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.
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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!
A new day, and a new chance to move the same bag of chips around to a new and different location and category. There was really no reason Charlotte should have been allowed in the supply room, any more than she was (not) allowed in the chem lab.
Charlotte carefully placed the chips atop the freeze-dried food section, and paused to consider the feng-shui of the arrangement. Not bad, not bad, but. Maybe a little more to the left?
One of these days, someone was going to want to eat these chips, and then what would Charlotte do to help? Maybe they'd even have to let her back in the chem lab... That is, if Corey would only give her a third chance. She was so sure she had the formula right this time!
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Character's name: Charlotte Rhrodri Character's faction: University Character's journal link:Journal Character's survival stats: View BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Student, blonde, intense looking. 20 year old student.
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:17 am
"We don't need to make it pretty, Charlotte." Corey sighed out, pinching the bridge of her nose. Somehow, when she went to go help with the food prep for the day, she didn't calculate the odds of it being only Charlotte in the room. But it seemed, even with her luck steadily getting worse, there was no reason to assume that this particular woman wouldn't have been there. Because that was how it worked. Corey didn't get to be lucky in any sense of the word.
"Come on, we don't have time to consider the cosmic forces. Just organize. Please."
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:40 am
"Maybe you don't," Charlotte sighed dramatically, shifting the bag a half-centimeter to the left, "but you don't want a zombie virus cure either. I've got to do something, you know."
She paused, pensive. The bag of chips crinkled wearily. "We could try to talk to them again. I know we've got a few trapped in the east wing... there has to be a way to decipher their language and communicate."
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Character's name: Charlotte Rhrodri Character's faction: University Character's journal link:Journal Character's survival stats: View BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Student, blonde, intense looking. 20 year old student.
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:45 am
"Nobody else is going to notice how evenly spaced it all is. All they're looking for is food." Corey insisted, one brow twitching a little bit as she insisted on nudging the bag that much. Then, she sighed. Here we go again.
"We've been through this before. I'm not risking anyone - not even you - on some crypto-bullshit you read in a ten-cent magazine. I want the cure as much as anyone, but we don't have the luxury of proper equipment or safety to work it out. You know this. Why are you so stuck on it?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:10 pm
The bag of chips sagged and crinkled unhappily.
"It is real," she began to object, then seemingly bit her tongue. She'd argued this with Corey so many times before, to the point that they'd broken their sacred roommate agreement over it years ago.
"Why won't you let me try?" The multitude of charms and tokens hanging from every inch of her jangled with every movement. "I know you don't like me. I overheard you telling people about me. You think I'm crazy. You think all of this -" - the jangling intensified as she spread her arms - "Is fake. But this isn't about us. This is about doing something important, and good, instead of - instead of cowering in the dark! Waiting for them to finally get us!"
She huffed a little, crossing her arms in another miniature cacophany. There was a slow dawning of realization crossing Charlotte's face.
"Unless... you're one of them."
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Character's name: Charlotte Rhrodri Character's faction: University Character's journal link:Journal Character's survival stats: View BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Student, blonde, intense looking. 20 year old student.
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:30 pm
"Because as annoying as you are, I'm not going to let you die over something stupid." Corey informed her with a small huff. "You're not a bad person, you just need to know what's reality and what isn't. And yeah, of course I complained - you rearranged my ******** room! That was my space, not yours! You imposed curfews, and put things in places they didn't belong. It was infuriating! Some warning would have been nice." She grumbled unhappily, remembering their less-than-perfect year together. Lord, was she glad to get out of that one.
"We don't have any other - wait, what?" She stopped her train of thought quickly, as Charlotte's words finally sunk in. "One of who?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 8:43 pm
"Our room. I was trying to protect you from ghosts! You have to keep the furniture arrangement constantly changing to confuse them. Ghosts haunt places that stay the same for a long time. That's why haunted houses are always old and dusty and everything's been there forever." This was the most basic possible information. Corey had never understood things that she didn't see in textbooks. Wasn't school supposed to be about opening your mind to new things? Sheesh, Corey. "I just want to help, okay? I want to do something. I'm sick of waiting around. A lot can change in seven days. How many people have we lost already since it started? It just takes one thing, you know?"
"You're one of them," she gestured vaguely to the 'outside', one of the walls. "You're a zombie. Or you will be, soon. I bet you're infected. I bet you were infected the whole time. Like a - like a carrier. A patient zero."
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Character's name: Charlotte Rhrodri Character's faction: University Character's journal link:Journal Character's survival stats: View BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Student, blonde, intense looking. 20 year old student.
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 9:39 pm
Charlotte was met with a long, heavy pause.
"Can you just…think about what you just said…and realize how incredibly stupid you are?"