Evil DM Mark3
2011-05-03, 01:08 PM
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Some friends of mine and I had a weird conversation a while back. We where pondering far more interesting things that could have happened in the seventh season of Buffy and started talking about how the school is prominently reintroduced, and amounts to about as little as everything else.
The Demon Headmaster is a series of books and a TV series about a man with peculiar mental abilities. For the purposes of this Vs thread:
The Demon Headmaster is literally that, a demon. He has physical capabilities in line with a human at the peak of human fitness despite his physical appearance being that of a late middle aged man. He has a high level IQ and considerable experience at long term planning. Most notable however is his ability to hypnotise people.
He can cause people to recall events as differently to how they happened.
He can cause people to behave in certain ways, including post-hypnotic suggestion and trigger based programming.
Over time he can restructure a person's personality. (As seen by his highly sadistic prefects)
He is somewhat uncreative with these abilities however and will often leave large groups of people with the same basic programming and his groups often display unrealistically orderly behaviour. A small sub-group of the population (about 0.5% based on the average size of a British secondary school). His plot in Sunnydale is to gain control of the town and from there extend his influence into other areas, probably via the mass media. He has a significant aversion to mess and disorder. He will start where he has had significant experience however, at a school. His abilities require people to look into his eyes and he wears tinted glasses to prevent his abilities being used inadvertently. For the sake of this debate his abilities work on Vampires and weaker demons, but not powerful ones.
The Scooby Gang consists of Buffy, Dawn (who attends the Headmaster's school), Xander, Willow and possibly Spike and Giles. For the original discussion we decided that one person would be immune to the head, determined by dice roll to be Xander. Fits rather nicely don't you think?
While I do expect the Scooby Gang to defeat him (being protagonists and all) I am interested to see how you think that would happen. What things would he try and how long would it take for them to work things out.
Some friends of mine and I had a weird conversation a while back. We where pondering far more interesting things that could have happened in the seventh season of Buffy and started talking about how the school is prominently reintroduced, and amounts to about as little as everything else.
The Demon Headmaster is a series of books and a TV series about a man with peculiar mental abilities. For the purposes of this Vs thread:
The Demon Headmaster is literally that, a demon. He has physical capabilities in line with a human at the peak of human fitness despite his physical appearance being that of a late middle aged man. He has a high level IQ and considerable experience at long term planning. Most notable however is his ability to hypnotise people.
He can cause people to recall events as differently to how they happened.
He can cause people to behave in certain ways, including post-hypnotic suggestion and trigger based programming.
Over time he can restructure a person's personality. (As seen by his highly sadistic prefects)
He is somewhat uncreative with these abilities however and will often leave large groups of people with the same basic programming and his groups often display unrealistically orderly behaviour. A small sub-group of the population (about 0.5% based on the average size of a British secondary school). His plot in Sunnydale is to gain control of the town and from there extend his influence into other areas, probably via the mass media. He has a significant aversion to mess and disorder. He will start where he has had significant experience however, at a school. His abilities require people to look into his eyes and he wears tinted glasses to prevent his abilities being used inadvertently. For the sake of this debate his abilities work on Vampires and weaker demons, but not powerful ones.
The Scooby Gang consists of Buffy, Dawn (who attends the Headmaster's school), Xander, Willow and possibly Spike and Giles. For the original discussion we decided that one person would be immune to the head, determined by dice roll to be Xander. Fits rather nicely don't you think?
While I do expect the Scooby Gang to defeat him (being protagonists and all) I am interested to see how you think that would happen. What things would he try and how long would it take for them to work things out.