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yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote in [community profile] hexarchate_rpg2017-08-21 09:23 pm
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Move 7 (Chapter 1.7)

Time: 361
Place: Station Moongray, at last!

[GM's note: If your characters wanted to make any preparations or do any interactions in between Move 6 and Move 7, that's totally fine--just start a thread here with an appropriate subject header so everyone knows. If it's more in the nature of character RP than plot-related RP, it's also fine to start a separate character RP post.]

The Wasp
The Wasp is securely docked under Kaliyan's guidance in one of Moongray's bays--pretty roomy, but Moongray must be used to receiving shipments of raw materials for any fabrication, plus any specialty equipment they can't make or replace with what they have on-station.

In response to Alaric's last communication with the Wasp [Move 6], it responds with a box containing the Wasp, a bag-of-water human figure, and the Rebellion's logo and a "1." Then it pauses and sends two juxtaposed illustrations, one of a moth inside a box with a specifically Nirai voidmoth logo, and one of three moths outside the box.

The welcome on-station
When anyone who's coming on-station emerges, Andan Bokali and Nirai Pavn lead the way.

The group is greeted by Station Administrator Nirai Paerani Shan--who watches them from behind a translucent partition. Shan is a short, stumpy woman whose every inch of visible skin is covered with tattoos and/or implants. The lenses covering her eyes combined with the colorful, shimmering shawl she's wearing makes her resemble a butterfly. "So what's this I hear about trade goods?" she says through an intercom system that distorts her voice.

A rather harried looking group of security workers appears at another door that is blocked by yet another translucent partition. Interestingly (and this was not mentioned in the briefing materials), their leader appears to be a broad, muscular lieutenant seconded from the Kel--the Nirai uniform looks like it only barely fits him, and the golden Kel ashhawk at his breast gleams in the lights of the docking bay.

"Before we start negotiating," the lieutenant says after an inscrutable look in Shan's direction, as if he's used to her jumping the gun (so to speak), "I will have to ask you all to submit to a security and medical scan, for everyone's safety. It might tickle if you have any implants." He holds up a handheld scanner.

Bokali looks bemused. "I always do love being the guinea pig for any bored diseases, but I don't even feel so much as a sniffle coming on."
venndaai: (beehive)

Re: marching orders? - paging Ashari, Sulen, GM

[personal profile] venndaai 2017-08-24 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Sulen is a little concerned, but this whole situation kind of reminds them of past times when they'd attend Ashari's parties as moral support/a mild power move on Ashari's part. They're ready to keep an eye on people's signifiers and subtly indicate to Ashari if someone needs particular watching or is flickering in an alarming manner.

Ashari definitely took a moment on the way to the station to fix Sulen's beehive and spray their hair with product, which is also comfortingly familiar.

Re: marching orders? - paging Ashari, Sulen, GM

[personal profile] pengwern 2017-08-25 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[new icon :D (((A model of stylish rectitude as always)))]
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Re: marching orders? - paging Ashari, Sulen, GM

[personal profile] smokedetective 2017-08-25 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ashari has been trying to not make it look like they're too closely acquainted to Sulen or anyone else from the ship, at least in front of the station folk. That said, they're not failing miserably, but it's still clear to anyone who cares to look closely that they're slightly more attentive to Sulen for the two to just be acquaintances or fellow travelers.

Normally, Ashari is much better than this, but they did think that Sulen was dead until recently, so they're slipping up more than they normally would.