Not entirely certain what happened to that sentence.
a bit confused after "but" - maybe delete "they did that"
Quoted for posterity's sake.
So this is also your fault.
Okay, OL not looking in good shape at all. Hopefully the memetic attack is targetting him can be shaken off without too much danger to those around him. At least if he is Anti-Lifed, he'll have more difficulty using the Orange Light.
Which might not come as much comfort in the moment of those tribulations, though. I suppose that's the test.
The ultimate bad Touch, you might say?
Somehow, I don't think he's going to be able to recover without outside interference...
And here's just the interference to manage it.
Going badly, then. What else is new?
Ideally without breaking anything he might find useful?
Or cut him off from the vector of the attack, given that it's working through his rings?
I don't think it means quite what you want it to mean...
Looks like you're over-ruled, Kadabra
Don't go getting any ideas, Icicle...
Looks like he's stablised, at least. Well, not screaming, so improvement?
Yes, yes, very clever. Now give.
And given The General's size, that's a fair height. Bet he's feeling a bit of a squeeze down here.
'Section Eight' being a term for 'medical discharge - psychologically unfit'. Basically, fired for going nuts.
Don't take that as given, OL. You might experience a relapse.
Justified, aliens, or both?
I suspect the Ophidian would have some opinions about that.
...Well, that puts a bit of a dampener on the 'jury-rig the White Light into a cleansing' plan
Honestly, you've been lucky so far, OL.
Be glad he hasn't tried to put one on yet. Then things might get noisy.
...You are at least wearing pants, right?
Ah, finally, we get to see what they look like!
Huh. Space Chicken-people.
Funnily, Kanjar Ro himself does not have legs like that. Surgical modification, maybe?I assume OL had something to do with it, then...
Or just loot the place while you're all distracted. So, more Space Magpies than Space Chickens.
More than once, depending on continuity.
Given the failure of their broadcaster, they're likely to be hanging around for a while.
A risky move, especially if it looses stability in its capacitors.
And of course his first move is to make a timestamp.
Something which will be much easier with a Yellow Ring than an Orange...
...then lowers him to where I can look at his face.
There's no way they're not watching the exit...
Me neither.
No, I don't believe that I wrote what happened to it after he dismissed the Zod construct.
Thank you, corrected.
A mistake on my part.
Those clones were stolen very shortly after Mannheim started his broadcast. By the time OL got an alert that something was wrong and got there, the clones and some computer equipment were gone (but not other space age weaponry he had stored there). And then he didn't have any leads on where they went or where they were going to be stored and no way to easily track them down.
"agree to anything".
No, that's fine as it is.
That should say 'our'.
I think that should say 'now that you'.
I figure it's a bit like going from one desktop operating system to another. On the surface everything looks about the same, but all the keyboard shortcuts are slightly different, and you can't always find whatever program you want to work with.
And that's probably a little more difficult to hold on to compared to, say, just wanting harder.
And this is a situation where some of your companions might be a little suspicious of what's being said in a language they can't understand, no doubt.
Then you were doing it wrong, General.
Still, at least he's appropriately afraid for his life?
Well, it might be a little difficult to recognise you, OL. Between him having to work with just an average organic brain, and you not glowing all orange...
And can tell his boss he 'tried to resist, honest, but these sneaky hoo-mans outsmarted me'.
Because there's always a war in their system.
Better a metastable balance of power than utter annihilation, I suppose. Even if it does result in a rather hefty number of deaths now and then.
And probably trigger an argument about military strategy. Best to let it lie.
Well, someone didn't read all of their briefing...
Ah, hoping to slip under the radar and suddenly strike while the others' backs are turned?
Ah, something of a national embarrassment, was it?
Ooh, bit of a hot button issue, I see. And good to sort-of hear that Tuppence is alive.
Oh, yes, that's a 'i shouldn't have said that' moment if ever I saw one.
What, you think that sort of thing is normal around Earth? Heaven forbid.
Might have been a good idea to poke around a bit, find some intel before you went ram-raiding.
This is why you always want to know what sort of tango you're sticking your beak into...
Yeah, that makes it pretty clear. Assuming that isn't a 'plausible deniability' ploy.
Now, don't go thinking they're desperate.
Oh, plenty. Though some of them, you'll have to go through the subverted population to get to.
Admittedly, I'm not sure you'll still want it once you start playing with it.
Heh.Clever, OL. Getting a third party to meddle with Mannheim's expansion plans while you get set up to kick him out?
Wise fellow.
Logical enough, if a bit at risk of damage from heavy fire. Not doubt it's well-armoured.
...You're the only one not really required in this conversation. And that wasn't really a request, polite as it was.
Grumpy kid. Understandable, given the circumstances, but really...
It's really not.
As a colloqulism, it is. It does make the alien sound a bit British, but...
Is this a British grammar thing, or a Dhorian grammar thing? Because it seems odd to this American, and doesn't fit the parts of British English that I'm familiar with.
I feel like he's being played.
