darlingcalling: (just a little unsure)
Dr. Casper Darling ([personal profile] darlingcalling) wrote in [community profile] lastvoyageslogs2026-06-21 02:08 pm
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plants are narcs

Who: Dr. Darling & open!
Where: greenhouse, hallways, wildcard!
When: Six Impossible Things flood
Warnings: will edit if needed

hallways
Dr. Darling lives on the seventh floor. Dr. Darling also works in the Engine Room. As such, Dr. Darling gets very tired of this nonsense very quickly. Sure, there's fun things to explore and the temporal bubbles of the Barge is fascinating and his theory that death is broken because of whatever Alucard and Trevor did during port is very quickly gaining proof but it's taken him two hours to get to the Engine Room this morning and that's before dodging all the mushrooms in the hallway, mushrooms that he 100% is not eating or trying to inhale.

Even though she isn't here, the voice of Dr. Raya Underhill is still present in his head, pointing out that Casper, don't be a moron, study the mushrooms and don't put one in your mouth. Do as you're told, don't eat the Mold. Or mushrooms.

It's when he's leaving his shift or trying to get to his room or trying to get to the dining room that Dr. Darling opens a door and steps right into a completely different hallway. Though he's trying to keep up his bright, chipper, Dr. Darling nature, it's obvious he's a little tired by all this. "Okay!" he says, trying to keep his spirit up. "This is not my cabin, but that's okay! Fifth time's the charm!"

greenhouse
The plants at the Bureau weren't narcs. Darling normally just talks to the plants and doesn't do much in the way of actual plant care. But today, when he went to talk to the plants, Darling heard some grass pipe up that hey, there's this guy back home that Dr. Darling likes but based on the way he talks about him, he might like like him. So nope. No fun little conversations today. Today is damage control and bribery.

Darling's actually working in the greenhouse today, kneeling down in the dirt, weeding some of the flowerbeds. He's still talking to the plants as he does so. But it's less 'idle chitchat and secret worries that nobody else will know' and more 'outright bribes.'

"You see? I bet you feel so much nicer right now, with all those weeds gone. You know what would be a wonderful thing you could do in repayment? Not talk about me until this flood's done! Easy enough!"

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( it's a wildcard! hit me up with whatever! )
empathicfault: (Seriously)

Hallways

[personal profile] empathicfault 2026-06-22 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Will catches him coming out of the wall on Deck 3 and Dr. Darling definitely seems like he's wearing thin. "Fifth time? I haven't had it that bad yet. You want some help getting back?"

He's thinking over his experiences so far, and he thinks his and Malcolm's ship can reach other parts of the Barge? It managed the Deck okay.
empathicfault: (Hmm)

Re: Hallways

[personal profile] empathicfault 2026-06-22 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's worse on the lower floors?" Will hums in thought. He's been spending most of his time on the upper decks. "Do you think that has something to do with the attack? I know this is a flood, but they usually apply evenly over the ship."
empathicfault: (Hmm)

Re: Hallways

[personal profile] empathicfault 2026-06-23 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Will tilts his head to the side while he listens, then nods. That does make sense.

"I'm not sure how much difference I'll make, in that case. But if you'd like to try taking my ship to your cabin, we can try it. If not, you can rest up for in there before you try again."

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pharadyne: (adorable)

[personal profile] pharadyne 2026-06-22 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh. Hello." Norton sets aside the lurid pulp novel he was reading, completely undisturbed by the sudden appearance of a strange man in his room. He's seen Dr. Darling around the ship and on the network, though, and has judged him to be in the category of inmates who is not likely to murder him for no reason. Therefore he's inclined to be sociable.

"Interdimensional space acting up?"
pharadyne: (innocent face)

[personal profile] pharadyne 2026-06-22 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Norton beams at someone appreciating his interior decorating. "Why thank you! I designed it myself. The Admiral thought my cabin ought to be an aeroplane cargo hold, and I strongly disagreed, so I arranged to have this instead. That was some six years ago, back when I was an inmate, so I've expanded since then, but the core aesthetic concepts have remained the same.

"Can I offer you tea? Or teleportation?"

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Greenhouse

[personal profile] planetdialup 2026-06-22 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
"The flowers are usually pretty chatty, but they're pretty loud this time." Aerith offered Darling an apologetic smile. It wasn't her fault, but she was pretty quietly dismayed with all of the gossip. And, well, the flowers being weird, and the bugs not being...like bugs.

But the dragon flies actually being little dragons was actually pretty cute.

"Need some water? I've got some, if you're thirsty. Weeding is hard work."
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Re: Greenhouse

[personal profile] planetdialup 2026-06-22 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Here." She offered him a bottle of water, giving him a big smile. Ghosting, who ghosted? No one here! She was just super busy!

"I should have some snacks too, if you're hungry! I think I have some...fruit." She nodded, patting her pockets. She could hear the flowers murmuring, but not what they were saying. "And nuts. But yeah, it can be hard work! Especially weeding. The roots can go in pretty deep, and you can take out the muscles in your back if you're not careful."

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Hallway

[personal profile] weaponuser 2026-06-22 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, at least Cheradenine isn't doing anything too awkward. But that balled-up piece of paper he tossed angrily at the door (yet another poem ruined by the stupid rhymes this place is making him write) just hit Darling full in the face.

"Sorry!" Though it's not like he expected someone to come in through his door like that.
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"It has been," Cheradenine says, snatching the paper out of the air. "I spent fifteen minutes trying to get to the cybernetics lab yesterday. Stupid door kept changing."

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Hallways

[personal profile] anashthetic 2026-06-23 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Darling has a reasonable and sane approach to the whole endeavor re: not putting mushrooms in his mouth!

Ashton does not share this approach in the slightest, which is why she is currently a housecat the size of a great dane with a half-eaten mushroom in her mouth, taking up an entire common room sofa by herself. She spits the 'shroom out for the sake of pithy commentary, though she's already picking up a lovely new patterning of blood-red leopard spots. "Try seven? Floods love trying to create narratives, seven's typically associated with luck..."

(It's also, like, 3 PM, which is not a time Ashton is typically up at, though she's been out and around in the mornings and afternoon every so often this month. Medically-approved effect testing. And also just regular effect-using. Though there's no collar around her neck, there is a golden locket, chain mostly hidden by the floof. ...there's a lot of floof.)
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Cats are unaffected by withering looks! Or maybe just Ashton. She primly crosses her paws in front of her. "First off, yes; second off, the Knight has at least eight extra legs at the moment, and it lacks a mouth entirely, so clearly there are other methods of transmission."

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This is stupid

[personal profile] getfeldsparred 2026-06-25 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
To their credit, Feldspar does not immediately eat the delicious-smelling mushrooms right away! They do, however, collect and pocket them for later examination, because the part of them that’s intensely curious happens to sometimes manifest in eating strange things. Is it a Hearthian thing or a Feldspar thing? The Barge may never know.

They at least wait until they’re back in the cabin before they stretch out on the couch and pop one into their mouth. And poof! They’re gone.

Okay. Not gone-gone, but just very, very small, the kind of small that makes the back of the couch look like a cliff and the cushion some kind of bouncy, desert terrain. They spend the next half an hour scaling the blasted thing, climbing and sliding until they’re on the floor and staring up at the couch and other pieces of furniture like the skyscrapers of New York City Darling showed them. It’s pretty fun, but uh…

They’re gonna get stepped on if they’re not careful.
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[personal profile] getfeldsparred 2026-06-25 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
The sound of the door opening is like the din of a cyclone, and Feldspar immediately ducks for cover without realizing that it's just Darling walking into his own cabin. They pick their head up and wait for him to come into view, and - oh, yeah, he's had a fun day, hasn't he? They make a mental note to tease him when they're big again and jump back to their feet, yelling and waving their arms wildly to get his attention.

They might actually be too small for him to hear them though, even with all the racket they're making. That's one mighty big problem. They try again, whooping and running and making a general spectacle of themselves, and then balk when his feet continue to walk in a very straight line right for them. Darling can't hear or see them right now, and with death being off the table being squished flat is going to be agonizing.

Feldspar takes a running leap towards the relative safety of underneath the couch, just barely missing Darling's shoe.

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