Stardate 2271.3.22: 1850h
With Costello being carried by the Captain and Dr. Ryerson, the party continues to keep time in their trek to the looming jungle ahead.
Nadix continues to monitor Stirling's progress as they move: his signature is weak but stable, and continues to move slowly to the southeast. No other life signatures, ursinoid or otherwise, can be detected in pursuit. After a minute of hiking the signal loses much of its accuracy, as Stirling move beyond the tricorder's limited range.
Just as full, cold darkness begins to descend on the plain, the party reaches the jungle's edge. Beyond the first patches of trees and bushes their entire field of vision from north to south is swallowed up in pitch blackness. Finding an entry that looks as familiar as anything can in this light, the group plunges into the shelter of the canopy. The deafening wind almost instantaneously dwindles to a muffled hum high above, and it takes a minute or two for their ears to adjust to the relative silence: slowly the overloaded ringing in their ears gives way to a layered cacophony of wild jungle sounds, all bizarre and alien, but always familiar the galaxy over.
At the edge of Nadix's scanning range, he detects Stirling's life signs still relatively stable, but then they become too difficult to pick out amongst the many other human and Coxan life signs in that direction. The party has made decent time and have not lost any ground to the main body of pursuers, with the exception of the smaller group that was breaking off to the north, whose signatures now appear somewhat stronger on the tricorders.
Crew Status:
CAPT Dillon Wyse — CT 11/11, phaser energy 9/9
CDR Gareb Endilev — CT 15/15, phaser energy 9/9
CDR Nadix Ar Eth — CT 12/12, phaser A energy 9/9, phaser B energy 9/9
LCDR Dale Collins — CT 11/11, phaser energy 9/9
LT Dr. Ned Ryerson — CT 12/12, phaser energy 9/9
ENS Lou Abbot — CT 8/15 (-2 DX), phaser energy 9/9
ENS Bud Costello — CT 4/8 (-1 DX) (poisoned: -4 CT, 0% move; 25% healed at 1855h, 1910h, 1925h and 1940h)
Current prisoners:
Dr. Leigh Moore — CT 9/9
Dr. James Silliphant — CT 7/10 (-1 DX)
Norman Meston — CT 14/14[/quote][/quote]
