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It was coming up on 1800 hours in the evening when the ship’s recreation hall manager, NChief Mellow opened a ship wide comm call =/\= Attention all hands! Tonight is bowling night with syntheol drinks for everyone above age. Prizes will be awarded for winners! It’s also date night among the spa and pool area so come on down with your friends, family and loved ones and enjoy!=/\= The NChief said.

CockRoach

Sharah was sitting in the science lab waiting on results from the samples she took off the shuttle. NE Elbbirt, “Hey Fayth! You coming?” Sharah shook her head, “I need these results.”
“Oh come ON! NE Ineverdoanythingfun will let you know when the test work is done. You never do anything! You play with your plants and then disappear.” She pointed out. Sharah shook her head. “Alright alright. But I’m NOT bowling.” She supposed, being the current ranking (and wasn’t that strange) science officer. She should make the effort.

She went in jeans and t-shirt and entered the bowling alley. She’d never been in one, another one of those experiences her mother was afraid to expose her to. She found a seat at the counter away from the lanes and sat down. She ordered an ice water and grilled cheese. Very few were there yet, so the mental noise wasn’t too bad, but it was still floating all around the ship. She could stay for a bit and then go home. She chatted with Elbbirt and laughed as the girl made comments about the few male officers in the room. “You know you could go talk to them instead of me,” Sharah pointed out. To which Elbbirt happily ran off to do.

En Fayth

As the NC Waiter came back with Fayth’s order of ice water and grilled cheese. Some of the other NE’s were forming off into teams to setup bowling contests. Others were pairing off in twos or threes to go swimming in the ship’s pool or relax in the hot tub spas. Still others were already settling down to some non-holographic card and board games while enjoying the effects of synthol. All the taste and such of real booze without the after effects.

As the groups got going some of the noise naturally increased, overall it was one of merriment and enjoyment. Into this throng Fayth soon picked up the familar tingle and sight of the ship’s Captain in a simple green and silver toned shirt and pants coming into the throng of people. She looked......well out of place was putting it mildly. It didn’t take even a powerful empath to realize she likely was here more for moral and such of the crew feeling ‘in touch’ by their Captain then her own likely enjoyment. Truly being a ship’s Captain was never a truly relaxing time.

Drudoc smiled and spoke politely to a few of the groups as she passed and entered the large recreation hall, before ambling over to the nearby food and drink bar. Waiting her turn she soon came away with a small bucket of fried crispy chicken tenders and some kind of red sauce and a large synthol based iced tea with sprigs of herbs in it. She looked about for a place to sit likely on her own but mostly failed in that effort without taking up a bigger table then needed, so as fate would have it when she saw Fayth sitting off on her own by a smaller table she came over. “..Mind if I sit with you Ensign? Feel free to decline if you prefer being alone.” She said and truly Fayth could tell she was open in this case to decline the Captain’s company if she wanted.

Drudoc Andone CO