More Questions (part 2)

Posted on Mon Jan 27th, 2014 @ 3:00pm by Commodore Samantha York & Ensign Maria Delgado & Master Chief Petty Officer Apu Barnum & 1st Lieutenant Kara Melo & Commander Alexandra Vance & Lieutenant Eamon Lynx & Captain Cameron Bourne & Warrant Officer Sterling Kamala IV & Gaia

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Mission: Tabula Rasa

[CONTINUED]

[OLD]

Eamon went to the wall that the groove was part of and began feeling around. He got to just a metre from the chair and one of his fingers pressed an indent that began making the room shake slightly as the groove grew.

[NEW]

It didn't grow much in size, it seemed to expand a bit, and the metal u-shaped groove flatted a bit. It looked like something went into the machine. By the position of the chair, someone could sit at the chair and feed something into the machine. But the vibrations didn't seem to be quite right.

"Whatever it is, I'm not sure it's working properly. Can you shut it off?" Sam asked Eamon.

Eamon shook his head. "I don't think so. There's only one button, for lack of a better term." He replied.

Feeling the shaking increase slightly, Cam squatted down on the floor, "this doesn't feel like a natural tremor"

"What do you think?" Eamon asked Cam as he squatted next to the Marine. "It seems to require something to be inserted." But what? Eamon thought.

Chenoa had finished disengaging the trap she had found outside and had walked in obviously in the middle of some conversation so she stood there. She itched to offer suggestions, or make comments. But instead of doing so, she waited quietly and started to look around both rooms again, maybe they had missed something when they first entered and half tripped over one another.

"From the size and shape of it, whatever goes into the hole is round," Sam said. "And long enough to feed in. What I don't know is if it goes through or just goes in and comes out."

Alexandra walked into the room towards Sam. She had a black eye and her forehead was cut. The fight between she and the smuggler Devon was quite brutal, unfortunately Devon got away. "Hey Sam, what'd ya find here?" she asked.

Sam turned to Alexandra. "Are you okay?" Once she was sure the woman had only minor damage, she continued. "It's some sort of machine. We're not sure what it does."

There had to be something else in the room to indicate how thie machine worked, so Sam began a careful search for anything that would shed light on the situation.

Chenoa started to search for things out of the ordinary, she opened the armoire once more and felt around in it. The woman really didn't expect to find any thing but she would attempt her best. "That object, would it be like a lever perhaps or some thing else?" Her voice had a quiet sound to it and was barely heard above the other movement in the room.

"What did you find?" Sam asked her.

"May I suggest," Sterling said his voice not much louder than Chenoa's that we don't just randomly throw switche and push buttons to we've determined if that thing is a threat or not?"

"I think that's a good idea in general," Kara said.

"Maybe nothing." Chenoa said as she nodded in agreement

"I can't think they'd put a lever in a wardrobe for nothing," Sam said to Chenoa.

She walked back into the first room and looked around. "Okay, this room has beds, a wardrobe and a desk. The desk opens a panel into the second room. Why the second room? And what does IT lead to?" Was the first room a waiting room? And if so, waiting for what? For someone to lead them into the second room? It seemed odd. And there was the machine on the table that obviously was for putting something else into. And now, there was another machine near the first one that fed into the wall. When it was activated, the room shook. What did that mean? Sam had no idea.

She began to walk around the second room, looking at everything and gently touching it. Not so that she would activate it, but simply to feel it, to touch it, and maybe to get an idea of what it was for.

She sat in the chair by the table machine and looked at the u-shaped groove that led to a small opening. It was as large as a man's fist. Maybe larger. Curiously, she put her arm in the groove and slid it towards the machine. She paused and made sure it wasn't on, that no buttons were pushed, and gently slid her arm inside, careful not to touch anything on the inside to trigger the machine. Her arm fit. From the feel of it, a larger arm would fit as well.

There was a sudden whir and a sharp sting like a hundred tiny pinpricks on her arm. She quickly pulled her arm out and looked at it. On her forearm were tiny red marks in some sort of pattern, but they quickly faded away. "Odd." She looked for any sort of markings on the machine, but there were none.

"So, do you feel any different?" Chenoa asked quietly as she walked up behind the other woman.

"My arm itches," Sam replied. "Other than that, no." She got up and shook her arm a bit to make the tingling go away. Then she began to walk around the room to see if she could find something else and hopefully not set it off.

As Sam approached the machine in the wall hte shaking stopped and it began to hum softly. "I hope that's a good thing," she said, half-jokingly.

(To be continued...)

Lieutenant Eamon Lynx
Chief Engineer

Commander Samantha York
Commanding Officer

1st Lieutenant Cameron Bourne
Marine CO

Chenoa
Crew member

Commander Alexandra Vance
Executive Officer

 

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