There's such a thing as too much of a good thing.

((a Unionverse RP thread, half a whimsical story...half RP...so you must be or have a character in the Unionverse in order to respond)).

Dr Edward Johnson aka the infamous Dr Mechano took in a deep breath, drawing air through the crackling tobaco of his new pipe. He had decided that perhaps a pipe would make him look more distinguished...all the best scientists of that bygone era of discovery smoked pipes so perhaps it had been time for him to start. He was reading the Rogue Isles Protector...his favorite paper and it had front page splashes of the fights that had raged in the three contested zones.

"I've been out the loop too long it seems," his mechanical hand flexing, "it appears people have gone and had a war without me...how terribly inconvient..."

Edward laid down his pipe and moved to sip his tea and ponder for a while.

"Seems like the New World Order has succeeded in dealing quite a few blows to the heroes...and after I'd sent that lovely peace offering to Countess Elizabeth perhaps I should stay my hand...after all who wants to enrage that little lot again..."

He gave a grin and scratched his beard, "however I cannot let the flush of success make them overconfident...I have proven they're not untouchable once before but it doing the same thing again would simply be a tad boring...no, perhaps it's time to shake things up a bit, try something new."

Edward set down the paper, "the question is what...normally I go with the first idea that comes into my head but this requires something big, something extravagant, something that will top everything I've planned previously, just to let people know I'm still here and still watching, ready to strike down the unwary and the overconfident..."

He was very much on his own when it came to the villain community, all the major groups considered him something of a 'wild card' prone to drawing a lot of attention for all the wrong reason and prone to being someone that alliances with lasted as long as his attention was entertained by them.

"I need secrets, big secrets, in order to reveal...this new group led by that blustering Arachnos official...what was it...Purple Guard...it was a colour anyway...do represent a problem.."

Edward stood up from his chair and wandered downstairs to his lab, dusting off the old inventing table, a spanner in his hand, staring at it as if it were to will an idea into his mind.

"The Arbiters are untoucable...beyond reproach...so while I cannot target him I'm sure I could sully the name of someone in his little group...someone must have secrets they cannot hide..."

He offered a smile to his remarkably silent chatting companion, "ooh..thank you Steve...I would forget my head if it wasn't screwed on..." liberating his cup of tea from his companion, kind enough to bring it to the Doctor from upstairs.

"Hmm perhaps I am not the one that can find these secrets...however there are always good spies available for hire...Steve, take notes, I want you to place this advert in the Rogue Isles Protector.

Steve, perhaps it should be said, remained silent for he was a cybernetically enhanced Shivan, the Doctor's assistant and bodyguard when he was not with his robotic family. However Steve had taken a remarkable shine to the position, he couldn't talk but he could type, updating his Myspace blog Shivan Steve Types! every so often about musings on working with the good Doctor and being a Shivan who goes shopping.

So begun the dictation of the advert, "Wanted, exclamation mark, those of an investigative nature to do very, underline very and make it bold, background checks on prospective employees, full stop. Pay is based on results, full stop. Contact is to be through PO Box number 125 in Port Oakes, full stop."

"Place that advert and we shall hope we get some of the better investigative criminals in the Isles...oh and place it in the Paragon Times to...we may as well get some of thos conspiracy theorist nut heroes working for us as well ahey Steve?"

The Shivan nodded and lumbered off to post the advert in the respective newspapers.

"Smart boy that Steve, play the piano amazingly, who knew Shivans could play the piano..." the doctor muttered to himself as he took another sip of his earl grey tea.

((those looking to play people who would answer the advert, both hero or villain, should respond on this thread, once I have talked with the respective leaders of the Corporation, the Krimzon Guard, and the Court of the Blood countess. I will pass you the information through means of PM's...you are free to do with the information your character discovers as you wish...send it on to Mechano or use it for your own gain. If you wish to volunteer you villain group to have their secrets revealed, please speak up!))

((Tread carefully, Mech Krimzon dislikes a lot of the villains of the Rogue Isles, and Ed falls neatly into one of those categories.
Also, tad burnt out after the war...will need to see if Im still on as frequently))

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Wanted, ! those of an investigative nature to do very, , background checks on prospective employees. Pay is based on results. Contact is to be through PO Box number 125 in Port Oakes, full stop.


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(( contact Archibald Vyllain in game ))

((the two responses so far have recieved PMs through the forums, I am currently in talks with Ms Bathory but will have to see how Alpha and if I can grab a hold of old Headbreaker ingame.))