Mingle-ingle

[hollystrike]

Who: Crew and guests of the Vanquish
Broadcast: Probably not!
Action: Vanquish
When: The month of June


[It's been a while since we've had one of these! With two new crew members, it's probably time.]

Comments

[oratorical]

Communications. Though I've met another on board who shares the same augment.

[Which means it's harder to try and throw herself into whatever she could find to do with this augment with someone sharing the work.]

[hollystrike]

May I suggest talking to some of the communications officers on other ships? Many of them have been around for quite a while, and I'm sure there's all sorts of ways they find to occupy their time usefully.

[She'd outright say what comms officers can do, but it's kind of difficult.]

[oratorical]

[Leia nods. It's a solid enough idea, and if anything, just asking the other officers is a task to do in and of itself.]

Which augment do you have, if I can ask?

[hollystrike]

I'm not sure of its name, it's rather vague. A therapy augment? [She smiles wryly.] I have my own office and everything.

[Leia's likely seen it in passing. It has a The Doctor is IN sign a la Lucy from Peanuts.]

[oratorical]

[There's a slight look of recognition at that, because yes, she has seen that sign, not knowing exactly what it was for before now.]

I imagine that keeps you busy in a place like this.

[hollystrike]

It can do. Press gang victims tend to need therapy by default. I keep it as a blanket fort sometimes. [Grin.] Depending on the age of who's visiting.

[oratorical]

[Well that's. An interesting use of an office. And also brings a troubling thought to mind, as well.]

Are there that many children on board?

[hollystrike]

One or two. I suppose children suffering don't actually make good ratings for our universal viewers.

[oratorical]

[Leia nods, glad to hear that answer. Not that one or two isn't still too many, but at least there aren't too many children here.]

At least there's that. Even the Atroma have their limits, it seems.

[hollystrike]

[Katie first came here as a child. Some of the residents have trouble seeing her as older than nine.]

I'm sure if the audience enjoyed it more they'd have no scruples. But really, one or two children as the mascots who need to be protected seem to be a quota for them.

[oratorical]

[It's not a mindset Leia likes, but she can see where Katie's coming from. Again, she frowns.]

There aren't children on our ship in particular, are there?

[she hasn't seen any, but again it hasn't been long. And children are small and easy to miss.]

[hollystrike]

If there are, they've been awfully quiet about it. I think there was a little girl called Dorothy a long time ago, but she's long since vanished.