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Howdy Gorkonites!
Your favorite jeskla here to present the final winner's badge of the century! That awkward caving trip produced some top-tier Quote of the Month material, but only one could reign supreme...Sevo: I needed something pretty to look at and you look delicious all wet like that.Congrats, Sevo (on the badge and the relationship milestone)! Now, everyone go eat plenty of sweets and party like it's 2400!Cheers, y'all!-Eris/Meru- 2
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Tahna: Aw, he's cute. Are you related?
Loxley: ::grinning:: The boy or the lizard?@Hutch I guess the salamander does match @Bryce Tagren-Quinn's hair, huh? 😂
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Gnaxac: Then there was that t-t-time we had to disguise ourselves as an alien race. I was b-b-blue myself for a while. It’s not easy, b-b-being blue.
zh’Tisav: Actually, I find it quite enjoyable. You should try it with antennae, that’s the key. It completes the ensemble.
@Genkos Adea @Vylaa Gnaxac should try this, for science. Then we can have the tallest and the smallest Andorian! 😄
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Howdy Gorkonites!
In all seriousness, the holidays kicked my butt (who knew having more family meant having more family obligations? shocking, I tell you), so thanks for your patience on this delayed but well-deserved award. Y'all are the best, most talented crew (in my own totally unbiased opinion), and as has been said many times this week, I feel honored to write with you and call you friends.Now, I am proud to present the November winner's badge to our very own First Officer (writing as the lovely Meg Bendyn)...(Bendyn) She felt like a true engineer now, holding the most important tool of every engineer in hand. If something did not work, whack it with the wrench.
Congrats, Sami! Thanks for all your votes and wonderful wonderful quotes. Let's keep on laughing in 2400!Cheers, y'all!-Tahna Meru- 4
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Looking around at the excavation site in front of him, Rix blew out a sigh that could've sounded like a series of Bajoran curse words flying neatly under the radar. This was beyond what he'd expected when he'd woken up that morning, tumbled out of bed, poured himself a cup of delicious ambition to herald in the divine Tyrellian star-strewn sunshine with a shake of his bare backside to the glorious window, not afraid to let his freak flag fly…
…and received the call.
@Jo Marshall This deserves a spot in the Opening Paragraph Hall of Fame.
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Howdy Gorkonites!Another month has nearly come and gone, the year grows colder, the days grow darker (for most of us, anyway-- sorry Pira), and October's Quote of the Month competition has come to an end. As your friendly Quote of the Month Overlord, I am, as always, overjoyed to announce the winner and present them with a shiny new badge and ego boost. Without further ado, your October winner is...(Tahna:) They could sit in a circle, passing the dermal regenerator around like they were sharing a handle of Bajoran moonshine.Oh wait, that's me! Yep, you folks voted for it, and I am happy to declare myself winner of this never ever rigged competition. I guess people forgot to send in their bribes last month...Congrats, me! As always, hit me up if you have a quote to nominate for the November competition, and great work saving the Tyrellian system!Cheers, y'all!-Eris/Meru- 4
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He was also going to ignore the phrase “wet navy” as that brought inappropriate images to his tiny Ferengi mind.
Gnaxac, no! @Genkos Adea
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Is Sisko the correct answer? Yes.
...But grumpy old man Disco Bones has a special place in my heart. It's peak Bones, really.
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From an engineering perspective, it was a nightmare. From a logistical perspective, a nightmare. From a human perspective, a nightmare. From Doz's perspective, a bloody nightmare.
@Doz Finch lotta nightmares there, buddy. Good thing you're with a therapist!
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I'm not crying, you are @Alieth. What a beautiful sim!
Quote((Caves in the Forests, Rogue World))
An ally revealed as an enemy, Ark'Va unmasked as a Changelling and yet one oriented in the same direction as them: to prevent the planet's collision with the Tyrellian system. For the affection that creature felt for the planet they were on at that moment, for the people who had lived, and still lived, on it.
A strange behaviour, atypical for what the young Vulcan knew of their species, and yet consistent with the Ark'Va they had known until then. Someone in deep love with the place, someone who loved deeply the man who had occupied the hollow of the tree, and whose remains lay scattered, like glittering stardust, on the floor of the cavern. Not as a daughter loved her father, but as one adult loves another.
A dubious truce had settled into place as the Changelling, Ark'Va or whatever their real name was, answered the Starfleeters' questions.
Though the tree creaked quietly in mid-conversation, a plaintive groaning of a wounded and dying being, which subsided when Kelley laid a hand on the giant plant.
Once again, a twinge of guilt knotted at the bottom of the scientist's ribcage, where her heart nestled. Logic dictated that the substance that had stained Bear's fingers and that she had touched had played a part in it, a drive to replace a completed part with a dying tree. She knew that at worst her actions had only hastened the inebitable end of a life already consumed, the only possible outcome after the price Verne had had to pay for being part of all that. And yet... yet the guilt was still there, heavy and dense, echoing a thousand times against the two oaths Alieth had sworn and to which she had devoted her life.
Do no harm.
Kup-fun-tor ha'kiv na'ish du stau? Dom nam-tor vohris nem-tor ha'kiv.1
The knot thickened and she squinted a little. Still, when she spoke, she did not do so about the guilt that was gripping her. It was neither the time nor the place for illogical emotions with something greater than herself at stake.
Other people, other lives.
Not to mention a more important aspect of the mission they have come to accomplish.
Alieth: Just something. The colony, those who came here and those who were born here. They should have the opportunity to return to their former homes if they wish to do so.
Decades of training made her voice sound properly composed, politely emotionless, concealing the storm that lurked underneath.
Kelley: I'm afraid that will be your responsibility, Lieutenant. Not mine. I wish them a good life and, as you would say, prosperity.
The scientist nodded calmly, for there was logic in the woman's words, and then repeated the same gesture when she felt the counsellor's eyes fall on her, reassuring the Betazoid woman that this was the logical course of action to take.
Yet there remained something important that they had not dealt with, and something else, a sense of finality, of farewell. A something that the usually cheerful counsellor also seemed to perceive.
Fortune: …you sound as if you are…going to do something dangerous.
Josett: Response
Barely a moment later, Kelley took on that fluid quality, that blurred quality like a glitch in reality that Alieth had only witnessed in the tree's flashback.
It was more unsettling to observe it happening for real.
When the transformation was over, the one looking at them by the tree was no longer Ark'Va mas, but a middle-aged Klingon woman. There were, however, certain shared traits. A certain something in the blue of her eyes. The way she held herself. The strong delicacy of the curve of the nose. Familiar and shared traits, passed down from one generation to the next. Or would have done had circumstances been different.
And again, Alieth's heart toll with guilt.
Meanwhile, standing against the tree, the Klingon laid a hand on the bark, gently, as her eyes descended into its empty trunk.Kelley: Verne fought against the tree, against the planet, to bring it to a Federation world, to get the help he needed. With your memories, ::she glanced briefly to Alieth, then back to the tree,:: I shall be able to move us onward again. Somewhere else. Somewhere safer.
Alieth: Do not…
Josett: Response
The petite Vulcan held out a hand in front of her.
To stop the changeling, to stop her from… from what?
She herself didn't know. Whatever it was, it was to no avail, for Kelley, or whoever was the name of the person that had Kelley's face, stepped into the tree and took the place that Verne had occupied a few moments before.
Before either could do anything, the vines gleefully received her, and wrapped her in a loving cocoon. Like a friend who had been waiting for her for too long. Like Cheesecake did when she came in from a long, late shift and greeted her in the bed she had been warming up for them both.
Almost immediately, the rustling, the creaks, subsided. The pulse of the roots returned, steadier, brighter, more regular, more rhythmic.
Kelley: You need to go. I will do what I can to hold the planet back and reverse what has already been done.
And with that, she closed her eyes, embraced by the tree that had held the man she had loved, a sacrifice for what she or he or both had cherished, for what was and for what could never be. An ultimate selfless act. A chance for those left behind, for the officers in front of the tree, for those stranded there, and for the planet itself.
And so, there was silence. The respectful silence of a mortuary, of a monument to the fallen, of a cemetery.
A burial ground of mossy bones, of twisted roots and powdered crystals. A last light in the underground penumbra.
Alieth had rarely in her life felt what humans would call" to feel her heart break". Previously it had been sorrow that had caused it. Guilt had done it on that occasion.
She turned around, looking for something.Alieth: Wait, I have to…
She did not finish the sentence and, if she did, it was too quiet for the ears of those present to pick it up.
Josett/O. Marshall: Response
Fortune: She’s made her choice…and…it may be our only way out of this place, unfortunately.
She knew the counsellor's words were true, logical. She never ceased her efforts, however. A tricorder here, a science kit there, little by little she gathered the equipment that had been scattered around the area.
Not frenetically, not slowly either. Purposefully, efficiently.
Alieth: Just a moment, I only need a few minutes.
Josett/O. Marshall: Response
Fortune: We don’t have a lot of time until the planet moves again, do we? We’re working against two different time limits: whether the planet crashes or whether it transports away.
She was right, of course, but she had nevertheless cut up much of the medkit they had brought with them. She set several items aside and began to gut the others, checking both the standard tricorder and the medical one from time to time. Finally, she raised her eyes to the two intel officers.
Alieth: What could you do with this to increase the power reserve of a cortical stimulator? As much as possible.
Josett/O. Marshall: Response
Alieth: It will have to suffice.
Without giving much further explanation, she moved towards the heart of the tree and placed the stimulator she had mentioned on the ridged temple of the one who had been Ark'Va Kelley. She did it gently, respectfully. Careful not to touch the Changelling's skin or the roots that surrounded her, nor the sap that lined the inside of the trunk.
She directed the medical tricorder towards the device, syncing the two devices, then turned back to the others, slanted eyebrows furrowed with that dangerous determination she has not sparked since she began that mission.
Alieth: I will need you to recall your fondest memory. :: turning to Bear:: Your moment of greatest joy. :: Looking at Corliss:: The moment in your childhood that you treasure the most. :: Turning to Lena:: The moment you felt you were most loved.
Josett/Fortune/O. Marshall: ResponseShe moved among them, scanning them, while the tricorder screen superimposed the mental patterns of each of them.
There were commonalities. Beats, patterns, repetitions that the Vulcan's keen mind was used to searching for and figuring out. A blueprint of happiness.
Alieth: When Verne was in the tree, and we scanned him, the emissions had a pattern, that of a person dreaming. :: Long fingers slid across the tricorder screen, calibrating a synchronized pulse in the cortical stimulator.:: I cannot do anything for Ark... For the Changeling now, except make sure she has sweet dreams. Perhaps that will help us.
Perhaps that would assuage some of the guilt of her katra. Perhaps it would give the Changeling a dignified, happy end when the tree fially consumed her, if it did, her nature radically different from Verne's or any of them.
Josett/Fortune/O. Marshall: ResponseOne last time, Alieth scanned the Changelling, the tree, and the strange pulse it emitted.
Alieth: The radiation pattern is more coherent and synchronized than when we arrived and seems to be stabilizing. I presume we are good to go.
And true to her own words, she began to make her way towards the exit, turning her back on her companions.
Perhaps, with a slight moisture in the corners of her almond-shaped eyes.
Josett/Fortune/O. Marshall: ResponseOOC:
1 Kup-fun-tor ha'kiv na'ish du stau? Dom nam-tor vohris nem-tor ha'kiv: Teachings of Surak, Book 1, beginning of the eighth hymn:
As far as you are able, do not kill.Can you return life to what you kill?
Then be slow to take life.
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Lieutenant Commander Alieth
Chief Science OfficerUSS Gorkon NCC-82293
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Howdy Gorkonites, and Happy Halloweeeeeeeen!
I hope you're eating lots of candy (if you aren't, go do that now!) and enjoying our last day of October. As it is Halloween, watch out for jump scares and spooky happenings, and take care of your heart! Speaking of, I should present the winning September quote....Stoyer: Commander, if you could not give me a heart attack next time.
Congrats, Cory! Hopefully you'll make it back to the ship before Sami kills you...but if you don't, I volunteer Corliss to ouija-board you for your mission report. She likes that kinda thing, right?Cheers, y'all!-Meru- 1
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As a biologist, I love all of my animals. But I sometimes wonder to myself if any of them still remember that they used to be human.
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QuoteQuinn had spent enough time with Jo to recognise quite a few Bajoran curses. This was a mild one, in a situation deserving of swears which could curdle milk.
@Quinn Reynolds Remember, "It's still PG-13 if you cuss in Bajoran!"
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Congrats y'all, and welcome/welcome back to the Fleet! Exciting times ahead. 😊
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Howdy Gorkonites!Another month has come and gone, and another Quote of the Month competition is in the books (with next month's right around the corner, since the whole "getting married" thing set me behind a bit). Your outstanding senses of humor mean the competition is always tight but fortunately, probably thanks to mythreatpolite request, there was no three-way tie this monthso no one had to fight to the death for the title and badge, damn.Without further ado, I am delighted to present August's winner badge to our very own Highest Quality Counsellor Brain!(Fortune) Today was…Thursday, wasn’t it? Her sluggish brain sleepily opened its mental calendar with a yawn as she flipped invisible pages. Ensign Pobol had a session at 0900, Cheesecake needed to be dyed purple at 1000, Lieutenant Yarhal had awewapwa..weaewa…awepalwan…Congrats, Corliss! Still waiting to see Cheesecake dyed purple, fyi.Cheers, y'all!-Eris/Meru- 4
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Aw thanks! Can you tell I missed writing last week? (I really missed writing last week. 😆)
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You just beat me to it! Such beautiful writing and worldbuilding.
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Howdy Gorkonites!::Cue evil cackling.::It's been a hot minute since you voted on July's Quote of the Month winner, hasn't it? Have you been waiting with bated breath to see how this incredible three-way tie would be broken? I know, I know, the suspense has been terrible (did you hope it would last?).Well, good news at last! As your benevolent Quote of the Month Overlord, in my supreme kindness and generosity and thanks to my wonderful, giving spirit, I am pleased to declare not one, not two, but all three of the tied quotes as winners! Is it the wedding excitement getting to me, making me want to give back to folks, or is this just my innate perfection?Yeah, it's definitely my innate perfection. Anyway, I proudly present your July winners!(Fortune) Was…Was Quinn a dragon in disguise? No, no. …she would’ve said by now.(Tahna) Alieth wanted an explanation, not a sacrifice. …Probably.(Asra) oO If I could find where the field controls are, I could murder the entire crew by disabling.... oh,crap, I hope there aren't any telepaths in the crew. HI TELEPATHS I WAS NOT PLANNING TO MURDER THE CREW I AM JUST CONCERNED FOR SHIP SAFETY. OoCongrats folks! Enjoy your shiny new badges and bragging rights. And now Alieth can stop calling me terrible, since obviously, I am very generous and also, like, the best.Cheers, y'all!
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Tahna: I’m cross-checking the data we have with other rogue and recently disappeared planets. Honestly, how do you lose a whole planet?
Reynolds: The perils of failing to check down the back of your sofa. ::Dry as a bone. She shook her head.:: I don’t know. If it was in or near the Demilitarised Zone during the war, perhaps it escaped notice with everyone so focused on the conflict.
@Quinn Reynolds Sofas, man! They'll eat anything.
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Poll of the Month: New Year, New Me!
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I mean, I only joined Science for the cool tricorders, so obviously I've gotta swap to Medical now to get the coolest tricorders!