OOC: Hey Matt, she will have tried to coax the Captain into letting them come within the next half-hour of game time.

Townshend turned toward the XO and said, "No sir, she made no explanation other than that she and her emissary is ready."

Jess ended the statement with a huff that both Stonn and Grahm could easily perceive. John wondered why she had been so agitated, but then she had also taken the trip to the Golayshian.

"Both men and women were on edge since their return," thought the Tactical Officer. It was apparent to John that there was definitely something wrong with the Away Team - none were acting normally. The question was what did the captain do or say?

Grahm turned to Stonn as Ramos called to the captain, "One moment Mr. Stonn, we can talk after we speak with the Captain."

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Grahm turned to Stonn as he called to the captain, "One moment Mr. Stonn, we can talk after I speak with the Captain."

Stonn nodded and sat back down at his station...

Here is a question Shawn, when Darkan ordered Ramos to start preparing a plan to assist the Golayshian in repairs - did he send a team to the Hydraen ship? It has been a couple of hours since the morning briefing when the command was given.

Let me know,

Thanks

EDIT: Also, I need Stonn to make a Sys Ops (Sensors) TN 15

Quote from: tomcatHere is a question Shawn, when Darkan ordered Ramos to start preparing a plan to assist the Golayshian in repairs - did he send a team to the Hydraen ship? It has been a couple of hours since the morning briefing when the command was given.

Let me know,

Thanks

EDIT: Also, I need Stonn to make a Sys Ops (Sensors) TN 15

OOC: No, he didn't. I interpreted a past post as saying that Stonn was going to coordinate repairs with Ramos based on what he saw in their engine room. I also assumed that anything would wait until after a formal meeting/reception/dinner, and they'd deploy afterwards - if I misinterpreted that, then I apologize - let me know what you need me to do to fix it...


Sensors roll (TN 15)
Roll(2d6)+11:5,1,+11 Total:17

OOC: Hey Shawn, no need for a fix, I was just checking to see if I had any other Columbia crewman that may have had exposure to the Hydraen pheromone.

As Stonn sat looking at Grahm, his console began to beep. The Vulcan turned in his chair and began to scan the readouts - the Columbia's sensors were registering an object approching from starboard beyond the Golayshian.

Stonn snapped to attention at the first sign of the object.
It was difficult to tell what it was, but in a nebula this thick - it seemed unlikely that anything arriving in such proximity to two ships would be coincidental.

In the nebula, the shields were all but useless, and he abhorred violent conflict, but as humans say, "discretion is the better part of valor"...

Raising his voice sharply, Stonn's voice curtly barked out across the ship as he thumbed his panel's comm button.

"Yellow alert. All personnel to standby stations. Captain to the bridge."

OOC: Will this call to the bridge come before or after Darkan should have made his decision?

OOC: If allowed, Darkan would use the first response regardless as he is loathe to alter his previous orders since he is allowed to "refuse an absurd or self-defeating proposal, no matter how high the persuader's test result."  (PG, pg. 121)

"Pardon me, Princess, I am needed.  We can continue this discussion later. At the moment, I cannot allow you to come aboard for safety's sake due to some isolated incidents."

OOC: If not...

Willpower - (1+1)+2=4

"We've had some problems since we left you and I don't think a half hour will be enough time for our preparations and security, how about 1 hour?"

Quote from: GandalfOfBorgOOC: Will this call to the bridge come before or after Darkan should have made his decision?

The call would have been after you talked to Isaboul.

Quote from: GoBOOC: If allowed, Darkan would use the first response regardless as he is loathe to alter his previous orders since he is allowed to "refuse an absurd or self-defeating proposal, no matter how high the persuader's test result."  (PG, pg. 121)

This would be the case if he was opposing a Persuade roll, the roll being opposed is Influence, which by the description... "characters do not follow orders to the letter, nor do they necessarily change their own beliefs. Instead, they passively comply with the characters wishes...". So, this comment will not work...

"Pardon me, Princess, I am needed.  We can continue this discussion later. At the moment, I cannot allow you to come aboard for safety's sake due to some isolated incidents."

Quote from: GoBOOC: If not...

Willpower - (1+1)+2=4 (-3) = 1 DISASTROUS FAILURE

"We've had some problems since we left you and I don't think a half hour will be enough time for our preparations and security, how about 1 hour?"

This one does... and due to the Disastrous failure, because on double 1's you would roll a d3 and subtract it from the result even further (I did it for you) - I think you'd be putty in her hands.

None of this is known to any characters, but I am going to give it to you so you can better understand what is happening to your character so that the Roleplaying may be easier -

Little is known about the Hydraen people of the planet Hydra, which circles Tau Hydrae in that binary system. This is due to the fact that they are not members of the Federation and allow little access to their world. Still, they have made contact and do trade with all people that they can and are a very wealthy world and system.

Much of their wealth stems from one potent ability that the Hydraen females possess - they naturally release a very potent pheromone that affects males of most species and allows them to influence their decision making - the men become very amorous to the females (sometimes to the point of possessiveness and violence) and the Hydraens use that to their advantage. Females of other species are iritated by the pheromone and makes them want to get away - from both men of their own speceis as well as the Hydraens. The more interest a Hydraen female shows a male, the more the pheromone takes a hold. This is why most emmissaries of the Hydraen world are female.

So knowing this now, hopefully you can understand what is going on with Darkan, you may not like it, but he is desiring Isaboul. Of course he is resisting and that would be the guilt he would feel for Mia and you can RP that stuff into it, but you don't know anything else than that Isaboul is looking real good to you about right now.

Any questions, gimme a shout...

Tam decides that he's always in the mood for an experiment, and follows Grahm's suggestion, isolating the two men from each other and then speaking with them one at a time.

First he nonchalantly wanders into Ensign Timmons' room, and addresses him. "So Ensign, I hope you don't mind but I just wanted to do a quick followup interview, to my tests. Is there anything else that you can tell me about your time spent on the Hydraen ship? Hmm.. anything else about this woman Lijeea?" He takes careful note of the response the crewman gives to this question, noting that at the sound of her name, his eyes go somewhat out of focus, as if he's drifting off somewhere else when he talks about her.

"Thank you for your help, that will be all. I'll be sure to pass your regards on to Lijeea via Mr. Winters, I hear that he'll be seeing her tonight."
And with that comment, Tam jumps back out of the way as Ensign Timmons leaps up and starts to get a little crazy [OC: feel free to extrapolate on how he reacts here]. After a few moments, Tam's observed all that he needs to, and he quickly hits Timmons with the loaded Hypospray he'd kept concealed in his hand, knocking Timmons out instantly before he can do any damage to himself or anybody else.

A few moments later next door, Tam performs the exact same experiment, and finds the exact same results there. Quickly, he calls Grahm.
"John, the experiment went exactly as predicted. There is definitely a hormonal response raging out of control in both of these crew members. Much more than should normally be present in them after such a short time in the lady's company. I'm going to see what else I can work up, I just wanted to let you know. Tam out."

Heading back to his lab, Dr. Tam starts to more closely inspect blood samples taken from the entire away team. Now that he knows it's a hormonal affect, it should make it easier to know what to look for. There must be some sort of pheremone's interfering with the crewmen's reactions. If he can isolate which one it is, he might be able to create a pheremone inhibitor, to grant him and the other non-affected crewmembers an immunity to the effect, and possibly even cure the others. It looked like he had a lot of work to do, and not a lot of time to do it before the entourage arrives...

OOC: Ok, no problem.  So it was an Influence test, good to know.  Here's my ammended response.

"We've had some problems since we left you and I don't think a half hour will be enough time for our preparations and security, but I don't see that you'd have much to worry about if I were your escort.  I, *err*, we look forward to your arrival in 30 minutes."

Just as he was about to call the bridge, Grahm called down to him. "The more I think about the incident, the more I believe it was really an isolated occurence, an anomaly.  Even if its not, I plan to be the princess' escort when they arrive in a half hour.  Please make sure the proper formalities are met security-wise."

Very nice post Matt! Expect a new one from me later on tonight.