Help with Sauron

[beyonder]

Well, I didn't know whether to post this here or in General, but figured it'd get more reads here, so here goes:

I need some help from the creative minds in this Forum on how to run Sauron in my After the Secret Wars campaign. (To see background info on this, look in Scenarios.) The Battleplanet of my campaign tends toward dualism, like alter egos, split personalities, twins, and such. Many pre-existing heroes and villains were changed because of this: Hulk was permanently joined into the "Smart Hulk"; Wolverine is an amnesiac wanderer with a calm, human side and a berserk, animalistic "dark side", like a werewolf; the Lizard and Dr. Connors both exist as seperate beings joined only subconsciously; etc.

The question is, what do I do with Sauron? (He was part of the War in my game.) I'd like to find some fairly original twist and not simply go back to the old "were-pterodactyl" theme if I can avoid it. Bearing in mind that this campaign is set about twenty years after the War, does anybody have any good ideas?

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Well, here's one idea...stop me if you've heard it before. ;D

Karl Lykos, rapidly losing the few remaining shreds of his sanity, decides that the only way to escape the grasp of Sauron is to transcend the material plane. With the aid of a fellow scientist, he devises a device/method to transform himself into a being of pure energy. However, knowing the risks involved, he makes a backup copy of himself in the form of a pair of AIs; one which houses the mind and personality of Karl Lykos, and one with the will and intent of Sauron?

Why didn't he just make a copy of the "good half," and pitch the Sauron part to the wind? Simple. Just deleting Sauron would be like killing half of himself. Lykos knows that it takes two halves to make a whole, and it is his eventual intention to purify the Sauron part of him and reintegrate it into his new self.

So, Lykos undergoes the process, and it is a partial success. His body is indeed transformed into a body of energy, free of the need to consume the life essence of others. However, this energy has no will of it's own. This means that the Lykos AI must attach itself to the energy and "live" in it in order to control it. So what we wid up with so far is a being of light with a robot head and Lykos's personality.

The Sauron AI is sealed up until such time as it can be safely reintegrated. However, it frees itself, or is freed, and uses it's computer abilities to construct a massive hulking robotic version of Sauron, with itself as the core. I'm thinking freakiness of the level of the final cyborg version of Cameron Hodge. It hunts the Lykos AI, since like Lykos, it wants to be whole again, and unlike Lykos, it has no qualms about merging with its "tainted" other half. If it succeeds, Lykos' dreams of ever being free of Sauron are completely flushed down the toilet.

So in the end, it's giant freaky pterodactyl-esque robot chasing after energy-man with robot head.

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And there it is. Bear in mind that all I really know about Sauron is what I've read in the X-Men sourcebook.

[beyonder]

[glow=red,2,300]!!![/glow]

Holy crap, son! That is the most whack, out-of-control storyline! I friggin' love it! My only problem is, I'm not sure I can handle it. Why in hell are you not writing for Marvel, boyo?

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Aww, shucks, I dunno. Probably because I'm lazy and apathetic. ;D

Thanks for the praise.