BOTV Episode 03

*"It sounds like this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."*
—**Sprak**

## **Plot Synopsis**

*CONTENT WARNING:* Blood of the Void *is a game about Klingons. Episodes contain acts of violence and other adult content. Unlike other areas of the website, individual sections of this article will not be tagged with content warnings.*

### **Pre-Break**

   CDR e'Daj, LT Ra'amyan, and LT Omeq return after the events of "The Search for Skrag" with Skrag in tow. He is dropped at the feet of CDR B'emir and tries to make peace, agreeing to share information in exchange for his life. He tells the crew that he’s been making deals to sell Trellium-D to the Romulans, working as a middleman for about six months. He used to be working directly for ADM Mendak, but he began acting weird, and after failing to show up for a delivery, Sela apparently took over as Skrag’s contact person.

Skrag learned of a Romulan processing plant somewhere along the edge of the Shackleton Expanse, where they had been processing the Trellium-D. Unfortunately the coordinates for the plant are on the Liquidator, now in the hands of Skrag’s brother, Sprak. Though his relationship with his brother is strained, he agrees to contact the ship using a secure number – the same secure number that Mendak and Sela used to contact him through.

The crew convenes, with LT Qotar reluctant to trust anything Skrag says. Ra'amyan believes Skrag is more dangerous than his fool persona would imply, but doesn’t believe his is lying. B'emir sends Omeq to help Skrag contact his ship, so he can make sure the transmission is secure, and possibly track where the Liquidator is.

Sprak responds quickly to his brother’s call and gloats aboard his new ship. Eventually he strikes a deal with the Klingon crew; he will tell the Klingons any Romulan information he has access too, and they will drop Skrag off for him to pick up on an unnamed planet. Skrag will get his brother access to the Delta Quadrant, using his contacts with the Dominion. Sprak gives Borqu' the coordinates they need; he also tells the crew that Mendak was searching obsessively for a Trill doctor named Wellix aboard USS *Ross*.

IKS Borqu travels to the coordinates, dropping Skrag off along the way. It’s a week’s worth of travel. Along the way, Qotar finds Omeq in the mess hall and asks him about his upbringing. Omeq relays that he found the two Ferengi brothers’ relationship troubling. He tells Qotar that he had a brother who was killed in a duel with a younger woman, after he got too cocky with his *bat’leth* skills. His father left the family after that, and Omeq chose a life of solitude. He’s still getting used to being with people again.

After Omeq compliments Qotar on his ability to use violence to get things done, despite being half Vulcan, Qotar comments that he is "twice as angry as most, and yet I act half as angry as every Klingon I've ever met".

Omeq suggests they go to the holo-deck to battle and show each other what they know. In the simulation, Qotar is impressed by Omeq’s skill with the *bat’leth*, and he comments that since many Klingons mistake him for a Romulan, the first ship he served on was actually a Vulcan bandit ship.

They’re both wounded from their battle, so they go to find e’Daj, wondering that they’ve never actually seen her heal anyone before. e’Daj sets Omeq’s shoulder and does a heal.

A few days later, e'Daj calls all the senior staff together to the mess hall, where she has made a *rokeg* blood pie – CDR B'emir's favorite. B'emir is ecstatic, and e'daj shares that this is her mother’s recipe, and includes some of e'Daj's own blood. The crew is confused, and concerned, and R'yeq is disgusted. B’emir commends e'Daj's family tradition, likening it to the old Klingon tradition of eating an enemy’s heart, at which point R'yeq leaves to go to bed. The rest of the crew eats and chats over their blood pie.

Finally the Borqu' arrives at the coordinates, which turn out to be a small star system with a single class K planet. Omeq does not detect any signs of life, though there are signs of technology, specifically an inactive structure. As the crew prepares to beam down, both Qotar and Omeq grab their *bat’leths*.

### **Post-Break**

The crew beams down to the planet, which is plagued by unending windstorms, causing the crew to have to yell to hear each other. Omeq's scans are unhelpful, possibly due to interference by the storm, so e'Daj approaches the structure carefully. There are signs the entrance might have once been disguised, but there are no cameras or guards, to Qotar and Omeq hack into the door panel to open it, with Qotar pulling the door the rest of the way open.

Inside, Omeq does not detect any signs of life, but he does detect a lot of traces of Trellium-D. The structure, a large ship staging area, was cleared out two or three weeks ago. They find a computer which someone attempted to destroy, and Omeq attempts to pull some information out. It’s difficult, but with Qotar's help they’re able to obtain a manifest of 14 Romulan ship names.

As the crew converses about what this information could mean, Qotar begins to feel frustrated and angry, with sweat beading on his face. e’Daj asks what’s wrong and he lashes out, attempted to kill her, at which point Omeq remembers that Trellium-D reacts badly to Vulcan physiology. B’emir calls for R'yeq to beam them all on board, and while they wait she, Ra’amyan, and Omeq attempt to retrain Qotar, but he throws them all off.

e’Daj quickly jabs Qotar with a sedative, and he’s beamed into the sickbay, where e’Daj discovers Trillium D in his bloodstream. The remaining senior staff discuss how to make sure Qotar doesn’t get infected with Trellium-D again, as well as what it means that 14 Romulan ships were recently outfitted with the mineral.

They decide to contact Sprak again, and ask him about Trellium-D moving into the Shackleton Expanse. They give him the manifest, and he notes aloud that the Spectre – the ship he assumes Admiral Mendak is on, based on what he heard on the Ross – is not on that list, whereas IRW Invictus – Admiral Sela’s ship – is. They all realize for the first time that perhaps Mendak’s ship hasn’t been outfitted with the Trellium-D, and is actually at risk to the spatial anomalies within the Shackleton Expanse.

The Borqu’ crew asks Sprak if he can outfit their ship with Trellium-D, and he agrees under the terms that he’ll be calling on them for a favor in the near future.

## Cast

* Eric Campbell - Game Master
* Aliza Pearl - B'emir
* Jade Law - E'Daj
* Phillip Jeanmarie - Omeq
* Quincy Surasmith - Ra'amyan
* Christopher Eddins - Qotar

## Non-Player Characters

* Skrag
* Sprak

## Locations

* Unnamed Star System
	+ Planet 0199087
		- Romulan Trillium D Processing Plant

## Ships

* IKS *Borqu'*
* Liquidator

## Notable Lines

*"One who is controlled by the river is a fool. I may walk it, but I do not let it control my path."*
—**Qotar**

*"She always said the secret ingredient was love. And blood."*
—**e'Daj** about her mother's homemade pie

*"I was just trying to see how fast my legs could move. In that direction. I wasn't running from you."*
—**Skrag**

*"Nobody knows anything about Sela. She's blonde; that's all I know."*
—**Skrag**

*"Whassup, Omeq. You're weird; talk to me."*
—**Qotar**

*"Being angered by the lack of honor in Ferengi is just like being angry for there being stars in space."*
—**Qotar** to Omeq

*"I'm twice as angry as most, and yet I act half as angry as every Klingon I've ever me."*
—**Qotar**

*"I saw we go to e'Daj and see if maybe she can heal us up with her medical expertise."*
*"Has she healed anyone? She is very scary."*
*"I've seen her fight, but I haven't seen her actually heal."*
*"I haven't seen it happen one time."*
—**Omeq** and **Qotar** about e'Daj

*"I MADE DINNER FOR US!"*
*"THIS IS MY FIRST OFFICER!"*
—**e'Daj** and **B'emir**

*"You put* **you** *in the pie?"*
*"Yes. It's very* Titus Andronicus*, I know. But I did put a little bit of my spirit and heart inside of the pie. Not my literal heart, though. It's tasty!"*
—**R'yeq** and **e'Daj**

*"I hope you all enjoy this gift from me. I expect gifts from you in the coming weeks."*
—**e'Daj** to the senior staff

*"You eat the hearts from your enemies?"*
*"You know this...rarely, but yes. It is Klingon tradition. Maybe a lost Tradition, but still."*
*"I haven't found an enemy that is worth eating, yet."*
—**R'yeq** and **B'emir**

*"Perhaps we can modernize it for you, R'yeq. The next ship that we destroy in victory, perhaps we shall take a shard of their warp core. And smelt it down, and forge it to our own."*
—**Ra'amyan** to R'yeq about the Klingon tradition of eating the hearts of their enemies

*"Think about it. Entire industries of people who don't even know that you exist. You could become a deity, and perhaps liquidate the entire economy of a world that never knew spacefarers were out there."*
—**Sprak** about opportunities for profit in the Shackleton Expanse

*"It sounds like this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."*
—**Sprak** to B'emir

*"You're all too young for me. Going into battle everyday. Give me a break"*
—**R'yeq**

*"Thank you, Sprak. I trust your ears are doing well, now?"*
—**e'Daj**