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leon s. kennedy ([personal profile] makingthetime) wrote in [community profile] countryclub2022-04-11 06:48 pm
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april player plot: Leon's Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad Day Redux

hi everyone! here's a fun little player plot for April, courtesy of the Resident Evil world's worrying tendency to churn out terrifying super-zombies for the purpose of making certain people rich and/or immortal and/or super-powered via mad science!

meet Mr. X. (video in link contains gore and violence and zombies, as per usual for RE.) that's not actually its name, it's called T-00 and it's a Tyrant, which is a kind of super-zombie that cannot be easily taken down, and it's going to come through a portal in Lumenwood with one goal: eliminate all possible witnesses to Umbrella's crimes. which means that anyone who crosses into its path could very easily become a target, in which case it will hunt you right down and try its absolute hardest to kill you. you can stun it and get away, but it takes a lot of ammunition and power to even slow it down for a bit. and that's with the limiter coat on.

but good news, it can be killed! how? we'll get back to that later, but for now here's the deal.

how did this thing get into Trench and do we know it's here?
April event's portals are going to let through a few Resident Evil monsters here and there. most of them range from "meh, easy" to "difficult to put down but doable", but the Tyrant is the only one that's going to be downright impossible to take out without serious firepower. like, anti-tank weaponry kind of firepower. and if you get too close to it you risk getting your skull punched inward.

for this stage, I need volunteers for getting almost or outright murdered via Mr. X! Leon obviously will be doing his best to keep the Tyrant from killing people, but he's just one unenhanced guy and Mr. X gave him a shitload of trouble when he was young and spry and idealistic back in 1998. there will be a post at some point in April, I'd say over this or next weekend or so, alerting everyone to the Tyrant's presence and asking for assistance, which leads to:

how do we kill this thing?
idk do we have a rocket launcher.

I'm kidding! while we don't have a rocket launcher thrown to us by a friendly enemy (sadly for Leon), Sleepers do have a huge array of abilities of weapons that can at least stagger the thing. but taking him down is going to be a two-phase thing and it is going to need a great deal of coordination.

PHASE ONE: luring the Tyrant into a staging area and attacking it with powerful attacks + weapons + whatever you can throw at it. whoever will be doing the luring runs the risk of being seriously injured, as even with the limiter coat it still punches like a freight train. it’s also very strong, and Damnation shows us that even with a limiter on, it can catch fucking rockets. so like. be prepared to have your powerful projectile weapon thrown back at you.

I imagine that in the onslaught of attacks, the coat is sure to get burned off somehow. which is when we enter the second phase.

PHASE TWO: killing the Tyrant. which is not going to be easy, because now that the limiter’s off, the damn thing will mutate its arms into giant claws. those claws can and will tear anyone who accidentally gets close right the fuck open, and it will try to get close, so anyone who gets in range has to keep moving. the thing can move fast when it’s pissed and headshots do nothing.

however, here’s one bit of good news - its heart is fully exposed right there on its chest, and if you do enough damage to it you can stagger it so you can unleash a powerful attack that will blow it to bits. and blowing it to bits seems like the only way to ensure it’s put down for good. but that’s easier said than done - once again, the thing can catch rockets, so you’re going to need to either distract it so an ally can get in a hugely powerful attack, or just. throw an attack that's powerful enough that it can't be caught.

I know everybody's gonna be busy this month, so reply to the below comment entitled BOSS FIGHT PARTICIPANTS with the form below so I can gauge interest and plan the big fight appropriately! it goes without saying that obviously Mr. X will be available as a recurring NPC for your characters to encounter until the end of April thereabouts, this is just to gauge who wants to get in on Blowing Up A Big Monster.



barring any real-life problems, RNG-ing for the final blow will take place on Monday the 18th, and the big boss fight will ICly be happening April 29-30. I say ICly, bc it's likely that the log will go up either before or after that date. expect it, at the very latest, on say, May 5.
imaglyphwitch: (big pout)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-04-14 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Pfft. I have a kid so I still had reasons to dress up, although last year was his last trick or treat, sadly. Heh, nice.

Please do! Varian/Luca/Ahiru will sense it (Bonded) but Rapunzel and Fern won't, so they (and assorted others, including OTHER Rose Da Silva) will need to know!
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[personal profile] nothinglikea 2022-04-15 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Awww, kids! That's always good, to have a kid to dress up and a reason to dress up themselves. Me, though, I figured out that I would be a terrible parent when I was young and decided that I was best off sticking to cats. Cats don't need to learn how to drive and they don't need The Talk and and they don't need a college fund and they don't need their parent coming in in a mishmash of colors, patterns, and gendered clothing. Cats don't give a shit, as long as I feed them and provide a good lap.

She'll go the whole nine yards, even miraculously finding a mourning dress from her time period and refusing to take off mourning until she knows Luz is okay.
imaglyphwitch: (gazing out)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-04-15 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
And then you have crazy people like me, who have both and live in a crappy apartment in Mount Vernon New York! But honestly, I get it. Kids cost a LOT of money and can be very taxing, so I understand they're not for everyone.

Aw, Rose is such a sweetheart! Luz is going to be happy to reunite with her once she pops back in!
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[personal profile] nothinglikea 2022-04-15 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Better that than Flyover Country. Which I assure you is just as worthy of being flown over as the name implies. And, yeah, I need to take care of me.

And Rose will be like FRIENDSHIP BOND. NOW. as soon as she does.
imaglyphwitch: (happy squee)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-04-15 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll take your word for it, though I think I would like to live in a place called flyover if only for the name.

YES. MORE BONDS FOR LUZ.
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[personal profile] nothinglikea 2022-04-15 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no, flyover country sucks, no one should want to live there. :o

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY. SHE'LL BE LIKE. FRIENDSHIP BOND. NOW.
imaglyphwitch: (super smug)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-04-15 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd say the same for Mount Vernon. Definitely not a place to stay, at least on the side I'm on.

Luz will basically not begrudge anything Rose asks of her, so they're all good there!
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[personal profile] nothinglikea 2022-04-16 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
All I can think of is that if it were Albany NY, there would be the whole NXIVM scandal.

...so I spend a lot of time on Discovery Plus watching murder porn about cults. It happens? :O
imaglyphwitch: (whatevs)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-04-16 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Considering there was a stabbing at a high school recently, that would sadly fit right in.

I'll hopefully move out of this city eventually, but for now *shrug*