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Some Slimy Problem - Side Sim

Posted Nov. 6, 2019, 12:35 p.m. by Ensign Kai Oliver Kingstone (Science) (Jay Luistro)

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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

Oh pluck a duck, Alex moaned in her head and closed her eyes. The warm, sticky goo was about to coat her and she did not want it anywhere the sun didn’t shine. Bracing herself she felt like it was a ticking time bomb.

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

Alexandra opened her mouth to speak and quickly closed it. She had a bigger problem than exploding slime for a second. “Lt Robins we are all fine down here. How are you?” It was then she realized she had to act normal and stop the conversation. As loud as she dared Lexi replied to her husband. =/\= Chris I did it for nine months in my own. I’m at work deal with Ruth yourself. When I am off duty I will come you. Talk to you later=/\= she snapped off the comm. Chris might be grumpy but he would be far more upset seeing his astrobiology lab looking like a revamped version on the B movie the Blob.

=/\= Nine months alone?=/\=.

The slime began to quiver. Small bubbles could be seen before it popped again like a bubbling mud geyser. Lexi squinted.

=/\=Chris stop talking=/\= she said in a rushed whisper. Luckily Chris didn’t yell but his command tone was loud enough to create explosions that looked like grapes popping off every sure face of slime in the room.

=/\=If you had simply picked up a com and called me I could have been there the entire time. =/\=

=\/= fine talking point for later. Go take care of Ruth =/\= Lexi almost begged.
The slime continued to pop off in small and medium size explosions until everyone in the room was up to their ankles.

=/\= That’s how this works, you call someone they come to help. It’s a new novel approach to parenting.=/\= Chris snarled back at her as he couldn’t help but roll his eyes.

Listening to the conversation of both made almost Kai laughing but he needed to keep inside himself all the laughs or the laughs would transform into more slime to clean. Which was not a good a idea. After removing some of the slime off his arms and freeing himself by that greenish mass, he was now able to move again and gave a quick check to Ensign Jensen with a silent step.

“Okay, so I’m bingo. Anyone have an idea and I am entertaining out of the box things to get this back in the box,” Lexi couldn’t help but snicker and clamp a hand over her mouth. The universe was deadly but death by slime mold wasn’t what anyone first thought as a normal way to go.

She was now also stuck so any thing she could do would have to be arms only or gesture related.

Lt. Alexandra Robins. Science jo

Robins, Stellar Cartography

He needed to get near Alex to talk. From Jensen’s place he wasn’t sure that the JO could hear what he was saying and perhaps he did came toward the woman avoiding to slip like before.
“I am not sure if we can transport it! It is too much and also the sound would make explode it again. ” he whispered “we need to clean it ourselves with our hand (Of course with maximum attention) or find try to deactivate the chirp of the computer to make it possible beam it off the ship. Problem is that we need to remove that Panel. A false move and we may contaminate with the goo this deck’s circuits.” he indicated with his finger a maintenance grid panel on his right.
The options weren’t that much, and to be honest, who wanted to clean the goo with their bare hands.
“Of course if you have better ideas I am all ear!”

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - Scientist


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