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Did Paragon just do Godspeech with the Ophidian?
Oh that's not good.
Oh that's not good.
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Did Paragon just do Godspeech with the Ophidian?
Oh that's not good.
I love how LePaul is so obviously annoyed at the boob armor being more effective then his meticulously crafted power armor.Ow! Right in the-! Boobs again! Armour took it, and… Stayed whole, but it's visibly damaged and I'm seeing the downside of the extra erogenous zones. Stings.
This is 100% LePaul's fault.
I suppose being able to keep your brain running on Orange Light makes losing a fairly important chunk of your body seem insignificant... Still, very lucky she did shoot center of mass instead of targetting the presumably obvious sensor cluster...1st January 2013
22:13 GMT
And there go my boobs. Chest… Uaargh. Yeah, that shot a nice hole through my construct, force fields, armour and flesh. Heart-. Yeah, lost my heart, as well as a lot of lung and my oesophagus. Fortunately, it looks like whatever the gun fires it a purely straight line thing, rather than crawling though my body to hit every vital organ. So my brain's still fine. Or maybe she doesn't realise that I have one? This armour doesn't have a distinct head unit after all.
Always good to keep eyes on the threat, after all. Be thankful she didn't give you a follow-up double-tap.I'm falling. Good, playing possum in a situation like this is a reasonable ploy, because if my defences don't work the only thing I've got to fall back on is phasing and that's a lot easier to bypass than the rest.
Ring, image of Astarte?
It's more that Hippolyta hasn't tapped into her divine side. Not much need too with Themyscira normally so peaceful.The armour is clearly a New God riff on what the rest of her people are wearing, with the helmet being replaced with a diadem. New God technology, so it'll probably work fine on the areas its not covering. The forearm weapons are blasters rather than being plasma-based, which explains why she was able to bypass…
Ugh, Hippolyta's been sandbagging, hasn't she? Is Ares Astarte's father, too? Might explain-.
Sadly, her proximity to the ritual chamber kind of rules out the biggest guns. Too much collateral damage.Right. Regenerate my chest… Yes, just repair, I'll redesign later. Have to evade attacks, rather than tough them out. Restore armour and start dodging at once just in case.
How to actually attack her?
...Wow, he's a rude one, that Construct Lantern. Do as you're told, blobbo.Fungoid, go after her.
"One animal is much like another, as far as I'm concerned."
Ah, indulging in some quick looting for new gear, OL-chan? It's a fine tradition. After all, back in the Trojan War, they fought over things like the armour of fallen heroes...Where even-? The tower. And I'm going to assume from the fact that she is having to fight the defenders that she can't just blast her way through the New God armour that the Ascendants are wearing.
I scan the lower levels of the tower, and… Yes, a couple of dead Ascendants.
...Good thing crumblers are self-cleaning, or that would result in a lot of chunky salsa.Well, there's no point in wearing armour that I know doesn't work. Construct armour should be able to handle the other weapons. I fly downwards, forming a crumbler ram to crumble a circle out of the wall and slam into the Citizenry's rearguard.
Literally.
Well, reinforced by your desire to not get shot again, of course it will.It turns out that in addition to properly phased plasma, their armour also doesn't stop crumbler fields.
My construct armour takes fire from the three survivors, and I feel reassured that it takes the hits without much difficulty.
Still, good show for her attempt to resist.I lash out with filament cluster constructs, and two respond by diving to evade and the third slashes at the cluster coming at her with a glowing short sword. The short sword works best, cutting through about 80% of the oncoming filaments. It doesn't make much difference as I only need one to tag her for a shock crown, but it does to show that evading isn't always the best option as the other two are hit by all of the filaments I send at them.
No interruptions to your looting. Yoink!Right. Take their weapons, send them to subspace. Nerve impulse suppression collar, slap that around their unwisely exposed necks. The version with the anti-sabotage decapitation charge. Now… Yes, they've shut down the boom tube and the next closest squad are several floors up.
I step
Construct armour can always cover the gaps for you. And respect for showing respect to the dead.out of my armour and grab the two Ascendant corpses. The armour… It's not going to give me complete coverage, but it'll be better than nothing. Muttering a prayer to Hades, I strip the dead of their armour and strap it onto my own body. And… Each of them get an obol in the mouth, which probably won't matter, but is appropriate and respectful, especially if I'm stealing their soul-bound equipment.
And now…
...And now I'm picturing that moment from the end of 'The Matrix'. You know the one. Where the shape of reality itself begins to warp...I feel the shape of my desires, the fabric of reality flexing in response to the orange light within me. I feel the networks of desire I'm not even touching respond to my actions, reshaping themselves without requiring my direction. I feel myself partially material and partially in the Honden of Avarice, existing as an aetheric creature.
That… Seems to be working. Faintly-glowing tron lines, and… It's easy enough to move in. Makes my breasts more apparent than the fully enclosed power armour, but…
I'm sure it looks a lot spiffier than your usual light combat armour. And possibly more hellenic.Just ignore it.
For a moment I consider getting back inside my power armour and using this as an undersuit, but I just don't think it adds anything.
Because of course New God-style technology gives a bonus to exotic sensory perception.I fly-
Ooh, that's interesting. Flying by ring power feels easier and more responsive. It's like I'm… More aware of the universe around me without specifically telling my rings to feed me that information.
Probably confident they don't need to, assuming that they can overpower the spirits of those within.-up the tower, construct armour forming around me. The ship is moving away from the tower, training its guns on the tower but not actually firing. Do the crew know about the ritual? How much of the tower-?
The attackers aren't destroying the New God systems in the tower's structure. Are they-?
It's going to have to be blade and fist, then.There are many more Ascendants on the planet than are in New Othrys. The logical thing to do would have been to boom tube directly into the ritual space, unless they couldn't because it's shielded. With the power boost from the Seeds, Sparta or Astarte could overwhelm the system… Broadcast her power over the whole planet. Or just override anything that might stop them boom tubing out. At the same time, I can't just tell them to wreck the tower because Athyns wants to do the same but for our side.
To be fair, she probably doesn't know you from the heavily-armoured being she killed earlier. Astarte is likely only seeing a flying Ascendant with an irrelevantly odd aura.Astarte is two floors down, battering the last set of defenders between her and her goal, their New God shields barely able to block the hail of plasma coming up at-.
For a second, Astarte locks eyes with me through the wall evade!
Hey, at least it's not like Wonder Woman or Power Girl. You've got plenty of support, and presumably a lot less mass there...Die.
Ow! Right in the-! Boobs again! Armour took it, and… Stayed whole, but it's visibly damaged and I'm seeing the downside of the extra erogenous zones. Stings.
Destructive pulse.
Yes, put that indignation at her wastefulness to use.My armour shimmers as the orange bolt fires back along the path taken by Astarte's blaster shot, the woman herself evading it easily with a sidestep she barely seems to think about. Three thousand years worth of experience and this is all she does with it.
Destructive pulses.
Amazing how much easier it is when you're using the right gear, isn't it?I fire a barrage, orange bolts punching through the walls and slamming into the Citizens, bursting apart their armour and flesh.
Die.
Astartes takes another shot at me, so I try to intercept it with my own. It's… Partially successful, repeated destructive pulse hits eating away at her blaster bolt until what hits my armour is barely a fart. Grinning, I focus fire on Astarte and force her away from the staircase, fire from the defenders causing a crossfire. And since they're Ascendants, she can't just tank it on her armour.
I would have expected her to have been left on the Citizenry's ship, in chains...Die And Be Damned!
She makes her choice and backs up towards the far wall, letting the defenders hit her in exchange for getting more shots off at me. She's moving her arm around to change the angle, but I'm in the air and moving slightly to intercept a gun that fires more slowly than I do is no real hardship. She's-.
Wait, where's Spa-?
...But no. Here she is, going all Daffy Duck over the Seeds...
Well, crap. Two war goddess-wannabes fighting side-by-side...Sparta throws the bodies of fallen Citizens at the distracted guards and then throws herself at them. The bodies only block a couple of shots but Sparta doesn't even notice the burns on her skin as she throws herself at them in a frenzy. Astarte switches targets, managing to hit a guard who was trying to fight Sparta off in the head and creating an opening for her. Sparta charges past them, a New God mace appearing in her hand as she assaults the fortified door protecting the ritual space. Astarte switches target again, shooting the wall behind her with a wide beam shot before throwing herself out. I fly into the building, trying to-.
...and then there's this crazy bastich again... It never rains when it could pour, does it?BOOM!
Through the hole in the building I watch Aramis spit out an ice cube.
"Hey there sugar plum. Miss me?"
Fortunately, it looks like whatever the gun fires is a purely straight line thing...Fortunately, it looks like whatever the gun fires it a purely straight line thing...
Realistically?
AlternatelyWait, if it's Sparta being consumed by avarice? That's got to be very bad for Sparta fighting the avatar of the Orange Light. Feels like that would make her extremely susceptible to assimilation (much like Black thoughts would be very bad in the face of the Anti-Life)
what does the armor look like. can i get a picture?
what do you mean? they are a corporeal race.They would be 100% immune to assimilation due to being pretty much pure ego.
It's an important part of her religion.
Thank you, corrected.Fortunately, it looks like whatever the gun fires is a purely straight line thing...
I can't immediately call to mind power armour that looks like it does. Basically, the head is enclosed with the torso.
Depends. How good at drawing are you?
I was so excited for Paul to be able to speak Godspeech! Hmm… I wonder if broadcasting his name would knock out all ascended in the system (plus him, but that would be a decent trade in this context). Ah, wait. We very much don't want to knock out the ones doing the ritual.
Ask, and you shall receive.
They are in Episode 94: Equestrian Girls and Episode 122: Vantavendi.Sorry if this sounds odd but does anyone have the entire list of Chapters of Paul in the He-Man universe?
And… Each of them get an obol in the mouth, which probably won't matter, but is appropriate and respectful, especially if I'm stealing their soul-bound equipment
I would have expected her to have been left on the Citizenry's ship, in chains
and then there's this crazy bastich again... It never rains when it could pour, does it?
Took me a sec to remember that OL is currently female.
Thank you, corrected.
When I create an overspoiler button, it probably will be.Mr Zoat, since the latest Episode starts in January, shouldn't the previous Episodes be combined into one folder and labelled July to December while the latest Episode be labelled under 2013?
terribad at drawing. how does she swivel her neck about? what about feelings of claustrophobia? i guess there are cameras to let him see in 360 degrees?I can't immediately call to mind power armour that looks like it does. Basically, the head is enclosed with the torso.
Depends. How good at drawing are you?
Nobody ever said LePaul was good at designing Power Armor.terribad at drawing. how does she swivel her neck about? what about feelings of claustrophobia? i guess there are cameras to let him see in 360 degrees?
Fairly easily, but there's not much point. The armour's computer can display the exterior right in front of her, if for some reason her ring can't do that with a direct feed to her brain.terribad at drawing. how does she swivel her neck about? i guess there are cameras to let him see in 360 degrees?
No, more like this:Ask, and you shall receive.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3345908/krang-arrive-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-sequel/
Truly the most fetching of 'amazons in armor' eyecandy.
Funnily enough, when you use the 'insert edit' link button to add an image, there are these 8 blue squares at the corners and midpoint you are supposed to be able to use to make the image a manageable size.See? You're not the only one who can put unnecessarily huge images in my thread.