Posted May 30, 2023, 7:44 a.m. by Captain Chris Taggart (Captain) (Travis Good)
Posted by Commander T’Aria (XO / Navigation Officer) in SideSIM: Somewhere in the Deep, Dark Woods (tag: Storyteller)
Posted by Captain Chris Taggart (Captain) in SideSIM: Somewhere in the Deep, Dark Woods (tag: Storyteller)
Posted by Commander T’Aria (XO / Navigation Officer) in SideSIM: Somewhere in the Deep, Dark Woods (tag: Storyteller)
“We’ll contact you on the surface, sir.” T’Aria assured Taggart, sensing a familiar pull as the transporter disassembled her atoms and engulfed the away team in a swirl of yellow-white beams.T’Aria soon materialized in a small clearing with a dull throb in her temples. She rubbed the area and blinked the yellowish haze from her eyes, assuming it was a side effect of the transporter. A prickling sensation disrupted her thoughts and drew her attention to a tuft of thin, dry grass emerging from low-lying fog. Upon closer inspection, the fog seemed to obscure the entire forest floor, giving way to a dense tangle of twisted trees and thorny foliage that surrounded them on all sides.
“Lt Dawson, Lt Hawkins,” T’Aria untangled her tricorder from her hip and calibrated it for a short-distance scan, “we need a route out of the forest. Scan for holes in the foliage. Dr Symar, Dr Kastarak. We are unaccustomed to this environment and its dangers. Scan for possible threats.”
“Cmdr Grey…” she turned, lifting her gaze from her tricorder to find her orders fell not to her team, but plumes of whispy fog that dissipated as soon as she touched them, “…fascinating.”
T’Aria didn’t give herself time to process the surprise, immediately throwing the tricorder over her shoulder and whipping out her communicator to adjust the frequency to contact the rest of the team.
“Commander T’Aria to Away Team,” she adjusted the dial, “do you copy?”
— T’Aria
“No need to get upset Commander. I am right here and the others are just up head.” He said coming out into the clearing. “Commander Grey told them to fan out and explore and then meet back up here.” Lt. Quentin “Q” Dawson said. “Are you ok ma’am? You didn’t fully come out of the transporter like everyone else did?”
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T’Aria snapped her attention to what appeared to be Lt Dawnson, confusion flickering across her face in a raised eyebrow, but she swiftly regained her composure and nodded.
“Affirmative, Lieutenant.” She studied him, certain he wasn’t there before. Had the transporter impaired her senses? Her fingers hovered over her her temples where the throbbing had eased.
She suspected the transporter encountered interference in from the planet’s magnetosphere, scattering the annular confinement beam and delaying materialisation on the planet’s surface. It wasn’t unusual for transporter delays to result in temporary disorientation… but enough to miss him entirely? Strange. And why would Cmdr Grey decide to proceed with the mission if a member of the team hadn’t transported? Had Taggart given him orders – better, could they contact Chernov if there was interference? T’Aria fiddled with her tricorder to a brief, furtive scan of the Lieutenant and their surroundings just to be sure. She didn’t disbelieve him; but, if she had missed him, she wasn’t sure she could rely on her senses to tell her what was right in front of her.
“I am experiencing some disorientation,” she wavered a moment to check the scan results, “but it will resolve with time.”
“I assume you elected to inspect the local area,” she said, making note to check in with Cmdr Grey in a few moments, “what have you found?”
— T’Aria
Lt. Dawson made a show of concern. “Tsk. Tsk Commander. You know you should sit down until you have regained all of your faculties. I am here as the Weapons Officer and Chief of Security and I have enough on my plate without adding in a drunken Vulcan to the mix where you will pose a problem to everyone because you can’t see, hear or even walk straight. Now sit down.” The last sentence was a command and his voice matched.
He let out a long sigh. “But to answer your second question. We are in a very thick old forest called the Everfree Forest. We have picked up signals on the tricorders of many different animal life forms. Most are small and some are really, really big. Some we cannot even decipher. One looks really big like a dire wolf but it is made up of sticks from a tree and moving around us. Others are bears and the like and besides the literal timber wolf, most species are that of Earth. We did notice a small creature with the head of a chicken and the body of a serpent with wings. But that did not make any sense either. So it is best to just stay here and regain your composure before we move along to find the others. Speaking strictly as a security expert Commander.” He said all of that like it was common knowledge.
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