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No, as I haven't read the comic.
Thank you, corrected.
You know, Dr. Sivana seems like someone the Star Sapphires would be willing to help educate. He certainly feels love, and it seems to make him a better person, but he also seems to be going about learning it the most circuitous way possible.
Ah, I do love Paul coming back to the Leaguers and Team eventually. And it is sweet that Dr. Sivana is trying.
That reminds me, Ghiata is on Earth. Wonder how she's doing.
Well she is obscure, and no evidence she exists in Earth-16 anyway.
Although now I'm picturing an alt.Paul who pressures supers to get psychiatric care to make sure there won't be any Injustice style bullshit on his watch.
Something tells me that they're going to learn that Orange Lanterns fight a little differently from Green Lanterns.She snarls. " A Green Lantern. You're coming with-" She lunges towards me. "-me!"
"I would have thought a pilgrim would avoid someplace full of demons
Don't recognise the continuity. I also don't believe thst Sivana made a mistake or that we've seen this team composition before.
This should be interesting.
Ah, something of a portable protective charm, eh? A little battery cell to drain off the excess order and Chaos? Exactly the sort of thing I could see Doctor Balewa working out to allow John a little measure of travel capability. And no doubt warded to keep track of him.21st November 2012
08:02 GMT +2
"John, are you..? Sure about this?"
John reaches into his coat and pulls out a slowly charging crystal.
I wonder if the current crop of rookie heroes signing up with various groups are getting courses in things like 'Masked Body Language 101' thanks to things like this. Stuff like face-concealing helmets may hide your identity, after all, but they do also hide simple gestures we take for granted..."Yeah. Synchronicity wave. Felt it the moment I saw Supergirl."
Oliver raises an eyebrow, a gesture that's not easy to see with a domino mask on. "I would have thought a pilgrim would avoid someplace full of demons. Or is this more of a challenge?"
In John's case, it's kind of a shamanistic thing, sure, but in the sense that he lets it take him where shit's fucked so he can fix it.John looks slightly puzzled, and I-. Oh.
"The Witch-Hunter Abednego called himself a synchronicity pilgrim, but that's a term I've only heard used by his people. And it doesn't have to be a spiritual journey in the classical religious sense."
"It's a Zen thing, man." Sounds right up Ollie's alley, really."Oh?" Oliver looks at John curiously. "So how does it work?"
"Well, it's a bit…" He takes a breath as he slips the crystal back into his pocket. "A bit of self-hypnosis, a bit of reaching out to the magic around you and letting it guide you. You need some idea where you're trying to get, but at the same time you can't force how it takes you there."
...Like demons. Or fearing for the fate of your soul."Can anyone learn it?"
"Anyone can learn magic. But there's usually good reasons not to."
I'm amazed Thaddeus Senior actually hung around to talk to them. I guess that global pardon's coming in handy.Dinah and Alan stroll back in from having a word with Dr. Sivana, neither of them exactly looking happy about things.
"Problem?"
I mean, the man would not take conventional punishment the way the average person would. His brain just works too differently. One version escaped from jail by doing math.Alan shakes his head. "No, he's clean. It's just…"
Dinah exhales sharply. "It feels like he's getting off lightly."
Tinkers gotta Tinker, brother. I suppose the hard part is keeping them from monologuing at each other, arguing, and swearing to rain vengeance down with death-rays..."He wasn't being punished anyway. And this way the world benefits from his work. Though probably not from his analysis of romantic comedies."
Alan shakes his head again, but this time there's a small smile. "It's a shame more mad scientists aren't like him. Oh, how's that..? Therapy workshop Ted Kord was running coming along?"
No, no, do finish that question. I'd like to hear what you were going to say?"It's hard to find evidence of crimes not committed, but it's turning a profit and there haven't been any 'incidents' yet."
Dinah regards me curiously. "I'm a little surprised that you're not more..."
Ah, the joy of being amongst friends who know you so well.Alan raises his eyebrows. "Aggressive?"
Oliver holds out his right hand, palm up. "Vengeful?"
"Psychotically murderous?"
And after the first couple of times, most people know not to pull any shit with him, so he hasn't had to commit any atrocities recently."You did boast that you'd killed more people than anyone else in human history."
"But Mister Crock hasn't tried to get in contact with his family, has he? Point is, I don't see any point in killing people who are straightening themselves out. My kill count comes from people in lawless regions of space who are perfectly fine being evil."
...Do you want to bring the PTSD Kryptonian with you to the place that caused her suffering? Yes, I suspect carrying a live grenade would work out about as well.I step towards the machine. A quick scan shows that it's live, and similar enough to other similar devices that I've scanned that I'm confident that it does what it's supposed to.
Oliver looks around. "We're not bringing Kara with us?"
There's that, too. They may not take happily to her return."I.. thought it best to make sure.. that they…"
He nods. "That they want her back."
John, please, let's not poke the barely-comprehensible technology? Do you want to be smeared across 5252 universes?"Basically." I press the helpfully labelled 'on' button and stand back as the space in the arch of machinery turns matt black. "Who wants to go first?"
John pulls another crystal out of his pocket and throws it into the blackness. It disappears as soon as it passes the aperture.
...Okay, either he's really high on synchronicity, or that little episode gave his sense of self-preservation a severe unbalancing."Feels like it worked. And it feels-" He steps forward. "-like the place to g-."
He vanishes into the void.
Helpful. Orange Light Shaman levels coming in so handy in this playthrough.Oliver watches the black rectangle for a moment. "Ah, how do we know it worked?"
I close my eyes, feeling for-.
I open my eyes, nodding. "He still exists. I can feel his route from here. Follow me."
...Dangit, John's poking the portal fudged it up, didn't it?I step into the blackness, and while there's a moment of disorientation, when I reappear a moment later I note with satisfaction that that was the smoothest transition that I've had from one of these things. John's just a little way ahead, picking up his crystal and holding it up to his face to study. We've.. come out in a woodland, it's… Huh, Yellowstone Park. Sky looks clear, and I'd say it's.. late morning, probably.
Didn't Demon Superman hit Yellowstone?
Remember the little thing with Red Tornado and his siblings? Imagine if that had gone worse. And then double it. This is not good."John, are we-?"
"Huh." Oliver steps out of thin air behind me, looking around. "I was expecting something a little more… Beat up."
That would be a dreadful insult to his scientific pride you just uttered."I think we might have a problem."
"What, Sivana got the-" Dinah walks through behind him as he takes a more careful look around. "-wrong Earth?"
That's a good plan.
And somewhere else, a Lizard smiles smugly. Why is it always Tuesday?"No." John shakes his head. "This is where we're supposed to be."
Oliver smiles. "The wizard's being all ominous and cryptic. Must be Tuesday."
If it were Earth-666, I would say that's because Rakkar probably knocked the satellites offline. Otherwise, why the heck would you expect an alternate universe to have the same software protocols, much less any GPS network?"Also, it's not going to switch for a return journey for an hour. It's the one drawback of this machine."
Dinah tries her arm computer. "Can't find the local GPS."
Yeah, let's not go crazy here.Ring, scan the… Ah, scan just Yellowstone. Just in case someone can detect my scans.
Compliance.
Okay, so... Take a seat, grab a Soder Cola out of subspace and wait?I generate a map construct in the middle of our group. "Looks pretty normal. A few craters are in different places; looks like Morrow didn't build a base-."
"Alert! Incoming-!
Welp, someone's got Marvel envy. Sentinels, anyone?The sun goes out, and my map shudders as it adjusts to fit-. Two giant-
Oliver puts an arrow on string. "Oh hell no."
...Oh, that's just disturbing. And they're still wearing the giant two-tone leotards? Someone has no taste...
Well, at least they aren't letting the giant super-robots operate autonomously.
...Oh, this is off to a great start."You will be taken into custody, at which point it will be determined whether charges will be brought against you in addition to the charges for operating an unlicensed teleportation system."
Ah. Yes, that's…
...Ollie. Keep in mind the threats present here? Let's not start any trouble?"Let.. me just go and talk to her."
Oliver has an arrow on string, but he's keeping it pointed down.
Given she just mentioned 'additional charges' - probably something like existing as 'unlicensed metahumans' - I don't think this is going to end civilly."Orange, those are giant Amazos."
"Yes, and they're not attacking. Having overwhelming force that can be deployed against serious threats is a very sensible thing to do. But since we're not here to fight anyone, we should be able to talk things out."
Sorry, wrong colour, but that does offer a few leads as to where they might be. Like Lothlo suggested, is this the Inviolate universe? On the other hand, OL should recognise it, having been there before.I float up into the air, making sure to keep my constructs to myself.
"Hello! I'm-."
She snarls. " A Green Lantern. You're coming with-" She lunges towards me. "-me!"
Can't believe we are apparently getting even more Supergirls. We'll hit double digits soon at that rate.
inuity. I also don't believe thst Sivana made a mistake or that we've seen this team composition before
In John's case, it's kind of a shamanistic thing, sure, but in the sense that he lets it take him where shit's fucked so he can fix it
I mean, the man would not take conventional punishment the way the average person would. His brain just works too differently. One version escaped from jail by doing math.
John, please, let's not poke the barely-comprehensible technology? Do you want to be smeared across 5252 universes?
If it were Earth-666, I would say that's because Rakkar probably knocked the satellites offline. Otherwise, why the heck would you expect an alternate universe to have the same software protocols, much less any GPS network
Well, I get the feeling Lanterns aren't welcome on this Earth. Nor any metahuman not employed or imprisoned by the government, at a glance. Wonder if the differences in abilities will throw them for a loop or not? At any rate, this bodes so well for how the episode is about to go. Thank you, John, for this little side-trip. Bet that crystal he tossed inadvertently knocked the portal's destination off a few parallels...
Thank you, corrected.
The SI is wondering that. She's using the term to mean 'Maltusian-affiliate' rather than 'someone with a green power ring'.
Orange Lantern's fight, Green Lantern's entertain and occasionally (and accidentally) win conflicts sometimes.Something tells me that they're going to learn that Orange Lanterns fight a little differently from Green Lanterns.
Zoat... You really shouldn't link to the comic version of Amazo when you're going to nerf them into Canon fodder.21st November 2012
08:02 GMT +2
"John, are you..? Sure about this?"
John reaches into his coat and pulls out a slowly charging crystal.
"Yeah. Synchronicity wave. Felt it the moment I saw Supergirl."
Oliver raises an eyebrow, a gesture that's not easy to see with a domino mask on. "I would have thought a pilgrim would avoid someplace full of demons. Or is this more of a challenge?"
John looks slightly puzzled, and I-. Oh.
"The Witch-Hunter Abednego called himself a synchronicity pilgrim, but that's a term I've only heard used by his people. And it doesn't have to be a spiritual journey in the classical religious sense."
"Oh?" Oliver looks at John curiously. "So how does it work?"
"Well, it's a bit…" He takes a breath as he slips the crystal back into his pocket. "A bit of self-hypnosis, a bit of reaching out to the magic around you and letting it guide you. You need some idea where you're trying to get, but at the same time you can't force how it takes you there."
"Can anyone learn it?"
"Anyone can learn magic. But there's usually good reasons not to."
Dinah and Alan stroll back in from having a word with Dr. Sivana, neither of them exactly looking happy about things.
"Problem?"
Alan shakes his head. "No, he's clean. It's just…"
Dinah exhales sharply. "It feels like he's getting off lightly."
"He wasn't being punished anyway. And this way the world benefits from his work. Though probably not from his analysis of romantic comedies."
Alan shakes his head again, but this time there's a small smile. "It's a shame more mad scientists aren't like him. Oh, how's that..? Therapy workshop Ted Kord was running coming along?"
"It's hard to find evidence of crimes not committed, but it's turning a profit and there haven't been any 'incidents' yet."
Dinah regards me curiously. "I'm a little surprised that you're not more..."
Alan raises his eyebrows. "Aggressive?"
Oliver holds out his right hand, palm up. "Vengeful?"
"Psychotically murderous?"
"You did boast that you'd killed more people than anyone else in human history."
"But Mister Crock hasn't tried to get in contact with his family, has he? Point is, I don't see any point in killing people who are straightening themselves out. My kill count comes from people in lawless regions of space who are perfectly fine being evil."
I step towards the machine. A quick scan shows that it's live, and similar enough to other similar devices that I've scanned that I'm confident that it does what it's supposed to.
Oliver looks around. "We're not bringing Kara with us?"
"I.. thought it best to make sure.. that they…"
He nods. "That they want her back."
"Basically." I press the helpfully labelled 'on' button and stand back as the space in the arch of machinery turns matt black. "Who wants to go first?"
John pulls another crystal out of his pocket and throws it into the blackness. It disappears as soon as it passes the aperture.
"Feels like it worked. And it feels-" He steps forward. "-like the place to g-."
He vanishes into the void.
Oliver watches the black rectangle for a moment. "Ah, how do we know it worked?"
I close my eyes, feeling for-.
I open my eyes, nodding. "He still exists. I can feel his route from here. Follow me."
I step into the blackness, and while there's a moment of disorientation, when I reappear a moment later I note with satisfaction that that was the smoothest transition that I've had from one of these things. John's just a little way ahead, picking up his crystal and holding it up to his face to study. We've.. come out in a woodland, it's… Huh, Yellowstone Park. Sky looks clear, and I'd say it's.. late morning, probably.
Didn't Demon Superman hit Yellowstone?
"John, are we-?"
"Huh." Oliver steps out of thin air behind me, looking around. "I was expecting something a little more… Beat up."
"I think we might have a problem."
"What, Sivana got the-" Dinah walks through behind him as he takes a more careful look around. "-wrong Earth?"
"Um. It.. doesn't look like a trap…"
"Go home and try again?"
"No." John shakes his head. "This is where we're supposed to be."
Oliver smiles. "The wizard's being all ominous and cryptic. Must be Tuesday."
"Also, it's not going to switch for a return journey for an hour. It's the one drawback of this machine."
Dinah tries her arm computer. "Can't find the local GPS."
Ring, scan the… Ah, scan just Yellowstone. Just in case someone can detect my scans.
Compliance.
I generate a map construct in the middle of our group. "Looks pretty normal. A few craters are in different places; looks like Morrow didn't build a base-."
"Alert! Incoming-!
The sun goes out, and my map shudders as it adjusts to fit-. Two giant-
Oliver puts an arrow on string. "Oh hell no."
-humanoids-.
I look up at the giant Amazo androids glowering down at us.
"Stand down, metahumans!"
And between them, a normal-sized woman in a grey uniform.
"You will be taken into custody, at which point it will be determined whether charges will be brought against you in addition to the charges for operating an unlicensed teleportation system."
Ah. Yes, that's…
"Let.. me just go and talk to her."
Oliver has an arrow on string, but he's keeping it pointed down.
"Orange, those are giant Amazos."
"Yes, and they're not attacking. Having overwhelming force that can be deployed against serious threats is a very sensible thing to do. But since we're not here to fight anyone, we should be able to talk things out."
I float up into the air, making sure to keep my constructs to myself.
"Hello! I'm-."
She snarls. "A Green Lantern. You're coming with-" She lunges towards me. "-me!"
No, as the SI wasn't in Trinity.
Can someone refresh my memory what Therapy Workshop did Ted Kord create? And possibly link to when it's mentioned?Alan shakes his head again, but this time there's a small smile. "It's a shame more mad scientists aren't like him. Oh, how's that..? Therapy workshop Ted Kord was running coming along?"
I think it is the think tank that Paul encouraged Ted to start in an effort to get both sane geniuses and mad scientists to use their genius for beneficial purposes.Can someone refresh my memory what Therapy Workshop did Ted Kord create? And possibly link to when it's mentioned?