Ninjas are Tenacious...

Greetings and Lamentations, I AM Lord Malignance, and you WILL crouch before me now!
(Villains excepted, of course).

One has now mostly recovered from the recent renegotiations with the Ninja Clans of the Colorado Holdfast. Having successfully thwarted the assassin raids on the Lair, one had to clear the rooftop of a dumpster full of assorted ninjery (which coincidentally, is what befell the Ninjas in the beartraps on the rooftop...);

During this period of intense negotiations, one mistep led to a subcontracted appearance by a previously unknown group of Colorado Lin Kuei. How did one know there were Lin Kuei involved? Besides having been poisoned?

(One happens to have a Chinese Henchdog in ones employ)

That happens to be a "Horse Knife". Silly Lin Kuei...

One has traditionally (and you'd be suprised, but there's a Villain Catalog for these things) surrounded the Lair with brambles, and trees with fearsome spines and spikes.

It turns out however, that these trees, bushes, vines and creepers, while ephemeral to Ninjas (who are concerned primarily with climbing on your roof, and hiding in the ceiling spaces) are precisely the kind of cover, so called Forest Demons (the Lin Kuei) prefer. So, one has had the bushes cleared, the trees trimmed, and the vines removed. The trees, previously a good place to hide behind, are now made less capable of hiding sneaky assassins.

Of course, when you poison Lord Malignance, merciless ruler of the Colorado Holdfast, and live in a forest, you may of course expect reprisals.

Still, now at the end of the period of renegotiation, one has acheived the Contract between the Clans and oneself.

So, with Evil Vigor returning, the never ending quest to achieve the Enslavement of all Mankind, the Wracking of those weaklings the Heroes, and limitless plans to Rule the very World itself, continue.

-Lord Malignance