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Well worn.
No. Daggerfall would have been the contemporary Elder Scrolls game.
Well, that episode of Ghostbusters were ghosts turn stuff into pizza?
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No. Daggerfall would have been the contemporary Elder Scrolls game.
Thank you that was exactly the answer I was looking for there are some other things I'd like to joke about but those kind of jokes tend to get people a bit riled up so I'll leave it.Thank you, I'm here all night.
Try the veal.
It's the closest you can legally get to eating a Frenchman.
There are very briefly non-Syndicate criminal elements.
Sure, the Syndicate need administrators. And there are plenty of Syndicate members who don't really have super powers. If you mean 'are there elected officials outside of Syndicate control', no.
Oh God. They're literally huffing pure hopium.Pure hope: an entirely legal high with a positive effect on a person's wellbeing as well as recharging the ring while looking dodgy as heck. A perfectly squared circle.
He didn't get any assistance with developing one. As per comic Raven's chat with Superboy, he is growing one, just very slowly.Blue Paul never grew a soul, did he? Or did he find some other method to do so? If not, what does that mean for his daughter's soul? My guess would be that it is more strongly patterned after her mother, essentially a bud instead of a mix of two.
...Well, that episode of Ghostbusters were ghosts turn stuff into pizza?
He doesn't think about it.That thing with Zita and Zorina was very cute I take it this Paul ha gotten over the age gap issue?
Also, Madness Marine is an interesting name for a superhero, unless he's one of the more radical ones
Blue Paul never grew a soul, did he? Or did he find some other method to do so? If not, what does that mean for his daughter's soul? My guess would be that it is more strongly patterned after her mother, essentially a bud instead of a mix of two.
He didn't get any assistance with developing one. As per comic Raven's chat with Superboy, he is growing one, just very slowly
Storytime! I'll listen.
You exchanged ceremonial vows with a manipulative villain who binds demons for fun and profit. Did you honestly think they would be only legal consequences?I didn't love her when we married, but somewhere along the line-.
...I think it was once mentioned that -14 Constantine made him a soul.
When I was a small boy, it was customary in my home to put grated cheese on top of spaghetti bolognaise. I didn't. I also didn't have cheese in sandwiches, and when my parents and grandparents had Stilton on biscuits during holidays I avoided it.
'sometimes'You know, 'this person did this and that's why we're doing this' rather than 'sometime Mummy and Daddy do this to people'."
Thank you, corrected.
I'm going to say 'yes, but he slunk off early and didn't really speak to anyone'.was -14 Paul in the big multiverse team-up? I ask because that is when Main-Paul shared information with other Pauls that they could make their own lanterns.
Please tell me the liquid is a nice shade of blue, hopefully glowing.Carlyle shudders as a new batch of Hope flows from the Mask and into the tubing, and through them into the device which squirts into the vials for distribution.
My Nekron is very different in origin to the canonical one. Necrons would manage Blackest Night fine due to not having hearts.
Probably not, but I don't remember the episode so I can't say for certain.
So does Baul literally drink liquid hope to recharge the ring? Or has he managed to make a blue lantern yet like LePaul did with orange?
So does Baul literally drink liquid hope to recharge the ring? Or has he managed to make a blue lantern yet like LePaul did with orange?
No, he gets other people to drink it and pay for the privilege.
Thank you, corrected.
That should say 'on'.I raise my left hand and cause a shield construct to swell and expand. At first it simply resembles a wall, but as it grows and grows it's clear to all onlookers that it's going to envelop the entire city. With the ash fall increasingly cut off I deploy construct vacuum cleaners to hoover up the ash drifts already on the ground and dump the material outside of my new barrier. Once the area around us is sufficiently cleared, I deposit Ilana and Razer on the ground to talk with the locals while I concentrate is… Cleaning off this dust-with-delusions-of-grandeur.
That should say 'not'.I notice Ilana and Razer reach the local ash-dumpers and start trying to explain what's happening. I'm no sure if their language is similar enough to be mutually intelligible; it's a single continent and there aren't any impassable geological barriers between this city and theirs, but it's still quite a long way and I don't know how much their language has drifted.
Earth is ground zero to everything in the entire DC universe
come -> cope
Volcanic eruptions are already dramatic, destructive events. One sparked by a nuclear explosion should be even more impressive, of course. And that's just little burps. A full-blown super-volcano? Well, people would think of them as an apocalypse...21st January 2013
10:18 GMT
Construct barrier shimmering around us, Ilana and Razer stare at the ash-gushing super volcano with a mixture of horror and awe. The full caldera is about fifty kilometres across, and unlike the examples on Earth that's not an old caldera filled with water. I can see the rubble that was thrown out by the initial detonation and heavy enough to fall back to the ground, and it covers the ground horizon to horizon… Where it isn't buried by ash.
The detonation point of the nuclear weapon itself isn't really visible to the unaided eye. I can tell where it was by scanning the stresses in the rock, but it's… With everything else…
Not unsurprising given their lack of tectonic activity. Volcanos tend to be a result of geological pressure, not a cause. Consider the Ring of Fire, for exampleIlana half-turns her head towards me. "You said that there are three more of these?"
"Three more that could be opened with nuclear weapons of an equivalent magnitude."
Heh. A god's-eye-view really makes it difficult to appreciate the immensity of such a sight, doesn't it?Razer looks away from the base of the ash plume, searching for… What's he searching for? Something to use to better comprehend the scale of what he's looking at. "Can you shut it down?""
"Yes, but this… Volcanoes exist as a result of geological pressure. This one was triggered early, but it would have gone off eventually on its own. Same with the other three. It might be better to let it vent itself before blocking it."
...Not unless some other idiot decides to shove a big bomb into one.I have my ring's AI compare this to other examples of supervolcanoes on file.
"Yes, it won't erupt again in the probable lifetime of your species if we leave it."
A natural byproduct of eruptions, sadly. Seriously, some of the substances underground are really not pleasant for human exposure."Is it causing any other damage?"
"It's putting out heavier than air poison gas. But the nearest settlements are far enough away that they shouldn't be affected. The caldera will be unsafe for a long time, but the rest will disperse on its own."
Well, the nearest surviving city. Unless the people were wise enough that they didn't build right in the shadow of the giant rumbling mountain...Ilana shakes her head. "We should go to the nearest city. This is…"
"Yes." Razer nods sombrely. "It is."
I mean, given the possibility of it being an alien device, who's to say it didn't have some kind of underground burrowing capability?"Alright."
I pick up the sphere surrounding them and fly at speed towards the city in question. I don't know if they were the target or if they were for some insane reason that ones who made the attack. Maybe they were testing a new weapons and didn't know about the supervolcano? I didn't see any rocket launch sites or obvious airports when I looked at the city earlier, but that doesn't mean that they didn't have some other way to deploy it.
And without outside aid around, this city would probably be on the verge of being abandoned eventually. They're fighting a losing battle against the ash-fall...The city is covered with a thick layer of ash and dust, still warm to the touch but not hot enough to burn. The sky is black, and the little light available that doesn't come from my rings is provided by shuttered lanterns borne on poles. The few people outside wearing cloth masks to keep it out of their lungs. It looks like someone's tried to organise a cleaning system, with people shovelling settled ash onto carts pulled by their fellow residents. There's an obvious film of fear over the place, but they're being fairly stoical, inwardly. When there's nothing to do but tough it out, most people will tough it out.
Well, who'd have thought a day like this would appear? OL showing up not making things worse somehow?It would probably be a good idea to make a favourable impression. I float over to near to the ash dumping ground by the front gate. The people there look up at me for a moment, and then bow their heads and return to work because, well: how am I going to make things worse?
Time to make a favourable impression.
Ah, the joy of a little bit of OCD about cleaning coming handy.I raise my left hand and cause a shield construct to swell and expand. At first it simply resembles a wall, but as it grows and grows it's clear to all onlookers that it's going to envelop the entire city. With the ash fall increasingly cut off I deploy construct vacuum cleaners to hoover up the ash drifts already on the ground and dump the material outside of my new barrier. Once the area around us is sufficiently cleared, I deposit Ilana and Razer on the ground to talk with the locals while I concentrate is… Cleaning off this dust-with-delusions-of-grandeur.
And dumping it in the ocean would simply end up poisoning the life there. ...Maybe crush it into a new bit of landmass?Hm. The ash fall is far more than a normal area effect atmospheric filter could come with. At this point it would more or less have to be a force field with selective permeability. It would need a power generator on-site, and I can't guarantee that it would actually stay in place. Sure, I'll get the ash out of the atmosphere before I leave, but that will mostly involve putting it on the ground and high wind will keep picking it up for years yet.
Given how much language can vary in the space of a few hundred miles (compare Edo dialect to Osaka, for example...) It might be workable with a translator or two.I notice Ilana and Razer reach the local ash-dumpers and start trying to explain what's happening. I'm no sure if their language is similar enough to be mutually intelligible; it's a single continent and there aren't any impassable geological barriers between this city and theirs, but it's still quite a long way and I don't know how much their language has drifted.
Damn, that's a lot of ash. I take back what I said about it being good for the soil: this is smother-quantity.
Pity this planet is otherwise out of the way. Calling in a couple of Orange Lanterns might be a good idea, otherwise.Right, that's… Clear enough for now. The mass is building up on top of my barrier, but we weren't getting any sunlight anyway, and other than opening a tube to space that's the best I can do.
I fly over to the ash-dumpers, and give them a friendly smile.
Oh, I'm sorry. Were you getting paid to sweep the streets?
...Say no more. Though it might be worth getting the Crelanic side of the story too."The eruption? No. When I want to bombard a place, I just bombard it directly. This sort of thing makes resettlement harder. Can I take it that you don't know who caused it?"
"Our alliance with Crelan collapsed recently. They seem like the sort-."
Well, someone's feeling pessimistic, aren't we? ...Understandable given the circumstances, but still...Razer's eyes narrow. "That sounds like pure conjecture."
One of the others slumps. "What do you want, outlanders? We're all going to die choking under the dust."
...Just curious. No ulterior motive... Really."I need some information, then I can deal with that. If you don't have any leads on who activated the volcano… Do you have any records..? Or folk stories, of people being filled with maniacal rage?"
"What? Why?"
Damn. Lost amongst the parables... And if the battle with the Butcher was long enough ago, no-one might have knowledge of it."I have reason to believe that an object that has that effect is on this planet, and it's my job to find it and remove it to a place where no one will be harmed by it."
"Ah…" They sort of look at each other… There area few negative gestures. "Not really? There are stories where people become angry, but the reason why they get angry is usually something the other characters do. I mean, that's the point, isn't it? Moral lessons?"
...Well, they both sound like dicks. But the Crelanic Dal definitely sounds like the one who took the wrongest step..."Darn. In that case, do you know why your relationship with Crelan ended?"
"Their Dal was married to our Dal's sister, but their son died fighting against Alanak and so he decided to divorce her and marry a younger woman. Our Dal didn't like that, or the way he disinherited their other children. So he broke our alliance, and we both tried to find other allies. Then this happened."
Dal: "I don't even know who you are...""That sounds… Petty."
"There might be more to it than that. Not like the Dal needs to tell me anything."
No time to try and be secretive now, kids."Did they have any off-world weapons?"
"Probably? We all do, don't-" He looks at Razer and Ilana. "-we?"
I'm guessing not in the palace...Razer indicates a negative. "Nothing this powerful."
"I think I should speak with your Dal. Where might I find him?"
...Well, shouldn't be too hard to find them either way."Out with the army, west of here. Of course, he might have gotten buried under the ash."
"How long have you and your neighbours been at loggerheads?"
Yeah, I guess these folks like to hold grudges... Nurse them like favoured children..."Well it's… So… About..? Eighty years?"
"Ilana? Razer? Is that normal?"
Though I bet there's a natural seasonal tempo involved. Can't make war all year long. Someone's got to plant and harvest the food.Ilana makes a gesture of uncertainty. "Our city is more isolated. We hear later about large wars, but we're not always involved."
Razer makes an affirmative gesture. "But it is not unusual."
Pfft. Good luck with that.That sounds like a lot, but is it really all that different to Medieval Europe?
"Let's… Hope that we can fix that."
...or if they were for some insane reason the ones who made the attack....or if they were for some insane reason that ones who made the attack.
Add 'are' in there, maybe?