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Posted Feb. 20, 2021, 7:26 p.m. by Ensign Hawkeye Logan (Medical Officer) (Christopher Logan)

Posted by Lieutenant Surda (Chief of Security / RTF) in Reporting in

Posted by Captain Zachariah Cobb (Commanding Officer) in Reporting in

Posted by Ensign Hawkeye Logan (Medical Officer) in Reporting in
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Colour
Black row 0,0 1,0 E 2,0 3,0 4,0 5,0 6,0
Black row 0,1 E 1,1 2,1 3,1 4,1 5,1 6,1
Black row 0,2 1,2 Za 2,2 3,2 4,2 5,2 E 6,2
Free row 0,3 Ca 1,3 2,3 Ca 3,3 4,3 5,3 6,3 Ca
White row 0,4 1,4 E 2,4 3,4 Za 4,4 5,4 6,4
White row 0,5 1,5 2,5 3,5 4,5 E 5,5 6,5
White row 0,6 1,6 2,6 3,6 4,6 5,6 6,6

Tokens Captured
- Carroll: I
- Cobb: I

“Sorry captain. I’m just not a person who likes games. Don’t forget I’m a Vulcan. I’m someone who plays Kaltoh. It’s a Vulcan game.” He replied.

Ensign Logan.

Ensign Forricci shrugged. “If I’m being honest, I’m no good at board games. Most of the Security department has lost some game or another to Carroll.” Carroll moved from 5,2 to 6,3
-Surda, CoS

“Really. I never knew that it would go that far. I’m surprised but at the same time not really.” Hawk then shrugged back.

Ensign Hawkeye Logan

“Just out of interest, Ensign,” Cobb leaned back in his chair and regarded Forricci, “what is the standard penalty for losing to Carroll?”
It was, perhaps, a question he should have found the sense to ask before embarking on this game.

Then with a shrug his attention returned to Logan. “Well, so far so…amicable. But I suspect the game will get tougher before long. So tell us, Mr Logan, if games are not your forte, then what does a man such as yourself like to do when not on duty, eh?”

As he continued to make smalltalk with Hawkeye, Cobb moved his piece from 2,3 into the empty spot at 1,2, commenting as he did so, “Let’s put the cat amongst the pigeons, so to speak, eh?”

  • Captain Zachariah Cobb

Carrol moved from 0,1 to 2,3, claiming the piece at 1,2.
“Well sir, that’s when you have to play the Chief. Only… she makes us play Jmiohuti instead.”
-NE Forrici and Anomaly Carrol

The captain winced as he spotted his rookie mistake, a few seconds too late as Carroll had already gained the upper hand.
“Oh, I stuffed up there, lad, and no mistake,” he shook his head at Logan. Then, glancing at Forricci, Cobb considered for a moment that he had never heard of the game ‘Jmiohuti’…then another moment later conceded that it might still be preferable to the ass-kicking he was currently being given here.

“Sir. As of for me as a Vulcan I only read books and meditate. I’m not anyone who does games. The only game I do is Kaltoh. It’s a Vulcan game.” He said.

Ensign Logan

“Kal-toh?” Zachariah raised an eyebrow, clearly impressed. “I have been known, in my time, to fashion sailing ship replicas out of matchsticks,” he chuckled, before adding, “But kal-toh remains an enigma to me. If you are ever in the mood to teach it, mind, then you will find a curious student in me.”

With a sigh is eyes returned to the board. He had to rescue his dignity in this game somehow. Then with a smirk, he lifted his piece at 3,4 and placed it in the space now vacated by his former captured piece, 1,2, seizing Carrol’s token at 2,3 in the process.

  • Captain Zachariah Cobb

“Jmiohuti is… literally it would be knife game. Imagine a checkerboard, but 3D, and you use daggers instead of pieces.” Surda explained. “Not only that but when she says 3D, the Chief means it’s a cube. And the cube floats. While you throw knives at it!” Forricci interjected excitedly. Carroll moved from 1,0 to 0,1
-Surda, CoS

Zachariah chuckled. “Why am I not surprised there are knives involved,” he shook his head mock-disapprovingly to the CoS. “Still, I imagine it is excellent training for…well,” he cleared his throat then concluded in a whisper, “I don’t wish to insult my opponent here.”

“Captain. I am willing to teach you Kal-toh. It’s a really intriguing game that is Vulcans play when we want to play the game so yes when ever you’re free to come by my quarters sir. If that’s okay.” When Logan said to the captain about Kal-toh. It was nice to know that someone was willing to be a student to the game.

Ensign Logan

“Aye, that sounds like a marvelous way to spend an evening, Mr Logan. Thank you,” the captain beamed with delight. But as his attention returned to the current game and he took stock of his current position, the man let out a painful groan. “Let us hope I take to Kal-toh with a drop more skill than that with which I am being massacred here at checkers!”

In truth, he was scuppered. It was too late to block the approaching capture of his piece at 1,2. So in an attempt to at least make a retaliatory attack, Cobb shifted his own counter from 4,5 to 3,4.

  • Captain Zachariah Cobb

“Believe me sir. Kal-Toh is a game of logic and patiences. You need to find the logic in the game sir. It’s the only best way.” As Logan wait to the captain. When Logan looked at the captain. He knew something wasn’t right.

Ensign Logan.

Cobb caught the ensign’s expression and winced. “Now, I never claimed that my moves would be impressive. Or even adequate,” he shrugged in an attempt to disguise his shame for so poor a performance. But in truth the situation had caught him off guard. To be sitting inside a containment unit, in close proximity to a unique and dangerous anomaly, and being expected to concentrate on checkers - well, perhaps that would challenge even the most talented of players?

“Logic,” he attempted to deflect the conversation away from his own inadequacies and back to the Vulcan’s preferred game, “is something I would like to consider myself reasonable at. Patience, however,” the captain shook his head, “is another matter entirely.”

  • Captain Zachariah Cobb

Surda snorted. “The friendly man-eating flowers throw you off a bit, sir?” That was, after all, the entire point of emphasizing Caroll’s danger, although all she had done was scavenge - and terrify a few colonists. “You should come down more often, I’ll introduce you to the other friendlies.” Every anomaly had the potential and the capability to be dangerous, and some were outright aggressive, but plenty of the anomalies in containment were content to be friendly with their guards. Most outside of Security were unaware, only hearing of the violent anomalies and their attempted escape, after all, which makes the better story? I narrowly escaped Dave, or I colored with a talking frog all shift?

Caroll moved from 0,1 to 2,3, enjoying the back and forth outside her cell.
-Surda, CoS
OOC: Happy to flesh out the talking frog if someone wants an amphibious anomaly. :)
-L

“Well sir. It’s always common knowledge for the game it involves tactics and knowledge. The only reason why I know that is cause I’ve played it with my friends back at Vulcan. I feel like to training other people to play it and help them understand the concept.” When he said that he knew that the captain was interested.

Ensign Logan


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