⇨ 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

[whattaprick]

“Maybe,” Lambert says, but his frown says he doesn’t think so either. He bends his focus to finishing binding Strange up, and quicker this time, because he has a pretty good feeling that whatever happens next they don’t want to be caught like sitting ducks for it.

That feeling is pretty much confirmed when the Mother of Invention herself — or her body, at least — steps right on through, and the witcher groans.

“Shit,” he mutters. “Guess the Mark didn’t get her after all.”

[kingsroads]

Strange remains still as Lambert binds his arm up, though he too has a wary expression on his face like he expects everything to go south.

And so it does when a goddamn robot just bursts through the wall. Strange makes a very annoyed noise as his hatred of technology just keeps on getting worse.

"You don't have to get in the thick of it," Strange says, frowning at the Mother's ridiculous robot body. "Let somebody else who didn't get their ass kicked by Theta get their ass kicked by a True Fae." He says this despite the fact that he knows Lambert is probably going into the thick of it.

[whattaprick]

“I could say the same thing to you,” Lambert points out, as Strange is very much someone who’s also had his ass kicked by Theta and is still pretty damn likely to shove himself in the middle of thing, broken arm or not. However, there isn’t any real time to keep chatting about it because a bright bit of light that is Ignatius heads to engage her, and then there are suddenly blasts of energy flying everywhere.

“Duck!” the witcher snaps at Strange, tugging the magician low to the ground by his (uninjured) arm and crouching over him protectively as the blasts start to slam and shake the ground around them. He throws his shield up, and not a moment too soon, as energy crashes into it. The shield breaks, but the attack disperses around them. Unfortunately, more are coming.

“We can’t stay here.”

[kingsroads]

Strange can barely duck before Lambert throws him to the ground and casts the shield spell over the two of them. Strange tenses and doesn't move as the attack goes around them.

"We can't," he agrees. "But if something like that keeps happening, it doesn't matter where we go." And Strange is a big breakable target already, even before he became a big breakable target with a shattered arm. He's obviously worried about what he's going to do next.

[whattaprick]

In the meantime, while Lambert's not at all unbreakable, he's a little more durable than he normally would be. He hasn't tried shapeshifting back into a dragon yet, but he could already feel the difference in how much stronger his magic is again, compared to before.

"Then the only way to stop her is to head towards her." More blasts crack into the skyways, shattering them further. Moving is looking pretty urgent.

"I need to find Childermass, and you need to get somewhere with cover or a better vantage point," he tells Strange, face pinched. "Can you still travel through reflections?" Breaking arms tends to be a pretty good way of crippling mages, he knows that much.

[kingsroads]

Strange nods. Thankfully, he can use his magic with just one arm. Very carefully and awkwardly, Strange gets to his feet.

"I think I'm going to ride this out as smoke or fire as much as possible. You should stay by some water as much as possible. I can best help that way."

He doesn't really want to split from Lambert, but Strange knows how it is: with his shattered arm, he's more of a liability than anything else.

[whattaprick]

"I'll try," Lambert nods, then reaches out to clasp a hand briefly onto Strange's shoulder, before nudging him back to the water. Time to head out, buddy.

"Be careful."

[kingsroads]

"I'll be as careful as you usually are," Strange can't help but retort, with an ironic little smile.

Nothing like calling out your friend before you possibly go to your deaths.