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30th Apr '13 6:59:04 PM 313Bluestreak

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* The aptly named episode, ''Gambit'' of BlakesSeven in which BigBad Servalan's [[TheStarscream Starscream]], Travis goes to the criminal planet of Freedom City to find the technician [[LivingMacGuffin Docholli]] knowing that his nemesis, Roj Blake is also seeking Docholli because he knows the location of Federation headquarters. Travis becomes Docholli's bodyguard so that when Blake arrives, Travis can kill him. Servalan also wants to kill Docholli to prevent him from revealing his information to anyone so she pays Krantor, the lecherous ruler of Freedom City to kill Travis and Docholli, knowing that Krantor will try to torture Docholli to find out what secret he carries and that the location of Federation headquarters is of no use to him. When Krantor sends Servalan Docholli's corpse, it will be obvious that he's extorted the secret of Star One's location. Therefore to shut him up, the Federation will kill Krantor and burn Freedom City to the ground. She also makes a deal with Travis for Docholli's life. Either way Docholli and Krantor die and Freedom City is destroyed. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tk6f4JjYf4 Watching her try to explain this plan]] to her dimwitted [[TheDragon Dragon]] Jareair is quite amusing.
** MagnificentBastard Cyric from ForgottenRealms. This guy has so many different {{plan}}s going on that even HE doesn't know about all of them sometimes. The guy is a little AxeCrazy. One of his greatest plans involved pretending to hold the IdiotBall for years, only to convince the other greater gods that he was useless in his position as Greater Evil God and attempt to strip him of his power. All this ended with Cyric destroying the love of his two greatest enemies, (sort of) regaining his sanity, and pissing off the entire pantheon of other gods, with them being able to do NOTHING AT ALL to stop him.
*** This harkens back to his FIRST plan where he killed a goddess of illusion with the help of a lesser god, but got off scot free because he knew exactly what the Over God would say. The other gods exact punishment, but Cyric also gets them to remove the punishment through even more trickery and lies. He also binds an EldritchAbomination to him at the same time. The same one that bit off Tyr's hand, you know, Tyr, the BigGood of the Forgotten Realms? Yeah, and because the Over God says so, Tyr can't do a thing to stop Cyric and his many many plots. Cyric goes on to weave even more plans ending ultimately with Tyr's death, Helm's death, Mystra's death, and the death of many other powerful gods and the complete destabilization of magic itself. He does end up in chains for causing the deaths of those gods, but he is the god lies and trickery... does anyone really think those chains will hold him for long? Especially since we don't even know if that isn't yet ANOTHER gambit of Cyric's. He could be walking freely about the Realms, using his power as God of Illusion to create a clone to take his place in the chains.

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* The aptly named episode "Gambit" of ''Series/BlakesSeven'' in which BigBad Servalan's [[TheStarscream Starscream]], Travis, goes to the criminal planet of Freedom City to find the technician [[LivingMacGuffin Docholli]] knowing that his nemesis, Roj Blake is also seeking Docholli because he knows the location of Federation headquarters. Travis becomes Docholli's bodyguard so that when Blake arrives, Travis can kill him. Servalan also wants to kill Docholli to prevent him from revealing his information to anyone so she pays Krantor, the lecherous ruler of Freedom City to kill Travis and Docholli, knowing that Krantor will try to torture Docholli to find out what secret he carries and that the location of Federation headquarters is of no use to him. When Krantor sends Servalan Docholli's corpse, it will be obvious that he's extorted the secret of Star One's location. Therefore to shut him up, the Federation will kill Krantor and burn Freedom City to the ground. She also makes a deal with Travis for Docholli's life. Either way Docholli and Krantor die and Freedom City is destroyed. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tk6f4JjYf4 Watching her try to explain this plan]] to her dimwitted [[TheDragon Dragon]] Jareair is quite amusing.
* MagnificentBastard Cyric from ForgottenRealms. This guy has so many different {{plan}}s going on that even HE doesn't know about all of them sometimes. The guy is a little AxeCrazy. One of his greatest plans involved pretending to hold the IdiotBall for years, only to convince the other greater gods that he was useless in his position as Greater Evil God and attempt to strip him of his power. All this ended with Cyric destroying the love of his two greatest enemies, (sort of) regaining his sanity, and pissing off the entire pantheon of other gods, with them being able to do NOTHING AT ALL to stop him.
** This harkens back to his FIRST plan where he killed a goddess of illusion with the help of a lesser god, but got off scot free because he knew exactly what the Over God would say. The other gods exact punishment, but Cyric also gets them to remove the punishment through even more trickery and lies. He also binds an EldritchAbomination to him at the same time. The same one that bit off Tyr's hand, you know, Tyr, the BigGood of the Forgotten Realms? Yeah, and because the Over God says so, Tyr can't do a thing to stop Cyric and his many many plots. Cyric goes on to weave even more plans ending ultimately with Tyr's death, Helm's death, Mystra's death, and the death of many other powerful gods and the complete destabilization of magic itself. He does end up in chains for causing the deaths of those gods, but he is the god lies and trickery... does anyone really think those chains will hold him for long? Especially since we don't even know if that isn't yet ANOTHER gambit of Cyric's. He could be walking freely about the Realms, using his power as God of Illusion to create a clone to take his place in the chains.

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21st Dec '12 11:48:33 PM paranoia222

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28th Oct '12 6:26:09 PM ANTMuddle

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* Sabrina Thompson on ''Survivor: One World:'' not particularly great at the game's mechanics, but superb at its core.  Considered a serious threat to win the million against Kim Spradlin, no less ''by'' TheChessmaster herself, Sabrina pulled off the ScheherazadeGambit by threatening her with a GenghisGambit. If she or Chelsea ended up on the bench, either of both of them would paint it as a breach of their original alliance. Piggyback on the sure thing in SpicyLatina Alicia and the third player would win by default. Bring Christina and her back story was sure to seal the deal on the spot. Given the Hatfield-and-[=McCoy=] mood of the jury at the Ponderosa, and the strong social network Sabrina had built, Kim would almost certainly be blasted with a HumiliationConga (especially with Troyzan there). Kim did not take the easy way out, after all; she brought [[FreudianTrio her original girls]] to face the jury.  With the jury appeased, there were no major incidents, and Kim got the gold.  Sabrina's XanatosGambit scored her the silver.

27th Oct '12 10:05:49 AM ChaoticNovelist

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