⇨ 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

[hippocarnival]

Yuya looks up at ceiling thoughtfully.

"I thought he was pretty scary at first, too. But getting to know him means we've seen a different side to him now, right?" He looks back to Rita, expression full of curiosity. She was the one hurt the most by him, technically. "What do you think of him now?

[anti_nonsense]

"I don't know..." Rita lays her hands down in her lap and fidgets idly with her fingers. "I don't regret anything we did to him. He deserved all of it. But at the same time... there's a limit to how much you can hate and punish someone until it stops being satisfying. And when he had a chance to prove he could be trusted... he proved it."

If that battle in Shabon could be considered a test of Ignatius's character, then he passed with flying colors.

"Then, when we tried communicating with our thoughts, I could feel what he was feeling, and..." She seems to struggle to find a way to describe it, and sighs. "We've got more in common than I thought, is all."

[hippocarnival]

Yuya smiles softly as Rita goes on. She and Ignatius both have this view of punishment Yuya, that Yuya would rather see second chances in. But, if that's how they cope with the injustice and regret...

He nods, pausing as he considers the question he knows he wants to ask, but isn't sure if it's the right time. But will there ever be a better time?

"Are you starting to forgive him?"

[anti_nonsense]

"I haven't really thought of it as forgiveness. I'll never be okay with everything that happened in the past, I think. But..." Rita frowns deeply as she considers her thoughts. These aren't feelings she's had to try and put into words before.

"I don't hate him anymore. And whatever this connection between us is, I'm... glad we have it, in a way."

[hippocarnival]

Yuya's smile only widens. "I think he'd be happy to hear that."

Rita was someone he regretted hurting. Someone he cared about, even if that originally came from some magic twisting their lives around.

"When I spoke to him before... I think he was worried that if it was all wrong, he could never make up for that. And--it's true, a second chance doesn't take away what happened in the past..."

Yuya knows that personally. "But I think it'd mean a lot for him to hear that. It's worth changing to make a better future."

[anti_nonsense]

There's a tinge of redness as the heat rises in Rita's face.

"I don't know if... I mean, I wouldn't put it like that..." she mutters, trying to think of how the hell she'd even approach Ignatius just to say some dumb feel-good crap like that. But she does feel like she ought to say something after he got himself poisoned just to free her from the Mother of Invention's control...

"...Hmph. Maybe I'll go look for him after I'm done here. No promises, though."

[hippocarnival]

"Okay." He doesn't look bothered mostly because he knows Rita's M.O. about feelings by now.

They'll work things out between them, Yuya's got faith in that.