"I think we'd all like to get home. But at least we can raid this place for advanced technological knowledge first."

"And really good pretzels."

"The pretzels are really good."

Riley brings in the last of the food. "So, food's unloaded. Are we going to head down to the Library or do people have other ideas?"

"We should pick out bedrooms and get our clothes put away. Maybe someone less tired than me should take the newcomers to get some clothes of their own."

"Count me out on that. Too much exercise for me already."

"I could probably do it, but I should also do the training thing on the computers."

"I'm decently in shape, and besides we don't need to go far to find a decent clothing store. No bikes required."

"Should probably get them bikes too, since you mentioned it."

"I can do that. Anything you guys want to see before going shopping?"

"We should at least see the library, yes?" says Rose.

"I think that would probably be good." says Jade.

"Alright, it's this way." Riley holds open the door.

All four newcomers plus Anna and Linda go through the door.

Riley leads the way down the ramp, the other three also follow. Soon enough they're in the library again.

Jade and Dave head for the computers. Rose starts scanning the library shelves. John peers over Dave's shoulder.

Linda also sits down at a computer, figures out how to access the training module and starts working on that.

While doing that she says to Alex, "Hey, you should test to see if you can get the phones to work by hooking them up to the computer."

The training is under the employment section for her. Riley sits down at one of the free computers and starts in on her own training.

"I should do that." He jogs out of the library and comes back a little later with a phone and a cable. He sits down in front of one of the computers and examines it until he finds a port to plug the cable into. He enters the interface section and is greeted by three options: application sync, phone configuration and diagnostics. He chooses phone configuration. The screen that appears next offers him the chance to select a custom phone number or generate a random valid number. He hits the button for random. It also has options for enabling or disabling mesh networking, data satellite connections, and localizer satellite connections. All three are initially off and he switches them all to on.

He turns on the phone and tries to dial his grandmother. There's a gentle bell like sound and then a voice says "No device is currently assigned this number please try again."

"Well, that's not a good sign."

"So we can't call home? It would be so good to at least be able let people know we're alive and trying to get home."

"I can keep fiddling with things but it doesn't look like it on initial inspection." He backs out and picks diagnostics. Almost all of them focus on hardware and all the available network diagnostics come up completely green. "Yeah, it looks like we can't call home."

"Awww man, that sucks!" says John.

"Thank you for your stunningly useful and productive commentary.", says Rose.

"At least we can probably like use the phones to stay in touch while exploring. That's helpful." says Jade.

"Right. So we need to sort out bedrooms, and these four need clothes and things. So who is doing what?"

"I already offered to take them shopping and it doesn't look like the phone situation requires my attention. As long as the bedrooms are mostly the same I don't think I have strong preferences, maybe put me close to Claire and Emily?"

"Yeah, I'll pick a good room for you Alex."

"I've got to finish this thing, but I imagine the bedrooms are probably all pretty much the same? So it really doesn't matter, as long as Anna and I get ones near each other."