T20: High Law and Low Justice, Part 3

Trelelawiero, Mercenary.

Trel turns at the sound of Ruzz'koff's approach. At his side he hold a Snub pistol, casually.

"You're with Ktarlewaweikye and Saanath, aren't you?"

It is, obviously, a little tense for a moment. Assuming that they manage to get past that moment without a fight, Trel introduces himself.

"I am Trelelawiero Hreayierlo. Trel most people call me," he adds dryly.

"I won't be a moment." The Aslan is loaded for bear; vacc suit in low visibilty grey, an auto pistol at his side, another holster across his chest obviously for the snub pistol, a blade in an inverted sheath at his left shoulder and a gauss rifle across his back, and a harness with numerous small pouches. He picks up a cutlass and considers it for a moment. "You interested?" he asks, holding it out to Ruzz'koff. "I will want it back of course."

If Ruzz'koof accepts, he hands it over along with the dress strap to hang it from. If not, he puts it back in the container and resets the combination lock.

That finished, he helps Ruzz'koff get whatever it is he need (a airtight cargo crate?) and get it to the med bay asap.

ooc: Trels mate was "Wolereiyeo os Vareheraio, an Aslan female in her thirties (medbay)" I assume. Would he now use her name? I don't really know much about the Aslan. Do the female take more than one mate. Did Wolereiyeo have any others?

Saanath, Merchant.

Saanath checks the flight vectors and data. Once he is assured that everything is in order, he gets to work.

He links up his "Oyster" to the ships computer, then pulls up the personal and ship datalogs that they have heard so far and downloads them into his hard-drive. He adds a copy of the initial communication (distress call) from the Dvonn from his databook. Then he has the files packaged, compressed. He makes a couple of locked copies and them in various places. Finally, he returns a copy of the compressed file to his databook.

ooc: are we still broadcasting a distress call? If not, Saanath will ask Quinn if he would like to put one out.

Once thats done, he begins hunting through the jump comp and its data for any signs of a hack. Astronav is not his strong point, so if necessary, Saanath will liaise whoever did the original data check (Tomas I think).

Saanath keeps an eye on the ships course as he works. He also keeps an eye on the the locations and sensor data on the other players in this little space drama.

ooc: T/Comp +9 (+11 for Hack actions), T/Astronav +4.

ooc: Quinn is still on the bridge?

ooc:

Wolereiyeo was Trel's mate, and she had no others (Aslan generally being polygamous when not mated one-to-one, as opposed to vargr, who are occasionaly polyandrous). He would likely not use her name, as the dead are not spoken of out loud until they are "sung" of in a ceremony that sends them on by celebrating their deeds, offering toasts, vowing revenge, etc.

Quinn is still on the bridge - not sure about Watus.

OOC: Quinn and Watus are on the bridge! Sorry I've been absent. Life stuff.

ooc: are we still broadcasting a distress call? If not, Saanath will ask Quinn if he would like to put one out.

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"Eh. Leave it running. It might confuse 'em. And in any case, they already know where we are, so it isn't hurting us any."

Quinn approachces Sanaath and leans down to whisper in his year:

Zaedhrarrg is already pouring over the data from astrogation. Zaed shows Saanath the areas in the data he was concerned about, and with Saanath's further input, the two men come to a couple grim conclusions. Based on some unexpected blank sectors in computer's memory, it is likely that something has been erased. Further checking locates secondary app that was programmed to delete some code after the after the recent jump was completed. Recovering that deleted code will take significant time and effort, but as the astrogation computer data now seems intact, whatever was deleted had been extraneous tot he original software. Extra, possibly malicious code in the astrogation computer cold certainly explain a misjump, but long analysis would be necessary to know for sure.

Tomas, on his way to maintenance from the hangar, runs into Trel and Ruzz'koff as they are gathering things to store dust in.

Marcus the Merchant

WATUS said:

"Eh. Leave it running. It might confuse 'em. And in any case, they already know where we are, so it isn't hurting us any."

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"What about updating the message? You know, that we survivers and a deteriating oxygen content due to biological contamination. Oh yeah, and a couple of fighters lurking nearby. The more people who know what we know about the ship, the harder it will be for Nells-C to bury us later."

Saanath jumps slightly as Quinn's hand lands on his shoulder. Saanath had had is eyes on the screens and hadn't noticed Quinn appoaching. He gathers his wits and nods in understanding.

***

Saanath listens to Zaed's explaination. As the results come in, he frowns. "I had been hoping for something a little more conclusive."

"All right, I'm going to download an image of the jump computer's memory (along with anything else thats relevant). I'll put together a package of everything we have and so that we can all have copies.

He scrubs his hands through his hair and tries to prioritise what needs to be done.

"But right now I need to ... um? Right, get an analysis program running on the jump data."

Saanath checks the flight data then returns his attention to his computer. After a while he settles back to watch the steams of data scrolling down the screen. After satisfying himself it is running as he wants he pulls out a battered handcomp and begins checking its connections.

ooc: technical stuff is not my strong point. I assume that you will let me know if anything he is trying to do is a little odd. Or roll if I have missed something Saanath would probably see. Thanks.

Trelelawiero

Trel comes to a slow halt as Tomas comes into view. For a moment his mirrored faceplate reflects Tomas's gaze back at him.

Trel turns to Ruzz'koff. "He's with you isn't he. I don't remember him. Did no one but me survive?" he growls angrily. "What the blazes is going on on this damnable ship?"

***

~ meanwhile on the bridge ~

Saanath suddenly sits bolt upright. "We need food. And something to drink. How long has it been since we didn't have dinner?"

ooc: Approximately 8 hours. Some sleep would help too. You did get some water (with nutrients disslved in it) on the boats en route to dvonn - enough for sustenance, but not all that satisfying.
doghead:

doghead said:

Trel turns to Ruzz'koff. "He's with you isn't he. I don't remember him. Did no one but me survive?" he growls angrily. "What the blazes is going on on this damnable ship?"

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"Well, good sir, your good doctor managed to save some passegers, they're being taken care off in the sickbay. As to what's going on, well, there's some kind of fungus flaoting around in the ship, taking up all the oxygen. All this white stuff are it's spores, so we need to collect it and get it sealed off from oxygen before we get the ship aired again, or we'll be in the same trouble as before, maybe worse. So we can use all the help we can get, if you're feeling up to it."