preparation post

[zuhrovet]

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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Re: Jedao's History

[yhlee]

Jedao's lips part in a sudden silent laugh. "Rebellion? Not unless it involved bioengineering or, I suppose, radical poetry. My sister was the poetical one; I don't have the ear for it, I'm afraid." Then: "I know what the heptarchate does to the families of traitors."

Re: Jedao's History

[hoardingpearls]

They're going to need all sorts of skills before this is done. And, thinking of a very peculiar conversation she'd once had with Mafyyil, Reshad wonders about the efficacy of a poet in the right place.

This, though? Not the time.

"The hexarchate is not kind to them, either." She inclines her head. "Truly, I don't know. We can find out, if it helps. Or, if your disappearance is likely to endanger them? We can try to prevent that from happening." That's a question simply because she doesn't know the protocol, at this point in time. Another thing she should have looked up before the operation.

She'd never thought she might need to justify historical research decisions to the very subject of that history.

Re: Jedao's History

[yhlee]

Jedao lifts one shoulder, lets it fall. "It's important to me," he says dryly, "but that doesn't make it an operational priority for your group. I do understand the distinction."

A quick OOC request-

[hoardingpearls]

[would Reshad know if it's possible for the rebellion to visit the same time period more than once, or would she know if they have multiple moths? This affects timing rather than content of her actions.]

Re: A quick OOC request-

[yhlee]

[They can visit the same time period more than once, although this tends to result in new timelines, unless I've missed something from earlier that contradicts this. She'd know about the multiple moths.]

Re: Jedao's History

[hoardingpearls]

"I wouldn't suggest otherwise. But as you say, we'll need something to come after our triumph." She turns the hand on the table palm up.

"A poet can inspire and chronicle; that is valuable in itself. Biology isn't going to be optional -you've heard about the Mothlings. And no doubt there will be stranger things than I have yet imagined. So - I won't promise success, but we can make a pitch for pulling them out."

And the other thing, the one she's still learning to work around. "The nice thing about time travel is that we can regroup and plan. Soonest is only best in linear calendars."

Re: Jedao's History

[yhlee]

Jedao's mouth quirks. "I appreciate your efforts to motivate me," he says. "But I can't be the only one who's lost family or friends or lovers." He's watching for her reaction.

Re: Jedao's History

[hoardingpearls]

"Of course not. But you're the first one I've asked."

This time, her smile is a scar. "And my family would no more recognize Shuos Reshad than they would Hexarch Mikodez."

Re: Jedao's History

[yhlee]

Jedao's gaze sharpens as he considers that. "I can hardly be," he says, "the only asset whose loyalty you'd like to secure. Is this is a personal interest, or a strategic one?"

As to the latter--"That's a difficult position to be in." He's not sympathetic, exactly, but he's not unsympathetic, either. "My birthworld Eshpatan 'chose' to join the heptarchate in my grandparents' time. It was a fact of life by the time I was born, but I heard some of the stories."

Re: Jedao's History

[hoardingpearls]

"This is a bit of both. What I want is for this rebellion to succeed." Would she like his loyalty? Of a certainty. She would prefer, though, to be worthy of it.

Reshad nods at the mention of Eshpatan, this being something familiar from her studies. Not the more far-fetched - that world, reading between the lines, had hardly thrown itself on the Heptarchs' mercy in awe of their kindness, or given up its governments as offerings of peace - but the timelines, those she knows.

Assuming they weren't lies, too, whether incidental to drama or more intentional.

"I was ten when I went to the Vidona school," she offers, in return. "But if you saw the files, you know as much."

Re: Jedao's History

[yhlee]

"Because the rebellion is the most useful means to an end, or because you're invested in the specific organization?" Jedao's voice is sardonic. "There did seem to be some amount of interpersonal division."

At the mention of the Vidona school: "Old enough to remember, then," Jedao says, "and young enough to be malleable, as the heptarchate counted these things. I can't imagine it was very different in your time."

Re: Jedao's History

[hoardingpearls]

"Because this rebellion is the most useful means to end the tortures. Because I was assigned here - and because we hold an advantage over every other organization I have seen." Reshad matches the sardonic line of his smile. She'd told him once: hexarch's orders. This time, her fingers are still.

"Division is a kind way of putting it."

"It wasn't so different in my time." That comes in a gentler tone, tiptoeing around atrocity, perhaps."