vengefulshades: (Don't be afraid)
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."))
acclimatized: (but every goliath has its david.)

[personal profile] acclimatized 2014-11-04 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh god, those are a lot of familiar faces. ]

You're reeeally temping me.
acclimatized: (simmer and suffer.)

[personal profile] acclimatized 2014-11-04 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Killing you. Those people you have in there? The hostages you're using as leverage to get what you want? They've done nothing to you.
acclimatized: (i'm lucky to be alive.)

[personal profile] acclimatized 2014-11-04 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
For the sake of argument, let's say someone manages to kill you. What is going to happen to them? What are you going to do when this place brings you back a week later? Do it all over again?
acclimatized: (and wondering if this is the way that)

[personal profile] acclimatized 2014-11-04 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
How can you be sure?

A hero? Maybe. They would be saving six people, but at what cost? Killing changes a person, even if the one asking you to pull the trigger is a complete cock.
Edited (wow i'm tired, sorry for the errors) 2014-11-04 22:36 (UTC)
acclimatized: (but i was brave.)

[personal profile] acclimatized 2014-11-09 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Christ, get a hobby. Do anything but stuff like this.