THE NINTH GATE - [modplot]

[letsgolegion]

Who| Anyone who signed up
What| "The Ninth Gate" plot
Where| It starts on Rimbor, moves to Earth
When| The same time as "Gone-Away World" and "Total Eclipso the Heart"
Warnings/Notes| Lots of really fucked up suicide cult stuff.

It's not that difficult to get a lead on where the Catastrophists are recruiting, but so far the survival rate of undercover Scicops is...bad. As in, none of the undercover cops that have been sent in have come back. So with the rise in Catastrophist activity and losing several of their top undercover officers, the Science Police has actually asked for the Legion's help for once. A few tips from their contacts have made it clear that something big is coming, a terrorist attack of sometime, and time is running out. They need to get someone on the inside that actually survives, and they're hoping the Legion can do what they couldn't.

Fortunately, there's an easy in to at least start the undercover op.

The Science Police has long since determined that the Universal Brotherhood is just a front for the Catastrophists, largely due to the references to Apokolips and Darkseid they keep dropping. Science Police specialists and Legion intelligence officers handle the initial contacts, creating fake personas that they chat out as getting duped into embracing the Catastrophists' cause. They even donate enough credits to make it seem like the personas are emptying out their modest bank accounts to support the cause.

The next step is a very thorough briefing given to the Legionnaires going undercover on this mission, so they know every possible detail about their fake personas, and have access to all the chats they need to pretend to remember having.

Then, they're armed with very advanced technology to use to infiltrate the group. Super advanced subdermal hard-light hologram generators, sensor emulators that give off biosigns that fit their personas, advanced psi-blockers that even allow them to project surface thoughts that fit their cover. They have all the knowledge they need to infiltrate the group - now they just have to survive initiation.

They're sent in three pairs to sign up for recruitment in a shady bar on Rimbor, at separate times so them showing up together doesn't seem suspicious. Rimbor is an urban world that's just layers and layers of city on top of older cities. They're all led underground, to abandoned under-levels that used to be on the top levels of the cities only a few hundred years before, but are now that are deemed uninhabitable even by the lowest dregs of Rimborian society.

Once they're in, there are only two ways out: through surviving initiation or in body bags dropped in Rimbor's massive trash incinerators.

Comments

[calibrates_big_guns]

There's a part of Garrus that wants to make something resembling a witty remark - some pithy quip about how there's only one way this ends that would come off as agreement rather than the veiled threat it was ... but Sister Ellora poking around in his memories had drained him. It was an almost physical exhaustion that left him just a little slow to get to his feet and shift out of the way.

Not far though. He was sticking close to Widowmaker, playing his part and offering moral support that Amélie probably didn't need.

But then again, maybe she did. He'd never really thought that she was as completely devoid of feeling as she tried to project. The empath's read of her had put a dent in that theory, but if anything was going to get under her skin, it'd be Ellora.

[araignee_du_soir]

Widowmaker was of the opinion she didn't need any support, but their cover was important. She held Garrus' eyes a brief moment - to check that he was mentally present - before she settled down to receive the 'pain' from Sister Ellora. She curled her hands in and then relaxed them, making herself look just the slightest bit nervous.

She wasn't. "I am ready, Sister."