It's time for your monthly Capringle Mingle <3

[moonofmylife]

Who: All Visitors and Crew aboard the Caprine
Broadcast: n/a
Action: Yeah!
When: Now

[Monthly mingle for the SS Caprine, get.]

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Kai Gracen | Open

[halfbloodhatchling]

[Kai is content enough to spend a good chunk of his time in the armory but as much as he's generally a solitary enough creature, the fact is that he lives on a spaceship instead of in a warehouse with only a cat has changed his habits.

Sometimes, he's in the kitchens, muttering out a curse after trying some of the food available, or working on the grip of the gun in his hand, or doing pushups in the open space he can find to try to keep himself in shape.

If he spots someone else around, he'll cut off what he's doing.]

Don't think we've met yet.

You crew on this thing?

[notanoptimist]

[It's in the kitchen where McCoy stumbles across Kai. He sympathizes with the sentiments about the food, by the way, but it's the coffee that draws him this time.]

Yep. [He props his hip against a counter, cradling his coffee in both hands.] Doctor Leonard McCoy. I've only been on board a week or so.

[halfbloodhatchling]

Kai Gracen.

[Kai ponders for a second then opts not to offer his hand out, since the doctor's hands are occupied.]

There anything around that's actually edible?

[notanoptimist]

[He nods once, his version of 'nice to meet you,' before he snorts at the question.]

It's edible. It's just not very pleasant.

[halfbloodhatchling]

It's only edible if I can manage to choke it down.

You said you're a doctor, right? You don't need to worry about me if I get injured.

[ Kai is too used to human doctors refusing to treat elfin to hold it personally. ]

[notanoptimist]

[That certainly wasn't what he expected to hear. McCoy raises a brow, lowers the coffee cup he'd been about to take a sip out of.]

That's not the first thing potential patients usually say to me.

[halfbloodhatchling]

Most hospitals aren't equipped for elfin, in my experience, and if it isn't going to kill me than I can probably heal from it.

[ Yeah, breaking bones again when they heal wrong is a pain, in the literal sense, but when it's what needs to be done then he'll deal with it. ]

[notanoptimist]

Most hospitals don't have me. [He snorts, takes a sip of his coffee. Elfin's a new one, but... Well. The Federation isn't exactly lacking in non-human.] Doesn't mean I can't help. I'll learn what I don't know so don't give that load about not being equipped.

[halfbloodhatchling]

[Kai lifts an eyebrow, leaning back against the wall.]

Wasn't really expecting can't. I'm expecting won't.

I heal quickly, so usually it's as much a matter of making sure wounds heal cleanly or cutting out anything that shouldn't have been there. I can do that myself if I need to.

[and if he's not passed out. That usually adds some difficulty to the mix.]

No matter what, don't give me anything with iron in it.

[notanoptimist]

[Cue a brow furrow. 'Won't?' That's a word that says a hell of a lot, in McCoy's (oh-so-humble) opinion.]

I'm a doctor. That means I treat who needs it. [It's a touch harsh, as if he's personally insulted by the insinuation that he wouldn't. (He's not.)] What else should I know?

[halfbloodhatchling]

Magical healing is more common with my people, but I don't recommend that for me.

[Being rejected by both healers and doctors is a life he's used to. At least the healers have a good reason, since he tends to make their skin crawl.]

I don't think there's anything else. Not sure what all medication works on me, but alcohol's fine as a painkiller.

[notanoptimist]

I tend to keep a bottle of something handy anyway. Never know when you might need it. [Purely for medicinal purposes. Purely. Completely.]

Why wouldn't I use what normally works on your people on you? [Not even gonna touch that 'magical' thing. He's pretty sure there are rational explanations for most things, but that's not an argument he wants to get into either way.]

[halfbloodhatchling]

I take it there are ways to get that for general use too?

[ Though given the state of the food, maybe that's a poor assumption. ]

I'm not normal elfin. Doesn't really matter until you go expecting a healer to deal with me. I'm not imagining you'd use magic anyway, so it doesn't matter.

[notanoptimist]

Oh, there are ways. As long as I have ways to keep it stocked, it's available. [Sometimes, he needs a bit of 'medicine' to get through a night.]

Uh, no. Purely conventional medicine for me.

[halfbloodhatchling]

There ya go. There anything else you need to know?

[Kai's face is unfriendly enough to indicate that a 'yes' isn't what he's looking for right now.]

[notanoptimist]

[Yeah, he sees that.] I'll let you know if there's anything we didn't cover when you're injured on my table.

[halfbloodhatchling]

Let's hope we all remain uninjured.

[It's a good hope, at least.]

[notanoptimist]

That's something I hope for every day.