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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."
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."
Re: Flashback: In-n-Out of Character Plans (PAGING TEAM)
Two: I've got lokkis for everyone to use on station. They're encrypted and you can open a mini-terminal to the Wasp's grid if you need to.
Three: I put the station's welcome packet on all the lokkis. Also a Bumblebee crew list with the names and roles Yehan generated, and an outline of station emergency procedures.
Four: Leave your tablets on the Wasp, or talk to me about a security package-- the station's infested with tracking viruses.
Five: Assume everything you do on station is recorded.
Six: Avrayen volunteered me to talk to a lattice engineer. I'm planning to say that the problems with our lattice connection involve payment rather than the technical setup, but I'd appreciate any guidance. Or an excuse to skip the meeting.
Seven: Ankat, Kaliyan-- thank you. I'll try not to slow you down too much."
Sasha wonders if she should have mentioned her printer, but in the heptarchate everyone looks at you strangely if your report has eight items. Besides, the Kel are being so helpful-- she doesn't want to imply she didn't trust their protection.
Re: Flashback: In-n-Out of Character Plans (PAGING TEAM)
As to your sixth point, that depends on how far you're willing to go. If you want to really get out of there, you could always swing by my office. In the top left hand drawer there should be a couple of small containers. The murky blue one has capsules of a mild... hm... poison. Nothing fatal, but it certainly won't be pleasant. It makes it look like you've had an allergic reaction to something and should be enough to get you out of there. You'll want to take it an hour before the meeting, at least. The effects should only last for about half an hour, but you'll look bad enough afterwards that no one will want to bother you."
[I hope having Ashari have a collection of convenient poisons and whatnot isn't too far out. It seems pretty in character to me, though personally, I know nothing about poisons. But hey, if Shakespeare could have a king die via his bro dripping poison into his ear, I figure this isn't too much of a stretch?]
[Ashari's poisons]
I'm going to say Ashari can definitely have a collection of inconveniencing-rather-than-super-lethal poisons, but would probably also be aware that a Nirai research station of all things, even one from an earlier time period, probably would be reasonably well-equipped for diagnosis, so Sasha will have beware of helpful Nirai doctors.]
Re: Flashback: In-n-Out of Character Plans (PAGING TEAM)
[OT: you have slain the GM]
HA HA HA HA HA
*wheeze*]
Re: Flashback: In-n-Out of Character Plans (PAGING TEAM)
Re: Flashback: In-n-Out of Character Plans (PAGING TEAM)
On the poison front, I'm not sure I want to give the teenager the satisfaction of making me puff up like a black rain frog, but I'll grab a pill just in case."
Re: Flashback: In-n-Out of Character Plans (PAGING TEAM)
As for the poison, do be careful with it. Doctors on stations like these tend to be a little too helpful, but it's effective."
a little bit of flashback hacking
On Ashari's behalf, Sasha makes a request for a quote on an ad buy: how much would it cost to show an advertisement to patrons of the arts (dance, music, live theater, galleries) on Station Moongray? How many potential eyeballs are there, broken down by age group and faction? Does the ad-seller recommend cross-listing to any other particular interest groups?
She checks to see whether the pseudo-Naxorian virus has turned up anything useful: did her initial data-grab include official duty schedules, for example? (That sort of thing never means much with Nirai, who work weird hours as a matter of pride, but it's a place to start.)
She sends a tiny scanner program to wander through the station grid, looking for variants on the wriggly virus. If somebody else has already done the work of accessing station cameras, there's no reason to re-invent the wheel.
Finally, she checks the grid for three or four memes that will be tremendously popular a month or so from now, and sets a bot to post them to the station's anonymous chatboard. (For now, she just wants people to share the files; once that happens, she'll start offering infected versions.)
[While I write this, my spouse's Eberron character is inventing a steamshovel.]
Re: a little bit of flashback hacking
The pseudo-Naxorian virus has turned up not only duty schedules but some rather harried notes on overtime and equipment time-sharing squabbles. Nirai Remi's name turns up twice in that latter context; apparently he has a certain amount of authority over one of the detectors and had to intervene before things got heated.
A variant of the wriggly virus is in almost all the station cameras except the ones around the main detector, which appear to be clean.
[Ah, Eberron! Those were the days. *g* I played an Eberron bard once in a live tabletop campaign.]
Re: a little bit of flashback hacking - command, take note?
She forwards the duty schedule information to Ashari and the Kel, along with the notes on Remi. She also checks her maps: can she tell where Remi's detector is, or is that inside a secure area? Then she sends the Naxorian virus after information on security and maintenance workers. She's interested in both rough numbers (how many people might notice, if they start messing with the drones?) and purchasing records that might tell her what protocols are in place.
The gap in wriggly-virus presence is almost as interesting as the coverage. Sasha tries to work out where the data it gathers is going.
[Can Sasha get images out of the station cameras? How good is the resolution (for example, can she start reading people's passphrases)? How prevalent is the coverage (will literally everything we do on station be visible, or are there obvious blank spots?)]
Re: a little bit of flashback hacking - command, take note?
Remi's detector is inside a secure area, but given that there are only so many secure areas on the station, she can narrow it down to one of three levels. It probably won't even be that hard to find out where the detector is--it's the kind of information someone might let slip over drinks.
There are not as many security workers as you might think, with a lot of defenses automated, but a fair number of maintenance workers who are largely lower-level Nirai (grad students?).
Wriggly-virus data appears to be reporting to...the seconded Kel lieutenant's office. Kel Teo.
[Sasha can indeed get images out of station cameras, although the resolution is not good enough for passphrases. There are blank spots in coverage so if she maps them and passes them on to the team, they can be assured of some privacy. It looks like the cameras are mainly concerned with making sure no one randomly sabotages the equipment.]
Memos: Sasha to Iawa and Avrayen, Sasha to Yehan and Iawa
The lokwors don't have a full grid interface-- it's a security feature!-- so Sasha can't just push data to them.
She adds the information about places to avoid cameras to the other lokwors before handing them out, applying the veneer of a lightly gamified fitness app, with gold stars in different areas of the station and exhortations about how walking is good for spacers. One advantage of not being Shuos is not having to worry about whether your games are any good.
Memo: Sasha to Yehan and Iawa: Graphic design
[If anybody wants to describe the details of the near-future meme Sasha's trying to introduce to station, that would be neat!]
Re: Memos: Sasha to Iawa and Avrayen, Sasha to Yehan and Iawa
Re: Memos: Sasha to Iawa and Avrayen, Sasha to Yehan and Iawa
Re: a little bit of flashback hacking - command, take note?
Re: a little bit of flashback hacking - command, take note?
In fact, she can go back far enough to determine that he's become more punctual since contacting the Rebellion, as if trying to make extraction easier.
Re: a little bit of flashback hacking - command, take note?
[Any glimpses of Remi outside work and the dance studio? Always at the same bar on a Tuesday, that kind of thing?]
Re: a little bit of flashback hacking - command, take note?
...I can't remember what h*archate days of the week were called although it's probably in my notes, but for ease of play let's just go with the standard Sunday through Saturday during the heptarchate era.]
Re: a little bit of flashback hacking - command, take note?
[arrival information]
The Remi information will come through shortly after Sasha clears security.]
Re: [arrival information]
Re: [arrival information]
Re: [arrival information]
Anyway, yay, we know where to find Remi in two days if we need to!]