Jed Calvert - "Hymenthrope"

Who: Amber Febuggure and Jed Calvert
Where: The Promenade, Blue Dwarf
When: As Amber meets Jed
<snip>
It was only a small feeling, but she suddenly got the sense that
someone was watching her. She spun around to see Jed Calvert looming
over her.
"What the?!... Jed?...Uh, i mean Captain!" She snapped to a
salute. "No one told me you were back, or that you were fit for duty.
I'm sorry, please, feel free to take over again." Amber stepped back,
noticing the hungry look in his eye and the stalker like approach
that he made. "Look, I'm sorry OK, lets not get violent now...."
Amber also noticed that he didn't have a bottle of whisky in his
hand, or a small of stale booze and cigars around him.
<end snip>
Jed watched Amber's salute curiously. Amber had saluted to him and
called him "Captain" many times, as had so many other hundreds of
people on the Blue Dwarf. But Jed didn't remember any of it. As far
as he remembered, he was the first officer of the SCS York…. A
Spacecorps starship… but that was before the accident.
"The accident!" Jed yelled. As he did it seemed to cause him pain. He
saw Amber stepping away from him, she knew that something was wrong
with him. He desperately wanted to be normal, but he was acting so
strange. He was acting so strange because he was thirsty… so….
thirsty.
"Fancy a drink?" He asked. Amber shook her head. "I'm on duty… not
that it ever mattered to you…"
"I think I need some…. Alcohol." Said Jed. His breathing starting to
get deeper. He could feel something happening to his body. Something
that had happened before, in the elevator with Rosette.
"Come closer!" He called to Amber, who stepped further back as a
result and adopted a fighting stance.
Jed fell to his knees. This was when a leg burst out through his
side, a green slimy leg. Another came out of his shoulder and another
from his lower back. Three more came out of his other side, each one
causing him tremendous pain. Jed screamed, and his scream turned more
and more high pitch, like an insects.
Green blood splattered out as Jed's body transformed, eight new eyes
now bursting out of his head. His six new legs took his weight and
lifted Jed's body up so that he was now towering over the acting-
captain.
"I want your blood. Your human blood!" Jed screeched. "look… I've
even brought my own straw!"
<Tag Becca! Or anyone else who would like to intervene at this
moment. Don't kill Jed though, but you can capture him or let him get
away.>

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