⇨ 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

[spaghettimonster]

[Papyrus shows up a little ways after the main fighting, one arm very gently wrapped around his ribcage, to get checked on. It's not an emergency, and he lingers out of the way while the medical folks do their thing with the more pressing - and actively bleeding - patients.

The short of it is that he took a significant blow to the ribs from some debris, and he's been feeling pangs of pain as he moves like they're at least bruised, possibly cracked, inside the metal coating. There's not much way to check for swelling on a skeleton, but he's walking and -not- breathing just fine.]

[reflash]

[Yukio is moving around, checking up on people, making sure that no one is crashing, that everyone is still safe. But he's also absolutely keeping an eye on new arrivals to the area. And Papyrus counts as a new arrival. The visor and the chip in Yukio's head help with identification, a little bit.]

Papyrus-san. Where are you injured? [He has no idea how to help a magical skeleton, but he can try.]

[spaghettimonster]

[Papyrus jumps a little at being addressed so quickly, not used enough to the conditions of healers' work after a fight - nor the whole system of checking everyone's condition and deciding the order in which to treat them.]

Oh, uh, my ribs? It's hard to see, with the metal... But they got hit in the fight, and now they're aching.

[The usual answer is magic, but there's only so many healers and so many potions to go around.]

[reflash]

[Right now, he can deal with bruised ribs.]

I don't know that there's much I can do, but if you don't mind I'll take a look.

[And once he gets permission, he's going to look the ribs over. Are they completely encased in metal? If so, are there any dents or cracks in the metal itself?]

Can you show me exactly where it hurts?