Stray Dogs Episode I - The Station of Death

Perhaps it is his plantlike nature, but S'skaar is at least temporarily confounded by Kalerik's physiology - he can't provide medical first aid on the Humavari for the remainder of this day cycle.

In addition to the entrance from which you came, there are three more exits from the greenhouse. Quick inspection of the one straight ahead to the south reveals that it has been partially compromised from the other side. Like it's been hit with many bullets. All of the doors are unlocked and the kind that will open when you stand in front of them.

The door opens with a swoosh, leading down a short gangway to another door which opens as you approach it as well.

Before you is a large laboratory. Tables, loaded with technical equipment, line the walls. In the corner is a small, metal cage that appears to have been broken from the inside. There is a small water bottle and the bottom of the cage is lined with paper bedding and the crushed remnants of an exercise wheel.

There are spots of blood on the walls and floor, and evidence of a struggle. There are also more of the large droppings you found in the control room.

There is an exit to your left that appears to have been sealed shut with a welding torch, the door looks somewhat battered. There is another exit on the right hand wall, a larger door, that has been smashed down. You see crates and boxes in the flickering, failing light from within. There is an occasional spark from the ceiling of that room.

Chuck can see that it was welded from this side. The door is emblazoned with an icon of a bed.

Chuck searches through the many items on the table tops - things a primitive intellect wouldn't understand ...alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures....but he doesn't find a rock.

He does find a brushed aluminum box with a clasp.

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Hotwire's scanner is getting lots of feedback from the crates and the electrical damage in the next room. Can't be right, a single bio-reading the size of an Vanqorian gundark..thing must be on the fritz.

Inside the felt lined box is a palm sized metal cube with a plastic, blue screen on one side.