> A clever resolution that I hope to see followed through. For example, Beth von Zemo is now back in custody, having voluntarily returned to her luxury cell and en-suite sauna. The Silence-of-the-Lambs-spooky criminal mastermind Blackbird chose not to escape at all. Other current inmates include Anvil Man, Appendage Man, razor Ballerina, Brass Monkey, and VelcroVixen. Warden Westwood lost his long-time Security Chief and friend in the breakout and will definitely need wining over to the idea of Chiaki in some way replacing his most trusted ally.
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It's going to be a lot of work for Chiaki. She doesn't shy away from big tasks, but that may prove troublesome for her too.
Fortunately Beth Zemo doesn't intimidate her, and she's really not afraid of spooky criminal masterminds, since both will plot quietly and are more interesting to stay ahead of. Oddly enough, it's the former Purveyors that scare her most, since they're opportunists - they'll take any chance they can to escape, kill anyone they can, and have no pattern for prediction.
> On the Mayoral race, I wonder if we could find some other candidate to edit in instead of Ventredi? It's previously been established that Boss Deadeyes has quite a lot of contempt for Paradopolis - he's a GMY boy - and his treaty with Akiko precludes him moving in on the Big Banana.
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I ran out of ideas. The election is a month away in story time, though, so who knows who could join the race before then. I wasn't originally planning to finish the mayor sublot anyway, since whatever I choose would probably upset some posters.
> I think this might be a fine opportunity to introduce an entirely new protagonist, somebody designed from scratch and about to make a move. Maybe a Ra's al Ghul type, or a Luthor, neither of which we really have in the PV. I'd love to kibbutz with you and others as to who the Mayoral candidate should be. it could be somebody we could mutually set up to rise high and then eventually get brought down hard.
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Originally I thought of Marvellous Marv, but he'd probably just get killed again or disappear before the election. Other than that I'm out of ideas at the moment. I'm not sure about coming up with something new, because then I'd have to go to the trouble of establishing who it is first. Nobody comes out of nowhere and wins an election.
> As a matter of interest, no Paradopolis Mayor has served out his term since 1989, and Paradopolis City Hall has been blown up at least seven times. The weirdest candidate to stand was alien manipulator Pierson's Porter (a poster character), but his reign was ultimately retconned by the Hooded Hood. People remember he was mayor one day then he vanished the next.
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Noted.
