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Side Sim: In The Gym (open)

Posted June 22, 2022, 11:50 p.m. by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) (Jennifer Ward)

Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Side Sim: In The Gym (open)

Posted by Ensign Kovan ch’Sirhc (Engineering & Communications Officer) in Side Sim: In The Gym (open)

Posted by Ensign Alwyn Yarwood (Medical Doctor) in Side Sim: In The Gym (open)
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It took a special mix of luck and and careful scheduling to get the ship’s gym (mostly) to one’s self. Kovan entered in the only clothes he owned besides his two sets of uniforms: a pair of black athletics shorts, gym shoes, and a black, tight-fitting tank-top. He threw his duffel down in the corner and immediately went through his warm-up exercises. The gym doesn’t stay empty for long and Kovan made the most of what alone time he could. Once through his warm-ups he started his routine with fifteen minutes of cardio on a treadmill.

Kovan wasn’t a security officer, but he worked-out like one. He was in impeccable shape, with defined muscles from shoulders to calves. Exercise wasn’t something Kovan would say he particularly enjoyed, but he dutifully stuck to the same work-out schedule for almost two decades. A kind of dedication he’s never shown anywhere else in his life but it was heavily motivated by a desire to survive so Kovan didn’t think it was particularly noteworthy. Weak people, slow people, unhealthy people, they tended to die young. Kovan didn’t want to die young.

Once off the treadmill Kovan started on the weights. This was the meat of his work-outs and after five minutes he was starting to work-up a sweat. Lifting weights was simple, and his motions practiced. His mind began to drift. NE Delgado can’t keep his mouth shut whenever the two of them worked the same shift. Maybe Kovan shouldn’t have responded but he wasn’t going to take Delgado’s passive-aggressive remarks laying down.

Kovan shook his head, and switched to the heavier weights. Delgado has been positively gleeful in disparaging him. His remarks especially cutting. . . Kovan groaned and pushed those thoughts aside. He hated how much Delgado has gotten under his skin. He hated that Delgado has said nothing that wasn’t untrue to begin with.

Kovan ch’Sirhc

Pawl walked casually into the gym in his small running shorts and black tank top, and tennis shoes, as he moved to the far side of the gym and started on some weight equipment there. As he stayed focused on the workout he was attempting to do for the day. as he moved through one set to another in his own little world of working out. He barely noticed another in the gym. He sent a polite wave and gave a thumbs up to the man. No matter what he was doing a great job with his workout a word was being spoken. He slowly dealt with his circuit of equipment as he moved slowly around the gym to take advantage of all of the equipment the gym had to offer. as he started glistening with sweat on his brow. It’s a shame there was no pool onboard. A refreshing swim would be great about now.

He moved past briefly by the officer doing their workout. As Paul gave a simple “hi!” as he moved to a set of doors to a lift. As it led to the running track to do some running before calling it a good workout for the day. As he took the upper skyway track that circled the main part of the gym, he could still see the officer working out from his vantage point on the upper floor. As he did several laps around the track.

Ensign Paul Knight - Jo Security.

Kovan heard when someone else walk in, but kept his head down and focused on his work-out, missing the polite wave and thumbs up. His mind was elsewhere. On finishing his work-out. One figuring out an insult to hit Delgado with the next time the man opens his mouth to make some dumb comment about Kovan’s work. Kovan didn’t care if people hated him. He didn’t care if he hurt their feelings. He cared when they attacked his work, however. That was the one thing Kovan gave his full effort and actually took pride in outside of his art.

“Huh? Oh, uh, hey.” Kovan said distractedly as Paul walked past. Kovan shook his head again. He was out of it today. Kovan went to bar weights, adding to each side until it was five pounds over what he normally lifted. Kovan wanted to feel the burn in his arms, to drown out the unwanted thoughts. He should have a spotter for this but Kovan continued regardless. He got through his first set of five lifts, took a 30 second breather, then started the second. It was on the count of ten that his hand suddenly seized. Radiating pain from the palm of his hand down to his elbow. “Gaah!” Kovan cried out as the bar slipped from his grip and smacked against the side of his chest.

Kovan swore in several languages and shoved the bar lopsidedly onto its resting point. He hissed in pain as he crawled from underneath and lifted his tank top with his good hand to inspect the damage done. A nasty and large bruise was starting to form just underneath his left pectoral.

Ensign Kovan ch’Sirhc, COMMO/ENGR

Alwyn was running around the track along with some other crew members, including Paul, which just arrived a few minutes ago. He wanted to keep himself in shape since on the last mission, he have been outrun by two little girls and his group. One of his team could have been hurt in the chase, and he wasn’t there at the time. He couldn’t let that happen again, so he trained his cardio. He even thought of weight lifting for a moment, but since he wasn’t a Security member, he had to train his leg first.

After the last lap, he stopped next to the track and drank a bit when he heard a metal clank along with an exclamation from the bar weight. He saw that one of the bar weight landed on someone under it, visibly in pain. He jogged to him since he was a few meters away, before reaching him : “Hey, are you alright ?”

Now that Alwyn was near to him, he recognizes Kovan. Trying to help him, he took the pole in his hands and struggled to put the other side of the bar in his resting position. Seriously, how much did he put on it ? thought the doctor. After a slow rise, he managed to secure the bar and make room for Kovan to sit.

Doctor Alwyn Yarwood - Ensign

Kovan bit back a groan as another spasm snapped across the palm of his right hand. He clutched at his wrist and waited for the spasms to die down. It took a moment for the pain to cool to a more manageable level. Experimentally, he tried to flex his fingers but they were slow to respond and resisted closing. Kovan heaved out a breath that might have been an aborted swear. “I’m fine.” He ground out, suddenly all too aware that he wasn’t alone and had a doctor breathing down his neck. “It’ll go away in a minute.” It was a bold faced lie but anything can sound like the truth if you say it confidentially enough.

As Kovan tried to get up, Alwyn put his hand on his shoulder to stop him. “Nuh-uh”, he said with a skeptical face. “That could have worked on someone else, not on a doctor. Take off your shirt so I can see it.” Clearly, he saw the little spasm his hand had, and wanted to be sure that everything was alright. You don’t just take a shock like that and walk away like it was nothing.

Expecting the engineer to be reluctant, he insisted: “Now.”

If he hadn’t just dropped half a bar weight onto his chest and had a working right hand Kovan would have snapped back with some kind of mean and sarcastic comment. But he did do those things and so he hesitated for a moment before doing as the doctor ordered and moved to awkwardly pull off his shirt with his good hand.

Roman wanted a little normalcy. So, as it was his normal day and time to be here, he headed to the gym. He wasn’t allowed jiu jitsu, it was too intensive. And judging by Grat’s warning of ‘no lifting things on duty’ weights were out of the question, too. He felt like a couch potato and he hated it. He was typically in good shape, not a bodybuilder by any means but certainly athletic, but currently that was not so. The definition to his muscles was beginning to fade. Maybe he could do something light, at least then he’d feel like he was doing something to maintain his shape.

Finally he settled onto the mat from which Rand usually watched him while she streched, with a couple of resistance bands and a PaDD with diagrams for stretches on it, and started working. It was a boring workout to him.

~ Lt Cmdr Alden, XO/CSO

Ensign ch’Sirhc, COMMO/ENGR
Ensign Alwyn Yarwood - Doctor

Paul finished off his rounds on the track. With little or no interruption from the others of the crew that came in after him. As he moved to the lift again and came back down to the main part of the gym as he felt invisible to the others as he moved towards the exit of the gym. He felt finished with the workout and he thought he had done well. He did not bother trying to make conversation or bother them during their workouts. As he slowly crossed the gym quietly.

Ensign Paul Knight - Jo Security

Rand was dressed in hip-hugger yoga pants and a compression tanktop and running shoes. Casual for her. She’d been wandering around the ship and finally had made her way to the gym. Her head still hurt, but the idea of going to the gym brightened her day. It was her regular schedule, wasn’t it? After a moment of thought, yes, it was, she was certain. Lost in thought she practically collided with Knight. “Oh, sorry…” Why was it so hard to remember names now? She clearly remembered giving him his tour…security Ensign, “Knight! Sorry En Knight. I should really look where I’m going.”

Yeoman Rand (concussion confused)

Kovan wasn’t pale by andorian standards, especially when compared to those with icy blue, nearly off-white complexions but he wasn’t at the opposite end of the spectrum, the deep and saturated sapphire blues that others boasted. Kovan’s complexion was near the middle, closer to the pale side of things. As such, the bruise forming below his left pectoral was vibrant and obscene. Flushed cobalt blue and rimmed by burnt lavender around the edge with a slight violet twinge beyond that. It looked painful. It felt worse. Kovan dropped his bad hand into his lap and openly showed his distaste at being ordered about and fussed over.

For what Alwyn saw, it could have been worse. The blood didn’t seep. That’s a good sign, he quickly thought. Still not looking good, but he would recover quickly with what they had on the ship. “We have to give you a scan. If you were human, I would have let you go, but I have to see if your exoskeleton cracked or not.” He took his towel and pressed it on the wound. “Keep it on firmly”, he added. “We don’t want you to bleed.”

He caught sight of Rand entering and frowned. Was she well enough to be exercising? He knew the XO should be taking it easy too but he wasn’t about to tell the man what he could and could not do.

Ensign ch’Sirhc, COMMO/ENGR

Alwyn also saw Rand coming through the door. He wasn’t on his case, but he knew she was at Sicjbay for a moment now. To see her outside of it so early was strange. Got to give a word about it to Haadok when I’ll see her. Thinking of Sickbay, he said : “I’ll give you a full scan at Sickbay. Shall we go ?”

(OOC : How about another Side Sim at Sickbay ?)

Ensign Alwyn Yarwood - Doctor

(Ooc: Yes! But Kovan’s not going to go without a fight first)
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Kovan bristled, figuratively digging his heels into the ground. “My exoskeleton is fine. I’ve suffered worse than this and walked it off just fine. I don’t need a scan.” He flinched at the press of the towel against the tender spot. That hurt. “I’m not bleeding!” He hissed, insistent and stubborn. Then, desperate to get the doctor off his back motioned towards Roman, “What about him? He’s only light weights and that looks like a heavy resistant band to me. Not really light weight, now is it?” Kovan won’t tell the XO what he can or can’t do. . but he will rat them out to save his own hide.

Kovan

Roman was working out pretty hard. He’d switched for a heavier resistance band and he was working his legs with it, breathing hard. When he heard Kovan’s words, he looked up and saw the Andorian pointing at him, directing a doctor’s attention towards him. What? No! “I’m not overdoing it. I’m fine. Focus on your own bruise.” He shot back, scowling. His statement was of course, just meant to deflect attention away. He was definitely overdoing it.

Roman heard Rand’s voice and looked up, letting go of his resistance band, which caused it to snap back and drop to the floor. Maybe she was just looking for him. He watched as she had trouble remembering Knight’s name and it made him worry, she usually never forgot a name. He waited to say anything to her, instead starting his exercises again.

~ Lt Cmdr Alden, XO/CSO

“Think nothing of it. yeoman rand.” Paul said with little emotion in his voice as he noticed her having trouble with his name. “Are you ok?” He stopped moving and waited for her to respond. noting a bit of concern. forgetting the others in the room. as he focused on her.

Lt Jg Paul Knight

The whole crew of course knew about her injury. It was hard to miss when her office got blown up, and then she’d was in sickbay for so long. She’d only just been released a few days before. She tucked her hands behind her back to hide the way she was ringing them; she really hated when people paid too much attention to her. “Tha. Tha mo chuimhne....” she stopped suddenly and took a breath and forced her mind to switch gears and gave an apologetic smile. “I’m trying to be. Sometimes my…memory still doesn’t work right.” Especially when she got nervous or tried too hard to remember things.

Yeoman Rand

Paul looked at her for a moment. “I am glad you’re doing well. Even with the odd moments.” He did not want to go too deep into her problems. “If you ever need to talk or just want company, come look for me. I know you are part of someone else’s life and I am not trying to interfere with that but we all can use friends or pals to listen to our problems…” Paul said kindly. “Well, I am off to get myself a shower and something to eat. Be well!!” as Paul started towards the door to exit the gym.

Ensign Paul Knight - Jo Security officer off duty

After Knight left, Rand stood there a moment looking both confused and concerned. Had she handled that situation wrong? The way Knight kept qualifing what he said told her that maybe she had. Was it just her memory messing up that had been wrong or something else? Her head was still too muddled for her to really figure that out, and trying to force her head to work only made her light headed and dizzy. So instead she decided to actually go into the gym and just walk around the outer edge. She was allowed to walk and this way she was in one place, right?

It was also common ship knowledge that an assassin had come after Roman and he’d been electrocuted in an attempt on his life. It was known and likely noticed that Roman had been off duty for a month, and still wasn’t back on bridge duty but was on other duty. It was the same reason Rand’s office had blown up, everyone knew they were engaged, so she had been a target too. The assassin had been caught recently. Roman was working on his exercises with the resistance band, switching to a thicker band, while he half listened to what Rand was saying. She was still having trouble translating, he knew that. He chose to keep working.

~ Roman

~ Roman

Rand stopped right inside the door watching the back and forth. Kovan was avoiding sickbay - normal. Roman was also avoiding sickbay - normal. Roman was doing more than he was supposed to - normal. Kovan threw Roman under the bus - normal. Roman and Kovan openly admitting they were in need of medical attention (granted to say the other was worse off, but still) - twilight zone. Kovan and Roman arguing over who was in more need of medical attention but with tones more reminiscent of loving siblings - Rand must have died or hit her head again. She was really confused and couldn’t make it make sense.

So she started walking, just focusing on walking and not trying to hard to make the puzzle pieces fit. Moving felt good, to get air in her lungs and stretch from where she’d been in bed for so long. It was meditative and she made several laps around the gym before she started to jog, slowly at first, but then she just kind of fell into the rhythm. Her head didn’t really like it though.

Rand


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