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

More Moth Facts, Continued

[slybrarian]

[Continuing from here.]

"It looks like it's from 702, as expected," Alaric replies to Sasha. "Someone asked about the harness - I think it should be possible to disable the parts that enslave the moth. I could implement a software hack immediately, and then get into the machinery to disable the actual hardware."

Re: More Moth Facts, Continued

[yhlee]

Ashari says, "I would like for you to impress upon the moth our willingness to work with it--with the goal of getting it to be willing to work with us." They glance at Sasha, then say, "At minimum, we need it to get us to alternate transportation instead of stranding us in the middle of gate-space. But it would be ideal if we could get it to agree to some kind of partnership."

Re: More Moth Facts, Continued

[lleullawgyffes]

“Yes,” Virmad says urgently. “Do that.” He looks actively distressed — expressing more emotion than anyone on the crew has seen him do yet, including when he was vexed at Sasha for eavesdropping.

Re: More Moth Facts, Continued

[zuhrovet]

"I'd be delighted to assist with the software, if you need me," Sasha tells Alaric. She means it: they owe it to the moth, to keep them safe. But she's also hoping this is what Ashari wanted her to say.

Re: More Moth Facts, Continued

[slybrarian]

"That would be helpful. We can keep improving the translation software as well." To Ashari, he said, "The moth does seem to understand that our environmental needs are very different and we can't traverse space ourselves, so I don't think being stranded is a worry. If nothing else, it would want our help to get free of the harness safely and we'd have to leave gatespace for that. If for some reason we did need to part ways, as long as the disconnection is done in a control manner we could always fall back on the invariant drive."

Re: More Moth Facts, Continued

[yhlee]

"Then that's what we'll do," Ashari says crisply. "As long as it understands that we're happy to free it in exchange for continued transportation, that will be a good starting point."