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Capital H Mods ([personal profile] capitalm) wrote in [community profile] capitalh2014-04-27 01:14 pm

SCARY JAIL LOG #2

Who: Downtown Los Angeles Captives
Where: A Mysterious Location
When: Starting March 11th, lasting for at least 4 IC days
What: Those that were kidnapped in the downtown hotspot awake in a terrible place and terrible things happen.
Warnings: Violence, body horror, mind control, fucking creepy bullshit.

You awake in the depths of a vast tower, like a tall layered cylinder of steel and black metal. You can see a seemingly endless height above you, and an endless depth below. Each layer is lit by a ring of multi-hued light that seems to bleed into the black material below it, like veins into flesh. A circle is cut through each layer from the tower's top to bottom, and occasionally a vast black form will rise and fall between layers - a mass of black metal with lights like eyes and grasping mechanical hands. Sometimes it takes captives with it.

Cages line the exterior walls like an arena, with other restraints set up on the layered floors outside. There is a tone of clinical order and structure without, though the black metal leaks a substance almost like the sweat of an animal. Cages open and close themselves, and smaller machines and familiar looking cyborgs wander the floors. Entire cage sections can be removed mechanically and taken to lower levels. Muffled voices and the animal cries of captured strays can be heard around the shaft, as well as the rhythmic hum of vast machinery down below.

There is no natural light here, and no sign of easy escape.

[OOC: This is where you go if your character was picked up in the downtown LA area. If they weren't but you want them here for some reason, a limited degree of inter-base movement is possible, so it can be worked out. Just how your characters are set up and who they are caged with is up to you. They can also be cages alone, but within speaking distance of others. It is generally presume that a reasonable degree of care has been used to contain your character if they have powers, but the particular methods of restraint are up to you. Most approximately super sciencey things should be reasonable.

If your character is going to get "worked on" by the machine, the progression in which this occurs is up to you - you can have threads before things happen, and then threads during or after. As mentioned before, please use some discretion with how gruesome you get - this is comic books not a slasher fic. All inhuman characters captured will be lined up for modifications and brainwashing, but it is presumed that the AI is a busy machine and simply won't get to most people. Robots can be brainwashed with either code or implants, but organics should not get to the point of brainwashing because that would generally involve a lobotomy.

Feel free to take creative liberty with layouts and the like. This is a prompt, not a solid limit. AI may drop in occasionally as an NPC to menace you. As a mod if you need the NPC's attention for something in specific.]
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[personal profile] baelhat 2014-04-30 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"A good question," Baelheit says, his voice somewhat heavily. He searches their surroundings, his eyes slightly narrowed. "I don't know that we were targeted specifically, but if we were, I imagine it was for our scientific expertise, our renowned intellect...something we have in common. But even so, if it was our minds they wanted..."

He doesn't sound convinced, even as he suggests it. No, this is for a purpose far more nefarious, far darker than that. He's sure of it, and Daimon seems to be, too.
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[personal profile] goldpaw 2014-05-01 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"It seems like a weird coincidence, if we weren't targeted, don't you think?" she says, but she can't quite manage a smile. Vanessa's been caught up in supervillain nonsense once or twice before, in the last ten years – when you're a very visible science celebrity this sort of thing happens – but it has never been quite this bad. It's hard not to be certain this is nefarious as hell.

Her thick, fluffy tail curls around her ankle. "... But if they wanted us for anything we actually have in common, they would have made demands by now."
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[personal profile] baelhat 2014-05-02 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, most likely," Baelheit murmurs, a little tiredly. He rubs a hand over his jaw, looking vaguely lost in thought. There must be some common element here, and it's not their scientific endeavors. After all, he doesn't see Miriel around here. "It didn't feel like an orchestrated attack, at any rate...it felt...rather opportunistic. But I wasn't the only person in the area. Surely there must be something they were drawn to, some criteria that must have been met... What else do you and I have in common, Dr. Goldpaw?"
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[personal profile] goldpaw 2014-05-02 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Our devastating good looks?" she offers, but her heart isn't really in it. She sighs, pushing herself unsteadily to her feet. "If we could get a better look at who else they've taken... but you're the only person they've brought in since I woke up."
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[personal profile] baelhat 2014-05-08 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That remark almost gets her a smile, but all Baelheit really does is exhale slowly, watching her get to her feet. "I suppose I should feel privileged, but I'm having a hard time conjuring up the sentiment," he says dryly, running a hand over his hair. He keeps forgetting his hat's not there. He's so used to it by now. He watches Vanessa pensively, rubbing at his jaw. "Perhaps it has something to do with our superhuman abilities. I heard rumors recently that there were some strange posts on one of the websites for superhero activity."

He definitely does not look like the sort of person who spends very much time on internet forums, because he is not. He does, however, have a teenage superhero daughter. Close enough.