Lt. Corey Wethern - Gone with the Wind
Corey Wethern
((San Francisco District - Starbase 118))
Anethra: You'll really be able to do that?
Voss: ::with a shrug:: Hopefully!
Voss peered over Drex’s shoulder as he put in the parameters to search for ferroniobium.
Drex: Scan initiated. It will take a few minutes to render a full heat map. In the meantime, we can begin cross-referencing the memory disruption reports with station layout data. Every data point we collect will improve our probability of isolating the source.
Wethern: So anyone seen any good holonovels recently?
Anethra: No. Not that I remember anyway.
Voss: Yes! Oh man, I just finished this really wild one that’s set in a future where there are these two, like, empires that rule over all of space and time, and one of the empires is super techy, kind of Borg-ish, with all these machines, and the other is like… all bioengineering and communication through plants, and each empire has an agent who just goes by a code name and they’ve been chasing each other through these different timelines, and they… ::stopping short, embarrassed:: Well, you don’t want the whole… but it was really good…
She trailed off and leaned against the alcove wall. Just a casual question to pass the time. Corey smiled as the recognition hit
It didn’t take long for Drex’s heat map to begin to fill with flickering points of light.
Drex: The scan’s picking up a few irregularities... These could be interference nodes or at least areas where the signal is strongest.
Wethern: That under carrier wave there.
They all crowded around the terminal screen.
Voss: The sharp wiggly guy?
Drex: ?
Wethern: That looks like the same signal from a neural stimulator for a Vulcan.
Anethra: Is that why you arent affected?
Drex: ?
Voss: If it’s a signal like a stimulator, then… maybe it’s not that the memories are *blocked* so much as they’re being drowned out? Like we’re just getting too much interference to consciously remember. Which might also explain why my telepathy is a little out of control. But do those neural stimulators work on humans?
Wethern: No human brains don't have any area that responds to it. It's similar to a gallbladder for us. We can easily live without it and it isn't in use much.
. Lyra tried vainly to wipe her PADD on her soaked uniform - even if it didn’t make it drier, at least it pushed some of the water out of the way.
Voss: Look at this compared to the heat map we were generating in sickbay! There’s definitely some areas of correlation between the presence of ferroniobium and memory loss incidents.
Drex: ?
Wethern: Where is it coming from?
Anethra stepped up to the terminal screen to take a good look.
Anethra: Ive never been too good at directions... but that looks like the way I came from.
Voss: ::excitedly:: Awesome! Let’s go and see if we can find where you were!
Drex: ?
. Lyra pushed her hair back one more time to try to prevent its inevitable toppling, tucked her PADD under her arm, and walked back into the curtain of rain with Drex and Dr. Wethern. Anethra seemed reluctant to leave the shelter of the alcove, but she joined them after a few steps and they formed a little parade line pushing through the storm.
Corey did a doggy shake to get rid of the excess water. Which was useless.
Anethra: Does this happen often on this station?
Voss: ::laughing darkly:: Four, I hope not.
Wethern: Heavy rain....not really. Weird things.....pretty much weekly. Remind me to tell you about the body swapping one day.
Drex: Response?
Anethra nodded, but she was not put even mildly at ease.
Anethra: Thats... good to know. I think.
Voss: So when you… ::she wasn’t sure how to phrase it:: …came to? woke up? do you remember what was around you? Like any mysterious metal artifacts?
Wethern: Ritual sacrifices? Cats and dogs living together?
/Drex: Response?
Anethra: I wish I could tell you more... maybe Ill recognize something when we get closer...
Voss: I’m sure you will. The good thing is this is just cutting off our access to previous memory - it doesn’t seem to be affecting our current recall or short-term memory.
Wethern: I dread to think what this is doing to the water rations.
Drex: Response?
Lyra tried to look at the names on the buildings they were passing, but the rain and wind made it difficult to see anything clearly. She clutched her PADD tightly in both hands as they followed the overlaid maps of sickbay reports and ferroniobium. Several minutes of walking felt like an eternity in this weather, but they were getting closer and closer to what seemed to be their destination. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a dislodged tree branch covered in bright green leaves whipped past them and they all had to dodge out of the way. The wind was reaching a fevered pitch. She had to duck down and put her back to it to even make out the surface of her PADD.
Voss: ::yelling over the wind:: It’s around here somewhere! ::trying to look at the buildings on either side of the street:: So… either Cosmos Canvas or Brew Continuum?
Wethern: Brew continuum has Fairhug commentative mugs currently and I could kill for a coffee.
Drex/Anethra: ?
Another tree branch went hurtling by and Lyra jumped out of the way just in time to see a swirling tower of wind down the block. Her eyes went wide.
Voss: We better make a choice real quick!
Wethern: You know where my vote lies.
Voss/Drex/Anethra: ?
Corey followed the crowd. As they entered the dry space the tricorder pinged from one of them.
Wethern: Have we struck gold? Or Ferrombionum?
Voss/Drex/Anethra: ?