[Locked to New Hires]

[hallelujahjunction]

[Dan shows up on video, clearly on the muggy roof trying to get one of his contraband cigarettes in without ending up butterfly chow. It's put him in a good mood, adding the spice of daring-do to the morning smoke. He's got a sneaky grin on his face.

Better to actually get to work on doing something instead of wallowing in raw memories.]

Hypothetical question. [He glances over his shoulder and sees that none of the wildlife is about to attack him, then takes a drag.] If you could pick Planker's brain, what would you want to know?

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[pain_train]

i get this is an extremely dumb question but who the fuck is planker

[hallelujahjunction]

[after listening to his communicator read the text out loud to him:] The gym teacher who yells a lot and makes us to do wind sprints until we puke.

[He's glib at first, because he's had some harsh mornings with Planker, but he gets serious.]

I do a lot of nosing around the staff here and seeing what they know and if it helps us. Most of the staff I got access to that way don't know jack shit, just line cooks and nav techs and the like. Planker's one of the folks we got regular access to who has clearance to more information than I can find chumming with the folks in the mail room, and he seems like a relatively straightforward type.

[As opposed to one of the staff members who might try and pull Dan's strings right back. Dan suspects that Planker's sadism is his most central and transparent motivation - good. Simple is easier to manipulate.]

[pain_train]

[ Wrath will switch to video, too. She just figured text was better since it wasn't an urgent question. ]

Okay, makes sense.

Two most important pieces of info are about the collars and our weapons, then. And if they've got any kind of secondary means of control like cranial bombs or implanted memory triggers or shit like that. Not something we want to be surprised by.

[hallelujahjunction]

[Dan's just completely and totally illiterate, womp womp.]

That's a real good and sobering point. [Dan's smart, but this isn't the way his mind works. He doesn't think in terms of plans and systems, or, for that matter, in terms of "if things don't go according to plan" as he's so thoroughly allergic to actually planning. A failsafe to control them didn't occur to him.]

[pain_train]

Yeah.

And probably for other people, if he knows anything about getting out of here. Or even how we came through in the first place?