With language like that, this can only be John Constantine, can't it?
I suspect he's going to be playing a very important part in things to come, if only by acting in his capacities of a Lord of both Order and Chaos...To be fair, given his shamanistic ways, that may well be like a minor passive detection spell trying to get his attention. Synchronicity Wave travelling and all that.
So, they're treating him like some manner of oracle? Amusing. But honestly logical.
...Bizarrely, I'm picturing him wandering around the beach in a loud pair of board-shorts with his coat on. It seems that kind of mood.And to be fair, do you really trust anyone else to do the job right?
...Especially since said guards could probably fold you in half. One-handed.
Which makes sense. Anti-life may be Orderly, but it's a submissive kind of order. 'Bow down and let your Master think for you', that kind of thing. And it's an Order foreign to Earth. Order may be universal, but it must take on some local qualities, surely...
Because this Anti-Life is like a big, nasty weight being dropped into a pond. It's making waves, forcing other systems out of its way as it takes over.
...It's already hammering at the island's wards, isn't it?Which explains so much about other magical realms, somehow. Places cut out of reality, replaced by more mundane versions...
Like a magical faraday cage, with a built-in network access point and firewall. Blocking the outside signal, except from approved forms of energy.
...And the Dolmen Gates probably just shut off for the duration. Could make getting off the island tricky.
And Dark Bruno is probably seeing a giant middle finger raised in defiance above Themyscira.
Let's hope any wizards powerful enough to break that ward are too strong to get affected by Anti-Life, then.
Naturally, because the Alliance has only been operating there so far. And now it's the epicentre of an Anti-Life broadcast... Things must be going mad down there.
Well, if they haven't got the sheer big-magic mojo of John, then they're having to rely on quantity of warding.
Hard to make the less stable places any worse, I suppose. Most of the big cities are probably burning, I bet.
Still trying to call home, huh? I'm guessing he's getting a busy signal. Wonder if they're already drawing up plans for the next Earth...
This might be the worst day he's had in a long, long time. I think he can be excused for being uncertain.
Careful there, Z. Wrath is a sin, after all...
oh, that's a nice way to get through his fears, OL. In this situation, Anti-Life is only as powerful as you allow it to be...
See? Take that helping hand, Z. There's no shame in being able to go it alone.
And Hope is a powerful counter to Anti-Life, if you can hold firmly enough to it.
Hopefully the first Family isn't affected. At least they won't have had to deal with a certain crocodile-man...
I hope?
That is a very good point. Plants have been used to collect and store anti life, but every active use has involved higher reasoning or philosophy.
off -> on
Just a friendly reminder that this isn't the rants thread.
Ah, yes. John isn't on Themyscira. He's on Reformation Island, which is a smaller island off the coast of Themyscira. That's why he notes that it won't protect the whole of Themyscira.
Thanks for clarifying that.
He's perfectly aware that it's a bad sign. He just doesn't have a dehatting machine on hand to fix it.
This just sparked a thought.
Usually "northwest"
Semicolon instead of comma.
Thank you, corrected.
"Highfather"
They're.
Their -> There
Thank you, corrected.
So, to some degree, Kahndaq is forming into the heart of a new empire in north-eastern Africa and the Levant. Bet there's a few ruffled feathers in neighbouring regions. Still, with a trio of divinely-empowered leaders, the strongest of whom can match Superman, there's not a lot they can do besides rattle their sabers.
And I'm suddenly reminded of the Inhumanoids. Pity they put their licensed comics out from Marvel...
So, the people are mostly safe, as long as Adom isn't interrupted. Bet once the Dark Side realise that, they'll focus on him. Hence the kaiju movie.
Careful work. If it had fallen the wrong way, it could have brought the buildings down anyway.
Oh? Aren't you an expert in Freedom? Imagine the challenge in freeing them.
Whatever it takes to get him to do something, I suppose.
Still, at least he's going to do it. After all, innocents lives are at risk. And he's got the ability to protect them...
Heh. defending one of the peoples of the Book, even if it isn't quite the same faith. Good on you.
An attempt to ward off the Anti-Life? I doubt it'll be that easy.
So he can't go all out, having to protect himself from the infection, and the wide-scale disruptions to the Spectrum...
...He'd have already won. And the giant monsters wouldn't be here.
In other words, OL's soul doesn't have the same coding back-doors normal human souls do. Where Doctor Balewa's is protected by a firewall of White Light, OL's doing it by having a different operating system entirely.
Still, it's as good a reason as any. One of those things that, if you question it, it might stop working.
And now I'm having visions of Epic Tyranid Bio-Titans versus Imperial Guardsmen in Close Assaults. And it is awesome.
Humanity doing work.'Falil' being Adom's current chief of staff, eh? The man most likely to know what's going on and where help is needed in the region.
Neatly summarised. At least he's in the know on the important stuff, hopefully.
Which means it's the insect-kaiju's primary target, if they realise. These things might not be smart enough to understand strategy, after all...
That's technically what Lightning is, after all. Short-lived hyper-ionised air. That's what makes the kaboom: the plasma exploding outwards.
Nature is scary. Shit, did Sobek actually happen? Does he need healing pronto? He's also had previous exposure to Anti-Life, which will have left scars on his psyche this round would flow through like canals...With that much determination, he'd be terrifying with a ring of Will...
So, temporarily depowered. I can't remember if he's Dannered, but it leaves him at risk anyway...
OL, Adom is not going to be able to help you kick Dark Bruno's ass. Not while his country, his people are in danger.
Not sure it'll work that well. Billy won't have nearly the same connection to America that Adom has to Kahndaq, so his protection is likely to be weaker, if he can even manage it. Never mind that the effect is strongest there.
