WWYCD: Registration Payback

[Hermit]

Inspired by the idea of turning the 'Registration act' on its ear.

 

Senator Shawn Dumont got into the back of his limo, "I do believe this time we're going to get the changes to the law passed." The 47 year old politician chortled, expecting his assistant to be an appreciative audience. "No more of this 'voluntary stuff'. You want to act like law enforcement, you register, end of story and let the government decide when and where you're best used. You're going to be accountable or.." He tapped the glass, thinking of something, "Drive on home, Charlie."

 

"Righto, boss," his driver spoke up. Odd, Charlie seemed a bit off today. Senator Dumont wondered if he was getting a cold. And what the hell were those points on the side of his chauffeur cap?

 

"You were saying?" His assistant's dulcet tones interrupted.

 

"Right, or else. People with power need to be monitored. We want to know where they are, what they're doing and we're going to be able to find them in..' The Senator turned to his assitant, only to find her taking off her blouse! Wait, that wasn't his assistant, there was a costume underneath, "Lady Blue?"

 

"As it so happens, Senator, Foxbat and I have decided you -might- be right, so we're going to test your theory on you. I mean, you do have a lot of power," She winked.

 

Foxbat removed his driver's cap, "Hi, catch." He lobbed what looked like a ping pong ball into the Statesman's hands. It exploded in a small puff of gas, causing Dumont to pass out.

 

Lady Blue smiled, took out the syringe and injected the contents into the Senator, before calling on the radio, "Cybermind, we got target number three injected with the nanobots. Have you hacked his personal logs?"

 

"Every porn site he ever surfed, every private email he ever sent," Came the reply from the Hacker supreme, "And with those nanobots in place, the satellite from our benefactor can track him anywhere, digitally recreate him, and folks can find internet live feeds on what the Senator is doing at all times. They can watch him take a dump if need be."

"Good work as always, Cybermind," Lady Blue stroked the hacker's ego.

"Can I do it now, please?" Foxbat called back.

Lady Blue smiled indulgently, "I remind you both we have a lot of senators, judges, congressmen, appointees, mayors and governors left to go."

"Oh let him do it," Cybermind's voice spoke out,"You know he wants to."

"Fine," Lady Blue said, "Go ahead, Foxbat."

Foxbat tilted his head back, and let loose a "BWHAHAHAHAHA!"

 

All over the United States, a group of supervillains in your campaign world is tagging people in positions of authority and power, especially those that support the Superhuman Registration act, and making their every move known to the world. Their privacy has been utterly and completely destroyed, with Email records and private notes online for all to read, and imaging recreations of what they're doing. The nanobots inside them seem well attached, and everything they say is recorded and transmitted.

 

The villains who've done this have left messages claiming they're merely taking the registration act to its logical conclusion, and perhaps trying to make certain figures in power reconsider the sanctity of certain civil rights.

 

Suffice to say, some superheroes, when informed of the 'crisis' are taking more than a few minutes to stop laughing. It seems like karma times three for many figures superheroes didn't really like at all. However, this could backlash...

 

What Would Your Character Do?

[Radar]

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I soooooo wanna see this happen in the Marvel Universe.

[Hermit]

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BTW, to those who are fans of the 4th Ed CLOWN, this sort of thing strikes me as right up their alley

[Spidey88]

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"You need to spread some Rep around before giving more to Hermit" yadda yadda...

[incrdbil]

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What Would Your Character Do?

 

Hornet would work immediately to aid the politicians, by ridding them of the Nanobots. He'd also remind them that he hasn't registered, and that if the act was passed, he would be unable to help them due to being a fugitive. He'd tell the politicians how lucky they were, that Lady Blue and Foxbat are among the villains last likely to hurt an innocent on purpose. He'd show how the technology used makes a mockery of that used by the government, and how no Government database would be safe. Hornet would cheerfully demonstrate that he could crack any security they'd want to create, while whistling a tune and making a BLT. His team would do everything to stop the villains, but making sure the temmate with the Secret ID of a reporter catches the story of how the heroes help those who want to put the lives of the heroes loved ones at risk.

 

Blaze would laugh. He wouldnt help the poliicians at all, unless dragged into it by his teammates, and even then, he'd be enjoying what happened to them. He'd probably try to support efforts to set up public video displays of the feed.

 

Seer takes no notice, he works to protect the innocent and those facing real danger. If the stupid politicians meddle with powers beyond their control, reaping the consequences is what they get.

[Wanderer]

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Nova would make a roaring laugh and inquire whether the "villains" responsible of this would be in need of any assistance.

[Cold Steel]

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Shadowhawk will get a kick out of this and tell the pols that he will like to help but he's a unregistrated fugitive.

 

Nautika will help the pols but is willing to let the ones with the darkest secrets go through the wringer.

[ghost-angel]

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Enigma - Would consider helping the Villains... Then go track them down and stop the plot. Civil Right are Civil Rights, even if they enable pinhead politicians.

[hfergus]

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Volt would help solve the problem while giving every pro- registration politician a small lecture in the line of "Doesn't feel so good with the shoe on the other foot, does it?" For those anti-registration, he'd be very simpathetic if they were affected.

 

Olorin would start by laughing. If both pro and anti registration were affected, he'd help the anti first and be very sympathetic. The pro he would give a good, long lecture to before curing them. Once cured, and noone was watching he'd say, "Just remember, I can find you whenever I want - and put the nanobots back." He could, but probably would not - but might do the magical equivalent to particularly egregious offenders.

 

Black Tiger "About time." He would do nothing unless bugged by his team, and might not even then. Also any bad thing he saw would only confirm his distrust of authorities.

 

Futurian "This isn't due to occur for quite a while yet!" No one would be sure if he's serious or not, and he won't elaborate. He'd then help, and act somewhere between Olorin and Volt. Given that these are nanobots, and his powers, he could trace it back and apply them to the people that did this in the first place- and probably would.

[TheQuestionMan]

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Cougar, after recovering from laughter and snickers would take action if one of the supervillains crossed his path. Not before. Unfortunately he totally agrees with what they have done and thinks it should be mandatory for all political figures, their Aids, etc...

 

Information is Power

 

QM

[Comic]

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I can't think of a single character of mine who would have much to say about this, really.

 

Only one would stand the least chance of being able to do anything about nanobots or hacking, and he's.. otherwise engaged at the moment.

 

For the others.. why would they care what consenting adults do in the back of their limo's?

[AdamLeisemann]

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For the others.. why would they care what consenting adults do in the back of their limo's?

 

Well, the politicians are not consenting to being injected with nanobots...

[Clonus]

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The Wizard of Oz Incorporated modifies an MRI machine to zap the nanobots and turns a nice profit. He is unmoved by the political issues. He has no secret identity and doesn't consider this turnabout since politicians don't have a secret identity either.

[Comic]

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Lady Blue and Foxbat are taxpaying citizens.

 

The politicians are merely riders in the taxpayers' vehicles.

 

Oh. You mean, the _politicians'_ consent.

 

Hrm.

 

Hrm.

 

I'm sure I play at least one character who'd get around to caring about the non-injurious infringement of the rights of the rich and powerful, in priority order after dealing with all the injuries and infringements of the rights of the defenseless.

 

Of course, there's likely a secret scheme in this somewhere to take over the world by some powermad secret master villain.. but considering the state of things, heroes might not be terribly to blame for focusing on fighting fires too much to see the big picture.

[Lord Fyre]

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Inspired by the idea of turning the 'Registration act' on its ear.

 

What Would Your Character Do?

 

Once he stopped laughing, Darkstar would begin investigating to find the villians and freeing the Politicians from the enslavement.

[Amber Nytstar]

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The Flying Kittens, when they hear about this, would probably have to take three days to stop the first outburst of laughter. And would have to take a occasional snicker break while searching for the villains. If only to stop them from doing this to others...

 

Luna Moth would keep an eye on the situation with an occasional chuckle, and the Kittens' team on speed dial. If it starts to get out of control, she'll start dropping hints.

[Kal'El Wayne]

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Sir Johnstone is probably the one who contacted all these supervillains and gave them the nanotech. They're likely doing it for their own reasons but he's the man with the plan.

[Drhoz]

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Zero : I'ld like to help, sir, really, I would, but are you sure you're asking the right citizen? I've met Foxbat, but I've got no idea where he is now. Have you tried that motel down the road, the one that charges by the hour?

 

Vitus : wouldn't care less, until he realised that somebody might try to use the technology on him. In which case, assist tracking them down, and steal it for his own future use.

[drunkonduty]

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Knight Rider: "I work for UNTIL, I have no jurisdiction in the US." Then post links to the more interesting pages to her whole mailing list. And subscribe to the website.

 

Stryker: As a government secret op who's frequently called in for anti-super wetwork he would be put on the case immediately. Unfortunately for the government, a few months ago he became aware of Project:WIDEAWAKE and it's involvement in the killing of his cousin who is also a mutant. He is now secretly working to bring the whole thing crashing down. When he found Lady Blue he'd be all Deep Throat about it give her the names ofthosehe suspects to involved with WIDEAWAKE.

[Guest Major Tom]

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BTW' date=' to those who are fans of the 4th Ed CLOWN, this sort of thing strikes me as right up their alley [/quote']

 

 

Didn't they do something like this in 4th Ed Champions with Foxbat? I seem to

recall in one of the books where Foxbat had managed to "tag" various heroes

and villains with some kind of tracer devices that would enable him to know

exactly where they were... only it didn't quite work out the way that he

was hoping for.

 

 

Major Tom

[Hermit]

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Didn't they do something like this in 4th Ed Champions with Foxbat? I seem to

recall in one of the books where Foxbat had managed to "tag" various heroes

and villains with some kind of tracer devices that would enable him to know

exactly where they were... only it didn't quite work out the way that he

was hoping for.

 

 

Major Tom

You know, at first I was going to say I don't know, but actually, I think I remember what you're talking about... things get reversed, and suddenly EVERYONE knows exactly where Foxbat is instead

[RJB]

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Dr. Fiend says: Once again Foxbat proves himself to be the fool supreme! An oppurtunity to have a database of the strengths, weaknesses, even identities of those costumed do-gooders, and he wants to oppose it! And he has involved others! Can his mindlessness actually be contagious!? Sycophantic Assistant #3432, contact Thunderbird and offer him anything to have Foxbat sanctioned!

[Guest Major Tom]

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You know' date=' at first I was going to say I don't know, but actually, I think I remember what you're talking about... things get reversed, and suddenly EVERYONE knows exactly where Foxbat is instead[/quote']

 

 

Now that I think about it, I believe that it was in Classic Organizations

where they had that bit (during the big fight at Sanctuary).

 

 

Major Tom

[AnotherSkip]

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An option I haven't seen is on the Rooks list as a nigh final strike against the Old USG if they ever attempt this.

 

Option D assuming everything else fails (politics mucking, not mind controlled, it get's passed anyways)............

 

During the grace period for registration cast every hour on the hour: 1d6 Major transform (15 points): transform Human into superhuman with randomly determined powers and weaknesses, Explosion(+1/2), Megascaled +2 (Planetary?), Only affects people under Us laws(0), does not affect criminals in prison(0), simple transform back method: Law is repealed. day of deadline, register along with the OTHER 200+ million people, Find me now f*****s!!!

 

 

and oh yeah I have +3/4 in advantages to still apply before I hit max on my VPP..... just in case there is a need for cumulative or something....

[Lord Mhoram]

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Black Cat being of a suspicious mind, would immediately think that the whole "anti registration" was a front, and the person in charge was doing this to do something to politicians - thinking that the nanobots would take over and do mind control. She'd also be suspecting Mechanon, or some evil insidious genius who is using this front (which most supers wouldn't be really trying to hard to stop) and is infecting everyone, but only displaying the ones that were Registrations supporters. She's drop everything to find out what was going on.

 

Terminal Velocity would find it amusing, and if his team wanted to, help track them down.

 

Sift would track them down, and use her magic to make sure the nanobots were only displaying.

 

Ballistic would be thoroughly amused, and likely not do much to help. Then after a week or two, would come to similar suspicions as Black Cat and start seriously investigating.