Chapter 3.3: a belated meeting

[yhlee]

At 0800 local time, Ashari sends out a notice that everyone [= all the PCs and associated NPCs] should assemble for a planning meeting at 0830 in Conference Room A (the ballroom from last night).

At the same time, Ashari specifically messages Dar and asks her to set out a quick breakfast for the meeting, "nothing elaborate necessary, sorry about the short notice." [Dar is free to argue with this over the messaging system.]

Ashari will be in Conference Room A at 08,00 themself, pacing around and muttering and looking agitated, for anyone who shows up early. Among the early birds are Gerae, who keeps checking a nanny-cam app on his slate that keeps an eye on Fluffy and the baby Vraselian pseudo-dragons, and Istradez, who is looking around wistfully for non-sweet food.

ETA:
When most of the group has assembled, Ashari, still clearly ill at ease, says abruptly, "Some of you may be aware of the staggering emptiness of this timeline. I have decided that we need to evacuate, and soon, even though it means abandoning the base. Discuss."

[Please feel free to continue/wrap up threads from the previous move, Ch. 3.2. I will be responding to some threads there shortly.]

[Jedao's report to Sasha and Reshad will be forthcoming in a comment to this post shortly, once I remove a certain catten from my desk.]

Comments

Re: the meeting proper - paging everyone

[chomiji]

Dar listens to the arguments about the moths. She can understand the importance of not keeping intelligent beings in servitude. On the other hand, none of them are going to get out of here and stop the He*archate if they can't use the moths.

That's all above her paygrade, though. She focusses on the other quartermaster she'd met in the past week, and the servitor situation. She'd worked with a few of the robots when she was transferring party supplies around, but she's not sure how many are available and how many of them are heavy duty, suitable for hauling large flats and crates of supplies. She taps into the Grid to check this out.

Re: the meeting proper - paging everyone

[yhlee]

The grid claims that approximately thirty servitors are available around the base, but only ten are heavy-duty, and that they would require human supervision by aa quartermaster type to authorize moving Important Things. The grid asks if she would like to delegate any tasks at this time.

Re: the meeting proper - paging everyone

[chomiji]

Dar puts in whatever the equivalent of of a reservation is for 3 of the heavy-duty servitors for the next full standard day.

She decides to wait for the moth discussion extravaganza to die down before raising the issue of whether the other quartermaster folk have been briefed on the need to evacuate.