DAY 149 (mon)
Kirk awoke at 4 am and lay for a while, trying to come up with another plan. He had his comms badge still and for that he was thankful. He realised this was the only thing that could help him escape.
With the lights dimmed and hiding under the bed covers he interfaced with the badge to redesign all his intrusion programs into the Vhnori police systems.
By about 8 am he was done and got some rest.
At 4pm he was awake again and ready to have another go at escaping. He watched the security cameras and waited for the stairs and the area outside his cell to be clear. As he waited he made further modifications to the programs to make all police comms die when he made his escape.
At around 9pm all was clear and he went for it. At the top of the stairs he was spotted by some guards unfortunately, but he was able to lock down the stairwell doors to hold them back. He made it all the way down to the ground floor.
Looking through the door window at the bottom of the stairs he could see a large foyer with about ten cops and a couple of dozen people milling around and waiting in queues.
Using his comms badge he triggered the 'Fire Alarm Cascade' and the foyer began to clear.
He could hear banging from upstairs, the guards were trying to break down the doors. Kirk was in a hurry to get out, but he could see that a few of the police had not left the foyer. They appeared to be confused as to why their radios were not working.
Kirk routed a message through the tannoy;
'There is a bomb threat! This is not a drill! All guards to muster points!'
He looked again, the guards had not gone out, but they did notice him and came to the door.
Kirk hid under the stairs, then used his comms badge to unlock all the doors on the landings.
This had the beneficial effect of releasing all the people trapped upstairs, who then came down the stairs in a confused flood. Kirk made it outside hidden in the hub-bub.
He then locked the main glass doors, opened all the cell doors and reactivated all the radios.
The confusion this caused was enough to get him clear of the police headquarters. He then put in a call to 'RenegadeX' and arranged a pick up.
RenegadeX was an intelligent but weak looking Vhnori. There was a female in the car and another male who was doing the driving. As they drove away all three asked Kirk many breathless questions about the afterlife and the Next Emanation.
Kirk wasn't really in the mood for theology so told them that they were most likely just people called "NPCs" in an "RPG" played by two middle-aged Scotsmen.
Whatever they were expecting, it wasn't that, but regardless of this they took Kirk to their hideout, a 'terraced' mansion in the suburbs of the city.
Kirk was very glad to get a shower, change out of his prison clothes and eat something other than prison food.
He asked for some tools and other gear to build a 'Sub Space Gubbins Box' which he said would be able to communicate back from the Next Emanation. He knew very well it wouldn't work, but counted on the fact that they would not know that.
Even if it was bunkum it took him hours to make and he went to bed after he'd finished. The Vhnori were on a much longer day night cycle though and remained awake.
DAY 150 (tue)
The Vhnori, unsure of how humans bodies worked woke Kirk up at what his comms badge told him was 3 am on a Tuesday morning.
After breakfast he realised that if he was to survive on the other side, the "Next Emanation", he would need an environment suit as he'd most likely arrive in a vacuum or a deadly atmosphere.
The Vhnori civilisation was not advanced enough though and while some second-hand spacesuits could be purchased they would be non-functional. He opted for arctic gear, a full face mask and oxygen tanks, and hoped that this would be enough. It was all paid for by a hacked bank account.
He then asked RenegadeX and his girlfriend to take him to the safest option for a 'coffin' and they reckoned on a temple in a village out in the countryside.
When they arrived at the village Kirk simply and boldly walked right in to the temple carrying all his gear.
There were a few people about and the verger said for Kirk to wait while he consulted the Thanatologist.
Kirk waited for ten minutes, then grew impatient and burst through into the next chamber. The Thanatologist was on a communicator (and it didn't occur to Kirk why that might be!) and seemed nervous when he entered.
'Come on and do this ceremony so I can get out of here!' demanded Kirk.
'I'm in the middle of one now!' returned the Thanatologist.'You'll have to wait!'
A minute later, of course, the local police arrived. The Thanatologist had been on the communicator to them to report an alien acting very strangely and when asked by the police to describe said alien it matched the description of the one that had just escaped from jail in the city.
Initially Kirk tried to talk his way out of the situation, but in the end his frustration and desire to get back again won through and he started shooting with the 9mm RenegadeX had given him.
The cops, out gunned by one of the best marksmen in the Delta Quadrant, made a run for it and with the doors locked and the Thanatologist and verger as hostages he forced them at gun point to take him through to the 'coffin' chamber and dispatch him. Anxious to get rid of him they did it as quickly as they could!
He arrived on an asteroid. Luckily there was some atmosphere trapped inside it, otherwise his oxygen mask would have probably exploded off his head. It was toxic though, so the oxygen came in handy, and the arctic gear kept him alive long enough for the Cacophony to detect him and come get him.
He'd been on the Vhnori planet for eight days, and his crew had not deserted him.
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