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Subj: Re: Somebody better locate him fast then.
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 08:17:08 pm EDT (Viewed 333 times)
Reply Subj: Somebody better locate him fast then.
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 07:17:56 pm EDT


> > ...because now only Danny can fix that mess. Or maybe Faite, except Danny's way won't leave scarring memories on everyone who was burned to death and then put back.
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> Danny finds it difficult to blatantly deny events, and the larger the event the harder it is to deny it. He's be out of his league denying a nuclear explosion has devastated the city and killed millions, including almost all the Lair Legion. And the more time passes before his denial the less he can do.

In that case, either he already better be working on it, or it's in Faite's hands. The only problem is, she wouldn't really be inclined to interfere (a few million deaths doesn't mean much in the course of millions of years of history) unless someone makes an effort to get her emotionally involved. Usually she keeps her distance.

...unless the Hooded Hood is active again. This does seem a bit like one of his plots, how the timing seems too convenient. Including the timing of Liu Xi Xian having fled the mansion earlier to visit Chiaki's home, which is just barely uptown enough to be outside the destruction zone, Hatman being elsewhere, CSFB! being near indestructible because of something set up much earlier, Lara annoying the Chronicler with the Manga Shoggoth, and most likely Anna being flame resistant and radiation proof. All that stuff happening at once, it might just be a Hooded Hood plot.


> > Good to see that Lara is still far more reasonable than the Chronicler. He's still being rude and insane-like even after she calms down and asks for a good explanation. At least Lisa will be more reasonable, which is saying a lot about the Chronicler's current state.
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> From the Chronicler's persepctive Lara barged in unannounced and started interfering with his work. He doesn't owe her explanations. It's none of her business. She's a tourist poking her nose in, asking dumb questions, thinking she knows better than the locals who do this every day of their life.

Nothing annoys Lara more than being treated like an idiot when she has valid questions. She expects that kind of behavior from a non-intelligent super-villain, who believes everyone is beneath him. And she had in mind to treat him accordingly, and stop him before he does any more damage. Nothing worse than a super-villain in a position of extreme power.

But the worse part is...(below)


> You could say they got off on the wrong foot.

...that he didn't do anything to improve that impression. That means Lara still believes an insane man runs things in the Parodyverse and will probably file away removing him from power on her to-do list. Fortunately right now she has more important and immediate tasks to attend to (unless the two goals manage to merge, then she'd be happy for that). She might even recruit the Shoggoth to help.

That is, unless the Chronicler finally does something to convince her that he's not really so dangerous and insane, or Lisa does.


> > Unfortunately when this is all over poor Lara is going to have to explain to the Shoggoth how human mating works so he'll stop asking.
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> One sometimes wonders how much the Shoggoth does understand about human customs and how much he asks just to disconcert people. It worked to divert the clash between the Chronicler and Lara.

Lara is more patient than most people the Shoggoth might encounter. She likes helping people learn, so she actually would try to explain it carefully (and without Liu Xi's "What the hell are you talking about? That's stupid."). The part that might cause problems is if the Shoggoth understands, and begins to think that means it must be female too (see below as to why that's funny).


> The Shoggoth might recall the Chronicler previously referring to women as "the evil sex" and to intercourse as "the bad thing".

In that case Lara might convince the Shoggoth to insist it's female next time it visits the Chronicler. It's even funnier with the note above.