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Subj: Except for the bits where the blood is steaming, yes.
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 at 07:06:48 pm EST (Viewed 2 times)
Reply Subj: The tower must be cold with all those runny noses...
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 at 08:06:05 pm EST (Viewed 458 times)



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      You're not too far wrong. Some dinners are served up raw.



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    Maybe he won't be so tactless as to feed the Lair Legion the remains of Shee-Yar and then kill them.


The Shee-Yar aren't related to the LL so where's the fun in that?


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      Nope, the rift was to a place of certain death. The Portal of Pretentiousness snatched Jay from that ending.



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    I wonder if he knows the Lair Legion is in trouble then? Usually the Hooded Hood won't give away anything until he needs to.


Is he not... the Hooded Hood?


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      The LL are the greatest heroes of the current nexus world of the Parodyverse and they have ties to a number of cosmic office holders and powerful allies. Sooner or later any would-be conqueror's going to have to gat past them before suceeding. Most go for sooner, since on the surface they seem like a fairly easy win compared to some of the major beings.



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    I guess the biggest fault of most of those conqueror types is they're always looking for the fight, and don't realize that just under the surface the LL is fragile and easy to dismantle without a single blow.



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    Among those I'd expect to know that are the Librarian, the Psychic Samurai, and Hallie.


My take is that the LL aren't fragile at all; they're very resiliant and deceptively hard to beat. They're to the PV what the Avengers and JLA are in their respective mythoi, the prime heroes in a team.


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      I was remembering what you said about Lara needing time to concentrate and prepare, especially if she is shifting others as well. I was also thinking that Lara's memory loss means she's not got many Parodyverse co-ordinates well fixed to aid her. Finally I was assuming that since the Carnifex has studied Lara he'd have found a way to block her escape the same way he put barriers to keep Liu Xi in place.



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    I forgot to type it in last reply, but I was also going to add: Lara could probably take herself, Liu Xi, Anna, and Chiaki home with her (to her own Earth) because she knows the way so well. But she probably figures they don't want to go there and be stuck while she rests up for a day or so. That would be an absolute last resort.



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    I guess any strong enough magical barrier (or "bind") will work too though.


As I've argued before, if the heroes can blink out of danger whenever things get tough then it's not that heroic. Sometimes only the toughest situations can define a character's heroic core.


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    Tough battle aside, though, the only way I can see it ending at the moment (because I'm guessing I don't see it all yet) is if the four realize there's manipulation going on, and turn on the source of it (Mrs Peel).


Noted.


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      I think you can assume that to survive a whole day against an entire planet of co-ordinated undead the four of them have been using every trick and resource they know. I didn't go into detail (although these four were the only characters in two scenes in this chapter) but I hoped to give the impression that they were surviving through teamwork and professionalism. more next time.



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    I should clarify...Because the Carnifex killed each one of the Shee-Yar, I always assumed the planet would look abandoned, not like a wasteland. In other words, near the ocean the four women should be able to find a shelter they're capable of barricading and protecting more easily. That's where the running away and using the topography comes in.


I think it's a bit of both. I didn't get a chance to go into detail in this chapter since it's not that kind of narrative but the Shee-Yar sun is snuffed so there's massively sub-zero temperatures (I assume Liu Xi or Lara could mitigate that) and the planet is floating out of orbit with all the tectonic shifts that implies.


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      I wanted to leave it a bit nebulous so as not to interfere with your stories. Either the IOL has been trading direct with Shen Rae or via the Alliance to get the literature. After all, why risk IOL personnel (given that at least one whole library would have been lost in the Carnifex's holocaust) when there's independent contractors who can take the chances instead? Lee knowing Shen Rae's name might indicate he's familiar with the source of the materials or it might just be the codename the IOL people attached when they acquired the data.



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    Shen Rae's status there might change soon. More in a short story I'm working on called "Zephiir's Prophecy". Actually I'm working on 2 stories at once, and I can't decide whether to start posting that or a short story about Anna called "Catch and Release".


Proceed.


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      Of course, of all the LL Lee is the one most likely to keep Shen Rae a secret, especially if she's a member of the library and therefore covered by its confidentiality policy.



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    If she is a member that could come in handy for her later.


Membership is free to those with the capability to visit and apply.


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    I have to wonder though, Shen Rae both has secrets about the galaxy and about herself. It's difficult to tell if the Librarian would have both.


Could work either way.




Noted.