<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">Mission: Murder on the Exeter Express</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">Day: 03</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">Stardate:2445:12:03</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">(Uss Exeter - Holodeck 3 - COO - Ensign (sg) Paul Sleeford 00:20)</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">As the transporter beam released him Sleeford heard music and words from an unknown source. Trying to move he found himself pinned in place in some sort of stasis filed, </span><span style="font-size:16px">reaching</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> round his back he stood at parade rest, from habit, feeling the knife in the scabbard smiling </span><span style="font-size:16px">to himself</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> he was </span><span style="font-size:16px">reassured</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> by it's presence. </span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">"You may be wondering,</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Who ive been all along</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)"><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">you may have gotten close</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">But you've always been wrong</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I know you are dying</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">to finally meet me</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">But don't think for one moment</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">You can actually beat me</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">the time for games is over</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">this much is true</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">but when it all comes crashing down</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Please dont be blue</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The end is coming soon</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">it is plain for all to see</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">If you want to start the end game</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Welcome</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)"> to holodeck 3"</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)"><br></span></div><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">"Welcome, welcome, to this the endgame. "</span><span style="color:rgb(29,34,40);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">Looking to the front of the room, Sleeford saw a figure in black, seated for in all the galaxy something that looked like a thrown. Frowning Sleeford listened as shi, he, it spoke.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">"You were close, oh so close. But I figure if I am going down, I'm going to take some of you with me. "Some of you are here, because you couldn't leave well enough alone. Some of you are here because you are the Tactical chief's secret eyes and ears. Right, Nesha?"</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(29,34,40);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">“….so call me what they called me in my home universe. Empress."</span><br></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">Sleeford chuckled to himself, ~Empress, in your dreams my woman.~</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">“…Truth keeps you alive. But if you survive a death trap, I'll move you closer to me. If you can reach me, I'll let you kill me. How does that sound."</span></p><div><br></div><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Looking at the others Sleeford could see the same look of fear he felt himself .</span></font><br><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">"Now then, lets begin, by showing how serious I am. Goodbye David. Hope you had a good life." </span></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Watching as the man called David, crumpled to the ground like someone had given him a massive electrical shock, glaring at the thing in the front Sleeford gripped the handle of the knife. </span></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">~You'll pay for that missy, even if i have to cut your throat myself.~</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">"Now that you know I'm not playing around. Let's begin in earnest. Ire Williams, Truth or death?"</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)">“Death.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40)"><br></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Looking across at Ire, Sleeford nodded once, if it wanted to play, then he'd play, but by his rules, not it's and his rules when he was pushed into a tight corner </span><span style="font-size:16px">weren't</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> nice rules. Frowning he wondered where the thoughts like that where coming from. Maybe the situation he was in and the stress of the past twenty four hours was beginning to show.</span></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">(Replies none)</span></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">(Posted by Alistair)</span></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div></div>