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Post by frankthetriviaman on Mar 29, 2019 11:16:21 GMT -5
Since the villains stories are often exposed in brief snippets of exposition and we rarely get oportunities to look at how they “tick,” here we’ll flesh out and put their stories in a compressed, organized form so everyone has things straight. Given the complex motives of some villains in LM this will really help all of us with regard to figuring out how to write for them if they are characters we don’t touch upon often
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Post by frankthetriviaman on Mar 29, 2019 11:41:43 GMT -5
Dr. Drugg Born in Germany, served in World War I. A chance encounter with then-future commissioner Gent of Scotland Yard ultimately resulted in his life being spared during the Battle of the Somme. After the war ended, Drugg left Germany to escape its failing economy and hyperinflation and studied medicine and biology in the United Kingdom. He proved a prodigy and soon had complete mastery of anatomy and physiology, biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and any other field related to the study of medicine and the human body. After things got better back home, he returned to Germany, and during the early years of Nazi Germany was when he perfected his work on his “cocktails”... concoctions of drugs and other chemicals that could do any effect he so desired. Most infamously, he developed a drug that made hypnosis (or as he called it, “delayed subconscious command”) practical. Desiring to learn more, he became a protege to the infamous Dr Mengele, who in turn was fascinated by Drugg’s work. Eventually- he was sent to England as part of an undercover assignment during the war; his knowledge of England proving useful in this regard. Although he had lab assistants here and there, it must be emphasized he was a lone wolf. He had no equals, no associates and no pupils. Drugg’s intelldctnwas completely unmatched and unrivaled- no one could understand the complex mechanisms of his formulas- not even the Ripper Underground scientists As such- with his death and the destruction of his master notes, his legacy was almost completely destroyed. Drugg’s sole legacy is an incomplete, coded copy of his notes. A deal with Blade to give his formulas fell apart after they discovered Drugg’s nazi connections and the notes ended up in police custody. Michael Wargrave, the attorney who prosecuted Drugg after his arrest, was given a simple task: wait till Drugg faded from public memory then destroy the notes. The act is more symbolic than anything else though. The coded notes are completely useless to everyone who isn’t Dr Drugg becuause: -The notes are incomplete; they do not even contain his hypnosis formulas. He only transcribed nine of his approximately 50 formulas before he was arrested. -the notes are coded in a cipher that can never be broken; Drugg died before he could make the key to translate them. -Drugg has no equals, associates or pupils for his cocktails related work- outsiders couldn’t even understand how the formulations worked to begin with. Wargrave, who dabbled in chemistry, admitted that his understanding of the only things he could understand- the diagrams showing the mechanisms of the cocktails, was “extremely rudimentary” at best -certain compounds required for the compositions of said cocktails are either expensive or very difficult to come by. In short, anyone who attempts to steal his notes for their own gain (which is impossible since Gent and Wargrave are the only souls that know they even exist to begin with), is in for a rude awakening when they see how useless that stack of papers is
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