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

Huh, I honestly assumed it summoned someone. Maybe one of these days I should try to reread the series... Maybe once I'm done with the Judge Dredd Complete Case Files... And all the fanfics...

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

It's honestly quite non-violent, given their characters. Neither particularly give a damn about others, so the fact they make it as easy to get what they want as they can does make sense.

So no cases of Sleepy Sickness, like during Morpheus' imprisonment. Which kind of makes it an aural counterpart to Dodds' knockout gas.

Well, glad to see that resolve itself peacefully, with minimal involvement from OL. Good to hear Cyprian's being reasonable, and realises his city can't cut itself off completely. Like some of the hardliners would want it to.

But... A whistle? Does any culture have symbology like that, or was it alien? Could it be related to stories of music making people sleepy... Man, the Dreaming is a weird place.

Yeah, or he'd simply have collected it when no-one was paying attention. Hopefully, it's a case of him being mildly amused by OL's interest in studying the Dreaming and its workings.

Might at least want to have a skilled healer standing by. Just in case.

Just have to go about it very politely. As always, the last thing you want to do is annoy him...

And besides, something like Dodds' sleep gas is probably an easier and more affordable option. Hell, he stumbled upon it without even realising it was alchemical...

Man, slow down a little, you're going to burn out at this rate. Now imagine if he was trying to do this and the superhero thing too? That's how the comics version lost his company.

To be honest, STAR Labs always seemed like a boondoggle sort of thing. Something to show 'our best people' were working on super-science stuff, but they rarely achieved anything... Beside superhero and supervillain origins stories...

Nah, that would be too good to be true. She's practically married to her anvil. I bet there are jokes about what she gets up to, late at night, when she's all alone...

He says in his best British deadpan. This really feels like a perfect place for a 'no, really?!' meme-face...

Oh, I can already see where this is going... I hope there weren't too many broken bones...

Thank heavens for small mercies, eh? I'm surprised there aren't more Amazon couples asking for OL's help with that.

Oh-ho, is Ted bound for Venus? An actual date? Amazing!

Clearly a man attracted to both brains and beauty. He has good taste. Let's hope Doctor Sivana senior doesn't scare him too much with the shovel speech.

Hehhehehhh...

Oh, don't take it personally, OL. He doesn't know. Though honestly, I'm surprised you haven't opened up to him about that.

Glass houses, OL. It'd be a bit cheeky to say anything...

And at least it went better than the Renegade's version of events...

Think 'younger siblings' times one thousand, then add in a dash of oddball science... I'm sure he'll do fine.

Ted's already envisioning Thaddeus senior giving him the shovel speech, isn't he? Just imagine how much more terrific it is coming from an honest-to-gods supervillain...

If you want to put it crudely. Still, he was kind of justified, but not in going as far as he did, really. And then everything after piled on top...

..Maybe Ted should have some protective gear along. A personal forcefield, at least...

Boy, Ted's diving into the deep end with the Sivana family, isn't he? On the up side, if he can survive the day without getting possumised, killed, brain-fried or any of the millions of things they could to to him, he'll probably have earned their respect...

 

So Ted, eho is marketing superscience and magic, is going to meet the guy who is pissed because people rejected his superscience plus his daughter who is researching the weird stasis effect.

The possible future implications are enormous, yet Pauls concern is the possumizer.

I eould reaoly love an update or teo showcasing the economical disruptions Paul is causing.

No matter how careful they are with the role-out, just knowing these things are possible should sent the markets spinning.

 

Last time I bothered reading about it, it couldn't even be played as written. Not as a boardgame, at least.

 

Maybe they can get Hypnos to put insomniacs to sleep.

They already have Melinoe giving some people nightmares, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility that they can have him do that.

Maybe set up some kind of system, like that 'Dream thrower', in which insomniacs pray to him, or do some kind of ritual for him, and he gets them to sleep.

You'll never finish all the fanfics my friend.

I don't think there were any hardliners that wanted to be completely isolated.

They wanted independence yes, but not complete isolation.

Probably the music thing, or they could have shaped the thing to look like a whistle to make it easier to use.

Wally may be able to replicate that now.

Especially after OL's first visit there.

Even Diana thought they were doing it.

They either don't want it, or are still considering it.

Seeing as they are quasi immortals they have a lot of time to decide and don't need to worry about menopause.

Sivana didn't really give OL a shovel speech so he may not try to do it to Ted.

Though seeing as he is trying to be more social he may try to engage in some activities that fathers typically engage in, like threatening their daughters boyfriends. Although in his case I expect it would be more like that scene in Goldfinger where Bond is going to be cut in half by a laser.

This recipe reminded me of this recipe:



Though I'm sure the Sivanas would prefer a more equation like explanation:

 

You are Dead to me Zoat. Dead.

 

Paul hasn't really experienced much loss of that caliber before - Teekl and Michael Siskin being the only exceptions. Could be an interesting arc.

But, judging by how Georgia is probably going with Dox, the whole family is made up of mad science geniuses and has considerable weapons in storage (meant to counter Sheeda) and that they have the most powerful Superhero in the world on speed dial, plus Captain Marvel if Beautia's relations with him haven't soured, I'd say they're fine.

Worst case scenario, the Sheeda attack, the Orange Lantern Corps gets involved. Also, quick question - Ted was Blue Beetle in the show, and was reported to have a scarab in Kord Industries. Why has there been no mention of that?

 

Mr Zoat said that because Paul has been giving Ted so many ideas, he has decided to just stay a scientist and not become a superhero. Also, the Scarab is probably still in storage somewhere.

 

I mean, still, the OLC is about to go to war with the Reach. Wouldn't it be prudent to give it to Dox or someone to study - develop counter measures against Beetles and whatnot?

 

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What happened to your 'w' key?

Yeah...

I...

Yeah.

It used to be on his desk, then he got a nearly-room-temperature-super conductor, so it got moved to a display.

It used to be in the display, then he got invisible psychic monkeys, so it got moved to storage.

It used to be in storage, but then he got magical weather control, so it got moved to a trunk.

It used to be in a trunk, but he forgot it was there and got it moved to his loft.

 

Well either Zoat has truly nerfed the Sandman's whistle, or Ted has barely scratched the surface of what it's capable of.

It can summon things from dreams- Brute, Glob, Kirby's Sandman, unicorns.

It can melt metal or just blow things up, a Sandman villain planned on blowing up DC one building at a time with the whistle.

It can teleport you.

According to the series Bug! The adventures of Forager (the wiki claims it happens in prime continuity, but since it's a sequel to Cosmic Odyssey that never happened in Prime continuity so that doesn't actually make sense), it is made out of Orichalcum, the dream metal that alters reality, the metal that "makes dreams flesh."

 

If Venturia was still a part of Atlantis, then some part of Atlantis would, in fact, be studying the dream magic, since that's what OL asked of their mages.

 

I'd be genuinely surprised if most Amazons were actually full bore homosexual rather than situationally homosexual.

I'm sure a decent amount were happy they had access to cocks again.

Then they probably got hit on by New Yorkers, and really no woman deserves to be hit on by a New Yorker.

 

Or a Ted Mosby tried to romance them.

No woman deserves that.

 

Anyone here think that if OL keeps being quiet about his real age, something like this may happen:



It technically has already happened, given what happened with Zatanna.

 

Unless the Island had some crazy self selection going on statistics tell us that is almost certainly the case.

 

It speaks volumes of him, that his concern for gameplay mechanics and processes exceeds that of the setting, especially considering the depth of his setting knowledge.

 

After 3000 years without so much as a decent painting of a man to look at I'd imagine their initial situational homosexuality could become so deeply ingrained that the thought of being with a man doesn't have much appeal anymore. Probably not to the full "men are as attractive as pubic hair on a bar of soap" extent that born lesbians have, but close enough given how many of them have been in committed relationships for hundreds of years.

 

Yeah, New York would definitely not be my first choice for their introduction to the "World of Man".

Maybe someplace modern, yet rural-ish. Denver, CO would be an excellent option. Topeka, KS would be a good option as well (it is a quite a bit smaller than Denver). Dallas or Austin, TX would probably be the best option to ease them into the modern world though. They are modern, large, polite, moderate on politics (mostly).

There are probably many good options over in Europe as well, don't know enough to say. Japan has a decent culture. Australia, they would probably embrace Dyonisis well. Heck, I seem to recall that Mr. Zoat wrote about Hera becoming a relationship columnist there.

There are literally thousands of better places for them to be introduced to the world than New York.

 

Greece itself might be a good place to start.

 

Ha! If Wonder Woman rode the train there, there’d be a lot of cripples at the next stop

 

I think I remember, very, very vaguely, an old legend that had someone, or multiple someone's, get put tp sleep with a whistle, can't remember what it was called or even where it's from, but I'm pretty sure I heard about it somewhere. Aside from that sound/music has a lot of stuff about it being able to alter the way people think, both from an actual scientific perspective and a fantasy one, in human culture, and there's a more modern connection between whistles and sleep in the form of the stereotypical drill-sargent wakeup at a bootcamp to consider as well.

Others have also mentioned the fact that the whistle could have just been reshaped by the Dreamkin so they could use it easier or that it isn't even an archetype in the first place, just being a magic object crafted in The Dreaming from a super metal.

But what do I know? I'm just some idiot that got most of his DC lore from WTR in the first place.

 

Hypnos would probably be happy to have people praying to him again.

 

Funny to think how OL has done more for Hellenism in 2 years than Wonder Woman has done in 80.

 

This sentence on nonsensesical.

 

Weren't the Amazons made from mud, can he get one of the gods to play-do him into a real boy.

 

No, only Diana and Donna were made from mud. The other Amazons are flesh-and-blood, Daughter-of-Eve humans.

 

remove 'on' , or add 'roster' at the end

remove '

'in' not 'it'

Gaia is a good bet.

She made Diana and may still owe OL for saving Eunanthe the dryad.

Spoiler: Spoilers for 'Assimilation'

Something similar happened in Assimilation after Kori asked her to give Jacob his ability to feel things again.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Not in this story.

Maybe. The SI does mention that as a possibility.

No, those are intentional.

Thank you, corrected.

 

It's not. It's just a sneak peak of the next Eros arc.