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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Sasha starts running code to pull data from carefully chosen station cameras, look for images of Remi, and collate those sightings with his duty schedule. It's a slow process, made slower by her desire to avoid setting off alarms within the station's grid. She briefly considers staying on the Wasp to babysit her projects, but the alternative is visiting a space station in the future, so there's no real contest.

...huh. Remi is really good at keeping to his duty schedule, excepting those times when the detector he's responsible for goes down and he has to stay up for longer hours. So predicting where he'll be shouldn't be difficult.

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.

[Any glimpses of Remi outside work and the dance studio? Always at the same bar on a Tuesday, that kind of thing?]

[Let's say he's always at the same bar on a Tuesday, sure, and that there's a cafe specializing in bubble tea where he picks up a drink every morning before going in to work.

...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.]

[What day and time are we arriving? And how quickly does Sasha extract this information? I can have her set an alarm if the Remi information will come through after clearing security. (Apologies for enforcing a local calendar!)]

[Let's say you're arriving in Month Three, Day Sixteen, 3 p.m.-ish. The station keeps high calendar time without the kinds of fiddly local timezone adjustments that would be necessary on a planet or moon.

The Remi information will come through shortly after Sasha clears security.]

[On a Sunday?]

[I am weapons-grade bad at calendars in real life, which is hilarious, I know. Sure?]

[Did I ever mention the time I lost my keys . . . inside the pocket of the coat I was wearing?

Anyway, yay, we know where to find Remi in two days if we need to!]

Move 7 (Chapter 1.7)

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