Posted by Lieutenant Mike Stone (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Engineering

Posted by Ensign Kristiana O’Larria (Engineer) in Main Sim - Engineering

Posted by Gamemaster Matrix (GM) in Main Sim - Engineering
Posted by… suppressed (3) by the Post Ghost! 👻

SNIP

Each of these people is in their own world. Tormented by what was. You must help them reunite to free themselves.

-Matrix

“So I have to play the healer? But do I do that?” She moved towards Mike and the man addressing him as Captain. “How do I make him understand it’s not real, and to stop punishing himself for… whatever it is he’s punishing himself over?” It seemed a bit crazy. Here she was, a ghost, having to help her crewmates face their ghosts in order to all come back to the ship where they were supposed to be.

Kristi
Engineer

Mike leaned over the console. He was glad he found it working. But as each second went by, his smile grew fainter and fainter. There were symbols he couldn’t identify at all. No instructions, nothing, to tell him where to even start. Perhaps someone set the LCARS to Klingon or Vulcan language?
Mike just watched the console, puzzled at what to do or where to start.

Lt. Mike Stone, CE?

These are not mere illusions. Your people require unity, so they can combat their pasts. It spreads from here to anywhere he can take it, but first you must show him that you live.

Ros leaned over to Mike. “What’s wrong Captain?”

-Matrix

The question echoed in his head. What WAS wrong? Nothing made sense. He gripped the sides of the console tightly as he concentrated on the swirly letters and simbols.
It made no sense, that he didn’t know any of these. True he wasn’t an engineer, but he studied hard. He worked as ensign for a year on the ship before he took the CE position.
There was anger in his eyes, and his knuckles started to turn white. “Kristi....” He said and finally released the console. “

He looked into her direction, where she still lay on the floor. Only her shoes were visible from here, just barely illuminated by his light and warp core. He needed power to call for help, teleport her, anything. And there were others as well. All without power, without sensors, without shields for protection…

He turned again towards warp core and the console in front of him.

“I am Lieutenant Mike Stone… Chief engineer on USS Viking!” He said with his powerful voice. “I got this!” He added and closed his eyes.

He felt the edges of the console, and imagined what it was supposed to look like. “Accessing main menu, initalizing main system reboot and level one diagnostics.”
He pressed where he remembered that the buttons should be.

The console began to chirp in response.

Lt. Mike Stone, CE

Show him that I live? She asked the ghost. Turning to Mike, she sighed and walked over to the console he was at. He had confessed he was no engineer when he had told her of his past. She glanced at what he was doing and reached a hand down to the console over his. If she could get the diagnostic to shift to the one that showed him the status of life support, first, perhaps he would realize ‘someone’ or something was helping him. If that worked, maybe she could get a message to him.

Without turning to look, she asked. If I’m not in his time, how do I get him back to mine? Do all those on this ship now reside in the same ‘other’ time? Or are they all I separate times?

Kristi
Engineer

The spectre turned its head and looked up towards the bridge. Someone new arrives. he turned back to Kristi. All you need to know is that you can be as real as the people they are seeing. This engineer, the Borg drone… you can supplant them by coming from the same place.

-Matrix

She didn’t understand. Not one bit. But the one thing that had stuck in her mind was you can be as real as the people they are seeing. “Someone new?” She frowned as the ghost glanced up thru the ship as if able to see past this room. Kristi followed his gaze and wondered who the ‘arrival’ was. “Can they help me? Or help them?” She pointed to Mike. She was going to have to be the benevolent ghost from the Christmas story she had learned about last year. Odd that having just heard it for the first time, now she was thrust into the same scenario. But how do you help people with their own personal ghosts?

She hoped whoever this new arrival was, they could help her out.

Kristi
Eng/ghost

Mike still battled with the console. For a brief moment he opened his eyes, as it felt as if something touched his hand. Lt. Ros was keeping his distance, and Mike didn’t notice anything else out of the ordinary…

Since diagnostics should be running, he decided to watch the console and see, if he can interpret anything.

Lt. Mike Stone, CE

Help them see that they are illusions of the past. Fuelled by fear and anger. This new one, she is on the bridge. Her mind is clear. She can help you.

Mike would see that the warp core had been forced into a low-power mode to avoid breach. With the breach averted, it was possible to bring the warp core back to normal output.

-Matrix

While the idea of leaving Mike was killing her, she realized now that the ship was her priority. “Ok,” she said and moved towards the door. “I’ll go to the bridge.” She glanced around and frowned. “How do I get the door to open?” The idea of being a ghost was still new to her and walking thru the bulkhead didn’t occur to her.

Kristi
Ghost Eng (and a bad one at that lol)

Mike first checked to see, what might have caused the breach. Even with the failsafes in place, it was usually smart to deal with the cause first or the same thing could happen over and over again.
Slowly he’d begin to bring the core from low-power to normal operating mode.

Lt. Mike Stone, CE

=/\= Bridge to Engineering. What’s going on down there? =/\= Came an unfamiliar female voice over the comms

-Commander Michelle Allen, XO