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

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Ehh, I know canadian geese are generally regarded as assholes, but the ones outside my apartment at least aren't too bad. They'll hiss at you if you get too close, sure, but as long as you mind your business they'll mind theirs, and they don't mind you hanging out with them at a decent distance.

They shit fucking everywhere, though.
 
Indophenol said:
Ehh, I know canadian geese are generally regarded as assholes, but the ones outside my apartment at least aren't too bad. They'll hiss at you if you get too close, sure, but as long as you mind your business they'll mind theirs, and they don't mind you hanging out with them at a decent distance.

They shit fucking everywhere, though.
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I've seen them chase people across parking lots and try to attack cars as they drive away in terror.

And those weren't even nesting.
 
Indophenol said:
Ehh, I know canadian geese are generally regarded as assholes, but the ones outside my apartment at least aren't too bad. They'll hiss at you if you get too close, sure, but as long as you mind your business they'll mind theirs, and they don't mind you hanging out with them at a decent distance.

They shit fucking everywhere, though.
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So, they verbally threaten you and defecate all over your stuff. Your response is to make excuses for them and identify with them.

You may being experiencing Stockholm Syndrome. Get away from the Geese and learn to set healthy boundaries!
 
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Collegiality (part 15)
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    • 24th August
    06:03 GMT

    "Guy!"

    I jink hard, lasers burning the flesh of my chest, back and right leg as a small proportion of their power leaks through my environmental shield.

    "I found them!"

    My armour appears from subspace in time to soak a couple of hits, but whatever this thing is it isn't messing around.

    "Hey, where'd you go?!"

    Ring, are they just shooting with lasers?

    Confirmed.

    I phase, shaking slightly with disquiet as a shot passes through my face. Okay, great. Ring, jettison debris approximately equal to my mass from my subspace pocket.

    Compliance.

    Some armour parts, half built drones and some proof of concept weapons drift away. The lasers switch to them for a moment, burning through the larger pieces until they're certain that every power source is destroyed. Then the fire cuts off and the point defence turrets retract into their protective housing.

    Yikes. Okay, ring communications won't work while I'm phased, but my bleed-transmission systems won't be affected. … Which.. would.. be.. great.. if.. I'd thought to put a buoy near New Berrith. So… Hug the hull and risk phasing in, or transmit a message to one of the buoys I left near Oa and hope that someone is paying attention?

    Ugh. Ring, float us closer and try the buoy.

    Compliance.

    "    Orange Illustres to anyone listening. I need someone to relay a message to Lantern Gardner for me. Please respond."

    There's a few moments of silence, then two people reply at once.

    "Acknowledgement. Orange Lantern-?" / "Well, how 'bout that?"

    Tresh and Kilowog. Works for me. "Ah, good. Would one of-."

    "Off the comm, rookie. I'll handle this."

    "Acknowledgement. I comply."

    "Lantern Kilowog, would you mind putting-."

    "Did you know I can still taste my own stomach acid?"

    "I'd assumed… A glass of water or something? Now, if you-."

    "One of the things you missed about us Bolovaxians is that we have a really acute sense of taste and smell. A couple of glasses of water aren't going to do the job."

    "Okay, look, I'm in the middle of a mission right now-" I drift pass the edge of a.. wall..? I'm not sure how this space station was designed. Maybe the edge of one compartment? Not far to the crenulation. "-but if you want to moan to me about-."

    "What mission?"

    "I'm with Guy and Ch'p, looking into an attack on New Berrith."

    "Okay, hang on."

    "Kilowog? I'm kinda-."

    "Guy, me here. Sorry about getting cut off, I had to phase."

    "Paul? Where'd you go?"

    "The ritual worked, but I didn't realise that it would move me physically to the location I was trying to examine."

    "Heh. So? Where are you?"

    "Not really… Sure? There's a big grey space station here-."

    "Lemme guess: pyramid shaped with sky scrapers stickin' outta it."

    "Ah, yeah, basically. Any idea-?"

    "It's called Ranx. Not a lotta places use gravity disruptors like that. Used ta be a pirate base-."

    "Until the Green Lantern Corps cleared it out, earning the bitter enmity of the AI controlling it." I didn't know what it looked like before it joined the Sinestro Corps. "Which -assuming that I'm anywhere near its last known location- means that I'm in Mytonian Cleft..?"

    "Sector Seventy Three? Not 'less the Berrith Oranges 're a helluva lot faster than they got any business bein'. Can you throw out a signal?"

    "Just a moment…" I duck in behind some sort of… Outflow? Part of the waste disposal system? I'd have thought that a place this large would generate enough of a gravity field to make that sort of disposal inadvisable to say the least. Anyway, not touching the hull, close enough that any gravity distortion I make would be virtually undetectable…

    Phase in.

    Compliance.

    Stealth systems are on, and if this place hates Lanterns and has survived hating them… It might well have some way to detect construct use. On the other hand, if there are already Orange Lanterns in residence…

    Ring, hang up bleed transmission and switch to ring-to-ring. Transmit homing signal to Lantern Gardner.

    Compliance.

    "    Okay, try detecting me now."

    "Yeah, got yah. Be with yah in about… Three minutes?"

    "    Appreciated. Did you and Ch'p find out anything?"

    "Confirmed it was Ranx, but I guess that's old news right now. The locals said there were three Orange Lanterns. Rings turned up… Couple a' weeks ago."

    "    So…" I look around. Doesn't look like anyone has come out to take a look at what they shot. "Okay, at speeds someone from Berrith might be able to reach with an orange power ring… If they knew where they were going, it's possible that they could have reached Ranx in that time."

    "How'd you figure they knew?"

    "    The obvious option is that whoever their ring was made from had been here before. Does Ranx have FTL?"

    "If he does, he ain't ever used it."

    "    The Berrith don't strike me as the deferred gratification type. I'm struggling to believe that they could have flown to Ranx and dragged him back on a single ring charge."

    "Why couldn't they just do what Ragnar did?"

    "    Because the Central Power Battery would already have been up and running by then."

    "The Berrith ain't exactly-."

    "    Alright, because the chance of them finding people with orange rings while en route is pretty small. So how did they maintain their charge?"

    "I dunno. How did they?"

    I exhale. "Pass. I'm going to have a look around. Let me know before you arrive."
     
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    • I realize not likely to happen since it hates GLC but part of me hopes that Paul recruits Ranx.:p

    If only to deny a powerful member of Yellow Lanterns and cause would be awesome to recruit a living space station.

    Seems like Ranx wants to be populated by lots of people and got angry when the Green Lanterns cleared out it's former population, surely Paul could help him fulfill his desires in OLC. Lots of people fighting/running from reach would love to live on him and under his protection.
     
    Massgamer said:
    I realize not likely to happen since it hates GLC but part of me hopes that Paul recruits Ranx.:p

    If only to deny a powerful member of Yellow Lanterns and cause would be awesome to recruit a living space station.

    Seems like Ranx wants to be populated by lots of people and got angry when the Green Lanterns cleared out it's former population, surely Paul could help him fulfill his desires in OLC. Lots of people fighting/running from reach would love to live on him and under his protection.
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    if ranx could use ring FTL with an orange ring he'd make for one hell of a supply depo for actions against the reach.
     
    SaltyWaffles said:
    In before the completely untrained rookie figures out one of the basic functions of Orange rings that Paul, unbelievably, still hasn't managed to even guess about.
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    You mean that ability he already knows how to do and has used before?

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    Another beam from its eyes passes through M'gann as she phases to avoid it, cutting into the far wall. "Adapting vibrational-"

    I jam my left hand in the beam's path. Drain.

    Power at eight percent. Nine percent.

    The beams cut out and the Fist flies at us. I thrust my arms forwards, triggering the belt's containment shield. I may not have Raquel's skill but I can manage a simple on/off control. A glowing blue bubble forms around the Fist as its own kinetic energy is absorbed by the barrier.
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    Vaermina said:
    I am going to guess they stole someone else's lantern. :D
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    If I recall correctly, that was only possible for Paul because Alan's Lantern was damaged. And Lanterns are quite hard to damage.

    Hey, so, has anyone wondered if this sort of thing is where Abra's Orangepocalypse future-history comes from? It's not going to be Paul, it's going to be some idiot with a ring who gets incredibly lucky with other resources?
     
    aetherialDawn said:
    If I recall correctly, that was only possible for Paul because Alan's Lantern was damaged. And Lanterns are quite hard to damage.

    Hey, so, has anyone wondered if this sort of thing is where Abra's Orangepocalypse future-history comes from? It's not going to be Paul, it's going to be some idiot with a ring who gets incredibly lucky with other resources?
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    WOZ on that was that the Reach poked Larfleeze
     
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