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nightmods ([personal profile] nightmods) wrote in [community profile] nightlogs2023-08-09 09:33 pm

SLEIGH BELLS RING ❄ MINGLE


SLEIGH BELLS RING


Those that escape from the theater all seem to come out through the same doors. When they get there, they can see that the theater isn't actually a building. There's only a free-standing set of theater doors on the playground. At the rear side of them is a brick wall.

Those that exit will find they can't re-enter.

None of the humans have seemed to notice the door or them, even those driving by.

Not everyone escapes at the same time. It comes in fits and starts, them filtering of the theater. Some can walk out mostly unharmed, some limp out, some come out supporting each other.

What they find outside is... uncanny. There in the playground is a massive sleigh, but one that looks not-exactly-traditional, with equipment and boosters that look almost like a mix of technology and something magical.

It's been expanded into many carriages, almost like a roller coaster. Harnessed to it are eight massive reindeer, champing slightly at their bits. It appears the people that attacked and created the theater are at least long gone. That means that as people slowly filter out they can check up on each other, provide first aid, and reassure each other.

OOC DETAILS

Status effects: Any injuries or damage that happens to a character will stick when they leave the Multiplex. That means that someone that gets facehugged by a facehugger will have an alien larva problem that may be causing some serious indigestion soon. Anyone that gets Borg-nanited through the neck will start having the nanites take over them. However the myth healing will slow these processes down until they can get to the Pole, and there are magical means at the Pole to help the characters survive this.

First Aid/Other Supplies: The sleigh will have magically anticipated their needs. While it won't have the antivenom for Kaa because only a magical plant that grows at the Pole can cure the bites, it will have plenty of well-stocked general first aid kits. Applying first aid can help the myth healing heal someone more quickly and is important for injured characters that opted out of the myth healing.

Timing: People can bendytime the timing of when their characters have escaped to play in this and "Let's All Go To The Movies" at the same time. People can also intro here late if they need to wrap some things up in the other post first.

Intro: Players can use this post to intro instead if that's their preference. You can just assume your characters had to run from scary things in the theater and either handwave their circumstances, or assume your character found a way out more quickly than others.
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[personal profile] boldboimler 2023-08-14 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
[His response is to get a little angry. Because he doesn't want to have hope just to have it crushed. He doesn't want to feel that kind of awfulness. He wants to try to stay in the moment and revel in what tiny shreds of individual consciousness he has left rather than having hope, and then having it squeezed out him like he's a sad, spent tube of turbolift lubricant.]

[He gestures wildly to the sleigh.]

Okay, what, are we going to ask Santa for a cure to Borg assimilation?

Maybe see if the Easter... [He digs for old Earth folklore. A lot of the classic folklore characters around the holidays waned in popularity after many many world wars] wombat knows how to restore someone's individual consciousness?

Let's face it, we're probably multiple worlds away from anyone that can help me. So we just have to be pragmatic here and figure out how to handle...whatever comes next.
Edited 2023-08-14 07:18 (UTC)
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[personal profile] starfleetashell 2023-08-14 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Good - well, goodish, because nothing about this situation is good - he's moving, he's talking, he's not just moping around and waiting for death.

(For a brief, fleeting moment she has the silly thought that his experience in the simulation had taught his immune system how to fight the nanites. It doesn't make any sense, but nothing makes sense right now.)]


I don't know! [she says angrily, because the last time she asked Santa for anything it had been a Toby the Targ holoprogram.

Then she sighs, feeling the fight go out of her.]
I don't know. [And admitting that stings. Mariner doesn't want to let him just clock out, becoming Borg Drone #291,019,818,103,661 or whatever. She's running through everything in her head, but she's coming up empty on every single possibility. There has to be a way out of this! Kirk wouldn't give up, Picard wouldn't give up, Janeway wouldn't give up! And if their positions were reversed, Boimler wouldn't give up on her.

Keep him talking. Same principle as not letting someone who's been hurt really bad lose consciousness. As long as he's talking, as long as he's here, he's still Boimler.]


So, okay, I know about the holocubes now. Anything else?
Edited 2023-08-14 07:38 (UTC)
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[personal profile] boldboimler 2023-08-14 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
Please delete all my holoprograms except maybe Crisis Point II. [Tendi definitely had enjoyed it.] There are a few new chapters Tendi hasn't played through yet.

[Whether she'd want to or find it too sad is up in the air but he likes to think his friends might enjoy one last little bit of fun left behind for them. Someday when they feel up for it emotionally. To make up just a little for things like all the missed future Bat'leths & BiHnuchs games.]

I don't have any, uh, you know. Stolen crew member appearance. Kinds of things?

But I also don't want anyone from Ops accidentally seeing any of those while deleting them.

[There's nothing sexy or anything and any of the romantically-inclined ones got deleted after enough teasing about girlfriends you could only meet on the Holodeck, but there is a lot of embarrassing wish fulfillment fantasy. He didn't go full Barclay, but he went at least, like, halfway Barclay.]

[Please, best friend, delete his internet history.]
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[personal profile] bestbrotherever 2023-08-14 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like- a lonely life. I hope you will not be overwhelmed- by so much company.

It is- harder than my previous life- as a prince of Asgard. But the wandering, in my own universe, was my choice. It has been only a few years, the mere blink of an eye for us.

[Why does he? He pauses while he thinks about it, ignoring the sneers from the hallucinations.] It- is one of the few titles I may still fairly claim for myself. [One remaining point of pride.]
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[personal profile] starfleetashell 2023-08-14 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Sure thing, bestie. Your browser history is safe with her.]

Yeah, okay. Consider it done.

[It looks like she's wrestling with whether or not to say something for a moment before it finally bursts out of her.]

I'm sorry, Boims, I should have been faster, I should have noticed that little ankle-biting weirdo, I should've been able to stop this!

[Mariner doesn't cry, as a rule, not in front of people, but there's no damn point in trying to have that tough front now. It didn't mean anything. Not when it got your best friend sentenced to a fate worse than death and you can't do anything about it!

She hunches up small, her knees drawn close, unconsciously mimicking Boimler's position. She rubs the heel of her hand into her eye, wiping away the tears, almost as if she's trying to put them back where they came from.]


I'm sorry, Brad.
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Re: OTA, cw: mild body horror

[personal profile] ferengineer 2023-08-14 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Nog had never had to face the Borg outside of simulations. He'd even avoided the Battle of Sector 001 due to having transferred to DS9 for his work-study period right before the Borg struck.

He has no expertise to offer here but he's still the ranking officer here. He needs to do something.

Scans. Nog had ended up with Boimler's tricorder in the escape. He might not be able to save Boimler, but more information on the Borg might be able to save someone in the future.

It won't be enough to erase the guilt of letting someone get turned on his wat- okay, what the heck is this?]


Alright, I'm an engineer, not a doctor. But these readings don't make any sense.
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[personal profile] boldboimler 2023-08-14 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She's crying. Oh that is - no he does not like that.]

[He doesn't like that at all.]

No no no no. No. Mariner.

[He takes her by the shoulders, forcing her to look up at him. It's not an easy thing to do. His right hand is starting to cramp up as something is built from the blackened veins there. Probably assimilation tubules. He tries not to flex the knuckles too much, worried he might spring them and accidentally assimilate her or something. Fortunately, they don't feel anywhere close to complete.]

I missed him, too. It was dark and - and we were outnumbered. And we had to try to keep the Borg from escaping and getting everyone else.

[They had an objective they were focused on. It wasn't easy for them to meet it. Some other officers might have all wiped out completely, victims to the advancing horde. Especially after having to run around inside a terrifying maze fighting monsters and taking on injuries. They'd been exhausted by that point.]

[And they had done it. Trapped a whole contingent of Borg before they could cause more harm.]

[Judging from the people around them - and the increasingly larger crowd - it looks like they had mostly done a good job of it. Sure, people are hurt, and some seem like that have snake bites that are poisoned? But he sees only one other person so far that might be suffering from assimilation, with the blackened veins at his neck: the guy with a cape he'd met earlier. Not really any others.]

[That unit of Borg drones had been big enough to assimilate the entire group.]

[It's not shocking, though, that there were at least a few casualties.]

[But that's all logic. Logic doesn't matter here. Logic doesn't matter in the face of the people who have left Mariner behind. Or treated her like a problem, not seeing the good in her. Or died right in front of her.]

[He's come to understand more and more that even her completely unhinged behavior comes from a place that's different than he used to think - that many used to think. Even all her annoying the crap out of him over Barbara had been obsessing over him not getting his face eaten like one of her other friends.]

[Instead of seeking comfort, he pulls her into his arms, comforting her instead.]

Beckett, I -

[She's far more likely to Brad him than he is to Beckett her, but it feels like he should. Calling each other by last name is officer stuff, comrade stuff. This is best friend stuff.]
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[personal profile] boldboimler 2023-08-14 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
[...It is best friend stuff.]

[And it isn't his best friend stubbornly telling him to fight for himself that makes him want to fight harder. It's Mariner, curled up like a small child and crying. When she's always a total badass. Mariner, who probably needs him to stay on-balance as much as he needs her to - especially here, in some awful situation in another universe.]

[Where his face looks past her as he hugs her, his expression changes. Eyebrows furrowing, lips pressing together.]

[No. No, it's not going down like this.]

No. No, you know what? No.

[He draws back to face her. He'd assumed this meant death. A death of a sort. Probably a physical death when someone inevitably mercy kills him. But he won't be dead-dead unless someone decides to make him that way and people have gotten disconnected from the collective before.]

The Borg aren't actually here. They were just some kind of...construct, right? Even if they made real Borg nanites. There won't be a - a vinculum. A central plexus. No hivemind, no Collective to connect to.

[Less infrastructure that would utterly subsume him.]

I'd need something to act as a regeneration alcove if I wasn't attached to the Collective, but the lieutenant is an engineer. Maybe he can figure something out, even with this era's technology. Or figure out a way to put me in some kind of long-term stasis.

[Hope. He digs for it, digs deep. It can be found, though. It's there. Perhaps not in that he'll somehow not be changed. Maybe it can be found in being changed back.]

Even if he can't set up some kind of stasis, you could just do something to restrain my hands so I keep my little tubules to myself and chain me up in a room somewhere. [The Borg implants that arise from the nanites would nourish his body, especially if they could find an alternate energy source for regeneration.] Until there's a way home. Then back in our universe everything can be removed.

And - and disconnected drones have regained individuality more than once, right? Even before we get home, the process would probably start because I wouldn't be connected to the Collective. Because there'll never be any other voices. So maybe it'll be easier to try to find my own again.

I've been myself a lot longer than I'll be a drone, even if we're stuck here for a while. That usually means a faster recovery, a - a more complete regain of someone's old personality.

[So what if it'll be awful. So what if he'll suffer (in a way he's already had an unpleasant taste of.) There is still an actual future to be had. There's still a chance he can dig his real self up again. There's a chance he might get to see the people he cares about as himself. Even if it it shatters him at the start, he at least knows there will be people there hovering around with adhesive, ready to help him pick up the pieces and put himself back together again.]

[He knows if Tendi and Rutherford were here, they'd be saying the same thing, they'd be insisting there's hope just like Mariner just had. He can imagine Rutherford talking about success rates in removal of most implants and how any left can be safely integrated into daily existence. He can imagine Tendi telling him that his friends will be there.]

[Just like Mariner is here right now. Just like he knows she'll be there until she can kick his butt right through some kind of dimensional door back to their universe someday.]

[He shrugs haplessly, tears in his eyes, but it isn't empty platitudes. This is real and he just dug it up for her. Just for her; she's the only one he probably could've managed it for.]

I can just...Picard it up.

[It's bad enough she's had so many friends leave her behind. He's not forcing her into leaving him behind.]
Edited 2023-08-14 10:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] boldboimler 2023-08-14 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Sir?

[After talking with Mariner, after trying to dig for something, anything that could resemble hope, he's able to not just sit there paralyzed.]

They don't make sense how?

[He knows a lot about the Borg. Since they're one of the Federation's worst threats he's gone a lot farther in researching them an drilling against them than some.

[If he was going to be captain someday, especially of a capital ship, it's all something he might need to know.]

[So if there's something off...he might know what it means. Or at least what it doesn't mean.]

[And maybe if it's off there's hope. Some way things are working differently. His physiology changed in this place, right? It hadn't occurred to him right away, but what if it's altering the behavior of the nanites?]
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[personal profile] ninjavampire 2023-08-14 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
…What? No, I’m not talking about the cat paws. I was expecting you to grab one of these-

[ gesturing at some of the cotton wipes in the kit with the non-clawed hand. He reminds himself she is a creature of the Pre-Modern and balked at the smell of alcohol like it was her first time smelling it.

Is he going to have to explain Germ Theory today? He takes out a second little bottle and sets it upright in the kit.

In a very deadpan tone:
]

Okay, this is an antiseptic. You wet the cotton with this and pass it over the cuts. The alcohol spray works too.

That’s how people in this era usually dress wounds to prevent infection, yeah?

[ Miguel is not ruling out magic. He just wants to make sure she isn’t going to pull out a leech or try to bleed out the humours. ]
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[personal profile] fastandcurious 2023-08-14 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Please don't freak out.

[ Drift isn't sure he's equipped to deal with a human freaking out, but his plea seems to fall on deaf ears as Boimler lets loose with an exhaustive, rapid-fire explanation of his home universe, a Federation that sounds more than a little familiar, and then talks about space exploration and silicon-based lifeforms in short order. ]

So... you've never met or heard of a Cybertronian, then?

[ That's what he's getting out of this, which is weird because a bunch of Cybertronians live on Earth these days and also there was a whole war about it.

Multiverse stuff, maybe? ]
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[personal profile] changechild 2023-08-14 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Need absolutely doesn't say see, you didn't have to take on his pain, he doesn't deserve it. Really, he's got a great, active, acidic burn of it going at a completely nonphysical level that Nyara's not conscious of and she's very much trying not to acknowledge.]

I know what i-infection is.

[She stumbles a bit over the word because Need? Knows more than he does about infection, or at least feels like she does, and wants her to respond in a particular way. Nyara does not! She has probably had wounds go bad before - under the fur she's got quite a few scars, just not on her face - and had little idea of how to prevent this, her education largely being void of practical skills.

Also she's not clutching herself but she is favoring her side now, holding on to the discomfort and throb of those punctures he was just picking solidified spider silk from.]


I am carrying Need, and s- and it is. It looks like a sword, but you would call it a piece of very old technology. I do not understand how it works but it can prevent sepsis and accelerate healing.

['It'. Not one of the things Need really likes to hear herself called but she doesn't want people just knowing she's awake and 'alive' in here. If she reveals herself then poor Nyara is just going to be sidelined in the conversation.

Nyara would prefer to be sidelined in the conversation, thanks.]
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[personal profile] ninjavampire 2023-08-14 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"It'd be great if the next monster maze had a shower in it."

He just sounds so grumpy and mad, the contrast with how delicately he is dabbing his wound du jour comes off a bit silly. He sets the bottle upright in the kit and snaps the cap back on before he goes for the next step: applying gauze and a bit of pressure to his forearm until the slow ooze begins to stop.

As for the suit - in the darker lighting, it appeared mostly black. There was the steady blink of nanites that could almost be mistaken for glittery fabric when he moves around, like a night sky cut through with solid red. The subtle circuitry was easiest to spot in the red; the slowly pulsing lines were arranged in angular Mesoamerican patterns (the guy was fussy enough to weave in little details like that). He will probably be more inclined to talk about it when he's in a better mood.

Rowan gets a once-over from the eyeless mask to deduce if they needed help, but they seemed to have it covered.
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[personal profile] ninjavampire 2023-08-14 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Right.

[dubious eyebrow raise. he tries to tilt so meet her gaze, Miguel is not giving up on making eye contact with Nyara! She'll have to get used to it eventually. ]

...And this healing is transferred via physical touch, it seems like?

[ The explanation was... a start. Some Spider-people get their powers via magic so it's not like he's never heard of a magic sword. He just wants to understand what she is doing back there! It is his body she is papping around with her cat beans, after all. ]
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[personal profile] starfleetashell 2023-08-14 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[And just like that's there's fire in him again. A refusal to give up. That Boimler tenacity! He's back! He can fight this. He can win. He got faux-assimilated in Shari Oingo Boingo's stupid holo-pods, and he'd bounced back from that. He has experience with assimilation, after a sort! If anyone can get through it, it's him. Him using her first name shocks her out of her moping, and she grins, an unhinged quality to it.]

Yeah. Yeah! There's a whole bunch - Picard, Hugh, Icheb, Seven of Nine from your favorite ship, VOY-- [Gentle ribbing. She's back, too.] --we can fight this. We can win.

And no matter what, you're always going to be my best friend. No stupid nanites are going to change that. Got it?

[Has she ever actually told him he's her best friend before? Surely she has. Right? Not just implied it? Suddenly she's not sure.]
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[personal profile] changechild 2023-08-14 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes!

[Nyara has progressed to looking at: his chin. It's better than the ground or her hands?]

It is contact healing. Some kind of... current that travels with more difficulty through air. It would work as well if you held the sword, but - [The idea that she can hand Need over and maybe that would please him or at least take some attention off her comes to mind, although she knows immediately that it's wrong. The reason she can say that it's wrong is:] I do not want to be pulled somewhere else and be parted from her- from it.

[Even appearing in a city was overwhelming, and she's been keeping it together in large part because Need is here. Need has an answer to everything. For some reason Need cares about her and wants her to be safe, which is too big a thought for her to hold for long.]
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[personal profile] changechild 2023-08-14 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's very overwhelming! Even finding herself in New Jersey was a terrible shock. If Need wasn't here, Nyara doesn't know what she would do.]

It was much better to live in a ruin on furs than on, then in, greater luxury sometimes before then.

[Between Loki's unfamiliar physiology and the equally unfamiliar profile of the venom, Need's not making any further progress on the bite. She doesn't want just anyone knowing about her, so she and the girl have agreed to act like Nyara just owns a magic artifact.

She makes nervous eye contact now, or at least, looks him in the eye.]


...You must know, I can't Heal this. Only keep it suppressed, and when I let go that will fade and the visions will intensify again. I did not catch all that this Frost said - will there be help coming?
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[personal profile] bestbrotherever 2023-08-14 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods, slowly.] When that luxury comes with a price.

Unfortunately we are unlikely to have much choice here. That is often the way of these places, and with enemies such as those after us... Still, we do appear to have some native allies. And a mission.

[He sighs heavily] As to be expected. Well. Judging by the vehicle, we will have help coming. Perhaps you could help me reach it, so other rescuers need not drag me there?
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[personal profile] oldbookshop 2023-08-14 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ah. Yes. Definitely going to go ahead and classify this man somewhere under the "not doing well" umbrella on sight.

Aziraphale's place is not to question a higher power directly, a grand design on why all things must happen-- and goodness knows he's very skilled at not asking-- but that's never put a moratorium on sympathy.

(Largely a young crowd again, he's noticing. Not that he supposes he's very objective about what counts as young.) ]


Hello. [ A bit awkward, in that 'approaching a stranger in dire straits and not sure if that will be welcome' way. More than anything, though, his tone is warm. ] Seems a bit of a dreadful time to be lonely.
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[personal profile] ferengineer 2023-08-15 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Your immune system is actually fighting off the nanoprobes.

[Nog hands Boimler the tricorder, pointingvtowards the anomalous readings.]

Thankfully your body's not rejecting the implants that have already formed.

[He'd gotten an inkling of how bad that could be 2hen he'd first started complaining about his leg. There'd been worry the biosynthetic replacement was being rejected, though it turned out to be psychosomatic pain in the end.]

For better or worse they're probably there for good.

Everywhere else, though? If this is accurate, it looks like your immune system is putting up a way better fight than I would've expected.
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Elle Bryant

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Elle shifts back to Homid once she can see the exit door. She doesn’t want anyone to mistake her for an enemy; she’s gotten beaten up enough for one day. It wouldn’t be so bad if she was healing like she should be, but her wounds are still oozing blood. If she’s not careful, she’s gonna pass out soon.

She limps through the door and takes moment to assess the situation outside. Sleighs? Why not.

She can see first aid kits, but there’s a problem— the reindeer. Elle can’t approach them. There’s a chance that they’re magical and won’t get spooked, but she doesn’t want to take that risk. The last thing the group needs is a fucking stampede because she can’t bother to keep her distance. But that leaves her in quite a predicament.

She leans against the brick wall and takes a second look around, trying to find someone familiar and trustworthy. At least, trustworthy enough. She saw Henry and Dan earlier— maybe they’re here? Or other people from Wilderlands showed up too? At this point, she’s not going to be too picky about it.
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[personal profile] lowercase_el 2023-08-15 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't see 'Wing in there. I only saw you and him right before that guy monologued and went full Willy Wonka.

[Golden ticket. Place that was trying to kill them. Etc etc.]

And wrong size, dude. I'm not the trenta-sized super. I'm the venti one.

[That absolutely is not the kind of joke Superman would make, even if Kon's voice has started to sound similarly deep over time.]

For some reason when I showed up here, I was in Kal's duds, I have no idea why.

[When they get out, Kon's eyebrows raise.]

Welp, that sure is Santa's sleigh. Again.

[He really hopes they don't get roped into saving Christmas again.]
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[personal profile] boldboimler 2023-08-15 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Boimler flicks through the tricorder results. They're not...the best. Right now his body isn't killing the nanoprobes faster than they're being made. The only thing that can save him is if it starts killing them faster than they replicate.]

[But...they're promising. If his immune system is fighting them at all rather than genetically being rewritten to accept them, there's a chance it'll adapt and start killing them off faster, as the immune response builds.]

Our physiology changed. Mariner and I noticed that when we were getting readings when we first got here.

There must have been immunological changes. If the immune response builds up and gets stronger, starts forming more antibodies, it might - it might -

[Maybe it won't be a situation where Mariner has to help him try to reclaim his humanity. Maybe the nanoprobes will be stopped before making some of the worst of the implants.]

It's making implants but if the process stops before neural restructuring and building a neural transceiver...

[He suddenly looks very frustrated.]

If we had any medical equipment from home, we could try to bump up my immune response. Even just a T-cell Stimulator from a standard medkit would probably help.

[They are so woefully under-prepared for this place. Three commbadges, three phasers, and two tricorders between them. That's it. In a universe with technology that's so far before pre-warp it may as well be horse and buggy.]
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[personal profile] boldboimler 2023-08-15 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Boimler nods, eyes watering, expression brittle, but...]

[He knows she'll be there. He knows she's not going to look at the mess he'll be and decide it's too much to deal with. That if he has to be slowly coaxed back into thinking for himself, she'll do it.]

I do have one request.

[The joke is teary. He's really pushing himself to make it. But it makes this whole thing feel like less of a death sentence to find some humor in something somewhere.]

When I'm a drone, occasionally toss some enrichment into my borg enclosure, okay? Just roll in a watermelon for me to assimilate every once in a while.

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