I have a few helpful hints for this:

Lara herself has said "I'm not Hatman"...meaning that she has a well honed sense of when she needs to stay out of the way of something. It's how she survived for so long at home, where things are far more dangerous.

She also believes that self-sacrifice isn't smart when you're fairly powerful. If you die doing one heroic thing, then you leave everyone you saved vulnerable to your enemies. This is primarily why Lara would never try to directly fight the Carnifex. If he's observant, he'd also realize the same - Lara has purposely taken the sideline in every major conflict.

There are also distractions from the Psychic Samurai, who may be able to sense that Lara may come to harm if she does something, and try to keep her busy doing something else. That would be just like Chiaki to do something like that.

Or that new alien race I added may have something for her to do at the time. Or maybe Lisa. Or she could be given a singular task that will leave her as a casual observer, or possibly in the dark, about what's going on.



The Search has been fixed for a few days now, if that's what you mean. It had an obnoxious typo so it wasn't searching the dates correctly.

If you mean links from your web site, the message numbers are now 2 digits longer. If you have a URL that ends with something like "rpy=parodyverse-20080615002456" just add "00" to the end. That's how the older message numbers were patched for the new system.

P.S. The numbers were extended because each message number is a date stamp - year, month, day, hour, minute, second. Two random digits were added so Comicboards could handle up to a continuous 100 posts per second.