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Guy: "Paul, no. Not another one. Stahp."

I hold out the power ring I took from the last Alpha. "Ranx of Sector Three Two Seven Two."

Guy spins, glaring at me. "Don't even think about-."

"You want to be useful."

Guy jabs at me with his right forefinger. "Don't you do it."

"And I want you for the Orange Lantern Corps."

"Ah, fer Christ's sake."

"Take my ring."

Guy throws up his arms. "Is this gunna happen everywhere we go?!"
"I don't know, Guy. Is everywhere we go going to keep having strong, useful individuals who have no actual quarrel with me or my Corps but that you Greenies have pissed off somehow?"

"Why do I like you again?"
 
and I completely under stand Guy's position on the Orange recruiting pattern.
Dude, the GLC messed up in dealing with the Ranx issue the first time. And just tried to do the exact same thing again. They lost a say when they doubled down on stupid.

You know I half expect the Reach ambassador to accus the Guardians of using the OL corps as a PROXY... I mean they keep getting these high powered recruits whenever Paul just 'HAPPENS' to have a mission with Guy and other lanterns.....
Yeah, but the Reach have been slowly genociding race after race ever since the treaty was made. I think the Guardians would find any Reach condemnation completely unmoving. More likely if the OLC/Darkstar/Val Drax's Fleet combo is successful and a Reach defeat looms on the horizon, the Guardians would probably join so the Reach goes down quicker.
 
That is hilarious. They're actually learning though so they must've been through quite a few battles.
And doesn't that make the loss of Tubs and Chubs all the more sad?
"I don't know, Guy. Is everywhere we go going to keep having strong, useful individuals who have no actual quarrel with me or my Corps but that you Greenies have pissed off somehow?"

"Why do I like you again?"
...Actually this is soemwhat worrying; if he keeps filling his Corps with people that have a bone to pick with the Green Lantern Corps there might be problems that begin to show up. On the other hand, it seems like most of them would be content with unionising with others to make laws against what happened to them happening ever again at the hand of the GLC.
 
Gods I hate the Skrulls bullshit. At least DC has the balls to reboot their universe, even when doing so leads to horrible crap like New52, and Rebirth.
While I too despise the Skrull cop out, I must confess, I don't find it nearly as stupid or agitating as DC's reboots.

Mostly because their reboots have nothing to do with being ballsy in the face of problems and everything to do with being so utterly irresponsible with their continuity, letting anyone write any sort of "elseworlds" story seemingly any time they want, and then hitting the reset button ON A reset button when it all becomes a jumbled mess. I remember reading one time that most of the famous DC stories that people polled could name were actually the non-canon ones.

Whereas with Marvel it was always . "Sir....well...uh...Look, we're a bunch of dumbfucks who killed off a character we never should of."

"And why did you do that?"

"....we're dumbfucks sir. The dumbest."

"Siiiiigh.....skrull it."

A good couple of head smacks could prevent that crap. DC? I wouldn't even know how to unFuck that mess.
 
Oh yes the dread Reboot glitch one minute you're on a mission to recruit a potiential corp member or aquired to upgrade material and in an instance you're trying to kill them despite their potential as a force multiplier or the macguffin you're after gets nerfed thus made useless. Or one minute you're trying to romance your favorite character then you're already in a relationship and the person you're trying to romance is now your ex, this gets especially awkward when characters are related like Artemis and Jade or Diana and Donna to name a few.

Granted not all your save data gets lost just reinterpreted and makes for an interested play-through if you can manage the new character build/play-style.
 
Oh yes the dread Reboot glitch one minute you're on a mission to recruit a potiential corp member or aquired to upgrade material and in an instance you're trying to kill them despite their potential as a force multiplier or the macguffin you're after gets nerfed thus made useless. Or one minute you're trying to romance your favorite character then you're already in a relationship and the person you're trying to romance is now your ex, this gets especially awkward when characters are related like Artemis and Jade or Diana and Donna to name a few.

Granted not all your save data gets lost just reinterpreted and makes for an interested play-through if you can manage the new character build/play-style.

Oh you poor innocent soul.

Those aren't glitches, those are clues.

That lead to finding those responsible and punching them in the face.

Of course the game developers made that side quest as annoying as possible- They randomize who is responsible. And if you play long enough the side quest will start over with someone else being responsible.
 
A group of idiots with no training overcoming the Spirit of the Light of Greed itself? Not buying it.
No, of course they couldn't overpower the Ophidian. Why are you insisting on thinking of it in power versus power terms? This isn't Dragonball.

They want to keep fighting far more than the SI wants to take their stuff. The SI doesn't want to summon up the Ophidian because he doesn't have time to ensure that she sees things his way. She doesn't much care whether the Berrith are kept there or not. If anything, she'd prefer them to be freed so that she could experience their particular desire sets.
 
A group of idiots with no training overcoming the Spirit of the Light of Greed itseft? Not buying it.

The goal is to keep Paul from being too OP. It also makes sense. For example, just because the Guardians have the green power battery and are practically made of the stuff now, they couldn't just "nope" the antithisis core.

Edit: Ninjad by the OP. Ah well. Keep up the good story.
 
No, of course they couldn't overpower the Ophidian. Why are you insisting on thinking of it in power versus power terms? This isn't Dragonball.

They want to keep fighting far more than the SI wants to take their stuff. The SI doesn't want to summon up the Ophidian because he doesn't have time to ensure that she sees things his way. She doesn't much care whether the Berrith are kept there or not. If anything, she'd prefer them to be freed so that she could experience their particular desire sets.

Until they hurt host then is "become a construct" time.

And because is the orange light, is about greed and you can't have more greed that the spirit of avarice itseft.

Did it really matter if a few of the Alphas died or not? They basically have a kill on sight order by anyone who isn't a grennie.

So he could have just gone "Mine!" on the rings after the only hostage left.

And let's be honest with the tech and resources OL has he could build his own space station or giant spaceship.

He has the plans, he has the tech, he has the resources. He has the power.

So why isn't he building one? Did he neuter his desire for Mad Science?
 
Is that whole continuity basically just skrull killing skrull at this point? Actually that would be a rather interesting way to deal with a charactor finding the fourth wall and realising that they are charactors; finding shapeshifters to play their part while they retire.
I think that has happened a couple of time... well, perhaps not exactly. There was this company giving 'leasure trips' to Marvel universe, to people who had a superhero counterpart. There are several characters aware of the fourth wall, I think the FF met their creator once....
 
Until they hurt host then is "become a construct" time.

And because is the orange light, is about greed and you can't have more greed that the spirit of avarice itseft.

Did it really matter if a few of the Alphas died or not? They basically have a kill on sight order by anyone who isn't a grennie.

So he could have just gone "Mine!" on the rings after the only hostage left.

And let's be honest with the tech and resources OL has he could build his own space station or giant spaceship.

He has the plans, he has the tech, he has the resources. He has the power.

So why isn't he building one? Did he neuter his desire for Mad Science?

Time mostly? It's only been a month, and he's been training new lanterns.

And regarding the ophidian, he doesn't have desire on his own to beat them, merging will just see him distracted and ignore them
 
Now the question is if Paul will take over all the now orphaned constructs. Can't have them roaming around on their own
 
So, am I the only one just waiting to see what happens when the ring fixes the city. It sounded broken and disjointed. I hope it gets better.
 
"H'lven food!"

Target the connection and fire!

The crumbler rounds strike the Alpha's environmental shield a moment before the orange laser does. It buckles, and from the way the Alpha jerks his hand I'm going to assume that the thinner armour around his hands isn't quite as good at deflecting laser heat as the thicker helmet armour. He turns towards me, backhanding the stunned Ch'p away across the shuttle bay as he does so.

"Enemy food!"
I did eventualy figure out that both orange bits were the Alpha, and not the hellwraith or a praxis demon, but this is the sort of place where ease of reading would be aided by simply saying who says a line or two. You tend to rely too much on hoping context is clear, or on your coloration tricks, when often neither is particularly identifying.

Guy throws up his arms. "Is this gunna happen everywhere we go?!"
Yes, Guy. Yes, it is.

Oh god I need to go read the story only Queen of Fables don't I. Cause it's different.
...how so? I read the story-only versions of those, because I didn't start reading this until OL had already gotten into space.
 
I did eventualy figure out that both orange bits were the Alpha, and not the hellwraith or a praxis demon, but this is the sort of place where ease of reading would be aided by simply saying who says a line or two. You tend to rely too much on hoping context is clear, or on your coloration tricks, when often neither is particularly identifying.

Yes, Guy. Yes, it is.

...how so? I read the story-only versions of those, because I didn't start reading this until OL had already gotten into space.

Well I haven't read the Story Only but people noted in this thread that it was different a few times.
That the Story Only had the Queen pulled out of Tartarus to do her bits rather than it being an active attempt.
 
...Huh, that might be why the Guardians are so passive aggressive towards Paul. Plausible deniability.


So far it just seems to be regular guardian behavior. The guardians have the excuse that green light's whole will shindig can lead to rigidity and stubbornness. On the other hand, the controllers don't even have that excuse. Remember, the main controller we've seen Paul arguing with is Hinuion, who is both significantly younger than everyone else, and also doesn't have a major stick up her behind.
 
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