Desiraye will start going through the lockers in the Captain's cabin.

Professor Kri'lik will look for any signs of the compound found on the laser pistol. Doors, lockers, anywhere a hand might touch.

Since the others are in the cabin, Sergi will search the meeting room.

"Don't forget to check the door in and out Doc!"

Kri'lik inspects both sides of the door as Desiraye suggests.
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"Has anyone found anything?"

You search inside and out for about 10 minutes.

You find a concealed camera and microphone in the meeting room.

You find a hidden switch on the computer terminal that throws up on the screen what is being filmed by the concealed camera in the other room.

You do not find any of the lubricant anywhere else.

You quickly check the computer logs for video from that camera but find that there are about 10 minutes erased from the system.

5 minutes left before Ellen comes in.

The ship's alarms begin to go off.

1). We need to find if the concealed camera and microphone has any data from it (audio/video) if it exists and where the 10 minutes went.  Does it go anywhere else?  WHo erased it and who had access to the computer beside the Captain.

2). It appears that the Captain is/was spying on the meeting in the conference room.  Thoughts?  Ideas?  Maybe he found a spy or a saboteur onboard his ship?

"You gotta be kiddin' me!" Desiraye shouts out loud when she hears the alarm go off.  He looks quickly around the room to the others and tells them, "Parson, Yag!  Stay here and keep going through the room the best you can.  Find something we can use!  The rest of you follow me.  Let's see what kind of mess we've gotten into now."

Sergi nods and follows Desiraye.  "There's definitely something going on here, and I'm pretty sure he didn't kill himself."

"I'm pretty sure we all agree with you Sergi!  Screens on!  No telling what we're running ourselves into," Desi says as hse turns on her Albedo Screen.
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S'Krllk and Yag are not having much luck with the computer, but the moment the alarms go off, they see a message pop up on the screen that says:

ALERT!
LIFEBOAT LAUNCHED.
ALERT!
LIFEBOAT LAUNCHED.

A moment later, you hear Ellen's voice over the intercom.  "Everyone to the bridge immediately.  A lifeboat has been launched.  That includes our crew and guests.  To the bridge."

Sergi says, "Okay, let's go see what she has to say this time.  I'm beginning to think she's involved with the murder herself.  Maybe she wanted to take the captain's place.  Or maybe there's something going on we don't know about yet."

"Something is definetly going on." Says Kri'lik as he follows his friends to the bridge. "Could the Matrix have made it to the ship?"

"What the hell is going on here!  OK, everyone to the bridge then," Desiraye says to everyone as she makes it to the bridge at best speed.

"Arggh. To the bridge. I don't like what's going on..."

You go to the bridge.  Everyone is there except Castuss, the Yazirian sape handler who said he was going to go try to find a "way out."

Ellen says, "The alarm system goes out when someone sends out a lifeboat.  One of the lifeboats went out where Castuss was going, and we just got this message."

She plays a distress message.  You hear Castuss' voice, calmly stating:

"Help.  Distress.  Something's wrong.  I didn't mean to eject the lifeboat.  Help."

Then it cuts out.

Ellen says, "Apparently, Castuss found his 'way out' he mentioned and took the lifeboat."  (She shows on the map of the ship that it was at M2.)

Daqor says, "No.  It can't be.  The lifeboat had no safe destination in range."

"It's a suicide mission," Baralou mutters under her breath.

Daqor begins swearing, becoming anry and agitated.  He swears, "I'm going to get that electric but that killed my friend.  It's gotta be this matrix thing that did this to him.  He would never kill himself.  Never!"

He jumps up to make good on his promise, and begins smashing at the ship's electronic systems.

Ellen and Fiator try to calm him, talking to him and reassuring him, but he continues to hit and damage the electronics.

Ellen looks to you for help in subduing or talking him down.

REMINDER: Daqor is an early-middle aged Vrusk of military bearing. He feels
deeply ashamed not to have gone on the ill-fated rescue mission
and would give anything to "have a go" at whatever killed his
"comrades".

Desiraye's face goes sour when she hears the distress signal that Ellen plays for everyone.  "What the hell kind of distress signal was that?  Maybe it's just me but, I think that if you were accidently locked in an escape capsule and under obvious duress and looking for 'a way out'.  Seems way to convenient for me, I'm sorry," she begins to continue as Desi watches as Daqor begins tearing into the electronic systems.

Desiraye moves over to where he is and shouts at him, "THAT'S NOT GOING TO SOLVE ANYTHING!  PLEASE STOP DAQOR, I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO HURT YOU," she says as she moves closer as she draws out her stun baton.

Sergi also moves in to help.  "He didn't seem suicidal to me, that's for sure."

He will help physically if Desiraye needs it.

Ellen jumps in and sticks a hypo in Daqor's neck.  He struggles a moment, then slumps to the ground unconscious.

"That should hold him," Ellen says.  She puts the hypo on the counter and you see it was a dose of Telol.  She says to Fiator, "Let's take him to the sick-bay and strap him down."

She and Fiator begin moving out Daqor's body.

Desiraye turns off her stun baton and puts it away when the Yazirian falls to the floor.  She shakes her head and tunrs to Sergi, "Sergi, take Doc with you to make sure that Daqor is OK and remains calm.  Yag, check out the electronics while we're here to make sure he didn't break anything too important."

Daqor is strapped down but unconscious in the sick-bay.  It does not appear he has done harm to anything critical.

Despite seeing that none of the electronics seem to be harmed, Yag plays dumb so he has an excuse to look things over.

"Looks like he might have damaged a system or two here. Let me take a closer look." He checks out the machinery to see if there is any sign of tampering or presence of the Matrix virus.

Doc follows Sergi to the sick bay to help administer what aid he can. While in the sick bay he will take a mental scan of the facility to get a sense of what is available.

<blue>Yag begins checking the computer systems.  He doesn't find any direct evidence of the matrix, but remembers taht the matrix left no direct evidence previously, so he doesn't know what he can do to prove if it's there or not other than look for symptoms.  However, he finds that the distress call from Castuss was actually produced from within the M/MN/CN (communications) and M/MN/LG (languages) programs under Baralou's command.

He also seems to find that there is some sort of "hardware fault" (i.e. a problem with the actual electronic components), but it doesn't seem to be a "program bug" like the matrix was on Jetsom.

Kri'lik goes to Deck 5 where the sick bay is at (M13).  Daqor remains unconscious and will be in that way for some time, so there is little Kri'lik can do to help.  Ellen leaves to about her business again and to start moving into the captain's cabin.

The sick bay has all the equipment needed to heal sick or wounded characters, just shy of a surgical center--so not quite the hospital needed to turn off freeze fields or take away radiation damage.  There are four recovery couches, each with a freeze field.  The equipment and supplies are about equal to 10 medkits.

In a corner of the room is a general access computer terminal (Term-12).

Heavy security doors and a security robot block access to M15.

Everyone else is on the bridge on Deck 2 (M3).  A large observation dome in the ceiling dominates the bridge. The captain's chair is on a platform under the center of the dome, giving a clear view.  Incorporated into the captain's chair is computer terminal Term-2. The bridge also contains the astrogator's chair (with terminal Term-3, and screens displaying information from the navigation
instruments) and the pilot's chair (with terminal Term-1).
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Desiraye nods over to the heavy security door and robot and asks, "Hey!  What's behind the robot and the door over there?"