hexarchate_rpg | 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."

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[OOC: who is Yisran again? I can't for the life of me remember. :') ]

[Ankat's dog, aka the best character in the game!]

Edited 2017-08-25 23:07 (UTC)

[Ashari must have gotten her canids mixed up! There are no foxes on the Wasp, except for Yehan, who is a dignified paragon of linguistic help. Weird that Ankat's dog is going to the station without Ankat himself.]

[The disposition of Ankat's dog is properly up to

talifabian, of course, but I now have this vision of dog-as-avant-garde-component-of-Ashari's-art-installation.]

[;-; substituting obfuscation for competence again, but this is me trying to proceed on the Mikodez's-cover-being-blown subplot, since Sasha being elliptical about his weapons training/nicknaming him Mishka has alerted him to there being a file on him (and this resistance being organized enough to have Shuos files on him).
His deliberate misunderstanding of "little fox" in Ashari's message was meant to provoke them into a sort of acknowledgement about his real identity, since there hasn't been a confrontation about it yet. If they're at all inclined to hash it out before descending on the Nirai station, that is. Keeping him in a morass of uncertainty could work too.

talifabian hand to heart I would never so much as feed a tracker granola bar to Ankat's pup.]

[I trust you completely. Shuos seem to have a thing for adorable animals :D]

[Ashari can get a little... too into their personas. So they absolutely have a costume ready for the dog, but whether Ankat actually agreed to this is tbd.]

[Vantablack dog jacket? (but it doesn't even have to be avant-garde, since people spin dog hair all the time.)]

[You know what this game NEEDS? A rival artist NPC on the station who works in violent pink and wants our black pigments and is furious we won't share. (brief explanation here for those who were not aware of the Vantablack controversy)]

[The GM is listening! Unless you or someone else wants to run the NPC for Special Guest Appearance purposes.]

[If it's not avante garde, Ashari will find a way to MAKE it avante garde, even if it's just by convincing everyone around them that it definitely is.

As for the Rival Artist NPC, I can't stop laughing at the idea.]

[Where would any infiltration be without completely unrelated people stumbling in and messing up all the clockwork mechanisms?* I do remember the fungal canisters that Vidona Diaiya used as creating pink fruiting bodies. (pink is also happy servitors? But horrible fungal paints is way more likely for a Nirai station)
*Successful]

Move 7 (Chapter 1.7)

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[Yisran??? paging Ankat]

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[rival artist NPC?]

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