Posted by Captain Jennifer Wallace (Commanding Officer) in Side Sim - Holodeck: Finding Peace in Chaos (OPEN)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Orvos Legen (Chief Engineer) in Side Sim - Holodeck: Finding Peace in Chaos (OPEN)

Posted by Captain Jennifer Wallace (Commanding Officer) in Side Sim - Holodeck: Finding Peace in Chaos (OPEN)
Jennifer stood in the middle of a thunderstorm, letting the torrential downpour soak her thoroughly. Her eyes were closed, her mouth open as she looked up into the sky and laughed maniacally. Rain! Rain. Something she hadn’t had the chance to experience in so very long. Of course, it wasn’t real rain. It was holographic. But it still felt blessedly cool and refreshing on her skin.

She ran out of the rain, sheltering under a tree and chuckling to herself. Man, it made her feel like a kid again. Including the fact that she could no longer see through her glasses. She pulled her spectacles off her face and rubbed the glass against her damp shirt, spreading the droplets of water around and not really doing much good. She pushed the glasses back onto her nose, letting out a small sigh. There were a series of flashes of light in the night sky, followed by the rolling timbre of thunder. It was beautiful.

Wallace, CO

There were days Orvos wanted to use the holodeck without anyone knowing it. He had a tendency to attract attention wherever he went. So he got wiser. Beaming into an empty holodeck would only attract the attention of those monitoring internal transporter systems. Given that he was their supervisor, he didn’t care of they knew.

He quietly beamed into what he thought was an empty holodeck. Dressed with a hiking bag and hiking clothes, he was immediately soaked from the downpour. He sighed and summoned the holodeck arch. It appeared and he attempted to diagnose the issue. Everything seemed to be running fine. “Computer, end program,” he said quietly.

“Access denied. Insufficient authorization.”

“Oh, bloody hell,” he said as he input a manual work request for the holodeck he was in. Priority One of course. He sent it and suddenly the arch disappeared.

“Computer, Arch,” he said aloud through the downpour.

“Access denied, insufficient authorization.”

He growled inwardly as he resigned himself to his fate. He began to look about for some form of shelter.

-Lt. Commander Orvos Legen, CE

Jennifer noticed the particle effect of a beam-in and was quite confused by that. Why would someone beam into the Holodeck? She watched the figure for a little while, not entirely sure who it was. The voice sounded vaguely familiar. When he started walking in her direction, she realized it was the Chief - ah, her Chief Engineer. He didn’t seem particularly pleased about being soaked to the bone. “Hey, Orvos!” she called out, running through the rain and reaching him. She was wearing plainclothes - brown pants and a brightly patterned blue and green shirt, and carried a backpack. She tugged an umbrella from the side of the pack and slapped it open, holding it over the engineer.

Orvos heaved a sigh of relief upon the opening of the umbrella.

“Intruding on my private time, are we?” she asked with a chuckle. “Don’t worry, I’ll get it shut off. Computer, pause program.”

“Access Denied. Insufficient Authorization.”

“What the?”

Wallace, CO

Orvos raised his eyebrows curiously. “I’ve already tried that and put in a maintenance request to engineering. Unfortunately, I’m not sure whether it actually went through. I suppose the best I can do is hope since the program won’t be ending. Unless someone walks in.”

He sighed in frustration. “I would seem as though we are stuck here for awhile.” Orvos observed her reactions.

-Lt. Commander Orvos Legen, CE