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Reply Subj: Re: Short change Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 at 12:54:59 pm EDT (Viewed 435 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: It occurs to me that poison is probably the way to quietly eliminate Lara.Quote: That's one of the reasons Lara would decide to go public. It makes her harder to eliminate if people are watching to see what happens next. Historically the government will do one of two things: a) ignore her to keep the operation secret, so she publicly looks like a conspiracy theorist nut, or b) if the operation is going to be public anyway, announce publicly that she's to be arrested."Occasional superhero Lara Night dies of drugs overdose. 'She'd apparently been depressed for some time,' confided an unnamed government source, 'but we're not ready to call it suicide yet out of respect for her previous deeds'." Quote: Maybe the Hood might put her in the case of figuring out how to annoy the Chain Knight, with the excuse that it would protect the Lair Legion as well.The Chain Knight may not be a good person to annoy. It tends to lead to body counts. Quote: Quote: The Hood often shows not tells. For example, if he revealed the plight of a starving alien population who are about to be ethnically cleansed in the next 24 hours he can pretty much guarantee to distract most heroes for a similar period of time.Quote: There's a danger to playing that card too much with Lara. After a short while she'll start to suspect he's setting those up on purpose, and demand that he fix it himself.The difference is that the Hood doesn't really care about those people but he knows that Lara will. Quote: You forgot something important. The Hooded Hood might not even need to create a complicated scenario as a distraction. He could simply meet with Lara and present his case for needing the Jarvisite. If he makes a good enough case, she might just pick up *all* the fragments for him.The Hood wouldn't want Lara or anybody to know he was collecting such fragments, or why. Quote: What you presented above about the Chain Knight might be all she needs. She remembers what happened the last time he showed up - all the Hood might have to do is claim all this Jarvisite will stop the Chain Knight. She might be skeptical about it's secondary purpose, but as long as the Hood makes a good enough "better me than him" pitch about the Chain Knight taking over again, she might go for it.Quote: This might temporarily put Lara at odds with the Lair Legion simply because she's technically working with the Hooded Hood. But she would tell them there's something bigger at stake, and they need to trust her.Some of the Legion are unlikely to trust anyone that close to the Hood. G-Eyed was booted from the team once for being too chummy with him. Quote: Quote: The Hood has a taste for cosmic women, c.f. Lisa, Dancer, Jury, the Faerie Queene, the Amazon Queen, Shazana Pel, Symmetry of Synchronicity. And while he often has ulterior motives for his seductions that doesn't mean he's not attracted.Quote: That might make Lara substandard for the task, since she's not quite cosmic. Faite is, though, but she thinks the Hood is too transparent about his motives.The Hood's not just a power dater, but he does enjoy sophisticated women with a cosmic worldview. | |||||||
