(G278 10/06/2016 via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP) 53

(G278 10/06/2016 via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP) 53

DAY 131 (fri) cont ...

It was now 1930 and it occurred to Ensign Kirk that they might try and talk to the 'Blue Skin' they had captured earlier.

With the jammer-jammer now in the locality they could talk to the blue skin and eventually the coaxed some information out of it.
'We are people accepted by the Preservers. They do not attack us,' it said in response to why the skuttlers or automatons did not attack the blue skins.

Murphy tried to heal the creature a little with his medical resources but then reported to Kirk, 'There is something very odd about that creature. It's not alive! I can't tell you  exactly what is going on without a working Medical Tricorder though.'
Murphy examined the creature further, even going so far as to taste the creatures blood.
'It's tasteless! And have a sniff, this being has no odour at all. It smells of nothing.'

Kirk groaned, he hated all this weird alien 'shit'.
'Listen to it's heart,' he said, but the creature would not hold still so they used the med kit to knock it out. In the end they detected a heartbeat.

'There is something strange about this whole place,' declared Kirk, then went back to the ice room, hacked some of it up and boiled it up in the cauldron. Nothing much happened so he shrugged and abandoned the enterprise.

So, they continued exploring the corridors and rooms. In the next room the found a metal bin full of ancient copper coins, in the next an old loom.

They turned a corner in the corridor and were attacked by more blue skins armed with bows and arrows. They killed them off and determined to get the bottom the mysterious beings Kirk dragged one of the corpses up the steps to the room where Yuyu was.
'Where are you going with that?' she asked icily.
'Just running a test.'
'Have you found a katric arc yet?'
'No.'

About half way up to the surface the Medical Tricorder started working again, no longer being jammed by the Preserver Tech.
Murphy did a long scan then reported, 'This thing isn't a living being. The closest thing I can think of is a hard light hologram. I don't know how it is projected but I think it uses nano technology, possibly interdimensional or sub-atomic nano-tech at that.  This is more advanced that Starfleet, that's all I can tell you. Some advance alien race made this creature.'
Kirk contacted Dell back at the Cacophony.
'Dell,' he asked, 'We've got an advance alien sub-atomic nano tech hard light hologram thing here. Can you contain it in a force field?'
'Eh?' replied Dell. When things were explained to him further he replied rather tartly,
'This thing, if its using multidimensional technology then I haven't the slightest idea if a forcefield will work or not!'
'Just see what you can do,' sighed Kirk.

Kirk and Murphy returned to the others and continued the exploration of the lower  temple levels. They discovered a room with a pentagram in it and then beyond that a room with a krovok sleeping next to a fire place. Kirk left it alone.

The next door lead to a room of chests and broken pots and six skuttlers that attacked them as soon as the door was opened. These were the kind that exploded once they were badly damaged and they charged forward, blasting holes in the walls and injuring all of the crew.
Once the combat was over, Kirk and the rest of the stunned and bedraggled crew entered the room and searched the chests, their ears still ringing from the blasts and their uniforms in virtual tatters.