> "Anybody feel like taking a walk with me? This just doesn't seem right to me."
[20:21] * +Thomas_J_Atkins is keeping a watch in the door's frame "I can go with a little look-see."
[20:22] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Thought I'd rather have a bit of a rest for a moment..."
[20:23] <+SamuraiHanson> "I think we might be able to get some more complete answers from the Bridge. Or possibly find someone who is alive."
[20:24] <+DirkVonTowers> "It could be worth a shot. If we can get out of the room."
[20:24] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Oh, yes, sorry."
[20:24] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets out of the way.
[20:25] <@ENGM> ((to the door?))
[20:26] <@ENGM> You approach the door. There's a sensor on the wall now that senses your presence and the door opens into.... SESSION END**
Session 11 – Into the Mystic
RECAP
[17:15] <@ENGM> You spent last session using your human yo-yo, Thomas, to test the swirly mist thing in the cargo bay. You created a portable radio to try to boast/receive better transmissions from the anomaly. First you tried sending a hand held which so stopped transmitting....
[17:16] <@ENGM> Then you sent a radio controlled plane in who’s last transmission was a loud THUD. Now you’re trying to decide what to do next...
[17:18] <@ENGM> questions?
[17:18] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((IIRC, I was extending some probe-on-a-stick into the fog and it was sucking me in with my wooping 5..))
[17:19] <+DirkVonTowers> ((next we're sending a remote control Thomas in!))
[17:19] <@ENGM> toward the end of the session you did hook up a cart with a camera that you attached to a spool. Thomas was sending it in as we left...
*GAME START
[17:21] * +DirkVonTowers watches curiously. "Is there any way we can get better sensors in the bay?"
[17:22] <@ENGM> ((Sam linked the camera to the ships security cams))
[17:23] <@ENGM> The probe rolls into the mist, Thomas follow as his tether snaps behind him.
[17:23] <@ENGM> It disappears.
[17:24] <@ENGM> Thomas goes with it, whoosh, the mist sucks him in. (no fate is not reloaded)
[17:25] * +DirkVonTowers moves towards the bay. "Uh oh."
[17:25] * +SamuraiHanson shouts into his comm, "Thomas! Thomas! Say something!"
[17:28] * +DirkVonTowers checks the fog to see if its changed at all.
[17:28] <+SamuraiHanson> ((is the tether still taut?))
[17:28] <@ENGM> it snapped. And the spool went with him.
[17:30] <+Sebastian`> "What do we do now. Wait?"
[17:31] <+Nevka> "Don't see how we have much choice."
[17:32] * +DirkVonTowers checks to see if the same signal is being repeated.
[17:34] <@ENGM> You still hear the distress signal loud and clear. You haven’t heard anything from Thomas yet.
[17:37] * +Thomas_J_Atkins is coming through the static "H..Hello, Nevka? Sam?...Dirk? Anyone, do you copy?"
[17:37] <@ENGM> Sam, you look at the camera. The cart seems to be on its side or a weird angle. You can seem heavy wooden furniture and a stone wall.
[17:38] <+DirkVonTowers> "Ah, Thomas. Good show."
[17:39] <@ENGM> The visual transmission becomes spotty bad after a while all you get is static.
[17:39] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Not quite; 'Had a hard landing, I..am still shaky from the impact."
[17:40] <+SamuraiHanson> "He's in some sort of stone building from the camera feed. Where ever this cloud is coming from, it's not another ship. Unless that ship crashed and was scrapped for parts."
[17:42] <+SamuraiHanson> "Thomas, can you see the fog cloud from your side?"
[17:43] * +DirkVonTowers peers at the screen. "We lost the visual signal."
[17:47] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "No, no but I see the stars and a moon, Let me get up; DO plan on flipping when you enter the fog, 'else you'll land on your head."
[17:48] <+Nevka> "This smacks of Ancient bullshit."
[17:48] <+SamuraiHanson> "Ancients?"
[17:48] * +DirkVonTowers shrugs.
[17:49] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Well, this has a close similarity to a study."
[17:51] <+SamuraiHanson> "Can't say I've ever seen one, which is probably why I ended up in the scouts...."
[17:52] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Well, do not be a stranger, There are som- ha, pardon me, I am n-"
[17:53] <+DirkVonTowers> "You're breaking up."
[17:54] <+SamuraiHanson> "I have a bad feeling that the survival kit I got on the Crazy Ivan will be more than just lucky. Be right back captain, we need to go get him."
[17:55] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Sorry, There was an apparition."
[17:55] <+Nevka> "A what?"
[17:56] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "An apparition."
[17:56] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "A Spectre."
[17:57] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "A Man, he was wearing a ship Captain's Cap."
[17:58] <+DirkVonTowers> "Oh, very interesting. I wonder how you appeared to him."
[17:59] <+SamuraiHanson> "Captain, permission to go after him?"
[18:00] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "There are 4 bodies sitting here, all seems recently dead, but stiff. They all appear to have been frightened to death."
[18:04] <+DirkVonTowers> "Very strange."
[18:04] <+SamuraiHanson> "Captain?"
[18:05] <+Nevka> "We don't have much choice. Go ahead."
[18:06] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((To boldly go where the Butler already went before..Imperial Scout away!))
[18:07] <+SamuraiHanson> ((Fire 1!))
[18:07] <@ENGM> (you going in Sam?))
[18:08] * +SamuraiHanson takes a deep breath and runs toward the fog and goes after Thomas
[18:08] <+SamuraiHanson> ((of course, to boldly go where others have already triggered the traps!))
[18:08] Caleb will man the comm and what’s left of the camera.
[18:08] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((Hence why we'll need to buy a 10 feet space pole next stop))
[18:09] * +DirkVonTowers eyes the fog distrustfully.
[18:10] * +DirkVonTowers waits to see if Sam winds up in the same place as Thomas.
*
[17:26] <ENGM> Thomas, the mist initially has a chilling affect but it soon passes. You soon find yourself or rather feel yourself plunked down on a cold hard floor of some sort.
[17:27] <ENGM`> There is dim light coming from somewhere so you can look around.
[17:27] <ENGM> You landed hard on your head and wind up with a nasty bump that disorients you for a few seconds.
[17:29] <ENGM> what do you want to do. you’re a bit groggy
[17:30] <ENGM> you do see light streaming from above but your vision is hazy at the moment
[17:30] * +Thomas_J_Atkins lands on his head hard. feeling like fading out of it. He stays on the groups for a short time, regaining some of his senses, before trying to get his bearings (observes surroundings with details)
[17:33] <ENGM> You're not sure if it's the blow to the head, your dreaming or what but you look around. You find yourself in a dark room illuminated dimly by moonlight coming in through narrow windows that are high overhead. You seem to be in a study of some sort judging by the books and tables around you. The walls appear to be stone. At a table you see four figures sitting in contemporary style chairs which seem out of place with the other heavily wooden furnishings.
[17:34] <ENGM> You also hear your radio babbling.
[17:36] * +Thomas_J_Atkins tries to get up, going on his comm "H..Hello, Nevka? Sam?...Dirk? Anyone, do you copy?"
[17:40] * +Thomas_J_Atkins turns to look at the four figures.
[17:42] <ENGM> You stumble up to the table and knock one of the figures over. It doesn’t move. The other three don’t move either.
[17:43] <ENGM> As you get your bearings you see a whispy apparition form. It appears to be the transparent form of an Imperial ship captain. He turns to the table and speaks...
[17:44] * +Thomas_J_Atkins excuses himself, stopping as the apparition revealed itself.
[17:44] <ENGM> "I am without hope. No soul can right the sins of my greed so I am banished. Leave me as I must endure my misery alone." His head droops and the vision fades away.
[17:46] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((The original captain of the lost ship?))
[17:46] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((Can I still communicate with the others?))
[17:46] <ENGM> You don’t know.
[17:46] <ENGM> You can communicate with the ship still.
[17:48] * +Thomas_J_Atkins looks at the figure he tipped over, seeing if it matches the imaged Captain's resemblance.
[17:49] <ENGM> No it’s a woman.
[17:50] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets the figure back in its place, excusing itself to whatever may be here or in there.
[17:50] <ENGM> On closer inspection none of them look like the captain in the vision. You do notice that all of them are well preserved as if they just died. All bare a look of horror on their faces.
[17:50] <ENGM> There are two men and two women.
[17:50] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> All Imperials?
[17:52] <ENGM> They’re human but from where you’re not sure.
[17:53] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> Any visible exits from the room?
[17:53] <ENGM> One. A heavy wooden door.
[17:58] * +Thomas_J_Atkins will wait for the others. He will risk touching another figure, to see if there will be another apparition or just the same- or anything else really.
[18:00] <ENGM> All the figures are real and very dead. The three you haven’t knocked over still have their hands clasped together forming a ring around the table.
[18:01] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> Did the figure I tipped over had its hands with the others, i.e they peel off?))
[18:01] <ENGM> You knocked her over and her hands released.
[18:02] <ENGM> slipped out.
[18:02] <ENGM> she pulled the figure on her left slightly over towards her as she fell but not out of his chair.
[18:03] <ENGM> There are some study lights on the table you are able to turn them up for some additional light.
[18:04] * +Thomas_J_Atkins goes for the light for now, he will have to do with for the time being, so might as well not push his senses more than need be.
[18:05] <ENGM> There are cards on the table as well as a strange metal device. Also there are a few books.
[18:06] * +Thomas_J_Atkins checks the cards and device, without touching either of them, before looking over the books.
[18:07] <ENGM> The cards look like tarot cards. Three of the people have a hand of 5 cards dealt before them; the other has the deck in front of him. The device looks like a sensor reader of some sort.
[18:09] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((typical imperial machinery?))
[18:09] <ENGM> It looks like imperial tech maybe in the tech 10-12 level.
[18:10] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((and- anyway I can know what the tarot cards are and what they mean?))
[18:11] <ENGM> Thomas as you start to examine the cards Sam comes crashing thru the wall behind you and slams into the table.
[18:12] <ENGM> Sam you smash you thigh pretty well.
[18:12] <SamuraiHanson> "You weren't kidding about that reentry! Having fun?"
[18:12] <ENGM> The table shakes and the woman falls to the ground again. The other three figures remain seated but shaken.
[18:13] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Bloody hell I told you about spinning!"
[18:13] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets the woman seated back.
[18:13] * +Thomas_J_Atkins checks if the cards are not scattered about too badly.
[18:13] <SamuraiHanson> "Didn't do me a whole lot of good either, but I made it."
[18:14] <ENGM> Sam you find yourself in what appears to be a study. A stream of moonlight filters in from above giving the room a dim light. There are also two lamps on the table that are also giving off light. Four figures, now three sit in contemporary chairs around the table...
[18:14] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Well, at least you're not with blurry vision and disbalancement."
[18:14] <ENGM> Their hands are clasped together, each has a look of horror on their face. The other figure, a woman, lies on the ground.
[18:15] <SamuraiHanson> "Who knows, not that you all'd be able to tell the difference. Did I interrupt something?"
[18:15] <ENGM> The room is furnished with heavy wooden furniture and the walls are made of stone. There is a single heavy wooden door that is closed that is a possible exit.
[18:16] <ENGM> Thomas was examining the table when you "flew" in.
[18:17] <ENGM> The door is on the opposite wall of the wall you appeared from. The mist is not present.
[18:17] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Yes, they seems to have been in some esoteric séance, drawing tarot cards and the like. They were possibly scanning for something with this #motions towards the tech 10-12 scanner#. There are also those books that soften your landing as well."
[18:18] <ENGM> Sam hit the table pretty good. The cards are all over the place Thomas
[18:18] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Thought it seems the tarot cards are no longer of use for us as a possible clue.
[18:18] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets the woman back into her position, and straighten everyone as well.
[18:19] <ENGM> Sam your comm link buzzes.
[18:19] <Sebastian`> The bodies are all rearranged around the table in their proper places.
[18:20] * +Thomas_J_Atkins raises a point to Sam as well while moving the Captain "This one appeared to me. He said that no soul can atone for his sins of greed and he was banished before bidding me to leave as he must suffer his misery alone."
[18:21] <SamuraiHanson> "He spoke to you? Have any of these spoke to you?"
[18:23] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Only him, in an apparition. But I was more foggy than before and the lights were well dimmed."
[18:24] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Perhaps that scanner and those books can reveal more information.
[18:25] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "I have not exited the room as well, I'd though it be best to not venture too far alone."
[18:25] <ENGM> There's about a half dozen books scattered on the table. There are more on a shelf along one of the walls.
[18:26] * +Thomas_J_Atkins checks the first open one on top, logically it must have been the last one they consulted.
[18:27] <ENGM> "The Occult of the Abyss" by Dr. Benard Vuuton.
[18:27] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Lovely."
[18:29] <SamuraiHanson> "Thomas, ...did we die? I don't feel dead."
[18:29] <ENGM> the book was written in 1080 Standard Imperial Calendar.
[18:29] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((and we're in what year, SIC?))
[18:29] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "No, dying is a bit more..out-of-body than this."
[18:30] <ENGM> 1106
[18:30] * +Thomas_J_Atkins checks the title of the other books on the table.
[18:31] <ENGM> The other books on the table are by Vuuton too.
[18:32] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ?All related to Occult subjects?
[18:32] <ENGM> All occult.
[18:33] * +Thomas_J_Atkins goes to check the books on the shelves
[18:34] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Sam, would you mind seeing if you can get some reading logs from that device on the table?"
[18:34] <SamuraiHanson> "I"ll see what I can do."
[18:35] * SamuraiHanson pushes himself to his feet and limps over to the table and examines the device.
[18:35] <ENGM>The books are as follows: "Tarot and the Stars (1081), "Strange Ways of the Ancients (1078), Dark Space and Daemons (1079), The Void (1075) and The Empty Rift and The Unusual (1076)
[18:36] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ??All Vuuton as well???
[18:36] <ENGM> All Vuuton.
[18:36] <ENGM> Sam it's a scanner of some sort. You think it might be a psi scanner
[18:38] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Well, whoever owns all of these seems to have been quite a fan of Dr. Vuuton. And the good Doctor has a fascination for the Occult, Ancients, Daemons and other sinister ideas."
[18:39] <Sebastian`> Both your comms are buzzing.
[18:40] * SamuraiHanson starts playing around with the antenna on the scanner while poking around for a log of some kind."
[18:40] * +Thomas_J_Atkins readies himself for the Arrival.
[18:41] <ENGM> Sam you turn the device on. It lets out a series of blips and beeps. Red and Green lights flash across the front of it then it goes silent.
[18:18] * +DirkVonTowers checks the time. "Did you make it through?"
[18:20] <+SamuraiHanson> "I'm here, although I'm not sure where here is or what is happening. Thomas is trying to fill me in."
[18:21] <+Sebastian`> ##"Is it safe for the rest of us to come thru?"##
[18:23] <+SamuraiHanson> "Yes, but be careful on reentry, it's a bit rougher than Thomas said."
[18:24] <+SamuraiHanson> "Rougher than a Argellian Brothel when you realize you're 3 credits shy of what you owe. If you know what I mean."
[18:25] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((What kind of scout were you?))
[18:27] <+SamuraiHanson> ((I'm not ashamed of what I did, and I didn't do anything to a man that I wouldn't do to a woman! So there!))
[18:27] * +DirkVonTowers shrugs and heads back to his room and picks up his sword and laser pistol. He gets ready to go to the next plane of existence.
[18:29] <+Sebastian`> "Captain should we all equip up?"
[18:30] <+Nevka> "I...suppose we should."
[18:31] * +Sebastian` heads to his stateroom for his gear.
[18:33] * +DirkVonTowers gears up and gets some supplies.
[18:36] * +Sebastian` returns with a blaster on his hip and some survival gear.
[18:37] <+DirkVonTowers> "Are you two still there?"
[18:39] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Yes, we're here still, do be careful when you arrive, flip and twist."
[18:39] <+SamuraiHanson> "We're here."
[18:39] <+SamuraiHanson> "Flip and twist like a spaceship in flight, not like the pilot."
[18:40] <+SamuraiHanson> "Good advice."
[18:40] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Yes, no need to disperse more clues or break any bodies."
[18:40] <+Sebastian`> "Very well."
[18:42] * +DirkVonTowers makes sure his blades are safe and his gear is ready and safe for a rough trip and moves through, flipping and twisting. [18:42] <@ENGM> ((you enter the bay and go in?))
[18:42] <+DirkVonTowers> ((yeah))
[18:43] <Caleb> to Nevka "Are you going with them babe? I'll stay here at the comms with the girls. I'll get some blankets and they can sleep here tonight"
[18:44] <+Nevka> "Yes, just be careful and you stay out of whatever this is."
[18:44] * +Nevka will head in
[18:44] * +Sebastian` also follows
[18:45] <@ENGM> Dirk comes stumbling through the wall towards the table....
[18:47] <@ENGM> Dirk splits both Sam and Thomas like a football thru the uprights and slams into the table upsetting the cards again and knocking the woman to the floor once more
[18:47] <@ENGM> Both Nevka and Sebastian walk casually thru the wall and into the room.
[18:49] * +DirkVonTowers coughs and winces where he's lying. "Sorry, was that flip and twist, or twist and flip?"
[18:49] <@ENGM> You all are in a dimly lit room. It appears to be a study of some sort as the room is filled with heavy wodden furniture mostly tables and bookshelves. Moonlight streams in from high narrow windows in the ceiling offering some light to compliment the lamps on the table in the middle of the room...
[18:50] <+SamuraiHanson> "Dirk, at least the judges gave you 3 points, I just got a 9, 1, 1"
[18:50] <@ENGM> Sam, Dirk and Thomas all surround a table where three figures are seated and additional figure is lying on the floor. On the wall opposite of you is a heavy wooden door the only visible exit.
[18:51] <+Sebastian`> "Fascinating. We appear to have gone back in time or to a more rustic planet"
[18:54] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets his bearings once more "Yes, or simply someone with a different concept of interior decoration."
[18:54] * +DirkVonTowers sits up and checks himself and his gear. "Maybe this is just a fancy room on that yacht?"
[18:54] * +DirkVonTowers then notices the additional figure and looks them over.
[18:54] <+Nevka> "I really doubt it."
[18:54] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets the woman back onto her place.
[18:56] <@ENGM> The other figure are all situated around the table hands clasped with looks of horror on thier faces. The circle/chain is broke by the one woman who keeps getting knocked to the ground
[18:56] <+SamuraiHanson> "There are just way too many questions here for me. Where did this scanner come from? I don't think it was on the Lucky Strike. If Thomas keeps helping the woman back into her chair, why haven't they tried to contact us?"
[18:56] <@ENGM> there are tarot cards scattered on the table as well as some books. Sam is playing with a square scanner device.
[18:57] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "They were doing what I believe was an esoteric session, each had 5 cards drawn in front of them, except that woman here, but Samurai's arrival tipped them all over the place."
[19:00] <@ENGM> On examination of the room you find the cart/camera on its side halfway in the room. Nevka find the remote control plane smashed on the floor in front of the wooden door. Thomass finds the hand held under the table.
[19:00] <@ENGM> All the tethers have been snapped.
[19:01] * +Thomas_J_Atkins takes the hand-held and checks the recording.
[19:01] <@ENGM> The hand held was just a portable radio.
[19:01] <@ENGM> There is no distress signal anymore.
[19:01] <@ENGM> there is no distress signal anymore
[19:02] <@ENGM> Thomas do you try to use the hand held?
[19:02] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> yes, to check the recording.
[19:02] <@ENGM> Theres no recording its just a comm unit like a walkie talkie
[19:03] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> Does it still work then?
[19:03] <@ENGM> It seems to. You listen and there’s static.
[19:04] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Caleb, can you hear me, it's Thomas, over."
[19:05] <Caleb> ##"Roger to that Thomas. What’s your status? Are you all in the same place?"##
[19:07] * +Sebastian` looks at the books.
[19:07] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Yes, some stoned wall, wooden furniture, we're all here, safe and sounds, if a little banged up for Sam and myself"
[19:08] <Caleb> "Excellent. Keep your comm on and give me status reports every 1/2 hour unless something unusual comes up.##"
[19:09] <Caleb> "I'll try to monitor you from this end as well as I can. I’m going to try something to boost the signal."
[19:11] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Any luck?"
[19:11] <@ENGM> ((You asking Caleb?))
[19:11] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((Yes. I suppose it's just putting wires together or something, I'm not engineer))
[19:12] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((or flicking a switch or two))
[19:12] * +Nevka tries the door.
[19:13] <Caleb> ##"It's going to take a while Thomas. I have limited access here in the bay to the ships systems and I don't want to go walkabout on the ship and leave the girls alone while all this is happening. I'll buzz you when I'm done"##
[19:13] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "All right Caleb, I'll keep in touch."
[19:14] <Caleb> #I'm going to attempt to tap into the ships sensors and focus them on the anomaly. Oh by the way, I don't think we're going to be leaving jump soon. All the clocks still read 2000 hrs.##"
[19:15] <+DirkVonTowers> ##Spooky##
[19:16] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Understood Caleb."
[19:18] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Any luck on that scanner Sam?"
[19:19] <+SamuraiHanson> "Not really, I thought I had something but then the device went dark."
[19:20] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Dark? Like turned off or lack power?"
[19:20] <+SamuraiHanson> "Almost like it turned off, but I didn't think it was anything I did."
[19:21] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Does it still work then?"
[19:21] <@ENGM> The device is actually still on. It occasionally beeps. The lights fluctuate between red lining on the meter back to zero, red lining and back. It can't seem to focus on any one reading.
[19:21] <+SamuraiHanson> "It should, but I'm trying to not accidentally do anything that could interfere with our link to the Lucky Strike."
[19:23] <+DirkVonTowers> "Might be for the best."
[19:23] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Right. But some data would be of use."
[19:24] <+SamuraiHanson> "Nothing like the real thing."
[19:24] * +SamuraiHanson tries to poke one of the seated people with his hand.
[19:24] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "I keep thinking of Vuuton's books..."
[19:25] <@ENGM> ((yes whats your edu?))
[19:25] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((12))
[19:25] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((12))
[19:26] <@ENGM> The people are all pretty rigid which is strange because it looks like they just died [19:26] <@ENGM> ((add 2))
[19:26] * +DirkVonTowers checks the view out of the window.
[19:26] <@ENGM> The windows are high up on the ceiling. You can see the moon and the stars
[19:27] <@ENGM> You've never heard of him Thomas.
[19:28] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Anyone knows of a certain Dr. Vuuton? All those books are from him; all between from 1075 to 1080."
[19:29] <+Sebastian`> 'I was looking at the books trying to see if I've ever heard of him but he's done nothing that I can recall"
[19:30] <+SamuraiHanson> "Sorry, can't say I ever had time for pleasure reading."
[19:32] * +Nevka will flip through one of them.
[19:33] <@ENGM> None of you seem to have heard of him. He's obviously not a well-read author
[19:33] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((Well, we may have got time..))
[19:34] * +DirkVonTowers shakes his head as he checks the windows. "Can't say it sounds familiar."
[19:35] <@ENGM> Nevka you may have seen a few of his books on newsstands or webs. He was the equivalent of something like that "crossing over" guy. A self-proclaimed modern mystic or seer.
[19:39] <+Nevka> "Some kind of spiritual twaffle here. Although, given wht's going on..."
[19:39] * +Sebastian` looks at the door.
[19:40] * +Sebastian` will walk back to the table and look at the bodies.
[19:40] <+Sebastian`> "Any ID on them?"
[19:41] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Hmm..yes well, I don't know, I haven't searched them, rather groggy from my landing."
[19:43] <+Sebastian`> "Landing? Oh right, you hit your head"
[19:44] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Rather strongly. I would need some medical aid after this."
[19:45] * +Thomas_J_Atkins searches the figures.
[19:47] * +SamuraiHanson goes over to the window and looks out and sees if anything can be seen or heard.
[19:47] <@ENGM> You find basic ID on them, there’s also a few credits. The woman who keeps getting knocked to the floor is a Ulaya Naarka from Regina. The man and woman across from each other are a couple, Harren and Julie Borr. The man at the head of the table is none other than Dr. Benard Vuuton himself. You also find a small device in one of his pockets.
[19:47] <@ENGM> ((The windows are all in the ceiling))
[19:48] * +Thomas_J_Atkins takes the device to look it "Well, Do say hello to Mrs. Ulaya Naarka, Mr & Mrs. Borr, and Dr. Vuuton himself."
[19:48] <ENGM`> Sam, the lights are pretty you sit and stare at them for a while.
[19:49] <@ENGM> The device looks like a remote of some sort.
[19:49] <+DirkVonTowers> "Interesting twist. We stumbled upon a book signing.
[19:50] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Perhaps..and he had this on him..a remote."
[19:50] <+SamuraiHanson> "Maybe some sort of Informational Commercial?"
[19:52] * +Thomas_J_Atkins looks at the remote.
[19:52] <@ENGM> There’s a bunch of buttons on it. Some correspond to numbers. It looks very similar to remote for a TV or a DVD player.
06[19:54] * +Thomas_J_Atkins presses the power button.
[19:55] * +SamuraiHanson walks over to the door and peeks out.
[19:57] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Hard to say..this is not your usual remote. At least not a model I'm familiar with."
[19:57] <@ENGM> you hit what looks like a power button. You hear a whine of some kind of device in the room. Soon the room is illuminated by normal lights, the gothic decor is gone replaced by what looks like a pretty ordinary star ship stateroom. The stone walls are replaces by metal/plasteel walls the door is now a standard metallic sliding door.
[19:57] <@ENGM> Sam as you open the door it changes from being a heavy wooden door to a typical star ship door.
[19:57] <@ENGM> Sam as you open the door it changes from being a heavy wooden door to a typicla
[19:58] <@ENGM> The only thing that doesn’t change is the table in the middle of the room. Everything is still there including the bodies.
[19:59] <+SamuraiHanson> "Thomas, did you turn it on? or off?"
[19:59] <@ENGM> The windows in the ceiling are also gone. There are portholes along one wall of the room now, more like viewing windows
[20:00] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "I did not press anything, I do not even know where the power button is on this thing!"
[20:01] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "But at any rate, we seems to be in more familiar settings."
[20:02] <+DirkVonTowers> "See, we were in a really fancy ship's cabin..."
[20:03] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((your everyday multi-billion dollar holo-projector))
[20:04] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Right, surely on the ship Captained by Dr. Vuuton."
[20:06] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> ((Are the books and scanner still there?))
[20:06] <@ENGM> Yes as well as the table and the people.
[20:06] * +Thomas_J_Atkins moves toward Sam and the door.
[20:07] <@ENGM> There is now a bed, a couch, coffee table and a bed stand. All replacing the bookshelves and other tables.
[20:08] <+SamuraiHanson> ((Does the coffee table contain a terminal outlet?))
[20:08] <@ENGM> The table by the bed does.
[20:08] <+SamuraiHanson> "This at least, is a bit familar."
[20:09] <@ENGM> the room looks like a hotel room. No mini bar.
06[20:09] * +SamuraiHanson tries to get some basic data (date, last known location, course, date, ship's name/type/compliment)
[20:10] * +DirkVonTowers checks the newly revealed furniture for any new items.
[20:10] <@ENGM> Are you tapping into the system with your computer or using the consol on the stand.
[20:10] * +Thomas_J_Atkins checks down the hall/room beyond the threshold.
[20:10] <+SamuraiHanson> console on the stand.
[20:11] <@ENGM> The console is an older model used on old star ships. You can tap into the menu. A screen comes up and a voice like Siri says "Welcome to the Ecliptic. How can I help you?"
[20:14] <+SamuraiHanson> "Ecliptic, what is the current date, location, and heading?"
[20:15] <Computer> The date is 1085, we are currently in jump to D'Ganzio"
[20:15] <@ENGM> the date is 1085, we are currently in jump to D'Ganzio"
[20:19] <+SamuraiHanson> "Computer, how long has the ship been in jump?"
[20:19] <Computer> "3 Days"
[20:21] <+SamuraiHanson> "Anybody feel like taking a walk with me? This just doesn't seem right to me."
[20:21] * +Thomas_J_Atkins is keeping a watch in the door's frame "I can go with a little look-see."
[20:22] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Thought I'd rather have a bit of a rest for a moment..."
[20:23] <+SamuraiHanson> "I think we might be able to get some more complete answers from the Bridge. Or possibly find someone who is alive."
[20:24] <+DirkVonTowers> "It could be worth a shot. If we can get out of the room."
[20:24] <+Thomas_J_Atkins> "Oh, yes, sorry."
[20:24] * +Thomas_J_Atkins gets out of the way.
[20:25] <@ENGM> ((to the door?))
[20:26] <@ENGM> You approach the door. There's a sensor on the wall now that senses your presence and the door opens into....
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