Chapter 3
We kept walking in silence until we go to the Science Compartment of the base. "The Bio-Lab. Heh. We're going to spend a lot of time up here." Norm tells Jake. I just fallow along and memorizing the way. "Hey, how you doing? Norm… Avatar Driver." He says to the other people in the lab. Most were tip-tap typing on computers. Others were working with chemicals judging by the all the different scents. "Uh, Link Room. – Here's the Link Room here. This is where we're connecting to the avatar." Norm explains to Jack as he bounces around the room. It's going to be hard for me to move around the labs without any references to use.
Jake takes a turn away from Norm. I go with him. "Hey welcome to Pandora good to have you. Eva how was your trip?" Dr. Max Patel said to Jake and me. I would know Max's voice anywhere we talked a lot before I shipped out. " I'm good Max. How is she?" I replied. "Damn. They got big." Jake says. It lets me know we are by the avatars now. "Yeah, they fully mature on the flight out. So, the proprioceptive sims seemed to work really well." Norm says to Jake. Max comments "Yeah they got great muscle tone. She's doing great Eva. We also got everything you had asked for. Some of the others has been trying it out." "That's fine as long as they don't hurt themselves or break anything." I said. "It'll take a few hours to get them decanted, but you guys can take them out tomorrow." Max told Jake, Norm, and myself. Max told Jake where his avatar is and he rolled off to it.
Max leads me to where my avatar is. "Eva, we have notice that your avatar has green and some red and blue low-lights in her black hair. And I know you talked to the other group so the sims would work the same muscles as your own workouts. She is also larger in the bust than normal Naïve or other Avatars." Max gives details to me about my avatar.
"Thanks Max for everything." I said with a smile. Max grabs hand so I can hold his arm. We head over to where Jake and Norm are. "Looks likes him." Jake says. "No, looks like you. This is your avatar now Jake." Norm says.
"Well let's get to work, shall we." Max says after a bit. He shows us where our stations are in the lab. Max takes me to the lab door and leads me to the Link Room then to my station so I know how to get around then lab.
"Eva your station is voice active and the camera is here." Max puts my hand where the camera is. "Thanks Max." I replied. "Activate camera. Hello Pandora! Glade to be here on this lovely day. Video log 1. Let me see. Woke up after a 5-year flight. Broke a guy's knee cap for being a dick. Sat at orientation. I found out that my things got here just fine and that people has been playing with it. That's it for today. See ya. Camera off." I got off the video log as I hear Jake starts talking about how he can link to his avatar. "Am I doing this right? I just say whatever to it?" Jake asks. "Yep. We start now to get into the habit of doing it. As we start working with our Avatar we put in more data. Mostly what we see, hear, taste, touch, smell, and think about the world around us. The more we say the more data we get and can use latter on." I said. Max takes us to the link room. I hear a woman yelling "Who's got my god damn cigarette? Guys. What's wrong with this picture?" Norm of course knows who it is. "Grace Augustine is a legend." Norm says and to be honest I stop listening after that as I know who she is. Max leads us over to Grace and introducing us to her. "Grace I'd like you to meet Norm Spellman, Jake Sully, and Eva Haren." Max says. Grace greets Norm and me but completely ignores Jake. Norm, Grace, and I have a small conversion in Na'vi. She is impress with how well we speak even though Norm is far more formal. Max once again tries to introduce Jake, but Grace was not having it. She storms off out of the lab as she rants away. Max leads us to our rooms and I get dropped off first. As I move about my room using my walking cane and unpack my duffle bag. Tomorrow is always another day. Hopefully it will be a good day.