Posted by Captain Zachariah Cobb (Commanding Officer) in MPT - ‘Festival of Frights’ - Holodeck 1 - All welcome

Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in MPT - ‘Festival of Frights’ - Holodeck 1 - All welcome

Posted by Civilian Genesis (Gen) McCallister (Anomalous Individual) in MPT - ‘Festival of Frights’ - Holodeck 1 - All welcome
Posted by… suppressed (1) by the Post Ghost! 👻
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“Halloween is very much a Terran celebration,” he addressed the table while simultaneously munching on the fries, “But for those of you who originate from more exotic locations, I wonder, do any of you have anything similar on your own home worlds?”

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

Gen ate her food and watched the comings and goings of the beings and other adults. She chewed and considered Cobbs question. Wondering what the others would respond.

Gen

“ We don’t celebrate our demons, nor the hells that spawned them Captain.” Bog espoused dryly. “We send them to Starfleet.”

Bog

“Ain’t that the truth, Mr Bog!” Cobb roared with thunderous laughter at the engineer’s response. “And straight from the horses mouth, too, as they say,” he added with a wink.

Surda shrugged. “There is a similar celebration honoring Ajira. It is… not appropriate for present company.” She had never worshiped Ajira, and the 5 day celebration was not the sort of thing that happened in Starfleet.
-Surda, CoS

“Is that right?” the old man’s curiosity was piqued. Leaning forward, he whispered to the Orion, “You shall have to tell me the more terrifying details over a drink, some time.”

Surda bit her lip to contain her laughter. “Less terrifying, more risque,” she whispered back. “Ajira is the goddess of death and birth. Celebrations are intended to create both.”
-Surda, CoS

Cobb felt his cheeks redden briefly, but then he laughed and countered with, “Well, perhaps we will need several drinks then.”

Casela ate her food when it arrived and watched the crew. They were having a good time. She was glad that Cobb had come up with this. At his question she snorted, “Betazed most certainly does not. They love philosophy far far too much and no time for fun.” She gave the last of the funnel cake to Gen. She stood with a flourish and swirl of the cape, going to refill her drink. She looked about. “I think,” she said as she walked back, “I’m going to go scare the monsters out of the haunted forest. Any takers?”
Lt. Synthi-er, CNS

Gen ’s face lit up as she reached for the offered cake and attacked it. Her eyes glowed brightly at Casela’s suggestion, ”Me…i can scare things.”

Gen

“I don’t doubt that for a second, Miss Gen,” Zachariah responded, offering the young girl an expression somewhere between nervous anxiety and unadulterated admiration. “Although I think the aim here might be for them to scare us, eh?”

With his own meal finished, Cobb wiped at his mouth with his sleeve, grabbed the remainder of his whiskey, and got to his feet.
“Okay then, to the haunted forest it is then. Miss Gen here can lead the way.”

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

Gen looked for Casela a second, as if for reasurance. Then too got to her feet.

As she walked she looked back at Cobb. ”Why are we supposed to let them scare us?” she asked

Gen

Casela nodded at Gen and walked beside her. Gen was sometimes very insightful, far beyond her years, and then, times like this, she was still very much a very young girl. Casela walked down the path and towards the woods. She knew some people liked to be scared. She herself, didn’t understand it. She’d seen enough real things to not want to be scared by the fake. But it was all in good fun. Looking at the trees, Casela contemplated actually climbing one instead. She hadn’t done that in a long time, and some of the holographic trees were made to be climbed. Probably some horrific entity was hiding in them.
Lt. Synthi-er, CNS

Zachariah was caught off guard by Gen’s question, although removed from the context of the night’s events, it was a perfectly logical query to make.
“Ah, well,” he began, cramming the top hat back onto his head, silver hair now spilling down his shoulders like a waterfall lit by crescent moon, “I suppose it is somewhat…silly. But the roots of this festival hark back to ancient times on my home planet, when some people believed that, if we allowed the demons and devils of this world one night to cause mischief and mayhem, then they would leave us be for the other three-hundred and sixty-four days of the year.”

He laughed uneasily, one hand momentarily doffing his hat so the other could be raked through his hair. Demons and devils - in these enlightened times such monsters had been relegated to nothing more than myth. But in recent months the ARU had revealed to him the unimaginable truth - demons and monsters were very real indeed. And more dangerous than the most terrifying Halloween nightmare could ever have conceived.

“I think perhaps you are right, Gen,” he declared after a moment. “We have nothing to fear from these traditional spectres. Let us show them what a good scare is truly all about, eh?”

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

OOC: I know Halloween is over now but…bump anyway, hehe!