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Dr. Estelle O'Connor
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« Reply #30 on Feb 26, 2006, 12:36am » | |
"Stackhouse - what? How? What did he-" Tell glanced around helplessly, struggling to comprehend what Kaylee was telling them. Something about Stackhouse sneaking into the ruins on his own? Oh, no - she must have heard wrong, or Kaylee must have been wrongly informed 'cause that was just not the way Tim - Captain People Wanting To Kill Us Are Lurking Around Every Corner - did things.
On the other hand, he hadn't exactly been acting himself lately. It had piqued her curiosity before, after the Captain refused to react to her teasing, but now she felt some real concern creeping in.
"I thought he was preoccupied during the walk down here..." She volunteered, "Hang on, I'll try and radio him."
She tapped her earpiece. "Tim? Timothy...? Hey Tim, where've you got to?"
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« Reply #31 on Mar 22, 2006, 6:44am » | |
"Tim? Timothy...? Hey Tim, where've you got to?"
Striding purposely through the darkness, the tall figure reached a hand up towards his ear and pulled out the earpiece, discarding it on the cold hard ground.
His eyes were dead set on the darkness - or what appeared to be darkness to the untrained eye, and any who had never visited this place before. A small smirk appeared on his face. The kind never seen on Timothy Stackhouse's face before. The kind Timothy Stackhouse would pay much money not to see on his own face.
(Given he would probably pay a lot of money not to see his face, unless it was a mirror.)
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Captain Kaylee Mara
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« Reply #32 on Apr 6, 2006, 12:23am » | |
Kaylee waited long enough, watching O'Connor attempt to contact Stackhouse to no avail.
"Either he can't or won't answer. Either way, I think we should follow him. I'd feel better if we could contact the base first, but it seems we're incommunicado for the time being."
With that Kaylee strode off in the direction of the hidden doorway she'd seen Stackhouse enter earlier. She pushed the Ancient symbol and watched a door appear, apparently having been previously hidden by some sort of small shielding device.
Inside the corridor was dark and dingy and she paused to turn on the flashlight mounted on her P90, before entering cautiously.
OOC: Mara is still a Lieutenant in this thread, so I'm just assuming people agreed and are following her. Lets get this thread moving again. 
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Dr. Estelle O'Connor
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« Reply #33 on Apr 12, 2006, 3:29am » | |
OOC: Yay! Progress!
Tell followed, her hand-held flashlight roving curiously over the carved inner walls and ceiling as she went to reveal rows upon rows of the same geometric lettering that covered the outside of the structure. "Somebody must have had a real crick in the neck." She quirked her lips faintly into an amused smile, motioning with her flashlight at the ceiling carvings, but her mind was elsewhere.
"Tim?" She ventured. Louder, "Captain? Tim, wait up already! You're the one who's always yelling at me for going off places on my own!"
She'd reached the opposite wall, from which two passages seemed to extend at either corner, in apparently different directions. She turned back to where the others stood, by the square of daylight that marked out the door. "Is anybody else getting a weird feeling about this?"
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« Reply #34 on Apr 16, 2006, 9:55pm » | |
"Weird doesn't even begin to describe it," Elise muttered with obvious displeasure.
Oh, this was rich. Timothy - "I am God-like and incapable of error" - Stackhouse running off, when hadn't he always been the one to, without fail, complain repeatedly about how stupid it was of people to do that; here he was being a "do as I say, not as I do" sort of guy. How disappointedly typically male of him.
Very much in a foul mood, Elise looked around the inside of the chamber with far less enthusiasm than the site really deserved.
"Honestly, look at this place," she grumbled, "that crick in the neck must have seemed like a waste, look at how shoddy looking the Ancient came out!"
She shook her head in annoyance at the supposed poor craftmanship, and focused back on the matter at hand, and nodded at the two passages Tell stood before.
"So, shall we split up and go find our roaming Captian?"
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Captain Kaylee Mara
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« Reply #35 on Apr 17, 2006, 6:06am » | |
Kaylee grimaced. She'd rather they stuck together, but given the circumstances, splitting up might let them find Tim faster.
"Well I suppose we could split up, as long as we stay in radio contact. I don't know." Kaylee looked around uncertainly.
She couldn't help but think about how, even though Stackhouse had just abandoned them, he would really do a number on her if any member of his team got hurt.
"How about we go in pairs; Doctor O'Connor with Johnson and me with Elise? We can keep in radio contact and whoever finds Stackhouse first, the others can follow."
Kaylee looked to the others for confirmation. She truly was uncertain, but the tunnels didn't look dangerous and this way at least each team would have a military component with a P90 to back them up.
OOC: Okay, this is where someone who knows what is going on needs to post. 
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Dr. Estelle O'Connor
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« Reply #36 on Jun 5, 2006, 5:15am » | |
OOC: 'Pologies for the godmoding, but it doesn't look like Kiesha's coming back.
Really, when you consider it, it's always at the point of the movie where the team decides to split up that everything begins to go wrong, so perhaps it should have been clear from the start that this was a bad idea. But then again, this was far from a movie and it was Stackhouse they were dealing with - cranky, yes, but he wasn't what you'd call a crazy axe murderer.
So split up they did; Kaylee and Elise taking one passageway, Estelle and Kiesha setting off down the other.
"Ti-im!" Tell called in a sing-song voice as the pair ventured along the winding tunnel, sweeping her flashlight over the elaborately-carved features of the structure's interior as they went. "Oh, Tiii-im!" Pause. "Oh, come on, now you're just being immature- hold on," The last was said at a more normal volume as the light from Tell's torch fell on a small niche to one side in which an exposed control panel was visible. After a moment's study her geek cells began turning and she looked over at Lieutenant Johnson. "Hey Kiesh, you keep going, I'm gonna see if I can't get us some proper light in here."
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Major Tim Stackhouse
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« Reply #37 on Jun 6, 2006, 8:30pm » | |
Most of the time, action movies are packed full of cliches, which make certain more educated members of the audience cringe, or roll their eyes. Of course, most of the time, movies are also a work of fiction, and the cliches only occur so the director or writer can get in as much cool action as possible in the course of the story. To relate movies to real life is often pretty pointless, as real life - as such - never actually happens the way things do in a movie.
Surprisingly enough, sometimes things do happen that are slightly similiar. For example, if a bunch of people are wandering around in an unknown cave, and split up, leaving one alone ... well, what can you expect is going to happen?
There was no sound as 'Tim' crept up behind Tell. His arms were around her in an instant - a tight grip that, although Tim certainly was a fit man, was possibly too strong for Stackhouse. He lifted her off her feet and squeezed tighter.
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« Reply #38 on Jun 8, 2006, 1:03am » | |
Kaylee moved through the dark corridor that she and Elise had chosen, stepping carefully over crumbling pieces of rock that had fallen from the walls, navigating by Elise's flashlight and the light of her P90.
"Don't suppose any of the Ancient is helpful in telling us what this place is?," she asked Elise hopefully. Her voice echoed in the darkness. "I really can't imagine it being any less creepy when it was new."
She peered into yet another small room off the corridor, but it was as empty as the last. Certainly no sign of Stackhouse.
Tapping on her radio, she decided it was time to check back in with the other team. "O'Connor, Johnson? How are you guys doing? Any sign of our Captain yet?"
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« Reply #39 on Jul 18, 2006, 3:16am » | |
Elise sighed, brushing her fingers against the craved in symbols as she pointed her flashlight back up at wall as if tracing them would help her get better understanding of them. Frankly of all the languages she spoke, at best, her Latin was only just barely passable, which left her Ancient on what could chartiably be described as a rudimentary level. Between that and the distraction of the Stackhouse situation, it was understandable that she couldn't quite find it in herself to get even a vague idea of what the writing on the walls meant.
"Not really, no," she admitted with a sigh, shaking her head in defeat.
With one last look of annoyance at the wall she grumbled, "Doesn't even look like Ancient, really."
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« Reply #40 on Jul 18, 2006, 10:01pm » | |
((Eek! Sorry for being away for so long, my stupid computer forced me to replace it.))
Johnson had just been starting to decipher the Ancient markings in the stone when Mara tried to contact Stackhouse. The fact that he didn't answer brought her atention away from the stones.
"Tim? Timothy...? Hey Tim, where've you got to?"... "Either he can't or won't answer. Either way, I think we should follow him. I'd feel better if we could contact the base first, but it seems we're incommunicado for the time being."
Keisha nodded. Something here was just way too buggy. She followed the other women, P90 ready, just in case. Something did definately seem wrong. Although, she was seriously hoping that they'd all be able to laugh about it later. Yet she still somehow doubted that.
When it was time to split up she went with O'Conner.
"Ti-im!" Tell called in a sing-song voice as the pair ventured along the winding tunnel, sweeping her flashlight over the elaborately-carved features of the structure's interior as they went. "Oh, Tiii-im!"
Johnson couldn't help feeling slightly like a kid in a candy store when she saw the walls of the cavern. Had they not been searching for the Captain she would have stopped right then and there. O'Connor probably would've too. Who knew what mysteries lay in those stone walls.
"Oh, come on, now you're just being immature- hold on," The last was said at a more normal volume as the light from Tell's torch fell on a small niche to one side in which an exposed control panel was visible. After a moment's study her geek cells began turning and she looked over at Lieutenant Johnson. "Hey Kiesh, you keep going, I'm gonna see if I can't get us some proper light in here."
Tell calling Stackhouse immature brought a small smile to Keisha's face, but it quickly was washed away by Tell's newest discovery. Although she didn't really like the idea of leaving O'Connor by herself, Keisha still nodded and continued on. She gave one final look back before dissapearing into the darkness.
"O'Connor, Johnson? How are you guys doing? Any sign of our Captain yet?"
Keisha tapped her head set. "Not even a footprint, what about you O'Connor?" no answer..."O'Connor?"...."Tell?" Still nothing. Damnit!
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Dr. Estelle O'Connor
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« Reply #41 on Jul 28, 2006, 4:15am » | |
Finally, a familiar, chirpy voice crackled over the radio. "Nada on the Tim front. Just give me a little more time and maybe I'll be able to get some light in this place."
Hidden by the cloak of darkness and the tucked-away position of the niche, a pair of hands no longer large and coarse but instead slim and nail-bitten, deftly quested the crumpled form of Tell. The kevlar vest disappeared first, to be fastened hastily over a form more petite and less muscular than it had been moments before. The 9 millimetre sidearm followed and, as an afterthought, the hand-held Ancient locator device. This done, the person, whom Tell's own father could have sworn black and blue to be Dr. Estelle O'Connor, turned its back on the unconscious woman and paced purposefully down another corridor. It didn't have much time.
The real Tell lay unstirring in the dark niche, hidden perfectly from sight and oblivious to everything.
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