Oh Marvelous Mod (ohmarvelousmod) wrote in oh_marvelousooc, @ 2010-01-12 22:00:00 |
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Entry tags: | !modpost, plot |
Okay so, the following plot was just suggested to me by Roguemoon:
Okay. So I just got done reading an old X-Men novel called "Smoke and Mirrors" and I think the plot of the book could be a really awesome long term plot for the game.
It consists of an over-arching plan from Sinister to wipe all current mutation from the planet (save for the few he decides to let stay as is) to remove and and all of the spontaneous, undesirable mutations that nature has developed. And then allow him to remove the basic human race by mutating everyone as he dictates they should be mutated.
This is done with a two part plan of action.
The first is to get the government to pass a bill that makes refusal or reasonable medical treatment for a disease or illness a criminal offense. Enabling those who can't afford medical treatment to get treatment from hospitals because it would be illegal for the hospitals not to treat them if they had the resources for reasonable treatment. Attached to this bill is a rider that declares mutations to be a genetic disease... like some forms of cancer. Currently untreatable, but at least the mutants would have an excuse for being what they are. No longer more or less human, but victims of a genetic disorder.
The second stage is using one of his alias' to rise through the medical world (and he has plenty to choose from) and eventually (preferably about a week before the bill is set to be voted on, so it has had plenty of time to be debated and the rider to be overlooked simply because there's nothing that can be done about mutation) present findings to the World Medical and Genetic Council that he has 'discovered' the single chromosonal pair that governs mutation, effectively the genetic on/off switch. And on top of that, he has started testing on willing subjects that no longer want to suffer from their disease and has found a complicated genetic cocktail that will turn the switch to the off setting permanently. (or at least until Sinister wishes to turn it back on with the particular mutation he wants to be placed in the body).
This research is covertly condoned and funded by the U.S. government because Sinister finds the usefullness of the US leveling the playing field on all the mutants rather than doing so personally, incredibly convient in regards to his time. Due to the complexity of the genetic cocktail, the prototype facility for the implementation can only service one test subject at a time and the government will be providing criminal mutants for most of the 'live' testing, while the rest is done on lab rats that have been mutated for the sole purpose of de-mutating them as part of testing. The fall out being that fatalities in the testing is at a 50% ratio and the government officials backing the bill and Sinister's 'research' have been fudging the numbers to make it look much, much safer.
I think this would be awesome in game because it gives a political plot to try and work out for those who are also against registration and a more physical plot for those to look into when the kidnappings of mutants off the street begin to ramp up because sinister prefers live testing (and genetic sampling) than mutated rats for cleaning up his proceedures.
Let me know if you think this would be fun and I can start laying the groundwork for some of it in the occasional 'news' and 'internet' posts. :3
Opinions? Further suggestions? Yay? Nay?