A day in the life...

[hopeless_hacker]

Who: Tosh and EVERYONE!  Well, everyone who tags.
When: Today!  Or other days close to today, if today isn't convenient.
Where: Lots of places! 
What: Depressive nerdery all up ins.
Warnings: Pfft unlikely.

Standard day-in-the-life thead!  Tag in wherever.  New/old CR and multithreading absolutely welcome. ♥

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4.30pm - Engine room

[hopeless_hacker]

[Yeah, here again. But she's actually working on the engine now! Hooray.]

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[inhistorybooks]

[Trip has been pretty bored since Ray vanished. Well, aside from watching Enterprise, of course, and he's slowly making his way through the rest of the series because apparently, he learned nothing about curiosity killing the cat.

Otherwise, he's been trying to make himself useful, so he'd headed down to the engine room to see what he could do to help out, and once he spotted her, came over to see what Tosh was up to.]

Need a hand?

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[hopeless_hacker]

[She looks up in surprise at the less-familiar voice - there are only three keys to the engine room, and she generally expects random visitors to be Harper - but it passes quickly and she gives a reluctant nod.]

Could you open this panel? [She taps the one next to the one she's got open, exposing a number of wires and cables running across the body of the engine.] There's a coupling loose somewhere.

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[inhistorybooks]

Can do. [And he's going to do just that, looking over the exposed wires and cables and starting to took for the loose coupling. And because Trip doesn't do the whole silently working thing particularly well, he asked:] This anything like the engines back where you're from?

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[hopeless_hacker]

I wasn't an engineer back home, as such. Most of the technology I dealt with was on a smaller scale than this. [Not that this has ever hampered her ability to deal with the Barge engine, or indeed help put it back together when large parts of it were torn off in Masterworld.]

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[inhistorybooks]

What'd you work on? [Trip didn't really care what her background was in - he'd gotten started working on boats, after all - and was honestly more interested in whatever technology she'd gotten to play around without before coming here.]

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[hopeless_hacker]

Everything the universe threw at us.

[She sat back on her heels for a moment, reaching behind her for a pen torch so she could see better into the nest of wires.]

I worked for an organisation called Torchwood during the early years of the twenty-first century. Broadly, our job was to protect Earth from alien threats; the job of my specific office was to monitor a rift in the space-time continuum that opened near our headquarters. Occasionally the Rift would spit things out - weapons, other equipment, data, sometimes life forms of various kinds. Part of my job was to analyse recovered technology to see what we could use for ourselves, design equipment that would help us, that sort of thing.

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[inhistorybooks]

Find anything interesting? [It was kind of a rhetorical question, since how could that not be interesting, but he was more focused on continuing to carefully look for the loose coupling.]

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[hopeless_hacker]

[She laughed softly.]

I could be here all day answering that. We found gauntlets that could reanimate the dead, time travel devices, weapons that we were centuries away from...we once recovered a surgical device that could destroy foreign objects inside the body without damaging the surrounding flesh, and we ended up having to use it twice, which is two times too many. On the less technological side of things, we ended up with a pet pteranodon, as well.

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[inhistorybooks]

[The last one got a surprised chuckle out of him. For everything they'd done on Enterprise, they'd never adopted any prehistoric animals.] How'd that work out? Not sure how you'd go about house breakin' a pteranodon.

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[hopeless_hacker]

I don't know about how housebroken she is. We got her trained to come when called and not to eat anything that we'd rather she didn't. [Finally she found the loose connection, right at the back of the nest of cables, and reached in with both hands to put it right.] She likes dark chocolate. It worked out pretty well as a training tool.

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[inhistorybooks]

She got a name? [Trip wants a pet prehistoric animal. :C]

Re: 4.30pm - Engine room

[hopeless_hacker]

Myfanwy. We were based in Cardiff, so...a Welsh name felt appropriate. [She smirked.] For our pet pterosaur. She was an extremely effective guard dog, if nothing else.