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

Such a curious case, this Roswell Paul. In contrast with the Anti-Green Paul that had his Will trained and enhanced by the slaving ring, this one has to train himself with no guidance or specific intuitiveness. And it's interesting to see his way of fighting, since he's focusing on maintining his image as The Green Knight.

 

And if they've been briefed on the Emerald Knight, I suspect the rock guy isn't going to draw nearly as much fire as they expected to. A pity Roswaul can't use ranged weaponry easily with his current skill level, or this would go a lot quicker.

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I assume he's moving on foot. Don't want them to realise he can fly, after all.

At least he's got the hang of using the Green Light to make things happen: Refusing to accept the possibility of it not.

And I'm half-picturing the sword shooting out Snake-Sword style, before bursting into dozens of smaller points...

Which is impressive, as bipedal locomotion is not easy to reproduce mechanically. Especially when trying to maintain balance like that.

Like the way he's using a mantra-like repetition to maintain focus.

Pfft. You expect them to leave it in one piece?

Focus, Knight. Doubt is weakness.

Yeah, not something you want to be anything near when it's taking an uncontrolled tumble.

Time for some paladin-worthy righteous chastisement.

'Come have a go, if you think you're hard enough, mate.'

And while we know you won't tear through them like you did the mechs, they don't know that.

Giving up already? No doubt wary of making too much noise, eh?

Ain't nothing getting through a focused Green lantern's defences when they're that focused.

The drawback of using constrained plasma for melee weapons.

Sneaky fellow. I have a feeling you'll be seeing him again.

But twisted wreckage is a lot harder to identify than an intact mech suit. Wouldn't be surprised if people's initial reaction is 'what happened to that car?'

Well, shit.

Ah, the old 'moving object versus stationary obstacle' reaction. Except this moving object is nearly unstoppable. Pity the goon isn't immovable.

Boy, were they operating on bad intel...

Oh, hell, no. No shooting unarmed bystanders on this Knights watch.

Well, so much for the non-lethal response plan...

Joy of being effectively a mono-molecular edge.

Yeah, first kill's always the hardest, isn't it? Especially when you don't have a Light's psychological effects to distract you, like Rage or Compassion.

And remember, that guy was threatening two unarmed people with a plasma rifle, one of them injured. And I doubt he had it set to low-lethality mode.

Still, think of this as a formative moment. When you realise just how powerful you are, and how badly you can mess people up.

So, the first fatality on the Alliance's side from Roswaul's actions. I can't see the protagonists taking this well when they hear about it. And he's probably going to have to rethink a few things too. Lots of 'what could I have done better?' moments ahead. Though I expect the Green Light will let him power through a lot of the more emotional reflections...

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No installed AI at all, if it's anything like the other Rings we've seen a Paul start out with. OL and Renegade only have something like an AI in their Rings because Orange Light coding shenanigans.

 

Well, well, faulty information uh?

 

Yup, Hope is the most powerful emotion, but without the willpower to enact that Hope it's limited in what it can do.

 

They didn't have a proper maltusian database, but both OL and Renegade's ring had an AI at the start.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Haven't decided. My first idea is that it sort of does, but the notifications go to Percival rather than causing him to be auto-fired.

 

Increases their ring charge. Post flashpoint they can do that for every color of ring. This can cause rings to explode by overcharging, by the by.

Post flashpoint, that weakness was Ganthet malware instead of an inherent property of the blue light. Considering GL largely ignored flashpoint, maybe it was always intended to be Ganthet malware instead of an inherent property.

The Blue Lantern Corps was then promptly slaughtered down to just Saint Walker, because without that weakness it would be the Blue Lantern Corps and their loser sidekicks who aren't good enough for a blue ring.

 

Should probably be storm forward

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Killing an Alliance soldier is going to attract a lot of bad attention for Paul. It was really interesting seeing how he makes ring work by constantly deciding or willing his constructs to be strong enough though I suppose that was obvious.

 

The DC wiki claims that Green and Yellow rings are capable of "limited cellular regeneration" (whatever that means; we both know it's code for "as much healing as the author needs to get away with, or not"). Aside from that, the one time I saw it referenced in the actual comics was when when they were pulling Guy Gardner out of a Red Power Ring's influence, an Indigo Tribesman managed to patch him up but left trace toxins in his bloodstream, noting that a Blue ring would be needed for "true healing."

Indigo being able to do it makes sense to me, as healing is generally an act of compassion; blue being the best at it also makes sense, because the Blue Light is "hope," or, in an earlier age, "faith" - miracles, then, are very much its stock in trade, so to speak.

Yeah - I think it was Atrocitus who put it as, "Without the willpower to enact it, hope is nothing more than well-wishes and prayers."

To the best of my knowledge (and I'm drawing on the roleplaying game as well as decade-old memories of the comics here), without the presence of a Green Power Ring, a Blue Lantern is limited to flight and their personal (environmental?) shield - and that, at about half-strength of normal. In the presence of a Blue Power Ring, a Green Lantern's ring charge is basically doubled.

 

Ice used Guy's ring to cure Ivo of his deforming and cripplling immortality serum. Guy commented he didn't understand how she did that since he can't even cure his own hemorrhoids.

Simon pulled someone out of a coma.

Hallalax, although without a ring, used the green light to heal Stewart.

However, it's mostly a fake weakness anyway- Power rings can create chemicals constructs, as shown when Kyle created a sleeping gas construct to knock out Alan.

Power rings can also manufacture medicine, as Stewart did to cure a plague in Cosmic Odyssey.

Power rings can create medical equipment constructs, as Sinestro's daughter's first act as a green lantern.

So David Kim of the Anansi Justice League, being a nanite engineer specializing in medical applications, could probably create medical nanite constructs to heal anything he wanted.

 

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Is this perserveratey focus on how your constructs are intact normal Green Lantern mindset?

 

Thank you, corrected.

I'm not sure what word 3 means, but probably not. Green Lanterns are selected for having a strong will, so they're that focused normally.

 

How many can they really get this far out of the boonies?
And how many of those are falsely assumed by the Alliance?

 

'is keeping'

An attitude that has never had horrible consequences for innocent parties...

 

And you don't see any innocent parties around here, do you? So it'll all work out.

Consequences are for other people.

 

The Alliance does seem sketchy as hell and lacking legitmancy from actual governments.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Alright, the Roswell Conspiracies variant timeline is starting to catch my attention.

At first I wasn't that interested in it and thought it was mostly a distraction from what I was after seeing, but as we get more of the characters and conflict introduced it's getting better and more fascinating.

 

Ah, back to Nick Logan and company for this one, I see. After all, Roswaul wouldn't need to be looking through binoculars. And this looks like one doozy of a challenge. Breaking into a foreign military base, extracting or utterly destroying captured materiel and escaping without getting caught. Good luck there, lads and lasses.

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Ah, a classic trope: the Upper-Class English Twit. Not gonna fly these days, alas.

Yeah, a bluff with no foundation in reality isn't a good bluff. The best lie is one with a little truth mixed in for seasoning.

...Ah, I think I'm beginning to follow the timeline now. The folks Roswaul was helping yesterday are the dock workers involved in the attack Team Logan was told about.

<sigh> Still laser-focused on everything tying back to the one big enemy, huh?

Don't tell me: The 'Oni' operate out of the Asian regions, especially Japan?

I suppose having a fresh pair of eyes looking over footage helps to find inconsistencies...

That seems like something of a drawback going into the Twenty-first Century. Though presumably it would take an intense field at close proximity like getting shot at like that to reveal it.

In other words, no chance in hell.

I know it might be instinct to see all of them as one monolithic enemy, Fitz, but they aren't.

Good point. I doubt they entered the country entirely legally.

Presumably Alliance air transports have some good stealth systems.

Gee, just a little suspicious, isn't it?

...He intends to pull a Bane? Hope their air transport is a little sturdier than modern aircraft.

The joy of not having a mind as squirrelly as a secret agent's.

No doubt another team is working on getting them out? Or is Team Logan expected to handle that too?

Ah, the pre-connectivity age. When nearly everything forensics-related was done by hand and eye.

And since this is pre-'War on Terror', the seedier side of things hasn't started to be exposed... yet.

In other words, 'disappearing' them into Alliance custody.

I'm sure they do...

To be fair, modern aircraft aren't all that much of an evolution of the first planes, at their core. Lose the thrust pushing you through the air, and, well...

Hoo-boy. Fitz likes the loud solutions, doesn't he?

James Bond would probably approve. Any of them. ...Yes, I'm an 'It's a Codename' believer...

That will probably be news of the Emerald Knight's appearance...

Ah, I assume that's who Roswaul duelled yesterday, then.

Yep, still carrying the fresh burns from getting his plasma mace smashed up.

...To be fair, only one group made it inside the building. Maybe one guy, possibly. And that one didn't walk out again.

Eh, you guys have protagonist power, you'll work it out.

Well, then. I doubt Roswaul will turn up to interfere with their little plan - likely too busy dealing with the stress of killing someone - but I get the feeling just having the paranoia of thinking he might be out there will result in someone messing up. Though since Fitz's plan isn't exactly a good plan, I'm hoping they don't try to pull it off...

 

"I've been in rooms just like that before. There are no 'innocent civilians'. Trust me. Every last one of them has done something."

 

So why is the alliance going after the ailens? I thought they were only after hostiles like vampires etc?

 

In this series, all mythological creatures are aliens, so they are anti-alien in general.

 

Okay, I won't.

 

When Paul gets the hang of using the ring, I imagine he will go full green lantern. The enemy will never see it coming.

 

Yeah I know, but they work with some if them right?

It's been more than a decade ibthink since I last watched the show so maybe I'm misremembering

 

Pretty sure they operate on the belief of guilty unless proven innocent/a non-threat.

 

They had good relations, or the beginning of good relations, with the Conduit, but then the evil aliens pulled a "Let's you and them fight."

The Banshee gal is pretty damn lucky they didn't put an explosive collar on her like she's Harley from the Suicide Squad, because they did that to the Yeti on the team.