POLARIS COORDINATION PLANNING

[amphibiopathic]

Courtesy of Swirl, a Google Doc is up where people are compiling character's various investigation results and major actions so far.

This plotting post is to help facilitate actually cohesively getting together IC efforts to try and get out of this place!

Feel free to post with what information you're individually looking to have your character share, what you're interested in getting your character into, and/or their current status, etc. A general thread for brainstorming about overall plans will be posted below, too, if you have thoughts that aren't necessarily limited to your character's IC perspective/knowledge.

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BRAINSTORMING

[amphibiopathic]

We've got the pieces of the puzzle, now what do we do with 'em? Feel free to drop general ideas on concrete overall actions characters can work towards (or are already working towards) here.

[moonfang]

whispers

kill the Mother of Invention

[atouts]

Childermass should be able to use Gild's magic boost via her boon to kickstart his shadow teleportation. That could be how people get out after lights out to make their move.

Keep Iggy Alive (Again)

[whattaprick]

However they reach him, Ignatius is likely to be in pretty bad shape, and most likely some level of unconscious based on his unresponsiveness.

It's uncertain if Gild will be able to immediately retrieve Ignatius the moment they make contact, but characters should likely be prepared to transport and/or stabilize a heavily injured fae in case that's not going to be an outcome.

[moonfang]

OH We need to make sure we get back our stolen crap and pets, for sure.

THE DATE

[hippocarnival]

Re: dates. Syr's thought is they'll need to move before the end of 117 at the latest to avoid more people dropping up theta. Since he's coordinating with Gon for that he's honestly prolly going to pick a date icly and then spread that around.

So if anyone else has ic or ooc opinions between 114-117 speak up now o7

[anti_nonsense]

A couple ideas!

- Those in Delta with hacking ability could try taking control of the teleporters, while those getting trained in security might be able to do something to sabotage Polaris's security's ability to respond to an emergency?

- There's water in the Farm, and water in the Delta area. Strange and/or Yuya could open up a portal or two and start moving people out of the Farm and into the staff areas, where they can start making a run for the teleporters, hopefully doing it quickly enough that the staff will be caught off guard.

THE MARKED

[whattaprick]

Just a quick and dirty discussion on the potential of leveraging Gild's mark to accomplish objectives, partly to avoid overlap, make IC discussions/direction happen as necessary, and overall advance the objectives.

Primarily, the known abilities of the Marks, as explained to Yuya are:
- Can be transferred to other people via will.
- Do a fire thing.
- Do a light thing.
- Power up mental/physical strength/magic(?)
- Finding things/people.

It's used by 'calling out to her,' and apparently Gild's senses won't penetrate the station. This is all information primarily relayed to Yuya, so for max mark usage some degree of info relay needs to happen/be handwaved between the current marks.

In terms of potential objectives/targets they could look for, here's a short list of shit they could try to find with this method if ordinary investigations don't avail them:
- Ignatius (if the sector he's in turns out to be complicated as shit)
- Where their shit is being kept
- The Mother of Invention
- ????? Other Ideas ?????

Off the table are using the marks to find the Gilded Mark's ally, probably finding Gild herself.

Do people have a solid feel for what their character might use their mark for at this point, or are they holding it in reserve for a better opportunity? For people who don't have marks, are there any other potential avenues you'd suggest looking into besides the above? It's all pretty flexible at the moment, so this is just feeling out what some of our options might be that we may not have considered yet and/or figuring out if some more IC stuff needs to be sorted/coordinated (i.e. if some characters have a solid idea for their own use, actually communicating about what to each other).

BARE BONES IDEA + more info

[chronosynthesis]

OKAY so now that they know the following:

Gild is ready to go whenever, suggested maybe early morning (before they're picked up for cells?0)
MoI has a ton of projects, may not be keeping iron in Polaris since it's within Arcadia (Childermass has iron knives tho).
She's like, some sort of weird technological golem body. No idea if it's enhancements or some sort of shapeshifting preference.
Gild is all for murdering MoI but can't promise she can use iron to do it, so that might be on them.
Zan pulled up an investigation on a day before 109 that guard duty is sparse at night, so that might actually be a good time to act.

SO, OBJECTIVES:

-Free Ignatius. This is currently IC lead by Syrlya with Rita, Peridot, and Zangetsu. I AM OPEN to more people being pulled into this specific part if someone really wants their character to come along, we can work it out so LMK.

- Break everyone out and gather. I believe Childermass is helping with his teleport abilities to break people out of cells BUT if there's anyone else who can take over since there's like 30 something people who may not all be pairing up, that'd be great. We also need a rendezvous point.

- FIND THEIR STUFF I think Childermass is gonna be part of this too? But obviously that could use other people to help because there are A Lot Of Things to carry. Also, a lot of pets (bring in the cavalry).

- Maybe a distraction group to keep what security there is occupied so they can't stop Iggy group and Stuff group from acting. Fire, fire, fire

- KILL THE MOI because we want this. Idk that this needs a specific group because we have no idea how she's gonna interfere, but. Objective.

- ESCAPE Gild suggests she has that handled, with a preference for murdering MoI to make that easier. But she has a few options depending how the carnival pulls together.

Thoughts, where your character can help, etc, etc.

WHAT CAN YOUR CHARACTER DO?

[starseedling]

This is a toplevel for advertising what your character can do for people to aid in plans. Please put list of abilities in the title and then explain in more detail what they can offer.

DREAMWALKING/INFORMATION SHARE

[starseedling]

Steven can visit the dreams of anyone in the sector at the moment, though he can't really put up much resistance to being booted out and has a limited amount of endurance for keeping it up. HOWEVER, he can pass along secret information at night by telling people stuff in their dreams. Most likely their dreams are not being monitored.

SOUL CHATTER- INFORMATION SHARE/GILD'S MARK

[betheman]

Gongenzaka has limited access to his 'soul chatter' ability- which is essentially communicating with his soul directly to another soul via Images and Emotions. It's a range of about 15 feet, but great for passing information discretely (if you can. Parse it anyway). After all he's...Pretty? Sure they can't monitor their souls in that way?

He also has Gild's Mark right now- he's using this in tandem with the above to ferry information from her to others (including those in Delta), as well as ferry information back to her, so that they can maybe all work on a plan.

The mark means that he presently has an unused boon from her, should the moment arise; something that could make use of Fire, Light, 'Enhancements' of the Physical/Magical sort, or 'Finding Things'.

TELEPORTING AND MARKS

[chronosynthesis]

Putting my boys together cause I'm on mobile.

SYRLYA has 10% of his, magic, which isn't super reliable but better than nothing. He can kinda do invisibility and might be able to manage limited teleporting/ illusions.

His plant powers seem a smidge stronger thanks to Blue Rose, so there's that too.

YUYA has 30% magic which is mostly useful for his reflection teleporting. He also has Gild's mark which can grant him fire/light abilities, searching abilities, or temporary enhancements when he uses the boon. He can also pass the boon to someone else by willing it over and them accepting it.

SOUL DETECTION, SPIRITUAL FORM, BEING A VERY BIG GUN, MARTIAL ARTS

[moonfang]

Zangetsu is able to sense and differentiate souls -- including through walls and over distances! At full power, it's a radius of about half a mile give or take. More, for very potent souls (like High Fae) or for people he is very familiar with. He can also "track" souls to a certain extent, by finding hints of peoples' essence and following them to their source.

He can also dump his body and be a ghost! This is useful for avoiding weaker changelings and not being constrained by Dumb Bodysuits. However, more powerful changelings, true fae, and carnival members can see him regardless. He eats souls, too -- dead men tell no tales.

And then he can blow stuff up and heal himself. He can destroy while also being resilient. It's not enough to take out a True Fae most of the time, but it's a hell of a distraction.

He is at 30% of his full power thanks to chattin' with Ignatius in his ~soul~.

OH AND ONE I FORGET A LOT; Ichigo and therefore Zangetsu are technically black-belts in a karate/MMA style, but his technique is sloppy and instinctual. But Ichigo had been handing bullies their asses on silver platters long before he had a sword, and Zangetsu mirrors those skills.

HACKING, ITEM STORING, TOOL SUPPLYING, RECON... EGGS.

[periphrasing]

Peridot has 30% of her power back, but she's also in Theta now, so her ability to contribute in the prep stages may be kind of limited. She's totally prepared to pull out all the stops once they have a plan in place and it's time to move.

First off, she has her metallokinesis back, as well as her fire claws/fire breath. Perhaps more importantly, she can summon her magic storage gauntlet again! That means she has access to all of her Engineer's tools and a wide variety of other useful objects, so if you need gadgets, or if you need to hide something, she's got you covered.

She also has the pokeballs for her wimpod Stumpy and her dragonair Noodle available to loan out for help. Noodle is gigantic and will only really be useful as backup in a scenario where destruction needs to happen, but Stumpy is small, quick, and extremely good at running away from things. Peridot has affixed her with a modified recording device, so she can go out and do surveillance and investigate things in a carnie's stead, which might be worth trying under the right circumstances.

OTHER STUFF... She has access to the egg dimension. If you have specific items stored in there, she may be able to hook you up. The return of her fire powers means that theoretically her electricity powers should be working again as well. With those, she can zap enemies, and also turn herself into lightning in order to zap inside of things. The latter means she can pass through metallic obstacles, or just straight fuck up or alter electronic devices.

She has not been able to test how well her transformation spells work yet.

EDIT Once again, I forgot to mention she also has a magic sword that can cut through anything, and an unused boon from Creation. THERE'S A LOT TO KEEP TRACK OF HERE...

INFO TRANSFER / DELTA ACCESS / THIRD EYE / MAGIC HACKING

[anti_nonsense]

Rita's skills and resources at the moment include:

- Use of magic at 30% potency. She also has a connection with Ignatius through her new artificial heart... but oops, he's not responding, so that won't help much unless they help him first.

- Her info transfer technique! Rita can enchant items with information, allowing others to learn that info by touching said items.

- Delta access! Rita gets a map in her visor as well as the freedom to move around somewhat.

- Magic perception and magic hacking. She can perceive and identify magic to some degree, and can alter magic formulas if she can understand them well enough. She's also technologically inclined in general, and maybe that can come in handy.

SHADOW SPIES, SHADOW INVENTORY, EGG DIMENSION

[atouts]

Childermass is at 30% thanks to Ignatius. He's already been scouting with his shadow constructs and can generate another when needed. He can get to what's been stored in his shadow and (supposedly) could add more stuff to it. I don't know about people as he hasn't tried that yet.

He can open the extra dimension where all the soul eggs and whatever supplies have been stored in there, as well as retrieve said items from it.

There's also The Gilded Mark's, uh, mark, aka boon, that he has at his disposal. Someone just needs to, like, remind him that's actually useful. He's probably going to hang onto it to boost his own magic at some point.

LIKE SO MUCH FIRE, Y'ALL

[kingsroads]

Strange has that 30% from Ignatius and has fire magic coming easily to him. Which is good, as that's the most likely contribution that Strange will make to any plans as he's stuck in Theta atm. but hey, if there's a distraction going on that's big and loud enough that it gets people's attention in Theta, Strange can create a whole bunch of new problems for Theta to deal with.

He can also perceive and dispel magic, turn into smoke or fire, and do the reflection magic that he always does, but as fire magic is easiest for him to wield right now + he's hanging out in Theta, his main possible contribution will most likely be said shitton of fire.

GILD'S MARK

[whattaprick]

As of Day 113, Lambert will be acquiring the Gilded Mark's sigil from Steven. He doesn't have access to anything else, unfortunately, but as he's in Theta that may or may not provide an opportunity for someone else.

He's also arguably particularly immobile due to having most of his skeleton replaced, but them's the breaks.

BOMBS/LIQUID & GAS FORM/LAYOUT

[amphibiopathic]

Eruka is a big whiny coward but she can get into places most people can't on account of being able to turn herself into an oozy puddle or gas, and can be fairly easily bullied into doing that sort of thing. She has a vague awareness of the layout and size of the place based on vent adventures but wouldn't be able to provide meaningful guidance otherwise.

She could also make small explosions happen or summon a tiny tiny little semi-sentient tadpole construct, so she can manage distractions in a pinch.

KI-ENHANCED DEDUCTION, MARTIAL ARTS

[impatientdefense]

Beau's rocking that incredible 10% boost to her 0 strictly speaking magical abilities, but her ki powers are close enough to magic for this non-D&D setting to work. Which means:

She's very good for a mundane martial artist, able to pull off parkour stunts and knock (non-enhanced) people out with a good strike. More usefully, she has a trained and ki-enhanced power for deducing things about the beings she fights, like their skills and their vulnerabilities, which might be useful for investigation purposes.

UNFORTUNATELY for her, she signed up for the trial that may involve true name fuckery, so her usefulness may be. limited.

SKELETON THINGS, ENCOURAGEMENT

[spaghettimonster]

Papyrus does not have access to his really cool magic, unfortunately, but he's still a skeleton and able to separate into pieces to control those pieces remotely. If enough people know Morse code or any other tapping method of communication, he could separate bits of his tail to spread between them and forward messages from wherever his head is at. If they get the suit off, there's a lot more versatility: his hand could be sent off for distant things, and conveniently it is almost never on fire.

AT THE VERY LEAST, Papyrus can be very encouraging, and offer a sounding board for people to work out plans.

[chronosynthesis]

OKAY So Syrlya's been coordinating a lot of info ICly so if you need your characters brought into the know, he's trying to piece together their escape based on what they can do and what Gild can do for them. He's basically trying to figure who he can point where because even if he has a plan, he can't execute it. He has somw of his magic but not enough that's its not a huge risk.

He's really pending learning some stuff but his biggest concern is:

1. How to exit the station (hopefully hitching a ride with Gild)
2. Retrieving their stuff if possible
3. Being able to quickly grab the Thetas and Ignatius during their escape.

I can't think what he needs to know except state of deltas and teleporters which I think he's in line for already so I'm mostly offering him to get more people involved with info and taling advantage of their capabilities. Preferably if they stay out of Theta. :')

YUYA is bombing farm work but he km prolly won't go theta this round. Maybe.

Anyway he's been in contact with Gild so he has that info to spread around, plus enough magic he can move between reflections but with no stealth that's a one time chance. BASICALLY he's a piece to be pointed somewhere by characters smarter than him.

He can give his mark to someone else but it'll need to be someone who he knows will make a difference with it, because he isn't taking the boon lightly.

GONGENZAKA'S INFOSHARE ROUNDUP | DAY 112

[betheman]

Throughout day 112, Gongenzaka goes around soul chatting to a few people; Syrlya, Steven, Zangetsu, Lambert, and Rita most notably. The order is vague (Though Rita is likely Last), but the important bit is the following.

In all cases he passes on the information that:

> They have an ally from outside Polaris, noted by Golden Arrows, and affiliated with the Summer Court
(Syrlya, and possibly others, have correctly misinterpretted this as the Summerlands...Gongenzaka isn't actually aware of The Gilded Mark's identity however, so it's worth noting that IF QUESTIONED ON HER ORIGIN, he would only be able to say 'summer court'.)
> This ally is largely here for Ignatius, but wishes to help them as well...But also needs THEIR help in general
> They have a plant within Polaris; but while they have pieces of an effort, they lack a Plan, a true Objective, a Time, and a Date.
> Gongenzaka would also have shared the hand-drawn map of Polaris indicating Ignatius' location
> As well, he would explain that the mark from Gild grants a One-Time Boon relating to her abilities; Physical Enhancement, Magical Enhancement, Fire, Light, or 'Finding Things'.

In all cases as well, he encourages the one he's talking to to share this information (discretely) with others who they trust not to run off without a plan. He also asks if anyone has noted abilities that could be of use/encourages discussing the use of those abilities. (Notably, he will Re-Group with everyone he can at the end of this day to update them on any additions to this list, so that they can potentially speak to them on day 113)
LASTLY, he asks each of these people for their own input on what to carry back to Gild. Thus far, the list of points he (and Yuuya) are bringing back to Gild include:

> A 'confirmation' that those who made contracts with Ignatius seem to have regained limited amounts of their power- more importantly, confirmation that they are presently networking within this group to create a plan.
> A note on their current situation; assuming Gild is unaware, Gongenzaka will explain that all of them have limited movements at night, being locked up either individually or in pairs.
> A question regarding the best time of day for Gild's party to act, so that they can work around that time for the plan.
> If there is an existing idea for how to get them out/away safely.
> A note that there are numerous useful items that were confiscated from them, which may be beneficial to locate for retrieval.
> A further note that the Mother herself has a stash of Iron which she uses in her experiments...

Bringing it all to the last point Gongenzaka intends to bring forward courtesy of Zangetsu; the question of whether or not the Gilded Mark's party would be confident in the ability to kill the Mother of Invention, if they were to find a way to access her and attack.

Technically Lambert also asked Gongenzaka if he could question Gild about a way to cut security, or where else to go, but Gongenzaka figures these are kind of the things she literally told them to figure out themselves soooooo. Those won't be covered night 112. (And chances are, other characters will figure the solutions out themselves)

THE UPDATE | DAY 113

[betheman]

In the interest of not wasting time, this comment is following up with the results of Gongenzaka's dreaming (and will edit if more comes in)

After presenting his list of questions, Gongenzaka will be coming back to Syrlya (As well as those who come to him about the matter of this plan; feel free to handwave some soul chatter, and comment below so I can keep track of who was updated!) with the following:

> Not only is Gild aware of the layout and situation they're in due to the Plant, she has no extreme preference on time- though she did suggest Early Morning as an option.
> The Plant may be able to help with retrieving their items, but they should probably expect combat. (Gongenzaka will present that point as somewhat obvious, since he was pretty sure they wouldn't be getting through that without a fight anyway)
> Gild seems fine with the idea of killing the Mother of Invention! But if iron is involved, the metal needs to be in their hands not hers. ...For physical impossibility reasons.
> Gild also stated that the Mother of Invention appears to be some sort of robot...though she may have 'changed her chassis' recently.

TEAAAAM BREAKDOWNS

[amphibiopathic]

What it says on the tin. Now that the log is up, time to sort out a bit more who's going where. If your character hasn't been extensively involved in plotting by this point, they might just have to get swept up a bit.

TEAM LOOT

[whattaprick]

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.

Current members include Lambert (sort-of-leading), Childermass, and Yuya. A couple more people with abilities related to item storage, transportation, and/or general physical fitness would be ideal.