Black Sun

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It is always more difficult to fight against faith
than against knowledge.
-- Adolf Hitler

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       Plot Runner: Jane Foster
       Status: Finished
       Tenure: June - August 2020
       Groups: SHIELD, Mystic Arts
       Disclaimer: This plot does not condone Nazism. They lose, they will always lose, and any victory was fleeting at best.

The Setup

"God damn it."

-- Dane Whitman

Adolf Hitler famously saw the prizes of the Habsburg Dynasty's treasury in Vienna as an art student: a treasured agate bowl from Antiquity and a modest spear-point wrapped in gold and blessed by Saint Maurice. Enamoured of the relics, he stole the Lance and enshrined it in St. Katherine's Church in Nuremberg until 1945. Its presence purportedly greatly strengthened the Third Reich, but an apparent curse led to his downfall. Thereafter, the sacred weapon vanished into history.

The spear reappeared in a broken form decades later at an Austrian museum. Now making its first American appearance in a star-studded debut at the Cloisters Museum. Naturally, where the Lance of Longinus is involved, things will go terribly wrong.

The Long Shadows over SHIELD

We must dare to be great;

We must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil
and sacrifice and high courage.

-- Teddy Roosevelt

SS Invicta, a neo-Nazi hate group, aims to introduce principles of the Third Reich to America. One devoted member, a mutate technopath, discovered uploaded “intellects” of several Nazi officers from a doomed project. He used his powers to construct energy-form bodies for these, but they’re limited in range and number.

The revived officers want lasting bodies, and an SS officer expert in occult and necromancy thinks he has the way to achieve two objectives at once: with the Lance of Longinus. With it he could restore his comrades and the New York-based site of a hidden Nazi camp (Camp Siegfried) on Long Island. From there they can wreak Nazi influence over New York! Then America, and the world! As it just so happens, the Lance is part of a traveling exhibit from an Austrian museum coming to New York.

Their ultimate goal: The Spear of Destiny.

The Spear of Destiny

If you want to shine like the sun,

First you have to burn like it.

-- Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler famously saw the Spear of Destiny in Vienna as an art student. Enamoured of it, he stole the Lance of Longinus and enshrined it in St. Katherine’s Church in Nuremberg until 1945. It greatly strengthened the Third Reich, but an apparent curse led to his downfall. Thereafter, the sacred weapon vanished into history. It reappeared in a broken form decades later at an Austrian museum.

When the Spear of Destiny comes free in America, history may rewrite itself.


Logs

Title Date Scene Summary
Black Sun: The Fisher King II October 13th, 2020 No description
Black Sun: The Fisher King August 20th, 2020 Sam Wilson begins his Grail journey.
Black Sun: Watchtower August 20th, 2020 Mikhail and Kara Lynn win a victory for the Russians and slay some Nazis in fallen Konigsburg while SHIELD fights to give Sam time to recover the Holy Lance.
Black Sun: Once More Unto the Breach August 14th, 2020 The cavalry is coming.
Black Sun: Glorious Summer of the Reich August 14th, 2020 Death and war gather at the footsteps of a necromancer wielding the Holy Lance. Now what?
Sins of the Fatherland August 13th, 2020 Hans Schneider is revealed as the 'ghost.' But like all spectres, he's got dangerous things to say.
Black Sun: Westchester Burning August 4th, 2020 Faces are found and a disturbing plan proposed.
Black Sun: Dissident Gardens July 30th, 2020 SHIELD saves a victim of the hateful ghost.
Black Sun: Dark Days on Staten Island July 27th, 2020 Daisy and Jemma find Shirin's missing phone and case her office for leads. Surely you don't believe in ghosts...
Black Sun: In A New York Minute July 20th, 2020 Margarethe Werner survives, the memorial for Operation Valkyrie burns, and SS Invicta loses a battle. But what of the war?
Black Sun: The Image of a City July 16th, 2020 SHIELD goes to investigate a remarkable energy signature and finds one of their own viscerally murdered.
Black Sun: Last Exit to Brooklyn July 15th, 2020 Mariposa isn't dead thanks to the timely engagement of a bear, a sword, ICERs, a broken guitar, and a Sorcerer Supreme paid with one sock.
Black Sun: Manhattan Transfer July 15th, 2020 The Grail is saved, but at what cost?
Black Sun: Winter of Our Discontent July 15th, 2020 SHIELD enters the fray in Long Island and discovers the Third Reich alive, thriving, and growing. The world burns beneath the light of a holy relic. To be continued.
Black Sun: Small Mercies July 10th, 2020 SHIELD finds the trail of a killer, but not quite soon enough to save their quarry. But in death, clues are offered to save another life.
Black Sun: Bonfire of the Vanities July 10th, 2020 Bronx sacrifices end up smoked out by SHIELD. Paint monsters optional!
Black Sun: Wicked and Divine June 22nd, 2020 A special display attracts SHIELD's attention, but something unexpected turns the theft-in-progress on its head.
Met Gala: Mandate of Heaven June 22nd, 2020 The Met Gala brings together the city and unleashes medieval artifacts far and wide!

Cutscenes

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