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

Someone else was also up late (Paging Sasha)

[stormglass]

[After the party the prior night, Sasha receives a draft of the evacuation plan - draft because there’s some items flagged where more information is needed.

There was an OOC request for particular info about timing, so:

IRL, I know we’re consistently able to evacuate hundreds of people from a building with several floors, in a few minutes. I’m not sure how big the base is, but Xiulan would know, so she’d have come up with a target time to meet based on that.

Key in the RL scenario is that people are focused on getting out (along with certain folks designated to help make sure everyone IS getting out and no one’s left behind), not doing other stuff, and that’s key here too. Given the circumstances, it seems best to assume the moths would be a big target: destroy or incapacitate them and people are stuck on base with nowhere to go and no help nearby.

So she’d advise that ensuring the moths have sufficient critical supplies aboard, such as food, is a top priority ASAP - not waiting or an actual evacuation. In event of an evacuation, you have people capable of handling the moth weapons systems head for the moths at top speed (or ideally onboard in shifts if possible) to defend them/the base while everyone else gets aboard. (Also, don’t assume all moths will make it through - have supplies for more people than anticipated on each and a plan for people to make it to their assigned moth, but to divert to another if they must.)

These are some of the items flagged for more info: do they have sufficient people to handle weapons (and if not, start getting more trained right away) and the matter of other ‘critical’ stuff on the station besides food that she may not know about. It acknowledges there may be some things that can’t be moved until last minute and accounts for that.

If more info is needed, just let me know.

EDIT: Forgot to clarify that there’s two bits to the timing info: ETA for a non-emergency evacuation and then also a plan for, an alert is sounded, go now, sort of situation. Since both seemed to be on the table depending on what happened.]

Re: Someone else was also up late (Paging Sasha)

[venndaai]

[If Sasha forwarded the plan to Sulen, they would have been happy to occupy themself checking supplies and compiling spreadsheets on team members' different skills. They enjoy that kind of thing.]

Re: Someone else was also up late (Paging Sasha)

[zuhrovet]

[Sasha can definitely share the evacuation plan!]