Log Date:
	3/2/97

Log Cast:
	Quick, Shenner, Skeezix, Grathix

Log Intro:
	Now that her boss, Grathix, has arrived on the _Alderaan_, Shenner
has resumed her anxiety over whether they will be able to contribute somehow
to the effort to rescue General Solo from the Imperials. Wanting to help
and certain she won't be able to do it on the _Alderaan_, the kid fretfully
waits for her boss to give her the all-clear on finishing their plans to
leave....

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Quick enters from the Aft Main Corridor.
Quick has arrived.
Quick walks in and takes a look about upon seeing the young person inside he 
  grins, "Rather popular aren't you with Alderaanian Royalty."

The redheaded musician, Shenner, is playing that guitar again, with restless 
  energy; at the voice, the kid looks up, quirking an eyebrow, then looking 
  down again, attempting an indifferent air. "You got the wrong street rat, 
  pal..."

Quick grins, and walks over and sits on his huanches, "I think not.. Rat? you 
  a sweet kind child like you?"

Shenner looks up again, then smirks at the words 'sweet' and 'kind'. "You 
  _definitely_ got the wrong street rat, pal."

Quick's eyes turn mean, "You know I've been patience up until now.. but I 
  think now I'm done.." from his eyes something dark gleams, which does not 
  quite fit the face that it now resides in.

Shenner's eyebrows go up, and the youngster stares at you for a moment or two, 
  eyes slightly narrowed. Then, deliberately blandly, Shenner shrugs and 
  resumes strumming at 'his' guitar. "We all got our problems."

Quick's hand snakes out and gribs the neck of the guitar and he grins evilly, 
  "If you don't do what I say.. you'll have lots of problems."

Shenner stops playing. The kid's face turns frosty, and 'his' tone equally so, 
  as 'he' snaps, "Last I checked, 'pal', you ain't my boss. Back the hells 
  off."

Quick grins, "Ahh.. but heres the fact.. I just become your boss.. Pretty boy 
  like you could get into plenty of accidents aboard a starcruiser." and his 
  eyes start to glaze over.

"And a heap of dewback dung like _you_," the youngster growls, "can get his 
  carcass hauled into the brig for threatening a guest on a boat he doesn't 
  even karkin' work on. _Back the hells off_."

Quick suddenly screams as if pain is coursing through his entire body, his 
  fingers immediatly unlock thier finger hold on the guitar. He starts to roll 
  on the floor gripping his head.. screamin, "I won't... Get out of my head... 
  Get out..!! NO MASTER.."

Shenner leaps to 'his' feet, gripping the guitar neck as if it were a weapon. 
  The kid scrambles around the fallen man, staring at him incredulously, and 
  darts immediately out the door.

You step out into the Aft Main Corridor.
Aft Corridor -- NRV Alderaan
        You are in the Aft Main Corridor of Deck 2. This deck is the ship's 
heart. You can find Engineering on this deck. The crew's and XO's quarters are 
also located on this deck.
 
Obvious exits:
 
        Starboard <S> leads to X.O. Quarters / Office -- NRV Alderaan.
             Port <P> leads to Crew Quarters -- NRV Alderaan.
             Down <D> leads to Umbilical Docking Tubes -- NRV Alderaan.
              Aft <A> leads to Engineering -- NRV Alderaan.
             Fore <F> leads to Fore Corridor -- NRV Alderaan.

Skeezix arrives from the fore of the ship.
Skeezix has arrived.

Shenner bursts out of the crews' quarters, face pale and eyes sharp and 
  frightened; the kid's gripping the neck of 'his' guitar as if it were a 
  weapon, and scanning the corridor urgently.

Skeezix walks into sight in the aft corridor, glancing around as if he were 
  inspecting the actions aboard the ship.

Shenner's green gaze rivets itself on the figure of the General, and Shen 
  yelps out, "Sir! C -- uh, General?!"

The General's gaze immediately snaps over to Shenner, his pace quickening. 
  "What's wrong, kid?" he asks.

Shenner thrusts 'his' free hand, pointing back at the crews' quarters. "Guy 
  just karkin' _threatened_ me in the crews' quarters, and he's rollin' around 
  screamin' -- he's a psychopath! Can you get somebody to _do_ somethin'?" 
  Clearly shaken, Shenner delivers this in a ragged burst of words.

Skeezix nods quickly and grabs his comlink, running towards the quarters.
Skeezix enters the Crew Quarters.
Skeezix has left.

You enter the Crew Quarters.
Crew Quarters -- NRV Alderaan

        This is the crew quarters for the RAF Alderaan. A few bunks line the 
walls.

Contents:
Skeezix(#4454PLenAc)
Quick
Grathix
Lelila's Bunk
Mistral's bunk
Obvious exits:
 
        Starboard <S> leads to Aft Corridor -- NRV Alderaan.

Quick is lying face up on the cool metal floor, unconscious with blood 
  slipping down the side of his face from his bite open lip.

Grathix is kneeling next to the man, initailly trying to wake him.

Shenner, pale, looking shaken, follows Skeezix into the room, staring warily 
  at the fallen figure of Quick. "That guy, General," the kid rasps.

Skeezix nods to Shenner and shouts, "Security team to the Crew quarters, 
  quickly!" He lowers his comlink and runs over towards the fallen man..

Shenner backs out of the way, mouth compressed to a tiny line, eyes very dark 
  in 'his' thin young face.

Grathix looks at the man approaching. He says to him, "Just walked in here and 
  saw this guy on the ground....here, help me get him to a bunk."

Shenner's gaze snaps to Grathix, and Shen says tautly, "The guy threatened me, 
  boss."

Skeezix nods to Grathix and slips his hands beneath Quick's legs, waiting for 
  Grathix to grab his upper body.

Grathix begins to lift the man. AS soon as he hears shenner's comment, he 
  tturns to face 'him', allowing the man to fall back to the ground. "He did 
  what?" he asked, confuusion in his tone.

The body lies still on the floor, with blood rolling out of the lip which has 
  been bite clean through, and the impact causes his arm to twist badly.

Stance and expression still alert and wary, Shenner answers shortly, "He come 
  in here just now, started talkin' to me, then all of a sudden grabbed my 
  guitar, claimed he was now 'my boss' and that if I didn't do what he said, 
  I'd have a lot of a trouble." The youngster glowers. "Said a 'pretty boy' 
  like me could meet with a lotta accidents on a starcruiser, I told him to 
  back the hells off, then he just kinda screamed, started rollin' around, and 
  fell over!"

Grathix, as if realizing his carelessness, turns back to the man and the 
  Brigadier General, and says, "whoah...soryy about that.." and begins to lift 
  the man anew.

Quick's breath rasps as he is lifted, the blood starts to shift instead of 
  down his cheek to down his throat.

Skeezix looks back to Grathix as he lifts the loose body and says, "Just keep 
  his head upright. Don't want him chokin' on his own blood."

Grathix says as he help the Brigadier general carry the man to the nearest 
  bunk, "So much for hospitality..."

Skeezix lets the man's feet fall into the cot gently. He looks up to Grathix 
  and says, "Well, whether he was ready to kill the kid or not doesn't 
  matter... we don't just let 'em die for it." He moves over to Quick's head, 
  trying to figure out whats wrong with him.

Quick's body spasm as he is moved and he mumbles in his unconscious state, "No 
  Master.. I will not.. can not harm a woman."

At Quick's mumble, Shenner lifts the guitar as if to shield 'himself' with it. 
  The kid scowls.

Grathix says, "Then save him, if you can. Then throw him in your brig or 
  whatever for threatening my friend here."
Grathix stands back and lets the Brig. General do whatever.
Grathix walks ove to Shenner and says, "you okay? You hurt in any way?"

Shenner looks up at Grath, and nods, heavily, "I'm okay. I was gonna pop him 
  one if he laid a hand on me, but he just started screamin', first."

Quick continues to mumble and spasm.

Skeezix begins to apply pressure to Quick's bleeding wounds and shouts, 
  "Someone get on the comm and ask for a medic!"

Quick's eyes suddenly open and he looks around as if drugged, finding he 
  cannot talk do to his lip he looks at the man holding his lip to stop the 
  bleeding, his eyes show confusion and fear.

Skeezix looks down to Quick and releases his grip for a moment. "You 
  allright?" he asks, looking at him intently.

At Skeezix's order, Shenner eyes Quick warily for a fraction of an instant -- 
  then steps quickly to the wall comm in the room, being more familiar with it 
  than Grath. The kid smacks the thing, clears 'his' throat and calls into it, 
  "Uh... crews' quarters to Medbay! Medic to the crews' quarters, and fast!"

Quick nods and mumbles, "I think so."

The comm crackles back with a confused voice. "Who is this?"

Skeezix perks an eyebrow and says, "Friend... we need to get you to the 
  sickbay and get those cuts examined."

Shenner grimaces, then retorts, "Never mind that! General -- uh" -- the kid 
  flashes a brief blank look at Skeezix, trying to remember his name -- "uh, 
  the General's here in the crews' quarters and we got a guy in here coughin' 
  up blood, the General wants a medic, okay?"

Quick struggles to sit up, and nods in agreement.
Quick puts pressure on the twisted arm, and his face screws up in pain, "What 
  whappened? Arm hurts.."

The voice on the other end of the link pauses a beat, then responds briskly, 
  "On our way. Medbay out."

Skeezix nods slowly to Quick and says, "You take it easy. Looks like you had a 
  bad fall or... " He pauses, giving Quick a confused look. "Something."

Shenner, with the medic summoned, turns round to eye the General and the dazed 
  Quick, warily.

Quick looks at the lad very carefully, "I met you on Etti didn't I?"

The General helps Quick to his feet and says, "I wish I knew what happened. 
  The kid over there called me in." He motinos to Shenner briefly.

Quick struggles to his feet and looks the General, "You an me both. sir."

Shenner's eyes narrow at Quick's question, and the youngster says grudgingly, 
  "Yeah... you met me on Etti."

Quick nods, "I thought I did.. just can't remember leaving wettie."

Skeezix nods and begins to help Quick towards the doors... when suddenly they 
  whisk open, allowing a group of medics to rush in.

The medics rush in and move over towards Skeezix. "General?" one asks, and is 
  quicky motioned towards Quick. The medic nods and says, "Lets get him to the 
  MedSuite."

Shenner gets out of the way again, still glowering, but clamming up, now.

Quick looks at the people very confusedly, "I can't rewember where I am."

Shenner mutters, _very_ softly, "Ain't _that_ convenient."

"Just come along, Quick," Skeezix says and helps the medics guide him towards 
  the now-open door.

Quick is lead out by the medics mumbling, "I rewember leaving.. I rewember the 
  implacable.. I know we rewdovoused with the Alderaan.. but after that."

Skeezix enters the Aft Main Corridor.
Skeezix has left.

Quick enters the Aft Main Corridor.
Quick has left.

Shenner watches the General leave with the medics and their charge, frowning 
  intently.

[Grathix heads out of the quarters, to keep an eye on things -- and to find
 out what he can about this man who threatened his young charge. This leaves
 a nervous Shenner alone again. And a short while later....]

Skeezix enters from the Aft Main Corridor.
Skeezix has arrived.

The doors whisk open and Skeezix walks in, running a hand through his hair. 
  The doors close behind him, sillohetting his form in the dim light of the 
  quarters. He begins to look around, slowly.

Shenner can be seen pacing fretfully, alone in the room, now, the guitar 
  abandoned in favor of the flute -- but the kid's just banging it restlessly 
  against a thigh, as opposed to playing it. At the sound of the door, though, 
  Shen stops and looks around.

Skeezix's eyes finally wander over to the pacing kid, his feet carrying him 
  towards the 'boy' brisky. "Kid?" he asks as he approaches, then adds, "We 
  need to talk."

Shenner straightens slightly, then gives a tense nod. "Yessir?"

Skeezix motions Shenner over towards an empty cot.

Tensely, the youngster moves to sit down, still restlessly bouncing the flute 
  against 'his' leg.

Skeezix follows Shenner, sitting on a cot opposite his own. "So tell me," he 
  begins, "what exactly.. happened with that guy, Quick."

Shenner now bounces that flute on 'his' knee, in slight jerky little 
  movements. Grimacing, the kid draws in a breath, nods tensely, and says, 
  "Okay... well, it was like this. I was in here practicin'. He comes in and 
  says, 'Real popular with Alderaanian royalty, aren't you?'"

Skeezix blinks slightly, yet continues to listen quietly.

The kid eyes you, then clarifies sheepishly, "He, uh, ran into me in here 
  before, see... just before Princess, uh, Princess Leia came in to... " 
  Shenner blushes. "... thank me for helping Luke."

Skeezix frowns and asks, "You mean... this Quick guy was mad at you for being 
  thanked by the Princess?"

Uneasily, Shenner glances away, for a brief instant, before looking back. 
  "Don't think so... he didn't sound mad when he said that."

Skeezix nods slightly and says, "Anyway... what happened next?"

Obediently, Shenner goes on, "Well... I told him he had the wrong street rat, 
  see? And he goes, 'Rat? A nice, sweet child like you?'" The youngster's nose 
  wrinkles. "I went, 'You _definitely_ got the wrong street rat, pal...' And 
  then he started lookin'... mean."

Skeezix nods slowly, waiting for the kid to go on.

Shenner's flute bounces with a bit more velocity on that skinny knee. Frowning 
  darkly, 'he' continues, "So he says, 'I'm done being patient' and I go, 'We 
  all got our problems, pal'... and he tells me I better do what he says or 
  else I'll be in trouble. I tell him he ain't my boss and back the hells off. 
  He grabs my guitar and says I'm his boss now and a 'pretty boy' like me can 
  run into all kinds of accidents on a starcruiser."
Voice hardening, the kid concludes, "So I tell him a heap of dewback dung like 
  him can get thrown in the brig for threatening guests on a boat he don't 
  even work on, then he just kinda screams, see, and falls over rolling around 
  yelling, 'No master!' I ran, then, and found you."

Skeezix frowns and asks rather curiously, "No master?" He shakes his head and 
  says, "I'm afraid I'll have to order a psychiatric evaluation."

Shenner says bluntly, "You better, 'cause he's a karkin' psychopath."

Skeezix leans back a bit as he sits on the cot, rubbing his chin slowly. 
  "Seems kinda..." He cuts himself off with a brisk shaking of his head and 
  says, "Nevermind."

Perhaps just a hint warily, Shenner asks, "Do you... need t' know anything 
  else, sir?"

Skeezix shakes his head and says, "No... you've told me enough already." He 
  stands up and pats Shenner on the shoulder. "Good going, kid... you coulda 
  just saved the crew."

Shenner gives another uneasy sort of onesided smile, then nods, letting the 
  General go.

Skeezix turns and walks towards the door, tapping the button. The doors swish 
  open and the General dissappears into the hallway outside.

[End log.]