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Reply Subj: It's tough to decide which one to follow. Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 08:37:35 pm EST (Viewed 417 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: 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.Quote: Chiaki cheats too. Quote: Her most popular strategy in this case is simply not to be where she was expected to be. It'd be a super-powered mob hitting a lot of empty buildings. This is where the Psychic part of her nickname comes strongly into play.Agreed. Quote: The second strategy, which she employed during the Moderator Saga, is to counter the super-powered mob with a super-powered posse of her own (hence the she has a lot of powerful friends part), only smaller and either very powerful or very clever. Possibly even ask them to harass the super-powered assassination mob while she goes after Screwdriver himself.It'd be a good story but it's moving towards DEFCON 1 on the superhero wars. Quote: What's ironic about that is, it's not even her own strategy. She learned a lot from the Lair Legion.Quote: Quote: 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: The good news for her is she knows her weaknesses, and tries her best to avoid letting herself get into a situation where someone can exploit it. She knows it might happen someday, but she tries her best.This is common for superheroes. It's why no story ever pits Batman vs Darkseid in one to one combat unless Bats has been given an absolutely awesome amount of preparation time. Quote: Also another weakness she has is something simple: Someone who's more of a wrestler type fighter, who moves in close very fast and uses their body weight and strength against her. She'll fight back against that violently, but it places her at a huge disadvantage because of her small size.I think she's probably well versed in how to avoid that particular strategy though. Quote: Quote: He'd probably be quite willing to hire her or to broker her hire to a client.Quote: Chiaki is highly unlikely to take jobs from him. Unless it involves some sort of blackmail perhaps, and even then she'll find a way to make him pay for it later.Screwdriver tends not to get into revenge scenarios. They're bad for business. He prefers gathering favours then calling them in. Quote: Quote: 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?Quote: It doesn't have to be the whole way. The pigeons would only have to leave Badripoor and meet a friendly with a phone who can call Paradopolis.That would require a precognitive ability to know that Black was about to launch a citywide takeover. Quote: Quote: I think Chiaki could likely sense the wrongness of the will o'th wisps as well as the energies inside Black himself.Quote: That much evil might trigger a fight-or-flight kind of reaction in her. She might even try to leave quickly or badly hurt him to escape the interference.Indeed. Quote: The scary one, though, is the one you don't see coming. If she were properly motivated, Lara Night is perfectly able to turning him into a charcoal fossil at close or long range, and she's capable of it. The trick to that, of course, is she would need a lot of motivation, much more than Chiaki, and especially Keiko. Lara has had to kill before, and isn't eager to do it again - but she's not dead set against it like Hatman, either.There's lots of ways to kill any character if the story requires it. The skill comes in avoiding the situation where that's the logical outcome. | |||||||
