Hi Everybody,
We last left off with one of our brave heroes coming round in an autodoc, which was sadly all too familiar to him. Not so good, was the discovery that he is totally paralysed and deaf in the left ear. The right ear, however, picks up the screaming that is coming from outside very well, unfortunately...
He trembles in fear, that is, he would if he could, but the only thing he can do at the moment is keep his teeth from chattering together by biting his lip and try not to let the nasty something that is outside know that there is an easy victim inside.
Meanwhile...
Evie is trying to get the command visor back on. It is sending no commands to the robot dog, who at the moment is trying to shoot at Shepherd, taking cover behind a console.
Evie takes off the visor and throws the visor carefully at Cowboy, who catches them and swiftly puts on the headset. He bashes it with his hand a couple of times and it hums back to life again. He finally gets control of Robotdog again - The "Mother" computer had been sending it orders to wipe out the group!
Bishop had been busy, it had merged with a data pad. "Ava 7" has short-circuited trying to process every thing at once. We put Doc in the auto doc once it was safe to get Rooster out of it for a while. Eva King freaked out now that all the shooting had stopped.
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Chaplin and two Marines come through the NEXUS portal from Fort Nebraska.
After a detailed search through Charles' belongings, an unauthorised Level 3 access card is found, giving him unlimited access to the "Mother Computer".
Cowboy wants to kill him on the spot. Rooster pleads clemency, "How many times has he saved our lives?"
Cowboy replies, "Get him off this base and make sure we never see him again".
Captain Silver turns to Rooster. "We do have another matter that needs attending to. At Fort Nebraska, five of our Marines have gone Absent without Leave. They took with them a certain vital package."
Rooster replies, "So what has that got to do with us?"
"Since you have proved to be rather resourceful in dealing with unusual matters, we thought you might like to take part in the recovery process. Especially since one of those men is your brother, Blue!"
"Blue! I have not heard from him in ages. He is not the sort to go off base without good reason. But he should listen to me, if anyone."
"Good, good. You can go through the NEXUS at 08:00. Zulu.
Rooster just nods his head, stunned to hear about his brother.
He turns to Cowboy, "What sort of pickle has he got me into this time?"
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The big reveal was that Charles had his own hidden agenda, malevolently guided by Richard, our GM.
We knew that Kitty was running EDAN, the robotic Phycho that had it in for us from the start, (with orders to do something nutty at least once a day, usually aimed at us), but not that Richard was running Charles to be a fruitcake as well!.
Our Alien game was paused for a while for personal reasons, this seems a good breaking-off point in the storyline to leave it. We are not sure when it will come back. Thanks a bunch to Kitty, John and especially Richard for all the fun and games they provided.
Thanks to you, dear reader, for wading through the episodes too.
"May all your Space Lanes be safe ones."
Ivor Cogdell