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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

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Ngamer11 said:
I'm pretty sure he's reacting this way due to feeling the pain of missing half of one of his legs.
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It could be both.

Though I'm now reminded of an episode of Regular Show where Rigby is separated from his body and it suffers damage.

When he returns to his body he feels immense pain due to how much damage it took.

thebishop8 said:
Then why not Atlantis?
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No clue.

Maybe he thought Nabu could make a better prison.

Which is true.

Or Zoat forgot about it.
 
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Mr Zoat said:
Do you feel like that could be fixed by allowing your life to be subsumed by some manner of director or overlord? If not then you're only half way there.
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If you have issues finding your own way, why not try placing your fate, or even your time in the hands of someone else? Why struggle with a sense of aimlessness, left to be tossed about, rudderless, hither and yon by the winds and whims of circumstance and coincidence when you can work towards a cause which gives your life a sense of meaning and purpose?

By having no direction of your own, you are merely going in circles. Why not let someone else chart that course, and you simply steer in accordance with their direction?

You can feel like you finally have a place in the world. Like things can finally be contextualized and reordered in a way which allows for everything else to fit. To make sense. To finally stand on solid ground.

What do you have to lose? After all, it's not like you are doing anything with your life as it currently stands. No more need for that guilt. No more need for that regret.

By marching to the beat of a drum, even if it's not completely yours, the path forward might finally feel clear.

Simple direction and purpose.

Your life is currently empty as it presently stands.

Why not try something new?

Aimlessness = Purposelessness
 
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Oh Faust, you certainly have missed a few things. That and being egotistical was his downfall.

...Huh, now that he's brought up I wonder if his kids will appear at any point.

Oh, Balewa is healing Zard. This will be interesting. I wonder what his view on Roanoke and everything will be.
 
New here, how do I read this, there's an old version, a new version that appears to not be updated as much as the main thread? like.... as someone completely new to this where do I go to start?
 
Mr Zoat said:
"No, it was precautionary. The Anti-Life fragment is aimlessness equals purposelessness, and it encourages servitude to those uncertain as to their life's direction."
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Was this what you meant to write? Or did you mean to write:

"No, it was precautionary. The Anti-Life fragment is aimlessness equals purposelessness, and it encourages servitude in those uncertain as to their life's direction."

?
 
Mr Zoat said:
The layout of the vines changes at once; reaching in all directions
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Comma instead of semicolon.

Pain3128 said:
Ok, I think I get it, the archived version is purely the story without the decisions and is updated periodically, so read that until I get to the end of it and then migrate here.
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It's updated at the same time as the discussion thread. The archive thread keeps the whole story in one place while the discussion thread is spread across three forums.
 
Mr Zoat said:
I think that's a valid use of 'to'.
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I do see where the parsing difference is. Interpretations of what is being encouraged.

it encourages (servitude) to those uncertain as to their life's direction. -> 'to' works fine, as servitude is being encouraged to the uncertain

it encourages (servitude to those uncertain as to their life's direction). -> in this interpretation 'to' reads as an error, as it seems like servitude to the uncertain is what's being encouraged.
 
Huttj509 said:
I do see where the parsing difference is. Interpretations of what is being encouraged.
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You missed one parse -- the important one: who servitude is being encouraged to.

There's a subtle distinction between "encourage X to" and "encourage X in". In the latter case, it's bringing out the qualities of X in the subject. In the former, it's making a suggestion to the subject to try X.

If it helps you understand, try rearranging it: "To those uncertain as to their life's direction, it encourages servitude."
 
Tower Offence (part 13)
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    Dr. Balewa touches Zard on the lips, and the noise ceases. He's clearly still trying to scream, though I'm not sure whether that's because of his injury or the lingering effects of Anti-Life exposure.

    Or he's reconsidering all of his life choices-. Yeah, I'm going to leave that sort of thinking to Alan. Zard learned magic in Tibet. What sort of Lama has judgement that bad?

    "I am curious why his defences failed while mine remained."

    Not that hard to work out from my point of view. He made contact with the Life Entity. The white light contains the orange light, so it almost certainly registers what he does as 'power ring' rather than 'magic'. Given that he's prime White Lantern material, he's going to need to know at some point, but…

    "That's an ultra top secret Maltusian secret that I'm not going to tell you while we're in enemy territory."

    The vines make a play for me, and I reward their persistence with a disintegration ray.

    "Constantine?"

    Dr. Balewa rises and gestures, a wave of white passing outward from the ground to a height of about two metres. The vine walls ripple, trying to escape before his magic… Just turns them back into normal vines with no Anti-Life crystals. The parts it touches gradually stop moving, an effect which flows up the vines to the parts Alan is valiantly trimming.

    Two more slashes and he cautiously backs off, watching the vine closest to him grow buds which open into small white flowers. He regards the mass for a moment and then looks down at us.

    "Are we done here-? Is that Wizard?"

    "Wizard and Faust were prisoners of Fate. I suspect that we will find thet Blackbriar Thorn is at the centre of things."

    "I guess old super villains don't die or fade away, they just wait until your back's turned and then jump you."

    Sanderson explodes out of the vines in a flurry of blade swipes and severed plant matter.

    He stands there for a moment, breathing hard, as the vine pile behind him collapses.

    "I think I'm going to pave my garden back home."

    "Don't make any rushed decisions, or at least meet a concrete supervillain first." I glance at the vines. "Blackbriar Thorn was connected to those, wasn't he?"

    "He can control plants without a direct connection. I do not dare hope thet being exposed to Anti-Life would also make him foolish."

    Alan looks around, frowning. "What happened to Constantine?"

    "I suspect thet he was taken by the vines. I do not know what happens if a demon is subjected to Anti-Life, or if his nature will provide a measure of protection." He raises his right hand and draws a line in the air. "I can track his seal, now thet Wizard is no long obscuring the traces."

    A moment passes and he looks down.

    "Ah."

    "Underground chamber?"

    "Yes."

    "That sounds like a job for-."

    "A guy who can turn into sand and move through earth like it's water?"

    I look at Sanderson. He interrupted me. That's new. Good for him.

    "Yes, but we're going to need to get the rest of us down there as well. I suggest taking a look around and getting ready. And watch out for roots."

    "I hear you."

    He drops, his legs losing coherence first and merging with the ground, then his torso, arms, and last of all his head.

    "This sounds like a job for Team Lantern. Unless-. Doctor Mist, would those flowers have any sort of anti-Anti Life properties?"

    "A weak one. They would serve better as a conduit for my spells. Why do you ask?"

    "I can cause plant growth."

    "I'll make an excavator."

    Alan generates a great borer construct, spins it up and presses it into the ground. Earth is shoved aside, great heaps piling up and Alan pushes the construct deeper.

    "Would you care to explain?"

    "I got a lesson from Lantern Medphyll. I can cause controlled plant growth by forcing the Green into things. Euanthe doesn't like it when I do it, but I doubt that she can feel it here."

    "Can you send the vines down the hole which Blue Lantern is making?"

    "Maybe?"

    "From what we have seen of the Anti-Life and this place, it is likely that it is within Blackbriar Thorn. Freeing him will be difficult."

    "Killing him would be easy, though. He'd get better in a year or so."

    "We cannot take the risk thet he is reborn with his Anti-Life infection still in place."

    "True. Alright, let's-."

    I frown as I spot Faust fleeing as fast as his legs can carry him, grab him with a construct and carry him back, dropping him next to Mr. Zard.

    "I can shoot one of your legs off as well."

    Flashing a mild look of disapproval my way, Dr. Balewa taps Faust lightly on the forehead and he collapses into a stupor.

    Right, my turn. I float upwards, reaching out into the Green with my rings. Forming the required pattern, linking myself to the fundamentally inhuman desires of plant life, it's not any easier.

    All Things Strive.

    "Blue Lantern? Could you-" The vines shudder before vigorously expanding in the general direction of Alan's drill. "-add a little space around the edge at the top?"

    "Can do."

    I watch as the vines and their little white life flowers burrow down the borehole, latching onto the exposed sides of the tunnel and extending towards the drill head.

    One more evil wizard -possibly two if John's been infected- and then we can just free the brownies and wreck this place before going to fight Quinn.

    Here's hoping.
     
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    One more evil wizard -possibly two if John's been infected- and then we can just free the brownies and wreck this place before going to fight Quinn.
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    It says something about Paul that his immediate assumption is that things between Quinn and the group are ultimately going to result in outward battle and conflict.

    I mean, he doesn't seem to have considered even the idea that Quinn was working to isolate and cure the individuals in question of Anti-Life. Or that Quinn himself might be prisoner. Or that there might be a diplomatic solution to the issue at hand.

    Paul genuinely seems to have become naturalized to the nature of superheroes and conflict that comes with DC at the very least, haha.
     
    Mr Zoat said:
    That's an ultra top secret Maltusian secret that I'm not going to tell you while we're in enemy territory."
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    Nice. You remember to not spill qny important details when bad guys are around.

    Mr Zoat said:
    will find that Blackbriar Thorn at the centre
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    Remove "that".

    Mr Zoat said:
    "I suspect thet he was taken by the vines. I do not know what happened if a demon is subjected
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    "happens"
     
    AR760 said:
    It says something about Paul that his immediate assumption is that things between Quinn and the group are ultimately going to result in outward battle and conflict.

    I mean, he doesn't seem to have considered even the idea that Quinn was working to isolate and cure the individuals in question of Anti-Life. Or that Quinn himself might be prisoner. Or that there might be a diplomatic solution to the issue at hand.

    Paul genuinely seems to have become naturalized to the nature of superheroes and conflict that comes with DC at the very least, haha.
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    Everything up to this point says that Quinn is a bad guy, so it's easy to see why Paul is acting like this.
     
    AR760 said:
    It says something about Paul that his immediate assumption is that things between Quinn and the group are ultimately going to result in outward battle and conflict.

    I mean, he doesn't seem to have considered even the idea that Quinn was working to isolate and cure the individuals in question of Anti-Life. Or that Quinn himself might be prisoner. Or that there might be a diplomatic solution to the issue at hand.

    Paul genuinely seems to have become naturalized to the nature of superheroes and conflict that comes with DC at the very least, haha.
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    I think it's more that he has the right mindset. You don't mess with anti life and it feels like Quinn's has been doing making more crystals attuned to it.
     
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