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

[headinjuries]

One big bad thing out on the loose, get out another big bad thing to deal with it. Is how I mean.

So then if we use the spear that has Hitler's ghost to get rid of that one, we have another one, and then what are we gonna have to let out to deal with Hitler's ghost?

Does it ever end?

[thebioticwoman]

Eh, he got into the thing. Someone out there must know how to pry him out.

[Shepard is very pragmatic, and not inclined to regard Hitler as The Most Evil Thing Ever.]

[headinjuries]

That must've been like ages ago though, right?

[thebioticwoman]

A thousand years isn't as long as I used to think it was.

[Everything that should be dead and buried comes back to try to kill you, Sam. Everything.]

[headinjuries]

A thousand years is like. Forever.

[ But as far as he's concerned, thirty is old. ]

[thebioticwoman]

The last thing that tried to kill me was fifty times that.

[History is bullshit, kid.]

[headinjuries]

[ just

this face. ]

[prettycoolguy]

At least the Legion can look forward to steady employment.

[headinjuries]

...I didn't know you told jokes.

[prettycoolguy]

Not officially.

[headinjuries]

That was another one!

[goddamnwingman]

Don't worry. Nobody is letting the spirit of Hitler out of the Spear at any point. Uncursing it would just allow the spirit to move on to its just reward. Or possibly be destroyed outright. I'm not good at magic, honestly.

We should just be glad that none of the rituals that the Nazis used are active on the Spear any more. That's at least one headache we can cross off the list.

[headinjuries]

So, like...hell?

...why hasn't anybody let Hitler out of the Spear?

[goddamnwingman]

In my time, we just didn't have enough people who were powerful enough to do it, I think. There was one, maybe two that could have managed it, but they generally had other things going on and you don't want to be the one who fucked up the one thing that could deal with the Spectre if necessary.

What I'm understanding is that there's at least an entire planet in this century that is made up of magic users. They probably have a better shot at sorting it out now than we did in my time.

[headinjuries]

Ugh.

[ To this entire situation, not to Dick. ]

Too bad Doctor Strange didn't stick around.