He's almost always prepared - this is a bad matchup....so, one could say, this is a Naval Battlecruiser v. Godzilla issue.
Magic is bullshit and has some explaining to do.
Congratulations Mr Zoat.
As long as whatever's in there doesn't come out looking like New 52's Earth-2 Solomon Grundy (in his finest Cenobite summer line fashion), it should be fine...
So it's a long term project Swirly-Cheeks has rushed into completion. History, both real and fictional, has proven doing that shit usually doesn't pan out well. The times it has, it's because of Protagonist plot armour.
Checking for invisible watchers, ambushers and other ne'er-do-wells, i see.
Unless Melmoth set things up so it'd be controlled as soon as it became active. Because of course he's going to be able to break the rules like that. Surprised OL didn't consider that.
Getting it over with quick, then. Hope it doesn't bite you in the metaphorical ass.
Motherfucker. Hopefully not done while she was alive, but knowing him, almost certainly so.
Oh, it does not sound like she's in a good mood. I get the feeling she's going to be a lot more like Solomon Grundy than the locals are.
Oh, hell. Because of course that bit of DC ephemera turns out to be important here. Aurakles had kids, of course.
With any luck, she takes more after the smarty Grundy versions, rather than the rampaging ones. Hopefully, Melmoth can't transmit orders silently...
Ah, when wireless communications fail, the old ways succeed.
"On the phone. Get him on the phone. I want him on the phone right now!"
Oh, that's funny, because, you know, it's happening right now. Get down here. Hop to it. No arguing please.
Yes, Canis, Humans are bullshit crazy, even the evil elf ones from the far distant future. Amazed you caught on so quick. I'm sure you can make a marvellous painting of it later.
Craaaaap... That's never a good sign.
Oh, boy. Hold on to your arse, OL, because it's about to start hurting. A lot.
...New God bullshit! OL might well have to force himself to work out this whole Godspeech thing pronto to counter her.
Performance issues, huh. Oh, boy, this is really going to sting.
Because she's basically Hercules' daughter (or the pre-civilisation equivalent of Herc,) she is going to be a hell of a fighter. Even Power Armour might not cut it to equalise.
Indeed. Now I guess this is how Grayven's opponents must feel when he pulls his Conquest Godspeech shit. Man, no wonder so many of them don't like him.
Shouldn't have neglected the melee combat skill tree, huh, OL? But noo...
You wanted to max out the Orange Light mastery and Diplomancy trees instead. And of course the developers put shit like this in to punish those choices...Even the Odds. You're limited to her level of physicality, and one blade. And unfortunately, she's the better fighter.
Faster-than-human accellaration. Bullet-time, in other words. Great for fights, hard to have conversations with anyone not at the same speed.
He kind of noticed that, but not what it means. She invoked a literal challenge, Warhammer-style. A fair fight, and OL doesn't do well in fair fights.
While you might say 'Mathematician's Answer', in this case, it's literally true. She's turned this into a story, and I suspect OL will follow the 'get beat down then make a comeback' trope in order to win...
Or he could try to sidestep the fighting, try and Talk Her Down. But that control sigil Swirly Cheeks put on her might make that difficult.
Good luck, OL, you're going to need it. Cue the 'Lore in a Minute' sad-face
He can't, because he stuck them inside his body so he wouldn't lose them if his arms get cut off.
I guess he has a proper motivation ("Oh JumpedUpElementals I'm gonna die again!") to want an orange ring into existence.
If she really is a rush job, there might be a chance that Melmoth can't completely control her. Is it wrong that I want Paul to assimilate her after this is over? An undead New God could be a useful melee combatant for the more diplomatically inclined Paul. I also want him to use Construct Lanterns again, just like earlier in the story.
Indeed. Now I guess this is how Grayven's opponents must feel when he pulls his Conquest Godspeech shit. Man, no wonder so many of them don't like him.
Or he surrenders to her and then runs the moment his rings turn back on.
Paul has purposefully used Godspeech once. Maybe he'll do so again here to save himself.
I'm not so sure the ring is going to be able to do keep him conscious and floating. It seemed to me that everything to do with orange light has been shut down.
Can he surrender and survive, given that this is a metaphysical challenge?
It says why he's the best member of the Team.
Thank you, corrected.
She's a New Genesis type New God, so I don't see why not.
For reference, in case you wanted a citation Darko, from Doppelgängered (part 7):
