Ten Forward NPCs (
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The Vice Admiral's mission had been somewhat ... interrupted by the sudden regression to physiological childhood of not only him but also Agent Learmont and Lt Cdr Coates. Not to mention so very many of the visitors to this ship they'd come to investigate. Although everyone is now looking the correct age once more, the interviews he'd wanted to conduct shortly after arrival haven't happened.
Until now.
Tyrrell is seated at the head of the table in the conference room that's been set aside for their interviews, sipping a cup of coffee and occasionally pausing to glare at it. Not because there's anything wrong with it -- it's replicator coffee made to his specifications -- but because he's not pleased at the delay to his mission this interference by Q has caused.
In front of him on the wide, long table is a PADD, and in between sips from his cup, he's reading through the list on it. The list is a sampling of Picard's interdimensional and intertemporal guests, including some of those whose pasts and abilities are ... of particular interest.
Agent Learmont, accompanied by Security, has gone to fetch them one by one. She'll be polite and professional, as is her way.
When each of their interviewees arrive, she'll show them in, then sit down opposite them, just around the table from Tyrrell. That way, it looks less like it's two-on-one.
This is not supposed to appear intimidating.
Until now.
Tyrrell is seated at the head of the table in the conference room that's been set aside for their interviews, sipping a cup of coffee and occasionally pausing to glare at it. Not because there's anything wrong with it -- it's replicator coffee made to his specifications -- but because he's not pleased at the delay to his mission this interference by Q has caused.
In front of him on the wide, long table is a PADD, and in between sips from his cup, he's reading through the list on it. The list is a sampling of Picard's interdimensional and intertemporal guests, including some of those whose pasts and abilities are ... of particular interest.
Agent Learmont, accompanied by Security, has gone to fetch them one by one. She'll be polite and professional, as is her way.
When each of their interviewees arrive, she'll show them in, then sit down opposite them, just around the table from Tyrrell. That way, it looks less like it's two-on-one.
This is not supposed to appear intimidating.
ALEC TROVEN
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Alec into the room.
SINTHIA SCHMIDT
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Sinthia into the room.
GAILA BETILLEY
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Gaila into the room.
BOB FRASER
(He is not, apparently, always easy to find.)
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Bob into the room.
ELIZABETH DEWITT
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Elizabeth into the room.
LORNA DANE
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Lorna into the room.
YUNA
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Yuna into the room.
NATASHA YAR
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation, even if the woman they are meeting is supposed to be dead.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Tasha into the room.
KAYLIN NEYA
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Kaylin into the room.
AGATHA HETERODYNE
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Agatha into the room.
IRIAN T'AUMNE
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation, even if it involves a Romulan.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Irian into the room.
MAGNETO
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Magneto into the room.
ALEX ROGAN
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Alex into the room.
TREVER MCCALLUM
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Trever into the room.
TRANCE GEMINI
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Trance into the room.
JACK FROST
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Jack into the room.
B'ELANNA TORRES
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures B'Elanna into the room.
SHOTARO HIDARI
This is meant to be like a conversation, not like an interrogation.
That's why she's smiling as she opens the door, and why only one security officer came with her.
He stays outside as Agent Learmont gestures Shotaro into the room.
LORNA DANE
She took a seat, glaring sullenly at the interviewers for a moment. "So what's this about?"
Re: SHOTARO HIDARI
If Agent Learmont had been a bit younger, she might have been forced to endure a little hard-boiled flirtation. He had a magnetism to women that were capable of making him eat the floor. Or so he imagined anyone with the title "Agent" could do. As it was, he was agreeable to her request, striding along casually beside her. He fully intended to leave his hat on for as long as the Vice-Admiral could tolerate. And maybe a bit longer.
As a detective that was used to delivering these kinds of not-interrogations, he intended to give as good as he got. "Yo," he said, deliberately far too familiar for the audience. He settled into a chair and crossed his legs at the knees. "To what do I owe the pleasure of the Vice-Admiral's time?"
ELIZABETH DEWITT
She gave Agent Learmont a shy smile ass he stepped in. She was fidgetting with the thimble on her right pinky, a nervous gesture she still hadn't unlearned. "Hi. It's nice to meet you." Being polite never hurt anything, after all.
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With some trepidation, but some hopefulness, he followed the agent and the officer to the room.
When he stepped inside, he smiled a little and nodded to the man across the room, then glanced from one person to the next as to where to sit. "Hi!"
Re: TREVER MCCALLUM
About a minute before Trever shows up, a black cat appears on the table in front of the Vice Admiral and Stared at him.
That horrible. Horrible. Judging STARE that cats can do.
She is JUDGING YOU.
JUDGING INTO YOUR SOUL.
JUUUUDDDGGIIIIINNNG YOU.
And then she flopped down in the most inconvenient spot imaginable and started to groom herself.
Because Cat.
Re: SINTHIA SCHMIDT
She doesn't smile back at the agent who collects her, which really isn't unusual for her, but dutifully climbs into a chair. "Hello Vice Admiral Tyrrell," she says, aiming to be polite until she either can't be or something bothers her enough not to be. "What do you wish to speak about?"
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It doesn't work, but she can at least appreciate the attempt, if nothing else.
She walks into the room and sits down, her posture military-straight, hands folded on top of the table. It's not a coincidence that she's wearing her uniform, though it's almost certainly a style no one else in the room will recognize; all the same, it's still plainly a Romulan uniform, from the patterning in the dark green fabric of her jacket to the subtle bird-of-prey insignia on her belt buckle.
"Admiral," she says, acknowledging Tyrrell with a brief inclination of her head. Her demeanor is perfectly courteous and perfectly detached, almost Vulcan-cool. Almost. She is trying not to telegraph her discomfort, but it may show through a little anyway.
Re: AGATHA HETERODYNE
Really, it's amazing how much fuss they make over the smallest things. What's a table and a bit of smoke...compared to science?
So she had matched politeness for politeness as she was escorted in. But once she entered the room, she stopped, then walked slowly to the table, sniffing the air lightly.
"Do I smell...coffee...?" she asked quietly, a light shining in her eyes.
If you value your lives, do. not. give. this. woman. coffee.
Re: KAYLIN NEYA
No.... no this was worse. This... Gods... this was like being dragged in to talk to Mallory when Marcus was rotting in caste jail after being framed for murder. That thought left her irritated and ****ed off. She hid some of it under the mask of "Hawk" the professionalism of a beat cop... but she couldn't hide all her disdain.
She did try though.
You couldn't fault her on following them, doing as she was told, so long as no one tried to touch the mark on her face, or asked her to surrender her daggers, bracer, or familiar.
The small dragon was half a sleep, it's translucent head on it's little paws. How translucent eyelids covered dark eyes, she would never understand.
She really hated magic.
She entered the room, and stood behind the chair that was clearly meant for her.
"You wanted to speak with me?" she asked, coolly and crisply.
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Bob on the other hand, knows perfectly well his job (albeit he did need correcting by his son that 'always get your man' wasn't the motto in favour of 'Maintain the Right'.) and the practicalities of living it.
...Not that it's automatically clear to people who meet him.
He doesn't fear this interrogation. Or conversation. Or whatever the young lady wants to call it.
He's probably pretty amiable as she escorts him, relating some story about some curiously named Northern Canadian, like Old Fish Bob, who earned the name through hard work and oddness.
He finds the arrangement amusing, if only he's done this sort of intervention and its familiar and obvious.
"Hello, son," he said in greeting. After all, the dead don't stand on ceremony, do they?
YUNA
She liked talking to people though she was curious to know how this conversation might go. Most of the time she talked to people she ended up talking about herself anyway. Others didn't seem as open, not that she faulted them for that, and Yuna was the sort who didn't mind keeping things in the open. She also wasn't a very good liar.
"It's nice to meet you." Yuna smiled her gaze shifting towards Agent Learmont as she greeted them both. When she spoke to them she made eye contact, her mismatched gaze warm and friendly.
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"What did you want to speak to me about?" He asks immediately. He only agreed to this because it had to do with helping keep the kids, well now adults, safe. Job done, what could they want from him?
Re: TRANCE GEMINI
Besides, conversations, whether they were actually conversations or interrogations, never went well with Trance.
She sat down, her skin sparkling in the ceiling lights. "Perhaps there's something you'd like to ask me?"
Re: ALEC TROVEN
"You two are looking much more mature and responsible," he said shamelessly before sitting down. "Has this place grown on you?"
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"Vice Admiral, Acting Ensign Gaila betIlley," she says with a formal nod, waiting for leave to sit before she does so.
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There is a suggestion in his tone that she might be one of the problems.
"You arrived with a family member, is that correct?"
Re: NATASHA YAR
"Lt. Natasha Yar, reporting as requested, ma'am." She won't sit until requested. Outdated protocol is still protocol.
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He looks up from his PADD with an icy stare and waits expectantly.
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"Yeah except for one thing: I out rank you, so you should be the ones standing, not me," Alec replied with a Cheshire Cat's grin, his finger tips pressed together held just under his nose. "Check your databases. It's true."
Reality will currently say that Alec does have the rank of Admiral and has been apart of DTI for about fifty years or so with a decent log of missions and paperwork filed. The two DTI agents on the other hand know that this is utter bupkiss, even if supposedly tamper-proof records say otherwise.
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There are a couple of classes of people onboard - those who know Starfleet, those who respect command enough to wait for direction, and those who simply throw themselves into a seat like they own the place. At least this one has a few manners.
"Alex Rogan, take a seat." Tyrrell gestures to the assigned chair. "How are you finding your stay on the Enterprise?"
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He takes a sip of his coffee. "The coffee is for me, you will be content with a glass of water." He looks across at her. "Before you take a seat, remove any equipment, tools and supplies you may have on you and place them in the corner."
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Agent Tyrrell instantly made Elizabeth's list of unsavory people with his hesitation and his tone. So much for co-operation. After being tortured and brainwashed this man couldn't touch her.
She took a seat and pulled out one of her last, precious cigarettes. Two people could play the interrogation game. "Why should I tell you anything about my family? The question is irrelevant." Instead of a friendly but nervous tone Elizabeth now sounds certain and annoyed.
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"I'm enjoying it, sir. I feel like I have a lot to catch up on, what with being asleep so long, and missing so much. From what I've seen, I hope to become a productive member of the society of this time."
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"And I'm not a stupid girl anymore. You clearly want respect," she said, because now without the madness in her eyes, fogging her mind, she could see them clearly, could think clearly about something other than inventions.
And she did not like what she was seeing. The person who had walked her in was polite, but this person... she matched courtesy for courtesy, and in this case abrupt rudeness for rudeness.
She rested her hands on the table and looked him in the eye.
"Fine. But respect has to be earned, and that starts by treating me with a measure of it as well. As near as I can tell, you somehow have something over the people who chose to work on this ship. While I've agreed to follow the rules here, I don't take things of the ship apart without permission, I don't attack people - not that she would anyhow, if someone didn't attack her or hers first - I haven't discharged a weapon. However, my agreeing to follow those rules did not confer on to you any authority over me."
She stood again and crossed her arms. She was that kind of princess. She was the Heterodyne, and she was done being treated like a young failure of a student. No more. Not with Maxim here. She had to protect him. He was one of her people, and if she let someone walk all over her, he would step up and try to defend her. And she did not want to see him get hurt.
Well... in trouble. Unless there were a lot more of them waiting in the wings, Maxim wouldn't be the one to get hurt.
Re: B'ELANNA TORRES
She wasn't smiling, but she wasn't hostile either. She stood at attention waiting for her next order, Janeway taught her well.
...i don't know how this got lost but it did. Very sorry.
"Thank you." It's said with a smile, a slight nod of the head, but he stays standing beside the chair until the others move to sit. Politeness, in part. In part not conceding his feet to those who are standing.