The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

[cityship]

The crew had uncovered a number of clues since arriving on the Deepstar 7:

• The dead crewman with some kind of alien parasite attached to the base of his skull
• The hostile crewman that had tried to kill John and Jamie in Medical
• Reports of about the area around the station, including a medical addendum about a crewman who had been bitten on an away mission, and mention of 'military applications'
• Scribblings in Medical, presumably done by the hostile crewman
• A possibly bloodstained Galley Keycard
• A photo of the crew of the Deepstar 7, as well as an unexplained photo
• A paranoid note near the Common Area
• Corroded wires in Ops
• A journal entry in the Captain's Quarters, along with a creepy-ass radio
• Specimens of sea life around the station
• A note in the science lab

But would these help them figure out what was going on and get out safely? It was time to get some answers.

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Interrogation

[cityship]

While the crew hadn’t yet found the cause of the problems plaguing Deepstar 7, they did have one advantage – they’d captured and subdued one of the original crew members. Whether they could get anything useful out of them was another story… but since his encounter with John and Jamie in Medical, he seemed to have calmed down somewhat. Or at least he no longer had an axe to swing around. He had been confined to crew quarters, but now it was time for a little questioning.

[open for company]

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

It should bother Howard that he's not terribly intimidated by an axe-crazy crew member. After all, he had Drake in his basement, which kind of inured him to ranting and raving. That doesn't mean he isn't hella wary, but it is nice to be confronted with something scary and yet not feel as if he's about to jump out of his skin.

He drags a folding chair out and takes a seat outside the door to the guy's crew quarters, waiting for someone-slash-anyone to join him. Just because he isn't terrified doesn't mean that he wants to interrogate this guy alone.

[Here comes your bad..der cop vroom vroom beep beep]

[thewunderkind]

Oh it has been quite a while since she's been able to do something like this. Lash was taught a more than a few things about the art of interrogation, but the little one or two on one talks were admittedly very rare in Wars World. Heck, the last time she remembers something similar happening, it was when she and Hawke we brought to Orange Star.

Regardless, she's had her share of maniacs and this could be fun (Lash is weird okay), so the first thing to greet Howard is the wunderkind cracking her knuckles.

Surprisingly, she arrives absolutely quiet, but with a terrible grin attached to her lips one can only assume that this won't last for too long.

Re: [Here comes your bad..der cop vroom vroom beep beep]

[cityship]

Well, in any case, it looked like the two of them had arrived first. There was nothing keeping them from opening the door and having a chat with Sunshine.

...it seemed quiet from within the quarters they've locked him into. Maybe he was asleep?

Re: [Here comes your bad..der cop vroom vroom beep beep]

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"Do you want to go in first?" Howard asks Lash, then amends: "you're going in first."

Thankfully, Lash is probably relishing an opportunity to go first.

He peers through the edge of the door to see if he can hear the guy.

[thewunderkind]

"Sure. Let me just go in without checking...not!" Her whisper is harsh but she does something similar to the other youth, only with her gun raised in case she needs to shoot them in the face. "Tsk. Wish I knew what was inside that room. Hard to make a proper interrogation when you don't have the right tools--but I'm sure we'll have plenty of water, if we ever come to need it..."

Wow, that sounds really vague and creepy.

[cityship]

The room continued to be vewwy, vewwy quiet. It was wabbit season.

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"I have a knife. Not that I want to use it." Howard budges the door open and shuffles behind Lash.

[thewunderkind]

"When push comes to shove," she whispers harshly, "just make sure you hit the major arteries, the neck, right under the armpit or just aove the thigh."

She knew where to slice open and how terrible it could be. The silence was certainly not how she wanted to get in here for interrogation. It smells like a trap, or at least, her training makes her assume first and foremost to go for the worst scenario. Making a motion with her hand, she pauses and takes out a small mirror from her hair, using it to view what's inside without being seen.

[cityship]

Unfortunately, the field of vision available from outside the door, even with the mirror, was limited. What it did reveal was that the man was nowhere to be seen. He had been lying on one of the beds, last time someone had checked in on him.

He hadn't escaped or anything, had he?

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Howard peeks through the crack between the door and the frame to make sure dude isn't hiding behind the door. And then he glances up, because this kind of psycho has a tendency to hang out on ceilings, at least in movies.

[meat_mooks]

Nope, no dude on the ceiling.

[thewunderkind]

"Smoke bomb?" Lash offers, whispering harshly. "We could try flushing him out first, but I only have one mask and...you know what never mind."

Screw it, she was a CO, she didn't tip toe into situations, she barged right into them.

She had training. She could do this. Taking a breath, she moved forward, and...called upon the CO voice. Granted it wasn't anything special or magical, just a normal voice of a superior officer ordering people around. It was also a very stupid move, but lash wasn't about good sensible decisions anyway.

"HEY! YOU GET OUT AND SHOW YOURSELF BEFORE I KICK YOU IN THE NUTS!"

Classy.

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"How are you going to kick him in the nuts if you can't find him?" And there goes Howard, asking the obvious.

[cityship]

Nope, no dude on the ceiling.