[2259.116] -- [Away Mission on Dayoumir VII] -- [Open Post]

[kirktastic]

(OOC: If you want to be a part of this away mission, please read the whole post including OOC comments at the end for all information, captains orders, etc.)Kirk stared down at the ice planet on the forward view screen unhappily. He didn't have the best relationships with ice planets, and the idea of going down to this one had him less than pleased

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AWAY MISSION - It be cold, Vulcan.

[npc_aliens]

Spock would wake to silence. A silence that was almost a sound, a constant far off impossible sound. It was cold, but not nearly as cold as it had been. It was somewhere in stone, a brilliant blue stone that gave off a faint light. No snow. In the distance, something gleamed white.

The pressure was diminished, but not gone, and it was close. Something was waiting for him.

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[npc_aliens]

The ethereal head jerked unseen, and the pressure turned into a strange nuzzling sensation. The creature was clearly curious about him.

What are you?

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[cso_spock]

...what was the word? Petakov? Adorable?

Spock. He told the creature, and with it the essence of what he was, Vulcan-Human, male, young, a scientist. Why am I here? Is this your...home?

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[npc_aliens]

The curiosity ceased at the word home and the sound echoed again in Spock's mind, but with knowledge. It was a roar, something heard from beyond the grave.

THIS IS NOT MY HOME.

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[cso_spock]

And there was the pain again, not as concentrated but still there. His hand moved across the bone.

Then why am I here?

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[npc_aliens]

The air between them rippled.

Food.

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[cso_spock]

Spock wondered if his father had ever come upon this situation during his younger diplomatic days when he didn't cater to the Sol system explicitly. Probably not, as Starfleet (him) usually sorted these things out, first.

...I do not want to be eaten. Is there something else you can consume?

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[npc_aliens]

Last of food gone. You and others came. Will devour.

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[cso_spock]

This was going well. He scrambled for another question, something to keep it talking, but his hand was cold, his nerves were cold, this bone pile was uncomfortable...

What do you eat? Specifically?

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[npc_aliens]

Energy.

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[cso_spock]

Not a straight forward answer. Kinetic? Electromagnetic? Thermal? Spock wouldn't suggest "life-energy", since that had no place in his body of knowledge...yet it looked the most probably answer at this point.

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[npc_aliens]

Energy.

The ethereal figure stepped forward, but didn't seem willing to touch the bones for whatever reason.

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[cso_spock]

Whatever the creature ate, there was a strong likelihood it wasn't a component Spock could live without.

Does something else have this energy you need?

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[npc_aliens]

Energy. We are starved for it.

The creature poked towards the bones, a huge skeletal claw trying to move them.

We will not die.

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[cso_spock]

Spock shifted away from the creature, pushing his back up against the other bones and the other side of the rib cage. Do not take my energy, He told the creature directly, though held back on simply forcing it through. I can find other sources for you. Not other people necessarily, but there had to be an artificial means to simulate it.

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[npc_aliens]

Hungry, so hungry, they destroyed us. They deserve to be our prey!

There was a blast of rage, rage deeper than the heart could take, that Spock had felt once in his life before at a Romulan not to long ago. It echoed so much longer though, through ages and ages of time that made Vulcans look like specs of light in the eye of the universe.