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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 08:24:55 pm EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 06:56:49 pm EDT (Viewed 406 times)


> Cross your fingers.  Because in 2 weeks I'll be in Florida for a few days.

Have a nice trip.

> > I'm not sure any of the women would want to discuss their experiences in detail, since the memories dredged up were so painful and intimate, but there's probably a case reprot somewhere that covers the basic facts.
> They wouldn't need detail.  Just that if someone says 'Maybe that was a little extreme', Sorceress and Ebony would be the first to say 'No it wasn't'. 

The LL's previous assaults on infernal territory involve dropping a cathedral on a bad guy and loosing the Yurt on the hordes of hell. I don't think they'd feel this was on over-reaction.

> > It was really both a diversion for escape and a somewhat punitive act. The three women together couldn't usually beat a Hell Lord, but they did manage to cause one to lose face and territory - and therefore power and influence. Add Vesperine to the people who'd like to see them dead and damned.
> I'm not sure she'd want them in hell either. 

Oh, she would.

I should add that I generally assume when I write these PV hell-dimensions that all that you see, even the villainous Hell Lords themselves, are actually superficial lies covering up the real thing, like scum crusting a bottomless pond. If I wrote the nastiest things I could think of I wouldn't even be getting close to the top of the layer beneath.

In PV-theology, the Hell Lords of the abyssal plains that can be visited by supernatural (but never scientific) means are empowered by the suffering of the souls they possess. The more souls, the larger the size of their domain, the more their relative power. The souls are batteries to them. After the souls finally get used up here they sink deeper to things beyond our comprehension and scream for the good old days when they were only on the abyssal plains. Nobody and nothing gets back from those deeper plains, which are probably beyond the Parodyverse anyhow.

All of which is a way of saying that Vesperine is literally hellishly powerful compared to humans, even to metahumans, but she's nothing compared to what she masks. Fortunately, all the Hell Lords are restricted in what they can do outside their own domains by rules that are enforced by the Opposition.

> > I think she's probably the most spontaneous member except for CSFB! and the most flamboyant now Tricky's gone.
> Seems that Yuki is ideal for Lair Legion publicity after all. 

I've said before that Yuki should be an inspiration to disabled kids across the world.

> > I wanted to establish in continuity some kind of reasons why the LL didn't immediately go shopping for new members.
> If they have enough right now then they have enough.  Yuki's reason for suggestions was because she didn't want to end up working with, say, Carnifex, if there was recruitment. 

Right now everybody would love the Carnifax to lead the team, but they know he's too busy and important.

> > Actually, he [the Parody Master] was the guard on the gate to stop the Carnifax getting in. He just got ideas above his station.
> Too bad he wasn't smart enough to use that as leverage:  "You can't kill me or someone worse will come along". 

The PM really didn't think like that. He didn't believe anything was worse than him either.

> > For now I recommend avoiding plots where anyone notices the Carnifax as being anomalous, for reasons I don't want to spoil until later on.
> Well remember, Lara tends to self-doubt what she doesn't know.  For her, finding out about Carnifex is like one of us going downtown and seeing a huge, obvious building for the first time.  She'd say to herself, "That had to be there before, it's just me."
> If someone asks her "What's the deal with this Carnifex?" then she might start to think about it, because if the locals aren't sure that magnifies the nagging feeling she has that it's new and unusual.  Then she'd contribute with "Yeah, I don't remember him being here before."
> > > As a side note, if Lara does visit and realize he's new, her style is usually to assume he's not harmful since he's not bothering anyone like the Parody Master was.  She has to believe that, simply because she wants the same benefit of the doubt for herself - not to be hunted and eliminated just for being powerful.

I'm just saying that I wouldn't be able to acknowledge any such knowledge when (if) I eventually get round to unfolding what's happening.

> > > Violet has a problem with her temper, but she can't stay mad at someone as nice as Mr. P. 
> > She could always try out as acting manager until Mr P is recovered.
> Violet would see that as an honor.  Michael would particularly hate that. 

indeed.

> I guess it depends whether she feels guilty enough to stick around and help Mr. P.

Only you can decide what she does. However, as a general character development comment I'd recommend taking her in different directions to Dancer. Right now Violet is a wanabee thespian temping as a waitress at the Bean and Donut waiting for her big break. Shep's always going to have the #1 niche there whatever happens so Violet will always get sloppy seconds plotwise. She really deserves a set-up where she's #1.





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