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Landing Team 1 hadn’t found any thing of use in Krezk and had returned to the ship. Rand had been sent back out to lend an extra pair of hands and eyes to team 2. Team 3 had been considered but they were right smack dab in the middle of a large group of locals and there was no way to safely get her in place without anyone noticing. She appeared on the edge of the clearing. The hood of her cloak had fallen and she quickly pulled it up and over her head. As much as to conceal her hair color as to keep the mist and damp away. Scans had said no one else was around, but it never hurt to be careful. She spotted the group, not far, but headed toward what looked like a cave. The clearing looked like some sort of explosion had taken place. She scanned the group quickly, identifying Kovan (they made an investigative pair didn’t they?), Yarwood (she didn’t know the doctor, but Randy spoke highly of him and his skill), and Nkosenye (the man scared her. She didn’t feel threatened by him, but he was scary). Finally her gaze landed on Cmdr Alden and she made her way toward him to report. Once she was within normal speaking range, “Cmdr Alden. I was told you needed an extra pair of hands. We found nothing helpful in Krezk so here I am.” She passed him the knapsack, “NE Bubbles told me you were investigating something. Standard field sample and testing kit.”

Yeoman Rand

The surprise and relief he felt seeing her would only be perceptible to Rand. To everyone else, he seemed his normal stoic but professional self as he nodded to acknowledge her. “We can always use an extra set of hands, Ensign Farquharson,” he replied, taking the knapsack as she passed it to him. “We’ve been investigating the cause of the explosion,” he gestured the the site, but then shrugged, Rand might recognize it as a tad frustrated of a motion, and then continued, “but we’ve found nothing particularly useful. I believe we’re just about ready to head into the caves…?” He phrased the last sentence as a question and then turned and looked to the rest of the team, checking with them.

~ Roman

Kovan nodded at Rand happy to have her help, which surprised him. Kovan usually was never happy to see anyone. That was something to deal with later. Right now there was a mission to complete. “I found traces of radiation but I couldn’t determine how or why it came to be here. I have determined that the explosion didn’t originate from this location, but as a result from an impact.” Kovan looked towards the caves, “I think we should check out the caves next.”

Ensign ch’Sirhc, COMMO/ENGR

Caves were fun, usually, lots of interesting things to see, if you were careful. Did they have climbing gear? Probably not, but surely they wouldn’t explore that far. Well without gear they wouldn’t be able to. She nodded to Alden and then started toward the cave entrance. Oh wonderful…it was raining and they were going to head into the caves…again. Well at least it wasn’t storming with prehistoric giant trees crashing around them, and the path was clearly marked and the ground wasn’t giving way. Her tricorder was already taking readings and she took the hand scanner, which also functioned as a microphone to record sounds, and began describing what she was seeing. The tricorders would pick up the technical details but unless they were describing what they were seeing the visual details may be missed. Plus it gave her something to do. She walked the edge of the clearing, avoiding walking through the blast area. Explosions were meant to reduce things to rubble, get rid of them, break them apart. With her luck it would have weakened the ground and she’d fall into a cave or something underneath. She gave the area a couple extra feet of clearance.

Yeoman Rand

While they all walked toward the cave, with Rand leading, Alwyn approached Roman: “Sir, there is a track of footprints leading to that cave, a small group I’d guess. But most importantly, their DNA signature is a bit different from the locals. It might be a species we haven’t encountered yet.” As exciting as it might sound to him, he know the species could be hostile, and as worrying it was, he couldn’t help, but feel a little excited about it.

Doctor Alwyn Yarwood - Enseign

OOC: Small title edit!

Scans so far by anyone checking things showed nothing out of place so far that they could recognize. Approaching the cave mouth they saw it was dimly lit past 10ft or so into a gloomy tunnel that seemed to head deeper into the earth below. The scent of damp earth, moss, and probably some kind of animal presence or similar wafted out. The tracks of the unknown party that they had followed here it seems had gone into the cave ahead.

GM CockRoach