Question: How has the government, even with all of its not inconsiderable resources, managed to keep a Legend 7 Demigod like Dierdre contained?
Because they're cheating, like the dirty, dirty cheaters they are.
Dierdre is currently under the auspices of a branch of the government created specifically to deal with what they like to refer to as Dangerous Supernaturals. She's not the only Scion they're sitting on, and they also have various lesser immortals and Titanspawn on lockdown as well. While she was easy to capture, Legend 5 at the time and easily taken down by a giant spray of gunfire, she has since grown to Legend 7 while in captivity. It seems ludicrous that the mortal government could possibly keep her, let alone all the other creatures in there with her, solidly contained on their own.
So, of course, they're not doing it on their own; there are supernatural beings in the government as well. The extent of the non-humans in positions of power is unknown, as well as which factions are controlling what, but there are certainly Titanspawn (giants, in particular, have been turning up in the military quite a bit), lesser immortals and even Scions involved in running, influencing or changing several parts of the ruilng bodies of the world. The head scientist in charge of Dierdre is actually a Scion himself, as was the soldier that captured and brought her in. Mortals wouldn't have a prayer of holding on to that many high-octane supernatural beings, but it's an entirely different ballgames when it's divine power against divine power. Even Hero-level Scions can easily manipulate a government with the right application of powers; up it to several demigod-level beings that may or may not be working together, and pretty much anything could happen depending on what their eventual goals are and which pantheons, Titanrealms or other masters they might be working for.
It also doesn't hurt that poor Dierdre is a pacifist who really isn't sure what's even going on most of the time and will make friends with anyone who's nice to her. She's unfortunately very easy to manipulate and confuse.
Yeah, have joked before about hypotheticals where Hero level Scions could use basic Charisma and Manipulation knacks to get a nuke launched. This is assuming there aren't other Scions in the government, mind you, but a funny thought regardless. Just goes to show how much better Scions are than mortals.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's really not at all difficult for any Scion at Legend 4 or higher to pull mortal governmental strings at will. Some of ours took over a city in Australia for a while once, and Goze managed to make himself a high-ranking cardinal in the Church just for the giggles.
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