Desi and Kri'lik take off, and fire at the escaping invisible thing.  They hear a whooshing sound which might be a grunt, and then a black entity appears as it falls to the ground, dropping the strange orb.

It is garbed in pure black, like flowing robes cut into a million tatters, but you cannot see its body yet from this distance.

Desi begins to advance on the invisible thing with her laser pistol pointed at its position on the ground.  She yells out, "Stay on the ground!  Stay on the damn ground and don't move!"

It begins shaking.  At first, it seems like a tremor, but it starts to look more and more like it is vibrating and simultaneously having a seizure.

As the blackness drops Kri'lik slows down his aged legs and comes to a halt panting a bit. "That worked better than I though." He says. That is until the body starts to shake. Using his bioscanners he starts to move closer as Desi yells at the darkness and says, "I hope its not going to explode on us." He checks his scanners again for anything out of the ordinary.

"Is it a hologram?"

Examining the black figure with your scanners uncovers that:

The being is made up primarily of neutrinos that normally move directly through matter in this universe.  They are encased by something that only be classified as antimatter, but not in the traditional sense.  The sensors are going wild because it is an unknown form of matter.

The cloak and body shudder once more and then disappear, leaving the orb on the ground and a humanoid black outline similar to the black smudges you have seen elsewhere.  The orb rolls to Desi's feet.

Kyrillian walks up behind Desi, holding up his wrist.  "This is a type of motion sensor," he says, looking down at the watch-like device.  Above it floats a hologram.  "I turned it on when the orb started to move, and the invisible figure showed up."  He turns up the volume.  "I can edit out each of your signatures and see what shows up.  Maybe it can be our detection system.  If my hunch is right, more of these things will be coming for the orb."  He points at the pen-like tracking device you had found previously.  "I don't know for sure, but my guess is they use those devices to home in for whatever sort of teleportation they're using."

He edits out your signatures and tells you it will beep if there is movement headed your way.

In reply to GM Heath (msg #51):

"Whoa!  It's like a tracker huh?  You guys wanna find this thing or what?"

"we must secure this orb and get it to the doctor. That was your plan was it not? Kri'lik says refering to the alien Kyrillian.

Desi puts on the watch device and then turns to Kri'lik and the others, "You going to cover me with that gun or you want me to cover you?"

S'Krllk had walked, sedately, after the pursuit. As he arrives and hears the plan, he points out, "You know you won't have to chase it. It came for that device in the first place, so it's sure to be back."

To clarify, his watch device is not a tracker.  It merely detects motion nearby (like a radar).  If you've seen the movie Aliens, think of it like those devices.  So if any "invisible" creatures approach, he should be able to tell that something is nearby through movement.

As Kyrillian is showing you the device, you see a white glow from the edge and a slow beep.

"Something's coming this way," he says nervously, looking back down the hall.  "It's still a little ways off but getting closer."

OOC: OK, exactly what I was picturing it was.

BIC:  Desiraye goes back into a tactical shooting posture and tries to figure out where the target is.

FYI boss Krilik has a motion scanner in his arm gauntlet too.

Slot 4, Motion Tracker (Zebulon’s Guide pg 81) 400 credits Size B 10-50 meter range
Motion: This type of scanner identifies any movement within its range. The problem is that it does not
identify the moving object, only that "something moved over there."

Thanks for reminding me.

The target is still around a few turns in the hall, maybe 50 meters away.

At the mention of a motion scanner the Doctor slaps his face and says I have one of those too. Pulling up his gauntleted arm he turns on the scanner. "There some rapid movement some 50 meters away. Just at the extreme range of my scanner. If we are going to track it we better move now!"

"OK, let's move out.  Call out the distance and movement Doc.  Let's see if we can't capture one of these things or at least see what it wants besides the obvious," Desiraye says as she begins to move in the direction called out on the threat.

Kyrillian's eyes open in horror.

3 more dots just lit up on his device.  "There are more coming," he says in a panic.  "I...I know where there are some weapons, including 2 turrets.  Follow me."

He begins leading you down the hall.

Desiraye grinned at the mention of weapons, "Now you're talking my language!  Lead the way!"

Kri'lik does his best to try and track any movement he finds on his scanner and relay that info to the rest of the group.

"If they're coming after this thing, shoot to kill!"

Kri'lik noods and sets his laser pistol to 10 SEUs. He also draws his K-Pulse pistol while continuing to call out motion data from his sensor.

S'Krllk makes sure his needler has the barbed needles loaded, and prepares to fire.

Here's a map for you.  It shows where you are.  The strange device was in Kyrtok's room.  The science quarter is under quarantine.  This also shows where the weapons experiments were going on (the place Kyrillian mentioned).



Unless anyone says otherwise, I will presume you are going to the place with the weapons.

OOC: Yes, to the weapons!!!