Move 11 (Chapter 1.11)

[yhlee]

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:

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.]

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Active in Move 10: Sulen, Virmad, Sasha, Iawa, Alaric, Mikodez, Ashari

Inactive: Yehan, Ankat, Kaliyan

Comments

Re: plotting escape - paging Ashari

[slybrarian]

"Less than ideal is right," Alaric agrees, "since our moth might not agree to leave without all of them. How are the mothlings observed? Is it just people peering at them through a pane of glass, or do they do it mainly by something we could hack like sensors and cameras?"

Re: plotting escape - paging Ashari

[yhlee]

"Sensors and cameras," Remi says. There is a portal for direct observation but almost no one looks at it anymore. If any of you is good at hacking..." He shrugs.

Re: plotting escape - paging Ashari

[zuhrovet]

Remi either missed the sarcasm dripping from "minor expertise in security engineering", or is trying to mess with Sasha. Probably the latter. "I should think you'd do all right yourself, judging from the station's footage of your recent excursion. Or lack thereof. But we can certainly simulate an occupied room for you, if you're willing to share your data."

[It's astonishing how hostile people get when you accuse them of murdering intelligent beings for professional advancement!]

Re: plotting escape - paging Ashari

[yhlee]

"Fair enough," Remi says. [Remi is indeed still residually and irrationally ticked at Sasha.] "I can even give you passwords and accesses, if that will facilitate matters." He shrugs. "I'm going to be trusting the lot of you with my life and the mothlings' lives shortly, anyway."

Re: plotting escape

[zuhrovet]

And Remi could have reported the ship's moth to the authorities at any time, so destruction is mutually assured. "Thank you. Access would be very much appreciated. Were you involved in the construction of the habitat? Do your files include schematics? These regions of my map look like some sort of port"-- Sasha highlights them-- "do they allow for emergency evacuation?"

Re: plotting escape

[yhlee]

"I was involved in the habitat design, yes," Remi says, "as I had to provide a number of the specifications. The ports do indeed allow for emergency evacuation. It'll trigger an alarm, but I assume you can shut that down."