The Powers That Be ([personal profile] powersthatbe) wrote2019-09-17 02:56 pm

Emodriver Plot Role Info

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Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] reallymean 2019-09-28 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Alta has mostly spent the first week doing what she can to keep up morale and taking the temperature of the troops, both new and old, regarding the progress of the war. She's currently still determined to bring it to a close without losing too many of her people, and without excessive slaughter of the humans. She doesn't have confirmation yet that her wife is still alive; that may or may not change how she proceeds, depending on what she does eventually find out.

I have a couple of questions going into next week:
1) What is the general content of the dream communication (?) she has with the Consort?

2) What do the Imperials know about the spread of the X-pressure virus in the humans? Have they managed to capture any infected human soldiers prior to Jaunt start?
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] otomechapilot 2019-09-28 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
1: A very stylized, impressionist dream of her trying to reach Alta - from her perspective; Alta sees her own back - through a field of flowers on her homeworld before everything burns.

Except her homeworld had three moons, not two...

(Also, does the Consort have a name?)

2: The Impies have captured a few, and all of them had to go into quarantine as well. There doesn't seem to be a single one you've captured without at least dormant X. Pressure. Reports on it's spread are fragmentary and being translated, but it appears to have originated about 200-250 Earth years ago?
Edited 2019-09-28 21:20 (UTC)
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[personal profile] reallymean 2019-09-28 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Faline. Let's name her Faline.
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[personal profile] otomechapilot 2019-09-29 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
So mote it be!
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[personal profile] otomechapilot 2019-10-01 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
I've added the honorary "ahn-Alfor" to her last name. Add other intermediary titles as needed!

This probably means Alta has "ahn-Alfor" or "[foo]-Alfor" as an honorific as well.
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] reallymean 2019-09-29 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
So hey, would it be reasonable for the Princess to have a mecha of her own? A custom job that is strikingly feline, even?
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] otomechapilot 2019-09-29 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
U know it
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] reallymean 2019-09-29 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
So, since she has confirmation of her Consort being alive and possibly on Mars, if she were to join the ground crew and stretch her telepathy to the limits to try and contact her while awake, would it yield any results?
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] otomechapilot 2019-09-29 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Hhhhhhhhhmmmmmn.

I’m thinking powerup/overload to the Phileon and a secondary Philia Core Bleed Event, which also suggests this might deserve it’s own post.

Need to think on what the Bleed looks like.

It can’t just yell I’M HERE or it would have already!
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] reallymean 2019-09-29 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Would there be some sort of telepathic feedback or backlash onto Alta?
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] otomechapilot 2019-10-01 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
There absolutely would!

...In the form of your seeing out of the Phileon's sensors for an instant as she tries to find you. Good luck interpreting that ICly!

Side effects may include catching X. Pression at your option. It's very likely Alta will find her case controllable with the same "muscles" she uses to exercise telepathy! (ETA: Meaning I think she'd pick up S-Tech rather than self-reinforcing terror loop.)
Edited 2019-10-01 01:24 (UTC)
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] ninjayeehaw 2019-09-29 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
I think she'll receive Tentative Confirmation of the Consort being alive this week, actual status TBA while Texxant investigates further.
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] reallymean 2019-09-29 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Will he be able to give any details, or just "alive, watch this space" for now?
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] ninjayeehaw 2019-09-29 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
He'll be able to report the dream everyone got, which would probably place her firmly on Mars, and likely very close to Phobos itself, but he'd have to investigate further before he can give a better location idea.
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] reallymean 2019-09-29 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
She will be very interested in that dream, since it's the same one she's been having.
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] reallymean 2019-10-01 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
So hey, Texxant will get a message near the end of the current week warning that there appear to be psy-blockers in effect where the Consort is being held because how the hell else do you interpret seeing through a mech's sensors, finding her is a priority but proceed with caution.
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] ninjayeehaw 2019-10-01 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
He will do his best to acquiesce with both requests but given how one party is Katsuragi the actual result is up in the air.
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] ninjayeehaw 2019-10-04 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Near the end of week 2 Alta will be getting a message along the lines of

Position compromised by ADM. Consort confirmed Phileon power source. ADM wants to hand Consort over, no more bloodshed, develop cure. Ally for now, but will alert and hide if changes.
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] reallymean 2019-10-04 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Transmit location of power source and details of defenses. Understood these may change.
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Re: Week 1 check-in

[personal profile] ninjayeehaw 2019-10-05 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Co-ordinates or numbers are probably the first letter of every relevant page, which reads as extra gibberish to everyone else, haha.

Will offer more data where possible.