[9:12] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <INTRO> Several days have past since our heroes eliminated the threat of Solanae Station. With information and some technology gathered, crews have been kept busy with reverse-engineering the++
[9:13] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++components, while other vessels of House Krotak map out the anomalies area previously encountered. Meanwhile, Kl’Vok and her escorts have reached the third system in this region, the only one with++
[9:14] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: habitable and, even more interesting, an inhabited planet. The crews have set up the camp a few kelicams (1 kelicams is roughly 2 kilometers) away from the settlement where the inhabitants have been++
[9:14] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: located. <END-OF-INTRO>
[9:15] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: looks to Lakara, Zahn and Ginora "Finally, some solid ground and gravity. The crews have set up the camp. I have made some preliminary long range scans. The inhabited area does not show signs of++
[9:16] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: higher technology but metallurgical readings of same area are… confusing."
[9:16] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni flips open her tricorder, an upgraded and half-borgified Federation model, and sterts to scan the area around the beam-in site.
[9:17] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Define confusing.” The Klingon looks around. She does seem happy to be on the ground, studying the plants and foilage. Science is best left to the scientists
[9:17] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Considering the size of the habitat and its geometry, I would say we are looking at late agrarian society.”
[9:17] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “It’s been a little since I last set foot on a planet. About time I’ve done so.” With that, the Cardassian withdraws her own tricorder, confusing metallurgical readings? She wants to see so herself.
[9:18] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: You detect standard M-class conditions like gravity, plant and animal life, atmosphere is suitable. Scenery is comparable to Qo’nos before Praxis Disaster.
[9:19] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: There is some interference from planet’s stronger magnetic field, though otherwise it is standard M-class world. The met.analysis indicates the presence of compounds used++
[9:19] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Hmm. Compatible to Klingon physiology. Standard gravity, dense plant life, plentiful animals. Some of them on the larger size.”
[9:19] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: in B’rel BoPs from TOS/TMP era.
[9:20] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Hrmpf..Primitive creatures.” She peers over at Thorgar “You realize that means they may have never seen aliens before. Should we observe from stealth first, perhaps?”
[9:20] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: turns to Lakara “Well, Lady Lakara, the confusing part is… there are some metallic compounds that shouldn’t be there.”
[9:21] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I will need to see some geological data, but the tricorder is picking up trace elements in the soil and water that are… interesting.”
[9:21] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I don’t suppose you know what compounds those actually are, Thorgar?”
[9:22] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Having just scanned myself, interference with the scanners aside, they’re similar to that of older B’rels, to answer your question.”
[9:22] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: You can ofc add some of your own ideas 😃
[9:22] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “The interfence I mentioned makes it hard to tell how much, before you ask.”
[9:23] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: chins to Ginora, while looking at Lakara “Precisely that. Ship hull alloys and compounds.”
[9:23] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Bioscans from orbit were inconclusive due to the planet’s strong magnetic fields.”
[9:24] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Intriguing..” Lakara strokes her chin and humms “That should only be limited to a single region of the planet then, should it not?”
[9:25] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: nods firmly “That is correct. Other habitats are too far away for denizens to reach on foot in several dozen days. But here… we may find fellow Klingons.”
[9:26] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni snaps her tricorder closed, looking around as she taps it against her leg. “How wide-spread is the presence of these alloys?”
[9:26] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: "As for the natives, it seems rather straightforward to me, test their strength, and if they are worthy, incorporate them. I don’t see too much reason to deviate if they are klingons or not given <c>
[9:26] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: …How they do not have contact with the Empire."
[9:27] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: looks to Ginora “That would be a standard procedure. We are not on tight leash as Starfleet.” then looks to Zahn “On this planet, it is just this one location where alloys were found.”
[9:27] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “If not.. Well the gorn learned what happens when you don’t bow.”
[9:27] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Hrm. First, we need knowledge. Of their weapons if nothing else. IT will be little test if we bring disruptors to a fight with bows and arrows”
[9:28] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “We also need to learn how this B’rel material got here! IF a vessel is still largely intact, its databanks may still be salvageable.”
[9:28] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Consistant with debris in the high atmosphere, then, rather than a Genesis-style device.”
[9:30] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: She nods. “The planet is a bit too similar to pre-Praxis Qo’nos to not suspect creation by mortal hands.”
[9:30] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Rather discounting the most simple explanation? Iron isn’t limited to one planet, why would B’rel metal?”
[9:31] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “The metal used in the construction of Klingon vessels is an alloy designed and created by our scientists. It is not naturally occurring.”
[9:31] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Fair enough then as I am no engineer.”
[9:31] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “I suppose we shall see. Lakara, would you prefer to investigate these people with bows and arrows for… extra challenge on your side?”
[9:32] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I would prefer to observe them from hiding, deduce what technologgy level they are on, and of course, get eyes on the source of this fabled metal!”
[9:32] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I imagine once we -see- the source, much will be explained.”
[9:32] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “-Then-, we can think about giving them a worthy test. Pack bat’leths and mek’leths just in case.”
[9:33] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “If we do need to approach them, I should take point. Arrows wil not be as deadly to me, given my internal construction and my exoskeletal reinforcements.”
[9:34] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Unsheaths his kur’leth. “Then I am ready.”
[9:34] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni taps a command into her gauntlet PADD, and a moment later a bat’leth materializes at her feet. Scooping it up, she nods. “I am ready as well.”
[9:34] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Thorgar, what direction is their nearest settlement?”
[9:34] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: I’ll head first to show you where to walk. 😃
[9:35] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: *Points forward. Across the river, in that ridge."
[9:36] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni flips her tricorder open again.
[9:36] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> As they walk into the ridge, foliage grows denser and there is humming among it as animals wander about.
[9:36] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “I remember having to investigate Bajor’s Northern pole.”
[9:37] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “They will most likely have sentries or hunting parties around the outskirts. Keep your heads up.”
[9:37] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: The animal life is definitely richer in the ridge as your tricorder identifies plants which would be edible to the group after some thermal processing.
[9:37] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: Otherwise, you do not find any humanoids except the four of us.
[9:37] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “They certainly would have been watching us from the treelines, why not? Strangers setting up camp? Someone will notice and raise alarm.”
[9:38] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “It appears clear. Plentiful life around us. With high ground and that river nearby, it is a smart place for an encampment.”
[9:38] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “The ridge will be dangerous to cross, that is true. Anything from your North Pole experience to aid us?”
[9:39] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: inhales deeply “Smells of lower predators around here. A good hunting ground.”
[9:39] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Little, other than assuming you are always being watched at every second, as we were. Mind you, power was at a premium due to the hardship, so this was all set up without any power.”
[9:39] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Understood.”
[9:40] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I miss hunting. Animals can smell my metallic bits from much further away… it makes the hunt impossible.”
[9:40] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Any minor intrusion will be noticed, it may have been for us to not be transported to the camp as I assure you they were watching it.”
[9:40] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: been better for*))
[9:40] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> As they enter the ridge, Thorgar moves aside observing the opposite side of the cliff.
[9:41] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “This would be where I would stage an ambush, if I were going to.”
[9:41] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Then that means they’re still not sure we’re a threat.”
[9:41] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Or they want us to meet them, do you suppose they’ll roll out a feast? Ah, probably not.”
[9:42] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Early societies considered everything a threat that was not them.”
[9:42] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> An hour into their walk, Ginora’s and Zahn’s tricorders begin to blip.
[9:42] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “If it’s other klingons as predicted then I suppose I should be cautious hm?”
[9:42] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora slows for a moment to withdraw her tricorder, checking it over as she walks along with the others.
[9:42] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni raises a fist over her shoulder, then sweeps her tricorder before her, fiddling with buttons to narrow down the scans.
[9:43] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: You detect humanoid lifesigns half of kelicam away. They are moving away from us at slow pace though. There are three of them.
[9:43] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: You detect humanoid lifesigns half of kelicam away. They are moving away from us at slow pace though. There are three of them.
[9:44] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Three humanoids. Moving away from us slowly. We are not yet detected.”
[9:44] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Abruptly stops as he sees the two opening their tricorders.
[9:44] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara doesn’t speak much as the pair cross. One hand is near a disruptor pistol, watching the foilage and ready for ambush. She moves silently though, having learned to hide her noises within her -
[9:44] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - armor “..Hrm..How far from the settlement..Can we not get elevation on them? Up a hill or something?”
[9:45] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Or they know we’re here and are telling the rest.”
[9:45] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “..We have binoculars..There is no need to get right up in their face for a scout..”
[9:45] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni does not know stealth. She crunches through everything at a steady pace.
[9:45] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Are you able to scale these walls?”
[9:46] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: The ridge cliffs are steep. You’d need climbing equipment to go up.
[9:46] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “If you’re asking me, I probably could.”
[9:46] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I know that I can’t.”
[9:46] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: The settlement is another our walk from humanoids’ current position. One and half for us.
[9:47] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “I am fit, but these are… steep.”
[9:47] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I believe so…The climbing gear should allow it.”
[9:48] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “We can stop here while you ascend, if you would like.”
[9:50] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Who needs equipment when you have training?” The Cardassian looks upwards… Then starts her ascent, checking her grip a few times before continuing upwards.
[9:50] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: As they wait for Ginora to prep her climbing equipment, Thorgar scans flora/foliage. “Hmmm, these large flowers have some fats usually found in targ meat.”
[9:51] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Taking out a set of hooks and ropes, Lakara also begins her scend. She’s rather swift in her ascent, but isnt averse to using some technology to help matters along
[9:51] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “They probably make for some delicious meals, then.”
[9:51] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Or eat targs.”
[9:52] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora had simply elected to climb the old fashioned way, save for a small hook for gripping.
[9:54] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “I see a ridge, I see animals.. They’re quite calm at the moment if you’re wondering.”
[9:54] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> As time passes, Zahn through her long range eyes and Ginora/Lakara spot a big fireplace ahead, just the game presents it. There is no fire, but there is some smoke rising barely.
[9:55] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara attempts to zoom, and quite far at that, u sing her binoculars. She’s trying to spot signs of civilization. Camps, or structures. If none are v isible, she’d switch to heat vision to try and s
[9:56] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Spot people
[9:56] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “…Smoke, though no fire. I can’t quite tell how recent, not from this distance.”
[9:57] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: You would notice a glimpse of a tall tower-like structure to the far south. In our proximity, you’d spot three humanoids in the ridge through heat view, indicating they++
[9:57] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: stopped for resting.
[9:57] [Tell] Lakara@isabeldawn: (Is that tower made of wood, metal, something else?)
[9:57] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Odd not to have seen anyone yet, this close to their settlement.”
[9:57] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “ Three humanoids..They’re stopped. There’s a structure in the distance. Marking it all on your map.”
[9:57] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: You estimate it is wooden and maybe some stone.
[9:58] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “I suggest avoiding the humanoids for now, and approach the tower unseen. That will give some actual information. No signs of metal in the tower’s construction, though.”
[9:58] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Given time and distance, those should be the same three the tricorders picked up earlier. They are in no hurry, so they most likely do not know we are here yet.”
[9:59] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Looks to his updated map on the tricorder. <C> “Hmm, tower’s location is approximate to the location of B’Rel alloy. Interesting.”
[10:01] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “Mayhaps it was built on top. There is one way we can find out. I suggest using the cliffs to remain in hiding.”
[10:01] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: You tricorder estimates that, based on biosigns, there is 30% possibility three humanoids are Klingon.
[10:02] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “Constructing a building around the alloy? Hm, that’s curious.”
[10:02] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “I am unable to scale those cliffs, so I will try to stay in the trees and approach from ground level.”
[10:02] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “If you can proceed cautiously, Lakara.”
[10:02] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Scanning what I can… There is a thirty percent chance that at least three of the locals are actually klingons. Wonder if there were another people here before them.”
[10:04] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “If Klingons did crash here, they would have attempted to subjugate any locals to ensure their own survival. Stranded on a planet is no reason not to further the Empire’s goals.”
[10:05] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <c> “Well obviously not, no doubt while trying to fix their equipment to send a message too.”
[10:06] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “In that case it would seem they had failed.”
[10:06] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> The three humanoids proceed to walk in direction of the tower and the settlement around it. Lakara and Ginora find no issues walking along the ridge cliffs while Zahn and Thorgar proceed++
[10:06] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “We will see..” Lakara maintains her exploratory posture, using no small amount of effort to scale the cliffs to get a closer view at the outpost. Once the settlement comes into view, Lakara would -
[10:06] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: carefully in the lower portion until they meet at location where tower is clearly visible. Tricorders would now pick up on a few dozen lifesigns in the settlment but still below 100."
[10:06] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - seek to use military binoculars to get a decent view of it. Even at a range far beyond what non-technological humanoids should see, she hunkers low within the bushes out of sheer instinct
[10:08] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: At this distance and from higher vantage point, you can make out individual settlers. They do not seem particularly Klingon. In a sense you don’t see typical Klink features.
[10:08] [Tell] Lakara@isabeldawn: And the buildings?
[10:08] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Scanning…They don’t -look- Klingon, they look…”
[10:09] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <c> “Looks are decieving.”
[10:09] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: Buildings are wooden and stone cottages. You’d recognise two distinct types of construction: one unknown close to center of settlement and one agrarian Klingon, around the++
[10:09] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: tower. I.e. tower is NOT at the center of village.
[10:10] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: Your scans indicate less than 100 denizens, some are recognised as Klingons but with low probability. You’d need a more accurate, dedicacated bioscan.
[10:11] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: You can try to make a scan, but gimme a d20 roll 😃
[10:11] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “They have eyes.”
[10:12] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Eyes that could see us, and ears that could hear us”, he notes and chuckles a little to Zahn.
[10:12] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “The walls have both depending on circumstances.”
[10:13] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Contrary to popular belief, I do not have telescopic vision because of my implants. All I can tell is that they have eyes. And skin.”
[10:13] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I do not see pointy ears, so probably not Romulans.”
[10:13] [Tell] Lakara@isabeldawn: 15!
[10:14] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: Your scans say they are partially Klingon, but even that is a bit… off. Klingon but somehow… modified.
[10:15] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Finally, Lakara sends a dump of data towards the pads of the rest of the party, showing agrarian Klingon construction around the tower, and unknown construction near the town centre. Wooden and stone
[10:15] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: Modified in a way that
[10:15] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: is not typical for procreation with non-Klingons.
[10:15] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - The limited bioscans she has suggest some kind of halfbreed or other diluted creature with Klingon DNA. Not quite a pure halfbreed, but modified somehow "Grhm…Not true Klingons, but our people -
[10:16] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - were here…But something’s clearly changed them. Symbiosis with the local plantlife, maybe. Or something more sinister. Either way.."
[10:16] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara attempts to zero in on the metal..Hoping to find where the source of the klingon metals may be
[10:17] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “The bulk of the vessel should be near the tower. The crew of the vessel would have built their first fortifications to protect the crash site…” She looks at the readings, pondering them >
[10:17] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: for a moment. “Do not eat anything here. Do not drink the water. I do not like this.”
[10:18] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: you find at this distance that amount of alloy would correspond to parts of B’Rel around the warp engines since alloy is still magnetised. Also, you find that alloy is about++
[10:18] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: 200 years old.
[10:19] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Two hundred years old..Right. Enough gathering of knowledge. Let me commence a tactical analysis.”
[10:19] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: It is within the tower and some in surrounding side buildings of the tower.
[10:20] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “And maybe we can get a sight of the locals as well.”
[10:20] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: Run a bioscan, give me a d20 roll and add 5 to it.
[10:20] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “It seems the B’rel has been turned into construction. If we want answers, we must get it frtom within the tower.”
[10:20] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Mm.. Give me a second…”
[10:20] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: *Lakara then begins to zoom in to the settlement..Especially around the tower. Seeking a path of entry to it. And she seeks to inspect the locals: Where are they around the tower, how tricky would it-
[10:21] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “And the residents?”
[10:21] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - be to manouver around them, and what are their armaments.."
[10:21] [Tell] Ginora@datguyyoulike: 5 naked, + 5 is 10))
[10:21] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: It is mid-day, you’d find residents wandering about as if it were market day or going to and from their homes for fishing, agrarian activites and so forth.
[10:21] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I can send a flare over their heads, if you would like to see how they react.”
[10:22] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: Just enough 😃 Your bioscnas, added to what Lakara already found out, show traces of Augment Virus genetic modifications within the population.
[10:22] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Scan compl-…. Oooh how very interesting.”
[10:22] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: as for armaments, spears, knives, bows arrows, quite medieval
10:24] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “You wish to scare them, Zahnithri?”
[10:25] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <c> “Captain how is your history?”
[10:25] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “They would draw their weapons, letting us see what they are using. They would look around and scatter, letting us see their physical abilities.”
[10:25] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: There is no indication of having guards, police or anyone patrolling intently.
[10:25] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “And they would come out of hiding, showing us their true numbers.”
[10:26] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Not a bad idea, but I am not sure Lakara and Ginora might agree.” <C> “My history is generally fine, Ginora, why do you ask?”
[10:26] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Armaments: Bows, arrows, and spears. tactical spacing..No guards.”
[10:26] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “These people do not seem used to having enemies.”
[10:26] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “It MAY be possible to sneak inside the tower to see what can be salvaged..But it is within a settlement. It is unlikely.”
[10:26] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Lakara is of course in charge. I simply offer suggestions.”
[10:27] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara, still atop the mountain, is communicating via comms “The way I see it we have two options.”
[10:27] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Village built around B’Rel alloy, with armed residents who seem Klingon but do not have enemies. Many clues yet no pattern.”
[10:27] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Make contact and open negotiations..Or hostilities. Or send in a single agent to explore from hiding.”
[10:27] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Their armaments seem hutning tools.”
[10:28] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Well do you recall the klingon situation circa… Say, a couple centuries ago? I’m a little hesitant to really conclude for sure given social faux pas.”
[10:28] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Klingons would have taught their children how to survive. They would not have regressed this far after only a few centuries.”
[10:29] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Looks to Ginora position upward even if doesn’t see her directly and frowns. “I assume you refer to lack of proper forehead ridges.”
[10:29] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C“We can assume nothing. Ginora, how is your stealth abilities?”
[10:30] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “I do. And I’m in intelligence. I know how to not leave a footprint.”
[10:30] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni mutters to herself, rolling information around too low for anyone to really understand.
[10:31] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “Then here is what I suggest.”
[10:31] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C "Ginora sneaks into the tower and attempts to discern what happned to the B’rel as best she can. Recover reading materials if need be. I will remain on the mountain on overwatch. Thorgar and -
[10:31] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - Zahnithri remain near the tower."
[10:32] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “If Ginora is discovered ,we move in and make contact. IF they are hostile..We will test their strength. One way or another, we will have our answers.”
[10:32] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “A solid plan.”
[10:32] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Agreed.”
[10:33] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Then excuse me as I find a way in.”
[10:33] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I have concerns about all of this. Something about this is… familiar, but I can’t place it. Something from my time in the Collective.”
[10:33] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: I won’t follow you, but I will navigate what Ginora sees. For each success, you can approach the tower and emote what you do.
[10:34] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “If you can remember, it may aid Ginora in her search.”
[10:35] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora, still high up, tries getting as close as possible, along with checking if she can perhaps scale the tower, assuming it’s worth it.
[10:35] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Plants that contain Targ proteins. People who are sort of Klingon… a planet more than slightly similar to the Qo’nos the crashed vessel is from.”
[10:36] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> She could scale the tower, assuming she can jump unnoticed over other trees and houses, though she may risk being caught if anyone looks up. Residents do go about their daily business it seems.++
[10:37] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “It’s as if the planet -designed- all of this to make the crash survivors comfortable.”
[10:37] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++As she approaches closer, she’d pick on another interesting fact. Her UT discerns their language very quickly. She doesn’t even need it. Folks speak Klingon.
[10:37] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara uses her binoculars to keep overwatch for Ginora. She watches to see when the villagers are looking and not, and wil send signals to Ginora alerting her of her windows of opportunity
[10:38] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “If possible, I would like to dissect one of them.”
[10:38] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “You sound as if Preservers created this place.”
[10:38] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> "You’ll be either happy or horrified to know they are speaking klingon if my translator is working correctly.. Hmm.. This tower.. I might be able to climb it but i’d need 20 seconds <c>
[10:38] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: …If I were to climb high enough for anyone to not notice. Most people don’t look up after all."
[10:39] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “That is certainly a possibility. Another is that whatever caused them to crash felt some responsibility to them afterwards?”
[10:40] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “It was not when I was in the Borg. I’ve read about such things in the mission logs of the Enterprise. 1701-D, but that was a sort of holodeck.”
[10:40] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Resident-small-talk> “The Sky Ancestors smile with this year’s crops growth… Guardian Korak blessed us… I shall name my son after the Great Warrior Kor…”
[10:41] [Tell] Zahnithri@amyclaren: To Zahni, it feels like a biological version of that Vegas holodeck thing from TNG))
[10:41] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: gimme d20
[10:41] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: aaaah… yeah I remember… when whole thing was created after a book 😃
[10:41] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “We need records! Answers! Any logs they left behind, pieces of writing, perhaps an old computer..Something that can give answers. If yo ucan see it within..That would help.”
[10:41] [Tell] Ginora@datguyyoulike: 15))
[10:41] [Tell] Zahnithri@amyclaren: yeah
[10:42] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: Nice association but don’t worry isn’t that. But still good thinking. I like your ponderings 😃
[10:42] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Perhaps my klingon mythology needs updating but does a ‘Korak’ mean anything to the rest of you?”
[10:42] [Tell] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Possibly also something from TOS, but I don’t remember that one exactly. Something similar with an astronaut
[10:43] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Her training of no leaving footprints pays off to Ginora as she reaches the side wings of the tower. And just so happens that on her level is open.
[10:44] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “Korak, Korak, Korak… there was smaller House Korak in time of Organian Peace Treaty with Federation.”
[10:44] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Similar time period to everything else we’ve seen.”
[10:45] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “The locals are mentioning something about Sky Ancestors and a Guardian Korak.” Ginora looks up the tower. “Do you suppose I can climb this tower high enough in time? It my not be worth it.”
[10:45] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Time period definitely confirmed. But it also means these Klingons are from a period when we were… still troubled by Augment Virus infection.” <C> “I leave it to your estimate, Ginora.”
[10:47] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Oh wonderful, so what is the plan for you?”
[10:47] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Which would explained why neither Ginora nor Lakara were able to scan a full Klingon biosign.”
[10:47] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Are you able to hide a tricorder up there set to passive scan and silent?”
[10:47] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “My suggestin: Find either writing or a computer log of some kind and get out. If you can. ”
[10:48] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “…That..IS an excellent suggestion. Do that! then withdraw!”
[10:48] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “We can use it to help surveil the area while we fall back and set up camp behind holoscreens.”
[10:48] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Hide a tricorder or find a ship log. Odds are after this much time it’s not going to have any power left.”
[10:48] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “The secrecy will not last long..These were of Klingon blood once. Honour dictates they be given a chance to prove their worth to the Empire anew. But for now, that will do.”
[10:49] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “No..But there may be books or tablets. See what you can do, but do not linger.”
[10:49] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “A tricorder would also give us a booster to tap into anything left of the computers. I am able to do quite a bit remotely.”
[10:50] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “I’m already here, I could find a place for it.”
[10:50] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “I’m already here, I could find a place for it.”
[10:50] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Please do.”
[10:51] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Within the tower, Ginora would see a staircasing built around the alloy they detected. It is a support beam for warp coils in B’Rel bird of prey. On the inside walls, Ginora would find drawings++
[10:52] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: B’rel shaped objects, one depicting what seems to be a planetfall.
[10:52] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Quite a few drawings in here.. I’ll send some images your way too.”
[10:54] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: Would you want that?
[10:55] [Tell] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Could keep it interesting, only Cardassian in a party of klingons.))
[10:55] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: I rolled 7. xD
[10:56] [Tell] Ginora@datguyyoulike: And I got a 19 lol))
[10:56] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: Fuck xD
[10:57] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Ginora successfully hides the tricorder and links it with Zahns for data collection. And just as she gets through the window she entered in, a childish voice can be heard:++
[10:57] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++“You don’t look like one of Sky Guardians.”
[10:59] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: It is a boy in late teens, seems agile and has Klingon-styled braided hair.
[10:59] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: The Cardassian woman sets her phaser to stun. “You’re just dreaming, maybe you should wake up.”
[11:00] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Boy> “Oh, you speak like us?”
[11:02] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Sssshh.. Just wake up.” In a quick move, partially banking on the teen not really being familiar with weaponry of the time, the Cardassian fires a stun beam. It was hopefully not too loud, but <c>
[11:03] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: …She’s not taking chances, someone heard it as far as she is concerned.
[11:03] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “I strongly suggest we leave quickly.”
[11:03] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Exfil. Now. Do you require beamup?”
[11:04] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Boy> collapses with one the, luckily for him, flat roof with a thud. Doesn’t seem to be hurt, just like falling a sleep while standing. Ginora retreats without a trace or sound.
[11:04] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “That would be most helpful.”
[11:05] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <GM> Beamed or not, the group successfully leaves the premises - the mystery still remains: who are these people?
