Qui Habitat
Chorós
Nancy Clayton, Yoni Safir, et al. | 17k words
A Qui Habitat story that is remarkably indulgent. I meant it to be a counterpoint to the fact that my main narrators are military men of great power in the city and it is that, but I am not sure I'd consider it necessary to the universe. It doesn't cover new ground, just looks at existing territory from a new perspective and I found myself deleting parts to keep from being repetitive. But it has some good lines and some good parts and I wish everyone to read it. :)
Lieutenant Eriksson's entire platoon comes back from a trade mission with food poisoning, which is a problem because they were trading for food. Atlantis could never feed itself off of what comes in the holds of the Daedalus and Odyssey, but it's much worse now and they can't just throw away everything Eriksson's boys brought back with them. And so Medical has to design an experiment to figure it out after Plant Biology can't identify the culprit: they are going to make marines eat things until something makes them sick.
"Gentle poisoning," Carson offers with a shrug. "They've done themselves worse harm with their moonshine experiments."
"Payback for Weapons Company's near-deer stew," Yoni suggests instead.
Eriksson's platoon is not in Weapons Company and is exempted from the exercise. The marines are surprisingly game to eat until they either puke or get the shits, which is kind of exactly what they are being asked to do, but Nancy is reminded that they also volunteer for things like testing out the non-lethal crowd control stuff Engineering comes up with.
"You know what Marine stands for, Doc?" Fletcher, one of the Navy Corpsmen, asks. "Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected."
It's the grapes that are the problem, for the record.
Also posted at DW.
Nancy Clayton, Yoni Safir, et al. | 17k words
A Qui Habitat story that is remarkably indulgent. I meant it to be a counterpoint to the fact that my main narrators are military men of great power in the city and it is that, but I am not sure I'd consider it necessary to the universe. It doesn't cover new ground, just looks at existing territory from a new perspective and I found myself deleting parts to keep from being repetitive. But it has some good lines and some good parts and I wish everyone to read it. :)
Lieutenant Eriksson's entire platoon comes back from a trade mission with food poisoning, which is a problem because they were trading for food. Atlantis could never feed itself off of what comes in the holds of the Daedalus and Odyssey, but it's much worse now and they can't just throw away everything Eriksson's boys brought back with them. And so Medical has to design an experiment to figure it out after Plant Biology can't identify the culprit: they are going to make marines eat things until something makes them sick.
"Gentle poisoning," Carson offers with a shrug. "They've done themselves worse harm with their moonshine experiments."
"Payback for Weapons Company's near-deer stew," Yoni suggests instead.
Eriksson's platoon is not in Weapons Company and is exempted from the exercise. The marines are surprisingly game to eat until they either puke or get the shits, which is kind of exactly what they are being asked to do, but Nancy is reminded that they also volunteer for things like testing out the non-lethal crowd control stuff Engineering comes up with.
"You know what Marine stands for, Doc?" Fletcher, one of the Navy Corpsmen, asks. "Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected."
It's the grapes that are the problem, for the record.
Also posted at DW.