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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.
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)

graphing and singing

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-03-11 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Sasha sends the moth two versions of the graph y=x, one with the usual scale and one where the vertical axis is labeled log10 x:

log graph

She adds a yes/no query. Then she writes a bit of code to graph the volume of her singing versus time, using the standard logarithmic scale. Assuming the moth responds affirmatively, she sings the same note softly and a bit louder, softly and a bit louder, five or six times, then sends the moth the resulting graph, with the vertical axis labeled as logarithmic.

[If Dreamwidth can handle MathJaX, I'm going to be really grumpy about the number of HTML subscripts I've typed in the last year. But it looks like it probably can't.]
venndaai: (beehive)

[personal profile] venndaai 2018-03-14 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Sulen hears the message notification sound from their lokwor, but can't check it with their arms full of voidmoth. They lean around the entranceway and direct a glare at Mikodez, emphasized by expressive eyebrow wiggling.
zuhrovet: Photo of a Soviet bas-relief sculpture showing a kneeling woman releasing Sputnik (sputnik)

another waiting message: Sasha to Alaric, Iawa, and Sulen

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-03-14 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
The teenager is trained on Rii's printer. If you don't want to explain Andan artistic decisions to security, I suggest searching him. Tech support available at your request.~Tech.
Bayan.
pengwern: (what [...] eyes you have)

[personal profile] pengwern 2018-03-19 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Mikodez can't check his lokwor! Muffled gleeping is coming from Fluffy's cage, and this time it probably isn't a fascinating example of vocalisations in Vraselian fauna.

He tells the nurse, "Look, I'll be in the visitor quarters if anything changes," and edges away to see if there's intent to pursue him.

This also puts him in sight of Sulen, but he doesn't understand stern eyebrow-waggling any more than how there could be Rahal who don't love paperwork. Why don't you have the soul of a bureaucrat, Sulen. Wasn't that the goal of Rahal academy. (It hasn't occurred to him that nine-stepped paperwork chicanery should be explained to potential accomplices.) With a look of wide-eyed confusion, Mikodez steps close enough for Sulen to grab, if they can manage it around Fluffy and dearest trilling Crowned-with-Eyes.
Edited (put this in the wrong thread) 2018-03-19 19:19 (UTC)
slybrarian: The Incomparable Leonardo de Montreal, Nightmare's Angel (Nightmare Scientist)

Medical

[personal profile] slybrarian 2018-03-20 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Why is he leaving?" Alaric asks himself as he watches Mikodez fail to follow instructions. Then, after getting the message from Ashari, he sighs. "Next time, I think we need to do some team building exercises before we go anywhere..."

He walks up to the nurse, trying to look as respectable as he can. "Excuse me, sir, I'm terribly sorry about all this. I fear that my companions' worry for our shipmate -" he leans in a little closer, and adds sotto voce "- and I suspect whatever they've been imbibing on shore leave, has really done a number on their sense of courtesy. If it's no trouble, could we borrow a float chair of some kind? We'll transfer the patient to our ship's medical bay and all get out of your hair."
zuhrovet: Photo of a Soviet bas-relief sculpture showing a kneeling woman releasing Sputnik (sputnik)

graphing and progress updates

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-03-20 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Sasha's impressed with the moth's precision. She's not sure how carefully she could measure her own singing volume, without the grid's assistance.

She finds Alaric's sketch of the ship at the station, and sends it back to the moth, together with a copy of the volume graph that the moth has just provided. Then she sends a diagram of the ship at some distance from the station and a graph where the volume has increased, though she's careful to keep it in acceptable human-hearing ranges.

She also messages Yehan:

the moth quiets down when their thinking. maybe we should send them some puzzles. do moths like magic squares


and Kaliyan:

fixed the air filters.
Edited (The moth is animate, so Sasha needs to make a different spelling mistake ) 2018-03-20 15:11 (UTC)
venndaai: (sulen)

[personal profile] venndaai 2018-03-21 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Sulen manages to get Crowned-with-Eyes bundled mostly under one arm, and reaches out with the other to snag Mikodez's sleeve.

"Give me the cage," they say, "and clean up that spilled drink." That should hopefully keep him occupied for a minute until Alaric or Iawa gets back to them with a situation update. If he tries to run for it maybe they'll take a page from his book and throw the creatures at him, see how he likes it.
pengwern: (Devious fox! mark 2)

oh no brer wolf please don't throw the moth baby at him

[personal profile] pengwern 2018-03-21 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Mikodez uses one of Fluffy's piercing shrills to stumble into Sulen's other arm, hopefully hard enough to propel Crowned-with-Eyes out of the pack again. He wants it back, damn it, and he's practiced convincing falls enough times at the academy. (He also wants a look at Sulen's lokwor messages, which is bound to be more interesting than his.)
venndaai: (sulen)

Mikodez you're a fox not a rabbit

[personal profile] venndaai 2018-03-22 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
After a moment of horribly tricky balancing, Sulen lets go of Mikodez's sleeve and grabs him by the neck instead. "Fine,"they hiss, "we'll just stand right here then." Fang and claw, they hope the others return before Sulen has to murder this child/teen-shaped monster.
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)

Re: graphing and progress updates

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-03-22 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Sasha sends the moth an affirmative, and messages Kaliyan:

im good for another 10.5 hours. promise i will sleep by then.


Saint of leaves and vines, she thinks, let me keep those promises.

There's a standard problem set that starts with constructing orthogonal Rahal squares and ends with an introduction to coding theory. Sasha sets the grid to send the problems to the moth, and to ping her if their answers are outside what the automatic grading can tolerate. Then she heads back to human-inhabited regions of the ship.

[It's possible that this problem set is considered mildly heretical under the hexarchate; I'm not sure whether the nonexistence of an orthogonal pair of six-by-six squares, as memorialized in the thirty-six officers problem, would have been considered a symbol of six's inherent specialness or a complicated issue that should only be handled by experts. Pretty sure Sasha and the moth have committed greater sins, though!]
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)

checking on the Rahal - paging Virmad

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-03-22 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Sasha pauses as she reaches the hallway leading to Gerae's room.
Virmad's still in there. How long does it take to feed and water a magistrate? Have the two men been meditating on every leaf of tea?

"Rahal Virmad," she says through the grid, "I can handle the breakfast dishes, if you'd like to prepare for your meeting."
pengwern: (what [...] eyes you have)

it will be a good learning experience

[personal profile] pengwern 2018-03-23 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sorry! But that nurse did just call for security." Sulen's grip is strong enough that it would take effort to break, so Mikodez settles in place with Fluffy's cage between them. He turns up the guileless blinking and nods towards where the message tone on Sulen's lokwor is coming from, and where a similar noise is interrupted by small crunches in the cage. "I don't want to open it up, or the pet dragon might escape again." Can he see if Sulen is armed? "How come Sasha gets to bring a souvenir from the station, anyway? I want to keep a Nirai pet too."
lleullawgyffes: a wolf looking at the camera (Default)

chatting up I MEAN chatting WITH Gerae

[personal profile] lleullawgyffes 2018-03-23 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Virmad listens patiently and sympathetically to Gerae talk for a while, nodding and hmm-ing at appropriate intervals. Eventually, at a point where Gerae pauses, he interjects, “It sounds like this science station was getting a little lonely, especially being the only Rahal on the station.”

[sorry for being so uncommunicative! February was ridiculously busy and then I just got sucked into doing other things and wasn't thinking about this.]
Edited 2018-03-23 17:32 (UTC)
lleullawgyffes: a wolf looking at the camera (Default)

Re: checking on the Rahal - paging Virmad

[personal profile] lleullawgyffes 2018-03-23 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Virmad struggles for a moment to remember Sasha’s pseudonym, fails, remembers that she’s posing just as a technician, and replies, “Thank you, technician, I’ll just be a moment.”

To Gerae he adds: “I’m sorry about the food situation — I do have to go to this meeting, but I’ll ask someone to bring you something.”
Edited 2018-03-23 17:38 (UTC)
vass: the liozh emblem, a bit warped and stained, red background (Iawa (red background))

Uh-oh Re: chatting up I MEAN chatting WITH Gerae

[personal profile] vass 2018-03-24 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Almost shimmering? Hmmm. Are they still grey? Or are they turning blue? Are we certain he's really a Rahal?]
vass: Purple Iawa (OC from The Intolerable Clock) (Iawa (purple background))

In Medical with Istradez (paging Sulen)

[personal profile] vass 2018-03-24 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Iawa has one eye on Imsayed, one eye on Alaric's back as he approaches the nurse, and doesn't have any eyes to spare to look in the direction Avrayen went. The Shuos motto is finally making sense to her.

One hour should be plenty to get back to the ship if nothing else goes wrong, but they don't like the chances of nothing else going wrong. They send their own lokwor message to Sulen: "The kid's heading your way. Can you make sure he stays with you? Damion's getting a float chair for pt, and I'm staying with him."

To Imsayed: "Do you still have your lokwor with you?" If he doesn't, she passes on Ashari's message and decides not to mention the missing lokwor until everyone's back aboard so we can get out of here.

Re: Uh-oh Re: chatting up I MEAN chatting WITH Gerae

[personal profile] pengwern 2018-03-24 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[maybe, in an attempt to make friends with the local nirai, Gerae allowed them to make some unwise mods
No reason why Istradez shouldn't still have his lokwor, I think.]
zuhrovet: Photo of a Soviet bas-relief sculpture showing a kneeling woman releasing Sputnik (sputnik)

Mishka's not the only Shuos on this station

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-03-25 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[A hospital lost my sister's laptop once, but maybe the Nirai are more reliable?

If somebody did make a concerted attempt to get into Istradez' lokwor, it should have bricked itself, and Ashari or Yehan-on-comms would see a notification that the message didn't go through. There's a way to turn off the message receipts, but I don't think Sasha would have done so for this mission.]
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)

Re: checking on the Rahal - paging Virmad

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-03-25 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
So Gerae's rolling over and showing Virmad his belly. Sasha would be a lot happier if she knew the magistrate wouldn't have the same reaction to Quill.

"Any dietary restrictions?" she asks, through the grid.

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