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hexarchate_rpg2017-10-22 09:32 pm
yhlee) wrote in hexarchate_rpg2017-10-22 09:32 pm
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Move 11 (Chapter 1.11)
Year 361, Month Three, Day Sixteen (Sunday), evening
Station Moongray
On the Station, at The Bar on Level Three: Virmad
[lleullawgyffes, it's up to you whether you want to say that Virmad gets caught up with Teo and/or matters on station overnight, or whether he will take care of matters with Teo quickly enough to join the others at the "Bumblebee" below.]
Per this thread, Teo has just greeted Virmad in the bar. To recap for your convenience:
Teo adds that he's happy to pay for Virmad's drink--the first one, anyway, and some of the local grub. "I recommend the fried pork fritters with barbecue sauce," Teo says, "But maybe that's not ascetic enough fare for a Rahal?" (He's teasing.)
On the Station, on the "Bumblebee": Sulen, Sasha, Iawa, Alaric
Also probably: Ashari?, Mikodez?
Recap:
Remi has explained, at Sasha's insistence, that the baby moths were hatched in captivity from eggs stolen from the parents by a heptarchate expedition, and that the parents are likely dead. He claims that this all happened before he himself arrived on the station, and that he's been advocating for humane treatment of the baby moths.
Alaric has just explained that he discovered the Wasp's "moth" is a sentient starfaring being and has been communicating with it using pictures [Move 10].
Moving on:
Remi's response to this is to stare at Alaric in horror. "Do you seriously want me to believe that you were using a living being as your spaceship and didn't even check for sapience? I thought that was basic protocol...unless," and his expression sours, "it was convenient for people to hush it up?" He stares at Alaric. "Well, I can't blame it for wanting to adopt the young of its kind, but that's a high-security enclosure..."
[Remi might well be responsive to helping them kidnap the baby moths, assuming the whole conversation doesn't blow up in a completely different direction, but he's not going to offer unless someone else brings it up. There's plenty of opportunity for people to opine on what should be done about the baby moths, whether Alaric has been behaving appropriately, who Sasha should have notified, etc. If you need help brainstorming on your action, please let me know and I'll get back to you when I can; others players might also have thoughts.]
[GM suggests that Ashari and Mikodez could either have returned to the ship for the meeting with Remi, or else could teleconference in.
smokedetective: Ashari probably wants to be present in some form for the discussion, not least for possible/likely pending confrontation with Sasha per zuhrovet's notes. If teleconferencing, Istradez will be happy to cover for them with any pesky people.
pengwern: If Mikodez prefers not to be involved in this discussion, he could plausibly be investigating the nonresponsiveness of the Kel at the moment after they helped Sulen stow Gerae, or assigned to keep an eye on Gerae, who might be feeling confessional while everyone else is occupied.]
Active in Move 10: Sulen, Virmad, Sasha, Iawa, Alaric, Mikodez, Ashari
Inactive: Yehan, Ankat, Kaliyan
Station Moongray
On the Station, at The Bar on Level Three: Virmad
[
lleullawgyffes, it's up to you whether you want to say that Virmad gets caught up with Teo and/or matters on station overnight, or whether he will take care of matters with Teo quickly enough to join the others at the "Bumblebee" below.]Per this thread, Teo has just greeted Virmad in the bar. To recap for your convenience:
The Bar on Level Three really is on Level Three. There are helpful directories pointing the way, but the fact that a number of people are heading there, and the cheerful clamor of people talking, and music, would have made it easy to find regardless.
The bartender is a trim woman with her hair hanging about her face in fantastic coils; the combs and hairpins look like they're about to escape. She's pouring a drink for a slouching Nirai technician when Virmad arrives. "You're new here," she says. "What can I get you?"
Kel Teo is sitting at a seat where he has a clear view of all exits. (Very Kel.) He's had a chance to change out of his uniform; he's wearing a sleek suit in shades of deep brown, and he's also embellished himself with gold-and-amber jewelry. He waves when he spots Virmad, smiling.
Teo adds that he's happy to pay for Virmad's drink--the first one, anyway, and some of the local grub. "I recommend the fried pork fritters with barbecue sauce," Teo says, "But maybe that's not ascetic enough fare for a Rahal?" (He's teasing.)
On the Station, on the "Bumblebee": Sulen, Sasha, Iawa, Alaric
Also probably: Ashari?, Mikodez?
Recap:
Remi has explained, at Sasha's insistence, that the baby moths were hatched in captivity from eggs stolen from the parents by a heptarchate expedition, and that the parents are likely dead. He claims that this all happened before he himself arrived on the station, and that he's been advocating for humane treatment of the baby moths.
Alaric has just explained that he discovered the Wasp's "moth" is a sentient starfaring being and has been communicating with it using pictures [Move 10].
Moving on:
Remi's response to this is to stare at Alaric in horror. "Do you seriously want me to believe that you were using a living being as your spaceship and didn't even check for sapience? I thought that was basic protocol...unless," and his expression sours, "it was convenient for people to hush it up?" He stares at Alaric. "Well, I can't blame it for wanting to adopt the young of its kind, but that's a high-security enclosure..."
[Remi might well be responsive to helping them kidnap the baby moths, assuming the whole conversation doesn't blow up in a completely different direction, but he's not going to offer unless someone else brings it up. There's plenty of opportunity for people to opine on what should be done about the baby moths, whether Alaric has been behaving appropriately, who Sasha should have notified, etc. If you need help brainstorming on your action, please let me know and I'll get back to you when I can; others players might also have thoughts.]
[GM suggests that Ashari and Mikodez could either have returned to the ship for the meeting with Remi, or else could teleconference in.
smokedetective: Ashari probably wants to be present in some form for the discussion, not least for possible/likely pending confrontation with Sasha per zuhrovet's notes. If teleconferencing, Istradez will be happy to cover for them with any pesky people.pengwern: If Mikodez prefers not to be involved in this discussion, he could plausibly be investigating the nonresponsiveness of the Kel at the moment after they helped Sulen stow Gerae, or assigned to keep an eye on Gerae, who might be feeling confessional while everyone else is occupied.]Active in Move 10: Sulen, Virmad, Sasha, Iawa, Alaric, Mikodez, Ashari
Inactive: Yehan, Ankat, Kaliyan
Re: what was Remi even thinking?
philosophy, it's a thing
Iawa is a special case because, er, well. Sasha's character writeup says that her ideal relationship entails arguing about philosophy a lot and then somehow ending up dating. And we know how Iawa feels about philosophy. But there are certain obvious obstacles, like the thing where Sasha thinks she's mostly into women and Iawa's identity is more complicated, to say nothing of whatever drama awaits us with Iawa's tablet (my own tablet hit an infinite reboot loop on Saturday & I haven't had time to wipe it, which I suspect is Iawa's fault).
So this one is kind of up to you and what you want to do with it. I mean, there's a certain compelling logic to All Philosophy All The Time. But Sasha is doomed to be alone for twenty years according to Naxorian superstition and I'd be content with doing the grouchy nerd thing and looking askance at Virmad's life choices. Or just letting this blow up in our faces, if you're more interested in plot than happily ever after.]
Re: philosophy, it's a thing
*takes a few days to think this through*
Letting it blow up in our faces sounds good. Especially since Sasha's conveniently pre-doomed, relationship-wise. (Until she finds a rift leading 20 years after the current time period?)
Iawa's character write-up says they're prone to "get into a situation they overconfidently assume they can manage, discover they can't handle it after all, then panic and make it worse."
As you say, there's a certain compelling logic.
(I'd been thinking, once (if) we get back on the ship and are in the rift, of starting a thread where Iawa calls a meeting to discuss ends and means etc, using their authority as second-youngest and most useless crew member. That could make a good jumping off point for this.)
Other relevant factors:
- how old is Sasha? her writeup says "late 20s" but that might mean anything from 26 to 29. Iawa's 20, so 26 isn't too bad but 29 is iffier.
- how many different stressors DO you want to pile on your character at one time?]
Re: philosophy, it's a thing - wall of text
Sasha's 27. I edited the wiki approximately a thousand times fussing with this, due to some combination of feelings about numerical felicity and trying to figure out the age gap between Sasha and her little brother (for the record, Sasha does not have sibling angst, she has household angst, which is more feudal and applies to more people. In particular, it currently applies to Alaric, who is a ridiculous person to be trying to protect, not that he is helping to draw Ashari's fire). The age of majority on Naxarat in Sasha's time is 23. That's mostly an issue of when you can form legally binding contracts, but legally binding contracts are more of a big deal on Naxarat in Sasha's time than they are in other times and places.
Sasha's not going to lock in until she actually gets a chance to talk to Iawa about philosophy. But she does really want to know what "titanocracy" means.
My current plan is to have Sasha survive the meeting and then rescue the stuck drone. That means she will need Iawa's splutter and may possibly notice their tablet (which she had assumed they left on the ship, per instructions). Delaying on that latter front is better if Iawa wants a higher chance of keeping the tablet, but possibly worse on the party information-security front.
The fight with Ashari is probably going to get worse before it gets better, but this is all going to take a few moves to resolve.
Long term character planning-wise, I want Sasha to commit to the rebellion, and to take the XO leadership slot (since I'm reading all the notifications, might as well use my powers for good). That last would provide an excuse for one of them to be pointlessly noble and break things off, should an excuse be required.]