Priorities: Find Shelter!

It was an unfortunate series of events that had led to this concatenation of circumstances which left them all so poorly equipped and under fire from what appeared to be a populist uprising, or deep cover enemy insurgency ****, given that they were using mortars rather than orbital bombardment: but Jessica knew that she was at severely reduced effectiveness without her gear, and so were the others, they needed to retrieve it. Fortunately for them, all of Jessica's troops, as well as Jessica herself, had undergone a sorceress ritual which bound their gear to them by a tie of blood, all they needed to do was gather a few common items and find a protected space in which Pearl could conduct the ritual and they would be ready to try to cut their way out of this trap. Like all Space Marines, chaos or otherwise, Jessica was a true eidetic, and she called up the plans of the 'Teahouse' defenses in her mind's eye.

"Fifty meters that way," she said, gesturing to the north, "there's a bunker with an independent Void Shield, it should be able to hold them off for a while so Pearl can retrieve our gear."

The quartet timed the crashing of mortar shells and began running at an opportune moment...