Trick or Not so Treat?

[angelfire]

Hi there,

I realize it's late in the month, and you probably have plans already, but I'm just fishing around to see if there's any interest out there for characters to play with the spooky theme of October/November and get a little loose and free with their villain selves. Lucifer will hopefully be doing his own thing, but there's room for him to network and inspire a few of our game's villain characters to come in and cause just a little preemptive Halloween chaos before the big night, or in the next couple of weeks after it as a spooky wind down, depending on if/when we can procure a slot. (In some ways a belated november halloween is when everyone least expects it, anyway).

It doesn't have to be big chaos, in fact Lucifer would be looking for characters to act up in small ways to trick or treat their fellow imPorts - it is Devil's Night, after all - rather than do something serious that gets them all incarcerated, but it might be a step toward doing something bigger as a villain community, perhaps.

Basically, I would love to expand villain on villain or trying to reform villain or dubiously heroic cr (for myself, and between other people to put villains in contact with each other), and get some real league of evil vibe going about the place. Any slightly villainous, or vaguely halloween-gone-wrong themed idea is a good one; animated jack-o-lantern candygrams that tell people their bad fortunes, or magic mirrors that insult passers by--I don't know, I just thought I'd throw it out there that Lucifer is willing to inspire and/or manipulate anyone into embracing their dark side, this month and always, and that I'm more than happy to bring together everyone's ideas and present them to the mods as a whole plan. Incidentally this isn't a one time offer thing, sure, I'd like to set up a vaguely organized villain front, so characters can't get around the fact that they're surrounded by baddies and potential baddies, but Lucifer is also available for prodding characters toward their bad selves in general, also, so if you have a character arc planned, and you can't quite find the way to push your character over that cliff, let me know.

For the sake of developing CR if we don't have it already, Lucifer did make an open invitation for imPorts to visit his church http://maskormenacelogs.dreamwidth.org/521415.html for the Feast of St Michael. Otherwise he does enjoy zoning into people who are dreaming dark dreams to introduce himself, and this can be done through an IC inbox thread if you clear it on my permissions http://angelfire.dreamwidth.org/1131.html first, and I can have him reply to pretty much any network post.

That's it. I will quit with the babbling now, please let me know if you're at all interested in throwing a trick or trick in treat's clothing into this lucky dip of evil. Characters will be expected to run their trick themselves, and any write ups will have to be done by the player in question, Lucifer's role is only motivational, and as a result may not have as much influence on some as others. Furthermore you won't hurt my feelings if it doesn't suit your character, or if you're not interested: I did play very fast and loose with the definition of the word 'villain' when I made my list of people to contact, and all of the above may in fact be totally irrelevant to yours, but whether it is or not, thank you in any case for reading!
Reg

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Comments

[angelfire]

PS. guys there are just under 40 "villain" players in game how do I

[pushtheboundaries]

very carefully

[crotchstallion]

you create a trap filled with caffeinated beverages and snacks ranging from guilt-free to guilty pleasure, and then...

you wait.

[mightthinkthat]

Francis is more inclined to take Lucifer's role rather than needing pushing himself. He's not a good guy at the moment, he's just working on his power base.

He's probably willing to listen to Lucifer, but he wouldn't get too close. He's too high profile to be particularly useful to him at the moment.

I don't know if this was particularly helpful to you, but I didn't want to leave you hanging.

[angelfire]

No problem at all! Honestly, how Lucifer works is he generally speaking, like Francis, likes to be at the top of his pyramid. Usually he'd just murder all usurpers, but this world has made him have to cooperate in other ways, so he's happy to treat certain people as equals, even point subservient or manipulatible guys in their directions. Anything to keep his hands clean and have people doing what they do best: building their criminal empires, hurting people, sinning through their teeth, etc. He's an enabler, and the only thing he wants is humanity to be as terrible as possible. His biggest vendetta is with God, and everything else is irrelevant. He would wholly approve of Francis, I think.

[mightthinkthat]

Francis likes to be approved of. He also doesn't mind upper echelons so long as they aren't unappreciative.

[crotchstallion]

Day of the Dead, more like Day of the Dying because you're shooting people and there's a screaming mess of people on the floor bleeding out, am I right?

I definitely think Jack would be up for some Halloween games of the devious sort so I am in. I've got some thoughts circling around but I'll be thinking more on it. I might actually go for something technologically related since he can hack things with his mind. /spooky fingers

[angelfire]

Oh my god Jack put the slenderman into the background of everyone's video feeds. You know you want to...

[crotchstallion]

Jack discovers creepypasta, and the internet is never the same for it.

[angelfire]

Never safe again.

[hostage]

Maaaan, life's hard when you're a villain who actively hates fucking with people for the evulz. I'd love to have Jesse involved somehow, I just can't think of how to do it without him being coerced and actively resenting the whole thing.

And sadly he was out of town for the feast. But hanging out with Lucifer at some point can be a thing.

I definitely want Jesse to network with villains more, even though he's more of a businessman than a troll. Does anyone need money? He will fund anything that sounds like it'll undermine the government or the authorities.

[angelfire]

So maybe if there's a couple of villains more on the Walter White level, Lucifer could direct them toward Jesse? Easier and safer than doing it the other way round, and it might put you in contact with the cr you want/provide that cr with potential networking/money of their own to advance their own goals.

[hostage]

Always!! If it comes to funding a villain lair or stockpiling weapons or smuggling anything en masse through his vast distribution network, that's the kind of stuff Jesse's good for. He is all about $$$ and not being at the mercy of the feds. Also he's handy in a crisis if anyone needs healing or has to dispose of a body. But he's really not the guy to call for messing people up. He can and will torture and murder people if necessary but that's a last resort for him. Come on, guys. Show some class.

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

Mewtwo's a dubious neutral kind of guy at the moment, a generally "people bother me except a few of you" attitude. But with the right kind of bad influence (and oh yeah, he's been getting some bad influence), he could use this whole Halloween deal to blow off steam, after all no one's really explained to him the whole Halloween deal just yet. He could definitely go animating things with his mind given the whole telekinesis deal.

Cause really, despite the weird alien looks and genetic experimentation past he's an angry teen punk at heart (and he's on his way to getting the emphasis on punk part).

[angelfire]

If you're planning to send Mewtwo to the haunted house swear in, Lucifer would be happy to convince him that actually on the days leading up to Halloween these kinds of pranks are actually mandatory, and he'd be letting the side down not to play his own...

[beneathbluerafters]

Oh hells yes :D Klarion is more chaotic neutral than evil, but he loves Halloween, doesn't have much of a moral compass, and is pretty trigger-happy with his magic, so he will definitely be getting up to something around the holiday! Maybe trick-or-treating, and turning anyone who doesn't give him candy into something horrible, idk. He needs a way to blow off some steam with his magic.

I'm definitely up for him meeting Lucifer too, bring on the bad influences and enabling!

[followorders]

OMG! Please corrupt him!

He's a mercenary who committed genocide trying to reform but he's a total psychopath who needs to be reminded he's nothing but a monster! I'd love to plot something out!

[sunasuna]

Crocodile generally prefers to be the one in charge when it comes to these sorts of things, which is what he's trying to do with Genesis and going back to being Mr. 0.

BUT he would happily get a kick out of watching from the sidelines. However, one thing that could be entertaining would be if Lucifer eventually got a chance to read Crocodile's soul and found out about the Mr. 0 thing? Not just here, but also the shit he pulled as that guy back in his own world, haha.

[angelfire]

I would definitely enjoy some sort of in person thread between the two of them. Lucifer's soul reading is more generalized unless characters start drifting toward the topics themselves in conversations, in which case he can use it to make jumps. So for example he could read 'You've done this before', and then enjoy exploring the minutae through other means/picking stuff up in conversation.

Mostly I think they both have the same motivation - be evil, and watch as awful shit happens - and Lucifer doesn't care to be at the boss of the organization to do it. If he has to get involved, ever, it's in his role as the serpent, whispering suggestions in people's ears; he does it so he can watch them destroy themselves and other people, and he doesn't need to be the boss to do that.

If he came to Croc anyway, the least he could do is offer it as a suggestion to pass down to Genesis' members, and maybe they can discuss things on equal, straightforward levels, like Lucifer being willing to offer protection. For the sake of practicality, he'd be more than willing to consider Croc as a 'player' and not a 'chess piece' (although this is a front that lets him survive in MoM rather than genuine--cooperation or not he still thinks all humans are scum.)

So.

[sunasuna]

sorry for the late reply but back from hiatus now! And that would be interesting, both the general soul reading and Lucifer offering to protect or assist Crocodile in some way later.

Crocodile wouldn't trust him at all, but he knows he'd be useful, so it'd be interesting to see what could come of that!

[heavyhitter]

OH MAN I AM ALL OVER THIS, ramir would be SO DOWN. obnoxious wrong doing is her bag.

also, possibly not related to this since she'd be super down anyway, but i'd love to do something with his dream trick at some point! she dreams about murder and revenge pretty often so that might be right down his alley 8) not that she like, needs much help on the corruption front there...

[angelfire]

You'd know better than I do if there's some hint Lucifer could have picked up on in order for him to reach out to Ramir? We could go straight down the dream route that way, in fact, if that's how you'd like to play it--come for the tour, stay for the good company.

[enucleation]

Iiit's a bit difficult to call Kaneki a villain, but he has def. done really terrible things under the justification that it was necessary to protect the people he loves AND gain power. So he doesn't regret it one bit. He sees himself as a monster too, so that always helps?

he isn't into the whole "doing this to cause mayhem and distress" or killing for no reason, but he def. hangs around morally ambiguous people in canon and I'd love to get him involved with them. I'm juuust not sure how but

he is there

for when you need a crazy cannibal

[angelfire]

Well it's safe to say that Lucifer is familiar with Kaneki at this point, so while he may not go to him to spook it up, I'd be more than happy to offer Lucifer as a go between to directly get him interacting with unsavory characters that might get him misbehaving again. That's Lucifer's ultimate motivation, so if I can use it to help you get more villain CR, I'd be thrilled to.

[enucleation]

that would be great yes! Kaneki doesn't really care if Lucifer is... well, Lucifer, so he isn't particularly against speak to him or anything c:

[brushoff]

Dorian's less likely to slide into like BLATANTLY villainous stuff mostly because he's already been arrested once and on probation once and both times sucked (also he's managed to piss off like, the ENTIRETY OF ARCHANGEL, you do you Dorian). however, he's straight up aokay with playing shoulder devil to people. also, if anybody wants to try and coax him into doing stupid decisions, play to his ego and give him the spotlight, that's like the best way to get Dorian to do what y'all want.

[angelfire]

You need better protective services, Dorian. Not that his other "clients" are doing so well either... But if you're up for it they could literally either talk villain networking or Lucifer could surrepticiously dispatch him to meet people he's targeting (even if this turns out that this is a way to get Dorian under their thumb and corrupt him that way...) Whatever works, basically.

[enustari]

Elsa doesn't really do the evil-for-evil's-sake thing; she just does whatever she wants and it doesn't matter to her if it gets other people hurt/killed. (DnD alignment-wise, I'd put her down as neutral evil.)

She's also resentful of Lucifer for indirectly causing relationship strife, haha, so there is that obstacle. She might be bribed into causing mischief if he offers something compelling enough though! And even if she doesn't accept, it could still make for an interesting thread (though I wouldn't want to overwhelm you if have a bunch of others on your plate).

[angelfire]

I love all my threads with Elsa, so if I do set up a thread with her (maybe a dream walk?) they could discuss things. If he offers her something, it will be based on his read of her, and therefore possibly something terrible/that she wants badly enough? You'd know better than me what would sell her.

[enustari]

A dream walk would be great!

Elsa hates feeling weak and limited in this world, so she's most interested in regaining a solid power base. She needs reliable sources of blood and she's also interested in any additional ways of keeping her activities under the radar of both the government and hero-types who would be inclined to meddle.

[hallowedhorcrux]

Voldemort could use some mischief. He does like to have fun with Magic and he is very good at hiding his identity. ♥ Any Muggles that need dealing with? He can range from making their lives tough or making their lives miserable.