Play@YSDC

'Far as I know CENTRAL works for Kingsley, and you'd have to ask him what's going on at Pumping Station 6. No one talks about it cos no one wants lose their job. S'all I know.'

Looking at Virgil's map of Barnard's Rest and Ligeia Mare he points towards the far side of the methane sea. 'Somewhere over there.'

OOC,Virgil shows this map to Sergei: [url]https://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/pbp/viewtopic.php?f=472&t=7144#p238916[/url]. Sergei indicates the shore to the top left of the map.

"Do you know anything about what happened to the Chief Engineer?" asks Sam.

Keeper,So Waystation and Pumping Station 6 are in the same place/ are the same thing?

Virgil looks cross.

"Someone needs to fill me in. Why were the security forces beating Sergei? What else have you learned about the Waystation, which I do think is officially referred to as Pumping Station 6? Jojo says. "And have you heard of anyone else infected by this pathogen that Sergeant Montrose contracted?"

"They beat him to stop him from talking to us," says Sam. "It almost worked, too. I suspect Dr. Holzer was infected too, from reading those excerpts from his diary. Have you seen them yet?"

Kiara wanders over and peers at Virgil's map.

"We can get to number six from the maglev transport hub under the admin complex. I don't know if you noticed when we arrived, but there's a door marked 'surface rovers' (also 'copters', but that's been crossed out) in addition to the tunnels to the other pumping stations. 'Pumping station six' was also written on this door and then scribbled out."

She turns to Sergei.

"Is that how the miners get there? Do they need a surface rover or 'copter?"

'Surface rover has to take long way round Ligeia Mare. Copters faster' says Sergei.

'Shouldn't we wait to see what Doctor Johnson finds on David,? He did not look right' says Nicole. Looking very queasy, Nurse Richards nods his head, 'I think you should wait until Dr Johnson knows more about this infection.'

"Yes, let's wait for the results," says Sam. "While we do, we can discuss what we're going to do about CENTRAL, while it's not listening. I think we have a HAL situation here. I think we'd have to access its core to reset it. We probably can't shut it down completely, as the colony may not survive long without it running."

Virgil has been thinking hard.
“Yes, a factory reset might be the best thing, that should enable all the support systems to work effectively again.” He frowns, “What happened to David and where was he when he got into trouble?”

'David Montrose encountered something on Waystation' says Nicole. 'After he died he was covered in some kind of rash, non, not a rash, some kind of growth.'

She shows the others some images she took on her datapad, they show a greenish powdery rash with an almost hairy surface, a little like mold.

"Could there actually be alien life on Titan?" asks Sam. "If anywhere in the solar system other than Earth could support life, Titan might. Whatever's at Waystation must have contaminated Montrose, and Holzer too."

“I could run a test if you took any samples,” volunteers Kiara. “Might help us protect ourselves.”

“What was he doing at Waystation in the first place?” Asks Virgil suspiciously.

“I heard talk of an excavation,” says Kiara. “Does that ring any bells Sergei?”

'I did not take any samples, but Dr Johnson has David's body 'ere,' says Nicole. 'What was 'e doing on Waystation, I do not know, but 'e was Head of Security so maybe he was involved somehow with what is 'appening there?'

Sergei shrugs his shoulders at Kiara's question, 'Excavation? Don't know, maybe, how you building pumping station?'

"Or he could have been investigating it," suggests Sam.

OOC,Don't want to railroad anyone but it looks to me like we've stalled a bit. Maybe by next week we can make plans to change the scene unless everyone still has more conversation they want to have

Looking pretty queasy, Richards says 'Maybe we could try and take more samples from Montrose's body, but I don't know whether Dr Johnson thinks it would be safe to conduct a full postmortem.'

Nodding, Nicole says 'While you scientists look at Montrose what can the rest of us be doing? Before we go over to Waystation?'

"I think Kiara and I should go to CENTRAL's core and reset it," says Sam. "That won't solve the problem permanently, as whatever glitch allowed it to go rogue once would allow it to happen again, but it should help."

Kiara is torn between obtaining a sample from the doc and heading off with Sam. After a second’s thought, she opts for the latter, figuring that having a working CENTRAL is of higher importance.

“Okay Sam, let’s go.”