Alphonso slaps Henning with an open palm, the man looks a bit shocked, "What the hell? What's in this for you? I am trying to save your life. Don't you get it? Starkweather considers you all of us expendable in pursuit of his own glory..."
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Somehow, Arnault manages to staunch the leak! As the crew members rush in they begin to pull out what food they can before it becomes ruined by the ammonia. With the leak contained the men are able to work much more quickly and preserve more food than they otherwise would have been able to!
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Both men shrug non-committally. "If'n he's a criminal anyhow why don't we just smash it open?" states Abraham.
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Alphonso looks at the fellow plainly and says no, but you have endangered me and my professional interests greatly. How do you propose to pay Goldman and Sachs for your assistance in this failure of loans, hmm? I will take it out of your flesh a pound at a time and no police will ever come, no one will come. Because my friend unless you come up with something you are worth more dead right now, then alive. Where do you think you are? Polite society? Oh no, freunde, you are thousands of miles from anything, with plenty of places for you to vanish. The boats furnaces for instance. Or perhaps a lovely swim mit the concrete shoes, nein? You little sweinhund, I will kill you this instant if you dont find me a reason to let you live!
Running a hand though her hair and keeping her voice neutral, "Damaging the property on the ship should never be the first option. Do you know where the key is?"
"You are a banker eh? A heartless swine to be sure. I believe you... Tell me what you wish to know, if you can think of the right questions". He grins a bit.
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Both men shrug and look at you helplessly.
Alphonso says simply
tell me everything you have sabotaged and who you have as accomplices
Damn it all! Frowning at the locker and then looking back over at the two men, "Would one of you then please help me out opening this?"
"I have no accomplices. As far as what I have sabotaged, I have lost track there is so much damage I have done. The refrigerators, the dogs, the food, the explosive wiring, the radios, the generators... so much I have done and yet still we travel south. This, this will stop us and save all of you. You should be thanking me not threatening me Mr. Banker".
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Both men look down, "I think w should see the Cap'n an have him do it..."
Past Midnight, the investigators gather together once more to compare notes on what they saw and learned...
Nodding to the men, "That sounds like a much better idea. I will be back once I find him." Pheobe would leave to find the rest of the others and the captain.
Once she has found them all, "His locker is locked and we should have him open it. That was his roommates suggestion.." Frowning, "Though they first suggested breaking it open when I asked for a key."
Arnault walks in looking weary, his shirt is untucked, crumpled and the buttons are done up hastily, mismatched.
"Sounds like a good idea Phoebe. "
"I found zee refrigerators damaged, filling up with gas! I managed to close off zee pipe. Used some of zee skills I learnt in all zose lectures... I'm not sure how much food vee still hafe, some of zee crew are going zrough it now. "
"That's rough," Stanley observes, going a bit long in the face. "I have good new from my end, though. I carefully went over the planes and found no signs of sabotage there."
Sighing and running a hand though her hair while glaring at the floor, "We certainly cannot be at sea without food. Our hand has been forced and we have to obey."
it seems our saboteur took many liberties with items which will require replacement before we go to our destination. Alphonso will then tell all the items he knows are ruined.
Alphonso confirms what you all already knew or just found out the hard way.
Alphonso will suggest leaving the sabateur locked up for the evening and then himself head to bed
Shaking her head, "I at least want to inform the Captain, Moore, and Starkweather. Plus I would like to get that locker opened. And by letting them know now they can think on it and reconvene in the morning."
Arnault nods. "Lets split up and fill zem all in. Perhaps you should speak vith zee captain Phoebe, he can probably ausorise (authorise) getting into zat locker. I'll track down Starkveazer. "
Stanley, with nothing of his own to report, is able to listen more carefully to the things that the others are reporting from their own investigations. And it occurs to him that in every case, the information gained from their is something they already knew or would find out easily on their own. It feels like it's not quite adding up.
"I feel like we're missing something important here," he suggests to the group, speaking up finally. "I'm not exactly sure what, though. Perhaps a lie of omission."
The investigators discover the Captain and the leaders of the Expedition all together meeting about what to do next. As you enter with the first mate they stop speaking, based on the look on the Captain and Starkweather's faces, they were just arguing.
They hear what you all have to report.
Starkweather speaks, "Get some rest, you have done about as well as anyone can expect under such a situation. Let's reconvene in the morning. Captain, please cordon off the room that our saboteur was utilizing as we do not want anyone tampering with that lockbox!"
You all are awoken to the sounds of an alarm bell being rung on the ship!
Stanley's first instinct is to reach for a non-existent alarm clock. His hand gropes the air for a few moments until his brain wakes up enough to recognize that this isn't the sort of alarm he can just turn off to continue sleeping. Panic starts to set it and the adrenaline wakes him up the rest of the way. He grabs his glasses and fumbles them on as he makes his expedited way up to the main deck. Unless someone finds him before he gets topside, he'll try to find someone who knows what's going on once he's gotten there.
Whining and reaching out to shut off the nose then jolting out of bed to quickly throw on clothing. Taking a calming breath before leaving the room. Panic does no one any good. Quickly looking for anyone who can tell her what has happened.
Alphonso will calmly get up and get dressed smoothing down his shirt a few extra times and then sliding his knife into its place he will make his way topside to see what is the matter.
Arnault stumbles out of his cabin doing up the buttons on his shirt with a tie hung around his neck but not yet done up... he begins to hurrying along the hallways towards the main deck, and the sound of the bell...
As you get topside you see the Captain addressing the crew, "Men, we will search every last damn inch of this blasted ship and we will do it right now! Henning has escaped and we need to find him before he causes more mayhem".
Alphonso will start with the most critical systems of the ship not on the bridge and search the ship top to bottom making sure to look for hidden compartments or areas someone could stow themselves.
Stanley will do his best to start looking. He wonders how it could be that he could have managed to get away on a boat, and how he could have managed to find someplace to even hide. It seems likely, therefore, that their quarry went overboard. It seems even more likely that at least one person was an accomplice to his escape. At this point Stanley wonders whether they're even going to make it to Australia, let alone Antarctica, if the majority of the crew is silently conspiring against them.
Arnault shakes his head, "Who vas meant to be vatchink him vhen he escaped?! zats vhat I'd like to know!" he thinks along the same lines as Stanley. "Has anyvone checked zee lifeboats?" he starts heading that way, hoping all the lifeboats haven't been scuttled...
Why did I want to come on this trip again? Nothing has gone right. Not wanting to be caught alone Pheobe moving to follow Arnault. "Lifeboats seem like the logical option." Or throwing Starkweather overboard since this was his idea.
Stanley and Alphonso systematically search the ship for any conceivable space a human could fit.
Arnault's question is unanswered as the chaos of the night before it seems led to a lapse in security and perhaps judgment.
Phoebe and Arnault find all lifeboats accounted for.
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Phoebe, Arnault, and Alphonso notice a tiny figure of a man in the water below. The figure appears to be floating...
"Hey! Hey! Man overboard! Man Overboard! Look, over zere, in zee vater!! "
Arnault screams as loud as he's able. He grabs a "life saver" ring and making sure the rope is tied to it hurls it into the water as hard as he can!
Again! Really! Looking around for another one of the "life saver" rings...
Once Pheobe is sure she has a ring and that it is tied to the the rail she grabs it, "Make sure to pull us up! And go get the Doctor!" And without further ado she pulls the ring around her waist and jumps over the railing.
Stanley continues his examination of the ceilings, blissfully ignorant of the situation until he meets a crew member who seems to be in a hurry to get back topside. He takes a bit of a detour before heading back to the main deck, looking for a set of binoculars to better see what's going on in the water.
Again! Really! Looking around for another one of the "life saver" rings...
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"Phoebe!!" Arnault screams as she leaps over the side of the boat. "Pheobe's overboard!" he frantically looks back and forth not knowing if he should run for the doctor or stay to pull up the rope! " Help! Help! " he screams, deciding to stay, ready to pull them up when the time comes.
Phoebe jumps into the drink with the life preserver Arnault dropped at his feet around her!
As the crew races to the side of the ship Phoebe reaches the side of the man who is overboard floating. As she turns his face over she looks into the eyes of a dead man, a dead man named Henning. A man no longer missing who has turned up dead...
Stanley is normally pretty bad at understanding other people. All this commotion going on certainly doesn't help make that easier, and he's far too caught up in the moment to sense anything unusual about those around him.
Alphonso will turn after his associate jumps in and will try to gather crew to help Phoebe aince his physical skills are somewhat... lacking
When Arnault sees Phoebe reach the man and turn him over he starts to haul on the rope doing his best to pull her back towards the ship.
Phoebe falling damage - .
The brave Nurse lands awkwardly form the massive dive spraining her ankle.
Eventually the crew pull Phoebe and the remains of Henning on board. The question becomes how did he get out here?
The crew begins to discuss it and their suspicions turn to dark accusations against Starkweather...
Stanley listens to all the opinions, and starts to wonder if maybe they're right to suspect Starkweather's involvement in the demise of the saboteur. Their expedition leader is so heavily invested in the success of this venture, that it's possible that he would be willing to go to extremes to ensure that whatever problems aren't due to simple bad luck are stopped in their tracks.
Suspecting the ones who brought him here in the first place is very taxing, and he proves to be even more quiet than usual. He tries to think if there are any reasons that it absolutely can't be true, and if he can come up with anything he'll share, but otherwise doesn't have much to add to the situation.