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| + | The CRL [The Church of the Redeeming Light] is an offshoot of the Southern Baptist Convention, based outside of Pearl, Mississippi. The church and compound were originally founded in 1989 by Pastor Derek Greene. Originally holding three families, the compound now boosts 60 members, most of them living either in a collection of family apartments or in the barracks for single men and women. The church owns significant acreage surrounding the compound which it operates as a multi-crop farm. | ||
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| + | The FBI initially maintained a watch on the CRL due to Greene being a suspect in a number of arson cases at several women's health clinics. When Greene died three years ago, they ended their surveillance, but the CRL was quickly implicated in a case involving a teenage runaway who supposedly spent a period of time at the compound before collapsing in downtown Jackson and later dying. Doctors could not determine a cause of death, and it was quickly revealed that the teen was a mutant. | ||
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| + | When SHIELD discovered an email trail with one of the younger female members strongly encouraging the teen to visit her, as far as offering herself to him sexually, SHIELD discovered that the church was unusually active on online message boards and communities for young mutants. While no illegal activities were apparent, SHIELD decided to send in an agent undercover to investigate. Agent Nathan Tyler was assigned to the case, due to his experience in undercover work of this nature, and his own dedicated to his Baptist faith and thorough understanding of the religious background and texts of the offshoots of the CRL. | ||
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| + | Unfortunately, what SHIELD was not aware of was the fact that Tyler was suffering badly from undiagnosed depression and anxiety issues. What had been considered nothing more than a bad temper an overzealous approach to his faith at the beginning of his career were morphing into a full blown breakdown at the time of his assignment, and his fitness reports had been growing more worrisome. However, they decided that he'd be the perfect candidate for the assignment. | ||
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| + | For the last ten months, Tyler has been undercover, although his reports have been fairly innocuous; enough to justify keeping him undercover, but nothing hinting a major issue with the church. He has also made it clear that once the assignment is over, he plans to apply for early retirement on medical grounds. SHIELD has expanded his undercover time for one more month to wrap things up before shutting down the investigation. | ||
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| + | The reality is that something is seriously wrong at the CRL. The people living there worship a figure they refer to as the Lady of Light; supposedly a living embodiment of Heaven, whom they obey without question. The 'Lady' is actually the avatar of a dark essence known as D'spayre. D'Spayre feeds on the 'light' of people - the essence of their souls. It discovered that mutants possess a much deeper well of this energy, and has been using her people to try and draw in mutants to feed on. Her cult is regularly drained to feed the creature, who uses empathic coercion to make them worship it. In Tyler's case, the discovery of his limited light powers turned out to be a huge boon for its feeding presence, and has completely twisted his mind inside out to worship it unquestioningly. When he mentioned having a daughter, it decided to look into it further. | ||
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| + | Tyler was dispatched to track his daughter, discovering that she was now in New York at Xavier's. Investigations into her incident suggested to Tyler than Tandy must have similar powers to him, only at a greater scale. Obsessed with acquiring her power, D'Spayre ordered Tyler to bring his daughter to it. Tyler spent some time planning, and flew to Shaker Heights, Ohio, where he murdered his ex-wife and her husband. | ||
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| + | Returning to the church, he received the order to pull out by SHIELD, who decided to terminate the investigation a couple of weeks early and informed him of the death of his ex-wife. His alibi secured by SHIELD by duping them regarding a report, he travels to the mansion to see his daughter. As he explains to Xavier and any staff involved, with the death of his ex-wife, he's now Tandy's legal guardian, but his split with his wife had turned Tandy into a stranger to him. Sounding almost contrite, he suggests that if she wants to stay at the school, he'll help arrange it, but they need to go over a lot of things to settle on the plan for her future. He meets Tandy and they head out to discuss things over lunch. | ||
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| + | Tyler, however, has other plans. He drugs Tandy's food and drops her into his car, heading for the church. After they are hours late returning, the mansion goes on alert, but they can only do limited actions - they don't know that Tandy's been taken by force and the fact that Tyler is her father makes it impossible to use legal channels yet. Cerebro is unable to latch on to Tandy's powers, and they are forced to use limited other options. However, they are helped as the investigators in Tandy's parents murder sopena SHIELD for Tyler's issued sidearm, and match the bullets to it. Now a wanted felon, Tandy's disappearance becomes a federal kidnapping case, which falls squarely into Fred Duncan's sphere and he assigns Kane to it immediately. Kane contacts Adrienne and both meet up at the diner where Adrienne is able to pick up some of the missing pieces using her powers. | ||
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| + | Officers head to the CRL compound only to discover everyone inside dead, drained of their life force. However, Tyler has not been as thorough wiping the computers as he thought, and they are able to pull details of plane tickets under a fake family alias for Central America. D'Spayre has been prepping an unknown agenda for years, and finally may have the key on unlocking hell on earth and freeing her master. However, with a target, the X-Men arrive shortly after - along with SHIELD and the FBI- smashing the compound apart and rescuing Tandy as D'Spayre is forced to flee. Tyler tries to kill Kurt but Tandy uses her own powers on him and sends Tyler into a coma. He is then taken by SHIELD. | ||
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<b>Nov. 26</b> - Tandy’s Uncle arrives at the mansion to tell her that her parents have been murdered; Adrienne sees a distraught Tandy and tries to comfort her; Adrienne then posts to the staff saying that Tandy is asleep and that she will not be coming to classes for the rest of the day. | <b>Nov. 26</b> - Tandy’s Uncle arrives at the mansion to tell her that her parents have been murdered; Adrienne sees a distraught Tandy and tries to comfort her; Adrienne then posts to the staff saying that Tandy is asleep and that she will not be coming to classes for the rest of the day. | ||
Revision as of 21:42, 30 December 2012
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| Dates run: | November 26- December 11, 2012 |
| Run By: | Rei |
| Read the logs: | Light in the Darkness |
Your fears are mine.
A kidnapping turned into a lot more than anyone could ever imagine.
Contents
Cast
Tandy Bowen, Adrienne Frost, Scott Summers, Garrison Kane, Kurt Sefton, David Haller
Professor Charles Xavier, D'Spayre, Nathan Tyler, Father Michael Bowen
Timing
November 26- December 11, 2012
Plot Summary
The CRL [The Church of the Redeeming Light] is an offshoot of the Southern Baptist Convention, based outside of Pearl, Mississippi. The church and compound were originally founded in 1989 by Pastor Derek Greene. Originally holding three families, the compound now boosts 60 members, most of them living either in a collection of family apartments or in the barracks for single men and women. The church owns significant acreage surrounding the compound which it operates as a multi-crop farm.
The FBI initially maintained a watch on the CRL due to Greene being a suspect in a number of arson cases at several women's health clinics. When Greene died three years ago, they ended their surveillance, but the CRL was quickly implicated in a case involving a teenage runaway who supposedly spent a period of time at the compound before collapsing in downtown Jackson and later dying. Doctors could not determine a cause of death, and it was quickly revealed that the teen was a mutant.
When SHIELD discovered an email trail with one of the younger female members strongly encouraging the teen to visit her, as far as offering herself to him sexually, SHIELD discovered that the church was unusually active on online message boards and communities for young mutants. While no illegal activities were apparent, SHIELD decided to send in an agent undercover to investigate. Agent Nathan Tyler was assigned to the case, due to his experience in undercover work of this nature, and his own dedicated to his Baptist faith and thorough understanding of the religious background and texts of the offshoots of the CRL.
Unfortunately, what SHIELD was not aware of was the fact that Tyler was suffering badly from undiagnosed depression and anxiety issues. What had been considered nothing more than a bad temper an overzealous approach to his faith at the beginning of his career were morphing into a full blown breakdown at the time of his assignment, and his fitness reports had been growing more worrisome. However, they decided that he'd be the perfect candidate for the assignment.
For the last ten months, Tyler has been undercover, although his reports have been fairly innocuous; enough to justify keeping him undercover, but nothing hinting a major issue with the church. He has also made it clear that once the assignment is over, he plans to apply for early retirement on medical grounds. SHIELD has expanded his undercover time for one more month to wrap things up before shutting down the investigation.
The reality is that something is seriously wrong at the CRL. The people living there worship a figure they refer to as the Lady of Light; supposedly a living embodiment of Heaven, whom they obey without question. The 'Lady' is actually the avatar of a dark essence known as D'spayre. D'Spayre feeds on the 'light' of people - the essence of their souls. It discovered that mutants possess a much deeper well of this energy, and has been using her people to try and draw in mutants to feed on. Her cult is regularly drained to feed the creature, who uses empathic coercion to make them worship it. In Tyler's case, the discovery of his limited light powers turned out to be a huge boon for its feeding presence, and has completely twisted his mind inside out to worship it unquestioningly. When he mentioned having a daughter, it decided to look into it further.
Tyler was dispatched to track his daughter, discovering that she was now in New York at Xavier's. Investigations into her incident suggested to Tyler than Tandy must have similar powers to him, only at a greater scale. Obsessed with acquiring her power, D'Spayre ordered Tyler to bring his daughter to it. Tyler spent some time planning, and flew to Shaker Heights, Ohio, where he murdered his ex-wife and her husband.
Returning to the church, he received the order to pull out by SHIELD, who decided to terminate the investigation a couple of weeks early and informed him of the death of his ex-wife. His alibi secured by SHIELD by duping them regarding a report, he travels to the mansion to see his daughter. As he explains to Xavier and any staff involved, with the death of his ex-wife, he's now Tandy's legal guardian, but his split with his wife had turned Tandy into a stranger to him. Sounding almost contrite, he suggests that if she wants to stay at the school, he'll help arrange it, but they need to go over a lot of things to settle on the plan for her future. He meets Tandy and they head out to discuss things over lunch.
Tyler, however, has other plans. He drugs Tandy's food and drops her into his car, heading for the church. After they are hours late returning, the mansion goes on alert, but they can only do limited actions - they don't know that Tandy's been taken by force and the fact that Tyler is her father makes it impossible to use legal channels yet. Cerebro is unable to latch on to Tandy's powers, and they are forced to use limited other options. However, they are helped as the investigators in Tandy's parents murder sopena SHIELD for Tyler's issued sidearm, and match the bullets to it. Now a wanted felon, Tandy's disappearance becomes a federal kidnapping case, which falls squarely into Fred Duncan's sphere and he assigns Kane to it immediately. Kane contacts Adrienne and both meet up at the diner where Adrienne is able to pick up some of the missing pieces using her powers.
Officers head to the CRL compound only to discover everyone inside dead, drained of their life force. However, Tyler has not been as thorough wiping the computers as he thought, and they are able to pull details of plane tickets under a fake family alias for Central America. D'Spayre has been prepping an unknown agenda for years, and finally may have the key on unlocking hell on earth and freeing her master. However, with a target, the X-Men arrive shortly after - along with SHIELD and the FBI- smashing the compound apart and rescuing Tandy as D'Spayre is forced to flee. Tyler tries to kill Kurt but Tandy uses her own powers on him and sends Tyler into a coma. He is then taken by SHIELD.
Time Frame
Nov. 26 - Tandy’s Uncle arrives at the mansion to tell her that her parents have been murdered; Adrienne sees a distraught Tandy and tries to comfort her; Adrienne then posts to the staff saying that Tandy is asleep and that she will not be coming to classes for the rest of the day.
Nov. 27 - Matt comes across Tandy in the kitchen and tries to comfort her; Clint visits Tandy to see how she is doing; Tandy’s father, Nathan Tyler, shows up at the mansion and takes Tandy out for lunch.
Nov. 28 - Scott texts Adrienne letting her know that Tandy has been kidnapped by her father and he was the one responsible for her mother's and stepfather's deaths; Kane updates the team stating that SHIELD intel has found credit card receipts and that FBI has been assigned to the case since it crossed state lines and that Tandy is probably in Mississippi as that is where Nathan's last assignment was located; Kane texts Scott saying that he has landed in Mississippi but there is no sign of Tandy or her father there at the compound. Hope post if anyone has seen Tandy.
Nov. 29 - Scott, Kurt, Haller, Adrienne and the Professor meet in the war room to go over the findings before heading off to rescue Tandy whom is now in South America; The X-Men meet up with Kane and SHIELD in Guatemala, South America; Kane and Scott find Nathan Tyler and make him give himself up; Adrienne, Haller and Kurt continue on into the compound which they find Tandy but are greeted by D’Spayre whom turns their fears into reality; Scott and Kane arrive just in time before the others are overwhelmed and Kurt manages to teleport Tandy out of the room, which weakens D’Spayre whom was feeding on Tandy’s life force and is forced to retreat; Outside Nathan who has managed to get away from being arrested to see Tandy and Kurt and Tandy uses her own powers against him and places Nathan into a coma; Scott informs the rest of the team that they have got Tandy and are heading home.
Nov. 30 - Tandy wakes up safe within the mansion walls and talks with the Professor, Scott and Kane about D’spayre.
Dec. 1 - Kane visits Tandy in the Medlab and she asks tons of questions; Tandy, Adrienne and Father Michael Bowen talk about the funeral plans for next week. Kurt meets up with Tandy as she’s leaving the medlab and reassures her. Korvus and Kurt schedule a sparring session. Callie posts that it is snowing in the greenhouse and how the balance of the plants are off. Kurt makes a posts saying that Tandy is back and in the medlab.
Dec 11 - Father Michael asks Adrienne to be Tandy’s co-guardian with him; unnerved by the request, Adrienne talks it over with Garrison.
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Plotrunner: Rei
