If experience has taught us anything, noisy packaging can ruin a perfectly good plan. Since the 'Great Sunchip Bag Fiasco Of Two Weeks Ago' and 'Twinkie Wrappers of Two Days Later', we spend some time to transfer packaging safely. This is where you Freshmen come in.
To complete this task, your character is given a temporary key to the food storage units. All of the food had already been counted and accounted for by the time they get there. Their only two objectives to their time in Food Prep are as follows: Organize by type (i.e. perishable vs non-perishable), and Repackage everything that can/needs to be. Once they are finished, they are to return the key, and their work is once more counted - to ensure they haven't taken more than what they are rationed to take.
To complete this task: - Roll 4d20 however you'd like. (You can either do 1 post of 4d20, or 4 posts of 1d20)
First Dice: How many pieces of food you organized. Second Dice: How long it took you to perform the organization. Each number represents one minute. Third Dice: How many pieces of food you repackaged. Fourth Dice: How long it took you to repackage the food. Each number represents one minute.
- Example: I roll 4d20. I get 17, 11, 11, 5. I organized 17 pieces of food into perishables/non perishables, and it took me 11 minutes. I then repackaged 11 pieces of those foods, and it took me five minutes. - You can make excuses as to why the numbers are skewed - in this case, I would say that something happened outside of the kitchen area, and they had to stop me from continuing my work. Or, you know, my character was lazy and the last six pieces sounded like much too much work. If you have excess (example: you organized 5 pieces, but repackaged 20), assume someone else left organized food without repackaging them. More work for you! - Once you roll your 4d20, and write a post of no less than 500 words, you can consider this quest completed, and may count it towards your rankings.
Obtaining Credits - Add up your dice, divide it by 4, then divide that answer by 2. This is how many credits you earn. - Example: I rolled 17, 11, 11, 5. I add them together. 17 + 11 + 11 + 5 = 44. I divide 44 by 4 and get 11. I divide 11 by 2 and get 5.5. Round up, and I managed to get away with 6 course credits.
If you wish to do this in a group: - You may! - Each player in that thread must roll 4d20 - after all, they're there to work together, not all do the same work. - Basically, you can just RP with each other while you play with food.
Quote:
OOC Rules - Assume the key giving, key returning, and counts are all done off-screen. You can just mention them in RP! - When it comes to obtaining credits, always round up if there is a decimal point. - This quest will be considered complete if you roll a 4d20 and write at least 500 words. Because of the ability to win a substantial amount of credits, we will be checking this using this word count tool, so make sure you are getting at least 500 words!
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 4:35 pm
1 piece of food organized 3 minutes to organize 10 pieces of food repackaged 18 minutes to repackage
32 / 4 = 8 / 2 = 4 Credits Earned
Kelly was back in the food prep team, key in hand as she stomped through the door and eyed what needed to be done. Everything was already counted (thank goodness) and it seemed her work was a bit easier this time around. Moving past her teammates and to the proper station, she looked to her pile to see one single can.
Really?
Glancing about a quick second, she gave a shrug before lifting the can and slowly inspecting it for any issues. Even with her delay, it still took no more than three minutes for her to determine it was perfectly acceptable and place it in the non-perishable pile. Maybe she got lucky and the person who worked prior shifts got ahead of schedule. She wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, after all.
Stepping away from her table, she moved to where one of the other teammates was dealing with a large pile.
"I've got my set done and time to spare...need anything repackaged?"
Almost immediately, she was shoved a pile of food amounting to about ten bags worth, all with torn or open seams.
"Thanks, seems every thing I got was something broken or ripped...and I'd rather not sit here all day."
Kelly nodded with understanding, agreeing quickly that the storage was one of the more mundane places to work. It was meaningful, but it was slow with no natural light. Although, natural light was a bit rare these days anyway.
Walking back to her spot, she set everything down and systematically went through each item. The cans were easy to re-seal, at least they didn't take too long, but Kelly found herself walking back and forth to find tape for the bags, and sometimes a bag was too far gone to even salvage. Eventually, her director told her to just consolidate and call it a day.
And so, Kelly began to take some of the smaller bags and package them together, making sure that the overseer was aware of the change of count based on packaging. It was a bit of an argument, but eventually they agreed that the numbers were fine.
She didn't want to get dragged back, presumed to have taken any rations.
Feeling her thirst hit her yet again, Kelly sped up her pace a bit as she moved to store all of the items, one by one. Her hands easy reached up to the required shelves, but this still was possibly the longest part of the process, especially when the (now assumed freeloader) worker called her for more help. It may be boring, but it wasn't as if it was a difficult job, and Kelly seemed to glare at the person's back as they took longer and packed away less. Hopefully, any future jobs would not involve the lazy fool.
As she placed the last package on the shelf, she moved back and returned the key, nodding and showing the leader that she had nothing in her pockets and nothing was leaving the storage. Once again, she understood the action, but that didn't stop her from feeling disgruntled.
She really needed to get some food and water, her mood was falling fast and she felt a bit light headed as she walked out into the open air.
