Chapter 3.4: Breaking down the base

[zuhrovet]

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.]

Comments

Re: To Break the Bit (Paging Alaric, Cantata, and Shess)

[yhlee]

"I was dreaming of songsharing," Cantata replies through the grid, "and then someone started sending me puzzles! First very easy ones, and then more exciting ones. We should do that again sometime."

Re: To Break the Bit (Paging Alaric, Cantata, and Shess)

[slybrarian]

"That seems fairly accurate," Alaric agrees. "From our perspective, shortly after exiting a rift into the relative past, before the hexarchate's current calendrical system was implemented to permit the use of the mothdrive, we noticed subtle changes in the drive's operation - noises, mostly. I jury-rigged a method for using the diagnostics to send and receive signals from the Cantata-the-moth itself, which I used to do some basic first-contact protocols involving math and eventually developed into the current automated translation system. I would expect we should be able to adapt that easily, although we can't expect instant results since there may be differences in language or dialect just as there can be with humans from different times and places."

Re: To Break the Bit (Paging Alaric, Cantata, and Shess)

[hoardingpearls]

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

The sleuthing is exciting for me. :3]

Re: To Break the Bit (Paging Alaric, Cantata, and Shess)

[yhlee]

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