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=== The Market Plaza === | === The Market Plaza === | ||
Captain Oddas herself leads a team to investigate where the anomalous reading was found with Kettick, Sera, Tomas Falt, Zaaia Leix, Neshala, Wilhelmina Leynen, and Lumm. They take a shuttlecraft to the location, and within minutes find trace amounts of residual Carbon 14 and aren't quite sure what put it there. | Captain Oddas herself leads a team to investigate where the anomalous reading was found with Kettick, Sera, Tomas Falt, Zaaia Leix, Neshala, Wilhelmina Leynen, and Lumm. They take a shuttlecraft to the location, and within minutes find trace amounts of residual Carbon 14 and aren't quite sure what put it there. | ||
There is a mention of possible dragons, however unlikely. Captain Oddas makes the decision to split the party. She herself with Ensigns Sera and Leynen to the ground floors below, and the other group of Major Leix, Lieutenants Falt, and Neshala, and Ensign Kettick to explore the corridor to the right. | |||
Oddas and company struggle to find a way to the lower levels before finding an elevator shaft, and the elevator out of service. But there is a ladder. Leynen climbs down to make sure it's safe to climb on, and finds a locking mechanism blocking their way, as the others join her. Suggesting that perhaps they could go further down to gain access to the lower levels that way. Oddas and Sera see if they can bypass it, seeing as they're both Engineers by trade. | |||
They find a way to use energy from their flashlight and some Engineering tools and the elevator opens to a humid area. As they carefully make their way into the humid room, Leynen hears what sounds like an unnerving purring noise in the dark. Or more accurately, a skittering. (A normal Tuesday in Starfleet.) | |||
Oddas pulls out her phaser, and Sera notices reflective eyes, seemingly predatory. A screeching sound. Arachnoids, which can see that their phasers are able to harm them. They move quickly and Spider-nap Ensign Leynen. Oddas and Sera set phasers to stun and attempt to stun them before they can get away with her completely, but stun doesn't do anything to them. And in the process, they are unable to get Leynen back before she's out of sight. | |||
While they discuss what to do next, they find they are cornered by these beings. And it doesn't take much to decide to set phasers to kill, they can't have another crew member taken. | |||
They take down the ones cornering them, and the remaining ones run out for reasons unknown. The two engineers work on figuring out if they're natives of the city. A search determines with reasonable certainty that they don't quite match with the native flora of the Ring that they know of so far, but they also don't have an answer as to where they come from. | |||
They decide to follow the archanoids. And specifically a trail of slime. Hoping to find their missing Security ensign, and maybe more information. They converse as they follow the trail, find a web-like veil, and working machinery as well as Ensign Leynen, who is in some distress. All of it points to the Arachnoids being intelligent beings as opposed to pests. | |||
They make an attempt at communicating with them, announcing their presence, and offering to help. They get the screeching from before. The use of the universal translator begins to open up a line of conversation between them. | |||
Mentions of a crash. Hull. Wasting time. | |||
It's then that the Arachnoids realize they can understand are being understood. Leynen speaks, but is being held by the spider beings. Presumably they aren't trying to cause harm. At least they hope so. | |||
As the UT works on translating, more is revealed. There was a crash, and a malfunction. Many children. Their colony is far away, and there is a leak of trilithium resin. Dangerous and very explosive, though there doesn't seem to be any bombs. The other team reaches out to Oddas, who steps aside to get the update, and the Arachnoids realize that Oddas and Sera can help them fix their scout ship, and begin bringing them toward it rather forcefully. | |||
Something they're sorry for, but are desperately in need of that assistance. At the end of the journey is the crashed ship. And they expect it to be fixed. | |||
On the team with Leix, Falt, Neshala, and Kettick they have similarly run into the arachnoid beings, and another crashed ship. The arachnoids here are armed. And similarly, they are waiting for the UT to translate the communication of not wanting to cause harm. The Arachnoids explain they that there was a malfunction, they got a signal from the ring, and were stranded when they crashed on it. This group of them also requests help to fix it. | |||
=== The Spire === | === The Spire === | ||