Discussion: Divided We Fall

Firstly: oooooOOOOOOooooo. Colour me intrigued.

Secondly:

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Originally Posted by Golden Girl Yes, Tyrant using the Devouring Earth threat as a chance to play the role of the savior of humanity is a totally new tactic for him to try

It worked once already. No reason to think it won't work on a new audience in a different venue. Aside from PC's, and a select few NPC's, the general populace of Primal doesn't have a clue about the true nature of Cole and Praetoria.

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As I read this I began thinking that Cole and Grand Admiral Thrawn have a bit in common.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Holy crap! Did not see that coming. Very nicely written. -- so when is a new City of Heroes novel coming out?

In any case, sounds like we have a fun event coming up soon!

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That was pretty neat, but in the first paragraph, are you sure you weren't looking for "neophyte?" A neonate is an infant.

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I hear THAT goliath and yup...*looks at the passage from Divided we Fall* Yeeeah..he got murderized pretty DAMN GOOD! I couldn't have done better myself!

Wouldn't the bone in Duray's face simply shatter into dust from the impact?

So who is Mortimer Kal's mysterious liege? Someone in the CoT? Mender Silos? the letter writer? I don't get it.

Cole isn't modifying Duray's memories in the sense that he's rewriting them. Look at it this way. A clone of a living being will be born with zero knowledge and zero memory of its DNA donor. If you want that clone to think it is the original, you have to put that knowledge and those memories into it. Either they are extracting the memories from the dead Duray, although that seems unlikely since Cole crushed his lil head, or they have some sort of near-real time memory recording method which Cole puts on all his key troops just in case.

When the new clones are grown in growth acceleration chambers, a la the Olympian Guard, the neural programming is uploaded to their brains. The techs doing the process would then just remove the tapes of the last 30 days so Duray doesn't have any idea how badly he's screwed up over the last month. This keeps him from losing confidence and, maybe, questioning Cole's ultimate plan.

I've no doubt that Cole could have planted the idea for the Hami Seeds being sent to Primal Earth in Duray pointy-little head. With all the brainwashing tech and psionics at his disposal, it would be an easy enough task and he wouldn't need to keep killing Duray, although he might be doing that anyway just for fun. If he did plant the idea, then the whole thing was one huge play put on to keep rumors flowing through the troops that Cole is badass but caring. On the other hand, I'm of the opinion that he's just being an opportunist. Duray screwed up; his plan was lousy and counter to Cole's orders. Cole is picking up the pieces and making the best of the situation.

As for Cole not being such a villain, keep in mind that this is the guy who, as far as we know, killed his best friend then had the unmitigated gall to marry said friend's sister. That's villainy on a Shakespearean level.

No, he didn't want to leave a huge as f**k mess on the floor...if he EXPLODED his skull that would have killed him too well....so instead he broke the crainium, caused the cartilige *AND THIS IS THE ONLY POINT YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE WHOLE "to Dust" THING* to be shattered until there is nothing left, the neck would have snapped from the force and the speed he was going, and to top it off his brain pretty much was crushed in the remains of Duray's now near non-existant skull, a QUADRUPLE WHAMMY!