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Reply Subj: Very small. Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 at 07:59:49 pm EDT (Viewed 390 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: It's long enough for cardiac and respiratory function to cease. The rest's mere biology.Quote: People have been revived after longer than that, though I guess the team doesn't have any advanced medical rescue gear handy.In Liu Xi's case the problem is that if her soul leaves her body, even temporarily, it's been booked. Quote: Quote: We've never really detailed the how, but both Marie and Hallie were adopted at the point of their deaths. Both died helplessly, neither could speak at the time of their demise, and both were murdered. Quote: Oh, I thought you meant the island tends to guard it's residents. Though Liu Xi has been nearly killed so many times she might fit this criteria.Actually, the island's Celestian defences were set there in prehistory to protect the Sleeping Celestian and his Cosmic Cube. Both are gone now but the defences still operate. That means, though, that the defences really only react to things that might threaten a Celestian. So the defences will turn away a Doomwraith or prevent a cosmic power from vaporising the site but they have no interest in stopping a nut with an uzi. This is, of course, useful for stories. We can have as many supervillain attacks as we like on the Mansion and there's no help at all, but then there's a reason why Galactivac can't just anihillate the entire island so our heroes have a slim chance of stopping him. Quote: Quote: Lara and Anna haven't been "adopted" for the same reason that all the other heroes haven't been - they're not dead, they can't afford to be tied to restricted location, and there isn't a vacancy. In fact right nowe there's one guardian too many.Quote: Like I said above, I thought you meant some kind of mutual protection thing, like the Mansion bonds with those who live in it. Lara and Anna have no plans to be dead.The Mansion may well be somewhat sentient, and it may "like" its residents. It's banshee howls when they die. Quote: Quote: CZ is probably harder to scan than most. She's wearing the outfit that Beth von Zemo designed to thwart LL sensors (and Yuki) from discovering her true identity, and now it's further juiced by the energies of Herringcarp Asylum.Quote: Anna might find that curious too, but once again she figures that being surrounded by heroes with secret identities, it's none of her business.Noted. Quote: Quote: It's an interesting point about body rhythms though. We've established that CZ fights much better than Bethany Shellett ever did and has a fast dexterous movement pattern (Lisette's fighting style), but presumably Amnesia can only work within the fitness limits of her host body. So what kind of brain activity is there? What kind of biorhythms would one read?Quote: It's likely the brain activity would read like Lisette's, but since Anna is familiar with neither Lisette's or Beth's brain patterns she'd have nothing to compare it to. Quote: But, if Beth's brain activity is reading like she's asleep instead, and her body is being manipulated like a puppet, that Anna might think is very unusual.It's something to explore one day. Quote: Quote: There's other heroes need evil counterparts too. Yuki really needs someone she can feud with that can give her a run for her money.Quote: I'd like to, but I'm not sure I can out-do the enemy of her prototype. In Ghost in the Shell, Motoko Kusanagi's perfect enemy, because she's someone who keeps everything under control so well, is the Puppet Master, someone who can hack and take control of not only cybernetic bodies, but human brains as well through the cybernetic bodies.Quote: I can't really create the same thing for the PV because a) it's been done before outside the PV, and b) because it's been done before in part in the PV. I was at one point thinking of something along the lines of the classic Sherlock Holmes battles, someone who's vicious and always one step ahead. Note that I can make double use of that, because the same person can annoy the Psychic Samurai as well.There are three classic enemy types, the opposite, the almost-alike, and the manipulator. The opposite would be someone very different in power-set but still able to threaten Yuki physically; a biological monster stronger but slower, perhaps. The almost-alike would be another cyborg - maybe a male - who can do what Yuki can but who uses his abilities for evil. Their confrontations then become battles of wits and strategy. The manipulator is more like the puppet master you cite and would need to be tied to Yuki's past, her origins. | |||||||
