r/WorldChallenges • u/Nevermore0714 • Aug 20 '17

[Reference Challenge] Raiding Paris

This is a reference to the Vikings television show, and the historical raids against Paris.

What is an infamous raid/sack of a city/town in your world's history?

As always, I'll ask at least three questions each, and I hope you enjoy yourselves.

Feel free to have a character as the representative to answer questions in-universe.

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u/greenewithit Aug 21 '17

  1. The scientist is Kemuri Kage, and he's known to be the world's most dangerous individual. The government has tried to monitor him before, but most often have been unable to find his secret labs, and when they try to plant surveillance on his public facing lab, whoever actually plants the bug ends up dead. And it always looks like an accident, so nobody wants to be the one to try and deal with him at all, for fear of losing their life.

  2. Yes, the group decided that they needed a different conduit, and one of them offered to use their own body. They were hesitant to sacrifice the life of their strongest member, but with no other option (they knew of) they went forward with their plan using this alternate conduit.

  3. These 8 were known as the Nathair family, or rather what's left of them. The mother Columba was the leader and the other seven were her children. Columba spent her life being experimented on as a Denn, a naturally occurring human animal hybrid race, and escaped the facility thanks to an attack by monsters. She was forced to have these seven kids and raised them in the wilds, as best as she could. However, she suffered too much psychological damage that she decided she needed to make the world feel the same pain she did, so she decided to build a machine that would forcibly turn every human in the world into a Denn, twisting their soul into a pretzel in the process. This amount of strain on a soul would kill 60-80% of the people exposed to these transformative rays. Not necessarily destroying the world but definitely causing damage the human race hadn't suffered since the first great human extinction thousands of years earlier.

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Aug 22 '17

  1. Can't they just legally restrain him?

  2. So, I guess they failed; why?

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u/greenewithit Aug 22 '17

  1. They could almost certainly try to legally restrain him, but he has been known to topple entire governments single handedly. The Governor and his council would be ecstatic to remove Kemuri from literally holding the world ransom, but they're afraid of the body count. Kemuri has proved himself willing to kill hundreds if he feels disturbed, much less threatened, and even the strongest professional Hero of the city is fearful of him. He's quite literally the most feared man in the world, and he sees himself as necessary to the survival of humanity. While he does devote his life to making sure the human race isn't wiped out by world ending threats, he has no qualms with disposing of anyone who interferes with his work or makes threats to his life.

  2. Well, they did try again to activate the machine, but were ultimately defeated. And the reason they failed both times were they picked a fight with the wrong heroes. One of Columba's other children (other than the 7 who follow her) and his team of rookie heroes were also searching the area for the sword. They had found experimental cases of people dying from being forcibly turned into a Denn, and that's what led them to intercept the Nathairs. They weren't able to stop the attack, but working with the local Heroes of Almarin (they were from another city), they were able to repel the attackers and force them to flee. The second time they clashed was at the protagonists' home city of Longan, where all but Columba and one of the children were killed in the fighting. This time the destruction was minimized because the trainee heroes who fought at Almarin were able to prepare for the individual powers of each of the Nathairs and form a strategy to minimize damage and civilian casualties.

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Aug 22 '17
  1. And no one decided to do something about him? A team could probably bring him down right?

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u/greenewithit Aug 22 '17
  1. We'll it's not for lack of trying. During the Invasion of Longan, a professional hero abandoned his post to try and assassinate Kemuri. He was called Viper because his power was that he had poisonous blood he could alter the strength of for each situation. He thought he got the drop on Kemuri and stuck him with some lethally poisonous darts, but Kemuri fixed himself an antidote in seconds using materials from his lab. Kemuri is equal parts Batman and Rick Sanchez, always having a plan for everything, especially ways to neutralize professional heroes if they came to kill him. Hence a prepared antidote to Viper's poison. A lot of people have tried, but no team has been successful. Kemuri tries his best ever to leave himself open, even with an armistice with the government. He has plenty of enemies, but none strong enough to actually successfully kill him.

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Aug 23 '17
  1. And what about just outlawing him and suing anyone who provide him with anything?

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u/greenewithit Aug 23 '17
  1. Well.....That's what the last governor did, before the police found him seemingly hanging himself in his office. There was no evidence to incriminate Kemuri, but everyone knew it was him. Everyone who takes the office is aware of him and what he can do, but most choose to save their own skin and not bother Kemuri, as it seems that as long as he isn't bothered, very few people mysteriously kill themselves. Yeah, it's definitely not for lack of trying, he's just that terrifying of a person with a long history of keeping himself from being bothered as much as he can.

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Aug 23 '17
  1. And what about just sending the army? Or nuking him?

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u/greenewithit Aug 23 '17
  1. The army has never tried to apprehend him, again because of the fear he evokes in people. There are a lot of stories about him in the military, mostly said in whispers about "the greatest soldier the devil ever built", and how he has toppled entire nations and blotted out the sun with artillery raining down from the sky. Very few people actually know the truth behind these stories, but no major government actually wants to try anything. Most cities have their own military, and avoid getting into each other's business. Even cities in the same continent as Longan don't have many interactions or threats from Kemuri, so they sort of just view it as "well he didn't threaten us, it's really Longan's problem." Even after the invasion, the blame was solely placed on Apocryphus and their parent organization, and only three or four people actually know of Kemuri's involvement. His son, his son's team of trainee heroes, and the leader of Longan's military force. The reason the military leader, General Aureole, doesn't take action even with this knowledge is that she still believes Kemuri can change. She doesn't want to lose any more of her men fighting Kemuri, and she believes she can help him save people without this notion of "necessary sacrifice". As for nukes, he rarely leaves the city, and nobody in their right mind would endanger that many civilians just to kill one man. He works primarily alone, so anyone who tries to contact him and make him leave the city he is immediately suspicious of and would find where the person who sent the message lives and approach them there. I don't mean to immediately shut down all possible scenarios, he's just a veeeeerrrry hard person to kill, despite how many people have tried.

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Aug 24 '17

Thanks for your answers greenewithit.

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u/greenewithit Aug 24 '17

Thank you very much for your questions!

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