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

Well, that is a relief. I would hate to see the scene where Paul was in Hades trying to figure out what happened.

 

Paul's stated numerous times that Sivana wants "every country" to pardon him but Paul expects him to be satisfied with most.

 

I think he meant every country that would have reason to punish Sivana due to crimes he committed in their territory or against their citizens, and he was hoping that Sivana would be satisfied if most of them pardoned him.

Countries where he hasn't committed any crimes wouldn't exactly be able to pardon him.

 

I would have much preferred to see how our enlightened Paragon interacted with Slaaneshis, whether they be cultists or daemons, not that we got much of that here. Looking forward to more.

 

'like these'

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maybe 'detection'

'is making' or 'squads are making'

maybe 'at full speed'

'constructs' as there are multiple of them

'third has'

 

Yep, that sure is a lot of made up fantasy words that mean nothing to me.

 

Nice. Now I'm wondering what an Orange Central Power Battery would do in 40k.

Also, does Paul actually have a long term plan Zoat? Draining deamons one at a time isn't going to get him very far.

Can he make more Rings? I forgot if he needed to be enlightened for that or not...

 

Thank you, corrected.

Those are correct.

 

Generally work to improve the place. At the moment he's still setting up the systems he needs in order to function effectively.

In theory. In practice, no.

 

Become corrupted by Chaos all but immediately.

He didn't drain Daemons, you can tell from the fact that his ring didn't sprout tentacles and bite off his finger.

 

And a break to see what P'aul's up to, I see. Not doubt staying busy in the dark future.

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And even in the Tau Empire, bureaucrats are obstructive. Figures. Still, a good protocol concerning Warpy stuff.

Well, I suspect at least one leader is about to get plenty of the latter.

The population is dense all right. 'Church of Divine Unity'... Clearly a Chaos cult. But hey, humans will follow anything shiny, if it has enough skulls and fire. Imperials are easy to please like that.

I'm honestly amazed there aren't natural outbreaks of daemons as it is. I shudder at the thought of how many undetected and unprotected psykers and sensitives are running around now.

...A master of understatement, I see. Must be Water Caste.

Heh, able to make puns and blame it on bad translations. Such a handy trick. I see there's no hard feelings between them after the whole 'pretend to be a daemon' bit he used to wake Kais up.

I'm guessing a human-fitted version of Fire Warrior armour, with proper boots instead of hoof-sleeves. Not like the cheap stuff they'd give Gue'vesa auxiliaries... You know, humans.

His squad is seeing combat, evidently. And supported by a stealth team or battlesuit, from the sound of those weapons. The former is standard kit for the light stealth armour, with the latter as a squad specialist weapon. Think plasma gatling gun and nuclear heat ray respectively, for the 40k virgins.

I wonder, is he in a standard squad, close assault Breacher team or scouting Pathfinder unit... Heck, with his experience, he could qualify as a Fireblade, a field lieutenant...

Oh, bugger. The Great Seductor has taken an interest in this world it seems. Because of OL, I wonder?

Plenty of Warpyness for the Ring to nom down on, at least.

Looks like the civilian leadership has cottoned on that he's needed. And the Psychic Phase just finished, with the enemy sorcerers casting buffs powers.

Safe. On a Warhammer 40,000 Battlefield. Quite the oxymoron there.

Ah, good, I see he's had to get that down damn fast. Desperation is the mother of cleverness, after all.

Ah, the 'suck it and see if it kills you' approach. I wonder how the Sorcerers will react when you drop an effective null-zone on them?

Amusing that the Fire Caste gal or guy thinks they're in charge of him. I can't help but think of him as equivalent to a superhero now... Imagine if or when his existence becomes public, unlikely as that will be.

And until then, he's a flying Lord of War with the ultimate in multi-function devices. Gods, can you imagine his tabletop stats?

Air support has arrived. And unlike most flying soldiers, this one is not skeet.

Sounds like the Chaos player splurged on Spawn kits. I remember doing that back when Apocalypse first came out with bundle packs. Picked up twelve spawn, and they're still in my collection today. In need of repainting, but still there.

Buff spells. That won't last long before P'aul's Ring. Probably giving an Invulnerable Saving throw, Toughness bonus or Initiative bonus...

Evidently the power goes bone deep. I doubt there's enough of their minds left to register the pain, beyond that animalistic response, though.

Yeah, might be a bit awkward to make mental contact with a Daemonette. It probably looks like Pornhub on random in there as it is.

Ah, Tau Pulse weapons. Safe, stable plasma weapons, mass-produced and used by the basic infantry. Better than the Imperial stuff, which is prone to backfiring because of a hideous dearth of safety procedures and overclocking...

Good to see P'aul finding his place in Tau society. As one hell of a Special Character choice. I take it the overall government is still working out just what to do with him... Unsurprising, given their lack of experience with truly outstanding individuals...

 

I hear you. I still enjoy these updates though. I like puzzling things out to learn what I can from the context, and then just ignore the bits that I don't care about (such as names). I don't know how Mr Zoat keeps all those, for all the different versions of Paul, straight in his head.

 

Enlightened Paul: Hmmm. You'll make a good Snek.

Slaaneshis: Huh? Wha-aaahhhh! (Gets imprisoned in battery)

Enlightened Paul: *Recites his oath which I can't remember or be bothered to look up*

Ring: Charge at 100%.

 

Truly some things are just universal.

At least they're better than Imperium bureaucrats.

Either that or this was just a random attack.

A lot of things are better than what the Imperium makes.

 

Actually Tau plasma weapons are less effective then Imperium Plasma weapons by a significant margin across all metrics from range to damage.

To wit it's.

Imperium - 24 - Rapid Fire - 7 - -3 - 1 with Supercharge option

Compared to.

Tau - 21 - Rapid Fire - 6 - -3 - 1 with no Supercharge option.

 

The Church of Divine Unity is the local tau's tame Ecclesiarchy-lite church. The local Slaanesh-worshippers are The Cult of the Miracle.

Human auxiliaries either get locally produced flak armour, or back in... 4th? The Imperial Guard Codex that introduced doctrines, I think they were shown having the same carapace armour as the tau.

They're an XV15 Stealth Team. Kais lacks the leadership expereince to be a Fireblade.

Oh, it is now, but information propogates slowly in the 41st millennium.

No, those were Posessed.

 

Yes but the Tau ones don't randomly explode.

 

This Paul has one ring... Unless he has been making more?

 

Those are the Tau's battlesuit-mounted Plasma Rifles, not their handheld Pulse Rifles.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Oh, pulse rifles are plasma-based too. There was this whole thing in 5th edition about what weapons a Plasma Syphon worked on, and they were on the list. Have you ever wondered what a BS1 Tau army looks like?

I can explain any parts you don't understand if you like?

 

I'm reminded of a lost fic on the now defunct OG y!gal where (Fat)Majin Buu ended up porting around to other universes. He ended up in 40K and just ran roughshod over the whole place.

 

There... Probably are things in 40K that could kill him. Telepathic attacks and daemonic possession are the obvious ones.

 

I don't know a ton about 40K but...

That didn't work because he has no brain. Just being sentient goo.

Every demonic thing that opposed him fell to the almighty cookie beam.

Again, I couldn't tell you what should happen. 40K seems to run on nonsense and Buu runs on Toriyama (and what Toriyama remembers)

 

40k is a setting I am "Meh" about. But that's not Zoat fault.

 

Neat, More 40k.

Nice to see P'aul making himself useful.

As for the Imperial vs Tau Plasma debate, the Tau actually know how theirs work, and lack the overcharge feature (re: Disabling the safety features) because they like their guns (and gunners) to NOT explode. Which happens with imperial gear 16.6% of the time they pull the trigger. The Imperial guns might technically be more sophisticated when it comes to materials, how they function and how compact they are. But the cargo cult (The Adeptus Mechanicus, or 'the Cog Boys' if you're a Guardsman) that are responsible for building and maintaining them aren't sane, rational people. They Chant and pray and burn incense before they swat the thing with a wrench a few times to make the holo displays work. Also skulls....everywhere. Imperials have no OSHA Compliance.

Not that Chaos is any better of course, as these poor sods are a prime example of. The Chaos Sp...er....That-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named are what happens when you get too much warp energy into your average mook. A Little Chaos and you get some neat powers/magic, the odd mutation. But generally your brain and biology still work. Getting a Lot COULD make you a walking Demigod IF you have the will and the power to contain it...if you don't...you end up looking like a rolling ball of meat straight out of Akira....or worse. Possession is a little different, in that there is a distinct demon using you as a meat suit, and making the place a bit more homey by feng shui-ing your organs and bones. Pretty hard to tell the difference, but possessed tend to be smarter and more functional as troops while ...the Other thing... tends to be a rampaging animal. What most Chaos types want is 'Apotheosis', otherwise known as ascending to the status of Daemon Prince, which converts a mortal into a high powered immortal daemon, no longer bound by biology or physics. Down side is it takes a lot of ripping time and space a new hole to exist in the mortal realms when you're a full on daemon, hence why they tend to get by using mooks to anchor them to the material.

The Tau folks tech base is kinda interesting, especially if you've got a subspace pocket to keep stuff in. Wonder what P'aul's armor looks like in this place, and if he's got his own Crisis Suit? ( a tau mini mech that's a passing resemblance to Gundam at times, compared to imperial stuff which is more steampunk + battletech).

 

We do not speak of the plasma syphon.

 

Alfred is a batman. Batman is a Man Who Dresses Like A Bat.

Better than first past the goalpost. VIctory by the other side got eaten by invaders from the future.

 

Overcharging is optional and most Imperium plasma weapons don't have it done.

So... You're argument here is that standard Imperium plasma rifles are superior to Tau battlesuit mounted plasma guns?

 

That doesn't help much. He'd be immune to things like Brain Leafs and some remote scan based devices, but telepaths in 40K are wizards who use warp magic to manipulate minds, not people with altered brain structures who are able to remotely connect to other brains. He can probably ignore some powers and I doubt that they'll have an easy time of it, but he certainly wouldn't be immune to everything.

Did he ever use it on enemy ki attacks? Because 40K daemons aren't basically aliens like Dabura was, who could physically die. They're manifestations of energy creatures from a parallel universe. They're not strong by DBZ standards, but you can't punch something that's trying to possess you.

Strictly speaking, ki isn't a thing in 40K so he should die the moment he appeared. I was being generous.

You forget something. I started in 2nd Ed, when the Imperium used the completely safe but slow charging Mark 2 plasma guns. The only ones who used the leaky Mark 1 plasma guns were the Traitor Legions.

The vast majority were not eaten.

Oh, come on. It couldn't be used reliably and any Tau army should have some weapons that could kill the Inquisitor's retinue.