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<blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 1656969" data-attributes="member: 2002"><p>I'm with <strong>Prince of Happiness</strong> on there being limits to how high up the food chain things go. You can't keep coming up with bigger and bigger bad guys who have "secretly" controlled things behind the last big bad guy.</p><p></p><p>Track organization A through Evil Guy B through Temple of Big Bad Evil. Done. Maybe, just maybe have ticked off God of Big Bad Evil enough to send other minions. Otherwise End of Story. Go find other baddies, there are always plenty of them.</p><p></p><p>And chains of command don't always have to get bigger and badder. There can be something said for the great octopus chain of unexpected influences. Like the old <em>Illuminati</em> card game where the UFOs control the Mafia which controls the Oil Companies which control the Boy Sprouts *and* the Feminists. While at the same time another arm of the UFOs controls the South American Nazis who control the Dentists and the Orbital Mind Control Lasers, which in turn controls the Scifi Fans.</p><p></p><p>One day you're mopping up the remnants of the Boy Sprouts when you're attacked by Feminists and Oil workers. You're thinking <em>WTF?</em> because you didn't know there was any connection between them. And you still have no idea that there's any connection between them and those sinister Dentists who seem to be watching you. Or between them and your erstwile allies the Scifi Fans...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chimera, post: 1656969, member: 2002"] I'm with [b]Prince of Happiness[/b] on there being limits to how high up the food chain things go. You can't keep coming up with bigger and bigger bad guys who have "secretly" controlled things behind the last big bad guy. Track organization A through Evil Guy B through Temple of Big Bad Evil. Done. Maybe, just maybe have ticked off God of Big Bad Evil enough to send other minions. Otherwise End of Story. Go find other baddies, there are always plenty of them. And chains of command don't always have to get bigger and badder. There can be something said for the great octopus chain of unexpected influences. Like the old [i]Illuminati[/i] card game where the UFOs control the Mafia which controls the Oil Companies which control the Boy Sprouts *and* the Feminists. While at the same time another arm of the UFOs controls the South American Nazis who control the Dentists and the Orbital Mind Control Lasers, which in turn controls the Scifi Fans. One day you're mopping up the remnants of the Boy Sprouts when you're attacked by Feminists and Oil workers. You're thinking [i]WTF?[/i] because you didn't know there was any connection between them. And you still have no idea that there's any connection between them and those sinister Dentists who seem to be watching you. Or between them and your erstwile allies the Scifi Fans... [/QUOTE]
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