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hexarchate_rpgSasha has distributed flutes of sparkling water and small glasses filled with a clear liquor. She finds a clear place to stand near the edge of the party--Jedao and Alaric are to her left, the cluster of people around the mothlings falls at about 3π/8--and signals the grid to adjust the light so that she is highlighted and the other partygoers are very slightly in shadow. She asks the grid for a ringing sound and waits for people to quiet. Her voice slightly amplified by the grid, she says, "Welcome, everyone. We have a unique combination of expertise, on the Cantata. I'm glad that you are here." (It's a formal situation, so she uses the plural 'you'.) "While we are gathered, let us toast to the success of the rebellion."
Sasha waits for an answering murmur, then raises her own glass and knocks it back. The liquor tastes like snow and homesickness; but these are her people now. A slight gesture of her left hand makes illumination linger on Jedao for a moment, before the room lights return to normal.
Sasha sees Remi trying to explain that shot glasses are not for mothlings, and grins in genuine amusement.
[We have some really fascinating conversations running in the previous move. I don't want to cut them off, but please put new threads here!
Also, an out-of-character public service announcement: Remi is a youthful, apparently non-sociopathic version of Kujen, plucked from an earlier timeline. He has not yet interacted with Jedao.]
Sasha waits for an answering murmur, then raises her own glass and knocks it back. The liquor tastes like snow and homesickness; but these are her people now. A slight gesture of her left hand makes illumination linger on Jedao for a moment, before the room lights return to normal.
Sasha sees Remi trying to explain that shot glasses are not for mothlings, and grins in genuine amusement.
[We have some really fascinating conversations running in the previous move. I don't want to cut them off, but please put new threads here!
Also, an out-of-character public service announcement: Remi is a youthful, apparently non-sociopathic version of Kujen, plucked from an earlier timeline. He has not yet interacted with Jedao.]
Titles are hard (Paging Dar)
Date: 2020-02-19 03:41 pm (UTC)She has met Dar before, the both of them having been on the base prior to the Canata’s arrival. Xiulan had made an effort to meet everyone she could, but a week isn’t much time for anything much more than some hellos.
“Sasha talk to you about logistics?”
Re: Titles are hard (Paging Dar)
Date: 2020-02-20 01:38 am (UTC)[In response to the question about Sasha]
"She did, yeah. Got me thinking about the ship supply sityooson and how much range we have before re-supply if we can take a full load here." Although she muddles "situation" in the High Language, the context make it obvious what she means.
[ETA: I'm coming down with a cruddy cold, so that's it for tonight.]
Re: Titles are hard (Paging Dar)
Date: 2020-02-23 08:02 pm (UTC)Not being a native speaker of the High Language herself, Xiulan’s face shifts very briefly at the garbled word, as she uses context and sentence structure to parse it. That she feels the process happening on some conscious level, moving like molasses in her head, speaks to something she is not interested in having a conversation with right now.
What Dar says overall though, brings a smile.
“That’s great. Sounded like we might need to leave here sooner than later, so I expect resupply will be a priority topic tomorrow.”
Gazing speculatively at the wall in the rough direction in which the moths are docked, she asks, “How much range do we have, supply-wise, do you know? I wonder how often people come across timelines like this, without a good source for stocking up.”
Re: Titles are hard (Paging Dar)
Date: 2020-02-24 01:49 am (UTC)"I figured 150 days would be pretty safe, given the stowage of various kinds and the crew size. I dunno what that means in distance or time, though. Starships are still pretty new to me."
Although she had got more familiar than she'd liked with the steerage quarters of the ships that had taken her and her fellow prisoner-laborers to the terraforming project.
Re: Titles are hard (Paging Dar)
Date: 2020-02-24 05:35 pm (UTC)Xiulan nods. “Not bad. Add in emergency rations...” Well, hopefully they don’t need to resort to that too often.
“Yeah?” she says about starships. “Did you live planet-side before? I’ve been around ships my whole life, but the ones here have still had quite a few surprises.” She smiles. “Like variable layout.” The smile slips away as she adds, “And what’s going on with the moths.”