capeandcowlooc | like the adventures of mulder and SKRULLy

Oh my goodness, dear Network, things have gotten a little tense haven't they? All this paranoia running rampant, he's a Skrull or she's a Skrull -- crazy, isn't it? I hope you've been watching for suspicious behavior because I have. And let me tell you, you've all been interacting with a bunch of Skrulls. Talking to them, confiding in them, unwittingly helping them on their missions. Spooky.

Throughout the past week we've had a lot of beautiful drama, because of you all. We've had voices of reason and accusers alike address the Network, trying to work through this cloud of deceit, we've had evidence of people being tortured due to some aggressive merciless mercs who have no patience for Skrulls or Skrull-like behavior, and there's surely more to come from that.

But enough's enough, right? We can't have sadistic vigilantes randomly torturing individuals to weed out Skrulls, right? That's insane! That's what some jerk thought, anyway, and proposed an idea Mayor Mitchell.

So here's the breakdown:

On Tuesday, Mayor Mitchell Hundred will address the Network. City Hall is taking action. There will be a town meeting in which everyone is invited (of course, no one is obligated to attend). The goal of this meeting is to collaboratively select FIVE individuals who are most likely Skrulls and keep them quarantined for questioning from midday-ish Tuesday the 21st to early-ish Friday the 24th. They will be civilly detained, meaning NO TORTURE. They will be under police custody, and will not have the ability to private conversations until their release. On the upside, they will also be under police protection. So, you know, no one can torture them.

How will this work?

Mitchell will make a post and put up a log. The log will be town discussion style, where people voice their opinions and arguments. YES, IT WILL BE CHAOTIC. This is a perfect opportunity for drama.

I will put up the official voting poll in ooc because that's just the easiest way to organize this. Your character can ONLY vote if they ATTEND. You don't have to physically tag in, if you don't have the time or energy, you CAN handwave your character's presence. But in the sense of game canon, they have to have attended. This means -- and gear up for this -- ANY CHARACTERS CURRENTLY ON THE LAM ARE GRANTED MOMENTARY IMMUNITY. Literally the length of this meeting, and then you better be running. Basically, Skrull-Vulcanus invasion takes priority, villains have to work with heroes and so forth.

This is VOTE PER CHARACTER. If you play three characters and all of them attend, you get three votes. PLEASE VOTE IN CHARACTER, regardless of your ooc opinions and suspicions. I find it highly unlikely that three very different characters would all vote for the same person.

The five highest voted characters will be quarantined. If any of them are Skrulls, they will be UNABLE TO COMPLETE THE INSIDIOUS MISSIONS I GAVE THEM. So hooray! You'd be changing the direction of the plot with this victory!

What if I don't want to be a possible suspect?

No worries! This is non-compulsory, so if you don't want to have your character suspected, don't sign up for this post. HOWEVER. If you don't sign-up, you cannot vote for other Skrull suspects. The poll will only be opened to participating characters and don't think I won't cross-reference the list because I will.

Okay so maybe I DO want to be a possible suspect. What do I do?

First, look at the checklist. Will your character be attending the meeting? Yes. And you acknowledge the possibility that your character may be quarantined for civil questioning for a few days? Yes.

Okay!

Now all you have to do is leave a comment to this post. ONE COMMENT PER CHARACTER, PLEASE. You can sign up as many as you want, but do ONE COMMENT PER CHARACTER since everyone will be referring to this list when casting votes and we want to make this easy. Sign-up before Tuesday 10PM est.

If you have a question, please put QUESTION in the subject line so everyone knows you're not just submitting your character for voting.

ETA: technically sign-ups are closed but I am allowing a grace period until 11:23 PM EST to sign up in case you missed this/forgot to sign-up!