MARCH 2018

[natha]

This post is for submissions regarding those who signed up for plot roles in March 2018's kidnapping event!

In order to receive special commendation from the cities and be recognized as heroes, characters who participated as hostages or rescuers for the event must submit a summary of their participation here by 11:59 PM EST, March 24th, as well as a thread in progress. Details such as acts of extreme violence, altering the setting, etc., will be considered for progression of the metaplot.

EXAMPLE:
Character name and role: Evras, a hostage
Thread(s): Ashti rescuing him from the brink of death
Summary of event participation: Evras was kidnapped at gunpoint while transporting samples from the Institute to the Palace, and he offered no resistance after being knocked out with chloroform. He woke up in a dark, unknown place, and was subject to interrogation and brutal beatings. Before he divulged any classified information, he was rescued from the brink of death by Ashti, who killed two of the extremists on her way out.

FORM:
<b>Character name and role:</b> <b>Thread(s):</b> <b>Summary of event participation:</b>

Comments

[ukase]

Character name and role: Brock Rumlow, Rescuer (Group 1)
Thread(s): Top-level for the rescue operation
Summary of event participation: Rumlow was asked to help participate by Peggy Carter, and he joined in on that team (thanks rng). He helped investigate, infiltrate and successfully rescue the hostages in the robotics lab, but now without sustaining injury due to exposure to the gaseous haze. He rescues Bruce Wayne & James Fraser by carrying their big bodies out.

[First time attempting this! I hope I did it correctly! I can add more links to where I tagged around if that's better?]

[gekkajuu]

Character name and role: Atsushi Nakajima, hostage
Thread(s): toplevel; tag-outs in group 2 also happened
Summary of event participation: I don't really think that what Atsushi did is metaplot-relevant, but for the sake of being complete: Atsushi was kidnapped with a hard knock on the head, probably backed up by magic. As a result of the hypnosis he went through, he got irritable and hurt some of his fellow hostages, though not seriously. It still messed with his head as much as the hypnosis itself, and he had a generally horrible time, starving himself and the cutting himself before being rescued by Slaine and Reign simultaneously, thanks to timey wimey fuckery.

[kaleorbekaled]

Character name and role: Kale, Rescuer (Group 4)
Thread(s): here & here
Summary of event participation: Kale was recruited for the rescue as a regular of Wyver's fighting rings. She rode on the side flank in case their rescue party was intercepted so that she could fight, and then helped to get hostages out, including a grumpy Mai. She was fairly restrained in the amount of violence and force that she used.

[triplerose]

Character name and role: Loras Tyrell, hostage (group 4).
Thread(s): Waking up, the effects of torture, and rescue.
Summary of event participation: As an open supporter of Wyver, Loras was taken while doing his rounds in helping Wyver recover from the madness of the festival spirit. He did not take to his imprisonment well, but fortunately he found himself with friends who helped ease his mind - particularly post interrogation sessions, which saw him inflicted with a variety of venoms. Fortunately for Wyver (and unfortunately for Loras), he had no information to give that could prove detrimental to his faction. His rescuer came in the unlikely form of Grantaire, who had a peculiar way of saving people even as the tower started to burn, but it was likely Grantaire's gentleness and ease that ultimately helped Loras go with him.

[originallutece]

Character name and role: Rosalind Lutece, hostage, group 3
Thread(s): Here
Summary of event participation: Rosalind was kidnapped on her way home from the Institute! Her roommate, Dorian Pavus, noticed she was gone and eventually joined the rescue efforts. While kidnapped, she was repeatedly tortured and asked questions about the Institute; while she was being held with Percival, she was repeatedly injured and answered several questions about the Institute.

She also got pretty cut up from that giant bird o' death in the dreams, as you do.

But mostly what drove Rosalind to the brink was that alarm; she was on edge several times thanks to it. Eventually, she was rescued thanks to Ardyn Izunia and Jean Valjean (et all, it was a group effort tbh) and settled in a hospital, where she's chilling right now.

[willrevile]

Character name and role: Jim Kirk, rescuer (Group 4)
Thread(s): some here
Summary of event participation: Jim participated in the investigation and tracking of kidnapped persons (woo hoo right guess!), and in the attack on the western tower where hostages were being held. He used lethal force on extremists to expedite the goal, specifically getting out Mikazuki and later Alisaie (a fellow rescuer who had become seriously injured).

[meinwaifu]

Character name and role: Mephisto Pheles, hostage (group 2)
Thread(s): Top-level Thread
Summary of event participation: "Johann Faust", known to be a bit of a lush, was kidnapped after being tricked into going home with a kidnapper after a night of drinking. Because he was targetted by someone with a personal grudge (the friend of a rioter Mephisto killed in self-defense), he was treated with unusual cruelty, and was hypnotized in a way so that his captors could order him to use his powers only on command, including his ability to heal. He had his leg broken and was forced to gouge out his own eye. When the rescuers came, he was used as a shield against their attacks, allowing at least two kidnappers to escape unharmed. He was eventually able to break out of the hypnosis and kill one of the kidnappers controlling him in order to protect one of the rescuers (Slaine Troyard). But by then, the physical damage he had taken was too great, and his healing powers could no longer catch up. He died in the sanctuary two days after being saved.

Due to the effects of the hypnosis, he's had difficulty remembering certain events/people right away, and will be susceptible to the kidnappers' mind control should they appear again.

[panzersoldat]

Character name and role: Reinhardt Wilhelm (group 4)
Thread(s): a top level and an aftermath
Summary of event participation: Reinhardt's helpful nature bit him in the butt. He was lured by a young person working for the shamen who needed his "help". He was jumped and magic was used to subdue and then transport him to the Tower of Really Bad Times. During the captivity, he told the truth, that he had no idea what they were asking him about. There, between tortures, he pretty much tried to take the door down and generally just put himself in the role of "everyone's grandpa"

During the rescue, Reinhardtzar assisted in helping him fight their way down before the fire got to strong. In an effort to keep the way clear, Reinhardt sacrifices himself holding up a falling beam. He's resurrected on the third day like the martyr he is and physically now has more scarring and is a lot more susceptible to heat/fire because that's what happens when you burn to death.

[fisherwife]

Character name and role: Mipha, hostage, group 3
Thread(s): ipha's toplevel!

Summary of event participation: Mipha was kidnapped when some people pretending to need healing tricked her into letting her guard down and jumped her. Mipha spent the time in captivity soothing the other hostages, keeping her calm and gentle composure for as long as possible and trying to keep the peace. She repeatedly assured everyone they would be rescued and to believe in their friends and comforted people. Often she could be overhead seemingly praying and asking for someone named 'Samael.'

Despite interrogators best efforts, Mipha had nothing to give them. When rescued, she did her best to knock over/trip up some of the kidnappers to keep them from leaving before she passed out. She was in a deep sleep for about 2 days after rescue before she finally woke up.

[motivation]

Character name and role: Dutch, a hostage (group 5)
Thread(s): sharing body heat, fighting 76 and the aftermath, getting rescued and more sharing of body heat.
Summary of event participation: Dutch gets kidnapped on her way to the market, succumbing to four attackers when they use chloroform. Upon waking, she's largely unworried but sees the necessity in sharing body heat with fellow hostages. During her interrogation, she doesn't reveal anything, mostly out of spite rather than loyalty. Once injected, she experiences anger enough to fight 76 until they both collapse in the snow, after which she has a vision of her best friend Johnny dying a gruesome death. She gets rescued and her hypothermia healed.

[dawnblushed]

Character name and role: Yona, Group 1 Hostage
Thread(s): Getting kidnapped, checking in on others, being checked in on, and eventual death.
Summary of event participation: Yona lets her guard down after getting complimented by Yusuke, and winds up snatched away by dissidents who believe that her frequent travel between Olympia and Wyver is something the current government sanctions and that they can get information about Simwe's weaknesses by interrogating her (joke's on them, she doesn't know shit). She's blinded via injection and has multiple liln put under her skin, which torment her until the rescuers come; after breathing in too much of the chemical spill during the rescue attempts, she ends up dying while Ozymandias is in the process of getting her out - and comes back three days later with a nifty new haircut.

[phykios]

Character name and role: Percy Jackson, rescuer (Group 1)
Thread(s): rescue top level
Summary of event participation: Percy volunteered to help with rescues as soon as that became an option, pretty much. He helped with the investigation and rescued Linneus, busting a few pipes in the process sorry, Institute. Handing off his rebreather and using magic didn't leave him in the best shape after but yk he lived.

[baguablade]

Character name and role: Cain, hostage (group 3)
Thread(s): here, here, here
Summary of event participation: Cain traded his freedom when the radicals threatened the safety of one of the informants he was visiting in the brothel, and he was kidnapped without any trouble after being knocked out by a hard blow to the head. He woke up in an abandoned classroom and was subjected to nightmarish sleep deprivation along with fellow hostages, notably Rosalind, Byerly, and Percival, who attacked him. Though tortured and interrogated, with a special surprise betrayal by Takasugi, Cain didn't reveal any information. He was rescued by Dorian and sustained severe injuries.

[milesedgelord]

Character name and role: Miles Edgeworth-Hostage (Group 3)
Thread(s):Toplevel,Offering assistance,running from nightmares,losing hope,and getting rescued.

Summary of event participation: Miles was kidnapped while walking his dog early one morning, trying to assist someone who needed help. He woke up in a dark classroom and did his best to remain calm, however short-lived this was. While in holding he tried to help others stay calm as much as he could.

During his interrogation, most of his questioning pertained to his work at the Institute. He didn't give much information, partially because he's stubborn and partially because he didn't have much information to give.

He was already injured during the riots but the beatings, plus some burns and creature clawings made these injuries worse. He was finally rescued by Dorian Parvus and Venom and is currently recuperating from his injuries, after being out for 2 days.

[tailorable]

Character name and role: Eggsy Unwin / Rescuer (Group 1)
Thread(s): tagouts 1, 2, 3
Summary of event participation: After several friends went missing, Eggsy volunteered for the operation. He then helped correctly identify and investigate the potions lab, prep the team, and infiltrate the robotics' lab to retrieve hostages. Upon group 1's arrival, Eggsy covered Peggy while she shut down the security system, while other rescuers moved forward to aid hostages. In the process of doing so, he fired his weapon in the haze and sustained a burn to his right hand. He likely injured or killed a radical before dropping his weapon and used lethal force throughout the op. Following this, he arrived later than the other rescuers to the hostages, focusing on aiding the efforts of others (i.e. covering Percy as he advances and later fighting alongside Rumlow). Likely in poor shape from prolonged exposure to the haze, although he kept his rebreather on the entire time (you tried.jpeg).

[braidedwonder]

Character name and role: Duo Maxwell. Hostage, group 5
Thread(s): One, Two, Three, Four

Summary of event participation: Duo was abducted with a bit of a fight, possibly taking out a shaman in the mean time. He was carted away before he could get any confirmation on that. He ended up going through multiple tortures with Alphinaud and Riku, endung up pretty busted up after being generally snarky as usual and confessing that he used to be a terrorist. At rescue, he almost gave up when the group was descending the mountain, but Mantis was fantastic and used her empathic abilities to kick his ass into continuing. Terra helped him to be able to breathe again and Mipha healed his physical injuries afterwards. At the moment he’s trying to deal more fully with the mental left overs of his ordeal, but is making every effort to make himself appear as if he’s completely a-ok.

[uglybug]

Character name and role: Mantis, rescuer
Thread(s): Group 5 rescue top-level and general ota aftermath
Summary of event participation: Mantis was part of the group that successfully rescued hostage from Namarak. During the fighting, she quite literally frightened a shaman to death (simply by touching him, to a general observer.) After getting her group settled, Mantis first went to Olympia and helped wherever she could, then did the same in Wyver. She sustained minor injuries during the fighting.

[tzaraisen]

Character name and role: Percival, hostage in Group 5
Thread(s): Kidnapping, surveying the location and people, torture, more torture, turning on a friend, hallelujah they're saved!, except nah, he just dies
Summary of event participation: Percival was first exposed to the kidnappings after the anti-Simwe faction captured his friend, Clair, while under his watch. He recruited Yusuke to help him search for her, and in the process, ended up getting kidnapped himself. Very sad. After awakening, he immediately took to trying to find a way to escape with Steve. He was tortured and interrogated with Rosalind, and then later by Takasugi while Cain watched. Can't even trust fellow refugees these days, smfh. Towards the end of their captivity, the nightmare gets to be too much for Percival, and he accidentally attacks Cain. Things might start to look a little brighter when he realizes Dorian isn't a hostage and is there to try and save them (even if it is within the deadly nightmare), but Percival is inflicted with a fatal wound from the bird. After waking up, there is little he can do, but Jean Valjean tries his best to help him. He recites a prayer for Percival as he dies.

Y'know, just #Olympia things.

[bornofgods]

Character name and role: Ozymandias, Rescuer (Group One)
Thread(s): Top-level, 'Rescuing Yona'
Summary of event participation: By the behest of the Temples, Ozymandias agreed to volunteer to take part in one of the rescue missions. After helping to investigate the labs and upon noticing a peculiar reaction upon contact with the gas, Ozymandias downplayed the side-effects that he was experiencing. Heinfiltrated the room where the hostages are held with the help of Yusuke. Carrying Yona out from the toxic environment of the labs, his own weakness to the noxious haze meant that he was unable to breathe without the rebreather, and Yona eventually died after too much exposure to the chemical spill.

[nanamari]

Character name and role: Ana Amari, Rescuer (Group 5)
Thread(s): here & here
Summary of event participation: Ana noticed that her partner and some of her friends went missing and immediately delved into the investigation. Using the clues gathered by herself and the other rescuers, she guessed that the hostages would be at Namarak Mountain. While helping the others fight off the shamans lethal force was used to expedite the rescue. She healed whoever she could, she carried Soldier: 76 down the mountain and saved his life. She also rescued Solas. At the same time. Somehow. /waves hand

[winecasks]

Character name and role: Grantaire, rescuer (Group 4)
Thread(s): Top level & a thread
Summary of event participation: Grantaire wasn’t an immediate volunteer, but he wandered over to offer assistance just in time to be assigned to a group. He did His Best in regards to the fighting, but his biggest role was in aiding the hostages in their escape the tower, especially Loras Tyrell who he coaxed out in the form of a bit too much patience for such a dire situation.

But hey, they didn't die.

[seagoing]

Character name and role: Isabela, hostage in group 5
Thread(s): Top level and rescue thread!
Summary of event participation: Isabela got ambushed by her captors in the dead of night after heading home from a night out with Hawke, leaving the other woman behind and whisking her off to the mountains with the other captives. There she does not give into their questions, taking the ice water to the face instead and suffering several burns to her shoulder and her side as well as limited mobility in her left hand. She does her best to get warm and cozy with Dutch and Solas when they aren't being interrogated as well. Before they are freed the drugs make her see the gruesome murder of her closest friends and her mother, causing her to lash out at whoever is closest to her. Finally she is freed when the rescue team comes, Mantis helping her down the hill to safety.

[assholic]

Character name and role: Jessica Jones, Hostage (Group 4)
Thread(s): Top Level as a hostage, Tagging into Daenerys's top level
Summary of event participation: Was taken hostage and shoved into the room with other hostages. Didn't give up any info (because she had none) when tortured with Reinhardt, and tried to discuss the benefits of moving out of the city with Daenerys and how trying to fit in with the Natha Orbiters orders hadn't really been working out. Suffered injuries, poison, and was rescued (handwaved as it wasn't threaded) without death. Was unable to do much else as she had no abilities at that time and was pretty cranky.

[dorzalta]

Character name and role: Daenerys Targaryen (group 4 hostage)
Thread(s): top-level tagging into Loras' top-level
Summary of event participation:
During her time in captivity, she made efforts to comfort those around her who were clearly distressed, while also debating the truth of the Natha's promises, as well as the detriments of sticking with a city. During the torture times, she refused to speak a word, though she would promise fire and blood to her captors (not threaded out). Her hallucinations caused her to believe Viserys still survived and that dragon wings were trying to rip out of her back, so she clawed some gnarly wounds where wings might've been (they'll be leaving scars). During the rescue, she would have walked through the fires set by the shamans, but Alisaie caught her at the last moment and convinced her to the top of the tower for escape. Aftermath includes her deciding to get a job at the dragon sanctuary (left a comment to sign up, but if it's too late for that, I can nix it!).

[whatisright]

Character name and role: Justice, Rescuer
Thread(s): Toplevel investigating and rescuing the hostages.
Summary of event participation: Justice helped with the investigation tirelessly without stopping to rest once the entire time. When they came to the Sanctuary, he successfully captured some extremists, but he killed those that proved too dangerous to keep alive. He also helped get medical attention for the hostages that needed it, and with the hostage that was beyond hope, he helped him get to a space that would be more comfortable to die.