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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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Wonder Woman is both and neither.
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So something not entirely natural. Unless it's some ancient sea creature with plate-like dentition. And to be fair, around a place like this, a gateway into a realm of the dead, there's bound to be ghosts. Which might be even worse than a real creature.
...A serpent head with no neck? There's a few mythological candidates, though fortunately the Medusa Head is not one of them.
Wrong universe.Does the neck look burnt? No, wait... They burned the stump, not the severed head.
Probably one of the most useful attacks they have, given the association between Sunlight and purification of undeath.
Unless it's not a part of Helios' Blessing, but would he leave out something cool like that?Oh, that's just cheating. You can't touch it, but its teeth can touch you?
Don't do it, girl! You have even less Defence than he does.
Good, sharing useful intel even while injured. Good to see he's still got a level head on his shoulders.
So this is something that came along after that incident. Though it happened something like seventy years ago, so that's plenty of time for someone to go fiddling about.
So more likely, it's an echo of something truly powerful. So much so that even the barest shade is a threat to a divinely-blessed Hero.
Doesn't even feel it, or doesn't like it? It'd be hard to tell, I think, without human emotional responses.
Dangit, damn double-team bosses. Always one hitting you in the back while you fight the other.
And this one probably scales to the party you bring too.Well, that limits the number of culprits. Either something underowrldly-related, or Dark Druid has been nosing about...
Ugh, anti-Construct protection. This just gets worse and worse. On the upside, he's getting a nice clear signal from M'gann.
Well, shit. The Second Labour, huh? Thankfully, there's no sign of the main body, and these are disembodied. So they're not going to spawn more if you somehow defeat one.
Yeah, I think it just registered just what OL meant by his question. And she probably has the best understanding of just how screwed they might be.
Wait, Donna has a Lasso too? When'd she get that? It's been a while since she appeared on-screen, after all... And more importantly, what does it do?
Not something like this, old man. Ghost hydra heads might just be a little more than even you can handle.
A metaphorical devouring? Eating their essence to empower themselves?
Well, at least you won't have to worry about an army of Shades... Just the giant untouchable dragon heads
Let's hope they're not multiplying exponentially. The next pass could have sixteen...
The question is, are they moving with coordination, or just at random individual vectors?
Oh, joy. And of course their attacks are like razor blades, so that their prey bleeds all the more.
At least you don't count as hit unless the teeth actually touch you. The joy of small hitboxes.
Risky, Thana. Going deeper means limiting your manoeuvrability in the depths.
If someone could have done that when it was living, they wouldn't have needed to kill it. I doubt it's going to be any more tractable now.
Too bad you couldn't have installed an off-switch or something. At best, you're stuck relying on protective charms against it.
If you could, I'd be even more worried. Given that said thoughts probably consist of 'hungry!', 'food!' and feed!'.
Oh, no, they are multiplying. Or at least drawing the attention of more.
Honestly, all of them must smell like delicacies to the ghosts, with all of their unique mystical signatures. Two spectrum-empowered humans, a human-krypotinian-genomorph hybrid, a near-full-blooded kryptonian and a Martian? Thana probably seems mundane by comparison.
Dump so much blood that they eat themselves into food comas? Cocky plan.
Well, looks like someone really doesn't want people coming near that gateway, if they left something like this as a guard dog. The question is, if they back off, will the hydra heads calm down, or will they pursue until the intruders are dead? It makes me wonder if there's a history of mysterious disappearances around here, and if so, when they began...
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She got it after Paul was able to confirm her origin. It's called the Lasso of Persuasion. It can compel those who are captured by it to answer questions of its wielder truthfully so long as the user's willpower is stronger.
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Yet another random encounter that is inexplicably immune to all of the vast range of abilities that OL and his many allies can use.
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So, some coffee comments.
1. the stuff in the pods is usually not the same as what's in instant coffee. The pods are ground coffee beans, and brew when you prepare the cup, and instant coffee is usually more already brewed coffee that has been dried and is ready to be rehydrated.
2. how to heat the water: When US-ians talk about a 'kettle' we usually mean something like this
. Or we use a pan to boil some water. Or some people use a microwave. Or folks who use a lot of hot water and have the kitchen space use an electric kettle.
Edit: If you want to know how folks make tea/coffee without an electric kettle, just ask "hey, how did the British make tea before electricity? Or how did South Americans make hot chocolate before electricity?" You get a container that can go on the fire, and you boil some water.
1. the stuff in the pods is usually not the same as what's in instant coffee. The pods are ground coffee beans, and brew when you prepare the cup, and instant coffee is usually more already brewed coffee that has been dried and is ready to be rehydrated.
2. how to heat the water: When US-ians talk about a 'kettle' we usually mean something like this
Edit: If you want to know how folks make tea/coffee without an electric kettle, just ask "hey, how did the British make tea before electricity? Or how did South Americans make hot chocolate before electricity?" You get a container that can go on the fire, and you boil some water.
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Thank you, corrected.
It was used in the amnesia episode, and a couple of times since. It indicates than an image is being sent, instead of words.
The Lasso of Persuasion. I think she's used it a grand total of once in this story. It lets her mind control anyone or anything she lassos, if she can win a willpower contest.
It's a ghost with no brain against a team of physical fighters and one telepath. It got a little hurt by Kon, but he got hurt more. It got a little hurt by the SI, but he's rightly wary about absorbing that much death magic.
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He'd quite like to rescue his mother and he's capable enough to help.
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Wonder Woman's heritage depends on the iteration.
In this story, as per YJ and New Earth continuity, Wonder Woman was made of clay. In this fic, and New Earth continuity which is where I assume Zoat got it from, that makes her of Gaea, because Gaea is all of the Earth in New Earth continuity. In NE continuity all the original Amazons were crafted from clay, actually. They could merge back with Gaea to heal and then pop up again when healthy.
Post Flashpoint the whole made from clay thing was a lie and she's one of Zeus's many byblows. Don't like that myself. Zeus probably has enough kids to have their own pride parades and conventions. Also the case in the DCEU.
In the DCAU she was made from clay but apparently Hades and Queen 'Lyta made her together presumably in a scene reminiscent of Ghost.
There's another continuity in which Wonder Woman is the child of Hercules.
And one I thought was nifty in which Diana was made from clay but her mother drugged the wine of the Olympians and then milked their blood to add it to the clay, so that Diana is arguably the daughter of all the Olympian gods.
In this story, as per YJ and New Earth continuity, Wonder Woman was made of clay. In this fic, and New Earth continuity which is where I assume Zoat got it from, that makes her of Gaea, because Gaea is all of the Earth in New Earth continuity. In NE continuity all the original Amazons were crafted from clay, actually. They could merge back with Gaea to heal and then pop up again when healthy.
Post Flashpoint the whole made from clay thing was a lie and she's one of Zeus's many byblows. Don't like that myself. Zeus probably has enough kids to have their own pride parades and conventions. Also the case in the DCEU.
In the DCAU she was made from clay but apparently Hades and Queen 'Lyta made her together presumably in a scene reminiscent of Ghost.
There's another continuity in which Wonder Woman is the child of Hercules.
And one I thought was nifty in which Diana was made from clay but her mother drugged the wine of the Olympians and then milked their blood to add it to the clay, so that Diana is arguably the daughter of all the Olympian gods.
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Heh. The daughter of many fathers.
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Ahhhhh, damn. Can't believe I actually caught up with this fic for the first time. This Anti-Life arc and the fallout alone have taken at LEAST a year or two, right?
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But his mother was explicitly not on Themiscyra when it disappeared, and has been noted to be around since the anti-life started, so he's only rescuing at best his grandmother.
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He suspects that the gods know where she is.
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? suspect the gods know where who is? Diana is not missing barring a retcon
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I think I've forgotten something. When was she last mentioned?
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After the anti life appeared, it was mentioned themyscira vanished, and that Diana thought that it wasn't destroyed, just moved somewhere.
She also notably wasn't mentioned when they reached Themyscyira when trying to get to Melinoe
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You're right... in our world. But the fic doesn't take place in our world. It takes place in a comic book world. And in a comic book world, a lot of pop-psych stuff is significantly more likely to ring true.
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Apparently it isn't, but my own answer is messed up because I got confused about what you were asking. The usual coffee machines that don't use the pods are the ones I'm used to, I've only seen the kegel pod machines a few times, and probably hadn't known what was up with them until reading Huttj509's post, above.
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30th March 2013
01:03 GMT +2
My 'reserve' of life energy is quite a bit more than a normal person's these days. John and Clarice did an excellent job with my tattoos, and in much the same way that a magician will gradually improve their reserve capacity by using magic my tattoos effectively do the same. The rate is slower, but it's working literally every moment that I'm in a magic-rich environment.
So even as the blood enriched with my magical essence starts leaking out of my leg, I'm not especially worried. But I did speak too soon a moment ago. While a death magic aura is the most likely, it could just be a curse on the wound itself.
Drain.
No, still can't fix it, and… I'd much rather that Thana sent this death magic back to Erebos rather than try ingesting it myself.
Move. I need to leave a trail. Kon, Mitchell and M'gann are heading down, and though I'm not entirely sure why I suppose that any 'away from me' direction is as good as any other.
Or not. A head come up from below, forcing them to split apart. It's lined up on me too, so I dodge north. It tries changing its angle, but it doesn't seem-. A ghost should be able to turn on a sixpence as they're not really part of the physical world. Most don't because they're an echo of a person and so tend to do person-like things, but these are hydra-heads. That head is angling like a swimming animal changing the direction it's swimming in, which is why I'm able to avoid it relatively easily.
Did it-? Yes, it passed through the blood trail. Let's see-.
Two more, that's a start. Ring, use visual identification to try tracking individual heads. See how many there are in total.
Compliance.
And… I don't want to breach the surface because they might not follow, or they might follow and ravage eastern Greece, and neither of those is acceptable. Left-down, get a good taste of blood, yes-. Ring, did it accelerate, or was that just me?
Minor speed increase observed.
Right, deploy-. Ugh, don't have any-
Dodge up.
-aquatic drones in reserve. Fabricate, and-. Wait, what does a purple healing ray do to ghosts? No, drone, send it away and have it transmit the camera view to my ring. How far do the heads have to get before they fade?
Dodge down-left, giving it a whiff of blood.
Error.
For one terrifying moment I think my rings are about to conk out, but then I realise that it's talking about the drone. Why-? Because it can't see the ghosts, right. No significant magical presence, nothing to react to. Makes sense. I'd need-
Dodge down and west, coming a little quicker now.
-some sort of integrated scrying spell. Probably wouldn't be all that hard for a wizard with any familiarity with technology to do. Check my environment-. Five.
Dodge down down left down and stop as it tries to predict my movement and turns where it thinks I'm going to go, down right… Clear for a-. West as one tries to use the others as cover while it comes in from above.
And they all got a taste of my blood.
Okay, this lake isn't that big. I can't risk hugging the edge of the lake in case it turns out that they can swim through rock and earth. Which means that I'm pretty much stuck-.
Oh, here they come.
Stuck staying in the middle of the body of water so that I can see them coming and dodge properly.
**Donna, I just asked my ring about the hydra. You got any idea how accurate the myth is?**
**I think the crab was a metaphor and Herakles probably used Iolaus as bait, but it's probably accurate apart from that.**
**Including the thing about only one of the heads being immortal?**
**Maybe? I never fought a hydra. Why does it matter?**
**Paul once told me how important ritual funerals are. I was wondering if we were supposed to bury it.**
The drone idea is no good, but I might as well give the healing ray a try. It's not affected by water, so it-
Dodge up, then hard left and-. They're using each other as cover more. Ring?
Six individual heads identified.
Left… Ah, south, more. Move away from the huddle a little.
-should just be a matter of pointing and shooting.
I pull one off my harness-. Looks like they're all coming in from the west this time, trying to deprive me of the space to move between them. Up, up-. No, they're too fast. Okay, calculate the positions of the teeth and towards them, move between the eyes and the sides and-.
B-hur.
And stay behind them, see if that does anything. Follow follow-. They're accelerating away from me and I.. didn't think I was this far from the side of the… Lake.
**The lake does not appear to conform to normal spatial dimensions.**
Aim the purple ray emitter and fire.
The head hit stops accelerating immediately and begins thrashing in the water. Okay, it's doing something-.
**Paul?** Kon sounds worried. **A head coming at us just broke off its attack and started swimming upward.**
**You're clear?**
**Yeah, and I'm trying to find hydra bones, but-.**
**So you can do that without a distraction. I'll handle the-**
The wall of swimming heads in front of me blur and-. Pull back! They dissolved themselves and reformed! Looks like that angered the-. Animating spirit enough to forget how it swam in life. Leftdownfuuuuuck…
**-heads.**
Backbackrightdown… Aaaah… Gap there. Ah. Prepare to step out, send a filament… Filaments everyway just in case I need to try trans-.
Uh.
Transitioning. Okay, send again… Their behaviour appears to have reverted, but there are a lot more than before.
Nineteen individual heads identified.
**Paul, the heads are back!** M'gann sounds decidedly worried. **We need-.**
I wince, start heading east to try and get a head start, and aim the purple healing ray. **Got it.**
I fire and fuuuuuuuck. Ring, are they bigger?
Confirmed.
Ah… I point at the closest, though that's a pretty near thing.
Assimilate. You're mine.
Orange bands lash out and pass through-. Tattoos, anchor it in my-!
The head jerks, it's neighbours slowing and aaaaghthatwasaterribleidea!
**I've got the head! Do we smash it, or-?**
Something is pulling me down, down, and my eyes are closing and I feel cold.
**Paul!**
01:03 GMT +2
My 'reserve' of life energy is quite a bit more than a normal person's these days. John and Clarice did an excellent job with my tattoos, and in much the same way that a magician will gradually improve their reserve capacity by using magic my tattoos effectively do the same. The rate is slower, but it's working literally every moment that I'm in a magic-rich environment.
So even as the blood enriched with my magical essence starts leaking out of my leg, I'm not especially worried. But I did speak too soon a moment ago. While a death magic aura is the most likely, it could just be a curse on the wound itself.
Drain.
No, still can't fix it, and… I'd much rather that Thana sent this death magic back to Erebos rather than try ingesting it myself.
Move. I need to leave a trail. Kon, Mitchell and M'gann are heading down, and though I'm not entirely sure why I suppose that any 'away from me' direction is as good as any other.
Or not. A head come up from below, forcing them to split apart. It's lined up on me too, so I dodge north. It tries changing its angle, but it doesn't seem-. A ghost should be able to turn on a sixpence as they're not really part of the physical world. Most don't because they're an echo of a person and so tend to do person-like things, but these are hydra-heads. That head is angling like a swimming animal changing the direction it's swimming in, which is why I'm able to avoid it relatively easily.
Did it-? Yes, it passed through the blood trail. Let's see-.
Two more, that's a start. Ring, use visual identification to try tracking individual heads. See how many there are in total.
Compliance.
And… I don't want to breach the surface because they might not follow, or they might follow and ravage eastern Greece, and neither of those is acceptable. Left-down, get a good taste of blood, yes-. Ring, did it accelerate, or was that just me?
Minor speed increase observed.
Right, deploy-. Ugh, don't have any-
Dodge up.
-aquatic drones in reserve. Fabricate, and-. Wait, what does a purple healing ray do to ghosts? No, drone, send it away and have it transmit the camera view to my ring. How far do the heads have to get before they fade?
Dodge down-left, giving it a whiff of blood.
Error.
For one terrifying moment I think my rings are about to conk out, but then I realise that it's talking about the drone. Why-? Because it can't see the ghosts, right. No significant magical presence, nothing to react to. Makes sense. I'd need-
Dodge down and west, coming a little quicker now.
-some sort of integrated scrying spell. Probably wouldn't be all that hard for a wizard with any familiarity with technology to do. Check my environment-. Five.
Dodge down down left down and stop as it tries to predict my movement and turns where it thinks I'm going to go, down right… Clear for a-. West as one tries to use the others as cover while it comes in from above.
And they all got a taste of my blood.
Okay, this lake isn't that big. I can't risk hugging the edge of the lake in case it turns out that they can swim through rock and earth. Which means that I'm pretty much stuck-.
Oh, here they come.
Stuck staying in the middle of the body of water so that I can see them coming and dodge properly.
**Donna, I just asked my ring about the hydra. You got any idea how accurate the myth is?**
**I think the crab was a metaphor and Herakles probably used Iolaus as bait, but it's probably accurate apart from that.**
**Including the thing about only one of the heads being immortal?**
**Maybe? I never fought a hydra. Why does it matter?**
**Paul once told me how important ritual funerals are. I was wondering if we were supposed to bury it.**
The drone idea is no good, but I might as well give the healing ray a try. It's not affected by water, so it-
Dodge up, then hard left and-. They're using each other as cover more. Ring?
Six individual heads identified.
Left… Ah, south, more. Move away from the huddle a little.
-should just be a matter of pointing and shooting.
I pull one off my harness-. Looks like they're all coming in from the west this time, trying to deprive me of the space to move between them. Up, up-. No, they're too fast. Okay, calculate the positions of the teeth and towards them, move between the eyes and the sides and-.
B-hur.
And stay behind them, see if that does anything. Follow follow-. They're accelerating away from me and I.. didn't think I was this far from the side of the… Lake.
**The lake does not appear to conform to normal spatial dimensions.**
Aim the purple ray emitter and fire.
The head hit stops accelerating immediately and begins thrashing in the water. Okay, it's doing something-.
**Paul?** Kon sounds worried. **A head coming at us just broke off its attack and started swimming upward.**
**You're clear?**
**Yeah, and I'm trying to find hydra bones, but-.**
**So you can do that without a distraction. I'll handle the-**
The wall of swimming heads in front of me blur and-. Pull back! They dissolved themselves and reformed! Looks like that angered the-. Animating spirit enough to forget how it swam in life. Leftdownfuuuuuck…
**-heads.**
Backbackrightdown… Aaaah… Gap there. Ah. Prepare to step out, send a filament… Filaments everyway just in case I need to try trans-.
Uh.
Transitioning. Okay, send again… Their behaviour appears to have reverted, but there are a lot more than before.
Nineteen individual heads identified.
**Paul, the heads are back!** M'gann sounds decidedly worried. **We need-.**
I wince, start heading east to try and get a head start, and aim the purple healing ray. **Got it.**
I fire and fuuuuuuuck. Ring, are they bigger?
Confirmed.
Ah… I point at the closest, though that's a pretty near thing.
Assimilate. You're mine.
Orange bands lash out and pass through-. Tattoos, anchor it in my-!
The head jerks, it's neighbours slowing and aaaaghthatwasaterribleidea!
**I've got the head! Do we smash it, or-?**
Something is pulling me down, down, and my eyes are closing and I feel cold.
**Paul!**
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I think that should say 'that'.
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Oh lord, is he going to die again?
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Paul may not have started as a dc comic book character, but now he's certainly died and come back enough times to be an original XD!
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I foresee endurance being an issue with this plan, even if he has a lot of life-force to throw around, since I doubt synthesised blood without that spice of life-force will work so well as bait. He's also got to watch out for that death-magic...
Damn straight. After all, if it starts to stick to your soul, even respawning in a new body may not clear it out.
Well, that's fortunate for you guys. Too bad they're not still attached to the original corpse, or they'd be limited in their reach.
And hopefully those heads aren't paying attention to the others, then.
Exactly what I was worried about yesterday, yes. Best to keep to the water for now.
Hmm... But is it because they're feeding on his blood, or because they want more of it?
I mean, OL, how often do you operate underwater anyway? I mean, outside of visiting Atlantis, there was maybe one undersea operation, namely the Maltusian ship with the Burning Martian remnants?
Oh, that's not good! Ring, you really should try to clarify errors when you announce them!
Which kind of makes them even more terrifying, because that means they're practically invisible to non-living sight.
Ooh, pack tactics. And they can recognise simple patterns too.
That just makes them scarier. Let's hope they can only exist within the water...
Just be careful, your hitbox is a lot larger than theirs, which means they can and will try to box you in...
True, I don't see Hera of all people wanting to help him. And really, given the temperament of the DC Hercules, who didn't see the bait thing coming?
...Huh, that is a thing in the myth, that the one immortal head was severed and buried far away from the rest of the corpse... What would happen if they brought it back, or destroyed it somehow?
I don't think animals, even mythic ones like the Hydra, worked under the same rules as people in Greek myth. But who knows?
Six of how many total, though? Given that he'd spotted at least eight earlier, unless he was counting ones multiple times then.
Just watch any micro-biology in the water doesn't get a boost from it. Assuming it would, anyway.
Good to see he's learned not to keep all his gear in subspace now.
Oh, joy. Hopefully that's a property of the gateway, rather than the spirits, and that it'll go away once both things are dealt with.
Let's hope it's something useful, rather than say, making it grow a new body.
Sounds like they are linked, and he just pissed them off.
Right, then. That's a plan. Whether it works, we'll see.
Aw, shit. He just triggered the Enrage state.
Careful, OL, you can't take too much of that ripping and tearing.
The situation has escalated.
The joy of being the tank when you're not a tank build, because of special encounter restrictions...
And I bet they aren't getting any prettier either.
That sounds like a bad...
Oh, dear.
Result of trying to assimilate something that's already dead (since demons are technically living things,) or... Did someone lay a trap into it just in case he turned up?...I hope he's got a backup clone ready, or he might have to learn how to animate his own corpse.
Hopefully whatever they're doing with the Hydra's bones, they do it quick, before OL goes bye-bye. Because I doubt he's going to have an easy time respawning, what with all the death magic and a gateway into the Underworld right there. ...Worst case, he gets pulled into Erebus and gets some face-time with Hades while his team scramble to fix his body up to return to.
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There's no way he wouldn't know how bad connecting to anything associated with Death is for a Lantern.
Because he knows about the Black Light.
So this attempt is just pure stupidity.
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To be fair, he did assimilate Gary the Rot Fungoid without any reprecussions..though, I suppose that Gary probably counted as a living being, he did have an association with death..or am I misunderstanding what the Rot is?
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Decay exists as an extant form of life, or so I am told.
crazygrox
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So, this was from way back during the aftermath of the Sheeda invasion.
I'm kind of failing to remember what happened to the LEGION fleet that had been near earth. Did they move?
I'm also vaguely interested in how all that rise in everyone wanting access to their own guns has interacted with the Anti-life and the aftermath of the anti-life.
I sort of wonder if the various peoples' militia groups in China may find themselves rallying around a revolutionary movement worshipping the White Light Entity as a locus of resistance against the government in the aftermath of the antilife. That'd be pretty strange.
Stsword
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Decay happens because of bacteria and/or fungi.
That actually got mentioned in a Swamp Thing story post flashpoint.
In an alternate future, Swamp Thing decided to destroy the Black/Rot.
He asked the elemental powers of the Grey (fungus) and the Divided (bacteria) to take over the duties of the Black/Rot, and then he asked the Metal (machines) to supervise them to make sure they don't get drunk with power and try to pull some Last of Us nonsense or something.
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