Posted by Gamemaster Wombat (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Guest Quarters

Posted by Commander Eric Holmman (Executive Officer) in Main Sim - Guest Quarters

Posted by Captain Emmeline Davis (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Guest Quarters
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“Enter,” Eric said, standing up from his seat, heading towards the entrance.

-Cmdr. Eric Holmman, XO

The door to the entrance of the quarters slid open to reveal the form of Emmy, with a medkit tucked neatly under her arm. She didn’t wait to exchange pleasantries before striding into the guest quarters, straight for a nearby table, where she set down the medkit and popped it open to reveal the medical tricorder. In silence, she took out the instrument and then made her way to Holmman with a raised eyebrow, waiting for confirmation that he had consented to the scan.

Davis, CO

OOC: She wouldn’t know that he had just done the scan, hence I’m sticking with this. :)

“Go ahead,” Eric said in resignation, sitting down at a nearby chair. “But…”

He gestured with his right hand at the nearby opened medical kit. “I just tried it myself. Found nothing. Unless I had a defective tricorder or someone knows how to hack into the medical scan results…”. Eric shook his head.

“Any news from your end?” he asked while Davis completed her scan. “I couldn’t find any records of connections between me and Ensign Pey. I was wondering who she had been in contact with over the past 24 hours…”

-Cmdr. Eric Holmman, XO

The scan results came back on Davis’ tricorder. Her results were similar but different. In addition to the results and slight dehydration, it was found that Holmman also had trace amounts of Benzodiazepines in his blood stream as well.

GM Wombat

Hilo slipped in behind the captain and stood against the wall near the door, arms crossed and observing patiently. He craned his neck slightly as the readings came in, making a futile attempt to read them over Davis’ shoulder from across the room.

(Lt. Cmdr. Hilo, Counselor)

Eric looked over to see the latest arrival. “Counselor,” he said, waiting for the results from the Captain.

(OOC: Sorry for the one-liner post today :( )

-Cmdr. Eric Holmman, XO

OOC: Sorry, guys, didn’t mean to leave you hanging.

IC:

Emmy studied the results on the tricorder as they came in, a look of puzzlement coming across her face and then thought as she connected the information back to what she had learned from the CMO. Noticing the CNS trying to look over her shoulder, she turned the device around as if to show them the results. “It looks like you were drugged too, Commander,” she observed, simply, indicating the result. “If you have not already done so, you should reconstruct your food consumption and your activities over the last 48 hours so that Lieutenant Rainns can see where you may have received the medication. I assume that you do not regularly take benzodiazepines?” One eyebrow arched upward to emphasize her question.

Davis, CO

(OOC: Ben, hope it is okay if I insert my character’s response to the Captain here? I’ll try to make it flow seamlessly :P )

“I don’t think I’ve every taken benzodiazepines in my life, Captain,” Eric replied, still surprised at the results. “But I did think something was wrong earlier…”

Hilo frowned. Had Holmman just lied about not finding anything in his system? Was he expecting them to not scan him themselves? He stepped forward, motioning to the tricorder Holmman had used to scan himself. “Do you mind if I look at the results of your scan, Commander?” Holmman had offered other theories as to why it might not have found anything… but he did so before he knew that their readings would be different. Hilo truly didn’t want to be suspicious… but he needed to make sure Holmman’s readings said what he claimed they did before he could write it off as external tampering.

(Lt. Cmdr. Hilo, Counselor)

Emmy’s eyes narrowed slightly at Hilo’s actions. He truly seemed to be erring on the side of suspicion when it came to Holmman. She made a mental note to follow up on it later, but she didn’t step in to change his request of the XO.

Davis, CO

“If you think you can see what I did wrong, please, Counselor,” Eric replied. “In fact, I logged the results given the nature of the investigation.”

Eric turned around to the computer terminal. “Computer, display the logged scans of Commander Eric Holmman.” Eric followed up this request by given the stardate from a few minutes before Davis and Hilo arrived at the guest quarters.

While Hilo dealt with the medical scans, Eric turned his attention back to the Captain. “Did you say I was drugged ‘too, Captain? Who else was drugged? In the last 48 hours… I had some water before my shift finished on the bridge yesterday, which is my routine. I had a quick lunch at Nine Forward, reviewing the last set of department evaluations. Breakfast in my quarters. I have to think about before then. I honestly cannot recall what I ate or drank in the 12 hours before I called Sickbay - I can’t recall anything from that time.”

-Cmdr. Eric Holmman, XO

Sure enough, Holmman’s results were different from Davis’. When the tricorder did the comparative blood test something different happened. Holmman’s test showed nothing, the fact that nothing would make him complicit was up to the jury, as it were, to make that decision. What was clear was that something was going on with the equipment that Holmman was using.

GM Wombat

Hilo frowned harder than before, his bushy eyebrows tilting dramatically downwards. “It seems our culprit keeps adding advanced espionage skills to their repertoire.” He looked back over his shoulder at Holmman and Davis. “First the cameras, then the access to sickbay, now the ability to tamper with complicated medical technology. This tricorder has in fact been altered, but for what reason I have no idea. If any other tricorder would confirm that Commander Holmman was drugged, why try to trick him specifically with his own tricorder?” Although it was possible that Holmman had tampered with it himself, of course, it would have been unwise for him to think that any other person with a tricorder wouldn’t check his results with a device of their own. Hilo was certainly entertaining a healthy and reasonable level of suspicion for Holmman, but things weren’t adding up, in a way that made it seem less and less likely that he was responsible. The problem was still that there were currently no other suspects, no other leads, and no motive at all.

(Lt. Cmdr. Hilo, Counselor)