The Devil Inside...

[Marcus Impudite]

First, some backstory:

 

Eons ago, before our world was Eden, it was a world of darkness ruled by a powerful demon king and his minions. The demon king’s reign of terror lasted many centuries before The Forces Of Goodness And Light ™ finally defeated him and cast him down. Although his physical body was destroyed, his spirit proved indestructible. Ultimately, to prevent him from destroying the paradise they had created and reasserting himself as ruler of the world, a spell was cast that locked away all his memories and powers behind seven powerful spirit seals. In the ages that passed since, he was reincarnated several times as an ordinary human being. Each time, he lived out a normal human lifespan, grew old, and passed away without ever remembering who and what he once was outside of some “strange dreams” every now and then.

 

Fast forward to the present day. The spirit of the ancient demon king now resides within an 18-year-old boy by the name of Donovan (“Don” to his friends). Don lives a fairly typical teenage life: a summer job, a girlfriend named Angela, and aspirations to play guitar in a rock n’ roll band. But then a group of unhinged fanatics who call themselves “The Divine Order Of The Light” kidnap his girl. Believing Don will be the incarnation of the demon king who will break all the seals and bring about the Apocalypse, The Order issues him an ultimatum: he either lets them kill him, or they will kill the girl. About that time Don is approached by two imps, Blight and Strife, the last surviving servants of the demon king. They fill him in on the above and, instead of giving into The Order’s demands, Don focuses his spiritual energies and uses what the imps teach him to force open the first of the spirit seals. Armed with the powers and knowledge he gains as a result, Don goes after The Order with a vengeance and takes Angela back from them by force, killing several of their numbers in the process. Can you say self-fullfilling prophecy boys and girls?

 

Now, the scenario:

 

Months later, Angela comes to your character and his/her colleagues in secret. During the course of the long conflict between Don and The Order, Don has managed to open three more spirit seals, becoming more powerful and more demonic (both in personality and appearance) each time. The young man she loves is slowly disappearing and she’s terrified (rightly so) of what he’s turning into. WWYCD?

[Tungsten Shephard]

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Angela comes to your character and his/her colleagues in secret.

 

What I see is a normal in trouble. I would be more concerned with Angela than with Don. I would strongly recommend Angela go into a protection service for her safety, unless, Angela is into that kind of relationship. Don would also go under the "watch list" for surveillance. The moment Don got out of line and began endangering, murdering, eating, or otherwise forcing disco on "normals" through overtly obvious means, I would intervene.

[CrosshairCollie]

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Don's already killed, so that definitely files him under 'supervillain'. All my characters, at that point, operate on the 'let's bring him in' principle and try to track him down and wallop him into submission. After that, turn him over to the authorities and see if anybody's got enough mystic mojo to do an exorcism.

[hfergus]

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Volt Would protect the girl and talk to Don; the killing could have been necessary, but the seals should have been left alone. If he stops, ok. If not, the evil must be stopped. Period. He'd also get on the Order of Light's case for starting this whole thing.

 

Olorin would protect the girl and check the guy out for "irredemable evil" (a detect he can do). If so, he's gone. If not, he talks to Don and tries to stop him. If not, Olorin will hide the rest of the seals(if he can find them). If one more gets opened, Don is gone. In any case, Olorin would get on the Order of Light's case severely starting the self fulfilling prophecy. He'd then watch them carefully, and if they went too far, he might kill some of then too.

 

Black Tiger would kill Don. Period. End of story.

 

Futurian would shiver and go "Oh God! It begins!" (Lots of luck getting out of him what that means.) Don would probably be history, and maybe some of the Order of Light also.

[Mister Trent]

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Here's my (and most of my characters') perspective on this:

 

First, someone needs to find the spell that was originally used to create the spirit seals and use it to close the four that are already open.

 

Second, the imps Blight and Strife need to be destroyed. Period. End. Of. Story.

 

Third, the surviving members of The Divine Order need to be rounded up and have an entire law library thrown at them for causing this mess. You just got to ask yourself: just how in the hell did they not realize their actions would very likely have this very result? Idiots.

 

As for Don, a stern warning never to try to open the seals again. Ever. If he abides by the warning, no further intervention into his affairs is neccessary.

[Pensativa]

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Pensativa would: panic. And then call Witchcraft, because this situation is completely out of her league.

 

Pummel (formerly Impact) would: see above.

[Zed-F]

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Here's my (and most of my characters') perspective on this:

 

First, someone needs to find the spell that was originally used to create the spirit seals and use it to close the four that are already open.

 

Second, the imps Blight and Strife need to be destroyed. Period. End. Of. Story.

 

Third, the surviving members of The Divine Order need to be rounded up and have an entire law library thrown at them for causing this mess. You just got to ask yourself: just how in the hell did they not realize their actions would very likely have this very result? Idiots.

 

As for Don, a stern warning never to try to open the seals again. Ever. If he abides by the warning, no further intervention into his affairs is neccessary.

Agreed. Don is not a very sympathetic character under these circumstances, and will be treated accordingly.

 

Even Soulbarb, who will have greater empathy than most, will (after due diligence and investigation to ensure she's not missing any background material) conclude the same. She only kills when there is no chance of reform on the part of the villain; Don, having gone on a killing spree and on a quest to transform himself into Evil with a capital E, has obviously crossed a number of lines here.

[Metaphysician]

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Hermes: Once the full situation was explained, he'd be aghast, horrified, shocked. . .

 

. . .at the Divine Order of Light, for being merciless *idiots*. I'm uncertain which would more offend, their stupidity or their evil.

 

Step one, would be to try and contain Don and protect the innocent; this hopefully means being able to figure out how to reseal the demon. Hermes is a scientist, not a mystic, but he'd likely be able to figure out something. . . and preferably, be able to convince Don to turn back from this power.

 

Hermes is not normally a vengeful or vindictive god, but odds are the Divine Order of Light will be a casualty in this conflict, if they remain true to their past record. Using the innocent as a weapon. . . irks Hermes.

[Hermit]

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Don's already killed' date=' so that definitely files him under 'supervillain'. All my characters, at that point, operate on the 'let's bring him in' principle and try to track him down and wallop him into submission. After that, turn him over to the authorities and see if anybody's got enough mystic mojo to do an exorcism.[/quote']

 

Ditto. My characters might have varying degrees of sympathy, but this would be the game plan for them.

 

Dr. Sanguine would be the exception, as being a mystic, he could probably do something about it.

[Badger]

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Badger- Has an extreme hatred of demons (catholic background) he can sense their aura and he would have tracked him down after the first seal was broken and eliminated him with very extreme prejudice. And that Order would likely be purged with the same extreme prejudice.

 

 

Frosty Bob- cant turn down a good fight or a hot chick. (will kill Don and that Order too)

[jkwleisemann]

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Mmm... I've got a few this could be fun with.

 

Void: Kid's got a few parallels to his own life, and he feels some sympathy for him. Beyond that, while he's loathe to admit it, he's a sucker for a lover's sob story. He'd go to Don and offer him a choice, after explaining the situation with the girl - he's got the powers of the Colton Protectors on his side, so long as he follows three rules. First, no more seal-breaking. They've got enough power to make up for what he doesn't have. Second, no more killing, except in very specific circumstances. Third, he has to help the Protectors work with Darkchilde to close the seals that are open - and if the Imps don't like it, they can have some firm words with Mr. Stun Baton before Darkchilde banishes them.

 

If they accept, they just get banished.

 

Kid's made some mistakes, but from Void's POV... he hasn't made them for the *right* reason, but his heart was still in the right place based on all we can see.

 

If Don doesn't accept... well, then Darkchilde's got three banishings to perform, assuming the emergency exorcism doesn't kick in.

 

Outsider: This story's going to end with a *lot* more collateral damage. He's looking at a serious "there, but for the Grace of God" situation here, and he doesn't have Void's resources to back him up. Worse, because of the situation with the killing here, he'd feel obligated to keep this below Colton High North's proverbial radar if he could.

 

He'd probably end up going to Heartbreaker and Razor, figuring they'd be most sympathetic, getting them on his side by explaining the situation as well as he could and going out to look for Don.

 

Now, consider the situation. Three characters - one Edomite-spawn, one borderline psychotic and suicidal, and one possessed by a demon of destruction - going out after the coming antichrist to try and talk him down. If you think this is going to go well, I've got this wonderful sea-side property in Switzerland I'd like to sell you.

 

No, more likely is that the argument will go very badly, likely aided in such by the faculty of CHN or the Trismegistus Council following them out and attempting to ambush the potentially world-ending-villain-type.

 

This would probably result in Don escaping, breaking more seals, and becoming even more powerful... Razor would likely end up biting the dust along the way, probably defending Heartbreaker or Outsider from either Don or the Order.

 

Then there's that last seal, and the rush to keep Don from breaking it. Unfortunately, even if he didn't, the demon inside Heartbreaker would probably use his powers to shatter it, and release himself, leaving Outsider with two massively demon-possessed folks trying to annihilate the world and bring it under the yoke of Hell.

 

At that point, about all you've got left for an option is to stop them, even if it means giving in to your own otherworldly origin.

 

End result: Likely a dead Don, Heartbreaker, and Razor, with Outsider probably on his knees and begging the Council to kill him before the creatures he's halfway summoned make it the other half-way into this world on their own. Enough collateral damage to keep the Red Cross busy until the *next* apocalypse, and a scenario that would come damn near to justifying the Registration Act of Civil War in the mind of much of the world....

[matrix3]

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The boy is probably long gone already -- four of the seven seals keeping this terrible demon king at bay have been sundered, that's over half of its power unfettered, almost certainly overwhelming any mortal soul the boy may have possessed. However, killing a few people while rescuing an innocent is cause for concern, not termination. This "Order" kidnaps his girlfriend, and then the two imps just happen to approach the boy and show him how to sunder the first seal. Yeah, right, the Order was trying stop him from manifesting? More likely they were willing sacrifices to bring back their dark lord. The plan is simple: research. Find out everything possible about this demon king. Find out everything possible about this Order. Find out everything possible about the seals holding back the demon king. Do they have to be repaired, or recreated? Can the Demon just be vanquished now, or is it still too powerful and must still be sealed away?

[Mister Trent]

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Could be "The Order" got duped by the imps somehow. The way they chose to handle things, they've certainly proven there stupid and insane enough.

[Marcus Impudite]

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Mmm... I've got a few this could be fun with.

 

Void: Kid's got a few parallels to his own life, and he feels some sympathy for him. Beyond that, while he's loathe to admit it, he's a sucker for a lover's sob story. He'd go to Don and offer him a choice, after explaining the situation with the girl - he's got the powers of the Colton Protectors on his side, so long as he follows three rules. First, no more seal-breaking. They've got enough power to make up for what he doesn't have. Second, no more killing, except in very specific circumstances. Third, he has to help the Protectors work with Darkchilde to close the seals that are open - and if the Imps don't like it, they can have some firm words with Mr. Stun Baton before Darkchilde banishes them.

 

If they accept, they just get banished.

 

Kid's made some mistakes, but from Void's POV... he hasn't made them for the *right* reason, but his heart was still in the right place based on all we can see.

 

If Don doesn't accept... well, then Darkchilde's got three banishings to perform, assuming the emergency exorcism doesn't kick in.

 

Outsider: This story's going to end with a *lot* more collateral damage. He's looking at a serious "there, but for the Grace of God" situation here, and he doesn't have Void's resources to back him up. Worse, because of the situation with the killing here, he'd feel obligated to keep this below Colton High North's proverbial radar if he could.

 

He'd probably end up going to Heartbreaker and Razor, figuring they'd be most sympathetic, getting them on his side by explaining the situation as well as he could and going out to look for Don.

 

Now, consider the situation. Three characters - one Edomite-spawn, one borderline psychotic and suicidal, and one possessed by a demon of destruction - going out after the coming antichrist to try and talk him down. If you think this is going to go well, I've got this wonderful sea-side property in Switzerland I'd like to sell you.

 

No, more likely is that the argument will go very badly, likely aided in such by the faculty of CHN or the Trismegistus Council following them out and attempting to ambush the potentially world-ending-villain-type.

 

This would probably result in Don escaping, breaking more seals, and becoming even more powerful... Razor would likely end up biting the dust along the way, probably defending Heartbreaker or Outsider from either Don or the Order.

 

Then there's that last seal, and the rush to keep Don from breaking it. Unfortunately, even if he didn't, the demon inside Heartbreaker would probably use his powers to shatter it, and release himself, leaving Outsider with two massively demon-possessed folks trying to annihilate the world and bring it under the yoke of Hell.

 

At that point, about all you've got left for an option is to stop them, even if it means giving in to your own otherworldly origin.

 

End result: Likely a dead Don, Heartbreaker, and Razor, with Outsider probably on his knees and begging the Council to kill him before the creatures he's halfway summoned make it the other half-way into this world on their own. Enough collateral damage to keep the Red Cross busy until the *next* apocalypse, and a scenario that would come damn near to justifying the Registration Act of Civil War in the mind of much of the world....

 

repped, especially loved the Linky. :thumbsup: