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

Re: let's have a sensible conversation about maps

[hoardingpearls]

Reshad’s expression clouds over, and she nods. This is no time, no place, to be getting into it - but she feels more than a bit of sympathy. Maybe - Maybe, she can trust these people enough to make an offer like she wanted to. Eventually.

And it’s still strange to hear ‘heptarchate’ as anything but a historical reference. But that’s what it is, and she will adapt.

“Do people have...non-moth ships, then?” She doesn’t have a word for it, she realizes. Not in any tongue. “Rather, is it common?” More softly, she muses: “I don’t know that I would know if a ship were a moth, or not. I assumed they all were.”

Mission leadership: meaning Sasha or Alaric? Logic suggests otherwise, or Remi would have spoken with them himself.

“We can perhaps find a path that links them, both. Rebellion and moths.” A thin smile, another shift of her feet; this is audacious for someone so new to the situation. “If every moth in the hexarchate stops flying, they’ll have some difficulty doing - well, anything.”

Re: let's have a sensible conversation about maps

[yhlee]

Remi lifts a shoulder in an expressive shrug. "For local transportation, mainly. For interstellar travel, I'm given to understand that moth ships are so much better than invariant transport that there's really no comparison. And it wasn't any particular virtue on my part that I recognized the Cantata as a moth. I was already researching the mothlings and happened to have a lab full of instruments that told me one was nearby."

In response to Reshad's musing, Remi says dryly, "Yes, I don't imagine weaning the hexarchate from their starships is going to be easy. That's a lot of infrastructure."

Re: let's have a sensible conversation about maps

[hoardingpearls]

"Hm." Giving the impression of rapid thought, dark eyes flicking back and forth across empty air, Reshad realigns what she knows, and what she suspects.

"And - tell me, if I'm taking too much of your time? - what did Cantata do when its harness... stopped working?" For she's noticed they still have a ship, and travel space and rift at will.

Re: let's have a sensible conversation about maps

[yhlee]

Remi smiles with the corners of his eyes. "I'll tell you if I have business elsewhere. I don't. The Cantata, as far as I am given to understand, cooperated with Alaric's attempts to establish a means of communication. It asked who the crew was aligned with, and appeared to have an understanding of the heptarchate's factions. It also made it clear that it desired the custody of the mothlings, but was willing to cooperate with the human crew's methods for pursuing that aim. Altogether more accommodating than I would have been, in its position."