The survivor's location is till not precisely known, but you tricorders estimate that he/she is somewhere in the yellow area. Since the survivor is in a hard vacuum, coupled with the surmise that the beacon is a dismounted suit comm unit, it's certain that he or she is wearing a suit. Current scans indicate that the survivor is not in good health, possibly from dehydration, malnutrition and/or anoxia.

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Marissa signs to Sloane: Beacon first We go right left as before and Argent goes to the outside door and keeps his attention on the room we are currently in, so the enemy doesn't get behind us.

OK?

The next room hold only several computer banks and a partly open double door into the communications array. The suit beacon is quite obvious, lying as it is on the deck connected into an open panel on the antenna  array by a cable. The cable attaches by a simple bayonet mount and is easily removed. The distress call broadcast stops and is replaced by the same distress call from the suit beacon. Once Zed and Swann have rejoined Argent, who has skill in communications, he is able to decypher how to turn off the signal.

Marissa moves down to the edge of the door which affords her a view, and allows her to cover for Sloane crossing over to the other side.

Once he is in position they call Argent down to put his back to the wall beside where Sloane is( Directly down the map from where he is now, looking upward

So Sloane will cover into the next southerly room and Marissa will move in quickly; rifle at ready to determine if there are threats, before waving Sloane to come through.

If she sees something other than a Saurian, she will fire.

Moving into the next chamber, Marissa and Zed find themselves in what is obviously a maintenance workshop. a single door on the left side of the map is open, and partly open double doors are ahead, lit only by the flickering light from the central command chamber. Zed carries the suit beacon in one hand and his phaser in the other. Large pieces of equipment, some recogniseable as lathes and other machine tools while others are unrecogniseable, dot the room. Through the door ahead, suit lights shoe a pair of consoles with seats. The darkness broken only by flickers from the door behind and the beams of the suit lights begins to close in on them like something out of a haunted house. Marissa almost feels she can hear creaking floorboards and rattling chains. She shakes her head to clear her nerves.

In reply to Relic GM (msg # 39):

Looking at the map in its shown orientation Sloane will work his way down to the wall on the right side of the door, assuming Marissa will do the same on her side.  Keeping his eye open to any movement as he moves.  He will wait until Argent joins them to scan into the next room.

As he moved forward he will try to see if he sees anything through the open door.

In reply to Lt Zedrick Sloane (msg # 40):

Marissa agrees, but cautioned Sloane to not extend his arm, or weapon past the plane of the door, so that whatever may be in there cannot grab or spray Acid.

She too will look from her new perspective, and if a likely target presents itself, she will fire.

Zed and Marissa proceed as Marissa suggests. The room is clear but unlit, so they enter cautiously. Argent stands just outside the door, scanning in case anyone is following. The next room is the centre of three in the starboard wing of the station. The forward section is open and suit light beams reveal four consoles and an observation chair facing a large window. The room they're standing in is a sort of monitoring room with a pair of computer banks and two consoles. The aft room has closed double doors. Marissa's and Zed's tricorders reveal the life form to be in the aft room, but the life signs are very low, suggesting that the survivor is unconscious and near death.
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The life signs strengthen slightly. The survivor is obviously coming back to consciousness or perhaps just awakening. It begins to move very slowly toward the door.

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In reply to Relic GM (msg # 43):

" So if the survivor is in there, either he/she is a captive, or the creature that ate through the suit and whose acid is eating through the decking is elsewhere.

We need to be very cautious Zedrick.

Argent be watchful, if anything moves either in line of sight, or is picked up by your tricorder, holler for us. Got it?"
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The door begins to open slowly. Whoever is in there, they are opening the door.

In reply to Relic GM (msg # 46):

"Cover me Lt"

Marissa moves up to gain a look at who is coming out and more importantly who might be behind them

"Stay vigilant Argent, this could be a trick to get behind us"

She will level her rifle from about 8 feet.

When the door is open about one centimetre, the away team's lights reflect off a helmet visor. A gloved hand with three fingers and a thumb comes up to block the blinding light and the door opens more swiftly, as if the person in the room is pumping faster. As soon as the door is open about a third of a metre, the figure squeezes through and raises both its hands in front of its eyes, palms outward. The suit is the same as the acid-damaged, but where that one was dark blue, this one is dull yellow. The helmet visor is dark and the face inside cannot be seen. The Starfleet officers can see that the gloves on the space suit are specifically designed for the three-fingered hands, and there is a space on the chest-plate where the beacon has been dismounted. The figure sways and falls to the deck, apparently in a faint. There is an empty pistol holster on its left hip.

In reply to Relic GM (msg # 48):

"Lt Can you scan the room? Don't want any surprises."

She will watch the opening and the prone figure, confident that Argent has their back.

Her rifle is at the ready

The room is empty, a mirror image of the one at the other end of the side structure. Meanwhile, the prone figure is in obvious distress, possibly dying. Its life signs are fading drastically.

In reply to Relic GM (msg # 50):

Marissa shoulders her rifle, and moves, picking up the prone figure.

"Shall we go? Can't treat him here with no atmosphere. And no transporter, we're gonna have to hoof it"

[OOC: Sorry for the absence...]


After running his cans of the other suit, he, of course, informed the others of his findings.

"Presumably it is a creature that secretes  acid that attacked the occupants of this ship/station," he says. "It would also appear to be able to attack with surprise, though I cannot say how it does it."

He sets the scanner for wide area, for motion, but he realizes that if the creature can turn invisible or something, the motion detect won't register its presence until--possibly--too late.

He also tries setting the tricorder to detect the acid, though it may have the same trouble as the motion detect. On the other hand, the creature might drool or something, thus making its acid detectable.

When they find the survivor, Argent tries to get a reading of the creature within with his tricorder.

"Hmmmm," he muses. "Perhaps the creature was attracted to the beacon, which is why this person removed it."

He constantly looks around, trying to spot anything. He's hoping that his 'cat senses' might pick up something, even through the suit.

He follows after the others.

As Argent scans the survivor, he quickly determines that the alien is suffering from extreme dehydration, severe malnutrition and the onset of anoxia. He (or she) will die withing mere minutes without oxygen. Luckily Argent has brought along an emergency oxygen supply, which has a universal adapter to fit pretty much any suit. It turns out to be compatible with the fittings involved, and the life signs stabilise once oxygen flow is established. Once Argent has him (scans reveal him to be male) out of danger of suffocation, he is also able to determine that the alien has not been exposed to the acid, which does indeed show up on scans.

Argent's First Aid skill (listed as 1, but is almost certainly 1 (2)) would indicate that he should get the patient to a sick bay as soon as possible. Even getting him into the Thames will allow administration of liquids, nutrition and medications to combat his symptoms. There appears to be a patch as on Federation suits to allow a hypospray injection, so it is possible to give him a shot of Tri-Ox Compound.
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In reply to Relic GM (msg # 53):

"Okay let's work our way back to our ship.  On the way out let's try to get a copy of the logs to see what happened here.   Be careful that whatever killed the first person isn't between us and our exit out of here. We can't afford to let our guard down" Sloane replies.

Proceeding back through the darkened room to the command centre with its flickering ceiling lights (I'm assuming that Swann is taking point since her rifle requires two hands, ans that Zed and Argent each have an arm of the survivor draped over their shoulders, as  Phaser IIs can be fired one-handed) and beyond, Marissa sees that the door they'd previously closed behind them is open. She fancies she sees movement up ahead, but with her eyes dazzled first from moving from near darkness to the flickering strobe-like lights and finally to the soft yellow glow of the lit rooms, she can't be sure what she saw, if anything. The tricorder on her suit's wrist is not picking up any life signs, but it does seem to indicate movement up ahead. Then, in the airlock she sees a brown chitinous arthropod about the size of a large dog, moving away from her. Unfortunately, the creature (whatever is is) is in the boarding tube which, tough as it is, will not stand up to weapons fire.



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In reply to Relic GM (msg # 55):

" I see a multi legged, large mouthed creature in the boarding tube. TRy to see if Clare can beam you out"

Marissa drops to one knee, taking careful aim.

Clare responds that this far in the solar atmosphere, the ionised gasses are corrupting the signal too badly. He'll try beaming over a test module, but he's not too certain of his chances. Marissa can also see liquid dripping from the creature's circular maw, causing the decking to sublimate into the vacuum. The creature is obviously the source of the acid.

Moments later a test cylindre appears in a sparkling column of energy and disappears back into the swirl of energy. Clare reports "No go, Lieutenant. The results would be one hundred per cent fatal. Sorry. What's the problem? I'm reading the three of you and your survivor."

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