<div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Mission: Murder on the Exeter Express</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Day:02</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Stardate: 2445:12:02</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>(NRPG - As a character Sleeford doesn't know the facts about the death, this is his speculations)</b></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">(USS Exeter - Personal Quarters COO Ensign (sg) Paul Sleeford 23:08) </font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#1d2228" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Sleeford was heading out of his </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">quarters</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">, after arranging a meeting with the main suspects, the  thoughts had finally came together in an unjumbled manner in the past hour.  as he reached the his comms badge vibrated against his chest. </span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">"Cortez to Sleeford. "</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Tapping his badge as the door opened, "Sleeford go ahead Lieutenant"</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">"Firstly, this has been a long day so forgive the shortness of my response. What could possibly be so important? There’s a crisis in my department right now and I really should be focusing on that."</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#1d2228" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Hearing the tone, he knew that like him Cortez had reached the end of her limits, if like him she'd be  stressed, </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">worried</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> and damn right annoyed.</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">"Lieutenant I know it's been a long day, I've had just the same shit, as for the problem in Science, its and unauthorised weapons fire. Security will be over it like a rash, you'll be in the way"</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Rolling her eyes, Erin sighed, " Look, I'll be there just don't expect anything spectacular. Cortez out."</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#1d2228" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">Shaking</span></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> his head Sleeford entered the lift and </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">started</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> to make his way to deck nine, as it arrived he </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">walked</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> out and walked towards the bar. As his hand made contact with the door handle his badge vibrated again. </span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(29,34,40);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">“Ensign, if we are going to have this meeting, we had better do it now. I’ve just been told that they might be sealing us down. From what i can gather, it’s going to be soon so i suggest we meet now. Deck one, observation lounge. I’ll contact the others.”</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#1d2228" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">"Understood, I'll come up from deck nine"</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#1d2228" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">“Understood, Cortez out.”</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">(USS Exeter - Deck one - Observation lounge - COO Ensign (sg) Paul Sleeford)</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Walking into the lounge he saw, Cortez, Williams and Dudois already </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">sitting</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> there, looking round he saw More was not present, raising his eyebrows, he shrugged and walked to the table."</span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">"Okay thank you all for coming, I </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">know</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> it's late, I know we've all had a shitty day. Trust me I know that full well. I also know that we're </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">probably</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> breaking several rules, by </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">meeting</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">, but to be honest   I think we need to."</span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">(Replys any)</span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Sitting down Sleeford </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">composed</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> his thoughts, "Okay I'm going to ask what might seem like a stupid question, please bear with me if you could. Have any of you been asked what </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">seemed</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> like </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">stupid</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">, daft question today, something </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">personal</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> to you?"</span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">(Replies  all) </span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#1d2228" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">Placing his hands together locking</span></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> his fingers , Sleeford nodded as each spoke, the last of the puzzle had now fallen into place.</span></font></font></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(29,34,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">"Okay thank you. I've been wondering all day, how the killer got in to a locked room. It hit me </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">during</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> the alarm less then a hour ago. We've all be asked personal questions that are </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">relevant</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> to us and us only. Now this is just speculation, but please hear me out."</span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#1d2228" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">Taking</span></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> a breath  Sleeford continued, "We've recently left the Gamma quadrant, we've had a stop over at DS9, what to say we didn't pick something up, something nasty. Tyko comes on board on Station Freedom, within 24 hours he's dead. The only common thread is us. So unless one of us is a very good liar, then I think </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">there's</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> a </span><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">changeling</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> on board, it would explain how they got in the room."</span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">(Replies all or any) </span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">(replies Williams, Cortez, Dubios)</span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><font color="#1d2228"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">(Posted by Alistair)</span></font></font></span></p></div>