[D20 Modern] Stargate SG-1 - Part II - It's getting warmer

[Nuke261]

Inside Warehouse 37 - the Security Room
Las Vegas, Nevada
0723:06 hours, June 3, 2003

Durant touched Montoya's shoulder as they began to go down the stairs. "I got point kid, lets keep Fallon as rear guard." This should be f@#$ing interesting. At least when I die they won't have to bury me, I'll already be cremated! Durant steadily made his way down the stairs, keeping his eyes and weapon trained on the smaller creature moving away from the shaft. What the hell am I supposed to say to these things anyway?

“Scarrr nakk rrripesssk tollll sssearasss!!”

At the roar of the larger creature, Durant instinctively crouched down on the bottom step, narrowed his eyes and took aim with his rifle.

 

[Fanog]

Inside Warehouse 37 - the Security Room
Las Vegas, Nevada
0723:06 hours, June 3, 2003

"Ok, got it", Leonard replies to the orders from Andreev. He finds himself a bit relieved to be on rear guard for the moment, and handles his gun a bit more loosely now. On his way over to the stairway, Leonard walks over to Jeremiah to pick up his flashlight again.

Seeing Lorelai so close to the shaft has him a bit dismayed. "Lorelai, please be careful there. We have no idea what might be coming up, and for the moment, I think the others are better equiped to handle the situation. We'll be down there soon enough..."

He doesn't press the point, but joins by the side of Lt. Stewart at the bottom of the stairs.

 

[Calim]

Inside Warehouse 37 - the Security Room
Las Vegas, Nevada
0723:06 hours, June 3, 2003

"Ok, Lorelei, I guess I should start at what..." Jeremiah is suddenly interupted from below.

“Scarrr nakk rrripesssk tollll sssearasss!!”

He stops in mid-sentence trying to make sure he catches it all and starts thinking to see if he has heard this language before. He reaches into bag to pull out a pen and some paper and rights it down to try and help himself and starts going over it.

"Wow my first contact with an alien species. I hope that we don't blow this."Jeremiah thinks to himself.

Forgetting about the radios they had all been given he looks up to Leonard expecting to see Lorelei. "If I had sometime I might be able to figure out a way to talk to them. Then again if they are the hostiles we are looking for then I don't want to get people hurt either."

 

[Jarval]

Inside Warehouse 37 - the Security Room
Las Vegas, Nevada
0723:06 hours, June 3, 2003

"I'm all for talking our way out of this, but I think we wait and see if they're intending to attack us first." Lucas comments, splitting his attention between the stairway he's supposedly guarding, and the alien filled lift shaft.

 

[Vardeman]

Inside Warehouse 37 - the Security Room
Las Vegas, Nevada
0723:06 hours, June 3, 2003

Durant touched Montoya's shoulder as they began to go down the stairs. "I got point kid, lets keep Fallon as rear guard." Durant steadily made his way down the stairs, keeping his eyes and weapon trained on the smaller creature moving away from the shaft. At the roar of the larger creature, Durant instinctively crouched down on the bottom step, narrowed his eyes and took aim with his rifle.

Montoya nodded silently, his eyes catching Durant's long enough to establish that he understood the command. Making sure the light on his P90 was off now that there was enough light to see by coming from the lava pools, Ric followed Durant down the stairs as silently as possible. Using the stairs for cover he kept his eyes and weapon trained on the lower opening to the elevator shaft.

V

 

[Keia]

Inside Warehouse 37 - All
Las Vegas, Nevada
0723:12 hours, June 3, 2003

Looking down the elevator shaft, Lorelai and Donovan see the alien creature forty feet down the shaft. The creature’s arms were outstretched and its head was turned, looking up the shaft. Bright scales covered the creature, yet glowing from the lava it had just recently left. It had horns upon its head, and its body ended in a snake coiled tail. Its size was deceiving for a moment, until the realization hit that the creature was taking up almost the entire ten foot elevator shaft floor. At that, the creature was probably ten to twelve feet tall, but its length was unknown because of the coiled tail.

Jeremiah frantically pulled pen and journal from his backpack and began to write, trying to decipher his first alien language. The slight echo and resonance of the shaft made his words sketchy at first blush. But he knew two things: first – he needed more words to work with; second – this language didn’t seem to match anything from his core language theory. Certain hieroglyphs of the Egyptian reputed sorcerer kings, if the pronunciation was correct were similar, though even that was a stretch.

A low murmur issued forth from the creature, and though the words were indiscernible to those listening (Lorelai, Donovan, Jeremiah), the power from them was unmistakable. A tingle on the skin and a slight warm breeze passed over the three. Then the flames ignited on the creatures scales and the glow surrounded him (at about a two foot radius around him). It bellowed again, though somewhat different words. . . .

“Scarrr nakk rrripesssk tollll sssearasss, keelsk sssolir!!”

Jeremiah corrected some of the phrasing on his notes and his brain was spinning, mindless of his surroundings and he attempted to grasp this new and different language. An urge to speak with the creature welled up inside of him, desperate to learn something this new and challenging. Then . . . almost without asking, one of the words came to him . . . . “tollll” could mean ‘demand,’ though anything at this point was theoretical.

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[Keia]

Inside Warehouse 37 – Stargate Room
Las Vegas, Nevada
0723:12 hours, June 3, 2003

Durant, Montoya and Fallon looked on from the bottom of the stairs. The first creature they had sighted (the one watching the warehouse side of the shaft) appeared to be protecting the larger one, and definitely deferred to it. It shrank away slightly when flames and a glow erupted around the larger one, though from their angle all the three could see of the larger one was the glow, and an occasional bit of tail.

Keeping an eye on the lava pits, Fallon spotted three heads rise up (each from separate pools). She was certain that at least two of them spotted the trio in return, but made no motion to act, instead sinking back within the lava. Though it seemed like a long time, it had only been seconds from the time they appeared and then disappeared.

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[Dark Nemesis]

Inside Warehouse 37 – Stargate Room
Las Vegas, Nevada
0723:12 hours, June 3, 2003

"Hmm..." Her eyes narrowed slightly at the sight of the three other snakes that she saw rising slightly out of the lava. She sincerely hoped that these creatures were friendly, as she had absolutely no desire to take on a group of oversized snakes who considered a pool of lava a comfortable environment.

Leaning closer to Montoya, she said quietly, "I just saw three other snakes in three different lava pools. They've spotted us..."

 

[Calim]

Inside Warehouse 37 – Stargate Room
Las Vegas, Nevada
0723:12 hours, June 3, 2003

Jeremiah working frantically, looks up as he needs more from the creatures. Listening intently for more from the creature knowing that using this little information fromt the creature could put them at greater risk hoping to hear more he waits ready to write.

 

[MadThinker]

Inside Warehouse 37 - All
Las Vegas, Nevada
0723:12 hours, June 3, 2003

Looking down the elevator shaft, Lorelai and Donovan see the alien creature forty feet down the shaft. The creature’s arms were outstretched and its head was turned, looking up the shaft. Bright scales covered the creature, yet glowing from the lava it had just recently left. It had horns upon its head, and its body ended in a snake coiled tail. Its size was deceiving for a moment, until the realization hit that the creature was taking up almost the entire ten foot elevator shaft floor. At that, the creature was probably ten to twelve feet tall, but its length was unknown because of the coiled tail.

Donovan's eyes grew a little wider when he saw the snake-alien. He glanced over to see Lorelai staring into the elevator shaft and Jeremiah scribbling onto a notepad. He looked back down into the shaft, to see if the snake-alien had spotted them. Then, under his breath he said, "You are one ugly motherf**ker!"