When You're Evil - Master plot

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

Hey folks! Spish here, finally getting out of zombification to do some work. So I’ve been a bit avoidant of plot details until I got everything squared away with the mods, but I do believe we are good now!

So! The 14th-22nd the Master will be sending out a signal through the tablet network that will, effectively, take over and rewrite the operations of the Extras (more details under the cut). The Extras have commands to subdue the people of the city, putting Taxon under a state of Martial Law (“Master Law”). His goal is to more send a message to the aliens that "he can make this city his" while screwing with people. Because that's always fun, right?

You'll know when the plot begins by when the Master has a post of him singing The Perfect Crime #2 and setting up/getting it underway. About mid-week will be When You're Evil and the start of the warehouse victims (again, details under the cut).

The breakdown of the Extras:


- The Master has control of 100-200 Extras at any given time.

- They are by no means strong themselves, but they will use various mundane weaponry (two-by-fours, pipes, pitchforks, the Master doesn’t trust them with guns okay) to control the people.

- The Extras under the Master's control will no longer operate the facilities they are meant to, nor will they be helpful to anyone in the city. In fact, they'll be quite the opposite, and generally make the lives of people hellish. Since there are really no laws in Taxon to enforce, the Extras will react over the smallest thing (ask if you have questions, otherwise, use your discretion? It is the Master, and he is a douche.)

- Because of his limited control, you can easily opt out of this plot.

* I'm not kidding about the pitchforks. You can completely blame the mods for that.



The breakdown of the signal:


- The signal is a low frequency sound that flows through the tablet system as a whole. It emits from every tablet in the city. It is meant to only affect the Extras; however, it is possible that others of the psychic variety will be able to pick up on it (but it shouldn’t change them over like it does the Extras, unless you’re a strange, strange person).

- Because of it using the tablet system, pinning down its starting location is exceedingly difficult, as it sort of just circles through the network and hides the beginning point. It would be possible to stop it from transmitting for a short time in a specific district, but in the Master’s den he is constantly changing the patterns of the signal to override any outside influences on it. He will do this every 15 minutes or so, up until the point where he is dealing with the warehouse folk, and then he will only update the signal remotely when he notices a problem. Which will not be much.

- Regular tablet communication is unaffected. Most will barely pick up on the signal transmitting through their tablet.

- The most simplistic part of the signal can be decoded to: I am the Master; you will obey me. There are several other ‘orders’ laced together through the code of it, but trying to interpret the rest merely results in it becoming scrambled and untranslatable.

- The signal, basically, reprograms the Extras. While they all normally have functions given to them by the aliens or whomever to perform a variety of tasks, the Master is giving them new functions, effectively writing over their old ones and making the new ones prominent, as though the functions were always a part of their daily routine.

* If you think your character is capable of screwing with the signal, ask me. They likely can :D I just… don’t know everyone’s skillz.

* If a character does temporarily knock out the signal, it will affect the district that they are in (Speares, Osten, Shelley, Wilde, Central). Hopefully that makes things less complicated. I hope.



Character Specifics:


Characters exempt from the Extras: Drusilla, Angelus/Angel (he’s mindful of Dru lol), Illyria, Brigitta, Petrana, and River Tam. Orders ftw.

Characters who are in trouble: Solomon Koenig, Cordelia Chase, Godric, Bruce Wayne, Morgana, Tara Maclay, Rose Tyler, Fitz Kreiner, Donna Noble

These characters have made it onto the Master’s hitlist for one reason or another. Cordelia and Godric are because of Dru; Solomon he wants revenge on; Rose, Fitz, and Donna are companions of the Doctor; Tara is a friend; Bruce and Morgana testified against the Doctor in his trial. Mixed signals ftw.

The Extras have specific instructions to capture and subdue these people and bring them to a warehouse within the city, where the Master will show up, and depending on the discretion of players, he does plan on varying degrees of torture against these characters, with Solomon being the worst and Rose being the least (he’d prefer just forcing Rose to watch and not be able to do anything). Note: No character will be injured past the point of recovery.

Drusilla is invited. She’s allowed to call the shots on Cordelia and Godric and he’ll do whatever she pleases, really. Godric may get worse anyway though, as he'll be human. Haha.

The situation will not be broadcast, but it will be recorded, as if the trauma of finding his (the Doctor's) friends tortured wasn't bad enough. Though he might actually leak some footage to the Doctor at random intervals.

If you do not want your character involved, you can opt out. The Extras just failed royally at finding them. Or, if you’d like your character present but uninjured, they can ‘watch’ and be rendered helpless. But please, please tell me, I do not want to step over any player’s boundaries.

Otherwise, I think I have some interesting convos with players, hm?


The Master:


- For the first half of the plot, the Master plans on keeping low. His apartment is decked out with the equipment to run and refresh the signal, but he'll keep hidden, sort of with the impression that people will think that the change in the Extras is the doing of the aliens.

- As always, the Master hides his location from showing on the map. This will not be changing.

- His apartment will not be under guard. There will not be anything special about it at all, so that it will blend in as per normal. It is located in Central, not horribly far from the Sanctuary, and if all the equipment gets destroyed, the signal will completely stop.

- The second half of the plot he will be in a warehouse located in the south-most of Osten. It likely won't be hard to find him since SOMEONE'S location will likely be transmitting, though he'll try and shut them all off.

- There will be about 25+ Extras in the warehouse with the Master as meatshields or doing his dirty work to stop his victims from being able to beat the ever-living-shit out of the Master XD

- He'll be Mr. Grumpypants with a huge helping of madness near the end. His drums will be incredibly painful by then.

The Master's current song list:
The Perfect Crime #2 by The Decemberists (plot opening)
When You're Evil by Voltaire (climax, or something before the warehouse dealings)
Shankill Butchers, Master Rendition by The Decemberists (screwing with Godric)
They're Coming to Take Me Away by Neuroticfish (may or may not be the end looool)

Yeah, IDK how Decemberists kept creeping in there.

Comments

[magicalskeptic.livejournal.com]

/does not opt out. Opts in with both feet.

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

looool my earlier reaction was because Morgana putting up more of a fight would only serve to amuse the Master, rather than discourage him.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Dear Morgana,

Do not mention you were in the Doctor's mind unless you want to opt in to lots of bad things.

Love,
The Doctor

[comawhite.livejournal.com]

Bruce monitors and records the tablet feed 24/7, and he is ... really, really adept at technology and computers, like, 'builds satellites in his basement from tinfoil and string' adept. This is right up his alley, and he's a target, so perhaps we can ... plot a thing. >_>?

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

ahahah yes indeed

[rereremembered.livejournal.com]

APPARENTLY I UPLOADED THIS ICON FOR A REASON, idk.

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

mind-links.

[revivedqueen.livejournal.com]

ASFGFHGJKJ SPISH I LOVE THIS PLOT.

[undoing.livejournal.com]

Soooo, I'm thinking Angel might hit Illyria up for breaking things? 'Cause there's no way in hell he's sitting back, even if he's not targetted.

[glowingseer.livejournal.com]

But Dru has a chip that will prevent her from hurting people, right? Unless she'll just tell the Extras on what should be done to both Cordy and Godric?

...why am I so looking forward to my character getting hurt :|

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

The Master will be doing the hurting :D Once he finds out that she can't. So she'll tell him (if she wants) what to be done, and he'll extract it.

[iam-thebadwolf.livejournal.com]

I just have to say \o/

Made of win

[levilup.livejournal.com]

SO BASICALLY the Master is kidnapping Godric and Cordelia, both of which are Levi's close friends so... he will... somehow want to be involved in this.

HE HAS A CAPE, HE CAN SWOOP IN AND... idk

no, he doesn't have to do anything that drastic, but he'd definitely at least try to get in and save them. Whether he fails or succeeds is up to you, but he'd at least try.

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

Levi can definitely swoop in.

...although him failing and getting caught would kind of be amusing....


god I'm a terrible person

[shaneonyou.livejournal.com]

OH SNAP

also I can imagine the Master singing that last song FAR TOO VIVIDLY.

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

HEY THERE THE DOCTOR WOULD LIKE TO HELP OUT I MEAN DESTROY THIS WHOLE PLAN.

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

SIGH.

The Master will be annoyed and thrilled.

That whole balance thing, y'know.

[tinyammmy]

ANY PLOT THAT BEGINS WITH DECEMBERISTS IS A GOOD PLOT.

[aworldenchanted]

Also! Didn't say this, but Tara is totally in. We should probably talk, briefly or otherwise, at some point about dealing with her magic, as she would be able to initially somewhat resist? She's not Willow, but she does have some experience in defending herself. (But the Master, I'm sure, will be able to cope.) Grab me on IM or PM my journal, if you wan to plan it out more.

[notsawbones.livejournal.com]

... Bones is sitting here thinking is there a month where Chase isn't being maimed in some way?

XD

[glowingseer.livejournal.com]

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

You ... oh, I don't have the words to describe how epic this is.

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

:D

[freezecharm.livejournal.com]

Spish, is it also okay if Piper's scrying can pinpoint the location of the torturees? I'm thinking if the Master will be successful in shutting the locator in the tablets, there's still good old magic to help the would-be rescuers in rescuing the victims, or something.

...and yes I'm just shoving all my characters into this plot :B I DO NOT APOLOGIZE

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

*replied above... somewhere*

[stopbleepingme.livejournal.com]

\o/ I am game for all of the horrors. Donna thinks Master was just one of those kids who didn't get hugged enough.

FIX THE MASTER WITH HUGS!

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

looool oh god Donna ilu

[faderbroderson]

/just...munches popcorn :>

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

I made a song for you.

I look forward to this.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

i will likely be out of commission for most of this, but i just want to register my awe at your plotting skillz. \o/

[takhys]

IIiii am not sure how my pups can be involved, but if you have any need of 'em, lemme know?

[undoing.livejournal.com]

Spish, this is just...lovely. Very, very lovely. And Angel is not happy. but i am so his opinion doesn't matter

[supercompacted.livejournal.com]

Fred is also not happy. B|

Sooo I'm a little late to this party, but this plot looks so great. Also, Spish, your song choices are lovely, and the Decemberists keeps getting in there because they're awesome. :3

So I'm not sure how this'll shake out in the plot, but I imagine Fred's going to be pretty involved in helping Angel and Company, considering they'll be doing what they can to help Cordelia. She's a pretty effective hacker, so maybe she'd be able to mess with the Master's signal? Or at least decode the main part. I was thinking she might be able to knock out the signal in their immediate area, as assistance for rescuing Cordy, or something? idk, I'm cool with whatever you guys might want to do. <3

[meanwhileback.livejournal.com]

i know i'm foreverlate but i have some questions!!

For people who aren't on The Big Names List, what exactly does "control" mean? Like Penelope is so a non-issue with regard to like, fighting back or anything, she'll pretty much do exactly as directed immediately when threatened with any kind of physical force, so are they going to try and arrest her, or just beat her up, or what? Is this like a Roving Gangs Of Madmen Raping And Pillaging thing, because if so I might have to opt out just by default since my character would just be staying in her apartment in that kind of situation anyway :\

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

And I am painfully late with a response - I am really sorry about that!

It is not Roving Gangs of Madmen Raping and Pillaging. Although pillaging kind of sounds amusing now. Buuuut that's a bit much for me as a person, and I think even the Master probably wouldn't go that far XD They'd go with (trying) beating up and herding people around the city with no real rhyme or reason.

...I'll... try to explain it better when I toss up another ooc post.

[notabuymoron.livejournal.com]

I'm just the new guy, but if this suits your plans, Casey will be all about arming himself and putting down any drone insurgents who are attacking the normal citizens.

He's had a lot of experience with black ops so I can see him joining in the fray and eventually helping with the recovery of those being kept in the warehouse. It's definitely his kind of party and he'd enjoy the challenge.

[beholdthedrums.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha well they'll be an easy kill. The Extras aren't entirely strong XD