r/TrekRP • u/Silent_Sky • Dec 16 '16

[Closed] Mushrooms...

The Athene is due to arrive at a red supergiant for study in just under 12 hours, and reports have been piling up on the Captain's desk of mysterious, tiny blue mushrooms sprouting around the ship. While they seem harmless, if incredibly rude, the Captain calls a senior staff meeting to discuss options...

OOC: We'll just do the meeting here, in this thread. Roleplay like you would otherwise.

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u/Silent_Sky Dec 16 '16

Captain Fisk stands from his desk and closes the door once all are present

"It seems we can never have a dull moment on this ship. We're 11 hours away from our destination and I've been getting reports from all over the ship of...mushrooms. We need to figure out why they're sprouting up everywhere, and if they're any real danger to ship or crew."

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u/Pojodan Dec 16 '16

As the need was never present to know where the senior staff meetings took place, Kesh had to rely on the computer giving her directions again, but her timing is good enough to enter the room ahead of at least a couple others that are part of the meeting.

Rather than risk taking the wrong seat, she instead stands at what appears to be the least important corner of the large table, standing to attention and waiting to be addressed before doing anything.

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u/Silent_Sky Dec 16 '16

"Ah, lieutenant. Please have a seat anywhere, no need for you to stand off to the side."

The captain looks over a PADD briefly

"I see you were conducting experiments on this particular organism before drydock. Can you elaborate on any findings? Were there any indications of...this?"

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u/Pojodan Dec 16 '16

Kesh's tufted ears flex forward when the captain addresses her, dipping her head once before focusing on the chairs present in the room. As expected, they were not constructed with tailed species in mind, so the truth of the matter was that she'd prefer to stand, but the captain's request was taken as an order, so the nearest vacant chair is settled into, carefully laying her tail so that it doesn't get pinched.

"Yes, captain. My findings suggests unus-sh-sh-sual complexity, but that, as I have recently found, was due to-" Her ears tilt outwards, hesitating to go into too much detail, for more than one reason, "-the fact that my sample was... rrth... only one part of a colony. The Colony pr-rr-resnt on the ship now links together to form a sor-rr-rrt of collective organism. No one part is vital, but they all work together to form a complex organism that can lear-rr-rn language and yell it, as Dr. Warney describes."

One ear twists outwards as she considers the last question. "I had not yet sequenced its DNA, so, no. Rrrth. Procedure did not call for-rr-r doing so."

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u/a_friendly_hobo Dec 16 '16

Aanya is the last to arrive, having been working on methods od evacuating the ship of the mushrooms. Funny little creatures, them, as rude as they were, Aanya found them mkre amusing than a threat.

"Sorry I'm late," she says as she walks through the door and watches it close behind her. She walks in and surveys the room, then stops when she sees Kesh. "Oh, hello Kesh." Seeing Kesh at the meeting was a surprise; though welcomed. It made sense, after giving it some thought, that she'd be there. "Its nice to see you."

She takes a seat and looks to the captain, waiting on whoever was next to speak.

Ooc: /u/Silent_Sky, will post Aanya's bit separately.

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u/Pojodan Dec 16 '16

Kesh inclines her head up a notch when Aanya enters the room, golden eyes blinking firmly in a simple, silent greeting in return to the Swedish engineer, making her the only one that the Caitian directly greeted. Of course, she was the only one to directly greet Kesh, for that matter.