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

Bud-E · 2025-03-11T11:44:33+0000

Mr Zoat said:
"Hey, if you want to change that, I know a few gods who might make you a deal. I've got augmentative potions and power armour-"

"That's Arsenal's thing."

Is Arsenal augmented in any way I don't remember; was he one of the people Paul Dannered?

Ngamer11 · 2025-03-11T12:12:19+0000

Bud-E said:
Is Arsenal augmented in any way I don't remember; was he one of the people Paul Dannered?

Arsenal uses power armor.

Darko · 2025-03-11T13:14:32+0000

Mr Zoat said:
currently occupying me we do maintain

"me, we do"

Mr Zoat said:
difficulty confirming that for.

Remove "for".

Duke Long · 2025-03-11T15:39:52+0000

Mr Zoat said:
"As far as we know. You see, ascension works by creating arcane bonds between the magics of the three tribes. Various sort of bond work, and the raw magic can come from just about anywhere. Princess Cadance-. You've heard of her?" A small nod. "She used stolen love magic-. Someone else stole it." She nods. "Stolen from all three tribes and which discharged itself right into her special talent after she freed it from its containment vessel. Whereas for Princess Twilight, the magic came from a set of magic artefacts called the Elements of Harmony, and the bond came from the intense emotional connection between her and her closest friends. My own student Sunset Shimmer on the other hand managed to plug herself directly into the background magics of Equestria, maintaining the connection with her own magic while her body was reconfigured. And that technique is far more easily replicable."

'Various sorts'

Mr Zoat said:
Mr. Bierce goes back to staring at the screen. "So this machine… Helps you caste the same spell thousands of times really quickly."

'cast'

Mr Zoat said:
Starlight nods. "A lot of cutie marks are metaphorical rather than literal. It my case it's fairly obvious that my talent is something to do with magic, but with Grayven unless you knew what a fasces is, it just looks like an axe and some sticks and suggests that his talent might be chopping wood."

'In my'

Mr Zoat said:
Dr. Cochin rolls his eyes. "If you feel unable to offer your services -even at LexCorps' expedited service rates- then please just say so. There are other magicians we can call upon, but please consider that they aren't familiar with the spells and that would leave Enginehead in Anarky's hands for longer."

'LexCorp's'

Mr Zoat said:
"Normally, I'd roll my eyes, but Paul says that the ones you put on your paper is pretty effective."

'the one'
or
'are pretty'

Mr Zoat said:
Dr. Jackson nods. "How was it with yours hosts?"

'your'

Mr Zoat said:
The nox nods. "We will recess while a medical investigation is performs on Klorel and Skaara." Klorel looks mulish, but glances at Zipacna. Zipacna nods, so Klorel bites down his complaint. "And Mammon."

'performed'

Mr Zoat said:
That gets a reaction. He certainly thinks about complaining, but looks at me first. I smile harmlessly, and he weighs thinks up before deciding that it's better to go along with it.

'things'

Mr Zoat said:
"That would have been faster if you'd just leant me the ring."

Dr. Cochin looks mildly put out, though at least he only raised it once.

'lent'

Mr Zoat said:
"Dr. Cochin, if you want to apply to the Orange Lantern Corps then you are free to do so. But I don't need any further assistance with this Sector, so you'd be obliged to work in the Reach Periphery. That is to say, a war zone covering a measurably percentage of the volume of this galaxy. Now, if we may return to the matter at hand?"

'measurable'

Mr Zoat said:
"I wound Zeus up until he broke guest rights, then got saved by Hephestaean who proceeded to beat the stuffing out of him. Which included cracking his skull and releasing Metis. Which means that he's only got his own wisdom to draw upon, but should make the human species a little more intelligent."

'Hephaestaean'?

Mr Zoat said:
I connect a filament to Dr. Cochin and transition us to a mostly-intact bus stop in Detroit before transitioning to Johanna and accelerating after her.

Come to think of it, this sort of forced relocation might be frightening for him. If he was moved to space, he'd be fucked. Unless he has enough schizotech gizmos in his pockets to make it back to Earth.

Mr Zoat said:
"No. But my father is a total monster and I don't have a reliable way to prevent him… Can you imagine something that the opposite of the Elements of Harmony? Where you get a group of living misery broadcasters together and hollow out all of the target's capacity for joy and hope and kindness and… So on?"

'is the opposite'

Mr Zoat said:
I frown as his body starts to… Bubble and wobble. "Um. Are you alright? Should I get Flutterh-?"

'Fluttersh-?'

Mr Zoat said:
Would that work? I don't think the standard ritual would, but what does the standard ritual actually do? It doesn't edit history, it just makes the records not-. Does it send them somewhere else? If it was paper records I could believe that it set them on fire or something, but-. No, a fire would attract attention. And it can't increase the chance of them being misplaces to near 100% because if that's all it did I could find them. And misplaced computer records would still be on the daily backups, and they'd probably still be on the hard disk until the sector was overwritten.

Then I'd guess that it sends the records somewhere else..?

'being misplaced to near'
Good question. I just chalked it up to 'magic bullshit' and stopped thinking.

Mr Zoat said:
step out, reappearing

directly above Dakota City. Alva actually managed to become the City Boss when the places was infected with the Anti-Life. Not a lot changed, apparently. I barely remember the animated series Static Shock, but there's a young Virgil Hawkins down there somewhere. I wonder if everything that's happened will prevent the whole 'Bang Babies' thing from occurring? The sensible thing to do would be to just snipe Alva here and now, but…

'the place was'?

Mr Zoat said:
"You are short on friends and options, Lord Klorel. I would council you that it is wise to bite your tongue until you are more aware of your situation."

'counsel'?

Mr Zoat said:
"Shingling. You takes slices of potato, stick them together with fat, slice them into rectangles and then fry them." I stick a fork in one of mine and raise it up to eye level. "It wouldn't be worth doing without a power ring, but it definitely ensures that the flavour from the fat is present throughout."

'take slices'
Interesting. But 'about as good as normal oven chips' isn't inspiring. I tend to find that oven chips are not nearly as nice as ones from a good chippy.

Mr Zoat said:
Celestia nods, mane billowing around her as she levitates the mane net of her head. "Do you have any housed here at the moment? I think meeting one could be educational."

'off her'

Mr Zoat said:
Atlantis is back.

Back on the surface.

I turn to look out to see, Kara floating over to hover besides me.

'sea,'?

Mr Zoat said:
"I imagine that they'll be glad to hear it. What is it's status beyond that?"

"Don't know. The Justice League are finding out now. The purebloods will be fine, though those who needs water might.. be a bit more limited in where they live."

'its status'
'need water'

Mr Zoat said:
"If there's a person born with access to more raw magical power than most people, most of the time he's one of their ancestors. He's literally the progenitor of a magic-focused human subspecies."

Wow, that's pretty cool. I wonder how Balewa feels about that, if he cares.

Mr Zoat said:
"Then we can certainly look into it." He leads us out onto the balcony and towards the Gate in holds. "But for now, the city."

'it holds'

Mr Zoat said:
"About two hundred times more raw power, untrained homo magi to random peon. About fifty times more raw power, slightly experienced homo magi to minor street magician. About twenty times more raw power, veteran homo magi to a lifelong magic junkie like John Constantine."

In both instances I think 'Homo' ought to be capitalised, and both 'Homo magi' ought to be italicised if it's a scientific name.

Interesting to see that it's so much of a difference, but not too surprising I suppose. Seems unfair, but no less fair than some people being born maltusian or kryptonian.

Mr Zoat said:
"And emigrating is a big step, when there's not set exchange rate." I nod. "Well, if he does a good job I'll see about sorting something out for him. Nice seeing you again."

'no set'
or
'not a set'?

Mr Zoat said:
"The Eldar say that their gods are dead because they were torn apart when Slaanesh was born. But the warp storms of the Age of Isolation leading up to that event would have badly stressed all warp-based structures. Humans have less of a warp presence that Eldar, and given that I've seen no signs of the presence of older human gods I have to assume that any we created are all dead as well."

'than Eldar'

Mr Zoat said:
Vail glances at the techpriest, and he stows his rod. So I return the favour by stowing mine. The Tau Empire can't produce null devices itself -as far as I know- but they've collected enough from Imperial wrecks that we're not desperate for it to make sense for me to steal his.

'desperate enough'?

Mr Zoat said:
I sit back, smiling ruefully. "Can you imagine how much human society has changed in thirty eight thousand years? In my day we only inhabited Earth. We had rocket-driven spacecraft, but no… Plasma thrusters or warp drives. No psykers, not that.. anyone knew about. I mean, the… Being you call The Emperor was around somewhere, but his existence wasn't public knowledge. I certainly didn't know about him. And you're probably thinking 'ignorant bumpkin from a industrial-age backwater', but I'm not. That was it. That was all we had. No Imperium, no Terran Federation or… Whatever. Just the one world."

'an industrial-'

Mr Zoat said:
"Your terrible acting. Look, Lantern Ragnar literally murdered a dozen or so people before joining up. Zartok lead a war of conquest which killed thousands at the very least. From the sounds of things you haven't done anything on that level."

'led'?

Mr Zoat said:
"But your homeworld is a long way away-. Hukh!"

I blink in surprise. He… Just got so demotivated that his environmental shield glitched. And now he's bent over in space, trying to get his breath back.

I love this guy. You do some great comic relief characters.

Mr Zoat said:
"No! I mean, she wouldn't have, but when would I ever meet the Queen? She did the graduation speech at my university, but she left well before my diploma was awarded. It's just not a thing that she has."

He managed to graduate university? I'm impressed.

Mr Zoat said:
"Have you considered researching your species neural physiology and increasing your motivation manually?"

He blinks. "I can do that?"

"You can do anything you want. But if that's a bit much, one of my species' goddesses of intellect recently got freed from her prison and would probably be prepared to make a pact with you."

'your species''

Mr Zoat said:
A helmet that looks like its made of steel plate turns towards Hieronymous. "And you?"

"I live here."

'it's'

Mr Zoat said:
"Can you spare an hour or to for a trip to Tamaran? There's something that I'd like to show you."

'or so'
or
'or two'

Mr Zoat said:
Queen Artemis herself… Blonde and pink hair, pink and rose dress, a silver diadem on her forehead and… Odd… Antennae..? Things..? Sticking out of the corners of her eyes before rising up above the top of her head. None of the other locals appear to have those. Might be an age thing? Or like Hieronymous odd skin colour, maybe a proportion of their species just looks a bit odd? Or maybe it's just the magicians? Otherwise there's not a lot about her that sticks out; average height, musculature, reasonably attractive but not stand-out attractive…

'Hieronymous''
Is Hieronymous colourblind? He said she had purple hair last scene. Maybe she changed it?

Mr Zoat said:
She nods. "Of course, I would have difficulty confirming that for. As you say, travelling between the stars using magic is very difficult."

Maybe 'that, for as you say,'

Mr Zoat said:
I shake my head. "I've been through a dreamstorm. I wouldn't recommend it for a large inanimate object. And I don't think that Morpheus would approve of his realm being used as a shipping lane. Have you considered-?" I know that it was a Mother of Mercy induced hallucination, but from what I've been able to tell the theory is sound. "Artificially expending the worldsphere? Or artificially joining two separate ones? I had a team researching the possibility but that's been closed down as well."

'expanding'

Mr Zoat said:
Another coming at me, and it looks like it's all of the sharks from across the arena are heading for us. Robert gets his flipper-hands on one who was going for Miss Lamaris and I hear the click-click of a short ranged electrical discharge. Miss Lamaris is putting some sort of spell together…

Extraneous 'it's'?

Stsword · 2025-03-11T16:24:15+0000

Chojin Patriarch said:
Man, they really didn't know what to do with Ollie's rogue's gallery back in the day, did they? I'd hope they didn't take him in as extreme a direction as the Joker over the years, if they even remembered he existed.

Green Arrow was a blatant Batman ripoff, a rich playboy with a teen sidekick with an Arrowcave with an Arrowplane and Arrowcar who awaited for the Arrowsignal to go fight his clown archnemesis.

There's a comic actually published by DC in which Batman asks him "Have you ever had an original thought in your life?"

FreeGod · 2025-03-11T16:45:13+0000

Chojin Patriarch said:
Makes sense. At this point though, the League really does need to expand. Thirty people, some who don't even have powers, aren't enough to protect the world any more.

It never was, but before the assumption was the people of the world would do more of the heavy lifting especially on the less superpowered stuff.

Mr Zoat · 2025-03-11T18:01:11+0000

Darko said:
"me, we do"

No, I think that's correct.

Remove "for".

Thank you, corrected.

Duke Long said:
'Various sorts'
'cast'
'In my'
'LexCorp's'
'the one'
or
'are pretty'
'your'
'performed'
'things'
'lent'
'measurable'
'Hephaestaean'?
'is the opposite'
'Fluttersh-?'
'being misplaced to near'
'the place was'?
'counsel'?
'take slices'
'off her'
'sea,'?
'its status'
'need water'
'it holds'
'no set'
or
'not a set'?
'than Eldar'
'desperate enough'?
'an industrial-'
'led'?
'your species''
'it's'
'or so'
or
'or two'
'Hieronymous''
Maybe 'that, for as you say,'
'expanding'
Extraneous 'it's'?

Thank you, corrected.

Is Hieronymous colourblind? He said she had purple hair last scene. Maybe she changed it?

No, he was just being imprecise.

In both instances I think 'Homo' ought to be capitalised, and both 'Homo magi' ought to be italicised if it's a scientific name.

I think I'll leave it. You're probably be right, but it would be a pain.

Interesting to see that it's so much of a difference, but not too surprising I suppose. Seems unfair, but no less fair than some people being born maltusian or kryptonian.

Life has no obligation to be fair.

Cypher3au · 2025-03-11T20:32:15+0000

Stsword said:
Green Arrow was a blatant Batman ripoff, a rich playboy with a teen sidekick with an Arrowcave with an Arrowplane and Arrowcar who awaited for the Arrowsignal to go fight his clown archnemesis.

There's a comic actually published by DC in which Batman asks him "Have you ever had an original thought in your life?"

At one point Green Arrow was the Justice League's money guy, with Queen Enterprises secretly funding the League through a middle man. I think he's paid their bills more recently too, when they lost some of their financial backers.

I think Batman was the team skill monkey back in the day, with him footing the League's bill being a more modern thing.

NightmareWarden · 2025-03-11T20:51:57+0000

Mr Zoat said:
What else can I talk about? I've never been any good at small talk. Oh god, not that. Don't even think about that.

Link from story-only. The "oh God" link specifically appears of be dead. The website still works, but the "annotations" section of the URL doesn't allow the 2007 article to load. This appears to be the same thing, reposted since some sort of site overhaul.

⎇001JW Interviewing Leather: Being the Steve #7 (CONCLUSION!)

“…whoever she was, she wasn’t a Steve. She clearly wasn’t a Steve. So you didn’t lie to me. I get that.” She took a breath. “Was it a good offer?”“Amazing offer. You couldn’t match it.”…

banter-latte.com

Mr Zoat · 2025-03-11T20:59:37+0000

NightmareWarden said:
Link from story-only. The "oh God" link specifically appears of be dead. The website still works, but the "annotations" section of the URL doesn't allow the 2007 article to load. This appears to be the same thing, reposted since some sort of site overhaul.

⎇001JW Interviewing Leather: Being the Steve #7 (CONCLUSION!)

“…whoever she was, she wasn’t a Steve. She clearly wasn’t a Steve. So you didn’t lie to me. I get that.” She took a breath. “Was it a good offer?”“Amazing offer. You couldn’t match it.”…

banter-latte.com

Thank you, updated. Though the link you suggested goes to the 'Being Steve' sequel and not the original.

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