⇨ 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

[npcarnival]

As far as Shimmer knows they can't see inside of the teleporter area, so it will be a surprise.

[atouts]

Childermass can do that, however taking out technicians means needing to put them somewhere. Since he doesn't have anywhere secure in this sector, his only real option is outside. He doesn't really know what's out there, though.

[prazerbutterfly]

Tyki is going to keep an eye on B7 just because it is an emergency in case it gets a little more hazardous. It's going to influence whether he wants to go back right away or not. He relays what he sees otherwise, pointing out what is necessary in order to limit the amount of surprises.

He's already going to look for Group 700's loot and chart a course towards it pending the reality of schedules. He listens to the conversation, taking in the plan and he'll nod along with it. He'll state that is likely the better solution nor does he care where Childermass deposits the technicians at the moment but he doesn't voice the latter.

[whattaprick]

Lambert says it's up to Childermass what's least risky for him, but what ultimately matters is that they're caught too off guard to immediately fight back.

He'll shift his sword to his hand so he's now dual-wielding a sword and a baton, and once everyone's confirmed their roles, they'll proceed with the plan (as much as it can be called one): as soon as Shimmer creates her distraction and Tyki sees her successfully engage the techs, Childermass will pop Tyki and Lambert into the shadows behind the technician's shields. Yugo and Papyrus are to remain behind in the teleporter area, but be ready to rush in to back Shimmer up with plasma breath, bones, and dashing good looks if she seems to be in trouble.

Lambert will specifically have asked Tyki to take down the Beta first since he's the one who can identify them on sight. His own plan is to just lash out with his baton to break the nearest Gamma's visor (and probably nose), then viciously kicking out at another to send them flying into their fellow technicians if he can.

[npcarnival]

Shimmer will take point, as planned, heading out from the teleporter as if in a rush. She will speak to the technicians ahead of her, hurriedly reporting that she say a Beta and some Gammas be attacked in A5, but that she fled before the rebel test subject could get her!

She'll move off to the side, guiding their eyes in her direction and away from the teleporter, providing some information that is a mixture of truth and things she just made up about the situation. Then, she'll start asking questions about what orders are.

Shimmer succeeds at distracting most of the group with the things she says, so now is your time to strike.

[atouts]

While Shimmer is distracting the technicians, it's round two of shadowing behind some jackasses. Childermass will grab ahold of Lambert and Tyki and move them behind the group.

[prazerbutterfly]

He moves as planned, his hand reaching out for the Beta's back as his other grasps at the back of their head under the implant, shoving his body forward to smash them down towards the ground. He'll ride them down the whole way, his tail swinging around to grasp at the visor and yank it off, throwing it across the room in the process. If he's not unconscious, he'll grip hair and shove his head down again for good measure. Sorry Beta but he's not playing nice right now.

[npcarnival]

Shimmer gasps and looks shocked, as Lambert and Tyki break out into a brawl. Tyki will take down his target, and Lambert will take down his target as well, putting two to the ground as soon as things begin. Another gets knocked over with Lambert throwing their body into the other. It's too close of range for their barrier shields to work.

Of course, the three Gammas still standing will immediately start wailing on the two of them with their stun batons, given the opportunity, though they'll have a good chance of avoiding it this time.

What now?

[atouts]

In the time it's taken for the remaining Gammas to properly react and begin attacking, Childermass has stepped back into the shadows. He's gone one second, back the next, but only to burst up from a Gamma's shadow and grab them, meaning to pull them through when he vanishes again.

Lacking anywhere better to send them, his goal is to blindly jettison them from Polaris altogether. Outside, wherever outside is, so long as it has a shadow to cling to when he does it.

[whattaprick]

Having absolutely zero fucking desire to know what it's like to have stun batons against naked skin, you can bet your ass Lambert isn't waiting around to be stunned into submission again. He uses the momentum of his kick to pivot around to dodge the initial swings; the first technician to lean a little bit too far forward is getting an illusion-concealed tail wrapped around their forearm to try to get them to drop their weapon.

Problem is, Lambert's not used to how much force the new tail can exert, so if he successfully makes contact he's also grabbing hard enough to twist and break bone. Yowza. Anyway, if that works, he'll then fling them into the other technicians he brought down for good measure.

[prazerbutterfly]

Seconding the fact that he would love not to be tased again, Tyki drops low to the ground, eyeing up who Lambert is going for at the same time as Childermass grabs for another. His hands slap down towards the ground, bracing himself there in a firm plant while his right leg shoots upwards underneath the remaining Gamma's chin.

Like before, he kicks hard even if it breaks something, as his tail reaches out to curl around his legs and jerk afterwards. Like a god damned cat he scrambles forward to reach for the visor afterwards.

[npcarnival]

The shadow doesn't open up to the outside, since the hull prevents that, so the Gamma will just have to go somewhere else. As Tyki and Lambert clean up, Shimmer will set upon those that have fallen, making sure to put them all out for sure with her magic. It seems to go well.

After that, there won't be much getting in the way of them reaching the section Tyki has mapped out in his visor. Anything you want to do before proceeding?

[atouts]

So it'll be a very small, locked storage room instead of outside. Something along those lines. Childermass will have ejected the Gamma violently from the shadows and into a wall, following up with grappling the visor off or, if nothing else, breaking it before vanishing again.

That done, he'll reappear in the airlock with the other three.

[prazerbutterfly]

He'll trust others to round up the ones left behind in the teleporter pad and pulls up the map again for the charted course. He'll wait just a moment while Shimmer checks over the fallen before pawing at the Beta for any weapons he can use. If nothing, he'll gesture with his hand and head down towards the section. He plans on scanning the walls as much as possible, ears craned at attention but his adrenaline is already wearing off the closer they get towards the room.

[npcarnival]

They travel through various sectioned off areas, until they arrive at a place that looks approximately like this. In various tubes and boxes they will find their confiscated belongings - or, at least, the stuff that was perceived of as 'noteworthy'. All normal clothing will be destroyed, leaving only items that are curiosities, magical, or otherwise unique. This mostly means that personal effects that aren't magical armor or something interesting are ostensibly gone.

There are also various animals, suspended in liquid-filled tubes. A large pink lion sticks out, as do a few different Pokemon, separated from the group during processing. Their Pokeballs are stored in a separate compartment nearby.

Your stuff is here, and Tyki can access it. Now, you just have to free those suspended here, and take the rest and leave.

[whattaprick]

Once it's obvious they've gotten to where they needed to be, Lambert's asks Childermass to open the door to the eggspace and ... well, stand there in the doorway if he can while the rest of them basically work on passing things back to them.

He'll direct Tyki to systematically access items as needed. First, he'll ask Tyki to free Lion because he has the vague idea that it's probably one of the animals that won't get underfoot and is creepily intelligent for a large pink creature? The Pokemon he deems too much of a risk for running amok and distraction, though, so he's firm about leaving those for last.

If Tyki can verify the contents of tubes and boxes, Lambert's going to request Childermass to place anything identifiable as a weapon closer to the eggspace door so that it can be easily accessed by whoever opens it next. Everything else that's more ambiguous should be chucked further in. If there are any items here that are the belongings/weapons of the people present, claim what you want to have on hand and shunt the rest into eggspace.

[hippocarnival]

Yuya's quick to hop in, looking around and following mostly Lambert and Tyki's lead as containers are opened, creatures are assisted, and armor and weapons are helped over to Childermass (and thus, eggspace).

Once the box with his stuff is opened, however, Yuya greedily clutches his pendulum and the red dragon card, clutching them close with relief before putting the pendulum around his neck and continuing to help clear out their things.

[npcarnival]

The liquid drains and the glass opens, allowing Lion to clumsily slump out of it, like he's sedated. He shakes his mane, splattering the entire area with tube liquid. Thankfully, side leftover tube fluid with evaporate sooner rather than later.

Lion yawns and stretches, and starts snuffling around, like he's looking for someone.

[atouts]

Childermass will disagree about the Pokemon, mentioning the Pokeballs nearby. Once he has the egg dimension open and the first of the weapons in, he'll leave loading the rest to Yuya and says he'll handle them (because he is clearly a Pokemon Master) and store them in his shadow with Baker.

Edging around Lion, mostly leaving that one to himself, since... he honestly doesn't know what the hell is up with that guy, he'll ask for access to the Pokeballs and then the Pokemon. It's just a matter of returning them one by one before they have a chance to freak out.

[alphudo]

Yuusei lends a general hand in moving objects from storage into the egg dimension, though he makes a particular effort of locating and securing Carly's bow (and any arrows he might happen to find, though unlikely). It still ends up in the egg dimension with all the other stuff, but he makes sure it's in there before tending to other things.

If there's anything that needs to be carried outside of the egg dimension, he'll offer to secure it on his back somehow.

[bananaspeedrider]

Tastes like success! Yugo's in as soon as he can and looking for that fae artfact he calls the 'Destiny Dice' and of course his white dragon card (which he puts around his neck because it's in a wearable plastic card protector).

And then you know, help the others with collecting all the weapons and stuff.

[prazerbutterfly]

He follows Lambert's lead this time with some mild objectives of his own. With privacy not an issue, he's unlocking just about everything that is labeled as theirs, sorting through one thing after another and popping it open to signify it needs to be taken to the eggspace.

His Tease are allowed to linger along his fingertips and climb upwards towards his shoulders into the base of his hair. With having only about five in shabon out at the time it isn't much support but it is something. He finds his pack and hooks it around his thigh given this outfit has no loops, pocketing his things when he finds them.

One of the Tease he'll direct towards a folded note he's had on hand to be delivered once possible to 'bone daddy' and it'll flit on top of his head waiting.

He scans the room for Childermass' request and obliges, giving him full access to at least three pokemon at once, because he's kind of a dick, before he allows one at a time to be wrangled.

[hippocarnival]

Yuya will try and keep loading the egg dimension organized, but given the limited time he's also just kinda chucking stuff forward and hoping for the best. It's metal, mostly, it'll be fine. Smaller objects get a little more care.

He stops briefly in the middle of his shuffling to give Lion a quick pat around his mane. "Are you looking for Steven? He's in another part of the station, but we'll go back to him soon."

Yuya thinks, having no idea Steven went off on basically his own.

[starseedling]

Lion makes a plaintive huffing sound, right into Yuya's hair as he smells him. sounds like Yuya's guess is probably correct. Luckily, Lion is more confused than panicked at the moment, and will take a while before he starts complaining too loudly. He has no idea what's going on.

[npcarnival]

As they come close to finishing with packing, the station will give a terrible shake, as if several violent explosions are taking place on the floors above them. It's been shaking on and off this entire time, but now it seems to be coming to a fever pitch until one final blast rises in staccato-

And then it falls silent. Seems like something might have happened up there.