Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Alyssa Williams (Security) in Would you like to play a game? (Thread B)

Posted by Captain Rende Asam (Commanding Officer) in Would you like to play a game? (Thread B)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Alyssa Williams (Security) in Would you like to play a game? (Thread B)
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Sentinel was always a busy ship. There were always things to be done, places to go, cargo to move. Today, they were out on the far edge of their general patrol area, investigating reports of spacial anomalies in the region. Roman, to his great dismay, was not yet back on full duty, in fact, he’d barely returned to duty at all. So, he was having his science officer on the Bridge send him the reports.

As the ship sat near the most recent anomalous location, running sensors and scans and what have you, an all-encompassing white light breached the walls of the ship, enveloping all of them.

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In what looked like an Earth high school gymnasium, Captain Rende, Lieutenants Kreed and Anders, the chief Engineer Karl, and Ensign Alyssa awoke. The basketball hoops were down as if a game was to be played, the bleachers pulled out. However, the scoreboard was blank, and no one besides the officers was present. There were no windows, just the things typically present in a room such as this.

All of the officers were physically fine, unhurt, exactly as they had been on board the ship. Their only symptom was disorientation as a result of the method of transportation, which would fade in ten to thirty minutes.

There was a voice in their minds, as if telepathic, not even quite a voice, just… the ideas. I would like to play a game with you, my intrepid explorers. I have abducted you from your ship - don’t worry, it is safe, as is the remainder of your crew. You, however, must win at my game in order to escape. Do not hope for rescue. You are unreachable to your crew. You will not be able to reach them and they will not be able to find you.

The only way out is to play. And the way to play… is to escape. You are in a building modelled after those on the planet of Earth. By any means necessary and available to you, you must escape to the outside. Only then will you be returned to your vessel. Good luck.

~ Jaguar

Kreed blinked the vertical and then the horizontal lids of his large, black eyes. He sat up and looked around. He had been in Sickbay, and now he was not. This is not normal. he thought to himself and looked around at his shipmates. “Did the rest of you hear that?” he asked flatly.

Kreed, CMO

Rende had been in the gym practicing martial arts with one of the security officers. She was out of uniform in workout clothes, sweaty, and barefoot. She rolled to sitting and scowled. Omnitient voice, with a personality to play games, and make others do as they said. It reeked of the Continuum. Not that Star Fleet currently knew who they were. Of course there were other beings like that out there.

Asam nodded, “I did. Alright, everyone speak up. Are you okay? Other than disorientation?”
Cpt. Asam, CO

Karl had been on his back under a console, hands fidgeting with some wires. When he woke up his hand was across his face, his nose hurt a little as did his wrist, he presumed his hand had fallen on his face, nothing like a light love tap on your own face to start the day.... or well continue it he guessed. He sat up and looked around Captain, Security Chief, Medical Chief, one Junior officer maybe Security He made a mental count of those he saw, an unusual group, half the senior staff and a single ensign. “Hit my face when I lost consciousness, hand fell on it no bruising or serious injuries” He reported, his usual humour replaced with uncharacteristic professionalism, a sign of how serious he took their current situation. “Didn’t feel like a voice, more like a collection of ideas I translated into words, telepathy?” He asked unsure, he’d never actually experienced telepathy before.

Master Chief Karl - CE

Marcus’ head throbbed, “I’m not sure what it was, but my head feels like I’ve gone 10 rounds with an Orion Slavemaster.”

-Lieutenant Junior Grade Marcus Anders: Chief of Security-

Kreed pulled his tricorder from his white coat and looked at Anders. “Here. Let me take a look. Hold still.” he instructed and began to run a scan.

Kreed, CMO

She then had also woken up not knowing what hit her. “What happened? I feel like I just had 20 major balls hit me in the head.” Not knowing what was going on.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Alyssa Williams
Security
USS Sentinel

“Just stay still, Williams. Lt. Kreed will check you in just a moment,” the Captain said. She stood and looked around. “Karl let’s start searching under these bleachers. People lost things all the time beneath them. On purpose or accident. Just be careful of traps.” Rende moved to the left side of the court and around the end of the bleachers and peeked underneath, scanning it visually before stepping through the maze of metal supports.

Cpt. Asam, CO

Karl cocked his head at the captain’s orders but didn’t hesitate to do as asked, he got up slowly and moved to the bleachers and started looking around “I wonder if there’s a specific reasons we were grouped together” He called out.

Master Chief Karl - CE

Their questions were met with silence. The voice seemed uninterested in giving ‘extraneous’ information.

~ Cmdr Alden, XO/CSO

When he finished with Anders, Kreed moved onto Williams. “It’s not unusual for individuals who have not experienced telepathy before to experience some discomfort. Especially if such communication is not the norm for their species.” He finished the scan and looked at her, his large black eyes reflecting her somewhat. “I see no need to be concerned. The discomfort should fade in the next few minutes.” Kreed then began looking around, using his natural ability to see in the infrared spectrum.

Kreed, CMO

Under the bleachers was a wire bin full of basketballs. On the wall was a plaque:

Play a game with these fun balls
Don’t bore with basic games
Delight me with your calls
Impress me with your brains
And perhaps you shall move on

As for Kreed’s vision, there was no one within his sight besides the present crew, the five in this room. Everything else looked standard for a structure like this, power sources seemed to be below them, perhaps a hot water heater, and hot water pipes and such throughout.

~ Jaguar

Rende sighed and picked up the bin of basketballs. She walked back out from underneath the bleachers and set it down in the center of the basketball court. “Apparently we have to play a game. Something that will amuse and delight our hist. Not anything as mundane as a simple basketball game. Any ideas?”

Cpt. Asam, CO

Kreed thought for a moment and then said “I believe that human children have a game where balls are thrown at one another with the intention of hitting their opponents and causing them to be ‘out’. There is a classic Earth vid based off of the premise, if I remember correctly… something called ‘Dodge Ball’?”

Kreed, CMO

“Dodge Ball. I haven’t played that since the academy.” She said.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Alyssa Williams
Security
USS Sentinel

Karl cocked his head “Dodge ball?” he said curiously thinking about the word for a moment and thinking of what game it could be “Ah shootball” He said with a snap of his finger then frowned “With basketballs?” He picked one up and tossed it in the air “These’ll hurt like hell”

Master Chief Karl - CE

“At least you have medical support.” Kreed replied flatly.

Kreed, CMO

“Dodge ball is played on teams, we have an odd number, and I am sure everyone must participate for this to work.” Rende stared at the score board as she thought. She had never played many Earth PE games.

Cpt. Asam, CO

Bump for Anders and Williams

Cpt. Asam, CO

“I’ve done dodge ball before back at the academy. But other than that. It’s been a while.” Williams said.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Alyssa Williams
Security
USS Sentinel

Rende stated up at the scoreboard not really seeing it. Tabris had always complained about PE. If she just thought back far enough. “Will dodge ball amuse our host do you think? The note said to be creative. Perhaps we need to make up a game?”

Cpt. Asam, CO

“Well captain if it says to be creative then yes we would have to make up a game.” She answered the captain. “However, if we combine dodge ball and one other ball game together, then it might eventually amuse our host.” She continued.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Alyssa Williams
Security
USS Sentinel

“Expound on that Lt. Details, give me details,” Rende encouraged.

Cpt. Asam, CO

“What I’m trying to say captain, that the host is sort of like the Q. They want amusement from us just to let us be set free. So as we stand here and think about what we are supposed to do, I feel like the most “logical” thing is combine two ball games together. Such as dodgeball and basketball. Or even if you want to think of it as a game of chess if you will. We must always anticipate on what they want us to do. Anticipating on what their next move might be their weakness captain.” She started to explain to the captain. Almost completely in full depth without boring her.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Alyssa Williams
Security
USS Sentinel

The captain nodded in approval to the young officer. “That is an astute evaluation of our predicament. How do you suggest we go about this game? What are the rules? How is it played? How do we keep points? What are the teams or are we all playing against each other? We need specifics. I doubt our host will find amusement in us simply turning about like a scared stoat.” She aimed the questions at everyone.

Cpt. Asam, CO

She looked at the captain again before saying anything to her and nodded. “Well, captain. If you look at what we have here captain is a court of some kind. So it could well be a basketball court.” She had said. “From what the parameters tell me is that we must be in 2 teams. Team one has two and team two with 3 but if we want the game to work the right way, the two teams must be even which means one of us would have to sit on the sidelines. Once that has been completed, the game then begins. One team will start with the ball and the other is to stop the other team and steal the ball. There are two games that we must play. This one which is basketball and the game of chess. The first one is basketball. As I have stated earlier. But in this case, the team that scores the most points wins round one. Might I remind you, captain, if we want to get out of here and back to the ship we must play both games fairly and without cheating. That’s what they want us to do. They want us to cheat.” She stated.

“Yes, Lt this is a basketball court. However, I don’t agree with letting one of us sit out. If they intended for someone to sit out, they wouldn’t have taken all of us. The instructions also say to amuse them. I doubt a standard game of basketball is going to amuse them,” Asam told her.

“Basketball game will have 2 rounds. Now the game of chess we must know the moves. I, however, know how the game works. I’ve played it back at the academy. The white pieces go first and then the black pieces. As usual 2 rounds of chess as well. Now this one might be a little bit trickier. If we can get a piece to the opponent’s side of the board, we then must and can trade our pawn piece to whatever piece is our best piece on the board back. Now, however, we must checkmate the opponent before they checkmate us. I hope all my information helps all of us.” Williams had stated to the captain.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Alyssa Williams
Security
USS Sentinel

Bumping for the rest of the group.

Bump for the rest of the group as well

Lieutenant Junior Grade Alyssa Williams
Security
USS Sentinel

The captain waved a hand to encompass the high school gymnasium. “This whole thing is a chess game, Lt. However we aren’t playing the literal game of chess. I assumed you meant figuratively. There is no chess set here. We can’t actually play chess.”

Cpt. Asam, CO

“Yes captain I meant chess as figuratively as humanly possible. If you say that this is true then I must say we have three players on one team and two in another. I know not even teams but her must try it. However, I am not so sure about the amusement part captain.” She said thinking about how the amusement portion would work in this instance.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Alyssa Williams
Security
USS Sentinel

Karl scratched his head “Well uneven teams might be entertaining to whomever is behind this, at least it won’t be dull” He smiled “I say we just play and see what happens”

Master Chief Karl - CE