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Subj: Not so much.
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 03:18:20 pm EDT
Reply Subj: I guess it's not so saved anymore.
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 01:17:50 pm EDT (Viewed 375 times)


> Chiaki cleans up her mistakes. Whoever took Liu Xi can expect Chiaki to search for her tirelessly, and when she catches up they can expect serious injuries or death. It could be an interesting misunderstanding if she was actually taken by the real Dancer and a few friends to protect her.

Both Dancer and Liu Xi have vanished off to the next phase of the plot. Chiaki's immidate problem will be surviving in a word that has suddenly lost nearly all of its front rank superheroes and none of its supervillains. The balance of power has shifted significantly and it's now open season on people associated with the Lair Legion.

> Of course whoever took Liu Xi, if it's not Dancer and friends, also may not know that she's been learning since her last major kidnapping. She may prove to be more trouble than she's worth. Or maybe they'll treat her well because they want to convince her to help them.

It's fair to say that the people taking Liu Xi know more about her than she does. That's how they were able to construct so effive a counter to her abilities (elelemental and otherwise). I felt it was time to give you an eventual opening to examine Liu Xi's origins.

> It looks like Lara's side trip will be cut short. The Shoggoth will likely know his other biomass at the Lair Mansion is gone and inform her of what's going on. She'll have to go and find them...though...

We'll certainly cover Lara's "Where were you when...?" moment in #9, and then show the situation to which she'll need to react.

> ...I suspect that this is all much less than a coincidence. I'm starting to believe that the Shoggoth understands the Chronicler's plan already - and with Lisa backing it 100%, the point is to keep Lara there and away from an attempt at locating the Lair Legion. I think the Chronicler's original idea was to banish Lara from the Parodyverse for a time to accomplish that, but Lisa has other ideas. That also makes it possible that the kidnapping of Liu Xi is directly related.

Now that we've got the mystery part of this round robin over with I thought we'd take it to other territory I've been meaning to cover for a while now.

> The question then is, do they convince Lara to cooperate or do they treat her as a prisoner?

We'll cover it. I hope to have the next chapter up quite soon.

> As a side note, the Chronometer of Infinity sounds like something Faite may have had a part in designing. It's just like her to design something to stop time just at the moment of its bearer's death and rewind a bit, preserving the memory of it.

It's one of the intruments of the Office of the Keeper of the Chronometer, and it's ultimate purpose is to time the countdown to the Resolution War that terminated the Parodyverse.

> Anyway, is there anything you're waiting for me to attempt to contribute? I haven't set up any tie-in things yet.

As I said at the end of the chapter, I recognise that there's not a lot people can write now without further information. I'll try and get that written and posted as soon as possible.

If you want to do a very street-end tie-in you could show the experience the cops in Paradopolis have in the minutes after the lair Mansion and the SPUD Helicarrier vanish. Dan Drury's going to have a bad day.