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yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote in [community profile] hexarchate_rpg2018-03-10 04:24 pm
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Move 19 (Chapter 1.19)

(Thanks to [personal profile] 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.
slybrarian: The Incomparable Leonardo de Montreal, Nightmare's Angel (Nightmare Scientist)

Re: sulen clearly needs to meet jedao :D

[personal profile] slybrarian 2018-03-30 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't worry," Alaric says, coming up behind them. "I implied to the nurse that you're all tipsy tourists or spacers that I'm going to shepherd back to the ship, or at least out of their hair. Please tell me that there's no other reason that we can't go straight there as soon as we strap Imsayed into a float chair, and more importantly, that there's not going to be any more fuss until we're somewhere private."

[Okay, so I missed a couple days due to a bad cold, and I think this is the closest thing going on in time and location to where I was. So I'm going to butt in unless told otherwise.]
pengwern: a moth in silver and violet, plopped on a scheming head (every sky is full of friends)

MOTH BABIES

[personal profile] pengwern 2018-03-30 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Mikodez twitches around to face him with his neck still in Sulen's grip, and points urgently at the pack, where Crowned-With-Eyes is purring like a friendly patch of void.
Edited (feel better!) 2018-03-30 03:23 (UTC)
slybrarian: The Incomparable Leonardo de Montreal, Nightmare's Angel (Nightmare Scientist)

Re: MOTH BABIES

[personal profile] slybrarian 2018-04-04 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
With not inconsiderable reluctance, Alaric kneels down beside the pack and opens it up just enough to peek inside, trying not to disturb Crowned-With-Eyes more than necessary. He wishes he could say he was surprised to find a firearm inside, but he's pretty sure that this was part of the long-ago-decided plan and he'd just forgotten about it in the meantime. He wasn't really alone in forgetting the plan, though, so he wasn't going to blame himself for that. Indeed, any blame could be firmly leveled at the person responsible for its safekeeping and not alerting security.

"Well, that is certainly a thing," he says, standing back up. "I don't suppose any fox-like individuals around here would know whether it would be safer to transport certain metal objects back through dock security, or to dump it into the nearest waste disposal and hope it gets recycled or otherwise remains unnoticed until we're long gone."
venndaai: (sulen)

Re: MOTH BABIES

[personal profile] venndaai 2018-04-05 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
It's really lucky the Rahal exotic ability is scrying and not laser death beam eyes, or Mikodez would be ash on the station carpet.

Sulen takes a deep breath, holds it and releases it, and then wishes they hadn't, because now they're hyper aware of their own breathing. "You should go ahead with Imsayed and Dzeri," they say, "I'll... deal with this." They hold the mothling bag out to Alaric. "But first, could you hold this for a second so I can check my messages?"
slybrarian: The Incomparable Leonardo de Montreal, Nightmare's Angel (Nightmare Scientist)

Re: MOTH BABIES

[personal profile] slybrarian 2018-04-06 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Certainly," Alaric says, carefully taking the bag. Now that it's more clear it won't instantly burn, absorb, disintegrate, or otherwise hurt anyone who touches he, he really wants to study it a little more closely.

"You just stay right where you are," he says to Crowned-With-Eyes. "I think we've all had enough antics for one day."
pengwern: baby hound (very authentic fear)

Re: MOTH BABIES

[personal profile] pengwern 2018-04-06 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Sasha gave me the pattern," Mikodez snaps, his voice pitched to indignation. That isn't hard to come by with Alaric picking up the pack. His half finished mothling costume is in there --! "Hell, ask Jaghan. Bayan-tech gave us both that program before we left for the station. Now do I need to bite you for you to let go?"

Mikodez rounds on Alaric next, whatever the reply. "How's Imsayed."

[I've finally realised that all I want to do is to waste every action on PETTING THE BABY ANIMAL]
Edited (emphasis without italics? what's that) 2018-04-06 03:23 (UTC)
slybrarian: The Incomparable Leonardo de Montreal, Nightmare's Angel (Nightmare Scientist)

Re: MOTH BABIES

[personal profile] slybrarian 2018-04-08 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"He is fine," Alaric replies, almost starting to throw up his hands and stopping before he jostles the bag, "and will stay that way if we can just get him back to the ship without you causing a scene and getting us all arrested for disturbing the peace in the middle of a hospital ward."
pengwern: (Devious fox! mark 2)

Re: MOTH BABIES

[personal profile] pengwern 2018-04-08 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh. Well, I was very concerned," Mikodez says, merry again. Now he can see the absurdity in driving an apostate Rahal on a mission to throttling him. (No fortitude, unlike the instructors at Shuos Academy.) At least they weren't much taller than him. Now if Ashari were here, that...could be bad. He half-lids his eyes to peek at Sulen's lokwor screen from the side, and keeps talking.

"As I said, Bayan provided us with the program, so she must have a way of dealing with it!" Not like he could infuriate her more. "And that's not metal." Mikodez names the material that he normally sees in weapon printers. "This," waving a hand around to indicate the Nirai moth, "Station probably isn't used to it. It looks like something Rii might use in their exhibition anyway."

Andans would only use something with neon green stripes if they wanted to convey something ineffable about toxic mold, not that a foreigner or Nirai would know. The gun should be easy to disassemble again, as it did when he was messing around with it in the visitor quarters.

[Of course his mood doesn't depend on the well-being of mysterious strangers]
pengwern: a moth in silver and violet, plopped on a scheming head (every sky is full of friends)

[next action to take]

[personal profile] pengwern 2018-04-06 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Also, sorry, I....really don't remember what the matter-printed gun is made of. I assumed it could be picked up on scan, but that it wasn't metal? And do you still want to go pick up the mothlings right now?]
zuhrovet: Close-up photo of a black-and-white moth in the grass (moth)

[printer material]

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-04-06 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
[I don't think we established what the gun was made of. I was assuming that the second printer was an earlier model than the original, with restricted functionality, and the things Sasha printed from it were of carbon fiber. But it's possible to 3D print metal now, so there's no reason Mikodez couldn't have a metal gun.]
pengwern: (what [...] eyes you have)

Re: [printer material]

[personal profile] pengwern 2018-04-08 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[I thought the second printer was a matter printed printer, from move 7! ((CURSE U FOR SHOWING ME THE SHAPEWAYS I found CITY RINGS on there ;__;))]
zuhrovet: A green frog (Default)

Re: [printer material]

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-04-08 05:06 am (UTC)(link)

[Yes, we did print the second printer using the first one, but we also didn't want it to look too advanced, because we want the station to underestimate our capabilities!

zuhrovet: Close-up photo of a black-and-white moth in the grass (moth)

OT: cold sympathies

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-03-30 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Ugh, if the cold that's been chewing on you is any relation to the one that's been chewing on me (and destroying my ability to count the number of hells to swear by) you have my deepest sympathies.]