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Total Eclipso The Heart [modplot/network]
[cw: Suicide. The Catastrophists are very self-destructive.]
[Moving Apokolips isn't easy but one thing's for sure - it must be done. Its current location is heavily guarded, yes, but known to the Catastrophists. The only way to guarantee they won't try to reignite it again is to make it so it can no longer be found, but that entails moving an entire planet. Even more difficult: moving one that's massive compared to other worlds. Apokolips is enormous, and the New Gods had been the size of giants, only rendered as small as normal humanoids by their boom tubes when visiting the rest of the galaxy. For the UP and Legion to work on Apokolips, Brainy had to modify the threshold gates to work with boom tube technology so anyone passing through is adjusted to the right size.]
[Fortunately, he's no longer the only Brainiac working on problems like these. Computo left him with some useful information about mother box technology before wandering off to travel through the galaxy in an attempt to find leads on ways the Legion can fight Chronoblivion. And Brainiac 6's naturally intuitive understanding of dimensional harmonics has helped Brainy figure out how to make a threshold gate system large enough to not only move the planet somewhere more hidden but also to permanently render it a size more fitting for the humanoids guarding it.]
[So everything seems to be going okay. The team has been told to be ready to be deployed, in case anything goes wrong, but so far - for once - something seems to be happening without it exploding into a crisis.]
[When Brainy shows up on the comms to report in on their progress, he's on the planet and engineering teams behind him can be seen working on components that will be T-gated into orbit and fitted together into a very large, specialized threshold gate in space. Even without Apokolips being active, the backdrop he's reporting from is eerie. The place looks the way one might imagine hell if all its fires were extinguished.]
Progress on the relocation of Apokolips is proceeding apace. The different engineering teams each only have the information they need to perform their specific task in the construction, so knowledge of where the planet is being relocated to is still secure. The joint Legion and Science Police garrison on the planet is also reporting no suspicious activity. Provided that there are no unexpected...impediments, construction should be finished within the hour, and the relocation process itself should only take a half hour.
[ooc: Everything in the first thread is visible to the team, but only comment under the briefing post. Only those in the plot can comment.]
[Moving Apokolips isn't easy but one thing's for sure - it must be done. Its current location is heavily guarded, yes, but known to the Catastrophists. The only way to guarantee they won't try to reignite it again is to make it so it can no longer be found, but that entails moving an entire planet. Even more difficult: moving one that's massive compared to other worlds. Apokolips is enormous, and the New Gods had been the size of giants, only rendered as small as normal humanoids by their boom tubes when visiting the rest of the galaxy. For the UP and Legion to work on Apokolips, Brainy had to modify the threshold gates to work with boom tube technology so anyone passing through is adjusted to the right size.]
[Fortunately, he's no longer the only Brainiac working on problems like these. Computo left him with some useful information about mother box technology before wandering off to travel through the galaxy in an attempt to find leads on ways the Legion can fight Chronoblivion. And Brainiac 6's naturally intuitive understanding of dimensional harmonics has helped Brainy figure out how to make a threshold gate system large enough to not only move the planet somewhere more hidden but also to permanently render it a size more fitting for the humanoids guarding it.]
[So everything seems to be going okay. The team has been told to be ready to be deployed, in case anything goes wrong, but so far - for once - something seems to be happening without it exploding into a crisis.]
[When Brainy shows up on the comms to report in on their progress, he's on the planet and engineering teams behind him can be seen working on components that will be T-gated into orbit and fitted together into a very large, specialized threshold gate in space. Even without Apokolips being active, the backdrop he's reporting from is eerie. The place looks the way one might imagine hell if all its fires were extinguished.]
Progress on the relocation of Apokolips is proceeding apace. The different engineering teams each only have the information they need to perform their specific task in the construction, so knowledge of where the planet is being relocated to is still secure. The joint Legion and Science Police garrison on the planet is also reporting no suspicious activity. Provided that there are no unexpected...impediments, construction should be finished within the hour, and the relocation process itself should only take a half hour.
[ooc: Everything in the first thread is visible to the team, but only comment under the briefing post. Only those in the plot can comment.]
[this thread is read-only]
Keep up the good work, Brainy. Let us know if there's anything we can do for you from here.
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I'll be sure to -
[He looks off into the distance at something that makes his eyebrows furrow and there is a sound that causes him to visibly shudder, a sound he recognizes as reality ripping apart, due to hearing it more time that he'd like in his life - more times than any person really ought to hear such a sound.]
Garrison T4B, report. What was the source of that noise and that bright light?
[There is no response, just screams over his comm.]
[Brainy looks skyward, as if he's pissed off at the gods of irony for making this happen right after he reported that everything is going well. Between this and the whole Brainiac debacle, it hasn't been a great few months.]
Kid Q, muster the team, I'll investigate so everyone's not coming in blind.
[Everything goes to hell. It all happens very, very fast. Reality rips apart around him and creatures pour out. They're not traveling through T-gates or boom tubes, this is something else, some other alien way of travel.]
[They don't look like animals or like any living thing. It's like some bored god made them as living things and gave up halfway through, when they were still barely more than ideas.]
Unknown lifeforms. They're using some means of travel that I've never seen before.
[Brainy shields up, tucks his omnicom away and sets it to hands off mode so that his ring keeps capturing video to transmit through his omnicom, and slams his forcefields into the creature hard enough to launch them away. Then he turns and sees Catastrophists pouring in through similar portals. They immediately start casting themselves into the cold pits that were once the great firepits of Apokolips.]
Catastrophists! They're throwing themselves into the firepits like last time.
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If you can find any of the engineers, try to get them out of there! We'll be there soon!
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[The woman holds her hands near the head of one of the Daxamite Science Police officers and he transforms into a cackling monster and lances through several nearby Scipo officers with heatvision.]
[Brainy has to duck and take cover to avoid the heatvision as it razes over the space where his head was - his shield can normally block heatvision but who knows how powerful this amped up Daxamite's powers are.]
Someone start searching the databases for an "Eclipso." Cross reference with -
[And that's when he hears the music, hauntingly beautiful, but alien.]
[He turns and sees another woman walking towards him.]
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[Plip plop. A constant spatter of blood that seeps from nowhere and from everywhere at once. It's more like an idea of blood, just like the creatures that have appeared on Apokolips are more ideas than living things, and as long as they kill the stain never stops seeping.]
[She walks through the battlefield with perfect serenity because it's all hers, down to the literal angel of wrath that's attacking, and that means she has nothing to fear from it. The strange music isn't music at all, it's the strained subharmonics that result from reality bending until it cries uncle.]
[She whispers and her voice somehow booms from all directions and yet still stays nothing more than a whisper.]
||Accept the Word. Embrace negation.||
[Cultists that she passes act as if they're afflicted with ecstatic convulsions. "Penitant, for you. This is for you!" one of them calls out before throwing himself into a pit.]
|| Repent and go the way of flesh.||
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[There's information-gathering and then there's facing down a Herald alone. Kid Quantum doesn't know who this 'Penitant' woman is but she sounds like a zealot and 'negation' sounds worse than 'destruction'.
Brainy needs to be hauling ass three minutes ago.]
NOW NOW NOW NOW!
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Briefing - (ooc: Go ahead and respond)
[Apparently she was right to tell everyone to suit up and wait for possible deployment, yaaaay. She can be seen flying to the threshold hub to deploy with then.]
You all heard Brainy. Apokolips isn't so much a planet as a war machine. If the Catastrophists manage to completely reignite it, and Chronoblivion's forces manage to take it, that could be it for us putting up any meaningful resistance to Chronoblivion.
The intelligence techs have already scoured the archive for records of an Eclipso and have come up with some intel. Apparently, she's an ancient supervillain who once plagued Earth, who claimed to be a former angel of God. Because [sigh] apparently we haven't had enough of those.
[She sends them all the file on her abilities.]
Alongside some pretty formidable superpowers, she has the ability to unleash the inner dark side of her victims, physically and mentally transforming them to toss them at her enemies.
Our number one priority is is this...Penitant. I want the team that engages her to try to draw her off Apokolips, if possible. We need to get her away from her followers. The last thing we need is for her to successfully take Darkseid's former throne for herself.
Second priority is stopping Eclipso before she converts anyone else. There are other Daxamites and powerful individuals on the garrison that could devastate our side if she's not stopped before converting more of them.
Third priority is those monsters. Brainy thinks he can cut off their access to Apokolips using the specialized T-gate once it's finished construction. We need to be able to safely reinsert the engineering team to complete it.
[Different orders are sent out to all of them, with specific attack patterns.]
Get ready to move.
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Sunlight would be our greatest weapon against him, if we could find a way to generate it.
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The Book has a permanent banishment spell that's designed to work on an entity of Eclipso's level, and some good suggestions on where to banish them to. Downside is it needs someone pure of heart to cast it on consecrated ground. Considering how easily I defeated my shadow self when we retrieved the Book, I might qualify for the former, but I doubt a place like Apokolips has any of the latter.
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I mean. Technically, Apokolips was the home of the New Gods. Depending on your definition, that could make the entire planet consecrated ground. It's a technicality, though, that I'm not comfortable depending on.
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[He's working on sciencey shit to make it so the engineering team can work faster once they can actually get back on Apokolips.]
It's bewildering to me why any sentient being would feel the need to have so many overpowered homicidal emissaries. I've created a species, and I haven't even had the urge to create one. Even though I could.
[Back when Computo was leaning that way, he'd even talked him down off a genocidal ledge.]
The old adage 'just because you can doesn't mean you should' seems exceedingly relevant right now.
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[Dick's moving while doing this. It doesn't take much brain power for him to chatter and get other things done at the same time.]
IF Eclipso is working by the same rules as before, Penitent probably has a black diamond on her somewhere. If we can get that, we can use it to get Eclipso back under control. Along with the use of sunlight.
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I don't know about everyone else, but I have had it with these motherfucking angels on this motherfucking plane.
Of existence.
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I think I saw a bar of soap in one of his pouches.
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What the hell? Can't we fight a Greek god once in a while? Or maybe something from the Americas? The Aztecs had a bunch of really cranky deities.
[No Shepard don't give Chronoblivion ideas.]
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[But despite the judgemental tone, he's moving and taking in the intel. Rico can be marching off to the Threshold Hub and be complaining about the Legion's competency at the same time. So sue him.]
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Crazy, right?
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[Maybe that extra brain power is mostly from the under 5 set, but between Valeria and B6, now Brainy has extra help figuring out stuff like this. And Computo being around for a little while probably hadn't hurt.]
There are so many variables in play in this universe due to magic and tech that it's impossible to account for everything. Sometimes the best we can do is just try to be ready for a fight and adapt when we know the conditions. That's a reality to this superhero thing some of you need to get used to.
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If Eclipso can bring out her victims' darkness, then could restoring their balance break her hold on them? Darkness cannot exist without Light; Discord cannot exist without Harmony.
[ His Orb of Harmony might be able to help, if not his words. If he could reach for the person inside the darkness... could that free them? ]