From: V. Rahul Chandra (vrccan_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 26 2007 - 15:06:59 PST
======= “Trying to Fit it All Together” Con’t from Matt’s “Resurgence” ======= Location: ESPERION Stardate: 2422 [2.7] 0226.1742 Scene: Back Room of the store -> Store “These tapes are in really craptacular form,” Kel commented as he sat down at the desk, all the tapes from the security cameras in his possession. “Can you retrieve any video from them?” Daniel asked. “I’m working on it,” Kel commented shortly. Seeing that questioning him further was only going to slow things down, Daniel resigned himself to waiting. After a few minutes of impatient hovering, the marine informed the strategic operations officer that he was going to go back out into the store and look around. Giving nothing more than a grunt in reply, Kel continued his work. The marine walked out into the main area of the store, looking around as he went. It appeared to be a general supplies store that had taken heavy damage during the rebel coup on the city. All in all, there didn’t seem to be a whole lot else to see here; that was when he remembered that he still had the link to Catherine and he tapped his badge. “You there Cath?” [[I’m here,]] his wife assured him. “How are you and Palthainon faring?” he asked. [[Not well,]] he could hear the annoyance in her voice at the assignment she’d been given. [[Aside from a bunch of vagaries about tunnel constructions in their various religious texts, there isn’t anything we can use to help us reconstruct a map of the caverns and most of them are too deep for the PATRIOT’s scanners to analyze.]] “I was afraid of that,” Daniel commented. “Somehow, I get the feeling that we haven’t seen the last of those caves though.” After a brief goodbye Daniel closed the link and started to look around. A slight rustling drew his attention to one of the back shelves, but after staring for a few minutes at nothing moving, he eventually gave up and started back towards the room Kel was in. No sooner had he started walking again then he heard a large noise as some produce was knocked off a shelf. He whirled reflexively, raising his rifle in the process. “Please, don’t shoot me!” a terrified voice called. “Who are you?” Daniel demanded, not lowering his rifle but keeping it pointed in the direction he’d heard the sound emanate from. “Come out here where I can see you.” “My name is Chravis,” the alien said as he complied with Daniel’s order, his voice still stuttering with fear. “I am the owner of this store.” Daniel lowered his rifle slightly, keeping it raised enough that he felt he could get off a shot in time should this turn out to be a trick. “What happened here?” he asked. “Looters, during the night that the rebels took over the city,” Chravis replied, his voice having a slight whiny quality to it as he recounted his tale of woe. “They destroyed everything!” “I think I got an identification on the buyer,” Kel said, walking into the room. He was about to continue further when he stopped, staring with surprise at Chravis. “This is Chravis,” Daniel said to Kel. “The store owner. Give him the PADD.” Kel nodded, walking over to Chravis and handing him the device. “Do you remember this man?” he asked. Chravis looked and immediately nodded his head. “Yes, I do,” he said. “I know this because he was a fairly regular customer, so much so that I had a tab for his purchases.” “Can you find his information for us?” Kel asked. “If the computer still works,” Chravis said, walking over to the counter and sitting down, Daniel and Kel following. The ESPERION native muttered to himself as he typed in commands into the computer, sighing with relief when the machine worked. “At least that’s one thing I won’t have to spend money on replacing,” he said to no one in particular as he continued to enter commands into the device. Eventually, he got a screen to pop up with the information he wanted and he turned the computer so that Daniel and Kel could read. The screen contained a wealth of information about the man they were looking for. Daniel reached out and with a finger silently pointed to one piece of information on the screen. Kel looked at where Daniel was pointing, before exchanging looks with the marine. “I don’t believe it,” he said finally after a few minutes of silence. ============ NRPG: I have been allowed by our CO to write the closer for this mission, so I’m just using this post as a sort of lead in as well as a reminder to anyone that if you want to write something else for this mission, do it soon. Matt -> Excellent post buddy! I want to have the closer out before the end of the week. =========== ========== V. Rahul Chandra <vrccan_at_gmail.com> Playing... 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