Although I think that armor, at least functional armor, is counterproductive for a yellow Lantern. If you think that anything that might gets through your constructs could kill you, you would be more afraid of the things trying to kill you, and your constructs would be stronger.
Yellow rings actually make for some fascinating dynamics, and I hope some are explored more with Grayven.
Anyone with any sense is going to try a sneak attack against a lantern before they can get their powerful shield up.
A game-breaking thought occurs to me regarding using magic against disease. Could you just summon all the bacteria/viruses from a person's body or use a sample of them to do the sympathetic magic whammy? Because if so, all conventional diseases and parasites are stupidly easy to fix with magic.
A game-breaking thought occurs to me regarding using magic against disease. Could you just summon all the bacteria/viruses from a person's body or use a sample of them to do the sympathetic magic whammy? Because if so, all conventional diseases and parasites are stupidly easy to fix with magic.
I did not see the unaltered pic. If there was nipples, he is probably joking. It it was PG style "blank mound of flesh" or "Fur covered boobs" he maybe he should be serious.
Zoat levt SpaceBattles after getting an infraction that triggered a cumulative infraction for saying something about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, when it was forbidden to do so anywhere but one forum due to spreading spoilers. Except, what he talked about was something either in the Movie Previews, or the Movie Poster, and so was known before the movie was ever released, and not something the studio considered secret. But the Mods stuck by their ruling, so he left.
IIRC he said something unrelated to the movie entirely. just something about the setting itself, IIRC it was something to the extent that the empire is actually the rebels or vice versa because of definition of the word rebel and empire.
The site had a 0 tolerance policy with insta bans justified with not wanting to have a movie they were that excited about spoiled.
"He's a mind-controlling parasite that loves faces! She's a pint-sized powerhouse of a telepath from a parallel universe! What wacky hijinks will they get up to together?"
So like, imagine if you planted marijuana in Gaia's temple. How dank would that weed be?
Seriously though, if Euanthe needed cash she grow the most awesome coffee beans in her little magic grove on the mountain. That stuff would be the shit.
Seriously though, if Euanthe needed cash she grow the most awesome coffee beans in her little magic grove on the mountain. That stuff would be the shit.
So like, imagine if you planted marijuana in Gaia's temple. How dank would that weed be?
Seriously though, if Euanthe needed cash she grow the most awesome coffee beans in her little magic grove on the mountain. That stuff would be the shit.
Oh, they had to loot Lex's exotic weapon lab before they left!
Tao's shot misses as I'm forced to yank him out of the way of a beam of purple nothingness. Of course, the Star Conquerors have had access to starfaring civilisations before. I suppose they might just have stolen raw materials and made it themselves. Doesn't really matter now. Kaldur waves his Water-Bearers in an attempt to block a second and again I'm forced to intervene as the beam passes clean through his water barrier. Drones!
Behind their position my drones phase in and fire their purple beams, and… It does nothing. I could have them turn it up, but that risks killing the hosts. I'm not doing that unless I need to. Two of the men being controlled by the Starro-tech turn to take shots at the drones, who are already reactivating their phasing systems. Not going to get a better chance…
"Tao." I surge through the air separating us from our targets, Tao preparing a new shot as I do so. If I get them away from the Atlantean ward-shields-.
"Look out!" Off to my left an Atlantean soldier shouts a warning, gesturing upwards with his right oh fuck off! Shards of ice explode outwards as Facehugger-type Star Conquerors drop from the ceiling of the chamber we're fighting in. I stab upwards with a construct blade as one flies at me, but it twists in the air and strikes the construct with its mouth claws and the construct shatters. I grab one of its tentacles with my right hand and agh! Unable to reach my face, it twisted around and latched onto my arm! Armour's holding, but the telekinetic effect appears to have penetrated somewhat. The red and green eye on its front surface blinks at me as it redoubles its effort to chew off my arm, the two defenders who were firing upon my drones opening fire at me once more.
No matter.
I fly sideways in a jinking pattern while forming another blade construct and shoving it through the creature's eye. I feel it convulse. Were its teeth actually in my flesh it would clamp down, but as it is the only thing holding it to me is its telekinesis and to direct that it needs clear mental function. Keeping my right hand gripped around the uppermost tentacle I grab another tentacle with my left hand and pull.
And the tentacle comes off.
Might I suggest-?
I dig the fingers of my left hand into the eye socket and pull, the Star Conqueror splitting in two in a spray of purple goo. Ugh, right, how did everyone else d-?
And this is why we don't bring NPCs to a PC fight! A Star Conqueror lies twitching at Tao's feet, two arrows through its body which is somehow on fire. I see another fly into the distance as Kaldur swings a water hammer around and Orin is scraping his off the blades of his trident. Three out of four of our escort are now sporting Star Conqueror facials, cyclopean eyes blinking as the Star Conqueror group mind gets used to controlling their bodies. The fourth aims his weapon uncertainly at his colleagues.
"Tao, get the-" An arrow slices neatly through the centreline of the closest, splitting eye and Star Conqueror in two. "-m!"
Right, assume he's got that under control. I draw my Apokolips tech sword and resume my charge, armour construct reappearing just in time to hold off a shot from one of the controlled Atlanteans. Great, the one thing it can stop is on my side. I cleave through the barrier with my sword just quickly enough to shove Lex's pride and joy upwards, another purple negabeam flaring up through the ice.
"Thank you." I drop my sword and gently punch the man in the diaphragm before letting him drop to the ground. And now it's my ggrregh! Other guy shot me and -yep- left cheek carbonised and.. right side of my jaw rendered brittle and notably painful. Another surge and I slam his head into the edge of the ice tunnel.
Ow! I'm going to.. need to have another look at those blasted helmet designs, aren't I? Oh, he might just have been aiming at the only unarmoured part of my body. I don't think Star Conquerors ever encountered New Gods but Lex's people would know that I'm tough. I clean off the goo covering my left gauntlet before reaching up to feel the hole in my face, flicking away the ashen -heh- flesh around the wound. Shouldn't take too long to heal. Subspace the guns.
I turn back to my companions in time to see electricity flare from Orin's trident and stun the remaining Star Conqueror host as Kaldur slashes at another dropping from the ceiling. I stick construct manacles around the two LexCorp researchers and haul them up into the air. "Tao, when you have a mo-" Arrows pass through their chests, emerging on the far side with Starro-tech impaled on the tips. "-ment." I dump them on the ground. "Thank you."
"Stay alert." Orin slices through the Star Conqueror on his armsman's face with a precise stroke. "There'll probably be more of those things, and inside the ice they'll be able to attack from any direction."
"Hey, you." I nod at the remaining soldier. "What's your name?"
"Ah." He glances at his king, who nods. "Martus."
"You dodge yours, or just get lucky?"
His eyes drop to his fallen comrades. Blood flows from the nasty looking holes in their faces where the Star Conquerors bit in, but since they don't try to physically connect with the brain of their host the wounds aren't mortal. With Atlantean biomancy they probably won't even scar. "Luck."
"Good. Stay lucky." I turn to Orin. "Ready to go?"
He nods. "How many are left?"
"Assuming they got everyone who disappeared? Should be another sevente-." The room shakes. "I assume that means that we need to go?"
The five of us start up the tunnel, Kaldur lagging behind slightly as he runs his left hand along the wall. "They are altering the structure of the ice. Trying to free more of their kind!"
Tell the drones to use lethal force?
Ugh, no, not yet. The Arctic has had any number of ground penetrating scans over the years. Even if they're trying to free a larger Star Conqueror, it can't be that big. From the Green Lantern Corps data I acquired, it looks like I should be able to kill one. Probably.
"How many Atlanteans were stationed here?"
Orin glances at me as we accelerate to a run. "Seven, but only two have the sort of power needed to dig through the ice quickly. The rest are here f-." I feel the mental pressure even as he clutches at his head and staggers to a halt. Martus collapses along with him, while Tao is unaffected and Kaldur merely winces. Hooray for being a god.
"That all you got, abomination!?" I attach yellow filaments to Tao and Kaldur and accelerate into the next chamb-.
Ice surges up and envelopes us. It's a metre thick in all directions. Outside, I see most of the remaining researchers -both Atlantean and LexCorpian- standing, watching us. Just above them floats… Is that supposed to be a Star Conqueror? The eye alone is nearly the size of the facehuggers, but that's nearly all the body it has, stubby nubs replacing the tentacles it would normally possess. Guess that's the target, then.
Kaldur's arms shove outwards as the ice explodes off us, a fusion cannon already forming on my left ar-.
"We surrender."
The voice.. echoes. Sinestro?
The floating eye is using its telekinesis to manipulate the air around it in order to speak. You're hearing it slightly before the spoken vocalisation of the others.
Huh.
I allow myself to float forwards slightly. "How stupid do you think I am, Star Conqueror?"
"We do not believe that you are stupid. Our hosts had access to extensive records of your abilities. We have no other techniques remaining. We do not believe that we can defeat you. For our continued survival we throw ourselves at your mercy."
Huh. Wasn't.. expecting that. Alright, kill count zero as far as I can tell… I don't need to kill it for anything it's done. On the other hand, could it be safely imprisoned?
I could.. probably come up with something. "We will remove the hosts infected with Starro-tech immediately, and you will release the others once we have farm animals for you to transfer your drones onto."
The eye blinks. "Agreed."
"Tao-."
"Wait." Kaldur frowns. "Where is the other mage?"
The ice rumbles again and the still-controlled people charge forward in another delaying action as the Star Eye flees further in.
