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fatherofcaitlyn

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Let's take someone as insane as the Joker.
Give him or her the equivalent abilities of Mystique to evade detection.
Make him or her smart enough to create a cold fusion bomb capable of wiping out a 10 mile radius out of everyday materials. The idea is a ripoff of an Outer Limits episode from the mid 90s.

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So, we'll call this person Ms. Joker.

Ms. Joker waltzes into a city, drops a bomb off, leaves, detonates it and millions are killed.

Ms. Joker records herself and mails her video gloating along with the next target to so many news organizations and random people that it can't be suppressed.

The gloat is essentially, "I'm going to destroy such and such city in 1 week. Leave and live. Stay and die."

A week later, another city is destroyed in a nonradioactive blast.

Within a couple of days, another unsuppressed gloat with another target and a week to vacate the premises. The gloat includes a scoff of how feeble the government is at protecting its people and how it can't be relied on anymore.

Another week, another city gone and another gloat with more anarchist rambling.

So ...

An eventual gloat targets your city. Do you stay or leave?

The gloat gives you the ability for passover if remove your city's political power structure. Do you attempt to save your city by brutally removing 0.01% of its population?
 
You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!
 
[quote name='Strell']You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds![/QUOTE]

Obviously, we're going to draw from sources of fiction so our beloved government doesn't think we're conspiring to commit acts of terrorism. They're already locking up American citizens without trial who accidentally let terrorists use their cell phones. If they started locking up WHITE citizens without trial, the shit might hit the fan.
 
i had a dream a few nights ago that all the major cities were being destroyed but nobody knew why (think M. Night Shyamalan style). anyway, we ended up leaving sacramento which was a good decision because it ended up being destroyed. i woke up before the mystery was solved, but i was still alive, so thats good.
 
[quote name='RAMSTORIA']i had a dream a few nights ago that all the major cities were being destroyed but nobody knew why (think M. Night Shyamalan style). anyway, we ended up leaving sacramento which was a good decision because it ended up being destroyed. i woke up before the mystery was solved, but i was still alive, so thats good.[/QUOTE]

How was the government reacting?
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']How was the government reacting?[/QUOTE]

not a factor in the dream. but the media was causing a lot of commotion and people i talked with that were staying behind got a lecture from me.
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']The idea is a ripoff of an Outer Limits episode from the mid 90s.[/QUOTE]

Is that the one where the guy can stop time and goes outside with time stopped just to see the missile about to hit?
 
[quote name='Ruined']Is that the one where the guy can stop time and goes outside with time stopped just to see the missile about to hit?[/QUOTE]

I don't remember that one.

It was this episode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Exam_(The_Outer_Limits)

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Well, shit, that is interesting.

The original air date on that episode was June 6th, 1998.

I watched that episode in my dorm room at Washington University. I graduated in May 1997 and I didn't have Showtime. I'm sure wikipedia is just wrong.
 
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