Sim Log for Cdt. Delgado

[ElaineDelgado 0]

My first day: On the Uss Olie as an Asst. Engineer

 

Cdt. Elaine Delgado

 

The chief seemed tense. The visiting Ferengis were obviously worrying him. He had me set everything to level three clearence. None of our visitors were going to be allowed to get too curious.

 

He told me he was Betazoid. Then he ran off somewhere.

 

I quickly finished my work at the panel, and headed back to Engineering. I never liked Ferengis, and I also didn't quite understand why they would be boarding our ship. I figured I could safely hide out for the entire mission.

 

Everything was quiet for quite some time. I ran tests, enjoyed the quiet, wondered where my senior officer was. Then they came in. A whole flock of them, walking right in. The Ferengis had landed.

 

Thankfully a security officer was there, almost immidiatly, standing between me and them. I tried to be polite. But when the Chief came in, anxious, telling me to watch 'em, I felt protective. Esspecially when the uglier one kept looking at my favorite console.

 

We stood there for a while, staring eachother down. I moved closer to my favorite console. No one was going to mess with it today. I think the Chief might have left, maybe the Security officer, I don't know. It was just me and the ugly big eared dude.

 

Then the alarms started going off. I knew I needed to turn around, but that would mean turning away from him. He smiled, revealing his really nasty teeth.

 

Then there was an explosion. I forced the Ferengi to leave, then looked over at where the alarms were going off. Another explosion rocked engineering. I began to sob. My Chief was off somewhere, there was a leak in the warp core, and worst of all...

 

Sparks were shooting from my favorite console as it began to melt.

 

I tried to stabalize the warp core. Anti-matter was leaking out, all over.

 

I never felt the blast.

 

The USS Olie went out in blazing glory, taking close to 40 Ferengis with her.

[ElaineDelgado 0]

Hi. I'm new. :D

If you could tell me if this is what a log should look like that would be great. I love writing, but if this is too dramatic and not scientific enough tell me.

 

--JesusTrekkie ;)

[Ki'rok 0]

Hi. I'm new. :D

If you could tell me if this is what a log should look like that would be great. I love writing, but if this is too dramatic and not scientific enough tell me.

 

--JesusTrekkie ;)

::snarkles::Too dramatic....obviously you've never seen a Pandarian chew on your XO's leg like a drumstick.. :)

 

Fine job...stop by the holodeck..weekdays @ 5pm EST for some unofficial simming practice...

 

Welcome to STSF...

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

Hi. I'm new. :D

If you could tell me if this is what a log should look like that would be great. I love writing, but if this is too dramatic and not scientific enough tell me.

 

--JesusTrekkie ;)

Very nice log. One thing you can do is go to the message boards for each advanced sim's logs. Like IKC Qob/Lakota, or U.S.S. Reant. Scroll down the main menu till you see the different sims. Click on mission logs. You can get a look at how different people write them. Hope to see you in academy.

 

Zaphod

[JesusTrekkie 0]

Thanks! I'll be sure to check out more of the other logs.

 

And, um, what is snarkling, and should a vulcan be doing it?? Sorry, I just had to ask. :D

 

I'll see if I can stop by the 5pm sim, maybe today.

 

---JesusTrekkie ;)

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

Thanks! I'll be sure to check out more of the other logs.

 

And, um, what is snarkling, and should a vulcan be doing it?? Sorry, I just had to ask. :)

 

I'll see if I can stop by the 5pm sim, maybe today.

 

---JesusTrekkie ;)

:D Ya know, I've been here for a while and I've never found out what a snarkle was. I've seen many people do it from Vulcans to Romulans to Humans. Still don't know what it means. One day I'll ask someone. :)

 

Zaphod,

[Dumbass 0]

I think it involves plucking cat whiskers out or something. Vulcans have been known to do it on occasion. ;)

 

Seriously, I have no idea what it means.

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

I think it involves plucking cat whiskers out or something. Vulcans have been known to do it on occasion. :D

 

Seriously, I have no idea what it means.

;) Remind me not to take a catnap on the nice warm plasma conduits in engineering. :) Ok hm snarkle. My guess would be a combination snarl and chuckle maybe?

 

Zaphod

[JesusTrekkie 0]

Tried to go to an unofficial sim on Friday the 21. Not one GM showed up. :D However I did get good and freaked out by Dracula and others just hanging on the Lobby ceiling talking about Dracula's most recent meal. :) And not one adventursome spirit wanted to fake being a GM in the Holo. I even suggested a story line. ;)

 

Oh well. --JesusTrekkie :)

[Saek tr'Vosh 0]

Tried to go to an unofficial sim on Friday the 21. Not one GM showed up. :D However I did get good and freaked out by Dracula and others just hanging on the Lobby ceiling talking about Dracula's most recent meal. :) And not one adventursome spirit wanted to fake being a GM in the Holo. I even suggested a story line. ;)

 

Oh well. --JesusTrekkie :)

My apologies...Friday was an atypical day. I got a new job..and had to do the appropriate paperwork. I believed Tovan would be back from his absence. Even the official sims have scheduling conflicts occasionally. Please try to come again next week..

 

Again...My apologies...

 

And Congrats to Farien..our first regular unofficial simming cadet to graduate from STSF academy...WOOHOO :D

 

That unofficial practice paid off, eh... ;)

[Tovan 0]

My apologies...Friday was an atypical day.  I got a new job..and had to do the appropriate paperwork.  I believed Tovan would be back from his absence.  Even the official sims have scheduling conflicts occasionally.  Please try to come again next week..

 

Again...My apologies...

 

And Congrats to Farien..our first regular unofficial simming cadet to graduate from STSF academy...WOOHOO :D

 

That unofficial practice paid off, eh...  ;)

ya ya me very sorry about wednsday, Junior music night :). Thursday, Senior music night and orchestra :). Friday, just plain lights out for me. Sorry again, come on monday and perhaps we can finish that darn klingon plot eh? ;) Congrats Farein :D

 

ok to settle this snarkling business. Snarkle is a cross between snickers and ... i forget the other one, think it was chuckle or gurgle?

Edited May 22, 2004 by Tovan

[JesusTrekkie 0]

I can only make the unofficial sims on Fridays (I go to work right as it starts on Mon, Tues, and Thur). But, yes I will try to come back. And I add my congrats to Farien. :)

 

And any suggestions to what snarkle really means would be great. It's starting to bug me!! Because as hard as Tovan tried that didn't settle too much. ;)

 

--JesusTrekkie :D

[ElaineDelgado 0]

Wed. Night, May 27th

 

Aboard the U.S.S. (Computer pause. ::looks over at pet tribble:: hmm. It started with an L…) as Chief Medical Officer. Well, we had just left some star base, no real mission so far. The helm decided to practices some maneuvers apparently, as there were a few jolts. (Computer pause. ::picks up tribble, begins to stroke it:: just between you and me, I heard that there was a barrel roll involved. Humph.)

 

Well, I got that feeling that I was going to have a patient soon. Just one of those gut feelings. Then I began getting messages from several people that I needed to head down to a turbo lift, that someone was trapped inside, possibly hurt. I headed over. Chief D-day from engineering was there trying to get it open, as it was stuck tight. The Captain wanted to know what was going on, and why I hadn’t gotten to my patient yet. “[D*** it, Jim] I’m a doctor, not an Eng[ineer]!” I yelled at her. I could hear the delirious screams of the XO, who was trapped inside. Then the Chief got some help from an assistant, opening the doors. Heat blew out. Atragon had been badly burnt in addition to other injuries. I gave him some medication and asked Asst. Eng. Pittykitty to help me drag him to sickbay. I grabbed his shoulders and she got his other end.

 

We had just got to sickbay when the lights went out and the temperature dropped. We plopped the XO onto a bed. Thankfully, Pittykitty knew where flashlights were, being an engineer. I began treating Atragon as best I could in the dark, and dropping temperatures. He kept complaining about being numb, not being able to feel his toes, and so on and so forth. I sighed, gave him some more meds, a blanket, thinking perhaps the shock and the cold and the burns were getting to him.

 

Pittykitty suggested that we move him elsewhere, especially when we were getting really cold, and I couldn’t find a darn tricorder in the dark. (Computer pause. ::Looking into what could be the tribble’s face, or something else all together:: Those people at the starbase may have outfitted us nicely, but they put everything back in the right places. I couldn’t find anything!!) About that time the Captain walks in, asks why the lights are off, and why it’s cold, and then the lights turned on, and Atragon started screaming again, and I looked at her and said, “The lights aren’t off.” I was finally able to scan the XO, and figure out what his complaints were all about. It seems we accidentally left his legs in the Turbo lift. I sent Pittykitty off to get them. (Computer pause. ::putting tribble back into its cage:: You know, even though she grumbled about retrieving his legs, it was sort of her fault that we left them. She had the feet end. Of course, being an engineer and not a medical officer like myself she obviously didn’t know to look for such things.)

 

Anyway, everyone was pleased that we got through the evening without any casualties, but of course, that was probably due to my awesome abilities, even if the XO was whining about a broken back. (Oops. Computer, delete last paragraph, from ‘anyway’.)

[Lt. Friebel 0]

These are some pretty impressive Logs. Congradulations Cadet Delgado.

Edited May 27, 2004 by Lt. Friebel

[Tovan 0]

Keep up the good work Cadet Crun - err... Delgado ;)

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

Great logs Cadet Delgado. And congrats to Farien, welcome to the ensigns club,

 

Zaphod

Edited May 28, 2004 by DaryusZaphodDracal

[Farein 0]

hey thanks for the congrats everybody, especially Vosh, Tovan and the others who helped me get in extra practice. ^_^

those are some great logs cadet Delgado, I'm freaking 'cause I probably can't write one half as good as that. ;)

Edited May 30, 2004 by Farein

[NDak 0]

Heh....

 

 

Good Log ;)

 

 

And Farein, Don't worry. Log writting, like regular writting, is a skill that gets better with practice. ::snickers having read some of his own early logs::

 

Dak

[Tovan 0]

hey thanks for the congrats everybody, especially Vosh, Tovan and the others who helped me get in extra practice. ^_^

those are some great logs cadet Delgado, I'm freaking 'cause I probably can't write one half as good as that. ;)

ooh, oh yeah ... just have good spelling and simple paragraphs so every one knows what you're talking about lol. :D

[NDak 0]

ooh, oh yeah ... just have good spelling and simple paragraphs so every one knows what you're talking about lol. ^_^

Or be a Rihan.... ;)

[Farein 0]

and have about 1/3 of it make absolutely no sense? ;)

 

I'd really like to see those early logs of your N'Dak, where are they?

[Seiben 0]

Like the others said, your logs are pretty good, they've got potential. Just keep at it, they're good practise for Advanced sims. I'm sure you'll find your niche soon enough. Like Dak, I look back at my earlier logs with sadness and disgust. ;)

[NDak 0]

and have about 1/3 of it make absolutely no sense? :)

 

I'd really like to see those early logs of your N'Dak, where are they?

::goes digging::

 

"They Think I am a Spy"

 

 

I think that was my first log.... :)

[ElaineDelgado 0]

Night of the Really Boring Sim!!!

 

And now, my sim log in three sentences:

 

1) We went looking around at this big black area, me being the CSCI and LoAmi being the ASCI (Bad idea, right there...when your assistant knows more jargon than you, you end up looking dumb), and ran scans.

 

2) It ended up being a black hole, caused somehow by a big, radioactive comet, one of the type that likes to toy with your ship, and finally someone said, "Hey, let's blow it up.

 

3) CSEC Smooth23 said he'd get me some particles to study, and about that time we tried to go to warp, and that ripped us into four pieces, and I went, What was that noise?, and Smooth said, Hey, the computer says we have no docking bay 3, so I can't get you those particles, and then our very helpful XO informed us that if a ship is in four pieces we are all dead.

 

And it took only forty-five minutes, and it was boring, and no one got graduated, and our captain disappeared about fifteen minutes into it, and I just realized that this is a fourth sentence, not to mention they are all really, really big.

 

Ooh, and N'dak, your log rocked. I tried looking for others just as funny, but it seems you began talking like you were a Rihan or something, and dude, I just don't know what to do with all the apostrophes, because I am more of a comma person myself.

 

Okay, I'm done now with my totally unimpressive log. I'm going to go play with my tribble.

[LoAmi 0]

1) We went looking around at this big black area, me being the CSCI and LoAmi being the ASCI (Bad idea, right there...when your assistant knows more jargon than you, you end up looking dumb), and ran scans.

Sorry to be the cause of a bad experience :-\

 

One of the great things about simming is that whatever you say only has to make sense in a self-consistent way. And, there are even exceptions to that. Making up believable technobabble is mostly an acquired art, and very little science.

 

If you're confused at any time during a sim, don't hesitate to PM either

(1) the player who confused you (if appropriate)

or

(2) one of the GM's

 

By the way, asking questions of your assistant (A*), even in-sim and in-character, does not necessarily make you look "dumb." Especially if you just ordered the A* to do something, it's the only way you'll get results short of actually "looking" at their data - something I like to avoid because it avoids player-to-player interactions (although sometimes it's necessary if the second player is not responding in reasonable time for the plot). Firstly, just talking to someone else keeps you busy and in the plot. Secondly, it helps you bounce ideas off someone else and eventually up the chain of command - and that's how you influence the plot.

 

There are some good Tips from the Moose that might help --

See

#1 about playing off other people's ideas

and

#4/ #5 about how to send ideas through the chain of command

Heck, read them all - it's worth it :-)