Posted by Lieutenant Commander Vanessa Lofton (Counselor) in Counselor’s Office - Cadet Dawes Reporting on USS Challenger

Posted by Cadet P’Mala Dawes (Doctor) in Counselor’s Office - Cadet Dawes Reporting on USS Challenger
After her medical check-in and meeting with her new CO in sickbay, Dr. Frankenstein, P’Mala Dawes spent the time between appointments securing her quarters–rather unsuccessfully.

You’d think a ship this size would have… a concierge, or something, she thought, stalking Deck 6 and looking for her name on a door or something.

“Computer, where is Ensign Dawes’ room?” she asked.

=^=Unable to comply.=^=

When she teleported aboard the Challenger, she wasn’t sure where she’d be laying her head that night, though she’d sent her belonging in three small crates to storage in Cargo Bay two days before.

She had been somewhat nervous of sharing space, having had only one roommate before–and they’d known each other for years…

P’Mala brushed away the thought. It was almost appointment time already. She quickly traced her steps back to the turbolift. “Deck 3.”

=^=Deck 3=^=

Stepping out of the turbolift, all the rooms looked the same, except for the obvious gymnasium and the clearly-labeled life boats.

“If I were the Counselor’s Office, where would I be?” she said out loud.

“That would be the third door, that way, on the left,” came a voice from her right. Walking down the hall was a human woman of average height, Starfleet uniform clad in blue shoulders. Her dark hair was piled atop her head, held in place with a pair of wooden skewers. She smiled brightly as she approached, a box wedged under one arm and a PADD in the other hand. “You must be Cadet Dawes. I’m Lieutenant Commander Lofton, the ship’s counselor. It is a privilege to see you,” she greeted the doctor, switching to Vulcan at the end; her pronunciation was passable for a non-native, but she was clearly not a linguist.

“I had to pick up some things from ship’s stores,” she said, shifting the box slightly as she raised it, “so this is perfect timing. Follow me!” She continued down the hall in the direction past P’Mala.

“Would you like anything from the replicator?” she called over her shoulder. “I was going to have a hot chocolate.”

OOC: Hi Shaun! I’m Nathan and I play the counselor here onboard Challenger. Welcome to STF! The counselor thread is an opportunity for us to delve into your character background a little, feel out their motivations and desires, hit on some things that may help flesh out the great bio you’ve started.

One thing to keep in mind, we want to sign all of our posts; it makes it a little easier to distinguish one post from the next once we get into longer, multi-person threads. Character name and position or rank is all that’s needed. I use CNS Lofton for this character (CNS is our common abbreviation for counselor); I could also use Lt. Cmdr. Lofton - CNS or any other combination thereof. It’s a little freeform, just as long as it helps us decipher who wrote what in the thread. Since I also wrote a long-ish OOC note, I’m also going to sign my name, but that’s a personal thing. If you ever accidentally forget to sign (or misspell something, or any other number of reasons) use the handy dandy Edit button to add it! You can edit a post until someone has replied to it.

I can’t wait to learn more about P’Mala!

CNS Lofton / Nathan

OOC: Little self split issue! Check my following post for the actual response. -Shaun