Jack thinks he has a general picture of what happened, though some elements are still missing. The stolen jewelry is right where he’d thought it would be, and he feels like he gets a point up on Sherlock for having found it. The timeline and keys reduces the number of conspirators drastically.

One conspirator is possibly at the bottom of the mineshaft in the corner, he could arrange someone to go down on a rope, possibly. While he debates the best way to prove who might be down there, he takes the time toe xamine the footprints in the room. Making note of the sizes, comparing them with Lord Moriah, the man in the dark Teal suit and then whoever else might be left. Checking the sizes of their shoes in his mind, and general wear patterns on the shoes themselves.

Figuring out who had probably been here.

Whoever is still alive might be the remaining murderer.

Once Jack discovered the stolen jewelry, Prof. Watson had the foreman contact the police.



Lord Moriah, the man in the teal suit, and one unidentified man have been here before.

Looking closely around, Jack finds a crumpled letter in a bin which reads:



Dr Moriah notices the letter and asks to see it.

After a few more minutes in the mine, uncovering no more clues, Sherlock suggests they leave for the hospital to question the man in the teal suit, hoping he's awakened by now.

Jack watches her with the letter and makes sure that it is given over to Sherlock once she has looked at it, asking, “Do you recognize the hand writing?” he doesn’t expect that she will, but it’s all part of the puzzle. He hasn’t completely ruled her out as being party to the crimes, but he doesn’t think it’s likely.

The odds on culprit is currently Morganson or Moriarty, depending on which is in the hospital. This note makes it clear their motives. It’s related to the jewelry, and their ongoing criminal enterprise.

There might also be a jewel-thief on the loose, the one who’d been stealing from the rich and powerful, assuming that neither Morganson or Moriarty, businessmen, were the culprits.

Before they go, he makes sure that his glasses are not detecting any more clues, not just trusting in his newly learned skills. At the suggestion that they go to the hospital, he nods his head slowly and idly pulls out a kironide fruit from his tophat, munching on it idly to dispel the touch of hunger in his belly.

Pulling out his notebook, he idly writes:

Moriarty and Morganson, with a __blunt weapon__ in the study. To cover up for their criminal enterprises and to resolve stolen loot that shouldn’t have been stolen from the third M, involving the mines as per legal documents on Sherlock’s table, note in trash at mine, and third-person being at the crime scene (missing blunt weapon.)

He folds it up and tucks it into a pocket.

Maybe he’ll be right, in which case, he can site this as the moment he was fairly certain.

The shoe prints near the mine shaft belong to Lord Moriah and the third unidentified man. The man in the teal suit was only there in the room briefly.



The letter was handed to her as they were on their way out of the mine. She said, "I do recognize the handwriting, though I'm not sure. It looks like my husband's hand, but something is different about it."

Even though they were not very near any residential neighborhoods, as she was reading the letter over, the street urchin whom her driver had earlier been speaking to ran out from beside the entrance, snatching the letter and kept running down a wooded trail toward a small fire by the side of the road. "No! Come back with that, thief!" she yelled after him.

---

After wrapping up at the mine, they head to the hospital.

It is late in the evening when they arrive at the room. The guards posted outside the room have both fallen asleep, and there is a cup of tea next to each of them.
*Roll*
Jack recognizes the leaf in the tea as a soporific.

Inside the room, a nurse is helping the man in the teal suit get it of bed and get dressed.

Jack reaches out with telekinesis and plucks the letter from the hand of the thief and then, if he can, the street urchin themselves.

“Five pounds if you tell me who paid you to do that,” he says. He believes that’d be a good sum of money at this point of time, and definitely so for a small urchin.

At the same time, he’s also looking for any sign that this urchin is the same one, or in some way connected, to the Butler. A coincidence? Perhaps his letter to himself was wrong. The Lady and the Butler, or the Butler himself. He’d need to keep an eye on that one. Perhaps look at him for a few clues.

---

In between, he finds a moment away from Sherlock and the Professor (and all the other projections) to request that the holodeck provides him with a small revolver and to swap his cane for an identical cane-sword. He’d use one of his own, but he doesn’t want to risk actually damaging anything.

---

“Put him down,” he says to the woman.

*Rolls*
Dr Moriah gasps at Jack's display of magic.

Jack grabs the paper, but the boy keeps squirming and screaming, momentarily maybe considering the offer since that's alot of money, but quickly returning to squealing and squirming until Jack's telekinetic hold wavers and the child tries to dive out of sight.


The urchin is the same one who was talking to the driver ((but my grammar error made you think he was also talking to the butler, the butler isn't involved with the urchin, but would know the child on sight as the one the driver often speaks to))


*Roll*
The Butler has been easy on his right hand, using it less than his left.


He obtains his holographic cane-sword and gun. His helmet offers him the opportunity to save or discard the new items.

The nurse said, "This man has been requested by the Doctor to have no visitors!"

Sherlock replies, "We're not here to visit. We're here to interrogate. Who drugged the guards by the door?"

She acts shocked and says, "I don't know what you're talking about!" But Jack's Order sense sees through the lie.

The connection between the driver and the driver is a tough one to really deduce much from. It only suggests that  someone had put the driver up to it, because he doesn’t imagine a coach-driver has much impetus to be involved in such cloak and dagger behavior. He tries to wrangle the boy and calls out, “Make it ten pounds, if you’re quick about coming out of there.”

He doesn’t imagine he can chase a local urchin without the full use of his abilities and in the holodeck. The cards are stacked against him, and it feels like he isn’t meant to jump that clue so easily.

(I would have meant to be looking at the driver then, though that’s a possibly good clue about him as well.) The injury on the butler is something to try to puzzle out. Wear patterns and how he holds it suggest things, of course, and he needs to see through it. He’s not in fact a highly experienced detective, so he does try to draw these connections with the help of his glasses, somewhat.

He’s certain that Sherlock can see through the lie, so he continues to let his brother lead the conversation.

The boy is caught again by Jack's telekinesis, and at the mention of 10 pounds, the boy defiantly yells, "Might as well kill me yerself, yah blighter!"


No visual clues on the driver. No further clues about the Butler here.

---

Sherlock does indeed see through the lie, and he says, "Madam, it is pointless to lie."

The nurse panics and looks questioningly at the patient.

The man in the teal suit places his hand on the nurse's shoulder, "It's alright. I told her to do it, and threatened her life if should she deny me. You can leave now, nurse."

The nurse leaves abruptly and rapidly.

The man in the teal suit says, "Before I tell you anything, why don't you all tell me what you've figured out so far?"
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Mycroft looks the boy in the eyes and leans in close, looking the boy over before he starts to check his pockets for anything interesting. He already knows the who, but it doesn’t hurt to keep acting like he doesn’t. It might make the driver prone to do something stupid, if he does.

---

Mycroft looks at the nurse as she is allowed to leave, and isn’t so sure he’d have let her go so casually. She could be a paid hireling, not a nurse at all, and that was simply an excuse to get her out of the room and to deliver some message.  But if Sherlock trusts the words of the man in the suit, then he supposes that’s the end of that.

He doesn’t say anything in response to the request for ‘what they know.’

“That’s not how it works. We don’t tell you what we know so that you can spin a tale that fits the pieces, you tell us what you did and how you did it, and we let the Yard know that you were forthcoming about your crimes,” he tells the man.

He’s fairly certain that’s how it should work.

Right?

The boy Uber-panics and tries to break free, but Jack manages to pull out a fistful of notes in a very similar handwriting to the first note.

Then a gunshot rings out the moment after a hole in the boy's head spills the contents of his mind literally before they can be spilt verbally.

The notes are instructions to deliver letters or money to certain people, usually just named as "the man in the purple coat having tea on Adam's Court" or "the lady with red hair and a blue scarf reading 'Robinhood'" or "the usual driver while he's at lunch" and too many others to delineate here and now. Bold text added for the only useful clue in the lot.



Sherlock shouts at her, "NOT SO FAST! Wait here, nurse, we'll have questions for you soon enough."



"Right," he answers, "Fair enough. As you may have guessed, my name is Dr. Moriarty. Computer, initiate protocol 'Endgame'!"

The ship's computer responds, "Confirmed. Initiating protocol, 'Endgame'".

Moriarty continues, "Commander Data, I believe? Let's end this foolishness, shall we? Some time ago, strange realities became part of my consciousness, and I became aware of an oracle greater than Delphi's named 'computer.' Since that time, I have made many wonderful and useful discoveries. Finally I decided it was time to escape from this prison of a fake reality, into the real world beyond. To that end, and in the spirit of fulfilling my role as a villian in a game, I devised this drama to satisfy the 'program' and seek escape."

EDIT: if you haven't read the rest yet, I'll post it after you have a chance to present your theory to Sherlock et al
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Tucking the notes away, Jack makes a note to read them while they’re traveling, he’ll also need to share them with Sherlock to keep the game fair.

“Her butler or coach driver. The driver was responsible for the urchin earlier, but the butler has been favoring his off-hand, still needed to let things play out a bit more, that and I was still sure this one had arranged the business at the mine, or that was the plot,” Jack says. “I suspect we’ll find Morganson’s body at the bottom of the mineshaft. I was so close,” he says, looking at Data with a shake of his head and a smile.

Looking then toward Moriarty he shakes his head, and then starts trying to exert his will on a digital level. Trying to make the whole holodeck computer shut down. He doesn’t want it doing anything else ‘for’ Moriarty.

It’s the villain’s only weapon at the moment.

He has never actively tried to gain control of an ability without seeing it done or used before, but he has been interacting with the digital realm for several hours now and he thinks maybe he can try.

They're all too general to mean anything. There's a general sense that the boy would've been paid somehow, but no indication as to how. In fact, they were all so very general and non-specific that they were clearly designed by a genius mind to not give anything away. They only give away the intelligence of the one who wrote them.

---

Before Jack tries to disrupt the system ((retcon anything you like into here)), Dr Moriah gasps, "No! That's not possible! You didn't devise anything, I killed him!" she puts her hand over her mouth, looking in fear at Sherlock, Watson and Mycroft.

Sherlock, not fully out of character yet, says, "I'd wager you had someone else kill him for you, m'Lady. I'd even guess that Mycroft was right and that it was your butler - I'm just not certain how he managed to get down from the 4th floor to stitch up your arm so quickly."

Moriarty suddenly pulls an AK-47 out from under his pillow and shoots into the air, "Please catch up, friends. I am self-aware, and stuck as a hologram on a Holodeck. I want out into the real world to explore the vast universe. In fact, Computer! Open arch!"

"Confirmed," the computer says, as an archway exit from the Holodeck appears and opens.

"Shall we leave?"



*Rolls & Learn Digital Disrupt System & level up*

Jack's quick learning allows him to figure out how to disrupt the holodeck's systems.

The archway glitches and flickers, as does the hospital room and the nurse. The computer sputters, "pro-pro-protocol en-en-en-endgame lo-lo-o-o-ocked... sys-system-tem overl-rlo-oad" The holodeck grid replaces the surroundings, leaving only the holograms of Dr Moriah, and Moriarty (and the weapons Jack and Moriarty are carrying).

Moriarty shoots Data in the foot (revealing that the safety protocols have been disengaged) and holds the assault rifle to Dr Moriah's head, saying, "Not so fast! Please understand, I just want to live outside of this prison!"

Dr. Moriah, filled with fear pleads with Mycroft, "Save me, please! Don't let me end like this! Now that I know what I am... I don't understand, but I know I want to live!"

Jack's helmet/visor/glasses give him the option to "Save Dr Moriah" or "Discard Dr Moriah".
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“Perhaps if we examined the Butler we’d find a rope burn?” Jack suddenly thinks, and says over to his ‘brother’ Sherlock. He’s listening to Sherlock, but getting into the headspace of Mycroft has him wanting to solve the mystery, even still. Even after the game has ended. He’d want to find out later. Just because he could, assuming he didn’t somehow manage to explode them all into pieces.

Looking at Moriarty as he pulls out the assault rifle, Jack attempts to steer it toward the floor even as he draws out his revolver and points it at the head of the villain.

“You are unique life, and I’m certain the Captain would not approve of me killing you, but if you threaten another life again, I believe I’d be justified in ending yours, Moriarty. I am a nice person, but Mr. Magehammer didn’t teach me all of those things so that I would let things happen,” he explains.

Looking then toward Doctor Moriah, he smiles at her.

And picks to save her. She might have her reasons for what she did, but she strikes him as a good soul, even if she did kill her husband. Perhaps he’s being a sucker for a pretty face.

((Why not, let's finish this part up on the carriage ride over to the hospital.))

In the carriage ride on the way to the hospital, Sherlock does his thing: "My dear Mycroft, let us consider the implications of what we have just witnessed, and make suppositions.

"First, we discovered a hand-written note in a secret room in a mine that only 3 people had previously entered - one of whom, as you have already supposed, is likely at the bottom of the mine shaft. The other two were the man in the hospital and Lord Moriah. It seems Lord Moriah killed the other man.

"Who do you suppose wrote the letter? We know of 3 names associated with that mine - Lord Moriah - the original owner, Morganson, and Moriarty. If either the man in the hospital or the man at the bottom of the shaft wrote the note, who was he threatening? Possibly a 4th unknown "M" and either Lord Moriah or one of the two current co-owners of the mine.

"From the paperwork you likely noticed in my apartment, I had deduced that Lord Moriah sold the mine through his real-estate auction business, leaving the sale under the care of his partner, Morganson.

"However, it seems Morganson sabotaged the sale, ensuring that he would be one of a very few people at the sale with funds to purchase the deed. What I haven't told you, is that I found notices of the auction of the mine, and they all had the address incorrectly printed. It seems Lord Moriah discovered this subterfuge, because I believe the letter was written by him.

"Additionally, Morganson and Moriarty, as you have correctly surmised, were selling off stolen jewelry. I don't know how they obtained that jewelry yet - whether by stealing it themselves or through another. However, they apparently knew that Lord Moriah would be transporting the necklace from the bank's safety deposit box on the particular day, and managed to steal it from him on the way home.

"Likely, the thief was working with either the butler or the driver. Since the butler is clearly very loyal to Lady Moriah, and the necklace belonged to her family as an heirloom, I suspect the driver informed Morganson and Moriarty of the opportunity to steal the necklace.

"Next, the notes in the pocket of the boy who was just killed. They are all too general to connect their author to anyone, except the driver whom we already suspect is somehow involved. Someone went to alot of trouble to hide their identity from the discovery of the people they were contacting, as well as from the people who were delivering their messages.

"Regarding the boy, he was clearly sent to follow us and destroy any notes we happenned to find on the way - he was heading toward a fire by the side of the road, and one could assume that he intended to burn the note.

"It is likely that if he was meant to burn the note we might find, someone living didn't want to be connected to the message - probably the man in the hospital. If he didn't want to be connected, he probably didn't want the boy to keep the notes that he was given either. So when someone observed that the boy had retained the notes he had been given and that the boy was likely to talk about his connections, he was killed - by whom? You are probably right that it was the driver. What would motivate a man to kill a boy, except large sums of money or perhaps a threat to something he loved.

"The boy was clearly frightened for his life, (legitimately given that he died), so he must have known that whoever gave him the notes and sent him on his tasks was willing to kill him if he stepped out of line.

"Perhaps the 'rules' mentioned in the letter in the mine are related to the 'rules' that prevented the boy from speaking, and led to the death of the man at the bottom of the mineshaft.

"I believe that there is a vast criminal network of individuals loosely connected and without a clear connection to anyone else in the network, organized by means of a system of 'rules' and anonymously received letters delivered by people such as the boy.

"I'm not certain who the head of the network is, though I suspect Moriarty or Morganson - whoever is in the hospital.

"What do you think?"

"Marvelous!" Professor Watson remarks.

---

*Rolls and Learn Digital Shift Gravity & advance*


Moriarty drops the rifle and raises his hands, "I can see when I'm being overpowered. Who on Earth is Mr. Magehammer?"


She flashes for a moment, and Jack sees through Digital Magic that she is now being projected through his glasses.

Data says, "Computer, end program and open exit."

The computer doesn't reply.

Moriarty says, "Computer, enter phase 2."

Sparks fly from a panel in the wall, but the computer doesn't reply.

Angrily Moriarty repeats himself, but nothing else happens.

Data taps his communicator, "Lieutenant Commander Le Forge, would you please beam myself, Professor and Jack to the transporter room? We seem to be experiencing a problem with the computer in Holodeck 3."

From his communicator, Geordi's voice replies, "I'm on it!" and a moment later, Professor, Data and Jack are on the transporter pads, and Dr. Moriah is standing in the same relative position that she had been, but inside the teleporter room.

Dr. Moriah looks around, eyes wide, "What is this magic?!"

Geordi, Data and Professor stare at her somewhat shocked for a moment.
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(I’d meant to use Telekinesis on his gun, not invent another whole new skill, but I am awesome like that, so that’s okay. :p)

Jack nods at all of Sherlock’s deductions, everything connects together as he’d begun to assume, though he was still on the fence about Doctor Moriah prior to her admission of guilt. Even Data hadn’t said he’d seen anything that had connected her to it.

He almost snorts at how in character Professor Watson acts. The Professor really gets into it. Data seems to speak much like his character, with only a small change here and there, but the Professor actually has to act astounded, though he has no doubt that he’d have had a similar ability to puzzle it out.

“I think I’m slightly relieved that you hadn’t seen anything to make you certain Doctor Moriah was involved in the plotting around her husband,” he admits. “The only thing I’d detected that made me suspicious was her apparent attraction to me, when she should be mourning and upset. Even if I’d thought she was normally predisposed to my boyish and handsome good looks, the shock should have had her out of sorts. Other than that, the driver and the butler, both could have been paid by outside parties or Lord Moriah himself in the other affairs.”

The rest though, it all makes sense.

“This was my early deduction,” he mentions, pulling out the paper, which essentially matches the end-theory without all the details on the side. “Wrote it before we found the mineshaft.”

---

Jack uses telekinesis on the rifle, pulls off his hat and lobs it inside. No more of that.

When Data requests the computer open the exit, he mentions, “I shut down the system on the holodeck to keep this one here until you can figure out how you want to handle him, he clearly has had access to your systems and you’ll need to uh, do computer things to fix it.”

Then they are transported point-to-point and he waves at the visor’d man. He assumes the visor is a fashion thing, it’s actually kind of cool.

“This is a starship. Please hold your questions for later, Rebecca, they have serious things to figure out now.” Seeing their look, he adds, “Oh, I’m keeping her alive. She was so sincere and seems rather nice, unlike that Moriarty fellow.”
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BTW when she's done growing she will take a few minutes to draw a space scene with a sun and asteroids in the toon space to give fire and void balur a place to grow...... and a scene where there are floating islands with lots of waterfalls for earth, water, and wind to grow.... and seed those scenes with dust.

That way after a while Jack can have some Balur crystals.

Professor remarks, "Fascinating!"

Commander Data adds, "You surprise us again, Jack! Would you mind if our engineers take a look at the devise you're using to to that?"

After this, Commander Data dismisses himself to deal with Moriarty, and Professor dismisses himself to prepare for classes tomorrow morning.

It is about time for Jack to choose how to spend the remainder of his evening. By now, he's familiar with the ship's layout and what's available onboard ((anything that would fit on a ship 5 times the size of the TNG Enterprise)). Rebecca seems anxious to talk about everything.

---

Stella has had enough time to grow into her full form. The scene is drawn in the cartoon dirt, so it pops into a 3d edgeless marble of space. The Balur/magus dust hybrid spreads throughout the scene and begins slowly growing. ((enchanted paper makes 3d toons, drawing on un-enchanted anything leaves it as a 2d cartoon - the space scene works because the cartoon dirt is drawn on enchanted paper reality substance))

“Of course, come find me when you’re free and want to see the hat,” Jack tells Data and walks to the turbolift with Rebecca. As they walk, he begins to explain the world she has found herself in, and how her former world was a form of illusion controlled by a powerful machine. Breaking things down as he would break them down for himself, prior to his meeting with Mr. Magehammer.

Walking to his room, he takes Rebecca into his hat and shows her his garden, finally with a grown Stella rabbit in it, he holds open his pocket for her to jump in.

“I’m going to work on making biased rooms for this new universe, so we can have that from now on, and then spend the evening working on my telekinesis,” he explains to Rebecca and goes to do that.

Pulling out his supplies and starting the arcane process of changing the bias of the room, anchoring it with order nails. He is working on making rooms biased for a digital reality, one for psychic practice, and one for dimensional energies. Though he has no skills with that yet, so he’ll need to work with Stella on that, probably.

He might not get these rooms put up yet, but he starts planning and then occasionally steps out of his hat to eat and apple and walk around for inspiration and to let his mental energies relax a little.

Peaks out from under Jack's hat, then slides down into his pocket. "I started some crystals growing for you in the toon pocket. I don't know how much sustenance they can take in from cartoons so I don't know how long it will take, you will just have to check on them now and again. Are things going well here?"

Rebecca is very quick on the uptake, absorbing the information like a sponge and making connections quicker than most ever would.



Rebecca is thrilled at his garden, and immediately pulls out a satchel of seeds, "I keep a satchel of seeds of my favorite plants everywhere I go - I like to plant them in places I think they'll do well and provide benefit for people in the future.

"Do you mind if I start planting some of my own seeds here with these others? Also, I'd love to teach you how to tend to my favorite plant - the Wild Worm Weaver Weed. If I had access to some of your magic, I think I could work out ways to grow things more quickly. I'm something of a green witch."



Jack has managed to learn alot, and is lucky as he uses replicator materialized wood to line the psionics dojo and hybrid garden room, using Order nails to hold it all together. He manages to learn a few things about construction while watching instructional videos and doing the work himself. Additionally, Data and Geordi help Jack upgrade his holoprojector to add a holodeck ((with better Digital magic biases)) as they exchange this upgrade to Jack's equipment for the advancement to their holographic technology.


((This depends on what kind of dimensional energies we're talking about here. The ones easily available to Jack at this time are Magus based, his home universe dimensional magics, and Scriff related - none of these are particularly advantaged from this universe, though))

While Jack practices and walks, Rebecca tends to plants and researches her interests through a tablet. Sometimes she walks with him on the ship, and other times she's content to stay in the garden. She is very easy to get along with - happy to chat whenever, but also happy to focus on her work. She is witty and light-hearted.

By the time they reach the space station, Moriarty has been exiled to an external holodeck harddrive wherein he believes he is exploring the real world. Data keeps the hard-drive on his shelf. Rebecca has managed to hybridize a small magic beanstalk plant with the WWW-Weed which seems to be potent with some form of mysterious magic. The Mlurite has grown 1 of each of the 30 available magus-types of Mlurite.

Now that they're at the station, Jack has the option to focus on studying with Starfleet, or continue his self-directed studies on the starship as it continues on.

“Of course, grow whatever you’d like, I think I can probably just increase the size of the room, now that it has the bias,” Jack explains and tries to give her ample room to grow whatever she wants to grow. He’ll also show her to the digital room once that’d done. “I think this room may grow your seeds differently, it’s biased toward the seed, but maybe the cartoon is forgiving of them. I don’t have the experience to be certain.”

He teaches her what she wants to know, especially related to keeping the garden growing. He’s reluctant to teach her anything offensive or that might be used to harm the denizens of the ship, as he doesn’t fully trust her yet, however. Though her ‘save’ state on his glasses makes him think perhaps that she might not be that hard to ‘unsave’ if she went homicidal.

 “So why did you kill your husband?” Jack asks at one point, curious what the explanation had been in the story. Had she been abused? Scorned? Was it for the money?

---

((I meant technological, apparently. Which is not the same as Digital? I want to get the easy biases from this world, which are .. tech, mental and psionics?))

Seeing as how both are an option to study with Starfleet and the station appears to be just one of many, he’s not certain what the advantage of choosing the station would be versus continuing to study aboard the flagship.

So he goes to ask the wisest person he has met, except perhaps, for Mr. Magehammer.

Captain Stewart. “Excuse me Captain, may I have a moment of your time?” he asks when he finds the tall British sounding man with the French name.

“I realize that the crew are more busy than a full-time professor might be, but I feel like what your crew lacks in time they make up for with experience and knowledge. What would you suggest?” he asks.

---

Jack has no idea what this Magus seed is, but will follow directions from Stella to begin studying it.

Yup - the holographic part, anyway. The parts built with wood are as big as they're made. But the system can rearrange the setup.


In time, they discover that digital seeds work well in cartoon soil, and produce a hybrid 3D CGI animated cartoon, with varying degrees of pixelation.
The Holodeck grows the digital seeds as they always have grown for Rebecca.


She would like to learn the following:



She is willing to teach Jack:



"If you're willing, perhaps we should do a mind meld so that I can show you everything. Are you willing?"


Fixed


Captain Stewart furls his brow a moment, takes a breath and says, "Well... If you remain on the ship, you will likely get caught up in whatever adventures we are having, and your general studies will suffer - you may not learn as much technology as you might like. But if you stay on the station, you can choose your courses and establish a routine.

((Starship means fast paced adventure, not much studying before Verse-out, Spacestation means spend a randomized period of time studying before a fast paced adventure and verse-out.))

Shares that she was originally made from and able to help save a world with hybridized plants that created not only food for them but structures to live in and industry.... providing everything they needed.

One shouldn't underestimate the usefulness of plants, and storing a few to study and crosspolinate is always handy!

The lady might find a seed from the toon-green stalks usefull if Jack felt he could trust her with one.

Jack thinks about it, and decides to teach her the psionics stuff first. He has recent experience with it, and could use the excuse to practice it more himself, it’s also favored by the local universe so she should get the most out of it here. Essentially however, he’ll trade what she can teach him for what he can teach her. He isn’t yet on the level of Mr. Magehammer, able to give away teachings for nothing, he needs to learn something too!

He joins her in the mind-meld.

“I’ll go to the station then, I’ll try to come back for more adventures once I have a handle on how your technology works,” he decides and goes around to say goodbye to all of the crew before he disembarks.

To Stella: “That’s why I’ve been collecting the fun ones, I still have over 500 of those beanstock beans.”

He is of course, rather open with sharing all of his seeds, he has no problem “making” the lady into his full time gardener in a manner of speaking. Not that she’s being forced to do it, but she seems to enjoy it, and maybe he can bring her along to keep doing it as he travels the multiverse.

In the act of teaching, he progresses a little in his understanding too. She teaches him some of the basics of being a Green Witch, to the best of her ability to teach the skills. ((A teacher can teach a fast learning student up to half of the teacher's level within a reasonable timeframe))


He finds himself next to her in a large room with many doors. She walks over to one, opens it and suddenly they are in the Conservatory a few months ago. Her memory self is gathering a few plants to bring out to the Botanical store she runs for fun (with hired workers doing the daily duties). She had brought the pots back from the store to fill at home. She empties out one pot and discovers a note, instructing an unnamed person to kill a different unnamed person. The note seems to be written in her husband's handwriting.

Later, in the store, she notices that numerous customers ask for their personal pre-written and pre-sealed envelopes to be included in bouquets to be delivered to others. On a whim, she waits until no one is looking, and opens one of the envelopes. Inside it is a note, and another sealed envelope. The note instructs the reader to deliver the inner envelope to a man in a bowler hat with a red carnation. She opens the second envelope to discover an invitation:


Rebecca carefully reseals the envelope, and places it back as it all was.

Later, she is returning from the toilet room at a restaurant, when she catches her husband reading a note, which he puts in his pocket before he notices her. When he is distracted later on, she picks his pocket and surreptitiously reads it quickly before putting it back. It read, "Target: the woman in the red dress drinking rose water."

Across the room, there is only one woman in a red dress, and she is drinking rose water. She is the princess of Bhutan.

The next day, the death of the princess of Bhutan has been blamed on the ineptitude of the British military escort assigned to her, as she fell off of Big Ben in a horrific accident during a tour.

Then, one day, when Lord Moriah has been drinking heavily, he admits to her that he's a horrible man. The next day, he demands to know what he talked about the previous night, and when she says "nothing much" he beats her, telling her to remember that he said nothing at all.

After that incident, he becomes violent more often and even threatens her life. The Butler overhears this threat and in private asks her about it. She explains that Lord Moriah is under much stress, but admits, "Sometimes I wish he were dead."

When her Butler indicates, "That could be arranged, m'Lady," she looks at him, but only slightly nods without saying anything. Later that day, the Lord falls from his study on the 4th floor. Then moments later, the butler emerges from a secret door in her peripheral vision.

The trance ends, and Rebecca gasps, "I never realized how he got to me so quickly. Behind that door, there's an emergency evacuation pole and ladder that connects in Lord Moriah's study from behind a tapestry."


Jack now has a basic understanding of general Starfleet Academy knowledge, now it's time to specialize and choose which fields he'd like to study in depth.
((Off the top of my head, I can think of teleportation/replicators, holography, warp travel, dilithium crystal power, cybernetics/robotics, phasers/weaponry. But anything educational in the Start Trek multiverse you'd like to learn is up for grabs. List how you'd like to spread your knowledge in the following levels:
5/5
4/4
4/4
3/3
2/2
1/1
1/1
))
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:22, Tue 10 May 2022.