new player welcome post

[yhlee]

[Hello, new players! This post is for new and old players to get acquainted with each other in-character (IC) and out-of-character (OOC). I will be updating the character roster shortly for easy reference. Characters from the first arc who are still wrapping things up in Move 24, feel free to continue; I'll get to y'all shortly.

In the meantime, feel free to introduce yourself in OOC threads, including any information you want other players to have about you (including pronouns if relevant, or what time zones you're usually on, that kind of thing.]

[IC]
Ashari has just recruited a number of newcomers to the team in the hopes of shoring up its weaknesses and is, in classic Andan fashion, throwing a party on the Cantata (the moth ship formerly known as the Wasp and/or Bumblebee) so that folks can meet-and-greet. There are canapés, and Ashari promised Sulen that there are no recreational substances other than the alcohol if anyone wants it; Ashari is currently in the galley mixing drinks for anyone who asks. The public spaces of the interior have been decorated with somewhat lopsided and overly colorful artificial flowers (the matter printer was feeling cranky) as well as plush moths. There are in addition six friendly levitating baby moths, all wriggly tentacles and eyes, who will gravitate toward anyone who sings to them, and who like to be petted.

For the purposes of this post, "public areas" include the galley, the common room, and the storage hold, which has been temporarily pressed into service as a place where people can hang out. People are also welcome to hold private conversations elsewhere. For the moment, however, the cockpit, engine room, commander's office, and communications room/gunnery are off-limits.

[See this wiki entry on the Cantata-Wasp for more details on its layout.]

Comments

OOC: yhlee

[yhlee]

[Howdy! I'm Yoon / yhlee, your friendly neighborhood GM. I usually use he/him pronouns but answer to anything because Reasons. I live in Louisiana but I keep odd hours.

If you have any questions/concerns, don't hesitate to contact me either through PM or email at yoon at yoonhalee dot com.]

questionable life choices

[zuhrovet]

Sasha asks Ashari for tequila.

Re: questionable life choices

[yhlee]

Ashari grins amiably at Sasha and says, "Do you want the regular stuff, or the special?"

OOC: ursula

[zuhrovet]

[Hi! I'm Ursula, playing Zuhrovet Sikandaret, who usually goes by Sasha. She or they pronouns are fine. By default I'm in the US Eastern time zone and a morning person, though I travel quite a bit, so I'm calendrically variable. Email to ursula at yarntheory dot net or messages to Ursula#2854 on Discord are good ways to contact me.

I am very excited about gaming with everyone!

I should note that Sasha is intense in ways that I am not; if you ever need me to dial back the aggression or the weird family memories, just say the word.

I'm GMing the meta-RPG as Ankat, a minor Kel from Ninefox Gambit, borrowed from talifabian. You are welcome, though not required, to join in!]

Re: OOC: ursula

[bariolage]

[I will probably want to request more weird family memories.]

OOC: Rue

[bariolage]

[Hello! I'm Rue, aka delight; I can never RP from my main journal because it's a disaster, so here I am via Ione's instead. Feel free to add me-as-me, though, if you like. DW PM to either journal is the easiest way to contact me and/or get other contact information for me - I'm not gutsy enough to give out my email publicly.

I am in US Eastern time and am (also!) dramatically a morning person, very little I say after 4pm or so makes a lot of sense which is why I'm not doing anything IC yet. :) I use she/her pronouns and am very bad at talking about myself.

As a note, my character and I are both medical clinicians of slightly different varieties and therefore my natural tendency is to be pretty accurate and detailed about that sort of stuff -- please feel free to kick me if there's too much surgical detail in your pretendy fun injuries, as that isn't everyone's cup of tea.]

Re: OOC: Rue

[zuhrovet]

[I read some decidedly unnerving PubMed articles for Sasha's backstory!]

[mafyyil]

[Hello! I'm eller and I play Zagfehan Mafyyil. She/her pronouns are fine both ingame and ooc. I live in Germany but have irregular sleeping habits so never trust the time zone... I'm so excited about joining this game with you guys! The easiest way to contact me is probably a private message to my main account.]

OOC: Asher

[kese_seyli]

[Hey! I'm Asher, I'm non-binary and use they/them pronouns. I live in NYC (Eastern Time Zone) and while I have a day job as a librarian, I can usually post while I'm at work, provided I'm not swamped. I'm typically offline by 11pm, though.

I've never really used Dreamwidth, but you can message me here, it will bounce to my email. You can also email etiennetelling@gmail or discord Asher#7621.

I typically hang out on tumblr, also have an pillowfort.io account, and an (mostly) inactive tarot blog ]

Re: OOC: Asher

[bariolage]

[Oh, hello neighbor! I'm in Upper Manhattan myself. xD]

OOC: Venndaai

[venndaai]

[Hello, I'm venndaai or Tal, I play Sulen, we're both they/them people. I'm on PST and stay up late/sleep in late. I'm trying to use dreamwidth more and would be happy to friend people/subscribe/grant access or whatever it's called! I'll respond to messages on dreamwidth, or my discord is tal#7831.

I'm an art student who likes doing portraits as a break from my homework so let me know if you'd like an icon of your character.]

Re: OOC: Venndaai

[bariolage]

[I added you as myself! And if you're still in the mood to draw a character once I've gotten visual references together for Ione - I am atrocious at description - I'd be thrilled by one.]

Scoping the Room

[kese_seyli]

Seyli was out of time, which isn’t to say they were personally out of time for anything, but that they were literally out of their timeline. Clothing was different, the people were different, and for another they were back in the fucking Hexarchate. But at least, this time, they had a purpose beyond fodder. Still, with everything being so different, they were hesitant to dive into any situation.

They scope the room before they walk in, catching the person at the bar, two people chatting around the…moths? And the person in flamboyantly yellow dress, which they appreciate. Seyli puts their back against a wall, squares their shoulder, sets themselves, and watches, but it doesn’t look like anyone is a risk.

[[OOC: Seyli isn't the type to approach strangers first, even if they are suppose to work together.]]

Re: Scoping the Room

[mafyyil]

Mafyyil is quite relieved to discover another newcomer also seems to be a bit wary of the party - or whatever it is that's going on there! Thinking that she has to talk to one of these people sooner or later, she decides to pick the person who looks like they feel almost as out of place as she does. So she walks up to Seyli, smiling brightly (and a lot more confidently than she feels).

"Hello! I'm honored to meet you!" (Technically, meeting some barbarian can not be an honor, but she's being very diplomatic, she thinks. And anyway, in this company she cannot be picky.) "Do you happen to know the occasion of", she waves her hand vaguely at the dancing and drinking people and some flying tentacled beings she can't identify, "all this?"

personal data

[zuhrovet]

[Sasha will have checked what year Seyli is from and whether they have an augment.]

OOC: Clay

[slybrarian]

[Hello! I am Clay and I play Alaric, a refugee from another RP entirely. He/him for both of us. Just PM me through Dreamwidth and it should ping my email.]

Re: OOC: Clay

[bariolage]

[Ione is also originally from another RPG (sort of, she's the descendant of PCs) so at least he is not alone there.]

Signifiers

[venndaai]

Sulen enters the galley and admires the flower decorations (they have no sense of aesthetics, but enjoy colorful things.) They try to unobtrusively look over the drinks, as though they could tell if Ashari was secretly planning on poisoning the guests. Not seeing anything out of the ordinary, they pour themself a shot of vodka and check out the room, scanning the signifiers of the strangers.

[Our current list of signifiers is here. If anyone would like to pick one of those or make up a new one, Sulen can notice it.]

Re: Signifiers

[kese_seyli]

[Seyli's is Ashhawk Wheeling which I imagine to be an Ashhawk in the second bird pose on the top line of this image https://i.imgur.com/tEUjMtI.jpg]

OOC: vass

[vass]

[Hi! I'm vass, and I play Iawa. Think Chidi Anagonye, if Chidi were an incompetent at everything perpetual undergraduate who makes reckless moves under stress. So really the common factor is mostly "thinks virtue and studying philosophy are the same thing." Best practical skill: first aid. Worst practical skill: computing security. Is no longer allowed to bring their tablet on away missions. They try.

I'm they/them all the time. Iawa's genderfluid and can be she or he or they at various times (usually day to day, not moment to moment.) Your characters don't have to be able to tell, but you can check what pronouns I use for them and what colour the userpic is (purple = she, gold = they, red = he, cryo-corpses = OOC.)

I'm horribly slack about replying punctually, and also tend to get anxious and disappear, so in case you're the sort of person who worries about these things, it's not something you said, it's me. I am sorry and am trying to be better, but it doesn't always... work. I'm on the east coast of Australia, but my sleep schedule is all calendrical rot all the time.]

OOC: hoardingpearls (Six)

[hoardingpearls]

Hi! I'm redsixwing on my main alias, Six for short, playing Reshad. I'm excited to play with everyone here. I can get very wordy and will attempt to keep it to a minimum. :P

I prefer they/them pronouns online, and Reshad uses whatever matches current presentation, but defaults to 'she.'

You can PM me here (it'll go to my email, so I'll see it quickly). I'm in and out of Discord, so that's probably the best option.

I'll usually be on in something like a US timezone.

OOC: RSN

[redshiftnova]

[Heya! I'm redshiftnova/RSN/Reason and I'm playing Aymad. Discord is probably the best way to contact me (redshiftnova#4103). My pronouns are they/them. I'm in the US Central (GMT+7) timezone and mostly diurnal (due to work).]

[ooc: Lleu]

[lleullawgyffes]

[hi, I'm Lleu — I play Eshegen Virmad, author of the Rahal Academy's premiere samizdat inter-faction dating guide, who has turned out to be — thus far — our most flirtatious party member. he's a good boy. the best way to get in touch with me is probably Discord (lleullawgyffes#0425). I'm on US Eastern time mostly, although generally my participation is erratic enough that time zone is irrelevant.]

Ankat and Kaliyan

[zuhrovet]

[I'm going to assume that Ankat and Kaliyan are elsewhere seeking headache treatment, and Sasha knows it.]

Re: Ankat and Kaliyan

[yhlee]

[Works for me.]

continuing sensible conversations

[kese_seyli]

Sasha Zuhrovet (zuhrovet) replied:
"Yeah, we've got a tiny foxling who doesn't know the meaning of fear. With luck, one of the adult foxes will get stuck with the babysitting." Sasha shrugs. "I don't know if you see traveling in time as an advantage? I think that's worth the price of admission, most days. But maybe it's different if this is your past, and not your future."


"Do any foxes know the meaning of fear." Seyli finally turns their attention back to their drink, which has been mostly ignored. "It's interesting, to say the least. And I find the goal appealing, to say the very least. I'm not sure my future had much in the way of it, so." They shrug. "This is it, now."

Re: continuing sensible conversations

[zuhrovet]

"Yeah. Can I ask you about a weapon, from the future? Alaric told me something that concerned me, but I don't trust him to estimate orders of magnitude."

The Shuos are from later, so they might know more. But Sasha doesn't need to go out of her way to engage the pretty people, no matter how innocently they seem to be playing with the mothlings.

talking about command - paging venndaai

[zuhrovet]

Sasha heads to the galley. Sulen is staring intensely at Ashari, so it's just an ordinary day on the voidmoth, really. "I would like some more tequila, please," Sasha says. "And I have a quick question. I've been talking to Seyli about supply--do you want an itemized list from them, or should we just chat with the folks in logistics ourselves? Also, is there anything I should tell them to plan for?"

Re: talking about command - paging venndaai

[yhlee]

[Note to venndaai--feel free to be the one to drop the news on Sasha that she's about to be promoted to team-leader-of-the-PCs, for maximum hilarity. Otherwise Ashari can do it.]

Nirai parties are the wildest parties

[zuhrovet]

In the remainder of the evening, Sasha becomes completely plastered, interviews Alaric and Remi about whether there are substances or energies that affect moths the way alcohol affects humans, takes a handful of sober-ups, and reads Ashari's letter. As the new arrivals fall asleep, Sasha breaks into their augments, checks for spyware, and updates the encryption.

Re: Nirai parties are the wildest parties

[hoardingpearls]

Sasha will find Reshad's augment up to date, the encryption up to Shuos standards [well, Shuos standards just prior to Cheris' time.] It's a standard augment, though, not the sort of equipment a serious augment-cracker would use.