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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.
Re: [Mikodez to Vana]
Re: [Mikodez to Vana]
He visibly gets back on track. "If any of my crew members have seen anything, I'll let you know. How can I contact you?"
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He makes his reply in a mode brusque enough to match theirs. "Good morning, Magistrate. A Nirai Vana wishes to know if anyone on the Wasp has seen a tall man, curly haired, [here he repeats enough of Vana's description that they can ID it as Remi that he's talking about, but with some details slightly off.]," and sends an image of the business card.
Then he goes to Sasha's message, and texts her back with, "hi sasha [garbled emoji, garbled emoji, page of gears emoji, minus sign emoji, nine of gears emoji] got what you asked for, gotta find more food, 8888888888"*
Mikodez tosses the lokwor into Fluffy's cage, and opens up the recievers for the bugs he planted around Istradez. What was going on over there?
[*Basing this off the chinese/random local hexarchate internet slang for 'bye', but Mikodez had maybe heard Sasha swearing sotto voce with the Naxarat 'eight hells' aboard the Wasp, and gotten curious enough to research a little, just so that he can make vague fishing remarks!
Off topic, I've always found Ivan Vorpatril an inspiration (at certain points of the series).]
Mikodez snooping on Istradez
[Ivan Vorpatril, huh? Much is explained...]
Re: Mikodez snooping on Istradez
[Ivan is the best! If you can hook up with any Vor, you should choose Ivan, it's canonical.
... My immediate affection for the most boringly well-adjusted character in any scenario is why I am bad at fandom.]
[OT: fandom tastes]
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Re: Mikodez snooping on Istradez
Mikodez notices himself moving in the direction of Medical, and stops. Considers his menagerie (overfed reptile, contraband mop), and the ease with which Wasp crew could find him, if he went there. He heard the attendants murmuring about potential previous concussions; when would Istradez have had that? An escape from a hexarch?
Was this the legendary technique known as "let 'em fill in details themselves?"
But of course, if it's a mission his priority shouldn't be Remi but the Wasp crew, and until Mikodez had wrung the last fragments of details about what 'Imsayed' had accomplished with them, he couldn't be allowed to slip away. Mikodez skitters down the last few corridors to Medical, and studies the area.
Sasha tries to call Mikodez - paging Virmad for cultural assistance
The emoji seem to be pure scribbles; there's no steganography involved. The jeng-zai symbolism is . . . gears are always Nirai, right? Low gears aren't very smart Nirai? Or is she supposed to remove the qualities of the nine from the qualities of the page, somehow? She tries messaging Virmad and Yehan:
[The two of gears was really boring before Jedao got to it, right?]
Then she makes a voice call to Mishka's lokwor. She doesn't know what in all the hells she's going to say if he answers. But practically speaking, she just needs him to keep talking.
[Deuce of Gears meaning]
Re: Sasha tries to call Mikodez - paging Virmad for cultural assistance
[wait, let me explain this incomprehensible visual pun >.<
On the surface, Page of Gears is {Prosperity/vraselian psuedo-dragon if you seize the opportunity. A reliable friend.} Nine of Gears is {Recovery from hard work.}, so "a reliable friend" diminished by his intent to get food to recover from the arduous journey of the Fluffy fetch quest!
But if Sasha or one of the putative instructors running the '''simulation''' had been capable of viewing all of his activities since 18:00, the emojis could be understood as [a garble of void fronds, named for the signifier associated with the Deuce of Gears]
I saw a few mahjong emojis and thought they might be fun with jengzai involved!]
Re: Sasha tries to call Mikodez - paging Virmad for cultural assistance
Sasha whistles a lengthy greeting to Fluffy-- she memorized a bunch of wild pseudo-dragon calls as a kid, that summer her tutor claimed she might get a pet if she studied hard enough-- and quietly keys some commands. "Your cousin is in the hospital," she tells Mishka. "You've missed all the excitement, wandering around the station. The Rahal have been particularly busy. What exactly have you been doing? And where are you now?"
Re: Sasha tries to call Mikodez - paging Virmad for cultural assistance
As he passes a set of elevator doors, he calls out, "I'll bring it to you soonish!" and ends the call. Time to reach Medical before she comes to physically wrench Fluffy from his fingers.
Re: Sasha tries to call Mikodez - paging Virmad for cultural assistance
Sasha messages "WE HAD MANGO COOKIES WITH SUPPER ASSHOLE".
It occurs to her that she didn't actually have supper, or lunch, for that matter. Eating always seems like a tremendous chore when she's taking meds to stay awake, but she forces herself to eat one of the Kel ration bars anyway.
Re: Sasha tries to call Mikodez - paging Virmad for cultural assistance
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[desert vs. dessert]
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Either way, he sends back to Sasha:
[this response based on consultation with pengwern.]
[jeng-zai deck]
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