⇨ POLARIS 3.0

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 115
Where: Polaris
What: On the morning of day 115, a couple hours before the technicians would come to pick up the test subjects, the escape plan will officially come into effect. If your character has been left out of the loop up till this point, feel free that someone hastily explains the plan during the initial phase! The meat of everything else will be played out via megathreads and any private toplevels people want to make.
Warnings: Probably violence.

PEER REVIEW↴ The plan starts with getting everyone out of their cells. Childermass is going to be using his Gilded Mark to enhance his shadow movement abilities, unabling him to teleport himself and other people out of containment. If your character has other ways of escaping they are free to pursue that, but on a base level, it can be assumed that everyone gets out thanks to Childermass. (Thanks Childermass!) Once everyone has been removed from their cells by some means or another, they will be forced to split into teams as swiftly as possible, as the moment people start breaking out, negative attention from the staff will start building. The area is poorly guarded at first, but as people become aware of the breakout, more will arrive. Gild, speaking on behalf of her inside plant, will say that those that 1) want to get their stuff back, 2) want to find Ignatius, should get the assistance of their allied Deltas to access sector A5. From there, they will have to access Polaris's storage in A3, a neighbouring sector, and find access to C2, the station where Ignatius is being held. They should expect to be met with armed resistance, but with any luck allies will be there to assist them. In general, characters will be most effective if they back one of these major objectives: ► TEAM LOOT: This team is trying to get back the items and pets that were confiscated when the group was brought into Polaris. Their objective, according to their allies on the inside, is to get to A5, and then make their way to A3. The important thing is being able to locate their stuff among a sea of other items, and to make it through security in order to reclaim it. Gild's plant has said that they will assist with this. After getting these items, Team Loot may wish to merge with Team Rescue. ► TEAM RESCUE: This team's primary focus is to get to A5 and then make their way to C2. If desired, they may wait for or join with Team Loot, or they may strike out ahead in order to take advantage of the element of surprise. The key factors are obtaining a way to access C2, as well as being prepared for armed conflict with the technicians guarding it, as well as possibly the Mother of Invention herself. Though, the ideal is that Gild will be distracting here at that time. ► TEAM DISTRACTION: This team can do their thing wherever they please, as their main intent is to sew general discord and distract the staff from the teams doing more important things. They should be prepared for armed resistance, but what tactics they pursue beyond that point are highly variable. ► TEAM FORTRESS: This team is attempting to set up a protective base of operations in the original sector in order to survive the conflict and protect their noncombatant comrades. How they accomplish this is also highly variable. Other objectives may exist, of course, and can be made with their own separate top levels. Chunks of these megathreads will have to be played out in summary form, so when characters are simply trying to get from place to place and specifics aren't necessary, feel free to stick to that format. Assume that everyone is already out of their cells for the purpose of the megathreads. Here is a shitty map of how the sectors connect, from a side view of the central Polaris hub.

Comments

[chronosynthesis]

At least Syrlya isn't concerned about nudity here. He pauses, just for a second. "It's stopped spreading."

So it's not good, but not getting worse at least. Onc ed he has the pants and coat on, he stops and turns to Childermass to regard the offered knife.

Ah. His eyes widen a little. "It's iron." There's a slight frown on his face as he reaches for the hilt, slowly, judging how safe it is to touch there. Probably should be if it's not sheathed too.

[atouts]

The hilt is, thankfully, safe to the touch. These were clearly built with changelings in mind, as the burn of the iron doesn't reach through the where it's been covered up.

"It is," Childermass confirms. "The Ringmaster gave these to me some time ago. I do not use them often but I've found them handy for dealing with enchantments and unruly faerie artifacts on occasion. You may need something like that when you find Ignatius."

[chronosynthesis]

Syrlya takes the knife, turning it over in the faint light before he glances down to himself. He wedges it carefully between the under armor and outer armor at his waist, on the side opposite of his crystal arm. That's potentially dangerous, but it keeps it well out of sight and close until he needs it. Without a sheathe, he's just going to have to deal.

Then he swoops to start pulling on the rest of the armor. "I will use it wisely. Thank you... ah, security hasn't responded to the breach yet, have they?"

[atouts]

Well, that question gets a puzzled look.

"I don't hear alarms so I would say not yet," is the only answer Childermass can come up with. "I'm not sure how I'd know otherwise. I don't have eyes all over the station."