Move 19 (Chapter 1.19)

[yhlee]

(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 = 10^x. 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.

Comments

graphing and singing

[zuhrovet]

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:



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]

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.

Medical

[slybrarian]

"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."

checking on the Rahal - paging Virmad

[zuhrovet]

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."

chatting up I MEAN chatting WITH Gerae

[lleullawgyffes]

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.]

In Medical with Istradez (paging Sulen)

[vass]

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.