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[notanoptimist]

Who: Leonard McCoy
Broadcast: Yes! Fleetwide
Action: Caprine/Solace
When: Friday

[There are days when McCoy would gladly turn in his lab augment for an engineering one. After practically picking apart the Caprine and then putting her back together bolt by bolt (with a lot of help from actual engineers out there, thanks) he's about ready to airlock himself.

He's a doctor, not a goddamn mechanic. It's like learning anatomy all over again, except this time he doesn't understand a single thing. Glory be, at least, they've finally graduated to trying fix the many issues in non-essential systems.

Like the kitchen, where McCoy is now making sure it all works again, after having spent hours trying to put it all back together. Spoiler: it doesn't go well. That's why he's waving away wisps of smoke and coughing a bit when he addresses the Fleet.]

I need an engineer. Again. [Sigh.] I'll pay you the going rate. Come on over to the Caprine. It's the ship in the most pieces over here. [There goes more credits. Everything exploded again. Someone just... put him out of his misery.]

[private comm to Beverly Crusher]
[So he's starting to regret thinking that someone should put him out of his misery. Really coming to regret that.] Hey. We need to talk. Let's meet somewhere.

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audio; private

[dancingmd]

[Well that doesn't sound concerning at all.]

I'm here. Can you meet me on the Iskaulit? At the surgical center?

[Since well... the Blue Fish is in no better shape than the Caprine. Not much privacy there with all the work that's going on.]

[touchallthebooks]

I, ah, I would offer to help but this is more something the gnomes would gleefully dig their hands into.

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[recipio]

[ Hey, McCoy, what's up? ]

I'm not an engineer, but I can do some maintenance stuff?

[passingthrough]

I'm not an engineer, but I could come over and look into minor repairs. Do you need some money for repairs?

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[briste]

[ an engineer, you say? well! ] Something in need of repairing? I could come and take a look, see what I can do. [ he's almost certain there's something he can do, regardless of what it is, but he just doesn't want to sound overconfident ]]

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[exothermia]

[His own ship repairs are complete, and he'd rather be occupied with something useful than not.]

I'm an engineer. What do you need?

closed || Beverly and Jim

[notanoptimist]

[The bad thing about all this is that McCoy can't just hide away on the Iskaulit until they leave Solace. The Caprine still needs a few repairs and he still needs to buy parts - which means he has to tempt fate by walking around in plain sight. He tries to keep to the crowds, tries everything he knows to at least not walk into anything blindly, but these people he (attempted to) fleece are apparently far less worried about being inconspicuous than he is.

In hindsight, he shouldn't have been startled when, in the midst of a crowd, someone sidled up to him and the business end of a weapon pressed up against his ribs. A few quiet threats and a few shoves and he had no choice in accompanying his companions.

This... this is likely not going to be fun.

It's another two hours before he's expected at the surgical center on the Iskaulit. He won't be there. Sorry, Bev.]

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[bythewaves]

I am no engineer but I can fetch and carry as well as any, if you need. [ Maglor offers ]

Or I can share some of the terrible stuff that Master Lannister and I discovered at our previous stop. I still have a spare bottle. It's green. [ And very, very, alcoholic ]