Star Trek: Starbase 777 - temp-quarters-7

Entering, they let out a soft "ooh!" and smiled at the compact but comfy space. Seeing as no one was there, they changed into a baggy black sweater and gray sweatpants. They replicated hot chocolate and curled up on the couch to review the notes they had taken during the briefing. This was crazy! (In a cool way!)

Maggie walked into the room and gasped as she saw her room, soon decorating her a little corner with a few little knickknacks. Including a big teddy bear with a starfleet uniform on and a grin on his face. She also put up a few comics and video game posters. “Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! S31 ass kicking mission go!” She yelled, not caring that Elias was probably going through shock from the sheer volume.

Elias jumped, their PADD sliding off of their lap and barely containing the hot chocolate in the mug. They peered over to where her voice was coming from. Ah, the doodling person. They smiled and relaxed, picking up their PADD again. "Yay, I got quartered with you! Loved your doodles. Huge fan. Might even ask for an autograph." They joked, scrolling through their notes. Their own room was sparse as of now, with only a rucksack containing their belongings sitting on their bed.

Maggie looked towards them with a wacky grin. “I’ll accept my payment in equally wacky doodles of teddy bears. Maggie Roode, master of holes at your service! You are, my fine friend?”

”Holes? That’s a new one. I’m Elias Murrow, master of… uh… turtlenecks? I don’t know, I wear a lot of turtlenecks. Before you ask, no I’m not hot. Everybody asks that.” They trailed off into muttering, but rose their voice again good-natured-ly. “Master of non-binary-ness? Master of the medical field? Nah, that’s a bit much. So, okay, what’s with the holes?”

Maggie nodded as she quickly grabbed more things from her bag and continued to decorate the common room. Putting nice flowers around, a few teddy bears in variety of uniforms. “Well! I’m a scientist specializing specifically in wormholes! So I tend to make reference to it without using worm, throws folks dirty mind off for a second. Pretty funny, I get a kick out of it! Good to have a medic in here, I saw the listings. We’re with the guy who briefed us right? The spook?” She said with a grin. “I might try to prank him, don’t know how yet.”

"I'd much rather you didn't," stated the 'spook' in question, entering the room and just catching the last part of Maggie's statement. "Or if you must, make sure it's some sort of nice prank. None of that nonsense that you hear goes on at Starfleet Academy, reprogramming replicators to douse people in slime and whatnot." Lingering in the doorway (stood forward just enough to let the door actually slide closed,) he took a moment to survey what had been done with the quarters. In the dim light - with the window to the space outside of the ship having been blacked out by a holoscreen - it almost looked homely. "Whichever one of you has done the decorating -- you have an interesting choice in décor."

”He’s got enough to think about without being pranked. Let him be.” They gave him a friendly smile. “And all this was Maggie. I’m afraid I don’t have many items to decorate with. Never needed em! Although they are nice…” They looked around at the various flowers and teddy bears. “It… helps take the edge off of this mission, I think. Also, good briefing.” They nodded again politely to Jericho and took another sip of hot chocolate.

Maggie actually yelled and scurried behind Elias like a house cat as the officer stepped into the room. “Ahhhh! It was going to be a nice prank, like uh…. rearranging all of the pencils! I’m not even sure if you have pencils!” She said as she cowered like Scooby Doo in human face. “Uhm! Hello! Good briefing, I’m Maggie! Go team!”

Elias giggled. “Well done. Very eloquent. I’m Elias, by the way.” They laughed again, turning to Maggie. “Need me to protect you?” They joked, feeling relieved that they had been quartered with such pleasant people. They weren’t thinking about the mission so much, with all this chaos going on.

A single eyebrow was raised at Maggie's reaction. The Trill simply stood there and watched as Maggie scurried behind the sofa that Elias was on, wondering exactly what she was trying to do by hiding there... Or what she meant by the 'go team.' "Technically speaking, decorating is a waste of time, seeing as how we're not going to be aboard for long at all... But it does make it... More quaint." Slightly over two days of travel time, there and back, and that wasn't counting if the CO intended upon using transwarp or not. While he wasn't certain about the choice of the multitude of teddy-bears to decorate the place, he wouldn't complain. "In regards to the briefing, though - thank you. I like to hope it covered the basics of what everyone needed to know."

Maggie nodded as she looked between the pair before coming out from behind the sofa. “Yeah! It was really good, made me excited to go into a operation like this! I’m not even usually part of missions like this! So exciting!” She said with a grin. “There’s probably good data in their drives for uh, things.”

Elias smiled and considered their own role in this mission, and the smile slowly faded into a determined but serious expression. "I suppose I'm here to treat any wounded." That meant any Section 31 agents as well, if any were injured during the mission. Didn't matter. Elias had taken an oath, and that meant taking care of everyone and providing equal treatment. It would be uncomfortable, sure, but Elias would do it. They cared about their job that much. And part of them felt a weird, fearful excitement at the prospect of their first away mission. They clutched their mug, trying to draw heat from their drink. "I hope there will be few injuries. But I am also anticipating using my medical knowledge in this environment."

Everyone was called to attend to their designated stations, and so the occupants left the quarters for now.