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Subj: And in here (click and see).
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 at 03:10:21 pm EST (Viewed 1 times)
Reply Subj: Inside there?
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 at 01:42:59 pm EST (Viewed 531 times)



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      You really need to get these stories out there, you know.



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    I have one very large one in progress. I'd have to break it up to make it into individual stories.


There is always the possibility of chapters.


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      VV is happy. The people she's commiting crimes against are not.



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    Lara wouldn't be completely content with that. One thing at a time, as she would say.


At the moment there is insufficient proof of VV's post-pardon crimes to issue a warrant for her arrest.


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    I haven't seen Suicide Blonde around in a long time either.



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    Lara would actually be happy if it turns out VV does have a friend to listen to her. It really comes down to her believing that VV doesn't know that she's being used and thrown away by people who don't really care about her. Or maybe VV does know, and she's gone numb to it. Either way, Lara doesn't believe anyone should have to feel like that all the time, and have no one to talk to about it.


Well, as proof that these discussions do shape the stories, I'll be touching on that a tiny bit in the next Untold Tales.


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      And more story required.



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    All of those Chiaki stories would have to be in the past.


Is that a problem? Even if it is, there's always the possibility of a framing sequence. Or maybe a psionic enemy attacks Chiaki and they end up in a running battle throuygh her memories.Chiaki needs a unique rogues gallery anyhow.


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      Interestingly, since the most recent UT implies that she delivered some warning to Screwdriver from the Hood re. the whole bombing-Parody-Island thing, that might lead to repercussions. Screwdriver is the middle-man arranging contracts for for-hire villains. If he's now down on VV then it could lead to "career difficulties".



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    And continuing from above, Screwdriver is probably at the top of Chiaki's list of disrespectful employers. She might just teach him a lesson someday.


Screwdriver isn't exactly disrespectful except in the sense that he does look on most people as the hired help. It's the CEO mentality. He's the middle-man who doles out the work, upon whom both employers and employees have to rely.

And, having been in the game for a long time, he's learned to take the usual boss-level precautions against henchmen and superheroes with a variety of power-sets. I doubt he'd have, say, Luthor-level defences against superheroes, but certainly the next tier down. He has access to a lot of weird science, occult stuff, super-muscle, etc. Chiaki might be able to get to him, but it would be a war.



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    Oddly enough that whole thing started when, I think, Al B Harper posted a story where it was the future, and the Psychic Samurai and Hatman were together. I reverse engineered how they would have ended up getting together in the first place, but the dynamics eventually didn't work out; so I concluded that possible future is moot because they would have to break up over such strong differences.


It's well reasoned. Maybe another brief "flashback" might embed it in written continuity?


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    Lara might be interested in how [the Hood] considers it intriguing and useful since it might interfere with his plans. Then again, maybe the Hood sees the two of them working together much better than either of them anticipate.


The Hood is a big proponent of Morton's Fork plans where whichever conequence occurs he gets some advantage from it. It's effectively "If I pull A off, then I get what I want. If the heroes stop me from that, it instead achieves B that will set me up to later pull off C." It's why the Hood is mostly sanguine about his plans being disrupted; they're actually not.

But occasionally something does go wrong that really annoys him. The recent event with Liu Xi and ManMan in the Celestian Control Plane is a fine example. That screwed up quite a lot of careful preparation and, from the Hood's perspective, his best chance at saving the Parodyverse.



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    It's not really a commentary on [Cathode's] character, more a reflection on Lara's. She's afraid of changing Cathode's attitude enough to cause her to be fired or killed by the Baroness.


It's a fair concern. I feel a bit guilty because no sooner has JJJ introduced a new character than I've locked her in a massive continuity event. That's one hell of a first week on the job!






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