Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in MPT - LS Trickster - Communications - Raauhl and McHarrie

Posted by Commander Ryder Raauhl (Executive Officer) in MPT - LS Trickster - Communications - Raauhl and McHarrie

Posted by Lieutenant Commander John McHarrie (Medical (Consultant Researcher - Abell)) in MPT - LS Trickster - Communications - Raauhl and McHarrie
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“We are just handing out the communicators that we brought for your people, Terul was in return giving me a tour and a running commentary on everything that goes on here” He in a low half-joking tone that Terul could still hear “And I mean EVERYTHING” He winked at Terul and gave him a smile. “That being said I haven’t any left to give out after this so I think perhaps we should be getting back to the group and Zanya.”

• Lt Cmdr Raauhl, XO

Yarin nodded knowingly and Terul grinned. Terul saw and heard everything and had something to say about it all. “I hope, at least some of it was entertaining,” Yarin commented. He took the new communicator and handed Terul the old one. “We have to take these back to Yarla first,” Terul said. “And Zanya is here so that means stories! So we need to hurry!” And off he was again, Yarin sighed, resigning himself to never catching him and simply keeping him in sight.

As they approached Yarla’s house she came out slamming the door suddenly and she grabbed a struggling Terul who was uncharacteristically defiant. “No Terul!” As Yarin and Anderson got closer they could hear the snap and static of the subspace comm going off, but the words were muffled by the closed door. Terul was still struggling, “Let me go Yarla! It’s my DAD!”

Yarla shook her head, “It started about 20 minutes ago. I even removed the power source…it won’t stop.” Yarin took the struggling boy, “Terul, stop!” The little boy was struggling and crying, it wasn’t fair. “That’s my DAD!”

Upon entering Yarla’s house, Yarin having moved farther away to have another man, strong enough to stop Terul from getting away, then rejoined them in Yarla’s home, where she promptly shut the door.

Terul? Terul it’s Daddy. Your father. Terul can you hear me? Terul… and the message repeated over, and over, and over.
Story Teller EvilJen

OOC: Cross posted from McHarrie’s Thread

A tricorder scan would show no quantum readings at that spot, but a larger sweet would show several around the village, but over half of them were all located in or around the orphanage.

Each of the signatures were distinctly different from not only the natural quantum signature, but separate from each other. While McHarrie was scanning a new one appeared on the scans. It appeared to be cycling through several quantum signatures before stopping on one, that was again different from all the others. The ‘cycling’ took less than a nanosecond but the tricorder picked them up. This new signature appeared near Yarla’s house. Minutes later it happened again, this time the location was tracked to the largest of the southern hills ringing the village.
Story Teller EvilJen

James looked at the readings carefully. He was not an expert quantum signatures, but he knew enough about random chance to realise this was not a naturally occuring phenomenon.

He tapped on his tricorder to transmit the readings to the other members of the away team with a message asking if they had seen anything like it…

-McHarrie

Ryder looked the data over before looking to those around him, “Whats happening, I dont understand Ive never seen anything like this!” He was puzzled and wondered if Casela would have a better understanding, after all, she knew these people.”

• LtCmdr Raauhl, XO

Casela had arrived back at the house, just as Terul had been brought home, screaming and crying that his father was calling for him and that Yarin and Yarla wouldn’t let him go. Karra had taken him and Zanya had left headed towards Yarla’s home. She walked in shutting the door behind her, hearing the strange message coming from over the radio. The shock, puzzlement, and fear were particularly strong and growing as other things began to happen around the village.

“Ryder?” she asked and looked at the readings. She had absolutely no idea about quantum readings. But she did look at the times, “Yarla, when did this start?” Yarla was trying to turn the radio off, or down, but it just kept going. “About 20 minutes ago.” Zanya looked at the other readings, another was a few minutes before coming from the southern hills, and another close to the same time from Jaren’s house. “This southern hills, Jaren’s house…that’s the medic…Vedi! Who was on the southern hills?”

Yarin spoke up, “I was with Pinkerton, Lanshay, and Jokath.” Zanya looked around the room and then at Ryder. “This children?” She had no idea but it was defiantly focused around the children. Yarla had been alone in her house, but the message was for Terul. She spoke softly to Ryder, privately, “The shuttles sensors?”
Story Teller EvilJen
Zanya/Casela

“The children?” John asked for clarification, “But why would that be? What reason would something like that have to even differentiate between child and adult?”

-John

“Children are vulnerable, they don’t have the life experiences to always tell benevolent from malevolent. They are easy to manipulate, to believe in magic and wonder and only in the monsters when it’s too late.” Casela glanced at the readings again. “If we can find point zero, maybe we will get more answers.” The shuttles sensors would be much more sensitive than their older model tricorders. And thanks to Bog it had probes on it as well that could be sent out.
Storyteller EvilJen

“Then let’s not waste anymore time, we’ll go to the shuttles and get the answers were looking for and hopefully the solution” He glanced his eyes to Casela as if to give her the mental order to lead them out.

• Cmdr Raauhl, XO

Zanya patted Yarla on the shoulder and began to grab blankets and stuff them around the radio muffling the sound. “Maybe you should stay with Karra at the house tonight?” Yarin nodded, “I think that’s best. I’ll stay here. Whoever is creating these pranks…or whatever this is, might be worth listening to.” Zanya left Yarin to his whatever he thought he could do. It was more that he felt, as the one responsible for the village’s safety, he needed to do something. Zanya took Yarla by the arm and led her out of her home and back towards the orphanage. Once there Yarla went to help Karra and Zanya took Anderson and Doolittle to the back room. “You’re biometrics are keyed to the shuttle. Take it and find out what this is. The adults tension is high and the children are starting to feed off of it. I can do more here, than on the shuttle.” Casela was also uniquely suited to observation and determining if anyone within the village was guilty or involved. “Sparky rigged it with mini probes as well. Use whatever you need.” She opened up the back door and lead them back to the road leading out of the village back towards where they left the shuttle.
Story Teller EvilJen

Raauhl nodded, “Stay safe and…” He looked to the other adults and the children floating nearby “Maybe try and calm them down, we can’t afford panic especially with so many children.” He stepped back and towards the direction of the shuttle. “Don’t worry we’ll get this figured out soon enough.” He shot Casela a concerned smile before turning and making up his way to the shuttle’s location with his party in tow.

• Cmdr Raauhl, XO

Casela nodded, “We’ll be fine.” Zanya may be unarmed and frivolously unaware, Casela was not. She’d keep them calm, and all in once place. “This village is pretty calm, but the sun is going down, mind the shadows, some times people down on their luck get desperate.” It was a bit cliché but Delotha, in other areas, had been known to have a modern day version of highwaymen. And the syndicate came around once in awhile. They tended to leave this village alone though. She nodded to Raauhl and McHarrie as they headed out. She turned back towards the orphanage, and they could her Zanya’s sing song voice call out, “Who’s ready for story time?” and a chorus of very excited children.
OOC: Let me know what exactly you do on the shuttle and I shall let you know what you find.
Story Teller EvilJen

“Let’s get this data into the computer. The shuttle’s intelligence engine has a better chance of spotting a pattern than we possibly could,” John said putting his tricorder onto the data transfer panel.

-McHarrie

“I am happy to assist you with that,” Alfred’s voice came over the comm. “Displaying map of local area on the view screen.” Purple blips representing the incorrect quantum signature appear as an over lay to the map. Within the boundaries of the village are the blips at the medics house and Vedi’s leg, Yarla’s house and the subspace radio, and the one on the southern hills. Outside the village proper, there are two: both close together, to the south and just slightly off true south to the east. “I will begin extrapolating for possible patterns, Lt Cmdr McHarrie.”

“Agreed” Raauhl, sat down at the communications section of the cockpit of the shuttle. “We should probably also have it scan for any foreign life signs or spacial anomalies you never know what this thing or these things could be” He began activating the ship’s scanners and systems to begin the diagnostic and search. Whatever was out there causing this he hoped they would find it soon.

• Cmdr Raauhl, XO

“Cmdr Raauhl, I have cross referenced previous data from Delotha with current readings and detect no foreign life signs. There is a great deal of quantum activity that was not previously detected.” The computer beeped again, showing something new. “I have found a pattern,” Alfred announced. On the screen faint trails of quantum energy had been detected leading from each quantum signature to the one farthest south. “This one, at the most southern point seems to match all of the signatures and none of them at the same time. It is in constant flux.”

=^=Zanya to Anderson, one of the children, Jokoth, is missing. He’s 7 and 1/2 Romulan.=^=

The computer beeped again and a new purple blip appeared on the screen. 8.04672 kilometers south west of the village, on the furthest reach of the shuttles scanners from the ground, due to the mountainous terrain. The blip on the southern hills disappeared at the same time this one appeared. It too had a faint quatum trail leading back to the same point as the others.
Story Teller EvilJen

“Cmdr Raauhl, I am detecting phaser fire near Lt Remington,” Alfred spoke up suddenly. “There is a new quantum…2 new,” he went silent. “Several new quantum signatures have appeared, moving away from Lt Remington, they appear to be following the same path as someone. Humanoid, both female, roughly 13 and 2 years of age.
Cmdr McHarrie, the younger one seems to be in some physiological distress, but my sensors are not built for more accurate details.” The new signatures appeared on the map. As each new one appeared the previous began to fade, but all linked to that central point.
Story Teller EvilJen