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hexarchate_rpg2018-05-27 09:52 pm
yhlee) wrote in hexarchate_rpg2018-05-27 09:52 pm
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Move 21 [fixed numbering error] (at long last) (chapter 1.21)
Move 21
[GM note: PROFUSE apologies for how late this move is. The month of May got eaten by non-negotiable writing commitments and then health issues. So sorry!]
For easy reference:
- Move 20 Recap [wiki]
- the escape plan [wiki];
- Station Moongray timeline [wiki].
(Thanks tozuhrovet for keeping this stuff updated for everyone's convenience.)
Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~07:25
Confrontation at Administrator Nirai Paerani Shan's Office
Sulen and Virmad are facing off against Administrator Shan, having dumped a (friendly!) baby mothling (Crowned-With-Eyes) and faked evidence of Remi's "heresy" onto her desk, as per this thread from Move 19.
Shan makes a brief show of checking the faked datacube for the evidence, but she's clearly feeling pressured with two Rahal standing right there and it doesn't appear she finds anything out of order in the "evidence." "All right," Shan says. She pulls up an appropriate form on one of her data slates and signs over Remi and the mothlings to Sulen and Virmad's custody, then outputs it to a data cube and hands it to them. "Do you require assistance locating Nirai Remi? Or would you prefer to handle that yourselves?" Her expression is resigned.
On the "Bumblebee"
- Mikodez is in Sasha's bedroom, following this thread from Move 19. He is currently alone, trapped, and recuperating, apparently having dozed off.
- Sasha and Iawa have made preparations to talk to Mikodez (see above) as per this thread from Move 19. They have agreed to meet outside Sasha's bedroom and confront Mikodez together.
- Alaric is still currently closeted with Gerae (and Fluffy), continuing this thread from Move 19. Gerae looks abashed at Alaric's critique of heptarchate social control methods and says, "You're obviously very knowledgeable about us and our methods. Are you a scholar? I hadn't realized your team did research." (He's clearly fishing for more information about the Merry Crew he has fallen in with.) Meanwhile, Fluffy curls up on his forearm and appears to doze.
NPCs:
- Ashari is in their office.
- Kaliyan is still manning the cockpit in preparation for escape.
- Yehan graciously thanks Sasha for the box of Remy's journals and begins scanning them into the grid for further analysis; this is a process that can largely be automated so she has set the grid up to alert her if anything looks like it requires her immediate attention, and goes to get some more tea.
- Ankat is keeping an eye on Istradez, who is still woozy and concussed, as per this thread from Move 19. He is available if anyone needs an extra pair of hands.
[GM note: PROFUSE apologies for how late this move is. The month of May got eaten by non-negotiable writing commitments and then health issues. So sorry!]
For easy reference:
- Move 20 Recap [wiki]
- the escape plan [wiki];
- Station Moongray timeline [wiki].
(Thanks to
zuhrovet for keeping this stuff updated for everyone's convenience.)Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~07:25
Confrontation at Administrator Nirai Paerani Shan's Office
Sulen and Virmad are facing off against Administrator Shan, having dumped a (friendly!) baby mothling (Crowned-With-Eyes) and faked evidence of Remi's "heresy" onto her desk, as per this thread from Move 19.
Shan makes a brief show of checking the faked datacube for the evidence, but she's clearly feeling pressured with two Rahal standing right there and it doesn't appear she finds anything out of order in the "evidence." "All right," Shan says. She pulls up an appropriate form on one of her data slates and signs over Remi and the mothlings to Sulen and Virmad's custody, then outputs it to a data cube and hands it to them. "Do you require assistance locating Nirai Remi? Or would you prefer to handle that yourselves?" Her expression is resigned.
On the "Bumblebee"
- Mikodez is in Sasha's bedroom, following this thread from Move 19. He is currently alone, trapped, and recuperating, apparently having dozed off.
- Sasha and Iawa have made preparations to talk to Mikodez (see above) as per this thread from Move 19. They have agreed to meet outside Sasha's bedroom and confront Mikodez together.
- Alaric is still currently closeted with Gerae (and Fluffy), continuing this thread from Move 19. Gerae looks abashed at Alaric's critique of heptarchate social control methods and says, "You're obviously very knowledgeable about us and our methods. Are you a scholar? I hadn't realized your team did research." (He's clearly fishing for more information about the Merry Crew he has fallen in with.) Meanwhile, Fluffy curls up on his forearm and appears to doze.
NPCs:
- Ashari is in their office.
- Kaliyan is still manning the cockpit in preparation for escape.
- Yehan graciously thanks Sasha for the box of Remy's journals and begins scanning them into the grid for further analysis; this is a process that can largely be automated so she has set the grid up to alert her if anything looks like it requires her immediate attention, and goes to get some more tea.
- Ankat is keeping an eye on Istradez, who is still woozy and concussed, as per this thread from Move 19. He is available if anyone needs an extra pair of hands.
Re: virtuously requesting permission from Ashari
She stands, carefully, walks over to the chair, sits down again, and reopens her terminal. The copy is indeed finished, so she enters the reset command.
Re: virtuously requesting permission from Ashari
Re: virtuously requesting permission from Ashari
Sasha turns to watch Mishka. It appears that he's not going to produce some poisoned Shuos weapon and kill everyone. She wonders what he'll do instead.
Ashari and Sasha's tablets ding, if they haven't been ruined by the water
that was one buzz and one carefully curated ditty, I'm guessing?
Ashari's tablet plays a different sound after Sasha replies; that means she doesn't need to tell them that the first message was from Sulen.
Re: that was one buzz and one carefully curated ditty, I'm guessing?
To Sasha: "Can you let Sulen in without giving the fox kit an opportunity to escape?" Ashari's eyes are almost entirely blue, although they are not meeting anyone's gaze--yet. And to Iawa: "Be ready to sedate the boy again if he twitches wrong."
sliding-door puzzles
She messages Sulen:
She directs the grid to erase the door to the bathroom in her room, and then to create a new door between her bathroom and Alaric's, which is adjacent. She then unlocks Alaric's door, if it isn't already open, and monitors Sulen's movements through the grid.
Re: sliding-door puzzles
The bathroom is small enough that Sulen, who did not grow up in space, is feeling fairly claustrophobic. They try not to panic when the door vanishes behind them. They didn't grow up with variable layout either and the Wasp is their first experience with it.
Re: sliding-door puzzles
When the grid tells Sasha that Sulen is in her bathroom and the temporary door has been removed, she restores the usual door from her bathroom to the bedroom. She tugs the blanket around herself a bit more tightly and waits for Sulen to open the door.
paging Mikodez
[Pengwern, is Mikodez currently Smiling or Crowned With Eyes?]
Well, there certainly is a lot of stress in this room. Sulen themself is feeling oddly relieved. If it's finally time to get direct answers out of Mikodez, that at least is something they know how to do.
Re: paging Mikodez
[This is clearly because Ashari doesn't want to accidentally enthrall Sulen; Sulen can tell that Ashari is relieved that they've arrived, although the others in the room probably haven't picked up on it.]
Re: paging Mikodez
signifier shifts
Re: paging Mikodez
Re: that was one buzz and one carefully curated ditty, I'm guessing?
[edit: pretend this is above Sasha's response...]