Posted by Ensign Elemirre Serinde (Engineering Officer) in Main Sim - C Deck - Rick’s Quarters

Posted by Vice Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - C Deck - Rick’s Quarters
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Of course eventually the night did pass and morning came. Almost to the second Nessa awoke at 0500 in the morning. Without skipping a beat the dog moved over to its water and food feeder and by pressing a paw on each in turn was able to get its morning meal and a healthy drink. If neither of the two occupants of the room were yet awake Nessa then finished with her morning meal went back to her bed where she laid back down but this time stayed awake as if on alert looking towards the door to the quarters and the two sleeping occupants in it.

Early was not quite Nessa early. For Rick, early was closer to the 06:00 mark and he pushed that back by 15 min to get some of that ‘study’ time in that he had promised himself, though he had thought it would be more over coffee in the lounge. Stretching he slowly rolled out of bed - a morning person he wasn’t, though morning was relative given the fact they were on a ship with no sun to wake to. Mark snored. It was totally what he should be doing. His first ‘issue’ was stubbing his toe on Nessa’s food on the way to the lav and he caught himself up from shouting. Instead he leaned against the wall until the pain passed - he supposed that to see the light he’d need to open his eyes a little more.

After a short clean up Rick went looking for Nessa and found her alert and looking at him with dark pools of eyes in the half light. Were they judging him? “Is it time to do your .. business?” he asked quietly, pulling on a boot, realizing it was the wrong foot in the light and swapping over. The cob webs were slow to clear today.

• Rick, Eng PO

Nessa looked at Rick with a tilt of her head as if not quite understanding his request to her, perhaps he should try one of the commands?

Rick had a fleeting panic. What? His head swiveled over to the gratefully still sleeping scientist and then back to Nessa. What was he missing? He flipped through the PaDD and the list of commands, then flipped through it again and couldn’t find anything specific. It seemed there was a command for everything but that. Did that need a command? Well, let’s see what he could do with what he had. “Fall in,” he said, reaching for a ball amongst the many things the dog had - that and a bag. “To the arboretum.”

OOC: Will assume you do :P
OOC: Looked down the list I printed but didn’t see anything specific there .. lots of other things :)

Once he did so the dog barked standing up and moving to the door waiting dutifully. Seems she did indeed need to do her business.....

GM CockRoach

Rick winced at the bark that seemed so loud in the small cabin. Mark mumbled something utterly unintelligible. “Let’s go,” he said to Nessa as he opened the door to the cabin and stepping out to the corridor. “Heel,” he said in an afterthought hoping that meant to accompany him. It wasn’t far to go to the arboretum. He tried a ‘Sit’ when they slipped into a lift to descend the one deck down to D Deck where the small arboretum was. He shared the lift briefly with Benji, a short MACO who had come on just before they shipped out, dressed in grey gym gear, apparently heading down to G deck and the gym. As he recalled the man had just had a birthday, at least according to the loud corner in the galley where that group celebrated it.

As he stepped out with Nessa close by he started feeling that he might be getting the hang of this. Might .. hopefully with the early hour there wouldn’t be any scientists in the arboretum and he could toss the ball to her for a bit while he figured out what to do next.
- Rick

OOC: Bump