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

Vaermina · Feb 23, 2016

Mr Zoat said:
Looking down, I see small wooden houses with thatched roofs, their chimneys a mixture of brick and stone. Not all completely primitive, though. I see several wind-powered electrical generators -small ones- linked to a wire strung along a series of fence posts. There's a stream powering a water wheel which I'm guessing is used for grinding grains into flour. Short flag-topped poles mark the edge of the cliff. I can see people working on things, but there isn't much that grows well at this time of year and at this latitude. From the looks of things most people are inside.

Oh god, hippies.

Quick hold up a cellphone and use it to ward them off!

kingpico said:
Influence from Grayven? O.O Seems awfully high and mighty of Paul...

They are Hippies, it's justified.

Ganurath · Feb 23, 2016

Vaermina said:
Oh god, hippies.

Quick hold up a cellphone and use it to ward them off!

Pagans, not hippies.

EnygmaSoul · Feb 23, 2016

Ganurath said:
Pagans, not hippies.

I reckon that's worse, darn it. Ain't a Pagan whatchamaget when ya cross one of them Hippies with one of them devil worshippers?

...in retrospect, that joke would be funnier if there weren't actual people who believed that...

The Bushranger · Feb 23, 2016

Odysseus2099 said:
She didn't look at his soul. She can't remember? He's scry-warded. She's just so used to being able to sense everyone in their little commune that having someone she had no idea was there talk to her was a shock.

Alternatively, she has foresight of Orangest Night...

finbikkifin · Feb 23, 2016

Ganurath said:
Pagans, not hippies.

At least Alan Moore isn't around in this universe. My god, the beard alone would qualify him as a superhero.

Sojiko · Feb 23, 2016

Mr Zoat said:
*OL gives his best effort to narrow down the search as much as possible*

…

I don't suppose one of them has a sign saying 'Pagan Nation' on the front -all but one disappear- gate…

…

Thanks, ring.

BWAHAHAHA! :lol

Yeah, that'll simplify matters.

Mr Zoat said:
Since he's a primitive I'll let him off not holding it open for me.

So British.

Mr Zoat said:
"I doubt it, Coll. I think I'd know about it if anyone did."

*OL steps in* "No, I really do wish to speak to you, Miss Mercury."

"AAAAGGGHHHHHHHH!"

That's just hilarious. I love the way his scry wards throw off those people used to know everything.

kjyl · Feb 23, 2016

Well to be fair the ass didn't hold the door.

uju32 · Feb 23, 2016

SwiftRosenthal said:
Asking for you by name, no less.

Yup.
If anything, the fact that she was screaming shows she's been living soft for the last decade.
Any number of people I know would not expend their breath on screams; they'd be out the window and running the fuck away.
God knows the first time I heard a gunshot at close range I was down and in cover before I consciously realised someone was shooting a firearm.

Vaermina · Feb 23, 2016

Ganurath said:
Pagans, not hippies.

Pagan's don't grow Pot in their secret pot garden or eskewy most modern technology, they are New Age Hippies.

Mr.Marvel · Feb 23, 2016

Mr Zoat said:
I step forward and push open the door myself. In the dark -of course, it would be rather hard to make glass here- the orange glow from my environmental shield is clearly visible and the sigil on my chestplate stands out even more. Several people are eating lunch around a wooden table. One of them -a short woman with brown hair- looks positively shocked to see me. "No, I really do wish to speak to you, Miss Mercury."

"AAAAGGGHHHHHHHH!"

"Do I have something stuck in my teeth?"

Sceptic · Feb 23, 2016

Vaermina said:
Pagan's don't grow Pot in their secret pot garden or eskewy[...]

a) Why do you think they don't?
and b) either the word you're looking for is eschew, or you're trying (and failing) to be funny. Either way, please try harder.

Avernus · Feb 23, 2016

Sojiko said:
That's just hilarious. I love the way his scry wards throw off those people used to know everything.

Especially when it's an orange glowing man in armor who suddenly shows up.

Gourd · Feb 23, 2016

Avernus said:
Especially when it's an orange glowing man in armor who suddenly shows up.

Hey, it's his light armor. So he just looks like an orange glowing biker. Totally better.

Lordamnesia · Feb 23, 2016

Rossum said:
"If it's about the lack of a proper soul. I assure you, I didn't sell it or have it eaten or anything. I just come from a dimension where folks don't have them."

"Are you a demon?"

"That's actually kind of racist. We're just as human anyone else."

To be fair, Paul does have a proper soul. And it would be a human one too gosh darnit, if, you know, he hadn't gone all Paulphidian only a couple of days after he got the soul granting tattoo's. So ya.... not a human soul, but still has one!

ANTIcarrot · Feb 23, 2016

SwiftRosenthal said:
Asking for you by name, no less.

Could be worse.

MISS MERCURY? I AM HERE BY APPOINTMENT. COULD I HAVE A MOMENT OF YOUR TIME PLEASE?

Silverias · Feb 23, 2016

ANTIcarrot said:
Could be worse.

MISS MERCURY? I AM HERE BY APPOINTMENT. COULD I HAVE A MOMENT OF YOUR TIME PLEASE?

Could be worse.

MISS MERCURY? YOU ARE MINE.

achaput · Feb 23, 2016

Vaermina said:
Pagan's don't grow Pot in their secret pot garden or eskewy most modern technology, they are New Age Hippies.

Pot is something everyone can enjoy.

Senevri · Feb 23, 2016

eaglejarl said:
The one exception to this is one-time pads. Regardless of how much processing power you have, a one-time pad is absolutely unbreakable without the key, because a given N-character string can be decrypted to any other string of N characters just by using a different pad. Without the key, there's no way of knowing if the message is "Attack at dawn" or "Please walk dog?"

Even so, the key must exist somewhere, so a Power Ring could probably just brute force scan the planet for likely keys, use them on the encrypted sources and pick the most likely candidates for correct translation. So, unless the key is warded or memorized, or hidden in an otherwise exotic way....

Of course, since the key can be anything - a specific fanfic, any specific digital photo....

I don't know much about quantum computing.
... Actually, I'm not sure I know anything about qc.

Jackercracks · Feb 23, 2016

uju32 said:
A bit of a snob, are we?

Matthew G said:
Nope, he means someone that lives a Primitive life style, like that discovery channel show about the homesteaders in Alaska.

I think the guy is just Scottish and Paul's playing it up.

Mr Zoat · Feb 23, 2016

Jackercracks said:
I think the guy is just Scottish and Paul's playing it up.

The Scottish do their best. The SI isn't a fan of people who reject modernity.

Sceptic · Feb 23, 2016

Mr Zoat said:
The Scottish do their best. The SI isn't a fan of people who reject modernity.

I reject most modern art. Does that count?

aabbcc · Feb 23, 2016

Sceptic said:
I reject most modern art.

Modern art rejects modern art.

Sceptic · Feb 23, 2016

aabbcc said:
Modern art rejects modern art.

Which must mean the SI is not a fan.

Mr Zoat · Feb 23, 2016

Sceptic said:
Which must mean the SI is not a fan.

When the Saarchi warehouse burned down, people took pictures and framed them, believeing it to be a piece of performance art.

Angelform · Feb 23, 2016

Mr Zoat said:
3rd March
13:32 GMT

"AAAAGGGHHHHHHHH!"

Bit of a long shot but we might be about to get more info about the Orange Dawn.

Not sure Tula truly understood the lesson if that is her counter to mental magic. The point of such subtle attacks is that they hit at a moment of unsuspecting weakness. Having a defence you must activate doesn't matter if you don't know when it is needed.

kingpico said:
Influence from Grayven? O.O Seems awfully high and mighty of Paul...

No that is just him being British and the other guy being Amish. A Scottish Amish at that.

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

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Company of Negotiable Virtue

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Seeing is Believing

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