Earth-0902: Remy's NOLA Underground

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Quantum Leap: Earth-0902

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The World

It’s 2025 in New Orleans’ French Quarter, the seat of the Mutant Underground. All mutants in the world belong to either the Thieves Guild or the Assassins Guild.

• In this glossy, nocturnal, and dangerous alternate Earth, all mutants belong to a secret underground society of criminals and must conceal their supernatural nature from humans. The characters are centered in NOLA’s French Quarter, which is the seat of both of the major mutant Guilds.
• The Thieves Guild is led by the disreputable LeBeau family, and currently headed by Jean-Luc LeBeau. Thieves tend to be creative, stealthy, flexible, and conflict-adverse. They work in teams.
• The Assassins Guild is led by the aristocratic Boudreaux family. Belladonna Boudreaux has been the heir apparent of the Assassins since she was 10 years old, and Mystique rules the day-to-day operations for her as regent. Assassins tend to be direct, lethal, level-headed, and efficient. They work independently.
• The two factions are bound by a magically enforced contract called the Guildpact. These supernatural laws dictate the behavior of both guilds, and its edicts include maintaining secrecy, fulfilling any verbal bargains made with other guild members, and not conducting business on neutral territory. Violating Guildpact law results in a “kill order” being placed on you. Kill orders come with hefty bounties, and anyone with a kill order on them will be relentlessly hunted down by guild members.
• The only neutral territory in New Orleans is the historic Hôtel Tête-à-Tête, which is the venue for the wedding. Except under the most extreme circumstances, no violence is to be enacted between Guild members on hotel grounds, offering a reprieve for anyone who may be the target of a kill order or other scheme.
• Additionally, any official contracts signed in the blood of the negotiating parties are magically enforced, and the parties involved will be involuntarily compelled to complete any actions dictated by the contract.

The Incident

Everyone bound by the Guildpact knows about the Wolverine, an undying master assassin capable of fulfilling any contract. A Bogeyman invoked on misbehaving children and cursed upon enemies alike, Wolverine was an active member of the Assassins Guild for, allegedly, over a hundred years. However, fifteen years ago, he fell in love with the thief Jean Grey, and signed an open-ended Bloodoath with the Boudreauxes to buy his freedom from the Guild.

Shortly after this document was executed, Jean Grey was killed by the Assassin Prince Julien Boudreaux. Wolverine killed many members of both guilds in the resulting rampage – by some accounts, as many as 700 Assassins and 300 thieves in the space of a week. Amongst his victims were all the Boudreauxes save for their 10 year old daughter, Belladonna. After exacting his revenge on Julien, the Wolverine vanished, and has not been seen since.

His legacy is shrouded in rumor and urban legends. Some say that he has been cloned perhaps dozens of times in a twisted effort to create the perfect weapon. Others say the blood oath he signed for the Boudreauxes is still blank and held in the family vault, itself an invaluable artifact which would allow anyone who possessed it to summon him.

• Kurt Wagner was once spared by the Wolverine during an encounter.

The Wedding

Through Mystique’s machinations, a marriage was arranged between Belladonna Boudreaux and Remy Lebeau when they were eleven years old, just a year after the Wolverine incident. They are compelled by the Guildpact to go through with this marriage. To break the engagement would cause all-out war between the two factions.

However, nobody actually wants the wedding to proceed: if the two were married, and then one of them was killed, the surviving individual would assume control of both guilds, giving them an unprecedented level of power and control over the mutant population. Each faction is working to undermine the wedding in their own convoluted but Guildpact-abiding way.

• Thieves are trying to steal Wolverine’s Bloodoath contract to compel one of his clones to kill Belladonna Boudreaux.
• Assassins are simply trying to kill Remy Lebeau before the wedding takes place.

The Complication

When Remy arrives ahead of the rest of the 367 crew, he has only a few hours to settle in before he is accosted by Rogue-0902. This assassination attempt on him is meant to be a failure. However, due to his unwillingness to hurt her, the altercation goes on much longer than it was meant to, and is interrupted both by Jean-Luc Lebeau and Rogue-367’s arrival. Ultimately, Rogue and Remy kill Jean-Luc when they were not meant to.

Rogue absorbs all of Jean-Luc’s memories, including the details of the Bloodoath contract heist. She also gains his mutant power of petrifying gaze.

Because of this, the 367 characters must successfully convince the residents of Earth-0902 that Jean-Luc is not dead, as well as execute his scheme as intended.

The Big Finale

Ultimately, early Saturday morning, the Thieves are able to trigger the blood contract to summon the Wolverine and his clones to assassinate Belladonna Boudreaux. At first, nothing apparent happens, but as the events of the wedding day and ceremony progress, there is a distinct sense of anticipation hanging over both factions.

The wedding proceeds as planned, Jean-Luc's absence aside. Guests are treated to a cocktail reception in the gardens of the Hôtel Tête-à-Tête, and polite small talk is made between enemies who rarely get to catch up with one another. As the ceremony starts and everyone takes their seats, the mood is civil if tense.

Moments before vows are exchanged, X-23 drops from the rafters to fulfill the blood contract and stab Belladonna through the abdomen. Immediately, the hotel's alarm system trips. Under the cover of blaring klaxons and red security lights, chaos erupts and the factions turn on each other. But the skirmish is short lived, because X-23 is not the only Wolverine who's arrived at the party...

Comments

FORMS

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Write a short bio explaining your character's role and standing in their faction as well as their signature combat style. This should be brief! I'll include a space in the OOC section below if you'd like to post a more in-depth backstory for your AU character.

Rate your character's abilities on a scale of 1-7, where 7 is superhumanly excellent, 4 is average, and 1 is virtually non-existent. There's no limit for point allocation; your character can be 7s across the board if you want. The PCs are, in general, the most elite of their factions. You are of course also welcome to suck at everything if you want, too.

• Prowess: Mundane combat skills of all kinds.
• Control: Ability to wield mutant powers effectively.
• Durability: Stamina, toughness, and ability take hits.
• Stealth: Speed, agility, and ability to avoid detection.
• Persuasion: Charisma and manipulation.
• Intelligence: Learned knowledge and quick thinking.

GET FORM CODE

TASK ASSIGNMENT

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As people submit their AU forms, I will randomly roll tasks and events that their character is meant to do (ie, heist activities, deal with an NPC, fight to the death with another character, etc) and everyone can decide whether or not that this a thing their character will actually do, although not complying with the assigned tasks or failing to complete them risks further compromising the timeline.

I'll also be rolling to determine whether a kill order is placed on any character and on which day that occurs. If a kill order is placed on your character, NPC assassins will continuously attack them until the end of the plot.

You don't need to post anything here! I'll posts blurbs summarizing your character's info, NPCs they may need to interact with, etc as I complete them.

SCENES: THURSDAY

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Throughout the course of Thursday afternoon and evening, the 367 characters will arrive in their new bodies and settle into the timeline. The bachelor and bachelorette parties are tonight, although attendance may or may not be expected of your character. Although these parties take place off hotel grounds, there is a sort of amicable and casual truce between the factions in celebration of the wedding, and most NPCs will be more tolerant of unusual behavior than they would otherwise be.

SCENES: FRIDAY

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On Friday morning, the Thieves execute their plan to steal the blood oath contract from the Assassins Guild headquarters. Everyone in the mutant underground is aware of mounting tensions by noon, which makes the rehearsal dinner this evening a particularly tense and miserable affair.

SCENES: SATURDAY

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Saturday is the day of the wedding, and the Thieves execute Wolverine's blood contract at 8am. Preparations begin in the early morning, with most guests arriving to the hotel by 9am. The event taking place on enforced neutral territory is the only thing keeping the peace at this point. By the cocktail hour reception at 4pm, the mood has soured considerably. Putting a toe out of line in front of the wrong NPC today could result in severe consequences.

THE BIG FINALE

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Is your character going to stay to fight the Wolverine? Post below with your tactics for confronting the master assassin turned Bogeyman, as well as if your character is willing to fight to the death. I'll randomly roll to see who goes toe to toe with him the longest based on the above statblocks, with a bonus roll if the character is fighting to the death. This gets you nothing but dubious bragging rights.

Those who flee the wedding massacre will be returned to Earth-367 within the hour.

EARTH-367

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For scenes set before or after the Quantum Leap.

OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

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OOC: AU Backstories

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If you'd like to offer a more detailed rundown of your character's history in the 0902 universe, you can post that here! Not necessary by any means, however.

OUTFIT CHECK! Bachelor/ette Parties

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OUTFIT CHECK! Heist, Assassinations, and/or Rehearsal Dinner

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OUTFIT CHECK! The Wedding

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OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

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HUGE thank you to Marin for coding everything and making it look so wonderful, additional thank yous to Marin and Lyss for allowing me to use their characters as plot devices, and final thank you to K for providing us with a mood playlist for throwing your gun at a beautiful assassin in an art installation!

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

X for Kurt? He would have been mid-late teens. :>

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

This is SO GOOD!!!!!!! Thank you for all the hard work from everyone ♥

I'm going to bed but tomorrow I'll post a group telepathy post for their arrival! Holler if you want Em(ma) for anything (I want.. all the things)! Piotr stayed behind this time but I'll maybe still post outfits for his 0902 self because you guys know me. Pls feel free to use him as you see fit.

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

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my current plan for illyana and piotr is that they get told to kill remy on day 1 and she has to spend the entire time foiling his attempts to kill remy

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

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added!! cute :>

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

I love this lmfao

FORMS: Illyana

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Assassins Guild

ILLYANA RASPUTIN

The Rasputins have long served as the occult advisors to the aristocratic Boudreaux family, and Illyana's grandfather was one of the magicians responsible for forging the Guildpact. Illyana herself is akin to minor nobility in both the mutant underground and her mundane life, with the public persona of a glamorous European socialite. She is Belladonna's Maid of Honor and closest friend, having been assigned to be her personal bodyguard after the Wolverine incident when the girls were 10.

Illyana-0902 has been trained in sorcery by her grandfather and father since she was a small child, and uses magic as her primary offense. While she is also trained in guns, weapons, and hand-to-hand combat, she is not the skilled swordswoman she is on Earth-367 and does not have a Soulsword.

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[glovedup rogue]

THANK YOU JJ!!! AND MARIN!!! AND K!

I am also going to bed soon but I want so many threads with both my girls. Rogue is going to do so many murders. Kitty is going to be blonde. It will be so fun.

STAFF FORMS: Warren Worthington III

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Thieves Guild

Warren

Warren Worthington III was the first mutant born to the Worthington business empire, and subsequently their foot in the door of the Thieves Guild. While no thief himself, Warren delivers high-end clients and targets to guild members. If you need a job, he's not a bad person to ask... as long as you hold up your end of the deal. He's a cooperative ally, and if his children are also mutants, it'll solidify this arrangement for the next generation.

Recently, someone put out an unusual hit on Warren. They specifically requested that he not be killed, but that the assassin should maim or remove his wings in the attack. In reality, this is not some brilliant power grab or even revenge, but a petty backstab from his childhood friend and business associate, Cameron Hodge.

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

helloooo i'm going to post into this tomorrow but both Scott and Laura are here and available for dumb scenes. unfort i already know that laura will want to fight her dad to the death. scott may also be involved in some dad murder later idk

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

This is so cool and exciting!!!! Thank you for putting this together

Kurt and Warren are both here and I'd love to do some silly scenes. Warren's just hanging out at the bar and might get dragged into a sexy toxic argument with a Shinobi who's not even real. Kurt's helping his sister Rogue do One Last Job so he's also here to kill, theoretically.

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

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let's all commit patricide

FORMS: Kurt

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

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Assassins Guild

Nightcrawler

As the son of Mystique, Kurt Darkholme is a well-known and well-regarded assassin who carries the notoriety of his mothers with him. If Mystique doesn't make you nervous, then the more reclusive Irene probably could. Currently in his early 30's, his reputation is established as one of the top assassins, even without his pedigree. Being a teleporter who climbs walls and blends into the shadows certainly gave him an edge.

Kurt has been training for this since he could walk, and blends rapid teleportation with knives and daggers. He has no trouble bringing a knife to a literal gunfight. He was his mothers' golden child, while his sister, Rogue, was kept behind the scenes. Ever since his close encounter with the Wolverine, perhaps even before then, Kurt idolized the infamous assasin and speaks about him with reverence and awe.