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[with_discipline]

This should prove interesting. If I might ask, what have former ports been like? I would appreciate some foreknowledge, whether they have been similar or not.

Severus, have you had any survival training? I would like to know where we stand.

Lieutenant Reed, are you planning to disembark tomorrow?

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[acid_rayne]

Well, for the most part, they've usually got at least one nasty little surprise for everyone.

That and something cataclysmic, right at the end.

[with_discipline]

Without fail?

No! With epic fail!

[acid_rayne]

Almost...

We went to a theme park, once, but it's pretty rare to get something 'nice'. Considering these things are meant to be tests for whoever we've been paired with, that doesn't surprise me.

The best kind!

[with_discipline]

Indeed. What is a theme park?

[acid_rayne]

Oh, this'll be difficult...

They're huge parks constructed almost purely to provide customers with entertainment. The bigger resorts house, like, entire zoos and hotels and stuff in them, too. They're usually based around a theme decided by whoever owns them.

That one was Disney, so... It had Disney characters, rides and products coming out the whazoo. Should be something in the library about it, if you're interested.

I don't think she has any idea what Disney is.

[with_discipline]

I believe I will, thank you. Was that port without incident?

It might own Starfleet!

[acid_rayne]

For the most part, I believe so. Unless someone fell off one of the rides.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

The last, and only, port I went to, Commander, I fell off the Barge, lost all sense of myself, and ended up enacting the part of Brutus to the Master's Julius Caesar. I say Caesar. I mean a combination of the worst qualities of Caesar, Nero and Caligula.

I have higher hopes for this port, however.

If she weren't so Vulcan, she'd wonder what was wrong with stabbing the Master thirty-odd times. :|

[with_discipline]

...I see. How did you manage to return to the ship?

Sexby wonders what's wrong with it too. He'd have done the same if he were him.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

I am lead to believe that Q brought me back through some sort of power of his. Were you here when Q was?

Best Brutus ever.

[with_discipline]

I recall references to him, but I don't believe we spoke.

Now that he is gone, perhaps you should avoid falling off the Barge, sir.

sexby in canon pretty much = brutus-who-failed

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

I tried to avoid it at the time, trust me, Commander. I think many people managed to be persuaded they were actually themselves before the end of the port.

D: You had to have better than a knife, Sexby, come on.

[with_discipline]

Interesting. What happened to those that didn't fall off?

he had five loaded pistols, but an unreliable co-conspirator who snitched on him.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

I think that depended on where they ended up. I got the lasting impression of drinking, debauchery and excessive violence, from what I found out afterwards.

[tactical-alert.livejournal.com]

We'll see. I suppose I could try to get in something like this on my own before I've someone to look after.

[with_discipline]

It would seem advisable. This is the first port I have seen, and the events leading up to it have been [shitty, Malcolm, really fucking shitty so enjoy yourself damnit] difficult.

[tactical-alert.livejournal.com]

[oh good because his life really needs to get shittier, sure, KEYWORDS] ...Then I suppose I'll take this opportunity. I may as well treat it like a shore leave. Or survival training. Something more enjoyable than these difficult times you speak of.

[with_discipline]

[THEY ARE VERY SUCCINCT.] Indeed. A reminder of such training would no doubt be useful. [Just, you know, don't pull a Trip (D: ) and almost die or anything.]

[subtlescience]

Survival training?

You don't seriously believe I'm going, do you?

[with_discipline]

You are indeed.

In any case, I have had a good deal of training; there is little to be concerned about in that regard.

Oh, he's going.

[subtlescience]

I'm not concerned.

I'm not going.

Even if she has to drag him.

[with_discipline]

This is a pointless argument, Severus. The change of scenery will be beneficial; you are going.

[subtlescience]

Beneficial to whom, exactly?

[with_discipline]

Both of us, perhaps; you, certainly.

[subtlescience]

I suppose it doesn't matter that I dislike the outdoors.