EQUIPMENT ORIENTATION ♔ monday evening

[badexample]

WHO || Andrew Gatewood and any/all Knights who haven't attended an equipment orientation yet
WHAT || Equipment Briefing
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Dragon's Hoard Laboratory
WHEN || Monday, October 7th, 7:00pm
HOW || actionspam

Andrew fidgets while he waits for the squires to show. He's waiting inside the lab, behind its "Biohazard" labelled doors. Once people begin to show up, he offers a stammering greeting and does his best to seem like he knows what he's doing. The sad part is, he DOES know what he's doing... He's just bad with people. People are free to look around at the grand library while he waits for the proper head count. Once he thinks everyone has arrived, he takes them up the steps. A great deal of models are suspended from the ceiling that look like space age designs for jet planes, cars, boats, and any number of other things. There are other objects that are much more inexplicable: a giant silver ball, suspended by several rods, for example.

There's another set of doors at the end of the balcony, and he swipes his access card through a reader beside them. They depress with a space age hiss. revealing a clean white laboratory, with rows and rows of tables and lab equipment set up. Numerous knights buzz around in white lab coats, working under microscopes and on computers, conferring over a number of projects.

"Just a bit further." He says with an awkward smile as he waves to a few of the lab techs that he knows. There's a door on the left side of the room with a panel that he presses his hand to, causing the light to change from red to green, unlocking the door for the group.

Beyond is a very long room, with rows of labelled cases and cabinets with transparent glass revealing what's inside. Andrew moves to shift from one foot to the other on the other side of the stainless steel table.

Comments

[theshameofcain]

[Bambi elbows her way through the other squires so she can get a good look at the toys, ignoring the tactical weapons and choosing to to look at the less flashy ones.]

Just get me something that'll record voice and video and I'll hand you the keys to someone's total annihilation, buddy. What're the specs on your computers?

[badexample]

Plenty of surveillance of all types. [Oh look a case full of it, actually. He idly starts to rattle off way more information that she probably needs to know about the computer system here- as well as the wireless capabilities they have via satellite. Sorry, but he's not going to stop any time soon...

You asked.]

[theshameofcain]

[Bambi not only listens, she adds her own two cents- improvements, whining about how her old job was using dinosaur equipment, comparing different bits, etc. Basically, this entire conversation is one long nerdgasm that culminates into:]

Damn, you really know your shit. I think I misjudged you.

[badexample]

[See THIS Is what Andrew can do. He can talk with someone on his level and speak in terminology until he's blue in the face. When she breaks away to sort of compliment him, he just blinks and laughs.]

Considering I thought you were out of you mind? I think we're even. [He pauses, then offers a hand, sort of like a truce.] Fresh start?

[theshameofcain]

[She returns his handshake and she has a noodle grip (str 7). She is a delicate flower, apparently.] I can get behind that. Provided you keep me in all the fancy spy stuff.

[badexample]

[Meanwhile Andrew is VERY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THIS HANDSHAKE (str 16? wtf)]

I can do that. I can definitely do that. Did you have anything in mind?

[theshameofcain]

Easy tiger. [Bambi shakes her hand out. Ouch, dude.] One of those little netbooks to start. Loaded for bear, but only if the bear was having an affair with a senator and you needed audio and visual proof from a safe distance. After that, I'm game for anything.

[badexample]

[He smiles. Actually smiles like a dope who is in his comfort zone and can totally get her exactly what she wants. After a second of frozen, dumb smiling, he moves and grabs her a basic netbook and brings it over.]

Can't really trick it out today since I've got to make the rounds and check on the others, but... If you want to come by later? I'll be down in the computer lab [Like always] and could get you all set up?

[theshameofcain]

You're a saint. [She reaches up and pats him lightly on the cheek.] I've never been happier to be wrong about a person, Champ.

[badexample]

Thank... you? [He's really not sure what to even do with that compliment.]

[theshameofcain]

Welcome. [Luckily, she has the charisma of a fish, so her and her... 10 cha check will just awkwardly walk to the back of the room.] I'll let you get back to your lecture, professor.