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

[Darko]

If the objective is to cleanse the swamp why are they summoning demons and the girlfriend of Saturnus no less?

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Mazikeen isn't Satanus's girlfriend.

And as fir why they're doing it, I'm guessing it's basically fighting fire with fire.

Though yeah, it is odd.

 

[Mr Zoat]

If the objective is to cleanse the swamp why are they summoning demons and the girlfriend of Saturnus no less?

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All of this is wrong.

The swamp (except that one cabin) was clensed over a year ago.

Unmaking the cabin wasn't the primary aim, but Blaze is on hand just in case.

They're summoning Mazikeen, who is lilim.

She never had much to do with Satanus, but was Lucifer's personal assistant for a while.

 

[CrazyNoVa]

That's an interesting assumption with no basis in this story that you've made there.

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He's never heard of anyone by that name.

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Yeah, I know. I know I'm probably wrong, I'm just taking a shot in the dark based on what I remember from the Lucifer comic, which I haven't read in a while.

 

[Mr Zoat]

Yeah, I know. I know I'm probably wrong, I'm just taking a shot in the dark based on what I remember from the Lucifer comic, which I haven't read in a while.

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Parts of Lucifer are probably canonish for this story, but quite a lot of it isn't. The SI did have a bit of a look for Lucifer early on but came up with nothing. No one's seen him since the thing with the key.

 

[CrazyNoVa]

Parts of Lucifer are probably canonish for this story, but quite a lot of it isn't. The SI did have a bit of a look for Lucifer early on but came up with nothing. No one's seen him since the thing with the key.

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Then I assume Lucifer's club doesn't exist here either, otherwise Paul would have just looked there first. Would a power ring even be able to detect him, though? For the most part, he seems like a guy who values his privacy from otherwordly beings. Plus, he's been around for a long time, and he's definitely powerful and knowledgeable enough about magic to block power ring scans.

 

[Duke Long]

I make a point of looking around at the bustling… What would you call this? Monastery? What's the opposite of a monastery? A lot of insects glowing with the orange light around… Something that feels a lot like the Orange Central Power Battery on Tamaran. Following on behind Hinon is a gaggle of psions, dressed in blues overalls with red trim. Hinon's wearing something similar, only with the red parts extended into a thing that can't decide whether it's trying to be a robe or a cloak.

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'blue'?

I look left, where a tamaranean Orange Lantern is waving to me. I raise my left hand in acknowledgement. Of course.

"Dox is already helping you."

"The tamaranians are an extremely helpful people."

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Someone else made the same correction but I think you forgot to do it.

"I will need to consult more widely before I can give you a firm answer. I suspect… Scouting of the Reach interior, recovering parts of the enslaved population who can be purged of Reach modifications and give testimony to the doubtful."

I nod, smiling. "Not a problem at all. And what sort of level of damage would you like me to inflict? Tactical, strategic, Apokoliptic..?"

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'giving'?

Very punny.

I know from the comics that Zor had a base here, a cabin which I found during my initial foray. Fortunately, no one was home. Alan was surprised when I asked about it; apparently Sargon the Sorcerer fought a magician called Zor once in 1936 and beat him pretty easily. Trapped him in his own paralysis spell, which… Doesn't sound like a good idea to me, but if he didn't cause any trouble afterwards...

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The fact that he got beaten up by a superhero I've never heard of, and his appearance, made me assume he was just Evil Magician #45. Apparently he's some sort of fallen angel trying to destroy the universe, and he created the Sheeda? Should never judge a book by its cover I suppose. With the link to both the Sheeda and destroying the universe, I wonder if he was involved in Starbreaker eating the universe in the future.

A figure appears in the pentagram, a woman in a red cloak with a tall white half-mask covering the left side of her face. "I thought that you'd forgotten me."

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Hooray, Mazikeen! Glad you pulled through on this one, I was hoping for this as soon as they started drawing the circle. Not quite sure why she's being summoned. I'm guessing it's partly to make up for missing the New Year's party, but perhaps her assistance is also being sought for examining this cabin?

I had forgotten that Oh El's relation to her is by way of technically sort of being her mother, that's pretty funny.

 

[Mr Zoat]

Then I assume Lucifer's club doesn't exist here either, otherwise Paul would have just looked there first. Would a power ring even be able to detect him, though? For the most part, he seems like a guy who values his privacy from otherwordly beings. Plus, he's been around for a long time, and he's definitely powerful and knowledgeable enough about magic to block power ring scans.

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Lucifer is perfectly capable of preventing a nosy Lantern detecting him. Lucifer's capable of... Just about anything, really. But you can't really have a club without people going to it, and if someone that powerful is around magical people are going to notice. The SI didn't just tell his ring 'Anyone with wings and no genitals around?', he asked people like John Constantine.

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Someone else made the same correction but I think you forgot to do it.

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Thank you, corrected.

'giving'?

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I don't believe so.

The fact that he got beaten up by a superhero I've never heard of, and his appearance, made me assume he was just Evil Magician #45. Apparently he's some sort of fallen angel trying to destroy the universe, and he created the Sheeda? Should never judge a book by its cover I suppose. With the link to both the Sheeda and destroying the universe, I wonder if he was involved in Starbreaker eating the universe in the future.

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In the comic, he was defeated by the Spectre. Since I'm not using the Spectre, I had to pick someone else.

I had forgotten that Oh El's relation to her is by way of technically sort of being her mother, that's pretty funny.

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Father. Lilith was her mother, so unless you want to get asari about it...

 

[Duke Long]

Father. Lilith was her mother, so unless you want to get asari about it...

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It's because of how Oh El thinks of the Ophidian as being feminine. I acknowledge that it's a somewhat torturous route for logic to take.

 

[Steelplaza]

"Why..? Do you think..?" She checks her work against a design on her phone screen, then nods to herself. "That demons exist?"

"Classically, demons exist to tempt mortals into sin, and torment the ones who are tempted. It works as a metaphor as well as a literal description of events."

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OL got asked why he thinks demons exist and came back with a religious explanation, but I think his real answer would be that he doesn't think it's an applicable question.

Why do demons exist? Why do humans exist? Why do stars exist? Why does anything exist? To admit a "why" is to say that demons are part of some grand plan, when perhaps it's more likely that they "just happened" as a consequence of sapient beings existing in magically active worlds.