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hexarchate_rpg2017-07-25 04:24 pm
yhlee) wrote in 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: Kaliyan is bad at ignoring hierarchies: paging Ashari
Ankat, giving explosives specifically to him and the scary ersatz kinsman.
Mikodez knows he was nothing special at the one training session that he attended. He runs down the list of other crew. Aside from Ashari, Kaliyan, and maybe Yehan in the cockpit, Alaric in engineering, Sasha wherever she is, that still leaves out one other - the scholarly, precise Virmad, with his Tlen-Gwa research. But that meant nothing. He could still be a Shuos agent, like everyone else on the moth. (At some point he really had to decide if the Shuos were capable of a plan as baroque as conjuring up a fake rebellion team of twelve separate identities, body-modding one of them, finding an antique moth, and faking complex natural phenomena, just for one second year cadet, and he was afraid of the answer might be.)
It will take a few moments for Mikodez to reread the precise wording in his message and to remember that ‘party favors’ might mean nothing special in Kel slang from Ankat’s time.
[Mikodez is kind of still stuck on the would-be-double agent shtick, thanks to my glacial rate of replies, so Sulen can decide on where they’re going after this?]
Re: Kaliyan is bad at ignoring hierarchies: paging Ashari
But instead of immediately moving off, they lean in.
"I don't know what your game is," they say. "Maybe you're exactly what you seem to be. But I doubt it. I'm not an Inquisitor any more, so it isn't my business. But if you betray us, I will hunt you down. And if anything happens to Ashari because of you, you'll find out exactly what it's like to have all your secrets stripped from you."
They lean back. "Nothing personal. I'll be giving that speech to that guy who looks like your cousin and that technologically inclined foreigner, too."
(ง •̀o•́)ง
He spends the next three seconds wishing for a door to slam like a teenager while he figures out why he’s this touchy over someone he avoided talking to all trip. But since he’s started, he might as well dig himself in some more. “You and Ashari both,” he says, dredging up his sister’s impressions of her first girlfriend’s parents.
[Have a good trip!]