driftfleet | Captain's Log 04 - Laughter Is the Best Medicine

Who: Kirk + YOU!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Tourist if you want to come find him
When: Nov. 19

Hello, my fellow Drifters. For those who don't know me, I'm Jim Kirk - captain of the Tourist.

It seems like everyone's been kind of down lately, so I thought we might try something to lift the mood. They do say laughter is the best medicine after all.

_{[ He's totally expecting Bones to have a quip for that. Just waiting for it. ]}

So I thought I would start with a story from my early captain years on my ship, the Enterprise. Specifically, how I actually got on her in the first place.

Short backstory short, we were being mustered to see to a distress call from planet Vulcan, only I had been grounded due to some technical, ethical review business. Insisting I needed to be on the ship, I found our newest senior medical officer, Bones, and he agreed to help me on.

How, might you ask?

Well, he proceeded to inject me with a vaccine for an alien disease I did not need, and it temporarily made me ill. I am told I looked and sound loopy and or terribly drunk. Well, Bones got me on and took me to med bay to undo the damage of the vaccine by injecting me with more of them. To which I had delightful reactions - passing out, numb tongue, and my hands swelling. And when I say swelling - I mean they looked like cartoon gloves on a friendly animated character kind of swelling. It was like having two blown up surgical gloves for hands.

_{[ He waves his hands up in front of his face, back and forth, to help you visualize of course. ]}

It all turned out okay in the end, but that is the story of how I first got on the Enterprise - which I am now the captain of.

_{[ There's an upbeat message beneath that, surely. ]}

Now - who's next?

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Ahh, so you were cocky. Yeah, that makes sense.

[ nodding. ]

This is where I point out my girlfriend doesn't give me this hard a time. [ s i g h ] Jim, we'd love it if you hang out with us, completely adult free, but you don't get to complain if anything goes boom.

I would argue, but at the time - very true.

No, she gives you a hard time about other things. We split duties, you see.

_{[ He's joking. ]}

Thank you for the invite, very kind of you.

I always knew you guys were in cahoots.

[ no really, sometimes it almost feels like they share a brain, jim would mention something and kitty would press the point, or the other way around. ]

You should have known that from the start.

_{[ Not really, but eh, he's about playing it up - why not? ]}

And this is why Cisco and Hank are easier to hang with.

Now now, you know I do it with love in my heart.

Sorry bro, still not my type.

[ are you really sure you love him? he's kind of a brat. ]

It's all right, I've gotten over my crush.

I think that calls for a drink. I've got some fun projects to tinker with too, wanna join me?

[ he's working on a few silly fun side-projects at the moment, to keep his mind from going anywhere too dark with all the recent disappearances. ]

Yeah, sure, why not. But I'm bringing the drinks.

_{[ He doesn't trust your alcohol judgement yet. ]}

[ what, he's got good whiskey! but he's not about to complain, means he won't have to replenish his stash. ]

Go for it.

Right, I'll come by in a bit then.

You know where to find me. [ salute ]

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