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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1321902" data-attributes="member: 515">Argent looks around for a moment, chuckles to himself, and then comments, "Well, in any case, we now know what is in the old captain’s safe. And, we’re not any more dead than we were before given the discovery of more Star Flower. Saro, how long should we stay in vacuum before it's safe to leave this lock?" Saro looks up from his sample transfer and replies, "I believe that a couple of hours should do the trick. That’s the amount of time that they used when they initially decontam’d this ship." Argent sighs and then says, "OK. Get comfortable, people, we’ve got a couple of hours to go." He then sits down himself and starts thumbing through the notebook. The notebook had just a few pages of notes in it, mostly a ledger of some sort of payments spaced out every couple of weeks. Interestingly, the ledger lists payments of about 10k Cr a pop to all crewmembers except to Martha. Swann examines the contents of the small boxes. The first one contains the listed rounds for the snub revolver. Interestingly, there doesn’t appear to be any sort of tool to insert liquids into the rounds. The second box contains regular rounds for the body pistol. Saro picks up the flask for examination. As she sees it, Martha comments, "I think that’s the captain’s brandy flask. He was pretty possessive about it." Saro glances up, and then mutters, "Here’s a waste of some good brandy, then," and opens the flask. A puff of air followed by some sublimated liquid issues until Saro caps the flask again. Glancing up at Swann ruefully, he explains, "Sorry, couldn’t take the chance that some of the air inside might still have some of the contagion. The remaining liquid should be alright if it’s brandy, though." -----After the foursome finishes the decontamination procedures, emerge from the airlock, and remove their vacc suits, they assemble for dinner with the rest of the crew. Placing the collected contents of the safe on the table in the lounge, Argent sits back and says, "Well, what shall we do now? This matter affects all of us, and it’s outside of the relief mission, so I think that we ought to decide what to do together. I am going to put the Star Flower pollen and empty tubes in the chamber with the Star Flower plants. If anyone does find them during inspection, at least we can try to claim that everything was in that room and that we weren’t involved." Swann looks around the table. "Well, I suggest Doc run some tests on the contents of that flask, to discover what’s in it. And I suppose we should put the safe back where it goes — it's not our ship, after all. We can reset the electronic lock, but I don’t know what we can do about the mechanical lock without a key. I can get into the safe, but it takes some time — an occasion might arise when someone needs to get into it quickly, and I might not be available." "Well hey, Swann, just lock the electric lock and leave the mechanical one open," Ian says. "Or can’t you do that? Not to worry, it’s not that important right now. Let’s just have a look at what we got here, shall we?" Ian thumbs through the notebook, searching in vain for the names and contact information of female sophonts. Bravely sniffing the flask, Saro concludes that the contents (much evaporated now), are brandy, possibly a rather expensive one at that.</blockquote>

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