hexarchate_rpg | Chapter 3.4: Breaking down the base

zuhrovet posting in

As the meeting ends, the team members move to their assigned tasks.

Dar, Deyna, Seyli and Sulen collect some heavy-duty servitors and begin transferring supplies to the Cantata.

Alaric, Reshad, Shess, and the Cantata's drone prepare to remove the harness from Ankat's moth, The Sedulous Eel.

Back on the Cantata, Sasha goes to her office and starts remotely wiping memory nodes on the base's grid. Jedao is in the Communications/Gunnery room, controlling the weapons. Xiulan acts as his backup. Remi has been instructed to look for patterns or causes of the missing interstellar signals.

Meanwhile, Hana and Eddox look after the mothlings, perhaps joined by Mafyyil, who for some reason has not received clear instructions. Gerae and Ione divide their attention between the mothlings and the nest of pseudo-dragons.

[Welcome to a new move!

I know that things are stressful and uncertain for all of us right now. Please don't fret if you suddenly find yourself with less or more free time than usual--we will adjust! If you would like to give your character a node of peace where they drink tea and admire baby aliens for the next while, this can be arranged. Conversely, if you want a plotty distraction, we will bring you one!

My own focus is unreliable of late, but I'll work on a recap of the previous move as I can.]

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From:

flowersforgraves

Deyna raises an eyebrow, but responds as soon as her implant pings.

will do. txt to sulen etc y/n?

From:

chomiji

[if it doesn't mess up your refereeing/management, I think folks ought to go where they think their characters would go. I certainly don't want to force anyone on what would seem to be a boring supply run while there's a mystery afoot. And if others have bonded with Remi, it makes more sense that they would get distracted. Besides, ordering this crew around is like herding cats, from what I've seen!

Dar genuinely is spooked by the idea of taking a dozen-plus people into hyperspace/time rifts without sufficient supplies, BTW.]

From:

zuhrovet

[Has Remi been in contact with any entity or program outside the Cantata team?]

From:

zuhrovet

[I know I'm moving fast! No need to provide extra hints until other folks have a chance to ask their own questions.]

From:

zuhrovet

Sasha replies, "will clear u."

[Assume she sends a terse message to Dar, and to Seyli & Sulen if they're not joining the search party?]

From:

zuhrovet

[Got it!

The previous chapters have been fairly early in the hexarchate/heptarchate timeline and we haven't previously interacted with servitors, so establishing a working relationship with them is potentially plot-relevant, too.]

From:

chomiji

[. :-)
TTFN ... I worked a full week so it's bedtime now. ]

From:

hoardingpearls

"Can you detect rifts?" Maybe moth senses? Maybe Norai sensors? But if a Nirai were to attack those very sensors-

"And can you run diagnostics? Is everything working all right?"

With someone else investigating the actual area of Remi's disappearance, Reshad busies herself warning the other two moth crews that the visitors from Cantata are slightly delayed, and would they please run the beginning preparations now. She copies this crew on the fact that she's done so.

From:

flowersforgraves

Deyna slips out the back of the room where she'd been meeting with Dar, Sulen, and Seyli. As she heads to the edge of the station, she accesses the maps Sasha sent her. It looks like she can make a quick circuit without too much trouble, and it'll help her check out any shortcuts besides.

From:

hoardingpearls

[I'm assuming this is paused while we deal with the disappearance!

The sleuthing is exciting for me. :3]

From:

zuhrovet

[

slybrarian, any thoughts on methods for detecting rifts? Some kind of gravitational ripple or trace radiation, maybe?]

From:

zuhrovet

[Also, had Remi continued his habit of keeping a diary?]

From:

yhlee

[A search will turn up Remi's diary in a desk drawer in his room. He didn't take it with him.]

From:

yhlee

[Yes, that seems wise. Enjoy the sleuthing!]

From:

yhlee

"I can sometimes tell the big rifts are there, but the little ones are barely noticeable," Cantata replies. "Mostly I only know they're there when something goes in or out and the masses change."

From:

yhlee

[No such contact.]

From:

yhlee

When Deyna gets to the corridor where Remi vanishes, she can see the very slight scuffing of footprints, which go up to the spot where he vanished and then--nothing.

[If you have questions about other specific locations, let me know.]

From:

zuhrovet

Sasha checks the base grid for any evidence of other objects suddenly disappearing, or for tampering by someone other than her or Remi.

She also writes to Ankat and Kaliyan:

remi has gone missing. keep an eye on your people. ~S.

From:

zuhrovet

Well, locks and sleep are for other people. Sasha retrieves the diary and flips to the most recent entry.

From:

stormglass

[No worries at all! Especially since I got waylaid by a vision-blurring headache after dinner that’s taken until this afternoon to ease up. Verdict is…I seriously need to rearrange the impromptu work from home setup before my spine smacks me one any further :p]

Earpiece having been settled into place as she left the conference room, when Cantata sends its query about Remi’s whereabouts, Xiulan hears it and frowns a little. “I last saw him about ten minutes ago,” she replies back, to the same broadcast group Cantata spoke to. “He was with the mothlings.”

The tailend said as she’s stepping into Gunnery/Communications, she nods at Jedao and asks him, “Did you hear that? Remi’s missing. Which, I gather that’s a feat when a moth is looking for you.”

Considering the door control panel for a moment, she taps on it, setting a delayed open sequence and an alert if someone goes to open it from the outside.

"Your instructions?"

The word choice gets a bit of a smile. In general, her demeanor is as it seemed outwardly during the party, surface ease underlaid with sharper attention.

“Do what you need to, to get scan linked in and systems prepped to fire if we need to. I’ll see if anyone is aboard the Typhoon.”

So saying, Xiulan hails the other moth, watching what Jedao is doing while she does. It’s not done in a suspicious fashion, but curious and ready to learn.

From:

chomiji

[Does Seyli join the Remi hunt or come with Dar and Big Guy the Servitor?]

From:

kese_seyli

Seyli looks to Sulen. "One one us should go wit Dar and the other with Deyna, we can't completely stop breaking things down just because someone vanished."

From:

venndaai

On the one hand, this is absolutely correct. On the other hand, an unexplained disappearance feels like both Sulen's direct responsibility and something they know how to react to.

"I will go with Deyna," they say, "unless you have an objection."

They ping Sasha on their augment to see if she's available to call.

From:

zuhrovet

"Here," Sasha says, with the dead calm that substitutes for screaming.

From:

yhlee

The most recent entry is dated to the day before Ashari's party and the fateful interrogation. It includes a meticulous (not to say dry) account of mothling care and status. In a hand-drawn sidebar, there is what appears to be a recipe for yogurt cake--wishful thinking, perhaps?

[Sorry for the delayed response; I've been having headache issues.]