[Thread] Just use the keyboard.

[experiences]

Characters: Ezri Dax (OU) and OPEN
Where: all around the compound--please state where in comment's subject line ♥
When: backdated to shortly after Dax's arrival, after this journal entry
Summary: Dax is still convinced she's in a holosuite and is trying to find a panel to rewire, believing she can [a] find one and [b] summon the exit or better yet

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By the fountain

[takion]

Takion sat out by the fountain to people-watch. It was something he enjoyed doing, and often he could pick out new arrivals by their confused glances around the compound. It amused him to watch people come to terms with Econtra, but then many odd things tended to amuse him.

Spotting one such lost soul, Takion stood and approached. "Are you having problems?"

[experiences]

Ezri jumped a little, whirling around to face the owner of the voice. She had not anticipated any of the holograms speaking to her, but she supposed she should have, especially since some of the holograms had responded to the accidental recording that was made by that primitive hand held computer. Not that it was out of the ordinary for holograms to interact with those who entered their programs. Ezri was just too focused on getting out that she ignored the elements that came with being in the program.

"Oh! Um, a little bit," she admitted, closing the tricorder and putting back into it's holder at her waste. "Just trying to get back to where I'm supposed to be."

[takion]

Definitely a newcomer then. Takion gave the young woman a friendly smile. "If you can determine such a thing, that will put you ahead of everyone else here. So far as any of us can tell, we come and go according to their whims." Takion gestured up at the brilliant forms of the Keepers overhead to indicate just whom he referred to.

[experiences]

"Yeah, well, finding door shouldn't be that hard, but the computer seems to be enjoying ignoring me today," she said with an annoyed sort of frown, still assuming that she was speaking to a hologram. "Wouldn't even take my override code. Either the station's on the fritz again or Chief O'Brien is rewiring something and put the wrong circuits back together."

In the park

[longtobehold]

Strange saw the woman walking through the park in the distance. Had he spotted her on the streets of London, he would've thought her for some sort of Spanish nun judging by her strange outfit, but he had learned in Econtra it was best not to ask people questions about their peculiar wardrobe choices.

What fascinated him was the odd object she was holding and the way she was waving it around. It appeared she was attempting to cast a spell, probably something from the works of Martin Pale given the instrument, but Strange could not for the life of him figure out what exactly it was.

"Excuse me, madam," he said after quickly clearing his throat, "If you are attempting to use that device as a arcanic accelerator, I'm afraid you're holding it backwards."

[experiences]

If she had been any other person on board DS9, she might have looked at him funny and asked what he was talking about. Hell, she probably would have if she weren't joined. But she was a Dax and had nearly 400 years worth of experienced packed into her alien brain thanks to the symbiont in her belly and could vaguely picture something she assumed was similar from a time long ago when she'd been Emony and not Ezri.

"Actually, it's a tricorder and this is the way it's supposed to be held," she told him.

[longtobehold]

"Aha, a tricorder, I see!" Strange said, his eyes glinting in fascination.

"And what exactly are the three things it records," Strange asked.

[experiences]

"Three things?" She asked, a bit baffled at first before she realized that he must have taking the 'tri' in 'tricorder' and translated it from the latin origins into 'three.'

"It's a TR-590 Mark X," she said, holding the device out to show him. It was on, but not picking up any readings beyond the compound's walls. "Standard Starfleet issue. It's not limited to three functions. Not anymore, at least. The original tricorders had three sections: one for readouts and controls, another that housed data chips, and a compartment with a removable sensor device. The Mark X's do much more than that."