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Reply Subj: For once I think I know what's going on! Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 at 10:16:55 pm EST (Viewed 431 times) | |||||||
Quote: Apparently Hatman *is* key to the defeat of the Carnifex after all, which is why he had to be removed from the equation before any of the plan was placed into effect. Of course the Hooded Hood is key too, but he's playing hard to get.Hatman's the key to the Carnifex getting Zdenka too. If you're going hunting first you cut your prey off from it's hide. Quote: The Psychic Samurai is a little perplexing as a primary target, because her senses alone shouldn't be enough to harm the Carnifex or his friends if they have the Lair Legion in their pocket - unless somehow she's capable of stopping them all single-handedly and she hasn't realized it yet. She can gather "friends", but once all those friends are neutralized, her effectiveness should be limited (except Lara, who seems to be on the outside of this). Unless, of course - and this is a long shot - somehow the Carnifex' power, or his friends' power, is based on an external force that Chiaki might be able to see and destroy.The Carnifex likes to study then stalk his quarry, so he's taken time to find out quite a bit about each of his targets. For some reason as yet to be revealed he's taken special care regarding the mystic and psychic types, to the extent of logging and working out ways of neutralising pretty much all the cosmic powers and either suborning, sidelining, or removing the less cosmic ones. Only a few remain out there "in the wild", such as Vinnie and Chiaki. As you'd expect, he has plans for them. The one psychic that was completely off his radar was an outcast Caphan female in a semi-imaginary surreal continent of the Shoggoth's creation. Quote: Though that would more be Liu Xi's department, being able to stop someone single-handedly and not realizing it. Even with her elemental power and memorizing spells, she still has very limited self-confidence. She doesn't believe she's ready for the big-leagues yet. Of course Hatty being taken and Vinnie being threatened might be enough to dissolve her reluctance quickly. She'll also be angry that the University was destroyed, since her credits won't be accepted anywhere else.The whole university wasn't destroyed, just the science blocks. Another interesting thing Lou Xi hasn't yet discovered is the role the Carnifex played in her grandfather's plots and demise. Quote: As things are working out, it looks like Lara Night has been groomed as a hidden weapon by not only by the Hooded Hood, but possibly the Psychic Samurai as well. I have to feel sorry for her at this point - at some point, Lara is going to suffer huge loss. She has to, because once she understands why the Hooded Hood wiped her memory, she'll know that she *can't* show the Carnifex or his two buddies what she's capable of until the time is right. Too early, and she'll have destroyed the Hooded Hood's possible plan and last hope for the Parodyverse.The Hood never does something for only one reason. Quote: At the very least, though, she may be called into duty suddenly to investigate whatever alternate dimension Hatman has been ripped to. She's might be only one who can look in on it without causing harm to herself (Liu Xi has a bad habit of falling into places like that and getting stuck). Of course "looking in on it" doesn't guarantee she'll find anything. It's a simple matter of coverage - if her entry point is nowhere near where Hatman and Nats went in, she could look for months and not find a thing. Also, Al B Harper might be reluctant to let her since the way she does it (riding waves of energy across dimensions) he can't monitor her progress.Long-time readers might note my penchant for having absent poster's characters conveniently absent also. I'm not sure yet how long-time absent character Nats and Hatty are but intend to undertake some consultation on the matter soon. Quote: Oh and the Librarian will kick himself when someone tells him that Anna has nanites of her own that repair and maintain her body. She has a built-in way to communicate with them that she possibly could have adapted. But the fact that she wasn't called in could simply be a lingering lack of trust - they don't really know if Utilizon can turn her against them.I think there'd probably be a definite decision to keep Anna away from Ultizon to protect her from harm. Hatman wouldn't want to place her in a "Bride of Ultizon" situation or where her own nanites might be overcome and reprogrammed by a bigger, nastier, more experienced AI. At the very least he wpuldn't want to hand Ultizon a chance to assimilate Anna's technical specs. | |||||||
