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starsficOh, Team Building. You think you're going to sneak out of my "to care about" list, but you're not. Because it's the Tuesday before Christmas, 2025, and Jack's A Squad currently consists of Sophie, Boom, Kat Don, and Ally. Kat is on base duty after learning she's pregnant. Sky is leading B Squad (Bridge, Dan, Z, and Syd), and Charlie's team is still on the disabled list.
This scene follows choices (in which Dan is attacked on the base by a stranger with a gun), and the full PRAU prompt table is here. (If you're looking for other references, Killian, the doll, Kat being pregnant.)
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Jack was talking to Syd when the base went into lockdown, and his first thought was, Crap. Ally's gonna kill me. Because he had told her, he had promised that he wasn't going to abandon her with Boom and Don for the rest of the patrol. But Sophie had taken Kat's place in the lab for yet another robot test, and Jack had been recalled to deal with the damn NTPD curfew, and the only reason he was still on the base in the first place was Sky.
Who, he had to admit, was a really good reason. He was happy to be ambushed by B Squad Red at any time. No matter who was waiting for him or what he was supposed to be doing. Especially when there were closets involved, which he had so not expected from Sky.
So he'd been in a good mood when Syd caught up to him in the lobby, just steps away from calling Ally to let her know he was on his way back. Syd wanted to talk about Mora, of all things, but hey, it was Syd. And a doll. He didn't know what harm a doll could do. He also had no idea why she was asking him, but Sky wasn't around to pass it off to, so he said yes just before the intruder alert started to shriek.
The day got weirder from there.
It turned out Syd had once been engaged to her Killian, the boy who had given her jewelry when she was six. Or at least, one of his crazy friends thought he had--Jack wasn't too clear on that. He was a little more concerned that the crazy friend in question knew Sirian-style security well enough to bust onto an SPD base.
Since there weren't any guarantees that the guy was alone, and select cameras all over the base seemed to have malfunctioned simultaneously, they stayed in lockdown for several hours while security swept the base. Manually. It was enough time to be impressed by Dan's reflexes, to smirk at Sky again, and to inform Kat that she was no longer part of the emergency response team.
Kat contested this, vehemently, so he amended it to "the front line emergency defense team," and even then he had to specify that he was trying to keep her out of hand-to-hand combat, not restricting her ability to provide support.
He also learned that Rose and Charlie did occasionally leave the base, and wherever they had gone, they had taken Des with them. This resulted in the entirely appropriate irony of A Squad being, for once, locked out of the base instead of in it. Jack couldn't resist pointing this out to everyone he encountered during the sweep.
Unfortunately, Cruger was also locked out, and that didn't go well for any of them. Jack finally told Kat to just call him already. This made her bristle all over again, demanding to know when appeasing the commander had become her responsibility. Jack refrained from pointing out that appeasing the commander had always been her responsibility, and instead told her that it wasn't him Cruger wanted to talk to.
By the time the sweep had turned up zero physical evidence of other intruders, Base Tech had managed to pinpoint the security breach responsible for knocking out the cameras. Jack really didn't want to know. It was one of the few things that wasn't his job, and if Base Tech said they'd taken care of it, then they'd taken care of it.
Don and Boom were in the mess hall at dinner time, but Ally didn't speak to him for the rest of the day. He called and left a message to apologize. Then Sky told him his mom was getting a tree the next day and they had to help--how else was she going to set it up?--and Jack rolled his eyes because Sky expected him to, but he also agreed, because Sky expected that too.
SPD wasn't about pleasing everyone, after all. It was about figuring out who you wanted to please most and how many people you could afford to piss off to make it happen.
This scene follows choices (in which Dan is attacked on the base by a stranger with a gun), and the full PRAU prompt table is here. (If you're looking for other references, Killian, the doll, Kat being pregnant.)
Jack was talking to Syd when the base went into lockdown, and his first thought was, Crap. Ally's gonna kill me. Because he had told her, he had promised that he wasn't going to abandon her with Boom and Don for the rest of the patrol. But Sophie had taken Kat's place in the lab for yet another robot test, and Jack had been recalled to deal with the damn NTPD curfew, and the only reason he was still on the base in the first place was Sky.
Who, he had to admit, was a really good reason. He was happy to be ambushed by B Squad Red at any time. No matter who was waiting for him or what he was supposed to be doing. Especially when there were closets involved, which he had so not expected from Sky.
So he'd been in a good mood when Syd caught up to him in the lobby, just steps away from calling Ally to let her know he was on his way back. Syd wanted to talk about Mora, of all things, but hey, it was Syd. And a doll. He didn't know what harm a doll could do. He also had no idea why she was asking him, but Sky wasn't around to pass it off to, so he said yes just before the intruder alert started to shriek.
The day got weirder from there.
It turned out Syd had once been engaged to her Killian, the boy who had given her jewelry when she was six. Or at least, one of his crazy friends thought he had--Jack wasn't too clear on that. He was a little more concerned that the crazy friend in question knew Sirian-style security well enough to bust onto an SPD base.
Since there weren't any guarantees that the guy was alone, and select cameras all over the base seemed to have malfunctioned simultaneously, they stayed in lockdown for several hours while security swept the base. Manually. It was enough time to be impressed by Dan's reflexes, to smirk at Sky again, and to inform Kat that she was no longer part of the emergency response team.
Kat contested this, vehemently, so he amended it to "the front line emergency defense team," and even then he had to specify that he was trying to keep her out of hand-to-hand combat, not restricting her ability to provide support.
He also learned that Rose and Charlie did occasionally leave the base, and wherever they had gone, they had taken Des with them. This resulted in the entirely appropriate irony of A Squad being, for once, locked out of the base instead of in it. Jack couldn't resist pointing this out to everyone he encountered during the sweep.
Unfortunately, Cruger was also locked out, and that didn't go well for any of them. Jack finally told Kat to just call him already. This made her bristle all over again, demanding to know when appeasing the commander had become her responsibility. Jack refrained from pointing out that appeasing the commander had always been her responsibility, and instead told her that it wasn't him Cruger wanted to talk to.
By the time the sweep had turned up zero physical evidence of other intruders, Base Tech had managed to pinpoint the security breach responsible for knocking out the cameras. Jack really didn't want to know. It was one of the few things that wasn't his job, and if Base Tech said they'd taken care of it, then they'd taken care of it.
Don and Boom were in the mess hall at dinner time, but Ally didn't speak to him for the rest of the day. He called and left a message to apologize. Then Sky told him his mom was getting a tree the next day and they had to help--how else was she going to set it up?--and Jack rolled his eyes because Sky expected him to, but he also agreed, because Sky expected that too.
SPD wasn't about pleasing everyone, after all. It was about figuring out who you wanted to please most and how many people you could afford to piss off to make it happen.