vault66 | 1st Team Meeting

WHO: Azula and any vault dwellers who show up.
WHERE: The Rec Room
WHEN: Three hours after her annoucement.
WHAT: Azula's "War Council" to disseminate information and introductions...also snacks.
WARNINGS: Possible discussions of violence and/or dark backstories.

Azula had attended a number of war meetings growing up as well as social affairs for meeting with important members of the public or military. This was different for a number of reasons, the largest being that this was a place no one seemed to have any respect for her title.

But she could handle that. It had taken her half a month to come to terms with it but here the title "Princess" was only as important as she made it.

Unfortunately that meant having to play "Nice" having to bite her tongue and not get frustrated when she wasn't catered to. That would have been harder for her two years ago, and impossible a year ago.

But here we were, with her waiting patiently near the entrance to the Rec Room to greet people as they came in. Oh how far she'd fallen.

"Come in, help yourself to some snacks. We'll get started soon."

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"Can I see that?" Yunlan leans over, scanning through the text with the expression on his face slowly smoothing into neutrality. "Hm. That's... maybe so. It depends on what whatever was in that chamber looked like before they got that injection."

It sounds a lot more like unethical human experimentation to him, but without more information, he can't be sure the scientists deserve to be condemned. If Simmons was telling the truth, after all, they'd rebelled over orders that went too far.

And if they were already willing to infect people with mutant viruses that destroyed their minds and bodies, what the hell was 'too far'?

"That's...something yeah." Sandy hadn't wanted to think that they were stuck in the kind of nightmare that might turn her into one of those noseless zombie things but the evidence was starting to build in that direction.

"If it's glowing that much though I don't know if even Charlotte could fix it's radiation."

"Sounds to me like the radiation might be good for it -- especially if it's still alive and walking."

Alive was dubious, considering how much it looked like a desiccated glowing corpse, but it was moving, so he'd count it.

"There's no way to tell unless it can communicate with us, though." He shook his head. "And the mutated thing in chamber two sure wasn't interested in communication."

Or not capable. He hoped it wasn't capable; he hated to think that they'd had to bludgeon to death something that had still had a mind. After that long trapped alone in a featureless room, even if its intelligence survived the radiation damage, it might have gone feral regardless -- but, he supposed, he'd never know for sure.

"I mean...we don't HAVE to let it out right? If there's nothing in there we need and it doesn't seem friendly why even let it out?" Then no one would have to try and kill a scary glowy zombie thing before the radiation killed them right back.

"Honestly, I agree! But I'd like to find out if we can talk to it first. And if it's basically like an animal, it seems pretty cruel to leave it locked up in there with no food, water, or company."

A barrel of radioactive waste, whether or not it helped the thing survive, was none of those three.

"Oh...yeah I mean...ok I guess."

Now she felt a little guilty, just a little.

"Hopefully the radiation suits work better for you then they did for the girls when they went to fix the reactor. Maybe Louis can fix them...or Nick."

She'd try to figure it out herself but she somehow figured her basic level of sewing skills wasn't going to do the trick.

"Maybe so," Yunlan agreed. "I'll try communicating from the other side of the glass to start with-- and hey, if we have to fight it I'm guessing we'll be able to lure it out to fight. I wouldn't want to walk into that room if there's any way to avoid it."

The radiation suits might help -- he doubts the levels are as high in the experimental chambers as they had been in the reactor core -- but they're only fabric, and they could be easily torn by a determined attack.

"But I'm getting ahead of myself! The point is, we should check in on the creature itself."

We meaning him, but Sandy might tag along out of curiosity...and an excuse to sniff around for more loot.

"Maybe bring him some of these cookies...as a peace offering. Or bait." She had already tried one and decided not to have any more. Did they even have flour? How had Louis made these?

"Can't hurt." He's tried one of the cookies himself. They're not terrible! But he judges terrible by the scale of his own cooking, and he once tried to make instant noodle using boiling coffee for variety.

"You want to come with?" She's probably the best-armed of them all, after all her scavenging, but he's still a little nervous at the idea of bringing a kid along to what's probably going to end in a fight. Better that she do it openly than sneak in, though, and she looks curious.

"Yeah if that's OK." She's still conflicted on if she actually wants to go. Every instinct she has says to stay as far away from the danger as possible except for the growing, undeniable desire to explore and make herself useful.

It's a confusing time to be Sandy.

"I won't get in the way." she added hoping that helped assure her place.

"I'd want you to stay back until we were sure it was safe," Yunlan agreed. "It'd be nice if we can talk to it, but odds are it's just going to want to bite somebody's face off, so I want you to keep your face out of teeth range!"

He flashed her a grin to lessen the sting of the warning. "But that said... I'll let you know when I'm heading over there."

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