returnjourneylogs | SET SAIL: FIRST IMPRESSIONS

SET SAIL: FIRST IMPRESSIONS

January 1, 2022 – January 7, 2022
Welcome to the new year and the Return Journey's opening event! We're starting with something light to get everyone acclimated and so no one feels they've missed too much if they app after the holiday season. We'd like to make it easy for any new players to jump in right away.

If you have any questions about the event, please ask here.

1. What? My name is who? My name is—

Salutations! Now that everyone's respective warden and inmate orientations are out of the way, you've been given a helpful, mandatory name tag. It instantly appears on your shirt and can't be taken off, though where it appears on your shirt is a bit more unpredictable; it's an imperfect science, so it's just as likely to pop up on the back of your shirt as the front. If you try to remove your clothes, the tag appears on your skin; they're waterproof, so a quick shower won't get rid of it, either. What can we say — it's mandatory.

While the tags all follow the standard "HELLO my name is" format and have your name or most common alias, they also include some other information. For wardens, it features a space that declares "I LIKE" and one or two of your most choices hobbies. For inmates, it features these hobbies and "I have killed [x] people" (this may be a specific number or something akin to "a lot of" or "no"). Fun icebreaker, right?

2. Twenty Questions

Speaking of icebreakers, a brief announcement summons everyone to the observatory. Again, yes, it's mandatory; wardens must retrieve absent inmates before any more information is revealed. Better hop to it!

Upon arrival, passengers will discover that the Peregrine's resident bot force has reconfigured the observatory with small, portable cubicles, each with a transparent wall that retains a lovely view of the observatory's massive window. Each inmate is assigned their own cubicle and, upon entering, cannot leave without a warden's say so; the door only unlocks with a warden's CommLink.

Wardens are tasked with interviewing at least one inmate, to get a feel for their prospective charges. They can have as much time as they need to formulate what questions they want to ask, but that might leave some inmates waiting. Maybe that's on purpose, though. In any case, the exercise is over once an inmate is asked five questions and a warden receives five answers.

Archimedes will collect name tags after the interviews for incineration. The robotic owl is, notably, the only one who can remove them.

3. Polite Picnic

The greenhouse doesn't always have enough fresh produce to go around (and often what is collected is frozen and preserved), but given the circumstances — a new mission and new passengers — everyone can reap the rewards this month...if they share. A bot stationed in the mess hall mechanically tells anyone who crosses into range (whether they mean to visit the produce table or not) that they aren't to take more than three fruits and/or vegetables. If you choose not to abide by the rules...well, that depends if you're caught and by who.

The produce available are as follows:

Adalfane: Tastes like cocaine, but very nutritious, especially when eaten raw.
Tuadath: Smells awful, but very hearty when cooked, tasting a little like steak.
Tsanyi: Pure, sugary sweetness. Can be made into a refreshing drink, eaten raw, or sprinkled over a desert.

There are notably fewer tsanyi than adalfane or tuadath. But if everyone's nice and cooperates, each person can get exactly one.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Lying?

[ An awkward, stilted laugh. ]

I'm not up to anything, or anything. Just looking to see what this place has to offerrrrr---

[ Rhys's eyes flick down to the strangers nametag, register the italicized "lot" and quickly look back up to give him a forced smile. ]

That, I believe. [With a hint of sarcasm, but Alex really did believe it.]

Find anything good?

[ He gives a one shouldered shrug to that. ]

Nothing more interesting than the last place, and way more locked doors. Guess that's not something you can help with given uh. Y'know.

[ The fact that his nametag has a kill-count and indicates what he is. ]

Sorry, left my lock picks in my other jacket.

[There's the sarcasm. Truth was, if he had access to his abilities it wouldn't be a problem to get through the locked doors. Hell, depending on how they locked he might still be able to try and hack 'em.]

[ He'll get a narrowing of Rhys's eyes for the sarcasm. ]

That is so unnecessary. Even if you weren't being a dick, this place probably has some crazy bio-lock system like the other one.

[That narrowing actually brings a half-smile, and soft noise of amusement.]
Fair enough. You've been on one of these before?

Kinda. Different layout, different amenities, and I had a proper room, but the general concept was the same.

[ There's another door a couple feet from them, Rhys moves to it and presses the panel that should engage and open it, but the panels light blinks red. He lets out a groan of a sigh. ]

Really? I can't get into anything?

[Alex watches the other, and sympathizes with the frustration.]

Warden or Inmate? I doubt it'll open for me...

[ Rhys's eyes flick down to his hand covering the nametag on his chest, then back. ]

It's uh. It's complicated. I'm kinda in limbo on a clerical error.

That your assessment, or did you get like, official confirmation about that or something?

[Alex is amused, one eyebrow raising slightly.]

Can you give me a name, at least? Feels kind of more rude not to.

What, you trust the system here is foolproof? "Official" doesn't mean much when we barely know who we're answering to.

[ No one ever seemed to know what was going on, how things worked or the purpose of the systems that were in place from what he'd gleamed on the other ship, so was going to apply the same assessments here. All he knew for sure was him being here, in the position he'd been given, was a mistake.

All that said, there was no harm in introductions. He reaches out with his robotic arm, keeping his organic one over his nametag. ]

It's Rhys.

'M not sure I trust anything I haven't directly experienced, yet.

[Taking the hand, Alex didn't seem troubled by it being robotic.]

Alex.

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