I shall now pick this object up...
Garf, Un-Named Male, Phalanges Mittens and Cat Fantastic were in theory working on part of the live ecosystem reclamation down in Sanitation.
Not an especially unusual situation, since they were after all, really high tech sanitation engineers from the future; or from their point of view, Life Support Tech.
A job's a job and people like to breathe clean air, not die of 'drinking water' or have to wade through sewage of any level.
The issue had been traced to monitoring probe that was hallucinating, and thus the apparent issue had been resolved in two minutes of work, three of swearing at a stuck bolt, and ten of getting Cat Fantastic to go get the replacement part, which had led to a long discussion between Garf and Un-Named male about how weird it was to see a Little Guy without a Big Atrix.
"Yes -- but Cat drives that tool trolley around, so it helps." Phalanges said, referring to the robotic workbench nicknamed "The Office".
The workbench was originally designed to follow a worker around, but since Phlanges didn't have a pouch for his Little Guy the way Garf did,t he and Dave had converted the thing to keep Cat warm.
Later, once they got the manual remote replaced by a unit Cat could use, they'd added a basket for snacks so Cat could do a drinks and sandwich run to the Cafeteria, and a cargo box to haul parts and tools.
Around then Dave herself showed up and took a professional look through the viewport at huge tray of essentially very wet dirt that a variety of mosses and fungi and earth plants were cohabiting on.
Dave of course was the certified expert in this system, so it behoved her to stick her snout in and take a look-see.
"Stuck gas probe?" she guessed and then rather theatrically reached in and picked up a bottle of Lychee soda from the snack storage using two claws.
Garf and the two Little Guys reacted appropriately with amazement and Phalanges who was actually Human and usually fairly good at this stuff had to say, "OK what am I missing?".
Almost everyone held up their hands.
Phalanges looked around and then held up his hand.
"Oh. Oh!" he said.
Tsin have three fingers and an opposable thumb. All of them have large, sturdy digging claws.
Atrix have two fingers and two thumbs, which have thick, conical claws.
Terrafruit Fruits of Earth (Tee Em) bottles have no claws but are very smooth and incredibly hard to hold unless one get's their palm and fingers around it... and Dave had lifted it human style.
Dave's not human. She's a Tsin. This may or may not have been mentioned before.
Phalanges, biologically human but extremely well integrated with non-human ergonomics gets it.
"OK... I can tell you're dying to show off." he said.
"You bet your sweet bippy I am!" said Dave who's mastery of colloquial English was charmingly archaic.
She held out a hand and on examination: There were silicone pads fixed in place on the inside curve of her claws - Textured pads.
"Hang on, is that...?" said Phalanges, and Dave said "Yes! Fingerprints!"
"Who's?"
"Nobody's. It's a generated, semi symmetrical pattern, and they're all the same." explained Dave. "They're called Humanfingers."
"A name that will not cause any confusion or sound weird and creepy." said Phalanges wryly. "Though I can see the use."
"Yeah. They were invented on the station." Dave said proudly. "And I think the marketing lab is working on the name. As per normal it's Eat your Own Mushrooms time so I have been Authorised to distribute everyone's test sets. Let me just reach into my pocket..."
Dave made a show of taking out individual packets with just her claw tips. Two small sets for Un-Named Male and Cat Fantastic. One for Garf, who started by helping un-named Male get his on so he could help her.
Phalanges took the hint and helped his Little Guy, and soon Cat was practicing with them on The Office's control pad, Un-Named male doing some backseat driving.
"And of course, because the computer was told to automate the manufacturing and disbursement for all non-humans based on staff profiles..." said Dave with glee.
"Oh no." said Phalanges and held out a hand.
Dave dropped the last packet into his hand. It contained ten thimble like objects with oval pads on each.
"The print team were so amused when they got the error that they didn't have the right biometric data that they whipped up a unique set for you." Dave told her buddy.
Phalanges - Priorly the other Dave of Dave The Human and Dave the Human ceremoniously put them all on and made menacing finger wiggles. "You know this means that I can no longer be identified for my many future crimes via fingerprint." he said.
Dave looked at Garf, who shrugged and said, "Don't look at me. This monster... you created."
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"First Cup of Joe" Ahhhh nothing like that first cup on a lazy Saturday morning... Coffee, Coffee Time, Firstcupofcoffee, Saturdaymorning, Lazymorning, Leisure, Relaxing Moments, Home, Homesweethome, Human Hand, One Person, Coffee Cup, Human Finger, Refreshment, Food And Drink, Coffee - Drink, Leisure Activity, Human Body Part, Drink, Holding, Real People, Cup, Indoors , Lifestyles, Drinking by Brad L. Hodges on EyeEm
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