Chapter 57 - 56. Guild Orientation
"Alright, let’s open the guild application now,"
The orientation, turned out, started from the commlink. Or rather, because Zein still hadn’t gotten used to it, Abel had to teach him more about navigating the device, especially the one related to the guild.
The guild app was an integrated function available for all guild members with a tiered system based on ranks. Since Zein was an executive, he had access to almost every function there was, except for the department-only archives. On their personal account page, members could see their assigned mission and schedule, their performance report and assessment, their incentives and salary, and even the list of their available benefits and credit point.
Zein skimmed through everything but his schedule page, which had been filled with guild orientation and uniform fitting for today. It kind of worked like his personal digital assistant, which would input any event arranged by the guild automatically, aside from things that he could input on his own.
"It will remind you like an alarm when it is nearly time, like now," Abel informed Zein while teaching him how to turn off the alarm. "The Guildmaster liked things to be in order and as planned, so people rarely slacked off here."
Zein wondered about yesterday, then. It must have been some big deviation for the Guildmaster’s day. Would he be royally pissed if Zein ended up rejecting the offer after messing with his schedule?
"That being said, the esper and guide have considerable freedom as long as their quota is filled. For the guide—well, you don’t really need that, do you?"
"I read about that one in the Guide’s policy section in the app," Zein replied while trying to navigate the compound’s map. He was too exhausted last night, but he did read some guidelines in the morning while enjoying the high-quality coffee he got after struggling with the machine for thirty minutes.
In the Borderland, the guides worked with a rotation system where five guides were on standby in each shift, with two shifts a day. They’d work for two days, rest for one, and then repeat. But here, each guide had a quota per class, cleansing a set number of corrosion per week. As long as the weekly quota was filled, they were free to do whatever they wanted. That quota also included the one they did inside the dungeon, although guilds rarely brought a guide inside unless the dungeon was too big and needed days to conquer.
Indeed, it didn’t concern Zein at all. He had no quota after all, as long as the five 5-stars were well-cleansed.
"What to do with this map?" Zein turned at Abel after opening the function. The guide helped him to drag and zoom across the interface, where he could touch each section of the map to access its specific function.