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

Discussion in 'Creative Writing' started by Mr Zoat, Jan 27, 2019.

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  1. Bramble Thorn

    Bramble Thorn Verified Silhouette

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    A bobble-headed malware by any other name, would smell as sweet.
     
  2. AngelicKnight.

    AngelicKnight. Lewd demon of negotiable affection

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    Hey do the Zamarons have any capability and inclination to produce non malware filled AI? I mean they are not full of the stubborn controlling influence of green, just Violet.


    Or would they make a new and interesting flavour of Malware? Perhaps a Yandere AI on the ring.
     
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  3. Sockmonkey

    Sockmonkey I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    If they can't make an acceptable AI, the Coluans could do it.
     
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  4. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Though he is aware of the Guardians, Malvolio has never actually seen one. He's also never heard of bobbleheads.
     
  5. moralrelativity

    moralrelativity Recovering pendant.

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    I'm liking this more mature, well-rounded OL.

    your -> you're
    [they are homophones so this can't an accent thing... unless you're trying to show that Guy is a dumbass who would use the wrong word if he was writing this down...]
     
  6. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Thank you, corrected.
     
  7. Old Knife

    Old Knife Not too sore, are you?

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    How about programed by a non-hostile third party ;)
     
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  8. Steelplaza

    Steelplaza Custom Title

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    Oh wait, that's it? Seven principle worlds plus outposts and colonies? For a sector, really?

    I was thinking... okay, 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, divided by 3600... round down to maybe 50 million stars, say one in 10,000 stars has a habitable world... maybe 500 inhabited planets? Though they'd be scattered pretty far apart.

    (shoves math in trash can) Ah... never mind. Green Lantern sector numbers never work out anyway. I was just pretty surprised at only seven main worlds.
     
  9. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Most systems have gas giants and a few unappealing moons.

    Most small and rocky worlds don't have liquid water on the surface, being either far too cold or far too hot.

    And then you've got the fact that a lot of habitable worlds just don't have intelligent life on them at the moment.
     
  10. oct9010

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    ‘Depredations’ makes more sense, I think?
    Yes, because Coluan-created AI has such a good track record.
     
  11. Assblaster5000

    Assblaster5000 I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    That should be 'an', yes?
     
  12. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Thank you, corrected.
    The Machine Tyrants did exactly what they were intended to.
     
  13. Someguy Somewhere

    Someguy Somewhere The Critical Fumbler

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    Garbage In, Garbage Out.
     
  14. Bud-E

    Bud-E Stand up so I can push you down!

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    Has there been any consequences to Paul freeing all the Coulans?
     
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  15. Ardy

    Ardy I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Well it made Georgia jealous, for one thing
     
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  16. Bud-E

    Bud-E Stand up so I can push you down!

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    Why? did she think she could do a better job?
     
  17. Michael Vonica

    Michael Vonica Know what you're doing yet?

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    More competition for Dox's amorous attentions. While female Coluans may not be as smart as her (at least in her opinion), they do have the benefit of sharing his species.
     
  18. Coda

    Coda Versed in the lewd.

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    principal
     
  19. Old Knife

    Old Knife Not too sore, are you?

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    They didn't go above their programmed instructions when they turned the Coluans into living batteries Matrix style?
     
  20. Artemisnemo

    Artemisnemo Getting sticky.

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    No, that's what the instructions were.
     
  21. Threadmarks: A Waltz in Orange and Green (part 15)
    Mr Zoat

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    10th September 2012
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    Priest nods.

    "How long is it that your species naturally lives?"

    "Assuming that we don't die of disease or violence, our bodies usually start to get a bit ropey in our ninth decade. Though some humans make it into their thirteenth decade naturally and a rare few have found ways to extend their lives for millennia. The oldest I'm aware of is a man named Vandal Savage, who is about forty eight thousand years old."

    "I think that Earth will be a fascinating place to study. Please keep it whole until my time with Malvolio reaches its end."

    No promises.

    "So you accept the deal?"

    "For now. I will stay with Malvolio for a time, and then we can reconsider-. How old are you?"

    I shake my head.

    "Don’t worry about it. I don't age, and I've twice gotten better from dying."

    "Then return here in two hundred Earth years, and I will decide whether I want to renegotiate or not."

    "Will do. Excuse me."

    Things feel a little calmer outside, though Guy and Malvolio aren't particularly easy to feel out. Apros, Avir and Vinkent are easy enough to feel, and the desires of Apros and Vinkent are divergent enough from humanoid norms that

    locating them is fairly easy.

    "He said yes."

    "'kay." Guy doesn't look entirely happy, but at least he's gotten his moodiness under control. "Your turn, Mally."

    Lord Malvolio doesn't react to the abbreviation. Instead, he raises his hands and-.

    Oh my.

    Enough green flame to envelop an entire star system flies through the void for my second awe-inspiring sight of the day, Malvolio pulling it into his hands with no apparent effort.

    I float a little closer to Guy.

    "I've never done anything that big. You?"

    "Me either."

    "Good to know we've got someone to look up to."

    "Think I'll wait 'til we've got that report."

    "We can probably get away with doing a quick tour before we leave, if you like. See all the concentration camps that aren't there, that sort of thing."

    "I mostly wanna talk to Priest. He was supposed to be this incredible mystic, I wanna see what he can do."

    "Lord Malvolio isn't too bad."

    Guy and I watch as the last of the green flame enters Malvolio, the star reappearing in the far distance. Or rather, it will in a few minutes once the light reaches us.

    "Yeah."

    "So what's the procedure for requisitioning a ring? I ask because I don't think that Priest had any way to reach us that wouldn't involve him flying at sublight speed for a few years."

    "It's on its way."

    I rotate in the approximate direction of Oa.

    "So how did the Guardians feel about getting him back?"

    "Ah… I don't think Appa realised he ever left."

    "Oh."

    "Think they were playing chess or somethin'. Said he was waiting fer Priest's next move."

    "Well… On the positive side, that makes two Guardians who will probably be okay with this. Is that ring getting here soon, or should-."

    "Will detected."

    "Oh, good."

    Priest appears, arms hanging down as he floats a short distance from Lord Malvolio. He's swapped his white robe for a green variant with the Green Lantern sigil described in black on the chest.

    "Lord Malvolio."

    "Priest. How fare you?"

    "It was restful. I understand that you plan on making some changes."

    "My absence enforced by your hand caused the people of this region great hardship. It is fitting that you will watch me raise them up once more, that you may contemplate your misjudgement."

    "I will look forward to being proven wrong."

    "We will retire to mine seat, that we may discuss how you will work under me. Illustres, escort these other Lanterns from my Sector."

    "Of course. Gentlemen?"

    Four green rings glow as I set course for one of the Dreadnaughts' colony worlds. One that was repeatedly attacked during the decades of war and remained heavily fortified and underdeveloped during the peace.

    And warp.

    Guy's right behind me.

    "Paul, what tha fuck jus' happened?"

    "You appear to have had an attack of the knuckleheads, Guy. Malvolio's not Sinestro."

    "'re we jus' forgetting about the Sheeda?"

    "He didn't know, Guy. He had no idea who they were or what they'd done."

    "So if Barry hadn't gone nuts, he'd'ah handed them ovah?"

    "He didn't say. But you'll note a complete lack of bondage elves in this Sector, and Barry didn't kill all of them."

    "Hn."

    "You planning on ram raiding anywhere else?"

    "Priest isn't just some old Lantern who quit. He was tha last guy t' host Ion. The Corps needs him, an' so do I."

    "Well, now you can share with Malvolio. Priest isn't going anywhere. And maybe you can learn from Malvolio, too."
     
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  22. Mr Zoat

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    Thank you, corrected.
     
  23. DrThoth

    DrThoth I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Did that happen in comics canon? All the images of Priest look old-school, and from my admittedly limited knowledge, Ion is a more recent comics invention.
     
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  24. Ngamer11

    Ngamer11 Experienced.

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    That is an interesting little tidbit. Also, Priest never appeared again in the comics, similar to Malvolio. Will we eventually see 7 Lanterns each hosting one of the 7 Embodiments in one place in the future?
     
  25. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    'our bodies'

    An understatement.

    That will be difficult.

    Smart boy.

    Embarrassed to tell your real age?

    For 400 years?

    So they've either been granted citizenship, are in some political asylum situation, or are either imprisoned or dead after Malvolio found out what they were doing.
     
  26. sagemo

    sagemo Yearning for better fics

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    It would go towards explaining Priest's in-depth knowledge of the green light.
     
  27. Chaoswind

    Chaoswind Lord of nonsense

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    I though Chaselom or whatever had been a host for Ion at one point or another?
     
  28. Mr Zoat

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    Thank you, corrected.
    300 years.
    I don't think so.
     
  29. Darko

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    He was enlightened though.

    However I guess he could have become like that without merging with Ion.

    Lord Protector and Geoffrey Talbott were able to become enlightened without merging with their entity, so it's possible.
     
  30. Handlewithcare

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    Daddy Whale's last playmate?

    And the Guardians just didn't notice he was gone? Oh bother.
     
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