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⇨ POLARIS 3.0

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.

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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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Well, shit just went down for real. Zangetsu doesn't even have time to check on what happened to Ignatius before the Mother of Invention is just fucking busting through the wall. Whatever happened to Ignatius, it had completely changed the feel of his soul -- but by the same token, he's so much stronger. Strong enough to give the Mother a run for her money.

Power restored, Zangetsu takes to the air, jumping on the air itself and dashing past the Mother so he can get a good look at her. He lands next to Syrlya just as he mentions getting a better view.

"Need a lift, then? Ain't as glamorous as riding a dragon or something, but I'm a lot more maneuverable."

Speaking of dragons... there's a far different rumble, but only in Yugo's ears as the Mother of Invention shoots all of those laser blasts everywhere. Lots of shields going up and while Yugo doesn't have one, there's a certain spell in his arsenal, that while normally would be entirely useless here, feels different.

And a certain card spirit can sense it.

Enough of the sidelines. Enough of being helpless when their partner falls into peril! The feelings echo loudly and clearly enough for the teen that he reaches for the familiar magic and instead of a puny pet-sized summon....

Nay. It's an entire dragon- Clear Wing Synchro Dragon who immediately moves to turtle over Yugo to protect him from the flying debris. Then with a roar once opportunity strikes, returns fire at one of the mechanical arms with a shot of their own plasma blast.

"Woah...!" This is really new and confusing and exciting, but the ongoing fight and the strain he can feel to keep this summon going tells Yugo immediately there's no time to gawk at all.

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A lot of things are happening at once, and have been happening at once for what seems like a long time... but it's not even an hour into the morning, is it?

Papyrus had only made it halfway across the skyway, brother across his shoulders, when the MoI's icy blasts shoot all across the region. At least two strike the skyway, one ahead and one behind, and in the shaking of the explosions Sans disappears.

"Sans?!" Papyrus whirls around summoning bones between him and the Mother's distant form as he checks, not sure if the Mother's done something to summon people to her or if one of the blasts curved behind and hit Sans off him...

But no, Sans is right over there. And far behind, even Papyrus can see the crater from one of the blasts across the skyway. It's up in the air whether the waving pattern of bones would form enough of a wall to block one of those icy shots, but worth trying.

"HIHHH-!" SO MUCH FOR GOING THAT WAY. Here she'd been following the brothers, but now there's this!?

She could fly away. Realistically, she maybe should fly away- but not all of them are quite getting out of the way of things, and her attention snaps to what Papyrus is shouting about.

Her first instinct is to offer to make a wall of flame- but her words are stuck in her throat when she realizes she can't actually sort out just where that would even be.

But there is one thing she can locate- with shaking fists, she pulls out her bow and takes aim at the sky-way; she just needs to break a window (she hopes that's a window), and get in there, and she should have a decent spot to stand and keep firing!

...

Assuming, well. That the skyway stays standing. "Papyrus!" she'll shout down, as she heads for it. "I'm going to try getting a vantage point!"

She doesn't have to worry about holding back this time, after all.

His confusion is overwhelming, but one thing is clear - he was unconscious somehow, and now he's not. Aaaand... the Mother is attacking everyone. That seems pretty clear.

Sans gets himself up, listens to what Carly is yelling, and tries to get himself caught up. He can feel that his magic is back at full, and, also... Ignatius looks different. He shakes his head in bewilderment, slipping his scarab bracelet into place and checking that his pendant is still there. He might need that.

"Hoo boy," he says, sweating a little. He looks at Papyrus, and then Carly. "I got no idea what the hell's happening right now, but if you need to get somewhere, just point it out. I can do the rest."

It’s occurring to Eruka that being on a skyway not far from the Mother of Invention’s eyelevel is a terrible place to be. When she lets the blasts loose, she can only shriek and shrink against Tyki, trying to make herself smaller.

“We need to—” What exactly she thinks they need to do is interrupted when a blast comes right at them, carving right through a chunk of the skyway and shattering Tyki’s shield as it catches the brunt of it. Fortunately, it seems to have been enough to keep them from being injured, but .... a panicked croaking voice in the distance has Eruka swinging around to watch in alarm as Tadpole Jackson goes flying off the skyway and splooshing down into the water below.

“Let’s go,” she squeaks, tugging at Tyki’s arm. She knows you can walk on air, buddy. “Don’t just stand here!”

"Ah-"

Admittedly, Carly didn't actually. Clue into how awake and around Sans was, she just sort of saw things flying and Sans way over elsewhere, and...

Oh it does make sense that he'd have woken up, she supposes. Ahem. "R-Right! Somewhere in that...Bridge? I think it is?" She's pretty sure it's a bridge. She totally would have hit it. (She is, for now, poofing the arrow away and lowering her bow however.

She swallows. "...I...I can't really see that well..." Sans would have had plenty of time to be aware of that while observing the Farm earlier though. "I just need to be close enough to shoot at her though!"

The chaos in here is overwhelming. Peridot was never made to serve on a battlefield, and while the carnival has faced their fair share of threats before, there's something pretty extra about this particular fight. She grits her teeth and flinches as the shots land around them and ping off Steven's shield, snarling defiantly.

"If I can get at her back, I can cut some of those arms off and try to make a hole into the chassis from there," she says to both Syr and Zan. Seems more sensible than going for the front, anyway.

Syrlya nods in confirmation. The back had been where he was thinking as well. He spares Zangetsu a glance before pointing at the skyway closest to the Mother on Invention.

"I can teleport, but we need more people to help protect Peridot as she cuts open the Mother of Invention's back." A pause, as he realizes what he suggested. "Can you fly?"

He grins, then jumps into the air, standing there as if there were a platform.

"Even better -- I can walk on the air. And carrying you both won't be any problem."

He turns to look at the Mother, frowning a bit.

"It won't be easy to get to her back unless we can get through some of those arms, though."

"Yeah, the fight is over there," Papyrus gestures at the massive robotic form emerged from the far wall. His gesture isn't any more precise than Carly's request, but what can you do.

"Over here... well, she's shooting at everyone. But we can attack her if we get closer." It goes without saying, she'll be able to attack them a lot more easily if they get up close. But what can they do, lie down before the storm? Not after all of this. "Gongenzaka mentioned something about attacking inside her... I'm sure he has a plan!"

Rita braces herself as the Mother attacks, but fortunately Yuya steps up to shield her. She waits for one of those blasts to crash against the shield, then looks back to Peridot and the others.

"I can help keep her busy," she calls to them, then turns back to Yuya. "I could use your shields out there. If you swallow one of these, you'll be able to float." Reaching into her pocket, she pulls out one of the anti-grav pills she has and holds it out to him.

"Got it," Sans says, and not more than a moment later he's focused his magic and teleported the three of them to the top of the closer skyway. The surface is a bit curved which makes balancing a bit harder, but they'll have more freedom of movement up here.

Speaking of which, Sans summons up his angelic wings and halo, just in case anyone gets shaken off.

"She wanted to make armor that could defend her fae parts from their weaknesses," Sans says, based on what he learned from his time discussion Papyrus's transformation. "That must be what this is." So... if they can get it open... then they just have a regular true fae to deal with. Great.

He's listening but when the explosions rip out around him and his shield breaks, he cradles Eruka closer to his side. She's already pulling on him a bit annoyingly and he's surprised she's not screaming. Demanding was the right word and he tears his eyes away from Eruka towards the Mother of Invention.

Others are moving and he's aware that the safer option is to get out of the inner workings of the skywalk, his voice a little irritated and hasty, "Okay, okay!"

He grabs her from the front and back peddles through the skywalk wall out the other side and he walks upwards in a half jog until they are higher than the skywalk in the air. It's just in time to see Sans appear with his own party. Oh good, he's awake.

"Calm down and focus, little lady."

Gongenzaka at this point finally reaches the group he's intending to come along with. ...Sort of, anyway.

"Hauh...hahh..." He grips his bleeding arm with a grimace, looking first over Peridot and Syrlya, and then over Zangetsu. "...Agreed," he says, immediately following the rest of the conversation. "I, the man Gongenzaka, am prepared to use the mark to make our target easier to strike- before I do however, I wish to come along without my body to better utilize the effect-" he states.

Which probably sounds pretty weird. So he'll explain. "I... ...Believe I should be able to come alonge through one of you..." Whether one of them- preferrably Peridot, given she's the one doing the cutting- agrees to the idea or not, Gongenzaka focuses on using the boon.

He needs to be able to find the best path they can through the Mother, to her Soul- that's all he needs. If he can get the mark to do that much...

Yuya looks between the pills and Rita, pausing before he takes a deep breath to steel himself and nods.

"I can do that," he says as he takes the pill. "It won't work while I'm moving, but I can do it in the air and do it quickly!"

She'll just have to hold position if they can't dodge. He takes one of the pills, breaking open thw package and swallowing... and then looks a little surprised as he lifts on his toes and doesn't quite come down, hair bouncing. "Oh."

Syrlya looks to Gongenzaka, focusing on the bleeding arm... but he's standing, so it must not be severe enough to inhibit him.

"Help direct Peridot, then. Peridot, Zangetsu, we'll move to the top of the bridge first. I and Zangetsu will attempt to keep focus off of Peridot so that she can cut through."

He flexes his arm. "The iron is short, so the hole nea to be big enough for my arm. I should be able to get onto the Mother of Invention, but... Zangetsu, if I wave will you carry me over?"

"Through one of us?" Peridot repeats skeptically. SHE'S NOT SURE SHE LIKES THE SOUND OF THAT, GON.

"Whoo-!" Oh! Well, that certainly helps. Carly takes a moment to get herself re-oriented, before readying her bow again. "...If it's armor to defend against that, it's not going to be easy to split..." Hmm.

"I was going to use the bow's magic, but maybe I should stick to Hellfire, in that case..."

It takes a second to reorient himself after they move, and Papyrus shifts the bones to provide whatever loose cover they can while Sans and Carly discuss strategy... and he considers one of his hands, the metal now likely permanently covering it, and some of the comments that not-Sans had been making, before.

"That sounds about right... and, I distinctly remember swords, in the instructions. You were asleep for that," he tells Sans, "but I think they mean to attack her core, once we can reach it. So, maybe we fight blasts with blasts."

He doesn't bother with showmanship, just letting a fanged blaster form several feet above his head and fire off a beam of crackling white light at the Mother of Invention's torso.

Meanwhile, Yukio grabs Rin's hand and pulls himself up onto Kuro's back with a hiss of pain.

"The rifle doesn't work, so I need both arms free for the bow." He doesn't ask for Rin's help keeping him on the cat's back, just presses his knees against Kuro's back and tries to hold on as the demon runs off. Kuro's strong and fast and big, and able to dodge and jump to give Yukio chances to fire off energy blasts at the fae's joints and any open spots with pinpoint accuracy.

Zangetsu nods to Syrlya, "If Peridot can make a hole, I can make sure you get to it." Then, he hoists Peridot up by the back of her uniform with a grin.

"Hold on tight, stringbean."

He throws the gem over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and bursts into Sonído; movement so fast it looks like teleportation. He uses a few bursts in a zig-zag pattern to avoid lasers and makes it to the bridge in split-seconds. It's probably fairly disorienting. He sets Peridot down, but doesn't take his hand off her shoulder.

"It's slick and kind of rounded -- don't slip."

Sans doesn't wait. As soon as Papyrus starts firing, he does at well - he summons up his proto-blasters, ordering them to fire on the same spot. A stream of blue and gold light bursts forth, utilizing both his angelic and monster based magic.

Part of him worries, though. He knows he's still bearing her implant, and there's always the change that she'll use it. Maybe it's inevitable, but he makes the determination then and there, that he's going to keep fighting until she stops him. One way or another.

“Come on!”

Rita grabs Yuya’s arm, opens her wings, and takes to the air, pulling him along as she moves to flank the Mother of Invention.

Once she’s found a good position in the air, Rita lets go of Yuya and levitates in place as she starts conjuring a spell.

“Eat this, you freak!” she cries, letting loose a stream of white-ish flames at the base of some of those arms.

Hell fire it is.

Carly isn't as fast as a bunch of blasters, but she'll shoot arrows as fast as she can- taking aim for the face of the robot as best she can manage.

Good thing that face actually has lines. And stuff.

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