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Tweak says, "every day i'm shufflin'"

To Boldly Go | RPG Community (boldlygomod) wrote in toboldlyrpg,
@ 2017-06-03 15:01:00

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Welcome to the Hawaiian Luau!

All characters who joined the Hawaiian Islands excursion are invited to a traditional luau and pig roast in honor of the travelers. Enjoy drinks, dinner, hula, live music, a private beach, and each other.

OOC Information

This is an in-character opportunity to write short threads with other players. This is a great opportunity to thread short, random interactions between characters.

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picard + seven

borg
2017-06-26 05:48 am UTC (link)

"They did not. They were... obsessed with learning more about the Borg. I suppose you could say they got their wish."

Morbid, but that didn't make it any less true. Their obsession drove them into the arms of the Collective, giving the Borg their first taste of humanity. Seven was unable to say whether she held any animosity against them for their actions, for their thirst for unobtainable knowledge — knowledge they now possessed as drones, but could not in any way use as their individual selves had intended. Her outlook was clouded, feelings mixed. They would likely remain that way for a long time.

"I agree. This is a necessity for individuals, and while I do not enjoy being alone, I've learned that I do not care for the chaotic, unpredictable companionship that is present at events such as these. On Voyager, I would attend for a required amount of time, then return to the Astrometrics Lab to continue working or my alcove to regenerate."

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makeitso
2017-06-27 12:05 am UTC (link)

Picard nodded, his expression neutral. Whatever they might have wanted as individuals seemed unlikely to be met if they had been assimilated, which seemed likely under the circumstances. Their daughter would have grown up Borg, and she was not individual again. It was such a very different way of living, but it seemed, as best Picard could tell that she had made the transition well enough.

"It is very different not knowing what someone is thinking or feeling in the interim isn't it?" Picard looked over sympathetically. "There is an entirely different skillset necessary in learning to work in events like these - something you would not have needed among the Borg. You seem to be adjusting however, even if it is something that is not a preference."

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picard + seven

borg
2017-06-30 07:16 pm UTC (link)

She did grow up Borg, and her tainted perceptions of the universe would forever color her outlook. Her childhood was taken from her, and that which she did get to experience written over with necessity and protocol, memories that were deemed irrelevant discarded and locked away. There were members of her crew who had expected her to revert back to her human self with ease, forgetting that the last time she was human, she was nothing more than a frightened, wide-eyed little girl. And that little girl was damaged and buried, largely inaccessible to her.

She wasn't Annika anymore. She may never be again.

"It is," she readily conceded, grateful for his unique perspective on her situation. "I am adapting. That, at the very least, is something I know how to do well."

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makeitso
2017-07-06 12:01 am UTC (link)

"And that is something that humans do remarkably well," Jean-Luc agreed with a smile. "The ability of humans to adapt in any situation is something I have marveled at many times over the years. Not that it is a simple task, but it is one that we seem able to persist at, which is good."

He took a sip of the drink in his hand and looked over at her. "You said that you worked in the astophysics lab. What is your particular interest?"

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picard + seven

borg
2017-07-12 08:43 am UTC (link)

"Yes. A... shipmate and I designed and constructed it, fusing Starfleet and Borg technology into one efficient series of systems," Seven readily explained.

As for her personal interests, that was a more complicated answer that gave her pause, her brow furrowing together in thought. "I suppose it is. In the Collective— As you know, in the Collective, I had no interests. Only assigned tasks. The things that I was interested in as a child do not apply to my life now, and I enjoy working. I do not enjoy solitude or idleness."

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