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To Boldly Go | RPG Community (boldlygomod) wrote in toboldlyrpg,
@ 2017-04-08 16:32:00

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Welcome to the Yorktown Observatory Restaurant

Instead of the usual social gathering in the Deck Five Lounge, the Enterprise reserves a private room at the Yorktown Observatory Restaurant, which features food and drink from all over the galaxy and was built with all transparent materials, giving off the effect of actually dining directly in outer space.

OOC Information

These weekly posts are IC third-person threading opportunities. Threads that extend to 10 total good-sized comments can be counted as a log for activity check. If you have any questions, please let me know. The hope is that you will use this opportunity for random character interactions and development.

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Kate and Mary

ladycontrary
2017-04-09 08:56 am UTC (link)

Mary was happy for her, glad that her husband had come and there had seemingly been no fallout over whatever had happened between them back home. It gave Mary a small glimmer of hope that her own late husband might appear. Was that possible? Did people arrive here back from the dead? It was something she would have to investigate.

"Mostly well," she replied, barring the incident with Lucifer in the lounge. That had shaken her up. But she had also spent some time with Kirk and that had been lovely. Was it a bad thing that she could go from thinking about Matthew to thinking about the captain in such a short period of time? "I have found a bookstore on this base with real paper books."

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Kate and Mary

katebex
2017-04-09 09:38 am UTC (link)

With a murmur of thanks, Kate took her glass of wine from the bartender, lifting it to her lips for a taste. She was usually very unspecific about what she ordered in regards to wine, keeping in mind where they were and that the selection might not always be plentiful. That had the drawback of Kate drinking some truly awful glasses of the stuff, but this one was surprisingly good and strong in flavor. Good enough that after a first short ship she went back in for a longer one.

"Oh that's wonderful!" she said to Mary, intrigued enough to want to visit herself. She didn't mind the digital library that the Enterprise offered, but there was something tangible and, well, beautiful about holding a physical book in your hand. "Did you buy any?"

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	Kate and Mary ladycontrary 2017-04-09 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, Lucifer sent me a copy of Pride & Prejudice after...". Mary stopped, presuming that Kate knew. She was on the security team after all. "Anyway, I visited myself the other day and purchased The Great Gatsby, which is said to be a classic though it was written after my time." Mary was intrigued to read it since it was about the period in which she lived. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Kate and Mary

katebex
2017-04-09 02:41 pm UTC (link)

"He threw a table across the lounge and terrified everyone?" she said, phrasing it as a question even though it wasn't. Kate hadn't been there at the time but she had heard about it from several people, including Lucifer, and it was enough to get a general idea.

Sipping again at her wine, Kate nodded her head to indicate that she knew the book Mary was talking about. "F. Scott Fitzgerald. It's considered a classic now, taught in all sorts of literature courses."

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	Kate and Mary ladycontrary 2017-04-09 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	"Right," Mary said with a curt nod. That was about the sum of it. They had made up earlier that day, but it wasn't something Mary was ever going to forget. "I have heard much about it," she said, returning to the subject of the book. "I'm curious to see how the era I live in was interpreted." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Kate and Mary

katebex
2017-04-09 08:23 pm UTC (link)

"A time of excess and debauchery, I think," Kate replied, wrinkling up her nose at the idea. "I mean that isn't wrong, especially in America at the time, but it's a bit silly compared to the world I grew up in and lived in before I was pulled here."

"But if you like it, there are other books that might suit your interest. That era of history produced some great literature, especially in America."

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Kate and Mary

ladycontrary
2017-04-09 10:11 pm UTC (link)

Mary furrowed her brow. "Excess perhaps, but not debauchery, at least not in my home." Society was changing, and Downton had its scandals, but nothing of the sort of thing she heard coming out of London. Perhaps life was simpler in the country.

"America is in the midst of a foolish prohibition experiment. Do tell me they wise up soon?" Banning alcohol, what a ridiculous thing. The Brits would riot. The monarchy and Parliament would be overthrown.

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Kate and Mary

katebex
2017-04-09 11:54 pm UTC (link)

"And that's the difference between America and Britain," Kate said with an upward flick of her eyebrows. "Alcohol was pretty much blamed for everything wrong in America at the time. Apparently, there was no correlation to the fact that the world had just fought a massive, bloody war and it had changed the way people saw themselves and society."

"Prohibition ended in 1933," she confirmed, "Right in the middle of a depression that started in the US and spread to Europe."

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Kate and Mary

ladycontrary
2017-04-11 05:48 pm UTC (link)

"Far too long of a time," Mary replied. She sighed softly. "That war was horrible."

She had seen the man she loved come back as a shell of his former self. Fortunately he recovered in both mind and body, but the immediate after effects were so painful for Mary to watch. That had been a terrible time in her life.

Thanks to Peggy, she knew that another war came not too long after her time. Mary tried not to think about it and the fact that her son would probably have to fight in it.

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Kate and Mary

katebex
2017-04-11 11:39 pm UTC (link)

Being from a point so much further in history than Mary, Kate could have confirmed her worry that her son likely ended up fighting in the second World War and told her how dramatically fighting two bloody conflicts back to back had changed the United Kingdom and Europe. Even the United States had seen significant changes and, aside from Pearl Harbor, none of the fighting had happened in the country.

"I can't imagine," she told Mary with a slight frown. The closest thing Kate could come up with were the terrorist attacks in 2001 and how helpless and terrifying it had been in New York City in the aftermath. She had been in college when it happened, studying criminology at NYU, far enough away to miss the worst of the horror but close enough to feel the hysteria that had gripped the city. But that had been a few months, not years of her life. "It's a terrible thing to have to live through."

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Kate and Mary

ladycontrary
2017-04-12 08:25 pm UTC (link)

"During the war, we opened up our house as a convalescent home for injured soldiers," Mary said. "I saw a lot of wounded men, though I admit that I did not spend much time with them."

She was pretty caught up in herself at that point, still feeling miserable about the incident with Pamuk and how it, combined with Matthew's rejection, had forced her into an engagement that wasn't really what she wanted. Between the war itself, seeing Matthew injured, and feeling sorry for herself, it was a pretty terrible time for her.

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Kate and Mary

katebex
2017-04-13 12:25 am UTC (link)

"Well," Kate began, pausing for a moment to lift her glass to her lips for another taste of wine, "It gets better further on in the twentieth century. And the twenty-first century isn't bad either."

Of course, she had years where her life had been miserable and she had been desperately unhappy, but on the whole, the world was a better place than it had been in the early years of the 1900s. More freedom, more opportunity, just more in general.

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	Kate and Mary ladycontrary 2017-04-13 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	"That is good to know," Mary said. "The many advances in this age are astounding." Being able to push buttons on a machine and have it call up nearly anything in the universe was like a miracle. People no longer had to want for anything. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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