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hexarchate_rpg2018-01-14 04:33 pm
yhlee) wrote in hexarchate_rpg2018-01-14 04:33 pm
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Move 16 (Chapter 1.16)
Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~04:00-04:50
Assumptions, just to get everyone more or less on the same time track again:
- Mikodez ignored messages from the other PCs for a couple hours while he collected a DNA sample from unconscious!Istradez, screwed around with his gun, and entertained baby Crowned-with-Eyes the mothling and Fluffy the Vraselian pseudo-dragon. The notebooks that Mikodez abstracted from Remi's lab appear to be a Space Bullet Journal about life on a war-torn technologically backwards planet. [The heptarchate is evil, but as long as you're not a heretic, the standard of living is actually quite high, with good social/medical services &c.]
Also, at some point Mikodez will have noticed that someone (Sasha) has cut off his access from the lokwor into the station grid.
At 4:50, Mikodez runs into Vana looking for Remi at the bubble tea shop. We can pick up from there. As perzuhrovet's suggestion, I advise that Mikodez is looking for Remi in order to get much-needed information on mothling care, although it may occur to him that he can possibly wheedle that info out of Vana as well.
- After the meeting between Sasha, Sulen, Virmad, and Ashari:
I presume that Sulen has either gone off to practice with the airgun in the interim (or lied to Sasha that they were going to, to get her off their back; your choice!). How good is Sulen with firearms? Ankat (running as NPC) will volunteer to show Sulen the basics, largely out of Kel paranoia that someone is going to screw up Gun 101.
Around 4:00, Teo has messaged Virmad saying that a Safety worker has discovered Istradez (running as NPC) in one of the guest rooms. He says that Istradez has been given first aid but do they want to send someone from the Bumblebee to retrieve him, or will they authorize sending Istradez to Station Medical? If Vass wants, they could go to Istradez and perhaps supervise any additional care that the medics give him.
Sasha will have overheard this presumably. In the intervening hours, it appears that the owner of the wriggly virus suspects that it has been detected. It has gone quiescent and/or deleted most traces of itself, presumably in the hopes of lying low until Sasha's suspicions die down.
Kaliyan (running as NPC) shows up in the newly made mothling bay to inform Alaric that she thinks that the modifications to the ship have screwed up something in life support--not critical now while they're docked at a space station, but kind a problem later.
Ashari, investigating Gerae's lockpicks more closely in some spare moment (maybe because they're having trouble sleeping?), discovers that some of them include hidden poison needle units. This isn't just a matter of a hobby of picking pockets, Gerae was prepared for Serious Business.
NOTE: If inactive players wish to return to active status, message me or leave a comment or email me (yoon at yoonhalee dot com), and we'll work something out.
Assumptions, just to get everyone more or less on the same time track again:
- Mikodez ignored messages from the other PCs for a couple hours while he collected a DNA sample from unconscious!Istradez, screwed around with his gun, and entertained baby Crowned-with-Eyes the mothling and Fluffy the Vraselian pseudo-dragon. The notebooks that Mikodez abstracted from Remi's lab appear to be a Space Bullet Journal about life on a war-torn technologically backwards planet. [The heptarchate is evil, but as long as you're not a heretic, the standard of living is actually quite high, with good social/medical services &c.]
Also, at some point Mikodez will have noticed that someone (Sasha) has cut off his access from the lokwor into the station grid.
At 4:50, Mikodez runs into Vana looking for Remi at the bubble tea shop. We can pick up from there. As per
zuhrovet's suggestion, I advise that Mikodez is looking for Remi in order to get much-needed information on mothling care, although it may occur to him that he can possibly wheedle that info out of Vana as well.- After the meeting between Sasha, Sulen, Virmad, and Ashari:
I presume that Sulen has either gone off to practice with the airgun in the interim (or lied to Sasha that they were going to, to get her off their back; your choice!). How good is Sulen with firearms? Ankat (running as NPC) will volunteer to show Sulen the basics, largely out of Kel paranoia that someone is going to screw up Gun 101.
Around 4:00, Teo has messaged Virmad saying that a Safety worker has discovered Istradez (running as NPC) in one of the guest rooms. He says that Istradez has been given first aid but do they want to send someone from the Bumblebee to retrieve him, or will they authorize sending Istradez to Station Medical? If Vass wants, they could go to Istradez and perhaps supervise any additional care that the medics give him.
Sasha will have overheard this presumably. In the intervening hours, it appears that the owner of the wriggly virus suspects that it has been detected. It has gone quiescent and/or deleted most traces of itself, presumably in the hopes of lying low until Sasha's suspicions die down.
Kaliyan (running as NPC) shows up in the newly made mothling bay to inform Alaric that she thinks that the modifications to the ship have screwed up something in life support--not critical now while they're docked at a space station, but kind a problem later.
Ashari, investigating Gerae's lockpicks more closely in some spare moment (maybe because they're having trouble sleeping?), discovers that some of them include hidden poison needle units. This isn't just a matter of a hobby of picking pockets, Gerae was prepared for Serious Business.
NOTE: If inactive players wish to return to active status, message me or leave a comment or email me (yoon at yoonhalee dot com), and we'll work something out.
04:50 - Sasha attempts to delegate Alaric - definitely paging Alaric
Mishka hasn't answered his messages, but she's got images showing him at a cafe, with a bulging backpack and some sort of carrier. Maybe that's Fluffy, and Mishka has only fucked up 99.3% of the things he could possibly fuck up. Sasha does not understand how any individual human could be this careless. But his files say not to kill him, and he certainly can't be marooned on the station, pleasant as it is to envision him working for a living. So somebody has to retrieve the eightfold-damned teenager. She checks the grid to see who else is awake. Looks like Alaric is talking to Kaliyan; one of them can probably force Mishka into compliance.
Sasha heads to the new mothling habitat. She nods to Kaliyan (best not to test how far the silent treatment extends) and asks Alaric, "Are you willing to return to the station? Sulen wanted something printed-- I'll give you the specs-- but first someone needs to bring Avrayen back. He's in a cafe right now, and he's not answering his messages."
Re: 04:50 - Sasha attempts to delegate Alaric - definitely paging Alaric
He gestures around the bay. "This is pretty much done. I rigged up a monitor in the engine bay and it can be mirrored elsewhere on the ships. Green indicators are good, yellow will need attention eventually, and if anything turns red call me immediately. And maybe think about where the nearest emergency supply locker or escape pod is."
[So sorry again about not noticing the new move, everyone!]
[OT]
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She tilts her face up a little, so she can properly look Alaric in the eyes. "Also, if Avrayen tries to persuade you he ought to stay on station, or attempts to slip off somewhere, don't let him. He is fucking up, badly. But we can't exactly leave him behind."
[In the interests of efficient problem-solving & the party not dying later, could Alaric or Kaliyan/
[life-support]
[EDIT: Okay, new thread is here.]
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For once, there is no sign that he is being anything but entirely serious.
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She installs the game. It really does only take a minute.
[Would Alaric recognize the name of the Shuos hexarch c. 1250?
Sasha's got a specific trace on Mikodez' location as of this thread and will forward updates to Alaric as long as it lasts.]
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[Hmmm. Let's say it would definitely sound familiar but he might not twig immediately.]
[medical bay contents]
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[Would the sleeping pill that Sasha already begged from Iawa be suitably fast-acting?]
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"I have a couple of things that might be useful?" Sasha digs two pills out of her pockets, a tiny round red one in a square plastic bubble and a light green oblong one. "The red one is a sleeping pill. It's the kind you dissolve on your tongue. I begged it from Iawa in case I had a hard time coming down from stims, but at this rate I'm not sleeping till we're safely in the rift anyhow. They said not to mix it with alcohol unless you like sleep paralysis. There should be a jar of sober-ups in the galley, if you want to bring one just in case. Ashari gave me the green pill. It's supposed to imitate an unpleasant allergic reaction, lots of sniffles."
She adds, "If you want something that's less obviously a medication to give Mishka, I mean Avrayen, Ashari might know. They know a lot about poisons, anyway. But I think they might be resting."
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Alaric pockets the two pills, then causally adds, "I don't suppose you know why this is even an issue?"
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Sasha scrubs at her cheek with her hand and immediately regrets it. "The station found Imsayed, and took him to the medical center. I have an image of Avrayen leaving that room, a few minutes earlier. So he knew Imsayed was in trouble. Maybe he panicked. Maybe he's playing some fucking Shuos game, I don't know. That's a problem for Ashari and the Rahal. We just need to find him."
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For reference, in case it becomes relevant and since Iawa's not here to infodump: the sleeping pills on their own will paralyse Mikodez anyway, by making him fall asleep. If he combines them with alcohol, though, Mikodez will get the paralysing effects of sleep without the sleep part - i.e. he'll still be awake and overhearing whatever Alaric says. With a bonus side effect of overwhelming fear and the feeling of something horrible sitting on his chest - night hag, shadow people, alien abduction, etc. Which since he's already convinced all of this is a simulation, should be just great for convincing him it isn't.
And yeah, that's what they taught Iawa in the academy about how to use this particular made-up sleeping pill. :( In the real world it lasts on average three minutes, but with hexarchate medications who knows.]
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[How does the hexarchate punish non-heretical criminals, anyway?]
[non-heretical criminals]
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And CAT, absolutely. Hence the need for a sack to trap him in and sit on.
Re hatchling, what spy cadets with an excess of poster making/scrapbooking supplies may or may not have committed in the wee hours of the morning isn’t my concern at all @—@]
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Re spy cadet with scrapbooking supplies, you're his player! If you're not babysitting him, who IS making sure he doesn't glue googly eyes to the eldritch abomination's butt?
(source)]
[OT: googly-eyed mothlings]
That is all.]
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