etrayalogs | mission 010.

mission 010.

WHO: Nate, the anomaly, and those involved
WHEN: near the end of the mission
WHERE: Earth-2
WHAT: anomaly end of mission shenans
NOTES\WARNINGS: threads will be marked where needed but blanket violence + death warnings

catch-all post for all things related to the anomaly near the end of the mission. feel free to do up your own top-levels here, tag out, fighty-fight, etc. info related to the anomaly, the timeline of events, and players involved found here for reference. feel free to toss any questions or do gentle plotting there.

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The necklace is wiggled between fingers in such a way as to imply it were uncomfortably warm or of an odd texture, but it's really just Knife being fickle and unwilling to wholly embrace an offering without a surplus of suspicion - can't give the idea they'd trust anyone and wind up duped later, you know!

"This ain't something that's gonna be makin' noise or talking into my head for whatever reason, is it?"

"I haven't heard any noise or voices talking in my head, and I've been wearing this all day," he says, showing her his own nullifying necklace. "So no, it shouldn't do anything like that."

Psht, yeah, like I'm going to trust your judgment, Antigone thinks derisively, nose crinkling a bit with the thought. It may be rather unfair to someone showing undue kindness, but Knife's rarely thinking about what's fair outside of their own survival.

"And you've been just...what? Walking the streets to pass them out like this all day? Even in the dark?"

"Yep! Don't worry, I've got my trusty battle axe if anyone starts anything," he says, pointing, "And I can look much scarier if I want to. I'll be fine."

Whoa what.

Antigone gawks.

"Folks just let you carry that open? Without hassle?"

"Oh no, I get hassled a lot! But the great thing is, regular people aren't going to mess with an obvious supervillain walking around with an axe on their back, but supervillains affected by the anomaly will, and that's just the kind of person I need to get a nullifier on. So they get in range, then bam, I stick a nullifier pin on their clothes, they go back to being evil and they don't care anymore."

A perfect plan that completely ignores the possibility of anyone who isn't being affected by the anomaly trying to stop him. Or what to do about the heroes that switched alignments. Or what to do if he converts a bunch of villains back, but not a lot of heroes.

"Um...for villains I figure they might come up to me for a villain team up? But that hasn't happened yet. I don't know. I haven't planned that part of the plan yet."

Antigone blinks.

While he's talking, she turns around and starts walking the way she'd snuck up, stops, and stares at the necklace. I was testing whether or not my brain was fucked up...and if this is supposed to help...

She sighs loudly. What's he going on about? Villain team-ups? Man, whatever! Antigone bites the bullet, winding the charm's cord around her wrist and palming the core piece. Upon doing that, she turns around and walks back up to him and, without stopping, winds up and kicks him in the shin.

(She's like three feet tall. It's like if a shoeless toddler kicked him.)

[It's reasonable that she doesn't know what he's talking about. Dwayne doesn't either. He looks down at the tiny pink fox lady when she kicks his shin, confused.]

What was that for?

"Science." Obviously.

"Sorry," she says - a complete afterthought as she considers the trinket, unraveling its cord off her arm and then trying to raise her leg again to little avail.

"Fuck," she breathes, tone and expression darkening as she steps away. "So that really is...fuckin'--"

"Science?"

He watches as she experiments with the trinket, the gears slowly turning in his brain as he worked it out. Then, after much too long a pause.

"Ohhh, the anomaly must have switched you from chaotic to lawful, I get it!"

Because he's not going to label her switch as being from 'villainous' to 'heroic', because what he'd seen so far was far closer to 'vaguely annoying, but fine' than evil.

"I'm neither chaotic nor lawful!" she snaps back, offended. "What I am is pissed off! I don't like being messed with, especially not in the head!"

"Oh. Sorry."

He should probably stop making guesses now.

"Well, the nullifier will help with that."

Poor Dwanye. He really isn't the source of Knife's frustration, but he sure is paying for it for the sin of being there.

"No, it's not a help, it's just another layer. More and more fingers in my skull! One to do this, another to undo that. No--" Her lips pull back in a snarl as she coils the cord around her fingers. "No, no, no, this needs to--hm. Hm."

Perhaps...perhaps watching the nullifiers work with the planchette will show some kind of...flow, some directional movement of magic - toward its source.

"...No, the help is...different. And temporary."

In very Brain-of-Pinky-and-the-Brain fashion, Antigone turns away and starts plotting, pacing back and forth.

"Well I'd like to just get rid of the anomaly completely, but I don't even know how to find it!"

He knows this is a patch job, covering up the anomaly's effects as much as possible, and that they need to do something about the anomaly itself if they want to complete their mission and guarantee that everyone is free from its effects. Unfortunately, he doesn't even know how to start. He's not great at puzzles or riddles or things that involve a lot of thought in general, but with the way Antigone is pacing, he begins to wonder if she might be able to work it out. He stays quiet for a moment to let her think.

"HA! Ha HA!"

The cackle comes after near two minutes of muttering and quiet mumbling and a bit of fiddling with planchette and nullifier, coupled with two arms thrown up victoriously before drawing back to herself amidst little sinister chuckles that grow joyless and dark.

"Gonna fuckin' get you now...but just to be sure--" She swings around, pointing at Dwayne with one hand while bringing the planchette up to her face with the other. "Take yours off right now! Lemme see!"

He pulls off his nullifier, holding it by the string and letting it dangle to make sure it's not close enough to his skin to have any affect, then looks at Antigone expectantly, wondering if she'll see what she's looking for.

She makes a nasally, assessing sound.

"'Kay, now put it back on and try to do something shitty to me! Like really try! Like, like punt me or throw me into the bushes!"

He puts it back on.

"I really don't want to throw you, though. I might hurt you."

She's tiny, and there are some things he can't bring himself to do.

"I'll kick you with my boot off, the same as you did to me."

He then proceeds to take off his boot, then goes over and kicks her extremely lightly, because, again, he doesn't want to actually hurt her.

She watches him with abject disgust, but tries to focus, looking for the flux of energy that comes with the anomaly's impulse manipulation being denied so Dwayne can be such a big sap.

Ears perk up.

"Ah! AH! HA! HAHA! I see it I see it!" Her head swivels, following the strongest path of the glow.

"Wait, you do?"

Dwayne starts to follow, then remembers one foot still only has a sock on it.

"Hold on," he says, kneeling down and getting his boot back on.

By the time he stands back up, Antigone is gone. That's fine, he'll just catch up.

((OOC: And I assume we'll just wrap it up here.))

Sure, he can hear some nefarious little cackling nearby...until it's way gone. Almost like she just cleared a swath of distance in an instant!

Going and gone...to go do some murder.

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that's a wrap!