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Subj: I guess we were trying to get Manga Shoggoth to pay a visit... Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 at 08:59:46 pm EST (Viewed 407 times) | Reply Subj: *Calls the pun police* Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 at 08:29:29 pm EST (Viewed 2 times) | ||||||
Quote: We saw the possible effects of waking Shabba'Dhabba'Dhu way back around UT#45 or so. When he stretches and yawns the city he's sleeping under ceases to exist.That definitely sounds like Xander then. Liu Xi might be a little more careful. Quote: Chris, Shoggoth's poster, is clear that Shoggoth travel is bad for your mental health. He's basing his interpretation on Lovecraft's descriptions of planar travel and astral projection and on how people tend to go in sane when they see elder beings. So anyway I generally go by Chris' guidelines and assume that unless someone has some really good reasonnot to be driven nuts then they are.Well, you know the simple answer to that: Liu Xi Xian isn't completely sane to begin with. But who would be after discovering they could mold void and change the very laws of reality around them? The way I see it, both the Shoggoth and Liu Xi's void-folding cause a hole in a person's perception of reality that the human mind naturally tries to fill in with...something. Usually something ludicrous like a teddy bear that smells like the color green. So then the stream of reality becomes: I was in Off-Central Park, now I'm in the Lair Mansion, thanks to a teddy bear that smells like color green. Then you ask yourself why a teddy bear and how can the color green have a smell? What does that have to do with me being here? It's simultaneously an indisputable fact, and also impossible. At that point insanity begins to set in as you try to resolve that problem. Somehow, Liu Xi has made a conscious choice not to resolve that hole in reality at all. She accepts the teddy bear that smells like the color green, and doesn't question them as absolute fact, even though it makes no logical sense whatsoever. She would freely tell anyone who asks about them, in fact. So perhaps she isn't quite sane. Or maybe she thinks on a different plane from everyone else. Whichever the case, society tends to interpret either as insanity, since the very definition of it is the inability to think like everyone else. Quite the opposite, Lara Night is highly sensitive, and would probably become very ill after transporting via Shoggoth. It's like having a very sharp sense of smell and someone shoves an entire skunk in your nose. She might come out with her sanity intact...but barely, and she wouldn't be able to hold a conversation for a few hours, or eat for quite a while. Quote: Quote: Also, as far as where Faite might be...I would estimate at this point that she's not really interested in the Carnifex, and may have patiently arranged a nasty surprise for his 3 sponsors instead. That would be just like her, because her job is to try to correct aberrations in the Parodyverse, and the 3 of them definitely fit the bill.Quote: The Carnifex's unnumbered sponsors aren't able to get into the Parodyverse. They're too big and have too many dimensions.The ones that are in the Parodyverse are the ones she's after. She doesn't care about the ones outside as long as they stay there. She most likely means to eject the ones who did make it in. Quote: I think the thrust of the Carnifex is that he's powerful enough to avoid that kind of restraint. He's another of those annoying "ultimate power" types and his whole strategy is to make himself undefeatable by the big boys except by breaking the Parodyverse.Might not stop them from trying though. Quote: Quote: Quote: Quote: Chiaki's plan is problematic on so many levels. One of which, of course, is that most of her companions won't be able to do it. Liu Xi doesn't want to live with any more deaths caused by her. Anna is developing quite a powerful conscience so that she's about as gentle as a butterfly. Lara *might* do it, but only if she's sure she can save Chiaki's life at the last minute somehow.Quote: Quote: Well, the Psychic Samurai would certainly be willing to die to get the job done, but she might have had something else in mind (and might know that she was being monitored).Quote: Quote: She very well might be putting the mind behind all this to the test, to see if that person means to kill all 4 of them or just wear them down. If one of them is *trying* to die, the game comes to an end.Quote: We'll pick up on this next issue.Noted. Quote: Quote: At the very least, they have a built-in escape mechanism once their captor is subdued. They won't have to wait to hitch a ride on a spaceship or anything.Quote: I'm working on a "what happens next" right now.Once they're freed of restrictions, Liu Xi or Lara can get them home. The restrictions are the hard part. | |||||||
