OVER THE VAULT PA SYSTEM: YOUR OVERSEER

[nolandmod]

[[OOC: This broadcast goes out over the Vault’s old speaker system and can be heard in every room in the Vault. Those that chose to tune to the radio station advertised will hear this announcement on loop for the next week at a better sound quality than offered through the damaged speaker system.]]

[The voice that comes over the speaker system is familiar to some of you. For the rest, it is a crisp, solidly non-descript American accent that carries the weight of someone used to unquestioning obedience to his orders.]

Attention Vault 66, this is your Overseer speaking. You may refer to me as Captain Simmons or Overseer. All dwellers are instructed to tune their pip-boys to the Overseer Announcement frequency at least once per day to receive my announcements.

After analyzing reports from the long-term staff, I have authorized three exploratory groups to spend no more than one week each on the surface for reconnaissance. Priorities are: threat assessment of radiation level and local wildlife; gathering of food samples for analysis; and detection of sentient life. Contact with any potential sentients is not approved at this time.

Three team leads have been selected: Zhao Yunlan, Takagi Saya, and, based on personal recommendation, Chocolat Misu.

[There is a small pause and anyone listening closely can hear him mutter ‘Nicholas, if that name was a joke…’ Then he clears his ‘throat.’]

Leads may select a small team of one to three to accompany them. For Vault security, no less than two dwellers may be in the Vault at any one time. Robotic staff will not be included in these missions. Appropriate arms will be checked out upon mission start and returned upon completion.

Questions or concerns may be directed to the Overseer in person. Responses are not guaranteed.

This is your Overseer, over and out.

[[OOC Notes: Scouting missions will begin on July 2, with the opening log including the opening of the Vault door for the first time since the war.

Please address OOC questions here!

Simmons cannot reply over the pip-boy network. To meet with him, reply with a starter thread here.

As a note, during these scouting missions events will occur in the Vault once the door has opened, so even if a character doesn’t go scouting this round there will be action to be had and info to gain!]]

Comments

[voice]

[wildguardian]

So it sounds like I'm gonna be in the market for company outside the Vault! Anyone want to volunteer? Mine's the cool party.

[it's almost certainly not going to be cool or a party but that's not stopping him]

[cicadashell]

I'm going.

[It's not a request.]

[wildguardian]

Convince me.

[Honestly, he'd rather Jiro tag along with him than Chocolat or Saya, and he seriously doubts the kid's gonna take "no, stay home" as an answer... but he wants to see what Jiro says to that.]

[cicadashell]

Fuck you.

[It's perfunctory rather than aggressive, but that's his only response to this.]

[wildguardian]

Not convinced!

Come on. How's your fighting, what weapons can you use, are you gonna listen to me if I need to give you an order or not?

[cicadashell]

I'm a ninja.

[It's true, though he hasn't brought it up in any conversations of combat experience. He doesn't give any more details, because he was only taught self-defense techniques, but that's a technicality.]

I've used a sword.

[Also true. Once. And he died in that fight.]

And that depends on the order.

[No.]

[wildguardian]

Ever handled a gun?

[He's guessing that Jiro is more comfortable with weapons than hand-to-hand, given that he'd tried attacking with the first blunt object that came to hand rather than throwing a punch. What that says about him in a fight, though...

... well, Yunlan'd survived the Bronze Age for a bit despite total cluelessness on the sword front. He might be able to give pointers.]

And I'm going to need more than that. You can bite my head off about shitty orders all you want, but you better follow them first if I'm supposed to trust you to have my back, got it?

[cicadashell]

[All the questioning is irritating him, and he tries not to growl too loudly.]

No, I've never used a gun.

[And he'd use it as a blunt weapon if he had one, instead of for its intended purpose.]

You know what, fuck that. I'll go with...

[Ehh. Which one of them is the least awful?]

Saya.

[wildguardian]

Mm.... [a long pause, then:]

Well, feel free to come back if Saya tells you to pound sand. My group, my rules, though.

[voice]

[loveyoudarling]

Wait. You're the cool party?

[Oh Yunlun, that's cute.]

And who decided to bestow such a mighty title on you I wonder? ♥

[wildguardian]

[He responds with a crack of laughter.]

What, don't you agree? C'mon, Chocolat.

[loveyoudarling]

Ahahah, really? An old man like you? That's like a forty year old coming in saying, what was it? 'How do you do fellow kids'?

[wildguardian]

Excuse you, I'm twenty-nine. I have both youth and experience.

[loveyoudarling]

Oh? is that youth? That's a whole eleven years older than me. Hence-- still an old man.

Don't tell me you're sensitive that your mid-life years are coming up.

[30 is a pretty big number.]

[wildguardian]

Or maybe you're still a kid. I'm twenty-nine forever, thank you very much.

[He died at twenty-nine and therefore, even if he's wound up back in his body, he's never going to be thirty.

This is completely reasonable and not even a little self-serving.]

[loveyoudarling]

Wow, excuse you! I am legally an adult in the fullest sense!

[Why were old people always so upset about being old? When she's that age she's going to age with grace!]

[wildguardian]

[It's because so many kids get mouthy about it, that's why old people get upset. Yunlan eyes her dubiously.]

18? [Who knows what she thinks legally an adult even means, but that's his best guess, anyway.]

Anyway, I've got bad news, being legally not a kid doesn't mean you aren't still one in your heart.

[loveyoudarling]

And that statement can apply to just about any age can't it? I know that I for one have seen plenty of older adults act far more immature emotionally than they were physically.

[Yep, she was going to be a brat about this.]

All I've gotta say is if I'm old enough to be allowed to get married, get a job, fight for my life, survive on my own, and be able to star in adult movies than I am certainly grown up enough.

[Truthfully her age never stopped her from doing some of those things earlier in her life, but at least now she was legally mature enough to boast about it.]

[wildguardian]

[LONG. PAUSE. He's not talking about adult movies with you, Chocolat, sorry! He is uncomfortable! This seems like a good time for a subject change...]

I'm not even going there.

Sooooo, anyway! You're a leader now too!

[loveyoudarling]

Oooh? Oh my! And here you've been calling me a kid all this time, but don't tell me you can't have a proper adult conversation without blushing now?

[Ah. She found a sign of weakness. Now she's going to have some fun. ♥]

That's certainly quite hypocritical of you, don't you think?

[wildguardian]

[Well, he should've guessed she'd try to embarrass him, given how much she likes wandering around topless. He heaves a great sigh.]

Not that you don't have a figure some people'd pay good money to get-- [he gives her a coolly appreciative glance, head to toes and back up] -- but sister, if you've put it on film please spare this brother of yours the knowledge. I don't want you spoiling any of my precious memories from back when I had the internet.

[loveyoudarling]

Wow! Just-- Wow!

[The tone of her voice at this point was one of pure astonishment.]

You know, just because I said I could take part in a blue film doesn't mean I actually have you know!

[Really! Of all things to start insinuating!]

I'll have you know I am saving myself for my beloved, thank you very much! I would never think of doing something like that!

[Not that she wouldn't give the occasional show, but there's a difference between expressing sexuality and actually having sex damnit.]

[wildguardian]

[And the important thing here is that he's successfully distracted her from trying to tease him by talking about uncomfortably adult subjects!]

Then I don't know why we're talking about who is or is not old enough for putting their intimate assets on commercial display! Because the point here is that twenty-nine is not old. And that's just objective truth.

[loveyoudarling]

I'm talking about it because I'm trying to express how I should be viewed and respected as an adult and not as some dumb kid!

[The huff that came after that statement was absolutely audible over the Pip-Boy.]

I'm capable of making adult decisions and I'm capable of handling adult topics, even more than you at times by the looks of it.

[wildguardian]

In other words, the porn was just a distraction all along!

Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying you can't make adult decisions. You live your life the way you want. But how about we make a deal where I don't have to talk sex with you, because you and me, we've each got our special person back home and you are literally still a teenager. Cool? Cool.