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Sun, 06 November 2011 18:23   |
 silento
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I really enjoyed this, and it's nice to know there's more coming next week. Thanks for posting it. 
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| Re: Yet More Vamp [message #47753 is a reply to message #47747 ] |
Sun, 06 November 2011 18:23 |
TheEyes
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| Diane Castle wrote on Sun, 06 November 2011 17:44 | No, of all the possible candidates (read: the TGs in Poe who are not on the top two floors), it's pretty clear that the school has to put Vamp with whoever is most likely to be able to stand up to Vamp and cope with what people *expect* she's likely to do. That looks like Ayla to me.
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That sounds like Carmilla to me. As one of the most powerful Psis in campus, and a lust demon to boot, it's unlikely that Vamp would be able to out-Vamp Sara. Chaka would be a good second choice. Toni has the limited psychic null bit that she can do, plus unlike Ayla she doesn't fit the profile of ultra-rich person that Vamp tends to go for.
But Ayla? If Vamp couldn't be roomed with Chou because of their fight, what of the two times Vamp and Phase mixed it up? Vamp has a reputation of glomming onto rich sugar-daddies and rolling them for cash, and Ayla is the richest teenager in the world, with more hormones running through him than any two baseline teenagers. If you're looking solely in terms of Vamp's MO, putting her in with Ayla would be like rooming Jimmy T with a steak.
But I'm overthinking this. Bad decisions run rampant in school administrations, and we already know of one person high up in Admin who has a hate-on for everyone in the Kimbas, and Ayla in particular (Hartford). In that light it makes sense for Vamp to be assigned to Ayla.
| Quote: | You *will* find out who Chou rooms with in spring term. It's a character I invented for Heather. And you will be amazed. Or disgusted. Or something.
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Heh, maybe all three! 
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| Re: Yet More Vamp [message #47756 is a reply to message #47746 ] |
Sun, 06 November 2011 18:32 |
TheEyes
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| dpragan wrote on Sun, 06 November 2011 17:31 | I'm hoping she makes up with permanence what the lacks in power.
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Maybe adaptability; she's able to manifest electronics that work, and even combine things she's manifested that have a common thread. That sounds more useful to me than being able to call up hoplite armor.
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| Re: Yet More Vamp [message #47758 is a reply to message #47753 ] |
Sun, 06 November 2011 18:34 |
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| TheEyes wrote on Sun, 06 November 2011 18:23 |
But I'm overthinking this. Bad decisions run rampant in school administrations, and we already know of one person high up in Admin who has a hate-on for everyone in the Kimbas, and Ayla in particular (Hartford). In that light it makes sense for Vamp to be assigned to Ayla.
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It would be interesting to find who made that decision. Perhaps there are other reasons for it; according to Alex's comments about Darrow, she has has something special about her that she is unaware of. Perhaps this is a set-up by someone like Mrs P.; Ayla does have that Wiz-0 thing, perhaps it has some meaning in this case???
Another thought, with Darrow wanting Vamp for some unknown reason, could he have done something to her? left something behind? something that left scars?
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| Re: Yet More Vamp [message #47762 is a reply to message #47753 ] |
Sun, 06 November 2011 18:54 |
XaltatunOfAcheron
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| TheEyes wrote on Sun, 06 November 2011 16:23 | | Diane Castle wrote on Sun, 06 November 2011 17:44 | No, of all the possible candidates (read: the TGs in Poe who are not on the top two floors), it's pretty clear that the school has to put Vamp with whoever is most likely to be able to stand up to Vamp and cope with what people *expect* she's likely to do. That looks like Ayla to me.
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That sounds like Carmilla to me. As one of the most powerful Psis in campus, and a lust demon to boot, it's unlikely that Vamp would be able to out-Vamp Sara. Chaka would be a good second choice. Toni has the limited psychic null bit that she can do, plus unlike Ayla she doesn't fit the profile of ultra-rich person that Vamp tends to go for.
But Ayla? If Vamp couldn't be roomed with Chou because of their fight, what of the two times Vamp and Phase mixed it up? Vamp has a reputation of glomming onto rich sugar-daddies and rolling them for cash, and Ayla is the richest teenager in the world, with more hormones running through him than any two baseline teenagers. If you're looking solely in terms of Vamp's MO, putting her in with Ayla would be like rooming Jimmy T with a steak.
But I'm overthinking this. Bad decisions run rampant in school administrations, and we already know of one person high up in Admin who has a hate-on for everyone in the Kimbas, and Ayla in particular (Hartford). In that light it makes sense for Vamp to be assigned to Ayla.
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I think you are overthinking it. She's assigned to be Ayla's roommate because they're both boys with girls bodies. Who else is there among the freshman TGs? They aren't going to break up Jade and Tennyo - I suspect the Destroyer won't let them be broken up. Break up Fey and Chaka? Possible, but then they'd have to deal with Fey's brownie.
Xaltatun
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| Re: Yet More Vamp [message #47764 is a reply to message #47731 ] |
Sun, 06 November 2011 19:02 |
Isodecan
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| beyogi wrote on Sun, 06 November 2011 16:01 | But heaven, vamp really shits back as fast as she gets hit. I hope she'll find her peace with Ayla... He probably thought his bit about sending her to Jadis.
I wonder what's up with Chou... Why didn't she just check out the Tao to find out Vamps real intentions? She was really biased towards her and for no real reason. As if Ayla couldn't really protect himself from her stupid mind manipulation.
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Vamp ending up with the Bad Seeds was kind of inevitable. She may not be a Bad Seed by birth, but she is cursed with the whole supervillain rep. As to what is up with Chou, from the Monkey's point of view, she has gotten the "good" habit of not listening to the Tao unless she has to when she is not on duty. Mind you, that could come back to bite her.
I really like how this story is progressing, and am looking forward to Vamp's Power testing. I think that Vamp and Ayla will come to an uneasy peace, but I do not think that Vamp will be taking Chou's place on Team Kimba when she leaves.
As for Tara Hardy... hmm, Tara H, from Denver, ran into some local superheros. At least she's not an Android. I do think that she is going to be able to add a whole bunch of useful gadgets to her armor, in particular blasters and shields and the like. I suspect her ability doesn't work on devises though.
Also, it is nice to know that McKinnon's information of Darrow not being around to kill Vamp on her way to Whateley was accurate. I wonder how long it will take before we find out that he is messily dead, since without his power gems he isn't worth retrieving, but he is definitely worth killing (to the Necromancer).
Almost forgot: We didn't get to see Aquerna, but she got mentioned, wonder whether we will get to hear her side of that.
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| Re: Yet More Vamp [message #47765 is a reply to message #47715 ] |
Sun, 06 November 2011 19:15 |
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Just thought of a couple of things which are likely to be on the horizon:
a) Phase (or someone else) discovering a certain pair of powergems,
b) Alex meeting Sara.
As Diane said, Ayla's probably the most pragmatic choice for Alex to room with. Besides which, they've got another thing in common: when Ayla arrived, he was treated with suspicion by most of campus because they regarded him as a traitor / mole / informant because of his family. Similarly, Alex is being treated with suspicion by most of the campus because she's perceived to be a convicted felon. It'll take a while before the campus finds out she was a mole - and of course the whole prostitution (if they believe the official line) / exploitation (if they believe she hypnotised the clients) thing doesn't endear her to the student population - and that's before you consider the scrapes she got into with several students outside TK.
As for the decision being Amelia's, given Alex's history and powers, I'm surprised she didn't try her usual trick by attempting to place Alex in Hawthorne.
Oh, and even if Alex gets fairly friendly with TK, I'd imagine she'd run a mile if anyone suggested visiting Boston
[EDIT] Just thought regarding Tara's weakness with energisers. If she can manifest electric devices, can she manifest a flexible, expandable wire that could link her suit to the nearest ground anchor? That way, if she was hit, the energy would go to ground rather than staying in her suit and potentially hitting her.
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| Re: Yet More Vamp [message #47769 is a reply to message #47747 ] |
Sun, 06 November 2011 19:40 |
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I was figuring Heyoka for a roommate, until Phase showed up.
This does look like a case of being too alike to get along.
Edited because the one I was replying to is back on page 1. (What I get for loading up all the threads I want to read, then reading a short story in the middle of them.)
[Updated on: Sun, 06 November 2011 19:42]
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| Re: Yet More Vamp [message #47773 is a reply to message #47715 ] |
Sun, 06 November 2011 20:09 |
Dr Rem
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We'd been wondering how Chou was going to do her split from Team Kimba if she was still rooming with Phase. This is going to make's Chou's plans much easier.
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| Re: Yet More Vamp [message #47777 is a reply to message #47719 ] |
Sun, 06 November 2011 21:09 |
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| Quote: | Vamp rooming witg Phase? Did not see that coming.
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Really? I called it the very second I heard a Vamp story had been written.
Speaking of which, certainly an enjoyable story. I'm not sure I really like the way Vamp's internal narration has been going, but I think it might be an editing thing. There are just details that although very minor, get left out and make things seem...lacking. Like with X-O's interruption, I was suddenly wondering why a teleporter had snuck into the room, and how she'd done so without being noticed.
Vamp's whole train of thought just seems to be in a hurry to get all the talking over and done with, so the story just seems to zip past a bit impatiently.
Then again, maybe it's just that nobody really likes listening to a narrator who's bored with their own story, and Vamp was very deliberately this. I think I'm talking out of my rear at this point, but I hope you grasp what I meant.
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