appt. 1: video

[didknowthat]

[Well hello there, residents of this fine barge. What you'll find on your screens, is a rather tiffed redhead, looking only just a little like she might be trying to bite her tongue. Without actually puncturing herself.]

Hi- Hello. My name is Virginia Potts, and I've been asked to come and .. work on this ship. [It's only a partial lie. She'd sought it out herself.] That being said, I've come as a warden, and am here to help.

[There's a moment of hesitance, her mouth opening to continue. But then it shuts. ... And she tries again.]

Is there a Tony Stark on the barge?

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[didknowthat]

Thank you, Castiel.

I.. Can guess. [Uh.] But no, generally speaking, I don't.

[trenchcoatedly]

Well, the terms are only nautical analogies. As the ship travels in extra-dimensional barge, there's actually no water for a port or a flood.

Sometimes the barge hits multidimensional - turbulence, I suppose. This changes a random number of individuals in some way, sometimes physically, sometimes mentally, sometimes bringing non-barge residents onto the barge. There have been ports that have changed the gender of the occupants as well as brought out the most undesired traits. These floods usually last a few days before everyone returns to normal.

Additionally, sometimes the barge will enter true dimensions and "visit" other words. Usually, most barge residents can enter the world at will and remain themselves - sometimes with their might suppressed or unsuppressed - though on occasion people can be "knocked overboard" and be dimensionally startled into being residents of the world in question. These are ports.

Is this a clear explanation?

[omar]

You a real helpful man, Castiel, you know that?

[trenchcoatedly]

Thank you, Omar.

[didknowthat]

[Holy Iron Man. That's a lot of information she wasn't expecting. But hey, that's ..]

Kind of perfect, actually. Thank you. [Really, she hasn't sounded more sincere.] --How do these .. floods work? They can change your gender? [That sounds painful.]

[trenchcoatedly]

You're welcome.

And yes. There's no pain, as as the dimension shifts, your body was under the impression it was always as it was. This form was briefly female for a time, for example. On another occasion, I became extremely petulant, which I'm usually not. Once, I was replaced by a dead brother, and another time by an actor who played the character of me, in which the barge was a television show.

[didknowthat]

[This .. form? Pinging something a little odd here, Doctor. And wow w t f are those examples. Replaced by a dead brother? An actor who played him as a character on a show? ... What the hell?]

Uh. Right, well. Good to know ahead of time, I guess.

[trenchcoatedly]

That being said, those examples don't cover the whole scope of floods.

Oh - there are occasionally breaches, which are similar to ports, only everyone on the barge becomes part of the world. For example, the situation where the barge became a television show and all the barge residents became actors who played themselves was a breach, in that the barge itself was transformed into a studio. However, when our gender was switched, the barge remained the same.

[didknowthat]

Oh- okay. So it's like, if everyone's effected, it's a breach, but if it's something more specific, it's a .. flood?

[trenchcoatedly]

To the best of my knowledge, these are essentially arbitrary distinction. I'd say that if the barge itself turns into a different habitat, it's a breach. Otherwise, it's a flood.

[didknowthat]

It can affect the ship itself?

[trenchcoatedly]

Yes. To my understanding, the ship enters a dimension where this habitat currently exists, and essentially merges with it for a brief period.

[didknowthat]

That sounds ... a little dangerous, actually.

[trenchcoatedly]

The place is dangerous without that. Many if the inmates are not above murder. Death, however, is impermanent.

[didknowthat]

Mur-- Aren't there guards to keep them from doing that? [Surely it wasn't strictly the wardens' job, was it?]

H-How do you mean impermanent. You come back to life?

[trenchcoatedly]

Generally speaking, wardens aren't with their inmates every moment of every day.

Yes.

[didknowthat]

And ... we're the guards, then?

How is that .. Nevermind. I shouldn't even ask.

[trenchcoatedly]

Yes.

The Admiral does not think in the tiny scale of life and death. I doubt either means anything to a creature of it's might.