( closed ) cohort mingle

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( closed ) cohort mingle

WHO: Steve Rogers, Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Vision, Rayla
WHERE: their (so far unnamed) ship
WHAT: panicking, surviving, exploring, socializing, a bit more panicking, etc. Whatever you want!
WHEN: October 8th - 21st (all 330 hours of their lockdown)
WARNINGS: none at the moment - please tag your threads if need be!

This is an open post for face-to-face interactions between the cohorts within this same ship, so please go ahead and post your own top-levels and tag around!

For reference, the list of cohorts and their respective augments is as follows:

Steve Rogers: medic
Julian Bashir: medic
Elim Garak: agriculture
Vision: agriculture
Rayla: none

Go forth and have fun!

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[ Garak turns in his seat, looking up at the recent arrival. Although he doesn't look surprised by the approach, there's still a hint of a startle in the way his shoulders draw together. ]

Ah. Not this one in specific, I'm afraid. I am, however, accustomed to far more advanced technology, which is why I was hoping I would be able to decipher this one.

[ He sighs, glancing over the controls. ] Unfortunately it seems that I need the proper augment to understand it. Which I don't.

[Rayla looked mildly disappointed for a moment, and then curious with a mix of confusion.]

What's an augment?

[She'd been hearing that term in conversation before, but hadn't really paid attention because it hadn't really concerned her up to this point.]

They're sets of knowledge that can be added to our minds. There are a few Data Points around the city that you can touch to have access to that information. Alas, each of them is rather specific, and you can only hold one type of knowledge at a time. At the moment, I have the agricultural augment, which is... frankly, rather useless given our current predicament.

[ He sighed, leaning back on his seat. Hopefully now she understood his frustration. ]

It might come in useful later. I can see how it doesn't help much now, though.

I haven't used one of the Data Points, yet. [She frowned a bit.] What's it like?

It doesn't. It was useful before, but now I wonder whether I should simply switch to a pilot augment as soon as we are out of here.

[ He didn't want to risk getting trapped on this ship yet again with no idea whatsoever of how anything worked. ]

Do you remember the glowing orb you touched when you first arrived? It should have provided you with information about this planet and the Agrii. That is one of the few functioning Data Points. The others simply contain different kinds of information.

[Rayla cringed slightly.]

I didnae like how that felt. I'd rather not do it again if I didnae have to.

[She considered the pilot thing, though.]

Doncha think they'd give ya somethin' useful both on the ground and in the ships, though? Like, maybe there's somethin' in the ships that you can do, even if it's not this piloting you mentioned.

Perhaps not, but unpleasant things are sometimes necessary.

[ And in their current predicament, it really wasn't that difficult to decide going through that experience again. ]

Ah, but a pilot or engineering augment would help me understand these systems. Open and close windows, for instance, or control the temperature inside. The ships aren't flying from what I can tell, though, so I wouldn't be able to get it off the ground, but I could get some systems to work properly. But I can hardly water the controls and expect them to magically work.

What would waterin' the controls do?

[Yup. No clue here.]

[ Garak just stared flatly for a moment, trying to gauge whether or not she was serious. Her confusion seemed genuine, so he decided to keep back any sarcastic remarks that would surely come across as an insult. ]

Make them stop working, most likely. Most electrical-based technology will not take kindly to water, it can make the systems short-circuit, releasing sparks that can make the equipment catch on fire or even explode.

[ Surely a spaceship would have some fail-safe mechanisms to prevent anything like that from happening, but it would still be a good idea to avoid it. ]

[She was definitely serious, Garak.]

Oh. I can see how that would be a bad thing, then. [She nodded, trying to be all cool about this.] Good idea, not dumpin' water on the controls.

[Yup. Totally cool. She got this.]

[ Yes, he had a feeling. ]

It would be a very bad thing, indeed. So it is probably safest to keep all food and beverages strictly to the dining area just to avoid any unwanted accidents.

[ It never hurt to point it out. Captain Sisko of all people ought to know better, yet Garak caught him more than once carrying mugs of warm raktajino as he made his way to Ops on the station, or even around the bridge of the Defiant. ]

That does make sense, definitely. I wouldn't want to cause anythin' like that, so I'll definitely be keepin' mah food in the kitchen and dining areas.

[Yup. She could do that.]

As you should. Those are the proper places for it, after all.

[ It would be nice if she didn't make a mess of their ship, he had to live in here too.

He let out a resigned sigh, shaking his head as he rose to his feet. ]

This is pointless. I may as well make something useful of my time.

[Rayla quirked an eyebrow as he stood, and then considered things.]

There must be somethin' the farmin' augment can do on a ship, yeah? Maybe somethin' with food?

[She was trying to be helpful. After all, she didn't have an augment at all, yet, not having trusted any of the Data Points, so he was probably better off than her when it came to being useful on the ship.]

The augment has helped me in learning which of the native plant life is edible, and exactly how to cook it. However, on board we have different means of sustenance. Rather distasteful if you ask me, but I understand wanting to circumvent the need to cook while on board a ship. Even a small kitchen fire could prove to be a catastrophe.

[ And Garak would very much like to avoid that, even when the ships all seemed to not be taking off anytime soon. ]

Ah-haha... yeah. Kitchen fire.

[She knew about that already.]

I'm used tah cookin' without all this fancy stuff around here. It's been a bit of a learnin' experience.

It's not so difficult once you grow used to it.

[ He smiled at her. ] Once we're out of here, should you still require some help, I volunteer my knowledge.

[Rayla gave him a grateful smile in response to his offer.]

I'd appreciate that a lot.

[She didn't doubt that she could eventually learn it. But it was so new and scary and just seemed so much like magic that it was a bit intimidating right now. Any help someone was willing to offer, she'd take. She needed to be able to do things here.]

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