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Main Sim - Badges? We Don't Need No- ... Oh We Do? Oops. (Tag Security)

Posted Nov. 9, 2021, 11:13 a.m. by Gamemaster Alias Smith N. Jones, Esq. (Gamemaster) (James Sinclair)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in Main Sim - Badges? We Don’t Need No- … Oh We Do? Oops. (Tag Security)

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Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in Main Sim - Badges? We Don’t Need No- … Oh We Do? Oops. (Tag Security)
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Elias didn’t look up, didn’t put the stiletto away, and didn’t so much as flinch. “Intimidation? tsk-tsk-tsk…” the man said and clicked his tongue against his teeth in that annoying way he always had when he knew he had the upper hand. “No… I’m not here to intimidate anybody, tart. Nor am I here to rekindle whatever you hoped to get from me.” and he blew on his fingertips and rubbed them together. A flick of the wrist and the blade vanished as if it had never been. He then looked up at Gadi and, still leaning on the rail, smiled.

“But I am here to reconfigure your security and weapon systems to something more… ‘appropriate’.” and the smile became a predatory grin.

GM

It was always wise to chose one’s words with caution around Elias, and it was also wise not to wait too long to respond. A quick flick of her eyes over him and Bethany found she slipped so easily back to that state of mind that she’d lived in for most of her career - until three years ago when he’d died. He was supposed to be dead. But that was a problem for another time. Bethany swaggered into his space. A single finger trailing down his arm to his wrist and tangled gently with a bracelet there. Elias had stolen many things from her over the years, but this one, this piece, the very first, was the only one he’d never returned. Taken before they knew who each other was. “Hmmm…seems someone is holding onto the past.”

She produced a data chip and slipped it into his hand. “You can put the reconfigurations on here and I’ll look over them. You can monitor the reconfigurations remotely.” That was the one thing Bethany had over him, her computer skills. She could set up a remote station for him and be able to stop him from accessing areas or data he shouldn’t. Or 3 years ago she had. It was likely he’d learned a lot, but so had she. Every other area they were pretty well matched, give or take a little. Except Bethany had stable morals, Elias…well they shifted and blew like the wind. She stepped back smoothly, not that distance saved you from a man like him.

“You are not getting permission to board this ship. I don’t care who sent you, why, or what they promised you.” Bethany knew he’d get on board without permission. It was a 50/50 chance she’d catch him before he did. It was 100% likely she’d know he had been on board, and another 50/50 that she’d catch him before he got off again. What scared her, was what he was promised. Elias didn’t do anything out of the goodness of his heart. And she had a feeling whatever he wanted was a much higher personal price than she was willing to pay.

The two Sec NEs watched the interaction of their CoS and this strange man calling himself Cpt Elias Balthazar and were at a loss, except that they knew he was very very dangerous. He oozed it.
Gadi, CoS

The junior officers with Gadi didn’t know better, but Calloway did. She had a lovely little position from which to listen to everything and occasionally watch, but in order to properly react, Shara would have to reveal herself. But that was okay, because her little standard issue Intelligence-issued phaser was already pointed at the man and she liked her odds of hitting him better than the extra reaction time his response would take. One wrong move and he was going down. And she was mostly sure her phaser was set to stun…

Commander Calloway, CIO

Elias didn’t move, just leaned there… smiling. “Now now… is that anyway to treat someone who is here to help you? I mean, I am here to do just that… help.” His eyes flicked to the Asimov’s hatch and his mouth twitched slightly. “I’m not fond of unseen assassins, you know.” he said, his voice raised just enough so that it was plain he knew there was someone inside. He then shifted back to Bethany. “Now then, pet… how do we move forward from here? Because I have directions, and you have ideas… and never the two shall meet. So what do you need from me to make this more… shall we say ‘palatable’? Because honestly, I really don’t want to spend any more time around you than is required. Last time didn’t work out so well for me… and getting shot in the head leave a bad taste in my mouth.”

GM

“I had nothing to do with that, and if you’re alive you know that.” Elias mocked her ethics and morals on many occasions. It irked her no end that he was right. But Bethany was always a woman of her word and she had told Elias if she had anything to do with his death, she’d look him in the eyes when she did it. “No assassins here, just redundant levels of encryption.” Bethany looked him over again. Looking for whatever signs, clues, details that would give her the upper-hand. “All I need is you in cuffs and locked in my brig.”

Gadi, CoS

“Liar.” Elias said with a grin. “You have back-up just inside there… I can smell them. No… not them…” and he took an exaggerated sniff of the air. “Her.” and he looked back at Bethany, his dark blue-black eyes boring into her. “Alive is an operative term in this context. So… when you decide that you want to get to work, you just ask for me. I’ll be around.” and he moved slowly to standing upright and turned and began to walk away. “I’ll be seeing you, Officer Gadi. I might even let you know when that is.” and he moved onto the main catwalk and began walking away, hands in his pockets, whistling something familiar that took her a moment to place… a funeral dirge. The one played at the funeral of the Assistant Director of the Task Force dedicated to his capture. The death that nearly disbanded the Task Force entirely. The death that had never even been close to being associated with Balthazar. The death that appeared to all forensics and evidence as simple natural causes.

GM

That was…odd. Elias, if this was Elias, was brilliant and normally would not miss that she was calling her back up an extra level of encryption. “Yes, her, but she’s not an assassin. I always keep my word, Elias.” Even to depraved space slugs like him. Bethany didn’t blink under his gaze her own obsidian gaze assessing him. She wasn’t going to work with him. There was no way. He was brilliant, there was no doubt that he would improve their systems…but what happened after? What price would they pay? What ‘surprise’ would he leave. There were children on their ship. When he moved away Bethany took two steps back before the whistling registered and she stilled, seeing red, but years of life and experience kept her breathing normal and her stance relaxed. She contemplated the small hand sized disruptor at her back, she even contemplating rushing him and taking him over the railing of the cat walk with her. She did none of those things because Elias would be prepared for both. Also they had been warned about the station. Bethany was willing to fall on her sword to take him out with her, but not risk the innocent people on the Asimov. It was clear the people of this station were not innocent if they harbored Elias Balthazar. “What did they offer you?”

Gadi, CoS

Without turning around, and still continuing on his way, he yelled back “Nothing. I was offered nothing.” and he disappeared into the gloom and darkness.

GM


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