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Tick Tock USS Connie

Posted April 5, 2020, 2:23 p.m. by Gamemaster Gremlins Mouse (GamesMaster) (Tyra Schroll)

Posted by Ensign Byrnarterro Ch’riaqer (Science Officer) in Tick Tock USS Connie

Posted by Captain Aaron Michaels (Commanding Officer) in Tick Tock USS Connie

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade James Grey (Chief Science Officer) in Tick Tock USS Connie
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Emily moved over to Aaron and sighed “I think we’re in the Looking Glass…the characters seem so familiar to the childhood tale I read....We need to be cautious, but that is my supposition.”

CE

Gong’da came running back to the XO panting as his little legs moved fast. “Commander! Commander! The Captain is gone! Completely gone!” He turned and pointed towards the two rotund beings. “They! They took him! Those fat bastards took the Captain away and they won’t tell me!”

Gong’da CMO

James turned to the doctor the looked in the direction the Rabbit ran of too “Leftenant Bradford is correct, this appears to be a recreation of the Lewis Carroll novels, if we follow the Rabbit we’ll be led to the queen’s court and likely have our heads removed” He said calmly, not alarmed by the disappearance of their captain, at least not outwardly “Whatever brought us here wants us to play a game, now I haven’t read that book since I was a child so my memory of it isn’t great” He turned to the hatter “that one will only speak in riddles and those two are too dimwitted to give any answers. I suggest we think of this as a holostory, finish the book and we might gain some insight.” He turned back around full circle to face his crewmates with a crooked smile

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!”

He said in a tone of slight amusement “We follow the story we might find the Captain”

CSO

Gong’da turned around slowly and faced the CSO. “What? What are you talking about? You Hew-Mons do acid or other drugs before you write books? I’m not following a rabbit or a top hat, not with my feet, not with my shoes. Not with my mind and not if I choose.”

Gong’da CMO

“Well, I’ll let you lead the way,” Byr said to James and Aaron “I definitely need to become more familiar in earthen literature,” he pondered out loud. “This is definitely strange for a story to have characters such as this. What are their point?” he asked the humans in the group.

Ensign Byrnarterro Ch’riaqer, Science

Aaron groaned. He couldn’t believe this. “So we’re trapped in a centuries old children’s book. Yay.” He said, deadpan. “Fine. Bradford, you’re the one of us who’s most familiar with this, where do we start?”

Aaron Michaels, aCO

James looked at the Chief Engineer as well but not before shooting the Ferengi a queer look “I think when this is all done I’ll introduce you to some quality literature and to answer your question no not all of them but this particular story, probably. If I recall correctly it had something to do with the writers dislike of then-modern mathematics. It’s actually a very interesting subject”

CSO

“So that rabbit has all the answers we need?” Hegush frowned, wondering what would possess an author to write a rabbit as an important role in a novel. Humans certainly had a strange taste in what they called ‘quality’ literature. “Why don’t we catch it? It’s already late for… something, so it won’t matter if we hold it up for a little longer.”

Hegush Falz

Emily looked at Aaron “Basically the entire story is about craziness.” She said “Alice, I’m sure that we’re going to end up running into her at some point. Then we have the Red Queen, she’s not a nice person.” Emily said “And the Jabberwok, well…let’s hope we don’t run into him.” She added “The Mad Hatter, he knows so much more than he says, you just have to figure out his riddles.” She said “I doubt the food is poisoned or laced with anything.” She said “However, I am curious as to why we’re here.”

Emily looked at the Hatter and the Tweedledum and Tweedledee “Where did you take our Captain, you three?” She asked in a riddle of sorts.

The Hatter ran up to Emily “You....you understand me?” He jumped up and down happily “Your Captain is around the tree and back two or three.” He said “However, to get to him, you must free yourself from me.” He looked at Aaron and the others “You’ll find all your answers here or there or everywhere. But first tea you must drink, and cake you must eat.”

Behind the crew, they each felt hands shoving them toward the table and a loud purr coming from a branch “Its easier to just cooperate, we are being polite.”

Gremlins Mouse

“Polite my lobes! You are as polite as a Ferengi dinner party! And I know! Quit shoving me or it still be you three, just dead and not in the head. My teeth are razor sharp and I will tear your arm off and eat it like a carp.” He then flashed his teeth.

Gong’da CMO

James laughed out loud “I’d take him seriously.” He grabbed a cup of tea, reaching it up to his face and smelling the contents “Ferengi sharpen their teeth, although there is something to be said about the Hippocratic oath.” He leaned on the table “I suggest that I try some food to see if there are any negative effects” He said with a smile.

CSO

Aaron trusted his people–if they claimed these weirdos weren’t dangerous, then he’d listen. He picked up a piece of cake and took a bite of it, waiting to see if there was a negative effect.

Aaron Michaels, CO

The man in the hat grinned “There, now see. I’m not evil.” He said. The cake was a delicious vanilla flavor with a fluffy whipped cream icing, the tea was a tasty and calmy jasmine mint tea. “Now…that we have decided to eat. Let me explain the situation to you.” He said walking along the table looking at the crew “Each of you has a specific reason for being here. However, to get out of here, you will need to work as a team.” He said “But first, eat....then we’ll talk.”

As if on cue, a cat appeared on the back of the large chair at the head of the table “Are you sure Hatter? Are they the ones that can help us?”

Mouse

James took a sip of his tea then reached for a cake and grabbed a piece and tossed i in his mouth “Well the food being edible is itself not proof of goodness, just that ye have not planned to do evil with cake.”

CSO

Aaron nodded, “there could be assassins around the corner.” He said, plainly, waving for James to move over to him.

“Scan for any sort of anomaly that might help us get out of here, I don’t care what it is, if it’s not normal, I want to know.” He whispered to the other man.

Aaron Michaels, CO

“It is true that good deeds do not always correlate to proving trust,” replied Byr. “And you said you were interested?” he asked, looking around once more to confirm nobody else was blue around him.

Ensign Byrnarterro Ch’riaqer, Science

Hatter looked at the smiling cat “Yes, Yes I believe they are.” He said “We just need to make them see. We have been here far too long.” Hatter said “No one seems to have the skill set that these do.” He glanced at the two rotund “boys” “We just need to keep them from interfering and telling the queen of our plans.” He said conspiratorily “Now find the others, we will need to show them their way through the forest.”

He turned back to the crew “Now....let me tell you a story. I have not always been a hatter…” He said “I used to be the leader of a group of people who explored space and time. We got trapped here and we have been looking for a way out since then.” He said “There are good and evil, light and dark at play here. It may seem like a joke, a fairy tale, but I assure you, this is life and death.” He looked at Aaron and the others “Don’t trust your eyes, your ears or anything else. It could just be a farce.”

Scans would show that there was a dense forest just beyond where the tea party was being held. There were multiple species of animals within the forest. The scans would show that Hatter, himself, was half Human, half Vulcan, but he didn’t supress his emotions, which might explain the behavior. The cat, scanned as a human and the mouse scanned as a Bajoran. None of this made sense, but it was a start on the scans.

Mouse


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