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[notanoptimist]

Who: Leonard McCoy and ota
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: on the Marsiva
When: Oct 29, morning

[McCoy has a blanket wrapped around his shoulders when the broadcast flips on; he's still cold, by God, and he's not above looking a bit silly in an effort to warm up. There's unoffensive music playing in the background and McCoy's eyebrow is fairly twitching in time to it.]

Two questions, for whoever's listening. [He's read everything he can get his hands on, but some things are better from people he can actually question. He holds up his index finger.] Where in the hell are we? I can't make heads or tells of what I'm seein' here.

[He holds up a second finger.] Where can I get a drink? Doesn't have to be good; it just has to burn.

[These are important things to know.]

Comments

video

[notanoptimist]

I was hoping for 'em. I'm a doctor, not a navigator, but maybe I could come up with something if I had coordinates.

[A vain hope, apparently.]

I'm not eating that. Hell, no.

video

[poked_heart]

[He feels your pain, man. He really, really does.]

I hate looking at it, too. But unless your ship has food on it, it's all you got. Unless you can bum it off of someone else. Or from the station we're currently docked.

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[notanoptimist]

Ugh. [That face he's making tells it all, man. Not happy.] I thought food on the starship was bad. I take it all back.

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[poked_heart]

Yeah, I'd take the worst fast food flop over this shit any day. [God what he wouldn't give to see a piece of processed chicken right now.] And not a damn pizza joint to be found, either. If you ever wanted to go on a diet, now's the time.

video

[notanoptimist]

Yeah, I didn't. Not much of a choice, I guess.

Name?

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[poked_heart]

But now you're going to have the starved-looking bod of your dreams.

[Dry sarcasm. So much dry sarcasm.]

Dante. And you?

video

[notanoptimist]

What I've always wanted.

[Sarcasm for sarcasm, man.]

McCoy. Uh, Doctor McCoy, so, you know, if you manage to half-starve yourself, I may be able to help.

video

[poked_heart]

Dante. Hilariously, they think I'm a doctor, too, as I got assigned to lab support. [eye roll. Just, why?] Anyone comes to me for help, I'm pointing them to you.

Re: video

[notanoptimist]

Yeah, you go right ahead. I'm vaguely surprised I was assigned to lab support. Knowing my luck, I should have been piloting.

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[poked_heart]

...they might have done that because they assigned me - and fuck knows who else - lab support. I don't think these assholes are in the business of having people die at the hands of idiots like me who aren't doctors.

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[notanoptimist]

It just seems practical to want to try to keep at least most of the entertainment alive, yeah.