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Originally Posted by TGLS
Well, guess I got to take out all three stores. I assume that there are people on duty all the time, with some kind of shift rotation. How suspicious would it be to be going around without a "buddy"? Anything I could do to offset that, try and disguise myself as someone who doesn't need a buddy? Is there anything I could What would I need to do to throw my "buddy"? Slip out at "night"?
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The ship has no effective night. They don't always have someone guarding the food stores, though transportation around them is fairly heavy. They might post a guard if the stores start getting trashed, of course.
The top officers don't have to observe the buddy system. This is about 40 people, each of whom heads up 1/3rd of a section of the ship (like morale, transportation, or drives). So they've got fair facial recognition, but people are unlikely to know ALL of them. You do need an officer's uniform, of course.
People running errands occasionally get to flout the buddy system. This is usually done at a run.
People will also stretch the buddy system. Its not observed in living quarters, and people will count themselves as paired up if they are merely in the same compartment.
Most people informally "Swap" buddies, but Botha is probably a stickler about that.
Someone found in a reasonable location without a buddy will be officially reprimanded by most Sergant-level people who see them, and escorted back to their section, but that's as far as it goes, unless you do something to really arouse suspicion. Your buddy could report you missing, but that's seen as fairly extreme. Pothi probably wouldn't, Botha probably would, but Botha would probably have to be left for 10 to 20 minutes before she really got her dander up and reported you. You think. If you want more information on her expected behavior, that will have to be earned in play.