Chapter 3.1: The party begins
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hexarchate_rpgEDIT: The base is sited in the year 951, in a very odd timeline that has NO h*archate. Supplies have to be brought in via rift from other timelines. Thread here.
Ashari's new base features variable layout, which has been put to use in creating an extravagant ballroom. Tables to one side boast a variety of foods, drinks both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, and the occasional euphoric drugs. Candlevines glow blue and violet, and flower arrangements interspersed with fantastic sculptures of lace-woven wire adorn the tables. The arrangements mean various sarcastic things, if you're familiar with the Andan petal language.
Music plays softly enough not to overwhelm conversation, loudly enough to set a mood complementing the low-key lighting.
Remi is one of the first arrivals from the Cantata, shepherding the mothlings. Because he's a Nirai, he has a slate and is taking notes, although he is happy enough to talk to anyone who approaches him.
The kitchen is currently adjacent to the ballroom. Ashari's voice can be heard, raised in some kind of argument with...a caterer?
Ashari's new base features variable layout, which has been put to use in creating an extravagant ballroom. Tables to one side boast a variety of foods, drinks both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, and the occasional euphoric drugs. Candlevines glow blue and violet, and flower arrangements interspersed with fantastic sculptures of lace-woven wire adorn the tables. The arrangements mean various sarcastic things, if you're familiar with the Andan petal language.
Music plays softly enough not to overwhelm conversation, loudly enough to set a mood complementing the low-key lighting.
Remi is one of the first arrivals from the Cantata, shepherding the mothlings. Because he's a Nirai, he has a slate and is taking notes, although he is happy enough to talk to anyone who approaches him.
The kitchen is currently adjacent to the ballroom. Ashari's voice can be heard, raised in some kind of argument with...a caterer?
this is a working party - literally paging Cantata
Date: 2020-01-10 01:34 pm (UTC)She pockets her tablet again and heads toward the tables, scanning the bowls of drugs and candies for anything approximating a stim.
[Hi, everyone! Sasha is very short and of a wiry build; her motions are rapid. She's currently dressed severely in black and charcoal gray. A shining black pin shaped like a feather, formed like one of the fanning clock-hands of the rebellion logo, is pinned to the side of her low-brimmed cap. Close observers will notice that she's wearing a tiny earpiece in her left ear, which she's using to monitor voice messages from the grid and other team members.
I tend to write Sasha's comments in rather tight third person, and hers is not always a reliable point of view. If she is blazingly wrong about something in particular, especially something involving human interaction, you can tell me, but you don't have to tell me!]
The return of interpersonal drama
Date: 2020-01-10 04:22 pm (UTC)Re: The return of interpersonal drama
Date: 2020-01-10 05:02 pm (UTC)"We had a short conversation and they gave me some disturbing news. Have they had a chance to brief you?" Sasha keeps her tone quiet and even. Probably too even.
Re: The return of interpersonal drama
Date: 2020-01-10 07:17 pm (UTC)Re: The return of interpersonal drama
Date: 2020-01-10 07:47 pm (UTC)"Distracted." Ashari will take Sasha apart if they realize she has been so presumptuous as to criticize, but the truth is--"Brittle. Sulen, if what they told me is true, we shouldn't be having a party, we should be evacuating. Will you speak to them?"
Re: The return of interpersonal drama
Date: 2020-01-10 09:50 pm (UTC)Re: The return of interpersonal drama
Date: 2020-01-10 10:17 pm (UTC)"Thank you. Please tell them, there are creatures in the depths somewhere that prey on moths." And perhaps ancient radio signals, for dessert.
Re: The return of interpersonal drama
Date: 2020-01-12 05:51 pm (UTC)Sulen receives a flash of memory, disconnected from any context: a henhouse, wire screen torn, and a mess of bloody feathers.
"Do we know anything else about these predators?"
Re: The return of interpersonal drama
Date: 2020-01-12 06:01 pm (UTC)Re: this is a working party - literally paging Cantata
Date: 2020-01-10 08:44 pm (UTC)[I just realized that my characterizations of Arazi and Cantata are very adjacent. I think "giant sentient flying things" are all the same in my head.]
Re: this is a working party - literally paging Cantata
Date: 2020-01-11 03:28 pm (UTC)She messages, "We'll find out! Maybe the other moths will come too!"
[Very young giant sentient flying things, in some sense!]
Re: this is a working party - literally paging Cantata
Date: 2020-01-16 03:59 am (UTC)I'm so tempted to have Revenant show up. It should be young for a moth and yet it's too cynical for its age.]