Posted by Ensign Kaia (Engineering Officer) in Side Sim: Lounge - The next day

Posted by Ensign Shon Baht (Medical Officer) in Side Sim: Lounge - The next day

Posted by Lieutenant Kiama Naim (Chief Science Officer) in Side Sim: Lounge - The next day
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Shon frowned into his bowl and muttered, “We weren’t fooling around” in a dejected tone. But at the mention of the fiber content of the lemon squares, he pulled out his PaDD and set it on his lap to frantically search for the recipe for the dessert. Upon finding the fiber content, Shon wasn’t sure if it was high or low by Galdori standards. Pulling up Kaia’s medical file in a public place was obviously a no-no, so he figured it might just be for the best to let Faye’s assessment go unopposed.

(Ensign Baht, Medical)

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“No definitely not,” Kiama agreed with a wry smile. “I don’t think I’ve ever hit my head that hard. So I also learned to wear a helmet and something other than a dress the next time I mount a scooter,” she added with a chuckle and winked at Shon. She wasn’t sure why, but she suddenly had a really hard time to keep herself from laughing. Well, that wasn’t true, as a neuroscientist she did have an idea why she was feeling like laughing. Yet while it made sense to her in theory, she had never experienced such a reaction in herself before. Not to this extent anyway. And not with such a delay. After all, any reaction to the shock and adrenaline should have come much earlier. So she took a deep breath and tried to keep a straight face while helping herself to another bite of biscuit; not trusting herself enough to eat more soup just now in case she really did burst out laughing.

~Lt.jg. Naim, aCSO

“And… there are reasons I avoid the holodeck,” Faye said with a smirk as she picked up her hasperat. Leaning back, she shook her head. “Give me a real space any day, like the garden. I get there are limitations, but less chances of things trying to kill you.” She was highly amused, though she wasn’t interested in visiting the frantic speed at which she had had to work to navigate the holodeck programming.

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

“That’s one of the best things about Galdori Virtual Reality simulations,” Kaia giggled, finishing off the lemon square. “Nothing physical, so the safeties can’t be turned off. Can’t fall and hurt yourself if everything’s inside your head.” She reached for another one, then decided she’d better not. Just in case the fiber levels were a little higher than Faye knew. “What’s the plan now?” she asked, leaning back in her chair. “Just hanging out to discuss whatever happened?”

Kaia, Eng.

“Fair point,” Kiama replied, still trying more or less successfully to hold back a laugh. “We haven’t really made any other plans beside meeting here today for lunch and talk about what happened as little or as much as we feel like it.” She shrugged slightly and then looked from Kaia to Faye to Shon.

~Lt.jg. Naim, aCSO

Kaia nodded. “Valid,” she said with a small smile. “Anyone feel like a game of squash?”

Kaia, Eng.

Calloway’s brow knit together. “A game of… what?” she said, clearly perplexed. Searching her mind she couldn’t find a reference but one. “The only squash I know of are vegetables.”

~Faye Calloway

With her head tilted to the left, her eyes slightly narrowed, Kiama tried to remember what that was. She knew she had heard of it before while she was at the Academy. Maybe even seen it? Eventually she gave up and shook her head. “I’m fairly certain I’ve heard of it before, but for the life of me I can’t remember. I’m sorry,” she apologised.

~Lt.jg. Naim, aCSO

Shon frowned and shook his head as well, also uncertain of what Kaia was referring to. “As long as it doesn’t require too much physical strain… both for Kiama’s sake and mine.” Shon silently prayed that it was some kind of card game, though the name of the activity implied it might be a bit more involved than that.

(Ensign Baht, Medical)

“It’s a game I learned about in my Academy days. Two people in a small box, use rackets to hit a ball against a wall and back to one another. Sort of like table tennis but both people are on the same side of the arena. It’s a little bit of exercise but not super strenuous.” Kaia explained. It was one of the few sports where her size hadn’t been too much of a factor, the small size of the room meaning the squash ball couldn’t ever travel too far.

Kaia, Eng

Shon eyed Kaia’s arm with concern. “Are you sure that’s the best game to play with your arm still recovering?” He kicked himself mentally for being a buzzkill. But he was going to be overly cautious for a while, he figured. After all, the last time he had tried to have fun, he had almost gotten incinerated by a lava waterfall pouring from an upside down volcano in the sky.

(Ensign Baht, Medical)