New games

Posted on 20 Jan 2021 @ 10:35pm by Captain Jonathan Reynolds & Lieutenant Commander True Keading & Ensign Adam Morgan

Mission: Mission 5 - Season of the Witch?
Location: Meladoste (Epsilon Sigma 4 - Colony foyer)
Timeline: MD4 11:30
1492 words - 3 OF Standard Post Measure

Previously on Hide and Seek,

"Okay doc get some scans and True do you want to take the lead in talking to him. He seems, like the ones we spoke to on the bridge to be acting childlike,"

"I don't think we are in any danger but lets access some consoles and get a firmer idea of the schematics of this place and see if we can find any recent logs as to what happened or records," he indicated Aidan, "at what they were working on."

Continuing on:

"I have a game I'd like to try playing. And it seems like you like games. Want to try it?" True asked him, trying not to show her concern for the situation.

"Who doesn't like games, except you mister .." He pointed at Jon. "Not hiding what's the deal," he shook his head. "No worries. I get to play a new game with this pretty lady now. Hes not playing is he?"

True couldn't help but grin back at Jon. "Not if you don't want him to. What's your name? Mine's True." She offered it up first hoping that he would trust her.

Jon merely raised his hands up in mock surrender, and wandered back in Morgan's direction leaving them to it.

"Roger Fairfax the 3rd," he said proudly.

"Well Roger Fairfax the 3rd, I want to play a game where you ask each other questions. Does that sound fun? You can ask me anything you want and I can ask you a few things?"

"Okay that sounds interesting," he grinned. "You can go first."

She thought very carefully about what she wanted to ask, with a quick glance at Jon, "How old are you?"

"I'm 34," he smiled at her. "How old are you?"

Okay, so he was aware of the passage of time. Knew he was an adult in terms of age. "I'm 32. So you're older than me. i guess that means you get to make the rules. Okay, my turn though. Have you always liked to have this much fun or were you boring for a while?"

Roger looked confused. "I don't remember. I ... I think I used to walk around this place a lot."

"That's okay." True said quickly, not wanting to upset him. "Your turn now, ask me a question." She glanced at Jon though she'd pretty much gotten what she'd wanted. Memory loss and reverting to childhood mannerisms and actions was a pretty serious illness.

"Do you like to swim?" There's a river not to far from here. Sometimes we go in boats on it," He said.

"I do, but maybe not right now. I'm having lots of fun learning about you. Do you remember a time when you were much more serious?"

"Serious. Why do I need to be serious?" he asked.

"Well, we just want to make sure you haven't changed lately," True said kindly.

"Morgan," Jon said, "Lets you and me try convince the lady behind that door to come out and talk to us as well."

Morgan looked at his captain and nodded his head as he placed his own tricorder to his side again and knocked on the door and spoke softly, "Hello, anyone there?"

"Shush," came the reply. "Hes coming to find us. Roger. You need to hide."

"The games pretty much over now," Jon said. "Rogers playing a new game."

The door opened a smidge and a pair of eyes looked out followed by a smile.

"He didn't find me. That means I won," She stepped out.

"Who are you people anyway? Oh wait. We watched you. You," she pointed at Morgan, flew the shuttle."

Morgan looked at the little girl and spoke hoping to not be to condisending to the child as he was not well with kids as he never really liked being young himself, "Yeah, I am."

He looked at her again and spoke, "And your not old enough to play with it either. It's all mine!"

Morgan suddenly felt like he said something snotty and wasn't sure on where it came from. He looked at his commanding officer and he seemed to be shocked by the statement. Morgan looked away and put his thoughts into motion. He suddenly wanted to run back to the runabout as fast as he could to go play with it and to show off his piloting skills to...

Morgan shook that thought off and suddenly he felt dizzy again as he felt when he was in the turbolift a few days back after the messhall dinner. He touched his temple on his right side and hoped that noone would see him doing it.

Jon being ever the empath sensed something. "Are you okay Ensign?" he looked over at him catching him with his hand on his temple.

The phrase "its all mine" coming out of his mouth was enough to give him further concerns. "I don't think anyone will be playing with the shuttle," he added.

"Awww spoilsport," the girl said.

Morgan looked at the girl when she said that and then looked to his commanding officer. He felt the pain come to his head again and pushed it away as if he needed to say the next words,

"You are a spoilsport Captain!!! I flew that shuttle and now I'm going to go do it again...." He looked past the Captain and spoke as he suddenly took off towards it, "Its mine!!!!"

Jon shook his head thinking what was happening to the colonists may be starting with Morgan. "Morgan you know what your right you will be flying that shuttle again and you young lady will have to be his co-pilot but first we need to check in with True over there and the doctor as the good Doc, hes going to have stuff we need to fly back and I bet Morgan if you can fly so well without cargo, I bet you a total pro with cargo,"

"Total pro? Hmmm... I like that," Morgan stated as he stopped running towards the runabout's location. He looked at the command officers and wondered if it was another game they were playing with him with as he watched the two officers talk amongst each other.

Jon looked at True and tried to do his best ever face of ~I need you over here.~ He hoped that he wasn't going to have to stun Morgan here if he kept trying to get to that shuttle.

She gave a quick nod and left Roger playing. "What's wrong?" She asked him.

Jon led her a little away and lowered his voice slightly, "I think Morgans coming down with whatever this is making them childlike. Hes suddenly got a little possessive over the idea of taking the shuttle out again."

True looked at Jon in alarm. That might mean it was airborne or there was something in the vicinity that was making people act this way, something they were exposed to. "Morgan." True said carefully. "Are you feeling okay?"

Morgan looked around and felt his head again as the command officers were speculating about his condition and he spoke, "Of course!! I was only playing around you big babies!!!"

Morgan looked at Keading and spoke, "Come on, lets go play!!"

"Not yet. We need to check in with the Doc remember," Jon said. "He might want to play too. True you stay with him a second. See if you can play something that keeps you all in this room."

"Sure," she responded which wasn't very professional as she should have said 'yes captain' and hadn't. "Morgan, why don't we play some kind of game using our imagination. Do you have any suggestions?"

Morgan spoke in a playful tone, "Nope!!! All I want to do is fly the shuttle!!"

Jon went to the side of the room ready to contact C'Tora but the good doc bet him too it. They quickly discussed setting up boosters and supplies liasing with Xu. Then ..

=^==^=I'm still leaning towards this is something that's been brought in. So I want to speak to the other colony as there's records of a couple of traders making the journey over. Perhaps they are more cordial than we know or they are keeping an eye on this place,=^= he mused.

C'Tora responded. =^= Aye Sir. We'll get a list together for the next team to bring down. Did you just mention getting booster units for beaming? I'm no engineer nor do I know if they can do this, But could they link two boosters together to work in tandem? If so wouldn't that at least double the field integrity? Just a thought. =^=

=^=Thats how I understand the science too Doctor. Before you get to bogged down in all that though can I ask you come back here,=^= Jon requested sharing a look with True. =^=We think Morgans started with this too.=^=

The Caiten concluded the call ready to come meet them to look over Morgan.

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