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: Checking in on Istradez

[venndaai]

[Whoops, forgot about this.]

"Yes, we've left the station without incident. As to where we're headed next, that's yet to be determined."

They pull up a chair and sit down by his bed. "You're not in any trouble regarding your relative, but it would be useful if you could clear up some confusion about why he's here, and why Ashari was told he needs to be kept safe."

Re: Checking in on Istradez

[yhlee]

Istradez sucks in a breath and closes his eyes, then lets it all out in a whoosh a couple moments later. "I have a pretty good guess," he says glumly. "In my time, decades down the line, he's my brother and he's the Shuos hexarch. Which is a very long story." Bitterness enters his voice as he adds, "I thought he might have escaped the inevitable corruption that happens to everyone who guns for the seat, but I was wrong. He sent me to die. That's my stake. Maybe he's useful leverage, who knows?"

[Scrying will reveal that Istradez is convinced of the truth of his statements, and that he's very, very angry at the older version of his brother.]

Re: Checking in on Istradez

[venndaai]

Sulen thinks, Shuos hexarch? And then, him? Sulen doesn't know very much about the Shuos, but hyper-distractable Mikodez struck them more as "future dropout". Although things could have changed drastically in that far future. And perhaps the rebellion wants to preserve him because he's a conveniently ineffectual hexarch.

"Thank you for telling me." Multiple harsh, probing questions appear in their head- What do you think we should do with him? Do you think this version would send you to die?- but they just say, "At least we all survived our first mission. That counts for something, I suppose."

[By the time of the meeting they'll have told Ashari about Mikodez's future.]

Re: Checking in on Istradez

[yhlee]

[Noted. I think we can mark this thread done--Istradez will be chilling here while the NPCs look in on him from time to time. Thank you!]