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...





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[ 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

dining hall

[hardnosed]

[ Technically, Jasper gets it. This facility was built for humans, and humans, like most organic life, need some kind of nutritional input to continue existing. If the Professor wants the experiment to continue, he has no choice but to provide them with it.

This does not keep her from walking into the dining hall and regarding the table full of food as if it's a particularly baffling insult to her, personally. She stomps on over, stares down like she can intimidate it into giving up its secrets, and then just kind of

sticks a finger in the cotton candy. ]

Huh. [ And okay, there's also a human in here, that's fine! ] What's the meaning of this?

[reallyhatesharks]

I'm a scientist and I'm doing science.

[Granted, she technically didn't go to school for that or anything so her idea of science really verges on the edge of Mythbusters-style "remember kids, the only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down" rather than carefully controlled, double-blind anything.]

[hardnosed]

That doesn't explain anything. [ ... ] This is... food, right? None of it's good for anything else.

[reallyhatesharks]

You didn't ask for an explanation, you asked for a meaning. [It's not time for an exposition dump, Jasper!!!] Anyway, that's not true. You could probably sculpt something with some of those, or paint with them. Saying something only has one use is reductive.

[hardnosed]

[ Fair point!!! psych it's Jasper and she's never conceded a point to anyone in her life ]

"Probably." But you wouldn't, would you? [ A beat. ] Looks like you're not eating it either, though.

[reallyhatesharks]

Not right this second. Like I said: I'm doing science.

[She's just gonna order a dragon roll and see what happens. That's non-specific enough it could be anything.]

[hardnosed]

[ Science is usually the last thing she'd be interested in, but it's been a single day and Jasper's already cottoned on to the fact that, with the notable exception, practically nothing here is of interest to her. She's just going to casually lean against the wall and watch what happens.

... the fuck is that. ]

[reallyhatesharks]

That's an interpretation.

[She shuffles some of the plates around before finding the piece of paper she's been taking notes on. She points at it.]

What would you say that this?

[If you're gonna be in here, Jasper, you might as well participate.]

[hardnosed]

Unsightly. [ She pauses before asking: ] Was that thing ever alive?

[ No, seriously, she doesn't know. ]

[reallyhatesharks]

Depends on whether you're the kind of hard-line vegan who thinks yeast is alive or not.

[She lived in California. She's heard a lot of weird vegan opinions.]

[hardnosed]

I don't know what that is.

[reallyhatesharks]

Vegans are people who eat plants because it makes them feel morally superior to everyone else to not eat "living things." Some of them extend that to yeast because it's "alive," even though yeast is closer to mushrooms which they'll eat without thinking. [SHRUG] It's a weird human thing, don't worry about it.

[hardnosed]

Sounds human. You already can't take a step on this planet without crushing a "living thing." [ to be fair, while this is probably true for everyone, it is way more true for jasper ] So what's the difference?

[ wait. ]

Unless you mean the food's still alive when you eat it.

[reallyhatesharks]

Well, usually you kill it or cook it alive, but people do that too. I tried to order live octopus earlier and just got raw octopus.

[She points at a plate of octopus tentacles. One is clearly half-eaten, because that's what she's been eating while she's doing this.]

[hardnosed]

[ Oh, hey, she thinks she fought one of those once! ]

You'd think that would be easier to get than some of this junk.