Move 7 (Chapter 1.7)
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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: a little bit of flashback hacking
Date: 2017-08-28 05:15 pm (UTC)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?
Date: 2017-08-29 02:55 am (UTC)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?
Date: 2017-08-30 10:08 pm (UTC)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
Date: 2017-08-31 01:57 am (UTC)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
Date: 2017-09-01 03:50 am (UTC)Re: Memos: Sasha to Iawa and Avrayen, Sasha to Yehan and Iawa
Date: 2017-09-01 11:37 am (UTC)Re: a little bit of flashback hacking - command, take note?
Date: 2017-08-31 11:42 am (UTC)Re: a little bit of flashback hacking - command, take note?
Date: 2017-08-31 08:12 pm (UTC)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?
Date: 2017-08-31 08:41 pm (UTC)[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?
Date: 2017-08-31 08:45 pm (UTC)...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?
Date: 2017-09-01 12:04 am (UTC)[arrival information]
Date: 2017-09-01 01:43 am (UTC)The Remi information will come through shortly after Sasha clears security.]
Re: [arrival information]
Date: 2017-09-01 11:35 am (UTC)Re: [arrival information]
Date: 2017-09-01 07:50 pm (UTC)Re: [arrival information]
Date: 2017-09-02 12:46 am (UTC)Anyway, yay, we know where to find Remi in two days if we need to!]