Humanis Honoribus Amicis
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| Dates run: | September 4-October 8, 2024 |
| Run By: | Eva |
| Read the logs: | Humanis Honoribus Amicis |
We need to do more than just stop them. We need to make the idea so laughable – so reviled – that it loses any weight that it has built up.
New disturbing turns in American politics has Hope Abbott investigating.
Contents
Cast
Primary Cast: Hope Abbott, Emma Frost, Doug Ramsey, Susan Storm
Featured Characters
- The Right Arc:
- Humanity First Arc
- Sapiens Foundation Arc
- Divine Will Arc:
NPCs: Ayame Inoue
Villains: Graydon Creed, William Metzger, Esther Miller-Williams, Cameron Hodge, Kade Kilgore, Wilhelmina Kensington, Manuel Enrique, Maximilian von Katzenelnbogen, Ellen Nadeer
Timing
Plot Summary
After the events and unrest of A Haven to Call Home, Hope's monitoring of American political networks prompts her to assemble a meeting of her fellow White Court members (Hellfire Club) – Emma Frost and Doug Ramsey – to combat growing coalitions between anti-mutant legislative groups. Sue Storm is brought in to work with Hope and Doug as an investigator, and the three discover a network of five organizations working to pass anti-mutant policy in the state of Pennsylvania. All of these groups are found to link back to or be supported by the Friends of Humanity.
The outcome of this braintrust results in a three stage plan to target, discredit, and humiliate the leadership and machinations of Divine Will: Church of Humanity, The Sapiens Foundation, The Right, Humanity First, and Homines Verendi.
Divine Will: Church of Humanity
Hope first recruits her fellow members of X-Factor Investigations to discover any viable blackmail on Reverend William Metzger, the face of and leader of a glitzy non-denominational mega church. His main message and platform is that man is created in God's image, but mutants are not. His church has also been working to pass "freedom of belief" laws that will allow businesses to deny services to mutants.
The group travels the church's headquarters in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Arthur and Beatrice attend a service while Warren and Sam canvas the town for any leads. Potential blackmail is found through Quentin and Inez's breaking and entering of the church's office – namely financial records. These documents are forwarded to Felicia Hardy, and her forensic accounting uncovers evidence of fraud and money laundering. Hope releases these facts to the press.
The Sapiens Foundation
An organization operating out of the Pittsburgh area has been gaining momentum on social media through their use of a mutant influencer, Ayame Inoue, to plead for anti-mutant educational reform. The Sapiens Foundation, headed by Esther Miller-Williams, is actively advocating for school districts to be obligated to offer suitable facilities for special needs students (those with an X-gene) in order to protect human students from violent manifestations and power misuse. Ayame's fame is determined to be the linchpin giving this legitimacy.
Hope recruits Angelo Espinosa, Jean-Phillipe Colbert, and Sooraya Qadir to travel to Pittsburgh and uncover what is motivating Ayame to promote the Sapiens Foundation's agenda. The group of three discover that Ayame comes from an abusive adoptive household that has been pressuring her into her beliefs. Jean-Phillipe connects with the girl through their shared power of electrokinesis, and she is persuaded to liberate herself from the household and speak out against her organization.
The Right
Led by Cameron Hodge, The Right has been targeting teachers and school organizations promoting "only positive views" in the discussion of mutant history and inclusion. Research leads to show their aims are more insidious. Hope decides to target the Right's own pacifist ideologies in order to sever their ties to the Friends of Humanity. She recruits Kyle Gibney to provoke Friends members into attacking him. Molly Hayes and Sharon Smith record the incident, and the video is released to internal Right networks to sow dissent against the Friends of Humanity.
Humanity First
A website called Humanity First is found to be compiling dossiers on pro-mutant activists, professors, and organizations. Hope brings in X-Force to fabricate evidence against the site in order to have authorities take it down. Marie-Ange orchestrates a faux political assassination connected to the website while Artie and Darcy work undercover to manipulate bad actors on the site's forums and social groups toward public displays of violence.
Homines Verendi
Hominis Verendi is a coalition of four entrepreneurs and inventors looking to gain government funding for their work in developing anti-mutant weaponry and psi-blockers. Susan and Emma work separately to dismantle the group's investor presentation. Sue uses her invisibility to sabotage Kade Kilgore's sonic weaponry. Embarrassed, Kilgrove sells the patents for his weapons to Sue. Emma invades Wilhelmina Kensington's mind and uncovers the past trauma driving Wilhelmina's ambitions. Having proven the woman's psi-blockers to be lacking, Emma offers Wilhelmina a psionic weapon to use against her own anxiety and relapses and offers her a position in Frost Industries. Hominis Verendi is dismantled.
Finale
Hope sets her sights on the Friends of Humanity after her plans unravel the secondary groups' efforts, support bases, and ideological foundations. She obtains incriminating video of Graydon Creed by working with Quentin Quire to mentally hijack one of Creed's staffers. He is recorded detailing his plans and ambitions to use and manipulate the leadership of these groups. Hope and Sue hijack the Friend's formal gala ceremony to declare new Fellows of Humanity. This last piece of discord sows enough chaos to push apart any formal ties between the Friends of Humanity and their partners.
Consequences and Aftermath
Hope's machinations push these individual groups to slink back to what they were doing beforehand. Overall, the social media push loses momentum. The proposed bills are withdrawn due to being tainted in the public eye and overall the strong anti-mutant line in the media fades.
For her efforts in dismantling this coalition, Hope Abbott is promoted to White Bishop.
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Trivia and Meta
Trivia
The mutant detection device (The Mutant Hunter 3000) used by the FOH member in this log was a scam sold on late night television and does not work.
The proposed legislation in Pennsylvania:
- Protection Against Mutant Powers
- Each school district obligated to offer suitable facilities for special needs students with a X-gene
- Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences wants obligatory mutant-specific medicine classes for medical professionals, not just a week of human-variant medicine.
- Specific funding to equip ambulances/ER with mutant specific equipment.
- Freedom of Belief
- Not having (to learn) to treat mutants in the medical sense. Freedom to refuse mutants service in other places.
- Fair Education Act
- School supporting a mutant-human alliance, but not supporting a pro-human organization.
- Offering ‘positive views’ and ‘no negative sides’ of mutation during mutant studies class
- Firing a pro-human teacher who was too outspoken about their views
- School funding being tied to only expressing a ‘neutral’ or a ‘balanced’ attitude towards mutants.
- Funding granted to develop anti-mutant measures against crime.
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Plotrunner: Eva
