El Sal Mission 9.1: Tenuous Talks

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=^=Main Engineering=^=

Lieutenant James Fire approached the console as he read through the report on the flux in the power grid once he stood next to him he would sit the PADD down and bring up the power grid on the display. "Ensign O'Hare I don't think the power flux is coming from the propulsion systems. It's coming from some place else." He pressed a couple keys zooming in on the small bleep. "Ah its coming from holodeck one, but the reason is unknown."

Ensign O'Hare nodded, "I see that now sir. It seems to be coming from the power coupling alpha three three theta."

"Isolate the flux to prevent the entire system from failing. Reroute power from that power coupling into its backup." He then tapped his commbadge, "Lieutenant Fire to Captain Savot, sir there seems to be a power spike in one of the power supplies going into Holodeck one."

<tag savot>

Ensign O'Hare moved his fingers bringing power from the first coupling into the backup, however he noticed that the power flux in the original supply did not go away. "Sir I've fixed the problem, but it is a temporary fix."

James nodded, "I am aware of that we will need to take a team to the source and replace the power supply."

=^=Holodeck One=^=

Ty Knox watched with a great amount of amusement as food items flew across the holodeck moments ago he'd been struck in the chest with gravy and mashed potatoes. He noticed that Beverly had been covered in cake and ice cream. He crawled across the floor coming towards Commander Jackson and flinging a slice of cherry pie right towards her.

<tag cmdr jackson>

[kratak]

He smiled a very big smile when he saw Commander Hope, yet he couldn't understand why people were laughing about being covered in food. He was more shocked when he Commander Hope spouce laugh when he was covered in cake icing.

" Commander one of these days your going to have to explain what is so funny about being covered in food. It would appear Commander Jackson has started a food fight its bad enough the food isn't served alive and to throw it at people. Your spouce is now covered in cake frosting and laughing about it. While I try to inprove my sense of humor I don't find any in this instantce." <Tag Hope>


" Oh by the way its good to " he thought about choosing his words carefuly as not to offend her " Its nice to be in your company again its hard to come across people who earn your respect and trust. It has realy been to long in my book my time on the home world was very upsetting I fear with out changes our empire will slowly start to fall" <tag Hope>

[SA. Stacey Jackson [Ret]]

A pie flew at her and splattered across her chest, exhausted she fell to the ground and panted as she lay on the grass absolutely covered in foods of all different kinds of variety. She smiled to herself at the absolute ridiculous state everyone was in and the foolish behaviour that adults could engage in.

Getting up on her knees she bellowed over the laughter and screams of joy and amusement.

“Alright people… settle down… we have had our fun.. and unfortunately it is time to get cleaned up and back to work… and if anyone asks we have a in depth discussion on the uh… political ramifications of intergalactic governments.. if people knew we did this for fun they might start thinking us a bit odd.”

Stacey smiled again as she wiped cake from her face and hair.. “Dismissed.. and don’t get food all over the carpets.. they are a pain to clean.”

Watching as the group dispersed the more ‘dirty’ of them using the site to site transporters in order to not get the ships floors dirty and the cleaner ones simply walking out.

Stacey herself being the most covered of anyone stayed behind and did her best to scrape to food off, it seemed the crew found it lethargic to hurl things at an authority figure, she thought to herself ‘probably best Savot didn’t come after all’

Stacey spotted S’reena and sighed a little Wolf’s last request buzzed in her mind, then she grinned as she walked over.

“S’reena.. umm Colonel Wolf requested this of me and before I do it let me remind you striking a senior officer is a court martial offence.”

Without much warning Stacey embraced S’reena in a hug and in the process transferred a lot of the food to her, she stepped back. “he was quite insistent I give you that hug… the fact I am covered in food only sweetened the deal.”

Stacey grinned as she tapped her comm.. badge and said. “Computer Activate program Jackson five.”

A second later she vanished in a transporter beam back to her quarters.. partly not to get the ship dirty and secondly to escape any possible retort from Hope.

<Tag All>

[kratak]

He was laughing hard after he saw Commander Jackson hug Commander Hope and cover in food. Either Commander Jackson was the bravest first officer he had ever met or the most foolish. Still it was pretty funny and now he was getting what a food fight was about.

"Commander Hope I want to thank you I now realize what humans find so intersting in food fights." He back up a comple of steps to make sure he was out of her reach he had no desire to feel her reaction with physical contact

[Savot]

[Shortly before the Food Fight begins]

Just as the credits were rolling on the film in the Mess Hall, Savot's commbadge gave a soft chirp, =^=Lieutenant Fire to Captain Savot, sir there seems to be a power spike in one of the power supplies going into Holodeck one.=^=

Gently extricating his arm from beneath Yarna's head and moving his beanbag chair into place to assume pillow duty, the vulcan moved off to the side to reply so as not to disturb any of the drousy young, =^=Understood Mr. Fire; remove all non-essential objects from Commander Jackson's program to reduce power draws to minimum. When the party is over cut Holodeck 1 off from the rest of the ship's systems and perform a full diagnostic on all of its systems. Just because the measurable impacts are in the power grid does not guarantee that's where the problem originated or the only component that's affected. Thank you for informing me, Savot out.=^=

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A rousing game of hide-and-seek then took place in the Mess, Savot making it a point not to be too simple or difficult to find. The goal was to amuse the children and constant defeat was disappointing, but to not even try would be insulting to the kids as though suggesting they weren't capable of finding their quarry by their own merits. Clearly in the limited space of the Mess and with the Captain and EMH being larger than their competitors the children were quite satisfied with their proportions of victory.

At one point, the Doctor 'cheated' and reconfigured his holographic matrix to resemble a normal object within the room. However, as Miss Kahlan stood apart from the games and was helping to begin the clean-up of the various paper dessert plates... a garbage can was not the wisest choice of disguise. The Doctor reverted to humanoid form and could of course adjust his force fields to allow all the garbage to fall through him so as to avoid actually getting covered in trash, but there was now a sizable pile on the floor underneath him.

Before Savot could utter a chastising comment about the EMH's ill-fated ruse, the Doctor merely tossed a broom at the captain while equipping a mop for himself and as they began to clean the floor the EMH cynnically muttered, "Chim chim cheroo..."

Over the next hour and a half each of the children began to get picked up by their parents/guardians, the earliest of which appeared to have copied the EMH's earlier trick and gotten covered in varying levels of sustenance. The later couples were pristine though Savot noted differing hairstyles in some of the females as though they'd changed following the party. The vulcan refrained from questioning the oddities for the present time, merely handing back the children with a polite bow of his head and assurances that they had behaved most admirably.

In the end the Hope children were the last of the 12 remaining, and Savot permitted the Doctor to transfer his program back to sickbay, leaving the captain with the 5 children until the Hope parents came for them. Savot felt no impatience for their return; however, and contented himself with inquiring as to the subject matter of Lady Kahlan's book she'd been reading and asking Miss Yarna if the afternoon was to her satisfaction.

(Will be putting up the next thread either later today or tomorrow, but will leave this one open for a few days so people can make any final comments they need/want to with regards to the parties. Hopefully it was somewhat enjoyable and didn't just bore you all to tears.)

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S'reena wasn't sure how to respond to the hug; it was the last thing she had expected. Michael laughed at his wife's appearance, while doing his best to remove the remnants of food from her clothing. "You are quite welcome, Mr K'ratak," the Romulan replied stiffly, before crossing the distance between them and taking the Klingon into a hug. Auric chirped merrily, seemingly approving of the response.

"There's no Mr Wolf to return the hug to, but as he was the senior marine, and you are now, I suppose it befalls to you now. Just do me a favour? Don't try to pass any special weapons to me. I can make do with what exists, when I need to." She pointed to Auric. "I have my familiar, who will learn to aid me when she matures a little."

Taking Michael's arm, she nodded towards Stacey. "Thank you for an interesting evening commander," she said solemnly, though a smile played around her mouth. "We'll go pick up our children now. I hope they didn't give Savot too hard a time."

Michael chuckled. "I doubt it. I bet he was the one who had a great time." He smirked. "I know you can't see it, but he truly does like children. At least, that's how I see it."

A few minutes later, the couple walked into the mess hall, pleased to see their youngest three fitfully asleep. Yarna looked a little sleepy as she sat on the beanbag beside Savot, but she had a very pleased smile on her face. Kahlan looked awake and alert, eagerly chatting to Savot about the book she'd been reading.

"I take it you had no trouble with them captain?" S'reena asked politely, as Kyala was handed to her.

[SA. Stacey Jackson [Ret]]

The transporter beam did it’s job and seconds later Stacey stood in her quarters, and was about to collapse on her couch when the realisation she was still covered in food crossed her mind, she sighed and pulled off her uniform and quickly got in the sonic shower.

After stepping out perfectly clean she pulled on a robe and walked back out into her main living area, about to again sit down on the couch this time she stopped as she heard her door beep.

Sighing yet again she stood up straight and said. ‘Enter.’

The door slid open and in stepped a young woman Stacey only recognised in passing, from the astrophysics department if she wasn’t mistaken.

Stacey stepped forward and said. “Come in excuse the robe.. if you give me a moment.. take a seat.’

The young lieutenant nodded and too a seat on the couch as Stacey stepped back into her bedroom and pulled on a clean uniform, unfortunately she had not yet replicated and spare red ones other than the already soiled ones, so she settled for a teal uniform.

She walked back out as she said. “would you like a drink.. Lieutenant.. you will have to forgive me years of being an instructor have left me with a terrible ability to remember names.”

She smiled as she said. ‘Coffee please Ma’am and it’s Rachael Mays.’

Stacey ordered a cup of coffee from the replicator as well as a Vulcan spice tea, returning to the couch and the coffee table Stacey placed the cups down and said. “Please lieutenant despite regulations on how to address command officers Ma’am makes me feel old, and despite my old uniforms being the only wearable ones right now Counsellor is no longer an option so.. Commander will suffice.”

She grinned and said. “Of course sorry Commander.”

Stacey tapped Mays knee lightly as she said. “Nothing to be sorry for.. not you fault I am so vain.. so what can I do for you today is this an official visit or personnel.”

May’s squirmed uncomfortably for a moment before saying. “well both.. you see five years ago.. I was stationed on earth and I met my current boyfriend.. he is a doctor in Starfleet medical.. anyway now we want to be assigned to the same place.. but his commanding officer doesn’t want to let him go.. apparently he is just to good to lose.”

Stacey nodded slowly. “Well if he can’t leave why don’t you request to go back to Earth?”

May’s shook her head slowly and replied. “Well my career is in space.. and it needs to be, so me and Elliot decided it would be best if he joined me here.. but as I said before that is proving hard.”

Again nodding Stacey said. “And you want me and Captain Savot to pull some strings scratch some backs.. and get him here.”

May’s smiled slightly as she nodded and said. “Well the Captain is a squad Commanding Officer and.. I once overheard you say you worked in the academy for years and know most of the Admirals on a first name basis.. perhaps Captain Andrews owes you a favour or something.”

Stacey raised her eyebrows. “Doctor Chris Andrews?... old Captain spit polish himself.. well I will talk to the Captain and see if we can get your doctor here.. we need more doctors anyway… so at least this way there is a more than just a personal reason for his move.. and if ‘Spit polish’ thinks he is too good to lose.. that’s more proof for me that he is good enough to get.”

May’s practically jumped up and said. “Oh thank you Ma’am.. how can I ever thank you.’

Stacey stood up and smiled herself. “my pleasure and helping the cause of true love is all the thanks I need.” Smiling as she watched May’s walk out Stacey then sighed, she had no doubt Savot would be all for adding another doctor to the crew but Captain Andrews was the most annoyingly possessive person Stacey had ever encountered.”

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=^=Understood Mr. Fire; remove all non-essential objects from Commander Jackson's program to reduce power draws to minimum. When the party is over cut Holodeck 1 off from the rest of the ship's systems and perform a full diagnostic on all of its systems. Just because the measurable impacts are in the power grid does not guarantee that's where the problem originated or the only component that's affected. Thank you for informing me, Savot out.=^=

"Understood." James replied, "Ensign O'Hare monitor the holodeck once the party has ended terminate power in the backup power coupling." He said and would begin running the diagnostic on the entire system.

"Sir, the party has ended, terminating power to the back up."

James nodded, "Very well Ensign lead a team to the panel next to holodeck one." He said. "We will determine the cause quickly and get the holodeck back on line." He replied and watched as the ensign vanished. James finished the diagnostic without any readings aside from normal. "Perhaps it was simply a burn out?" He said to himself quietly and would disappear in his office. "All engineering senior staff report to my office right away." He said over his comm badge and would sit back and relax for just a second.

(Will continue this post in the next mission thread)

[kratak]

The color ran from his face if anybody could tell, he didn't know quite what to feel. It wasn't the fact Commander Hope gave him a hug just that she was covered in food. He took a moment and thought about and started to laugh. " I will have to remember to thank Mr. Wolf if I ever run into him again. As for special weapons don't worry commander they wont come your way unless asked. Although I do have a idea for your pet no weapons I promise or cameras. I was thinking of fashing a little harness that could support senor gear. Nothing heavy of course just simple senors fed back to your tricorder. It would increase the range but I would never do anything with out asking first."

"Besides I have no doubt in my mind you can take care of your self. Why else would you be brave enough to get my uniform dirty." He started to laugh again " Think about my suggestion if it does not suite you then nothing shall be done" <Tag Hope>

"By the way I think you now owe Commander Jackson let me know if you need any help with that little joke"