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

[pathology]

[blah blah blah boring.] I'll take the tricked out watch, danke.

[badexample]

No, you can't just- You have to sign them out to take them out of here.

[pathology]

Sign it out for me, then. [she makes a face like DUH OBVIOUSLY.]

[badexample]

I... think maybe we should wait until after you've actually learned more about how this stuff works?

[Which is not really a no]

[pathology]

Orrrr we could not do that because I'm a genius and I can figure anything out in ten minutes flat. [so modest, this one.]

[badexample]

No one's stopping you from testing it out. You just can't leave the room with 'em. Not today. Alright?

[This is not a bad compromise okay!!! He's very strained when he says it, worried that she'll cause a scene.]

[pathology]

[that's a legit worry tbh ... but she seems mostly placated.] Right, fine. Whatever. Let me see it, okay?

[badexample]

[He will v e r y tentatively hand over the watch.]

Just... be careful, will you?

[pathology]

[with a little huff:] I'm always careful. [she takes it and starts poking around at it. there's the button andrew pushed to get the saw blade out! whirrrr.] Does it have anything else besides the wire grappling hook, recording device, miniature circular saw, and high grade laser?

[badexample]

...What else do you want it to do? [ISN'T THAT ENOUGH??? Andrew just gives her a strange look between judgy and still... slightly afraid of her.]

[pathology]

I don't know! Don't you think it should do more?

[badexample]

I'm pretty sure it also tells time. [Well now he's just being a smart ass.]

[pathology]

Boring. [that was fast. the turns off the saw blade before unceremoniously thunking it back down onto the table.]

[badexample]

[KIDS THESE DAYS >| ]

Careful with that... [Possibly the quietest scolding ever. He goes and picks it up to check that nothing's cracked.]

[pathology]

[REALLY ANDREW?? REALLY??? SHE HAS THE STRENGTH OF A TWIG. THE WATCH HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF HURTING HER. (str 1 total, even. sobs...)]

[badexample]

[LOOK IF SOMETHING BREAKS ON HIS FIRST TIME RUNNING THIS SHOW, HE WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING SPECIAL EVER AGAIN. Satisfied that it's not damaged, he sets it back down. Gently.]

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