Brainwashing plot: finale
Okay, so I've got good news and bad news, C&C.
The bad news is that the Major's evil is entering its final, critical stage. Seras has been kidnapped (the log for which is both still open and heartbreakingly untagged). She's been brought to the Drone Domicile, an ordinary office building acquired by the Master to serve as a base of operations for the brainwashing scheme. The building is hidden by one of the Master's gadgets, a Perception Filter: think a Time Lord Somebody Else's Problem field. The Major has his spies and has scored some big hits against the City, now he needs an army to finish the job and take on the world: he's trying to use Seras' body to create a new force of artificial vampires, one much more powerful than what he had for Gotterdammerung back in April.
The good news is that there is only so much of this crap that Seras can put up with, and eventually she is going to go berserk, break free, and start smashing important things, resulting in the failure of the Perception Filter. Not only that, but somebody on Team Evil (shockingly, not Slade) is going to tip off the good guys regarding the Major's plan and location.
The further bad but also good news is that the Domicile is heavily defended, which means that there's plenty of room for characters who want to help bring it down: they'll all have plenty to do. About 20 civilians have been kidnapped by the Major and brainwashed into goon service- and also imprinted with Dick Grayson's combat skills, which means they're basically mini-Nightwings. They don't have his conditioning and experience, but they know his moves and have been armed and equipped accordingly, and since they're innocent civilians, the good guys will want to go easy on them. They're operating under very strong, basic, obvious brainwashing- blank stare, 'yes master,' that kind of thing. Additionally, the Major has purchased fifteen synthetic henchmen from Doctor Drakken. Additionally additionally, one of his remaining moles has been building him a wide variety of robotic menaces. And of course then there's the actual villains themselves.
So here's how this is going to work:
There are three stories to the building, all of them defended, but all the important stuff they've been using for the brainwashing is in the basement: the imprinting chair, the programs, the portable devices, and most importantly all the original personalities of people who have yet to be cured (You probably don't want to break those). That's where the Major and Seras will be. However, once it becomes apparent that the jig is up, the Major will be bolting out of a secret entrance, only to run into Shockwave, Ken, and the rest of 'Team Vengeance' waiting for him outside, who will have tracked him down by their own means. After that, very bad things will happen to him. The Major is also available to thread with other people before he makes his getaway, as long as the ultimate outcome remains the same.
There'll be a thread for Seras' rampage, a thread for the Major's escape and subsequent capture, and as many other threads as people wish for subduing the brainwashed/smashing robots/securing the Dollhouse tech and personalities/facing off with the Major's remaining collaborators, and so forth. WHICH MEANS LISTS:
Bad guys who aren't running away as well as brainwashees:
-The Major
-The Master
-Colossus
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-
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Good guys other than Team Vengeance:
-Maggie Mui
-Echo
-Booster Gold
-Lyra
-Soldier Blue
-Kuwabara
-Starfire
-The Shadow
-
-
Team Vengeance:
-Shockwave
-Ken
-Kaiba
-Bakura
-Madarame
-Alastair
-Matsuka
-
The log will go up either on Thursday the 30th or early on Friday the 1st. So in the meantime sign up, ask questions, and plan out how your threads will go. Characters yet to be deprogrammed can keep running after this as long as they wish, but this will mark the end of Operation Skorzeny. Let's give this plot the best and biggest ending we can!
Also, deprogrammers: let me know if you would like your characters to find a Nazi bomb in their home/base between now and then, because the Major still wants to mess them up.
The bad news is that the Major's evil is entering its final, critical stage. Seras has been kidnapped (the log for which is both still open and heartbreakingly untagged). She's been brought to the Drone Domicile, an ordinary office building acquired by the Master to serve as a base of operations for the brainwashing scheme. The building is hidden by one of the Master's gadgets, a Perception Filter: think a Time Lord Somebody Else's Problem field. The Major has his spies and has scored some big hits against the City, now he needs an army to finish the job and take on the world: he's trying to use Seras' body to create a new force of artificial vampires, one much more powerful than what he had for Gotterdammerung back in April.
The good news is that there is only so much of this crap that Seras can put up with, and eventually she is going to go berserk, break free, and start smashing important things, resulting in the failure of the Perception Filter. Not only that, but somebody on Team Evil (shockingly, not Slade) is going to tip off the good guys regarding the Major's plan and location.
The further bad but also good news is that the Domicile is heavily defended, which means that there's plenty of room for characters who want to help bring it down: they'll all have plenty to do. About 20 civilians have been kidnapped by the Major and brainwashed into goon service- and also imprinted with Dick Grayson's combat skills, which means they're basically mini-Nightwings. They don't have his conditioning and experience, but they know his moves and have been armed and equipped accordingly, and since they're innocent civilians, the good guys will want to go easy on them. They're operating under very strong, basic, obvious brainwashing- blank stare, 'yes master,' that kind of thing. Additionally, the Major has purchased fifteen synthetic henchmen from Doctor Drakken. Additionally additionally, one of his remaining moles has been building him a wide variety of robotic menaces. And of course then there's the actual villains themselves.
So here's how this is going to work:
There are three stories to the building, all of them defended, but all the important stuff they've been using for the brainwashing is in the basement: the imprinting chair, the programs, the portable devices, and most importantly all the original personalities of people who have yet to be cured (You probably don't want to break those). That's where the Major and Seras will be. However, once it becomes apparent that the jig is up, the Major will be bolting out of a secret entrance, only to run into Shockwave, Ken, and the rest of 'Team Vengeance' waiting for him outside, who will have tracked him down by their own means. After that, very bad things will happen to him. The Major is also available to thread with other people before he makes his getaway, as long as the ultimate outcome remains the same.
There'll be a thread for Seras' rampage, a thread for the Major's escape and subsequent capture, and as many other threads as people wish for subduing the brainwashed/smashing robots/securing the Dollhouse tech and personalities/facing off with the Major's remaining collaborators, and so forth. WHICH MEANS LISTS:
Bad guys who aren't running away as well as brainwashees:
-The Major
-The Master
-Colossus
-
-
-
Good guys other than Team Vengeance:
-Maggie Mui
-Echo
-Booster Gold
-Lyra
-Soldier Blue
-Kuwabara
-Starfire
-The Shadow
-
-
Team Vengeance:
-Shockwave
-Ken
-Kaiba
-Bakura
-Madarame
-Alastair
-Matsuka
-
The log will go up either on Thursday the 30th or early on Friday the 1st. So in the meantime sign up, ask questions, and plan out how your threads will go. Characters yet to be deprogrammed can keep running after this as long as they wish, but this will mark the end of Operation Skorzeny. Let's give this plot the best and biggest ending we can!
Also, deprogrammers: let me know if you would like your characters to find a Nazi bomb in their home/base between now and then, because the Major still wants to mess them up.