STF

Main Sim: SB - Willow’s Temporary office

Posted May 18, 2020, 8:20 p.m. by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) (Calé Reilly)

Posted by Lieutenant Robert Mason (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim: SB - Willow’s Temporary office

Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim: SB - Willow’s Temporary office
Willow sighed as she looked at the report from the Ogawa. The ship was a mess, it looked like they were going to be on the Starbase for now. She had organised some shift patterns with the Starbase CO to ensure her people (ooc:psst that’s you guys! You’re my people!) got some R and R but also had some duty shifts to do. As it happened the Starbase were working on expanding their infirmary And labs anyway and with those limited staff members busy with that it was likely that Her crew would end up taking over in the meanwhile anyway. A fortuitous situation she had been assured. She had also seen a suspicious number of the Starbase personnel going off for ‘scheduled leave’ and wondered if they would end up stuck here for longer than she had ever anticipated.

She leaned back in the chair and frowned as it made a squeakey sound that her own chair, in her own blessed office certainly did not make. Not in a million years. Leaning forward she experimentally tried again, seeeeeaaaaakkkkk

Now that she heard it she couldn’t understand how she had managed to ignore it for so long. Also, the vent in the corner hummed, why was that? Was it supposed to hum? Giving it the evil eye was the best she could do as she remember her attempts to repair the milk spouting replicator in her own quarters. She signed and tried to focus on the report.


Some twenty minutes later and willow lay in a slightly disheveled heap on the floor, the emergency tool kit she had found open and the chair now in pieces across the room where they had fallen, or in one or two parts case, been thrown in frustration. All that. Was left was a metal pole on star shaped base that had attached to rollers. Experimentally she turned her head and reached out a hand to push the sturdy, non bending mechanism. sssssqqqqqqqeeeeeeaaaaakkkkk it replied defying logic and the laws of flat pack furniture everywhere. It didn’t move, it wasn’t the wheels it wasn’t the chair or the back or the handle....it just squeaked.

She flopped back on the floor and stared at the ceiling.

Willow Taylor
CO

Robert pressed the chime to the office. He had not had the chance to gracefully introduce himself to the Captain yesterday. He had told himself that, he was just going to look the ship over before the ceremony, to get a sense of what the situation really was. What he found was so concerning that he ended up skipping the ceremony completely, instead inspecting everything in order to understand the ship’s systems first hand. It was not good.

”Oh come along in, do!” an exasperated tone called out.

When he was allowed to enter, he took in the scene and looked at who he presumed was his new Commanding Officer. What. The. Hell. Is. This, he thought. It seemed like an odd reflection of the state the Ogawa was in at the moment as well, which did not inspire Bob with much confidence.

“Captain, are you alright?” he asked with some concern.

– Robert Mason, CE

The Captain looked down towards the door from her on her back, felt on the floor amongst the chair debris. She raised her eyebrows and let her head flop back again for a moment. Great, just perfect she thought. She bet captains like the legendary Jonathan Archer, or Sulu or Picard didn’t meet crew members like this. She recognised his face from the transfer files. He was to be the new CE. She wondered if all her meetings with engineers we’re going to start this way.

She sat up and ran a hand through her disheveled short red hair ”Good morning Chief.” she said and glanced around at the destruction, ”Apparently…i can take humans apart and out them together again but not furniture.” she said by way of explanation.

Clewring her throat she remained on the floor and tried to collect what was left of her pride. ”What can I do for you.”

Willow Taylor
Never to be left around power tools


Posts on USS Ogawa

In topic

Posted since


© 1991-2024 STF. Terms of Service

Version 1.15.9