Sidhekin wrote:Dave wrote:It's really well done...
Looks extra-rare to me ...
*SPLORF*
You get serious points for that one! Damn... I don't hand out straight lines like that one very often.
Dave wrote:it'll make whatever intricate tale Oduya was about to spin, much less believable from the start. If Oduya starts stammering out shocked denials, I expect Acacia is ready with some "... but you said" counters to expose Oduya's real plans... and the house of cards may all fall down in the grand style.
And why should SDO care whether the mosquitoes believe her or not?
The way I read this, Bud is putting on this show for Brandilyn, not for the agents. They're just another source of stress for SDO: "Can I still use them? Do I need to get them killed? Is there anything they or their testimony can do to harm me? Is Acacia thinking of using them? Is there anything they can do that she cannot do herself? Why am I thinking of them and not of the leviathan spanner in my works right before me?"
Well, I sorta agree with you. The very fact that Oduya has been attempting to scam the agents at this point, suggests that she
does want them to believe her story. I expect that she still wants to "play" them in some way... maybe just to carry a convincing/corroborating story back to the MIB/FBI/whatever, to back up Oduya's story. They were pieces on the chessboard... perhaps just secondary pieces... but the fact that Oduya put them in "the game" at all, means that she was (and probably still is) depending on them to play a specific role in her complex plans. That much of Oduya's planning has just gone "out the window" as a result of Bloody Bud's unexpected appearance.
The more ways in which Bud can throw Oduya's plans out of whack, and hit her with sudden stresses (which we believe she's not good at handling), the better the odds of upsetting the whole apple cart and disrupting the Nü Gui's control (of Brandi and of the whole situation).
That's the thing about really complex rule-driven systems, like chess and engineering. You can build a very subtle, interconnected plan, and think out and plan and compute all sorts of possible decision paths and moves (as the Chessmaster clearly can do). However, if somebody gives the system a hearty shove from "outside of the box" (outside the system of rules and expectations) the whole system can crumble, and you may not have time to "redesign your game" to deal with a stress or event that your plans hadn't taken into account.
I have a feeling that the subtleties of the Nü Gui's clessmastering plans, were all dependent on nobody knowing that there was a Nü Gui involved at all... everyone had to believe that Senior Directory Oduya was just Brandi. Now that Bud has figured out the truth of "The Deal", all hell's out for noon.
I meant...ugh, never mind; not important, because I was wrong anyway. I'd forgotten that Bud was at Yaxchitlan, then was supposed to go straight to Mesa Verde but got waylaid. For some reason, I had thought SD Oduya had done it, but now I see another explanation: Oduya sent Kath & Atsali to Mapimi to die. The Bibliothiki sent Bud to rescue them.
(I seriously doubt this will happen, but it's fun to theorize about how M would act out her part as angry demi-god/sub-titan to throw another wrench into SDO's plans.)
