Denali Station quotes that have a nice Ring to them.

[Dekas]

@John Kendrick I mean at least he's honest with himself 😆

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He looked down at his glass of champagne and wondered how many languages he'd be speaking at the end of the night.

 

oO Probably just gibberish. Oo

 

 

[Dekas]

@John Kendrick I know it wasn't a literal fourth wall break, but it really bordered on it. Like I could see him looking into the metaphorical camera at everyone as he realizes what he said. 

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Kendrick: Congratulations everyone! Now let's party like it's 2399. ::pauses, realizing:: Yeah I know.

 

[Dekas]

But also @TLea's reaction to Dekas and Yael is very funny. 😆

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The colorful feathers and the colorful hair flew around, and honestly, T’Lea couldn’t look away.  The two were obviously having fun shaking and gyrating to the music, but T’Lea’s very Vulcan eyebrow was at the full height of “that is not logical”.

 

It’s not that they were dancing badly, it was simply the fact that she’d never been a witness to such a display of rhythm before.  It was fascinating, somewhat comical (seeing as how they were both clearly drunk), and slightly disturbing – yet she couldn’t look away.

 

But she had to look away, or at least blink before her eyes dried out.

 

 

[Dekas]

@Tomas Falt "an entrance to Sto-vo-kor" I literally snorted laughing. 🤣 I love it when Tomas really lets himself get sassy. Best.

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Falt: ::tapping the units case:: Sorry to keep you all waiting. I figured we might need this since we’re going underground. ::mocking excitement:: Who knows what we’ll find down there? Secret tunnels? An entrance to Sto-vo-kor?

 

[Dekas]

@Jaelyne Isa This gets a mention very specifically because of the image and thought it gave me afterwards. Which was a chuckle. I'm pretty sure this grouping is going to be the most colorful team on accident. We've got Counselor Yael with his purple colors, we've got Neshala with her Orion green, and of course we've got Dekas. AKA: Rainbow Bright: Bird Edition. Like we're set. RGB crew represent. 😉

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Her green skin tended to attract enough attention as it was. And besides, the Counselor’s lavender hair would make a nice contrast to her green color.

 

[Dekas]

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Kettick: Do you mean the directional sonic generator, Sir? Very useful for mapping undeground spaces via echolocation, and as a deterrent for voles and various rodent and insect species as a side effect. Also highly painful to Ferengi, not that I expect an underground battle against Ferengi in the immediate future.

@Kettick says, while also playing a Ferengi MSNPC for this mission, actually, so who knows. Maybe that's hilarious foreshadowing.

But also

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Kettick: I may have been partnered with Marines a mission too many, but I believe the jocular saying is “there is no such thing as overkill, just ‘open fire’ and ‘time to reload’ ”.

I'm wheezing. I love Kettick's way of existing with my entire soul. He really just says what he's thinking and it's almost always comedy gold on accident. 🤣

[Dekas]

@Jaelyne Isa I love Neshala. I just do. And you have to love a faulty replicator. Those things are never working the way they should, I swear. Ops and Engineering really have their work cut out for them. 😆

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Neshala: Anyone thirsty? Barric, Dekas?

 

Dekas / Barric: Response

 

Neshala: I need to test it. Thought we might all enjoy a refreshing drink at the same time.

 

Dekas / Barric: Response

 

She ordered a glass of cool water for herself, along with drinks for the other two. Satisfied that it was working, though the taste test remained, she took the drinks to Barric and Dekas, then took a long swallow of her water.

 

It did not taste like water.

 

She quickly, and as politely as she could manage, returned the liquid to the glass and then looked apologetically at them both.

 

Neshala: Welp. Seems like I have a bit of fine tuning to do.

 

[John Kendrick]

Loved this bit of dialogue from our favorite Aurelian officer Lieutenant @Dekas.

Wise words indeed!

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Dekas: Agreed. Don’t feel too bad about any of it right now. There is an odd sense of impostor syndrome to one’s first real mission. Up until now everything in the academy was primarily simulations and theoretical scenarios. They were examples of things that other people did in their situations. And you swear to yourself you’ll remember those things in the moment, but you rarely ever do in the way you expect. It’s never the same as something you’ve read before. It makes it easy to think to yourself that you got a degree for this, but feel as though you tricked everyone to get it because you’ve only trained up until now. Confidence comes with experience, and even then sometimes it can falter. That’s normal, and it’s okay. It’s part of the ongoing learning curve. You can’t truly improve without mistakes to learn from. You’ve got this, and I trust that.

 

Edited September 21, 2022 by John Kendrick
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[Dekas]

@Kettick is unendingly funny at all times.

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And, without deviating from his usual character enough to warrant the sentence with an exclamation point, he thought: 'Oh no, not again.'

 

[Dekas]

@Marcus Barrick I somehow missed this one yesterday when I first read it, but upon reflection I had a very mature little giggle about this reading it again. 

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Barric: ::Turning to Neshala and playfully smirked at her:: How did you know that's what I was gonna do? Though I will probably start with the beds, that seems to be the most likely place to put a 'surprise' for someone

 

He put the word Surprise in finger quotations, hoping that the other two would know what he meant by the finger gesture.

 

 

[Dekas]

@Tomas Falt Love the visual of "I'm going to whistle to give them something to follow" but instead they have to follow the coughing.

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Falt:  It’s definitely thinning out, follow the sound of my voice. 

 

He began to whistle a tune for his friends to hear, but it quickly turned into a hacking cough.  

 

oO I suppose that will have to do… Oo

 

  

[Dekas]

Our newest Ensign, Vermillion Vox over here with the fantastic descriptions of things out the gate. "Surfboard in space" gives a good visual and a hilarious energy for the opinion about the trip to the station. Love this one already.

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Now, her orders had said to jump on two transports, a small shuttle, and what she could only describe as a surfboard through space, to arrive at Denali Station. 

 

[TLea]

@John Kendrick  That's it.  You're not allowed to touch anything else.

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John reached out his hand and tapped on the glass.

Kendrick: You think this will hold? 

As he tapped the glass one last time, John squinted his eyes as it seemed there was a hairline crack forming.

oO Oops. Oo

Kendrick: ::turning to the others, slightly worried:: That crack was already there, wasn’t it?

 

Edited September 25, 2022 by TLea

[Dekas]

@Ashley Yael I'd still bee interested in seeing that lol 🤣

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Mostly he was just glad he didn't have to do an introductory dance like Earth bees did.  His dance accent would bee atrocious.

 

[Dekas]

@Oddas Aria You know, Ton is right. We should schedule these types of emergencies better. 😉

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Ton: Possibly, but in fairness, you are slightly early and emergencies do not always happen on schedule.

 

[Dekas]

Once again our newest ensign, Vermillion Vox, deserves a mention. Because Vox is turning out to be a super excellent writer and we're lucky to have them.

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When she had received her orders - which seemed like years ago at this point - all she knew about this place was rumors.  Rumors of the excitement.  Rumors of the ancient technology.  And rumors that there weren't enough Starfleet officers and personnel to truly contain the place.

 

No one said it was a warzone.  No had said anything negative at all.  But the sideways glances on the way here said enough: everyone was glad they weren't ordered here.  Everyone was glad they got to sleep just a little more safely than wherever she was going to end up.

 

That's a beautiful set of descriptions. But also from the same sim.

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Vox: Reporting for duty.  One bona-fide medically medic, at your service.

 

She paused, staring at Hesan.  Whatever had just come out of her own mouth was baffling.  It hadn't sounded like her.  Way too colloquial.  Way too perky.  Amidst the smoke, destruction, and debris, had she decided to be the ray of sunshine?

She shivered just thinking about it.  Time to focus on what was happening next.

Gotta love a "wait why'd I do that?" moment.

Edited September 28, 2022 by Dekas

[Dekas]

@Kettick I love when you write things. There's always at least a small zinger somewhere. And honestly your Ferengi writing vibes are where it's at.

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Yhanne: What was that?

 

Kaybay did his level best to look innocent, an endeavour doomed to certain failure from the start for any Ferengi worth their latinum.

 

Kaybay: Your guess is as good as mine. You are the local, after all.

 

 

 

[Dekas]

@Kettick is at it again with the excellent narrative humor.

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Falt: I think phasers might be in order now? Set to stun first, in case it’s a sentient species…

Yes, it would be a shame to accidentally set their phasers to ‘hurt their feelings ‘. Kettick shook his head to erase the intrusive thought before concentrating on his brute-force program, trying to input some sequences by hand on a separate program to try and scrape a few seconds of so precious time.

 

[Dekas]

Vermillion Vox is very quickly getting up there on the list of people who have managed to get a good chuckle out of me in every one of their sims, I swear. She might have only laughed internally, but I laughed externally.

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Vox: My eyes are peeled.  Like an onion.

Vox laughed internally at her own dumb joke.  If she continued like this, her new crew might force her to take mandatory counseling.

 

[Dekas]

"Like meatballs?" The best universal constant. @Kettick 10/10. I can't. There are actual tears of laughter. 🤣

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Kettick: ... The burrower in me doesn't complain, but are crawlways an universal constant, in your experience, Sir? Like meatballs?

 

[Kettick]

1 hour ago, Dekas said:

"Like meatballs?" The best universal constant. @Kettick 10/10. I can't. There are actual tears of laughter. 🤣

 

I know I already made that joke once, but I'll keep sneaking it in until it sticks. 😋

[Gogigobo Fairhug]

Love this imagery from @Kettick 😂

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The turbolift ride was representative of its species, with a Security officer who tried to look anywhere but in Kaybay's general direction while keeping an eye on him, and muzzak that was probably in contempt of several galactic regulations for the humane treatment of sentient beings.

Being blessed with large ears and near-absolute pitch was... not a blessing in the circumstance.

 

 

[Gogigobo Fairhug]

👀👀👀🤣👌🏻 @Tomas Falt

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All the extra words and descriptions sometimes left her feeling like she was in a story being told by other people. 

 

[Serala]

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Oddas: Starfleet does not exempt anyone from regulations, and we don't generally tax when people visit our facilities.  I'm not an authoritarian.  Don't blow up our buildings, and you won't have any problems with us.  Co-inhabit peacefully and we'll tend to have a long relationship.

Says @Oddas Aria to the Ferengi arms dealer and Cardassian extremist on the heels of a building exploding and collapsing for unknown reasons. 🤣

[Serala]

Have to add this with the one above. It's just too much 😂

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Oddas: Yes, I know in addition to providing supplies, there has been talk of officer exchanges and more.  However, before we can finalize those plans the Daimon has touched on one thing, we do need to ensure no one is bringing anything into the city we don't want.  I am not authoritarian, but I did have a building collapse this morning, and do not wish a repeat of it, especially with less than ::beat:: well known visitors coming to visit.

She glanced at the Feringi.