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

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What if I had three arms? [She raises her eyebrows like WHAT THEN, SIR? but even as she asks, she retrieves the phone and uses the hem of her skirt to wipe it off delicately so he won't be all OMG GIRL GERMS. She holds it out with a smile.] You know I almost kept it, you need to work on your poker face.

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[HE ISN'T AFRAID OF GIRL GERMS. GET OUT.

Grabbing for the phone, he holds onto it a little too tight. That's pretty much his whole life in portable form. He gives her a half hearted glare.]

That's why I don't play poker. [Super grumpy Andrew, unlocked.]

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Pity, we could make a killing. [Leaning forward, she puts her elbows on the little workstation/table. If it were anyone else she would be cleverly displaying her cleavage, but she pretty much thinks Andrew is like... robot sexual the way he is clutching his phone like it's Linus' blanket.]

You know, if I didn't know Zero, and I am using know in the broadest sense since he calls himself Zero so he obviously has some sharing is caring issues. But if I didn't know him I would be very surprised that someone like me hadn't managed to kill someone like you. [Is she serious? Probably. It's not like she has the best set of morals. Andrew should make an app for that: if your idea is okay'd by Lila's lack of scruples then it's probably a bad idea. Anyway, she is serious, but her tone implies that it should be a compliment. Like he is smart enough to have not gotten killed yet. A thousand points for him. And in case he isn't sure, she adds:] Well done.

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...Thanks? [He is not sure if he should be insulted or not. He knows he's not exactly knightly, but pointing it out... That's just rude.]

How'd you meet him- Zero? He doesn't come out much, is all.

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[Her hand lifts to circle the room.] Same way I met you. And Zero's grown to love [tolerate in small doses] me.

[SO YOU WLL GROW TO LOVE HER ANDREW X-( besides, you need a little teenager in you life to help good influence at and Lila needs more good influences.]

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You barged in on him and demanded he help you?

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No, I meant orientation, although that's actually pretty much how it happened. And then I annoyed him into telling me all his dirty secrets. [Look what you have to look forward to, Andrew, if this pattern holds. Or maybe she'll just kiss you on her birthday. You never know with Lila and nerds.]

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...Like what? [Alright, so maybe he's curious. He never really tried to get anything secretive out of Zero. He mostly tried to learn about being a Knight (SHOCKER)]

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Like... he is not the Lady in the Lake. Because Wynn is.

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[You lost him.]

O..kay...

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King Arthur, Excalibur. That sword? Totally the real thing -- which makes the "caretaker" as Wynn called it, the Lady in the Lake. [She nods to the silver cases that hold the guns.] Excalibur pistols... yeah, he didn't think it was funny either.

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Oh. Oh. Heh...

[Yeah it wasn't that funny. But he won't say that. He will just smile in a very tight, polite way.

You make him nervous, Lila.]

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[He's presh. And smart lbr.]

Well, have fun with your... minions. Toodles, Gatewood. Thanks for fixing my phone.

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Anytime. [As soon as it's out of his mouth, he immediately cringes. He will probably regret that later.]

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[Her laughter precedes her out the door, so yes. Yes he probably will.]