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MPT-LS: Year of Hell - CIC Bridge - Setting out (all welcome)

Posted July 8, 2021, 1:03 p.m. by Chief Warrant Officer Kodek Vonn (RTF Commander) (James Sinclair)

Posted by Lieutenant Mwezi (Chief Tactical Officer) in MPT-LS: Year of Hell - CIC Bridge - Setting out (all welcome)

Posted by Captain Zachariah Cobb (Commanding Officer) in MPT-LS: Year of Hell - CIC Bridge - Setting out (all welcome)
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Posted by Commander Ryder Raauhl (Executive Officer) in MPT-LS: Year of Hell - CIC Bridge - Setting out (all welcome)
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Cobb nodded to the Counselor’s suggestion of an additional chemical field.

Jonathan was ‘experienced’ with anomalies, true; but his expertise was with containment and neutralization; not capture. His work almost always came after the more exciting bits. As such, he gladly yielded the floor to Mr. Raauhl’s more effective actions. Turning towards the fleeing drops, he made a note of where they went; before moving over to the replicator. Instead of a siphon, he requested a fogger loaded with liquid helium - thinking that freezing the animated water may be an effective, if temporary way to stop their escape.

Quickly popping the panels off of the consoles, a short blast supercooled the cramped space underneath. Before too long, the temperature on the bridge had noticeably dropped.

-WO Durheim, Refrigeration Apprentice

Casela was relieved to see someone was attempting to contain this other than Raauhl. She could feel it though, annoynace, irritation, disappointment, and anger welling up. She’d not felt that way about this crew in a long time.

OOC: I love this! Really inventive!

IC: “By the gods, Mr Durheim. Are you trying to replicate Chief Vonn’s living conditions right here on the bridge?” Zachariah roared, wrapping arms around his own body as if to ward off the biting chill.

She laughed, and it wasn’t exactly humor, there was some but there was something else. “It would have to be A LOT colder for that Cpt. That’s not a bad idea though, Durheim might want to look at how Chief Vonn’s quarters maintain that level of cold.”

Meanwhile beneath the consoles, as the cloud of helium vapour reached the escaping particles, they began to move with noticeably decreasing speed. No longer flowing as water, now the tiny drops appeared more like sticky gum, each one stretching out in an attempt to reach each other, until the coating of frost entombed them in a hardened outer shell and they fell motionless, scattered across the deck like poisonous and discarded sweets.

  • Captain Zachariah Cobb / Goo

Casela walked over to her chair and pulled the RTF bag she had stowed behind it out. She tossed it on the chair, opened it and pulled out the componets for a portable containment unit and quick order she had a box the size of a paper case. “No idea if it’s big enough, Durheim but it gives us a start.” She fiddled with the controls and set the unit for a level 2 biological and chemical containment field and the environmental controls to contain the liquid helium’s conditions. A small force field was erected in the top of the box to allow the ‘water’ to be inserted. She muttered under her breath, “I’m not RTF anymore, but since our on deck RTF agents aren’t doing anything, it’s a good thing I’m prepared.” Oh yeah everyone heard her and she didn’t care. This is what Vonn had tried to talk to Cobb about days ago. The fact that everyone was looking at Cobb for permission to do their jobs. RTF agents dropped EVERYTHING when their was an anomaly to contain. And yet they were standing still.

She carried the box over to Raauhl first, “Cmdr.” And then returned to the bag and took out a scientific and a medical tricorder, flipped both open and started scanning the creepy frozen sweets.

Adam sent an encrypted message to Starbase 237 requesting a check on any missing anomalies since the ship last docked there. He used the unfamiliar encryption and codes he’d memorized during his travels to the Leviathan, he was certain that there were only a handful of people on that base that could both unlock the encryption and read the message, the correct amount of paranoia and security to his mind.

CIO

After several minutes a reply was received, similarly encrypted. Once revealed Adam would be able to read the following:
=^= Our measurements indicate that ARU-2750 has lost mass. It is possible that it has undergone some form of mitosis. We shall continue to monitor. =^=

Juliet had pressed the Captain back towards the wall as the ‘water entity’ dissolved. Unsure if it would explode or merely drop she had shielded the man the best she could. Once things had calmed and the clean up was underway, she stepped back and stayed at the Captain’s side as he moved into the bridge.

A tight shaft of thought moved into Cas’ mind as the others worked on their assignments. “Did you sense anything from it before…” there was a pause as she sought the right words. “Before it dissolved? If its sentient, we should get it to containment and let it coalesce. I didn’t sense malevolence from it. But it may just be I was too far away. “ She was overly cautious, perhaps more than most. But it also occurred to her that they had possibly just caused injury to the… thing. And that didn’t sit well with her, either.

She shook her head, rubbing her temples. Telepathy was a useful tool but hers wasn’t working right and avoiding a seizure at the moment was paramount. She’d gone mind to mind with a couple of anomalies, it wasn’t worth the risk now.

Glancing back at the Captain, she made sure he was all right before taking up a position close enough to protect him once more if something else happened. “And I’d stay clear of the canister, Sir,” she added as an aside to the CO. “It took your form for a reason. Good or bad, I’d rather not have to sort you two out again.”

Juliet
“Jewels”
RTF

“Aye, you and me both, Miss Anders,” Cobb laughed, although from their proximity Jewels would catch the flicker of anxiety that crossed the captain’s features as his eyes darted quickly to the strange liquid that had, only moments earlier, been ‘him’.

Casela forced a good natured laugh, “I think, Sir, they’ve fogotten you are a Dominion War vet and could take us all out quite easily if you wanted.” The control on her wrist beeped. “Fenrir’s in the lift. We can either drop the fields or someone with command authorization can beam him in through the field.”
OOC: Yeah…old Casela came to say hi.
Lt Synthi-er, CNS and apparently back on RTF now

“Your faith in my abilities is reassuring, Counselor,” Zachariah nodded, “although I suspect these anomalies care little of my conduct in some long-forgotten war. In fact, sometimes I wonder if they consider us a threat at all?”

A column of swirling lights heralded an incoming transporter activation. Soon, the lights swirled around and coalesced into the form of the RTF Commander, the Breen Vonn. The helmet swiveled around and the disruptor sait in an armored gloved hand. “Report on anomaly status, Lieutenant Synthi-er.” the voice said flatly.

Vonn, RCO

“Darwin or Curie type anomaly. Possibly green or yellow risk level. Presented itself as Cpt Cobb. He was on the CIC unchecked for a couple of hours, quoting old English Earth poetry. When I started to question it directly it’s ability to maintain it’s ‘cover’ seemed to slip. The anomaly was pouring water from it’s mouth. It maintained it’s shape when physically assaulted. Chief Durheim electrocuted it, and it collapsed into water and purposely moved across the CIC to hide in the bulkheads. Biological and Chemical containment fields were erected. Chief Durheim has used liquid helium to freeze it behind the bulk heads and we are transferring to this portable containment unit. Cmdr Raauhl is using a giant pipette to suck up as much of the water as possible.” She passed him both the medical and scientific tricorders she was holding, “I’ve been attempting to gather data on it.”

OOC: Information on type and risk level: https://aru.fandom.com/wiki/Anomaly_Classification
Lt Synthi-er, CNS

“Green or yellow?” the captain sounded almost disappointed, as if he had hoped for a more legendary threat from something formed in his image.

With the liquid swirling around in the pipette Raauhl strode over to their Breen RTF commander another reminder on how unique this crew really was. “I think this may be better suited under the care of the RTF” He suggested holding out the Pipette to any of the RTF personnel on the bride, “I’d like to know how this managed to get on the ship and how its able to mimic the physical appearance of the crew, we have several talented scientists on board so lets make this a priority.” He paused thinking about a conversation he had with two of their new arrivals. “Also someone contact Kula, shes keen to be involved in our research and scientific discoveries this may be something she’s seen before.” The orders were open ended, anyone could answer and he’d be content as long as it was done.

  • Commander Raauhl, XO

Ooc: At this point in the continuity, Kula and Mwezi Haven’t joined the Levi yet.

Ic:

Vonn took the container and looked at the RTF team members on the bridge. “Secondary containment protocols are now in place. Scour the bridge for remnants. Full sensor sweep of all attached spaces. Any indication of anomaly presence, the search radius extends to spaces attached there. Once we are verified clear, all present RTF members are to report to my office for debrief. Lieutenant Synthi-er, you are back on active RTF duty as of now. Report with them.” at that moment, an RTF override opened the lift doors and two RTF Transport and Containment Specialists arrived. Vonn looked at them and said “Containment escort.” and they nodded once and the three figures stepped onto the lift and were gone.

With the anomaly now secured, albeit in temporary containers, Zachariah Cobb exhaled a small measure of tension. It had been unsettling to come upon his own mirror image, and even more to find his doppelganger without substance. Like spilled whiskey into a great and turbulent ocean.
“Good work, everyone,” he commended the gathered crew. “I share the Commander’s eagerness to learn more on this anomaly, how it came to resemble me so precisely and how it stowed away, undetected, on our ship. We must…”

“Captain,” an urgent yet controlled voice cut in from the helm.
“Aye, MacReady. What is it, lad?”
MacReady’s chair turned until he could face the gathered crew, before announcing with a nod to the once-more activated viewscreen, “We have arrived at the Alini system.”

  • Captain Zachariah Cobb

Vonn, RCO


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