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Alice Grove MCDLT - December 2016
Samik:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 10 Dec 2016, 21:23 ---I'm guessing Ellie's gruesome death must be general knowledge by now, meaning the crowd of bystanders at the top of the pit must know that Pate/Church did it. Given that Ellie was running the dig, she must have been an important person in this community. Wouldn't at least some local folks be upset at her outright murder? Is Pate so certain that there's nobody with a rifle and sight up there? True, they couldn't get Church. But if Pate is baseline, then a bullet will take him out, and Church hasn't shown he's fast enough to stop one.
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Remember that these people are technologically just about turn-of-last-century*. Alice is a witch, and Gavia and Church are demons. Doesn't mean there won't be a brave soul willing to take a shot at a demon-master, but it's probably not as clear cut an option as it would be to someone with a 2016 level of understanding.
(click to show/hide)*If that. Many of them probably don't understand much of the technology they do have, since it wasn't their heritage that developed it.
BenRG:
Or, to quote 'The Usual Suspects' - "How could I shoot at the Devil? What if I missed?"
brasca:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 10 Dec 2016, 21:23 ---I'm guessing Ellie's gruesome death must be general knowledge by now, meaning the crowd of bystanders at the top of the pit must know that Pate/Church did it. Given that Ellie was running the dig, she must have been an important person in this community. Wouldn't at least some local folks be upset at her outright murder? Is Pate so certain that there's nobody with a rifle and sight up there? True, they couldn't get Church. But if Pate is baseline, then a bullet will take him out, and Church hasn't shown he's fast enough to stop one.
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Pate probably made an off panel speech to everyone and gave them the choice between pointlessly taking revenge and dying horribly in the process or reaping the rewards of what's inside the bunker after he retrieves his rocket ship. Since the archaeophiles are scientists in a fashion they're probably smart enough not to seek revenge on him or the recent visitors. Of course Pate may not be entirely sure of this since Ellie seemed too smart to attack Church even after seeing what damage he did to Sedna which is why he might want Alice to break into the bunker while Church guards him as well as his other captives. We don't see them at the bottom of the pit, but I suspect Ardent, Gavia, and Sedna are up at the top watching down from the rim while Church keeps an eye on them and anyone else who might blame them for attracting Pate and Church to their dig site and seek to harm them.
Leaving the others alone might be a good opportunity to strategize. Church may or may not have super sensitive hearing, but perhaps Sedna could exchange some notes that might reveal her species weakness that could be exploited by someone unassuming.
Kugai:
Here's an interesting thought, what if that's not a Bunker at all, but an underground community of technically advanced survivors who have lived closed off from the world since 'The Blink'
BenRG:
Does Jeph like Fallout? It occurs to me that it might be a pastiche of one of the more horrible Vault-Tec social experiments. Will they suddenly be knee-deep in homicidal identical redheaded clones, all giggling and shouting 'Clinton! Clinton!"
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