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Who: EVERYONE!
Where: EVERYWHERE!
When: Saturday, May 19th - Wednesday, May 23rd.
Rating: PG-13, warn if you're gonna go higher!
Summary: A catch-all for the Kyln / Sierra Madre event!
The Story:

For the duration of this event, the entire mansion will be part space jail, part apocalyptic wasteland desert with an abandoned hotel/casino. On the third day an escape route not previously discovered in the Kyln appears and breakouts can be planned...

...Only for everyone to find themselves walking through a large glass prison toward the toxic gas filled wasteland of a desert, the Sierra Madre. Does the prison look better than the toxic cloud outside? If you're stuck in the prison after dark beyond day 3, you'll be forced into and locked in your cell for the night. But at least locked away, nothing from the outside can hurt you. If you try to brave the actual elements in the desert it might be a little hard to breathe. The air has pockets of toxic gas and even a few seconds of exposure could prove deadly. And watch out for the Ghost People.

Inside the abandoned hotel/casino you'll find shelter from the gas and ghosts, but beware the holograms that are 50/50 with their attitude. Prison beatings, a beating from the holograms, which one Would You Rather? And whatever you do, don't try on the collars lying around unless you like to explode. Literally.

[ This is a catch-all for all your prison/desert needs! Please mark your threads clearly in the subject line with your character's name and either a cell number or just a location if you didn't feel like randomizing it or you're making a top level for a public place (like the dining hall or wandering the hotel/casino). Here's the plot post if you need it!

Have fun! ]

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[It's weird, the bond that you get out being stuck in a place together. But whatever. Becks has seen worse. And weirder. There's only one thing on her mind right now.]

We need a plan. [Why this is the person she turned to, to make such a declaration? Who knows. He'd kind of been expressing something like 'let's get the hell outta here' vibes, at any rate, so he'd probably be on board, right?]

[Totally on board. Minato nodded since she was thinking along the same lines as he was. The more, the merrier. He gave her a nod and sat down near her though not too close as to look conspiratorial.]

I don't have a lot of combat training, more on the evading side. What about you?

[Even if he did mean combat training in the proper sense, he hadn't been old enough to volunteer and enlist anyway. Now that he was without his powers, he'd probably do best with sneaking around at this rate.]

I guess you could say I've got some combat experience. Not quite militant, but I was licensed to chase zombies for a living back home. [She shrugs a bit. It's so normal in the circles ahe is used to running, she doesn't think much about it or how odd it might sound.] We need to figure out the patterns of the guards, best we can. Scout exits, if we can.

[Not that she knows how the hell they'll do any of that from behind bars but whatever.]

[Zombies again? But that meant she had to also be good at evading. No one wanted to end up as zombie food. Minato nodded though, thinking it over.]

The guards don't have a set pattern from what I can see. I'll help you look for the exits though.

[Whenever they were let out, whenever that was. They had to eat or get out and about some time and during the day, they should get that chance.]

You use a weapon at all?

Thanks. [She nods a bit at the question.] Guns, usually. But I can manage with whatever I can find, peobably. You have any experience with weapons?

[A gun. He didn't know if they could get a gun for her, but something else might be able to work, as she said.]

Just a sword. Might be easier to find a gun than a sword here.

[He glanced outside the cell for a moment.]

Or one of those batons, if you could use one of those.

They must have our weapons locked up somewhere, right? If we can find the stash, that'd be ideal. [But she'll admit, she doesn't work on ideals. Reality is a better place to live in and he's not wrong. The baton might be easier to come by. A smirk slips over her face.] I think I could handle that.

Our things are being held on the lowest level behind the bathrooms. That's the word.

[If that helped at all. Now getting to it was another issue. He did like that smirk since she was confident and it helped him be even more so too.]

But we could take a guard down. We'd just need the timing.

Hey, knowing is like half the battle. [She shrugs. They'll manage whatever they can, with what little information and resources they have at their disposal and figure out the rest as they go. It's the best ahe can hope for, really, and it's got something of a familiar rush trying to push through her veins as she works out the details with her cellmate.]

[If she had a weapon, then all the better for them. She'd have more of a fighting chance (literally, too) than he did.]

I'll get more info on escaping. I think there's a certain time the guards change shifts.

[So they could go then.]

I'm Minato, by the way. And you?

We'll figure it out, no doubt we've got time. [And a helluva lot of it, too.]

Becks. [She offers in greeting, smiling at him.]

[Minato smiled in return. He'd definitely have to look out for her after this event too. When he had his powers, he could be more helpful to her that way.]

Minato. Nice to meet you.

[And they'd bust out of here together.]

We should find out more in a day or so. I can let you know?

Likewise. [Her tone may be a little more clinical or matter-of-fact, but she meant it all the same. It's never bad to find someone to stick with in situations like this.]

Yeah, absolutely.

[A day or two did indeed pass. Minato had heard that the guards really did change shifts at certain times and when that happened, there were less guards guarding the inmate personal property room.

He shared that with Becks so they could get their plan of escape underway.]

I can distract a guard, you can get your weapon from the room when he's away?

Sounds good. Meet back in the hall and run like hell. [It's time to reach down to her Irwin roots. And she'll do whatever she has to, to keep Minato safe.]

[When their cells were open for them to come back for curfew, he had Becks follow him out. He knew where the room was and quietly had her accompany him there. He nodded to her once they were ready.]

See you.

[Minato took off running to distract that guard. He didn't mind, he could outrun any of these guards who only had shock batons. All she had to do was bust in the room now and get her weapon. Should be easy enough.]

[She equally hates and loves the feeling that runs through her in moments like this. It's a rush unlike anything else, but knowing she's basically sending someone off into a hazard zone feels so off and wrong. He can call it being a distraction all he wants, but Becks knows what it really is-- he's the bait. He's the one that risks more consequence if something goes wrong, here.

But she isn't thinking about all of that now. All she's focused on is getting to that room and finding her weapons. She's cut off by another guard that she hadn't noticed, and who she can only assume came from around the corner at the other end of the hall. She's barked at to stand back, and that the room is off-limits. A warning, that if she tries to get beyond him, she'll pay for it. Becks doesn't see another way out, so while he thinks she's relenting, taking a step back and then another, and his guard is down, she jumps into action and slams the guard's head into the nearest wall. The hit isn't hard enough to knock him out, she didn't have the leverage for that kind of power, but it's enough to disorient him and she manages to get his baton from him in those seconds.]

Minato! Abort! RUN! [It's all that she can yell, and she hopes it's enough. She darts toward the hall where they were supposed to meet up again.]

[Minato heard that and nodded to himself. He immediately stopped, getting that guard off balance as he couldn't stop in time and tripped him. He grabbed the baton, shocking the guard with it once, then raced off to meet up with Becks. He didn't doubt her abilities at all and knew she could pull off her part of this mission.]

Thanks. The guards are changing shifts now and there should only be two at the door, so let's go.

[Now that they had batons, they could easily take down two guards. Then they just had to run through the doors to get out of the prison.]

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Hell yes! [She can't deny, there's a part of her that feels more alive right now than she has the entire time she's been in Wonderland. It's the Irwin in her-- danger is literally her way of life, it gets her going in ways nothing else can.

She runs with her fellow escapee at her side until they come to the door. It's an altercation of swift resolution with the two guards, caught unprepared for the attack from their prisoners.]

[Minato was so thankful that she was enthusiastic about this. It made escaping that much more effective and also, if he could think it now, fun. It had been a long time since he could work like he had a party to accompany him into battle, someone reliable and who didn't sway from their goal.

Guards down, Minato nodded over to her. It was time to get out. They did end up in some kind of tunnel with windows outside, overlooking the desert.]

Let's keep going. There has to be more.

[And it was long way to wherever they were going, but they had to leave. The alarms would go off soon enough and more guards would come after them.]

[Taking in the look of things outside the tunnel, she's not sure what to expect, but it has to be better than what's behind them. So Becks nods her agreement.] Whatever's at the other end of this tunnel has to be a better deal. We'll handle it, whatever it is.

[The confidence in her words will hopefully carry them through the rest of the escape mission, until they reach their long-drawn destination in the distance. They'll regroup there, and figure out the next step in the plan.]

[Minato nodded firmly in agreement. How bad could this event be? Out of the frying pan and into the fire? He doubted it since they escaped what seemed like the worst of it.

Sometimes he did look behind them just to make sure no one was following them. So far, so good.]

If you need to go back and look for anyone later, then I can help.

[Even though it would be extremely risky to go waltzing back into the prison when they were like Public Enemy Number One, but if she had friends to get out, then he would take that risk.]

The people I know are pretty resourceful themselves-- [The thought of Maggie, stuck in a prison cell, makes her heart sink, though. She is, after all, the least-equipped of all of her friends to deal with this sort of thing. But she'd find a way out. She would. Because Maggie Garcia was not ever above asking for help. And Becks would just have to let that carry her for now.] --so I'll give them some time before I start trying to double back.

[Because it really would be a giant risk. The sort she'd only take if it became absolutely necessary.

But for now, all she could focus on was Minato and herself, and reaching that safe haven in the distance. She'll settle once they're there and regroup, think things through more when she has time to assess everything.]

[Minato nodded and pushed forward with her to get farther away from the prison. He didn't want to go outside. Wherever this tunnel lead to, it had to be better.]

Just find me. I may go back because I have a friend there too.

[And working as a team like before would be better. He just didn't want to get her in trouble.

He did see that the tunnel did lead to another... door? But it looked like it was going to go outside. And outside didn't look all that great.]

If you're ready, then let's go. Don't breathe in that red stuff.

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