either you die a villain or you live long enough to see yourself calling warden meetings

[omniavincit]

HOWDY EVERYONE (wardens) (sorry inmates you can go back to trying to concoct poisonous toothpaste), I come bearing an update on everyone's favorite piece of longform nonfiction, VOLK'S LIST. William contacted the Navarch about it and received the following response.

He'll be calling (and sigh reluctantly attending) a warden meeting. THIS TIME WE WILL HAVE MORE THAN ONE PERSON WATCHING THE INMATES DURING IT!! As far as meeting content: William would make a point of mentioning: everything pertaining to points 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7, and would encourage wardens to talk to the Navarch themselves, as well as ask their inmates about their experiences/what could be improved.

William will openly discuss a lot of this, but he's paranoid about some things and I'm a slow tagger, so if your char would be stalking the Navarch's inbox feel free to run with whatever strikes your fancy! It's all visible to wardens and there are a ton of hooks here, if it's something your char would be interested in, LIVE YOUR DREAMS (though please add a note here so everyone knows what's up/can plot with each other!).

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[omniavincit]

SLAMS BACK INTO THIS apologizing profusely

- I think the button mayyyyy end up getting shelved but if not William and I are in favor of an alert (theoretically they could make it common practice for everyone to verify their inmate's location upon receiving an alert, which might minimize Shenanigans and let the warden whose inmate is in the infirmary come running)(and also I'm in favor of annoying everyone)

- Shared purpose objectives OOOOOOH would meet with an automatic deadeyed stare before William remembered to be Somewhat Tactful. He'd briefly talk about how inmates were assigned meaningless "jobs" to pass the time on the Barge (for example: "working" at the casino with no money), and how wardens often obsessed over their assigned tasks rather than deal with the fallout from traumatic events or attend to inmate concerns. He found this unproductive AND insulting.

But!! After some reflection he'd bring up teaching inmates skills--he learned to fly planes because a warden who was a pilot ran a flight school for interested inmates (in the Barge's MUCH BETTER SIMULATION ROOM no he'd leave that out). William's awareness of the SIRE/its capabilities is still minimal because he's a VR snob, but he might suggest using it for exploration/educational purposes as well.

And he'd be fully in favor of missions--he's all for doing things that serve a purpose and expanding one's horizons beyond the warden/inmate system.

[grindset]

Yeah! That's the ticket - not just tasks for the sake of tasks, they should do something they can care about.

Also V would look confused and unimpressed about the casino thing specifically because what the hell.

[omniavincit]

OH I guess this is p close to the mission thing but William would also suggest some kind of research/exploration/record-keeping as far as ports go--making it not a Redundant Waste of Time would probably depend on what resources and records the ship already has, but he'd be thinking more along the lines of, like, recording impressions and building an archive than a full-blown expedition. (BUT IF SOMEONE WANTS TO DO SOMETHING MORE HARD SCIENCE-Y, go for it.)

re: the casino 😑😑😑

it did have an aquarium tho