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This post is for out-of-character notes on things you want your character to accomplish before the next move. For continuing players: is your character making something, building something, studying something, or trying to foster a personal connection? For new players: does your character have prior experience with the rebellion, backstory with another character, or a particular skill they like to practice?

We also have a silly character quiz post and a music post, if you'd like to share some things about your character!

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Sasha will coordinate with Reshad to allow Jedao greater access to information and other areas of the ship. In particular, he should acquire access to the gym fairly rapidly, and once he has been informed about the moths, he will be admitted to the common area. (I'm assuming that Remi will coincidentally avoid him until the next move! But we don't want to leave Jedao locked up for weeks, either.)

Yep, Remi will coincidentally avoid Jedao throughout this time. Jedao is going to have Questions about moths but also recognizes that he isn't a scientist, linguist, musician, or otherwise useful in this arena.

I know exactly zero about gyms (and nothing about staying fit unless you count bicycling and fencing warm-ups), even though Jedao would know, so anyone who wants to weigh in on that stuff please feel free. XD

Seyli won't protest Jeado's increased access but they are visibly upset/distressed by the fact. They don't interact with him beyond what's needful but they also keep an eye on him as well.

Ione will ask him to fence with her! Ione is a sabreur, which neither of us are, so we should probably handwave how that went, and of course he won, but she's ... not terrible (she is no Olympic fencer but she comes from somewhere where sword duels are an actual way of life and swords are commonly used weapons) and will say she wants to learn from his skills.

... which is true, but she's also trying to keep feeling him out empathically.

Ione would also like to be involved more in mothling studying; specifically she would ask if she could find out if she and the babies can communicate with her on her violin, despite the fact she can't manage multiple scales at the same time, and if Remi can teach her to play moth language.

She also has plans to connect an EEG net (which is probably just a few contact points with no actual net) to Sasha's head and throw things at her. Literally in some cases, though they'd be harmless things, and the expectation is they won't hit her. It's up to Ursula if we do this on-camera or off. :)

... honestly, she wants to connect the EEG to a mothling, too, but isn't sure they wouldn't just eat the contact points.

Due to her origin, I doubt Xiulan has any backstory with other characters as yet. As far as prior experience with the rebellion, I figure her involvement is probably fairly recent. If she’d gotten hints of such a thing going on, she’d have tried to look into it, which could be how contact initially occurred.

Speaking of which though, would Sasha (or any other PCs) be expecting certain info to be provided for those who will be joining the crew? Such as data Ashari or someone else might be passing along. I can work something up for that if so.

Particular skills she likes to practice: right now, a lot of her attention would be going to a couple of things primarily:
- Keeping in peak physical condition, combat practice, etc.
- Research! She has been devouring everything she can about the he*rchate and neighbors, the better to blend in, to understand, to anticipate, and so forth. Also working on adapting skills she has ‘from home’ to function in this new context - computers/grid, improvised weapons, etc. She’s also been digging in on some rebellion-specific notions and I’ll need to write that up; I’m assembling some ideas she’s come up with and/or will come up with.

I’ll take a look at the music and quiz posts, thanks!

A question: is the situation with moth sentience only known by those on the Cantata or is that known more broadly in the rebellion? I’d gotten the impression it was the former, but wasn’t positive.

Reshad is tremendously nosy, so she would of course be looking for files indicating source culture, etc. As Xiulan isn't from around here, the blank will be as interesting as an actual file... Unless she's provided false information?

Reshad thinks that with his reputed hacking skills, Jedao is entirely likely to find out about his interrupted career anyway. She's of the opinion that honesty is the best way to handle this - with a big dose of /you did this in one future/ and /that doesn't mean all of them./

She is going to be paying attention to his responses - this is distressing stuff, and she doesn't want to push him into doing himself harm. She's also happy to provide distraction via games or exercise.

She wants to continue to build connection with the existing crew: repair of the difficulty with Sasha, which is likely to be ongoing, and spending time with Ione and the mothlings are also of interest to her.

In case she isn't busy enough, she'll also be working on her hand to hand skills.

Edited 2019-12-30 22:44 (UTC)

Jedao will be happy to fence with Ione! He's going to be particularly interested in stylistic differences and techniques unique to her tradition. He's also happy to teach anything she's interested in learning--he's a good instructor, patient and calm, with a friendly manner.

Empathically, Ione can tell that the calm is a façade; he's thinking very furiously, probably about the obvious questions of why am I here and what did I do, and weighing his options.

Jedao does not attempt to sneak around when in the common areas but keeps his distance from Seyli, sort of a "you're in your lane, I'm in mine."

Remi is happy for the violin to be incorporated into mothling experiments. The mothlings really really love playing with the violin, and Cantata is usually pretty good about telling them to be gentle with the instrument when they get rowdy.

Remi suggests that a chordal instrumental might be better suited for moth language but they can certainly try to approximate it with double-stops and so on.

At some point in all this, if they cross paths, Jedao will give Reshad a long, considering, I know you're watching look, but keep his distance unless approached. Once cleared, he will spend most of his time either at the gym doing whatever the hell would be a recommended "staying fit for special ops" training regimen, and occasionally showing up with jeng-zai.

Jedao makes a single attempt at hacking, runs into whatever watchdogs that Sasha has set up, and immediately withdraws. He doesn't push matters further in that arena, but he's waiting to be called out on the attempt.

Ashari would provide a basic briefing of the mission and what the incoming team was attempting to do. It may, however, be somewhat garbled by the fact that Ashari is distracted with social/organizational matters. If you want me to provide more information on this front, I can do so, or you can come up with your own, possibly hilariously inaccurate, briefing.

Jedao is available for combat practice, probably under Seyli's supervision.

The mothling situation is not known more broadly in the rebellion. Ashari is unlikely to have bruited that about.

Aside from the mission-related conversation (which she won't pursue without consulting with Sasha!) Reshad gives him some time to learn about the Cantata and his new situation. She'll acknowledge any such look, and then continue treating Jedao like a new teammate.

When jeng-zai appears, she's there. She's a good, if slippery, player, and knows some entertaining variant rules.

... would like continued opportunities to show off, and possible build a ~~death~~ liberation robot. Also some chances to interact with new people!

I definitely hope that this interlude involves a lot of the Cantata zooming a robot around and occasionally knocking it into things!

Sasha will clear Reshad to discuss Jedao's past with him.

She considers the hacking attempt normal Shuos behavior; if anything, Jedao's lack of persistence is a little boring.

Over one of the jeng-zai games, Jedao finally says to Reshad, "It's not anyone's secret that my past is being withheld from me. I can make certain deductions from that very fact, but I would prefer to know, if it's permitted. I doubt whatever you tell me is worse than my imagination."

The Cantata is eager to participate in gravitational/robot-zooming experiments, and is especially interested in how robots are built and programmed, surely something that Alaric has Opinions about!

Reshad folds her hand up, a measure of respect. "I apologise for the delay. But, yes - would you like to have this conversation here or more privately?"

She'll follow his lead on that. This is...well, she's been rehearsing this or something like it in her head since it was agreed there was a chance of capture.

"Thank you for the option," Jedao says. "More privately, please, wherever you deem suitable. I trust we're being monitored anyway." He smiles sardonically.

I looked up special forces-ish workouts on the train yesterday and learned essentially that they are very boring: lots of running, pushups, pullups, situps, some rucking, and swimming if you can manage it. Jedao's probably spending a ton of time on the treadmill in a weighted vest. I imagine he has a couple of sword forms for variety.

Good to know, thanks!

I am almost glad I'm a marshmallow??? Which reminds me, I need to practice lunges tomorrow...

EDIT: OK, in the holiday chaos, I see I missed a bit of info. I'm editing this post some more now.

I don't think she has history with the other characters. In my own character canon, after falling through the time rift, she eventually got herself settled in a job as a cook/buyer for a restaurant in a port. The place reminded her a bit of the restaurant she ran with her family back on Hartsh, which she learned is now supporting a border listening post called the Tower of Sintered Lenses.

Now aboard, during the hours before the party, Dar has been acquainting herself with the parts of the ship that will be her responsibility and taking a look at the supply inventory. She is pleased and surprised that she has her own room, even though it is a tiny slip of a space.

Note that she doesn't own much in the way of clothing etc. and what she does own is very practical.

She hesitantly asks about weapons. It seems that it might be useful to have such, but her recent existence has not allowed it. And she is out of practice.

[GMs, would Dar even have an augment? I was thinking that she would jump at the chance to look at media and see whether any music from her homeworld was available , and then wondering whether she'd be able to use the grid. I guess she would need to, for her duties, what with supply inventories etc.]

Edited 2020-01-02 00:21 (UTC)

"Let's take it to quarters." Neutral ground would be better, but every neutral area aboard is public. She leads the way to hers.

"We may be." The grid, at least, is watching; whether anyone has eyes on it is another question. "Including by Cantata, who usually has a good sense of when things are private." But if he doesn't already know the moth can listen, he needs to.

Once they've arrived, she sits, invites him to sit. "So: you're famous for military skill. That's not different from what you know. You already know you attained immortality. You were present in battles well past even the record lifespan, even with the technology of my time." Her tone is as neutral as she can make it.

"But you were called an arch-traitor after the catastrophe at Hellspin Fortress."

[Sorry for the slow! I had to make sure she's getting it somewhere in the vicinity of useful.]

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