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My name is Dr. Ivy Isley. I'm a paleobotanist and the senior environmental scientist on site this week.

Just to reiterate a few points from the paperwork I doubt any of you read before signing. You have signed a waiver which protects ReGen from legal recourse if you are killed, injured, sickened or traumatised - either by events during your stay, or resulting from it in the long term.

The extent to which you can expect compound staff to assist you has also been specified. In short: if you're the kind of idiot who can't follow simple rules, we are not responsible for protecting you from your own stupidity. If you're that kind of idiot and you have private staff responsible for your protection, I hope they're being paid well.

You have also agreed to non-disclosure of anything you encounter during your stay that is not explicitly listed as being shareable. If anything is leaked from the site then we have the right to pursue damages for all projected revenue lost on the basis of that leak, plus costs. That would be enough to bankrupt most of you. Yes, I'm aware most of you are rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

I will also point out right now that the Environmental Sciences division is off-limits in its entirety, unless you have written permission that I have signed and handed to you personally. That supersedes any all-access passes you've been promised.

[Private to Luna]

If any of them give you any trouble of any kind, let me know. I'll deal with it.

[They will probably not survive being dealt with.]

[Private to Simon]

The worst part is that I can believe you did this.

[OOC: Responses will also be text unless specified but I'm too lazy to keep up the font formatting. Spam with Ivy is also available; she will be hiding from tourists in the less accessible areas of the compound, hanging out with her kids, in her lab or eating in the mess with everyone else. She will also be leaving the compound occasionally to collect samples, etc - grab me on Plurk or shoot me a PM if needs be. ♥ Plotting comment here.]

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[After a post like that, all Furiosa can do is show up at her lab, grinning.

It's things like this, are why she has it bad for Ivy.]

I'd buy you a beer if there were a bar.

If there were a bar, I'd let you.

[She smiles. Furiosa is one of the very few people in the compound - there are one or two others, Luna, for instance - around whom she actually feels comfortable. The vast majority tend not to breach 'cautious tolerance'.]

...That spiel was for you as well. You're only responsible for them up to a point.

There are an awful lot of twenty something boys coming off that boat. That's literally the dumbest category of risk takers collectively in the whole species. I would rather we brought in a preschool, than young men aged eighteen to twenty five. They should all wear shock collars that drop them if they go out of bounds.

[Furiosa mutters, mutinous and preemptively tired.]

My whole week is going to be saving boys who are looking at my ass. I just know it.

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[Things Morgana does not love, being tangentially insulted. Still, she grew up in surrounded by a culture that can be far worse than this. She opts for video, because why not use this mug to her advantage.]

Pleasure to meet you, Dr. Isely. How might I obtain a pass to the Environmental Sciences division?

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[Ivy is largely immune to the mug, but she is aware that her father-in-law specifically requested that she make arrangements for the Princess.

She's still going to be a dick about it, though.]

Say 'please', and acknowledge that the abovementioned also applies to benefactors of obsolete imperialist throwbacks.

[Here eyebrow ticks up marginally, but her smile doesn't falter. It grates on her patience - like she's a child in need of telling off, really - but she tips her head forward in acknowledgement.]

I'm much more interested in learning about your field and what you do here than planting a flag. Will you show me, please? [She is carefully polite. Very, very carefully.]

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Actually, people here have been wonderful to work with. It's one of the most rewarding field exercises I've ever been on.

Thank you, by the way.

[If anyone working onsite wasn't wonderful to Luna, Ivy would leave them to be eaten by velociraptors. She is fairly clear about telegraphing this to them.]

I'm referring to our guests, Luna.

[A pause. She is a bit of a space case.]

You're aware that's happening?

Guests?

[Whoops, guess who actually doesn't read the company memos. Luna sits up from where she's digging around in the dirt under a bush, giving an enthused, if curious smile]

Are they people-shaped or dinosaur-shaped?