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Subj: Those would require seriously large asbestos trousers Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 at 07:57:36 pm EST (Viewed 2 times) | Reply Subj: As long as they aren't 30 foot fire ants. Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 at 04:46:36 pm EST (Viewed 980 times) | ||||||
Quote: Quote: ** Insert usual comment about getting it finished and out here **Quote: I actually did post about half of it last year, and then everyone disappeared and I never got around to finishing it.We do suffer from ephemeral readership these days. Quote: Quote: There will be some interesting choices for the entire robot community to make on which "side" to take.Quote: Or maybe there will be 3 sides, and many of the robots will have an imperative to kill all humans.It seems as though there are just good robots and bad robots. They're not being affected any differently than humans, aliens, undead, fey, Racoon People, talking apes, sentient fungii etc. Out of the immediate context that is mildly encouraging. Quote: Quote: What we'll probably see is the dispersal of some assets - I'd imagine the ones who aren't the obvious "punch them/zap them" types - to other asset bases that are not ground zero on Parody Island. The LL has plenty of allies across the Earth and beyond. There's no reason that Faite can't function as well from Caph or from Deep Faerie as she could from the Lair Legion Living Room.Quote: I did consider that Yuki or Sir Mumphrey might put all of their most powerful assets someplace completely out of reach so that she can keep them in reserve without the enemies coming for them first.It will be a trade off between dispersing assets to lessen chances for a "single strike" enemy victory and the possibility of disrupted co-ordination lines preventing joined-up counterstrikes. Quote: But not *too* far out of reach, because Yuki in particular believes the toughest part of this battle would be recruiting. Villains who go to more grey-area allies of the Lair Legion and attempt to turn them, possibly with promises that they'll be on the winning side, or untruthful reassurances.There are some questions about surprise "side" choices. For example, is government liaison "Bad News Herb" Garrett a good guy or a bad guy? What about a Punisher-style vigilante who uses extreme methods against villains? Or a hero-to-his-people freedom fighter who the other side sees as a war criminal? Quote: Yuki would only plan for what she can, and hope she will have made room for the other parts (probability, magic, etc) to do what they need to do.As with the Parody War, there'll need to be the flexibility to counter one kind of attack by using a very diffeent one. Quote: They don't have to stay in one particular place, just hidden and out of the way until their time comes.There is a kind of plan about that, but I don't want to spoil it here. Quote: Quote: And that is assuming that the LL elects not to do a minute-one offensive on Herringcarp and commit many assets to try and take that resource off the board up front. Any assessment would flag that as a costly win, but that still doesn't mean that it wouldn't be worth it.Quote: They might need way more support than they anticipate for that.Indeed. You can imagine the risk assessments going on. Quote: Quote: Faire might be asked to stay put somewhere, but like Xander, perhaps not where ground zero physical fighting will be. Quote: Faite also has the capability to put herself into hiding, and generally then she's operating as a ghost.There are other beings out there whose semi-omniscience might still be searching for her, though. It might turn out to be like submarine combat, where each side tries to remain invisible to enemy until a firing solution can be found. Quote: Quote: Wouldn't that mean that some of the villain tech-types could reproduce such equipmment in the Parodyverse?Quote: They can, but they're at the wrong time for it. The place Lara comes from is out of time-sync with the Parodyverse. Essentially she's a superhero from the future.But the villains include Kinki the Conqueress, a time travelling villain from the future, and the Hooded Hood who might well have been able to simply send someone to Lara's homeworld to grab a sample. I'm not saying that's how it should go, but there has to be that worry. Quote: Quote: There's also the question of how "the imperative" might affect combat goals. It's not clear if the overriding urge will be "kill the baddies" or "make sure our team wins". There would be different compulsions depending on which it is.Quote: That would be what Yuki silently fears, that come midnight the imperative will become an individual mandate instead. All planning will go out the window, and each person will try to kill every other one. If that happens, the only thing she would have left is to hope she's killed quickly before the zombies show up.The LL will be facing up to that possibility in-story before the deadline. Quote: And that's if she fails to get the Celestian's attention, and the Lair Legion is losing the battle. In that case, she believes it's a kindness to put an end to it her own way, before the villains who are left enslave them, or possibly the Celestian itself.There's a strong chance that the imperative would prevent her harming her own side, even to "put them out opf their misery". Quote: Quote: She hopes she would bet booted. The Dreaming Celestian appears to be pulling a lot of levers, because, as previously mentioned...Quote: The Celestian might dump her into Comic Book Limbo, but she's escaped it before. If he tries to hold onto her spirit so it can't return home, her "sponsor" back home will come to claim it. So that might work in her favor. Sort of. Shema, her sponsor, is also a creator, not a destructor, so she wouldn't harm the Celestian or any of the villains. It would have to be a moment of divine creativity to resolve that one.I think I'll avoid that whole Ultimate Entity X tops Ultimate Entity Y problem. | |||||||
