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Subj: Indeed.
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 at 07:03:18 pm EST (Viewed 2 times)
Reply Subj: They might be, only not the good kind.
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 10:47:28 am EST (Viewed 261 times)



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      She'll need to beware. As I say, those elements are effectively diseased. If she's infected she'll be consumed and something else will be looking out from behind her eyes.



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    Fortunately, unlike Lara who absorbs energy, Liu Xi doesn't absorb them at all (except through normal eating and drinking like most people). She just feels their call and manipulates them, and doesn't really know how it works or care. It's more tied to her emotional response than and kind of logic.


Shoggoths are risky, that's all. Chris has drawn his character inspiration from both the Lovecraft mythos and the Call of Chtulhu roleplaying game, in which even seeing an elder being can drive a human insane.


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    The good news is because she doesn't absorb any of it, she can't take it home with her and pollute her own world with it.


It might be enough for her to think too hard about it.

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    Most notably this might cause problems with her recognizing right and wrong, and the sanctity of life, much like the Shoggoth does. In the Shoggoth's world, all that stuff is all the same anyhow. Like a child, she might believe if she kills something, it's not really dead.


Good point.


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    The good news is nature is good at fixing that to an extent. Travelling between universes uses up a huge amount of energy, which would purge most of the foreign energy quickly (but then it would be on the loose in the Parodyverse).


This stuff is always what serves the story, of course. I mention it only because I see the elder beings as fundamentally inimical to the nature of normal universes, utterly wrong to have in a healthy reality.


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    So the biggest problem for Lara would be how to avoid absorbing enough foreign Shoggoth energy that she can single-handedly corrupt part of the Parodyverse. It's like being radioactive and figuring out how to decontaminate so you don't kill everyone around you.


A useful analogy, but don't forget that radiation also kills the carrier.





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