[MINGLE] Harvest Feast 🍂

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: 6I Inn
WHEN: 10 November, all day
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE POST
NOTE: Details can be found here.

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In the wee hours of November 10th, before even the earliest risers have roused themselves for another day, items begin to appear in the front room of the Inn. Decorations first — Boughs of autumn leaves in their reds and golds, wreaths of dried flowers and silken ribbon, flickering candles among the goards and berries and acorns. The food arrives next, the decadent aroma slipping up the Inn stairs to tempt those lingering in bed — Every imaginable harvest time delicacy, from roast turkey and ham to smoked salmon and oysters; fresh, soft bread warm from the oven to plum pudding and ice cream. And did we mention pie?

Once again, it's time for a feast. The bar is stocked, the coffee is brewed and the tables are groaning with food. Indulge, there's more than enough for everyone — That is, if you don't lose your appetite worrying about what it will all cost.

Comments

[chirrutsluck]

"A couple of weeks. Long enough to nearly kill the plants we didn't protect and dry up the river. When it started again, we got rain, and the river filled up again." Baze considers, then says, "I don't think this is a real planet, since planets don't stop moving for no reason."

[enterprisingheart]

"I haven't known many planets to simply stop, no. And it would raise the question of how we hadn't managed to fall out of orbit besides. It's possible that the Observers managed to alter things enough to briefly cause a planetoid to be tidally locked, but that would take a not insignificant amount of work. Especially for something that only lasted for a brief period of time."

And in this case, a few weeks is a brief period of time. It's not something the can imagine would have been comfortable, especially not with the effects that Baze has mentioned, but compared to the average life of a planet it's not terribly long. Assuming that it is a planet in the first place.

"But the question is: what would it be, if it isn't a planet?"

[chirrutsluck]

Baze shrugs. "A space station. They made a station the size of a moon, where I come from. It could be a very large stage that they set up with a viewscreen overhead instead of a real sky. They could be better with holographic technology than my part of the universe. We could all be asleep somewhere and this is all a virtual world. There are many options."

[enterprisingheart]

"There's nothing quite like that were I come from," Picard answers with a half-shrug of his own. "It's certainly not impossible, but back home something like this could easily be a fully holographic environment. Which certainly doesn't rule out the possibility of it being an artificial structure, but does make it more difficult to tell where we are with any real certainty."

And given that the only way to tell that something is a holodeck projection is either for it to end or to happen open the door (or otherwise be brought out of the simulation) it's not a terribly comforting thought.

Not that much is, in this situation, but regardless of what happens to be case he has faith that they'll manage to find some way to escape their cage. Even if it takes some time yet.

[chirrutsluck]

Another person who understands modern technology. That's always nice to find. "There is a hidden room outside the village with biological samples and a computer," Baze offers. "I have not been to it yet, but I mean to. Those who went might not have known how to operate it."

apologies for the delay, here

[enterprisingheart]

It's certainly a rarity, in Picard's experience. Not that he's made much of a habit of asking after the sorts of things that the people he meets happen to be familiar with, when it comes to technology, but he's been getting the distinct impression that the average level of technology people are familiar with is at least a couple of centuries behind what he considers to be modern.

"I hadn't been aware of that. But I'd certainly be interested in whatever might be uncovered there."

And would be more than willing to accompany Baze there besides, should he be interested in a little company and a second set of eyes besides.

[chirrutsluck]

Sounds like a good idea, to be honest. "Then come with me. Our times and places are different, you may have insight I do not." They both come from spacefaring cultures, obviously, but different ones. And Baze isn't really a high-tech sort of person-- he's, at best, a mechanic who likes to hotwire his blasters. So a second set of eyes and a second brain might be useful.

[enterprisingheart]

There's a blink - even with his earlier comment the offer isn't one that he'd entirely expected - but it's followed by a smile.

"I'd be glad to. Just let me know when you're intending to go."

After all, he's not expecting that the answer to that is going to be immediately. Not when there's still a feast that's been laid out, even if there's still a part of him that finds it just a little bit suspicious. But that's a problem for another time, he figures.

[chirrutsluck]

"It depends on if the weather holds. I need to finish the house," Baze admits. "Because I have been told it may snow soon." The trip may or may not have to wait until after the worst of the winter season.

[enterprisingheart]

There's a nod from Picard at that. Exploration is certainly all well and good, yes. But making certain that one is adequately prepared to survive whatever weather might be forthcoming will always take first priority. Admittedly, he also doesn't have any idea as to just what Baze still needs to do in order to finish the house in question, but neither is it something that he particularly needs to know either.

"If the seasons are anything like the ones back home... it very well might."

And to be perfectly honest, he can't see any reason why the Observers wouldn't see to arranging a 'proper' winter, with all its attendant inconveniences and miseries. (Miseries that will no doubt be made worse by the comparative lack of any real sort of technology, but that's not something that he figures he needs to bring up, either.)