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

Making a copy of his orange ring shouldn't be that difficult. The first time it was mentioned in the fic the paragon believed it would take over a month of continuous work to make a copy of the orange ring... Now he is orders of magnitude stronger, his soul is mostly raw avarice (hence why he is an elemental snake in the heaven episode) and he is enlightened, it should take significant less amount of work to copy it.


Making a new ring from nothing is extremely difficult, copying a ring is very difficult, turning a construct lantern into a ring is slightly easier.

If Paul wants he can totally join the controllers and start to print rings because I think the controllers are being efficient with their time, thus they are likely copying a template not making a new one out of nothing.

 

'partners' not 'partner'

 

Ok, now this is impressive.

Also, dun dun DUUUUUUUUUN.

 

Holy crap! Is this where the lanterns banished him to?

 

Probably not seeing as Paul said they sent him to a universe where his powers or rings won't work, but this version was able to use his ring, so either it is something else, or the various Paul's screwed up.

 

Someone opened a portal to him using the orange light?

So Krona vs Kronos or the Paul Corps are exploring the multi-verse?

 

Maybe they're distributing lanterns.

 

Well in the first April Fools episode some of those versions, like the Avatar one, Captain Planet one, and Panda one, did seem to be exploring the multiverse, except the MLP one whose version of Equestria was located in DC, so maybe this is something like this, though I'm pretty sure it's going to be involved with Krona somehow.

 

Well, strictly speaking the entities and light sources might not be there and the only way to get more charge to rings is to cross dimensions. That seems a bit flimsy though and I wouldn't bet the multiverse on Krona not being able to cross dimensions with Fallout tech.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

If that's Krona it looks like the other Paul's miscalculated.

 

Good to see his field of operations has improved. The equivalent of a late-game turn, I suppose.

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When it wastes good people and useful resources, you always should. Unfortunately, many people aren't so sharp.

It's always tempting, isn't it? To skip the diplomatic path and just make people do what you think they should?

Ah. This is going to involve someone's real name, isn't it? It never feels good to have to expose someone's secrets and regrets.

I doubt he cares to use it. Krono!Paul strikes me as the sort of person who prefers face-to-face conversations. If only to avoid confusion.

A discreet word, if you will. And not something you'd want to risk anyone overhearing due to a glitchy intercom?

Now that's a cone of silence. And visible enough that he can see it? That's a strong effect.

Dun-dun-Duuuun! Uh, who? Not a Fallout player... I'm guessing an original character, regardless.

Gee, you think? Even if they have a code of ethics, sometimes you can just think too 'loud' about something...

Ah, part of a unit with a reputation. And he's worried that Krono is going to judge him on that reputation first? I thought he knew Krono.

Now, how violent was that action? Was it the sort of 'I've seen things' violent? Enough to make someone, and his loyal squadmates, decide to desert?

Ah. That kind of violent, indeed.

Inferring from references, this Anderson guy is practically the second coming of Hitler? Or at least the last person you want in charge of a major polity.

Depending on where he was deployed, I assume it does?

So, a nice guy, or just someone wanting privacy for Science!?

I know enough Fallout to recognise that. Part of Fallout 3's DLC, yes? And Liberty Prime is... 'Curbstomp' is a charitable result of it being deployed...

I'm guessing send 'Chuck' here east with a care package of tech.

"What the NCR doesn't know won't hurt them. Unless it needs to."

A quite retirement probably sounds nice, but this world... It isn't that pleasant...

Interesting question. It puts me in mind of OL's "What do you want?" Is Krono planning on setting him up to forge a more civilised East Coast?

Direct, isn't he? Man's got a sense of politics.

I think it might go better if you greet with an open hand, and a gun in close reach. It's a nice dream, though.

Silly idea, anyway. I suspect this Anderson fellow might not give up what power he's claimed, even if the people asked him to.

In other words, Krono is encouraging Dougie here to establish peace and freedom, the polite way.

I take it that's something very useful. The equivalent of a small-scale terraforming system?

I take it that's impressive?

Oh, dear. That's... not good? I'm guessing a portal from Time Trapper got a little diverted?

Ooh. I doubt he can cadge some charge off the other Pauls, unless one of them has a Lantern... Still, I expect this is going to be interesting...

I'll admit, a lot of this chapter went over my head, not being a Fallout fan. Whatever happens, This should be significant, in relation to what Mr Zoat's said about it previously. Either Krona's inbound at the speed of White, or someone misdialled a portal...

 

You mean Krona right?

Because if it is Korona... then it may not be the best thing to say right now, just saying.

 

too many ups?

 

I don't think a new disease would be a big problem for the wasteland.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Interesting. The Old World Blues, digging around Area 51 can cause a New Plague outbreak... Which each nation can cure within a few months, something that was impossible before the war. Which struck me as odd when I got the event, because medical technology, communication and transportation should all be worse post-war than pre-war. Maybe the lack of people means that diseases don't spread that efficiently?

 

Hey Zoat is paragon going to talk to his common sense counterpart in the next few chapters?

What sort of things has common sense been doing to improve his version of Earth 16, aside from getting governments more interested in what the wider universe holds after talking to that politician about Apokalips and Byalia and why the US doesn't have records on alien species and cultures despite the fact Atlantis does?

 

The SI..? Talk to common sense?

I haven't thought about it in much detail.

 

You might be thinking of something else, because there wasn't really much about the New Plague in the game outside of cut Van Buren stuff.

 

Link please?

 

Assuming you're not making a joke
parapaul talking to the paul that made common-sense decisions

 

If you're asking a question and not just joking then it's the one that made those common sense decisions, like telling Wonder Woman his age, training with Jordan, removing the poison from Jades lips, prevented that training fiasco with the telepathy from happening etc.

It would be nice for the SI to learn how he's doing and how he solved some of the issues paragon may have faced, like how Sybarite is going about improving his version of Earth 16, like say did common sense mine asteroids like paragon did and then use them to buy LexCorp or some of Savages companies, or just somehow get Scandal to work for him, because I don't think she really cared all that much about her father and she kinda ran his companies from the shadow, so getting her to work for him could be a way to remove some of Savages resources well as get some advanced tech on the market, like the Cosmic Convertor that Savage was preventing from going on the market out of spite, or altering Luthors thought process like he did with Mammon to remove some of his more self destructive and illogical tendencies, like thinking the Light, and the actions they are performing, are somehow a good idea and not the half baked schemes and 'plans' of the universes most lucky idiot i.e. Vandal Savage.

Seriously when they showed what the Light and Savages plans were in season 3 I couldn't honestly think for a few moments before I just classified them as Retard Masters Supreme of Dumbfuckery, I mean just, wow, wow...

Funnily there is a fanfic on SB called Psychonautics where the SI calls Savage 'that old man too stupid to die'.

Don't know how to make a link, but just search fro the first April Fools episode and click on 'Blight up your life' for the Captain Planet one.

 

‘loom thing’ -> ‘looming thing’

 

How is it possible to looming without loom? You'd just be ing.

 

What??? Is this some British joke I’m too uncivilised to understand?

Anyways, the Exaltations episode hasn’t been threadmarked on the archive thread.

Edit: the second snippet has been threadmarked instead of the first.

 

Not sure why Autumn would go to Granite, honestly. Since this isn't regular Fallout but the Fallout of the OWB mod, I'd figure Autumn and all those vertibirds full of Enclave personnel that evacuated Adams Air Force base would have made a beeline for the Chicago Enclave. Which is supposed to be the dominant power in the American Midwest.

And while he was willing to use clean water as a carrot to entice regular wastelanders into joining the Enclave, Autumn was still genocidal when it came to super mutants and ghouls.

Though, to be fair, even the "nice" President in Enclave Reborn can totally reject mutants while accepting wastelanders. Or just treat wastelanders like second class citizens.

 

Unfortunately we have no frame of reference to determine if he has already been through the crisis event or is just referencing his transport from Earth Prime to Earth Fallout.

 

I think this SI iteration was actually Inserted into a fan project-
a Fallout total conversion mod for a TBS game from memory, not the actual “prime” bethseda canon setting (or the ore-alteration BIS period)

... also, why bother planning to offer Autumn a chance?
the men and women stuck serving under him maybe, after psychic testing to ensure they weren’t cut from the same cloth, but... the man was a full on genocidal lunatic, a torturer- and there’s an excellent chance that the majority of the soldiers he took with him learn more towards horrigian’s level of psychopathy the towards the New Vegas Reminent’s... well... not-psychopathy. It literally might be more effort then it’s worth if that version of Paul is refraining from invasively offensive psi attacks/ adjustment...

to paraphrase King, if the majority of the enclave survivors died in the wasteland/were tried and executed by the NCR (actual trials not the kangaroo court Arcade can be dragged to in a potential ending to NV), it’d be “no great loss for humanity”...

 

A language may have rules but the as a rule spoken language doesn't follow them.

Thank you, corrected.

At the time I wrote it, they didn't exist yet. If it matters, you could assume that the Sky Walkers assisted the Midwest Brotherhood in dealing with them

Ghouls do turn feral, and there are far more dumb and violent super mutants than civilised ones. Even Marcus wanted to dip everyone he met. Autumn's opinions aren't that usual in the wasteland.