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]

[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.