PLOTTING POST: Panultima (tw torture/horror, exploitation)

[spoofer]

PLOTTING POST: Panultima

Posted February 2, 2018

Your Main Options

Hello team! it's time for another world hop. Per the latest mod announcement, we're having an off-world event starting February 5 with an IC announcement, with the main travel beginning the 8th, and ending the 20th. You have three main options in this plot:

1. Infiltrate this world of captalistic, slaver survivalists (see: The Hunger Games), who use the emotional anguish of a few to protect many.
   
   Your character's assignment is to carry research implants that will passively gather information about Panultima's unique technology, and potentially free captives. To do this, characters accept a role as either the master class or slave class within that world, at considerable personal risk.
   • Servus are the slave class. They are exploited primarily through the media, forced to participate in everything from soap opera style reality TV to the most famous type of all-- a gladatorial battle.
     
     The gladiators fight in an ever-changing, multi-terrain arena, under constant surveillance and broadcast, channeling the fear and rage from their interactions into fuel for Panultima. Killing and torturing other opponents is necessary for survival, but environmental challenges appear regularly as extra incentive. There are over one hundred servus in the arena itself, some of whom have lived there for years, gradually devolving into maniacs.
     
     
   • Primus are the master class. Funnily enough, their special privilege is that they get to lead normal lives. Assisted and protected from D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. by extraordinary technology, they farm food, operate transportation, build homes, and so on. Legacy and marriage are mandatory to remain primus. After all, most people are willing to do horrible things to others if it means protecting themselves, and the ones they love. Thus, infiltrators must participate in fake dating/marriage.
2. TRIPLE CROSS options, given we have at least one antagonist now, this is an optional assignment. D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. agents may engage in low-key sabotage, such as:
   • Exposing a Primus infiltrator as an imposter, and making them into Servus. It's up to you whether or not they know the betrayal will lead to only temporary danger; they may well think it's likely to result in death.
   • Run interference on a yet-unannounced sub-mission, preventing the other PCs from obtaining victory at this time. Details TBD.
3. OPT OUT, hang back in Xistentia and guard its borders, instead of participating in the world hop. The beach is where the others will be going.

Upon return on February 20, characters will reappear on the beach of Xistentia. The amount of intelligence gathered will depend on character participation.

More About the Arena

From a distance, the arena looks like black glass and lasers, sleek but artificial. However, step closer, and the reality generators kick in. It looks like a forest, filled with monsters and challenges and deep shadows. If you think it looks like a Hellish version of Xistentia's forest, you'd be right.

Before transport, F.A.T.E.S will have hacked into D.E.S.T.I.N.Y's system and added the infiltrators' names to it. Characters will need to act as though they belong. As with all others in the arena, their names and backstories will be advertised to viewers and presented as stage names and "fictionalized" origin stories.

Remember that the name of the game is infiltration. You aren't here to stop what D.E.S.T.I.N.Y is doing; you're here to spy, and bring back valuable information to help with the war effort. That may not sit well with the heroes among you, but it's for the greater good! We promise. We at F.A.T.E.S are very trustworthy. Anyway, the most important part of your mission is to ensure you get home safely with the information you've collected. Characters will have flexibility to behave however they choose. They are welcome to try and resist what D.E.S.T.I.N.Y is doing to them or to help others do so. However, resistance is likely to draw the enemy's attention to them and will carry dangers of its own. They may be plied with promises of privileges, drugs to make them obey, or threats to themselves or their friends - any and all, it's up to you!

If your character wishes to take the risk and free one of the Primus or Servus (i.e., new characters apping in), they must provide that character with an implant, injected into their arm. Note, however, this implant must be accepted consensually, otherwise it won't work! Persuasion is necessary.

If they are discovered as an agent of F.A.T.E.S., your character's own implant will be removed and they will be in danger of torture and even death. You are free to endanger your character as much as you see fit, but please remember that death is permanent in Xistentia.

A number of unsavory characters lurk in the arena. Among them:

• The bantam butcher, a fallen angel who earned a hilarious moniker when he turned on enemies for cutting off his wings and utterly destroyed them. He is the #1 champion of the gladiatorial arena so far, notorious for capturing and torturing his victims with blades and fire.
  
  
• Trapmaster, a polymath woman known to be able to hack the arena in some obscure way. However, she has given up attempting to escape. Instead, she creates horrible traps for other combatants-- her favorite being flash floods and plagues of flesh-eating ants.
  
  
• Baker Trio, because every horror story needs cannibals. They are known for fashioning aprons out of bizarre combinations of pelts acquired off their victims and hunting their prey in a team, failing to consider the day the operators will turn them against each other for the extra emotional juice.

You are free to RP confronting these NPCs, but please use the mod questions thread on this post if you would like to kill any of them (so that we don't double up).

Apart from that, Servus are expected to kill each other the old-fashioned way.

PLOT WITH ME

Feel free to use this handy dandy template to construct your own Panultima experience. Comment below with the completed form! Others can then use that to springboard thread ideas.

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Character Username:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Primus/Servus</b> Choose one... or both, if you're looking for a fall from grace or to rise! <b>Plans so far:</b> Fake married only? Combat? Are you open to torture? <b>Opt-out:</b> What do you NOT wish to RP?

Comments

GUYS LET'S BRING DOWN THE SYSTEM

[outshiny]

Character Name: Marcos Diaz | Eclipse
Character Username: outshiny
Canon: The Gifted
Opt-out: Please discuss any potential body horror with me first.

Primus/Servus Primus! He'll be fake married to his girlfriend Lorna. They'll be pretending their fractured relationship is all good and there's no problems at all! There's problems, folks. But they have a job to do.

Plans so far: So, Marcos here and his girlfriend Lorna are newly arrived! They're from a world where people like them are subject to prejudice, threats and worse just because they're different, so these two will heavily identify with the Servus class. As such, they will choose the infiltrate the Primus class so that they might be in a position to help the Servus.

What they'll want to do is break into the arena, and free as many Servus as they can! They have skills and experience which will help with this - Marcos has light-based powers, and Lorna commands magnetism. For his part, Marcos can absorb light and shoot it out of his hands like lasers, make flashes bright enough to blind people, and absorb all the light from an area to conceal the people in it. Both Marcos and Lorna were leaders in an underground organisation which worked to protect and defend mutants, and help them escape - so they know what they're doing but they will need help.

The mods have said the following!

Some smart moves would include: coordinating with Servus infiltrators, using their powers as indirectly/in a concealed way as possible to enter/tamper with the Arena, bribing true Primus, possibly even turning Primus to their side, though that does risk betrayal! The control room would probably be a tempting target, but extremely high risk and they would almost certainly get caught.

The potential consequences for getting involved would be:

If caught, some of them would end up incarcerated, reduced to Servus, and put through challenges that amount to torture. Their implants would also be discovered and removed, and they would be interrogated. A jailbreak might be possible, but that is quite an undertaking!

However, we could potentially free 2-20 Servus using implant technology which F.A.T.E.S. will provide.

So! With all that in mind, would anyone be interested in getting involved in this with them? If so, what part would you like your characters to play? If we could make a vague plan that incorporates everyone's needs/wants, I'll put that back to the mods and make sure it's all okay and what consequences there might be.

[remarkablymodest]

aymeric would absolutely want to help marcos and lorna with the break-in and freeing of people in the servus class 8( his girlfriend is in there, okay

he has experience as a politician and could be used to keep some important people distracted on that front to make things easier for marcos and lorna

[outshiny]

Yes of course! That definitely works and they'd be happy to have him.

I have a top level for this plot now if you'd like to join in!