She goes through, "Hi."

Alex and the other girls follow. "Hi there, I take it you all came expecting a normal party?" Alex asks.

"Hi new people. This place is huge," says Emily.

One of the girls, a blonde says, "Yes, rather. Coming here was all Dave and John's idea in the first place."

A dark haired boy says, "I'm John and this is Rose and Dave and Jade!"

Jade says, "I think this is kind of cool actually. What all else is in this place?"

Dave leans against a wall casually, "it was totally the best idea."

Rose raises an eyebrow at him.

"Well there's a mall with 27000 stores, and lots and lots of bike paths and some sort of super-science clinic and a room with lots of board games and art supplies and probably more stuff waiting to be discovered. I'm Emily."

"I'm Alex, Emily has introduced herself, these are Linda, Anna, Claire, and Riley."

"Hello."

"Hi."

"What, no sweet sound room?"

"Daaaave." says John, "Nobody else cares about that."

"There's a movie room. But no sound room. You could probably find some sound equipment in the mall though."

"We also haven't explored the surface at all, there might be a music studio in another building."

"I'm totally in for exploring later!" says Jade.

"I'd just like to learn more about this place." says Rose.

"We'll show you guys the library and the computers after we put this stuff away. If you want to learn about this place that's the best resource we've found."

"Are any of you really into gardening or farming? There's a way to get special abilities if you take tests on the computer."

Alex looks thoughtful. "Hm, we should probably be careful about who gets to be the security guard. I get the impression they could make life really hard for the rest of us."

Jade says, "I love outdoors stuff, camping, gardening, all that stuff."

John says, "I really hope we don't need a security guard. I hope everyone can be friends!"

"The option for someone to become one isn't going away and having one might be useful for things other than restricting people's movements. It'd be a second person who can unlock doors for one thing."

Dave says, "Yeah, I got this."

John says, "Yeah if we need a security guard, Dave's actually pretty good at like, martial arts stuff."

Dave says, "Pretty good? I'm the coolest dude you know, and I have many skills."

Rose notes, "Modesty is not one of them, alas."

"I think the actual position is probably more about security systems than physical confrontations. Depending though maybe you should go for it."

"You might read through some of the information on the computers beforehand, it will give you a better idea of how things work."

Dave says, "I guess weird sci-fi places have weird sci-fi security. Still worth a try. I don't see anyone else stepping up the job."

"Not yet anyway." Emily starts bringing in food and putting it away in the various cabinets.

Anna and Linda and Jade start helping put things away.

"Weird how you can't tell which cabinets are refrigerated by looking." says Jade.

"It's like that in the mall too. It's sorta weird, some of the containers were heated there."

"Fascinating," says Rose, "I somewhat regret not knowing more of the physical sciences now.  Though perhaps this is all so advanced everyone is starting almost from scratch."

"I think my physics classes have helped a lot, but the physics known to the builders of this place is way beyond Earth's understanding."

"This is kind of exciting! Also worrying but..." says Jade.

"My dad's going to be super upset." says John.

"I'm still really hoping that there's a way to get home."

Emily puts down the food she's carrying and walks over to give Claire a hug.