Cosmic Plot Device

The Cosmic Plot Device is exactly what it sounds like – a device of enormous cosmic power that net.villains fight over a lot, making the plot go. It was introduced in its namesake, the Cosmic Plot Device Caper.

Powers

The Cosmic Plot Device can alter reality on a number of levels. However, it cannot retcon; it affects the present, not the past. As well, the bearer of the Ring of Retcon is immune to its power. It also gives its wielder access to cosmic senses.

Using the Device carries the risk of being corrupted by its power and/or overwhelmed by the senses it grants you.

History

The origins of the Cosmic Plot Device are shrouded in mystery. In the Early Middle Ages, a Germanic baron named Krieger acquired the Device and founded the Cult of the Cosmic Plot Device. Thanks to being less bloody than most cults of the era, the Cult of the Device gained an almost mainstream following, and was able to guard the Device until 1937, when the Nazis stole it.

However, it vanished before Hitler got his hands on it, and the Cult searched the world for decades without finding it. In the late '80s, a Dr. Plot discovered the Device lying in the center of an English crop circle. Not knowing its history, he declared it to be undeniable evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence and had it shipped to Net.ropolis for further study.

The Device ended up on display at the Net.ional Museum of History, where it was promptly stolen by multiple net.villains. First, General Jarrek took it, intending to open the pan-reality nexus within LNHQ and create a beachhead thru which the Dorfian Empire could conquer the Loonivearth. Captain LNH and a ragtag team of net.heroes stopped him at great cost. Then, after it was returned to the Museum, Lagneto stole it, using its power to capture Asteroid L and set it in orbit around the Loonivearth.

In turn, Y-Plex Burp stole it from him

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