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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.
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.
Re: Sasha is bad at hierarchies, Paging Team
Iawa smiles at the edible spinners with genuine appreciation. "Thank you," he says, freeing up a hand to take the snack and spin it around before nibbling on it.
The flavour is exactly right, a little taste of home. He hasn't had one since he left home for the Vidona. The number of spokes is wrong -- six, not seven, and colours are a jumble of all the different faction colours except the traditional edible gold and white, but the design is otherwise exactly the same as when they were a Liozh delicacy.
"This is great, Avrayen. I've missed honey spice gears so much." Maybe the kid isn't so bad after all.
[Mikodez may have succeeded in bugging Iawa in the sense of feeding him a tracker (did he do that?) but he failed to bug Iawa in the sense of annoying him, this time. And may be interested to know that this snack used to be associated with a faction considered heretical in his time period!
PS, for everyone else who was wondering: edible fidget spinner video.]
Re: Sasha is bad at hierarchies, Paging Team
[oh no, I was trying to come up possible overtures that Mikodez might have made during the transit time. So nothing that Iawa received, probably! But I thought it might be useful next move if Mikodez runs away and Ashari attempted to use the tracker in the bar, only to find a tangle of trails from all the people [like the incoming boarders] who ate one? Mostly this was for the video’s sake.]