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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"An excellent idea."

Finally someone getting into the spirit of it. Azula had just about given up on this attempt at team building.

"If no one else wants the responsibility I don't mind volunteering. Are we assuming then that if it's for the good of the team we will share our supplies as necessary?"

It seems foolish to trust that others will be so willing to share what they've gathered but so far none of them have conformed to how she thinks the world should be run. Why should this be any different?

"Considering what we're doing with it is going to benefit all of us, why not think of it as getting out of some work rather than giving up supplies?" He gave her a charming grin. "And that sounds good to me! How's your handwriting? I'm guessing we want to keep the list in English, since it's the language we've all got in common...."

He wasn't sure he liked the idea of actually handing over all of the supplies they find to a young noblewoman with aspirations of conquest, but letting her keep the list? Win-win; she'd feel important without actually being able to give or withhold supplies.

"Better then yours I imagine."

While the more modern writing tools felt unfamiliar in her hands she had attempted to scribble some things down and found they worked well enough.

"Of course there's also this thing." She tapped her pip-boy thoughtfully "It's taking some getting used to but the typing isn't as difficult as I thought it might be. More important I have the kind of mind that craves structure."

Among other things. She wasn't giving him enough credit to not know he was playing her to some degree.

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Grinning, he made a deliberately dubious noise. "Aw, I had to do some calligraphy classes back in the day..."

It hadn't stuck, of course, but there was no need to admit she was right too easily.

"Anyway," he added, "typing it up's fine but you might want to keep a physical copy in case our tech breaks down. I still don't understand much about how these wrist things function myself."

"I was thinking along the same lines." She may have been getting better with her own device, but she didn't trust it as much as traditional paper.

"Some items I imagine are best left where we found them, after all we'd be in trouble if we went looking for medical supplies and the med bay was empty. But for the good of the group we can make arrangements."

"Sure. Though you might want to be cautious about that -- Nick told me he'd taken some stimulants out of the med bay. Not like he can even use them, but leaving things there might not always mean they'll be there when we need them."

He scowled briefly, thinking. "I don't know much about the doctor robot, though. I'll have to make time to chat it up. What does that one go by again? Charlotte?"

"Oh did he now?" Well that didn't seem right at all. "I suppose he can keep them for now but we should see about finding where those are. It's not like he needs them and if I understand our situation, those were put there for us in the first place."

Why would he take them in the first place if he couldn't use them? Perhaps he intended to use them in a different way.

"I believe so, but I only met her briefly. She seemed...enthusiastic." The tone of voice Azula uses for that word makes it clear that she was a bit much for Azula to deal with on her own at least in that moment.

Yunlan chuckled. "Yeah, well. They're bound to turn up with all of us searching the place! Just saying, if we come upon important meds tucked away somewhere, we might want to make our own lockbox for 'em. One of those cupboards up in the lab, say."

With a quirk of a grin, he added, "Better enthusiastic than lazy, huh?" Speaking of Nick.

"I'd hope so. Most of us aren't stupid after all, we just have to hope they haven't spoiled or leaked or melted or...whatever it is those kinds of things do when they go off."

Azula had never been one for stimulants in her own world, she rarely even ever got sick. But there was a brief stint where she had spent over a year in a hospital that made her averse to doctors in general. Hopefully interacting with Charlotte would be nothing like her experiences.

He had her though and nodded with a smug smile "I never could abide lazy servants. It's fine to relax if you've earned it, but not when it's your job."

"Exactly! You relax when there's no work to do! Making up bullshit busywork is just as bad as lazing about when there's something important to be done."

But enough of his feelings on bureaucracy and working hours; he chuckled. "Most of the stimulants I can think of fall on the recreational side instead of the medical one, but I'm no doctor, so who knows? There's something to ask the robot doc about. Ought to help us figure out whether finding 'em is a real priority or not."

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