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Event Horizon - Dinner

Posted Jan. 31, 2019, 8:55 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Maxwell Wynter (Chief Engineer / 2nd Officer) (David Shotton)

Posted by Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Chief Operations Officer) in Event Horizon - Dinner

Posted by Lieutenant Logan Drake (Chief of Security) in Event Horizon - Dinner

Posted by Commander Ardashir “Jack” Creed (Executive Officer) in Event Horizon - Dinner
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Snipping for Sanity

“Cue the cold shower and promises tomorrow night will be better,” Jasmine said to Max with a soft smile. She laid her hand on his before standing up from the table. “Coming sir,” she called out and fell into step behind the new captain.

Jasmine Wynter CMO

“Right” Max said, sounding more than a little surly. “That’s wonderful, More of a waterfall in an Andorian winter than a cold shower. Be safe Jaz.”

Walker watched as the Captain and the XO walked out of the room. New CO, comes in, says hi, and then leaves. Officers. If you left it up to them, nothing would ever get done in the fleet, flittering off to one thing or another. Well that’s why there was enlisted, someone had to actually run the ship. It was probably up to him to get whatever briefing they were supposed to have.

He looked around at the other senior staff from the Manhattan, waiting to see if they would do anything.

WO Darach - COO

“You do tend to know where the best poker games are,” Celina nodded casting a glance back over her shoulder as she watched Jack walk out. “You’re new here right,” she asked Walker. She had heard that they had a new chief of operations but had not had a chance to meet him yet. Now was as good a time as any.

“Celina. Celina Rodriguez,” she said extending her hand to Darach. “And as the new chief of operations isn’t is your job to provide the leadership, management and vision necessary to ensure that the Manhattan has the proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and people systems in place to effectively get us from point A to point B,” she teased him with a big smile. “If it is you kinda just let them all slip out before they got their jobs done.”

Lt. Celina Rodriguez

“Walker Darach,” he said taking her hand. “As for them, who can predict what goes through an officers head. Sometimes it is just like herding cats,” he said with a grin.

Olivia towered over the COS who had been her escort since she had tried to board the Manhattan earlier in the evening. She was more then agitated as she spoke “if you would let me contact Admrial Steel we would have this matter would be resolved in a matter of minutes”

Lieutenant Olivia Grace, CNS

Amanda

“I’m sorry, Lt.,” Logan explained. “That’s just not proper procedure.”

Max looked up and noted the Counselor person and the CoS, and glanced at the commanding officer from the station. “Is there a problem, Lieutenants?” he said, addressing both of them at once. His chances of disappearing with Jasmine seeming to get smaller by the minute.

Lt Cmdr Max Wynter
CE/2nd Officer

“Sir,” Logan reported, “I’ve found a discrepancy in the transfer orders for our new counselor. Lt. Grace. As the ship’s Security Chief, one of my duties is to review all such orders to verify access codes.”

CoS

Nodding, Max motioned to two seats. “Later, after the dinner when the Captain is back. For now take a seat, both of you. If I’m stuck here, so are you.”

As Cockrane, Station XO QT Pie and the Manhattan’s XO left the room for Fat Sam’s (and their arrival will be posted into that thread) a mist began to form in the room, right next to the Station Commander. He looked at it in confusion and stepped back away from it even as it consolidated itself into a three headed feline with pink fur. The creature looked around and purred and approached the Station Commander who seemed rather terrified and keen to flee.

“WAIT Sir,” Nalonx said, a touch of wonder in his voice, “stand still. All of you, stand still. It’ll smell you, touch you, stare at you, lick you and but show no fear, don’t move. It wants to know who we are, but movement, fear causes it to strike.”

“What,” Celina said standing up almost shocked at the site. She couldn’t quite understand what was happening. She let her eyes dart to the engineering chief hoping he had some words of wisdom.

“I have no idea” Max said to the CTO. “Until we know more, better do as he says, all of you” he said, not moving but loud enough for people to hear. He realized that Jasmine had left with the tricorder in her bag, it would have been handy to get scans of the creature but at the same time, glad for some reason that Jasmine had left the room.

“Ok Nalonx,” the Station Commander said, forcing himself to stand still. Sure enough the creature smelled him with the nose on its middle head, and flicked out its tongue from its right head to taste him while staring at him with the eyes from its left head.

“Station Commander, humanoid, ready for collection.” the creature said, more a hiss than a purr as was the case with Caits.

“Whoa whoa whoa,” Celina froze watching the scene unfold around her. “Great just great,” she said through gritted teeth to Darach only moving her lips and not her jaw or teeth. “Why is it the second the XO and CO leave the room my happy arse gets stuck in the hot seat. There are three…three people above me and as usual none of them are around when any work needs to tbe done.” Slowly her hand moved up to her comm badge.

“Did I just turn invisible?” Max said, “Good, in that case that thing won’t be able to find me.”

=/\=Jack....you need to get back here, =/\= Celina said in a soft gritted teeth whisper. =/\=And put a force field around dinner=/\= she ordered the XO

=/\= Celina… you are a big girl, take the lead and contact me only if this is an utmost emergency. I can’t hold your hand when you are giving command.=/\= Jack replied from the corner he was standing in as he spoke to Celina, away from ears of QT and the others as he got back into step with them.

“Take the lead. Did he just say take the lead,” Celina said through gritted teeth giving Darach the death glare she had intended for her fiance.

=/\=I am following your career Sir. I am not looking for one of my own. And what do you think I am doing here. Telling you to order a pizza? Get me out of here. As usual ten seconds after you leave I am putting up with a frisky kitty that so needs to caged,=/\= she spat back still with her jaw closed speaking only through her gritted teeth. She hoped Jack would get the hint. The last thing she wanted was to yell out ‘hey were being attacked by a pink wanna be caitian. Clearly, the critter understood their language because Celina sure understood it when it spoke.

Jack stopped and smiled at the men and Captain. “Sir, I think I left something on the bridge. Can you continue for just one second and let me grab it. It’ll help along with these delegations.” Jack said, he knew protocol would need him to wait for the Captain to agree, but he hopped the new CO would be forgiving and trust his gut as he had little time to wait to see if he really agreed.

Lt. Celina ROdriguez CTO

The creature moved onto the next officer from the station, recent graduate to DH, the Lt was inexperienced with this type of situation, and panicked and ran … or he tried to run. He took a step and the the creature sliced him, across his head and body, and he died.

“Unsuitable, disposal initiated,” the creature hissed.

“What the actual ploughing heck!” Max said, and half came to his feet, freezing in place as the creature focused on another Officer. He found himself gripping a steak knife tightly in his hand and glaring at the creature, then at this Nalonx who obviously knew what it was.

The creature turned to a woman in Science Teal and sniffed her, licked her and stared at her, while she stood still.

“Don’t move,” Celina warned the woman. How they were going to get out of this she had no idea. At least for the moment the woman had not lost her head.

“Station CSO, humanoid, ready for collection.” the creature said, and then turned its attention to Darach and padded over to him.

  • GM Dark Tribble

“Hey Max,” Celina said in a low voice still watching what was happening. The creature might be calling for a pickup but there wasn’t any space uber yelling out ‘Yo Pink Panther you got a pick up for me’. That gave the people in the dinner some time to figure things out. “You’re newly married right? Doesn’t that mean you are on rodent duty so got any ideas on how to fix this,” she asked the engineering chief.

Lt.Celina Rodriguez CTO

“I didn’t bring my squirty bottle of water unfortunately” Max said to Celina, “Don’t you have some pepper spray or something in your purse?”

Olivia glanced over to the Logan then back to the creature in front of her. She took a deep breath and held it. After a moment she let it out slowly turning her head toward Logan and shaking her head. This was not what she had signed up for. “What is it she whispered?”

Lt. Grace, CNS

Logan narrowed his eyes as he responded, “A threat.” He whipped out his type two hand phaser.

Then aimed it at the alien. He declared, “Nobody kidnaps people right in front of me, and gets away with it! Stand down!”

CoS

Walker just grumbled, why did the security people always over react and try to shoot things first. Why did officers never listen.

“Lieutenant, I would strongly urge you to put that phaser away, now. We don’t know what the creature is, but the last person who tried running, is laying on the floor in front of us. Unless you want to join him, put that weapon down. Sir.”

Walker hoped that Logan would listen. Because one thing was certain, there was no way in the known worlds that he was going to be cleaning blood out of the carpet because people couldn’t listen to simple instructions.

WO Darach - COO

Olivia placed her hand on top of the phaser and slowly pushed down on it. After she had removed the creature as the target she turned to the Chief “if your not careful you’ll be next.”

Lt. Olivia Grace, CNS

Ooc: change of character

Creed, XO

“No ones going to be next if you stay still” Max said, but at the same time wished the Security Chief had fired and obliterated the beast. “What the heck is it” he hissed at Nalonx.

Lt Cmdr Wynter
CE

Walker had stayed still as the creature padded over towards him. As the creature had approached, he held his hands out to the side slightly, turning his palms out, showing he wasn’t planning on hurting the creature.

Jack went down a corridor and found a console with a senor read out. He wanted to read the details of the bridge, rather than ask. He didn’t want things to seem suspicious and he began to scan the life signs to find out just what Celina was talking about before he made the trek to see her. “This better not be you overreacting buttercup.” he whispered under his breath.

Creed, XO

Logan’s years of training kicked in. From his own perspective, everything was moving in slow motion. Except for the alien who was killing and also kidnapping people.

His phaser was in his had. The new counselor had warned him against antagonizing this alien. But it was far too late to consider that now.

Naturally, his type two hand phaser was set at the lowest stun setting. Which he now aimed and cleared the path of his fire from any friendly officer.

He fired at will at the alien.

CoS

As soon as Logan fired, Walker locked his eyes on the creature, watching to see what it would do. It was one thing to listen to sound advice, it was another to stay still as the creature lept and tried to eat him.

WO Darach - COO

Max, however, didn’t stay still. As the Security Chief opened fire, Max leaped over the table and made a dash for the thing. He trusted the Security Chief to adjust his fire, he was no noob. If the phaser didn’t work however, the beast would need a new target and Max wasn’t ready to let any more of the crew become that target. He tightened his grip on the steak knife as he dashed at the creature, moving to tackle it.

Lt Cmdr Max Wynter - CE/2nd Officer


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