Bobnap chapter 3: Inside Rogue's Mind

[Bobby Drake]

Rogue, Py and I worked out the skeleton of a plot-thread as part of the Bobnap arc…here’s the plan:

• Rogue and John touch, one way or another, during Holloween party
  
• Bobby gets napped by the BH
  
• Institute finds out about it (one way or another – e.g., through Josh)
  
• Some “geez, how do we find them, what do we do?” milling around takes place
  
• Rogue realizes that the as-of-Holloween psyke!John probably knows where BH HQ is. After some angst she decides to “go inside” to interrogate psyke!John.
  
• Chaos erupts in Rogue’s mind. psyke!John hides in ever-more-obscure parts of her unconscious mind (so all the action is taking place in old memories, weird abstract psychological spaces, etc.) psyke!Logan helps Rogue track him, psyke!Mags gets involved to defend him, psyke!Bob joins the posse. (Note that all of these psykes are back-dated to whenever they were absorbed… Mags during Liberty Island, Logan before that, John at Holloween, Bob just before going to the infirmary, which should make for entertaining RP.)
  
• psyke!Template takes advantage of the chaos to break free and start assassinating psykes, assimilating their powers as she goes along. “Search for John” starts turning into “Hunted by Template”
  
• Back in the real-world, Rogue pretty much goes catatonic. Other Institute folks can get involved if they’re IC-willing to touch her or are telepathic enough to project their minds into the action.
  
• All of this leads up to a battle between the psykes in Rogue’s head – everyone vs. an ever-more-powerful Template – and ends up with all of the psykes “dead” and Rogue knowing where BH HQ is.
  
• Rescue plans proceed from there.
  

We’ll kick off this thread as soon as the actual Bobnap happens (which I'm assuming will be Bobnap Chapter 2).

This involves Mags, John, Rogue, and Bob, also anyone who wants to play Logan, Template, and Cody should speak up. Also optionally involves Josh and any of the Institute folks who want in.

[Toni Craft]

After discussing things with Py and Rogue *glomps both* we decided to add an interesting factor into the whole 'Josh and Rogue go for a stroll down psyche lane.'

Template, the powerful 'I'm going to suck your life and powers dry' chick will be making an appearance (handled by yours truly no less). Now, since this is all in Rogue's mind, the laws of physics aren't necessarily applicable.

In case you're not following me, think of the Matrix (ye know, Keanu and that Agent Smith?). Remember the kid that said: "There is no spoon."? Yeah, same sort of thing. If Josh and Rogue and the other psyches believe that, say, gravity exists in this world, then they're feet will be planted to the floor the whole time, as per the norm. But if they decided not to believe (if they take the red pill!) the rules are subjected to change. Gravity doesn't have to exist if they believe it not to (FYI, that's why Keanu can fly in the Matrix ).

Now, because Template will be flaunting her evil mug inside Rogue's head, we've decided that the same thing applies to her. If she touches either of the two or any of the other psyches, and they believe that she's going to zap them, then they will get zapped and they will feel the consequences of said zapping. But if they realize that it's not real, and it's only in Rogue's head, then they will not feel the effects and Template will be rendered powerless.

Hopefull this makes some sense...if not, take a copy of the first Matrix, insert into your chosen media player (DVDs in CD players will not work, contray to popular belief) and watch repeatedly until all that is said above starts to makes sense.

Cheers folks.

[Pyro]

AIM discussion - 14/11/06 - referenced ^
Toni: okay, when in your mind...
Toni: say template wants to absorb either you or josh
Toni: would the whole absorption thing work?
Toni: would it do nothing?
Rogue: I think it'd do nothing to real!beings. psykes, yeah
Toni: or would it work simply because we're believing it would
Rogue: dunno, hee
Rogue: she's still strong/flying in her mind
Toni: if she touches josh, and he expects himself to get zapped, would he?
Rogue: Hm. *ponder*
Rogue: dunno
Rogue: lol
Toni: would he feel the effects if he's ex[ecting them to happen?
Rogue: um. that would make sense. Sure. Hehe
Rogue: I didn't realy think about that part, heh
Toni: it's like the matrix, there is no spoon
Rogue: lol
Toni: but yeah, just like the matrix
Toni: neo can bend the laws of gravity because he knows they're not real

Couldn't not include this...
Pyro: tragic death of psyche john
Toni: poor guy
Pyro: i know
Rogue: Roguey: "NOOOOO!"
Toni: too bad there wasn't a psyche Toni in there somewhere, mentoring psyche John in the ways of the erratic
Pyro: it's the last little bit of when bob and john were still happy and cutesy, and it's the last bit really of the john who could still come back to the institute
Pyro: and as we saw at congress, he's not a bad guy
Rogue: awwwwwww....
Rogue: That makes it even saaadder
Rogue: we're not only killin' John, we're killin' "Johnny"
Rogue: o.o
Toni: awww
Rogue: it's so horrible, and I'm so drugged, that I might just cry

[Bobby Drake]

Another twist in Rogue’s mind we’re considering…

• A Josh psyke has been in there for a year or so, but has been in hiding the whole time. Why? Because its telepathic abilities allow it to edit the thoughts around it, but it hasn’t learned how to control that, so basically “reality” has a way of warping around it uncontrollably. So it’s been avoiding the other psykes for fear of hurting them.
  
• pJosh has a “hideout” in the really obscure memories in the back of Marie’s head (like, stuff that happened when she was months old). Those memories have grown increasingly distorted and unrelated to anything else as he lives there… he’s been creating a “bubble” of Josh-mind to live in.
  
• pJohn, trying to escape from the hunting party, accidentally stumbles into pJosh’s bubble. Because pJosh has distorted it so much, pJohn can’t figure out a way back (and, relatedly, is difficult to find/reach).
  
• Template breaks out and starts hunting everyone, as discussed earlier. pBob, pMags, and all the pNPCs die horrible psychic deaths; Template becomes powerful enough to actually threaten real-Josh and Marie. (Among other things, Template has enough control over Marie’s mind to keep the two of them from just pulling back out.)
  
• Real-Josh and Marie flee to the only part of Marie’s mind that Template hasn’t yet taken over – the part pJosh lives in. Template chases. The final battle takes place there. pJohn intervenes to protect Marie and is destroyed, giving the other three the opportunity to destroy her. (And giving Marie access to BH HQ location in the process.)
  
• pJosh is the sole psyke survivor, and agrees to remain in the back of Marie’s head and not bother anybody. RLJosh and Marie go back to the real world.
  
• Months later, Rogue starts to develop mental problems… blackouts, memory loss, fake memories, etc. It turns out that pJosh’s bubble has been growing all along, accidentally. Which leads to a Return to Rogue’s Mind thread, in which we go back in and try to deal.
  

Thoughts? Objections?