Posted April 17, 2022, 1:54 p.m. by Senior Chief Petty Officer Karl Johansson (Engineering Petty Officer) (Hjortur Ingi)
Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Tracking The Power Drain - Shuttlebay
[snip]As Karl’s thoughts about the planet shifted to it being unnatural he was again struck by the realization that somehow he felt he was right. There WAS something off about the planet below as if it did not belong, not just in this area of space but in existence, it felt unnatural to his primal senses.
But that was for future Karl to ponder, for now with his attention focused on the nearby ship’s hull his gaze did not have to look far before off to port about 8 or so meters away from the ship’s shuttle bay he saw what almost seemed a human like figure walking or dancing on the ship’s hull. The figure from their movements was quite agile, and graceful. Clearly a woman he would think. She was dressed in what seemed a beautiful white-yellow dress that flowed from her shoulders down her slim body to stop just above her ankles. She wore some kind of fine sandals as footwear. She stood at 5‘11 or so in height, her hair was carefully braided and looked fit for someone who was to be married to someone of noble-born blood. Most interestingly over the helmet’s comm line Karl could pick up the faint humming and singing of the woman! =/\= Mmm hmmm mmm oh my love, soon we shall be married! As alight as the brightest sun that rises in the East!=/\= he could hear in a sing song like tune. The mystery woman was clearly happy in her mind.
What seemed to be causing the power loss was that her dance was near an EPS tap that was on the ship’s hull, normally used while in port to provide power from say a starbase or such while the ship was undergoing maintenance on its primary or secondary power sources. So in effect this woman’s presence was somehow feeding energy into the tap at a time when it should not be doing so, and so was causing the low power blow outs and drains that they were experiencing.
Karl took an involuntary step back and froze, this wasn’t at all what he expected. After only a moment he opened a comm link with the Bridge and adjusted his helmet to transmit a visual signal as well =^=Please tell me you’re seeing this as well.=^= He slowly raised his tricorder towards the dancing woman =^=Can you hear me, madame?=^= He asked over the comm, nothing could have prepared him for whatever tomfoolery was going on there.
SCPO Karl - Eng
Karl’s tricorder soundlessly beeped in the vacuum of space as it scanned the mystery woman, at his query it seems she heard him and stopped her dancing, though her left foot remained on the EPS tap which still now and then sparked from her contact causing likely more energy drains and blow outs. Her mouth moved and again his helmet picked up her words on the an open comm frequency. Surprisingly she spoke an type of English it seems, though it carried a strange accent he could not quite place. =/\= Oh! Hello there! You must be the servant assigned to guard me before the wedding is that right? You must forgive catching me in such an embarrassing moment of dance! But then again it is such a happy day is it not? I am to be married to my beloved! =/\= She asked and stated in a dreamy like fashion.
Before Karl could reply she went on as if he had replied to her, =/\= But no matter, I appreciate your arrival, tell me is there any spare food ready from preparing for the wedding later tonight? I have not eaten since the morning breakfast several hours ago. If you do not mind could you be a lovely dear and see if the kitchen staff has anything to spare for me? I have been nibbling on some crackers I had stowed away in my luggage..=/\= She said indicating the EPS tap near her foot as if in her mind it was a small table of luggage mentioned that held a bag of crackers. =/\= But those are ill suited to stave my stomach pangs..=/\= she added.
By this point Karl’s tricorder had finished its scan, the woman was not actually there it seems, all the tricorder reported was an energy anomaly that was about the height and width of the woman he was seeing. The tricorder also confirmed that the woman or energy anomaly was indeed in minute amounts feeding on the EPS tap, each time it imbibed a charge its charge went up by a few joules of energy, currently its output was equal to about that of 10^5th Joules of energy, or roughly the constant energy produced of 1 gram of a meteor impacting the Earth’s surface. It was a strange thing to consider but was he perhaps seeing first hand evidence of a ghost??
OOC: Crossposting the bridge reply!
=/\= Chief be careful, keep your distance.=/\= Cleolet said.
GM CockRoach
Karl blinked at the woman’s reply, he was so taken aback that he almost didn’t catch the reply from the bridge =^=Right, I see… well madam I think we should refrain from overindulging ourselves.=^= He could really use a space psychologist right about now, was he supposed to play along or throw reality in her face. He decided after a moment that standing on the hull of a ship next to an energy-sucking alien creature that believed it was something else and telling it that its reality was wrong wasn’t the best of ideas =^=You don’t want to ruin your appetite with something so bland do you=^= He attempt a friendly smile but felt that it came of more a flashing of teeth.
SCPO Karl
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