Chapter IIa: Absolute Disaster

Cass keeps her seat and her cool, but boy, it's not easy. That ripping his hands out of the cuffs is nauseating. But this species is governed by a queen, and if she's to earn any respect for humanoids, Cass figures she needs to keep her manner imperious and queenly. Flinching from an implied threat from someone beneath her station would not be queenly.

"I am advocating," she says, narrowing her eyes at his disrespect, "that you recognize that all sentient species have a right to exist, not just yours. If you will do that, the Consortium would be willing to start talks for finding a solution to your problem."

The man is fully standing now. His hands are bleeding and one of his thumbs is clearly broken to the point where a bone is sticking out of the wounds but he is free from the cuffs. He is standing tall, close to Cass, very close to the force field, but he does not reach out towards her.
"I am willing to negotiate. Are you willing to at least consider giving us what we require to survive?"

He squints at you. He does not seem convinced. He's taller than you and he's fully using that to try and undermine the aura of authority you're maintaining.
"A show of good faith? And what would that be?"

The man steps forward, attempting to follow Cass but he steps right into the force field. An electric discharge hits him and throws him back a bit, knocking him to the ground.
He gets up almost right away. Before Cass can leave the room, he growls at her: "I had hoped we could work together, my lady, but my sisters and I will get what we need. If it is war you want, then war is what you will get."
Cass, I assume you're looking away, but the other all see what happens next. The man's body starts convulsing and a thin pink liquid like blood mixed with saliva starts running out of his mouth. Within a second, the man collapses and is lying on the ground, shaking and groaning, his eyes rolled up so far that they appear completely white.

Moira slightly panics at this surprising sight. Trying to increase the force field strength, she overloads it and suddenly, the lights in the cargo bay turn off, leaving it in half darkness only illuminated by some emergency lights. The problem, however, is that it's not just the light that short circuited, but the force field generator, too.

The second the lights turn off, the man's convulsions stop and when Kendall fires at him, he rolls out of the way immediately, avoiding the shot. He jumps up and charges at Cass. Kendall, give me a Lasers roll to shoot him before he reaches her.

The man jumps at Cass, his mouth wide open and his sharp teeth ready to sink into her flesh. Before he can reach her, though, Kendall's phaser shot hits him and he goes limp mid jump.
Cass, give me a Feelings roll, unprepared, no expert.

Cass, this is all happening within a few seconds and before you can react, you are hit with the heavy unconscious body of the pirate. It throws you to the ground and you are buried underneath it. The pinkish liquid slowly runs from his mouth onto you, burning your flesh wherever it lands on you.

Marbo, your scanner reads extremely high metabolic activity in the pirate's body. His body temperature is rising very quickly and all his body functions appear to be running much, much faster than they should.