AN EYE FOR AN EYE - [modplot]

[relativityspeaking]

I'm also getting word that the Spectre has decided to grace the UP with his presence again -- with the worst timing ever.

Takron-Galtos is under attack, and he's killing many of the inmates inside. Due to the attack and the tech failures, the prison's security team is also failing at securing the inmate population, and need help preventing the uprising that's fomenting.

I'm sending a team to defend the lives of the inmate population and use the Spear of Destiny and trap the Spectre once and for all. You'll also be responsible for securing the prison to make sure none of the prisoners take advantage of the chaos being caused by the Spectre and the Brainiac to escape.

You'll be operating with very little chance of backup. With the mechanoforms, we're already outnumbered several hundred thousand to one on Colu. This team is going to have work independently, with little outside assistance, and may have to contend with emergency t-gate failures causing extraction to be impossible until the Brainiac crisis is over.

Due to the...theological implications and the Spectre's MO being affected by personal history, this mission is going to rely on volunteers.

For those that haven't faced the Spectre before, I'll be sending you a case file on our past encounters and how he operates.

[She draws in a deep breath.]

Releasing him to defeat Galactus was one of our only options, but this is still our mess. It's time to clean it up once and for all.

[ooc: Locked to characters participating in "An Eye For an Eye." All others can be assumed as being on missions. This can be used for IC planning against the Spectre itself and the characters deciding who should wield the spear.]

Comments

[goddamnwingman]

Not exactly something we have time for. And, honestly, I'd rather not expose people to the curse for long enough for them to start cackling, anyway.

Probably would have been a good idea to try uncursing the Spear, but it's a little late for that one as well.

[calibrates_big_guns]

Whichever way we cut it, I think we'll need one of us without a bodycount if they're going to stand much of a chance.

[prettycoolguy]

Sounds like our best option. That's you, me, and Shepard out. Sawtooth says he hasn't. Who else?

[the_civilian]

I haven't killed anyone. Unless my running into a burning building counts.

...I'm also mixed race which might piss the ghost off further, but I don't know if that's a pro or a con.

[goddamnwingman]

Hard to tell, but it's probably something to take into consideration. Still, I wouldn't let it hold you back if you get a shot. If nothing else, we can play hot potato among those of us who have the best chance of wielding it.

[kingtyrantranger]

I dunno if I count or not. Like, I've never really been clear on how much alien clay monsters counted as 'people'.

[goddamnwingman]

You're probably okay. Defense of self and defense of others isn't something that the Spectre concerns themself with. So as long as you weren't going hunting for them to take them out for the fun of it, you're probably okay.

[calibrates_big_guns]

Then we might have a better shot at this than I thought.

[goddamnwingman]

I don't doubt that the Spectre will try to find any in that it can, but it tends to go by the Old Testament rules as they were originally written. So that commandment properly translates as "thou shalt not murder" rather than "thou shalt not kill". The distinction is definitely there.

[calibrates_big_guns]

It is, but it's the 'tends to' part of that that worries me. If the case files are anything to go by, it's not its usual self.

[Or whatever passes for that.]

All I'm saying is, I wouldn't hedge my bets that it's going to follow the rules.

[goddamnwingman]

That's fair. I'm sure there are other things going on and we'll get hit by that at the most inconvenient time, but such is the life of a superhero.

[calibrates_big_guns]

It applies to the rest of us, trust me.

[headinjuries]

[ waiting for the earth to swallow him up and save him from this conversation, tbh. ]