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It may even become a part of the "Inter-dimensional Variant" planning of the Bat Family. 'If one spots a Paul-Lantern, be ready to face a more unified Planetary Super-Force', sort of deal, even if they are only personally beholden to him, I am sure an inter-planetary/dimension threat would see any Paul-Lantern calling in as many favours as he feels necessary to counter the threats.
In a darkened auditorium formations of black clad soldiers stand before a podium flanked by red and black banners. On the podium stands a Masked Man.

Masked Man: ...and so we! The Deafening Whispers! Shall take this dimension by storm and bring it into our eternal dominion!

An aide runs up to the Masked Man and whispers in his ear.

Masked Man: A Paul-Lantern, here? Are you sure?

A shudder passes through the auditorium at the name. More whispering from the aide.

Masked Man: Right in the middle of my speech as well. Okay guys, take five and get some grub; we're taking a rain check on this reality. There's plenty of places out there that won't pull the kind of crap a Paul-Lantern will. Meet back here tomorrow and we'll try someplace else.
 
"I suppose it would be the nice thing to do, but to be honest? He's committed some very serious crimes and I think he should be punished for them. Eight years hard labour?" Colonel Fang give me a sidelong look, then nods. "Sounds a little excessive to me, but China has much less of a supervillain problem than Britain or the States. Do as you see fit."

"Hm." There's approval in his eyes.

once again Paul shows that being selective about which paragon interrupts one should take works out better than mindlessly grinding paragon points.

Ironically Paul is more ok with leaving most supervillans to there fate then most heroes for the same reason that most hero's are uncomfortable seeing a foe on death row. Even if you hate someone you see them a person, and its really hard to watch someone you see as a person suffer if your the kind of person who becomes a superhero. Paul on the other hand is perfectly ok with bending the rules for someone because the matter to him, but is a lot pickier of who he lets into his in-group.
 
Can I borrow a derivation of this for an SI i'm planning? It's an eldritch abomination one... or will be unless I change it. For the sixth time.
Given that it's an adaptation of an Ash line from... blanking on which one, but ONE of the Evil Dead trilogy ("Good, bad... I'm the guy with a gun."), I suspect that you're pretty free to use it. :whistle:
 
Honestly I just thought you were just making some kind of weird british joke since it didn't really answers my question and just left me confused.
The entire story is one long, weird, very British joke. Any minor "humor" you may have noted is incidental and designed to attract and amuse lesser readers.

If you were from here, you'd see the real joke in all its transcendent glory. Heh. "Paul."​
 
Looking at the treatment of meta/superhumans from a purely civilian angle, it is perfectly understandable and indeed laudable that the PRC maintains monopoly of force in the hands of the state, rather than this squamous wish-fulfilment vehicle that is the American superhero genre's american/western government (which are so hideously ineffectual and corrupt that they could not work as /actual governments/ for the people rather than rough outlines of state institutions for The Hero to interact with).

Like, the way it is portrayed, the only government we've seen so far that retains monopoly of force on a national level is the PRC, through means and methods that are depressingly enough as harsh as lawful.

It's these parts of WTR that I like, the ones that concern themselves not with the wish-fulfilment aspect of the Superhero genre and instead opt to fill in the vacuous and frankly impossibly illogical parts of the super worldbuilding with something that works and holds up under scrutiny.
 
Honestly I thought you were just making some kind of weird british joke since it didn't really answers my question and just left me confused.
No, it wasn't a joke.

I think I've mentioned it before, but at one point the SI gains access to a time machine. One of the things the game allows you to do with it is travel back to just after Diana leaves Themyscira for the first time. If the SI hands her records of exactly what the Nazis get up to in the original timeline she chooses not to accompany Steven Trevor to America and instead stays in Greece, mounting a vigorous campaign of resistance against the German and Italian occupiers. Young and inexperienced as she was, conventional forces proved singularly incapable of stopping her and the Nazis were forced to dispatch the Kriegers from the eastern front to deal with her.

Captain Nazi's first fight with her resulted in a double knockout. He was stronger but she was trained to fight people her own strength. During her recovery she became more closely affiliated with the Greek resistance movement (which fortunately included at least one person who spoke classical Greek, since she didn't speak any modern languages). Their second bout took place in Athens, as Wolf tried to use the Spear of Destiny to extend the Nazis control area over Greece. That one resulted in Diana fighting them both, killing them and taking the Spear for herself.

At that point things stalemated. The Nazis knew they couldn't push into Greece and she couldn't risk leaving. However, she was now undisputed head of the Greek government in Greece. Furthermore, her prayers in the Olympians with the Spear in hand began working its magic across the country and generally drawing her gods' attention to their former people. Olympian deities began appearing to people in their dreams, offering guidance and divine aid.

With no control area, the Nazis faced increased raids by Allied superhumans, culminating in a blitz on Berlin in 1943 which destroyed the German government and effectively ended the war in Europe. The Amazon contribution was lead by Queen Hippolyta in person and contained every demigoddess on Themyscira, which resulted in the rest of the world assuming that all Amazons had those abilities. The significance of the fact that the Amazon contingent made up a third of the force was lost on no one.

Post war, given the choice between a monarch who fled and the warrior demigoddess who saved their country, the Greek people hailed Diana as Queen. Something which she found a little awkward when she had to inform her mother.

When the SI returns the the present, he finds it much changed. Firstly, the Justice Society never closed down and had effectively expanded to fulfill the role the Justice League had in the original timeline. Diana still rules Greece, and is married to an uncorrupted Sara Smart. Alan's inhumanity is more obvious and he uses green speech marks. Harold Jordan never became a Green Lantern, and Abin Sur was more than a little shocked to discover that his ring thought Alan was a Guardian. Superhuman defence and study is more advanced while conventional weapons development is more retarded.
 
No, it wasn't a joke.

I think I've mentioned it before, but at one point the SI gains access to a time machine. One of the things the game allows you to do with it is travel back to just after Diana leaves Themyscira for the first time. If the SI hands her records of exactly what the Nazis get up to in the original timeline she chooses not to accompany Steven Trevor to America and instead stays in Greece, mounting a vigorous campaign of resistance against the German and Italian occupiers. Young and inexperienced as she was, conventional forces proved singularly incapable of stopping her and the Nazis were forced to dispatch the Kriegers from the eastern front to deal with her.

Captain Nazi's first fight with her resulted in a double knockout. He was stronger but she was trained to fight people her own strength. During her recovery she became more closely affiliated with the Greek resistance movement (which fortunately included at least one person who spoke classical Greek, since she didn't speak any modern languages). Their second bout took place in Athens, as Wolf tried to use the Spear of Destiny to extend the Nazis control area over Greece. That one resulted in Diana fighting them both, killing them and taking the Spear for herself.

At that point things stalemated. The Nazis knew they couldn't push into Greece and she couldn't risk leaving. However, she was now undisputed head of the Greek government in Greece. Furthermore, her prayers in the Olympians with the Spear in hand began working its magic across the country and generally drawing her gods' attention to their former people. Olympian deities began appearing to people in their dreams, offering guidance and divine aid.

With no control area, the Nazis faced increased raids by Allied superhumans, culminating in a blitz on Berlin in 1943 which destroyed the German government and effectively ended the war in Europe. The Amazon contribution was lead by Queen Hippolyta in person and contained every demigoddess on Themyscira, which resulted in the rest of the world assuming that all Amazons had those abilities. The significance of the fact that the Amazon contingent made up a third of the force was lost on no one.

Post war, given the choice between a monarch who fled and the warrior demigoddess who saved their country, the Greek people hailed Diana as Queen. Something which she found a little awkward when she had to inform her mother.

When the SI returns the the present, he finds it much changed. Firstly, the Justice Society never closed down and had effectively expanded to fulfill the role the Justice League had in the original timeline. Diana still rules Greece, and is married to an uncorrupted Sara Smart. Alan's inhumanity is more obvious and he uses green speech marks. Harold Jordan never became a Green Lantern, and Abin Sur was more than a little shocked to discover that his ring thought Alan was a Guardian. Superhuman defence and study is more advanced while conventional weapons development is more retarded.

The question is... is this better or worse than the original timeline?
 
Also it's vague what a will enlightenment would offer in general or even how you'd get it in fact.
It's only really used in New Guardian builds, or if you create the Queen Diana of Greece timeline and meet up with Alan after returning to the present.
The rest of the explanation is directly above your question. I thought it was fairly complete.
Damn it, is Zoat spoiling his own story again? Or is that post also a joke?
The SI is perfectly capable of creating that timeline. However, given the significant changes that would be created (including probably unexisting Kon) he most likely would chose not to.
 
Well that's interesting.
Would Paul go back and try to get back the world he knows or is this just a newly created/separate timeline and he could just jump back to the regular one?
 
No. Proper RPG, where what you do can change the state of the world and there are a slew of divergent ending possibilities.
Oh thank god:cry:

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Has anyone tried to apply a word count to this story?
I'm guessing... a 190K wordcount. Mostly based on how his newer chapters are around 1k to 1.5k. His older ones felt a bit longer, but that might have been because i could just binge-read them. Good times.
 
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as Wolf tried to use the Spear of Destiny
An unusually dextrous canine.

I know it's not what you meant, but the image was funny.
I think I've mentioned it before, but at one point the SI gains access to a time machine.
Part of a spoiler comment, the Justice League roster, included a section that implied that OL getting a time machine was a possibility.
I'm guessing... a 190K wordcount. Mostly based on how his newer chapters are around 1k to 1.5k.
Waaaay more than that. Spring in Blume alone is 31k words.
 
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