EQUIPMENT ORIENTATON - 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, June 15th, evening {back 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

[leftenants]

I take it you dealt with your share of jitters.

[Well, that's comforting.]

I'm still new enough to all the magic-and-monsters business that it's hard not to worry at least a little bit, but I'm a fast learner and I adapt well. Figure that's gotta count for a lot.

[badexample]

Understatement, but yeah. I wasn't exactly the most confident squire out there. The magic and monsters stuff gets easier. I grew up around it so maybe I'm biased, but I've seen plenty of others get the hang of it.

[leftenants]

Been at it for a year and a half now, maybe closer to two, and some days I still wonder if I'll wake up and find out it was all some incredibly vivid dream.

[Early on, she might have wished for that. Not anymore. Not when she thought about the people she'd met on same path.]

Think that ever goes away entirely?

[badexample]

Oh, I think so. Maybe not for a few years yet, but I mean- after like ten or twenty, I can't imagine you still thinking this place was fake or something, yeah?

[leftenants]

Guess things can only stay surreal for so long.

[She smiles-- even after everything she's been through back home, a part of her is still waiting for that to wear off. She doesn't like the way it makes her second-guess her instincts every now and then.]

Appreciate the pep talk.

[badexample]

That's what I'm here for. Sort of.