With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Thirteen)

Mr Zoat · Aug 1, 2018

With This Ring

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epubs for Seasons 01-03 by @Twilight666 (up to episode 66) can be found on these MediaFire and GoogleDrive folders. Or alternatively:
Season 01 (Episodes 01-26) [MediaFire][MediaFire Alt. Formatting][GoogleDrive] (corrections added up to 07/03/2018)
Season 02 (Episodes 27-52) [MediaFire][MediaFire Alt. Formatting][GoogleDrive] (corrections added up to 12/10/2017)
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Paul and Ophidian
Orange Lantern Is Watching You
Star Sapphire Paul
Paul and Skitter (and Atlas)
Paul and Klarion
Paul and Lex
Ophidaul
M'gann as Paul
Paulphidian (and simulation ships)
Red Lantern Paul (and Teen Titans Go)
Paul cooking with M'gann
Escalation Shipping (Paul and Skitter)
We're Going to Kill Nabu
Ophidian Summoning
Power Rings Are Awesome
Orange Lantern wants You
SI X Ophidian
Paul and Ophidian Marry
Adom X SI
Welcome to Earth 16
Some things you don't need to see
Ophidian Mode
I'm not sure what title to give these
In the Ophidian's coils
Young Justice style John Constantine
Anthrophidian
What have I done...
Headshot
Acceptance
Lusus
Indigo
Orange + Red
Obsession
A Monument To End Them All
Eris says hello
Various
Ophidian x SI OTP 1
Moronic
Orange
Orange Lantern Two Eight One Four B
Avarice Interrupt
Revolution (cover)
Free chibis
Bat family throughout the ages
Stupid term papers
Halfbody
Santo Porto and Squiggles
Posing dramatically in space

Part 1
Part 2
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Part 4
Dealing with God
You No Take Fruit

You have an FAQ?
The first rule of the FAQ is 'don't talk about the FAQ'.

The second appears to be 'don't read the FAQ'.

What is this about?
With This Ring is a Self Insert (SI) story in which an individual very much like the author finds themselves in a fictional setting, in this case Earth 16. He is equipped with the pyjamas he was wearing when he appeared and an orange power ring.

What is Earth 16?
Earth 16 is the setting of the animated series Young Justice, the associated comics and that game we don't talk about. The number serves to differentiate it from other versions of Earth created by DC comics. For example, Batman: the Animated Series, Superman: the Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited take place on Earth 12. The SI's planet of origin will be referred to as Earth Prime.

Yes, that's a very Earth centric way of listing parallel universes.

Earth 16 is similar to pre-Flashpoint Earth 1, with some of the more extreme power sets toned down a bit. Superman is very strong, but he can't juggle planets. The Flash is very fast, but he can't run backwards or forwards in time. The Justice League has been together as a group for seven years.

How often do you post?
For over four years this story has updated daily. I aim to maintain this. Help me.

How does this story deviate from canon?
While I have tried to keep the story as true to the original series as possible one or two things have slipped by. For example, it is strongly implied that Alan Scott died some time before series one while here he is alive and serves as a major supporting character. In this story Donna Troy is known to Wonder Woman and has worked with her for several years while in the series (due to some sort of legal dispute) she never made an appearance and didn't start working with Wonder Woman until after series one ended. The 11th of September attacks never happened in this version of the setting due to the radically different post World War Two Middle eastern history which gave rise to entirely different countries.

As to what else is canon, I have made use of things written by the series' co-creator Greg Weisman's website, stuff from the Young Justice comic and quite a lot from wider DC canon.

Further deviations will occur as the SI causes changes that would not have occurred without him.

What does Renegade mean?
The morality system of the computer game Mass Effect describes aggressively assertive actions as 'renegade' and friendly and diplomatic actions as 'paragon'.

The SI is mostly paragon, going to considerable lengths to get on with everyone he meets. The Renegade parts of the story describe a version of him who made some rather different choices, and the results thereof. Renegade sections will usually have the date and time written in red.

Strongly renegade aligned decisions will be indicated with the renegade star-in-a-circle image.

Strongly paragon aligned decisions will be marked with the paragon wing-in-a-circle.

Please note that the main SI's paragon decisions are usually not marked in this way as there would be too many of them.

As of the present time none of the actions that have taken place in the Renegade timeline have affected the main SI's timeline and vice versa. Yes, this means that you can skip them if you like.

Renegade episodes are largely taken from the point of view of the Renegade. Again, at the moment they have not directly affected the main SI's timeline and I presently have no plans for them to do so. However, you may struggle to understand the SI segments in these episodes if you do not read the whole thing.

How are power rings made?
The hard way. Unlike in the older comics the power rings in this setting do not have the 'deputisation protocol' that briefly made a reappearance during Blackest Night. Forging a power ring or a personal lantern is a work that requires incredible spiritual discipline and technical skill.

Why are some parts of the text coloured?
Power rings require intense emotional focus to use well. To demonstrate this I have taken to colouring parts of the text to match the emotional resonance; yellow indicates that the person is feeling or provoking fear, for example.

What do different colours of power ring do?
Please note that a good deal of the below only applies to this story and is not normal DC canon.

Reds get red light blood vomit. That stuff will wreck pretty much anything. They can also take huge amounts of physical damage, being held together with red light. That's at least in part countered by the fact that they usually don't bother protecting themselves in other ways.
Orange gets assimilation and its variants.
Yellow constructs get reinforced by the fear they and their user generate.
Greens get minimal mental alterations.
Blues recharge from ambient hope.
Indigos can do long range teleportation and have some access to the other colours.
Violets can cause the violet light to manifest as a super strong mind altering crystal.
The rings used by the Anti-Green Lantern Corps can drain green rings for power and enhance the wearer's willpower at the cost of giving them a fatal brain hemorrhage after 24 hours.

What volume of space does the Green Lantern Corps patrol?
In this story sectors are relatively small, certainly far smaller than one 3600th of the Universe. All parts of the galaxy not specifically excluded by treaty have Lanterns assigned to them, as well as parts of intergalactic space and good chunks of the two nearest galaxies. Within a Sector forty-fifty inhabited worlds is the norm. Outside this area a major problem may well receive the attention of an Honour Guard strike force, with perhaps a garrison if the problem looks to be ongoing. The Corps is slowly expanding (Rot Lop Fan's homeworld is a highly radioactive place in intergalactic space) but the bigger it gets the harder it is to run and there aren't more Guardians to whom the existing ones can pass on responsibility.

What's with the invisible text?
Several characters use something called God Speech to communicate, most notably Mister Miracle, Big Barda and Grayven. Strictly speaking I should show this with a vast piece of psychedelic artwork but I'm just not that good an artist. In any location where New Gods are speaking it is probably worth selecting the text to see if there is anything to read that is hidden from mortal eyes.

I have also used invisible text for chess notation.

Are you going to cover the years in between series one and two?
Jumped up elementals help me, yes. This means that the story will be very long.

What to do in the event of a spelling error
Though I am a native English speaker I am not immune to making mistakes in my writing. Feel free to post any spelling, grammar or continuity errors you see in the main thread. However, in some cases I will not be able to correct the main thread if that thread has been locked so it is probably best to only remark on errors in the Story Only thread.

I also have... Let us call them 'grammatical idiosyncrasies'. These are not errors but intentional deviations from the norms of written English. For example, I use '..' to indicate a short unplanned pause in speech, while '...' indicates that speech trails off and stops. I also spell the exclamation 'whaw' rather than 'wow', due to the fact that as far as I am concerned it isn't a proper word but rather an attempt to write a noise and so should be written exactly as it sounds. I use speech marks at the end of paragraphs even when the same person will continue speaking in the next, because otherwise I lose track of the fact that it is speech. There will be other examples as well.

Speed Force?
Take it away Mister Weisman.

Greg Weisman said:
I'll admit I don't understand the Speed-Force. It comes after my time, so to speak, but I'll ask again, if there's a speed-force, does that also mean there's also a strength-force or an archery-force, etc.? What makes the concept necessary and not just unnecessarily complicated? I've not personally read the materials where it first appeared, so I have NO OPINION of them, but no one's ever been able to explain it to me OUT OF CONTEXT in a way that didn't cause me to make a 'yucky' face.

And AGAIN, I'll restate what I've stated many times since, which is that no one on Earth-16 has HEARD of the Speed-Force. If you want to believe it's there, but they just don't know about it, more power to you.

What's this about a game..?
Way way back many threads ago, I made a joke of implying that this story was a novelisation of a playthrough of a Young Justice RPG. Since then, several other posters have taken the idea and run with it. If you see a reference to a game, they are most likely doing that. Alternately, they might possibly be talking about the actual Young Justice game, but that happens far less frequently.

So... Spacebattles?
On the 30th of December I received a one day ban from Spacebattles. This was due to me posting the following:
'I've seen the film, and I'm still not sure how a government backed paramilitary counts as a rebellion.'
This fell afoul of the then Spacebattles policy of coming down hard on anyone talking about a film that may possibly involve... Wars. And maybe Stars.
My opinion is that this was complete overkill, and after my appeal was rejected I decided to move the thread to Sufficient Velocity. It will not be going back.

So... Sufficient Velocity?
On the 25th of January 2019 I received a one day ban from Sufficient Velocity. This was due to me posting the following:

Oooh. This is going to be one of those things where you find out that the writer's social views are radically different from your own, isn't it?

Both myself and the SI are of one mind on this matter. Joe Hamill is presently a woman. She was a man, and she is perfectly entitled to argue that she should be a man. She is perfectly entitled to state that she wants to go back to being a man. And the SI is going to aid her in realising that ambition. But at present, she is not a man. She also isn't a dog. She also isn't a wall, or a flower, or an attack helicopter, though those are perfectly fine things to be. She is plus breasts vagina minus penis testicles facial hair. She even has one of those ridiculous costumes certain comic illustrators like to draw on female characters but not on male ones.

She is a woman.

Moderator Edit - To summarise, Zoat has decided to depart for Questionable Questing.

Scry Wards?
At a certain point in the story, the SI notices that he's finding it harder to locate people by power ring. The Doylist reason for this is that being able to find anyone he wants wherever they are is completely story breakingly powerful. The Watsonian reason is a nifty little magic trinket called a scry ward. Scrying is a form of magic remote viewing designed to locate people and objects. A scry ward is an artefact designed to make this either harder or impossible. It turns out that the mechanism used by power rings when they perform their basic scans is supremely vulnerable to being disrupted by these wards, and that weak versions are easy to mass produce. This means that sufficiently capable people can still hide, while still allowing the SI (and the Renegade) to use other ring-based techniques to try and find them.

Does God exist?
I am a weak atheist. I am not aware of any good evidence demonstrating the existing of the being described in monotheistic scriptures, though all that proves is the absence of evidence and not the absence of God-.

Oh, you meant in the story. Sorry. The answer to that is, sort of. No good evidence exists that demonstrates the existence of a being the SI described as 'Zeus but Nice', though Highfather Izaya looks a little like that. But there is something behind the Source Wall, and the theurgical style of magic is drawing power from somewhere.

What is the Anti-Life?
The Anti-Life is usually a MacGuffin that Darkseid desperately wants, and which would somehow allow him to permanently break the wills of all living beings. In the comics, it has been portrayed in a number of ways.

This is the one I was most familiar with. Then there's this and this or this or this.

I'm not a huge fan of the version of the Anti-Life equation as it was presented in Seven Soldiers. Or rather, it worked there because they made an effort to show that the mere words weren't all there was to it. It was in Final Crisis where they made it look like just.. saying the words was enough.

I've gone with something a little different again, probably more like the 'equations on a blackboard' version.

Apparently necessary disclaimer
The views expressed by a character or by characters in this story do not necessarily reflect those of the author. There are no author mouthpiece characters, only individuals with their own perspectives and opinions.

2010

Welcome to Happy Hour Story Only
18th July
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 1)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 2)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 3)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 4)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 5)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 6)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 7)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 8)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 9)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 10)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 11)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 12)
Welcome to Happy Hour (part 13)

Prod Zone Story Only
19th July
Prod Zone (part 1)
Prod Zone (part 2)
Prod Zone (part 3)
22nd July
Prod Zone (part 4)
Prod Zone (part 5)
Prod Zone (part 6)
Prod Zone (part 7)
Prod Zone (part 8)
Prod Zone (part 9)
Prod Zone (part 10)
Prod Zone (part 11)
Prod Zone (part 11, Renegade Option A)
Prod Zone (part 11, Renegade Option B)
Prod Zone (part 12)
Prod Zone (part 13)
23rd July
Prod Zone (part 14)

Exfiltrator Story Only
9th August
Exfiltrator (part 1)
Exfiltrator (part 2)
Exfiltrator (part 3)
Exfiltrator (part 4)
Exfiltrator (part 5)
Exfiltrator (part 6)
Exfiltrator (part 7)
Exfiltrator (part 7, Renegade Option)
Exfiltrator (part 8)
Exfiltrator (part 9)
Exfiltrator (part 10)
Exfiltrator (part 11)
Exfiltrator (part 12)
Exfiltrator (part 13)
10th August
Exfiltrator (part 14)
Exfiltrator (part 15)
Exfiltrator (supplementary, Renegade Option)

Clueless Story Only
4th September
Clueless (part 1)
Clueless (part 2)
Clueless (part 3)
Clueless (part 4)
Clueless (part 5)
Clueless (part 6)
Clueless (part 7)
Clueless (part 8)
Clueless (part 9)
Clueless (part 10)
Clueless (part 11)
Clueless (part 12)
Clueless (part 13)
Clueless (part 14)
Clueless (part 15)
Clueless (part 16)
Clueless (supplementary, Renegade Option)
Clueless (supplementary, Renegade Option)

Home Font Story Only
18th September
Home Font (part 1)
Home Font (part 2)
Home Font (part 3)
Home Font (part 4)
22nd September
Home Font (part 5)
Home Font (part 6)
Home Font (part 7)
Home Font (part 8)
Home Font (part 9)
Home Font (part 10)
Home Font (part 11)
Home Font (part 12)
Home Font (part 13)
Home Font (part 14)
Home Font (part 15)

Inhumanity Story Only
3rd October
Inhumanity (part 1)
Inhumanity (part 2)
Inhumanity (part 3)
Inhumanity (part 4)
Inhumanity (part 5)
Inhumanity (part 6)
Inhumanity (part 7)

10th October
Inhumanity (part 8)
Inhumanity (part 9)
Inhumanity (part 10)
Inhumanity (part 11)
Inhumanity (part 12)
Inhumanity (part 13)
Inhumanity (part 14)
Inhumanity (part 15)

11th October
Inhumanity (part 16)
Inhumanity (supplementary, Renegade Option)

2011

Homecoming Story Only
3rd January
Homecoming (part 1)
7th January
Homecoming (supplementary, Renegade option)
Homecoming (supplementary, Renegade option)
Homecoming (supplementary, Renegade option)
Homecoming (supplementary, Renegade option)
8th January
Homecoming (part 2)
Homecoming (part 3)
Homecoming (part 4)
Homecoming (part 5)
Homecoming (part 6)
Homecoming (part 7)
Homecoming (part 8)
Homecoming (part 9)
Homecoming (part 10)
Homecoming (part 11)
Homecoming (part 12)
Homecoming (part 13)
Homecoming (part 14)
Homecoming (supplementary, Renegade option)
Homecoming (part 15)
Homecoming (part 16)
Homecoming (part 17)
Homecoming (part 18)
Homecoming (part 19)
Homecoming (part 20)
Homecoming (part 21)
Homecoming (part 22)
Homecoming (part 23)
Homecoming (part 24)
9th January
Homecoming (part 25)
Homecoming (part 26)
Homecoming (part 27)
Homecoming (part 28)
Homecoming (supplementary, Renegade option)

Aberration Story Only
10th January
Aberration (part 1)
Aberration (supplementary, SI option)
Aberration (supplementary, SI option)
12th January
Aberration (part 2)
13th January
Aberration (part 3)
14th January
Aberration (part 4)
15th January
Aberration (part 5)
Aberration (part 6)
Aberration (part 7)
Aberration (part 8)
Aberration (part 9)
Aberration (part 10)
Aberration (part 11)
Aberration (part 12)
Aberration (part 13)
Aberration (part 14)
Aberration (part 15)
Aberration (part 16)
Aberration (part 17)
Aberration (part 18)
Aberration (supplementary, SI option)
Aberration (part 19)
Aberration (part 20)
Aberration (part 21)
Aberration (part 22)
Aberration (part 23)
Aberration (part 24)
Aberration (part 25)
Aberration (part 26)
Aberration (part 27)
Aberration (part 28)
Aberration (part 29)
Aberration (part 30)
16th January
Aberration (supplementary, SI option)
Aberration (supplementary, SI option)

Respite (Story Only)
16th August
Respite (part 1)
Respite (supplementary, Renegade option)
Respite (supplementary, Renegade option)
Respite (part 2)
Respite (part 3)
Respite (part 4)
Respite (supplementary, Renegade option)
Respite (part 5)
Respite (part 6)
Respite (part 7)
Respite (part 8)
Respite (part 9)
Respite (part 10)
Respite (part 11)
17th August
Respite (supplementary, Renegade option)
Respite (supplementary, Renegade option)

Mr Zoat · Aug 1, 2018

Z-E-R-O (Story Only)
27th December 2011
Z-E-R-O (part 1)
Z-E-R-O (part 2)
Z-E-R-O (part 3)
Z-E-R-O (part 4)
Z-E-R-O (supplementary, Renegade option)
Z-E-R-O (part 5)
Z-E-R-O (part 6)
Z-E-R-O (part 7)
Z-E-R-O (part 8)
Z-E-R-O (part 9)
Z-E-R-O (part 10)
Z-E-R-O (part 11)
Z-E-R-O (part 12)
Z-E-R-O (part 13)
Z-E-R-O (part 14)
Z-E-R-O (part 15)

Mr Zoat · Aug 1, 2018

12th November
17:32 GMT -5

"So… This is it, huh?" Dr Highwater carefully lifts the Medusa Mask from the padded Justice League case Lantern Stewart transported it in.

"Yeah."

Lantern Stewart doesn't look entirely happy about this, but KordTech has all of the licences required to analyse supervillain technology and is the only surface world site with enough qualified magic users to produce useful results with arcane equipment. If anyone is going to do something with this, it's KordTech.

Dr Highwater performs a brief visual inspection. "Mask is gold in color, but weighs more than this volume of gold should. Mask…" He prods it. "Is immobile, despite reports that it can form expressions. Mask has no visible way to attach itself to the wearer's face, despite reports that it remains attached during strenuous physical activity."

"Kid Flash was able to pull it off Roger Hayden's face just prior to his arrest."

"But why didn't it fall off?" He holds it up slightly. "I mean: look at it."

He's right. Not only is it taller than a normal man's face, it isn't clear how it was able to stay on Mr Hayden's face at all.

"It's a shame Charles Halstead wasn't able to provide a better explanation before he was committed." Dr Highwater tears his eyes away from the Mask to look at Lantern Stewart. "You're sure Mr Hayden hasn't suffered any of the same side effects?"

Lantern Stewart shakes his head. "Not according to the prison shrink."

Yes, that was something I hadn't known before I started reading up on the case. After getting a whole life sentence and passing his equipment on to Psycho-Pirate 2, Psycho-Pirate 1 gradually lost all ability to feel emotion. There are emotion-affecting magics which could have that effect, but that wouldn't explain why it stopped doing that for the second wearer.

"Mister Hayden claimed to have amalgamated the many masks Mister Halstead used into a single mask."

Dr Highwater nods. "Then I think we're ready for human testing."

I nod, and create a frame construct around the Mask. I remember that the comic version of this mask gave medium awareness but I haven't seen any sign of that in the League's records on either of the local Pirates. Which I suppose might mean that the Earth 2 version got that power not from the Mask but from living through the Crisis.

Lantern Stewart leans slightly to the left. "That seems a bit sudden."

"After.. what happened to Bobo, we decided that testing telepathic equipment on animals wasn't a good idea."

"How's the little scamp doing?"

"He's reached eighth grade now."

Lantern Stewart frowns. "Who's 'Bobo'?"

"He's the chimpanzee KordTech tested the updated Thinking Cap on. We've removed it now, but it appears to have given him human-equivalent intelligence." But not the capacity for speech. His vocal systems just aren't the right shape, so he mostly communicates by writing. "We're not.. really sure how, but we're not going to be testing it on any other chimps."

Lantern Stewart looks decidedly uncertain at that news. "So you're skipping straight to human testing?"

Dr Highwater nods. "Nothing in either Psycho-Pirate's background indicates a particular level of arcane knowledge, and Abraham Carlyle and Wolf Krieger were able to use it without any adverse side affects. This is just a quick trial run so I can get some idea of what it feels like to use, so I can pass that on to the arcanists so they can narrow down the range of things they're investigating. And we're not allowed to do human tests on objects of this class without a member of the Justice League being present."

"So it's my fault." Lantern Stewart nods. "Great."

"I don't think you understand exactly what this can do for the Green Lantern Corps."

"Make us all feel fear so we can train to work through it?"

"Why not just amp up your will?"

He frowns. "Is that possible? I didn't think that 'will power' was really an emotion."

"Should be. And the best thing about it is that it can affect as many people as the wearer can see. Marginally useful for a single Green Lantern, but in any situation where you need a whole task force…"

He nods. "One Lantern can hold back and enhance all of the rest."

"If they're a natural empath, they could use what they're doing to the rest of the force to enhance themselves as well. And they can suppress any conflicting emotions that the rookies are feeling."

"I don't think that's a good idea. Rookies shouldn't be in that sort of situation." He nods slowly. "But I take your point. That could dramatically cut down the casualties during major operations."

I beam. "Thank you for volunteering."

He blinks. "You want me to put that thing on?"

"No, of course not. Doctor Hightower is going to put it on and use it on you. I've already got recordings of how strong you are without it from our training sessions, now we just need to find out how strong a pre-m'eelam na'aquall Sector Lantern gets with it."

"Why don't we use it on you?"

"Do you want another giant cake?" He bows his head slightly, smiling as he does so. "Besides, I need to be available to yank the mask off Doctor Highwater if something goes wrong."

He nods. "Alright, but take things slowly."

Dr Highwater nods. "Of course. We don't even know if I can use it yet." He steps up to where I have the mask suspended in a head height frame. "Here goes."

He presses his face into the inside of the mask for a moment, then pulls it back. There's a slight tug on the frame, but otherwise I don't see anything unusual.

"Feel anything?"

"I felt it stick to my face, but I didn't get any sort of impression of the emotions around me. It might be that it only senses strong emotion, or it might be that the effect is only one way; it can create emotions but not detect them in the people around it."

"It put a small amount of pressure on the frame when you pulled back. It looks like it does stick. Try again?"

He nods, and presses his face back into it. "Okay, I'm-. It's moving, the mask is moving with my mouth as I speak. That.. feels.. weird."

"Yeah." Lantern Stewart walks around to the front. "I can confirm that from the outside. It looks different from how it looked when Krieger was wearing it, but that might be because your face is a different shape from his."

"Okay. If you're ready, I'll-" Lantern Stewart's ring flashes. "-try to-."

"Just a moment." He holds his ring out. "Go ahead."

"Batman to Green Lantern. The team was investigating a LexCorp facility in Argentina. They've just missed one of their scheduled check ins."

"I can head down there and take a look. What were they investigating?"

"A geology research center. I had no specific intelligence that they would meet any significant threats there."

"Understood." He glances at me. "Orange Lantern is here as well. Should I bring him along?"

"As if I'm giving you a choice."

RichardWhereat · Aug 1, 2018

Neat, finally the team is back together again! Also, I wonder if it's worth using this on Orange Lanterns in combat with the Reach...

Also, First!

jcw3 · Aug 1, 2018

Mr Zoat said:
"A geology research centre. I had no specific intelligence that they would meet any significant threats there."

First correction of the new thread! Batman is an American, so this should be center, not centre.

RichardWhereat · Aug 1, 2018

Eh, batman might speak American, but Paul translates it to English.

I wonder if that geology research centre is also a cover for leyline testing, for pits.

Mr Zoat · Aug 1, 2018

jcw3 said:
First correction of the new thread! Batman is an American, so this should be center, not centre.

Thank you, corrected.

Massgamer · Aug 1, 2018

Oh neat, seems like Paul and Stewart are going to have their buddy cop situation.

Adad64 · Aug 1, 2018

Oh, new thread threw me for a loop. The chapter is up after all!

I've always wondered what the interaction between the medusa mask and power rings would be, fun to see it brought up.

Empiricist2 · Aug 1, 2018

I wonder what the odds are of needing a new thread due to maxing out the size of the second page of the index before something else forces the story to move again.

Avernus · Aug 1, 2018

Typos:

Mr Zoat said:
Dr Highwater performs a brief visual inspection. "Mask is gold in color, but weighs more than this volume of gold should do. Mask…" He prods it. "Is immobile, despite reports that it can form expression.

"should", "expressions". That's how I'd expect an American to say it at least.

Mr Zoat said:
I nod, and create a frame construct around the Mask. I remember that the comic version of this mask gave medium awareness but I haven't seen any sigh on that in the League's records on either of the local Pirates.

"sign of"

Mr Zoat said:
"Yeah." Lantern Stewart walks around to the front. "I can confirm that from the outside. It looks different to how it looked when Krieger was wearing it, but that might be because your face is a different shape to his."

AmeriSpeak again: "from", "from"

The Bushranger · Aug 1, 2018

The important question is, will somebody remember to take the mask off of Dr. Highwater before they head south of the Equator?

Ganurath · Aug 1, 2018

Huh. I find out about the new thread and the new season within a minute of each other. Neat.

GullibleCynic · Aug 1, 2018

Stewart seems to be getting along fairly well with OL. I wonder how their conversation will go...

Lord Ernest · Aug 1, 2018

I just remembered something, wasn't in Argentina where some LexCorp Team found the original material for the Genomorphs? The genetic material that is speculated to have come from Doomsday, or at least his Earth 16-Z version?

Might be two things, the Earthquake, or what they believed to be seismic activity, was registered due to something going wrong in a hidden research center for LexCorp. Or the Earthquake itself affected the facility and provoked the, as usual, escalation of threat in a Team mission. But that's just me speculating.

Finally... just breathe that smell of new thread, haven't been following With This Ring long enough to personally experience the "Exodus" so this feels like a milestone to me.

TheLastOne · Aug 1, 2018

RichardWhereat said:
Neat, finally the team is back together again! Also, I wonder if it's worth using this on Orange Lanterns in combat with the Reach...

Also, First!

Probably not. You don't want to amp general greed. The Orange Lanterns use more abstract desires as a focus. More unfocused gree just makes you Smaug, which goes beyond not useful and enters the realm of the detrimental.

Mr Zoat · Aug 1, 2018

Avernus said:
Typos:
"should", "expressions". That's how I'd expect an American to say it at least.
"sign of"
AmeriSpeak again: "from", "from"

Thank you, corrected.

Avernus · Aug 1, 2018

The Bushranger said:
The important question is, will somebody remember to take the mask off of Dr. Highwater before they head south of the Equator?

"Don't worry, one of the other scientists snuck up behind Dr Highwater and yanked it off when he started referring to the lab rats as 'my minions'."

Ganurath · Aug 1, 2018

Avernus said:
"Don't worry, one of the other scientists snuck up behind Dr Highwater and yanked it off when he started referring to the lab rats as 'my minions'."

Intern: "Calling us lab rats is even worse!"

finbikkifin · Aug 1, 2018

This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!

Lord Ernest · Aug 1, 2018

Mr Zoat said:
And the best thing about it is that it can affect as many people at the wearer can see.

I do believe at the end it should be "as many people as the wearer can see".

And also a couple of things I had saved from rereading:

Mr Zoat said:
I get a half second to see the stealth fighter thing flying towards me

This link is not working anymore, unfortunately I couldn't find a Nightwing-wing image for replacement.

Mr Zoat said:
I generate an array of weapons

This link is not available either. Can't even recall what it was for.

Mr Zoat said:
he was a good guy when he was black

Mr Zoat said:
caused him to reincarnate as a Colonel Sanders look-alike.

Nor do these two, apparently some kind of reorganization on the website. Nevertheless here is the new page for the character in general and the respective images: Father Time - DC Comics - Seven Soldiers - Grant Morrison - Profile

Father Time Black: https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Father-Time-DC-Comics-Seven-Soldiers-Morrison.jpg

Father Time Sanders: https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Father-Time-DC-Comics-Seven-Soldiers-Morrison-d.jpg

Mr Zoat said:
Ah-arrrrrrrr. Someone just kicked me. Barda? Was that really necessary.

It is my subjective opinion that this needs a question mark at the end to continue the tone, unless it is thought with what I think is considered 'a deadpan manner', in which case never mind.

Vaermina · Aug 1, 2018

Mr Zoat said:
"He's the chimpanzee KordTech tested the updated Thinking Cap on. We've removed it now, but it appears to have given him human-equivalent intelligence." But not the capacity for speech. His vocal systems just aren't the right shape, so he mostly communicates by writing. "We're not.. really sure how, but we're not going to be testing it on any other chimps."

Why not a wrist mounted text to speech device?

Ganurath · Aug 1, 2018

Vaermina said:
Why not a wrist mounted text to speech device?

Bobo: "SWEET JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST. THAT'S GOING TO BACKFIRE MORE DRAMATICALLY THAN MAGNUS ON TACO TUESDAY."

HandleWithCare · Aug 1, 2018

So will Paul make the connection between earth quake and geological research center?

RichardWhereat · Aug 1, 2018

TheLastOne said:
Probably not. You don't want to amp general greed. The Orange Lanterns use more abstract desires as a focus. More unfocused gree just makes you Smaug, which goes beyond not useful and enters the realm of the detrimental.

Not if it's amplifying their desire to keep their shields up, and destroy Dirty Hightower Scum.

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