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Subj: Re: It's always nice to think that. Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 at 01:48:43 pm EST (Viewed 2 times) | Reply Subj: Re: It's always nice to think that. Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 at 02:32:01 pm EST (Viewed 434 times) | ||||||
Quote: Quote: Hatman's the key to the Carnifex getting Zdenka too. If you're going hunting first you cut your prey off from it's hide.Quote: There are far easier ways for the Carnifex to steal away Zdenka. Waiting until he's busy at the Zero Street Mission, for example.It's part of the stalking game. Capture's no fun without a proper hunt. Quote: Quote: The Carnifex likes to study then stalk his quarry, so he's taken time to find out quite a bit about each of his targets. For some reason as yet to be revealed he's taken special care regarding the mystic and psychic types, to the extent of logging and working out ways of neutralising pretty much all the cosmic powers and either suborning, sidelining, or removing the less cosmic ones. Only a few remain out there "in the wild", such as Vinnie and Chiaki. As you'd expect, he has plans for them.Quote: As Chiaki would say, her "sight" doesn't tell her everything. She would be both amused and worried that she's been given such priority. Worried, of course, because of the chance that her "sight" might fail her, and she'll be at the mercy of a super-powered killer with only her will and sword to defend her.As you'll see in UT#334, the Carnifex has made special provision to deal with a number of LL allies via drastic overkill. Quote: Quote: The one psychic that was completely off his radar was an outcast Caphan female in a semi-imaginary surreal continent of the Shoggoth's creation.Quote: He forgot about Faite, but that's probably her plan - the Carnifex has never known of her existence in the first place, and she meant it that way. It's probably part of the Hooded Hood's plan as well.Faite has already interfered to some degree, and that means the Carnifex's sponsors should be able to neutralise her; if only Lara Night's involvement hadn't been retconned a little to offer a small window of opportunity to Faite. Quote: Quote: The whole university wasn't destroyed, just the science blocks.Quote: Who says she isn't taking some science classes?There's a story to be told somewhere about the new science block. That said, rather more of Paradopolis might need rebuilding very soon. Quote: Quote: Another interesting thing Lou Xi hasn't yet discovered is the role the Carnifex played in her grandfather's plots and demise.Quote: That might be interesting, because she might be a little grateful for the old man's destruction. Right up until the Carnifex starts hunting Vinnie.That's scheduled for right after the LL are dead. Quote: Also, is it implied that they haven't been able to locate Vinnie? That may be because Liu Xi is hiding him somewhere way out of reach. And probably by accident, just for recreation.Vinnie's not too hard to track, but that might not be by accident. Quote: Quote: The Hood never does something for only one reason.Quote: This time, though, he has the good fortune to have plotted with someone (Lara) with the capacity to understand certain aspects of it. At least enough not to ruin those plans accidentally.The Hood's been pulling several strings for some time, as the last scene of UT#334 reveals. Quote: Quote: Long-time readers might note my penchant for having absent poster's characters conveniently absent also. I'm not sure yet how long-time absent character Nats and Hatty are but intend to undertake some consultation on the matter soon.Quote: Yes, I am aware of it.Hatty at least seems due for a quick return. Jury's still out on Nats, Dancer, and Icy. Quote: And story-wise, that would be the secondary question in Lara's mind: Even if she's asked to peek into that rift, would she want to? After all, if it's the Carnifex' closely guarded hiding place, she goes right to the top of the list for being able to see it - and becoming target #1 again is not to plan.The rift wasn't to the Carnifex's stronghold but Ultizon's. Quote: Quote: I think there'd probably be a definite decision to keep Anna away from Ultizon to protect her from harm. Hatman wouldn't want to place her in a "Bride of Ultizon" situation or where her own nanites might be overcome and reprogrammed by a bigger, nastier, more experienced AI. At the very least he wpuldn't want to hand Ultizon a chance to assimilate Anna's technical specs.Quote: That might be part of the lack of trust. Anna was built to be able to destroy the Lair Legion single-handedly using unprecedented intelligence, speed, and weaponry. For SPUD, it was like designing the perfect super-powered ninja assassin who learns and improves and develops more skills as she fights. Unfortunately for them, she also developed a conscience, and escaped.Given all of that it would be dangerous to put her up against a villain who started out as a virus infecting computers with a record for trying to corrupt and assimilate all machine life. It was pretty much Ultizon's special shtick back when he was Virtual Zemo before he took on his current adamantine identity. Quote: But since the Lair Legion doesn't know how strong a conscience figures into her design, they also have to worry that something technical might strip her of it, or suppress it, and she would fall back to her original purpose. They really don't know how deep her conscience may run, or how determined she is to remain passive and friendly to them.She's just too powerful an advantage to possibly offer to the enemy. He doesn't even need to control her, just figure how to duplicate her. | |||||||
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