driftfleet | attempting to engineer new things doesn't always end well

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attempting to engineer new things doesn't always end well

Who: Ezri Dax and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Caprine
When: 6/5

[Awhile back, she'd toyed with the idea of building a replicator in the hopes of making clothes and more palatable food available to the fleet. And it had taken since about then for Ezri to find all the parts she would need. It might not be incredibly efficient at first but she could improve it gradually once she finished.

Off and on over a couple weeks, she worked at it in the cargo bay and, today, she turns on her communicator with a smile.]

I've been working on a little project lately and I should finish today, I thought I'd share my progress.

[She sets it down, tilted towards the device she's working on and gets back to work. About ten minutes later there's a loud BANG and the immediate area starts filling with smoke. She's quick to smother the cause and then mutters a curse.]

I've been a scientist and and engineer- that should have worked.

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[Don't judge her.]

I'm alright. [She lets out a cough and waves away and lingering smoke.] It sounded worse than it was.

[ He'll judge her any time she does something worth judging. ]

I'm not sure I'm reassured.

[ Kai studies her. ]

So what made that seem like a good idea.

[Rude.]

I've been involved in worse.

[She takes a breath and hen lets out a sigh.]

The food. I thought it might benefit everyone to have something more... palatable.

[ He's very unsure about all of this. ]

I hate to say it, but I think your cooking skills need even more work than mine do.

[She really has experienced worse! Maybe not as Ezri...]

I'm not a bad cook! [She does laugh though.] Luckily, we only would have needed to program recipes. If this had worked.

Oh.

[ He considers that for a moment. ]

I'm grateful you're not trying to feed us wires. How was it supposed to work?

It would have converted matter of one type into food or clothes. Mostly food, being the priority.

That sounds...a lot like magic.

[A little smile and:] I once heard that magic is science we just don't understand yet.

Sounds like magic, doesn't mean it is.

[ Kai's skin usually knows the difference. ]

Magic's definitely real though.

We don't have magic where I come from. At least, not on worlds we've managed to discover. I obviously can't argue about your world.

Yeah, well.

[ Kai gestures at himself. ]

I'm Elfin. Magic's pretty normal, even if I can't do it myself.

Elfin?

[She's met Maglor, luckily, so she's not as skeptical as she could be.]

It must be pretty amazing.

Hah. [ His tone is wry, rather than amused. ]

Not really.

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