“Good morning, I’m Gray Graham, one of the seven members of our Psycept Council. I’ll be here with you for the next three hours to provide information about PsyTown, Albuquerque or ABQ, along with Bosque, SWACon, and the Greater Tribal nation or GT. Some information will apply to all citizens and residents, and some will focus of how we Psycepts fit in. I have a lot of material to cover, so I ask that questions be held to the end of each section, of which there are three. If any questions are covered later in the presentation, I’ll say so. If any question is outside of the scope of this orientation, then I’ll ask that the question be held until your Q&A session, which begins after your tour.
“First section is PsyTown. Apartment dwelling, housing change criteria and requests, how to use the community gardens, PsyTown common centers and activities, and Psycept Council and meetings. This section is approximately sixty minutes plus a ten-minute question period followed by a brief ten-minute break. In subsequent weeks, all Psycepts will be provided separate training about our petition case database, apprenticeships, or military reservist duties.
“Next section is ABQ and Bosque. ABQ will include badges, transportation, education, vasmaj job opportunities and placement, the postal system, and community activities and contributions. Bosque will include regional rules and regulations, requests to relocate outside of ABQ, and points of interest for tourism. This accounts for forty minutes followed by ten minutes of questions.
“Finally, we have SWACon and the GT. This will include tourist travel requests to other regions of SWACon or to another conservatorship along with cool things to do there. We’ll also cover the six other Psycept settlements, residency rules, visitor passes, and 13-month calendar fun. Thirty-five minutes plus ten-minute question period. You will then break for an hour lunch followed by your tour. Be advised, the next group comes in immediately after you, so there will be no time to linger, sorry.”
For the next hour, I speak about PsyTown and encourage the participants to take notes. The presentation’s up on the screens behind me but won’t be released to attendees until all orientations are completed at the end of the week. The various forms we cover will likewise not be available until then. About five minutes into my presentation, I hear some grumbling from the crowd of three hundred, right on schedule. We posted that photos, voice or video recording, social media posting, and texting or calls are prohibited, and enforcement is in effect. Some people in the audience probably tried to do one of them and found many of their cell phone functions and apps disabled. We enable a robust geofencing device management system which most are probably not used to. I ignore the grumbling and continue to speak for the remaining hour.
“This concludes the PsyTown section. There are six microphones placed throughout the audience chamber with someone there to help with any technicalities. Please make your way to the nearest mic if you have a question and I will hit each mic systematically.” I point out the locations of each mic and how the question order will go, both to provide structure and to allow time for audience members to move. How much do you want to bet my first question will be about the device prohibition? “Okay, first question at mic one, go ahead.”
“Like you said, that was a lot of material you covered. Since no materials were provided ahead of time, I was going take screen shots and make notes on that. But my phone didn’t work. Can you explain.”
“Sure, thank you for the opportunity. We have fifteen orientations and Q&As to get through this week. So, we decided to hold releasing the material and forms until the end of the week, after all sessions have been completed. That material will also include recordings of the orientation sessions if you wish to go back and view. Everyone was provided with a week’s work of food yesterday. The community garden will not be available to use for new residents until Saturday. We want everyone to have the same opportunity to gain information and use it at the same time, without others distributing select or incomplete information. Next question at mic two, please.”
“You went through some of the forms very quickly and there wasn’t much details on the forms themselves. Will the materials released have additional explanations on how to fill out the forms?”
“As mentioned in today’s agenda, the Q&A session you’ll have at the end of the day will include a thirty-minute tutorial of the PsyTown and ABQ websites. There will be computers for you to follow along in navigating the websites and forms. The most common forms will be discussed, though the submission of forms is suspended. At the end of the week, brief video tutorials and screen-by-screen informative documents will be uploaded. Mic three, you have the next question.” Thankfully, the next several questions only required brief answers, mostly that it will be covered later or in Q&A.
“We’re on a roll. Mic four, second round, what’s the question?”
“Okay, I’m confused about the Psycept Council. You have two meetings a month, we’re required to attend one meeting a quarter, we are compelled to vote every year, that I get. First, why are all seven Psycept categories equally represented when some categories have way more people in them? Second, what does the Council actually do if they don’t make or enforce laws?”
“Man, mic four, we were on a roll,
