ILLUMINARRPG: (09–0615) Vermyx, Tags Dyson

[Frank Truelove]

Mission: Prelude
Day: 8
Stardate: 2446.03.30

(USS Illuminar — Holodeck One — EO — ENS/JG Dano Vermyx — 0615)

“Try the in-program controls,” Alex said, hoping that maybe Vermyx could
get them access to the FTL-drive and jump them out of here.

"Not half bad an idea…" Vermyx said, looking over the terminal at which
he'd seated himself when he boarded the Raptor. The seat he'd managed to
stay in (thus far), despite the g-force fluctuations precipitated by
Dyson's maneuvers.

~Half a chance is better than none,~ thought Dano. Then, aloud: "Here's
goes nothin'!"

Vermyx had never assisted in piloting a Raptor, having (of course) never
even heard of one. And this simulated craft didn't handle at all like the
Iotian flivver Dano had stolen in his pre-Academy days.

“Oh, great one of them ran home for the rest of the gang!” Dyson announced.

"Outta da fryin' pan and inta th' fire, huh?" Vermyx mused. "HEY! I got an
idea! Can you 'telegraph' what you're doing? Where you're goin'? Get that
thing to follow you. Um, Us. Then we lure him into the gravity well of the
gas giant. Then FTL through the planet and — BANG! — we're off t' th'
races!"

If Dyson had heard Vermyx's suggestion, he didn't let on. The Flyboy was
busy. Then, “I think we lost him. What are our chances of getting out of
here before his friends show up ?”

"If you can hide us in the gas giant's upper atmosphere, that should buy us
time. I think I have the gremlin just about dead, so yeah. We'll be outta
here before too much longer."

(Reply Dyson, ifw)
(Posted by Frank)
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