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[reversedpolarity]

Just a few more adjustments to the transporters and I believe they'll be fully functional in regards to transdimensional beaming. I apologize if I've seemed a bit absent as of late - between catching up on the paperwork left over from the virus and working on this project I've been a bit busy. If I've missed anything, would anyone care to fill me in?

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[reversedpolarity]

Look, just. Let me do the touchin' on this ship, aye?

[andthehat]

My feet can touch it though, right?

[reversedpolarity]

...As long as it's the floor they're touchin'.

[andthehat]

You caught that. Right. No touching your lady.

[reversedpolarity]

[....remember how the narration said that Scotty wasn't swayed by pouting? The narration lied. He takes a good long look at Jack's face, and relents just a little.]

Maybe just a little touchin'. As long as I know what you're touchin'.

[andthehat]

[ victory! smile~ ] Can do, Scotty.

[reversedpolarity]

But drinks first, aye? C'mon. [They're finally at his quarters, after all! And there is rum to be had!]

[andthehat]

Rum first? I thought you said- ...I'm confused. [ He'll just go with it though. Rum is good. ]

[reversedpolarity]

I know, I know, I said engine room first but you insisted on rum first, so rum first it is.

[Besides, if he can get Jack drunk, maybe Jack'll forget about the engine room.]

[andthehat]

Ahh. To the rum then.

[ Oh Scotty. You know so little about Jack's drunkeness. ]

[reversedpolarity]

[LOOK HE'S TRYING OKAY. He enters in the code to let the two of them into his quarters, and goes straight to find the bottle of rum and a pair of tumblers to pour it into.]

There you go. Rum, as promised.

[andthehat]

I am so glad you got sent some.

[ Watch him drink all of what Scotty gives over :) ]

[reversedpolarity]

[Watch Scotty not even care because he's got whisky for himself.]

Yo ho an' a bottle o' rum an' all that, aye?

[andthehat]

I love that song!

[reversedpolarity]

Aye? You should teach it tae me. I only bits an' pieces.

[andthehat]

I should! We can go see the engine and sing it along the way. Yes? Yes. [ ehem! ehem hem eheheHEM -- he's walking out of the room now. singing pirate with a bottle of rum everybody. ] Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.~ Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! ~Drink and the devil had done for the rest! ~Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

[reversedpolarity]

Wait wait wait wait where d'you think you're goin'? [No no no, that will not do, not at all. Come back here, mister pirate.] You can't just go walkin' around with the rum. Regulations, aye?

[andthehat]

The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike~. The bosun brained with a marlinspike! And cookey's throat was marked beli-- [ looks at Scotty ] What kind of ship doesn't let a captain carry rum around?

[reversedpolarity]

With all due respect, Captain, you're not a Starfleet captain, for one thing, an' for another, a Starfleet ship doesn't let anyone carry rum around.

[A pause, and then, because Scotty's something of a rule-bender:]

I've got a couple o' flasks we could use.

[andthehat]

Ah. Good thinking! Go get 'em.

[reversedpolarity]

You just come back in here, alright? An' I'll get the flasks, an' then we can mosey our way on down tae the engine room, havin' a drink of a drink discreetly.

[andthehat]

Stiffs the lot 'o you. Have to hide rum. [ sigh. back to the room ]

[reversedpolarity]

Look, I don't make the rules. I just break 'em a bit here an' there.

[andthehat]

Ah. [ fiddles with the end of his sleeves ]

[reversedpolarity]

[Right, flasks. And alcohol in the flasks. And one flask for Jack and one for himself, and if he catches Jack having a nip while they're out in the corridors, God help him.]

Right. Engine room?