Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Tracking The Power Drain - Shuttlebay
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Karl took an involuntary step back and froze, this wasn’t at all what he expected. After only a moment he opened a comm link with the Bridge and adjusted his helmet to transmit a visual signal as well =^=Please tell me you’re seeing this as well.=^= He slowly raised his tricorder towards the dancing woman =^=Can you hear me, madame?=^= He asked over the comm, nothing could have prepared him for whatever tomfoolery was going on there.

SCPO Karl - Eng

Karl’s tricorder soundlessly beeped in the vacuum of space as it scanned the mystery woman, at his query it seems she heard him and stopped her dancing, though her left foot remained on the EPS tap which still now and then sparked from her contact causing likely more energy drains and blow outs. Her mouth moved and again his helmet picked up her words on the an open comm frequency. Surprisingly she spoke an type of English it seems, though it carried a strange accent he could not quite place. =/\= Oh! Hello there! You must be the servant assigned to guard me before the wedding is that right? You must forgive catching me in such an embarrassing moment of dance! But then again it is such a happy day is it not? I am to be married to my beloved! =/\= She asked and stated in a dreamy like fashion.

Before Karl could reply she went on as if he had replied to her, =/\= But no matter, I appreciate your arrival, tell me is there any spare food ready from preparing for the wedding later tonight? I have not eaten since the morning breakfast several hours ago. If you do not mind could you be a lovely dear and see if the kitchen staff has anything to spare for me? I have been nibbling on some crackers I had stowed away in my luggage..=/\= She said indicating the EPS tap near her foot as if in her mind it was a small table of luggage mentioned that held a bag of crackers. =/\= But those are ill suited to stave my stomach pangs..=/\= she added.

By this point Karl’s tricorder had finished its scan, the woman was not actually there it seems, all the tricorder reported was an energy anomaly that was about the height and width of the woman he was seeing. The tricorder also confirmed that the woman or energy anomaly was indeed in minute amounts feeding on the EPS tap, each time it imbibed a charge its charge went up by a few joules of energy, currently its output was equal to about that of 10^5th Joules of energy, or roughly the constant energy produced of 1 gram of a meteor impacting the Earth’s surface. It was a strange thing to consider but was he perhaps seeing first hand evidence of a ghost??

=/\= Chief be careful, keep your distance.=/\= Cleolet said.

GM CockRoach

Karl blinked at the woman’s reply, he was so taken aback that he almost didn’t catch the reply from the bridge =^=Right, I see… well madam I think we should refrain from overindulging ourselves.=^= He could really use a space psychologist right about now, was he supposed to play along or throw reality in her face. He decided after a moment that standing on the hull of a ship next to an energy-sucking alien creature that believed it was something else and telling it that its reality was wrong wasn’t the best of ideas =^=You don’t want to ruin your appetite with something so bland do you=^= He attempt a friendly smile but felt that it came of more a flashing of teeth.

SCPO Karl

The woman seemed to consider Karl’s words, looking at the EPS tap/imaginary table to cracker bag. Then something off to her right on the ship’s hull that likely only she could perceive. =/\=..Oh I do suppose you are right. I suppose my dear Sergei would not wish for me to grow fat or be full before out wedding dinner..=/\= she said then stepping off the EPS tap, which stopped shorting out. Tricorder readings confirmed that the shorts had stopped, while the tap itself would likely need some minor repairs, and those nearby internal systems would also need minor repairs the direct problem at least seemed to solved.

The woman seemed to then get lost in her own thoughts, as if pacing a small room only she could see and picking up items only she perceived. She then turned to Karl again as if holding something up in her left hand and striking an amateurish pose of someone perhaps wielding a small blade or some such. =/\=..Tell me dashing guard of mine, do you think I could have the makings of a warrior one day? Or are you of the opinion like many noble families in fair Barovia, that a woman’s place is but for family and home life?=/\= she inquired. Tricorder scans now showed the energy anomaly/woman had a constant power output equal to that of 1 ton of TNT exploding, there was of course no sign of danger, nor radiation off the woman/energy anomaly as it stood there in its pose awaiting Karl’s answer.

GM CockRoach

Karl looked at the scans, then the woman, then back at the scanner then finally back at the walking, talking, energy being. He cleared his throat =^=I don’t know if it is my place, but I think anyone with the right training and temperment can become a warrior, regardless of gender.=^=

SCPO Karl - ENG