Re: Should vamps protect some slayers? [spoiler]

In article <K63Zj.32236$ie5.9276@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Fallen <fallen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Don Sample wrote:
> > In article <He2Zj.26781$Pp2.18922@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >  Fallen <fallen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Don Sample wrote:
> >>
> >>>In article <ipWYj.101711$_K5.5629@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>> Fallen <fallen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Don Sample wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>In article <atropos-4A915F.06304920052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>>>>Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>But failing that, a more bold plan would be to capture the Slayer
and 
> >>>>>>hold her prisoner in some deep dark hole somewhere-- but keep her 
> >>>>>>alive. 
> >>>>>>That way the current Slayer is removed as a threat and no new 
> >>>>>>replacement will be called for quite a while for them to worry
about.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Simpler just to kill her.  New Slayer gets called, probably
somewhere 
> >>>>>far away, and she becomes some other vamp's problem.  You're a
vamp, you 
> >>>>>don't care what happens to them.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Unless your plan is rather large and will draw attention from the
people 
> >>>>who sends Slayers somewhere.
> >>>>
> >>>>Fallen.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Prior to the 20th century, it was pretty difficult to travel between 
> >>>continents, and pretty much impossible to do it quickly.
> >>>
> >>>Even today a Slayer called in central Asia is going to have trouble 
> >>>getting to Cleveland in a hurry.
> >>
> >>
> >>What is it, like a 12 hour plane journey? I mean if you're in a
position 
> >>to kill a Slayer then you're in a position to capture/iseriously 
> >>injure/knock her out etc.
> > 
> > 
> > The plane ticket isn't the problem.  There are things like pass****ts, 
> > and visas, and governments who either don't want to let you out of 
> > country A, or into country B, or through countries C, D and E.
> 
> 
> Yeah, and there's a Watcher's Council who's job it apparently is to fix 
> all that.

The WC would have to make the Illuminati look like a bunch of amateurs 
to be able to pull that sort of thing off in a timely manner.

They haven't demonstrated that much competence.

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