hexarchate_rpg | Chapter 3.4: Breaking down the base

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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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.

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

Sulen is still angry with Sasha, for how she provoked Ashari this morning, but they have plenty of experience working with people they're angry with. Hopefully, if Sasha rightfully blames them for not paying better attention to Remi, she can be professional about it also.

"Have you investigated his quarters yet?"

"He took his tablet, a bag of clothes, and a couple of days' supply of ration bars. The signal from his tablet cuts off at the same time as the grid's record of his presence. I have not been able to trace it."

There's an uneasy triple of possibilities: either Remi meant to stow away on one of the other moths, or he planned to be lost with the fragments of the station, or he is in a different universe entirely. Sasha wishes that third option seemed less likely.

After a long pause, Sasha adds, "I convinced him we would keep the mothlings safe. But he didn't believe I would protect him."

The knots in this tangle are all of her own making.

"I am going to catch up to Deyna, and then I would like to look at the room myself."

Sasha transmits a confirmation.

Saint of furling leaves, she needs to pull herself together.

Chapter 3.4: Breaking down the base

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