Intensity - manipulations fail b/c whoops the Artemisians are way, way better at this
- Codrin Bălan#Emissary — AWNH breaks down (revealing she’s AWNH, not WAQ), quits, break immediately called, TN is having a REALLY HARD TIME, Turun Ka shows up, TN comes clean, talks about getting lost, Turun Ka says Artante’s race ran into similar, but stops her from talking about AWNH further for now
- Tycho Brahe#Emissary — While all the above is happening, Tycho steals some time with Stolon to try and talk science, but they both wind up talking about being in over one’s head and the futility of politics vs stability of science
- Codrin Bălan#Artemis — Part way through a talk on languages (WAQ has learned a lot about this leading up to it), TN gets news re: AWNH (a fork enters the space, quits, merges - Artemisians like huh???), calls halt to meeting, preempts everyone getting news separately by announcing what happened, tries to gloss over the swap quickly (b/c of course she’s planned), but Turun Ka speaks up, says that this is part of confirmation required. For what? Tune in next time…
- Codrin Bălan#Emissary — Codrin, Sarah, Turun Ko, Artante meet up (while TN talks with Turun Ka, Iska, and Tycho chills with Stolon) and discuss actual point of meetings: to determine whether humanity is a suitable fifthrace. None of the Artemisians know/will say what the gating factors are, but think they’re close - don’t tell TN (are they supposed to know? Shrug, but implied if they tell TN, that’s a point against them)
- Interlude — Ioan and May speculate on how True Name must be taking it locally/Pollux, suggest Codrin’s grand gesture for Dear being bringing the polycule to the DMZ, more on stability re: Odists.
-- Codrin Bălan#Artemis — Codrin gives Turun Ko a copy of On the Origin of Our World (against TN’s suggestion, but she is in damage-control mode), which, after (pronoun) reads it, turns out to be the penultimate step towards moving forward with accepting as fifthrace. Yay Codrin
+- Codrin Bălan#Artemis — Codrin gives Turun Ko a copy of On the Origin of Our World (against TN’s suggestion, but she is in damage-control mode), which, after it reads it, turns out to be the penultimate step towards moving forward with accepting as fifthrace. Yay Codrin
- Tycho Brahe#Artemis — Steals time with Stolon on break, joined by Iska and Sarah, talk about joining Artemis, what races have learned from each other re: science.
- Tycho Brahe#Emissary — Watching talks resume, starting to think y’know what, fuck it, maybe he’ll just stay if allowed. Stolon’s neat, the science is good, and having this to look forward to has given him more purpose in life. Interrupts talk to mention such regardless of glares from TN. Silence from Artemisians, one can assume internal chatter, then “that was the final gating step - wanting to join. We will welcome you as fifthrace” - from there they will learn all they want, have X days to do exchange, share entire libraries back and forth on data band, can keep format however they want on Castor. TN FROWNS but WHATEVER FINE
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Ey tilted eir head, noting the confusion on eir side of the table at the choppy, synonym-ridden greeting, filing away a question to ask of the recorder later.
The greetings continued down the line. Tycho and Stolon greeted each other as scientists. Iska, who startled em in their resemblance to Debarre, and Sarah greeted each other, followed last of all by Artante Diria and Why Ask Questions.
There was a small shuffle as the delegates from both craft sat at the table, Iska politely requesting that their chair be raised and the surface area made smaller so that they could more effectively reach the table, which True Name accomplished with a gesture. Both of Turun Ka and Turun Ko set their chairs aside and squatted down on their haunches before the table instead.
-“Thank you once again, and welcome to this fourth convergence,” Turun Ka said. Its voice was almost musical, far from the synthetic sound that ey had initially assumed. “It is a pleasure to meet those who are new and different from us, and we are always grateful when luck and chance allow us to do so.”
+“Thank you once again, and welcome to this convergence,” Turun Ka said. Its voice was almost musical, far from the synthetic sound that ey had initially assumed. “It is a pleasure to meet those who are new and different from us, and we are always grateful when luck and chance allow us to do so.”
True Name nodded, a hint of a bow from where she sat. “Thank you for joining us, and welcome to the Launch Vehicle Castor. We are honored to have you aboard. If you need anything at all, please do not hesitate to ask me, as I bear full ACLs for the sim. You will find your rest area down there—” She gestured with a paw toward one of the hallways. “—where you will have limited ACLs that will allow you to modify many of the objects there and will allow you to fork once.”
The reactions around the table were mixed. Turun Ka and Turun Ko remained impassive — they seemed to move only with intent, and when not required, they were as stationary as statues. Stolon tilted their head in a quizzical manner. Iska’s expression was hard to read, but were ey pressed to put a name to it, ey would have called it unnerved, or perhaps startled. Given the similarities of her features to the humans around the table, Artante looked quite pleased.
“There will be no time skew?” Iska asked, voice high pitched, each word dipping in tone.
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“I don’t know about that either, as representative. I hope I get to ask more. Though, well…” Sarah glanced over to where True Name and Why Ask Questions had sat at a table, still talking earnestly. “I don’t know what’s more confusing. The emissaries or the Odists.”