You're not too far wrong. Some dinners are served up raw.




Nope, the rift was to a place of certain death. The Portal of Pretentiousness snatched Jay from that ending.




The LL are the greatest heroes of the current nexus world of the Parodyverse and they have ties to a number of cosmic office holders and powerful allies. Sooner or later any would-be conqueror's going to have to gat past them before suceeding. Most go for sooner, since on the surface they seem like a fairly easy win compared to some of the major beings.

The Carnifex likes the challenge and wants to collect the set.




I was remembering what you said about Lara needing time to concentrate and prepare, especially if she is shifting others as well. I was also thinking that Lara's memory loss means she's not got many Parodyverse co-ordinates well fixed to aid her. Finally I was assuming that since the Carnifex has studied Lara he'd have found a way to block her escape the same way he put barriers to keep Liu Xi in place.

Mostly I wanted to set up a scenario where the four heroes face utterly overwhelming odds that seem impossible to escape. That's when they get to show their real heroism - and ingenuity. I wanted this to be a battle they'd always count as a tough one.




I think you can assume that to survive a whole day against an entire planet of co-ordinated undead the four of them have been using every trick and resource they know. I didn't go into detail (although these four were the only characters in two scenes in this chapter) but I hoped to give the impression that they were surviving through teamwork and professionalism. more next time.




I wanted to leave it a bit nebulous so as not to interfere with your stories. Either the IOL has been trading direct with Shen Rae or via the Alliance to get the literature. After all, why risk IOL personnel (given that at least one whole library would have been lost in the Carnifex's holocaust) when there's independent contractors who can take the chances instead? Lee knowing Shen Rae's name might indicate he's familiar with the source of the materials or it might just be the codename the IOL people attached when they acquired the data.

Of course, of all the LL Lee is the one most likely to keep Shen Rae a secret, especially if she's a member of the library and therefore covered by its confidentiality policy.