OOC: Sorry, gang. It's been a rather terrible couple of days.
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Corridor and Passenger Lounge:
Zaed is left holding the now-cuffed Turk as Ktarle hands him off to follow Tarshk
Tarshk shoots her look of indeterminate meaning as he starts moving, at a brisk pace, up the corridor.
The two of them pass three passengers (two of them look like they are heading back to their rooms; them other is looking on in interest, back and forth between the passenger lounge and the corridor.) and arrive in the passenger lounge, where they see a luriani woman (Ktarle recognizes her as Trelene Scrautigue) who is quite obviously trying to bypass the security door in front of her while Tomas Makea watches, perhaps a bit nervously. "What's going on here?" Tarshk demands of them. Without waiting for an answer, he turns around and barks at the onlooking passenger "You! Back to your stateroom!" Then he turns back to Trelene and Tomas.
OOC: Trelene is up, Tomas still his actions as well.
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Crew Lounge:
Quinn bends down over Vsili and finds that the agent is still out from the stun rod. He (indeed most of the people in the room) have seen lots of these things - close quarters versions of a taser, .4m long weapons have two prongs on the end which deliver a charge strong enough to knock most normal opponents senseless for a few seconds. Like a taser, they can't stun anything protected by more than normal clothing, but even uncharged, they make a pretty good billy club, and they're quite commonly used for crowd control and other light security applications. Quinn detatches Vsili's rifle, and takes it into his possession (sans the power pack still strapped to Vsili's back), figuring it will probably be a good 30 seconds before Vsili comes to.
The lights come back on. "Well. That didn't last as long as I thought," mutters the surprised captain, who is heard only by Ruzz'koff, right next to her. When the lights came on, the Captain was moving foreward, still brandishing her stun rod towards the guards. She quickly changes posture, drawing herself up into a formal pose in front of the two guards, and stowing her weapon. She answers Ruzz'koff by way of speaking to the guards: "You see, officers, these passengers were only following my orders. Let them return to their quarters, and you may take me into custody."
Gani: "I' don't know ma'am. They attacked one of the acting cap--- er, one of Mr. Nells-Corzin's men. Technically, that's mutiny - we can't just let them go for that."
Darius reponds, "Nevertheless those are my terms. These men were trying only to help me save lives. Unlike some people aboard this ship, they couldn't stand the fact that we were going to abandon fellow travellers to the void. Think of it, Gani. Thirty people are over there, just waiting to die. Hoping that the air loss is gradual enough that they pass out before the pressure drops to the point that their blood starts boil, or their organs start to swell. A luriani's body is less tolerant to low pressure environments than a solomani's, Gani. It's because they spend their early lives under water. Pressure drops too much, and their eyes will sometimes explode before a human like you or me would even start feeling sick. But you'd feel sick enough as you watch your buddy screaming silently as he tries to hold his body together until, finally, he passes out and it ends. Then you realize all you've see is a preview of what's going to happen to you as the pressure keeps falling, and you curse the damned bastard who could have saved your buddy and you, but just continued on, pretending your ship wasn't there.... I couldn't let that happen, Gani, not when I could have stopped it. So I ordered these men to help me. But, if you are going to arrest me, I want you to let these men go, first. I won't have them punished for acting as we all should have."
[Quinn is standing up from a kneeling position over Vsili, who was near the lift. Saanath is near them, while Ruzz'koff is near the center of the room. The captain and the two guards are near the door to the crew quarters.]
