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yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote in [community profile] hexarchate_rpg2017-07-25 04:24 pm
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Move 4 (Chapter 1.4)

Time: 361 (high calendar)
Place: out-rift near Station Moongray

[GM's note: I know several characters/players are still resolving matters from Move 3. That's fine! You may continue posting to Move 3 to resolve those threads or shift threads over to Move 4 to reflect the changed state of affairs, whichever you feel more comfortable with. Ashari and the rest probably ought to settle the matter of who's going where.]

A few new things happen.

Presumably Sasha has some kind of alert set up on the virus. She notices that it's trying to wriggle its way out into the wider grid, specifically so it can listen in on conversations and send back recordings to its unknown master.

[Since the grid responds to voice address, it's a fair bet that some form of sensors are always active within the Wasp.]

Meanwhile, Kaliyan, who is monitoring Scan from the Wasp's cockpit/command center, gets an alert from the Wasp's automated functions. While the "welcome message" from Station Moongray is still droning on repeat, what looks like the research moth Butterfly Lens is starting to move in the Wasp's direction.

What's more, a basic query of Scan will reveal that a second spacecraft has come out from the Scan shadow of a large nearby planetoid, and is also converging on the Wasp's location. While this second spacecraft isn't making any (more) effort to hide itself, any check on Scan will reveal that, unlike the Butterfly Lens, this second moth has some armaments. It's not a full-fledged warship--and it's almost certainly not Kel, since the Kel avoid traveling alone if they can help it--but it's probably intended for local defense.

[EDITED TO ADD: Sorry, I glitched and forgot]
If Yehan gets a good luck at the second ship on visuals, she'll notice with some surprise that it looks like a ship out of the past--there are markings on it that look Naxorian, but weirdly distorted, like it's from another dialect or related symbology.
lleullawgyffes: a wolf looking at the camera (Default)

[ooc note: Christological doctrine]

[personal profile] lleullawgyffes 2017-07-26 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[this is entirely unrelated but every time I see "Naxorian" my brain tries its darnedest to make me read it as "Nestorian"]
lleullawgyffes: a wolf looking at the camera (Default)

Re: [ooc note: Christological doctrine]

[personal profile] lleullawgyffes 2017-07-27 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[to be honest so did I — I knew it was a Christian theology thing but could not have told you what it actually meant, lol]
zuhrovet: A green frog (Default)

Re: [ooc note: Christological doctrine]

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2017-07-26 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)

[Heh, that could have been subconscious convergence on my part.

Want to invent a religious heresy for Rosemallow House? They did other nefarious things, including illegally diverting tax-farming proceeds from the military to their own security forces, but I'm sure religion was involved.

I didn't do this on purpose either, but the Naxorian state religion emphasizes cyclic divine revelations in a way somewhat similar to Baha'i.]

lleullawgyffes: a wolf looking at the camera (Default)

Re: [ooc note: Christological doctrine]

[personal profile] lleullawgyffes 2017-07-27 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
[well, as everyone knows, all Christological doctrine that isn't Arianism or at least compliant with Arianism is erroneous and heretical, so imo if there's a heresy involved should be based on Nicene Trinitarianism somehow.]
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Re: [ooc note: Christological doctrine]

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2017-07-27 03:52 am (UTC)(link)

[But why stop at three? The Rosemallow adhere to a sect that holds there are five aspects of the divine. Counting mod five then follows naturally, and they await the Zeroth Prophet.]