[PLOT DISCUSSION] The Attack on NovaTeX

[Storm]

Also, Pyro, good call on the email.

ALSO, who is fighting who exactly? When we go to NovaTeX and find that the Brotherhood are there, will they start attacking us so that we have to defend ourselves and bystanders? Storm (and some other X-Men, I have a feeling - Kitty, Nightcrawler, etc) really really don't want to get offensive against the 'Hood.

Obviously, when the Sentinels hit, that's a different story.

[Pyro]

The Brotherhood want to go to Baltimore to take out NovaTeX and, now Pyro's made the discovery, find out what the hell the Sentinel programme is about. Pyro wants to lure the X-Men there because his research - and comments - have led him to determine that the Sentinel programme isn't particularly discriminatory against 'good' or 'bad' mutants - he wants them there so he can watch safely from the sidelines.

And he wants to burn stuff.

I think, and again, this is all random...that Pyro will break off from the main Brotherhood group at some point and nimbly avoid even being noticed by the X-Men for some time whilst he goes off and investigates the tunnels that lead to the warehouse. Once he gets inside that, he can unleash hell.

I'll actually do the email to Kitty when we've finished the Meeting thread.

[forge]

IMO, what would make the most dramatic sequence would be this:

Mystique rolls in by herself, to get what she wants. She does remarkably well... runs into trouble....

The fight springs people into action (say Deadpool uses a grenade at some point).

The Brotherhood moves in thinking Mystique is in trouble, and to generally cause trouble (at least one does, the others are waiting for the trap to spring their own trap, trap within a trap, to say)

The Sentinels show up. That Brotherhood member gets help from the toher Brotherhood guys.

The X-Men pop out, to help save the civvies caught in the crossfire - but inevitably end up fighting either Brotherhood or Sentinels - or both, because honestly, either wouldn't mind wasting a few X-men on the way.

Big nasty battle, lots of beat downs, but most sides end up getting what they want (X-Men save some civvies, Mystique gets what she came for, Brotherhood shuts down the cure-a-thon, Trask's Sentinels are proven to be affective Mutatn fighters.)

Thoughts?

[forge]

Then add: Pryo breaks off while one of the Brotherhood is causing the distraction after they think Mystique is in trouble.

[Pyro]

God, it's all so cinematic.

*claps hands happily*

Works for me.

[Storm]

I think the Sentinels should show up after the X-Men get there.

X-Men get there expecting to be before everyone else, are surprised by Brotherhood, fight back, a little one-on-one, and then the Sentinels come in and start REALLY kicking everyone's asses.

Again, do we know what time of day this is? Night might be kinda fun.

[Juggers]

Yes, it pans out nicely.

I do have a couple of curve balls however that will affect the ultimate proceedings. One of them is quite dramatic but will be saved for the oppotune moment ... when it arrives.

To that end, Deadpool REALLY needs his briefing ...

A nice private one

[deadman]

Done, I'll have Deadpool PM you immediately. He's currently raiding my fridge, the bastard.

Oh, and don't forget the joys of the DeadMan. The best thing about this fight is there will be PLENTY of flunkees for everyone to decimate... well, by everyone I mean the X-Men and the Sentinels. It'll be dawn of the mutant dead up in this mug.

Oh, so Storm, you want the X-Men to show up exactly as the Brotherhood does? I figured they'd be sitting around waiting a bit first. Though it doesn't really matter, it seems to make more continuity if the X-Men are there right when the shit hits the fan because they've been waiting ab it.

[mystique]

CK, I'm going to kill you when I get home. I was hoping *some* people weren't going to know.

[Storm]

Ew, mutant zombies. EW.

... YAY.

(Are some NPC mutants going to die then? I'd hate to lose any X-Men, even NPCs *cries*)

As for when we get there, I had been assuming we'd arrive before everyone else, as a kind of preventative measure (going by what Forge said), but the other Forces That Be seem to be assuming that the Brotherhood will get there first.

Personally I don't think it matters much as long as all the mutants get there BEFORE the Sentinels.

[Trask]

The Sentinels are actually waiting for the mutants to arrive, so one thing is for sure, they won't turn up first

RE: First Arrivals - Just asked Pyro. Happy to have the X-Men turn up first, then the Brotherhood. Mystique can get in and do her sneaky sneaky thing before the Brotherhood actually launch the attack, waiting on some sort of signal.

Then things go crazy.

[Storm]

Okey dokey Mister. : ) As per original plan, X-Men first, then Brotherhood, then Sentinals.

Glad to have that out of the way ; ).

NOW, when IS this? How much time do we have? *panics!*

[Trask]

Weeeeeell,

Realistically, the Brotherhood need to get their Meeting done to actually figure out the plan. Didn't you want to run a similar thing for the X-Men?

Trask wants to get Deadpool sorted out with his part to play.

Pyro needs to call Aurora and Nightingale and get them into position.

Teams need to prep, get to Baltimore and THEN things can kick off.

I think we need to make a decision now about whether this is going to be a night raid or not, because your looking at a least a couple of game days there to get everything into position.

[Storm]

Yes, the X-Men are definitely going to have to have a meeting. I was going to get it done ASAP, in the morning, so that by the afternoon they could be into action, but obviously that can be stretched to any length of time.

I'd say earliest should be like 3 in the afternoon, any time after that is fine by me. Night might not be a good idea because the place won't be open, right? I mean mutants and protestors and tourists wouldn't all be crowded around the place if it were midnight.

[Trask]

Executive decision -

It is an attack during the day then, the Brotherhood can work themselves into the crowd ... apart from Juggernaut who is just going to lurk.

Once the X-Men have had their meeting there is no reason why they couldn't set off straight away - they want to get there first after all

The Sentinels have their own arrival method ;D

[mystique]

My vote is daytime, you have civies to damage at that point.

Ahem.

[Pyro]

Yes, by then, Storm should have intercepted the email.

And I have such ideas for that email... *giggles to self*

[Storm]

I agree with all of the above.

Now I have to go you guys, try not to decide too much without me, I'll be back tonight *finger wag*.

I have a few more things to work out, such as HOW are the X-Men NOT GOING TO GET THEIR ASSES KICKED? I mean EVERYONE is out to get them at this point, and we've only got - what, nine fighters? Some of whom aren't very good?

I, for one, would like to see the Brotherhood and the X-Men have no choice but to work together against the Sentinels. That would create interesting emotional complications, as well as lighten up a tiny bit on the X-Men.

There's also the option of NPCs, I suppose, although I don't like that.

But I have to go!! PM me with any thoughts on what I can do about my dear team *frets and worries*

[logan]

I was hoping Storm was intercepting those emails. Now I don't feel so bad for giving them all to Bobby. Heh. (as forge, by the way)

Uhh, so yeah, I definately was thinking the X-Men would BE there first, but likely the Brotherhood would MOVE first.

The X-Men, IMO, were going to stand around and be the mutant police. They would likely want their presence known, so as to divert any would-be attacking mutants from starting shit.

After all, the X-Men are famous for the events of Alcatraz... and I'm sure not very liked in the mutant community for it. How many MUtants did Logan kill? Dozens?

[Storm]

Understood, CK, and that's exactly what I was thinking we would do. Although I don't know how obvious we'll want to make ourselves, it IS a little hard to hide Nightcrawler, so that might be moot.