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

Still mad that you couldn't be a pony or that low level necromancers cant summon zombies?

 

Well remembered, and yes.

 

So, what was so special about Morrowind as an rpg? I mean, I get that the world it creates is quite unique and all, but most of the systems are kind of not great and the physics engine was quite simple, compared to, say, Oblivion.

 

But it was the many peoples first RPG. It was rather well written and deep into lore.

The physics engine was AMAZING (for 2002....... my God, it has almost been 20 years). It just didn't age very well, and is missing thing we take for granted nowadays (like fast travel and quest markers).

But she was still my first romance, and she brought me into Sheogorath's grace. (I became a nerd because of that game, hence the madness)

 

I can't help but imagine that once the game developers meet the Tamaranians troupe that someone insists that there be a romance option in the game, with someone asking Paul what the other alien races in the Vega system look like, and large portion of the player base choose to destroy the Citadel forces mostly in order to romance a specific character while a small portion chose to side with the Citadel in order to form their own slave harems.

 

I played it a lot.

It had fast travel. You had three different teleport spells you could cast yourself, plus boats, stilt striders and Mage Guild teleporters.

 

Consider the previous game, Daggerfall, and how that compares with Morrowind. Coming out from below decks to the port of Seyda Neen was the gaming equivalent of Dorothy stepping into technicolor.

Also, the Scroll of Icarian Flight could function as a poor man's fast travel, if you had a way to cast Slow Fall and good timing.

 

Starting necromancers can sense the undead, interfere with existing undead, conjure a minor spirit, and instill a semblance of life into an object. At level 3 they can CONTROL undead and steal the life from a dying victim to power themselves up. It's quite wise that they should learn sensing, controlling, and empowering before learning how to CREATE undead at level 5 (cleric-based) or 7 (wizard-based).

Besides. Zombies are just too strong for starting characters to be able to summon at will.

Not being allowed to be a pony... that's just a buzzkill DM. There's an entire first-party sourcebook dedicated to playing as nonstandard races.

 

Just wanted to point out that in pathfinder (ugh first edition, don't get me started), third party publishers produced Ponyfinder.

As for zombies at first level, the spheres of power magic system totally has your back on that one.

So Twilight Sparkle who makes friends the necromantic way is a completely viable character concept....

 

What other properties, if we stay in the industry, could Paul's company work on? I can imagine a simple digital personality test to determine A) whether someone is worth testing for an Orange ring and B) whether someone is equipped to act as a handler for orange lanterns when senior lanterns and trained officers are indisposed. I'm pretty sure there is already a screening process for the first category.

And more importantly what is this company called?

 

Problem is: digital personality tests don’t work. People lie on them without supervision, or don’t get questions, etc... and with supervision you might as well have Paul there. If you’re talking about interplanetary recruitment, programming probably works quite differently there.

 

It was hilariously broken in a lot of fun ways, it had depth and polish beyond pretty much anything that came before it, and Oblivion got rid of the levitation spell.

 

Makes me think Paul should make and market a "Welcome to Earth" game. Introduce the Galaxy to Earth-crazy.

 

If you’re playing on PC, just use tcl to get the same effect.

 

The maps on Oblivion aren't structured for 3d movement, what with walls and separate areas.

 

"Troops! When you leave here, you will be the best trained riflemen in the world! And to ensure this, here is a javelin. Once you have mastered it, you will advance onto slingshots!"

 

I never liked that song. Bad memories of childhood.

 

Not gonna lie, I'm kinda lost ..

 

I... don't remember this situation well enough to tell what's going on. Is this commander is the guy in charge of the freedom fighter sorta-guys who sent Felicity to assassinate the spider queen?

I tried listening to it, and then a few seconds in I got a painful earful of badly compressed saxophone. Maybe it sounds better in-person or when recorded properly.

 

should be ' your '

 

Quite a mess, eh?

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Sadly, gordanians aren't big fans of automation or centralisation.

How inconsiderate...

Ah, snowball effects. lovely stuff.

And we've seen how well that worked out, multiple times in multiple places...

That'd be like letting the fox into the henhouse and saying "Take your pick."

No, OL, you aren't going to live that down, ever.

Very sloppy, OL.

Oh boy, Vega's turned into Space Afghanistan. Well Done, OL.

Your actions have been both a help and a hindrance.

"Admittedly, it could have been handled better... but I wasn't as high a level then."

Bit hard to intimidate someone who can see you're not serious about it.

Heh, little bit Renegade. Getting annoyed?

Ah, not planning on leaving survivors then.

Cannibalism only counts if they eat their own species. The Spider guild are simply carnivorious.

Well... That went well... Always interesting to see the fallout of earlier questlines...

All of OL's actions first time he was here are coming home to roost. And it's not pretty.

 

This individual Karnan doesn’t seem actually angry or hateful about things (besides anything Gordanian) but I agree enough with the points he’s making.
I thought Adam Blake and the princesses were looking out for all of Vega though- seems like something at least Blackfire would want to do.

 

Thank you, corrected.

There was never going to be a pretty solution. Don't assume that the Renegade got one just because the slaughter took place off-screen.

 

Wait, so this is actually happening in-story? I thought you jumped right into an in-character test of the Vega-based RPG without a segue, given how the prior post ended.

 

I mean... He had a body count in the millions, including the extinction of at least two entire races. Even if they were generally acceptable targets, that's still quite ugly right from the start.

Oh, that would be pretty clever. I didn't even think of that possibility.

 

Oh El seema to get in way too many "simulations".

I guess Grayven tends to avoid that due to his mental shields?

 

No, this is actually happening.

 

Gaharrugh is salty that Paul didn't save his homeworld from slavery.

 

Politics are happening and it's complicated.

Being slightly less glib, if you remember the guys OL dropped off all the slaves he freed to, right outside of Vega? They're the Crown Imperium and a reasonable authority figure/group from what we've seen. However, they're outside Vega so if they intervened, all of the groups inside Vega would close ranks and fight the foreigners. So the Crown Imperium is having to support a proxy war by backing the less-awful Gordanian Clans who didn't like the Citadel (which Paul destroyed). A large part of why the Crown Imperium can't overtly act is because of that massive peace treaty Paul arranged directly after coming to Vega in the first place as well. The main guy Paul is talking to here seems to understand why Paul did what he did and, more importantly, didn't do what he didn't do (such as aide them in their own struggle against the Citadel remnants), but he's still kind of salty about not getting the support he would have if Paul had done things differently and is trying to use that to extort actual help from the guy who took down the Orange Beast of Vega.

Paul, on the other hand, isn't entirely thrilled with the guy's attitude and while these might be the less-awful Gordanian clans OP correction, the one Paul is talking to is a Karnan, not a Gordanian, they're still not super-good guys as a whole. Their race, as a whole, was more or less allied to the Citadel after all and really fucked up the Tamaranian homeworld/civilization. Paul also understands that leveraging them into a better position is probably the best move to put the least-awful faction ahead politically and militarily to work for long-term peace and good karma.