Posted by Lieutenant Steven Leon Marsh (Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Lieutenant Steven Leon Marsh (Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge
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“Yeah, that works too,” the Captain said. “We’ll see after the team checks in. It’s not like it’s going to blow up right now.”

The Captain’s mind wandered slightly as they waited for any word. Maybe I should ask about that thing, he thought. The one that Avik was mentioning the other day…

“Hey, I know it’s kind of off topic,” he said suddenly as he turned to face both Marsh and Sullivan directly. “But how would you feel about a senior staff poker game? Someone tossed that idea into the Suggestion Box.” It was a metaphorical suggestion box, but he didn’t want to make it sound like he or Avik was ordering them to socialize.

– Johann Dvorak, CO

“What are the stakes?” Marsh was already thinking a way to separate the Captain from his money.

Marsh

“That’s a really good question,” the Captain answered. “It was kind of pitched as a ‘we should do something fun together off-duty regularly’ thing, so I didn’t really think that far ahead on it. I’m sure that we could have it be some casual amount of money. Assuming we all actually have some.”

“If there is nothing to lose… then there is nothing to win.”

“Very true,” Johann agreed.

It might have been a bit of a leap to make that assumption; the way many humans–especially those from Earth–talked about money, lead much of the galaxy to think they didn’t have any at all for any reason. Johann knew that wasn’t the case with Marsh, given the science officer’s status as a member of French nobility. Which of course raised obvious questions: Did the Captain have money? If so, how much? More importantly, how?

– Johann Dvorak, CO

“I have a bottle of 2343 Chateau Margaux. I’m willing to put that up.” Marsh also had some gold pressed latinum, just in case he ran into some Ferengi that had something that he wanted, but he didn’t want to seem pretentious. Although the very expensive bottle of wine, might have screamed that already.

Marsh

“That’s really fancy,” the Captain said. “The best I could put up is probably a bottle of Glenlivet, but that’s not really comparable.” Glenlivet, being a single malt scotch. And vastly less expensive. “Though we might still have a case of that… um… nevermind.”

– Johann Dvorak, CO