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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 4589301" data-attributes="member: 21938">Kevin reaches inside his duster and pulls out his fighting pike, keeping the contracted cylinder tucked inside his hand. He glances at Sarhat and whispers something in the Minbari Adrenato language.[sblock=Adrenato]"If there's a fight, I'll follow your lead."[/sblock]The inner airlock door hisses open and Sethyk leads you into the dome. Your footsteps echo on the metal grille flooring.A few meshwork steps lead down to the floor of a grand domed chamber, perhaps 100 ft. across at the diameter. Like much of Tribon's architecture, the metal gantries and service ducting have been left exposed, but from head height upwards, reaching almost to the apex of the dome, viewscreens cover the walls. These show hundreds of moving scenes, mostly one per screen but from time to time multiple viewscreens are used to expand a view to enormous size. This flits like some demented channel-hopper, showing now a brief snippet of ISN News (the foiling of a attempted terrorist bombing of a conference on Mars dedicated to curing the Drakh Plague), to local network news (a clampdown in security on airlocks leading to the surface), to a report on shifting politics in the Drazi Freehold, to Q-40 market reports, to secure-cam footage of locations in Tribon, and so on.This dazzling visual display is the only source of light in the dome, and so you are lit by a kaleidoscope of flickering, ever-changing colours. Each screen has its own sound-track, turned down low but the combined effect is of a babble of competing voices."Welcome to my Nexus," says a voice from above, cutting through the din of a hundred intermingled commentaries. A shape slowly descends from the roof, silhouetted against the screens of the far wall. It is a corpulent, pale-faced figure, barely recognisable as human rather than some maggot-like alien species. Almost totally wrapped in wires and tubing, some of which pulsate like peristaltic organs, the figure descends in its cradle of conduit like a cybernetic nightmare fallen angel, until it hangs about 10 ft. from the dome's floor."My name is Quentin Tryce. What can I do for you?"[SBLOCK=OOC]I'm assuming here that Sethyk is in front, followed by Kevin and Sarhat, with Ashley and Vurk behind them. Once you're in the dome there's enough space to position yourselves however you like.[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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