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by Savader on Sat Jun 20, 2015 6:45 pm
Kinda hard to show-up all of that, but here goes...
Things start out with what you'd expect from a simple introduction of characters. A new member shows up, meets all the current members, gets to know the area a bit, we get a glimpse of their everyday lives, perhaps. Then, once everyone feels comfortable with the amount of lollygagging the boys and girls of the haven have spent, they are disrupted by the sudden arrival of an uninvited guest. That guest, as I'm sure you have predicted, is an old member who left a while back due to a difference in opinion and outlook on today's society -- normal society, that is to say -- to that of Winter's. Now he's aiming to increase his own faction's number by recruiting as many supernaturals as he can find, and if there were ever a place he could go where he'd find a handful of them neatly tucked, it would have to be Winter's group living peacefully at the haven he once resided.
This boy is naturally a very aggressive individual, and doesn't enjoy not getting his way. Of course, it's not like he's going to blow the place up when he confronts the members of the haven only to find that everyone is perfectly happy living with Winter's ideology of peace. However, that doesn't mean he isn't a serious threat to that peace... The old member would likely show some annoyance that he was once again unable to sway any others to join his "cause," and perhaps after a brief yet subtle show of his powers involving a conversation with Winter herself, he'd be on his way, allowing the others to get back to whatever it was that they were doing.
Or so they might have hoped, but Winter should have different plans for them after that complete invasion of their home. The plan is for her to begin teaching the others how to combat invasions of the mind, as well as insist on each of them taking a more serious approach to training their abilities.
It hasn't been made official yet, I don't think, what that future antagonist's power is going to be, but in line with the idea above which I discussed with Amelia before pitching it to all of you, is that he has the core ability to borrow other supernaturals' powers. To make matters worse, should he KILL a supernatural with their own ability, he then owns that ability for himself. (I imagine the concept of this ability as a whole has many ways of being added to or is subject to change, as like I said, I don't think it's official one way or the other yet. I'll leave that confirmation or denial up to the character's owner.) And therein lies Winter's reasoning that everyone should at least try to learn how to protect themselves against invasions of the mind, which should be made easier for them with the help of Winter's mind-linking, as well as they should develop a better understanding of their own abilities in case they have to defend themselves against other supernaturals.
Moving on, after everyone is comfortable with the amount of progression in the training process for each character, possibly a small timeskip if it starts to feel as though it will become repetitive, an unexpected incident occurs. One of their own has been kidnapped...
Now, it would be natural for everyone to assume that the old member with the power-stealing abilities has to be behind this, which I'm sure would be commonplace to convey among at least a couple of members as they all react to such a dire situation. However -- and perhaps after Winter and/or her partner (we'll leave it open for discussion) visit the man in question to confirm or deny this suspicion -- they soon learn that he was in fact NOT the one behind the kidnapping.
This brief conversation would end with the promise of the ex-member's own mission into finding the kidnapped supernatural. Obviously, this wouldn't be out of the kindness of his heart, but rather simply because he detests normal humans, and should they be behind the abduction of one of his kind, he would stop at nothing to destroy every last one of them responsible. That, and it's safe to say that an ulterior motive would be to win over the victim should he/she still be alive and bring them over to his side, as well as possibly showing the other members that he can get the job done, and that perhaps his leadership would be just.
Now we have two sides working towards the same goal: find the person or persons responsible for the abduction, bring the victim back home safely if possible, and hopefully stop whoever is behind it so that they never harm any supernaturals again. Two groups with opposing ideologies that have the same goal makes for an unstable partnership, and thus the rescue of the missing member will become something of a dangerous race between either side as both vie for solving the problem in their own way. Winter's group would naturally want to save their friend and return home, only choosing to fight if they absolutely must. The ex-member and his group would take a very different approach. A rather aggressive and violent one... An approach like that witnessed with the eyes of people sharing Winter's views on humanity would most likely result in a confrontation between both groups should their paths ever cross along the way (which I'm personally hoping they do). Vice versa, the other group would in turn see Winter's group as getting in the way of their righteous mission, not wanting to let anything get in the way of saving a supernatural from human hands.
So basically, it turns into a power struggle between two groups who are both racing to solve the problem their way. Once all is said and done, however, the end of my idea would open the door for an actual "war" between these two groups. Perhaps the reveal of whatever organization was behind the abduction of a supernatural forces the ex-member to take the initiative in his long-term plan to conquer humanity, and anyone, supernaturals or otherwise, who do not submit will be annihilated. And in turn, that would then force Winter and her friends to fight back.
Now, that's the gist of it. There are obviously missing details, but that's what this thread is for: working together to come up with a good plot for this arc and hopefully another after it (the kidnapping followed by the civil war, in this case). We need to work out the details, such as who is behind the abduction, who would BE abducted in the first place and whether it should be an NPC member or an actual character one of us plays, as well as deciding on just how large whatever organization it is that is clearly VERY aware of the existence of supernaturals, and isn't above capturing them as if they're nothing more than animals fit for experimentation.
If anyone has any questions regarding my and Amelia's idea, please do not hesitate to ask. Same goes for pitching your own ideas; whether you have an entirely different one, or simply want to add to or change certain aspects of what I wrote above, please do not hesitate to throw them out there. Let's make this RP a great one, yeah? Together!
"You see... I'm not mad. CHAOS isn't mad. I've SHOWN you the REAL WORLD. Shown you CHAOS. And hopefully you went sane. But killing chaos... you can't kill CHAOS. And you can't keep it locked up for long..."
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