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Posted by Ensign Kai Oliver Kingstone (Science) in Some Slimy Problem - Side Sim
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Dexterity and speed were increasingly present in Kai as he knew how to use the GPS system to find new place. After his medical check it was now time to find and meet his new DH - some said she was a good DH but also shy. Whatever he would have found surely made already his idea of what this ship had: a wide variety of characters. And most of them were still to discover.

On the way of his DH’s office on deck 4, the young Ensign was just turning the last corner when with some surprise he saw a dark figure running the aisle in his direction. He couldn’t see the face of the person, as it seemed covered by something - or maybe he was just blind enough to not see the lineage of the officer, but something was so evident and weird: he or she wasn’t wearing a uniform nor a civilian clothes
“What the heck?” He expressed with some concerns as the goofy figure came up, closer and even closer shouting something he couldn’t really hear well.

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - Scientist

“Sir? Sir!” Mumbled loud the dark figure. “You are the new Science Officer onboard?”
As he was asked this question now the face of the science crew member was now better looking and could be seen: it was a girl, maybe on her 30s, not so young but neither that old. Wearing the stiff blue uniform, but covered by a greenish, semi-transparent slimy thing. On a first sight it was surely a slime, but Kai could not imagine what kind of slime.

“What happened?” Asked the Ensign as he saw the slimy stuff growing as they were speaking out loud and a weird rock and roll music coming out from the lab.
“Uhm I am sure we need you! We are out of Officers! I am just an assistant and this situation surely slipped out of hand.”
As both of them got near the lab, Kai started seeing a bunch of slime everywhere on the bulky floor: eww he thought on a first moment but also, why there was such music in the lab?

He didn’t waited too long to find out the mess inside: computers screens, tools and seats were all covered in slime. An Ensign was even stuck in a large amount of it asking for help like in the alien movie, when the xenomorph took several crewmen to hatch some face-hugger and develop new aliens.
“Can I have an explanation for all of this?” Asked before slipping himself, stepping on a slimy pool
“Ouch.” Commented the girl “Well… Ensign Jensen and I were making some experiment… when we discovered that the sound reacted with the slime enlarging its dimension. But perhaps yesterday night we forgot to turn off the radio and today we entered the lab and it was all like this! Yikes.”

It was an absurd situation, and yet it was his first day of job- almost his first day. Unprepared and covered by the slime feet to head as he slipped down, now he needed to think fast on how to remove all that stuff from the room and clean a bit the situation he was stuck in.
One thing was certain for Oliver in that moment: the Rock ‘n Roll music needed to cease first, one for the sake of his ears and two for the slime to stop growing.

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - Scientist

“Wait,” a hand closed around Kai’s arm as a voice whispered in his ear. The grip was firm but definitely feminine lacking the strength of someone like an Orion security officer that could toss you like a rag doll if the situation called for it. “This stuff is not toxic. It is not going to hurt you but reacts to sound waves.” Alexandra looked around the room and wanted to let out a moan yet knew this was not the thing to do right now.

That hand was very unexpected, but surely warm and scary, if you consider that 30 seconds ago, except Jensen, the other girl and him no one was in the room.
“Oh wha- ouch!” He almost shouted as the slime moved and exploded again. The arm of the unknown person spooked him right away.

“Be very quiet,” she whispered to the room. She was going to try and find out what happened but first, she had to get everyone up to speed. “We were on Gapania Six last week and noticed this slime mold. It reacted to noise so I was fascinated. “I brought a small sample on board to study it. A colleague of mine on Outpost 42 was the first to discover the substance. From his research, we found out it explodes when you make any noise above a whisper,” she said softly. “Twenty decibels is the cap. Nothing over a whisper,” she looked at everyone in the lab trying to asses what to do next.

“What happened,” she looked at Jensen and then turned to the new guy.

“Alexandra Robins,” she stuck out her hand. ‘’You’re the new guy. Heck of a way to join huh,” Alexandra laughed.

He didn’t spoke, nor looked directly to Alexandra. Now, to be honest her affirmation made almost him laugh: like, how many people could ever tell such fun story on their first day of job? And perhaps in space?
But then as she presented he leant his hand and said the same formal stuff that he always said to the new person he met “I’m Ensign Kai Oliver Kingstone, nice to meet you”

Turning back to Jensen she repeated her question. “We had a small mishap. So we tried to beam it off the ship but the sound from the chime sound when the transporter activates was above 20 decibels. It made it explode. We tried a few more attempts but now we have that,” she gestured.

Oh God Chris is going to kill me, Alexandra thought looking around.

Alexandra Robins science

It was then that the computer emitted a chime as the com system came on. =/\= Lexi please tell you are not going to be late again, Ruth won’t stop being fussy and I am never going to get this report done. Pass that ooze to some nobody underling and finish up! If you hurry I can get all of us for the Grinch with Ruth, I think she will love it! =/\= came Chris’s voice at a level very much above 20 decibels.

Christopher Robins, Stellar Cartography

In that moment, the heart beats of maybe everyone in the room stopped for a second. My god what a tension they had to face when that chirp resounded everywhere in the room. Its echoes could be heard even in the corridor and Kai in the absolute silent environment that came after the chirp thought “didn’t remembered the chirp of the badge being that loud-“
And time 5 seconds and the slime all together exploded and the mess became way larger.
Poor Ensign Jensen, that in the process became almost a projectile, being shot over the head of the head of their mates, luckily landing on the soft slimy bed.

“Oh god, oh god! What we do now? Jensen you ok?” Asked the Assistant girl whispering. Jensen nodded as he passed out a second after.
It was time to react, but they could do nothing with such large amount of mass and no tool. And for that purpose, Kai asked to Alexandra, that had maybe more experience with the slime “what’s the plan now?”

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - Scientist