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Subj: No, but less than 50 feet of marshmallow would be good.
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 at 12:54:23 pm EST (Viewed 802 times)
Reply Subj: You'd prefer a diet option?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 at 09:08:48 am EST (Viewed 4 times)



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    She's going to get forced by the imperative to pick a side. She probably suspects it will be the good guys, since that's who she has most recently identifdied with and associated with the most. But come midnight when the imperative triggers properly, she would be fully bending all her abilities and ingenuity to eliminate anyone on the opposite side.


Being a strategist, she would probably target anyone else with a psychic gift first, so they can't manipulate her or anyone else. But since she's Samurai and not Ninja, she'd go and confront them before killing them, rather than sneaking in.



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    The Dreaming Celestain has acted to neutralise a few powers that he believes might try to thwart him. I'm deliberately skirting rounds the "ultimate power" battles because piles of "I can do anything" types clashing is very difficult to describe well and sidelines the main protagonists of this story. As I wrote into the plot a couple of issues back, the sum effect of lots of uber-powers clashing is likely to be that they cancel each other out, leaving determination of the War to the "small fry" with more mundane Earthly abilities.


The unfair part would be when Faite starts using her power to change the battlefield itself and the circumstances to favor her friends. If Roentgen wants to nuke the Lair Mansion 1 minute after midnight, for instance, it might not be where he expects it, or it's harder to use Herringcarp as a headquarters while it's underwater from very high tide. Since that technically breaks the rules, she'd also be slowly unraveling the charade that's causing the battle in the first place.



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    2. The only counter for this gambit is to have any hero energy-manipulators in place to deflect, redirect, or absorb such attacks. Kerry could probably do something about a heat bloom or firestorm, for example. Lara could shield the city - or just the team if the imperative changes her priorities.


Nuclear explosions are matter converted to energy. That means Lara could probably absorb all but the radiation and shrapnel so it ends up having the total power of a radioactive hand grenade. Since you mention dangers like that, it's quite likely Yuki would put Lara on defensive duty, especially since the Lair Mansion protections might not be working.

But if it comes down to it, she did destroy an entire city during the Parody War. She doesn't really want to do it again, though.



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    3. The bad guys are bound to know what likely defences the heroes put up, so there might be secondary attacks designed to neutralise such defenders before they can interfere. For example, there are psionic villains who might try to shut down Lara or Kerry, or magic-wielding ones who can bypass usual defences with curses, or villains capable of mass-effect biological attacks. All of those would be less easy for energy-manipulators to counter; some would "get through" to Lara's energy form.


If they have some leadership and it's not just a bunch of chaos, they might try to hamper Lara's efforts, but they might also know if they provoke her enough she just might resort to destroying the whole city.

As I said though, she's against it, but she also holds on to a theory that maybe after everything is destroyed it will reset. So if it gets desperate enough, she might consider that.



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    4. The LL therefore has to use ball-game style screening and blocking tactics, with others countering such interceptions before they can work. So Sorceress or Vinnie might need to prevent magical attacks from debilitating the energy manipulators, or Al B. might need to filter out psionic attacks with some invention, or whatever.


Or the Psychic Samurai can zero in on them because she knows where they are.



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    6. Informing all of this might be a bunch of seer-types who can predict and counter-predict what is coming up. So Chiaki might glimpse a gambit mere seconds before it occurs, but Morgosa might then predict how the now-alerted heroes will thwart it and how to alter a different future. And so on.


And Chiaki might be after those too, so it gives her team an advantage.



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    Tactically the problem is that the vilains rather outnumber the heroes, so they have more ways to simultaneously attack at multiple points in multiple ways.


The heroes have more cohesiveness and a strategy besides "kill everyone". That's why well-trained military forces can take on much larger undisciplined ones without losing badly.



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    Finally, and this is one of the hardest aspects of the imperative, neither side will be allowed to show mercy or restraint; it is all-out war to the deaths of one side or the other. Those heroes who usually have no-kill policies will find themselves compelled to end their foes, even if those foes are restrained or unconscious. Those heroes with a save-the-innocents-first approach will find it over-ridden with kill-the-baddies-at-all-costs. There are some heroes who would rather die than do that, but the imperative won't allow them to.


The ones that will have the easiest time are the ones willing to chalk up the kills as self-defense. Chiaki is right at the top of that list. Lara would be close behind. Faite doesn't really want to kill anyone, nor does Yuki. Liu Xi is highly protective, and would kill every one of them if it saved the life of one of her friends.

And Lara would have that theory I mentioned above that destroying everything may be the answer. Because it's outside the rules, and will frustrate the Celestian who might reset things because of it. And she considers that even if the heroes win, she might *still* have to destroy everything - because she considers that the heroes might be then forced to fight to the last person standing.

There might be a tie-in where she brings that up, if I can get caught up with work tonight.






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