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Yomiel ([personal profile] vengefulshades) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2014-11-03 10:34 am

8th Trick - VOICE/TEXT/VIDEO FEED (Day of the Dead Guy)

[At 8:45 PM on November 3rd, this message is broadcast to all Import devices. The video shows a flickering feed of security cameras in some swanky lounge. As the camera shifts, six people can be seen in and around the lounge, in various emotional states:

- Abigail Hobbs
- Annie Leonhart
- Kate Kane
- Siegmund Heissenrech
- Anna
- Rampage

Finally, the voice of The Manipulator comes over the line.
]

Attention, all Import citizens of Heropa. This is The Manipulator speaking.

Here, you can see there are currently seven people in the top floor lounge of The Lift in downtown Heropa. Six of them are innocents. Six lives. Six hostages who may be dead by tomorrow morning.

Unless one of you has the guts to save them.

[The camera feed flicks around appropriately to show the security system, the room's entrances and exits, and whatever else he talks about.]

Let's break it down nice and simple.

The lounge is secured by an alarm, doors and windows-- one that you won't be able to turn off without my knowledge or my help. If it goes off, the hostages will die. If anyone attempts to enter or leave the lounge, the hostages will die. If anyone sets foot on the 15th floor of this building without my express say-so, the hostages will die.

But you don't need to sit around and accept this loss of life. You can stop it. Only one person needs to die tonight to end this.

The seventh person. Me.

[And now the camera flickers to show a brief glimpse of a silhouetted person- someone in plain clothes, wearing a black mask over his face.]

One of you so-called heroes has fifteen minutes to get to the rooftop of this building. There, your only task is a simple one... you're going to kill me. Get rid of me permanently. End this hell of an existence of mine once and for all.

No mercy. No tricks. Just you and me and your powers, and the death that I was denied ten years ago.

[The shot goes back to the lounge and the hostages within.]

If your powers don't work on me, I'll understand. Nothing else has worked so far. And I'm really not unreasonable. We'll just have to try someone else. Every hour. On the hour.

And if some hour passes and nobody shows up to take me on, then one hostage dies. You've got six whole tries to figure this out before we run out of hostages.

But remember. I don't need to kill anyone. Nobody innocent needs to suffer tonight. Only one person needs to die to put an end to this.

So come get me.

[And the feed ends.]

((ooc: All replies will come from "The Manipulator," not "Yomiel."))
proteus: (pic#7595058)

[personal profile] proteus 2014-11-03 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Who's Abigail, Will?

[ Shot in the dark but she remembers that name from a conversation with Emma. ]
infomodder: player 2 is fucked (player 2 has entered cooking mama)

[personal profile] infomodder 2014-11-03 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[The look on his face, Jesus Christ, it's like he's just been told the worst cannibal joke in the world and he wants to take the knife he's been handed and run it through the heart of the person who dared speak it.

Bath time is suspended until further notice.
]

Was that necessary?

[Said in the same tone one might say "fuck you" if one was a rude pig.]
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[personal profile] proteus 2014-11-04 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sacrifices had to be made. ]

I'm thinking now it might be.
infomodder: that's one reason people lose their shit and end up in nuthouses, that right there (mfw the big bang theory wins an emmy)

[personal profile] infomodder 2014-11-04 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Dig your own ticks out, Bader!]

I'm thinking you're a little upset and not thinking clearly.

[But maybe go do to the Manipulator what she did to the house, maybe. Maybe unleash a bunch of angry coyotes. Something.]
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[personal profile] proteus 2014-11-04 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ha ha ok.

[ That forced ha ha oh you. You mother fucker hah type laugh. ]

Humor me. What were going to do trading yourself?
infomodder: and it fucking sucks, i tell you what (the very best like no one ever was)

[personal profile] infomodder 2014-11-04 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
[It's mutual this is the most loving relationship ever, get in the shower later on to make him stop sitting in sadly.]

Take somebody else's place, just like I said. [That's literally it. He has no connections to the cops and doesn't care to. It might not make him popular with the rest of the crowd that's gathered but he does noooot caaaaare as long as Abigail is not in harm's way. Such heroism.] Pretty straightforward.