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Subj: Do you also fool them with false No Text notices?
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 02:04:28 pm EDT (Viewed 343 times)
Reply Subj: It's supposed to be the other way round. I help them move their millions. First though I require a cash down payment.
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 12:39:48 pm EDT



> The Celestians, like the Kirby creations they imitate, are meant to be remote and unknowable. They're robots working to unfathomable programming. They never speak, or communicate in any way. Why do they destory one planet and cultivate another? Ignore one act and destroy a being for another? Nobody knows. They can't be reasoned with, only avoided.

I'm sure Lara knows to try and avoid them at least.  She generally tries to avoid clashing with anything that has a large controlling interest in the universe.  Especially because she is aware of consequences - she knows that fighting the Celestians may just get Earth and everyone she cares about destroyed.  It's much easier just to keep them as far away as possible.

That said, I was thinking about what might happen if she's forced to deal with the Celestians somehow, possibly through a massive accident or something that occurred as a result of no choice.  Like if she has to borrow a large amount of Celestian energy to help protect Earth from something.  If she can't talk her way out of it, she'd have to trust that they're intelligent enough on their own to understand what she was doing.  Failing that, she'd end up having to resist them just to protect Earth again.  

Unless, of course, someone warned her that stealing Celestian energy would upset them and be worse than whatever is happening now - then Lara would find some other way to deal with the problem.


> The Triumverate rarely work together. Each has an area of responsibility, roughly caricatured as starts, middles, and endings, and the individual office holder has a lot of latitude in how they interpret and prosecute the role within some overall rules. In matters under their authority they can draw in pretty much unlimited abouts of power to enforce their jurisdiction (so can the minor office holders, but in much narrower fields in much more specialised circumstances). The third set of checks and balances we're aware of, the Family of the Pointless, who have currently withdrawn from interactions, personify aspects of the Parodyverse.

As I've noted above, Lara will probably avoid meeting any of them directly.  The only exception would be if one of them decides to meet her.  Shema cryptically warned her that it's possible, in case one of the power brokers in the Parodyverse might believe something she did either while helping with the Parody Master or while fighting him directly might have either caused some sort of damage, or simply scared or intimidated someone.  

One thing Shema is very good at is seeing the larger consequences of a seemingly small decision, and the intentions behind it.  I was hoping that the power brokers of the Parodyverse had the same ability.


> I don't see either the current Chronicler or Destroyer being inimical to Lara while she behaves herself. There are plenty of less benevolent power-entities out there to watch. Even if Lara was doing terribly wicked things with her power they could only act against her if she crossed certain lines - otherwise the Shaper would have taken down the Hooded Hood years ago.

That's a good sign that they're reasonable at least, and understand her motivations.  







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