Meredith vs. Aaron and those friends he made by accident I guess

[elfstoned]

ROLL CALL OF PEOPLE INVOLVED:

-Aaron
-Julien
-Chris
-Possibly Isabela?

I'd prefer to keep the number preeetty small, because one of the questions this post needs to address is how are we going to thread this? It'd be possible to do one long thread and take turns, but it'd take forever with 4-5 people involved, and we have OOC time limits. That's option 1. Option 2 is free-for-all: tag in whatever order you get to it. Option 3 is to work out essentially what happens in this post and RP it out as slow as we have to. We can also have a rule set that if you don't go within 24 hours you get skipped? I'm just throwing out ideas at this point.

I would like to get a general idea of what will happen in this post so no one's left in limbo if one or two or all of us wind up with other obligations. I'll hand the mic to Kira about what Meredith is capable of and why we need multiple people.

Comments

[reapsthewind]

I am totally up for a free for all punching bag... thing.

Or whatever.

idk I'm flexible.

[calmelancholy]

Basically, this. Meredith can alter the memorization process of others, which they primarily use to write themselves out of people's memories. The key tactic against Meredith will be to
1. be multiple people who
2. appear/act in a way that stop Meredith from accessing all their memorization processes at once. This can for example be achieved by being in wildly different locations while moving at a fairly high speed.
3. These people need to keep each other informed of what just happened - basically they need to create a collective memory that Meredith cannot just erase.

Beyond his power, Meredith is good at martial arts and has a gun, but isn't terribly strong.

[elfstoned]

All right! So we'll go into this with none of our characters knowing what Meredith is capable of, right? We won't know the best tactic to deal with them, so it's going to be trial and error in the thread. Am I right?

[calmelancholy]

Yep!

[reapsthewind]

Does this work on robots?

[calmelancholy]

Yep! It works on all kinds of memorization processes - including video cameras and such, so it will work on robots too.

[reapsthewind]

Baw, curses! understood :)

[elfstoned]

As for how this should go IC -- the vague sequence I have in my head is:

--Aaron is cornered by Meredith
--Meredith does the thing to mess with memories
--Julien swoops in and keeps Aaron from getting immediately killed, but gets the mindfuck turned on him
--Aaron realizes what's going on and hits on the idea to use the network to keep a) a record of events and b) communicate with Julien if they split up, but the network thread winds up public
--Network thread attracts the attention of Chris (and Isabela/anyone else who shows up to help)
--Alien loses

This would let the first part of the log go fairly quickly, and then it can turn to a free-for-all when reinforcements show up.

Any comments/concerns/changes anyone wants to make? Also: what should be done with Meredith when all is said and done? Aaron wouldn't kill them, not in cold blood, and would be against it if he were asked. Any ideas? Anyone who would go for the kill? Kira, any chance of talking Meredith out of the murder?

[reapsthewind]

Chris would absolutely kill Meredith.

[calmelancholy]

Not really - the problem is that he has no goals outside of being loyal to the Enemy. The only option would be to keep him unconscious until the Enemy has been dealt with. If the Enemy is reformed, he will give all aliens that are still on Earth a new order after that, which will be peaceful.

This means that they would have to detain him for roughly half a day if they don't kill him.

[elfstoned]

Does anyone involved in this particularly want Meredith to survive?

OPTIONS:

--Chris (or someone else anti-alien-life) kills Meredith ICly before Aaron (or anyone else pro-alien-life) can stop them, possibly during the fight
--Meredith is unconscious (where is Dr. Strider's supply of knockout drugs when you need them) and kept alive until the Enemy plot is resolved, whichever way it's going to go
--Meredith is defeated, knocked unconscious, and killed behind the back/s of Aaron/anyone else who'd intended to keep Meredith alive

I'm down for any of these. I like Strider's knockout drugs making a reappearance, but I also like Chris being brutal. I like Aaron succeeding and Aaron failing here. Anyone drawn to one particular outcome?

[espigeonage]

Pigeon martial arts could extend to being able to knock someone out! well Yuuya manages it with Ryouta, he might be able to do it with something human-shaped. Julien would like her kept alive, only killed in cold blood if it's all lawful.

[reapsthewind]

I mean Aaron could also stop Chris and she'd be very angry about it.

Tbh I don't care either way! I, too, enjoy Chris succeeding AND failing! Especially because success on her part is its own kind of fail.

[espigeonage]

Julien has uh... Yuuya's pigeon martial arts. He's very strong at close range but has that terrible tendency to do something and then have to get rescued. Sounds good!

Jules also doesn't want them killed in cold blood.

[doomedtheworld]

Got room for another returning character?

[15minuteslate]

For Vin? Absolutely. ♥

[doomedtheworld]

Somebody tell Mamoru to stop trying to look cool, please.

[15minuteslate]

Um, who needs to try.

[doomedtheworld]

Uh huh.


Got your wallet.

[15minuteslate]

WHAT GODDAMMIT NOT AGAIN

[elfstoned]

ANYWAY she'd probably show up with Chris and Isabela as reinforcements once it gets on the network that Aaron and Julien are having a difficult time. Sound good?

Also, would she lean either way re: killing Meredith or keeping Meredith under?

[doomedtheworld]

She gets to be a Big Damn Hero? I'm entirely down for that, you have no idea.

And she will totally be for killing Meredith, and even for doing the job herself in cold blood if need be. She's not likely to try to go behind the group's back if they decide to keep Meredith alive (depends on how the fight goes) but she also won't try very hard to stop anybody who does.

[elfstoned]

Fantastic. Perfect. Awesome, three women will show up and save the beleaguered menfolk and make the call to kill the alien because the boys are too softhearted and reluctant. I love it.

Alright, there's a timeline up there, and I'll make sure everyone's clued in when it's time for them to jump in. Meredith is killed, most likely in battle because Aaron's friends are 2badass2live, but the thread itself will be a free-for-all "lol what is tagging order, do what you think is cool as long as the end result is dead Meredith." All good?

[doomedtheworld]

Well, somebody needs to get some results around here, wow.

And, yep, all good with me. Seems like all three of our fighters here are gonna go straight for the throat so Meredith's chances don't seem too great. This oughta be good.

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

Isabela's got... sharp things. But she aims to kill. She can throw or slash, so. STABBITY DOOM.

[elfstoned]

EXCELLENT; consider her stabbity vote counted.