Move 2.3 Recap

At the security conference, the team kidnaps Jedao.

The Operation

The team's initial plan places Reshad, Seyli, and Sulen in the hall where the Lanterner attack on Jedao will take place. Reshad is at the team's booth, posing as a salesperson. She can trigger a jet of gas that will drug everyone in the hall and render them compliant, using a drug that Ione and Remi formulated. (The team members on station are prepared with an antidote.) A cleaning drone with more of the drug is present as backup. The drone has been programmed to look like the work of a minor heptarchate heretical sect, using data gleaned from Sulen and Virmad's Rahal accesses. The plan is for Seyli, disguised as a Kel, to walk Jedao away from the scene after he has been drugged. Sulen is present to scry and monitor the situation. Ione is waiting outside with a delivery vehicle, ready to pick up Seyli and Jedao. Alaric is outside the hall, waiting to retrieve the supposedly drugged Reshad and Sulen. Meanwhile, Aymad has hacked the Lanterner team's lokwors, rendering their information unreliable, and Sasha is hacking the security cameras in the hall and trying to prevent the rebellion hackers Spider and Firecracker from interfering.

In the hall, the assassin posing as a duelist cosplayer corners Jedao and enthusiastically asks him for an autograph. Sulen notices that her signifier is Bed of Roses, which indicates her enthusiasm may be genuine. They also see a second assassin, dressed as an analyst, with a Shuos signifier. Its flicker indicates she will make a move shortly. Meanwhile, someone with pink hair corners Reshad and enthuses about the product she is supposedly selling. She describes the product, leading the pink-haired person to declare tearfully, "That's so amazing! Can I--can I hug you? Or do your people not do hugs? I just, you don't know how frustrating it's been, our intranet and the tech support and that one time with the ransomware and everything."

Via the group communications channel, Sulen says, "I believe I've spotted a backup. Analyst under the QuickEat Ration Bar banner." Sasha pages Gerae, who traveled with the Lanterner ship, and asks whether he recognizes her; he confirms that she posed as the cook. Sasha also checks rebellion and local databases for information about this person, but finds nothing useful. Sulen asks, "Would you like me to distract her?" Sasha instructs, "Watch her and the collector, and alert us the second either one starts to make a move. Seyli, there are more Lanterners here than we anticipated, and we don't want you recognized. Stay back until we activate the drug." Seyli listens but, worried about onlookers, does not respond aloud. Sasha asks Gerae whether he can identify the pink-haired person speaking to Reshad; he does not recognize him.

Jedao points down the hall and declares, "I think I see the famous duelist Kel Isha. I bet you could get them to sign cards, too!"

Assessment and Future Challenges

hands-on approach to coordination