LEGION OF ECLIPSE TEST DRIVE.

[legionofmods]

"Your characters is forcibly recruited into the Legion of the Eclipse, a multiversal legion of supervillains. They've had their eye on you for a while, and now, they'd like to formally invite you to join them!

...The issue is that there are a great deal of you, and the Legion is a very exclusive club. So, you're offered a challenge: if you wish to make it into the legion, you must commit murder or avoid being murdered. But you can do that, can't you? You're a villain, after all!"

This is the official test drive for Legion of Eclipse, a villain-only murdergame. Characters who don't fit this criteria might be PMed by the mod and asked to remove their prompts, for consistency purposes. This test drive will remain open until the game itself opens, and comments from this may be used as part of your murdersheet. Please list your character's name and canon in your header, and please feel free to consult our FAQ if you have any questions. Reserves open on April 12th.

You may use your own prompts, or the example ones below:
 

1 - Meticulous Planning
Despite whatever plots and schemes you might have had going before, you will find yourself waking up here. The room's architecture is stunning, and captures the aesthetic of 1950's sci-fi futurism. Only problem is...is that you don't recognize it. Once you leave, you'll find that the rest of the place reflects that same aesthetic - and judging by the heat and that wall of lava that you can't reach, you're in a volcano. Fortunately for you, it seems as though everyone else here is just as confused...especially by the fact that the terminals scattered throughout the building seem to have comprehensive information on all of you.

The monitors mounted on the walls of just about every room of the building display the message "INFORMATION AT 12PM." Guess you're stuck until then.

2 - (We'll Have Food)
You'll find that despite your hosts' threats, it gets...rather boring around here. Fortunately, there is plenty to do. The kitchens are well-stocked with just about every food you can imagine, made to order on demand from a similar set of kiosks. Other features of The Volcano Lair include a room filled with sharks, a vehicle hanger filled with inoperable mechas and hovercars, a power plant, a fully-stocked bar, a music room, and a war room consisting of a very large table...and nothing else.

Feel free to add your own rooms in your prompts, and if we like them, you might just seem them in-game.

3 - Tenacity Spanning
Another week has gone by, and as per your hosts' threats, they've decided to release the secrets of everyone still alive. Each of the monitors in the building will display footage of you, revealing both devastating secrets and what exactly you were up to in your homeworld. If you haven't told everyone about this stuff yet, now's the time to do so.

4 - (We Repeat, Endless Meat)
Like it or not, they'll have their murders. You're either going to find a body, or you're going to be a body. Or, if you play your cards right, perhaps you'll be the one committing murder to begin with...any way you slice it, the game is afoot. Prepare yourself and react accordingly.

5 - Decades Of Denial
Trials are particularly devastating. You're sat across a large table with enough seats for all twenty of you, made to debate and accuse each other. Perhaps this could be your time to twist things in your favor, if you're so inclined...

6 - Is Simply Why I'll--
Wild card prompt. Go nuts.

Comments

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[offorgotten]

Doesn't everyone always "have their reasons?"

[COOL MOTIVE still mass murder]

I must say-- and, trust me, I'm not the type to admit it when I'm bested by a human-- your planetary genocide looks much more fun than mine was. [beat] Of course, I enjoyed mine immensely, but yours looks like it had such exquisitely painful deaths!

[endoftheuniverse]

If yours were half as justifiable, I'd be very happy to hear them.

[Completely self-assured, Liam shrugs off the accusation that he is even a little bit like this monster, who would take such unabashed delight in death. So certain is he that there is no evidence, he has invited him to prove him wrong.]

That's the beauty of Xeno-Medusea, actually - the victim loses all nociception and awareness before death takes them. I'm no monster. If humans must be removed from the equation, I would rather those that need to be exterminated vanish quickly and painlessly than over generations of ceaseless agony.

[Lore's assessment isn't incorrect - Liam is indeed human, but the sort who has long turned on his own kind.]

[offorgotten]

They took me apart, all out of their own jealousy. Whatever surely horrific pain being consumed by the Entity must entail, they deserved every sparking nerve fiber.

[a grin] You're thinking too narrowly! The victim isn't just the dying human; it's all the other ones watching their loved ones die. That's the real beauty of your scene.

[endoftheuniverse]

[Whatever smugness Liam had won in knowing that he was right - that this creature's motivations were built on revenge, which served no one - vanishes the instant Lore touches on his sorest regret. The mental block Liam had carefully constructed prevented him from grieving over what he had done, but that was, without a doubt, the most difficult piece of his plan to justify. As it stood, though his plan had been toppled, all the young and vulnerable still did die in front of their caregivers. In no observable universe would Liam-Ferohn Gau and the last generation of Gactus VII coexist.

Liam hardens his resolve and fires back:]

You misunderstand. My target was the planet that played the largest role in alien slavery. At any time, the humans I targeted could have cried out for forgiveness, demonstrated even the slightest hint of regret, and I would have given them their loved ones. They did not. They were not even capable of that much empathy.

[Liam does not think he is capable of convincing this being that they were not the same, but if he can remove his perverse joy from his observations, that would be enough.]

[offorgotten]

[dryly] Biologicals rarely are. At least, not for anything that's too unlike themselves.

You don't have to convince anyone here that killing an entire planet worth of humans, for any reason, is completely justified. You just seem to be having some trouble convincing yourself.

[endoftheuniverse]

[On his first point, Liam might agree - if he weren't under the impression alien species were inherently better than humans. And on his second, Liam won't allow himself to reflect on whether Lore is right, lest he find a new crack in his determination that hadn't been there before.]

I'm certain I did the right thing - well and truly above the standards of anyone here. That much is not in question.

[But that wasn't what this conversation was about, was it? These people were playing a game with their lives on the line. They were looking for weaknesses, and by incriminating himself, Liam had given them the shovel to bury him with.]

I am trying to explain that I have no interest in any sort of Legion that takes pleasure in atrocity. This game is of no benefit to me.

Though, I do not intend to lose. I suppose you do not, either.

[If he truly has failed to convince their moderator that he should not be here, he may as well be sure that the others know he will not take it lying down.]

[offorgotten]

I'm not entirely interested in their offer, either-- not for any silly "moral" [physically does air quotes] reasons like you, of course. I just don't "work well with others." [does it again]

I have a bit of a knack for turning equal partnerships into much more favorable arrangements, though, so once I inevitably outlast all of you biologicals? I'll be fine.