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DAY 217  (14 Marpenoth)(October) cont ...

Now that all our enemies were vanquished we explored the rest of the keep and secured it. Not a very
pleasant place in the country I have to say though. Not as comfortable as the pie shop has been and
certainly not as nice as father's place.

Apart from the swirling black portal to the Plane of Shadows though it was habitable. Everyone decided
to set up in the gate house though, which was probably sensible.

In the main room where the portal was Mira found a switch behind a statue, which when pulled, lead to
a small altar where there was a black wooden disc about three feet wide and a burning bowl of oil.

To the left was a door with a big lever. This lead to the room under the tower where we had met the
howling dog.

By nine in the morning we were all done. We set up the prisoners in the small rooms in the main keep.
This was Gathan, Bestra Mornscroll, Mendios and Kithguard Maurran (the Shadar Kai).

Outside by the pool inside the grounds we first talked to Bestra. At first she had me fooled into
thinking she was innocent and misguided but in the end we didn't believe her.

Next was Mendios who we did believe. He had been a victim of domination and now that he was free of
that he was awake again.

Kithguard was sullen but told us a bit about the Shadar-Kai and their plight. I had some sympathy for
his race, doomed to torment and suffering in the Plane of Shadows and only wanting to find a way out.
They were killers though and the gal-ralan that they wore around their arms, a band of spiked metal
that kept them pinned down in the Material Plane, that pierced their skin and kept them in perpetual
pain, made them violent and unpleasant.

I spent the rest of the day helping to dispose of the corpses. I got the teeth out of the big
lizard thing upstairs and skinned it. Very nice stuff, would make a fine bag or somesuch.

DAY 218  (15 Marpenoth)(October)

In the morning Sylvia cast 'Speak with Dead' on Destyl. She was happy where she was and didn't
want to come back apparently. We divided up her stuff.

After a long talk we decided on a plan of action.

Shump, Jiggles and Mendios were to go back to Weyloon with the donkey, Bestra and the loot to sell it and
buy more supplies. Everyone else would wait at the keep. We would expect them back in about six
days.

I also had a fly over to the lizardman camp to talk to K in regards to Gathan. He was about as
much use as a fart in a bottle though. 'Gathan decides his own destiny' was about the size of
it. Bloody savages.

So when we got back I used stone shape to put him in a cell next to Kithguard. The rooms were sealed
except for a slot to put food into. That would sort them out. Pair of idiots.

In the keep tonight then was me, Sylvia, Lavinia and Mira. We organised a watch for the night.
The person awake would patrol the keep with a lantern and look in on the prisoners from time to time.

DAY 219  (16 Marpenoth)(October)1

I used all my Stone Shape spells to fix up the keep walls.

I then flew about for the rest of the day and paid a visit to K. I asked if he could send over
a few lizard folk. Maybe a couple of guards and a maid. I could pay them in gold or javelin heads.
He said he would see what he could do.

Lavinia and Jiggles cleaned up the gatehouse and made it a bit more homely.

DAY 220  (17 Marpenoth)(October)2

Once I'd fixed up the walls a bit more I spent the rest of the day flying around studying the
local wild life.

(see Beast Journal Entries #1442 to #1514)

DAY 221  (18 Marpenoth)(October)3

A similar day to yesterday. I brought back some food and cut flowers for the guard house.

Today some lizardfolk arrived. I'd already arranged their payment with K. Two warriors called
Nakal and Nanti, a female who could cook called Jatol and a boy called Cupcay.

DAY 222  (19 Marpenoth)(October)4

I used all my Stone Shape spells again to repair some of the keep and put in a ladder to
the roof.

Mira seems happy pottering about in the keep and exploring the area around the keep. Lavinia
seems bored, but is happy enough to take i.e. easy. Jiggles is always tagging along with Lavinia,
she seems to adore her.

I'm glad they don't need much attention anyway as they swamp is thick with wildlife. I could
spend years here cataloging the butterflies. The beetles would take a life time. I've seen more
wisps and hydra's, but I keep my distance!

DAY 223  (20 Marpenoth)(October)5

I brought back some rabbits today and we had a nice meal together. We gave some to Gathan and
Kithguard.

Mira seems to have become the guardian of Gathan. I thought he should be set free and allowed to do
what he wanted (i.e. jump through the portal and probably die). Mira wants to keep him prisoner
and keep him with us when we go through.

I'm not sure when it was decided that we will explore the portal, but it seems to be what we are
doing.

DAY 224  (21 Marpenoth)(October)6

Shump and Jiggles returned with the donkey. Apparently Bestra was killed by a Shambling Mound on
the way to Weyloon. Oh well.

They had all the supplies we needed though, so we got ready for our expedition into the Plane
of Shadows.

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DAY 60 (thu)

A regular duty day for all Star Fleet personnel.

Videk helped out in Engineering but when he went back to his cabin for lunch he found
his distraught wife, Dhael Toranni, complaining about the monkey making lots of noise
from Noxus's cabin. She left for the mess hall in disgust.

Listening at the door Videk decided not to go in. It sounded like the monkey was trashing
Noxus's cabin.

In the mess hall Neelix was cooking up some nice spicey yak meat. Ensign Burns sampled
the Klingon Vindaloo and found that his stomach could just about handle it.

Neelix asked Videk to help him re-route some power supplies in the Captain's private
dining room and with slight unease the Romulan did so.

Neelix sent Ensign Kirk down to Engineering to scavenge for parts, but Torres just grumped
at him, 'This isn't a junk yard!', so he went to the cargo bays and 'acquired'
what he had been sent for.

Meanwhile, Ensign Burns, ever the joker, when asked to help make a hole in the
wall through to the messhall, took out his phaser set it to wide beam and burned
a huge hole in it!

Lieutenant J. Lyman yelled furiously at the young Ensign and when he was met with
a rather cheeky attitude put him on report and docked his replicator rations.

In the evening Videk found that the space monkey had still not been attended to. Noxus,
it appeared, was out piloting for an asteroid scanning mission and would not be back
tonight.

Videk, with his ear to the door, could hear whimpering...


DAY 61 (fri)

Reporting for duty in the morning Videk learned from Torres that her next big
plan was to convert the Auxiliary Impulse Reactor into a crude Dilithium Refinery.

Videk scoffed,  'The Romulan Artificial Singularity Warp core is far superior.'

Torres rolled her eyes, but was glad of his help.

When reporting for lunch the crew found that Neelix had made himself a kitchen!
When the Captain saw that her dining room had been converted though she was less
than delighted.
She took Neelix away for a talking to and Ensign Parsons was put in charge of the
cooking.

When Noxus finally showed up from his away mission Videk tracked him down and told him
sternly, 'Deal with your monkey!'

Noxus sighed, put down his kit bag, and cautiously entered his cabin. Everything that
could have been chewed or pooped on had been chewed and pooped on. Noxus replicated a
banana and tried to lure the monkey out from under the bed.

When the monkey came out he shot at it with his phaser attempting to stun it, but missed
and the creature fled. A minute later two security personnel arrived and took his weapon
away.



xxx
(Later this incident, and Burn's earlier misendeavour prompted the following bulletin
from the captain:

Re: Discharge of weapons in crew quarters.

I find it hard to believe that I have to re-state this, but weapons are not to be kept in crew
quarters unless signed off by senior staff and certainly not discharged without a good reason.

There have been several instances over the last few weeks of away team members 'forgetting' to
hand their weapons back in at the armouries before returning to duty or reporting to Med Bay.

These are busy and difficult times, but that is no excuse for ignoring protocol.

No one should have a reason for carrying a weapon on board Voyager without permission,
especially civilians.

If anyone sees a weapon in crews quarters report it at once. If anyone sees a civilian with a
weapon anywhere on board then report it.

Anyone not complying with these regulations will be fined replicator rations, face the brig or
ultimately face the possibility of being kicked off the ship.

You have been warned!

-Janeway
 )
xxx

In the evening, Voyager arrived at what the crew called a 'Rogue Planet' and an away team
of Chakotay, Neelix and Kim beamed down.

Something went wrong though and Janeway swamped the place with security teams. Ensign
Kirk found himself in charge of 'Team Random' once more, consisting of himself,
Videk (acting as the science officer) and Noxus (trying to earn brownie points with the
Captain).

They were beamed down into a network of caverns near to where the incident had happened.
As they news came in they were told that some strange alien had used a device that literally
beamed the lungs out of Neelix's chest.

With trepidation they slowly explored the caverns. Noxus thought he saw something but said
nothing. They all tried to use their tricorders but there was too much interference.

Suddenly a shot was fired at them and they returned fire. They caught a glimpse of a
shadowy robed figure fleeing into the darkness.

They gave chase and were shot at by more of the mysterious enemy. The running firefight
consisted of many wild shots and misses, but each of them was hit by the strange alien
beam weapon at least once but they all still had their organs intact afterwards.

They killed one of the aliens, then two more. Examining the bodies they could see that
they were dealing with hideous creatures that looked like they had been sewn together
from spare parts. They wore long black robes and carried weapons that looked like half
medical tricorders , half phaser.

Coming to a sort of dead end and wondering where the last one had gone to they scanned
for hidden things and Videk detected a forcefield that gave the illusion of being part
of the cavern wall.

Once they had disabled the forcefield they entered a sort of hospital/lab area and shot
the last of the aliens. They took what things were on the bodies and beamed back to
Voyager which was now in pursuit of a fleeing alien vessel.

It wasn't long before the Away Teams started reporting back to the Med Bay. Kirk and his team
witnessed a bit of pantomime when the Doctor slapped Paris to show that holograms could have
mass when questioned about how Neelix's replacement holographic lungs worked.

While in Med Bay Noxus arranged for his monkey to be returned to quarantine for a week.


DAY 62 (sat)

Kirk, Noxus and Videk were discharged from Med Bay in the morning and excused duties for the day.

Meanwhile Voyager followed the alien vessel's ion trail to an asteroid and inside a hollowed
out area. It was a sort of hall of mirrors were they were presented with hundreds of realistic images of
the alien ship.

Voyager was put on red alert and Kirk reported to the D6A.

News filtered down to the crew that the ship was being drained of power as the alien vessel took warp power
directly from the nacelles.

Commander Chakotay had the idea of 'using a phaser at low power as a search light' and they found the
aliens by this method.

Two aliens were beamed on board and the Captain interrogated them. Ensign Kirk was present when she gave
an impassioned speech to the Vidiians but then ultimately let them go with a warning never to harm anyone
in her care ever again.

The Vidiians then agreed to help Neelix and Kes donated one of her lungs to him.

Back in his cabin Videk was being nagged by his wife. She insisted that it was unacceptable that all his
equipment and weapons were being held by Star Fleet. It was his duty as a Romulan, she posited, that he
should do everything in his power to get them back.

DAY 63 (sun)

Ensign Kirk had half a days duty today, then talked to the Delaney sisters in the afternoon.

Videk had an interview with Tuvok in regards to his equipment but was told 'Not yet'.

Tuvok was not getting much peace from 'Team Random' as Noxus approached him later in the mess hall
asking for a 'Back up of the Doctor'.
Tuvok explained to the cardassian that the EMH was already well looked after by Voyager operations personnel.

In the evening Dhael told Videk, 'If they won't give you the equipment, then steal them!'

DAY 64 (mon)

As usual Ensigns Kirk, Burns were on duty in the D6A and Videk was helping out in Engineering.

Noxus was bored though and since he had a small amount of skill in hairdressing he decided to set himself
up as the ships barber.

On Voyager Crewman Hamilton was the part time appointed barber but he was delighted to handover to someone
else more willing so he let Noxus try out on his next customer.

This was Crewman Emmanuel and Hamilton judged the resulting ministrations of Noxus to be adequate enough.
As he left Hamilton handed over the scissors and patted Noxus on the back,
'It's all yours buddy.'

Noxus's barbershop was just a small cabin on Deck 8 and it would only get one or two customers a day, but
at least he would make a few grams of replicator rations in tips he supposed.

Also this day Videk approached Chakotay about his demands but was told, 'That's Tuvok's business.'

Filled with frustration and anger, in the evening he began programing a sub-routine to hack into the
Voyager network...

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DAY 56 (sun) cont...

The station itself was a large platform in an endless sea. The landing pad led to a sort of cat walk
that in turn lead into the interior buildings of the platform.

They were greeted by three talaxians. Trenek, the owner, Beddle, his wife and Snitzle their employee.
There appeared to be no one else on board.

While the other were welcomed in and led through to the veranda at the back of the platform
Noxus lagged behind and looked in the crates stacked along the cat walk. He found a laser-knife but
when people looked over he dropped it on the floor and tried to look innocent.

Neelix and the other talaxians spent some time catching up, he and Trenek had once worked on a garbage
scow together and much of the conversation was along the lines of 'What happened to old so-and-so.'

As they talked and ate and drank refreshments Snitzle came through and reported that another space
vessel was being tracked in the planets atmosphere. Looking at its energy signatures Trenek thought
it was hostile so raised the platform's energy shield.

The vessel approached and they spent some time dragging crates around to make defences. Noxus opened
another and a space monkey jumped out then ran away. 'That's just Spongle.' said Trenek.

The hostile vessel took up position over the platform and started to bombard it. The energy shield didn't
last long as they cowered in the interior offices, and the shuttle sized spacecraft landed on the other
pad.

The back doors of the shuttle opened and a bunch of Kazon-Ogla pirates jumped out. Noxus was first to
fire from behind his crate on the cat walk and killed the first one on the deck stone dead with his
first shot. The Voyager crewmen were using Sniper-scoped Phaser rifles.

Ensign Burns was next to take a shot, then Kirk. They killed off the first wave, but more came on
and they retreated into the offices and locked the doors.

The Kazon threw grenades up against the doors until they exploded inwards. After that it was a chaos
of grenades and phaser fire but the superior training of the Starfleet personnel soon exerted itself
and one by one the Kazon were picked off. They were just too poor shots to be much of a threat to
disciplined soldiers and their grenades were easily dodged.

Once only a few Kazon remained they made retreat for the shuttle and managed to take off, ducking
and weaving from the shots fire by the advancing Voyager crew.

Kirk, Burns and Noxus poured fire into the back of the shuttle but it was not enough to stop it.
They had done well though, and stripped the weapons, armour and effects from the dead and injured
pirates which they then piled into spare crates and put on the Cochrane.

It took a day to fix up the shuttle after that.

DAY 57 (mon)

At 4pm they left the planet and spent the rest of it returning to Voyager. The trade deal has been
a success and they had all been rewarded for helping to fend off the pirates. Noxus even took
'Spongle' back with him and the laser-knife.

DAY 58 (tue)

At 2pm in the afternoon they arrived and docked at Voyager. They were then sent to med bay for a
routine check up. They stored their loot in cargo bay 3 but in the end most of it was 'sold'
to the quartermaster for replicator rations.

The space monkey was kept in medbay for the day. Once he had finished his checks the Doctor said,
'Well, it doesn't look very friendly, but it carries no diseases and other than its teeth poses
no danger to the crew.'

While there, Noxus asked about getting his physiology changed back to Cardassian but the Doctor
persuaded him not to as it would make him an even bigger target to the Maquis on board.

DAY 59 (wed)

Noxus, still in medbay, spend some time writing up his action report, although this had not been requested
of him, part of him was still Starfleet so he did it out of habit.

Tuvok came in and looked at the monkey then finaly said,
'Keep it in your cabin. I hope to never see it again.'

When he did take it to his cabin though, Videk's wife was very concerned and not a little bit angry
to find a hairy primate sharing her living area. Videk was not pleased either and insisted Noxus keep
it in his room.

Meanwhile, that evening, on his return to his own cabin Ensign Kirk attempted to sweet talk the Delaney
sisters and got on a little better with Jenny. He then spent the rest of the evening on personal projects
with his engineering bot.

Late that night Noxus spent some of his replicator rations on buying the Quartermaster a strong drink
which seemed to go down very well indeed.