Move 17 (Chapter 1.17)

[yhlee]

Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~05:00

Mikodez finds himself treed by Alaric (bearing "sleep aids") in the corridor outside Medical. In whatever confrontation happens, the much-adorned mothling known (among other things) as Crowned-with-Eyes (henceforth CWE) wriggles free of the Andan cloth and flutters straight into one of the nearest examination rooms, humming joyously. Several medics can be heard exclaiming in fear and/or annoyance at the intruder. One of them squeaks, "Is that another of Magistrate Gerae's pets?"

(...pets?)

Alaric, EDIT: Iawa, and Sulen can take advantage of the distraction to get by Mikodez and into Medical. The triage nurse will recognize them as the recent visitors and direct them toward a pallet where "Imsayed" (Istradez) is lying; he is apparently now sleeping rather than knocked out, but has yet to wake from his ordeal.

Sasha is in the midst of oxygen recycler diagnostics and reading through the maintenance logs. Around this time, Yehan (running as NPC), who has actually gotten some sleep, stops in and asks if Sasha could use some breakfast and/or assistance.

Ashari is enjoying a restful sleep in preparation for what's to come. They can, if they choose to get up early, check in on the others, or determine what to do with Gerae of the mysteriously weaponizable lockpicks. [NOTE: If smokedetective doesn't respond to this move, I'm going to put Ashari on inactive status and run as NPC as necessary to move forward.] Virmad is a likely candidate to either volunteer or be asked to look in on Gerae. Among other things, Gerae is still awake and is (if anyone checks on him, whether through camera surveillance or by persuading Sasha to open the room) scratching messages onto the wall with a stylus that was left in the room.

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CURRENTLY INACTIVE, running as NPCs: Ankat, Kaliyan, Yehan, Istradez

Comments

Re: [SOMEONE'S VOLUNTEERING INFO AT MIKODEZ]

[slybrarian]

"The. Void. Moth," Alaric says slowly, wondering if Imsayed wasn't the only one who had taken a blow to the head. "It wants us to take all the young ones that Remi has, and conveniently he wants to bring them along too."

Then, remembering Mishka probably didn't get the word about the recent breakthrough in cross-species communications, he adds, "By the way, the moth is sapient and I basically invented an entire new field of xenolinguistics."

Re: [SOMEONE'S VOLUNTEERING INFO AT MIKODEZ]

[pengwern]

The incubator in Remi's lab. His research. And now, a alien critter with sapience.

Fox and hound, he needs to work on controlling his reactions. Mikodez attempts to recover from the openmouthed grin that seized across his face by saying, for the benefit of any listeners, "The Nirai Voidmoth is an important mythological symbol in high culture."

He shifts to face Alaric, away from Medical's doors and Sulen, but keeps them in his sight. "No-one tells me anything. So you were this voidmoth's keeper on the ...moth. Then we had a moth, on a moth! What does it look like?" He's already tugging at the Andan fabric in his pack. "Is it friendly?"

Re: [SOMEONE'S VOLUNTEERING INFO AT MIKODEZ]

[slybrarian]

"I know, right? I had no idea that the term was so literal either until it started chatting," Alaric said, happy both that Mikodez was being distracted and that someone else was actually enthusiastic about this. "I'm not sure exactly what it looks like because it's in its own compartment and we're communicating over a primitive text interface, but it does seem friendly enough. Mostly it wants to bring Remi's baby moths with it when we leave, and fortunately Remi wants to bring them too. So, one the one hand it's yet another bit of terrible behavior by the authorities, but on the other an exciting scientific opportunity."