|
| ||||||
Subj: Re: The other person wouldn't see it that way. Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 at 09:26:13 pm EST (Viewed 228 times) | Reply Subj: Re: The other person wouldn't see it that way. Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 02:32:28 pm EST (Viewed 1 times) | ||||||
Quote: But if you're not giving it 100% then you're always going to feel guilty about the child you didn't save, the team-mate who you weren't there to pull from their doom.Lara pretty much does like regular people do, only ramped up a bit. She saves a child if she sees it, holds open doors for people on crutches, etc, and she feels pretty good about it. There are too many other people making a full time job of it, though, so she feels like there's not so much reward in it anymore. Quote: Quote: The point is the same with the Lair Legion though - if they were rendered obsolete it doesn't mean they'd give up hero-ing entirely, just that they wouldn't do so as a permanent group anymore.Quote: I suspect many of the LL hang together because they're friends. The whole superhero team thing is just an enabling device. Probably. But they wouldn't dispatch to every emergency anymore without the team. Quote: Quote: Like I said, it's a last resort for two reasons: First, if Lara does indeed have a way out, she won't want whoever trapped her there to know about it, because she plans to come right back (and the next trap will be even better). Just like Chiaki says, never let your enemy see your true strength right away.Quote: I'd really prefer to see how the women do when they're actually trapped.Noted. Quote: Quote: Quote: Note however that he hasn't simply arranged for their immediate and inescabable demise. He wants them to struggle and suffer for as long as possible before falling; and therein lies his weakness.Quote: Quote: So if the women have a barbecue and invite the zombies and Ms Peel the Carnifex will be angry?Quote: I think Lara and Co would probably elect to live instead.You know how the saying goes, about attracting more favor with honey than vinegar. Quote: Quote: Anna is a very powerful transmitter, and the frequency range of her transmissions is still a secret. They would only need to convince the zombies within range (the rest are too far away to care about yet, they could take days to arrive).Quote: Interesting.More on that in an upcoming story post, when Anna gets to use that transmitter. Quote: Quote: Of all of them, Chiaki is probably at the greatest disadvantage...since she's fighting with all her limbs, she'll tire most quickly - but she also will be the most reluctant to throw in the towel. She would continue fighting, but you'd be able to tell she's getting tired when she switches from aggressive to defensive.Quote: She's also the one most likely to work out a counter-strategy.Funny thing about that perception that I might have accidentally created: Chiaki is a very good strategist, but she's not the only one. Lara is also capable of some shrewd planning (though at the moment she might be too busy keeping everyone alive). Quote: Quote: Anna can continue fighting the longest, because her battery has a kinetic recharge, so the more she's fighting, the more power she gets. She might even be recharging fast enough to use the lasers fairly often. Her being designed that way is no accident - she was designed by SPUD, and one of the requirements was a nearly tireless fighting machine. There is danger of her overheating though, which would cause her to sweat, and then slow down as the water in her body begins to diminish.Quote: How would she function once Lara's not able to shield her from absolute zero, at temperatures where metal snaps and lubricants freeze?It depends. As long as she's moving, she is generating her own heat and recharging a large percentage of spent battery power. Her body though, is designed to protect itself from damage, and if something critical like her "blood" thickening from lack of water and from cold begins happening, it will start to shut down to protect her. Quote: Quote: Lara would do okay if she paces herself and doesn't use up more energy in a single burst than she can recharge from the planet's magnetic field. Most likely if she's planning something big, she would really conserve that power, in case she has to use it all up escaping far away, or detonating the entire planet's surface.Quote: I'm not entitely sure of my physics, but I think the magnetic field is a function of the planet spinning around a molten core. Without a sun there's no force to spin the planet (except residual momentum) and a diminishing magnetic field.There are probably still magnetic rocks/metals within the planet. It's not much, but gives Lara some limited power at least. Though ironically, it might be the remnants of the sun's core showering the planet with electromagnetic interference giving her power (which would kill the others, naturally, which makes Lara more essential). Quote: Quote: So eventually it becomes a case of two people protecting all four, and then eventually Anna would be fighting for them all. Then possibly Lara might use the time she's not fighting to build up enough power for a massive detonation, or Liu Xi may just turn hurricane force winds on the zombies, and then pass out from the strain.Quote: I think it's fair to assume that any or all of these things will have been tried in the 19 hours of battle so far.Noted. | |||||||
