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”..I’ll put you down near the camp of those Gypsy folks, seems safe enough..” he said. Chung nodded then and engaged the transporter, a moment later the group was in a shrub filled forest with the faint glow of lights from a moderate sized campfire where 8 Gypsy like human figures danced about the fire in tune to a musical beat laid out by two older women, one on a drum the other on a small wooden flute.

GM CockRoach

Chris whispered. “Ok. Start scanning.” He looked at the gypsy’s to see if they eye all human. He didn’t want to bring out Mwezi if it would cause a problem.

Captain Chris Taggart CO

Scans of the dancing Gypsies showed they were close to being human, but their altered bio-signs showed that enough differentiation was there to show differences. On a medical level scans showed signs they were more agile then a normal human for example. There was also signs they had a emphatic sense for sensing feelings and emotions. For science an interesting result that came up was the make up of the large brown colored wagons pulled by two headed Oxen like creatures. The wood was showing signs of surprising resilience compared to say oak or other more common types in known space. Indeed one could say the wood was likely twice or so more dense then normal wood. Security scans showed that the Gypsies all were armed with a variety of small thin metal knives on their belts or hidden up their sleeves and the like.

As they watched an elderly woman of advanced age, with long flowing grey hair, hobbled out of the largest of the three wagons escorted by a younger woman with darker brown hair down to her shoulders. The younger woman held the left arm of the elderly one helping her to a seat that folded down from the side of the wagon. The elderly woman looked wise and though could be placed in her 80s or 90s, had eyes which shown with sharp intelligence and long life beyond her years it seems. Taking a bowl of some kind of stew from a younger boy in his mid-teens the woman seemed to contemplate something only she could see or hear as she stared at the bowl.

GM CockRoach