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

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Mr Zoat said:
While that's technically sort of true, gold kryptonite and gold kryptonite are very similar, and it's not hard to perform tiny alterations to one to make the other. And sometimes they're close enough that you don't even need to do that.
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Did you mean to write gold kryptonite twice? If so, maybe you can differentiate it by writing gold kryptonite 16 and gold kryptonite 666.
 
gustyeagle said:
I think this is everything fixed, here is the file, https://www.mediafire.com/file/53618qcxlzpm2zg/fixed-TOC-file-post-2.txt/file
I don't know if you can quote my quote to most easily have everything formatted, but the file can just be copy pasted into the BBcode editor
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Thank you, you crazy (wo)man, you. Updated.

How exactly do you get that 'post reference' thing rather than a thread reference? It really looks like that should be the default.

Oh, and I'm sorry, I know someone brought up a problem with image links, but I've lost track of it. Anyone know where it is?
 
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Mr Zoat said:
Thank you, you crazy (wo)man, you. Updated.

How exactly do you get that 'post reference' thing rather than a thread reference? It really looks like that should be the default.

Oh, and I'm sorry, I know someone brought up a problem with image links, but I've lost track of it. Anyone know where it is?
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You can quote a post, preview, right quick on the arrow link on the quote box and copy link. That gets you a link like this: https://forum.questionablequesting.com/goto/post?id=5136428#post-5136428

Which will also go directly to the post. Otherwise you have to alter the link manually.
 
Sojiko said:
That should be "failures".
That should definitely be "compliment"
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Thank you, corrected.

You know, it's nice to know that even in my dotage I'll have these corrections to keep my mind alert.
inglorius said:
Or you can right-click "Like" button, copy its link and delete "like" from the end. That link works as well.
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Anyone know why the permalink tool doesn't just show that? That's not even complicated.
 
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Z3r0Sama said:
Nice. OL is usually savvy enough to deal with the normies and heavy hitters, but when he faces one of the actual Big Brain characters he doesn't have a fun time.
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Unfortunately Greed Enlightenment doesn't make you good at questioning them about stuff they would care about.

Then again at least Oh El has not told Mad Science Lex Luthor to make his own power ring.
 
Mr Zoat said:
Thank you, corrected.

While that's technically sort of true, gold kryptonite and gold kryptonite are very similar, and it's not hard to perform tiny alterations to one to make the other. And sometimes they're close enough that you don't even need to do that.
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Oh okay, here I was thinking that the problem was something else.

Kingdom Come Superman was effectively immune to kryptonite, apparently his solar reserve had just gotten large enough that kryptonite doesn't make a difference anymore. Kind of like trying to stop a forest fire with a bucket of water, I suppose.

I thought that Demon Superman was so full of demon mojo that the same phenomenon was happening there.
 
Stsword said:
Oh okay, here I was thinking that the problem was something else.

Kingdom Come Superman was effectively immune to kryptonite, apparently his solar reserve had just gotten large enough that kryptonite doesn't make a difference anymore. Kind of like trying to stop a forest fire with a bucket of water, I suppose.

I thought that Demon Superman was so full of demon mojo that the same phenomenon was happening there.
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Are you sure that's Kingdom Come Superman? I might well be misremembering, but I don't remember kryptonite featuring in that story.

Your conclusion was more or less correct. A simple magic shield prevents the radiation touching anything it could harm.
 
Mr Zoat said:
Are you sure that's Kingdom Come Superman? I might well be misremembering, but I don't remember kryptonite featuring in that story.

Your conclusion was more or less correct. A simple magic shield prevents the radiation touching anything it could harm.
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Yes, Lex mentioned in story that Superman evolved past his kryptonite weakness and someone used kryptonite gas only for Superman to stand around unaffected.

So someone hadn't gotten the memo. Sadly Supes is too dignified to do the Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny faking his death skit. :)
 
Vaermina said:
Or this is another case like with Supergirl where only his specific universe's Kryptonite effects him.
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Ya, about that.

Until Supergirl is able to explain where she is getting this meta knowledge I am going to take everything she tells us with a grain of salt so large she can't lift it

I wouldn't be surprised to learn she is Ambush Bug in a skirt or some other super with forth wall power, (quick look at DC Database Miss America could fit if she is reading the future chapters in Mr Zoat's computer.)
 
Patrick Holt said:
Ya, about that.

Until Supergirl is able to explain where she is getting this meta knowledge I am going to take everything she tells us with a grain of salt so large she can't lift it

I wouldn't be surprised to learn she is Ambush Bug in a skirt or some other super with forth wall power, (quick look at DC Database Miss America could fit if she is reading the future chapters in Mr Zoat's computer.)
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Yes she seems suspicious.

On the other hand maybe she has 4D vision.
 
Coda said:
Hordes
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Thank you, corrected.
Patrick Holt said:
Ya, about that.

Until Supergirl is able to explain where she is getting this meta knowledge I am going to take everything she tells us with a grain of salt so large she can't lift it

I wouldn't be surprised to learn she is Ambush Bug in a skirt or some other super with forth wall power, (quick look at DC Database Miss America could fit if she is reading the future chapters in Mr Zoat's computer.)
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Good plan.
Stsword said:
Yes she seems suspicious.

On the other hand maybe she has 4D vision.
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Found an old error.
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"That was more a case of taking advantage of their instincts to encourage them to act in a more useful fashion. Dox's father made him paranoid and untrusting. For him, that was useful because in reduced the chance that Dox would try and escape his laboratory. For me, it makes it harder for him to work with the rest of N.E.M.O. and that's not helpful."
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That should say 'it'.
 
Rebu said:
I bet his jacket says "FEAR PLAY".
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Honestly, I find both Mr. Terrifics sort of hilarious, in an unintentionally hypocritical way. "Oh, I'm a super-intelligent prodigy at everything! I've become super-wealthy because of the immense privilege I possess! What should my slogan as a superhero be? I know! 'Fair play'!"

Let's not even discuss how the anti-racist subtext of the second one's slogan gets distorted by the hypocrisy of it.
 
Krummkreuz (part 20)
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    21:05 GMT -5

    Pain!

    "Con-tact."

    Hellfire burns around my armour and scorches my body. And inside, I can feel it burn at my metaphysique, my constructs and environmental shield shimmering as it's attacked directly. And I realise that Michael Holt is a lot more intelligent than any demon.

    "Fuel for Him."

    Feed Me.

    Flames burning in the void shimmer orange as I try and ingest whatever he's using to power this.

    "Do you-"

    The pain lessens and my body knits itself back together.

    "-need help?"

    "Not yet, thank-"

    I lash out at the T-Spheres as they form a sphere around me, but they shimmer out of phase with reality before I can hit them. Terrific himself floats back slowly, none of the insane passion every other corrupted human has had visible on his mask-covered face.

    "-you. Engaging Mister Terrific."

    Back on Earth 16, Michael Holt is still building his company and hasn't shown any interest in superheroing. I hope that the Sheeda invasion hasn't butterflied that.

    I form a railgun as Terrific continues to watch me impassively, not reacting as I fire mage slayer and phasic rounds at him. Not even a blur as they pass through the space his image occupies.

    And another wave of fire! The T-Spheres-! A three dimensional pentagram! That's how it's hitting me despite my tattoos!

    I fly down, moving a hundred metres closer to the distant Earth. Terrific keeps pace without making any apparent movement, but the T-Spheres lag behind and lose formation as they accelerate after me. Alright, try phasic and mage slayer rounds at a few of those… Negative impact. Right, fine, but they're interacting with the physical universe somehow or they wouldn't be able to move. Not magnetism, not a self-generated force field otherwise I'd be able to detect the plasma surrounding them.

    So gravity. Which means that if I generate an impeller construct and twist-.

    The T-Spheres jerk, shifting their acceleration from me and towards a central point in their formation. For a second, at which point they go ballistic-

    Shoot them again!

    -with their gravity drives deactivated so that I can no longer interact with them by manipulating their motive system, but.. that doesn't mean that the magic keeping them out of normal space stops working. Can I..? Combine phasing and magic-draining into a single round? Not without a trip to Sephtian.

    "Interesting."

    Nth metal would probably work, but I'm all out. I could in theory make more, but-.

    T-Spheres swirl, forming-move!

    I dart aside as a portal opens between the T-Spheres, some sort of shimmering… Vapour? Gas? Drifts out. I spot the edge of the patch touch one of my gas traps and dissolve it, the gas being frozen by the cold field as the force field breaches before being so totally unmade that I can't even detect radiation that might be given off by a conventional disintegration effect.

    Need to get Terrific himself.

    I try staring into his soul, but he's not actually here. There's nothing to see… But… I'm the focus of his thoughts and desires at the moment. I should be able to-.

    Agh!

    Stabbed! Smaller portals have opened beneath me, dull grey needles jutting out and penetrating my legs! But those-. Portals!

    Mine.

    The wavering area around the edge of the portals turns orange, the T-Spheres trying to back away but being… Stuck, by their own innate magics. The spines retract as I choke the flow of magic… Ow, ow, definitely demon magic but it's working for me.

    The other T-Spheres float closer, one flying by its fellows to try and work out what's wrong with them. Move the portal and stab!

    Dead T-Sphere!

    It fades fully into the material universe and I get a good look at its internals. Spell circuitry of a sort that's… I recognise some things, but demon magic isn't studied much in Atlantis and I've never asked Mammon to share more but if I understand the general design correctly-.

    Orange tendrils grab components and move them around, plugging certain demonic runes into others and dispensing with irrelevant parts-.

    Hah!

    Assimilate that mess so I can sort-of control it, press there and railgun!

    Two more T-Spheres are torn apart, and the rest I can see disappear in a puff of blue flame. The two on the portal appear to be stuck there, which I'll accept.

    "Troublesome."

    I thrust the portal in his direction, and… Connect my bodged anti-T-Sphere to my metaphysique directly. Now extend my tendrils along the spines and

    tell

    them what I want from them.

    Mr. Terrific doesn't move as they approach, settling for watching the stolen portal. Why-? Countermeasures. He's probably given a good deal of thought to the question of how to kill a Green Lantern, but he didn't know that there were other colours, much less the differences in their abilities. Green Lanterns can't do this.

    The spines leap at his image, vanishing as they hit it. I make a point of folding my arms across my chest and repairing my armour. Mr. Terrific waves at something out of shot -probably preparing some sort of Super T-Sphere or something- then falls to the ground as the spines explode from his legs and arms.

    His image vanishes, and I shoot both of the remaining T-Spheres maintaining my stolen portal. Helpful as it might be I don't know enough about that demon or the portals to want to risk it.

    "Mister Terrific has fallen back injured." I look back towards Metropolis. "Please up-?"

    There's a giant Superman shaped blur in the centre of Metropolis smashing apart buildings as if they were of no consideration. Three other blurs dash around it, tiny red lines briefly connecting them to the larger blur. They're all staying close to the ground, which if I had to guess is because Demon Superman doesn't want to risk getting pushed to the outskirts of the thaumosphere.

    "The Kryptonians have engaged. Baron-" Diana only hesitates for an instant. "-Gestapo has fallen back safely and Baroness Blitzkrieg is preparing for the next stage. Are you injured?"

    "Fine fettle and raring to go. What do you need?"

    "Stand by to evacuate our allies if they are injured. Crusader is almost ready-."

    There's a blast wave as Demon Superman backhands Overman, sending him flying through half the city and then heat visioning-.

    Transition!
     
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    • Mr Zoat said:
    And I realise that Michael Holt is a lot more intelligent that any demon.
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    Not surprising, seeing as he's usually depicted as one of the smartest characters.

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    Spell circuitry of a short that's… I
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    'of a sort'

    Bud-E said:
    What are T-Spheres supposed to do? Are they just generic super-tech or do they have a specific purpose?
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    They've served him as everything from communication devices to weapons.
     
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