Posted July 25, 2021, 2:52 a.m. by Ensign Cleolet (Engineer) (Nathan Derricutt)
Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Sigma 9 - Mining Entrance Inspections
[snip]Coming up on the entrance and leaving Smith behind, they were in the entry area. This area was mostly your standard metal plating and reinforcement beams with storage boxes and antigrav sleds with rich deposits of various minerals waiting near processor tanks. Nothing stood out as being odd, other then the equipment was off and unpowered.
Looking over the area they found an office shack likely for the mining staff to use as a break room and for PADD work. The room looked like a tornado had blown through with tables and chairs upended and food thrown this way and that. Scans and sight looking showed a thin film of some kind of organic substance was on much of these things. The slime residue smelled like an acrid-sweet scent like honey mixed with acid.
Just as Rand would be getting the scan results one of the other red shirt NE Gob went up to a larger cluster of the slime on a table that was bubbling. “..Hey this one is bubbling unlike the rest! I won—” He began only to get interrupted as the bubbling substance engulfed him with sinewy slime like tentacles. Then just as quickly NE Gob was thrown across the room to slam into the metal wall and tables in one corner, he wasnt moving and it was hard to tell if he was simply unconscious or dead!
“Readings show an organic compound of a slime like consistency,” Rand reported right before NE Gob was grabbed and she very very quickly moved OUT of the way. She was not science, and she was NOT security. Nope, she was a Yeoman, she recorded what people said not took risks. That was her job. As far as she was concerned Alden and Ford could deal with…whatever that was.
No sooner had this been taken in when the bubbling slime of all things somehow spoke bubbles with each word belching out of its slimey body as it leapt quickly from the table onto the floor and began to eat through it. “..Goooo baaaacccckkk. The darknesssss can not be breaccchheed..” It bubbled out then with an acidic hiss it slipped through a crack in the floor it had made and vanished from sight deeper in the floor.
GM CockRoach
From a safe distance from the acid burned hole in the floor she tried to get any readings that might tell the type of acid or where the thing went to or the physiology of it. Though she wouldn’t be the one to understand any of those readings, she was just collecting them.
Yeoman RandCleolet had watched in shock as Gob was thrown across the room. Staying as far away as she could from both the downed Gob and the acid eating through the floor. Just in case. She wasn’t a doctor but she had been trained in first aid as all officers should be. To her inaction was one of the worst things you could do anyone from any background could help even if it was just soothing words.
Once she had scanned him she checked the results.
Ensign Cleolet (Engineer)
Scans of NE Gob showed he was dead, from a broken neck and spine as well as the acid eating through his face and tissue.
GM CockRoach
Cleolets ears lowered and she sighed sadly “We’ve lost NE Gob” she said solemnly. then she said a small prey in Catian. The contents of which where unknow as Catian was a complex language and the Universal translator struggled to decipher it. Though Cleolet wasn’t very religious she still felt it was necessary to at least say something. She figured this was probably what happened to the missing colonists.
But what was it that attacked them. Cleoelt turned t the rest if the away team and walked over to the hole in the floor “Find anything Yeoman” Cleolet asked her tone was short, which was odd for Cleolet.
Ensign Cleolet (Engineer)
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