<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=299545.msg14653412#msg14653412">Quote from: PhantomPistoleer on 25-01-2019, 15:11:14</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Wildcard might know Krait because Tobias Whale, a criminal mastermind, previously ordered a hit on Wildcard.  Krait took the job, but Wildcard barely escaped her clutches.  The hit was called off.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I really like that idea, if you're up for it, Lost Paradise?  Perhaps the property stolen belonged to Whale, but was taken at the request of someone just as powerful-- to avoid being caught in a war between two high-level crimelords, their self-preservation instinct could be the thing that keeps the other one alive.  OR, we can just keep it simpler to get it started-- there was an assassin after her, but Wildcard did what was necessary to get that contract cancelled.  Wildcard would recognize Krait when she sees her, and dodged quite a few bullets (literally).  Once she got the contract called off, Krait kept showing up-- but not trying to kill her, just out of a kind of creepy curiosity and attraction.<br/><br/>Kraken: I don't think that Krait is well-known enough for him to have come after her directly, but there's a chance she may have been recently contracted to take him out before her backstory idea took her to the ocean to get her ass kicked by the Atlantean crew, giving her a whole new fetish.  A hypothetical outcome: She saw what she was expected to deal with, and set a trap to try to take him out.  She could have torn up his armored suit severely, and would probably have killed him if she hadn't had to use herself as bait, but because he was more resilient and determined than she could have been prepared for, he had her in his grip.  It was just for a brief moment, so he didn't get to fulfill his desires before she enacted a 'backup plan--' of sorts, and she managed to escape.