The Battle for Liberterram

[R. El]

Plot Sign Up: February 26th, 2017-March 9th, 2017

Where: The Republic of Liberterram, and perhaps elsewhere as the plot advances.

When: May 2017 for IC date. The first thread will be put up sometime after March 6th.

Who: The Defenders initially, with opportunities for others to get involved later.

Whys and Whats: Though Liberterram has long been a source of anxiety for its neighbors, attacks against it have been indirect or simple skirmishes in international waters. Until now. Spurred by paranoia from seeing many of the Defenders in contact with Shadow Province and New England officials, Egyptia will seize an opportunity and strike the island-chain Republic.

The attack against it will be multifaceted. The first attack will be an air raid, which will involve immense collateral damage and many civilian deaths. This strike will be designed to pull the Defenders out of their hiding places and draw them back to Liberterram. Once there, the Defenders will have to coordinate their defensive efforts with Liberterram military leaders and politicians.

Sooner or later, it will become aware that the enemy forces have spies throughout military and political ranks. These operatives will have to be smoked out and eradicated if the Liberterram forces have any chance of success against Egyptia. At a relatively concurrent time, the Defenders' arrival will be made known to Egyptia and Apocalypse will appear. Some of the Defenders will be mind-controlled by Apocalypse and made into one or more of his horsemen.

This will help undermine the Defenders' platform of heroism and entangle the Defenders and Liberterram forces in a battle with whom they believed to be allies. Each of the horsemen will serve as autonomous generals to enact Apocalypse's will to destroy Liberterram, but they will still have some free will and may decide to spread the destruction to other targets.

About this time is when I imagine the situation in Liberterram would be hectic and hopeless enough that Liberterram forces (and the loyal Defenders that remain) could call in the Shadow Province and New England, allowing military members, agents and potentially even the Avengers to get involved.

Special Players: As mentioned above, I would love for at least some of the Defenders to be horsemen--buffed generals and agents of Apocalypse's will. The four are: Death, Famine, Pestilence and War. Players who are interested in becoming one of the horsemen need to be active. Activity will be key since these players will essentially be working in coordination with me but effectively control a fourth of the plot.

If not all of the horsemen are taken I will NPC the others or otherwise recruit players that would be amenable to NPCing them.

Death: Natalia Romanova
Famine:
Pestilence: Peter Parker
War: Steve Rogers

End Game: While I haven't fully decided the final ramifications of the plot, I do have some ongoing consequences in mind. The first is that Liberterram will have massive damage to its infrastructure and have countless casualties, with many more civilians and members of the armed forces being wounded. The second will be the damage to the Defenders' credibility. Even if the mind control is revealed, some of their ranks will have participated in the destruction of civilian lives, and that isn't something you come back from easily. If the Defenders don't buckle under the backlash and tragedy, they will have a seriously uphill battle to fight to be regarded even remotely well.

Lastly, the horsemen. While I anticipate that some of them will become free of Apocalypse's control, some might not. Those that want to use this as an opportunity to set up another plot can. After all, being evil and having a serious power buff could work in anyone's favor, especially if they return and pretend that they're all right now.

Comments/Feedback: I like to keep plots relatively loose, so this is ultimately a framework. If you have ideas or events you'd like to see, let me know and I'll work on incorporating them into the plot. Ultimately I want everyone involved to either enjoy themselves, develop their characters or let their character have a badass moment. Ideally all of the above.

Participants:

Natalia Romanova
Steve Rogers
Namor
Tony Stark
Clint Barton
James Barnes
John Walker
Peggy Carter
z inactive stephenstrange
z inactive timothydugan
Alexander Cuvier
Sigyn Iwaldidottir
Freya Njordsdottir
Baldr Odinson
Idunn Iwaldidottir
Peter Parker

Threads:

In the Wake of Destruction
Revelations

[S.S.A. Erin]

Tony will likely fly over when he realizes stuff is going on with Nat and Steve and try to get involved early.
Clint could get involved later on when the Shadow Province is called in.

If player characters don't fill the last two horsemen slots, I can play one of them on the Mini-Event account.

[z inactive stephenstrange]

I wanna be a part of it but I have no idea if I should, how I should, and how much activity you guys would expect from me on this plot xD

Also everything about the new continuity is very confusing to me still, I'm still trying to wrap my head around terms and names and all that...

SUMMARIZING IT: I want to be a part of it but don't know how or what you'd want from me

[Peggy Carter]

If government intervention is needed in the plot, I'm happy to offer Peggy! She can be used in any capacity, and I'm also not fussed if she has only a small part. Whatever helps the plot move along.

[R. Marty]

John Walker will undoubtedly show up when things get dire enough to warrant the entrance of Avengers and other reinforcements.

[R. El]

z inactive stephenstrange
I think it's going to be the standard plot amount of time on site. That means when it's your turn to post in a thread, you'll have three days to post in it before you're skipped. However that's primarily for group threads, and I know that group threads are not to your preference and group threads are going to be a lot of what the plot will consist of.

That being said, we could still make Strange take part but work to your advantage. With as powerful and versatile as Strange is, I suspect that having him involved too early on would too quickly swing things in the favor of the good guys. What makes sense to me would be to involve Strange toward the end. He could be busy with other matters in other dimensions when everything is first going down--perhaps looking for the cause of the current reality shift after Namor and Nat make him aware of it. He arrives later in the game and helps with reparations to the ravaged Liberterram, maybe cleaning up any stragglers and ultimately being used as a tide-turner. Most of that could be put into a single post by you.

When the battles are capped you can explore threads with other defenders/people in more one on one settings regarding reparation. Those horsemen that want to come back to the good side with the conclusion of the plot could also have their mind control broken by Strange.

How's that sound to you?

Peggy Carter
Peggy could have a variety of applications. If you want she could decide to get some ass-kicking in and go over with NE and SP forces. I know she's close to Tony, so maybe if Erin were willing Tony could ask her if she wants to come along? I don't know if she'll remember Steve enough by then for that to make her want to be involved and help in an up close and personal sense.

If not, there are other approaches. I'm not sure about your Peggy but I know she has history with military command. Tony or Howard could potentially empower her with coordinating NE military operations on Liberterram. That way she could have a more passive involve but still play a critical route. Alternatively, she could also help in a post-plot sense and be involved in reparations and support for Liberterram citizens and refugees.

Heck, she might even be able to do a combination of all three if everything lines up and you want her that involved. x3

[z inactive stephenstrange]

That does sound reasonable, and group threads just throw me off and confuse me, I am not against having one or two, but upon first arriving on the site and having to understand the new plot, sounds like it would be too confusing to me. I'd rather fully establish myself + learn the new plot properly and the new places as I'm meant to (because Stephen would probably know, so I need to know) before tackling anything like a group thread where my character is meant to do a lot of stuff

That sounds ok, and it would help me out in understanding the plot properly too! And that way I also take part and don't feel like I'm an outsider xD

[Peggy Carter]

Yeah, I quite like those ideas! I think I'll leave Peggy's ass-kicking for another time, she'll have plenty of opportunity to do so, and she'll be much more effective at it once she's regained more of her memories (and really, once that happens, there's no stopping her). NewCon Peggy didn't serve in the military, but the OldCon part of her did, so she still maintains that military strategy she'd developed during the war. As a result, she can definitely help with coordinating military operations, and also in post-plot threads. Maybe not long after Liberterram is invaded, there's a meeting of the higher ups to figure out what to do, to send the Avengers in, or something like that.

[Alexander Cuvier]

Hmmmmm. I've got all three of my people doing like...nothing SO xD. I don't think I'll involve Alice, since her presence wouldn't make any sense.

I'll throw Tigershark and Sigyn at this. Not sure where you'd want them, though.

[S.S.A. Aech]

If you throw Sigyn at this, I can toss Freya in. Then perhaps we can snag Idunn Iwaldidottir and throw the three of them at some enemies. Because Asgardians are helpful, yo. Also because a mommy/daughters ass-kicking thread sounds like a wonderful way to get the three together on Midgard. <3

[z inactive timothydugan]

I would like to toss Dum Dum into this please! (WWII bbys unite)

[R. El]

Alexander Cuvier
For Sigyn I think the most sensible thing would be to have her come over with the Avengers/SP/NE forces. She isn't a Defender so having her be on the scene any earlier than that wouldn't really make much sense. If you want, she can help out during the battle (her strength and magical abilities would certainly be useful), or she can participate in more support stuff, like Peggy and Strange will be doing. If that's the case, maybe while Strange is focusing on clean up of stragglers and repairing collateral damage she can work on healing people? (If she has that magic anyway). Or she could do both. Kick ass and then heal?

As to Tigershark, he'll be a little trickier. I do know of course that both Namor and Natalia will be going with the Defenders after the air raid. Perhaps Tigershark could be present when news reaches them and he decides that he wants to enter the battlefield again?

Let me know, and let Aech know where Sigyn goes so I can add Freya if desired.

[S.S.A. Erin]

If his peeps are going in, Baldr would likely tag along.

[Alexander Cuvier]

R. El

I can have Sigyn come over with the Avengers forces (And she does, because MAGIC). TS is a bit trickier, but yeah, he might show up closer to the end/middle of the battle forces and stuff.

[R. El]

Peggy Carter z inactive timothydugan

I just had an idea. As a portion of the plot will involve uncovering double agents, I think Peggy's background with that would help (if she has enough old con memories by then). She could do it remotely, maybe working in coordination with some ground troops or other agents? Dum Dum could be a natural choice, given their history AND his experience doing spy work. The two of them could be the spy-busting unit since Nat will be too busy being evil to really help with that. XD

There could also be another couple of characters involved, but I don't know if you guys would prefer it being a twosome or not.