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I can't tell which instance of 'Elsewhen' you're referring to, but 'thank you, corrected' on the rest.
The second one should have '2nd October 2004' over it.
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I can't tell which instance of 'Elsewhen' you're referring to, but 'thank you, corrected' on the rest.
Henry nods as another lawyer joins the huddle of interested parties.
"Phillip."
The lawyer nods back.
"Henry."
delete "they're"
a -> I
And this is where you offer to make him twenty years younger."I don't know. You know… Infinity Inc. never really hit it big. No World War, we weren't interested in fighting the Cold War… Never got the kind of press coverage teams get these days. Ever since we met up the first time I've had a hankering to get back into it." He pats his stomach, which is appreciably flatter than it was when we first met. "My dietician approves, but the fact is I'm not as young as I used to be. Moving off-world?"
I nod.
"That, I'll have to think about."
And once they've spend a day or two they're pretending not to,
and while I didn't get a chance to meet everyone I got the very
De-aging Henry should be something Paragon is able and motivated to do (honestly I think healing the comatose woman, if framed as 'facilitating me getting Henry available sooner', is also feasible).
He may have the motivation for it, but he may be hesitant due to Henry being a metahuman.
Paul has been hesitant in healing metahumans with his ring due to fearing he may somehow damage them, like when he didn't heal Captain Comet after rescuing him.
Maybe, but I doubt the solar systems mineral rights are open any more."Pay" must be an interesting thing in a case like this. Gold? Well it was easy enough for OL to do some asteroid mining back on day 1. Now he could probably do it without blinking. Land? Well find a world with a medieval tech level, pick out a nice tropical island no one is using, and you're fine. Tech? Well there's some potential there, though I'm not sure what he'd want.
May I ask for the source of this image? This looks interesting.
May I ask for the source of this image? This looks interesting.
"Why have you not healed him?"
"Because I don't have enough information on his 'healthy' state-."
"You are the same species-!"
"He's a metahuman! Their bodies can be completely-!"
Henry King Jr, aka Brain Wave II, for those wondering. The Paragon's go-to telepathic trainer. Lining up the training position for any White Martians he recruits, evidently.5th July 2012
10:23 GMT -6
Henry nods as another lawyer joins the huddle of interested parties.
Being called in on some manner of case, then? I suppose 'consulting telepath' is a growing market. And a fun thing to have on a business card.
A regular encounter, eh? I'm guessing he does a lot of consulting for the local police force of his home town."Henry."
"The Doctor's.. been filling me in on Missus Salinas' condition. I don't think I'll have any trouble getting a reading." He smiles like a stage salesman. "And since we've all been here before, I doubt that anyone has any questions… Phillip?"
And a veiled accusation of a conflict of interest? That's always a wrinkle."Yeah, I kinda do. My client's been on at me to try and get another telepath, due to your relationship with the-" He gestures to the other lawyer. "-opposition."
Henry shrugs.
Joy of being in a very exclusive group. IE The next evolution of humanity. Not that there hasn't been quite a few of them over the years in DC. I remember one Superman story from the early eighties with genetically engineered psychics whose makers had the psychics' little fingers turned into a second thumb, for some reason..."My relationship isn't really relevant. You're splitting the fee. And if you want to hire another telepath then you can go right ahead; I'm always happy to meet people I can trade information with."
"There aren't any other in the state."
Different field. It's like asking a podiatrist to look at a brain surgery case. Sure, both work with the body, but in different ways."There are a handful of telepaths who can do this sort of work in the country. And the only two I'd actually give a reference for are both Martians."
'Phillip' looks at me. "What about him?"
And I suspect it'd be a lot harder to read angry memories than avaricious ones, too.Henry shakes his head. "Orange Lantern is an usually precise empath. He could tell you what early memories made her the woman she is, but he can't tell you what she saw right before she received her injuries."
I nod. "Even if I could see something, it would be so heavily connected with related emotional responses that I couldn't be sure about whether what I saw was actually what happened."
So... Someone in a coma, involved in something violent. Easy enough to pick up the details of the case as we go...Phillip shrugs. "And her injuries?"
"Not the first time I've tried reading someone in a coma. If I can't get a clear reading then I can't get a clear reading. You wanna check, you can. I'm not stopping anyone, and nothing I'm doing will make it harder."
Still doesn't mean Henry'll accept your offer, OL. But we all know how persuasive you can be..."And, ah…" Phillips looks me over. "What exactly are you doing here?"
"I wanted to speak to Henry about a long term contract, and obviously he had to discharge his prior obligation first. And of course if I do see something useful, I'll report it."
If it's a private room, it might already be crowded. Have you seen how small some of them are?"Do you need to be in the room?"
"Not really. I'm happy to wait outside, if you.. don't want me in there."
Heh, like I said. No police officer to observe? Or is this not a criminal matter.. yet?He shrugs. "It's a small room. Two lawyers, a doctor, a nurse and Henry…"
I nod. "Understood."
Ah, the good old walk-and-talk scene. remember how often this used to happen?Henry looks around the group. "Alright, shall we?"
The group heads down the corridor, Henry bringing up the rear. I fall in next to him.
...Ah. Sounds like her neighbour's the prime suspect, then. I wonder which one was the noisemaker?"What's this about?"
He shrugs. "Well, I won't know what it's actually about until I get a look at Missus Salinas' memories. The legal action was pretty low key. Ah… A combination noise and boundary complaint. Right up until Missus Salinas was severely beaten and wound up here."
So... The police are trying not to make more work for themselves?"So why aren't you here on the behalf of the police?"
"What, you thought the law relating to telepathic evidence was more helpful than the law relating to magic evidence? Come on, Paul."
The lady's family suing the neighbour? And no doubt depending on the outcome of this, there may be criminal charges to apply too? I bet OL's ring could pick up all manner of forensic traces..."But even hearsay they can use to direct an investigation."
"And once they've spend a day or two they're pretending not to, they probably will. But at the moment I've been called in in relation to the adjacent civil suit. You do a lot of civil work?"
That depends. How much can you make him want to do it?"Not since the eyes and cake thing. Though I did get called in as a witness after someone sued over an injury a healed and the judge wanted me to confirm the extent of the injury."
"Um." He leans in a little. "I don't suppose you can do something like that here, can you?"
Because the medical industry is a bad-tempered 800-pound gorilla with a fear of new things? eek: No RL comments, please!) Especially in the DC Universe, with gods, magic and advanced technology all capable of advanced or even perfect healing..."For a woman I've never met? The best I can do is give them the number for Doctor Sivana's purple healing ray trial."
"That thing? I remember Lyta using one a couple of times. Does it even work on traumatic brain injuries?"
"Why did you think it was called a 'trial'?"
Might be easier to allow him to do a quick telepathic read of the events in OL's head. I'm sure he can summarize effectively, anywayHe smiles ruefully.
"Fair point. So tell me more about this Mars thing."
Though it's worth noting, as has been argued here often, that the colour is reinforced mentally as much as physically... And that's a depressingly good read of the situation, I suspect..."Martians have a three tier caste system based on skin colour. Last year I provided fairly overwhelming evidence that the colour was the result of Guardian biological engineering rather than some sort of celestial diktat, but unfortunately racism isn't about rationality. At least one city is devoted to a frankly off-putting degree to the status quo, and while I didn't get a chance to meet everyone I got the very clear impression from the government that the top and middle castes are happy with the way things are."
Just a bit, yes. How has M'gann's training been going, anyway? Has she learned everything he can teach her yet?"And how exactly am I going to help with that?"
"You're going to train the uneducated bottom caste members I help leave. You're already familiar with Martian thought processes-"
That's probably a good thing, really. No risk of accidental mental illusion reinforcements, either... Just a matter of drilling in good telepathic ethics...We enter the corridor with Missus Salinas' room.
"-due to training M'gann, though these recruits won't be as powerful."
I hope they have a way to speed it up. I don't think Henry has enough time to manage all of them individually..."I've never taught a whole class before. How many people are we talking about?"
"I'm hoping to get a few moderate top caste Martians as well, and they can do some of the training. But we're talking hundreds."
Ah, good point. Teach a few, they can teach more, and those can teach more still. The hard part is making sure the lessons don't get distorted in the mental game of Chinese Whispers."Hundreds?"
"Hundreds who've been using telepathy for their entire lives and are used to working in a low level telepathic communion at all times. Do a demonstration and they'll all see it from the perspective of both participants."
Who might well set a new record for individual staff payments."How much am I getting paid for this?"
"How much do you want to get paid for this? I was going to index link it to a military academy instructor, with a percentage to take into account the rarity of your skill set. Final negotiations would be up to Supreme Commander Dox."
That's... Quite the trip for a kind-of temporary job. On the other hand, he'd get to meet all manner of space babes, green and otherwise ..."And I'd be living..?"
"The L.E.G.I.O.N. ships have teleporters, so while the Martians are based here you can live wherever you're living now. Once we head back to Maltus… It would be most convenient if you could move there."
As has been mentioned, he could quite easily be in his thirties again. I'm sure OL could offer that as a bonus, he has plenty of data on Henry's biology."Moving to an alien world." He smiles. "If I was in my thirties I'd jump at the chance."
"And now?"
I suppose you could count it as a mid-life crisis of sorts? A Seachange? Especially if you do get rejuvenated..."I don't know. You know… Infinity Inc. never really hit it big. No World War, we weren't interested in fighting the Cold War… Never got the kind of press coverage teams get these days. Ever since we met up the first time I've had a hankering to get back into it." He pats his stomach, which is appreciably flatter than it was when we first met. "My dietician approves, but the fact is I'm not as young as I used to be. Moving off-world?"
...Or maybe set Earth up as a training world for NEMO? Admittedly, it's a bit too far for casual trips, but you never know.
Thank you, corrected.
Dakyn is the name of the admiral they claimed to be fighting for.Maybe change it to 'Damyn', in the rest of the text that's how it's spelled, or maybe the 'Damyn' part is wrong.
Those work as they are.
Joy of being in a very exclusive group. IE The next evolution of humanity. Not that there hasn't been quite a few of them over the years in DC. I remember one Superman story from the early eighties with genetically engineered psychics whose makers had the psychics' little fingers turned into a second thumb, for some reason...
That's... Quite the trip for a kind-of temporary job. On the other hand, he'd get to meet all manner of space babes, green and otherwise ...
I see OL's wasting no time setting this thing up. Barely spread the word on Mars, and now lining up the trainer. Certainly, Mister King's his best non-villainous option. There's quite the dearth of heroic telepaths in DC, for some reason. Quite the contrast to Marvel, eh?
Thank you, corrected
Natural speech.maybe 'with hearsay they can use it to'
maybe remove one 'in'
maybe 'about it'
Also how did you get the image onto tyour comment, i looked at its link but it says screenshot, and i have only managed to figure out how to insert edit image by adding a link, not an actual file,Overly Sarcastic Productions a YouTube channel specifically their series on Journey to the West.
I uploaded my screenshot to a free image hosting site and used the url for the uploaded image.Also how did you get the image onto tyour comment, i looked at its link but it says screenshot, and i have only managed to figure out how to insert edit image by adding a link, not an actual file,
every image i had to find to post a photo needed a URL, i have not been able to figure out putting screen shots, and it looks like you didn't us a URL for this so how did you do it?
link to the site plsI uploaded my screenshot to a free image hosting site and used the url for the uploaded image.
imgbb.com
I'm not downplaying it at all. I don't know the full extent of what he did to Diana, so until told otherwise, I'm just going to assume that he changed her personality to put his needs/desires first, but is still using the JL to fulfill their original mandate of protecting the Earth (because that's what this Ol' Tangy wants). I'm under no delusion that Tangy is bad. I was just comparing a single act (rewriting Diana's personality vs beheading an evil Chaos Lord child on live television).
If Tangy's victim was different, say, Poison Ivy or Queen Bee, would your opinion change?
I think there was this one version of Superman that was supposed to be the next stage in human evolution, bu tit wasn't Red Son.
Oh goodness. I knew that had happened, but 70 pages?Ok so small thing I noticed, at least until page 70 all d.pr links are broken.
I think there was this one version of Superman that was supposed to be the next stage in human evolution, bu it wasn't Red Son.
No because as Grayven pointed out there is a will in those eyes they aren't just equipment. If Tangseid is using them without being influenced then he has to have been awakened first to avoid being influenced. Also the guy that implanted the eye in his torso didn't become a demigod and went back to normal human after the eye was removed.
In short I believe the order of factors does have an effect on the results of the operation.
As already covered, yes Red Son Superman is in fact a human. But he's not the only human Superman, actually.
Perhaps you were thinking of the Superman Monster, where Lex Luthor discovered the kryptonian birthing matrix and used it to reanimate a body made from surgerically reattached human body parts with the powers of Superman?
Or perhaps you are thinking of Clark Kent from Secret Identity, where a boy from Kansas named Clark Kent had the powers of Superman?
Tim Kelly's son had a soul before getting his father's eye.
It took decades for Alan to become a will elemental from a leaking ring and that process never finished, but it took the soulless Sybarite decades less time to grow a demonic soul ex nihilo from eating demons.
Further, it wouldn't make sense for Tangseid to be a New God because he got himself a set of magic warding tattoos after the Crisis of Infinite Pauls.
Tattoos he would not be allowed to keep as a New God because one of the multiple powers Zoat added to New Gods in this story is a healing factor that doesn't allow the body to be changed, even improvements.
Magical warding tattoos that would be redundant because one of the other powers Zoat added to New Gods in this story is magic resistance.
Does it bother you that a TV show leaves off mid-storyline before going on season hiatus over the summer? Does it bother you that movies will set up an arc to be resolved in another movie that won't release for another year or two? Have you ever seen Rashomon? (I don't expect the answer to the last one to be yes, but it's an interesting film.)I get frustrated that Zoat doesn't finish an arc before changing perspectives.
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