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

[ He gives her a smile that's somehow both nervous and patronizing at that. ]

Oh yeah, you are not touching these without supervision.

[ "Surgeon" now registers as an umbrella term for Rhys, with a steep sliding scale in terms of legitimacy. Anyone with a hacksaw could call themselves a surgeon down on Pandora.

He takes a few quick glances down to his communicator as he gets a feel for their location before picking a direction to start heading in. ]

I'll leave my care to the bots, thanks. It's this way right?

[Claire puts up her hands.]

I try not to touch without permission.

[Her hands drop as she follows alongside him.]

I think so. Like I said, I'm a surgeon, not a navigator. How's your sense of direction?

Helios was twice this places size and with waaay more departments, this should be a cakewalk.

[ He takes a right, heading them in the direction of the central axis. ]

Okay new constructive feedback to add to the list: this place could really use a closed fast travel system, just saying.

Helios? Is that where you're from?

[Fast travel sounds great except for that part where]

That sounds like something that would make me lose my stomach.

No no, Helios was just a space station I lived on for work. Grew up on Eden-5.

[ He takes a left, double checking the commlink. They should be close.

At her comment, he grimaces. He knows he lost his lunch multiple times when he started using the stations...and even after that. ]

You uh. You get used to it- Here we go! See, cakewalk.

[ He stops in front of a sealed door, tries the unlock mechanism and is, as usual, denied. ]

Seriously? I can't even get into here?? Bandaids are a human right you know.

What happened to Eden-1, 2, 3, and 4?

[Haha bet no one's made that joke before. Claire's humor can be lacking.

At the door, she steps forward to allow them in.]

Warden access. I imagine it's to make sure no one gets into anything dangerous. Tools, medications...

[Cue pointed look.]

That said, if you need those things--or a bandaid--don't hesitate to ask me.

That's not the point.

[ Grumbled as he heads inside to scope things out. He's not on the same level as the other inmates in here, there should be some kind of sliding scale at least. People who can be trusted with a soldering iron and people who can't, something like that.

He gives out a low whistle as he takes in what they're working with, the tech here on par with what you'd see on Helios. It's been a while since he's seen an infirmary that's actually clean let alone one with tools that weren't 90% jerry rigged from shoddy, older tech. ]

Not bad, not bad. I could get some real work done in here if some warden will let me.

[ He's acting cool, but in truth he's giddy to tinker with tools that are up to snuff again. You don't know real hardship till you're using a TK400 screwdriver for a TK700 job. ]

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