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: bugs in Comms - paging Xiulan

[yhlee]

[I mean, in real life you know way more physics than I do, although I have access to a gravitational astrophysicist who happens to think the h*archate is nonsense. Feel free to make something up!]

Re: bugs in Comms - paging Xiulan

[zuhrovet]

[Just don't ask me to do anything involving experiments or specific numbers!]

Re: bugs in Comms - paging Xiulan

[yhlee]

[If real numbers are involved, things are waaaaaaaay too granular anyway. I really don't want to be trying to run a fucking physics sim. "Certain quantities" or vague descriptors should work fine!]

Re: bugs in Comms - paging Xiulan

[zuhrovet]

[Ha, no, I am well aware that any numbers I use are due to my own poor life choices! I think the most complicated ones so far have involved refrigerator volumes. ;) ]

Re: bugs in Comms - paging Xiulan

[stormglass]

[I was in a game once featuring multiple dimensions and determined the PCs were basically in one that was based on a torus attractor, by reading some paper about chaos theory at 1am...ahh, for the days when I was in college and had time for that *L* ...that was a seriously complicated game and my brain is full of other things these days:p]

Re: bugs in Comms - paging Xiulan

[yhlee]

[If I have to wrassle attractors 20 years after leaving college there will be BLOOD. :p ]

Re: bugs in Comms - paging Xiulan

[stormglass]

[The hilarious (or terrible? both?) thing was, my PC was a port of a Shadowrun character who was really good with guns. But for background reasons, she knew a lot about physics and such. I had no idea it would ever be relevant, but then it turned out the key to 'figuring out' the puzzle of the overall game was heavily based on quantum physics. Cue me doing homework for a game, because I as player was NOT a physics major. *L*]