WEEK 1

[bathymetric]

Well, you've now met the brains of the operation, as well as the shockingly nice-looking young lady in charge of day-to-day business. Now all that's left is to get used to your accommodations - there's 24 other people in similar shoes to yours to meet in this building, you know! And who knows how much longer you might have them...

The daily routine in the facility quickly becomes obvious - the only way to tell time moment to moment is to check the strange device The Professor gave you, but at the same time every day the lights in and out of the facility go up, and at the same time every night they go down. Otherwise, it's almost maddening sometimes, how little happens in here. At least you have a few rooms with enough to hopefully keep you occupied. Who knows what secrets they might hold? And there's always that vending machine, if you can find something that fits in the coin slot...





MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
FRIDAY | SATURDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to Peace Week! Enjoy it while it lasts. Remember, office hours for The Professor's Assistant are over here if you're interested, while regains can be deposited over here! ]

Comments

[hardnosed]

[ oh no why's she doing that with her face ]

And an uncle — is somebody's brother.

[nothingcanstop]

Mother. Mother's brother. We call the ones who...uh, made and/or raise the kids parents. A woman's a mother, and a man's a father.

[ We're learning! We're bonding!! ]

So, my Uncle Scrooge is my mother's brother.

[hardnosed]

[ And that's the guy who has a vault! Before she can take this conversation right back to the beginning, now that everything's been contextualized, she remembers: ]

You're not human. [ I mean, yeah. ] You think all of that still applies to them?

[nothingcanstop]

Oh, I know it does. I've talked to some of them about their parents, my kids, my brother, and none of them have looked at me funny.

[ She counts those off on her feathery fingers. ]

As far as I can tell, families are a human thing too.

[hardnosed]

It must be an organic thing. What are you, anyway?

[nothingcanstop]

I'm a duck. You never seen one before?

[hardnosed]

Never. [ Even someone with as little care for earth's creatures as Jasper can note similarities between Della and the tiny flapping earthlings (TM) that also have bills, but they're so clearly different species that it doesn't cross her mind to draw any real parallels. ] Humans are the only sentient species on the planet I know of — besides us.

[nothingcanstop]

Wow... [ Wait for it... ] Most everyone's just been surprised I'm not...you know, a non-sentient duck. It's honestly kind of refreshing to see someone who knows as little about me as I know about them.