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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 to [personal profile] 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

Date: 2018-06-21 01:01 am (UTC)
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet
Fuck you, Ashari, I messaged you first. But Ashari hasn't added "bringing Iawa into this situation at all" to the list of Sasha's errors, so she's ahead of the game.

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.
venndaai: (sulen)
From: [personal profile] venndaai
Sulen is messaging both of them: In common room w delivery, where r you?
zuhrovet: A green frog (Default)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet
Sasha hears the vibration from her terminal, reads the message, uses the grid to confirm that Remi is on board, and replies all:

in my room w/ ashari, iawa, & the fucking baby fox. R's suitcases r in the room at end of other hall.


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.

sliding-door puzzles

Date: 2018-06-25 12:47 am (UTC)
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet
Sasha tells Ashari, "Yes."

She messages Sulen:

my doors blocked off. go into the bathroom off alarics room & ill let u in that way.


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

Date: 2018-06-25 02:01 am (UTC)
venndaai: (windbreaker)
From: [personal profile] venndaai
Sulen makes their way through Alaric's room. They're unable to stop themself from looking at all of the photos and cataloging the personal effects; old habits. They have an unpleasantly strong urge to draw a mustache on the Alaric selfie but manage to move on.

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

Date: 2018-06-25 02:08 am (UTC)
zuhrovet: A green frog (Default)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet

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

Date: 2018-06-25 02:21 am (UTC)
venndaai: (scrywolf)
From: [personal profile] venndaai
Sulen walks in, eyes bronze and back straight; takes in the state of the room, then takes in the state of everyone's signifiers.

[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

Date: 2018-06-25 10:26 pm (UTC)
venndaai: (scrywolf)
From: [personal profile] venndaai
Sulen moves towards Mikodez, eyes gleaming the brassy color of clock gears. "I think it's time for some truth, Mikodez."

signifier shifts

Date: 2018-06-25 11:21 am (UTC)
zuhrovet: Photo of a Soviet bas-relief sculpture showing a kneeling woman releasing Sputnik (sputnik)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet
[Sasha's signifier is rather blurry at the moment, what with all the recent changes, but Sulen should be able to make out the three moons and the moth in flight of Voidmoth on Patrol. This was also Sasha's childhood signifier, though I don't know whether anyone made a record (immigration documents?)]

Re: paging Mikodez

Date: 2018-06-25 11:51 am (UTC)
vass: Purple Iawa (OC from The Intolerable Clock) (Iawa (purple background))
From: [personal profile] vass
[Iawa's signifier is the usual Tangled Web, with some very vague stingray caught in it if Sulen is looking closely, probably Stingray in Coral (a medical signifier.) They can also see that her gender is currently purple (woman) but drifting back toward gold (alt).]
venndaai: (windbreaker)
From: [personal profile] venndaai
Sulen sends another message to both:
Where is the door?


[edit: pretend this is above Sasha's response...]
Edited Date: 2018-06-25 01:08 am (UTC)

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