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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."))
ex_question191: (❝ R E P L Y ❞)

[personal profile] ex_question191 2014-11-04 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? All of the above. Actually, I've got some leftover Halloween candy right now.

[ he holds a piece up for the camera, still wrapped. ]

Are you trying to tell me you can't do any of that?
ex_question191: (❝ A B A C K ❞)

[personal profile] ex_question191 2014-11-04 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Have you thought, uh. Maybe instead of dying, you could get a new body? Find someone who could help you get all that stuff back? Or else, you know, you could track down an old priest and a young priest...
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2014-11-04 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, people are generally not down with watching other people die. It's that whole pesky empathy thing. But getting you to live, that's way more up a hero's ally. Lends itself to a happy ending. One where you get to eat.
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2014-11-05 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry someone important to you died, dude.

You realize all those people you're threatening to kill... they're someone's happy ending too, right?
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2014-11-05 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
But you've totally got the power to break that cycle. You've got everyone's attention, dude. They'll still help you if you start letting people go. I'll still help you.
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2014-11-05 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'm gonna try and round up some people who are more useful than me in a fight. But I'm really more the research guy.

[ also talking friendly about the best way to kill a guy with the guy you want to kill is kind of weird to him, but he finds he wants to find a way to fix this guy's shitty life more than he just wants to save abigail. what a dumb time for compassion to strike. ]
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PRIVATE.

[personal profile] selfimage 2014-11-04 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You actually may be on to something.
ex_question191: (Default)

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[personal profile] ex_question191 2014-11-05 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
I may? I mean, I might? I hope you're not talking about my Exorcist reference...
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[personal profile] selfimage 2014-11-05 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
That could've used better execution.

Option one.
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2014-11-06 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Restoring the dude's bodily function? I don't even know where to begin with that. Dead people: not my area.
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[personal profile] selfimage 2014-11-06 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You seemed confident when you suggested it.
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2014-11-06 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, because I want him to focus on something that isn't killing people.
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[personal profile] selfimage 2014-11-06 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Somehow the diversion will only last so long before he realizes that you have no talent to do so.

[ not like Loki doesn't necessarily pull that, himself. ]
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2014-11-11 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
It's not about me helping him, it's about him searching out a different avenue of help. There's gotta be someone out there that could do it. I watch that TV show sometimes, with the ghost guy, he's an imPort, right?