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: paging Mikodez

[zuhrovet]

Mishka managed one serious sentence, out of four. Sasha supposes that's an improvement, but she doesn't see how it can counterbalance the fact that Strashik could have died.

She doesn't exactly have moral credit to lend, anyway. And it's her turn. "First, we need to scan and clean every augment we can access, now that we know there's a fault in our organization's procedures. Second, I have spoken to Ankat and Kaliyan about expanding the system of alarms, in particular silent alarms, to alert them when we have a security issue on the ship. Third, Iawa and I debriefed and planned some additional training. And fourth--"

Sasha tries to project good posture and professionalism, hands folded in front of her, though the effect is likely spoiled by the fact that she's watching Ashari's dagger, in lieu of meeting anyone's eyes. "Fourth, I need to stop hitting people that I work with."

If Ashari was still worried that Sasha was trying to take over--well, Sasha has just set all of her tentative professional relationships on fire, at their direction. They can bask in the pretty, chemically colored flames.

Re: paging Mikodez

[lleullawgyffes]

Virmad still isn’t entirely clear on this whole situation with Avrayen-Mikodez, but. “If we were to trust Miksel” — one of two diminutives in Virmad’s low language, the one for either things that are literally small or people you want to condescend to; he knows the subtlety will be lost on everyone else, but he’s been thinking it for days — “to be our eyes on Quill, maybe Yehan would be willing to, ah, keep an eye on his work. Not that the rest of the crew isn’t very capable, but — set a fox to watch a fox, as they say.”

[note on next mission plans]

[yhlee]

"Not a bad idea," Ashari says, slitting their eyes.

[This is a fine idea! But the current plan is to phase out inactive PCs by sending them to another mission, so this role will be reassigned from Yehan to an active PC. Mainly, I prefer for PCs to get to interact with each other. Just FYI.]