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Overlady: Attack of the Minions (Thread II)

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I wonder if Louise will ever reach retirement, and what it might be like for her.

Aside from the obvious of hiding in the Abyss if her mother is still alive
 
If Louise did somehow manage to retire to the abyss..and her mother wanted to get her hands on her, Louise likely would be relying on sending hundreds of abyss dwellers as cannon fodder to slow her mother down long enough to figure out a plane shift spell...
 
Alphaleph said:
What's the game?
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Aveyond IV, the main character in that one is not a hero but a retired villain who stays a villain and who's goal is to get his dog back not save the world. In fact it opens when the heroes are storming his fortress stopping his world domination bit. The series in general has a bit of a quirky humor about it.
 
RevenVrake said:
If Louise did somehow manage to retire to the abyss..and her mother wanted to get her hands on her, Louise likely would be relying on sending hundreds of abyss dwellers as cannon fodder to slow her mother down long enough to figure out a plane shift spell...
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Maybe, but I guess it would depend at what age Louise would retire at. As I'm not sure that Karin, despite all her skill, will be able to handle the legions of the Abyss.

Though I do imagine that many denizens will simply get out of her way if they learn that she's after Louise. Hell Louise may even have to deal with some Abyssal persons getting upset over Louise's heritage.
 
I would think let sleeping dragons lie would come to mind at least in the Abyss and the more pragmatic heroes. I mean there is a tendency of attempting to kill a retired villain often results in them surviving and sometimes coming out of retirement with the result of them somehow being vastly more dangerous than when they went into retirement.
 
"Let sleeping dragons lie"... now why do I feel that expression, in the Abyss and the Draconic sphere at least, should be read more like "sabotage the wakeup call of the competition" than anything else...
 
Jonen C said:
"Let sleeping dragons lie"... now why do I feel that expression, in the Abyss and the Draconic sphere at least, should be read more like "sabotage the wakeup call of the competition" than anything else...
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Mucking with the alarm clocks of Evil seems to not work out very well either. Even if you don't wake it up yourself, you end up foisting the responsibility onto some descendant.
 
For heroes and villains trying to save the world for different reasons yes, but for villains who want their competitors out of the way for a while...
 
I'm not sure if villains who save the world are really competitors with whatever they're saving it from. As that sort of situation tends to arise from said villain wanting to control the world and facing off against someone who wishes to destroy it.
 
xeivous said:
I'm not sure if villains who save the world are really competitors with whatever they're saving it from. As that sort of situation tends to arise from said villain wanting to control the world and facing off against someone who wishes to destroy it.
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Or two villains who want to rule the world, and 'saving' it from each other's obviously less desirable rule.
 
Franklymydear said:
Everyone's a villain from the other side's perspective, more or less.
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I don't think that's really applicable in the Overlady setting. Louise is opposing Heroes for the most part. Granted they are the corrupt kind of Good that one fights in the first Overlord game, but they are still Heroes. She'll also be against Heroes whenever she inevitably runs into her old schoolmates and/or her mother. Her conflict with Athe is pretty solidly in Evil vs Evil territory though.
 
xeivous said:
I don't think that's really applicable in the Overlady setting. Louise is opposing Heroes for the most part. Granted they are the corrupt kind of Good that one fights in the first Overlord game, but they are still Heroes. She'll also be against Heroes whenever she inevitably runs into her old schoolmates and/or her mother. Her conflict with Athe is pretty solidly in Evil vs Evil territory though.
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But to her they're evil. They've wrong her friends (however much the law might have been in their favour), and they resist whenever she tries to 'right' what she sees as legitimate problems and corruption. She knows she's acting evil, but to her that's all it is; just one big act she's pulling off as the means to reach an end that is, in her eyes, good.

They're not heroes in her eyes, and she's not really evil in her own.
 
Franklymydear said:
But to her they're evil. They've wrong her friends (however much the law might have been in their favour), and they resist whenever she tries to 'right' what she sees as legitimate problems and corruption. She knows she's acting evil, but to her that's all it is; just one big act she's pulling off as the means to reach an end that is, in her eyes, good.

They're not heroes in her eyes, and she's not really evil in her own.
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Perspective is irrelevant. Especially Louise's, for she is so deep in the Evil Closet that she's having tea with Jadis the White Witch every thursday.
 
That's what guns are for. The hunt for such a majestic creature must not be delayed!
#Hemingway for president
 
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