> > Liu Xi might do that, but usually only if it's convenient. She hasn't yet learned to rely on heavy research into those things, though she might be inspired to it if she happened to be at the Lair Mansion while Tandi happened to be there too.
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> Another possibility is that if Liu Xi is resident on campus she might well have met Tandi there at her Women's Studies night class.
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Liu Xi isn't taking night classes, but she might have seen Tandi there during the day for some reason.
> > Anna, on the other hand...I'm not sure how a curse would affect her. I'd think a blood curse would require real blood.
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> It would depend on just how much Anna's body synthetically replicates human physiology I suppose. The converse problem would be that since the poltergeist could manipulate and move non-living objects could it affect a robot that way?
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I suppose the poltergeist could toss her at people, she's heavy enough to do some damage. But that would just encourage her to blast it to bits faster. If she feels she's "assigned" to keep Vinnie safe, anyone who's using her to harm him would find her turning on them rapidly.
And historically, if someone tried possessing her, or taking control of her to hurt someone, she goes into auto-shutdown and faints. That's what happened last time someone tried possessing her. It's not an automatic response though - she does that consciously to prevent harming someone while out of control.
Speaking of Anna, to move things forward I've been thinking of pulling her back to Paradopolis, and then leaving the explanation of where she was for later. The beauty of having two different plot forks not dependent on each other is they don't have to happen concurrently.
> > > Vinnie's probably still feeling guilty for the other times Liu Xi got dragged into supernatural danger.
> > Or he's afraid of getting in trouble with Liu Xi again.
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> Vinnie's used to being "in trouble" from the womenfolk of his life, especially his mother, sisters, and ex-fiancee. What disconcerts him about Liu Xi and his other new female friends is a tendency they have to actually care about him and try to scold him for benevolent reasons not to control him.
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Liu Xi also tends to mean exactly what she says, and doesn't manipulate him.
