Posted by Commander Stark Nightstalker (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Side Sim - The Depths of Time: Seven Swords Sequel

Posted by Commander Orvos Legen (Executive Officer) in Side Sim - The Depths of Time: Seven Swords Sequel

Posted by Civilian Marishka (Lounge Host) in Side Sim - The Depths of Time: Seven Swords Sequel
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Adonis suddenly threw herself down on the floor and released a globe of glass that exploded sending a flat shockwave that staggered the three. There was the sound of shattering glass as Adonis rolled and dove out of a window.

Stark looked up his eyes still stinging. He ran to the window and came back with a disgusted look on his face muttering words of fury at her escape.

Looking at Marishka he grinned, “Well that was fun while it lasted, pretty sure I saw a few tango and rhumba moves in that repertoire of yours”.

Turning around they realised that the Klingon’s had clenched fists to their chests and were awaiting their Queen’s direction.

Stark Nightstalker

Marishka roared. For a fleeting instant she sensed defeat as the creature leapt out the window but then, her focus shifted back to the room. She saw Stark, Orvos, and all those Klingons. For a few seconds there was silence as she took in the scene. Raising her right hand she pointed at the window.

“After it! Don’t let it escape! Find it and kill it!” she commanded.

• Marishka

The Klingon’s rushed to do her bidding but they all headed the other way, away from the window.

Orvos pulled his hand away from his wrist device and strode forward. “So do we chase it? Or do we move on to the next sword? Or is there anyone else we’ll be expecting to join us along the way?”

-Lt. Commander Orvos Legen, CE

Stark motioned to the window, “100-foot vertical drop, one of the advantages of shapeshifting is wings”. He looked around for a second and then continued, “Nicely done and with a minimum of bloodshed. I’m not sure what the next move is, chasing her will be fruitless but she might have left some clues here in the castle.” He pointed to the drone, “Is that thing capable of finding hidden doors?”

Stark Nightstalker CIO

Orvos leveled his arm up to launch the drone. “It’s got much of the same features a starship would have. Not all, but much.” As soon as he finished his sentence, the drone relaunched from his wrist and started looping the room.

Marishka had come fully back to her senses. She noticed the drone and wondered if it had recorded the previous events. No-one would ever believe what had just taken place here. That was probably part of the magic of the whole thing though.

“Okay Stark, is there anything else I should know about what just happened to me? I’m guessing this is permanent so… What am I living with?” she asked.

• Marishka

“I can answer that,” S’Raal dropped from the mezzanine above, “It’s hard to quantify, but essentially the silicon has bonded with your nervous system in parallel relays that enable you to be able to communicate in what can be best be described as an inner companion. The being doesn’t take over but it does enable you to move with the sword as if you are one. The last time I was bonded, Excalibur was taken from me when his mass was used to repair the time space rift along with his brothers and sisters”.

Orvos listened as he monitored the drone for any readings that would lead to a secret hideout or that would indicate something abnormal.

-Lt. Commander Orvos Legen, CE

S’Raal Cran Moonshadow

The drone was detecting a locked door to a passageway to the right behind the floor to ceiling curtains.

Stark Nightstalker CIO

Marishka looked at S’Raal in surprise.

“Um… Did that hurt?” she asked.

• Marishka

S’Raal golden eyes saddened slightly, “Not physically, but it was like losing a friend”.

“Ah ha!” shouted Orvos as his drone hovered in front of a locked door. “Got ya!”

He then turned on a dime to the others present. “Also, let’s say we all make it out of here alive. I was not aware personally that Stark here was connected to Skotos. How long have you been connected with it? Furthermore, will we retain these connections after we accomplish our tasks?” As they replied he then gestured them all to follow him to his drone.

Stark spoke up. “Skotos called to me when we were on Rura Penthe in the Mirror Realm during our last mission. That’s what started this whole chain of events off. The last time we went through this, it was five years from start to finish, but in the end, all of us lost the swords. It was their purpose to knit the breach with their substance and wisdom. The Skotos within me now remembers everything from our last adventure but says she isn’t the Skotos I wielded the first time. I asked for an explanation and after 2 minutes my brain started bleeding from the strain of trying to understand the paradox”.

Orvos raised an eyebrow. “Lovely,” was all he could say at the moment.

Orvos had the drone scan the door for any irregularities and how the lock mechanism worked.

-Lt. Commander Orvos Legen, CE

S’Raal Cran Moonshadow

The door was solid steel and the lock mechanism was biometric requiring fingerprints and a retinal scan.

Stark spun slightly as the others came in having been alerted by the rampaging Klingons of the latest news.

Stark Nightstalker CIO

Marishka followed the others to the door, a small part of her was a little perturbed that, somehow, a door had been locked on their Queen but, mostly, she had been listening to Stark and S’Raal explain the sword that now dwelt within her.

“I doubt I have a lock pick for this.”

• Marishka

Michail put his hand on the pad. “I can short this, but it’s 50/50 as to whether that would open it or lock it for good”.

Michail

“Requires fingerprints and retina scan to open,” stated Orvos as he recalled the drone to his wrist. “Shorting out the circuit may be our best bet unless we can find the one who’s eye can open it up.” He stood by, figuring shorting the circuit was ultimately their only choice.

-Lt. Commander Orvos Legen, CE

Marishka was feeling particularly imperious in that moment. Smiling she tossed her head and walked straight to the door. She stepped into position for the retina scan and gave her fingerprint. It couldn’t hurt could it?

OOC: Feeling sassy.

• Marishka

Feeling a stirring within, suddenly one of Marishka’s eyes suddenly became blinded with silicon as Iw’bah mimicked Adonis’ genetic characteristics. A voice within sent a calming message and a hint of humour. There was a click and the door slid aside. Sight returned to her eye as Iw’bah retreated within.

Stark looked at the open door and his eyes widened, “Well that’s new!”.

Stark Nightstalker CIO

Marishka tried to hid her surprise.

“Thank you your grace will do. Let’s go.”

As she stepped through, she was thinking how much she was going to enjoy this. She and Iw’bah will get along wonderfully.

• Marishka

Orvos raised an eyebrow upon seeing her open the door with the retina scan. Orvos did not, and was likely not going to call her ‘your grace’. Humorous yes, but best to not let it get to her head. Besides, Orvos never let too many people have power over him.

The passageway was only just wide enough for them to slip through it and it twisted and turned downwards finally opening into a room that was bare apart from a star chart on the wall and one large desk filled with papers.

Stark Nightstalker

Orvos stepped in behind them to the scene before their eyes. “Hmmm…papers, eh? Bit on the primitive side, then again, look where we are.” He picked up a few of them, looking over what could have been written on them. He also looked up at the starchart, curious as to the information it provided as well.

-Lt. Commander Orvos Legen, CE

Marishka stepped aside and looked at the star chart. For the moment, she had no idea where they were. Perhaps Iw’bah knew. She also figured it was aobut time to cool it with the ‘your grace’ etcetera. She would die for these people, there was no sense in having them wanting to kill her.

• Marishka

Stark was muttering to himself as he looked over the star charts and the papers. Looking up his face was a mixture of conflicting emotions from exultation to outright suspicion.

“These are all the destinations in this timeline and universe where we can find the other swords. Rather than being hidden across time like last time they’ve been hidden across space at one time in history” he paused, “or this is a setup to lead us off the trail or into an ambush… if it’s too good to be true then usually it isn’t…”

He looked around, “”Let’s see if there isn’t something else hidden around this place…”

Stark Nightstalker CIO

Orvos immediately moved to the desk and looked in the drawers as well as underneath. If it was this primitive, perhaps some other clues could be easily found as well?

-Lt. Commander Orvos Legen, CE

Within minutes he had found a pop out compartment in the desk that slid out revealing a small flat electronic object.

Marishka began to physically examine the walls from floor to ceiling for as high as she could reach. Perhaps there was some other secret compartment or niche. If anybody could find it, she had the sense it would be her and her new internal companion.

• Marishka

Iw’bah directed her to a section of the wall and there was a click as another hidden door swung aside opening up a long corridor leading into darkness.

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

Marishka stepped into the doorway and looked down the corridor. She didn’t want to leave Stark and the others just yet.

• Marishka

Orvos strode up to the group holding up the flat circular device he had found. “Not sure what it goes to, but maybe this corridor will tell us more?”

Hr the brought it down to inspect it.

-Lt. Commander Orvos Legen, CE

Stark took one look at the device and his smile broadened into a chuckle. “That’s a key, a biometric key, and if things play out here the way they did in our universe at the end of that corridor is a very sweet little spaceship that the key belongs to”.

Stark Nightstalker
OOC I’ll write up the next part soon and then on to the next part of the adventure :-)

Hurrying down the passageway they quickly found themselves in a huge underground silo. Gleaming in silver was a ship that looked like a Christmas Star, or more accurately three triangular wedges arranged in a three dimensional facsimile of a star.

Stark was about to turn to Marishka to ask her to open the ship much as she and Iw’bah had the tunnel but then a door in the side of the ship slid open and beckoned them inside.

Stark Nightstalker CIO

Marishka paused for a second.

“Ooo. Pretty.”

Somehow it sounded much more forceful than she had thought it would. Shaking her head, she moved on and entered the ship.

“Alright, what’s next?”

• Marishka

Orvos slipped by Marishka. “Perhaps find out where this thing has been and what it’s capable of?” he said aloud as he moved further inside to get a look around.

-Lt. Commander Orvos Legen, CE

Stark followed along behind and took in the design shaking his head in wonderment. There was a sound from outside announcing the rest of their crew whom S’Raal had gone to fetch.

Stark Nightstalker CIO

Michail burst in and immediately sat down at a console directly inside the door. “Unbelievable!” He quickly powered up the lights and turned to the others. “This is my ship. I always wondered what happened to it when I defected to your universe”.

Michail DTI