IC Contact for eudio

[agoodsoul]

This is Dennis, leave a message or whatever. I'll get back to you.

Comments

[agoodsoul]

im fine
what's wrong?

cmon

[slapdash]

[ A few minutes go by before Jim finally gives in. ]

idk. i feel maybe i shouldnt have come here.

[ He can do sex, easily. But getting attached, developing relationships? He's not sure he's cut out for that shit. ]

[agoodsoul]

i don't know why you came here, but it must be important
can you really give that up?

[He's not trying to guilt him, or make Jim feel bad, it just sounds like he needs some reinforcement.]

[slapdash]

i never gave it up in the first place. it was taken from me. i came here to get it back.

[ Pretty much the first time he's ever talked about his incentive. ]

[agoodsoul]

i'm sorry
can i ask what was it?

[He makes a point to not get into talking about incentives with people, cause he doesn't want to explain his own, but... maybe Jim needs this.]

1/2

[slapdash]

as long as you don't go telling anyone about it.

[ Followed by, ]

i know you won't, but i feel the need to say it, anyway, you know?

[slapdash]

[ Maybe he did need to talk about it. He just didn't like what it made him feel to admit it outside of his own head. ]

I'm here because my ship, crew, and rank was taken from me. I'm here to get it all back.

[ And because he knows Dennis will most likely ask for more details, he gets them out of the way. ]

I broke the Prime Directive as a Captain, interfered with the native life on another planet. We were only suppose to observe. But we stopped a volcano from erupting and destroying a whole race of people on the planet and I further exposed our presence in not allowing my First Officer to die in said volcano.

For that, I was stripped of my rank, crew, and ship. Was to report back to the Academy before I was approached by the people that run this place.

[agoodsoul]

fucking swear i won't tell no one

[And he won't. He reads everything Jim sends him and it takes a moment to realize that Jim is talking about flying a goddamn space ship. Going to other planets. Holy shit.]

so your prime directive would have let them all die? that's fucking stupid you guys were heros

[slapdash]

[ He can't help smiling a little at that. He had felt the same. Still does. ]

But it's going against the rules. And could've gotten more of my crew hurt on top of losing my First Officer.

[agoodsoul]

sometimes you gotta break rules to save lives

bet a lotta them felt the same felt good saving those people

[slapdash]

Oh, believe me. You're preaching to the choir, there. But that was "the problem", I was told. In their eyes, I didn't think the rules applied to me.

And thus I was not deserving of the Captain's chair.

So here I am.

[agoodsoul]

so you're trying to get it back then? is that what you're changing?

[slapdash]

Yep. They said they would be able to make it to where I would be Captain of my ship again.

[ Then, ]

It's my home. My crew is my family.

[ And Starfleet is the only thing that has ever given me a sense of purpose in my life. ]

[agoodsoul]

did they all abandon you when you lost captain?

[Because that's what it sounds like, kind of.]

[slapdash]

I don't think any of them knew. It had just happened a few hours before they (the Eudio people) approached me and I hadn't told any of them yet.

[ And it wasn't like he could expect them to give up their posts for him. ]

[agoodsoul]

hope it all works out for you

kinda worried well do everything and it won't fix nothing back home

[slapdash]

That's the risk of coming here.

But I think everyone here felt the risk was worth it for the possibility of it happening.

[agoodsoul]

yeah

it's worth it
this is the least i can do

[slapdash]

You want to talk about it?

[agoodsoul]

[No. He really doesn't, but Jim had told him why he was here, opened up to him when he didn't have to... maybe a part of him does want to say something, but he fears when people find out about his incentive, what he's fixing, that they'll hate him.

See his true colors or something. Gog had said something like that, that he'd make everyone see how Dennis truly was, because Dennis had been trying so hard to do good. To be a better man.

It takes a little bit, but finally he responds.]

someone died cause of me

[slapdash]

[ That... is definitely a shock. But more in the sense that he feels awful Dennis has had to deal with that. ]

And you're here to change that? Prevent them from dying?

[agoodsoul]

yeah make sure the reason they died never happens
they'll live and no one's life gets ruined

[Because it ruined a few lives for sure.]

[slapdash]

I hope you get it. If there's an incentive worth granting, it's that one.

[agoodsoul]

thanks

i wanna fix that but i also think
think iwanna stay here too don't know if i can do both or not

[slapdash]

You could ask one of the Admin people. I'm sure they'd know.

[ He had to shakes his head at himself, calling himself stupid for already feeling... not good at the thought of leaving the city. And Dennis. ]