0004 Pequan to Tremous Dex

[Eris]

Sigrún examines the wrap protecting the cargo to eliminate it from her suspicions. She states "You can carry a significant amount of high value micro size product in a high volume of wrap". Once she is done she says "Let's wait on any news from the search of the rest of the loot before we resort to forcing an entry". Nevertheless she examines the cargo to see how it could be opened.

(OOC: So not opening it yet in case new info comes to light).

Donovan will examine the cargo container itself more closely.

Is he familiar with this type of foam casing that the cube is made of?

The packing just looks like packing and the foam is simple Styrofoam. It looks decidedly normal. The container itself also looks like a normal container, no false bottoms or sides, nothing stands out as out of the ordinary.

[Eris]

He’ll get the briefcase and return, handing it over to her.

Zaki lays it on its side on the table, and runs her medical scanner over it. She sends the imagery to the table's display so Flighty can see it, while she uses her own HUD.

There is a blob inside the briefcase that looks vaguely like a hand gun and what look like papers...at least, it looks like papers on the scanner. Oh, and under the papers a small rectangular object...a box of some sort, maybe?

[helvorn]

The packing just looks like packing and the foam is simple Styrofoam. It looks decidedly normal. The container itself also looks like a normal container, no false bottoms or sides, nothing stands out as out of the ordinary.

Donovan glances at Sigrun. He takes a couple pictures of the package to fully document how it looks. "Shall we slit the tape and look inside? Or scan it first? I think Zaki may have something in the medical bay that can get some kind of resolution." Donovan pulls out a pocket knife and waves it toward the container.

[joertexas]

He’ll get the briefcase and return, handing it over to her.

Zaki lays it on its side on the table, and runs her medical scanner over it. She sends the imagery to the table's display so Flighty can see it, while she uses her own HUD.

There is a blob inside the briefcase that looks vaguely like a hand gun and what look like papers...at least, it looks like papers on the scanner. Oh, and under the papers a small rectangular object...a box of some sort, maybe?

Zaki turns the case around and scans from the other sides to assemble a 3D image of the items.

[Tiglath]

Donovan glances at Sigrun. He takes a couple pictures of the package to fully document how it looks. "Shall we slit the tape and look inside? Or scan it first? I think Zaki may have something in the medical bay that can get some kind of resolution." Donovan pulls out a pocket knife and waves it toward the container.

Sigrún replies "I think we can look inside. This is looks like the kind of styrofoam box you pack with ice and put a fresh catch of fish in. It's an odd container for something valuable".

[helvorn]

Donovan glances at Sigrun. He takes a couple pictures of the package to fully document how it looks. "Shall we slit the tape and look inside? Or scan it first? I think Zaki may have something in the medical bay that can get some kind of resolution." Donovan pulls out a pocket knife and waves it toward the container.

Sigrún replies "I think we can look inside. This is looks like the kind of styrofoam box you pack with ice and put a fresh catch of fish in. It's an odd container for something valuable".

Donovan nods. "I'm pretty sure I can duplicate the wrapping once we slit the tape." Donovan will carefully slit the tape and open the container.

[terrymixon]

Donovan glances at Sigrun. He takes a couple pictures of the package to fully document how it looks. "Shall we slit the tape and look inside? Or scan it first? I think Zaki may have something in the medical bay that can get some kind of resolution." Donovan pulls out a pocket knife and waves it toward the container.

Sigrún replies "I think we can look inside. This is looks like the kind of styrofoam box you pack with ice and put a fresh catch of fish in. It's an odd container for something valuable".

Donovan nods. "I'm pretty sure I can duplicate the wrapping once we slit the tape." Donovan will carefully slit the tape and open the container.

And that’s how the little psionic crawdads got all over the ship.

[Tiglath]

And that’s how the little psionic crawdads got all over the ship.

I'm wondering if we have "Team Science" and "Team Crowbar" on the wrong tasks here! It'll be fine (or maybe not! ) but in any event the Corporation must be liable for storing aliens in styrofoam secured with sticky tape - that's just reckless...

[helvorn]

And that’s how the little psionic crawdads got all over the ship.

I'm wondering if we have "Team Science" and "Team Crowbar" on the wrong tasks here! It'll be fine (or maybe not! ) but in any event the Corporation must be liable for storing aliens in styrofoam secured with sticky tape - that's just reckless...

What, me worry?

[Eris]

Sigrún replies "I think we can look inside. This is looks like the kind of styrofoam box you pack with ice and put a fresh catch of fish in. It's an odd container for something valuable".

Donovan nods. "I'm pretty sure I can duplicate the wrapping once we slit the tape." Donovan will carefully slit the tape and open the container.

Donovan lifts the lid while Sigrun stands at his shoulder looking down. The lid comes up reveling a statuette about a 18 inches long and half that wide at one end and narrow at the other. The statuette is made of what looks like a black rock, or rock-like, material with gold inlay for highlights. To you both it looks vaguely like a tree and growing from roots up its trunk are curling vines that disappear into a roundish canopy...though, maybe the canopy is more shaped like a human brain and the trunk is slightly curved and has indentions along it like a spine...maybe it's symbolic of either or both, you don't know. There is writing inlayed around the base of the statuette.

It is familiar to both Sigrun and Donovan, though Donovan can't begin to read it.

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Sigrun realizes that it is a Zhodani script and that she knows a little of that language. What is written here is mostly unreadable to her, not just because she doesn't know the words, but because most of the script is...well, it's not there like it has worn off. No, it's like it was never there and only a few bits are all that are needed for understanding? Oh, now she remembers!

She remembers seeing writing like this on a paper Tliaqrnadatl showed her once, he could read it, she could not.

Tlia? She can remember his face and his platinum hair and a feeling of calm he radiated, but that's all. Who was Tila and how did she come to know a Zhondani noble?

Concentrating, the only words she can pick out are "Wild", "Trigger", and "Path". Looking at it closely like this is giving her a headache. Sigrun becomes aware of a buzzing in her ears and her vision is going blurry...something is wrong with her! "I don't pass out! " is the last thought she has before she collapses to the deck unconscious.

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Donovan can't really make heads or tails of this statuette with the scribbles at the bottom. It's Zhodani, or at least, what that language looks like on Imperial Vid-dramas....for a minute he begins to think about a drama he once saw.

...and he is walking on a road of blue cobblestones holding the hand of a bird-man of some kind. They are both walking toward a temple with a large golden dome..."I don't pass out!" rings out in his head.

Shaking his head, Donovan turns away thinking this thing is messing with his brain and should be put back like it was ASAP! When he turns away he sees that Sigrun has fallen to the deck and is unconscious. He notes that he is still holding the Styrofoam lid to the box in his hands.

[Eris]

Zaki lays it on its side on the table, and runs her medical scanner over it. She sends the imagery to the table's display so Flighty can see it, while she uses her own HUD.

There is a blob inside the briefcase that looks vaguely like a hand gun and what look like papers...at least, it looks like papers on the scanner. Oh, and under the papers a small rectangular object...a box of some sort, maybe?

Zaki turns the case around and scans from the other sides to assemble a 3D image of the items.

The scan of the reverse side clears things up a bit. The gun shaped object looks even more like a pistol, the papers look more like papers and the box is clearly a box...not a metal box...no it looks more like dentine. Yes, that's what the scanner is reporting, dentine like a tooth. A tooth box?

Suddenly, Zaki has a thought pop into her head, "Urgent! Someone needs me! Somewhere near me! That direction!" She can't help but turn and look toward the Cargo Hold to the rear and below her.

Flighty has an uneasy feeling, then hearing a Gasp looks up and sees Zaki turned and looking aft and down with a worried expression on her face.

[terrymixon]

There is a blob inside the briefcase that looks vaguely like a hand gun and what look like papers...at least, it looks like papers on the scanner. Oh, and under the papers a small rectangular object...a box of some sort, maybe?

Zaki turns the case around and scans from the other sides to assemble a 3D image of the items.

The scan of the reverse side clears things up a bit. The gun shaped object looks even more like a pistol, the papers look more like papers and the box is clearly a box...not a metal box...no it looks more like dentine. Yes, that's what the scanner is reporting, dentine like a tooth. A tooth box?

Suddenly, Zaki has a thought pop into her head, "Urgent! Someone needs me! Somewhere near me! That direction!" She can't help but turn and look toward the Cargo Hold to the rear and below her.

Flighty has an uneasy feeling, then hearing a Gasp looks up and sees Zaki turned and looking aft and down with a worried expression on her face.

"What's wrong?"

Then he frowned. Why was he feeling like something was wrong, too? It was oddly like when they'd been back on the planet, though not nearly as strong.

Flighty

[helvorn]

in

Donovan can't really make heads or tails of this statuette with the scribbles at the bottom. It's Zhodani, or at least, what that language looks like on Imperial Vid-dramas....for a minute he begins to think about a drama he once saw.

...and he is walking on a road of blue cobblestones holding the hand of a bird-man of some kind. They are both walking toward a temple with a large golden dome..."I don't pass out!" rings out in his head.

Shaking his head, Donovan turns away thinking this thing is messing with his brain and should be put back like it was ASAP! When he turns away he sees that Sigrun has fallen to the deck and is unconscious. He notes that he is still holding the Styrofoam lid to the box in his hands.

Donovan frowns at the statuette. It's obviously something not Imperial and likely Zhodani. He starts to turn toward Sigrun before he gasps and shudders under the under the impact of the vision in his mind. The sudden words in a familiar accident shake him out of the fugue state and reflexively starts to cover the statuette back up. When he sees that Sigrun has collapsed he quickly covers the item and then calls on his communicator. "Medical emergency in the cargo bay. Sigrun collapsed. Some kind of psionic effect possibly." Then he kneels and attempts to render whatever aid he can.

[terrymixon]

in

Donovan can't really make heads or tails of this statuette with the scribbles at the bottom. It's Zhodani, or at least, what that language looks like on Imperial Vid-dramas....for a minute he begins to think about a drama he once saw.

...and he is walking on a road of blue cobblestones holding the hand of a bird-man of some kind. They are both walking toward a temple with a large golden dome..."I don't pass out!" rings out in his head.

Shaking his head, Donovan turns away thinking this thing is messing with his brain and should be put back like it was ASAP! When he turns away he sees that Sigrun has fallen to the deck and is unconscious. He notes that he is still holding the Styrofoam lid to the box in his hands.

Donovan frowns at the statuette. It's obviously something not Imperial and likely Zhodani. He starts to turn toward Sigrun before he gasps and shudders under the under the impact of the vision in his mind. The sudden words in a familiar accident shake him out of the fugue state and reflexively starts to cover the statuette back up. When he sees that Sigrun has collapsed he quickly covers the item and then calls on his communicator. "Medical emergency in the cargo bay. Sigrun collapsed. Some kind of psionic effect possibly." Then he kneels and attempts to render whatever aid he can.

Flighty isn't stupid enough to get between Zaki and a medical emergency, but he is right on her heels as they head for the cargo bay.

Flighty

[ateno]

As they run out, Katcsi headaches to the statuette and grabs it with a cloth and places it back in the 'foam' and closes the suitcase..

Karcsi

[terrymixon]

As they run out, Katcsi headaches to the statuette and grabs it with a cloth and places it back in the 'foam' and closes the suitcase..

Karcsi

The statuette is in the cargo bay while the briefcase (as yet unopened) is in the med bay. I’m not sure where Karsci is. I don’t remember him being in the med bay, but I could be wrong. His other thread was in a different time set, so I think he isn’t pegged as being anywhere at this moment.

Terry

[joertexas]

Zaki runs into the cargo bay with the scanner still in one hand, and her go bag in the other. She swears pungently in Old Vilani as she quickly takes in the scene. She glances at Donovan before kneeling next to Sigrun. "I might have known that she would open that package." She glances at Donovan. "What happened?" The medic listens while she starts scanning the unconscious woman. Or warrior, she thinks.

[terrymixon]

Zaki runs into the cargo bay with the scanner still in one hand, and her go bag in the other. She swears pungently in Old Vilani as she quickly takes in the scene. She glances at Donovan before kneeling next to Sigrun. "I might have known that she would open that package." She glances at Donovan. "What happened?" The medic listens while she starts scanning the unconscious woman. Or warrior, she thinks.

While Zaki works, Flighty looks at what they found, since it is probably still in the open. He wants to know what did this.

Flighty

[ateno]

I have been a little busy with personal things, sorry if I am out of sync.

To me it sounded like they left the statuette to deal with something, so Karcsi wanted to 'Safe' it. If Karcsi was working on the \ axe and spear in the machine shop while underway, that's fine.

Karcsi

[terrymixon]

I have been a little busy with personal things, sorry if I am out of sync.

To me it sounded like they left the statuette to deal with something, so Karcsi wanted to 'Safe' it. If Karcsi was working on the \ axe and spear in the machine shop while underway, that's fine.

Karcsi

No worries. I'm not saying he wasn't there. I just don't know. Being as psionic as he now is, that might not work out for him as well.