Subj: It's supposed to be the other way round. I help them move their millions. First though I require a cash down payment.Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 12:39:48 pm EDT
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> > I like story concepts that come with their own checks and balances.
> The checks and balances I usually specialize in are consequences.  Like Newton's law, every action has an opposite reaction.  Shema explained that, in her cryptic way, to Lara, how the consequences of raising her profile in the Parodyverse might play out.
> > Here's why some checks and balances probably come in. If, as has been intimated, the "maintanance" functions of the PV are back online, Celestian energy is being carefully tracked by the Celestians and the Triumverate are back on the job. Threats like Lara might end up being politely having their passports revoked (or, if it' the Space Robots, just summarily deleted).
> That depends on a lot of things, I guess.  Lara doesn't play with powerful sources of energy for her own entertainment (if she does play with energy at all it would be ambient energy from around her) so if she does try to crack the Celestian energy she'd have good reason for it.  She would hope the Celestians are intelligent enough to understand what she's doing, or at least ask, but if they fight her without warning when she's trying to protect someone she'd probably put up some resistance.
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The Celestians, like the Kirby creations they imitate, are meant to be remote and unknowable. They're robots working to unfathomable programming. They never speak, or communicate in any way. Why do they destory one planet and cultivate another? Ignore one act and destroy a being for another? Nobody knows. They can't be reasoned with, only avoided.
> The Triumverate, however, is definitely intelligent enough to ask questions and maybe understand.  Unless they get to the point where they're blinded by their own power and arrogance it's unlikely they'll summarily banish Lara from the Parodyverse.  If they started behaving like that it's probably a sign that the Lar Legion will be clashing with them soon anyhow.
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The Triumverate rarely work together. Each has an area of responsibility, roughly caricatured as starts, middles, and endings, and the individual office holder has a lot of latitude in how they interpret and prosecute the role within some overall rules. In matters under their authority they can draw in pretty much unlimited abouts of power to enforce their jurisdiction (so can the minor office holders, but in much narrower fields in much more specialised circumstances). The third set of checks and balances we're aware of, the Family of the Pointless, who have currently withdrawn from interactions, personify aspects of the Parodyverse.
I don't see either the current Chronicler or Destroyer being inimical to Lara while she behaves herself. There are plenty of less benevolent power-entities out there to watch. Even if Lara was doing terribly wicked things with her power they could only act against her if she crossed certain lines - otherwise the Shaper would have taken down the Hooded Hood years ago.
> In other words I guess it's fortunate that Lara makes an effort to cooperate and keep a low profile at least.  Her actions so far speak better than anyone can on her behalf.
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Indeed.
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