one of casey's in-character friends roy had a legendary shift as the logistics officer (head of the logistics department). for context, on average logi makes around ~100k spesos per shift, with 200k being a "really good logi shift". well, roy and his team were so on the ball they managed to make about 600k through mining and bounties. they bought a shuttle with a bar attached (the barge) and then he started spending his leftover money on gambling crates. then he also won the jackpot. 1 million speso winning from a gambling crate. he ended the round with something like 1.5 million spesos.
this is just one thing that happened this round. some other things that happened: a living gingerbread man showed up and became a barber. the Hierophant, a magical weapon that acts as a boss, killed a salvager and then promptly broke out of its containment. the tesla almost loosed. roy's partner and a cargo tech this shift, Satan Was An Angel Too, caught a glimpse of "smile dog", a cryptid in the form of a "dog-shaped smiling yellow toy" (a smiley guy) that has been haunting her and roy for a moment.
approximately two hours into the shift, roy requisitions CentComm for a shipyard console to purchase a new shuttle for the logistics department using their hard-earned cash. CC approves this request.
the CentComm Official on call this shift is a certain Pennsylvania Prescott - you may know him because i play him and also mentioned him another post. against protocol, Penn starts yammering over the CentComm radio, which is only heard by the dignitaries Blueshield Officer 'Shepherd' (BSO) and the Nanotrasen Representative (NT Rep) Clover. he sarcastically states, "i heard your LO has a new toy to play with this shift."![[+]](/images/collapse_collapsed.png "[+]")
Request for Shipyard Console
logistics purchases the Barge, a large salvage shuttle with a bar built into it. instead of doing anything productive, roy pilots it to run circles around the station. penn gets audibly more frustrated that he is unable to fly to the station to see the barge. however, with plenty of money left over, roy starts spending it on gambling crates and, by insane sheer luck, wins the jackpot of 1 million spesos.
penn is so angry and jealous of being unable to gamble and see the Barge, he holes himself up in the CC fax office and gets very drunk, ignoring the requests of the station dignitaries. but not before leaving them with a little "reward"; the BSO "wishes they had more toys to play with" on the station, and penn bluespaces them his personal CentComm-branded smiley guy.
things let a little weirder, however, as Roy witnesses this smiley guy blinking in his hands, twice with fifteen minutes in between. roy gets sick of being toyed with and takes the smiley guy to his office, clears the desk, and starts grilling the smiley guy to speak. it responds with a vague omen of doom.
roy, terrified for his life, calls the captain to his office to discuss disposing of the smiley guy. they agree to throw it into space, despite it being personal property of a CC official.
roy attempts to throw the smiley guy off the salvage dock, but not before it speaks again. instead roy throws it on the ground and invokes jesus. it disappears in a blue flash of light which roy interprets as irrefutable proof in the existence of jesus.
on the way back to centcomm, roy puts an end to a feud between himself and the chief engineer that has lasted all shift by accidentally causing a fistfight on the evac shuttle (unleashing his friends to punch the shit out of the CE. he promptly gets told off by higher powers that warn him that his job is at stake.) the moment he steps onto CC, he is called directly to the fax office over the radio.
at centcomm, the crew returns to the sight of the fax office being completely dark, covered in curtains, littered with booze and glass and unspent bullet casings, and the singular centcomm official (penn) wasted and lying on the ground underneath the desk, playing fleetwood mac through a super synthesizer.
the dignitaries enter this office and tell penn to sit down and not talk to anyone, because he is WAY TOO DRUNK to be presentable right now. but penn insistently calls roy to the office and stumbles towards him to hand him a medal that says "GREAT JOB" (too drunk to write anything else). penn yells in their face for them to take it
i couldn't come up with a good way to work this image into the post, so i am ending it off with this announcement by captain Mist Sabre
