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Reply Subj: Untold Tales of the Normalverse #357: The Grey Horizons - Complete Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 at 05:31:54 am EST (Viewed 61 times) | |||||||
Quote: In a medical setting, not undertaking a procedure because it might hurt the parient is the wrong thing. In a military one, being afraid to lose troops can lead to losing a war. Vinnie sometimes doesn't have the ruthlessness required of a sorcerer supreme - and he knows it.Chiaki is really short and slim. Vinnie could probably break her in half, and he's not exactly a bodybuilder. Now that he's teamed with her, he might start to ask himself why most of the criminal underworld in Paradopolis is afraid of her. If he asks her, he'll have his answer about how he can use leverage against his own enemies without having to sacrifice what he cares about. First thing she would tell him is just because Xander went it alone doesn't mean he has to. That perhaps his strength is in cooperation. Quote: She knows she was one Vinnie-decision and two seconds away for being killed by the enemy in a manner that foresight cannot avoid, a mass destruction event that wpould kill hundreds if not thousands to ensure she was dead.That might motivate her to show Vinnie how to turn the tables on those who keep trying to manipulate him like that. Quote: Time runs differently in the Many Coloured Lands. When we catch up with her in Chapter 16, six weeks has passed for her and she has been busy.Do we need one of those musical montages to cover it? Quote: Teleportation is one of the least predictable means of travel in the Mythlands, easy to divert or to alter the travellers, so it is a last resort (after all, the place is all about quests and journies).The interesting thing about Lara's "teleport" is unlike a real one, it's not point-to-point. If you noticed in my tie-in, she became hyper-accelerated in her energy form. When she re-materialized, she expected to have a negligible amount of acceleration left, but she had way too much to slow down in time, and crashed through the Lair Mansion main hall. Easiest way to describe it in scifi terms is it's like accelerating into hyperspace and then exiting it in a short distance. Unfortunately things like miscalculating the accelerate/decelerate points, and the destination moving in the time it takes to get there, can screw it up completely. That does make her vulnerable to someone like the Hooded Hood, who can either pull her out of "hyperspace" and redirect her, or simply retcon some other destination at the exit point. The other issue is that she generally has to have an idea where she's going before leaving. It's a bit like a normal human hopping into an airplane to find a shopping mall. If you miss it, you're going to REALLY miss it, and turning around will be too difficult. Quote: The Faerie Queene still has the upper hand. In many ways she is the Realm and therefore has godlike powers, but withing some narrative boundaries. Magweed's little group is the first assembly of powers able to offer her serious challenge for a long time (since the early days of Untold Tales and a villain called the King of Stories), but for all their power they are still the plucky outsider underdogs.And that would be the issue for Lara, because the way I understand it, Fairie pretty much is part of Mab at the moment. It means Mab can change the location and arrangement of things at will, or create new entities specifically designed to deal with her. It's not a safe place for Lara. But she knows that, and then takes to heart Chiaki's advice to hide her true power. Quote: By the way, because the reply thread is heading off the side of my non-widescreen monitor now, I'm having to scroll across to read every line of the body text of all replies. Is there any way to mitigate this?At one point I tested a feature that made wide threads encase inside a scrollable DIV, but that did horrible things to Internet Explorer, so I left it this way. The only fix right now is to create a new thread, which this is. | |||||||
