goshdarnspam | 2020 Planning Post!

C&C 2020

Someone call for a dystopian future au? Sometime around 2013 (THIS IS NEW, GUYS, WE'RE JUST SLIDING THE SHIT HITTING THE FAN FORWARD A FEW YEARS OKAY), the government in the City decided that they'd had enough of these superhero antics. There was a nationwide crackdown on metas, requiring registration upon penalty of incarceration. The network was shut down, and many residents were scattered to the winds. There are a few that stayed in touch, however. That's where you come in.

For some of you, this might be from before your time. Not to fear! Since it's a highly flexible splinter universe, there's pretty much no such thing as canon. Retcons abound, either as allowances for contradictory canon information (except for the premise, of course), or even just if the player wants to change something around!

So, use this post as a free-for all. New characters get new projected histories, dropped characters can be said to have come back, and old characters can be reexamined or given more story. On Saturday, an open post will be put up in

capeandcowl2020 proper, so use this time to work out information and pimp this out to players who're eligible but may not see this (you can also ahead and start your own posts in that comm)! Remember, any character that has been played in main game is automatically good to go.

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Throughout his controversial and bloody career, through all the terrible things he's done, there's always been some lines Jack Bauer has never been willing to cross. One of the biggest is that he will never, ever kill an American cop, soldier, or agent who is executing their lawful duties, even if those duties involve trying to kill or arrest Jack.

So 2020 is agony for him! His own country is involved in something he absolutely can not in good conscience stand for, but with a skill set like his it's hard for him to participate in any resistance because eventually he's going to end up killing somebody with a badge or uniform. The moment he does that, he's taken up arms against the US government just like the people he's fought against his whole career, and that's a step he has problems with.

Fortunately he has no real powers and a lot of experience at being a fugitive, so he's just been moving around off the grid for a while, wrestling with his options and with his conscience while shifting between aliases when necessary.
He's considering trying to help the resistance without killing anybody, or maybe striking out on his own to form a private operations team that would take down bad guys around the world while sidestepping the situation back home. One thing's for sure, he can't keep running forever. With things as bad as they are, he knows he has to make a decision soon...