Move 7 (Chapter 1.7)
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hexarchate_rpgTime: 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."
[manipulating Nirai: brainstorming]
Date: 2017-08-24 04:14 am (UTC)Other things: shiny new equipment. Shiny new equipment that doesn't break at ass o'clock. Plentiful supply of
minionsgrad students--perhaps attentive Shuos underlings seconded to the Nirai? Generalized interest in and appreciation of the sciences. Getting their bad science puns.]Re: [manipulating Nirai: brainstorming]
Date: 2017-08-24 05:05 am (UTC)Re: [manipulating Nirai: brainstorming]
Date: 2017-08-24 05:47 am (UTC)The only things I can think of for him to try later is sabotage that leads impatient scientists to do the equivalent of propping secure doors open while they wait for it to be fixed, or the last resort of “nice people holding keycard doors open.” I'm sure the proverb in the hexarchate is [Beware of Shuos offering grid assistance] even by this time period, so that's out too. He could always be a rubber beetle who's very easy to joke with or yell at.
(tell me about these jokes)]
Re: [manipulating Nirai: brainstorming]
Date: 2017-08-24 10:09 am (UTC)Iawa's grandparent had a favourite joke about being a Liozh invariant technology specialist: "If it doesn't work, it's physics. If it works in theory but is completely impractical, it's philosophy. If it doesn't work and is completely impractical, it's political science."
Iawa feels like he understands that joke better than he used to.
[Liozh Ton continues: "If it explodes it's chemistry and/or politics. If it smells it's biology and/or politics."]
Re: [manipulating Nirai: brainstorming]
Date: 2017-08-24 11:11 am (UTC)Re: [manipulating Nirai: brainstorming]
Date: 2017-08-25 05:13 am (UTC)To Sasha again, "Will anyone else need these?" If these are designed to backfire in his hands, the other members of the away team could discover that first.
[I bet they're going to trip into the sanitation ecosystem and be eaten by mobile mold. No promises about not pushing Iawa into the paths of rampaging Nirai, though.]
Re: [manipulating Nirai: brainstorming]
Date: 2017-08-26 01:50 am (UTC)Re: [manipulating Nirai: brainstorming]
Date: 2017-08-24 11:14 am (UTC)But, yes, shiny things! Shiny new equipment, TIME, funding!]