Move 24 (Chapter 1.24)

[yhlee]

[GM note: This is a wrap-up move to close off the Station Moongray arc. Well done, everyone!]

[IMPORTANT: There is a roll call thread in this move. Please respond if you intend to continue as an active player for the next arc. Otherwise I will move you off the active list and to the NPC/inactive list.]

Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~0900

Kaliyan (NPC) successfully guides the Wasp to the rift without complications or interference. She reports that the Rosemallow ship has veered away and chosen not to pursue or harass them further--at least in this timeline. The ship will be spending the next five to seven days in rift travel.

In the Rift:

Ashari orders everyone to catch up on sleep in shifts. After this has happened, they call a meeting that includes Sulen, Virmad, Sasha, Iawa, Alaric, and Mikodez [if pengwern is available], with Gerae (NPC) and Remi (NPC) as guests. The Wasp (NPC) may also venture opinions through Alaric and Sasha as interpreters. Kaliyan (NPC), Ankat (NPC), and Yehan (NPC) oversee the ship in case of emergency, but can be called via the ship's grid if anyone has questions for them specifically.

Tentative agenda as per this thread [Move 23]: (a) addressing problems in teamwork during the Station Moongray mission, (b) how to rectify those issues, and (c) next steps, including any recruitment.

[GM notes: Players are welcome to suggest plot hooks for what they'd like to explore in the next arc. Going after Quill? Rabble-rousing? Crashing the heptarchate's stock market?

Also, I'd really prefer the team leader to be a currently active PC rather than an NPC. If someone would like to volunteer their character for the job, I can move Ashari (NPC) to more of a background/support position, or maybe "shadowy boss who doesn't get involved in the day to day decision-making that much."

For recruitment, I still think the team would benefit from a couple of more fighty/meat shield type characters, and I'm thinking of opening up applications so we can recruit two more PCs. Thoughts on this are welcome, either IC or OOC. I'm personally not opposed to opening up mothlings as adoptable PCs, although they're not really meat shields yet...]

Comments

Re: tangent on plushies

[slybrarian]

"Yes, that was a little tricky. I used an iridescent material for the wings - like beetles, where the color comes from the structure - but in the end I dug into the definitions database and swapped around the relations between color codes and what pigments it prints." Alaric pauses. "I should probably change that back before anyone else prints something."

Re: tangent on plushies

[zuhrovet]

Sasha leans forward. "Did you rewrite the chemistry module? Or is the printer going to use whatever pigment works for fake fur, no matter what the material is you're printing?"

Re: tangent on plushies

[slybrarian]

"No, I left the chemistry alone. The last thing I want is it putting cyanide in the milk or something. Instead I just tricked it into thinking it's spitting out shades of purple and green when it's really using a moth-appropriate palette. I still don't have a clue why it has that restriction in the first place."

Re: tangent on plushies

[zuhrovet]

"It's not a restriction so much as an aesthetic judgment. Whoever wrote the color routines had strong feelings about the appropriateness of textiles. I think purple and green was their universal signal for Not Suitable For Children Over Ten? I ran into that when I was printing a sleeping bag." (Sasha had been so tired she'd accepted the green, albeit in a somewhat faded shade, even though it resolved to tiny images of ducks.)