hell of a party

[middlingalong]

Ivan must be drunker than he thought he was. He could have sworn he knew his way around Vivienne's parents' house, since she wanted to introduce him last week and showed him the place, but maybe they have a... secret... upstairs... bar? where Vivienne's room is supposed to be? And most certainly was last time he checked? He's never going to find the sweater she sent him up looking for here, anyway. Why is there a secret upstairs bar in Vivienne's parents' house?

Comments

[isthisart]

"Maybe. We have stunners, but they don't have a 'hospitalize' setting."

[thisvorlunatic]

"We want to exchange weapons technology," Miles says firmly. "You don't have to use ours if you don't want to, but damn, a stunner with more intimidating settings available—? Best of both worlds as far as I'm concerned."

[warpfairy]

"I'm intrigued by the idea of a stunner without, honestly, seeing as I was recently a victim of the fact that Starfleet personnel all have access to phasers even if they aren't combatants."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I'm happy to provide."

[warpfairy]

"All right then. Phasers and stunners - I suppose with help from Bar we could figure out some of the torpedos, too, if you want ship artillery for some... constructive purpose..."

[isthisart]

"The proliferation of ship artillery probably wouldn't be good, even if its first adopters could be constructive with it."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Ship artiller is ship artillery," says Miles. "Unless it's amazing ship artillery far beyond the capacity of anything we could build, somehow, in which case it's also ship artillery that will take a long damned time to proliferate. I'm not absolutely intent on getting some, but it would be nice."

[warpfairy]

"I'm not, primarily, worried about the ability of ships to shoot at each other - although I should definitely also get you shielding tech if you don't have that - it's - I mentioned the planet Vulcan. It was destroyed recently."

[thisvorlunatic]

[warpfairy]

"Not with conventional ship artillery. It definitely wasn't something in common circulation. The public story blamed a small crew of Romulans acting alone and said that with their ship destroyed there were no more instances of the weapon. But the Romulans are not that much more advanced than anyone else. Vulcan's destruction was dramatic, but completely depopulating a planet would be well within the purview of large phasers or torpedos."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I mean," says Miles, "there's hundreds of ways to depopulate a planet. People tend not to."

[warpfairy]

"The possibility nonetheless weighs somewhat heavy on my mind. It was only nineteen years ago. I would have been on that planet if it had happened a few months later, I lost my father regardless, and recently endured some unpleasantness motivated by his species' scarcity."

[isthisart]

"Artillery is not a priority," murmurs Linya.

[middlingalong]

"...On a happier note: so! Parents! Are a thing for you!"

[warpfairy]

"Uh... yes? My mother's still alive. She lives in Phoenix, on Earth."

[isthisart]

"Haut don't have parents in the conventional sense. I have a designer, who I've met once, and a secondary principal gene contributor, who died before I was born. Is why Ivan is so interested to note that you have a different origin story."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I still think parents are bound to be important sometimes," says Miles.

[dream_me_up]

"I found Dr. Hall!" says Lalita.

[or_the_broken]

"Hi," says Dr. Hall.

[thisvorlunatic]

"...Asterion?"

[isthisart]

"Does Asterion look like that?" wonders Linya. "Apart from the height and dentition and so on."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Asterion looks like that. Asterion moves like that," says Miles. "Asterion is like that."

[or_the_broken]

"Who's Asterion?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"He looks exactly like you except eight feet tall and slightly fanged, and he works for me," says Miles. "Not as a doctor, though. Soldier."

[or_the_broken]

"How'd you manage that?"