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- The Outer Plane Of Munchkinry.
To be totally honest that would have been a problem even with just a portal; you know how a jamed gun needs to be a hell of a lot tougher to not break from containing a explosion then a normal gun needs to be to redirect one? Now take that logic, and scale it up to the level of, let's say, Anti-matter. I'm sure that you are starting to realise why opening portals to, or, if they dislike you sufficiently, near, someone with access to exotic resources and sufficient easily deployed defencive technologies to defend from/contain said exotic resources would be a bad idea.welp, time to break out the strategic scale toys. I suspect both Paul and Satanus are both screwing up here. Pual is underestimating Satanus, the guy is the kind of adaptable and cunning that makes even middling casters a threat, as the lord of hell he's pretty fucking dangerous. Satanus, on the other hand, seems not to have gonked just how massively destructive a lantern can be when collateral damage becomes a plus. If Satanus realized pauls bag of tricks includes WMDS meant for an environment that considers nukes low-intensity flares He would probably be doing this out in the boonies, rather than risking getting Qwa matter on his industrial base.
I feel that nanotech would be a bit too easily corruptible for use in hell, but yeah, Branding some sinners and giving them some weapons should be doable. Maybe he could set up some sort of force field that was modified to press the seals into every surface it was in contact with? The force fields themselves would probably be a good way to get extra surface area to put them on.So... Let's see, how could this progress / what does Paul have?
I'm guessing that the best strategy for him is to pull out self-perpetuating weaponry. Start with the praexis horde (in the magically charged environment of hell, Praexis demons could probably eat the ground and air and derive meaningful nutrition from it fueling their reproduction). Second stage - pull out some sort of nanotech grey goo (he certainly should have access to such) and set it to convert the environment, while also writing fractal seals of Solomon on everything. After that he could start gating in reinforcements. Like Alan (remember how Dream used Hope against all the hordes of hell? It was super effective). And Blaze. He could start setting tortured souls free and giving them equipment.
Unless Satanus ejects them (actually, how the hell was Satanus able to talk to Paul remotely via magic? Paul is unscryable. Satanus shouldn't be able to hear his responses), Paul does have a chance, I feel.
And then Constantine comes in and takes over.
Well he is Brittish*; they do have somewhat of a history of doing that.What would Paul do if he conquered he'll? Impose a minimum level of civilization?
* Actually, this would be a interesting way to introduce him to what is actually going on in Brittan; have him come at it from the other side.
I think that he's a doylist.So you want the guy who has the embodiment of ALL Avarice in the entirety of this existence Heart inside of him as his soul to do something...not Orange? Also, what makes you think he even CAN?
Well, what you need to remember is that he had a massive capacity for coordination of allied forces here, is always willing to accept help, is always eager to render aid to said allies, and doesn't mind destroying what he can repair later to get what he wants, as seen when he shot through the hostage, and then healed her, during the Devil Jizz event.One thing people advocating mass destruction need to remember, is that Orange Lantern seems to value the souls trapped in hell. He's unlikely to bust out the really big guns and risk destroying something he values.
Regarding the Spear of Destiny, I'm pretty sure I remember that being linked to humanity only. It's unlikely to work on demons. He might get all the souls in Hell under his control, but if they were capable of meaningfully rebelling, you'd think they'd have done so. Also, I can't see OL using Souls as disposable minions.
Personally i think that, since it doesn't make sence to need to disarm any defences, which he would sets up during this event, at any point in the future, because, you know, hell, he may very well find it more efficient, in the format of "Orange Light ring charge" to "dead bodies" ratio, to fabricate railguns, or rather to fabricate automated turrets (I wonder if he could just Brand them to cut down on programing), then to make construct railguns. Bombs seem like they could work as good area denial weapons most of the time, but would require too much upkeep to stop demons from just crawling over where the explosion used to be; proximity bombs, and/or self destructing drones, would probably work much better.Also known as a target rich environment.
Railguns seem like they would be better used for point defense here rather than his main weapon. When collateral damage is not just inconsequential but beneficial, bombs should be the bread and butter attack, along with other indiscriminate weapons like gravity pulses, orange destructive pulses, and high power sonic weapons.
I imagine that he would want to look into why his prediction was wrong though, if only so that he would be less likely to be wrong in the future.I like this bit. He has perfectly valid in universe reasoning for why he shouldn't have Satanus' attention. That he was wrong doesn't make the reasoning worse.
I think the likeliest solution is either a mole or some other snooping. Maybe an invisible demon was stationed at every site of geomantic power on the planet. And while the SI can't be scryed, Jade certainly can be.
Maybe he has a policy of granting anyone who brings escapes from hell to his attention a really damn good tital, with loads of benifits, and the way that souls are dragged out of hell is really flashy from the other side? Like, there was this one guy who made a joke about how the current host of the reincarnated persons soul, who would probably be a frog or something, would just hover and glow in the middle of someones lawn for a while, before the ritual gave up trying to pull the soul out of it to put back in the past body; that sort of thing would probably be rather looked into in somewhere like hell.
Did it work on Fate or on Nabu?1) Spear of Destiny is definitely connected to everyone on Earth, and Sephtian wasn't sure about it being connected to everyone in the universe. Given that it worked on Fate (an alien ascended to become Lord of Order) during WW2, my guess is that it works on everyone, period.
This would be god damn wonderful; it would be a bit tricky to pull off (he might need to mess with exactly what he is controling in order to make sure that they are actually having Faith rather then just praying by rote), and he might be able to direct them toward Blaze in order to power her converted state, if he could pull that off in a hurry, but even at its worst it would probaby be amazing.2) Souls in hell are a power source - their prayers power a lot of stuff, as Fawcett city invasion demonstrated. Just purely taking control of them and switching them to chanting "In nomine Patris" or something along those lines would wreck large portions of hell's infrastructure. And that's without converting them all to Helenism (powerful mind control with an epic artifact might pull that off), thus both giving Hades a massive power up, and giving him a cause to invade hell, opening a second frontline for Satanus to defend.