ataraxion | 005 - Video

Hello Tranquility. I'm sure you didn't miss me so let's get right to the point just like usual.

A little while back people were talking about group meals. I don't know about the rest of you, but the mystery meat lucky dip in the kitchens is getting pretty rough. I skip meals, and I know I'm not the only one. Most importantly, we got kids on board and I want to make sure at the very least they're getting two meals a day, and if we get more kids this jump I want to establish whether or not we've got a full time guardian on board who can look out for them if they're alone. Hell, it's beginning to look like we should set up a school. It'd work out better than having kids just wandering around the place. If that about fits your job description give me a shout, see what we can do.

Back on the topic of dinner: I know a lot of people haven't got anything to offer someone if they make the mess their job, but if we can get some volunteers in, I'm sure the people on board who can will find a way to show their gratitude. We need this now, not in six months time when we're all coming down sick from not eating properly, so if you got the skill, don't think you gotta bother asking for permission or go showing your hand, just muck in when and where you can. Some of you already do, but if we can get something more formal going, I know that I and a lot of others are gonna be dead grateful.

Which brings me to the Jump. If you haven't got anyone in your own circle to keep track of you, speak to Miles Edgeworth. Sitting out the Jump is not optional. You go to the Jump bay on time, or you get turned into a splodge of space-slime, and it ain't pretty.

After the Jump, for those of you who didn't notice last time, a lot of basic things happen. Some people go around making sure their own groups are in one piece, others are in it only for themselves. If you're feeling great and you're not gonna be of any use, get the hell out so we know what we got to work with without things getting too congested. People from security usually volunteer to help newcomers and protect people from anyone who takes their arrival on board badly, but you should know it's a pretty thankless, sometimes dangerous job.

For anyone who comes in injured, or anyone disoriented after the Jump, there's a med team and a group of volunteers stationed down there. You'd be surprised how much a cup of coffee helps people get their sea legs. If someone looks lost, answer their questions, but be understanding--try and remember what it was like you for you.

Let's make this Jump smooth, and for once leave nobody behind.

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Annie Cresta -- the woman who'd been talking about the meals at first -- is gone. I've been talking to Pepper Potts about trying to get them started though, or if nothing else leaving nutritious leftovers in the refrigerators on each level.

[ Pause. ] And I'm a teacher, back home.

I'm starting to look forward to these, Nathan.

I can help look out for the kids when I ain't working down at the lab. I'm already gonna be herding them to the Jump bay, too. The ones I know about, anyway.

[ A brief flash of disappointment. They'd actually gotten on quite well. ] That's the real problem when you come down to it. You get something organized and the person doing it up and disappears. Beginning to pick up on the fact that if you don't just do it, you're gonna be back to square one in no time at all.

[ He sits back. ]

Then you'd know better than I do about whether or not this is a good environment for kids. I wouldn't want it for mine.

You'd be the only one. Still, it's good to see my favourite texter is still going strong.

I can help teach certain subjects.

Regarding meals...You should talk to Carolyn Fry. In her space survivorship class, she mentioned the importance of certain vitamins in our diets; whoever cooks should be trained to maximize the nutritive properties of our foods.

Someone made a text-to-audio function but I think after so long without making noise, it would be weird to suddenly make a lot of it.

A school might be a good idea, or at least some kind of organized activities for the kids.

I'm not a teacher, but I've done a fair amount of volunteer work with kids and adolescents. I might see if there's some interest in some activities after the jump.

[ So had they. :c ] More or less, yes.

Technically, I teach at the university level. Still... If it were just the spaceship, if they were kept occupied and we were making sure they got the nutrients they can't get elsewhere from the food, then it could be. But considering the events that happen on this ship... no child should have to be here.

Hey.

[Libby is warmer with Nathan than she was. She...caught onto what Nikolai left for her, and it wasn't like Nathan was hard to respect.]

Down for kid watching. 'M a good babysitter.

[And a slight pause.]

Did you--hear anything? From Nikolai. Before he--you know.

I saw your stuff for the kids before. Real cute. [ It's a gesture that's lost on Nathan, since he doesn't have a cute side to really appreciate it, but this stuff about kids and knives has shaken him a little. He feels for Robb; god forbid his own kids were on board. ] How many are there, by your reckoning?

After I have seen to the members of my House, I'll do what I can for those hwo remain after the Jump.

[ a beat, then, very hesitantly.. ]

And if there are children who need protecting and teaching, I'd welcome them. Our House has room enough for wards.

Whoever cooks would be damn lucky to be able to recognise half the plants in the oxygen garden, let alone know how to balance our nutrition, but I get your basic point. I'd settle for not having food poisoning one day out of every seven is all.

[ His tone isn't rough. He likes Edgeworth, so it's actually friendly, despite the slight element of dismissal. ]

You'd be a strict teacher, no doubt. Debate classes, that sort of thing?

Activities would be a better start than structured lessons. Right now I'd prioritize keeping them busy at least a few hours of every day. But not all the kids on board are what they seem, makes things more difficult no matter how you look at it.

Still, if it's something you'd be interested in--?

[This sounded like a very well organized set of ideas and the mention of a school certainly caught his attention.]

I have some experience with developing a school, at least the rudimentary steps and I do hold doctorates in a couple of fields and have worked with a few students in the past.

[Granted, he had worked with developing the skills of other mutants, which probably would not be required in this case but Charles believed the idea of teaching was a fairly fluid one, that could be applied, equally, to arithmetic or shooting plasma lasers.]

Hey there. [ Also warm. ] Anyone who can devote time to people that ain't themselves without wanting something in return I'm down for. The kids haven't got anything to give back, but they need it more than us.

Nikolai spoke to me about you, that's what you mean. I thought that much was obvious. But since then? No, I'm afraid not.

Aw, yeah, thanks.

I got ten, not counting the older teenagers.

[Edgeworth pushes back against that cavalier attitude:]

A skilled gardener can know what nutrients certain plants have by their color. Dark green vegetables, for example, will have larger proportions of iron than plants of a paler color. Moreover, failing all else, we can most likely find some way to analyze the material to determine what nutrition it has to offer.

[He relaxes slightly after that.]

In any case. As much as I enjoy debate, and as much as I believe it enriches those who study it, I think more general classes would be of more use. I feel qualified to teach English language, any number of foreign languages, history of worlds similar to mine, government, law, as a matter of course - the humanities and social sciences in general.

You actually volunteering? [ He's surprised, but not excessively. They'd talked about this. ] I thought you might. You told me about your family being here, told me how old the youngest was.

What do you do when you're not looking after them?

i can cook

school?
and just what're we gonna teach this kids?
it's not like we got a pack of certified teachers hanging around

[ He nods, sitting back. ]

You have experience developing a school? So what if I put that in your hands - just in a manner of speaking, cause there's nobody on board who can make that decision but you - put you in contact with the people willing to teach, volunteer to help out--where do you take it from there?

[ He hates talking to text. It feels very strange to him, though there's people on here who dictate all the time, or even speak to computers. Still, he mans up. ]

The real question is do you want to? There's people who'd be plenty grateful, but that's the real problem; there's lots of us can't do it for ourselves.

You couldn't rightly say we got a punch of qualified pilots, engineers and cooks hanging around either, but we seem to be managing. Qualifications and titles don't mean squat on board this ship.

Setting up even a basic school system would give us the facilities we need to get them all to safety when things go south. We got no option as far as having them on board goes, just like everyone else.

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