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Day 38 - Engineering - Open

Mar 29, 2010 17:43

With a crew of over four hundred, odds were that every day there was going to be at least one minor injury or illness. Today's minor injury or illness, it seemed, was the very broken leg of one very young Engineer who fell from one very high bit of equipment ( Read more... )

!nonmission post, timeline: day 38, character: scott, character: chapel, location: engineering deck

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transwarp_beam April 1 2010, 01:11:37 UTC

The grapevine on the Enterprise was a remarkably efficient thing, even if information did tend to get distorted along the way. So naturally within five minutes of the accident, news had not only reached Ops but mutated into "someone's died" along the way. It had been a relief to arrive on the scene and find that the crisis was just a broken leg. Reassured, he'd defaulted to observing, eyeing the unfortunate young engineer in question with an expression which suggested that they would be having Words later.

"Take it he's goin' t'live," he asked Christine.

nurse_cchapel April 1 2010, 01:16:38 UTC

"So long as nobody filets him for stupidity," Christine answered, giving her patient a bit of a smirk before turning to verify who it was who'd spoken to her. As if there was any doubt. "Mister Scott," she greeted with a polite nod, before averting her eyes again. Her feelings toward him had been on a roller coaster the last week or so. She didn't want to see where it was heading next.

transwarp_beam April 1 2010, 01:26:04 UTC

"Call it a 'maybe', then," he said; "Y'know the deal, Ferris." It was very simple. If you were going to work without safety gear - which most of them did quite frequently - you were tacitly waiving the right to complain when you got injured. No-one wanted any noses poked into how they did things. It was an implicit understanding between all engineers that health and safety officials were The Enemy.

"Mind you, have t'keep our record intact," he added. "Don't think there's been a day since we set off when y'didn't have any'a mine in medbay."

nurse_cchapel April 1 2010, 01:30:53 UTC

"You lot certainly keep us on our toes," she replied, somewhere between annoyed and amused. Turning to grab a splint from her kit, she added, "And don't think we don't notice."

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