Move 17 (Chapter 1.17)
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hexarchate_rpgYear 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~05:00
Mikodez finds himself treed by Alaric (bearing "sleep aids") in the corridor outside Medical. In whatever confrontation happens, the much-adorned mothling known (among other things) as Crowned-with-Eyes (henceforth CWE) wriggles free of the Andan cloth and flutters straight into one of the nearest examination rooms, humming joyously. Several medics can be heard exclaiming in fear and/or annoyance at the intruder. One of them squeaks, "Is that another of Magistrate Gerae's pets?"
(...pets?)
Alaric, EDIT: Iawa, and Sulen can take advantage of the distraction to get by Mikodez and into Medical. The triage nurse will recognize them as the recent visitors and direct them toward a pallet where "Imsayed" (Istradez) is lying; he is apparently now sleeping rather than knocked out, but has yet to wake from his ordeal.
Sasha is in the midst of oxygen recycler diagnostics and reading through the maintenance logs. Around this time, Yehan (running as NPC), who has actually gotten some sleep, stops in and asks if Sasha could use some breakfast and/or assistance.
Ashari is enjoying a restful sleep in preparation for what's to come. They can, if they choose to get up early, check in on the others, or determine what to do with Gerae of the mysteriously weaponizable lockpicks. [NOTE: Ifsmokedetective doesn't respond to this move, I'm going to put Ashari on inactive status and run as NPC as necessary to move forward.] Virmad is a likely candidate to either volunteer or be asked to look in on Gerae. Among other things, Gerae is still awake and is (if anyone checks on him, whether through camera surveillance or by persuading Sasha to open the room) scratching messages onto the wall with a stylus that was left in the room.
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CURRENTLY INACTIVE, running as NPCs: Ankat, Kaliyan, Yehan, Istradez
Mikodez finds himself treed by Alaric (bearing "sleep aids") in the corridor outside Medical. In whatever confrontation happens, the much-adorned mothling known (among other things) as Crowned-with-Eyes (henceforth CWE) wriggles free of the Andan cloth and flutters straight into one of the nearest examination rooms, humming joyously. Several medics can be heard exclaiming in fear and/or annoyance at the intruder. One of them squeaks, "Is that another of Magistrate Gerae's pets?"
(...pets?)
Alaric, EDIT: Iawa, and Sulen can take advantage of the distraction to get by Mikodez and into Medical. The triage nurse will recognize them as the recent visitors and direct them toward a pallet where "Imsayed" (Istradez) is lying; he is apparently now sleeping rather than knocked out, but has yet to wake from his ordeal.
Sasha is in the midst of oxygen recycler diagnostics and reading through the maintenance logs. Around this time, Yehan (running as NPC), who has actually gotten some sleep, stops in and asks if Sasha could use some breakfast and/or assistance.
Ashari is enjoying a restful sleep in preparation for what's to come. They can, if they choose to get up early, check in on the others, or determine what to do with Gerae of the mysteriously weaponizable lockpicks. [NOTE: If
smokedetective doesn't respond to this move, I'm going to put Ashari on inactive status and run as NPC as necessary to move forward.] Virmad is a likely candidate to either volunteer or be asked to look in on Gerae. Among other things, Gerae is still awake and is (if anyone checks on him, whether through camera surveillance or by persuading Sasha to open the room) scratching messages onto the wall with a stylus that was left in the room.===
CURRENTLY INACTIVE, running as NPCs: Ankat, Kaliyan, Yehan, Istradez
MEMO: checking on Gerae [paging Ashari; CC: Sulen, Sasha]
Date: 2018-02-07 02:02 am (UTC)Re: MEMO: checking on Gerae [paging Ashari; CC: Sulen, Sasha]
Date: 2018-02-07 02:07 am (UTC)The embedded camera icon will, presumably, provide a vid of Gerae's current activities.
Gerae's current status
Date: 2018-02-07 03:36 am (UTC)Re: Gerae's current status
Date: 2018-02-07 12:36 pm (UTC)"Grid," she asks, "can you identify the language that the prisoner is speaking?"
Meanwhile, she's hunting through the design files, looking for fidget spinners or fancy pens.
Re: Gerae's current status
Date: 2018-02-09 12:48 am (UTC)She finds some design files for fancy brush pens whose color will change according to some fiddly controls on the handle.
Re: Gerae's current status
Date: 2018-02-09 01:32 am (UTC)Then she heads to the common room to print a pen and a tiny recycling sticker. Prophet only knows what the pen's colors will look like once the printer software is done with it, but since nobody's actually going to be using it, that's not a serious problem.
Re: Gerae's current status
Date: 2018-02-10 07:11 pm (UTC)The pen, if tested, has a distinct preference for fluorescent colors; further experimentation will establish that the ink glows in the dark. The recycling sticker, at least, appears to be perfectly formed.
glowing pens
Date: 2018-02-10 07:17 pm (UTC)Re: glowing pens
Date: 2018-02-10 07:19 pm (UTC)Re: glowing pens
Date: 2018-02-10 07:37 pm (UTC)Re: MEMO: checking on Gerae [paging Ashari; CC: Sulen, Sasha]
Date: 2018-02-07 03:37 am (UTC)checking out Gerae
Date: 2018-02-08 12:36 am (UTC)He takes a few minutes to make himself actually presentable — shower and whatnot — then heads to the stretch of wall that used to be Gerae’s door.
“Ah, Grid, can you establish voice communications between me and our guest?”
Re: checking out Gerae
Date: 2018-02-08 04:28 am (UTC)Re: checking out Gerae
Date: 2018-02-10 05:16 pm (UTC)Then: “Grid, mute voice connection. Or, wait — unmute Gerae’s end of the voice connection, so I can hear him answer. Then, could you please provide a door into this room, preferably with a visual aperture so I can confirm our guest’s location within the room before I enter? I don’t want any surprises.”
He’s confident (or hopeful) Gerae isn’t going anywhere, but...better safe than sorry.
Re: checking out Gerae
Date: 2018-02-10 07:13 pm (UTC)The grid helpfully produces a door with a small window. Gerae can be seen through it pacing back and forth in the middle of the room, biting his nails. His eyes are bloodshot.
Listening in
Date: 2018-02-13 10:42 pm (UTC)And Gerae is crying like he's five. He probably has a sympathetic audience in Virmad. Sasha would like to think that a Rahal would recognize faked tears, but she's given up assuming that the Wasp's Rahal will make any sense at all.
Re: checking out Gerae
Date: 2018-02-14 02:59 am (UTC)“Magistrate — Gerae,” Virmad says. “I just wanted to tell you that we’ve recovered Fluffy; she should be on her way to the ship as we speak.” He lets some of his actual sympathy show: “How are you holding up?”
Re: checking out Gerae
Date: 2018-02-14 02:48 pm (UTC)