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CW: Character deaths, suicide, suicidal ideation, drug use, torture, eye horror, gore, nail gore, lung trauma, body horror, PTSD, disassociation, hallucinations, and other setting-related horror.
Player Name: Indy
Preferred Pronouns?: She, her
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Other characters in play? None
Character Name: Mycroft Holmes
Canon: BBC Sherlock
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snowblindrpg
Original App: Here.
Game Summary: Snowblind is a panfandom horror game based on surviving the fictional, frozen town of Norfinbury, Alaska in a nuclear winter, in which characters must solve puzzles, work together to survive the elements as well as unseen technological forces that may or may not be working in their favor. The characters are all infused with nanomachines to provide protection against radiation, though they tend to routinely alter their perceptions of reality, as well as giving many characters ill side-effects such as sickness, paranoia, pain, and so forth. The town (and nanomachines) seem to be run by a mysterious ADMIN, though they remain unsurprisingly unhelpful at times. Death is temporary to some characters, some are revived and even wake healed from mortal wounds. There are 'anomalies', or what amount to monsters that crop up out of nowhere and eat characters as they traverse the snowy landscape. Not to mention the dangers from other characters who are actually criminals, as well as a mysterious faction that follow "the Prophet" that pose a significant horrific danger to those caught in their sway. However, characters continue to work together and bond to counteract these various threats to their person as well as the varying degrees of malnutrition, constant cold, and bombardment of terrifying events to be able to reach their goal of finding the center of town and possibly a way home.
How long was your character in Game: 1 month/30 days IC, 3 months OOC.
History of Character in their Game:
1) Mycroft, understandably, was suspicious and in disbelief when he arrived in Norfinbury. Fortunately (or unfortunately), Sherlock Holmes, his brother, John Watson, Sherlock's best friend, and Mary Watson, John's wife (who in Mycroft's timeline was dead already, much to his shock of finding her here), had all arrived earlier than he had to Norfinbury and were able to get him up to speed on just exactly what was happening. He finds little solace in their words and isn't exactly sure that he's not dreaming, drugged, or suffering cranial trauma. Mary reveals that people can arrive here prior to their actual deaths, as well as be revived upon death here. She tells him that Sherlock and John have both died already, much to Mycroft's shock and horror. He's also introduced to a bevy of other people of the town, one of which is Dr. Gregory House, who sends Mycroft one of his Morgue experiments to show him what anomalies look like. Mycroft is not pleased. However, despite his Sherlock-like brusque manner, he provides a lot of good information and Mycroft notes his usefulness. They will eventually have a beneficial, though adversarial, CR, as Mycroft believes House to be one of the few people there who is competent and logical.
Not long after, Stephen Strange posts a video on the network, which is another blow to Mycroft, seeing his brother's features on someone else's face (albeit covered in facial hair). He's rather roughly introduced to the concept of multiverses. Mycroft also advises Stephen about drugs, since the good doctor happened to be high, seeing too much of Sherlock in him right then.
Mycroft joins in on an amusing attempt by John on the network to prove some kind of correlation between height and being attacked, though he's freezing while traveling and resorts to text to avoid letting people see how cold and bad off he is.
2) On day 237, Mycroft meets up with Sherlock, John and Mary, thankfully. He gets treatment for his feet which have suffered mild frostbite/frostnip and John fashions makeshift socks after treating his feet. Mycroft also shares a cigarette with Sherlock, trying to determine his state by striking up a conversation. He also speaks with Mary in private upon the manner of her death, emphasizing that he in fact, owed her for saving Sherlock's life. Upon the evening of day 238, Mycroft, Sherlock and John encounter a Molly-shaped anomaly, and Mycroft has a meltdown over the impossibility of the creature, reality crashing down on him as he comes to terms with the situation they have all found themselves in. He manages to collect himself, but he's still very disturbed. He and John try to convince Sherlock not to try and kill an anomaly.
On 240, John, Sherlock and Mycroft meet up with Kid to do a blood transfusion, but Mycroft keeps to himself.
3) On day 242, Sherlock and John begin turning into anomalies. This horrifies Mycroft to no end, he refuses to believe it's real, as he ends up seeing things which shouldn't be possible--Sherlock having gun hands, John turning into a monstrous dog. Sherlock manages to convince Mycroft to lock himself in a room, though. That evening, Mycroft sneaks out, still desperately trying to figure this all out and determine if it was real or not, using his umbrella as a meager shield. He finds the monstrous form of John. They both manage to come up with an experiment of throwing rubble at John to see if it would stop the transformation progress, but it seems to have little effect. Mycroft's barely holding it together as it is, the ugly reality settling in and terrifying him. John makes Mycroft promise to look after Mary for him, and he agrees. John tries to encourage Mycroft, telling him he's clever, that he has to help everyone out of the town. John and Sherlock leave as soon as they're able.
Morning of 243, Mycroft makes a stressed call to the network, accidentally offending people who weren't human by asking if anybody was still human. He finds out that there are originally non-humans among them and it's a bit of a shock. He has a discussion with House, learning about anomaly theories and House warning him to stay away from Sherlock and John while they're like this. And, there's an anomaly version of Eurus, his younger sister, shuffling behind his door, which is freaking him out, to say the least. House tries to speak in Chinese to help Mycroft come to his senses with the extra concentration it takes to switch languages, and they discuss the anomalies that have showed up. The idea that perhaps the anomalies are actually the people they knew, just made up of pieces, is anathema to Mycroft. Especially once the anomalies start talking.
Brian plants an uncomfortable idea in Mycroft's mind that perhaps that they, the people trapped here in town, are all not who they were, or not themselves, also showing him a clip of himself bleeding with the blood being static. He gets a very Moriarty-ized message from Sherlock (as Sherlock is still an anomaly), and he tries to tell Sherlock to fight it. It's awful for Mycroft, hearing Sherlock like this, and lets himself show some sentiment, telling Sherlock that he'd always be there for him. It seems to give his little brother some clarity, and the subject of Eurusanomaly comes up. Since Mycroft is further ahead in the timeline than Sherlock, Sherlock knows nothing of the terrible secrets his brother has kept all these years about their hidden sister, so he does not recognize the anomaly when Mycroft shows it to him. (Mycroft, as always, indulges in his sibling's requests, and Sherlock demanded to see it.)
4) The night of 244, Sherlock contacts Mycroft right before he begins a Morgue experiment. The elder Holmes is horrified at what Sherlock's about to do, but there is nothing to be done as it's after lockdown. Mycroft is treated to the scene of a child Eurus appearing from an opened-up wall and Sherlock trying to shoot her with his gun-hands. That's pretty much all he sees before the tablet recording this explodes. Sherlock's name goes up on the obituary on 246, along with John Watson from an unrelated cause. Needless to say, Mycroft does not take any of this well. He's also suffering from cabin fever from not leaving his location, and the stress of Eurusanomaly hanging out all that time. He sounds broken when he manages to get on the network, too distraught to switch to text. At least he receives kind words from England and America, and has a rather acidic conversation with House, but fortunately (or unfortunately) results in him getting a video of Sherlock's first Morgue experiment (which also results in his death) in a trade for the video of the latest one. He theorizes that they're in some kind of grand experiment not unlike what happened at Sherrinford with Eurus, which he explains to House without specifics. On day 246 he gets a message from Mary and sends her the video at her request, and also decides to contact the ADMIN to see if he can find out where Sherlock is being kept (and potentially woken up at).
The same afternoon as the obituary, he gets a message from Sherlock, thankfully. Mycroft begs for him not to do that again (which begging is not something normally seen from Mycroft Holmes). Sherlock does not recognize the Eurus that killed him, either. Mycroft inquires about his death price, worried, and to both their horror they realize Sherlock has lost his short term memory.
He had attempted to contact John as well, but the latter has lost a good amount of his memory as a death price. Mycroft's attempt is too supervillain-like which upsets John and he's immediately hung up on.
5) Mycroft manages to track Sherlock down, and convince him of his death price (as he keeps forgetting it). Brotherly bonding ensues, as well as an item trade and discussion of drugs. Mycroft bemoans the hallucinations of Les Mis that plagued him during cabin fever.
Night 250, Mycroft tries to threaten the Joker as well on John's apology post after he regains his memories, as he's worried when he shows interest in Sherlock, since he's the one that killed John.
Morning of 251, Winter contacts the network and Mycroft tries to get answers out of her, and comes out of it with some good data, namely (and horrifyingly) that it's possible the people who've died are repaired using anomaly parts (or Frankensteined bits of other people), and also that it's not impossible they aren't in their original bodies.
6) Night 254, Mycroft and Sherlock participate in Hackerquest 2.0 orchestrated by House, in which a number of participants place their tablets in the doors so that at lockdown, the tablets are cracked open. It ends badly for many, and ends catastrophically for Sherlock and Mycroft. Sherlock tries swallowing a computer chip, and a mysterious cloaked figure that has come to collect them rips out his throat to obtain the chip, killing him. A distraught Mycroft desperately has been trying to stop the figure with his hammer, but is useless. He ends up wandering around in the snow to find help for Sherlock (as futile as it was) and freezes to death not long after.
7) Mycroft revives on the morning of 256, waking up upset to say the least, almost vomiting when he remembers what happened to Sherlock, paralyzed with grief and horror, and utterly broken a second time. He manages to collect himself to call House a bloody idiot on the latter's network post, realizing that he cannot, in fact, speak clearly. Mycroft's death price is causing him to speak like a child, with limited vocabulary and grammar. He can't text clearly, and is thoroughly embarrassed and angry, but he's forced to communicate regardless. He goes on the following obituary to see if anyone's seen Sherlock and speaks with John and informs him Sherlock ate a chip, but John can't handle it and hangs up.
8) Mycroft ends up meeting with House at the aquarium on Day 256, and finds a rather intoxicated man bent on emptying all the water out of the aquariums. Needless to say, Mycroft's annoyed. Because of House's death price, he's acting, for lack of a better word, insane, and is planning another Morgue experiment. Against his better judgement, Mycroft decides to help him, wanting revenge on the cloaked figures, needing to do something. Mycroft considers the ethical ramifications of basically assisting House in a suicide, but if there's one thing Mycroft Holmes is good at, is making logical, ruthless decisions and if they break a tablet, this is a real chance at revenge.
Day 257, they set up the experiment, making a 'trap' for the Morgue creature, and House puts his tablet in the door to be broken upon lockdown. Mycroft has prepared a weapon by tying a sharp piece of rubble on the end of his umbrella.
Mycroft hides in the elevator shaft to film the whole thing and possibly attack the cloaked figure should it appear. The Morgue anomaly that appears isn't daunted by their sheet 'trap' and consumes House through a hole in its torso. The creature also sends its fingers under Mycroft's door, wrapping around him and dragging him forcefully underneath and through the door. Fortunately that's all that Mycroft remembers at this point, but the gruesome implications aren't lost on him.
He makes a contrite post on the network sharing the video, asking for helpful eyes to analyze it, and gets quite the talking-to from Stephen Strange. House is also contrite as Kid performed his own experiment and dies which he is very guilty for, but shares that video as well. House and Mycroft have a subdued conversation about the data they gathered, anyway, and a potential new experiment. Mycroft's death price about not being able to lie (or just anger in general over everything) pisses House off and the conversation devolves into an argument, which ends in Mycroft admitting Sherlock's loss would break his heart and he disconnects in horror. House and Mycroft also have a private conversation about what happened in the Morgue discussing the anomalies.
9) John has tricked Mycroft into revealing information about Eurus (quite smoothly too) with Mycroft's death price intact, since he cannot lie. On evening of 259, Sherlock demands Mycroft tells him about their sister. From the experiment in Sherrinford to what really happened to Victor Trevor, he's forced to tell him everything. Sherlock is upset, clearly, and hangs up, even his exhale sounding near tears. Mycroft is devastated yet again, and very sorry. Everything he has worked his whole life for, to protect, to shield Sherlock from the worst parts of his life, to shield the world from their sister and vice versa, all the lies he's weaved has failed. He knows he's limited like their mother has said, and all of that was all his fault. He felt he deserved being here in Norfinbury, as he'd failed everyone he ever cared about.
10) Mycroft and a number of others suddenly disappear on the morning of 260, to find themselves in an office building in the industrial area which has been turned into a some kind of jail. They are in cells, only wearing hospital gowns, which bodes ill. Mycroft is pretty certain they're about to get tortured and tries to give helpful advice to House since he's had experience with interrogation. House asks Mycroft to kill him before he breaks, and Mycroft refuses, and gets called a coward. Mycroft meets Sylar and Rhys, who he strikes up fairly amiable conversations with and keeps in contact with during the entire experience, and finally sees Stephen face-to-face, which is still strange (pun completely intended) to him since he's identical to Sherlock. He's shocked when Stephen does a little magic, which is kind of appalling to him considering it looks like Sherlock performing such things. The other half of the group of people who disappeared from the town are brainwashed into being part of the followers of the Prophet, and all of this is part of something called convertpurge.exe.
Vanitas, in a cloak, comes to collect Mycroft and performs surgery on him-- more like torture than surgery. He tells him that helplessness and humility is the first step, that a lesson is being taught, and that he has to break Mycroft, to be converted. Mycroft tries to escape, but is somehow weakened and can't break free. He's waterboarded with static that fills his lungs, his head submerged in a bucket and he's forced to breath the substance in. Sparks in his lungs and chest and throat crack painfully every time he breathes. His fingernails and toenails are torn off one by one, and his eyes are sewn open, so he can't blink, and some kind of liquid is applied to stop them from drying out.
Despite telling House what was going to happen, when it happens to himself, it's shocking and upsetting, naturally. But what really gets to him is the seeing. He can't not see, and being brought back to catch a glimpse of all the suffering in the cells nearby, all the visual input, unable to stop it--it wears on Mycroft's nerves like nothing else. The constant pain when breathing really adds to this assault on his system. Still, he's got enough wits about him that he calls out to see what happened to the others, and has several disturbing conversations with people who have not been altered (yet) as well as those that have. He shares a tense conversation with House (before House's surgery) that involves more advice about torture and a rare, almost sentimental comment from Mycroft to him where he wishes him the best of luck considering what's about to happen.
He's beyond appalled at what has happened to the others, not only himself, as terrible as it was he'd gotten off a bit easier than people like Stephen, who had his hands sewn to his face, arms paralyzed, and cuts all over his skin like an anatomy model as well as prophet eyes. He's especially disturbed by Stephen since he sounds and looks identical to Sherlock. It's as if it were happening to him. They both discuss the possibility of suicide. Stephen's concerned Mycroft will try something, and strongly advises against it.
Mycroft didn't know Vanitas, but it's soon clear that their assailants are their brainwashed companions and friends, made to play the part of the followers of the Prophet and they, the tortured, are the unwitting ones to be converted. Tablets are passed out eventually to certain people but Mycroft refuses anyway, not wanting to play into their games. He knows the torturer's handbook, and knows they're offering kindness after the pain. Eventually though, his hunger becomes too great and he accepts an injection of something that takes away hunger for a short time from the kid in the suit of armor, Al. He berates him though, he tries to berate any of the converted that talk to him like America, even though it's futile. He learns a bit from the conversations though.
They eventually get food, however, but somehow as the days wear on, it's becoming more difficult to think. Mycroft is desperate to hold on, not wanting to become like them, fearing he would be converted and made to do this to Sherlock. His mind gets confused easily though, as with everyone else's. He's losing hold on his sanity with his lack of sleep and the constant visual input of his eyes, and he hallucinates, thinking he's in Baker Street. He speaks to a couple of the converted, but he can't get much out of them nor can they get much out of him. Midday of 262 he uses someone else's tablet and calls Sherlock out of a vague, incessant pressing need to tell him something. Earlier he asked Sylar (who has his tablet and went on the network) to tell them that he'd been killed to avoid Sherlock coming there, but that didn't work at all. Mycroft thinks Eurus has captured him again, believing he's in Sherrinford, but Sherlock manages to get some coherency out of him and Mycroft explains what's been done to him. There's a moment when he's lucid and he begs Sherlock to not let himself end up hurting him, implying that he was to be killed before that would happen. He can't let Sherlock try and rescue him and risk this. Sherlock ignores his request to not come, but promises that if he becomes like the converted, he'd kill him himself. This placates Mycroft, at least. Eventually he completely breaks from reality, imagining that this was all there was and ever would be--pain and sight, and nothing else. He's too far gone to really know what was going on but there's an escape plan, the converts and the rest of the town on the network figure out how to trick their programming and manage to get everyone through a trap door and into the maintenance tunnels with the help of Andromeda and the ADMIN. Their injuries are healed, surgeries reversed, somehow, as they walk.
11) Mycroft wakes back up in the same building he'd been in before he'd been abducted, on 265. He has a slight breakdown on the network, his texts (using texts in the first place is a bad sign) full of grammatical errors and bad punctuation, assuming that this is all still a trick. John tries to talk him out of it. Sherlock is fortunately not far (as blindness was his most recent death price and he had been going in circles) and he meets with Mycroft, who is suffering from PTSD. Sherlock tries to close the door but it rouses Mycroft, he can't bear to be locked in anywhere. He demands Sherlock's opinion of the prophet to determine if he's acting under his own control. Mycroft tries bolting to open the door again but Sherlock catches him and restrains him. Mycroft suffers a bad flashback and begs to be let go. He thinks Sherlock is one of them, suffering from a panic attack as well, but Sherlock manages to bring him back to lucidity. He gets Mycroft to calm down and plays violin for him, some of his favorite film noir soundtracks.
Mary comes a little while later and Mycroft has a poor reaction to the door closing again. Mycroft is also suffering from a bad cold, and his coughing has only gotten worse since coming back. They manage to get him to close the door on his own.
How did they change from their canon personality wise (Please explain what caused it to happen?) Mycroft is currently suffering from PTSD from the multiple traumatic events that have happened to him since coming here--Sherlock dying twice, one gruesomely and in front of him, himself dying twice, seeing Sherlock and John turn into monsters, seeing his sister as a Frankensteined monstrous anomaly, and being tortured and imprisoned. Mycroft has always had a desperate need for control, stemming from the trauma he's suffered as a child, but now he's experienced a tremendous amount of helplessness in a short period of time. He could do nothing to stop Sherlock from dying, which is pretty much his worst fear, he couldn't help the sad monstrosity that was his sister, he couldn't stop himself from being tortured, much less the fear that he would be made to be like the converted and do this to Sherlock. Mycroft's been broken to pieces in Norfinbury. This is a man who's entire life is control, where he basically is the British Government and went on that career track out of a desire to protect his siblings, and he's learned very harshly and quickly how little control he really has over anything, and how much he's failed over and over again. Sherlock in Norfinbury knows about Eurus and Victor Trevor, and Mycroft feels terrible about that, he tried to keep it from him but that failed miserably as well. As broken as he is, there's really nothing to do except keep trudging along, and it's actually made him far more open to expressing sentiment than usual, realizing how easily he could lose Sherlock (to both death and him being upset at him over Eurus.) Mycroft is upset and feels useless, but as long as Sherlock's around he won't let himself delve too far down a hole of despair because little brothers need protecting. He's also a bit more reluctant to engage in completely cold, ruthless decisions as those have recently backfired as well with disastrous results (like the House Morgue experiment). Mycroft is realizing the consequences of amoral actions and will think twice about doing such in the future--and at least if he does, he knows all too well what it's like to lose.
PTSD has causes Mycroft to suffer flashbacks, panic attacks, to not being able to be touched, to not being able to be in an enclosed space. He must leave the door open for an easy escape, to not feel like he's been trapped. He's extremely paranoid, still under the impression that the converted are orchestrating things. He had a hard time trusting people before, and now it's all the more difficult, he thinks even people he knows are compromised unless proven otherwise.
How did they change from their canon physically (Please explain what caused it to happen?): Mycroft has small scars around his eyes from the stitches used to sew them open. He's also underweight, as he was thin and dieting even before coming to Norfinbury. The various upsetting events has destroyed a lot of his appetite, and he hasn't been the best on replenishing his food stores, plus he scarcely got anything during his imprisonment.
Powers: None.
Possessions:
Umbrella x1 (Tied sharp bit of rubble at the end)
Handkerchief x2
Wallet x1
Cell phone x1
Long underwear x1
Deerstalker Hat x1
Rain boots x1
Insoles x1
Mittens x1
Hat x1
Tablecloth x1
T-shirt x1
Mug x1
Whistle x1
Net x1
Backpack x1
3-piece Suit x1
Pants x1
Jacket x1
Deodorant x1
Toothbrush x1
Styrofoam Cup x1
Paper plates x1
Sweatpants x1
Hammer x1
Potted plant x1
Bottle opener x1
Hanger x1
Tissues x1
Throw pillow x2
Blanket x1
Yoga mat x1
Shopping bag x1
Toothpicks x1
Whitening strips x1
Air freshener x1
Syringe x1
Pet Leash x1
Eye drops x1
Muzzle x1
Please provide three samples from your previous game, at least one will have to be third person with context:
Sample One: Mycroft on Sherlock's death
Sample Two: Sherlock and Mycroft
Sample Three: Network Post
Notes:
Player Name: Indy
Preferred Pronouns?: She, her
Player Contact:
Other characters in play? None
Character Name: Mycroft Holmes
Canon: BBC Sherlock
Game Transplant:
snowblindrpgOriginal App: Here.
Game Summary: Snowblind is a panfandom horror game based on surviving the fictional, frozen town of Norfinbury, Alaska in a nuclear winter, in which characters must solve puzzles, work together to survive the elements as well as unseen technological forces that may or may not be working in their favor. The characters are all infused with nanomachines to provide protection against radiation, though they tend to routinely alter their perceptions of reality, as well as giving many characters ill side-effects such as sickness, paranoia, pain, and so forth. The town (and nanomachines) seem to be run by a mysterious ADMIN, though they remain unsurprisingly unhelpful at times. Death is temporary to some characters, some are revived and even wake healed from mortal wounds. There are 'anomalies', or what amount to monsters that crop up out of nowhere and eat characters as they traverse the snowy landscape. Not to mention the dangers from other characters who are actually criminals, as well as a mysterious faction that follow "the Prophet" that pose a significant horrific danger to those caught in their sway. However, characters continue to work together and bond to counteract these various threats to their person as well as the varying degrees of malnutrition, constant cold, and bombardment of terrifying events to be able to reach their goal of finding the center of town and possibly a way home.
How long was your character in Game: 1 month/30 days IC, 3 months OOC.
History of Character in their Game:
1) Mycroft, understandably, was suspicious and in disbelief when he arrived in Norfinbury. Fortunately (or unfortunately), Sherlock Holmes, his brother, John Watson, Sherlock's best friend, and Mary Watson, John's wife (who in Mycroft's timeline was dead already, much to his shock of finding her here), had all arrived earlier than he had to Norfinbury and were able to get him up to speed on just exactly what was happening. He finds little solace in their words and isn't exactly sure that he's not dreaming, drugged, or suffering cranial trauma. Mary reveals that people can arrive here prior to their actual deaths, as well as be revived upon death here. She tells him that Sherlock and John have both died already, much to Mycroft's shock and horror. He's also introduced to a bevy of other people of the town, one of which is Dr. Gregory House, who sends Mycroft one of his Morgue experiments to show him what anomalies look like. Mycroft is not pleased. However, despite his Sherlock-like brusque manner, he provides a lot of good information and Mycroft notes his usefulness. They will eventually have a beneficial, though adversarial, CR, as Mycroft believes House to be one of the few people there who is competent and logical.
Not long after, Stephen Strange posts a video on the network, which is another blow to Mycroft, seeing his brother's features on someone else's face (albeit covered in facial hair). He's rather roughly introduced to the concept of multiverses. Mycroft also advises Stephen about drugs, since the good doctor happened to be high, seeing too much of Sherlock in him right then.
Mycroft joins in on an amusing attempt by John on the network to prove some kind of correlation between height and being attacked, though he's freezing while traveling and resorts to text to avoid letting people see how cold and bad off he is.
2) On day 237, Mycroft meets up with Sherlock, John and Mary, thankfully. He gets treatment for his feet which have suffered mild frostbite/frostnip and John fashions makeshift socks after treating his feet. Mycroft also shares a cigarette with Sherlock, trying to determine his state by striking up a conversation. He also speaks with Mary in private upon the manner of her death, emphasizing that he in fact, owed her for saving Sherlock's life. Upon the evening of day 238, Mycroft, Sherlock and John encounter a Molly-shaped anomaly, and Mycroft has a meltdown over the impossibility of the creature, reality crashing down on him as he comes to terms with the situation they have all found themselves in. He manages to collect himself, but he's still very disturbed. He and John try to convince Sherlock not to try and kill an anomaly.
On 240, John, Sherlock and Mycroft meet up with Kid to do a blood transfusion, but Mycroft keeps to himself.
3) On day 242, Sherlock and John begin turning into anomalies. This horrifies Mycroft to no end, he refuses to believe it's real, as he ends up seeing things which shouldn't be possible--Sherlock having gun hands, John turning into a monstrous dog. Sherlock manages to convince Mycroft to lock himself in a room, though. That evening, Mycroft sneaks out, still desperately trying to figure this all out and determine if it was real or not, using his umbrella as a meager shield. He finds the monstrous form of John. They both manage to come up with an experiment of throwing rubble at John to see if it would stop the transformation progress, but it seems to have little effect. Mycroft's barely holding it together as it is, the ugly reality settling in and terrifying him. John makes Mycroft promise to look after Mary for him, and he agrees. John tries to encourage Mycroft, telling him he's clever, that he has to help everyone out of the town. John and Sherlock leave as soon as they're able.
Morning of 243, Mycroft makes a stressed call to the network, accidentally offending people who weren't human by asking if anybody was still human. He finds out that there are originally non-humans among them and it's a bit of a shock. He has a discussion with House, learning about anomaly theories and House warning him to stay away from Sherlock and John while they're like this. And, there's an anomaly version of Eurus, his younger sister, shuffling behind his door, which is freaking him out, to say the least. House tries to speak in Chinese to help Mycroft come to his senses with the extra concentration it takes to switch languages, and they discuss the anomalies that have showed up. The idea that perhaps the anomalies are actually the people they knew, just made up of pieces, is anathema to Mycroft. Especially once the anomalies start talking.
Brian plants an uncomfortable idea in Mycroft's mind that perhaps that they, the people trapped here in town, are all not who they were, or not themselves, also showing him a clip of himself bleeding with the blood being static. He gets a very Moriarty-ized message from Sherlock (as Sherlock is still an anomaly), and he tries to tell Sherlock to fight it. It's awful for Mycroft, hearing Sherlock like this, and lets himself show some sentiment, telling Sherlock that he'd always be there for him. It seems to give his little brother some clarity, and the subject of Eurusanomaly comes up. Since Mycroft is further ahead in the timeline than Sherlock, Sherlock knows nothing of the terrible secrets his brother has kept all these years about their hidden sister, so he does not recognize the anomaly when Mycroft shows it to him. (Mycroft, as always, indulges in his sibling's requests, and Sherlock demanded to see it.)
4) The night of 244, Sherlock contacts Mycroft right before he begins a Morgue experiment. The elder Holmes is horrified at what Sherlock's about to do, but there is nothing to be done as it's after lockdown. Mycroft is treated to the scene of a child Eurus appearing from an opened-up wall and Sherlock trying to shoot her with his gun-hands. That's pretty much all he sees before the tablet recording this explodes. Sherlock's name goes up on the obituary on 246, along with John Watson from an unrelated cause. Needless to say, Mycroft does not take any of this well. He's also suffering from cabin fever from not leaving his location, and the stress of Eurusanomaly hanging out all that time. He sounds broken when he manages to get on the network, too distraught to switch to text. At least he receives kind words from England and America, and has a rather acidic conversation with House, but fortunately (or unfortunately) results in him getting a video of Sherlock's first Morgue experiment (which also results in his death) in a trade for the video of the latest one. He theorizes that they're in some kind of grand experiment not unlike what happened at Sherrinford with Eurus, which he explains to House without specifics. On day 246 he gets a message from Mary and sends her the video at her request, and also decides to contact the ADMIN to see if he can find out where Sherlock is being kept (and potentially woken up at).
The same afternoon as the obituary, he gets a message from Sherlock, thankfully. Mycroft begs for him not to do that again (which begging is not something normally seen from Mycroft Holmes). Sherlock does not recognize the Eurus that killed him, either. Mycroft inquires about his death price, worried, and to both their horror they realize Sherlock has lost his short term memory.
He had attempted to contact John as well, but the latter has lost a good amount of his memory as a death price. Mycroft's attempt is too supervillain-like which upsets John and he's immediately hung up on.
5) Mycroft manages to track Sherlock down, and convince him of his death price (as he keeps forgetting it). Brotherly bonding ensues, as well as an item trade and discussion of drugs. Mycroft bemoans the hallucinations of Les Mis that plagued him during cabin fever.
Night 250, Mycroft tries to threaten the Joker as well on John's apology post after he regains his memories, as he's worried when he shows interest in Sherlock, since he's the one that killed John.
Morning of 251, Winter contacts the network and Mycroft tries to get answers out of her, and comes out of it with some good data, namely (and horrifyingly) that it's possible the people who've died are repaired using anomaly parts (or Frankensteined bits of other people), and also that it's not impossible they aren't in their original bodies.
6) Night 254, Mycroft and Sherlock participate in Hackerquest 2.0 orchestrated by House, in which a number of participants place their tablets in the doors so that at lockdown, the tablets are cracked open. It ends badly for many, and ends catastrophically for Sherlock and Mycroft. Sherlock tries swallowing a computer chip, and a mysterious cloaked figure that has come to collect them rips out his throat to obtain the chip, killing him. A distraught Mycroft desperately has been trying to stop the figure with his hammer, but is useless. He ends up wandering around in the snow to find help for Sherlock (as futile as it was) and freezes to death not long after.
7) Mycroft revives on the morning of 256, waking up upset to say the least, almost vomiting when he remembers what happened to Sherlock, paralyzed with grief and horror, and utterly broken a second time. He manages to collect himself to call House a bloody idiot on the latter's network post, realizing that he cannot, in fact, speak clearly. Mycroft's death price is causing him to speak like a child, with limited vocabulary and grammar. He can't text clearly, and is thoroughly embarrassed and angry, but he's forced to communicate regardless. He goes on the following obituary to see if anyone's seen Sherlock and speaks with John and informs him Sherlock ate a chip, but John can't handle it and hangs up.
8) Mycroft ends up meeting with House at the aquarium on Day 256, and finds a rather intoxicated man bent on emptying all the water out of the aquariums. Needless to say, Mycroft's annoyed. Because of House's death price, he's acting, for lack of a better word, insane, and is planning another Morgue experiment. Against his better judgement, Mycroft decides to help him, wanting revenge on the cloaked figures, needing to do something. Mycroft considers the ethical ramifications of basically assisting House in a suicide, but if there's one thing Mycroft Holmes is good at, is making logical, ruthless decisions and if they break a tablet, this is a real chance at revenge.
Day 257, they set up the experiment, making a 'trap' for the Morgue creature, and House puts his tablet in the door to be broken upon lockdown. Mycroft has prepared a weapon by tying a sharp piece of rubble on the end of his umbrella.
Mycroft hides in the elevator shaft to film the whole thing and possibly attack the cloaked figure should it appear. The Morgue anomaly that appears isn't daunted by their sheet 'trap' and consumes House through a hole in its torso. The creature also sends its fingers under Mycroft's door, wrapping around him and dragging him forcefully underneath and through the door. Fortunately that's all that Mycroft remembers at this point, but the gruesome implications aren't lost on him.
He makes a contrite post on the network sharing the video, asking for helpful eyes to analyze it, and gets quite the talking-to from Stephen Strange. House is also contrite as Kid performed his own experiment and dies which he is very guilty for, but shares that video as well. House and Mycroft have a subdued conversation about the data they gathered, anyway, and a potential new experiment. Mycroft's death price about not being able to lie (or just anger in general over everything) pisses House off and the conversation devolves into an argument, which ends in Mycroft admitting Sherlock's loss would break his heart and he disconnects in horror. House and Mycroft also have a private conversation about what happened in the Morgue discussing the anomalies.
9) John has tricked Mycroft into revealing information about Eurus (quite smoothly too) with Mycroft's death price intact, since he cannot lie. On evening of 259, Sherlock demands Mycroft tells him about their sister. From the experiment in Sherrinford to what really happened to Victor Trevor, he's forced to tell him everything. Sherlock is upset, clearly, and hangs up, even his exhale sounding near tears. Mycroft is devastated yet again, and very sorry. Everything he has worked his whole life for, to protect, to shield Sherlock from the worst parts of his life, to shield the world from their sister and vice versa, all the lies he's weaved has failed. He knows he's limited like their mother has said, and all of that was all his fault. He felt he deserved being here in Norfinbury, as he'd failed everyone he ever cared about.
10) Mycroft and a number of others suddenly disappear on the morning of 260, to find themselves in an office building in the industrial area which has been turned into a some kind of jail. They are in cells, only wearing hospital gowns, which bodes ill. Mycroft is pretty certain they're about to get tortured and tries to give helpful advice to House since he's had experience with interrogation. House asks Mycroft to kill him before he breaks, and Mycroft refuses, and gets called a coward. Mycroft meets Sylar and Rhys, who he strikes up fairly amiable conversations with and keeps in contact with during the entire experience, and finally sees Stephen face-to-face, which is still strange (pun completely intended) to him since he's identical to Sherlock. He's shocked when Stephen does a little magic, which is kind of appalling to him considering it looks like Sherlock performing such things. The other half of the group of people who disappeared from the town are brainwashed into being part of the followers of the Prophet, and all of this is part of something called convertpurge.exe.
Vanitas, in a cloak, comes to collect Mycroft and performs surgery on him-- more like torture than surgery. He tells him that helplessness and humility is the first step, that a lesson is being taught, and that he has to break Mycroft, to be converted. Mycroft tries to escape, but is somehow weakened and can't break free. He's waterboarded with static that fills his lungs, his head submerged in a bucket and he's forced to breath the substance in. Sparks in his lungs and chest and throat crack painfully every time he breathes. His fingernails and toenails are torn off one by one, and his eyes are sewn open, so he can't blink, and some kind of liquid is applied to stop them from drying out.
Despite telling House what was going to happen, when it happens to himself, it's shocking and upsetting, naturally. But what really gets to him is the seeing. He can't not see, and being brought back to catch a glimpse of all the suffering in the cells nearby, all the visual input, unable to stop it--it wears on Mycroft's nerves like nothing else. The constant pain when breathing really adds to this assault on his system. Still, he's got enough wits about him that he calls out to see what happened to the others, and has several disturbing conversations with people who have not been altered (yet) as well as those that have. He shares a tense conversation with House (before House's surgery) that involves more advice about torture and a rare, almost sentimental comment from Mycroft to him where he wishes him the best of luck considering what's about to happen.
He's beyond appalled at what has happened to the others, not only himself, as terrible as it was he'd gotten off a bit easier than people like Stephen, who had his hands sewn to his face, arms paralyzed, and cuts all over his skin like an anatomy model as well as prophet eyes. He's especially disturbed by Stephen since he sounds and looks identical to Sherlock. It's as if it were happening to him. They both discuss the possibility of suicide. Stephen's concerned Mycroft will try something, and strongly advises against it.
Mycroft didn't know Vanitas, but it's soon clear that their assailants are their brainwashed companions and friends, made to play the part of the followers of the Prophet and they, the tortured, are the unwitting ones to be converted. Tablets are passed out eventually to certain people but Mycroft refuses anyway, not wanting to play into their games. He knows the torturer's handbook, and knows they're offering kindness after the pain. Eventually though, his hunger becomes too great and he accepts an injection of something that takes away hunger for a short time from the kid in the suit of armor, Al. He berates him though, he tries to berate any of the converted that talk to him like America, even though it's futile. He learns a bit from the conversations though.
They eventually get food, however, but somehow as the days wear on, it's becoming more difficult to think. Mycroft is desperate to hold on, not wanting to become like them, fearing he would be converted and made to do this to Sherlock. His mind gets confused easily though, as with everyone else's. He's losing hold on his sanity with his lack of sleep and the constant visual input of his eyes, and he hallucinates, thinking he's in Baker Street. He speaks to a couple of the converted, but he can't get much out of them nor can they get much out of him. Midday of 262 he uses someone else's tablet and calls Sherlock out of a vague, incessant pressing need to tell him something. Earlier he asked Sylar (who has his tablet and went on the network) to tell them that he'd been killed to avoid Sherlock coming there, but that didn't work at all. Mycroft thinks Eurus has captured him again, believing he's in Sherrinford, but Sherlock manages to get some coherency out of him and Mycroft explains what's been done to him. There's a moment when he's lucid and he begs Sherlock to not let himself end up hurting him, implying that he was to be killed before that would happen. He can't let Sherlock try and rescue him and risk this. Sherlock ignores his request to not come, but promises that if he becomes like the converted, he'd kill him himself. This placates Mycroft, at least. Eventually he completely breaks from reality, imagining that this was all there was and ever would be--pain and sight, and nothing else. He's too far gone to really know what was going on but there's an escape plan, the converts and the rest of the town on the network figure out how to trick their programming and manage to get everyone through a trap door and into the maintenance tunnels with the help of Andromeda and the ADMIN. Their injuries are healed, surgeries reversed, somehow, as they walk.
11) Mycroft wakes back up in the same building he'd been in before he'd been abducted, on 265. He has a slight breakdown on the network, his texts (using texts in the first place is a bad sign) full of grammatical errors and bad punctuation, assuming that this is all still a trick. John tries to talk him out of it. Sherlock is fortunately not far (as blindness was his most recent death price and he had been going in circles) and he meets with Mycroft, who is suffering from PTSD. Sherlock tries to close the door but it rouses Mycroft, he can't bear to be locked in anywhere. He demands Sherlock's opinion of the prophet to determine if he's acting under his own control. Mycroft tries bolting to open the door again but Sherlock catches him and restrains him. Mycroft suffers a bad flashback and begs to be let go. He thinks Sherlock is one of them, suffering from a panic attack as well, but Sherlock manages to bring him back to lucidity. He gets Mycroft to calm down and plays violin for him, some of his favorite film noir soundtracks.
Mary comes a little while later and Mycroft has a poor reaction to the door closing again. Mycroft is also suffering from a bad cold, and his coughing has only gotten worse since coming back. They manage to get him to close the door on his own.
How did they change from their canon personality wise (Please explain what caused it to happen?) Mycroft is currently suffering from PTSD from the multiple traumatic events that have happened to him since coming here--Sherlock dying twice, one gruesomely and in front of him, himself dying twice, seeing Sherlock and John turn into monsters, seeing his sister as a Frankensteined monstrous anomaly, and being tortured and imprisoned. Mycroft has always had a desperate need for control, stemming from the trauma he's suffered as a child, but now he's experienced a tremendous amount of helplessness in a short period of time. He could do nothing to stop Sherlock from dying, which is pretty much his worst fear, he couldn't help the sad monstrosity that was his sister, he couldn't stop himself from being tortured, much less the fear that he would be made to be like the converted and do this to Sherlock. Mycroft's been broken to pieces in Norfinbury. This is a man who's entire life is control, where he basically is the British Government and went on that career track out of a desire to protect his siblings, and he's learned very harshly and quickly how little control he really has over anything, and how much he's failed over and over again. Sherlock in Norfinbury knows about Eurus and Victor Trevor, and Mycroft feels terrible about that, he tried to keep it from him but that failed miserably as well. As broken as he is, there's really nothing to do except keep trudging along, and it's actually made him far more open to expressing sentiment than usual, realizing how easily he could lose Sherlock (to both death and him being upset at him over Eurus.) Mycroft is upset and feels useless, but as long as Sherlock's around he won't let himself delve too far down a hole of despair because little brothers need protecting. He's also a bit more reluctant to engage in completely cold, ruthless decisions as those have recently backfired as well with disastrous results (like the House Morgue experiment). Mycroft is realizing the consequences of amoral actions and will think twice about doing such in the future--and at least if he does, he knows all too well what it's like to lose.
PTSD has causes Mycroft to suffer flashbacks, panic attacks, to not being able to be touched, to not being able to be in an enclosed space. He must leave the door open for an easy escape, to not feel like he's been trapped. He's extremely paranoid, still under the impression that the converted are orchestrating things. He had a hard time trusting people before, and now it's all the more difficult, he thinks even people he knows are compromised unless proven otherwise.
How did they change from their canon physically (Please explain what caused it to happen?): Mycroft has small scars around his eyes from the stitches used to sew them open. He's also underweight, as he was thin and dieting even before coming to Norfinbury. The various upsetting events has destroyed a lot of his appetite, and he hasn't been the best on replenishing his food stores, plus he scarcely got anything during his imprisonment.
Powers: None.
Possessions:
Umbrella x1 (Tied sharp bit of rubble at the end)
Handkerchief x2
Wallet x1
Cell phone x1
Long underwear x1
Deerstalker Hat x1
Rain boots x1
Insoles x1
Mittens x1
Hat x1
Tablecloth x1
T-shirt x1
Mug x1
Whistle x1
Net x1
Backpack x1
3-piece Suit x1
Pants x1
Jacket x1
Deodorant x1
Toothbrush x1
Styrofoam Cup x1
Paper plates x1
Sweatpants x1
Hammer x1
Potted plant x1
Bottle opener x1
Hanger x1
Tissues x1
Throw pillow x2
Blanket x1
Yoga mat x1
Shopping bag x1
Toothpicks x1
Whitening strips x1
Air freshener x1
Syringe x1
Pet Leash x1
Eye drops x1
Muzzle x1
Please provide three samples from your previous game, at least one will have to be third person with context:
Sample One: Mycroft on Sherlock's death
Sample Two: Sherlock and Mycroft
Sample Three: Network Post
Notes: