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[University]Freshman Quest: Food Prep (Dylan)

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Jaglion

Enigmatic Gambler

PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 8:16 pm


Freshman Quest: Food Prep

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!
Jaglion rolled 4 20-sided dice: 19, 13, 18, 15 Total: 65 (4-80)
PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 8:17 pm


Food prep was one of the better chores to do. It didn't take that long, and generally wasn't stinky, or that messy. Loads better than bathroom duty. Course, just about anything was better than bathroom duty.

Even if it felt as if they weren't trusted.

Dylan couldn't blame them, it was important to keep close track of the food, as it was one of those very important survival tools. You could go for a while without it, but moods and health were better if there was food available.

He unlocked the door and then got straight to work. All of this would be way more fun with music, but he hadn't had any since his mp3 player had died. He probably could charge it, but they had little enough electricity that he didn't want to waste it for something like that. If only he had bought that solar charger he had been looking at.

Perishable, not, not, not. It wasn't the hardest to do, and he finished after a little over ten minutes. Not too bad. Sorting was the easy part though. He knew that it would take longer to repackage things, and he started with what he had. At least they had supplies to repackage food with, and doing things like this did make handing out food supplies a lot easier.

What he wouldn't give for a meal from the cafeteria. Dylan laughed. It hadn't been that long ago that he and his friends had been complaining about the quality of food, about how awful it was and how it was a rip off for how much they payed for it.

Those were more innocent times, when he didn't know what was coming. Still, these were depressing thoughts, and with no one around to talk to, Dylan didn't really want to go there. Things were hard enough as it was without thinking about what he had lost. Friends, family, his cat. Gods he missed his cat. She had been staying with his parents until the summer, when he'd be moving into an apartment, and now, well, hopefully she had manage to stay safe. He had no idea if his family was even still alive, or if they were one of the infected.

He didn't think that he wanted an answer. He'd rather just think that they were safe somewhere, and maybe it was true. He was safe, so, maybe they were as well. It was always a possibility until he heard otherwise, and something that he'd just have to trust to be true.

Dylan sighed, recounting what he was packaging. He didn't want to leave work for the next person to come in, and when it all added up, he nodded. 18. He still had an extra bit, but it would make the packs uneven, so he just put it in a pile with other things that hadn't been packaged yet.

He locked the door as he left, and then went to turn the key back in so that it would be there for the next person who needed to use it.

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65/4/2= 8 Credits

Jaglion

Enigmatic Gambler

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{ ARCHIVED } ----------------- Day Zero, Sept 2015

 
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