Said the actress to the bishop.
But enough about the low hanging fruit! What are the odds that OL uses what he learns about the magical properties of his own blood sample to [magibabble here] the Garrick or Danner formulae's compatibility?
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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But enough about the low hanging fruit! What are the odds that OL uses what he learns about the magical properties of his own blood sample to [magibabble here] the Garrick or Danner formulae's compatibility?
More likely he just discovers he's "related" to all of the other testees through his connection to the orange light.
- Location
- Canada
Or by having tattoos that absorb ambient magic and spending time with all sort of people and gods.
- Location
- USA
Is that a phrase British people actually use? I've only seen once before, in a Harry Potter fic.
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- she/her
I've heard it. It's an older thing, but dirty jokes will hang on as long as they raise a laugh.
It's Zeus, I'm pretty sure no one is going to care. Except, you know, the by-blow...
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- Canada
Yeah, but in this case Hades holds the titan which provides a large part of his power.
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- texas
Honestly Paul should seriously expand from the Garrick and Danner formulas, there are so many potential sources of enhancements out there that resting on ones laurels with two incompatible formulas is just plain silly.
For speed, both the batman intruder suit and the slipstream suit provide superhuman speed.
Satanna the tiger girl, the Ultrahumanite's protege, mastered xeno-transplantation, making the surgical augmentation a possibility for strength and speed.
Speaking of the Ultrahumanite, his victim/unintentional protege Delores Winters made a business out of granting superpowers by surgically implanting parts from metahumans.
And thanks to Cadmus, OL should certainly be capable of cloning body parts for surgical implantation without having to cut parts out of people or things.
Surgical augmentation without xeno-transplants is also a possibility, considering that the DC franchise has Frankenstein, the bride of frankenstein, young frankenstein, Simon Dark, Patchwork of the Creature Commandos, and the Patchwork Man.
And with the technology OL has available, surgical augmentation without making someone look like a refugee from hammer horror should certainly be possible.
Or go all 6 million dollar man, Commander Steel was given superhuman strength, invulnerability, and superspeed during WW2 for crying out loud.
Tokamak worked out how to give people nuclear based powers, having successfully given both himself and Firehawk nuclear powers.
Will Payton, one of the many many Starmen of DC comics, got his powers accidentally from a conspiracy who figured out how to give out superpowers through exposure to stellar energy, Will got the "one of everything please" options of superstrength, energy projection, invulnerability, shapeshifting, and flight, the Power Elite, exposed to less stellar energy, just got one power each.
Striker Z was given superhuman stamina and strength by exposure to an experimental plasma energy source, making him a human energizer rabbit, the Golden Sorcerer, exposed to the same experimental plasma energy source got the same powers plus the ability to form energy constructs out of his own bio-energy.
The list goes on and on and on and on.
I'm aware of the sources saying Uranus is a son of Gaea. There's also some that say that he was born of chaos.
Personally, I prefer the later. But well......Greek Mythology.
The Chosen One
Yes, THAT One.
- Location
- The Pedant Gallery
Can someone pick up that phone? Because I'm expecting an order confirmation for some Narrativium.
Turns out, it's not quite as rare as it's been made out with to be.
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Depends. Is Zoat people, and does a variation count?
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
Well, on this we have to entirely disagree. I love the less frequently used characters in this story. I was referring to the very occasional instance where I didn't recognize one of them immediately. Like when Euanthe showed up for the second time, I thought, for a second, that she was the muse. Context quickly corrected that. Or, sometimes, I forget Karon's (Holly's girlfriend) name.
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- Alabama
Oh, I think you misunderstood me. I love the minor characters that Zoat brings in. I just don't think they are always portrayed in a way that makes them feel like unique characters, and I don't think Zoat does enough to distinguish them to give them a real identity. This problem's especially bad with the cast of Themiscrya, for example.
- Location
- Ireland
Couldn't Diana have been present the normal way? It was only a year ago.
Is "do" meant to be bold here? The sentence sounds more natural in my head if he's emphasizing "can", but it's not technically a grammar error.
- Location
- Hampden Park
Only if she knew in advance, and if she'd done that then she'd probably just have prevented the thing.
I think so.
Ah, that makes much more sense then.
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- Argentina
And she will magicaly show as Diana's daughter or clone, won't she?
And then certain Queen will have things to explain.
And then certain Queen will have things to explain.
- Location
- Argentina
Back when this story was in SB I did write a series of Omakes about an Alt Paul in Batman The Brave and the Bold cartoon world that got mad science instead of a power ring.
Is a shame no more SIs go the mad science route.
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- texas
Well the theme of the Pauls is lanterns of various sorts, using that as a general guide some versions of Paul that could be more technologically oriented-
A manhunter Paul who has to reverse engineer manhunter tech/hybridize the technology with Earth technology.
Perhaps an Engineer Paul in the Wildstorm universe?
Paul as the Orangemonger (Red Dynamo/Iron Monger) in the amalgam universe?
Perhaps not mad sciencey enough for you, I admit.
Family Day (part 7)
- Location
- Hampden Park
23rd April
14:01 GMT -6
Doctor Sivana ♀ looks at me a little sceptically as she takes a sip of her coffee. "And she's… Actually the Ancient Greek Goddess of Nightmares and Madness?"
Said Greek Goddess of Nightmares and Madness appears to be going through a pink phase. Pink skirt, pink leggings, pink t-shirt with a picture of Pink emblazoned across the chest and a pink denim jacket.
…
Maybe I should have let Donna help the multimillennial goddess instead of an eleven year old girl who currently isn't using the Wisdom of Solomon.
Eh, she seems happy enough.
"She's actually quite pleasant company. One of my ongoing projects is to encourage a link between ancient magic practices and modern society and technology."
Her eyebrows raise ever so slightly. "And you're recruiting gods?"
"Yes, Hephaestus has been a great help already."
"What about Vulcan?" Momentary frown. "Or are they not separate deities?"
"No, they're separate. But Vulcan's even more cut off from… His job, if you like."
"Smithing?"
"No. He still does… Well, I haven't met him, but I had a chat with Hephaestus-" And Hera. Never hurts to consult more than one source. "-about it. He still makes things, but he doesn't god, if you see what I mean. No one worships him, very few people worship his pantheon… He spends half his time in their workshop under Mount Etna making wonders no one will ever see and the other half in a garage in Rubiera in Italy."
"Really?"
I shrug. "He likes machinery."
She appears to be struggling with the idea. "So people can just walk in and say 'there's a light on my dash and I don't know what it means, could Vulcan take a look at it'?"
"No, he doesn't go by that name. And I doubt that they use him for things where it's just a matter of replacing a part or resetting the engine management computer. He's very good at what he does."
"Is that what all the ancient gods are doing now?"
"Not all of them. But quite a few, yes. They usually had their domains because they liked whatever it was they were patron of. Hera's a relationship advice columnist-."
"Heh. And what does Zeus think about that?"
"They're divorced."
"You honestly expect me to believe-."
"He is a serial philanderer and she can do much better." I don't think that Doctor Sivana ♀ is quite convinced. "I can introduce you if you like?"
"And… What about..?" She looks over at where the Goddess of Nightmares and Madness is experiencing her first ever brain freeze. Frederick Freeman appears to find it hilarious. "Hades? Or Pluto?"
"Hades rules the Olympian dead from the hollowed out body of the fallen Titan Erebos. They get a handful of new residents each year. Pluto is a cartoon dog owned by Disney. He lives with Mickey Mouse. I don't believe that he's real as well, but I suppose I could be wrong. If you're referring to Orcus, I assume that he's doing the same sort of thing. I've never met him."
"Do.. you worship them? I mean, it seems a little strange that you'd worship someone who works in a garage."
I grin. "I worship Eris."
"I thought.. she was.. one of the bad ones."
"Chaos is what makes the universe more than rocks moving in perfect circles around one another. Eris.. the person, will wheedle, cajole, prod and pry to try and make people different from how they are. But…" I turn my palms upwards in a shrugging motion. "Are you today the same person as you were yesterday? Or a year ago?"
"I thought you told everyone that Klarion was a Chaos God?"
"No, he's a Lord of Chaos. A mortal wizard who turned their own soul into a giant mass of chaos magic. Eris' soul is that of an Olympian, Earth magic core with a chaos magic outer. Also, he's a mass murdering shit and she isn't."
She nods. "So, chaos isn't the problem, it's about how you use it."
"Like anything else. Yes. A fundamentally unproductive system changing may be for the best. A perfect system changing would be bad… But I'm not sure those really exist."
She nods, finishing the last of her coffee. "Listen, I've got.. this… Thing…"
I smile. "Need to wash your hair already? Am I really that bad?"
"No, it…" She sighs. "Actually, you're the reason why I'm not at the hospital. We're on the purple healing ray trial."
"Oh yeah? How is that going?"
"Brilliantly. The ray works exactly as it's supposed to. The hospital wants me to take a sabbatical to try and work out why it works. KordTech haven't been particularly forthcoming."
"That's because we don't know. Baroness von Gunther's work was a bit out there." But I smell an opportunity to fix that. "I can get you copies of her notes if it would help?"
She nods. "That.. would be great. I wouldn't give up working at the hospital for anything, but…" Another sigh. "My Dad.. wasn't a supervillain at home. He was the one helping me when I developed a strain of synthetic bacteria that destroys the rhinovirus. But now I'm working full time I haven't had time to get into a laboratory and do original research since…" She looks blank. "I'm not.. actually sure. God, it might be since I started my residency."
"That sounds like a waste of your talents."
"That's what the Chief of Medicine says as well." She looks uncertain. "It's just-."
"The results may help people but it takes far longer to get to the point where an actual person benefits than doing a shift in Accident and Emergency."
"Yeah, that. Magnificus doesn't care and the other two are nearly as bad as Dad. I sort of feel that I should be doing something like this? That's mostly why I went into medicine in the first place."
"To pay back some of the 'karmic debt'?" She nods. "I don't want to sound.. rude about your profession… But there are a lot of medical doctors and not very many… Um… 'Beneficent Geniuses'." That gets a burst of laughter. "I'm sure you can sort out a schedule that lets you spend some time on normal medicine if it means that much to you. But purple healing rays everywhere, that's…"
"Yeah." She doesn't sound completely convinced. "You're probably right. I guess ray guns just have a bad association for me." She sits back in her chair, looking me over. "I'd.. like to ask a favor."
"You can always ask, as my Dad used to say."
"Once a year, the Sivana family has a.. get together. I'd like you to come with me this year."
"When you say 'family'-?"
"Mom and my siblings. Dad's still.. wherever he ended up." She does a circular wave with her right hand. "I just like to bring someone along to make it bearable, and at this point it's you or Jack."
"Jack?"
"Daniels." She shrugs. "I'm a Danner enhancile, aren't I? It's almost impossible for me to get drunk, but if I down a bottle I can get tipsy enough to ignore Thaddeus and Georgia constantly bickering and Magnificus' inferiority complex. And I.. actually…" She looks away, smiling. "Would like to talk to you some more."
I smile back. "That sounds fascinating. When is it?"
14:01 GMT -6
Doctor Sivana ♀ looks at me a little sceptically as she takes a sip of her coffee. "And she's… Actually the Ancient Greek Goddess of Nightmares and Madness?"
Said Greek Goddess of Nightmares and Madness appears to be going through a pink phase. Pink skirt, pink leggings, pink t-shirt with a picture of Pink emblazoned across the chest and a pink denim jacket.
…
Maybe I should have let Donna help the multimillennial goddess instead of an eleven year old girl who currently isn't using the Wisdom of Solomon.
Eh, she seems happy enough.
"She's actually quite pleasant company. One of my ongoing projects is to encourage a link between ancient magic practices and modern society and technology."
Her eyebrows raise ever so slightly. "And you're recruiting gods?"
"Yes, Hephaestus has been a great help already."
"What about Vulcan?" Momentary frown. "Or are they not separate deities?"
"No, they're separate. But Vulcan's even more cut off from… His job, if you like."
"Smithing?"
"No. He still does… Well, I haven't met him, but I had a chat with Hephaestus-" And Hera. Never hurts to consult more than one source. "-about it. He still makes things, but he doesn't god, if you see what I mean. No one worships him, very few people worship his pantheon… He spends half his time in their workshop under Mount Etna making wonders no one will ever see and the other half in a garage in Rubiera in Italy."
"Really?"
I shrug. "He likes machinery."
She appears to be struggling with the idea. "So people can just walk in and say 'there's a light on my dash and I don't know what it means, could Vulcan take a look at it'?"
"No, he doesn't go by that name. And I doubt that they use him for things where it's just a matter of replacing a part or resetting the engine management computer. He's very good at what he does."
"Is that what all the ancient gods are doing now?"
"Not all of them. But quite a few, yes. They usually had their domains because they liked whatever it was they were patron of. Hera's a relationship advice columnist-."
"Heh. And what does Zeus think about that?"
"They're divorced."
"You honestly expect me to believe-."
"He is a serial philanderer and she can do much better." I don't think that Doctor Sivana ♀ is quite convinced. "I can introduce you if you like?"
"And… What about..?" She looks over at where the Goddess of Nightmares and Madness is experiencing her first ever brain freeze. Frederick Freeman appears to find it hilarious. "Hades? Or Pluto?"
"Hades rules the Olympian dead from the hollowed out body of the fallen Titan Erebos. They get a handful of new residents each year. Pluto is a cartoon dog owned by Disney. He lives with Mickey Mouse. I don't believe that he's real as well, but I suppose I could be wrong. If you're referring to Orcus, I assume that he's doing the same sort of thing. I've never met him."
"Do.. you worship them? I mean, it seems a little strange that you'd worship someone who works in a garage."
I grin. "I worship Eris."
"I thought.. she was.. one of the bad ones."
"Chaos is what makes the universe more than rocks moving in perfect circles around one another. Eris.. the person, will wheedle, cajole, prod and pry to try and make people different from how they are. But…" I turn my palms upwards in a shrugging motion. "Are you today the same person as you were yesterday? Or a year ago?"
"I thought you told everyone that Klarion was a Chaos God?"
"No, he's a Lord of Chaos. A mortal wizard who turned their own soul into a giant mass of chaos magic. Eris' soul is that of an Olympian, Earth magic core with a chaos magic outer. Also, he's a mass murdering shit and she isn't."
She nods. "So, chaos isn't the problem, it's about how you use it."
"Like anything else. Yes. A fundamentally unproductive system changing may be for the best. A perfect system changing would be bad… But I'm not sure those really exist."
She nods, finishing the last of her coffee. "Listen, I've got.. this… Thing…"
I smile. "Need to wash your hair already? Am I really that bad?"
"No, it…" She sighs. "Actually, you're the reason why I'm not at the hospital. We're on the purple healing ray trial."
"Oh yeah? How is that going?"
"Brilliantly. The ray works exactly as it's supposed to. The hospital wants me to take a sabbatical to try and work out why it works. KordTech haven't been particularly forthcoming."
"That's because we don't know. Baroness von Gunther's work was a bit out there." But I smell an opportunity to fix that. "I can get you copies of her notes if it would help?"
She nods. "That.. would be great. I wouldn't give up working at the hospital for anything, but…" Another sigh. "My Dad.. wasn't a supervillain at home. He was the one helping me when I developed a strain of synthetic bacteria that destroys the rhinovirus. But now I'm working full time I haven't had time to get into a laboratory and do original research since…" She looks blank. "I'm not.. actually sure. God, it might be since I started my residency."
"That sounds like a waste of your talents."
"That's what the Chief of Medicine says as well." She looks uncertain. "It's just-."
"The results may help people but it takes far longer to get to the point where an actual person benefits than doing a shift in Accident and Emergency."
"Yeah, that. Magnificus doesn't care and the other two are nearly as bad as Dad. I sort of feel that I should be doing something like this? That's mostly why I went into medicine in the first place."
"To pay back some of the 'karmic debt'?" She nods. "I don't want to sound.. rude about your profession… But there are a lot of medical doctors and not very many… Um… 'Beneficent Geniuses'." That gets a burst of laughter. "I'm sure you can sort out a schedule that lets you spend some time on normal medicine if it means that much to you. But purple healing rays everywhere, that's…"
"Yeah." She doesn't sound completely convinced. "You're probably right. I guess ray guns just have a bad association for me." She sits back in her chair, looking me over. "I'd.. like to ask a favor."
"You can always ask, as my Dad used to say."
"Once a year, the Sivana family has a.. get together. I'd like you to come with me this year."
"When you say 'family'-?"
"Mom and my siblings. Dad's still.. wherever he ended up." She does a circular wave with her right hand. "I just like to bring someone along to make it bearable, and at this point it's you or Jack."
"Jack?"
"Daniels." She shrugs. "I'm a Danner enhancile, aren't I? It's almost impossible for me to get drunk, but if I down a bottle I can get tipsy enough to ignore Thaddeus and Georgia constantly bickering and Magnificus' inferiority complex. And I.. actually…" She looks away, smiling. "Would like to talk to you some more."
I smile back. "That sounds fascinating. When is it?"
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- Oblivion
Missing a "t".
Rossum
Not a Cyberman
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- Earth
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