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Subj: Re: Don't tip the waiter if that happens.
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 05:38:23 pm EST (Viewed 3 times)
Reply Subj: Re: Don't tip the waiter if that happens.
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 04:35:43 pm EST (Viewed 284 times)



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      I'm not sure how much re-training one needs when one's led the LL through a war, administered a major team of superheroes, conducted diplomatic and military missions at planetary level, and experienced dozens if not hundreds of skillsets vioa the caps one's worn.



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    It's amazing how dependent one gets on tools, though. Lara would have a hard time adapting to not having energy based powers anymore (and she has to temporarily whenever she drains it completely, for a short while).


My take is that Yuki, who's been covering tactics and training for the LL over the last couple of years, will have followed on from previous people in that role and made sure that everybody has as much training as they can handle. Okay, teaching the Shoggoth judo's going to be messy, but I'd guess she's tried to drill basic self-defence into even Al B. and the Librarian. The Field Team people who are front-line combatants probably get far more than that, with training from all kinds of guest-tutors from across the world.


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    There are only two characters of mine that bothered to diversify. Liu Xi learned a few spells in case her elemental power fails (because it's been defeated so many times, she learned to adapt). The other is Chiaki.



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    You'd think Chiaki uses the sword like a crutch, but it's more like an accessory. Her earliest training was using a plain bamboo stick, training her body and mind first for discipline, reaction time, and maximizing her physical strength. The sword is added later as an accessory. Out of anyone, Chiaki is probably the close to the best physically trained and mentally disciplined.


That makes sense. I'd expect Chiaki to be proficient in a range of combat situations.


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      But we'll see what becomes of Jay in our very next issue, in which he recieves an offer he can't refuse.



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    He's going to be the next Chronicler?


We'll certainly see.


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      That said, I'd put Jay as a top-end "normal" physical fighter. He could survive a bar of rough-house thugs but not a very-top-league single human combatant - such as a villain who specialises in close-up tactile combat like VelcroVixen.



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    That's exactly the kind of thing Chiaki can train him for. Chiaki also has a weakness close-up, because in reality she's small and not very strong. But she *will* fight, blindingly fast, and very violently, nevertheless.


While I'm sure jay would keep strivign to improve I'd guess he's probably about as good as he's ever going to get in terms of human fighting ability and physical fitness. There are others out there who are more gifted or who have trained from childhood that will always be able to top him in that area.

In terms of training though, the immediate requirement is to train any new probabtioners to the LL. That'll be the theme of UT#339.


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    I also have to decide if Lara wants to try to help or stay out of the way until he gets through the anger stage. He's likely to lash out at friends until then, and say things he doesn't mean.


By the time Lara's back on Earth Jay will have had yet another plot development (next issue)/


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        Now back to fixing the HTML auto-repair thing


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          This is turning into a real head-scratcher.



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          In the mean time though: I noticed your story post encases everything in a TABLE. The problem with that is, when IE or Firefox time out loading the contents of the table, it simply doesn't display it at all. In the future there's a more modern HTML directive to make that work better:



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          (replace the parenthesis with HTML brackets)



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          (div align=center)(div style="width: 95%; text-align: left; font-face: Lucida Sans Unicode; color: 808090") place your text here (/div)(/div)



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          It would look approximately like this, and has the added benefit of not needing and FONT tags inside the text.



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        I haven't had a problem with this till now but I'll see about giving it a try.