User:ElectricFire 169

The Muddled Minds ate itself from within, and the reason for that was that it attracted a certain kind of mindset with certain destructive tendencies that craved validation and sought relentlessly to outperform all the others and stand out above the rest, and in doing so created a toxic environment that fostered only resentment and unhealthy competition. Is it any wonder that at least three of the members suffered breakdowns? We were children playing at being the next Master Minds, when all along we were only pale imitators unworthy of the mantle. And if nobody else will say it, then I will, because some of you might be in a good enough headspace to know what I say is true. <!--

Mind Series

 * Barry's Mind
 * Games/Mods: Half-Life mod: E7 Black Star
 * Currently in production
 * Plot: Former Black Mesa security guard Barry Wakefield is a political prisoner of the Russian Federation for his part in the incident. Due to his HEV training and relative fitness, he is chosen as the ideal candidate to test their own HEV program. But when poor engineering facilitates an escape attempt, Barry wastes no time in making good a hasty departure. Journeying through the bowels of the facility, Barry discovers to his disgust that the Black Star Facility is engaged in genetic experiments on the headcrabs with the intent of turning them into biological weapons and super-soldiers, and vows to bring an end to the project and take down the prime mover behind the project - the enigmatic Russian scientist Doctor Viktor Kuznyekov...
 * 038's Mind
 * Games/Mods: Half-Life 2 mods: Raising the Bar; Missing Information; Dark Interval; & other HL2 beta mods
 * Plot: The occupant of cryogenic storage container 038 awakens from his slumber a little early, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, on the Hyperborea just as it docks in City 13, where he finds himself embroiled in a revolution with former Black Mesa personnel that seem to recognise him.
 * Bowski's Mind / Joker's Journey
 * Games/Mods: Quake 2 Expansion Pack 1: The Reckoning
 * Production halted
 * Plot: Corporal David Peter 'Joker' Weirzbowski, a space marine taking part in the Operation Alien Overlord counter-strike against humanity's cyborg nemesis, the Strogg, finds himself trapped behind enemy lines when an ambush decimates the first wave of the attack force. The odds are against him but Joker has the aid of Tasia, an advanced tactical support AI guiding his way through the Strogg's lair, giving him objectives to fulfil and enemies to kill.
 * Kaven's Mind
 * Games/Mods: F.E.A.R. Expansion Pack 1: Extraction Point; Expansion Pack 2: Perseus Mandate
 * Planning stages only
 * Plot: Sergeant Kavanaugh is sent in as a helicopter pilot to assist Douglas Holiday and Jin Sun-Kwon in locating and extracting the Point Man following the explosion at the Origin Facility, which they accomplish successfully when Jin spots him alive but unconscious in the ruins of the city. However, just as they're circling back around to leave the area, Alma Wade brings the helicopter down. The Point Man is the first to recover, and Kavanaugh shortly afterwards; however, virtually maddened with terror, Point Man renders Kavanaugh unconscious, swaps uniforms with him (and duct-tapes the mouthpiece to prevent him from revealing the truth) and makes his escape. When Douglas and Jin come to, they assume Kavanaugh is the Point Man. Unable to communicate to convince them otherwise, Kavanaugh reluctantly goes along with the ruse in the hope of finding some means of escape. Unfortunately, things are not quite so simple and when Point Man's late brother Paxton Fettel returns from the dead, he's not so happy about his brother sending him to an early grave and decides Kavanaugh is the next best person to take it out on.
 * The Real Parker's Mind
 * Games/Mods: Unreal: Gold
 * Planning stages only
 * Plot: Parker, a charismatic but irritating intelligent young man who rebelled against his controlling parents and chose to start a new life in the outer colonies, has been sent to prison for crimes committed by a charismatic but irritating confidence trickster and war criminal with a slight resemblance to him. When the prison ship is attacked by an alien race and crashes on a distant planet under hostile occupation, Parker is the lone survivor and must fight his way to freedom.
 * The Graak's Mind
 * Games/Mods: Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors
 * Planning stages only
 * Plot: The Graak, a being of psychic energy created by The Doctor when The Master uses the psychic powers of the planet Siralos to trap all of his incarnations within The Determinant with all of his deadliest enemies, is tasked with freeing all 7 of the Doctors, foiling the Master's traps and preventing him from using The Determinant to bend the universe to his will.

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