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Reply Subj: More tasty desserts! Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 at 10:45:15 am EST (Viewed 494 times) | |||||||
Quote: Chiaki is really short and slim. Vinnie could probably break her in half, and he's not exactly a bodybuilder. Now that he's teamed with her, he might start to ask himself why most of the criminal underworld in Paradopolis is afraid of her. He probably knows. He's just a bit vague about how fighty types do what they do anyhow. On the other hand, he is pretty much the occult equivalent in terms of stature as Chiaki is in physical combat. The techniques that build up the blatant magical powers like fireballs and people exploding tend to involve pacts or sacrifices that Vinnie won't consider. So he has to just the magicak equivalent of judo. Quote: If he asks her, he'll have his answer about how he can use leverage against his own enemies without having to sacrifice what he cares about.Quote: First thing she would tell him is just because Xander went it alone doesn't mean he has to. That perhaps his strength is in cooperation.Vinnie strongly suspects that Xander knew some things that are not available to an acting sorcerer supreme. Certainly Xander was more ruthless and effective at the job. So when some foe taunts Vinnie that he's not really up to the task there is a grain of truth there. Vinnie's choice to rely upon friends and allies is a pragmnatic one as well as his natural insticnt; but as we have previously discussed, his also feels the need to protect those around him from the kind of threats they could not survive or would only survive if they allowed themselves to be unpleasantly changed. Quote: Quote: She knows she was one Vinnie-decision and two seconds away for being killed by the enemy in a manner that foresight cannot avoid, a mass destruction event that wpould kill hundreds if not thousands to ensure she was dead.Quote: That might motivate her to show Vinnie how to turn the tables on those who keep trying to manipulate him like that.He just did, with Magweed. Quote: Quote: Time runs differently in the Many Coloured Lands. When we catch up with her in Chapter 16, six weeks has passed for her and she has been busy.Quote: Do we need one of those musical montages to cover it?It's not like there's a shortage of singing animals. Quote: Quote: Teleportation is one of the least predictable means of travel in the Mythlands, easy to divert or to alter the travellers, so it is a last resort (after all, the place is all about quests and journies).Quote: The interesting thing about Lara's "teleport" is unlike a real one, it's not point-to-point. If you noticed in my tie-in, she became hyper-accelerated in her energy form. When she re-materialized, she expected to have a negligible amount of acceleration left, but she had way too much to slow down in time, and crashed through the Lair Mansion main hall.Since science is subordinate to other forces in the Mythlands, Lara will find that her abilities operate in a magic-equivalent way. As an elemental she will need to guard against being summoned or bound by those who use other elemental spirits in Faerie in that way. Quote: Easiest way to describe it in scifi terms is it's like accelerating into hyperspace and then exiting it in a short distance.Faerie doesn't really have a hyperspace, even when the planes aren;t isolated as they are now. Teleportations are possible but they tend to demand prices. Quote: Quote: The Faerie Queene still has the upper hand. In many ways she is the Realm and therefore has godlike powers, but withing some narrative boundaries. Magweed's little group is the first assembly of powers able to offer her serious challenge for a long time (since the early days of Untold Tales and a villain called the King of Stories), but for all their power they are still the plucky outsider underdogs.Quote: And that would be the issue for Lara, because the way I understand it, Fairie pretty much is part of Mab at the moment. It means Mab can change the location and arrangement of things at will, or create new entities specifically designed to deal with her.That is true. There is also the problem that Faerie is a place of emotions too. However powerful someone is, they are not always protected from attacks designed to break their heart. Quote: It's not a safe place for Lara. But she knows that, and then takes to heart Chiaki's advice to hide her true power.She is an attractive and obvious target, but fortunately many of those who spot her as that will also underestimate her. After all, "elementals are easy". Quote: Quote: By the way, because the reply thread is heading off the side of my non-widescreen monitor now, I'm having to scroll across to read every line of the body text of all replies. Is there any way to mitigate this?Quote: At one point I tested a feature that made wide threads encase inside a scrollable DIV, but that did horrible things to Internet Explorer, so I left it this way. The only fix right now is to create a new thread, which this is.I'll collate the two different postings when I archive it. All I'll need to do is add in some /ul lines to break up the two longest threads. | |||||||
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