Old Knife
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Great. The almighty wizard is an dumbass politician.
Gutting the fire budget in a tinderbox state.
AFTER THE FIRE.
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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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Gutting the fire budget in a tinderbox state.
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Old Knife
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Didn't that send the Anti-life into the dreaming?
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It's probably not Anti-Life, but I guess Ahri'ahn could have been inspired by it and created a similar method of control.
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That's a Roman myth rather than a Hellenic one.
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Pretty sure it's an 'Ovid pulled this out his ass' myth, actually - Medusa and her sisters, Stheno and Eurayle were children of Typhon and Echidna, and Medusa was the only mortal one of the three.
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I think he wrote it after he was exiled and had a beef with authority figures, so he wrote the gods, the ultimate authority figures, in a bad light.
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Agreed to both of those, but it's still a myth that he wrote into public consciousness, as a Roman.
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7th May 2013
03:23 GMT -1
Miss Lemaris waves her hands, and-
"Heh."
-the… I'm assuming that he's a master blood mage, wheeze-chuckles as the spell fades before reaching him. She frowns.
"Who's that?"
"I studied at the Conservatory for political reasons. He was my teacher before I left here. We need to leave now."
The blood mage reaches out and grabs a floating piece of ice. He examines it casually for a moment, then gently deposits it in his mouth.
"Mmm."
A moment later every other piece of ice in the area melts back into water.
"Any idea where we could go? The surface?"
I start to rise, because while the soldiers came in through the main entrance we're surrounded by water and it would be strange if there weren't soldiers around the rim as well.
Sha'ark… Doesn't answer. His attention is entirely focused on his former teacher.
"Anyone?"
"Er." Steven emerges from behind a piece of exercise equipment. "I know places we could go."
Robert frowns at me. "Don't you have some kind of anti-telepath machine?"
"Yes, and if the telepath was here that would work splendidly. Disrupting long range telepathy when you've just got access to the victim is a good deal trickier. Steven, where are we heading?"
"Er. I've kind of gotten turned around-."
"Compass points."
Miss Lamaris summons some sort of minor water sprite and sends it towards the blood mage. The water in front of him thickens, and he stops to look at him, nodding to himself.
"Up?"
"Up as in north, or up as in towards the surface?"
The blood mage moves, swimming around Miss Lemaris's ersatz barrier in an instant and biting through her conjured elemental! I can see… Parts of its body sticking out… As the runes on his teeth get to work and the body parts fade with its terrified face being the last thing to go.
The barrier fades a moment later.
"Mm."
So: fast, can eat magic -and probably constructs- and given his job should be assumed to be archmage equivalent-.
Miss Lemaris jerks, then her eyes flicker and her muscles relax as she loses consciousness.
"Mm."
"Cornwall, take Miss Lemaris. Everyone except me, follow Steven." Robert grabs her with a flipper. "Go." For a moment I consider construct armour, then realise that it wouldn't help. Instead I supercharge my own brands in the hope that they're strong enough to counter his magic if he manages to bite me. "Go now."
Sha'ark's the first to go, swimming upwards with all his might. Steven right on his heels. Robert hesitates, probably because I haven't been participating in team activities enough and he's not used to taking orders from me. I-.
"Celtic."
Accelerate.
The blood mage undulates, shooting up through the water towards Robert and Miss Lemaris, his mouth partially open and his teeth gleaming.
Methane spray.
The water under the blood mage bubbles, and the water fails to support him. His eyes open slightly wider as his lunge misses, but he realises that he isn't going to be able to bite down on Robert and doesn't bother opening his mouth further. Fortunately, Robert takes the hint and accelerates, water churning and flukes flipping as he catches up with Sha'ark and Steven.
The blood mage drops to the ground, turning to face me.
"Manta."
"Shark."
Teeth!
A lasso construct holds him back for a moment before a pneumatic ram slams into his chest, pushing him back-. A little. He twists his head to try and bite it, but I dismiss it just in time to prevent him from getting his teeth into it. I try hitting him with a sonic stunner while he recovers his position, but while it hits it doesn't seem to actually do anything.
He grins at me.
And the light around us vanishes and I dodge down, flat against the floor as water above me is displaced by his slipstream. Scans-.
Nothing, and there's a weaker wash as displaced-.
I push right, scrabbling across the stones, and I feel the vibration as something thumps down where I was.
A band of clear water moves across my visual field, the blood mage's grin-
Move!
-showing-
SNAP!
-clearly-
SNAP!
-and I keep-.
CRUNCH!
AGH!
Electrify!
Teeth are biting into my right shoulder, left side and left calf, worrying at my flesh! Three attackers-? Electricity isn't working, and I'm having to use my environmental shield to prevent lumps of my body getting torn off!
Energy drain detected.
Transmute any flesh that actually gets torn off into pork.
Compliance. One hundred and sixty three percent power-. One hundred fifty five percent-.
Block this.
I
can't see him directly but I can watch where the orange light he's draining from me is going. And I format it into a strong desire to stop biting me and start biting his own right arm.
And then the water froths as he flashes back and forth from three-. One place, and I heal the other two. I can see that he wants to bite himself-. He can't let go. His jaws are locked on my left calf and no matter how much he wants to, basic biology is preventing him releasing. And having a blood magic specialists actually eat part of me would be a bad idea, so I can't just cut it loose.
Have to decide quick as he can probably get out of this-.
Disintegrate my own leg and power upwards through the magical darkness he called up! As far as I can tell he isn't pursuing, and the other guards don't seem to be able to see through the murk any better than I can.
Just as I reach the edge I reformat my body into that of a sharkman, and once I'm out I slow down and start heading for a major thoroughfare. I can't see a hue and cry being raised for the others so I'm going to assume that I was able to hold their attention.
I'll catch up with them once I'm sure that I'm not being pursued.
03:23 GMT -1
Miss Lemaris waves her hands, and-
"Heh."
-the… I'm assuming that he's a master blood mage, wheeze-chuckles as the spell fades before reaching him. She frowns.
"Who's that?"
"I studied at the Conservatory for political reasons. He was my teacher before I left here. We need to leave now."
The blood mage reaches out and grabs a floating piece of ice. He examines it casually for a moment, then gently deposits it in his mouth.
"Mmm."
A moment later every other piece of ice in the area melts back into water.
"Any idea where we could go? The surface?"
I start to rise, because while the soldiers came in through the main entrance we're surrounded by water and it would be strange if there weren't soldiers around the rim as well.
Sha'ark… Doesn't answer. His attention is entirely focused on his former teacher.
"Anyone?"
"Er." Steven emerges from behind a piece of exercise equipment. "I know places we could go."
Robert frowns at me. "Don't you have some kind of anti-telepath machine?"
"Yes, and if the telepath was here that would work splendidly. Disrupting long range telepathy when you've just got access to the victim is a good deal trickier. Steven, where are we heading?"
"Er. I've kind of gotten turned around-."
"Compass points."
Miss Lamaris summons some sort of minor water sprite and sends it towards the blood mage. The water in front of him thickens, and he stops to look at him, nodding to himself.
"Up?"
"Up as in north, or up as in towards the surface?"
The blood mage moves, swimming around Miss Lemaris's ersatz barrier in an instant and biting through her conjured elemental! I can see… Parts of its body sticking out… As the runes on his teeth get to work and the body parts fade with its terrified face being the last thing to go.
The barrier fades a moment later.
"Mm."
So: fast, can eat magic -and probably constructs- and given his job should be assumed to be archmage equivalent-.
Miss Lemaris jerks, then her eyes flicker and her muscles relax as she loses consciousness.
"Mm."
"Cornwall, take Miss Lemaris. Everyone except me, follow Steven." Robert grabs her with a flipper. "Go." For a moment I consider construct armour, then realise that it wouldn't help. Instead I supercharge my own brands in the hope that they're strong enough to counter his magic if he manages to bite me. "Go now."
Sha'ark's the first to go, swimming upwards with all his might. Steven right on his heels. Robert hesitates, probably because I haven't been participating in team activities enough and he's not used to taking orders from me. I-.
"Celtic."
Accelerate.
The blood mage undulates, shooting up through the water towards Robert and Miss Lemaris, his mouth partially open and his teeth gleaming.
Methane spray.
The water under the blood mage bubbles, and the water fails to support him. His eyes open slightly wider as his lunge misses, but he realises that he isn't going to be able to bite down on Robert and doesn't bother opening his mouth further. Fortunately, Robert takes the hint and accelerates, water churning and flukes flipping as he catches up with Sha'ark and Steven.
The blood mage drops to the ground, turning to face me.
"Manta."
"Shark."
Teeth!
A lasso construct holds him back for a moment before a pneumatic ram slams into his chest, pushing him back-. A little. He twists his head to try and bite it, but I dismiss it just in time to prevent him from getting his teeth into it. I try hitting him with a sonic stunner while he recovers his position, but while it hits it doesn't seem to actually do anything.
He grins at me.
And the light around us vanishes and I dodge down, flat against the floor as water above me is displaced by his slipstream. Scans-.
Nothing, and there's a weaker wash as displaced-.
I push right, scrabbling across the stones, and I feel the vibration as something thumps down where I was.
A band of clear water moves across my visual field, the blood mage's grin-
Move!
-showing-
SNAP!
-clearly-
SNAP!
-and I keep-.
CRUNCH!
AGH!
Electrify!
Teeth are biting into my right shoulder, left side and left calf, worrying at my flesh! Three attackers-? Electricity isn't working, and I'm having to use my environmental shield to prevent lumps of my body getting torn off!
Energy drain detected.
Transmute any flesh that actually gets torn off into pork.
Compliance. One hundred and sixty three percent power-. One hundred fifty five percent-.
Block this.
I
can't see him directly but I can watch where the orange light he's draining from me is going. And I format it into a strong desire to stop biting me and start biting his own right arm.
And then the water froths as he flashes back and forth from three-. One place, and I heal the other two. I can see that he wants to bite himself-. He can't let go. His jaws are locked on my left calf and no matter how much he wants to, basic biology is preventing him releasing. And having a blood magic specialists actually eat part of me would be a bad idea, so I can't just cut it loose.
Have to decide quick as he can probably get out of this-.
Disintegrate my own leg and power upwards through the magical darkness he called up! As far as I can tell he isn't pursuing, and the other guards don't seem to be able to see through the murk any better than I can.
Just as I reach the edge I reformat my body into that of a sharkman, and once I'm out I slow down and start heading for a major thoroughfare. I can't see a hue and cry being raised for the others so I'm going to assume that I was able to hold their attention.
I'll catch up with them once I'm sure that I'm not being pursued.
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Now we know why Sha'ark was scared.
I'm reminded of Bleach Abridged where Gin would Mmm people into submission.
"entrance, we're"
"with its"
"Steven right"
"and I"
I'm reminded of Bleach Abridged where Gin would Mmm people into submission.
"entrance, we're"
"with its"
"Steven right"
"and I"
Maybe also change back, since if they see you coming looking like that they may try to kill you.
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Paul has many times derided collogues for their inability to expand or improve their arsenals. Yet he himself has never thought to copy their basic technique of just escalating brute force to overcome durability rather than trying to finesse every problem.
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Oh, boy. A major mini-boss, with a lot of potential for danger and bodily harm. And from the looks of it, he not only knows what he's doing, he enjoys his work. This does not bode well for a bloodless retreat...
And as said before, in Nanaue is this worried, then a fight is the worst thing they can give the guy.
Literally eating the spellwork. That's absolutely the worst ability this guy could have against two and a half mages and a Lantern...
I'd be starting up railguns with hydrodynamic mage-slayers right now, but that would blow any cover identity he might still have.
If it were anyone else, I'd be wondering if the water around him was getting warmer.
Let's hope Stevie's boltholes are safe, then. And that they can get there without being tracked.
Only natural. I doubt he know the local landmarks here, even with his extended stay...
Little hard if you can't pick north out of the lineup. I doubt they have any kind of internal compass.
Anywhere but here is a good start either way.
Yipes. I'm guessing he has runes carved into his teeth to accomplish that sort of spell-breaking bite.Danger rating: Extreme. High chance of loss of life and limb. That would be very bad.
And his 'counterspell' disrupts the caster too? Or that was simply feedback from an ongoing effect hitting her, since Rob wasn't affected that way from his fire-and-forget ice being dispelled.
And he's certainly strong enough to bite through powered armour, even if OL had time to reconfigure himself or it for his current shape.
Oh, dear, he recognises bloodlines. At least loosely, since I expect the Marrack line would be unlikely to cross this guy's path.
Won't lie, I had a flashback to 'One Piece's Shark-type fishmen villains reading that. Like torpedoes with teeth in the water.
Disrupting him by messing with the water density, eh? And I doubt the methane gas is much fun to smell either, via his sharky senses.
Not quite accurate, but I doubt OL has bled yet for him to taste.
Positively explosive acceleration. This will not be easy.
No doubt armouring enchantments built into all those scars.
Bloody hell... The shark part is bad enough, but aggressive magic too? This guy is nasty.
On the upside, OL probably have the edge in perception here, even if he isn't solely using his eyes to track OL.
That's absolutely terrifying. Imagine seeing just a flash of teeth in front of your vision for a moment...
I'll give him this, he's got some impressive manoeuvrability, to be able to stop, turn and launch so quickly.
Whoops. Zagged when he should have zigged.
Right through the teeth. That can't be pleasant. On the other hand, it's probably going to make him bite harder because of muscle contractions.
Either he bit in multiple places and can leave lingering pressure, or there's a couple of grunts helping out.
Definitely a good idea, avoiding any trace material for the goddamn blood mage to make use of.
Somehow, I doubt this is going to work how he expects it to. Sharks in a frenzy aren't known for rational decisions.
Ah, he somehow duplicated himself momentarily to make multiple bite attacks at once.
Should have converted it to plasma, give him a mouth burn worse than any spicy meal.
Just remember to identify yourself to the Team. They last saw you in Manta form...
Well, that was terrifyingly vicious. I shudder to imagine how effective a sharkman blood mage could be in regular combat, especially if he's so fast he can take a bite out of most foes before they even realise he's moved. Anyone other than a Lantern or nigh-indestructible person would be a bloody, limbless corpse by now...
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The problem with doing that is that is collateral damage.
Paul absolutely has construct weapons that would ruin this guy's day, like singularity cannons, but they would also ruin everyone else's day as well and he doesn't want to punch a hole through the entire city.
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I think it's a narrative thing. If Paul gains access to plain superhuman brute force it will indirectly start cutting down on variety in future combat settings, which isn't as much of a problem in the comic medium but can be very problematic in purely written storytelling.
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This guy apparently taught Sha'ark, so he may have already had some of his blood in him to do that.
Rob can also eat magic, so maybe he digested the spell.
I'm picturing him sampling different types of blood from different parts of the world until he can recognize people ethnicity.
I was thinking of that shark Separatist from the Clone Wars.
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i just had a wild fantasy that is probably not based in established universe's facts.
i just imagined OL, in the end, doing a last-ditch-effort Assimilate on Ahrian. obviously it's hard to do, so OL ends up having to channel the Ophidian and goes all Snake-eyed to consume him. Ahrian, being functionally ageless, has a ton of memories, and so like (i think, it's been a while) Grayven with Vandal Savage and Rhas alGhul, can't integrate that large of a memory packet. so, to purge the info, OL walks into the OLCorps' headquarters and slams down a huge book of advanced magic knowledge, and says to the remaining magic users, "here, get to work."
the unfortunate side effect of all of this is that the unprecedented forceful use of Avarice finally draws Desire of the Endless's full and undivided attention.
i just imagined OL, in the end, doing a last-ditch-effort Assimilate on Ahrian. obviously it's hard to do, so OL ends up having to channel the Ophidian and goes all Snake-eyed to consume him. Ahrian, being functionally ageless, has a ton of memories, and so like (i think, it's been a while) Grayven with Vandal Savage and Rhas alGhul, can't integrate that large of a memory packet. so, to purge the info, OL walks into the OLCorps' headquarters and slams down a huge book of advanced magic knowledge, and says to the remaining magic users, "here, get to work."
the unfortunate side effect of all of this is that the unprecedented forceful use of Avarice finally draws Desire of the Endless's full and undivided attention.
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Paul's met Desire of the Endless, twice. Though he was only lucid for one of those meetings.
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Should probably be 'undulates'.
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Having an episode with Desire could be interesting, but Paul may not have that problem if he Assimilated Ahri'ahn.
Ahri'ahn may not be that old.
Yeah, he's from thousands of years in the past, but I think it was mentioned that he basically jumped forward in time, so he honestly may only be a few decades old.
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His father was very very drunk.