TEXT - UN: Etrepa - **Security Alert**

[corpse_soldier]

Attention, citizens.

I have located a perpetrator of criminal larceny.

Her appearance: seemingly human, not quite two meters in height, lean, ill-shaven; a fringe dweller, outside the settlement density perimeter, likely an arrival from a more recent jump. [ More recent than herself, she means. ]

When confronted she pretended compliance before affecting a transformation into a mammalian monster. Teeth, claws, pelt, accelerated healing. Increased sized and strength. She fled after I fired my sidearm, wounding her leg.

I have pursued her to a ridge some distance from the river. [ coordinates are provided ] I am having trouble keeping pace. If anyone with combat experience is nearby, backup would be beneficial.

We should take her alive, if possible. Justice must be served.

(( OOC Note: This post refers to an encounter with Flint Deckard, not the ongoing modplot about thefts in the camp. So much crime, so little time! ))

Comments

[corpse_soldier]

The desire for justice is universal, when imposed on others. Her perspective seems different now she is on the wrong end of it.

[ No magic on this end, and the sound of underbrush suggests a more steady progression- the kind that allows you to scan the trees above as well as the path ahead.]

We may have more support. Perhaps we can hem her in.

[queasycrow]

I love teamwork.

[ There's a sudden burst of static. Probably what happens when you step through whatever the equivalent of the Fade is in this universe. He's back a moment later, if still not there yet. ]

Try not to shoot her more. I'll use this thing when I'm nearer.

[corpse_soldier]

[ What Hawke has just done would likely be interpreted as moving through 'gatespace' in Etrepa's vernacular. But equivalence is a fool's game out here. All that matters is that Hawke gets there faster than merely human feet can carry. ]

A mutual friend suggests the suspect may be contagious.

[ No comment regarding the further use of force.]

Your expert opinion?

[queasycrow]

Er.

[ There's a pause that's just him tromping through the jungle, following Dog's lead. ]

He didn't look ill when I found him. I didn't catch anything.

[corpse_soldier]

[So much for expertise. But who can claim to understand anything about this place, or the people it gathers?]

I will proceed with caution. We all should. It may be something entirely other than what we have guessed.