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Move 19 (Chapter 1.19)
(Thanks to zuhrovet for keeping the Station Moongray Timeline on the game wiki updated.)
Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~0550
Just outside of Medical
Sulen has just been abandoned by Mikodez, who has headed into the reception area of Medical. They can hear Fluffy chirruping now that she's finished gobbling down the treats that Mikodez has fed her. Would it be best to go after Mikodez and try to contain the damage, or stand guard outside with the voidcreature? Baby Crowned-With-Eyes is wriggling very alarmingly in the sack and making ridiculously cheerful humming noises--and the spilled coffee still hasn't been cleaned up, and is probably a slipping hazard.
In Medical: antechamber
A triage nurse gives Mikodez a distinctly unfriendly look as he approaches with a caged Fluffy in tow. "You've had enough warnings," he says. "I don't care if you're Andan Bokali's special guests, you're disturbing our legitimate patients." He reaches over to a desk and pushes a red call button marked SECURITY.
In Medical: the actual patient
Istradez is, despite being awfully cavalier about his own condition, smiling reluctantly at Iawa for their solicitousness. Meanwhile, although Alaric has instructed Mikodez to fetch a nurse with float chair and discharge paperwork, he hears the triage nurse shooing Mikodez out. If they want a float chair, they're going to have to wrangle on themselves; it's clear that relying on Mikodez is not...the best idea considering how annoyed Medical is with him.
[Assuming that Alaric has called the "Bumblebee," Ashari (running as NPC) responds via lokwor.]
Ashari sounds very concerned about Istradez's status. "Bad enough to need a float chair? I'll dispatch one of the Kel to prep Medical," they tell Alaric.
on the "Bumblebee": the thieving Rahal
Gerae, taking Virmad's silence as a license to spill all his emotional upsets, will continue babbling about what a stressful year he's had unless Virmad interrupts him. If Virmad doesn't bring up the topic himself, Gerae will add plaintively that he could use some coffee (or stronger stimulant) and that he hasn't had food for a full day and could they get an early breakfast?
on the "Bumblebee": "xeno"mathematics the Cartesian way
The moth ponders Sasha's symbols and graphs for several minutes, then returns a graph with y = log10x, y = x, y = x2, and y = 10x. Its humming has definitely quieted--perhaps the math is distracting it, or is taking more of its concentration.
[It's too bad I don't remember any LaTeX...?!]
Comms to EVERYONE, marching orders from Ashari
Ashari (running as NPC) calls everyone via lokwor, sounding grim, and instructs that they would like everyone to be on the "Bumblebee" and prepared to make a run for it within the hour. This means that Ashari expects Sulen and Virmad to prepare for a (remote) confrontation with the station administrator as per the plan.
zuhrovet for keeping the Station Moongray Timeline on the game wiki updated.)Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~0550
Just outside of Medical
Sulen has just been abandoned by Mikodez, who has headed into the reception area of Medical. They can hear Fluffy chirruping now that she's finished gobbling down the treats that Mikodez has fed her. Would it be best to go after Mikodez and try to contain the damage, or stand guard outside with the voidcreature? Baby Crowned-With-Eyes is wriggling very alarmingly in the sack and making ridiculously cheerful humming noises--and the spilled coffee still hasn't been cleaned up, and is probably a slipping hazard.
In Medical: antechamber
A triage nurse gives Mikodez a distinctly unfriendly look as he approaches with a caged Fluffy in tow. "You've had enough warnings," he says. "I don't care if you're Andan Bokali's special guests, you're disturbing our legitimate patients." He reaches over to a desk and pushes a red call button marked SECURITY.
In Medical: the actual patient
Istradez is, despite being awfully cavalier about his own condition, smiling reluctantly at Iawa for their solicitousness. Meanwhile, although Alaric has instructed Mikodez to fetch a nurse with float chair and discharge paperwork, he hears the triage nurse shooing Mikodez out. If they want a float chair, they're going to have to wrangle on themselves; it's clear that relying on Mikodez is not...the best idea considering how annoyed Medical is with him.
[Assuming that Alaric has called the "Bumblebee," Ashari (running as NPC) responds via lokwor.]
Ashari sounds very concerned about Istradez's status. "Bad enough to need a float chair? I'll dispatch one of the Kel to prep Medical," they tell Alaric.
on the "Bumblebee": the thieving Rahal
Gerae, taking Virmad's silence as a license to spill all his emotional upsets, will continue babbling about what a stressful year he's had unless Virmad interrupts him. If Virmad doesn't bring up the topic himself, Gerae will add plaintively that he could use some coffee (or stronger stimulant) and that he hasn't had food for a full day and could they get an early breakfast?
on the "Bumblebee": "xeno"mathematics the Cartesian way
The moth ponders Sasha's symbols and graphs for several minutes, then returns a graph with y = log10x, y = x, y = x2, and y = 10x. Its humming has definitely quieted--perhaps the math is distracting it, or is taking more of its concentration.
[It's too bad I don't remember any LaTeX...?!]
Comms to EVERYONE, marching orders from Ashari
Ashari (running as NPC) calls everyone via lokwor, sounding grim, and instructs that they would like everyone to be on the "Bumblebee" and prepared to make a run for it within the hour. This means that Ashari expects Sulen and Virmad to prepare for a (remote) confrontation with the station administrator as per the plan.
Re: chatting up I MEAN chatting WITH Gerae
“To be honest, part of me is impressed you made it to this point in the first place, even if you did end up getting caught.”
[side q: what IS Gerae's rank? which is really to say, would Virmad have outranked him even without the corruption charge? or would the fact that he's a station magistrate mean he'd outrank Virmad — at least while on the station/while dealing with station matters?
I'm also imagining that it's slightly transgressive (and if they were both still real Rahal probably low-key rude) for Virmad to explicitly bring up Gerae's signifier like this, but he's trusting that they've established enough of a rapport that Gerae won't be offended.
re Rahal Wihel: I went back and found the casualty reports, which do mention that three lensmoths got involved in the battle and that overall (including both Kel and Rahal casualties) fourteen people died — I'd assume that either almost none of the casualties were on the lenses (since the Rahal were only barely involved), in which case Wihel is presumably maybe the only Rahal to have died in the battle, OR almost all of the casualties were on the lenses (since unlike the Kel ships the lenses weren't actually designed to fight in a war), in which case maybe Virmad knew other people who died that day.]
[rank and Candle Arc]
Gerae is not offended--he's glommed onto Virmad pretty hard at this point--but yeah, it's normally a bit gauche to talk about signifiers this openly. Of course, Gerae is under charges of corruption, so Virmad as an investigator is within his rights...
Let's say that most of the casualties were on one lensmoth that got caught in the line of fire, and a couple were on one of the Kel fangmoths. So Virmad could well have known other people who died at Candle Arc.]