Love Zoat's writing. This is evocative.
there's -> they're
It is definitely a British thing.
Hopefully Paul learns his lessons from this fight and prepares to fight against New Gods.
It's just Paul insulting the guy in his head. That way, Mr Zoat can show us how annoyed Paul is about this. If you replace it with prick, it would have the same meaning.
Yeah, the enemy's capital ship - presumably Sparta's flagship too - is going to be the major issue in this fight. And being rammed by a cruiser probably isn't going to slow it down as much as OL is hoping it will...
And until it is destroyed, it's going to keep doing that. Better get a move on, OL, people are dying en masse.
...Yeah, I don't think that's going to go over well with your hosts.
Can't count out the possibility. Though it'd be kind of anti-climactic if they were taken out by simple lasers so easily...
Perhaps Sparta is too busy dealing with something else right now, or someone. I wouldn't be surprised if she was on New Cronus somewhere, hunting for a Titan to slay...
Careful, OL. Don't go poking things you don't fully understand. Remember what happened... Every other time you did?
No doubt Best Snek is raging at the edge of whatever effect is blocking her from her Agent. Which means everyone might be in for a shock once it ceases.
...How casual. 'Oh, my eyeballs just exploded. Eh, wasn't using them right now anyway."
Well, at least in the latter case, you could lead them about like a charging bull.
Indeed, it'd be a rare turret that could traverse as quickly as a Lantern could fly.
Huh. Well, let's hope they're not smart enough to realise that.
Kind of hard to stay focused when energy bolts bigger than you are are flying past, huh?.
Alas, too little too late, I think. The cruiser doesn't need much steering at this point. And it's not going to slow down, unless something with more grunt than its engines intervenes.
Joy of getting stuck in the middle of them. Hard to fire at will when you might actually be firing at Will, on the ship opposite.
An interesting exchange. Presumably whoever's on the battleship is standing at their own Apokaliptian control station, screaming at the oncoming ship.
Ha, he's literally having to push it home. Not quite a Hammerhead Corvette, but it should do some nice damage.
Yeah, as much as Sci-Fi movies lie about spaceships exploding at the slightest collision sometimes, never underestimate kinetic energy.
If nothing else, that might be able to weaken it at the point of impact...
...Oh, for... Those things are becoming more trouble than they're worth, you know. Maybe next time you die, tone them down a little?Depending on how closely the commander is tied to the ship, the pain thing might well serve as a solid distraction.
Ha! Oh, that is sneaky. And with the Ophidian blocked, there's nothing to stop the guy.
And it's a pity space is silent, because that would have been one hell of a prang. I hope the commander feels like he just got kicked somewhere sensitive.
...as the discs start hitting the shield and doing...
Shouldn't he be super low on Ring Power with everything going on and being cut off from the Ophidian?
He still feels Avarice, so the energy that fuels his ring is still fine. Only his method of communicating with the Ophidian is blocked
Thank you, corrected.
It's not our fault that the rest of the world is wrong.
Thank you, corrected.
That looks like I remember, but I won't be able to update the old link until I get home this evening as I need to save the image.
The Ophidian didn't seem to be... inhabiting OL previous to the cut-off, more focusing her attention through him (and talking a bit when Thia was acting snooty), so she probably wasn't empowering him any more that he usually is. Her 'physical' form is still back in her cozy nest/Central Power Battery on Maltus.
He's currently wearing two rings I believe, Larfleeze's ring and the new one that was made for him after the explosion death.
I love how the handful of times this happened to Grayven, it was this huge hassle that took a long time to heal, but Paul is just "Oh bother, better fix that real quick."
Fair point, you're right. I was using "enlightened" as a handwave description for that connection, but I shouldn't do that.
Comma instead of semicolon
Thank you, corrected.
The laws of foreshadowing decree that Paul must now improvise mid battle and learn the technique of charging without a lantern.
Or better yet turn those bloody things off! He already has a soul so he's already set. Nobody else suffers from this do they? Hell given what Priest said about powerful Lanterns Paul should have been determined to get what Malvolio wanted shouldn't he?
Pretty sure they just accepted weapons to become servants for actual Apokoliptians, like how the Order of Stone is made up of fanatics and puppets.
Well, he's not technically wrong. Even if OL wasn't already a deity of some sort, he did sucked dry that one Rhea-descended demigod recently; that bout of theophagy may have been enough to make him count as a legit Olympian deity.
Doesn't matter how big you are, when you get hit by thousands of tons travelling at hundreds of kilometres an hour, you are going to feel it. And something as large and rigid as the battleship is? It's going to feel it especially sharply.
Of course, that 'bend' might only be a few inches of distance, but in something that large? A few inches is fatal.
Nasty! And if the ship's inertial dampening systems aren't handling the impact well, a lot of crew just took a tumble into the nearest bulkheads in that direction.
And in combat, you're going to want to point straight ahead, so the frontal batteries can pour fire into the enemy, while minimising your targetting profile. At most, I expect its thrusters' turning ability is intended more to adjust aiming than anything like agility.
I suspect most everyone in Sparta's fleet is busy going 'holy crap!' I'm impressed the two moving have acted as quickly as they are.
Why pass up the chance to loot intel or gear?
Basically, at this point, the space fight is pretty much lost by Sparta's fleet, they just need to realise that... And a lot of the credit is down to one man. That'll sting something fierce when they realise that...
Again, never let go of anything that might be useful. Adventuring 101.Whoops, the commander's still alive and fighting, it seems. And they've regained control of the cruiser OL subverted. This battle might not be as over as I thought.
About damn time. Let's hope they can take down the battleship.
Welp, not perfect, but not everyone can throw around the kind of firepower a Ring can provide.
Ah, the 'more dakka' approach to anti-air fire. Put enough shots into the general area of the threat and you're bound to hit something.
So one ship severely damaged, the other mission-killed. Not bad for a couple of minutes work. Now for the rest of them...
The only problem with getting so close is...
...The crew can deploy to repel boarders.
Well, at least this one went for ranged combat over melee. Probably heard what happened to the last two to try that...
Then perhaps employ some tricks. I'm sure he's eager to kill you, so maybe take advantage of that and get him to fire without checking his backstop... Like, say, his ship.
Huh. This guy actually has a clue about space combat.
Okay, if it can do that much damage, maybe try not to tank it with your face?
Geez, having to fight in melee, with your own two hands, like a savage... How primitive.