IC-Ep 2-The Visitor(Everyone else)

[Mr. Handy]

Medical Lab - Styx Base, Pluto
0720 GMT - Tuesday, August 9, 2112

Major Natalia Orlova, Captain Karin Bauer, Sergeant Heinrich Kohl, Private Alison Silver, Story, Elizabeth, Lucius, and Brook were waiting in the crowded medical lab when Colonel Indira Patel opened the door from the corridor outside. The stern-looking Indian woman was in her mid-forties, very tall and with a tough look about her. Accompanying her were Captain Juliette Desjardins and Lt. Edward Barrett, still wearing spacesuits, and Private Robert MacCrimmon. They were holding the alien at gunpoint. The creature was about the size of a small child, with an oversized and bulbous head that had multiple tiny antennae. It had a green web-like covering on its body, and it had thin semitransparent wings. It also possessed several spindly appendages that ended in pincer-like hands and feet. It was like nothing they had ever seen before, and the mere sight of it was unnerving.

OOC,[b]Story[/b], [b]Elizabeth[/b], [b]Lucius[/b], [b]Brook[/b], [b]Karin[/b], [b]Heinrich[/b], and [b]Alison[/b], please roll Sanity. Sanity loss is 0/1d6, so you lose no Sanity if you succeed but 1d6 if you fail. If you lose 5 or more Sanity, you must roll Idea. If you succeed at the Idea roll, then you go temporarily insane. If you fail at the Idea roll, you do not.

[yockenthwaite]

Elizabeth is shocked at seeing the alien, but not unduly unnerved.

[Dr. Bloodworth]

Heinrich's eyes widen at the sight of the alien, but he nonetheless moves forward and reaches down to help heave the alien creature onto the examination table.

[aine]

Karin had steeled herself to seeing her first alien up close but has been expecting a dead mass on a stretcher. Having one walking into the med-bay was altogether too much. She sinks down onto the floor, mumbling something about 'tea'.

[Lynx]

Juliette observes the impakt the creature has on her colleagues, and studies the strange faces. She had forgot all about there beeing some strangers at the base. She studies Karin with worry as she sinks down. "You allright capt. Bauer? Try not to look at it, and maybe the sensation will pass." She studies the unlikely guests. How did they get here?

[jaysun81]

Story observes the creature for a moment and then looking at the soldiers he says "Has your prisoner spoken?"

OOC,[url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3301105/]Sanity - 68% (1d100=55)[/url]

[Mr. Handy]

"Bozhemoi!" cried Major Natalia Orlova, recoiling in horror. She was somewhat shaken, but she managed to regain most of her composure and saluted the colonel. "Colonel Patel," she stammered.

"As you were," said Colonel Patel, returning the salute. "It can speak English, but it hasn't said much. Captain Desjardins reported that it has unusual mental powers, so be careful."

Alison Silver stayed calm and helped the sergeant place the alien on the examination table and secure it with the restraints.

"Do not be afraid," buzzed the alien in monotonous English. "We mean you no harm. We come in peazzze."

OOC,I still need Sanity rolls from [b]Lucius[/b] and [b]Brook[/b].

[Thorn]

(I don't have Invisible castle at work. Could you please roll for me?)

Brook hides behind Story when they bring the alien in.

[Lynx]

Juliette, helmet under her left arm, she kept her aim until the creature was tethered to the table. Her face flushed from the long hours of maximum adrenealin, and she suddenly felt depleted. She lowered her gun and her voice could not quite hide the fatigue. "I am sorry, Colonel Patel, but may I be excused long enough to get out of this suit and take a break. I need some sustenance." Juliette looked around her at all the people in the room, and continued, "There seem to be enough people her to keep the creature in check."

[aine]

Karin looks up as the pilot speaks and her medical capacity takes over. "Juliette, let me give you something to restore your levels; you look all done in." Karin gets up and grabs some revito-patches. "Here, put this on your arm and then go and get some food. Keep the other patch for later." Then she turns to face the alien. "Okay fella. Are you just following standard alien protocol or do you really mean that?" She switches on the scanners above it. "We also mean you no harm so please just sit still." She realises she is gabbling but it's the only way to keep focused on the job. "Okay, please stand back everyone or we'll get mixed readings. Mr. Story the results will show up on that screen there." She adjusts the scanners and then stands back.

[yockenthwaite]

Elizabeth hears Karin's request, and steps back, towards the edges of the room. She watches the alien with interest, quite captivated by it.

[ImpInTraining]

Lucius was obviously grateful to have his dagger back. He checked it quickly for any new blemishes before tucking it away and watching as the alien was brought in.

"Story, you certainly do meet the strangest people. First the ghouls, then the Black Pharaoh, and now this strange fellow," Lucius said. The strange sight didn't even seem to phase the Roman. He steps a little closer, put his hand upon his chest and said "Do you have a name? I'm Lucius."

[Mr. Handy]

When Brook got a look at the creature, she wasn't bothered by it at all. She had seen so many aliens that one more didn't matter too much, and this one seemed pretty harmless.

"By all means, Captain," Colonel Patel told Juliette. "Take a break - you've more than earned it."

Lucius found that his dagger was undamaged. The creature replied to him, and to everyone in the room: "We are the Mi-Go. We mean you no harm. We want peazzze with the humanzzz."

Colonel Patel frowned. "You've got a funny way of showing it," she said. "You attacked Lt. Colonel Bruce and abducted him! Where is he? What have you done with him?"

"He wazzz going to attack us. We had to protect ourzzzelvezzz. He izzz zzzafe. He will not be harmed."

"What have you done with the crew of the Persephone?"

"They are zzzafe. They are our guezzztzzz."

Karin began her scans of the alien and started to analyze them.

OOC,[b]Karin[/b], please roll Biology.

[Thorn]

Brook peeks at the alien from behind Story, then smiles a little. "Hi, Mi-Go. Cool wings. Can you fly?"

[Lynx]

Juliette looked at the vile creature, accepted the patch from Karin with a grateful smile, saluted the Colonel, "Thank you ma'am, " and turned to leave the room as the creature spoke and stopped by the door. As Brook spoke to it, Juliette looked at her and answered. "They can fly, and don't you go and get to friendly to it. It still has kidnapped several of our men." She then looked at Colonel Patel. "The next question Ma'am should be: How are they kept safe? Safe according to our conventions or let us say... the Cybermens?" Juliette left the room with her question hanging in the air.

[Thorn]

Brook looks at the pilot as she leaves, then back at the alien. "Are you related to Watto, by any chance?"

[aine]

Karin watches the readings avidly but wonders how she is going to interpret them on a physiology totally different from human.

Handy,Biology (51%) [url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3303745/]1d100=84[/url]

[jaysun81]

Story studies the creature for a moment and takes a step near it. "Mi-Go... are you from this planet?"

[Mr. Handy]

Karin studied the readings from the scanner, but they made no sense to her. Whatever this creature was, it bore only superficial resemblance to Earth-based lifeforms. It seemed to defy analysis, appearing as neither animal nor vegetable. The readings indicated that it was more like a fungus than anything else. Natalia, who was also reading the scans, was equally perplexed. "It is life," she said, "but not as we know it."

"We can fly," buzzed the small Mi-Go. "We have no knowledge of any 'Watto.' Yuggoth izzz our planet."

"Where is Yuggoth?" asked Natalia. "Is it outside the solar system?"

"Thizzz izzz Yuggoth."

"Well, what have you done with the crew of the Persephone?" demanded Indira. "How have they been kept 'safe?'"

"When they arrived on Yuggoth, we came to greet them. They were hozzztile. They attacked uzzz, and we were forzzzed to zzzubdue them. They were...damaged, but we have prezzzerved their livezzz."

"We want them back, and that goes for Lt. Colonel Bruce as well!"

"You demand thizzz, yet you keep me prizzzoner and threaten me with violenzzze."

"What about a trade?" suggested Natalia.

The Mi-Go paused. "That could be arranged."

The door closed automatically after Juliette left.

[aine]

"I'm afraid I can't make much sense of this, I'm only getting steady readings on the eukaryotic levels." Karin stares hard at the Mi-Go. "And that makes it fungi. Do you think he tells jokes?" She sniffs. "I don't think it's harmful to us but maybe just duck if it sneezes a cloud of spores." She walks over to the alien. "Mi-Go, I am Karin. Tell me, are the human prisoners conscious?"