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Subject: Rhodes Island Room Touring Initiative
From: Amiya
To: Everyone
Hello everyone,
Rhodes Island Pharmaceutical has taken on many new employees and patients recently. As such, I am happy to announce a new initiative to better connect the residents of this landship. Starting very soon, residents can opt in to a program where they will be randomly assigned a partner or partners whom they will showcase their living spaces to. We hope that this will allow our operators and employees to get to know each other better.
As a show of solidarity, the Doctor and I will also join the program. More details will come as we get an idea of how many people want to participate. Until then, if you have any comments, feel free to let me know!
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Subject: Re: Rhodes Island Room Touring Initiative
From: Amiya
To: Everyone
Hello again everyone,
I am gladdened by the overwhelming support that this initiative has gotten. Human Resources is currently sifting through all the applicants as we are speaking. Currently, we are planning a small first phase consisting of groups of two or three. Some have voiced concerns about potentially dangerous groupings. Such possibilities have been predicted and have been preemptively excluded from the randomization process.
Also, I would like to remind everyone that, sans the dangerous groupings mentioned above, the matching will be random. Thus, while I’m sure many would be flattered by the number of people asking for them specifically, we will not be fulfilling specific requests. After all, this is a chance to meet new people first and foremost. If there are any further comments, feel free to let me know.
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Subject: Request to Stop the Influx of Gifts
From: Amiya
To: Everyone
Hello everyone,
Recently, I and members of Human Resources have been given a copious amount of gifts from various operators. While I and many on the team are grateful for the appreciation, we are politely requesting that the frequency be lowered. The amount of things we have to process has been overwhelming.
Perhaps this is just a coincidence, but many of the gift-givers have expressed certain concerns about the recent room sharing project. I would like to reiterate once again that the selections will be random. We are still in the process of ironing out our groups, but those who have been approved for the first phase should be hearing back soon. I hope everyone will be able to make new friends!
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Phase One Groupings
Suzuran-Utage-Blaze
Cardigan-Gravel-Meteor
Grani-Kafka-Melantha
Skadi-Bagpipe-Bubble
Bison-Ceobe
Rope-Angelina
Greyy-Amiya
Doctor-Platinum
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The Doctor sighed to himself as he looked at the listings on his phone. When Amiya said they would be using “safe” picks as a pilot, this wasn’t what he had in mind. Who thought Skadi, Bubble, and Ceobe classified as safe? Not to mention letting both Platinum and Gravel in. Just yesterday, he saw Gravel staring daggers at Platinum when they passed each other in the halls. And poor Bison would have to deal with Ceobe alone!
“We wanted to test how far we could take this program.” Amiya said sheepishly. “Rhodes Island has to be able to manage people from all walks of life, so we have to be ready for personal conflicts sooner or later.”
“Are you sure you didn’t fudge the results a little?” The bunny shook her head.
“As I said before, we only made sure to not pair up people that we knew wouldn’t get along. Don’t worry, we have volunteers ready to break up fights if it absolutely comes to that.”
“I sure hope you’re right.” The Doctor leaned back. He would need to spruce up his room a little before he let Platinum in. The others on the list probably thought the same.