Move 13 (Chapter 1.13)

[yhlee]

Year 361, Month Three, Day Sixteen (Sunday), evening
Station Moongray

Mikodez, on Moongray Station, pondering an egg

[Follow-up to this thread.]

It's easy enough for Mikodez to switch the motion detector off; it's not really designed for security use, so the researchers in the lab have it set up so it's easy to take offline for maintenance, etc. (It's highly doubtful they figured the egg would know how to hit the off switch.)

There is no one snoring under the desk, but there is a small file box containing a few paper notebooks, the old-fashioned kind. The game's soothing purring continues.

If Mikodez wants to set up the matter printer for a fake egg and one or two guns, that's easy enough. It might take some extra time to make sure the egg doesn't come out attractively plaid, though.

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Year 361, Month Three, Day Sixteen (Sunday), overnight

on the Bumblebee/Wasp/Mothra

After Sasha and Ashari's fight/cultural misunderstanding, and Ashari and Sulen clean up afterward, Gerae's distress becomes increasingly evident. He's pounding on the door of the room that Sulen deposited him in, crying in an increasingly hoarse voice that he refuses to leave without Fluffy.

[lleullawgyffes, it's up to you whether Virmad pays any attention to Sasha's presumed discreet lokwor message and returns in time to help talk to Gerae, or whether Virmad decides to ignore it in favor of continued shenanigans with Teo.]

Sasha appears to be in good health; Iawa might or might not want to write this up formally for Ashari or Ashari's superiors, depending on their assessment of Ashari's mood. [Iawa is the de facto medic as far as I can tell!]

Remi is asking Alaric if it would be difficult to set up a radio to soothe the mothlings into docility, which is less invasive than sedating them.

Meanwhile, Mothra is making rumbly noises again. It sends another Space ASCII diagram, this time of mothlings playing hide and seek.

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Active in Move 12: Sasha, Ashari, Sulen, Mikodez, Iawa, Alaric, Virmad

Continuing inactive: Yehan, Kaliyan, Ankat

Comments

Re: (not) spending the night

[lleullawgyffes]

“So do I,” Virmad says. He locates his clothes and puts them back on; the result is a little disheveled, but it’ll have to do. Once he’s dressed, e kisses Teo (For the last time last time? he wonders) goodbye. “Thanks for this — I had a great time.”

[I'm assuming it'll be possible for Virmad to compose and send a lokwor message while he walks, in which case, once he's outside:] Out in the corridor, rubbing his eyes a bit as he gets moving in the direction of the ship, he sends a message back to Sasha.

On my way. This had better be worth it.

We could have had at least one more round, Virmad thinks, sighing. Oh, well.

Re: (not) spending the night

[zuhrovet]

"Boss will fill you in," Sasha messages virtuously, like somebody who definitely would never try to do Ashari's work for them.

[lokworing while walking]

[yhlee]

[Unless zuhrovet thinks otherwise, since she came up with them, I would assume that you could lokwor while walking, just like texting, so long as you're not navigating a maze or anything strenuously complicated. :) ]

Re: [lokworing while walking]

[zuhrovet]

[I think you told us we had Kel communicators and I named them? I imagine that using the lokwors is like using a not-very-smart phone, maybe one of the kinds with a slide-out physical keyboard. Here is the wiki entry.]

Re: [lokworing while walking]

[yhlee]

[My memory's so rubbish I don't even remember anymore. *hangs head*

Yeah, I have Thoughts on the high language and its alphabet, but for game purposes we can just say they type everything on a keyboard and that works fine.

Also, GM appreciates deponent verb joke. ;) ]

Re: [lokworing while walking]

[zuhrovet]

[Now I have questions about ways one might construct an input device, but I think I will just have to set that aside with "What precisely is the formal structure of Kel Zem Rao's poetry?" in the category of If I Wanted To Know These Things, I Should Have Made a Character Who Cares.

Can't let vass have all the fun ;) ]