text. un: barnes.

[starer]

Its been about four weeks. Though I guess I should say Earth weeks. Twenty-seven days since we started turning up. Two since it started happening again.

[Which begs the question, when does it stop? Seventy-two beds on this area of the station. Are they planning to keep going after that?]

Viveca is the name of the AI that spoke to us all then. Some of you may have spoken to her already. She went missing though, a couple of days after we arrived. There was a power cut, she said something about an emergency mode, and then she was gone.

We got a delivery right before that though. Clothes, toiletries, books, food. A bunch of stuff showed up and got split out.

That was when there were twenty-seven of us. Looks like we've about doubled since then. So if you new folks needs something, ask. There's probably someone here who can help.

Speaking of, we're stuck relying on those drops to get fresh food. So don't hog it. There's kids here who need it too.

[Edward]

A guy I know. He cooks up huge batches of food at a time. If you're hungry, check the fridge. Nine times out of ten, he's left something in there you can have.

[And if not, giving Sam a look will probably be more than enough to get him to make something new.]

You've also all probably noticed that you can't get in to the Northern Wing. Its been like that since we first got here, and we've got no idea what's on the other side. It's classified, apparently. Messing with whatever's on the other side would affect us all, so I wouldn't suggest trying to break through.

Don't know about you guys, but I don't plan on getting tossed out an airlock if I can help it.

[And that's it. No sign off. No goodbye. No anything. Sorry?]


[ooc: Feel free to threadjack as much as you like! Bucky's using this post as an information exchange.]

Comments

text, un; dustywolf

[softmouth]

I can help with the food thing. I've been cooking for large groups for most of my life. maybe I'll post something calling for the people who'd like to do cooking and we could get organized

thanks for the info, by the way. super helpful

text | un: s.wilson

[unclesam]

honestly any help would be appreciated. we got some people with wildly different dietary needs, and we've been having to be real damn careful on the rationing...

[softmouth]

oh hi! are you doing it by yourself right now or are there other people helping already? I'm used to cooking for a pack of werewolves, usually 10-15 people but I could do more easily. I'll have to clamp down on my tendency to make comfort food for rationing's sake but I could manage

oh by the way, I'm Dusty, nice to meet you!

[unclesam]

[ werewolves... sure. sure, that's... sure. he'll just skip right past that. ]

good to meet you, dusty. name's sam.

slightly bigger crew here than 10 - 15. listen, this is an emergency patch job, I ain't running a soup kitchen. this situation is over, we're back to normal, someone's gotta have an actual eye on the food supplies and put things aside for other emergencies, just in case. and I'd be damn glad if that didn't have to be me. ain't my typical rodeo.

[softmouth]

[Oh, that's nice. Usually people get really distraught by that.]

nice to meet you too, Sam

yeah, it seemed like it. I know my pack got up to 20 or so for a while and I handled that fine, but I'm guessing it's a lot more than that, huh? do you have any kind of rough estimate?

don't worry about it. I can organize all of it, and probably find people to help with the stuff I can't easily do, like rationing and all of that. thanks for taking it on so far, though. I'm sure it's better than a sorta every man for themselves situation

[unclesam]

yeah, that's about the worst that can happen. takes a village to make everything work. My knowledge on electronics don't extend to space ships, so I could leave fixing the power to others and focus on something I could do in the meantime. Not the worst gig, but also for sure not what I otherwise would choose.

I'll get you an inventory of what our food shipment looked like - that should help you estimate what usually comes in and how long it's meant to last. I'll send you the info on who needs a higher calory intake alongside that, but you might wanna ask around - not sure I got everyone's dietary needs covered here.

sorry this took me so long - sam is one of his fave people right now tho

[softmouth]

yeah, considering the whole pack thing, I'm not used to 'every man for himself' and it really rubs me the wrong way. so I'm glad to take over.

and thanks, that'd be super helpful honestly, enough that I might be able to ration in a pinch if no one else offers. I'll definitely ask around about dietary needs. thankfully I'm pretty good at learning new recipes on the fly

[starer]

Probably be a good idea. Getting organized. Keeps it from being one person who handles the food all the time.

[softmouth]

yeah, cooking for large groups and rationing and stuff is a big job. I might put a call out later on, since Sam said he's not interested in taking it on himself. it might be the best way for me to help

[starer]

Sure. You find someone who wants to take over rationing, I've got a stockpile waiting for them.

[softmouth]

oh cool! thank you, that's super cool. I'm sure someone will be able to help with that. I'll get in touch

[starer]

My name's James. If you need to contact me.

[softmouth]

nice to meet you, I'm Dusty, which you probably already read

I'm serious though, thanks for the help. I was feeling pretty overwhelmed with all this, but now I have a better handle on what's going on

[starer]

Don't mention it. Someone else would've filled you all in if I hadn't.