Project Jade Serenity [Supers/Technothriller]

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by Icelander

So now O'Toole runs around like a headlesss chicken, for all the world like a Chaotic Neutral character in D&D, treating NPCs as pixels on a screen. He doesn't seem to be running toward any defined goal and it's not clear how his cowardly* hide is safer running blindly through tunnels full of dangers than he'd been if he'd stalled for time, negotiated or even actually given up, to give help time to arrive.

*O'Toole has Will 15 and no Disadvantages that make him it difficult for him to think under pressure. It was not a fight-or-flight response where he was simply psychologically unable to act rationally because of adrenaline rush. No, O'Toole just apparently values other people, his duty and his responsibilities less than the chance to see how much mayhem his powers can unleash. He's a supervillain without an origin story who just wants to see the world burn. Maybe it's in his tainted blood. He is Raul Vargas' son and Vargas was always a prize prig, selfish to the core and utterly indifferent to anyone else's feelings, health or wellbeing.

Or, a more charitable view: The Player saw the situation as untenable and took decisive steps to to try to end it in the party's favor. I doubt he expected to fail his HT check against the flash-bang (being more distant - but not realizing the enclosed space actually makes it worse) and that even if he did fail, none of the guards would be capable of initiating action as quickly as they did, and that he might have Burr as back up.

In other words, why ascribe to malice what is more simply a case of stupidity?


(Is the Player more used to, more happy, playing Murder Hobos?)

And bureaucratic neglect can't really explain things like Terry Amiti roaming the tunnels in the role of a monster in 2017, when Dr. Anderson knows that Terry wasn't a patient at Manhanock after 1998. Was he transfered back there? Why? By whom? Or was there always something more on Jewell Island than Dr. Anderson knew about? A secret facility hidden somewhere even deeper than the secret research labs in the cellars, somewhere Terry was taken when he was officially transfered and never left until his 'escape' into the abandoned tunnels, changed into something both more and less than human?

Sounds like you boys have a right proper dungeon crawl ahead of you... if you survive.

That lone shot sounds mighty ominous*.




* We know Taylor made it. He's the hero of this piece after all. ;)