Move 18 (Chapter 1.18)

[yhlee]

(Thanks to zuhrovet for keeping the Station Moongray Timeline updated for everyone's ease of reference.)

Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~0515

Iawa is with Istradez in Medical. The chart indicates that Istradez (CORRECTION: "Imsayed") has mild concussion that is apparently aggravating a pre-existing head injury. Istradez moans, then his eyes open. He blinks blearily before focusing on Iawa. "This isn't the ship," he says intelligently, sounding hazy.

Next thing Iawa knows, Istradez seems to come fully alert and attempts to sit up too quickly. "My brother--!" He seems apt to scramble out of bed and after Mikodez unless prevented.

Mikodez, just outside Medical, is bearing both Fluffy the Vraselian pseudo-dragon and Crowned With Eyes (CWE for short) the newly hatched mothling. He is being confronted by Alaric, who brought four caffeinated drinks, one additionally dosed with a sleeping drug, and who is hinting strongly to Mikodez that CWE needs to be united with the adult moth on the Bumblebee. Sulen has, by chance, grabbed the sleeping-drug-enabled drink, and was not prepared for Alaric also showing up to deal with Mikodez--a command-and-control snafu, apparently; Sulen has not yet drunk the drugged beverage, although it's not clear that they have understood Alaric's attempts to warn them from doing so.

The last response in that thread, an exchange between Mikodez and Alaric:

"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."

Just on cue, CWE the mothling hums happily and launches itself out of the pack, followed by an angrily whistling Fluffy, who seems to think the mothling is escaping property.

Virmad has received permission from Ashari to check on Gerae. The camera has revealed that Gerae is agitated and pacing the room. He does not appear to have any weapons, although given his talent for legerdemain, this is not an absolute certainty. If Virmad enters, Gerae will prostrate himself in a frankly embarrassing fashion and beg for an update on Fluffy's status, and oh by the way is Virmad's leader Ashari really going to slit Gerae's throat and leave him for the fishes?

Sasha overhears Gerae's plaints as she makes it to environmental. Her first inspection reveals that the filters are, indeed, poorly seated. Judging from the cruft around them, they were probably messed up even before Alaric and Remi started banging around the Bumblebee making modifications. While she's busy with that, Yehan [running as NPC] messages her and says that she's done with her meeting with Ashari and is now overseeing comms.

Comments

Re: [Mini Moth Madness]

[venndaai]

"...hold out the pack and I'll try to put it back in, then," Sulen says reluctantly. They want to say "and don't try anything" but that might just encourage him to consider that there's not much Sulen could do to him if he did try anything. At least if this works, they'll have their hands free again. Though they're not exactly comfortable at the thought of carrying the pack of a probably-Shuos.

Re: [Mini Moth Madness]

[pengwern]

"Just hand me the cloth and I'll drop it back in." Mikodez slides to a position within sight of Medical's doors.

Re: [Mini Moth Madness]

[venndaai]

"I'll drop it. You hold the bag."

Re: [Mini Moth Madness]

[pengwern]

Well. Time to see if Sasha had shared. Mikodez holds his pack out obligingly, and starts humming to the mothling again. (He's out of tune and sounds like a creaky hinge, but Crowned-With-Eyes did like it when he tries.)

Re: [Mini Moth Madness]

[yhlee]

The mothling's humming turns into a sort of delighted-sounding burble and it dives into the pack as if invited to play hide-and-go-seek.

Re: [Mini Moth Madness]

[pengwern]

Mikodez snaps the cover clasp into place. Is he holding the void creature a little too close to be sensible? But this way Sulen can't see the rest of the pack's contents.

Eyes still on Sulen, he circles down to a reasonable distance from where Alaric entered into Medical, and calls, "Damion, how's Imsayed doing?"

[I LOVE THE MOTHLING LOTS.
Sulen's welcome to drag him back, or nurses, or Iawa, whomever.}

Re: [Mini Moth Madness]

[slybrarian]

Alaric sticks his head out of the room. He tries to keep his voice down while still pitching it to being heard, and the result is a somewhat annoyed hiss of, "This is hospital, keep your voice down. And go flag down a nurse to get a hover chair and discharge paperwork."

Re: [Mini Moth Madness]

[pengwern]

Keeping a tight hold on both Fluffy and the mothling, Mikodez slips away from Sulen to the likeliest looking nurse in the antechamber and waits politely for an acknowledgement, ready to switch to 'tremulous but well-prepared infant' in an instant.

[yet ANOTHER skillset I do not share with Miki ;-; but, he has the soul of a bureaucrat! surely that will prevail ;^;]