From:	plotd@*********.com (Pete)
Subject:	Thunda?
Date:	Mon Mar 25 18:00:00 2002

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From: "Paul J. Adam" <PlotD@********.demon.co.uk>
To: <plotd@*********.com>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: Thunda?

> >That's unlikely. Paul's character Lynch took great pains to plant a slug
> >between his eyes. Much as I might find it amusing I don't believe in
> >indestructible characters nor that one survives a headshot. :)
>
> Easy did... but in her background story, not on the list. And she got a
> glancing hit from a small-calibre backup pistol in the temple, which
> skidded around her skull between bone and skin until it ripped out
> through the back of her scalp.

People survive these things from time to time. There are accounts from
various medical sources of bullets embedded in the scalp not having
penetrated the skull. It depends on various factors but a head shot is
survivable. My logic in that statement is that the larger majority of
characters on the list are pretty well skilled in the use of firearms and a
headshot is going to be a pretty terminal experience. Cue large man in black
cloak carrying a scythe who only speaks in capitals. :)

> Not _quite_ the same as getting an explosive-cored .357 Magnum hot-load
> clean through the cranium, then your body burned to ashes by some
> unknown remote-control mechanism...

Nope, not exactly. And I think it's safe to assume that the ashes are not
likely to come back as a zombie. <g>

> >> or the head honchette of Thunda's
> >> Children?(and if you bet- what do you bet?;)
> >
> >I wouldn't take that bet. He's not the head of the CoT they were pretty
much
> >fragmented beyond much use, Dark Stranger took out the head in Moscow and
> >re-decorated a room with the remains so he's dead.
>
> And while Abbadon is gruesomely dead, Shaitan his leader found herself
> abducted by Something Bad to pay off some debts. It sounds like she
> either may not be back in the lifetime of mortal Men... or that if she
> did return, she has _far_ higher priorities than saying nasty things on
> Shadowland about Lynch.

Just slightly. In all honesty if she ever did appear back on the list again
Lynch would be such a low priority in her appointment book he'd be lucky to
get a corner of the last page. She doesn't consider him a threat above
nuisance. There are far more important enemies to consider than a man who
really hurled nothing more threatening than words at her. Hardly an excuse
for retribution when you're working at that level of world domination
schizophrenia.

> For my part, Lynch has got bigger problems, few of them interesting yet
> from a list point of view :)

So has Exiled. He's not going to be starting any arguments or stammering out
reams of personal abuse, just the ocassional quip and snipe and generally
making unwanted comments to anything he can see that warrants stabbing in
the ribs with a silly stick. :)

> He's having recurring nightmares at the moment (unusual of itself, he's
> never been a dreamer) about finding himself in a green-lit five-sided
> spaceship, pursued by monomaniacal cyborgs, and hearing a booming voice
> roar "WE ARE PENTAGON OF BORG! RESISTANCE IS IRRELEVANT! YOU WILL BE
> ASSIMILATED!"

That's ok, just so long as the nightmare doesn't extend to "ALL YOUR BASE
ARE BELONG TO US!"... He'll be ok, it's probably just the "Monika" cigars
that are hand rolled in cuba with a secret ingredient for that extra flavour
exclusively for the Whitehouse that's causing these nightmares. LOL

(sits back and patiently awaits the Eewwwww comments)

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Pete
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