EQUIPMENT ORIENTATION ♔ monday evening

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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

credit cards

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[There's a stack of envelopes on the table, which Andrew spreads out and tries to explain.]

There's an envelope for each of you with a credit card in your name. We've got a financial department that tracks the expenses, so try to keep it to business purchases only? Things like hotel rooms, hotel rooms, air fare, meals, any equipment you can't get from the lab? Those sort of things are fine.

[Each card is silver with this logo branded on it, and the words KARTHUR INSTITUTE across the top.]

You'll also be getting paid monthly, so don't think we've forgotten about you.

[fixyourproblem]

[Ooh, yes, Brantley loves credit cards, especially when he is not the one who has to pay for it.

He grabs his envelops and takes out the card from it.]

Karthur Institute?

[Brantley stares at those words, there's something familiar with the name. (wis 19)]

King Arthur Institute?

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[Andrew just twitches a dopey smile. Hey, his squire is kind of bright. That's awesome.]

Wynn's sort of old school. It's our cover. If anyone ever asks, that's who you work for. It's pretty vague as to what we say we do. Just sort of mumble and fake your way through it. People give up eventually.

[fixyourproblem]

[Wow, maybe Wynn is actually King Arthur, after all.]

Yeah, I can do that.

[When people ask about your job and you don't want people to know, just say you're a consultant and they will stop asking the details. At least, most people will.]

So, I really can buy anything with this card as long as it's work related, right?

[badexample]

[Naw we met King Arthur. Wynn was just a big fanboy.]

Pretty much. Why, you have something in mind?

[fixyourproblem]

Nope, just asking.

[He smiles but if you look carefully there's something wrong with the smile(bluff 36). Technically, everything can be considered work related, right? At least, if you know how to convince people from accounting that they are.]

[badexample]

[Yeah his sense motive of 16 is not helping him figure that out at all.]

Alright. Well unless you have any more questions about it..?

[fixyourproblem]

Nope.

[He tucks the card into his pocket and he pats his pocket twice as if saying "you're safe in there."]

[beseeched]

We'll be getting paid monthly?

[That's news to him he thought this was more of a freelance opportunity. Jimmy's got the envelope tucked under his arm.]

Even if we haven't gone on a mission?

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Sure. [Andrew says with a shrug.] There's still plenty to do even if you aren't on a mission.

But if you don't want the stipend, I'm sure accounting would love a little more to play with in the budget. [This guy and his jokes]

[beseeched]

I want the money.

[Yeah, that flew right over his head. Good job, Jimmy.]

I just don't like having idle hands. I've been trying to do as much as I can with my down time just to prep for the inevitability of a mission. I want to be ready for it. I mean, I signed on for this with little to no experience. I want to be able to provide.

[badexample]

[Wow, this guy is super serious. Andrew just blinks a few times.]

...Right. Well, the money's yours. As for the idle hands, you can find plenty to do if you ask the right people. Wynn will have all of you working at the front desk in shifts. Just check the schedule for when you'll be set up for that. Training is sort of a... individual responsibility. We've got people here to help get you more familiar with all the bells and whistles. People in the Hide will get you combat ready. If you've got the magic thing going for you, I'm sure the Fire and Light folks will have you working on that as well.

You get out of this what you put into it, y'know?

[beseeched]

[No one cares that you're blinking, bro. He'd really like to not die.]

Yeah, thanks. I just need to utilize the resources. So far it's been more study work instead of anything physical.

[badexample]

Well... what is it you want to do?

[beseeched]

What do you mean?

[He didn't have a lot of angles to work when it came to Knighthood. He had no real talent anywhere.]

[badexample]

Well, you seem to want to get more involved. So you know what you don't want, but what is it that you... do?

[beseeched]

At home? I sell ads for the radio.

[badexample]

No, I mean... [He waves a hand.] I mean you need to figure out what you do want to do. Everything we have here? You can do just about anything.

[opprobrium]

[ Sebastian rose an eyebrow at the way the other spoke, and he just waited until he was able to come forward to look for the envelope with his name on it. Looking to Andrew.]

You do realize you said hotel rooms twice correct? [ He had to point it out.]

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Did I? [LOOK IT'S HIS FIRST TIME DOING THIS. Cut him some slack... also that was more my error...]

Well, there's... lots of hotel rooms...

[opprobrium]

[ Sebastian is just a dick, sorry Andrew.]

Yeah, you did. So, are these nice hotels or the 'find a dead prostitute' kind of hotels?

[badexample]

N...ice ones usually? Unless you end up somewhere where you can't find a nice one. It's kind of up to you.

[opprobrium]

So, no dead hookers. I can roll with that.

[ WHAT DID THEY TEACH HIM.]

Thanks man.

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You're... welcome?

[The dead hookers threw him. These new squires are weird...]

I'll just be... Let me know if you have any other questions. About the equipment. [Not about hookers]

[opprobrium]

Oh I shall keep that to mind, thank you.

[ Sebastian was smirking, he was up to no good.]