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Posted June 26, 2020, 8:37 p.m. by Gamemaster Wombat (Gamemaster) (Geoff Joosten)

Posted by Chief Petty Officer Oscar Cameron Cascarrabias Demalia (Engineer (Grouch)) in Main Sim - USS Ogawa Exterior

Posted by Gamemaster Wombat (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - USS Ogawa Exterior

Posted by Chief Petty Officer Oscar Cameron Cascarrabias Demalia (Engineer (Grouch)) in Main Sim - USS Ogawa Exterior
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Oscar smiled as he put the finishing touches on the paint job that he was giving the hull panels which the Starbase personnel were going to replace. They had given him a chromatic indication sprayer, a marked plan, and an instruction to put the indicator spray on every panel which needed to be replaced. When Oscar realized that the panels included the ship’s registry - name and number - he knew exactly what he wanted to do. Technically, he was supposed to use the device to make a small but visible mark on each panel, but they had never set limitations on how much of the spray he was supposed to use. As such, he had made a little bit of mischief.

It was akin to what he’d been told when he was supposed to mark up decommissioned vessels back when he worked at the Starfleet Salvage Yard - tag them and move on. The thing was, he discovered that he was so efficient with the job that he had given himself a lot of free time. Being in an isolation suit for practically his entire life had made him quite capable in an EV suit. Since he had spare time, plenty of material, and a way to automate the paint job, he had done a little more than just marking up the vessels. His boss at the Salvage Yard had come in the next morning to discover that there was a USS Van Gogh tagged up like Starry Night, a USS Mozart with the entire chart for the Minuet in G written on it, a USS Torvalds painted to look like it was actually an artificial and pixellated image, and a fourth vessel that had been rechristened the USS King Grouch, GAR-2175, but with perfect Starfleet paint. The first three wound up going to museums as a group display, and Oscar had been displeased to receive a commendation for “creative reuse of inoperable Starfleet materiel”. The fourth was simply stripped and scrapped, but for whatever reason, that was Oscar’s proudest accomplishment.

As such, the Ogawa was fully prepped for panel replacement, and to boot, for the moment, it also had a completely new name. For the moment, the USS Ogawa was now called the USS King Grouch II, GAR-2176. The registry number kind of broke the joke, but he had to honor the original. He sighed loudly as he reached the point where he could see the entirety of his handiwork.

“If this doesn’t cement my reputation, nothing will.”

Oscar Cascarrabias
Engineering Department

From outside the ship, Oscar was more or less isolated from, well everything that was going on inside the station but occasionally he heard something pop up over the comms. Someone was prattling on about needing to find some oysters and then a few moments later someone else was asking engineering for a carpenter. Since when did Starbases need carpenters?

GM Wombat

The fact that nobody was giving him a reprimand was enough cause for concern. He was clearly visible from the dry dock control tower. Something odd was afoot, but Oscar decided that, if it was chaos all around, he might as well contribute.

=/\= This is CPO Cascarrabias. Who out there is asking for somebody handy with a plane? I would have to stop by a cargo bay to open up my personal effects, but I can get the tools relatively quickly. =/\=

Oscar realized that he was sounding a little too helpful, almost as a response to the lack of recognition for his small act of vandalism. Honestly, though, carpentry was an opportunity to make a lot of noise for what seemed to be little purpose. As long as he wasn’t constructing a gallows or a guillotine or a stockade, it could be fun - and even then, as long as he wasn’t the one in the stockade, it could still be fun. His mind raced through what he could do with carpentry - random pieces of furniture, decoy torpedoes, decoy people (that took some tools that weren’t traditional, but carving with a pin-point laser was satisfying because of the smoke), stages, skate parks, bridges that served no purpose but to deliberately obstruct hallways - and started idly swinging his hand as if he were holding a hammer.

Oscar Cascarrabias
Engineering

=/\=O Petty Officer, come and walk with us!=/\= came the response from the other side to Cascarrabias’ call =/\=A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach: We cannot do with more than four, To give a hand to each.=/\=

Silence then another voice came over towards the grouch =/\= Uh, Chief? There is a man here who claims to be the walrus and you are the carpenter? Says he wants to take you out to dinner for Oysters? I… I am not sure what to do about him.=/\=

GM Wombat

=/\= Have him wait right there. I’m headed to the airlock now, =/\= Oscar said, curious as to who would be inviting him to dinner. =/\= So, what’s this John Lennon look like, anyway? Is he actually fat, or is he just really intoxicated? =/\=

Oddly, even thought Oscar’s knowledge of old literature was mostly confined to Spain and South America - for some reason, he had fixated on Allende and Neruda before moving on to a bevy of other Spanish-language writers from the classics - his musical knowledge was far more broad-based. As such, he also knew a lot of musical groups from the 20th and 21st centuries; there wasn’t much to do when he was undergoing treatment and testing besides listening to music, and he did prefer lyrics to anything else. The Beatles, translated into Spanish, were definitely interesting. A man calling himself a walrus didn’t throw Oscar as much as it might have thrown others.

When he got to the airlock, he switched from his EVA suit to his more familiar isolation suit, and then stepped out, wondering what he was about to encounter. He had been hoping that he would be able to make a lot of noise with a lot of wood working, but if oysters were on the menu instead, so be it.

Oscar Cascarrabias
Engineering

=/\=Aye chief=/\= the probable other enlisted serviceman said over the comms.

When Oscar got to the airlock the door opened and chaos met the NCO. In front of him lay a beach scene. Someone had either replicated a hallway full of sand or seconded it from somewhere. Either way there were several young ensigns singing and swaying back and forth reciting something about cabbages and kings while a rather rotund engineering light lieutenant wobbled back and forth from his perch conducting the little younglings in their frolicking song. “Oh thank goodness you seem sane,” said the poor little crewman said as he rushed up to Casarrabias. “I don’t know what is going on Chief but they all went mad as a hatter in here.” He pointed to the Junior and mutter, “That one is the one asking for a carpenter.”

GM Wombat

Oscar nodded. “Okay, so he’s just fat and delusional, not an admirer of old music. As for being as mad as a hatter, are they actually suffering mercury poisoning, or are you just using that centuries-old term as a generality?”

He stepped farther in with the Crewman. As he did, the phrase, “mad as a hatter”, brought to mind a different tune, one that went:

Una se hace mas grande
Una se hace pequeño
Y lo que te da madre
No hace nada en absoluto

“Se pregunta Alice,” Oscar muttered to himself before he refocused on the discussion. “Did they say why they needed a carpenter, Crewman? Also, I believe I was promised oysters, and all I see is a bunch of sand and singing. If O-2 Walrus over there doesn’t have oysters, he’s not only crazy, he’s downright rude.”

Oscar Cascarrabias
Engineering

The junior crewman chuckled under his breath at the chief. It was clear he was talking with a man who worked for a living. After a moment the E3 shook his head, “I think he ate all the oysters already and is on to oyster crackers… Maybe oyster stew.” He tilted his head as he watched the the man rolling about in the sand, “Plus, Chief, you’re repeating yourself.”

GM Wombat


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