Paradise Violated
You shake off the violent thoughts you're having and enter the tent first. You see Salo, rubbing blood on himself and looking at some sort of coins. He looks up when you approach.
"I TOLD YOU oh it's you Captain "
"Hello Salo." You say and then slowly take his gun that's lying on the floor. You pass it to LaFleur who's petrified.
"What's that you got there?" you ask, still being careful of the fact that Salo still has his knife.
"Oh this? I found these on the Elojin, after I interrogated him. Strange things they are I've never seen anything like them almost hypnotic "
You're going to take a wild guess but you've got a hunch that those things are causing the weirdness. You don't see how you're going to resolve this without physical confrontation. You get into a better position to lunge at him.
"So Salo " you say, and then you strike!
You and Salo wrestle for awhile, LaFleur runs off, but he at least goes and gets Alyssa to help you. Eventually you both knock out Salo, and you take all the coins and melt them with a plasma pistol. Crisis averted. You wonder what the coins were though. Were they some sort of Elojin mind weapon, or maybe the Elojin was speaking the truth about finding a Xont structure? If they were Xont in origin then you're just as glad not to have looked for the place. This planet is hazardous as it is and you don't need to add that kind of danger.
Later Salo feels more like him self, and is completely apologetic and thanks you for saving his life. Actually he's nothing like his old self; you almost think he's still under some sort of control, but he's not. In fact he pretty much leaves everyone alone for the rest of your time on Paradise, he spends a lot of his time in some sort of penance.
When the Empire ships arrive you give a relatively mundane report, and leave out the trouble with Salo, in exchange for your silence, he transfers out of your squad and back to the Order.
You and your team get sent on your next mission infinitely a lot happier without an Indoctrinator watching over you constantly.
"I TOLD YOU oh it's you Captain "
"Hello Salo." You say and then slowly take his gun that's lying on the floor. You pass it to LaFleur who's petrified.
"What's that you got there?" you ask, still being careful of the fact that Salo still has his knife.
"Oh this? I found these on the Elojin, after I interrogated him. Strange things they are I've never seen anything like them almost hypnotic "
You're going to take a wild guess but you've got a hunch that those things are causing the weirdness. You don't see how you're going to resolve this without physical confrontation. You get into a better position to lunge at him.
"So Salo " you say, and then you strike!
You and Salo wrestle for awhile, LaFleur runs off, but he at least goes and gets Alyssa to help you. Eventually you both knock out Salo, and you take all the coins and melt them with a plasma pistol. Crisis averted. You wonder what the coins were though. Were they some sort of Elojin mind weapon, or maybe the Elojin was speaking the truth about finding a Xont structure? If they were Xont in origin then you're just as glad not to have looked for the place. This planet is hazardous as it is and you don't need to add that kind of danger.
Later Salo feels more like him self, and is completely apologetic and thanks you for saving his life. Actually he's nothing like his old self; you almost think he's still under some sort of control, but he's not. In fact he pretty much leaves everyone alone for the rest of your time on Paradise, he spends a lot of his time in some sort of penance.
When the Empire ships arrive you give a relatively mundane report, and leave out the trouble with Salo, in exchange for your silence, he transfers out of your squad and back to the Order.
You and your team get sent on your next mission infinitely a lot happier without an Indoctrinator watching over you constantly.
