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Between the Porter disaster, his Port-out, the election results, assorted cast drama, and the mess that is the Constellation, Dooku's been on a losing streak lately. He needs a win, and he's going to gather as many PC and NPC allies as sign up/the mods approve of to launch a raid on a government defence contractor (name suggestions?) in De Chima which has been working with tech that's valuable to the Constellation.
Targets for this raid could include Continuum, power nulls, a defense against power nulls, nanite data, stuff that's valuable in terms of raw cash, and anything else people want to suggest that sounds like good loot. I'll hopefully get approval to retcon that the research and planning for this has secretly been in the works for a while, so it's not like they're launching a heist with a week's preparation.
Since this is so daring and important (and because he's pissed and desperate), Dooku will take the field in person, which will be the impetus for his numerous enemies within the Constellation to leak news of the raid to the authorities and heroes like RISE, the Phantom Thieves, Star Wars cast members, and the Justice League.
So when the heist begins, it's a trap and becomes a total clusterfuck, a big chaotic showdown. Heroes + police and federal agents are waiting there with power nulls, and they square off with the Constellation + its allies. There will be sign-ups and match-ups for everyone involved in this.
Characters can run away, get injured, get arrested or even killed, but characters will sign up to get some loot in the chaos if their characters stay to press the attack, so the operation won't be a total loss for the criminals. People involved can fight NPCs on either side, play out sneaking past the base's security systems, confront other PCs, etcetera.
And then there's Dooku, who will have his own thread for fighting and eventually being defeated by his many enemies. This will be a big, multi-stage fight where hopefully everyone will get to do something, with Dooku breaking out every trick in his book to triumph (Mary, Kavinsky's time-messing grenade, his bodyguard Roland, some stolen tech), fighting different enemies in different sub-threads. For the aftermath, he'll be imprisoned for two months (maybe in the Hall of Justice?) and then on probation for two more under tight supervision.
Aftermath-wise Constellation members can leave the group if they want (maybe the government offers an 'information for amnesty' deal for those who turn themselves in) or stick around and deal with the fun of an inevitable villainous power vaccuum (a chance for ambitious types like Hux and Dio to make their moves, or Raina to put her own stamp on things).
I think *that* would be a great time for the Phantom Thieves to get their hands on his lightsaber. Because then he would go from his typical demeanour to confessing 67895323 crimes. It would be fun to play out Remorseful Dooku for a bit. What I'd like to do with that is make the Thieves choose: between *asking* the authorities for the saber, which would implicate the government in their brainwashing for the greater good methodology, or stealing the saber from being in high-security government lockup, which would be a crime in itself.
(he wouldn't confess to anything that hadn't been OOCly cleared with affected players though)
Targets for this raid could include Continuum, power nulls, a defense against power nulls, nanite data, stuff that's valuable in terms of raw cash, and anything else people want to suggest that sounds like good loot. I'll hopefully get approval to retcon that the research and planning for this has secretly been in the works for a while, so it's not like they're launching a heist with a week's preparation.
Since this is so daring and important (and because he's pissed and desperate), Dooku will take the field in person, which will be the impetus for his numerous enemies within the Constellation to leak news of the raid to the authorities and heroes like RISE, the Phantom Thieves, Star Wars cast members, and the Justice League.
So when the heist begins, it's a trap and becomes a total clusterfuck, a big chaotic showdown. Heroes + police and federal agents are waiting there with power nulls, and they square off with the Constellation + its allies. There will be sign-ups and match-ups for everyone involved in this.
Characters can run away, get injured, get arrested or even killed, but characters will sign up to get some loot in the chaos if their characters stay to press the attack, so the operation won't be a total loss for the criminals. People involved can fight NPCs on either side, play out sneaking past the base's security systems, confront other PCs, etcetera.
And then there's Dooku, who will have his own thread for fighting and eventually being defeated by his many enemies. This will be a big, multi-stage fight where hopefully everyone will get to do something, with Dooku breaking out every trick in his book to triumph (Mary, Kavinsky's time-messing grenade, his bodyguard Roland, some stolen tech), fighting different enemies in different sub-threads. For the aftermath, he'll be imprisoned for two months (maybe in the Hall of Justice?) and then on probation for two more under tight supervision.
Aftermath-wise Constellation members can leave the group if they want (maybe the government offers an 'information for amnesty' deal for those who turn themselves in) or stick around and deal with the fun of an inevitable villainous power vaccuum (a chance for ambitious types like Hux and Dio to make their moves, or Raina to put her own stamp on things).
I think *that* would be a great time for the Phantom Thieves to get their hands on his lightsaber. Because then he would go from his typical demeanour to confessing 67895323 crimes. It would be fun to play out Remorseful Dooku for a bit. What I'd like to do with that is make the Thieves choose: between *asking* the authorities for the saber, which would implicate the government in their brainwashing for the greater good methodology, or stealing the saber from being in high-security government lockup, which would be a crime in itself.
(he wouldn't confess to anything that hadn't been OOCly cleared with affected players though)
