I'd be happy to see us stop talkin' about it. Em originally agreed to having it in place, but almost no one seems to remember it/post consistently about its existence. Hand-waving the idea away would probably be the simplest solution.

Perhaps we could leave it as a simple sedative? Something to keep the inmates consistantly tired and weaker than normal. That would take care of both the problems of it affecting some mutations and not others, yet not have those who had made reference to it go back and change their rp. (Sorry, selfish reasoning there, but what ever works, lol)

How about the drug that they induced is not as effective as they thought? I mean we all know that the X-Gene is the main cause for mutations, but what if the drug did not suppress mutation as much as they would like to? This can be explained as the drug is still not at its 100% stage but it was still manufactured as one of the means to control the mutants?

Some were merely weakens, some were effectively kept in check, some don't even feel the effects of the drug.

Just random a random idea here.

I'm thinkin' either Iris' or Colyn's ideas would sit well with me. *also isn't keen on going back and fixing her Rup posts*

Hmm....I'm in favor of saying it's perhaps unrelyable. Perhaps it doesn't work as well as they believed it would all across the board. Though most mutants would be suffecently suppressed, others could be more resistant to it while others are really only being held in check by the collars with their powers weakened slightly.

Doing the retcon thing is sorta like completely dismissing what we've already been doing. DnD, World of Warcraft have done enough of this retcon crap (not to mention comics), that it's become a 'hate hate hate' thing in my mind.

Since it was made and put into effect fairly fast, as well as never being fully explained, it wouldn't really be hard to say it just didn't work exactly how they wanted.

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Just a side note.....Simple is not a word that seems to fit this plot....not one bit XD

Is also in favour of the drug not working as well as planned. A spin on it could be that they discover that it only works on mutants with conscious control over their powers, to a lesser or greater extent, but only has sedative properties on mutants with no 'off' switch. (think Raina's tail, Were's healing factor and Fever's anger.) The logic is that, for the drug to take affect on these mutants, it would have to alter the mutation itself rather than just suppress the X-gene.

However, I'm most in favour of Neena's sugg', in that it turns out the drug only acts as a sedative on all mutants.

also from the basic design of the bracelets, i believe ther is no such thing as "going out of range" as far as i am aware, you use your powers, you get shocked period. the ohly other time you get shocked is when guards press the little button so i dont thin k that there would be a chance of going out of range

about the bracelets, I'm not sure if it's been discussed or not, but I don't see how they could be put on and them not being to come off except by: blowing yourself up (shrap), cutting a hand off (or wherever it's located) and slipping it off, or by having the warden press a button to release them. They were put on, so they have a hinge (unless they are one size but then shrink to fit the arm/hand/whatever), and a clasp, so with enough force or they should be able to be pulled off/apart.

It's logical they could be pulled off by someone with the strength enough to do so (if someone makes the excuse they're admantium or something like that....it would be EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE to make that many, so I doubt thats a possibility), but with the drug, most people wouldn't be able to, and even if they had the strength for whatever reason, the shock would stop most people.

If I'm repeating things that were said before, ignore me.

<i>.it would be EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE to make that many, so I doubt thats a possibility</i>

Chump change compared to what all those Stalkers cost.

Not really. Since the Stalkers are a mix of adamantium and titanium. Which makes it essentually adamantium beta. Since the adamanium that is used in the Stalkers is a cheaper sort (called adamanium only because of similar properties) mixed with titantum, it really doesn't cost all that much, compared to the hundreds or perhaps thousands of bracelets they would need to have made to put on all the mutants.

The Stalkers were funded by an immortal billionaire character who has since gone inactive. They were not made specifically for this plot, but they fit in perfectly.

The bracelets/collars, on the other hand, are considerably smaller, so the price of making them out of pure adamantium would no doubt be the same as the Stalkers made out of the alloy. Governments have been known to spend that much on a war, so I don't see it as being unusual in this case. Plus they have the backing of a rather large church, with access to large coffers. Price I doubt would be a big issue.

Not that it is really here nor there. There isn't anyone in the camps who can currently take them off by force, without getting shocked anyway. I would say the question would be more along the lines of:

Who is going to remove the bracelets/collars? A guard with a remote (Doesn't Rupert have a major role in this part?) Or a techie either in the Labs, or who comes along for the breakout?

Rupert has established IC that shift supervisors have a gadget that overrides the shock-cuffs, which was added to the arrangement to deal with over-zealous guards who were over-shocking prisoners.

So he can shut them off given some warning.

This ought not be especially difficult for the Resistance to figure out, since it's actually Camp policy, and presumably written down and stuff. Sonya knows, and has told Syn, but communications within the Resistance being what they are I don't know who else knows.

*gives a little wave* Yep, Sonya's completely correct with the Rup v. cuffs angle. He's just waiting for the signal. Poor guy thinks the whole Resistance knows about him.