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Posted May 24, 2020, 10:18 p.m. by Commander D'Vash Odinson (First Officer) (Terry Sullivan)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Pretha Oberon (Chief Security Officer) in Main Sim - Sickbay

Posted by Lieutenant Sural (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Sickbay

Posted by Commander D’Vash Odinson (First Officer) in Main Sim - Sickbay
Posted by… suppressed (1) by the Post Ghost! 👻

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Pretha looked at D’Vash. She had started to reach for her phaser and thought better of it. “D’Vash… lock out my security codes.” Her voice was on edge. She looked around the room. “Please… if you are here. Let me talk for you.” She stepped away from the others and walked towards the stasis field where the cryopod was held. “Damn it! You want our help?” Her last sentence was almost a growl rather than a scream. She was getting frustrated, but something had to be done.

Pretha
CoS

Sural did not believe that that kind of challenge would attract the entity. If it did reply it would be, in his estimation, only a 31% chance due to the call. There was little reason for it to reply if they were on their way to the planet in question. Like a child, or a strategist, being given what it wanted would cause it to be quiet whether due to being made happy or by considering its next action. He knew one thing might coax it to the forefront and that would be performing a mind meld on Hanson to see what forgotten things lurked there and any residual traces of this entity. Perhaps when this failed he would suggest it, though Sural did hope instead that Hanson would recall more and could share it. As he observed Pretha the Vulcan noted that at times she reminded him of his sister.
- Sural

-CO

“Lt. Oberon, you are not LETTING this entity take over your body. That’s an order. It seems perfectly fine communicating through Hanlon.”

D’vash’s concern was for the safety of the ship, but he was concerned for her just as much. Pretha was his lover, but she was also the ship’s chief of security and used that for his rationale for ordering her not to do this. “We have other options.”

She turned to face DVash. “Yes, Sir..” she responded. But the sir let him know she wasn’t happy about it. Why endanger someone else when she was perfectly willing?

He replied quietly, “We’ll discuss my reasoning later.”

His gaze shifted to Sural, then back to Hanlon. “Lt., Mr. Sural may have a way of helping you remember by performing a mind meld.” He was aware of how Vulcan’s felt about using the trick, but desperate times called for desperate measures.

“Sural, that’s not an order. The choice is yours and I’ll stand by your decision either way. . . “

Odinson (XO)

She moved over to stand on the other side of Hanlon. If she wasn’t going to be the holder of the ‘thing’ they were dealing with, she was at least going to be sure it behaved.

Pretha
CoS

Sural would have shrugged had he that compulsion. Instead he mentally shrugged. “Commander, the mind meld traditionally is not something that Vulcans .. relish doing.” Indeed to have ‘emotions’ invading their psyche when their lifelong training told them to avoid such influence created a philosophical tension that caused many a Vulcan to simply not care to go there.

His mind ‘flashed’ back to when he was younger.
“Meld me! Meld me!” his sister insisted.
Younger Sural, who had recently been instructed in the technique as all Vulcans were, looked at her with practiced patience. “It is not appropriate to simply ‘meld’ one.” That was what he had been taught.
“Oh come on Sural. You need the practice. Do me. Who better than your sister?” She leaned in and looked at the door. “It’s only logical to become competent at it. And if you are going to try it it is only logical to do it with your sister. I won’t tell.”
Were he going to sigh he would have. “T’ral, the use of logic as a currency of manipulation is not appropriate.”
“Oh sure,” she said, crossing her arms. “It’s ‘logical’ when you have a point to make but not ‘appropriate’ when you don’t want to accept it.”
It was ever a point of some frustration when T’ral did that. And he did want to try it. “Very well,” he said, still not convinced he wanted to be in his ‘sister’s‘ head. But who better?

“However,” he continued. “I have had a certain amount of practice at it and do not find it as much an issue as Vulcans may promote it to be.”
- Sural

The XO moved back a bit to allow Sural room to perform his psychic operation. “If you feel things going south, you pull out immediately! Got it?”

Odinson (XO)

Sural gave a brief nod; these kinds of responses were .. expected by a human more so than a Vulcan. He was, however, waiting for Hanlon to give permission for this to happen. He had heard that expression before by humans and each time was perplexed by it. What terrible thing happened in the Southern portion of the .. city, country, planet, that this kind of universal expression proliferated? It must be, he thought, lost in myth, for not one could logically explain it when asked.
- Sural

The XO spoke to Hanlon. “Lt., Mr. Sural would like to perform a mind meld with you. It’s somewhat akin to reading your mind. He can search for answers you may not be aware of in your subconscious mind. He can also help you with things you may have blocked off, either intentionally, or unintentionally. It should be harmless, but we’d like to have your permission before going ahead.”

Odinson (XO)


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