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Reply Subj: What has she been involved in? Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 12:49:45 pm EST (Viewed 363 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: ... if [Screwdriver] was annoyed by Yuki or Chiaki he'd likely contract agents to go and take them down (or rather try); but only if it made sound business sense - if it was cheaper to give Chiaki a million dollar cheque to make her go away he'd probably do that.Quote: He might run into trouble with trying to have Chiaki assassinated anyhow - most of the higher-class assassins know her through Akiko and would refuse to take the job (and the lower-end ones would never make it alive). She would probably also turn down a million dollars to go away.Screwdriver might well look to a team like the one he sent against Black: Anvil Man because he's literally indestuctible and can detonate things (even people) on line of sight, Dreamripper for the psionic attacks to distract, Genetwist because he can mutate people just by touch making close physical combat with him very dangerous, and Baroness Morbo because magic is such a cheat against primarily physical combatants. I'd say that Chiaki would still probably hold out against that lot and at least escape; she might inflict casualties; but in any case it would be a serious fight that could well go the other way. Every hero has certain villians whom their power set doesn't offer them much protection against. For the Psychic Samurai it's probably energy projectors like the sentient atomic radiation being Dr Roentgen. Quote: Quote: The problem is that he doesn't really break the law in many detectable ways. He's got too many middle men. Quote: Chiaki has the unique position of being someone who's pretty well connected herself. She's also really difficult to break down or have killed. But because she's not law enforcement or Lair Legion, she really doesn't have much motivation to bother Screwdriver until he becomes particularly annoying to her somehow.He'd probably be quite willing to hire her or to broker her hire to a client. Quote: What might really be interesting is to see what happens if the Lair Legion has problems with Screwdriver...but Chiaki is asked by Akiko as a personal favor to stay out of it. She would have some tough choices to make.I imagine the circumstances would dictate her response. I'm not really planning anything regarding Screwdriver just now but I'm certain that one day he'll either make a mistake, cross over the line, or simply get to the top of the LL's to-do list and then it's superhero wrestlemania for a while. Quote: Quote: She'd have some difficulty because Black was tying up the entire Badripoor comms net at the time (deliberately). Even the LL couldn't get signals out, as attested by Hallie.Quote: I'm sure Champagne had something to resort to, maybe carrier pidgeons?Wouldn't that require her to be carrying pigeons specifically bred in Chaiki's loft? And wouldn't it take weeks for them to fly halfway round the globe to Paradopolis? And wouldn't Chiaki have to have return pigeons that home to spiffy's palace? Semaphore flags are clearly the way to go. Quote: As an interesting aside I thought of while reading this, have you seen any of the Dexter series? The way he tracks down his "victims" and verifies that they're the right one is one of the sources I draw on for how Keiko used to do her job.I'm afraid I don't know the series. I'm not sure it's shown here. Quote: Quote: As for assassin attack, Tom might not spot an assailant but if he or she has a life aura his will o'th wisps would, even if Tom was sleeping.Quote: To be honest, in Tom Black's case, Keiko probably would not take that kind of job unless she was really heavily paid for it, and even then maybe not. She wouldn't consider any job with so many variables to be routine at all. If she faces any personal danger (aside from being caught) the price goes way up, and she still may turn it down. It's likely if she saw those orbs as dangerous to her she would abort and turn down the job entirely.I think Chiaki could likely sense the wrongness of the will o'th wisps as well as the energies inside Black himself. Quote: If they were just there to alert him, though, she would use their presence against him and turn them into a trap. That would actually make her job easier.The best way for an assassin to take Tom down would be via long range high-powered rifle or through poison/ Quote: Chiaki, of course, isn't an assassin for hire, but if she had reason to go after Tom those orbs would not deter her the least bit. She wouldn't care at all that they alert Tom of her presence, because she believes he doesn't have a reason to run from her. She has a calming demeanor and quiet attitude that makes her seem non-offensive and non-dangerous most of the time, and she uses that to disarm many enemies by seeming not to be a threat.Noted. | |||||||
