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, July 7th, evening {forward dated}
HOW || actionspam

Anyone showing up to equipment orientation would find a very tall, curly haired man leaned against a wall. He's waiting inside the lab, behind its "Biohazard" labelled doors. Once people begin to show up, he offers a quick greeting and a brief smile, gesturing for them to continue on while he waits for the rest. 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 calls over his shoulder 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. He puts both hands on the edge of the table and takes a deep breath to begin.

Comments

[badexample]

Sir Andrew Gatewood. Dragon's Hoard. Sorry- guess I forgot the introduction bit at the beginning.

[unforgivably]

Damon Salvatore. Dragon's Tongue. I think. [ He shrugs. ] So, you're the resident castle genius.

[badexample]

[Oh you sweet summer child.]

Actually more accurate to just say squire, mate. And no- not really a genius. [He actually is pretty damn smart. Just modest.] I work with the computers and gadgets and things. My boss started asking me to run these for her about a year or so back.

[unforgivably]

Then, squire. [ Mhm. ] Giving you responsibility. That must make you feel useful. [ Despite his mocking tone, he's still going to try not to make an enemy of the geek. So, his ribbing is charismatic?? (charisma 10) or not so much. He's just being a dick. Sorry bro :') ]

[badexample]

[Yeah he's not at all charmed by your sarcasm (will 15). Andrew folds his arms over his chest.]

You got a problem I don't know about?

[unforgivably]

No problem.

[sternshield]

[ the little hairy gnome pipes up. ] Thought we were all on the same team here, lads.

[beatemup]

Don't be so sure, pal. [Uh-oh watch out you've got a flamer in here.] He's a Dragon's Hoard. They all think they're better than us just because they're the geniuses. [He whispers to Erky, but his voice volume says otherwise, so the whole group might hear him.]

[badexample]

What? Who said that? [R u d e] I don't think I'm better than anyone!

[unforgivably]

[ Damon heard it, he smirks in Maxwell's direction. ]

But, do you think you're smarter than anyone?

[immuno]

Thinking he's smarter than you isn't arrogance, Damon; it's fact. [ Lydia's looking over the gadgetry nonchalantly, yawning at all of this ~oh no hoard superiority~ tbh. ]

[badexample]

I don't think much about it, really. We're good at different stuff. That's sort of what the Knights are all about.

[unforgivably]

Because we're all well-rounded.

[badexample]

No, sort of the opposite. I mean some people are. And good on them for it. But most of us have a specialty of some sort. This stuff just happens to be mine.

[immuno]

It certainly predisposes us to teamwork. [ although ... ] But to be a Dragon's Claw, I imagine being well-rounded is a requirement.

[badexample]

Right, but getting that job is sort of a one in a million thing. Not that you lot shouldn't have goals. It's just.. [this is why he doesn't get many squires.]

[beatemup]

Is that why you're not a Dragon's claw? Because you're not the one in that million? Or is it because you're not well-rounded? [Yeah, good thing max, just make more enemies as much as you can.]

[immuno]

I'm sorry, how does antagonizing the equipment manager benefit you?

[ mostly she doesn't have time for dragging this out by max being a dick. ]

[beatemup]

It gives me a good laugh over someone who likes to crush young squires' dream of being Dragon's claw. [He's just being a dick.]

[badexample]

[He appreciates you trying to help Lydia. For srs. Remind him to bring you a cookie later.]

Right. So if anyone has actual questions for me? Equipment related questions??

[unforgivably]

I have one. Does size matter?

[immuno]

[ Belligerently ignoring Damon, Lydia instead pulls an overly tight smile in Max's direction. ]

Oh, sweetie. His discouragement isn't what's keeping you from being a Dragon's Claw, and "young" is quite the overstatement. [ Because, uh, her dreams? Not crushed. So she'll turn it on him. ]

[beatemup]

[He's not really interested in being a Dragon's Claw, he only has one reason to stay in the Knighthood, and being a badass hero is not it.] Yeah-yeah, I'm just a dim-witted half-orc whose brain is made of muscles and is only good for lifting boxes. Heard it before. Got a better comeback? [And the last person who said that to Max, had his face restructured by this half-orc. You're lucky he is not in a bad mood. (will 18)] And FYI, I'm 22, half-orc morphology, so no, young is not an overstatement.

[immuno]

[ the sixteen-year-old is still just raising her eyebrows in judgment, because that’s old by her measure ok. ]

I can see the chip on your shoulder’s really working out for you.

[mydesigns]

[omg children. he takes off his glasses to pinch the bridge of his nose. ENCEPHALITIS HEADACHES HURT LESS THAN THIS.] Can we check out equipment when we're not ... on missions?