video + conscription

[sweetmotherofgod]

[Passengers who've met Heather before might notice she's a bit paler and a bit darker around the eyes than usual. Passengers who haven't are about to get a charming introduction, if it's delivered in a slightly flatter, wearier tone than her usual.]

Been a while since I've done one of these, so I should probably introduce myself. Heather Mason. I'm a double-oh-two and I work in the gardens, which is why I'm speaking to you today.

The oxygen gardens are what keep us all breathing and eating stuff that doesn't come in a vacuum pack. They're not a petting zoo. There are four of us trying to keep that place running and it's hard enough without worrying about the crops getting eaten or kicked over or people's pets trying to kill each other. So here's the deal: You're keeping something in the gardens? Drugs, pets, livestock. Dinosaurs. Congratulations. Now you work there. I don't want to hear any bitching, either. We all depend on the oxygen gardens to keep us alive, so if you're taking more out of them than anybody else, you need to put more in.

Oh, and if what you've got in there might cause damage to what someone else has there? It's your job to make sure that doesn't happen, not anybody else's. Come on.

[She'd add that the people she's just conscripted should contact her for details but... well, they might take that as an invitation not to.]

Comments

[video]

[toasterprophet]

I get your point. Although, for the record, there is no way that garden's big enough to be supplying all the oxygen for the ship. There're CO2 scrubbers doing most of the work.

But it seems like it's a pretty big ship, for everyone to be fighting over the rights to one area. Any reason we can't expand the gardens? Take clippings, put together some more hydroponic setups in some of the unused rooms? Like mini-parks, or urban farms? Doesn't solve the problem of the really big animals, but it might help with where to put the smaller ones.

[video]

[sweetmotherofgod]

Don't look at me, I've never even been in an airplane. If Capa'd told me that when I asked about the place I'd have signed up for something cool instead.

That's actually a damn good idea. Wouldn't keep people from acting like jerks about it, but at least wouldn't have to either miss out or wind up as snacks. I just don't know if we've got enough willing hands to make it happen.

Re: [video]

[toasterprophet]

We'd have to see what we've got or can easily put together in the way of equipment. I'm not saying I'm an expert gardener or anything, but I wouldn't mind taking a day or two to lend a hand getting it set up.