PaRARGdox 123
Under the rubble: Thanks for your patience, some other pages in the queue took longer than expected but here we are… new update!
I have to say it was a nice change to draw some cadets – any characters really – who weren’t dead for once. For those needing a reminder we have Chiq, Maya, Mudge, Louis and Gifford. The guard is Seeta (thanks Michael for that reminder)… I guess if I had an up to date Cast page… 😉
Anyway, I think we can agree that Kaycee and Rochelle have now worked out the ethics of their plan… everything is theoretical, but even a broken clock is right twice a day, huh?
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Next update: Sunday September 26, 2021: One last thing…
More than awkward.
They might make Paz an enemy for life… and she’s got the potential to be bloody dangerous.
Which also leads to the thought that she is not yet, but eventually will be, the CA spy we’re already afraid that she is. Bloody dangerous indeed.
Hmm… that’s a thought. I had been assuming that IF the agent is in place, then they were already gaining intelligence to pass on to MA’s followers. I suppose there is the possibility that an agent *could* be in place, but not yet activated.
I meant that she may not even be in contact with the CAs yet, but this might get her disillusioned about Magellan – in a BIG way. We’ve seen such things happen with the cadets before: they idolize the heroes, sometimes they owe their life to them, then they come to the academy and find out that their heroes are not always right. Ambrosia did not sign up expecting a cadet two years her senior to propose to eviscerate her.
While there are probably quite a few people in Magellanverse that would easily accept the MA’s theory that they are in a fictional world, and agree that they would be better off in a world without supernatural shenanigans, keep in mind that the MA is very publicly labelled a madman villain. And he has been targeting Vertigo, leader of Force Magellan, for the longest time. It is probably far easier for the CAs to go after and convert a disillusioned cadet (between their first and second year) than it is finding a young super that does not idolize the Magellan forces and convince them to apply to the academy.
And now this reasoning has me thinking that we should look real hard at the second-years in this spy hunt.
Grace, you brilliant writer, the depth of these stories and these characters continue to amaze me. The amount of time I can spend thinking about them is… surprising. I can think of no other work of fiction that has me turning things over in my mind just like reality does it. Rethinking, re-reading, here I go again I guess. 😀 I’d hate it for the time taken, if I didn’t love it. I love thinking.
Well thank you, I turn over a lot of things in my brain too! Many times things are in the story on purpose… sometimes not! 😀
Don’t forget, we’ve already had Dragonklaw and Miasma – they started as disillusioned cadets as well, scooped up and made into pawns by those who desired Magellan’s secrets, led down the primrose path to excess and evil. The same could happen with Ambrosia.
Her power, as it works right now, makes her dangerous. If she’s able to figure out stunts to enhance it, or to extend the temporal range, watch out!😬
Ambrosia’s temporal slip looks to me to put her in a class of “trump” supers, along with Maya and her mind mojo – Supers that are very difficult to counter or even resist when they get a chance to use their abilities, so that the only sure way to defeat them is to immediately render them insensate *before* they can use their power.
Note that Paz will also remember that they had reason to be this desperate. That doesn’t make it completely ok, but …
So if Paz is exposed in a position where the rarg can get her rather than Kaycee or Rochelle having to do the deed, then it’s all good. right?
“One last thing…” Columbo callback 😁
How high is that high degree of certainty? What’s the probability of failure? If you’re going to kill someone for something that has only a 60% chance of working… Further more what are you basing your hypothesis on? What makes you think her violent death is going to actually accomplish that since it’s never been done before?
I can easily see Paz refuse to go with this idea (quite reasonably I might add). However, if she recognized a couple of clicks before the world is doomed that the world IS doomed, she can jump back a minute and tell them to do it quickly before she changes her mind. Assuming, of course, that her painful death will take less than a minute to accomplish.
I do NOT envy her roll in this. 😬
From Rochelle’s dialogue w Kaycee, I gathered that Ambrosia is expected to slip right away upon receiving the mortal wound. It would sure be a bummer to have to try and fend off any ranging Rarg while waiting for her to do her thing. I think the hard part is going to be convincing and briefing her in the short *although they don’t know *how* short* time left.
In order to save the world, you risk creating a super-villain on the order of the Master. “I hugged Olga and Charisma, but if I ever see Rochelle or Kaycee again, I will make sure they die horribly and slowly!”