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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."
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)

On station: security theater appreciation

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2017-08-27 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Sasha hangs to the back of the group, a little apart from the other supposed Bumblebee crewmembers, and does what she always does when clearing security: ponders what could go horribly wrong.

The station crew seems more concerned about biological threats than physical ones. They've been very careful about airflow, but one member of the Kirtoi Liberation Front with a button bomb could take out that entire cluster of security workers. Perhaps if anything went really wrong they'd just dump air out of this section of the station?

"Excuse me," she asks Kel Teo, trying for precise high language vowels, "will you wand my backpack too? Or is there a separate scanner for equipment?"
zuhrovet: A green frog (Default)

Re: On station: security theater appreciation

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2017-08-27 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Sasha nods cheerfully. She finds Kel paranoia restful.

[If someone on the station recognizes Sasha's accent, that could pose (at least) two sorts of problems: they could identify her as the source of the pseudo-Naxorian virus, or they could try to recruit her to translate Rosemallow communications. Technically her first language is Kirrish, which might muddy the waters a little bit, but it wouldn't take a linguistics expert to make the connection.]