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, Feb 3rd, 7:00pm {backdated}
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, 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.

[exceptone]

[Pan looks at the little cards SUSPICIOUSLY. He's seen people use them, back in the city, but he never understood just how they were supposed to work (int 7 /sad trombone).]

And just how is this supposed to buy us things?

[Give him a break, he's from Neverland.]

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[For as weird as it is for Andrew to imagine not understanding things like credit cards and phones and everything like that, he has been around enough of the Shadowkind when they show up in this world to know not to be surprised.]

The money's all just numbers. [He turns the card over to show the black strip.] This part here sort of... talks to the machines, so when you swipe it... [He makes the motion just to be extra clear.] It recognizes that you want to buy whatever it is that you have and it takes that number out of your total amount. Make sense?

[exceptone]

[Well, that makes about as much sense as it's ever going to for someone who's from an isolated fantasy island.] Why don't we just get cash?

[badexample]

Because Wynn's not Scrooge McDuck with a big vault full of loose money hanging about?

[Okay probably not the more professional answer.]

It's easier once you get the hang of it. Trust me.