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hexarchate_rpg2018-11-11 05:57 pm
yhlee) wrote in hexarchate_rpg2018-11-11 05:57 pm
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new player welcome post
[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.]
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.]
Re: practice spaces
The fact she may never get to go back is irrelevant.
Re: practice spaces
So it's a related mechanism, but the rebellion doesn't need to anticipate an incursion of extradimensional people who think they can fix things. Although...
"Where you're from, is it--measurably better? When I came to the heptarchate, I thought, at least anyone can join a faction. That it just mattered what you were good at, not who your parents were. Every culture's fucked in its own way, I guess. But your people, they were trying to improve?"
Re: practice spaces
"That ... depends," Ione says cautiously, "On who you count as my people, because my childhood was on one world, my early adulthood on another one, I've lived in four dimensions and six planets throughout my life and considering my parents are from different worlds, I'm not sure which I would count. The agency doesn't tend to push into others' business unless they either ask for it, or really clearly need it in a everything-is-metaphorically-on-fire kind of way. But the world my dad comes from, for instance, it's much better. It's very nice. I would have stayed there if there'd been use for me, but I got bored. Where I went to medical school was so bad it's not even there anymore. On a general scale of here-versus-other-places, everywhere else I lived, except that one, likely had more -- personal freedoms and less torture?"
interplanetary anthropology
At this point, Sasha gets sucked back into the practical conversation with Seyli, and from there she goes to speak to Ashari and Sulen at the bar. When she returns to Ione's side, she's obviously flushed.
"The thing I keep wondering is, does the heptarchate really have more torture? Or is it just more obvious about it? Or--hells--more effective? I know it was easier to be a foreigner in the heptarchate in my time than it became, later. But where I come from--though they never said they tortured people--they said people had made appropriate recompense for crimes committed. Or that there was a little brushfire war somewhere else. The soldiers had not exhibited ideal control under stress. You know, the way governments always lie."