FEAR GAS EVENT

[cryovengeance]

"There's nothing to fear, but fear itself."

FEAR GAS EVENT

Many of you may be familiar with Scarecrow, one of the most famous amongst Batman's villains. If not, well, here's a brief recap: Scarecrow is a madman obsessed with learning and exploiting the fears of others. Primarily he does this with use of his infamous fear gas, a substance that causes a person to hallucinate a realistic scenario of their worst fears. The world around you seems to form into your worst nightmare, mutating to accustom your discomforts and frighten you.

So guess what's going to happen? Yeah, the Rift is going to drop in a few canisters of fear gas. It doesn't stop there, of course. The Joker is going to be delighted that Doctor Crane's gas has arrived and is more than happy to share his excitement with the entire station! So much so that he's going to share it with everyone by dumping the stuff into the vents. Have fun breathing that in! Which also means you get to face your worst fears.

Bear in mind that the hallucinations are hyper realistic and takes the will of a Batman to fight off. Some people can -- after experiencing those discomforting fears. And they may come back, because that gas is pouring on in for a few days.

Some key notes:
- The event will begin on Apirl 27th and it will end on May 4th.
- If you need a good example of how the fear gas will affect your character, here's a good example of the gas affecting Batman in one of the games, Arkham Asylum.
- If you want a synthetic character affected, we can push to say that the gas has evolved from the Rift somehow and has micro-nanites that can act as a temporary virus to affect the processor.
- When the event ends, it can be due to one of two factors: (A) Someone is able to set up a cure for the gas somehow and spreads it through the vents, or (B) Hypatia flushes the vents clean.

I think that about covers it! If you guys have any questions, please ask 'em here.

Comments

[halfheartedcurse]

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will you marry me?
I think this is a good idea.

[acrobatical]

Joker. :| This is not how we make friends.

Snagging a comment in here to offer Nightwing up for plots. He's got firsthand experience with the gas and could probably try to talk people through it/help with a cure.

[myownbestfriend]

Emma's gonna kill him...after she recovers from keeping a bunch of traumatized children with extraordinary powers from wrecking the zone while she fights off the fear herself. 8Db

I know DC doesn't have as many telepaths running around as Marvel, but do you think a telepath going in and screwing with the fear center of the brain would stop the effects? On someone else, I mean. Emma's just going to fight it off through sheer bitch willpower.

[ba_dum_chhhh]

Says you, Featherbrain.

[acrobatical]

And he's a renowned authority on the subject, y'know. Practically a PhD in bromance.

SO WHO WANTS TO GET HARASSED BY JOKER?

[ba_dum_chhhh]

Because this is clearly an awesome event for that.

Since, sad to say, Joker tends to be immune to Crane's Toxins. Whether it's because he's already off his nut, an utter sociopath and thus immune to standard human emotions like fear, or that he was dipped in a big-ol-Batman-style-vat-of-EVIL-CHEMICALS and that's how he came to be, we may never know...but, long story short, he'll be having a lark just running around the station, screwing with people.

Care to sign up for that?

Also accepting signups for the list of people who want to kick his ass after this is done. Please take a number and drop a comment below.

[cryovengeance]

You know what to do, Joker. B|

[punliners]

THE WILL OF A BATMAN YOU SAY.


yeah I'm on this.


Ditto the Nightwing comment! If anyone wants plotting/CR, hit me up? Batman's going to be doing his best to help out during the whole deal and I'm always looking for excuses to throw him at things.

[theboysoldier]

Oh my god Charles is going to flip his shit.

Which probably means that he'll flip the shits of anyone close by, so. That should be fun!

[accidentalspark]

oh my god

yes

itt: tomato is a horrible person

[thearchangel]

WELLP. THIS SHOULD BE FUN...

... and by fun I mean traumatizing. Once I figure out what to do.

[felling]

johanna is going to hate
everything

[brbvirmire]

I'm in the same boat.

NIGHTWING TAKES A NUMBER...

[acrobatical]

...and it's the Joker's number. :|

He can try to run interference, if or where you need it. And by "you" I mean anyone that the Joker's harassing.

[ba_dum_chhhh]

Stab your little air bubble with a syringe of liquid state fear gas? Because that's what I'm gonna do.

[cryovengeance]

YEAH that B(

[ba_dum_chhhh]

Is it just me, or do your puns get worse when you're soaked in fear toxin?


OH WAIT, that must be my worst fear. HAha!

But norly, that would be boss. Having toxin-affected Nightwing stopping Joker from really wrecking up the place during the event.

[cryovengeance]

ALL RIGHT. Worked with Hiku on an answer for this one since comics!science and telepaths and stuff = hard to figure in on this one.

"Fear is a chemical sequence triggered by the amygdala, which is why it fucks with autonomic functions like heart-rate and sweating. The reaction is based in perceptive conditioning and self preservation, so blocking emotional reactiveness doesn't work entirely. SO...I'd say a telepath could probably force their own brain free of most of the reactions since they've got really solid control of their own neurological functions and they could probably dampen reactions in other people, but unless you offline all their memories, fear reaction gonna happen." - PER ONE AWESOME HIKU

In short, I think Emma can fight against her own reactions and help people, but she can't outright negate it for other people. Does that work? :|a

[pantsless]

OH BOY can't wait to freak and pummel things/people with invisihands 8Dbb bb bb

[acrobatical]

He will be trying to watch him. TRYING SO HARD. To make sure that he's seeing the Joker and not a hallucination of a Joker rampant, because he fears that.

[myownbestfriend]

Oh, it's not Emma I'm worried about. She's just going to shrug it off through pure former supervillain stubbornness.

The problem with that interpretation is that Marvel telepaths are insanely powerful. Emma's one of the strongest and simultaneously most skilled, and mental manipulation is her area of expertise. She's controlled brains at the physical level before, doing stuff like triggering the pleasure centers of a mob to shut them down.

I don't intend to negate the event, and Emma's too selfish to go around curing everyone, especially because she's in the closet and telepathy is much harder for her here than it is back home, but I'd think if she were concentrating on someone, she could keep them clear-headed. She'd be limited in how many she could do at once, and it would tire her out, decreasing her limit as the event wore on, and if her concentration got broken or the person left the zone, they'd be on their own again. How's that sound?

[cryovengeance]

Ehhh, in that case, I'd definitely say it'd be up to players to decide whether or not they could be assisted. A limitation is preferred, so I think your resolution works.

[cmdr_renegade]

Well, it occurs to me that Normandyhaus all have breather apparatuses, and they're intensely paranoid about the computer suddenly venting all the air on the station...so it's not out of the realm of feasibility that they could slap them on (knee-jerk-reaction) before they were (all) affected and try to run damage control while everyone else flipped out.

Who knows what those hallucinating people will accidentally break? And it might be a good way to get cross-canon CR across the board.

Or they could go nuts.

Both are good.

[tablepuncher]

I think this is also acceptable! So it'll give people a good idea of how to react, if they want to.

[thearchangel]

ONLY SANE MAN IS GO THEN.

I mean yes that sounds like a good idea.