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Alice Grove MCDLT - December 2016
TinPenguin:
I like the lack of a 'BAM', indicating the casual apathy of the action.
Also, both Church and Pate have turned their backs to Alice, yet she makes no attempt to take advantage of that. She has, for now, given up.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 12 Dec 2016, 01:39 ---Also, both Church and Pate have turned their backs to Alice, yet she makes no attempt to take advantage of that. She has, for now, given up.
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No, rather I think that, given what she knows about Church's reaction times and likely sensory acuity, she's not going to try anything pointless and self-destructive. She's biding her time whilst trying to work out a plan. How well she does so remains to be seen; Alice doesn't strike me as the sort of personality who thinks ahead particularly well. However, she will be attempting to come up with a plan.
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 12 Dec 2016, 01:47 ---She's biding her time whilst trying to work out a plan.
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That sounds a lot like a PR version of giving up for now.
Tova:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 12 Dec 2016, 01:39 ---Also, both Church and Pate have turned their backs to Alice, yet she makes no attempt to take advantage of that. She has, for now, given up.
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It doesn't mean that. It just means that she isn't stupid. She isn't fast enough to take advantage of it, as we've already found out, and she's not keen on getting Gavia's arms broken.
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 12 Dec 2016, 00:03 ---If Church were asked why he's working for Pate, I suspect that his response will be one word: 'Order'. Pate stands for a restoration of strong, intrusive and controlling government, something for which Church was made to protect. He may (if he is talkative) reproach Alice and Sedna for forgetting their 'directives' in this area.
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In Sedna's case that may be true, but Alice has been keeping order in her village so if that is their directive she's still fulfilling it.
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 11 Dec 2016, 23:31 ---Alice punching her way in may be just Jeph running with the joke. And probably also to show the locals who's the boss. It might also be an opportunity to size up Alice's abilities so that Mr Church has a better idea what he is up against this time (assuming Pate does not have perfect intelligence on Alice already).
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Considering that Church was able to outrun Alice and grip her arm hard enough to cause discomfort I think Pate knows everything he needs to know about her abilities. Having Alice break through the bunker may be partially a power play to demonstrate that he is the boss, to keep Church in a place where he can keep an eye on his captives, and possibly because there is some trap left behind from the ancient past that could neutralize an immortal. Perhaps that's how Pate or one of his ancestors discovered Church. They never could figure out what deactivated him, but were concerned the process might be repeated.
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