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Arkanomen posted:I would assume everything about our operation is compromised after being brain scooped by Odin. Most likely why that tank is electronically hardened. What makes you think Odin has anything to do with Haven's tank thing?
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hollylolly posted:What makes you think Odin has anything to do with Haven's tank thing? Our tinfoil hats are stronger than your misdirection, Holly. I'm worried that powers like Antonio's will just kill him if hit by deadlight. Suddenly he can't control it and he takes the form of air and dissipates. There goes our romantic interest, well one of them anyway. Ask Speedy González if he'd be able to jam a rod or something in that things treads.
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Outrail posted:Ask Speedy González if he'd be able to jam a rod or something in that things treads. Marcelo shrugs. "Yeah. Do you have a metal rod? I don't think a branch is going to do the trick on something like that." He hesitates. "Just because I can doesn't mean I want to. I mean, it hasn't done anything yet."
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hollylolly posted:What makes you think Odin has anything to do with Haven's tank thing? Haven is a subsidiary of the Brotherhood top leadership under command of our FEARLESS LEADER Deimos who is a member of Odin's cabal. Deimos is obviously paralleling, working Haven to seemingly achieve Haven's goals of super soldiers and Odin's goal of ??? while actually concocting a "Super Mutant" serum to give himself god-like powers so he can topple Odin and the Humans in one swoop. A large component of that is getting our immortality power, but neither Odin nor Haven can find out about that. Need to find out some more about Odin and his motives but I think he's following the standard "Apocalypse" avenue of ancient battles/grudges. I'm just speculating but it feels that way.
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Okay so we know Haven is developing some sort of Super Soldier serum that uses real mutants and kinda converts their juices into mutant power potions. Demi and the Brotherhood are all "Mutants First" so he's going to be working any angle he can to promote that agenda and protect his people. He's going to get the strongest and best mutants in his inner circle to make sure Mutants first, one being room sized shoggoth guy, next being Jane. I would guess eventually he found/was found by Odin and Odin has some other plans that conflict or threaten mutants. Demi can't fight him yet because powers don't really evolve. A mutant that sprouts fuzzy green fur won't suddenly turn into a furry hulk. Unless you happen to get a jugular full of Haven Drugs. It would make sense that a paramilitary group would seek alliances or turncoats from the Mutants First brotherhood. Demi is a big score and may even be playing double agent, collecting powerful mutants and also helping Haven push Mutant Science in ways supportive of his secret agenda (Stronger Mutants, concert all humans to mutants, stop Odin?). We know Odin and the Brotherhood are linked by virtue of Demi and his Odin lackey's most recent visit. We lack evidence of Demi's motives and the link between Demi and Haven, but I can make a pretty good assumption based at the power levels at play (Senators, Haven funding and police backing, that time we played chicken on the highway). There's a deep conspiracy we are just beginning to poke here and we have a few missing bits. We need to stop going to those rallies with kids and get them into our school for wayward mutants so we can build up a "safe house" and keep working.
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hollylolly posted:Anna seems awfully comfortable in her house... it would be a shame if anything happened to it and she needed a new place to live... It's already a house full of teenagers, let alone mutant ones, I'm surprised it hasn't been destroyed already. "Billy you stink, go take a shower." "YOU AREN'T MY REAL MOM." *Explodes into a ball of fire*
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Arkanomen posted:It's already a house full of teenagers, let alone mutant ones, I'm surprised it hasn't been destroyed already. We could find a particularly needy child with very destructive abilities and a bad temperament and just... send them over...
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hollylolly posted:We could find a particularly needy child with very destructive abilities and a bad temperament and just... send them over... ....Call it plan-B. I think a really nice facility that has some funding and protection will be enough to draw mama in. Need it to be "Her Choice" or we aren't any better than our adversaries.
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  Aimee Aimee pushed forward toward Jenn, and took her roommate’s elbow and interrupting her mid-chant. “We need to get out of here.” “Oh please, it’s just the adults trying to tell us what to do.” “Well… we promised to follow Anna’s rules, and she wants us to come home.” Aimee pointed at Susie, standing still while everyone else was walking. “Plus, look at her.” Jenn turned, looked, and shrugged. “So what? She’s always staring like that.” Antonio wrapped an arm around Susie, pulling her along with the others. She looked dazed, and her cheeks were wet with tears. “Okay, maybe not quite like that.” A edge of worry trickled into her voice, and Jenn grabbed Scott, yanking him to the side as the whole group made their way to the edge of the crowd on the other side of the street. YOU/Jane “We’ve got incoming,” you say into the comms. “Purists’ counter-protest is about to confront the front of the march. The Sentinel and it’s posse are still bringing up the rear slowly.” It doesn’t look like Haven/the LAPD are keen on pressing a confrontation, just making sure the protesters keep moving along their prescribed route. Or maybe that’s just what they want you to believe. You tell Eel: A. Have him do his best to keep the Purists (or the MLM people) from starting anything. B. Make sure if the Purists are going to punch anyone that it’s your guys and not innocent protesters. Have Eel get aggressively involved. C. Don’t get involved. Let the protests clash, and stay clear. Stay ready for anything else to happen. #hacktivsm 1. Ask Intercept to do extensive hacking, start large, unpermitted protests in other parts of LA to cause chaos and spread the LAPD/Haven thin. 2. Don’t ask Intercept to do a lot of hacking, not wanting to tip your hand that you have a master hacker on board. 3. I have a plan that is somewhere between no hacking and ALL THE HACKING.
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C-c-c-combo plan Something bad is going to happen, so we gotta make sure we protect our priorities. First are the children, second is our team, third are mutant protestors and last are humans. The two sides are about to clash. There is a 0% chance fighting won't erupt between the Purists and the MLM. Haven is counting on this because they want more Mutant specimens and to test out. Media attention is the only way we can save mutant lives and get out kids out in time. 1. Eel gathers the kiddies and tells them to start heading to the back of the MLM group for extraction. 2.Intercept starts an online blitz of #HumanToo. Announce the MLM parade as an old Civil rights Sit-in. The idea will be the MLM is a legal protest that has a route and is within its right to just sit down along it. 3.Eel starts this out by going to the most likely spot Purists and MLM will meet and just sits down right in the middle. He quickly gets some other mutants to do so as well so he can eventually disappear into the crowd. His goal is to start the human wave of sitting mutants. 4. Intercept will have gotten the medias attention long before this and will direct the vans and cameras to the sitting line. 5. Let things play out. Purists make the first move, giving mutants right to self defense. Media is there so no no one throws the first punch. Haven can't arrest anyone or try our new shady toys and the kids are evacuated.
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Yeah plan Ark No plan survives contact and all that but it's a good plan.
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Outrail posted:Yeah plan Ark Pretty much, The main focus is to get the kids out of the line of fire and from there ????.
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Plan Ark! You wrote a very nice plan. I hope everything turns out well, no one gets killed, injured or captured and then we all go for ice cream 
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Plan Ark Yeah Ark's plan is peaceful and sensible, just like his plans in most CYOAs 
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Dog Kisser posted:Plan Ark I'm waiting for the surprise "kill our closest ally" vote 
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hollylolly posted:I'm waiting for the surprise "kill our closest ally" vote Yeah, 'surprise'.
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Some character assassination going on up in here. I'll have you know I propose perfectly sensible plans some of the time. <  >
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Arkanomen posted:Some character assassination going on up in here. I'll have you know I propose perfectly sensible plans some of the time. I mean, I'm not denying that - and really, even 'shoot people in the face in case they're a traitor' can be sensible in the right environment - but staging a peaceful sit-in is nearly opposite to your shtick!
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Dog Kisser posted:I mean, I'm not denying that - and really, even 'shoot people in the face in case they're a traitor' can be sensible in the right environment - but staging a peaceful sit-in is nearly opposite to your shtick! Different games, different agendas. Also you are glazing over the fact that I am using a peaceful sit in with Eel on the front lines as cover to evacuate some kids. The protestors are going to get plastered and when they inevitably give up on Satyagraha and turn to self defense it's going to go bad when Haven steps in to respond to "mutants using disproportionate force". It's going to be a bloodbath no matter what we do. Mutants with powers va racist humans backed by paramilitary forces. Its a set up and we need to bail. Media presence, peaceful sit ins are all just chaff thrown in the hopes to defuse this situation and I 110% it to backfire nastily, but again the main objective is the safety of those kids. First because they are children and should be safe and two we need to get the "Zombies Mutant Orphanarium" going and if we lose our only supply of orphans that would be bad. Also i'm playing Zombie, not Ohone. Zombie is cold because she gets hurt when ever she reaches out and that should play into her leadership style. At least, that's how I view and play her. I'm not trying to drive Zombie to become a dark god.
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Plan Protest Sit-In is a go, I just need to sit down and write it. My YA fantasy book is in it's last 11 days of crowdfunding, so my brain is basically fried. Only 52 orders to go to guarantee publication. I need to unplug for a bit so I stop maniacally F5-ing my email and facebook. First draft is also close to finished.
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hollylolly posted:Plan Protest Sit-In is a go, I just need to sit down and write it. I, for one, hope it succeeds so gloriously that you can retire and write updates daily
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Toughy posted:Congrats on the publication!! theroachman posted:Congratulations on the book publishing Holly! THANK YOU!!  I'm honestly still in a daze. I didn't think I was going to make it!
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Sit Down and Shut Up “What do you want us to do?” Eel asks, and you start talking, instructing him and Intercept simultaneously while you formulate a plan on the fly. Intercept quickly turns back to his computers, using a dozen different twitter accounts to start #HumanToo trending. “Just walk up to the Purists and start sitting down. We’ll stage it like an old school Civil Rights sit-in. The demonstration has a permit and a route - you’re perfectly within your rights to sit down on it, at least for a few hours.” ”Walk up and sit down?” He sounds a little incredulous, but he’s already moving, and you clarify your meaning. “Not right up on them, but close. Spread the word about making it a sit-in. Once you get enough people sitting, you should be able to slip away.” ”Yeah, I’ll just stand up and walk away all discrete like,” Eel says sarcastically. He turns to the nearest MLM organizer, and starts explaining ‘his’ plan. ”Hey Beau, we’re going to switch gears, tell me what you think…” “I’m spreading the word online,” says Intercept. “#HumanToo is trending in this area. I made sure that the media has seen it.” “Good,” you say, hoping that it will be enough. “Billy, you catch all this?” ”You got it, boss,” came the horned mutant’s slightly raspy voice. ”We’re still getting out of here, though, right?” “Yes. Just go straight away from the protest.” You frown, looking at the feed from a news helicopter. The march had been going on long enough that it had turned the corner and was beginning to loop back on itself. Billy’s group was actually going to walk toward the Purists if they cut through where they were. “Go the opposite way. I don’t care if it’s further from where anyone is parked, you need to get away from the main body of the demonstration.” Billy says something affirmative, and you see Eel sitting down a stones throw from the Purists’ counter-protest. “Cops are going to love this,” says Intercept, as others sit as well, signs propped up in their laps or against their backs. You can see the Purists screaming through Eel’s buttoncam. The sit-in is working - mutants and sympathizers are sitting down in a wave, starting from the front toward the back. The twitter campaign is helping as people turn to their phones for explanation as to what they’re seeing on television. The newscasters sound baffled, and then amazed. The Sentinel stops rolling up the street. You let yourself smile.
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This is a not-CYOA related note: Today was the end of my crowdfunding attempt for my YA fantasy novel. I am very pleased to say that I was able to get the 250+ preorders needed to squeeze into Inkshares' light publishing imprint. Fae Child is now listed as "In Production" on the site, and you can still preorder it if you want to.  Inkshares has a backlog of almost 30 books to get through due to small company growing pains, so it will be some time before it's actually published. Plus I have to, like, write it and stuff.SO! This means my current update schedule for Mutants: Uprising is likely to remain the same as it has been for the last six months - sporadic.  Fae Child needs to be finished! I am over 2/3rds done writing it, but there's still a ways to go. And it's the last bits, which are of course the most important (after the beginning, and the middle). When my first draft is complete I will need a couple impartial but fair Alpha readers, so if you're interested in [constructively] tearing into a first draft please PM me. I'd mainly be looking for feedback on obvious plot holes, inconsistencies, that sort of thing.And all this means turning Mutants into a book could actually happen, because nothing sells a book like already having one published. I just have to decide whether I'm going to keep it in 2nd person or not (and how to keep Marvel from suing me). I do want to thank you all for sticking with me on this CYOA which is a lot of fun for me to write, and I hope it is fun to read. I will be continuing to update this CYOA!Thank you! You may now continue voting.
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“Keep the peace, no matter what,” you say. “Make sure the Bones hear it too, Squib. Spectrum, get up there at the front and pull Eel out, pretend you’re a medic.” You get a round of affirmations through the comms, but you can’t sit back and relax yet. Spectrum’s camera moves as she starts in toward Eel, who says wryly, “Thanks for the water,” to the Purists. He stops short of actually drinking anything from the half-full bottle that hit his head, which is probably a good thing because who knows what’s actually in it. The Purists step back a little, or at least, they stop advancing, and seem to be satisfied by standing and shouting anti-mutant slurs at the sitting people. In the rear of the march people are just beginning to sit down - the wide helicopter shot you can see on one of the newscasts is pretty impressive. You can see a reporter and his cameraman near the front line, giving a live report. The hashtag #HumanToo is on the screen while he’s talking, and you grin at Intercept. “Great work.” Antonio Herding a bunch of kids away from the march was easier than he’d thought it was going to be, even if Susie was skeeving the heck out of him. Billy was bringing up the rear, looking fierce under his horns and shaggy hair, but when Susie plucked at Antonio’s sleeve and stopped walking the Brotherhood mutant passed them, giving ‘Tonio a nod. “What is it now?” he asked her, half afraid to hear the answer. “You have to go back.” Susie took his hand and held it between them, gently prying open his fingers and revealing the steel washer he was holding. She tapped it. “You’re there.” “No, I’m here…” Antonio said exasperatedly, catching his brother’s eye as the group paused to wait for them. “Go ahead, I’ll catch up!” he called, and Marcelo nodded, leading the kids away. “Come,” she said, pulling on his arm, back the way they’d come. “Hurry.” “Oh man, I’m going to regret this, aren’t I,” he said, letting her drag him down the street. The Aesir Heimdall: It didn’t happen? How…? Odin: A delay, nothing more. The Master’s servant will come, as promised.
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