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// Rule 76 
// Story: Chronicles of an Evil Overlord 
// by Melancholy 
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Domination of Equestria - T+46 days.

“There she is! Get her!”
“Up on the roof!”

I wasn’t expecting to see the Princesses protege here. I’m not quite sure why I’m surprised, maybe I wasn’t giving the Princess of Friendship’s lesson enough credit. Either way, she is trying to break into the cell blocks, presumably to see if her Mistress is interred within. Needless to say, she's been disappointed.

“Master! We’ve found a route up to the spiretop!”
“Right? And?”

“You can resume pursuit of Starlight Glimmer!”
“Why?”

“Um...do you not wish her caught Master?”
“Of course I do. I just don’t see the relevance of your point.”

“How will you catch her without pursuing her?”
“She is being pursued. By Beings with wings.”

“But Master-”
“Do you see wings on me?”

“Err, no Master but-”
“Do you see regulation guardrails on that roof?”

“There are none master true bu-”
“Then why on earth do you think I would want to go up there?”

“I’m sorry Master…”
“This is why I educate you creatures. You keep bringing up these asinine ‘suggestions’, but if I don’t stop to point out why they’re dumb you’ll just keep bringing them up. Or worse, start doing them anyway.”

“I have learned my lesson, Master.”
“Good! Now, she’ll have to come down somewhere around the sewage treatment block, we can head her off if we take this corridor here…”

Overlord Rule No:76 If the hero runs up to my roof, I will not run up after him and struggle with him in an attempt to push him over the edge. I will also not engage him at the edge of a cliff. (In the middle of a rope-bridge over a river of molten lava is not even worth considering.)