The Last Quarter

Decryption Log: ... processing...

Personal Log:

We have gained ship center - the reception area and the corridor up to the pinnace. After Heloise worked her magic on the desk terminal and we discovered the incriminating footage and the arrival of six additional people (presumably), we moved spinward in search of the bridge.

Soon, we were back in crew quarters. The first cabins seemed unremarkable, but eventually we got a response to our hails. After some convicing, the threatening presence resolved in the ship's Lead Scientist: Yan Vartha. If his cutlass is anything to go by, his skills reach beyond that of test tube and Matlab. Useful, though at the moment he seems somewhat withdrawn and not forthcoming.

The room next to our new friend's stinks fiercely. By his unspoken but piercing request, we leave it undisturbed. This does leave our personnel count somewhat less than accurate, but with two-thirds of the known ship-board staff already accounted for, the number of unaccounted for and unidentified corpses should be minimal.

We move on and find the medic's cabin, in which the light flicks off upon our approach. We test the lights and find taht they are not motion-activated. This, then, supposes that whoever was in this room and fled upon our hail, was not Pent - her being photophobic, according to our previous encounter. Perhaps this is Yan's friend Holly?

We find more cabins, some neat, some in disarray. In the astrogator's

[tbc]