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

We know which ones, it's power ring and the last kryptonian woman.

 

Huh, I thought they were completely illegal for non-government after the Dunblane school shooting. But having just double-checked, yeah, seems I was wrong. Guess it doesn’t come up often when you don’t go into rural areas (or maybe even then, I don’t know).
I mentioned foreign agents because I assume that if Joe Biden turns up in the UK tomorrow, they aren’t going to ask his bodyguards to hand over their handguns.

 

As I understand it, rural areas mostly use shotguns. We don't have much in the way of large predators here, though for some reason we've reintroduced wolves in some places, and the guns are for pest control and sport shooting. The few legal handguns are mostly for sport shooting.

No, but I doubt that they'd be allowed to take a walk with them when off the clock.

 

There's this thing called delegation.

 

I can't be confident but unless it's a word he picked up on Earth by sound alone, I'd guess "victuals" (pronounced the same way).

 

Sure, it's when you're in charge of something, and you tell people what to do. Hence my response to:

 

I don't believe that's correct.

 

That should say 'thought'.

Last I remember, OL offered Clayface the chance to be human again through one of the lesser Hero Dials as part of a series of ongoing experiments where scientists analyze how the thing works. Is this a mistake? Or did Clayface decide he'd prefer to be a villain?

 

Zsasz believes that life is meaningless, and that's he's saving people by killing them, right? Not sure if that means if he would embrace the anti-life, or fight it in his own special way.

 

Karon? Holly's GF?

Good for her tbh. She's making the best of the anti-life nonsense

 

And now Robin again, still running a tail with Artemis, I see. I'm guessing it just crossed over to Earth -16, or wherever it's going. So it's likely that both pairs are at the same warehouse now, just on different ends. Unless there are multiple sites like that.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Heh. Of course Batman-developed tracking tech is smart enough to send word if it gets destroyed.

So they didn't find it, it's just out of range.

And if you got closer, it'd probably be a bit too lively to double-check then.

Or the portal could be opening from the other end. To (mis)quote Hawkeye from 'Avengers': "It's a door, right? Well, doors open both ways..."

On the other hand, Dick, you can look forwards to becoming the DC Universe's greatest heroic Lover.

Yeah, that would strain most people's credulity.

See? It doesn't necessarily need to be a system that requires dual terminals, after all.

<facepalm> Work on your patter later, Boy Wonder...

Fundamental mistake there, Robin. Bad initial assumption.

That's more like it! After all, the Young Offenders' Earth is Earth Minus Fourteen. But by that logic... Is there not an Earth Minus Sixteen too?

...Bit too much of a stretch there, Robin. Occam's Razor.

Given typical Team missions, it seems inevitable that's how it goes tits-up.

...Professor Pyg isn't a thing yet, is he? Post-flashpoint or not... He seems like the sort.

Hey, absurdism is a valid form of humour. So is the old bait-and-switch.

Joker: "This isn't funny."

With any luck, some of them might come out of this a little saner. Probably not enough that they'd cop an actual sentencing, but still.

...Goddammit, of all the times for Batman to be sleeping. This sounds like a bad plan, Robin.

...Admittedly, he walked away from three of them after. Stable, these folks are not.

And hopefully in quantities that wouldn't result in the effect being self-sustaining either.

Which still raises the question of why. Doing this reduces her powerbase.

Girl, what?

...Huh. That's... That could be a plausible line of thought...

Though that still raises the question of how they made contact with her, or her with them.

...Not much of a clue there.

...Which is the worse alternative? Let's not do that one.

Eh, he's loyal to Darkseid. And whatever Mistress is, she's clearly not living up to that lofty ideal of Tyranny.

This still looks like it's running headlong into 'going tits-up' territory. Seriously, going through a dimensional portal without knowing where you're going is a bad idea. I have the feeling that when Batman wakes up, he's going to have some choice words to say about Robin's decision-making... Once Robin gets back, anyway.

 

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<thinks back tot he Karon-and-Holly bit of the vignettes when the whole thing kicked off>

Sunuva-

 

Interesting to see how members of the old team are doing, but what I’m really excited for is finding out what Hephaestean and His pantheon have been doing during all this. What do you guys think they’re up to?

 

Well since you just defined micromanaging which is the opposite of delegating, no, you really really don't.

Delegating is entrusting the authority to others to complete tasks using their own decision making.

 

Mr Zoat, a couple questions if you don’t mind indulging my curiosity.

1. Can Xor teleport like Paul does or is he just aware of the Honden and able to interface with the desire networks of those around him?
2. Being on the front lines of the Reach’s surprise counteroffensive probably produced the best data Dox could have asked for. So, exactly how much better has Xor gotten?
3. Does this mean the Honor Guard is getting its second member?

 

I thought maybe...So how do I know

 

Thank you, corrected.

Yes, that happened. Then the place got Anti-Lifed.

NO! NOT THE BULLET POINTS!

1. No. At the moment he's a couple of breakthroughs away.
2. Quite a bit.
3. Not yet, but it's mostly a matter of time now.

 

Ah, oops. I don’t generally ask multiple questions about a particular topic at once, but is there a particular way you’d prefer me to format myself if I do again? I chose an ordered list since those tend to assist with readability, but I clearly touched on something….

Oooh! I can’t wait to see it. Watching Xor’s character development and resulting spiritual achievements is quite enjoyable.

Speaking of things I can’t wait to see in detail….

He certainly will deserve it, especially if he achieves Hondren travel before then. Just imagine how much more effective the Green Lantern Honor Guard would be if they could instantly teleport on mass to emergencies.

The future of our Corps is bright indeed.

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Thank you so much for answering me! These plotthreads have been hanging out in the back of my mind since I first heard of them and it’s so satisfying to no longer have them nag at me.

 

The wolves are being introduced because the deer population is massively above where it should be, due to the local extinction of wolves, and it’s bad for the ecosystem. At least, that’s the reasoning I got told in Geography a few years ago for why they’re being brought back here in Scotland. Don’t know about England or Wales.

True, I guess I didn’t consider that. Although I have no idea whether a President’s bodyguards would get time off the clock when in another country. I don’t know how it works.

‘do I know’

’she might just be’

 

Yes, with the additional point that well defined boundaries or limits must be set; e.g., "you can only spend up to $X per month" or "don't use outside contractors without the usual vetting process".

 

Basically, I usually split a quote with multiple questions so that I can put each answer right after each question. When you try and do that with things tagged as bullet points by the forum, it doesn't go well. Making a numbered list is fine, but please, don't do it as bullet points.

The deer population going up is good, because it means that there's more tasty deer for us. Wolves eat the same things we eat; they're competition. That will also eat us.

Thank you, corrected.

 

We don’t eat that many deer. And there’s an interesting video regarding… I think it was Yellowstone? They found that reintroducing wolves actually shifted rivers, because in addition to culling the deer and moose population, the wolves also shifted their behavior to something less ecologically damaging.

 

If the price of deer meat goes down because the supply has increased, then people will eat more deer meat.

But I don't care about rivers. I care about not getting eaten by a wolf pack when I go for a walk in the woods. We wiped those things out for a reason.

 

Nice to know we found Zoat's secret weakness.

• Bullet Points.
• Wolves.
• Bullet wolves?
• wolf bullets?
• The inevitable vengeance of Mother Nature for his callous disregard for mans upset of the natural ecosystem.

 

We were fine without wolves for 500 years.

And I just learned that there's a place in California called Placentia.

 

Called it.

 

So it only just occurred to me. When the Earth was first Anti Lifed, Barda was missing. In Robin's PoV, he starts to think Barda, then he cuts himself off. Still missing or direct Anti Life exposure from Mannheim.

 

Wolves don't attack people (at least not in North America) and they keep the Deer from being fat/lazy as well as eating themselves out of house and home. People wiped out Wolves out of blind fear and hate.

 

In 1450 wolves invaded Paris and ate 40 people, not even mentioning the people they ate on the way there.

And I don't care in deer are lazy. The fat is where the flavour comes from.