Oh, it's been a while since I thought about this guy. Whatever happened to him anyway? The search function says he was last seen in episode 23 in the custody of Qurac, but that would have been years ago even in universe.
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Paul mentioned Zerox when talking to Queen Artemis. The only reason he didn't go there was because Lantern Hieronymous recommended his own homeworld over it, Mars or any other planet with a confirmed magic tradition.
"my order"
Ah, that's all kinds of nasty. Definitely a bonus pain-causing effect to ensure his prey is cripplingly debilitated and unable to fight back. Which for most people would mean a quick end to the fight. Sadly, OL isn't like most people.
And he's probably fast enough to spit it out if you try to turn it into anything nastier.
Oh, joy. When the support build has to play tank. Honestly, not that unusual to me, CC players in Champions Online who intend to serve at 'Cosmic' battles often play the Tank role for extra HP and durability. At least one Cosmic can casually snipe them for 20,000 damage plus against a well-geared tank's 15k health...
Some manner of 'this is mine now, meat.' effect, perhaps. Or just lingering aggravated damage.
At least the geek has to pry the crunchy shell off your leg before he can chow down.
Much like D&D's ever-iconic Darkness spell, it probably has a maximum radius.
Okay, Darkness usually doesn't move.
So, more or less barbed-wire lashes. That can carve through anything not also x-ionised or otherwise conceptually indestructible. Could be messy.
Unfortunately, sympathetic magic doesn't need line of sight or proximity.
What's the bet he's grown shark-like teeth from synergistic impression?
To be fair, it could be some manner of blood effect, traces of it mixed into the mass.
Keep in mind, just because the armour can withstand the impact doesn't mean the flesh inside can. Kinetic transfer is a thing, after all. A lot of cops and soldiers hit in the armour plates can still walk away with bruises or cracked ribs...
Magic don't give a shit about physics, after all. If it did, it wouldn't be magic, it'd be exotic physics.
This is going to be a running gag, isn't it? Or should that be swimming?
Yup, better rig a kinetic barrier, unless you want to be reduced to spam in a can.
He doesn't need to keep attacking you, merely hold you in place for something nastier.
Great, a veritable feeding frenzy of civilians.
It's going to be a long day, if he keeps getting nibbled on, spiritually and physically.
So something of a blood knight as well as a blood mage. 'The strongest foes are also the tastiest', or something like that?
At least he didn't have any nasty countermeasures. Even if they collapsed upon consumption, they might still have gone off...
Good, the sooner they take down whatever's causing this whole problem, the better.
Figures. Just tell him there may be strong defences around the source. That'll lift his mood.
Don't really need weapons when their mouths are full of them. And at this point, they may be in such a savage state they wouldn't think of using handheld stuff.
Let me guess, their magic is only active when consuming or having recently consumed the target's blood?
Oh, joy. So he could have vast reserves left, only able to use them when he gets a piece of OL...
Looks like their controller has decided 'damn the casualties, kill the target'.
I generate a construct spelling out 'KEEP GOING'...
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That'd involve nuking an entire civilization of mind control victims.
"Then regrow"
Not sure that's true.
So they're constructs.
Few things so scary as a pack of murderous sharks bearing down on you like a school of piranha. Even worse when you consider that they aren't even doing this of their own will. Some may end up dead without knowing why...
And I can't imagine most people could easily tell the difference between sharkfolk in a mob this large, like a mosh pit with teeth. Just a roiling mass of bodies all swimming around each other...
It really is becoming a running gag. Also worrying that he can just chomp it away like that. OL never even saw him...
Hopefully the attached spell didn't spread.
This is getting crazy. At least they aren't trying to eat other... Yet.
Though it's hard to hold aggro with limited low-lethality options, especially when you invested in stuff like threat wipes.
...Until it does command them to attack your captives. Then things get really awkward in the after-action reports.
Maybe not the best logic, OL, especially in a superheroic operation.
Oh, boy. Out of contact and running out of options? Time to take the limiters off.
Well, at least M'gann isn't under threat yet. worrying that the others are incommunicado, though.
Great, he ditched you in favour of softer targets.
at least you can recall to the party as needed. better than some support/tanks can manage.
Oh, this is gonna be good...
Good grief, are they really wrapped up in a big old cartoony ball of dust and violence?
Especially if the blood mage can transform himself...
Probably a moment of confused panic at the interruption.
Ooh, those are gonna sting, between the thinness and the salt.
Well, the best laid plans of mice and men, and all that.
Oi, trying to get an operational update here, lads, sod off.
Okay, either someone decided to go ultra-lethal, or...
...They aren't really sharks.
Zombies? sharkfolk zombies, enhanced with magic clay? Good grief, it's like someone is playing 'OL mission bingo' and going for the win.
Doesn't ring any bells, no. And it's too widely-used a power to easily search for Wiki links on...
Effectively a rolling filter and water-tight seal.
At least he can render these things down to chunks without too much hassle. Certainly, he can put them back together later if they ask.
Ah, there's Zee. And or resident telepath, I assume. Or at least their relay at this location.
Only problem is whether that's an actual mission kill or not...
Got a tag.
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No, it is. Definitely. You can still have regular crimes and crimes against humanity, but war crimes only apply to very specific circumstances where it's declared legal to kill people.
Forgot a tag.
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As opposed to letting them rot under his mind control?
The most effective way to tell if someone really is from the distant past or just lying.
That should say 'why'.
"Sometimes, sacrifices have to be made. My presence is one of them!"
This suggests that he's done that before.
Back with P'ol, again. And it looks like a face-to-faceplate meeting with one of the few extant examples of ancient synthetic intelligences in the entire galaxy at this point. So, UR-025, how's it hanging?
And yes, his 'disguise' was basically slapping a winged skull&cog icon on his chestplate, and claiming to be an Imperial Robot. I suspect the Assault Cannon (Imagine a minigun firing tiny rocket-propelled grenades) did a lot of the heavy lifting in most people's responses.
Yup. And for most people, they wouldn't argue, because the cogboys are crazy. Why wouldn't they send a Robot off to do shit?
And presumably P'ol isn't scrambling or blocking those scans with his environmental field out of courtesy.
...That's a good excuse as to how, and a good reason as to why he wouldn't do it more often. I suspect that tends to get the attention of the horny fucker in short order.
Presumably after checking there were no invasive infections of warp bullshit, malignant tumours of technology, or xenomorphic stowaways, of course.
At least they agree on some things. Even if UR is still very much on his guard.
Sadly, as useful as the Orks once were in the galaxy, they do have a rather glaring issue. Might be able to train some, but sooner or later, the Waagh instincts re-establish and next thing you know you's got boyz scrapping the place up.
Yes, P'ol boldly went, and boldly came. Living the age-old dreams of technicolour space babes.
Points for the original Shatner voiceover, instead of the 'modern' Nimoy one from the Movies... While each has their charms, the original theme tune has a certain cachet.
He's not wrong. An SD rip of an entire series of Star Trek can be as small as 10 gigabytes or less. Question is, does he have the Animated one too? Far more enjoyable because they weren't constrained by the live-action budget. Also, M'ress.
Oh no, the horror. Not knowing of the later series?Eh, the 'Star Trek' Federation always had a swingy outlook on synthetic lifeforms.
Unless he has some seriously high-density data storage, that would be unlikely. And I suspect this body is kept close to Mechanicum specs to avoid suspicious priests getting troublesome surprises.
...Oh, yeah, 'abducted' well before Picard was a thing. But UR knew about Picard, but not the 'Next generation' series? Talk about gaps in their cultural knowledge bases.
Some of the best in the series, according to some. Certainly great chances for scenery-chewing soliloquies by Patrick 'Yes I am also a classically-trained Shakespearean actor!' Stewart...
Never mind the bigger things like V'Ger. I still wonder about the possibly extra-galactic 'machine race' that enhanced it to sophont levels...
Though his bosses do understand that if he doesn't like an order they give, he very probably won't carry it out, unlike the average Tau. Nature of the Ring, and all that.
Did you not hear 'not intelligent'? At best, most drones aren't any smarter than a dog.
Ah, right. Memory scan and personality shells of high-ranking or valuable Tau personnel. Not quite true AIs, but also not purely databases with character.
I'm guessing the Farsight Enclaves haven't broken away just yet, or P'ol has something of a neutral liaison role towards them.
Heh. P'ol probably could make a complete copy within his Ring. Maltusian tech and all that, even the memory capacity blows everything else out of the water.
At least in this sort-of pre-codex form. They aren't quite at the Reach's 'discreet chemical coercion' point so far. As for the other, most of their offers generally consist of 'Die now.'
Remember, at least twenty thousand years involved here. A lot of cultural changes can develop during that time, from fracturing and reformations to total collapses and new empires being built on the bones of the last. A lot like 'Foundation', really.
Gee, not thinking small or anything, P'ol?
Don't threaten him with a good time, then add on a bad one as well...
As long as Spirit doesn't see him as a crochety old grandpa or something. There is at least a few thousand years between their creations.
Assuming they actually noticed that since the Warp is fairly massive and while they are powerful, they're hardly the only powerful things in the Warp.