Silveraith
Argent Phantasm
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He.Xalitan's eyes widen as her fully perceives her, and she stares down at him.
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He.Xalitan's eyes widen as her fully perceives her, and she stares down at him.
The Controller HR department may be getting involved if she keeps it upAlso literally the first time Paul showed the Ophidian other lanterns, in this case Starfire and Blackfire, said snake tried to manually enlighten one of them and Paul had to talk her out of doing that. In other words? Bet your bottom dollar Ophidian is fucking INTO this.
Thank you, corrected.
Missing wordNow, I am not sure what I am, but I know that there are many things which could threaten Great-Mother and that is a task I am well to equipped perform."
Pretty sure Ragnar was Paul's beefgate (as a trainer always on Maltus, he was routinely the most senior lantern on site), while Xalitan (who was usually in Alignment space) was his (Ragnar's).Also the Illustres's beef-gate just got significantly more beefy.
Thank you, corrected.
No, Xalitan would find the idea of fighting for rank stupid. Ragnar and Zartok measure their progress against one another, though more Zartok than Ragnar.Pretty sure Ragnar was Paul's beefgate (as a trainer always on Maltus, he was routinely the most senior lantern on site), while Xalitan (who was usually in Alignment space) was his (Ragnar's).
Was more talking about this. Xalitan may not think of himself as one, but that's not necessarily how others view it.
That should be regular sized.
What a shitshow. Doki really shouldn't have been left in control of anything larger than an RC race car."Machine, I will destroy you. Not for trying to humiliate me, but to safeguard humanity against your madness. And I will kill the raider and the mad ant-woman as well."
"I'll downsize your Human Resources!" / "What did I do?"
President Grant Columbus Hayes of the New California Republic snorts. "I'm sleeping lightly anyway. Legion assassins nearly got to me two days ago. Besides, hearing from you is usually the highlight of my day."
Warden is another fun one, honestly the only way to make it better is if it gets HERMES armor. Robot armies but human highway patrol, riot police and SWAT teams. Add in whatever's going on in Nebraska that can join it's network (I haven't played Reclamation Depot yet), though honestly the cause of the war between The Last Patrol and the Great Plains Federation just destroyed any motivation I had for backing The Last Patrol outside of strict RP."WARDEN says that his standing orders only extend to maintaining law and order within the borders of Colorado and New Mexico. Sallow ended up just ceding the territory when he realised that WARDEN's robots weren't pursuing past that. Oh, and Doki's got some other-. Heh, some other poor sap to play Wasteland's Most Eligible Bachelor with."
Doki Doki, no, put them back. Honestly, you'd think Warden would have reeled her in by now.
Ooh, Krono already? Presumably heading home from England. Not a quick trip even in a skiff capable of multiple times the speed of sound. Looks like he wants to brief certain leaders pronto before he even arrives, though...10th December 2282
06:02 GMT -6
"…no, there's no need to-."
And he's gone. Ugh. I just wanted to check in with the President's office to see if there was anything that urgently needed my attention. I didn't even think the satellite relay went to his residence yet. I just-.
Given the time-zones, it probably would be rather late out that way."Mister Krono. Or should I say 'Ambassador'?"
"Mister President, thank you for speaking to me. They really didn't need to wake you."
Ooh, that's a significant event. I wonder if that's a possible random event in the game mods this story draws from?President Grant Columbus Hayes of the New California Republic snorts. "I'm sleeping lightly anyway. Legion assassins nearly got to me two days ago. Besides, hearing from you is usually the highlight of my day."
"How?! What happened?!"
And shooting into the crowd certainly wasn't an option, given they were likely panicking already."Frumentarii snipers took a shot at me during a state visit to the Boneyard. Good job Mariah was quick with the telekinetic barriers or the second shot would have hit me in the head. The real scary part was that they had backups hidden in the crowd. Bleeding from the lung is even less fun when you've got madmen with gladiuses charging at you and your car is too hemmed in to move."
Powered armour for the win.I nod. Mariah Colson is one of my people, charged with keeping President Hayes alive. And unlike the two I assigned to Elder Lyons, she's a mature adult.
"Fortunately the next truck up had Brotherhood Paladins in it. Pretty hard to knife someone in a T Fifty One."
Ceaser's legion not known for their mental prowess, especially at resisting telepathic intrusion."Anyone on our side hurt?"
"Seventeen dead, and about forty injured. The snipers killed security guards and book store workers before taking their posts, and the knife-men cut their way through the crowd. On the plus side, your people took a few of them prisoner, and they've been winding up what's left of that network."
So, the Legion likely won't be an issue before long, then.I nod. "The war?"
"The Legion's still fighting. We're winning, but it's a bloody business. Our friends in Rio Grande are having trouble crossing the river, and the robots-." He snorts quietly. "I don't know why I'm surprised."
...Surprised it didn't insist on operating solely on pre-war boundaries. Tough luck for whatever wanderer Doki's got a hold of, though."Problem?"
"WARDEN says that his standing orders only extend to maintaining law and order within the borders of Colorado and New Mexico. Sallow ended up just ceding the territory when he realised that WARDEN's robots weren't pursuing past that. Oh, and Doki's got some other-. Heh, some other poor sap to play Wasteland's Most Eligible Bachelor with."
Which makes me wonder where Doki's getting her ladies this time...Oh dear. "Have there been more kidnappings?"
"Not from the West Coast. There may have been an ARGUS sighting in the Mojave, but we've been getting that sort of report from all over ever since the first time. How was Britain?"
Which might give them an edge in some areas, and weaknesses in others."As good as I could expect. I've got some examples of a new form of circuitry they've developed which might interest you, and some wool samples your tailor might like."
"'New form'? You mean it doesn't use vacuum tubes?"
Pity they can't hybridize the tech somehow. Presumably it might be more useful in shielded safe sites rather than out in the wilds."Just so. The end product is more easy to disrupt with EMP but can manage a lot more operations per second than regular vacuum tubes while being far easier to manufacture than micro vacuum tubes."
"That's.. interesting. I'm not sure that we wouldn't be better off sticking with what we've got, but we can take a look. What sort of state is their government in?"
Not a big concern in the short-term, then.I snort-chuckle. "Technically, they have one. They're a ghoul-ruled gerontocracy, though they don't call them 'ghouls' in Britain. Queen Elizabeth is still alive and reigning and there isn't any major opposition. They're currently consolidating control and skirmishing with the other European countries out at sea. Assuming nothing changes, the island of Great Britain should be solidly under their control inside twenty years. I'm going to talk to Santa Anna and Elder Törni about the possibility of opening up transatlantic shipping routes."
Oh, dear... Doki's already broadcasting? Hope someone's recording it."Good." He sighs. "Diana's offered us cotton seeds to get us started, but it'll take us a long time to grow enough to be commercially viable. And… I know that we're going to beat the Legion, but I'm not sure how we're going to pacify-"
"This is Doki-"
"-Ariz-tzzzzzzz."
I doubt she's listening. This is probably one of those near-magical wide-area broadcasts which can override everything that appears in fiction so often."Mister President?"
"-Doki for Robot City Productions-"
"Doki, this is a private conversation-."
Aiming to save that poor bastard from embarrassment and pain, eh?"-preeeeeeeeeesenting the second ever instalment of..! Drum roll sound effect!"
I hear the drum roll coming from the speakers as I turn the saucer to the north-west and accelerate.
That's bound to have stepped on someone's toes."The Wasteland's Most Eligible Bachelor! Broadcasting to everywhere! Whether you want to listen or not! Sponsored by the goddess Hecate!"
Okay, so nothing untoward happened during the first episode, other than the initial kidnappings, but if she's grabbed people from halfway across the continent again-.
'As it was supposed to be'? Does Doki have opinions about how grizzled some men should be?"Our eligible bachelor this morning is a man with mysterious past! A hunky frame! A surprisingly well-trimmed beard on a face that isn't anything like as scarred as it was supposed to be! In-tro-ducing Legate-"
Ah?
...That's bad, I take it.
...If he means to do what he said, he's going to be very busy for the next few years."Once I am free of these bonds, I will slay everyone within range of my voice."
That's his voice.
I see Krono's not the only one inspired by comics out there."Competing for the affection of this redoubtable warrior! Tanya 'Ant Agonizer' Christoff! That name is a pun!"
"I don't call myself that any more! I gave it up!"
I'm betting most of the damage was accidental, giant ants not being known for subtlety."She controls giant ants and uses them to ravage the wasteland!"
"It was one town! And I barely ravaged it at all!"
It's certainly industrious, though..."She's honest, industrious and prudent!"
"I thought I was a comic book supervillain! How is that honest? Or prudent?"
Oh god, she talks in Executive Doublespeak? This is going to suck."And competing against her for the privilege of dating the Monster of the East! 'First name not found' Mckinley of The Executives!"
"You think you can acquire and merge me? I'll teach you the true meaning of hostile acquisition!"
Well, Doki's not wrong, I guess?"She's a violent killer with ahistorical beliefs about the pre-war civilisation she's based her life on!"
"I'll liquidate your entire family!"
Sounds like the lady isn't happy."And she has highly effective leadership skills!"
"I'll take days to strip your assets!
Oh, boy... Doki's got her hands full with this trio."And lastly, Paladin Justinia Hayman of the Midwest Chapter! Her own father told her: 'You are the last in a legacy of failures', and based on what's happening in Arizona right now, well, so is our bachelor! She's also very good at fighting and is completely merciless!"
"Machine, I will destroy you. Not for trying to humiliate me, but to safeguard humanity against your madness. And I will kill the raider and the mad ant-woman as well."
"I'll downsize your Human Resources!" / "What did I do?"
Somehow, even if you get there in like five minutes, I don't think Doki is going to stop..."For the first round! Insert wheel spin sound effect, because it's time for a Cooking Catastrophe!"
I accelerate again.
Thank you, corrected.
Yes. This time they're part of the same story.The title is the same as the previous chapter, which was not a Fallout chapter.
No.
From what I hear it's pretty darn good for a Fallout 4 mod. Watching videos of it, I was struck that the Legendary Womble fight wasn't very good due to the game engine, and I think most of the problems with it are engine problems.
That really annoyed me when I played Vault City and my Field Marshall suddenly disappeared.You managed to convince me last time to give a Hayes run a try, it was a lot of fun! Kinda funny getting two ex-Enclave as unit leaders in the same Army as Cassandra Moore and Alexander Drummond but it worked out.
I really don't understand why HERMES armour is a thing. The only nation I know of that gets it is MacArthur, and they get it far too late for it to be worth switching from heavy special forces to light special forces. And it's not even that good.Warden is another fun one, honestly the only way to make it better is if it gets HERMES armor. Robot armies but human highway patrol, riot police and SWAT teams.
No.Ooh, that's a significant event. I wonder if that's a possible random event in the game mods this story draws from?
No. In Fallout: New Vegas, Sallow feeds you a story about how scarred Lanius is, and how all his servants are blind so that none can see his face. Then you see his actual face and he has a soul patch.'As it was supposed to be'? Does Doki have opinions about how grizzled some men should be?
I can't wait to see Paul meet Krono, ask why his name is so similar to Krona, and then learn that Krona was dumped in that Fallout Earth after he caused the Crisis of Infinite Pauls (and Jades).
From a practical standpoint, I agree with you. It's effectively tier 6 SF equipment (accepting first sophisticated SF equipment as tier 5) but it comes at the last quarter of a playthrough that has been almost entirely power armor focused. It's very rare that I'd say a nation would be better served with Light SF over Heavy SF unless you've got buffs that favor them heavily. Or you're the NCR and can do both. Or be the BoS and use them as support units in your formations.I really don't understand why HERMES armour is a thing. The only nation I know of that gets it is MacArthur, and they get it far too late for it to be worth switching from heavy special forces to light special forces. And it's not even that good.
But they can make Hardened T 51c. I've seldom had much APA when playing as MacArthur. If the mod makers wanted to give them a boost that was actually useful, they could have given them T 60.From a practical standpoint, I agree with you. It's effectively tier 6 SF equipment (accepting first sophisticated SF equipment as tier 5) but it comes at the last quarter of a playthrough that has been almost entirely power armor focused. It's very rare that I'd say a nation would be better served with Light SF over Heavy SF unless you've got buffs that favor them heavily. Or you're the NCR and can do both. Or be the BoS and use them as support units in your formations.
Thematically, it's the region breaking away from the Secretary's influence with a conscious change, since their stocks of APA came from Chicago and HERMES was something they could make themselves.
At least someone is being sensible."Machine, I will destroy you. Not for trying to humiliate me, but to safeguard humanity against your madness.
Odd that he didn't just go to max from the get go.
In-game, she gets mind controlled by the Fenrir AI and ends up its fully conscious puppet. Fortunately, I started this story before that was added to Old World Blues so the Montana Chapter doesn't exist.
It's a fuel and maintenance thing. He tends to regard Doki Doki's actions as a disturbing but not particularly dangerous practical joke, the sort of thing that those involved might laugh about in a few years. This was an escalation.
I think he might just be vision questing, not universe hopping.I can't wait to see Paul meet Krono, ask why his name is so similar to Krona, and then learn that Krona was dumped in that Fallout Earth after he caused the Crisis of Infinite Pauls (and Jades).
She was rescued off screen. Last we heard, she's looking after Canis Minor.3. What happened to Barda? I may have forgotten if she already got rescued.
Probably because they're fictional characters. I mean, you could ask, but you're unlikely to get a reply.I have questions.
1. why haven't we asked a star sapphire to see if starfire's ex fiancé would be a good recruit?
No. I mean, he's not suffering from Anti-Life exposure, but for once that wasn't his biggest problem.2. after the white light purified the earth, did demon nabu get purified or released?
That's on my list of things to be covered.3. What happened to Barda? I may have forgotten if she already got rescued.
From a gameplay perspective, I agree with you. It's one of those areas in OWB where the gameplay (not even meta necessarily) clashes with the story the author wants to tell. IIRC, the original writer for MacArthur left the dev team halfway through that update cycle and someone took over after, which was why MacArthur was so bereft on release for a nation that was the regional cornerstone.But they can make Hardened T 51c. I've seldom had much APA when playing as MacArthur. If the mod makers wanted to give them a boost that was actually useful, they could have given them T 60.
I'm really hoping this is Hinon or a Maltusian aligned with the Controllers and not one pretending to be a Controller."Lantern Pull." A translucent apparition I still just about recognise appears near Pull's feet. Humanoid, blank face and blue and red robes. Last time I saw someone like him they were picking a fight with Larfleeze. In a comic book. I don't think Controllers even exist in this universe, and I've certainly never met one. So where is this fellow from? "I have need of your service."
"I'm not really a Lantern." I switch Pull's guns back into hands and kneel before the Controller. "But I owe you a great deal already. What can I do for you?"