![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
[for barrayar] defection; feb ii
Feb. 9th, 2017 01:29 pmWash and York form a careful escape plan, learning the patrol routes both inside and outside of the base. In the dead of night, using Ratchet as lookout a hallway further down, Wash knocks out the Cetagandans guarding Lakshmi and Daryl. They didn't realize Daryl would be in holding as well but roll with it, locking the guards inside holding and guiding the two of them along a pre-planned escape route. The five of them make it as far as having the door to the outside in eyeshot... if they'd made it there only a few minutes earlier maybe they'd have been golden, who knows. But they don't, and as they turn the last corner a soldier that they didn't count on passes by. One that (as if four beefy exotics wandering around in the middle of the night wasn't suspicious enough) recognizes Lakshmi as the Barrayaran prisoner and sounds the alarm before any of them can get to him to knock him out.
Busted, they all run for it and are set upon by basically everyone who's awake. Luckily most of the patrols are outside but our crew is unarmed and they don't stand much of a chance if the Cetagandans decide to start shooting -- which they do while the group is booking it for the woods. York gets clipped in the leg with a laser weapon and goes down hard, quickly set upon. He makes quite a fuss trying to get a weapon regardless so he can help the others escape. (Maybe he succeeds? We can roll for it! The cover fire would help the others.) Ratchet hangs back and sacrifices himself distracting the guards from the others/protecting York.
Wash is Super Unhappy but decides to get Lakshmi and Daryl back to the Barrayaran camp safe before doubling back to see what can be done about York. Lakshmi is the one who knows the way, anyway, he needs to know where he's going when he saves his friend. Meanwhile, Miles and Maine are en route from the Barrayaran camp, using the same trail. They run into one another and Maine tries to talk Wash out of going back. When that doesn't work, he just chokes him unconscious and drags him to Barrayar. Nobody goes back.
OUTCOME:
Daryl and Wash defect to Barrayaran camp
Lakshmi is saved/returns to Barrayaran camp
Miles and Maine return to Barrayaran camp
York and Ratchet remain at Cetagandan base
Busted, they all run for it and are set upon by basically everyone who's awake. Luckily most of the patrols are outside but our crew is unarmed and they don't stand much of a chance if the Cetagandans decide to start shooting -- which they do while the group is booking it for the woods. York gets clipped in the leg with a laser weapon and goes down hard, quickly set upon. He makes quite a fuss trying to get a weapon regardless so he can help the others escape. (Maybe he succeeds? We can roll for it! The cover fire would help the others.) Ratchet hangs back and sacrifices himself distracting the guards from the others/protecting York.
Wash is Super Unhappy but decides to get Lakshmi and Daryl back to the Barrayaran camp safe before doubling back to see what can be done about York. Lakshmi is the one who knows the way, anyway, he needs to know where he's going when he saves his friend. Meanwhile, Miles and Maine are en route from the Barrayaran camp, using the same trail. They run into one another and Maine tries to talk Wash out of going back. When that doesn't work, he just chokes him unconscious and drags him to Barrayar. Nobody goes back.
OUTCOME:
Daryl and Wash defect to Barrayaran camp
Lakshmi is saved/returns to Barrayaran camp
Miles and Maine return to Barrayaran camp
York and Ratchet remain at Cetagandan base
