I think this will be a new and exciting ripping.







I'm pausing until the weekend so that if people want to throw stuff in they can.




I was thinking that the four of them had survived a very traumatic occasion. Anna had her first really intense experience of warfare. Liu Xi thought she was going to die. Lara found herself struggling to protect people she hardly remembers. Chiaki coped with an entire planet of tormented dead people. And now all of them are on a raw, brutal alien world where anything can happen and where the weak are meat. There's got to be something for the cast to discuss.







And Thugos wants to discuss that.







A bit of each. Thugos tends to test his opponents to see if they're strong and worthy of his attention.







Yep, they're entropy eyebeams so they absorb energy from the four fundamental forces. They decay the weak forces binding molecules and the strong forces binding atoms. Lara might well survive longer than people who can;t generate energy - say as much as six seconds - but she's not absorbing power, she's resisting having the power she commands decayed to heat death.

That said, Thugos has no reason to unleash his ultimate weapon on Lara. He's got deity-class strength, invulnerability, and power blasts. He's got a world full of minions, many of them very powerful in their own right. And he's got a forceful personality and the brains to attack psychologically as well as physically. All it means is that he can engage with pretty much anyone on an equal or superior level and doesn't have to fear anyone or anything.







Thugos is concerned about some galactic affairs but he's not too bothered by the "provincial internal wranglings" of the Lair Legion. He's pleased the Carnifex has fallen (he didn't even like him as a hero) and so might even pat the LL on the head. But there is some useful gossip that lara could pick up if she played her cards right.




Who knows?