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

Yo, Seyli ...

[chomiji]

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

Dar and Seyli in the Kitchen with a Servitor

[kese_seyli]

[Seyli's going to go with Dar]

"I guess it's just you and I," Seyli says, sighing heavily as they come up longside of Dar and the heavy duty servitor. "We'll get the essentials, I'll follow your lead, but I grew up working in my parent's food stand, so I at least know my way around a kitchen."

Re: Dar and Seyli in the Kitchen with a Servitor

[chomiji]

Dar looks back and smiles.

Thanks for comin' with," she said. "It really is better t'have a couple of us. Big Guy can do a lot, I bet, but there's always smaller stuff that's easier to pass on down to the loader. I've never run one this large on my own, but I'm good with smaller ones, and I've seen what these big guys can do.

"And I really am gettin' worried about how much we'll be able t' load on the ship before we gotta blow this joint," she adds.

Paging GMs - Re: Dar and Seyli in the -Warehouse- with a Servitor

[chomiji]

[So yeah, I mean, I can make up what they find in the station storage and how they work with the servitor? Should I do that? ]

Re: Paging GMs - Re: Dar and Seyli in the -Warehouse- with a Servitor

[yhlee]

[Please go ahead! If there's something you're not sure about, of course you can always ask, but generally most storage things are open to player invention, whether you want the PCs to be really well prepared or you want to create hilarious/terrible complications down the road.]

Re: Dar and Seyli in the Kitchen with a Servitor

[kese_seyli]

"It seems shit hits the fan fast around here, so I think we should focus on the essentials and get it on the Moth as fast as possible," Seyli says, shaking their head as they hit the kitchens. "I've never worked with one like this, but I've worked with the big guys," they say, borrowing her phrasing.

Re: Dar and Seyli in the - Warehouse - with a Servitor

[chomiji]

"That's great, that you know how! I think he's set up to handle all kinds of goods."

Following the directions from the Grid, Dar hangs a left. They're in a very short corridor that ends in a wide single door with an old-style palm lock. Dar raises her eyebrows and places her palm on the panel.

After a second or two, the door whooshes up into the ceiling and a gust of cold, sterile-smelling air rushes out. Lights come on slowly in the big space ahead of them.

To the left are a range of big metal doors: that's where the cold is coming from. Freezers, Dar thought. Ahead and to the right are rows and rows of open-frame metal shelves, towering up to the ceiling more than four meters above their heads. They're labelled tersely: Medical, Stable foods, Synth mass, Gen. repair+tools, Power, and more. They match the more detailed inventory diagram Dar has on Grid.

At the edge of a town down-planet, it wouldn't be considered that large a warehouse, but on this small station, it's a huge space.

"OK, so I made this list - can I pass it t' you in the Grid?" says Dar.

Re: Dar and Seyli in the - Warehouse - with a Servitor

[kese_seyli]

"Yeah, pass it along." Seyli feels like they're on equal footing with Dar, which is useful for this, and no awkward attempts and trying to figure out where they stand with her. "I know what I'm doing, but it's always good to make sure the person who is going to be handling most of this has what they need. Wouldn't want the person feeding me mad at me," they say with a grin and a wink. They're ignoring, for now, what's going on with the rest of the team. This is just as important, in their mind, as finding a missing scientist.

Re: Dar and Seyli in the - Warehouse - with a Servitor

[chomiji]

The list proves to be detailed not only with what items were needed (and it included medical supplies and repair components as well as food) but how large the boxes, crates, or shipping cannisters were as well.

Dat squinted at the shelves and then at the big servitor.

"D'you think the Big Guy can help us fill out the space we got? I made some estimates, but I didn't wanna make things too tight, ya know?"

Re: Dar and Seyli in the - Warehouse - with a Servitor

[yhlee]

Big Guy makes an affirmative blue and purple blinking, as if assuring Dar that her estimates are good.

Re: Dar and Seyli in the - Warehouse - with a Servitor

[chomiji]

Dar looks genuinely startled, and then a slow smile spreads across her face.