[Sickbay]: Round 21 Scans and Vaccines

[ten_fwd_npcs]

If this is your first trip to Sickbay, you may be surprised to see that it's a fairly ordinary-looking hospital. There are no terrifying devices or humming machines you might see in a sci-fi thriller. The biobeds along the walls are equipped with biofunction monitors, but look fairly standard. Instead of silver trays filled with metal tools and sawblades, there are an array of small devices that look as harmless as cell phones. As for the staff, they're all well-groomed and friendly — even the more unusual aliens.

If you're new to the ship, no doubt you've been escorted here by the security team. Nothing to worry about, the doctors just want to make sure you aren't carrying any viruses or are vulnerable to terrible space disease. Once you've been checked over — a quick scan from a tricorder and any necessary vaccines — you'll be free to go. Lollipops are optional.

"All right, step on in," one of them calls out as you enter. "Don't be afraid. It's just a scan and a hypospray, nothing to worry about."


[ooc: Sickbay is, as always, OTA and open until the next one goes up for latecomers! For new characters: tagging isn't mandatory but IC going to sickbay is. If you'd prefer to skip threading with one of our doctors, you can handwave that your character got a clean bill of health and a shot and were sent on their merry way. There will be a post up in the OOC comm shortly with more details about Sickbay and which doctors are on deck this month, if you have any questions.]

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[prefers_magneto]

"You'd been running without it longer than I had. With added effort."

Maintaining her 'public' face.

He scoops some eggs onto his plate.

"I suppose today should be spent figuring out how...getting on a planet works and which ones are good. I wonder if there's some...equivalent to a library."

[anexquisitecreature]

"My hair does take a lot of work."

A joke, of sorts.

Also, steak. That's going in her belly before anything else, and he's an excellent roomie for ordering it. Points to Erik.

"Probably," she replies after a mouthful of delicious cow. How a thing in a wall got perfectly cooked steak is a wonder not of this world. Literally. "Given how many people are here from all kinds of other places, it's probably like a cruise ship in some aspects. There'll be amenities. Or an information kiosk."

[prefers_magneto]

"Do you think they'd take it personally if we asked their...information person which planet would be good to live on?" he asked. "Thanks but no thanks for your hospitality, but we like showers with water?"

[anexquisitecreature]

She shrugs, waiting to finish a mouthful of steak and tomato while adding eggs to her plate before she speaks.

"Too bad if they do," is the straightforward reply. "Just because they dragged us here doesn't mean we've completely lost our autonomy. There are probably enough pissed off passengers that the question probably isn't that rare."

[prefers_magneto]

He shrugs a shoulder in concession.

"We can give it a try," he says, scooping up a forkful of eggs himself. "In the meantime, we can see what supplies we can secure from the machine to take with us and work on training."

[anexquisitecreature]

There's a glint in her yellow eyes as she smiles at him across the breakfast table.

"We're here a day and you already want your ass handed to you."

[prefers_magneto]

"It makes the unfamiliar feel familiar," he pointed out.

[anexquisitecreature]

"So you're saying I'm a comfortable old t-shirt, is that it?"

Her grin doesn't disappear despite the eggs and steak that make it past.

[prefers_magneto]

If only she'd consent to be so close.

"I didn't use the word 'old'," he teased back. "But if the shoe fits..."

[anexquisitecreature]

They were pretty close for that sunrise.

"Oh, I see. Old and a shoe. You're so charming, all the time!"

[prefers_magneto]

They had. It stoked a fire he'd been trying to suppress.

"I'm known for it," he says with a smirk.

[anexquisitecreature]

She's sorry she's not Other Her.

"Yeah, I've heard that."

Another bite of breakfast, and she adds, "But training is a good idea. I have no idea what being in space will do to our bodies."

[prefers_magneto]

He doesn't want her to be sorry. He doesn't want her to be Other Her either, but he doesn't know how to show her that.

"They have gravity, so maybe it doesn't, but better safe than sorry."

[anexquisitecreature]

He could use his words. If he wanted. He might also have to use his courage, but it's a delicate sort of subject and anyway, she's completely avoiding the whole topic, so.

"But it's artificial, right? Is it even the same? There are people from other worlds here, too - what if they're not versions of Earth? What if it's a sort of..." she pauses, thinking, "...I don't know, average gravity?"

How does gravity even work like that, really? And shouldn't it be based on spinning, like the world does? Is the ship spinning? Will they know if it is? It's too early for this. She needs coffee.

[prefers_magneto]

Words are hard to say and easy to discount.

"Average gravity? If it were very different from Earth, wouldn't we feel it?" he suggested. "We'd feel extra heavy or we'd float a bit when we walked."

[anexquisitecreature]

They are. She hasn't used hers, either, so they're probably even and will have weird, awkward thoughts at each other for the rest of their adventures.

"I don't know if we would," she replies after a moment. "I mean, what if we're already acclimated? What if-- ah, I don't know enough about it. But artificial anything isn't good for a body, in general. I'd rather be on a planet, even if it's not ours, than floating around out here."