Expendable

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“...57104 you are currently not restricted in mobility or ability. I hope you have a pleasant day.”

"Thank you, Holiday," Yevpraksiya replied calmly, with just a trace of accent, as her prosthetic arm and eye ran through their morning diagnostic check.

The eye was the easiest of the two, mostly different colors and the eye focusing in such incredible detail of the poster of old Earth she had hanging over the bed, locking onto the boot-shaped bit that used to be Italy, partially obscured by whisps of white cloud. Venice was still on this picture, if impossibly small to see.

Her arm, however, was still plugged in - she never took it off to sleep. It wouldn't move by itself either, going into hibernation as she laid on it, curled on her side. It wasn't that it was difficult to remove, it was ridiculously easy to take off. It was the artificial nerves in the prosthetic, currently hard at work as they flexed and twisted artificial muscle while impulses of partially screened pain, cold, heat, and pressure flowed through the arm. Unlike most with their arms, plugging hers in was like a shock to her system, making her scream and pass out for hours.

Her right eye flashed a message straight to her optic nerve - both diagnostics were complete.

With a sigh, she rolled to her right, facing the large wall display - and her orange bioplas coveralls, hanging from the charging hook. She only had the one, but then it could mend and even clean itself, so why would she ever need another? But Holiday had a few of the bioplas suits in giant plastic egg containers, living off a battery until they were needed.

Yev reached out with her prosthetic arm to snag her cup, and held it under the water tap while she pressed the cold button. Some of it splashed onto the floor grate under it, going who knew where? Reluctantly she sat up, planting her feet as a tray extended from the wall, filled with various pills. Mood enhancers, pain and allergy pills, anti-psychotics, dozens she couldn't recognized. If she didn't take something, Holiday would know. So she grabbed a few at random, slipped her water, then poured it out. As she stood up, the bed curled up into a futon couch, giving her some usable space.

Before leaving her room, Yev glanced behind her at the angled ceiling and its picture of Earth and signed once more. Her only chance at getting back to Earth while she was still young was to be released on good behavior.

The potted plant next to the cafeteria door got its daily dose from her drug drawer. If it was observed, Holiday had never mentioned it.

The last of Yev's apple cider bread was gone, the drones cleaning up the last crumbs. She'll have to make more later in one of the kitchenettes. She nodded at the few people there, then grabbed a bowl of oatmeal, a biodegradable spoon, a tub of grape jelly, and a cup of Yorkshire tea, then sought out a table to sit at while she ate her breakfast.

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The whims of fate have guided me to aim for midweek as a launch of my opening post, 90% of which will be utterly irrelevant and purely because I was so happy to have all these awesome characters submitted that I caught the literary bug. For your reading pleasure the relevant part will be suitably noted as what is directly important to the current events of LD-10 when that post is live.

@Fading Memory

just eager to start.

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There is literally 3 characters running individual illegal brewing operations lol

@Wernher

Yev is really just doing some home brewing, minor production, using fallen fruit deemed unsuitable for anything but animal feed. It's not like she has the facilities and contacts to supply the other domes.

Isaac Dispositions:

-Yevpraksiya Popova - Very Negative: Without being corpo aristocracy, Isaac led a very sheltered life that makes him unable to believe the dept of human misery some people suffer. In his mind, rough looking ruffian types are taken at face value and Popova must've done something to deserve her fate and all those terrible stories must be exaggerated or lies.

@Wernher

Rumors have probably brought up that she's a convicted domestic terrorist, so a little distance is expected. And it's hard to ignore the eye or arm so she may have said something curtly about the organ-jacking when asked. As far as the rest, that Lifetime movie was just a hijacking of "the hand that rocks the cradle".

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I'm happy that it's not a capsule hotel.

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Interesting. Thought for sure there be some petty bureaucrat or manager who'd object with putting prisoners in a standard apartment.

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As an idea, I'm going to suggest that for the apartment building, the lower floors are divided into male and female floors.

There was no plan initially for prisoner quarters, but there's a couple of small padded rooms should someone go crazy. Yev got assigned to one of these rooms. This room has no inside door controls, and can only be opened by Holiday.

Probably why King George doesn't use his room.

There's a services wall with a large display that connects to the apartment's entertainment system, library, and grants access to various dome systems. There's also a push-button water dispenser in the far corner that provides hot and cold water that empties into a floor drain right under it.

She has a futon bed that transforms into a couch. There's no drawers, but there are some built-in shelves.

this is only a suggestion.

If you've seen the first episode of Psycho Pass, there's a scene in the beginning where this girl has a very nice apartment - but when she leaves, the hologram projector turns off and all the furniture looks like it came from Ikea.

Maybe some programmable wallpaper in the other apartments?

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@JFK

Why do you think Yev is making hard cider? And just imagine what she can do with the potato peelings?

Once every two weeks or a month, I could see them allowing a call. Email may be possible, depends on what's allowed.

No packages, of course, but maybe outsiders can pay into the canteen fund or pay for something from one of the other domes. I doubt we're getting civilian pay, we're just cheap labor.

One benefit is there's no place to go, really, so no need for counts or check-ins, but I imagine Holiday does that quietly.

My character is wearing a bioplastic outfit, but it's possible that because of the work you're doing, you have an actual coverall and leather shoes to wear.

Your character has technical skills vital to the survival of the dome, while mine is just assisting with animals and helping to package the goods. I expect King George to have additional privileges.

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Glad you liked Yev, I used a background generator to collect the details then I finessed them. This system tends towards a lot of tragedy (and alien encounters), I must admit. As far as the Empty Chair, she just wanted a place to sit.

Thought the bioplas suit made sense for prison work detail - self-repairing, self-cleaning, providing only limited protection in the event of an emergency, utterly resistant to customization and is essentially feeding off of her, more of a symbiote than a parasite, but still.

So, gotta wonder - in your op, you state that the apartments have "a full complement of food processors and beverage dispensers" but is that in the rooms or in the communal floor kitchenettes?

Some casino bars put in a drink order and booze is pumped out pre-measured from a basement rack to a dispenser, is that how the room dispensers work?

Assuming there's a place in the dome for growing coffee, or is that in like an underground tube farm?

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Prisoner 57104

Prisoner 57104

Name: Yevpraksiya Popova (citizenship certified)
Ethnicity: Russian-American
Occupation Code: 0019 - Agricultural Specialist 3
Apartment Assignment: Women's level, restricted unit at the far left.
Description: Age 24. This solemn woman has round gray eyes, her right eye is clearly bionic. Her silky, curly, night-black hair is trimmed to shoulder length. She is short and has an athletic build, with a bionic left arm with a green and yellow hexagons covering it. Her skin is cream-colored. She has full lips.

Her wardrobe is prison-issued tracking bracelet on the right arm, orange bioplastic coveralls, carbon-fiber-toe boon dockers, straw hat, and a tool belt.

Has a standard prison-issued tablet that provides limited access to entertainment, manuals, legal documents, and educational materials for rehabilitation. Entertainment and some educational content must be approved by Holiday™.

Bionics

The prisoner's bionic right eye has some minor vision enhancements above what their natural left eye can see - better night, distance, and near vision. It can also be popped out and allow the user to watch remotely within 220 yards (1/8 of a mile).

The prisoner's bionic left arm is limited to the same strength as her right. Requires mechanical adjustment.

Bioplastic

A programmable synthetic material that provides the wearer vacuum protection in the event of sudden pressure lost, producing transparent coverings for the head, hands and feet. 30 minute oxygen supply, ports for additional air supply, impossible to obtain so no chance of reaching another dome. Two or more bioplastic suits can merge together, creating a workspace for medical treatment. The suit uses the wearer's body heat and absorbs sweat and excretions to power itself - new suits are packed in a large plastic easter-egg-like shell with a small power cell to keep the bioplastic suit alive while in storage.

Note: While durable, Bioplastic suits are not a suitable replacement for a hard suit.

Personality Assessment:

• Phobia: A strong fear of radiation and its causes. Distrusts medical scanners and the dome power plant.
• A pessimist, always sees the bad side of things.
• Harsh (not to be confused with plain spoken). Prone to sarcasm.
• Suspicious of others, trusts no one.
• Grim - never smiles, stern of purpose
• Creative - prone to acts of artistic vandalism
• Dependable - does duties reliably
• Organized - makes sure things are properly put in their place.

Biography
Prisoner's parents died in the Relentless shuttle incident. Brothers Styopa, Petra, and herself were raised by maternal grandparents Guskov and Anokhina Pavlovich. Grandfather medically retired from the Army following the Gulf Invasion VII, radiation injuries have degraded their muscles and organs. Runs an Army/Navy store in Woodbridge, Virginia to supplement their pension. Grandmother was a former military nurse, now working for the Samaritan home care agency.

• Age 6: Organ-jacked during school field trip, lost right eye and their left arm from the shoulder down, received bionic replacements as per the Child Victim's Recovery Fund.
• Age 7: Accused of heresy by the Congregation of the Aurora for sitting in the Empty Throne as an artificial being.
• Age 12: Skills: Nursing 2 assessment
• Age 14: Skills:
  
  • Arts: Painting 4 assessment
  • Arts: Drawing 4 assessment
  • Arts: Holography 4 assessment
  • Languages: Spanish 2
  • Languages: Russian - insufficient: knows only a few words and can count to five.
• Age 16: Caught in a flash riot and was struck in the face by a baton, lost four teeth upper left. Despite statement, bodycam failure could not prove they were injured by riot police. Child Victim's Recovery Fund only provided a printed dental partial.
• Age 18: While working as a live-in nanny, she reported being sexually assaulted by her employer, Clint Richard Kerr, a minor marketing VP in the Woodbridge, Virginia division with the Concern™. Her employer countered with evidence of blackmail, industrial espionage, and materials showing her membership in SWARM, who'd made several threats against the Concern™.
• Age 20: Convicted of blackmail, industrial espionage, and domestic terrorism. They were sentenced to 40 years to the Ashgate Women's Penitentiary. Still maintains their innocence.
• Age 21: Certified as Agricultural Specialist 2 and reassigned to Lunar Dome 10.
• Age 23: Certified as Agricultural Specialist 3.
• Age 23: Long range observation shows gathering of fallen fruit unsuitable for distribution, possible unauthorized cider production. Location of cider works unknown at this time.

Relationships:

• Holiday™ - Considers the AI to be the head screw and speaks to it formally - she actually trusts it more than the others, while never forgetting it's interests aren't her own and always the same as Concern™.
• King George - Keep out of reach. His implants are better than hers. Hope they like cider.
• Doctor Kaplan - A pain in her... neck, demands extra work towards his own personal projects. No cider for them.
• Alyssa Cross - Strong ego. Someone to watch out for if they decided to eat at your table, but usually good projects. Maybe offer them some cider someday.
• Yingxue - Quiet, tends to keep their distance. Drinks tea, some strange blend that's not offered by the cafeteria. Probably doesn't drink cider.
• Mihail Chivu - Rich boy, which makes Yev wonder how he wound up here. Serious about his work. Don't let him know about the cider.
• Rhiannon Rossi - A screamer. Rather talk to animals than people. Lots of orders on handling the livestock. Probably would like some cider, but unlikely to trust her.

Apartment

This was previously an unused small storeroom tucked under some stairs, with steps leading down to the room.
This room contains a futon that folds into a bed, a display, a storage cubie unit under the tv, a water cooler in the corner, a mirror on the side wall, and on the other side wall next to the stairs is a coat hook unit.

Image was created using Roomstyler.

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@Fading Memory - here's my character for your approval.

Prisoner 57104

Prisoner 57104

Name: Yevpraksiya Popova (citizenship certified)
Ethnicity: Russian-American
Occupation Code: 0019 - Agricultural Specialist 3
Apartment Assignment: Women's level, restricted unit at the far left.
Description: Age 24. This solemn woman has round gray eyes, her right eye is clearly bionic. Her silky, curly, night-black hair is trimmed to shoulder length. She is short and has an athletic build, with a bionic left arm with a green and yellow hexagons covering it. Her skin is cream-colored. She has full lips.

Her wardrobe is prison-issued tracking bracelet on the right arm, orange bioplastic coveralls, carbon-fiber-toe boon dockers, straw hat, and a tool belt.

Has a standard prison-issued tablet that provides limited access to entertainment, manuals, legal documents, and educational materials for rehabilitation. Entertainment and some educational content must be approved by Holiday™.

Bionics

The prisoner's bionic right eye has some minor vision enhancements above what their natural left eye can see - better night, distance, and near vision. It can also be popped out and allow the user to watch remotely within 220 yards (1/8 of a mile).

The prisoner's bionic left arm is limited to the same strength as her right. Requires mechanical adjustment.

Bioplastic

A programmable synthetic material that provides the wearer vacuum protection in the event of sudden pressure lost, producing transparent coverings for the head, hands and feet. 30 minute oxygen supply, ports for additional air supply, impossible to obtain so no chance of reaching another dome. Two or more bioplastic suits can merge together, creating a workspace for medical treatment. The suit uses the wearer's body heat and absorbs sweat and excretions to power itself - new suits are packed in a large plastic easter-egg-like shell with a small power cell to keep the bioplastic suit alive while in storage.

Note: While durable, Bioplastic suits are not a suitable replacement for a hard suit.

Personality Assessment:

• Phobia: A strong fear of radiation and its causes. Distrusts medical scanners and the dome power plant.
• A pessimist, always sees the bad side of things.
• Harsh (not to be confused with plain spoken). Prone to sarcasm.
• Suspicious of others, trusts no one.
• Grim - never smiles, stern of purpose
• Creative - prone to acts of artistic vandalism
• Dependable - does duties reliably
• Organized - makes sure things are properly put in their place.

Biography
Prisoner's parents died in the Relentless shuttle incident. Brothers Styopa, Petra, and herself were raised by maternal grandparents Guskov and Anokhina Pavlovich. Grandfather medically retired from the Army following the Gulf Invasion VII, radiation injuries have degraded their muscles and organs. Runs an Army/Navy store in Woodbridge, Virginia to supplement their pension. Grandmother was a former military nurse, now working for the Samaritan home care agency.

• Age 6: Organ-jacked during school field trip, lost right eye and their left arm from the shoulder down, received bionic replacements as per the Child Victim's Recovery Fund.
• Age 7: Accused of heresy by the Congregation of the Aurora for sitting in the Empty Throne as an artificial being.
• Age 12: Skills: Nursing 2 assessment
• Age 14: Skills:
  
  • Arts: Painting 4 assessment
  • Arts: Drawing 4 assessment
  • Arts: Holography 4 assessment
  • Languages: Spanish 2
  • Languages: Russian - insufficient: knows only a few words and can count to five.
• Age 16: Caught in a flash riot and was struck in the face by a baton, lost four teeth upper left. Despite statement, bodycam failure could not prove they were injured by riot police. Child Victim's Recovery Fund only provided a printed dental partial.
• Age 18: While working as a live-in nanny, she reported being sexually assaulted by her employer, Clint Richard Kerr, a minor marketing VP in the Woodbridge, Virginia division with the Concern™. Her employer countered with evidence of blackmail, industrial espionage, and materials showing her membership in SWARM, who'd made several threats against the Concern™.
• Age 20: Convicted of blackmail, industrial espionage, and domestic terrorism. They were sentenced to 40 years to the Ashgate Women's Penitentiary. Still maintains their innocence.
• Age 21: Certified as Agricultural Specialist 2 and reassigned to Lunar Dome 10.
• Age 23: Certified as Agricultural Specialist 3.
• Age 23: Long range observation shows gathering of fallen fruit unsuitable for distribution, possible unauthorized cider production. Location of cider works unknown at this time.

Relationships:

• Holiday™ - Considers the AI to be the head screw and speaks to it formally - she actually trusts it more than the others, while never forgetting it's interests aren't her own and always the same as Concern™.
• King George - Keep out of reach. His implants are better than hers. Hope they like cider.
• Doctor Kaplan - A pain in her... neck, demands extra work towards his own personal projects. No cider for them.
• Alyssa Cross - Strong ego. Someone to watch out for if they decided to eat at your table, but usually good projects. Maybe offer them some cider someday.
• Yingxue - Quiet, tends to keep their distance. Drinks tea, some strange blend that's not offered by the cafeteria. Probably doesn't drink cider.
• Mihail Chivu - Rich boy, which makes Yev wonder how he wound up here. Serious about his work. Don't let him know about the cider.
• Rhiannon Rossi - A screamer. Rather talk to animals than people. Lots of orders on handling the livestock, but probably would like some cider, but unlikely to trust her.