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hexarchate_rpg2018-07-17 08:50 pm
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Move 22 (Chapter 1.22)
[GM note: This is largely a maintenance move so that folks can continue threads from Move 21 without having to dig through a lot of comments.]
For easy reference:
- Move 21 recap (thanks tozuhrovet) [wiki]
- the escape plan [wiki]
- Station Moongray Timeline [wiki]
Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~07:90
Confrontation with the baby fox
From this thread:
On the Wasp, Ashari (NPC) welcomes the arrival of Sulen, who threatens Mikodez with scrying after Mikodez is recalcitrant about answering Sasha's questions about why he didn't call for help for Istradez (NPC). Iawa is on standby in case Mikodez needs to be sedated again.
The disposition of a magistrate-thief
From this thread:
Alaric has just informed Virmad as to Gerae's status, and is about to hand Gerae over to Virmad's care. Meanwhile, Yehan (NPC) comes to talk to Alaric about mothling care: she reports that the station is having the remaining mothlings delivered to the Bumblebee and they are due any moment.
For easy reference:
- Move 21 recap (thanks to
zuhrovet) [wiki]- the escape plan [wiki]
- Station Moongray Timeline [wiki]
Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~07:90
Confrontation with the baby fox
From this thread:
Sulen moves towards Mikodez, eyes gleaming the brassy color of clock gears. "I think it's time for some truth, Mikodez."
On the Wasp, Ashari (NPC) welcomes the arrival of Sulen, who threatens Mikodez with scrying after Mikodez is recalcitrant about answering Sasha's questions about why he didn't call for help for Istradez (NPC). Iawa is on standby in case Mikodez needs to be sedated again.
The disposition of a magistrate-thief
From this thread:
“‘Belong’ would be an overstatement,” Virmad says, concealing his amusement. “But yes, we did — I was just about to check on him [Gerae].”
He inclines his head to Sulen. “I’ll see you later; good luck with the foxling.”
Then, to Alaric: “Has Gerae had any food? I did tell him before I left that I’d make sure he got something to eat.”
"It looked like someone fed him, yes," Alaric replies, "although I don't know about Fluffy. Dragon snacks might make the conversation go smoother."
Alaric has just informed Virmad as to Gerae's status, and is about to hand Gerae over to Virmad's care. Meanwhile, Yehan (NPC) comes to talk to Alaric about mothling care: she reports that the station is having the remaining mothlings delivered to the Bumblebee and they are due any moment.
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"Mishka, Mishka, Mishka. I thought you didn't want to hurt the mothling, and now you want to research how to bind it into a starship?"
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As if summoned, the Wasp's voidmoth thrums again.
[It's responding to the predicament of the sedated mothlings, with which Alaric is dealing with, but which people in the room have not been informed of yet.]
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Mikodez spreads his palm against the floor. He remembers that sound from the storage hold. He lifts his head, eyes shining (metaphorically - first contact fervor), having made some very rapid calculations.
"Alaric said he could communicate with it. Can it talk to us?
If Sasha's right about the moths, a heptarchate without exotic drives would be unrecognisable, and there would be no way to guarantee his family's safety. But the world that led to Istradez as he is now is....hardly optimal, in too many ways. This ought to raise Sasha's approval, and the nice thing about being Shuos, of course, is that you can always change sides later.
Mikodez bounces to his feet and turns to Sulen. "Where did the mothling in my pack go? Do you still have it? I named it Crowned-With-Eyes but it doesn't actually answer to that. It's cuddly, and sometimes tries to attack people. Well, I say attack, but it might just be confused. Is it on this moth?"
[This is exactly how Mishka would act with a Shuos instructor.]
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"Tell us about your siblings," Sasha directs Mishka. She wants some baseline information on how he feels about the Istradez in his own timeline.
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Without visible reluctance, Mikodez offers up a bloodless list of his siblings' biographical and educational history. Nothing that Sasha couldn't find, if she landed in his time.
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Sasha glances cautiously at Ashari. They just made Mishka answer a question in an ordinary, straightforward fashion, which might be the most terrifying thing she's seen them do, yet.
"How do you feel about your sister Istradez, Mishka?" At least the gender difference makes it easy to keep the timelines straight.
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Everyone is entitled to their own feelings about family, and it's not Sulen's job to pry those feelings open any more.
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Of course it's fucking relevant. Maybe Sulen isn't up on the fact everyone on this ship has at least four names? "Imsayed's name is Istradez, too," Sasha tells them.
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Years can be anything above a single hexarchate cycle, right? And Mikodez had been away from home since entering Shuos Academy, so in truth, he's only had contact with Istradez on the many, many occasions when he needed to arrange for outside assitance on a school prank, or when she was working on her own school applications, or when he wanted to arrange a gift for their family on New Year's, or...
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It's been a century and a bit since Sasha last saw Mirek, so that means exactly nothing. "What did our Istradez tell you, when he found you, on the station?"
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"How did you decide you don't hate him?" Sasha asks. "And when?"
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Sasha looks at Sulen. This seems truthful, albeit wildly overconfident, but she'd like confirmation.
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There are other questions they would ask, if this was a true interrogation, but the reason enthrallment usually isn't used in conjunction with scrying- apart from the fact that you'd never get the Andan and Rahal to cooperate well enough- is that it makes all questions about loyalty useless. Sulen wants to lock Mikodez up for now and come back to him later for a more in depth scrying, with Virmad and perhaps Gerae as additional focusing lenses.
"He's being truthful," they tell Sasha, "but his self assessment of his feelings and motivations won't be accurate while he's under enthrallment."
They look at Ashari, to check if maintaining the enthrallment is tiring them.
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[Ashari will sustain enthrallment for one more follow-up question plus whatever time it takes to safely lock Mikodez up, then release it.]
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Why in the eight hells were we supposed to keep you safe, Mishka? But that's not really a question for him. Sasha shakes her head.
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