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Checking in with the Counselor

Posted Jan. 16, 2022, 6:36 p.m. by Lieutenant Eleyr of House Em'ujo (Chief of Keeping Our Brains Healthy (CNS)) (Trin S)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Alexander Slayer (Chief of Figuring Out The Galaxy (CSO)) in Checking in with the Counselor

Posted by Lieutenant Eleyr of House Em’ujo (Chief of Keeping Our Brains Healthy (CNS)) in Checking in with the Counselor

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Alexander Slayer (Chief of Figuring Out The Galaxy (CSO)) in Checking in with the Counselor
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(SNIP)

Eleyr blinked and craned her arm to coax the crumpet from her seat-side table. Shoving it into her mouth, she pondered the man sat before her. If he wasn’t a greenbloo– Vulcan, concern might’ve infiltrated her otherwise inimical expression. Fortunately, she was spared such shame.

“Do you like games, Mr. Slayer?” She asked somewhat abruptly.

— Eleyr, CNS

“If you mean like Holodeck or even card games yes I do play games quite a bit.” As he sat there there drinking earl grey tea. “I would also like to teach you something else that others play. Kal-Toh. It’s a Vulcan type game it does take a lot of patients and willing to teach you.” He also mentioned with a smile on his face.

Lt. Slayer

Thick, bushy eyebrows crept past her osseous crest in pursuit of her frazzled hairline. She tended forward, inspecting the man before her with grey saucers masquerading as eyes. What was that strange, serpentine arch about his lips? Were her eyes failing her, or was that content in his gaze? Dubiety bubbled in her belly, but it was no more unsettling than a Vulcan with a smile.

“Bold of you to think me a patient woman,” Eleyr released a hearty laugh. “But I accept your challenge. What does this ‘Kal-Toh’ require?”

— Eleyr, CNS

“Well counselor. Kal-Toh requires patients. A lot of patients. Believe me it maybe a little hard but it’ll be okay.” As he explained to the counselor. As he chuckled he also mentioned “it also requires a lot of attention and concentration with the game. Mind you it maybe difficult for beginners but easier for someone like me.” He mentioned.

Lt. Slayer

Elyer’s gaze wandered to consult the nearest chronometer. Then a wild, toothy grin spread across her lips as a hint of ambition touched her eyes. “Well,” she mused, “I have an hour until my next appointment. Do you have time for a little tutorial?”

— Eleyr, CNS

Slayer looked at her with a smile. He knew that she was gonna ask him about it and he nodded yes to acknowledge her that he was willing to teach her. “What would you like to know about the game?” He asked her.

Lt. Slayer

“Everything.” Eleyr deadpanned. “How do you play? What are the rules—the written and unspoken? What is purpose and the prize? If there is something to tell, tell it.” She got up to fetch a replicated version of Kal-Toh, allowing him several fleeting moments to figure out what he wanted to say.

— Eleyr, CNS

“Well counselor. The simplest way to say is with the rods that both people have will determine if you have placed them in the right way. It’ll create a shape and once the game tells you with a ping itll tell you that you have one. It’s a strategic type game.” As he looked at her with a bit of blushed red cheeks and smiled.

Lt. Slayer

Your face reminds me of gagh, Eleyr thought to mention his blush. Setting the game atop her scarred table, she refrained long enough to plop onto the cushion across from him. “Excellent,” she waved a taloned hand wildly at the pieces, “care to demonstrate your skills?”

— Eleyr, CNS

“Of course counselor,” he said as he set up the game “so you see these little rods here?” He asked the counselor. “As you play, like I said it takes patients. It’s something everyone has. As a Vulcan, this game is to focus the mind and clear yourself from other things around you.” He said as he explained.

Lt. Slayer

“Patience is a virtue some of us tend to neglect,” Eleyr snickered and peered at the tiny metal rods. “Alright. Rods, clear mind and patience.” She lifted her gaze, excitement touching her pale eyes. “What do we do with them?”

– Eleyr, CNS

“So the rods here counselor is the things you place into the object. It creates the object to make it into a perfect shape.” He said.

Lt. Slayer

Eleyr furrowed her eyebrows until they resembled a woolly bear and coaxed a metal t’an into her taloned fingers. “Huh,” she breathed as if surprised the jumbled display hadn’t collapsed like a warped rendition of Jenga. “So…” she wiggled the rod, “we take this from the kal-toh and place it…” she tended forward to tentatively nudge the piece into a spot near the base, “…back onto the display until it makes some kind of design. Correct?”

— Eleyr, CNS

“The last part is correct. The rods we have sitting on the table in front of us we place those in. It’ll start to build it up to the design that the game is designed to make.” He said.

Lt. Slayer

“Got it,” she grinned and nudged a t’an closer to the Lieutenant, “your turn.” Eleyr tipped back and stretched to snag her mug from the table, but left her PaDD. “What about Kal-toh fascinates you, Slayer?”

— Eleyr, CNS

As he places his rod in the game he then looked up at the counselor and says “well the game doesn’t fascinate me, it just keeps my mind in check. It’s all about the patients and it takes time. The game has been in the Vulcan ritural (at least one of them) to help calm ones mind”. He said.

Lt. Slayer

“I see,” Eleyr hooked a t’an and regarded the chaotic Kal-toh, “and what leads your mind astray?” The Klingon toyed with the rod before carefully repositioning, but her efforts were met with a far more disharmonious figure than before. “Better put, why do you need this game?”

— Eleyr, CNS


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