hexarchate_rpg | Move 24 (Chapter 1.24)

[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...]

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Please respond here (just saying "here" is fine) if you intend to remain an active player in the next arc. Otherwise you/your character will be moved to the inactive/NPC list.

[I am definitely here!

I am officially volunteering Sasha for team lead. My thought for how to do this was to send the not-currently-active PCs off on other missions, and then observe that Sasha has the greatest seniority in the rebellion of the characters remaining. She would respond by panicking and reading the command manual.]

[That would work for me! :D I am especially here for Sasha's creative interpretations of the command manual. I bet it was written by a Shuos.]

At some point, after she manages to sleep (wrapped up in a sleeping bag in Environmental, listening to the moth hum) but before the big meeting, Sasha goes looking for Iawa, bringing the emergency blanket with her.

Here. Sorry I've been so absent.

No worries! I know people participate at varying levels, as their lives permit. :) Good to hear from you.

CRRRRROOOOOOOW! (I'm different!)

Hahahaha! :D

Here!

Before sleeping, Sulen puts a few hours into making Mikodez's quarters as secure as they can manage, and then unshackles him. If he's in a talkative mood they might have a chat; if not Sulen will leave him and head off to attempt sleep.

I'm here, my erratic participation notwithstanding!

\o/

[I will catch up tomorrow and answer this then, promise.]

[Thanks for the update!

I am headed to a work conference tomorrow and will be there through the weekend. Goodness knows work travel has never stopped me from checking game on my phone, but please don't feel rushed on my account.]

[Will Sasha have a chance to check how much data on team conversations the Wasp's grid is storing before the meeting, or will that have to wait till afterward?]

[Sure, there's time no problem. She'll probably discover it's not doing anything extraordinary in that regard, but it is definitely storing data.]

[Can Sasha glean any information about prior missions, or tell how often the logs have been accessed?]

Sasha shows up to the common room early, makes herself a cup of tea, re-reads Ashari's meeting notice, and sends them a message reading:

plz add moth intelligence to the agenda

She hopes Ashari isn't going to chew her out in front of Remi and Gerae, but... on one hand, it would only be fair, and on the other hand, who the fuck knows why Ashari does anything.

Ashari's response is a succinct

Done, as item (d).

[Information about prior missions has been scrubbed--she can tell they existed, but only really unhelpful details like "Pilot X was a barbarian who liked three sugars in their coffee." The logs were accessed/scrubbed very thoroughly before the Wasp was handed over to this team.]

Sasha picks a seat that puts her back against the wall and has line-of-sight to the various entrances, and settles in to wait for the rest of the team.

Here! Sorry for putting this in the wrong thread - Mikodez is here and ready to be a well behaved cocoon at the meeting.

\o/

I anticipate that this meeting will be full of shenanigans. XD

Playing dead has its benefits, like not combusting on the spot from self-disgust. Mikodez concentrates on being as floppy as a drunken weasel. While Sulen binds him in their outdated Rahal fashion, he palms two pieces of tape onto their person, one inside their sleeve and the other onto their shoe sole.

As they leave, he keeps his eyes closed and starts sorting through what was said earlier. Always listen to what the Rahal tell you. He's such a good citizen. Of course, he also noodles away at his augment. Sasha has redecorated her room one too many times out there in the open for him to not notice, and is it only his imagination, or has his augment started to work again with her away?

When Sulen returns, Mikodez is worrisomely relieved to see them and not somebody else. (Sasha.) Sulen, a Rahal Inquisitor! Sulen, with that striking rapport with Ashari. Sulen, who said something that sounded like they cared about what Imsayed-Istradez wants --

No.

He's decided to go along with the assumption everyone on the Wasp is what they appear to be. Mikodez discards the approaches that won't work on a trained Inquisitor, and settles on one he hopes will move a heretic.

"How's...how's the person-with-a-suspicious-familial-resemblance-to-me doing?"

[To GM: does Mikodez manage to sneak the doors open again?]

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Move 24 (Chapter 1.24)

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