⇨ 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.

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[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.

[whattaprick]

Anyone who isn't physically assisting with lifting and moving things is asked to keep a lookout in the hallway for anyone approaching. He'll slide on his texting ring and witcher necklace when he locates it; when he finds the ones that belong to others he'll pass those back too, but when he locates Rita's, he's going to pause and hand it off to Yuya with a brief explanation of how it works. Pool noodle and silver sword are, unfortunately, going to be consigned to eggspace.

While Childermass is currently busy futzing around with Pokemon instead of locating his own stuff, Lambert's gonna set aside the things he can identify as belonging to the magician in a pile off to the side. One of them in particular seems to give him pause, but he schools his expression, and he shoves it at the magician -- it's all mostly some kind of jewelry and a pack of cards, it seems -- with a grunt.

"Here. Take your--" And then the rumbling happens and he freezes, looking up sharply. His gaze, of course, immediately turns to Shimmer and Tyki, the only two who might have some idea of what just happened with their visors.

"That good or bad?"

[hippocarnival]

Yuya takes the texting ring, looking it over and nodding to the instructions before slipping it on, on his middle finger next to the reacquired punching ring. It doesn't fit that great around the body suit but he'll worry about whether he's getting his fingers stuck later.

And then things shake, and Yuya staggers a little as he looks up at the ceiling. "... Gild?"

His gaze joins Lambert's to Shimmer, with faint concern.

[prazerbutterfly]

He slides his ring on as it is given to him, looking over almost everything cleared out if not everything. There's no time to double check as the station is rocking as they speak, his body becoming still and rigid to brace himself.

He ignores everyone else again, focusing his concentration on his visor and whatever he sees he'll urge everyone back to the teleporter immediately. Close the egg dimension, get going, run if they have to, and book it now he'll order whether he has the authority to do so or not.

"Nothing you can do now. Go or be left behind!"

[npcarnival]

"It could be Gild, or it could be the Mother," Shimmer says, sounding chilled for the first time during this whole mess. "Either way, we should get back to the others and fortify."

[whattaprick]

Sounds like a plan as far as Lambert is concerned. Once Childermass has taken their things, the egg dimension is closed, and everyone seems ready to go, the witcher books it for the teleporter beside Tyki, ready to mow down any resistance along the way if they meet any.

[atouts]

Yeah, time to go. Childermass won't be far behind.