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lostcarnival2018-10-28 07:26 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2018-10-28 07:26 pm
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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.
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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Because that’s funny, since he started out protecting the Carnival from him. The hysteria isn’t a good sign, but Lambert’s not sure what’s going on with that, so he’ll press on.
“That wasn’t about Ignatius. I asked you because I thought you’d understand what it felt like to want that,” he says. “To be more scared of ... of doing something you might regret later than you were of dying. It was selfish, and I should have known better. You apologized for asking the same thing before, and I should have remembered it felt like shit.” He snorts, quietly. “The rest of it ... if you asking you to do things is using you, then I’m sorry. I’ll stop asking.”
He honestly doesn’t know what to say besides that. He starts to gather up his swords and kit. He doesn’t have shadows or a mirror to fall through, unfortunately, so any exit will have to be a slow one. He’s not nearly drunk enough for this much emotional honesty in a conversation and he’s not sure how much of what he said is just passing through one ear and out the other. It’s been a stressful time. Maybe conversations like this should have waited until they were somewhere safer, when they were more well rested, but Lambert doesn’t know anything.
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"I need my friend as well. But considering that my friend didn't trust me with something as simple as who he loves, I thought he didn't need me. And then when my friend didn't trust me enough to help protect the carnival and do the job I've been doing for a good portion of a year...I thought something like 'hell, he must not think I'm good enough any more. Well that's alright, I've got a different friend who does trust me and does think I'm good enough, I'll feel better if I focus on him instead.'"
He takes a few shallow breaths, trying to push past the hysteria and get all his words out before Lambert goes anywhere. "And then to go from you barely trusting me to keep people safe to you trusting me with your life...I had no idea what the hell you wanted from me." Strange pauses, before clarifies, "I still have no idea what the hell you want from me."
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“Yeah, well ... me either,” is what he finally says after a long pause. “But I know it’s not this.”
So nothing very helpful there.
“And I don’t think it matters. Because what you want matters more. You said it yourself, right? Your plan’s always been the same.”
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A brief look of exasperation flashes across Strange's face at Lambert's entirely unhelpful remark. Strange knows what he wants from Lambert: he wants to be trusted, wants to be included, and wants his friend back. How the hell is it so hard for Lambert to decide what he wants from Strange?
"But what I want involves you! I'm not an idiot, I know Ignatius won't be around forever." He's got a Court to go back to. He's got a life and a cause to go back to, just as Strange and Childermass do. The fact that he stayed on after recovering his Heart in Shabon is intensely admirable and yet another reason why Strange just absolutely loves this guy, but now that he has his Heart, he's going to leave at some point. And Strange is certain about that because that's what he'd do if he was in Ignatius' place.
"But you're coming back to England with m—with Childermass. We're going to spend the rest of our lives together and I don't want to spend it like this!"
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More importantly, though, there might be a slight problem with one of Strange’s assumptions right now.
“About that ... we might not,” Lambert admits, uncertainly. “Childermass doesn’t think he can go back to England.” And where Childermass goes, Lambert follows, as Strange has correctly caught himself to say.
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"Is this about the curse? That's why I suggested the Rose Queen plan in the first place!" Strange grumbles. Sure it'd be nice if the Rose Queen managed to take out the Huntsman...but it'd be even nicer if the Huntsman managed to take her out, thereby possibly removing the curse.
"He's got to go back to England," Strange points out, as he removes his hand from Lambert's wrist. "An entirely new age of magic is beginning, he's got to be there to shape it!"
It's obvious that there's a whole host of reasons why Strange wants Childermass back in England that are more than just 'he's my friend and I'm going to miss him.'
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“It’s about a lot of things,” he snaps. “And he doesn’t have to do anything he doesn’t want to. Magic means more to him than anything else. He wouldn’t make that kind of decision lightly.”
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Strange is working himself into a bit of a worried frenzy as he frowns and thinks.
"Did he tell you any of his other reasons? Or shall I have to guess?"
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“Nothing’s decided. We aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Leave it alone.”
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"All Childermass has done, he's done for English magic. I'm not foolish enough to believe he focused so much on keeping me alive out of friendship." At least, not at first. Now, who the hell knows.
"And I resent the implication that I'm asking about this out of some...I don't know, some presumed need to know. I'm asking because I care about him—and you as well."
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“You know how Childermass is. He keeps a lot to himself. Even from me. So when you ask me if I know his reasons or not...”
He trails off and looks away. It’s a sore point. Strange might bitch about Childermass keeping secrets from him all he wants, but it feels shittier being the person closest to him and still not understand everything going on in his head.
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That awkward pause lingers for a bit as Strange bites down the urge to gloat about how much it sucks when people don't tell you things, how's that feel, huh Lambert? Instead, he settles on a simple "I'm sorry."
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“You could try to talk to him. Like you said ... he cares about magic. Maybe another magician can get him to see why that matters.” He’s just a simple witcher in the end, same as he’s always been.
“Right now, he can’t even look at me. I’m not going to be the one who convinces him of anything.”
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But on the other hand, Strange just barely got himself out of a depressive slump. How the hell is he supposed to help Childermass out of one as well?! Still, Strange never backs down from a challenge and he likes Lambert too much to say no.
"I can try," Strange responds, with a little nod. Though, before he does... "Is there anything going on between the two of you that I should know about? If part of his reasoning for not going to England involves...I don't know, a fight or something, it'd be better if I hear it from you than him."
Because he sure as hell wouldn't hear it from Childermass in the first place.
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“Not as far as I know. But talking might go over better if it’s not on this floating piece of crap.” He grimaces. Sadly, they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, as much as he’d like to. Said ‘floating piece of crap’ has a lot to do with worsening his own mood, but ...
“Before that, it needs to be cleared out and sorted out. I’m taking whoever’s up to it to go through the rest of the station and see if there’s anything useful or if we need to take any more techs out.”
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"I've got lethal and nonlethal, depending on your preference." Burn a dude alive or gas him, take your pick. "You know you'll have my help."
Because Strange is an idiot who can't say no to his friends.
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"Is it being offered, or are you going to walk away from this feeling used again?"
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But he still kind of hates the idea that killing someone has become a logical solution to his problems.
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"I'd rather knock them out. I don't want to have to figure out what to do with bodies. I just want to get what we need and get out." For him, of all people, to be the pacifist now, even if it's for the simple reason that it's a damn headache ... Geralt and Eskel would laugh their asses off.
"We'll sort out who's going with who later to cover as much of the place as we can. Until then..."
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It's not his fault that other people can't see or don't agree with Strange's internal code of ethics! As Lambert mentions knocking them out, Strange nods. That makes sense: and thank god it's knocking them out instead of murder.
"Until then, try not to get yourself hurt again. You can't lead your army if you're broken into tiny little pieces." Though Strange's tone is pure joking, there's an oddly serious expression on his face. Seriously. Don't get hurt.
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