meeting minutes/ between-move planning

[zuhrovet]

Sasha's first team meeting will cover the following points:

• Sasha is now in charge; Ashari is on another mission.
  
• Sulen is second-in-command. Talk to them if you have interpersonal problems or questions about the heptarchate.
  
• Sulen has posted brief profiles of the team members, including the dates they are from, to the internal grid.
  
• The ship is going to spend a couple of days reconfiguring and taking on supplies, then head through the rift to 852.
  
• Our first goal on arrival is to collect as much information as possible about rebellion activities.
  
• We will arrive approximately two weeks before the battle of Candle Arc.
  
• We will pose as arms traders reporting to the woman codenamed Flute.
  
• We are selling designs for personal armor with embedded weapons.
  
• Reshad will pose as our salesperson.
  

Move 2.2 will be posted sometime next week, so now is a good time to wrap up things you wanted to do before we go through a rift into a new century. Move 2.1 is ongoing. However, if there's miscellaneous prep stuff you want to accomplish before heading to 852 (supplies to purchase, training to access, data to hunt for in the grid), please post it here.

Comments

Re: Sasha's tastes in jam - paging Sasha

[zuhrovet]

[Sasha has been choosing based on texture: she doesn't like ending up with big undissolved lumps of fruit at the bottom of her mug. Plum, sour cherry, and pine-resin flavors are generally popular in her part of Naxarat.

If the moth's collection of preserves is anything like mine, there is a strange oversupply of hot-pepper jelly.]

Re: Sasha's tastes in jam

[yhlee]

Remi looks at the record. "We should probably find out if anyone actually likes the hot pepper jelly," he notes, "but we're low on plum, sour cherry, and pine-resin, so those seem like safe bets. And maybe a few new flavors in case she likes trying new things. Worst case I'll have them with toast."

Re: Sasha's tastes in jam

[hoardingpearls]

"I've been eating the ginger, but I left the hot pepper alone until I can find someone who admits to eating it, who might tell me how hot it is." Reshad smiles, a more honest expression than most of hers. "The sour cherry is definitely a favorite. If Sasha likes it too, maybe we do have something in common."

She marks down the mentioned flavors on her list next to the cordial. "I have a few things I might like to find, but I'm not sure what the trades look like right now." She darts a quick look at Remi, as if trying to ascertain whether the temporal shift has affected him this way.

Re: Sasha's tastes in jam

[yhlee]

Remi returns her smile. "I don't find spicy food particularly interesting, but I can tolerate it pretty well. I'll try the pepper jelly and let you know."

He considers Reshad's implied question. "It looks like the most popular items for which we can get something are either information, which is something we should probably run by Sasha, and novelties--whether that's food goods or the latest hottest cocktails or the like. Also entertainment items; games and game variants are pretty popular." He emphasizes "games" only slightly, in invitation.

Re: Sasha's tastes in jam

[hoardingpearls]

"My thanks. If it's too hot for you, it's definitely too much for me." She seems amused at herself, there: not ashamed, nor particularly considering it a flaw, merely the sort of quirk one might safely offer to a new acquaintance.

She visibly brightens at the mention of games. "New games would be marvelous." As well as constituting a form of information all their own. "Is there anything in particular you like to play? I'm a fan of strategic board games in particular."

Re: Sasha's tastes in jam

[yhlee]

"I especially enjoy Prisons and Pangolins and all the tabletop roleplaying games that it spawned," Remi says, very seriously. "I'm afraid strategic games are not my forte, although I've certainly dabbled in them."

Re: Sasha's tastes in jam

[hoardingpearls]

Reshad brightens at a familiar name. "Ah! Someone at the Academy claimed to have a set of fourth-edition books for that. I never did find a group I particularly enjoyed, but the game itself seems interesting."

She eyes him in more overt curiosity. "What sort of character do you play?"

Re: Sasha's tastes in jam

[yhlee]

"I like mages or alchemists," Remi says. "I believe Ankat GMs sometimes, if you're interested in giving it a try. The Cantata is still figuring out what it wants to do with its druid character. I wonder if it thinks it can take humans as pets?"

Re: Sasha's tastes in jam

[hoardingpearls]

"If there's room at the table, I'd be curious. Thanks." It always feels good to be invited to something. But the next thing Remi says is twice as interesting.

"The Cantata plays, too?" She seems curious, not aghast - and even that, with a playful sort of twist to it. "I suppose it has human pets, anyway."

Re: Sasha's tastes in jam

[yhlee]

"I'm sure Ankat would welcome another player," Remi says. He's smiling, although it looks like it's not something he does often.

"As for the Cantata, it's been asking me questions about some of the rules when Ankat is busy. And you're right--from its standpoint, it already has human pets. I guess I can't blame it for wanting to play something familiar. I had this one Shuos friend who always wanted to play an assassin..."