Shore Leave: The Bar

Stone smiles at Cass and she realizes that he knew about Moira's plans. "And do you need a career change, too? You were in the same situation after all."
His tone is very conversational. He puts the leaves that he didn't use for his pipe back into his pouch and rummages in there for something else.

Stone pulls out a lighter that looks tiny is his huge hands and lights his pipe. He takes a deep drag and asks: "So you're saying you don't belong in spacefleet? If that job is not you, then why not quit and find something else?"

"I wasn't in spacefleet. I had a bar on the Bull for a while but I was always a civilian." He takes another drag of his pipe and then offers it to Cass. "If you quit the fleet, what would you want to do instead?" He smiles to himself. "You know, I could use a helping hand here sometimes"

Inside

The three of you inside notice that there is some growing unrest happening. Nic leaving caused some murmured discussions at the front door. Apparently, some people want to leave and ignore the lockdown and others are trying to stop them. There is also a group of people at the bar that seem to be in a troublemaking kind of mood. You hear a man mutter: "Where'd that damn turtle man go to?" Another one yells out: "Hey barkeep, we're drying out here. We need some refills!" A third one suggests: "Screw it. There's drinks everywhere. If that turtle can't keep his eyes on the booze, let's just grab some!"

Outside

Stone shrugs and puts the pipe back between his lips. "If all you ever wanted was to be a pilot, why did you accept your promotion? Doesn't being a first officer keep you out of the cockpit?"

Inside

Alira, people turn around to look at you and the murmuring stops. After a second, someone says: "This is bullshit. This resort was supposed to be weapons free. I had leave my phaser on CC1. If someone is running around armed, I want it back."

Moira, the guys look at you, trying to figure out if you actually belong or not since they've never seen anyone except for Stone behind the counter here, but you look very convincing, so they decide not to risk it. "Three Masconian Gin Mixes", the one who had suggested to steal something to drink barks.

Outside

Stone takes a deep drag from his pipe. "So you wanted to prove to the universe that you could do it? And now that you're a hero and everyone knows that you can, you don't know if this challenge is worth continuing?"

The people h the door that you were talking to look confused at first but soon a few others join in your singing and eventually, even they get swept up in it and start singing as well.
At the first chorus, about half the bar is singing along while the other half's reactions vary between laughing at the song and the situation and being annoyed and complaining to their friends about it.

Outside

Stone smiles again. "If that is how you feel you should probably quit your job as fast as you can. Before anyone notices you're not suited for it."

Inside

The man Alira pointed at looks a bit flustered. "Me?" She hesitates and looks at her friend next to her. The whisper for a bit and then at the same time start singing The Latinum Freighter, which is just a general spacefaring song, not related to spacefleet, but it's pretty well known so you know the lyrics.