> > Now Vinnie is going to be in trouble with Liu Xi both for a demon temptress visiting him *and* for following her to Egypt without any backup.
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> Ah. Vinnie's in trouble.
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Yep.
> As Vinnie pointed out, this is hardly his first encounter with a demoness. He's far better equipped to handle a visit from a succubus than a visit from Liu Xi Xian. He knows what to expect from a demoness.
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Imagine if it was a visit from Dancer instead.
> As for going to Egypt, he has bills to pay.
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Liu Xi would point out that he can't pay his bills if he's dead.
> > On a lighter note, Vinnie would have been in real trouble if he was fooled by Regret taking a similar form to Liu Xi.
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> For all his social awkwardness Vinnie's actually a pretty fair occultist; maybe not Xander-class but good enough to hold his own against his family.
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What's ironic about that (since you brought it up) is Liu Xi's been learning at an exponential rate. The Parody Master and Exu are to blame, because she doesn't want to be a victim anymore. The next person who picks on her is going to find she's no longer a meek one-elemental-trick pony, because she wants to become useful and not just a victim. She has been learning various enchantments and spells, and has possession of a condensed Necronastycon.
I haven't figured out yet is whether Vinnie knows about it. He might noticed she's more confident, that she's been borrowing certain books, etc, but he might not know how much she's been learning.
> > I think Koo Koo Kachu is was too close to saying "nothing can stop me now" to succeed. Though since he's trying to reorder reality he's exactly the kind of person Faite may decide to annoy regularly. He's also the kind of person that Lara Night would have had to thwart if it wasn't out of her jurisdiction (that's an example of what her job would be back home).
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> We've established that the Parodyverse is made of stories. It's a consensus reality. If enough people can be made to believe the same thing at the same time then that will always have been the way it is.
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Faite probably knows that too, and is likely prepared to throw a huge monkey wrench into the works at some point before it becomes too late.
Even so, Koo has a basic problem. There are people who can see through illusions like that (like even Magweed for instance), and there are people who will reject it because they dislike it so much. He's going to either have to kill them or find some way to keep them out of the loop until it's too late - and I doubt him trying to kill Magweed will go over well.
> The trap is that anyone entering Koo's altered world-state gets altered (unless he needs them to remain themselves like Tom). It's a variant of the Mythlands transformation that Vizh and Co suffered when they quested for Naari, except it's psychological as well as physical. Hence Liu Xi might become a savant from Cathay, Lara a djinn, Anna a strange and wonderful mechanical simulacrum and so on, none of them recalling their original background or history.
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If Lara ends up in an I Dream of Jeannie outfit she's going to hurt Koo Koo Kachu, and badly. And she can do it, too. That's the kind of thing that can change "this isn't really my job" to making it her job.
And why would Lara remember her original background and history? It's because she's not from the Parodyverse. Her background and history is rooted to another time and place. She might be forced to remember that the Parodyverse was always like that, but she'll always feel like something is wrong. And that doesn't include Faite's interference, where she might seed memories of the way the PV is supposed to be to selected people like the last time.
> Their characters would remain essentially the same, however. That's why Desert Rose and Aree still oppose the sorcerer-king.
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> But more of the villain's plots next time.
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Yup, he's definitely going to get hurt.
