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I think the League wouldn't find that cool at all. They complained about point defence on their space station. They don't want to have a Star Destroyer in the system.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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I think the League wouldn't find that cool at all. They complained about point defence on their space station. They don't want to have a Star Destroyer in the system.
- Location
- Earth, 3rd rock from the Sun
For a ring that would be best handled as Variable (Limited to Equipment), Variable Descriptor, 6 points a level. To reflect his ability store a large amount of equipment in subspace, and switch it out easily on the fly without returning to base. The Variable descriptor because you can also make construct versions of equipment, and probably transmute some from the environment.
Since a OL is probably PL 14-16+, what counts as 'equipment' should be more generous then just standard Earth items, so you can have PL 10-12 equipment to reflecting his OL ring Tech Database, and Galactic Standard equipment.
Ageless does not have to mean true agelessness, to also applies to things with significantly long then human lifespans.
Ditto Sleepless. And I thought a ring out of charge can still be used as a PDA, database, etc. And it can keep going without downtime as long as you keep it charged. Although that only really applies if you do stay active 24/7.
- Location
- Chile
So how come the Fist can deal with magic.
But power rings can't?
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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- Baton Rouge
More dakka is a countermeasure, one that power rings can also do.
The_Letter_K
Certified Character
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- ...IJ_LM...
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- She/Her
I thought I was reading a Jamie post for a second there. Not that I disapprove, mind. I'm actually impressed. I like to think we can all share in our love of evil, deep down.
- Location
- Somewhere out there
I don't believe this is strictly true -- a completely discharged ring is probably inert. On the other hand, orange and green rings at least start shutting down systems on low charge to avoid becoming completely discharged, so it may be that a ring at 0.1% charge can still function as a database and not do much else. And it could be argued that such behavior is a ring's equivalent to "sleep" since a living creature does still function as a living creature (breathe, circulate blood, digest food) while sleeping, at limited capacity.
If you consider the personal lantern to be a separate entity instead of part of the ring, then the ring is in worse shape than just getting tired; it dies after a ridiculously SHORT lifespan and has to be sustained by the lantern on a regular basis.
As such, even if it is "sleepless" by the core definition of the rule, it makes up for it with the disadvantage of its charging mechanic.
dhasenan
always lowercase
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- She/Her
Typo: fawn.
A faun is a myffic creature: human from the waist up, goat-ish below, with horns. A fawn is a young deer, and also a color in the lighter range of deer coats.
He could have skinned a faun. You can never be sure with OL. He's wily.
- Location
- Hampden Park
Thank you, corrected.
Date Night (part 19)
- Location
- Hampden Park
31st March
18:02 GMT +2
I grin at her. "This is the first time anyone's opened with that!"
"What the hell were you doing?!"
Behind me, Tora groans faintly and Guy winces.
"Looking for any League of Shadows operatives who escaped the initial wave of arrests."
She storms around the taxi and up to me, fists balled and… I think her hair's puffed up a little? I did do a little research into her as part of my attempt to investigate potential future Justice League recruits and this version of her isn't yet capable of the feats of pyrokinesis that the modern comic version is. Rather than covering her body in green fire as in Justice League Unlimited she can't project her flame further than about eight inches. It's steel-melting hot, but the short range combined with the summoning delay makes her DPS potential fairly low. She can't fly, either. Her background in Brazil's intelligence agency is a little more interesting but for whatever reason most of the files describing exactly what she got up to with them weren't on computer when I did my data gathering sweep.
"I'm sorry if I.. caught you at a bad time-"
"I was in the shower, you pervert!"
Fists back, face thrust forwards towards mine. She's about three inches shorter than me, though the heels make it more like one.
"-but I was a bit possessed at the time and I don't really remember-" And suddenly I remember seeing her. Thank you Ophidian. "-most of what we saw."
"'We'?"
"I was possessed-" Sorry Ophidian, but it's easier than a full explanation. "-by the Embodiment of Avarice. As you know the eyes were spread across the whole of the world so it wasn't like I was-."
"Whatever." She takes a half-step to the side and then shoves past me. "Gardner, I thought you said you were bringing someone from the Justice League, not the world's greatest peeping tom."
"Err, he had to pull out at the last minute."
"Don't talk me up too much, Guy." I turn around. So, Beatriz da Costa. Alpha personality and -at the moment- insufficient raw power to back it up in superheroics. And her best friend is dating a member of the Justice League.
Might be a slight chip on her shoulder, there.
"But hey, Paul's probably getting upped in a few months and he's already working for Wonder Woman."
Ms da Costa walks past Guy and Tora in the direction of the entrance, nose turned up.
"Bea…"
And she stops, sagging slightly. "Fine. I'll try making the most of it."
She's being fairly rude to me, but to be honest I find this situation more amusing than anything. "Gracious of you."
Beatriz turns back around to face me, pointing at me with her right index finger. "Don't you start with me. I was supposed to be networking tonight."
Tora pats her on the shoulder as she and Guy walk past. "Beatriz, try and be nice." Beatriz' hair flattens slightly-. Oh! It's part of her power set. I hadn't made that connection before. Internal heat or something else?
Something occurs to Guy. "Hey, Paul, didn't Bats have you doing that performance review thing? How am I doin'?"
I take a few hurried steps to catch up. "Pretty well. Based on the performances I've been able to analyse you're the most adaptable Greenie. High DPS, high utility in rescue operations and-."
Tora's head pokes around from the far side of Guy's chest. "DPS? Is that some sort of Justice League code?"
Beatriz falls in on the far side of Tora as we enter the park. "It means 'damage per second'. You mean you've actually worked out how much damage members of the Justice League can inflict?"
"It's hard to be completely precise, but yes. In order to evaluate how well the League is doing I had to work out what they're actually trying to do, and it fits into certain broad categories-."
"Paul's basically the reason why I got in."
"No, come on. I might be the reason why you got in when you did, but you'd have got in without me eventually."
Beatriz suddenly looks more interested. "So are you the guy I have to convince to let me in?"
"No, you have to convince a League member to nominate you and the whole of the League not to object. At the moment. I'm going to be trying to persuade them to change the criteria… About a week and a half from now? I'm supposed to be giving a presentation-" Beatriz crosses behind Guy and Tora and takes hold of my right arm. "-about the League's organisational structure."
She smiles sweetly at me. "And what would this 'change' mean for me?" I think she was pushing her original Brazilian accent there, rather than the North American one she's picked up from practising her English with Americans. "And Tora?"
"I'll.. just be laying out a series of options. I don't have any decision making authority-."
"I mean, is there a shortlist..?"
"Sort of. Once I came up with an evaluation criterion I added it to the list of possible future recruits-."
"There's a list?"
"There's a database of all active superheroes, and a long list of those who meet the minimum requirements."
"I am on that, aren't I?"
"On the.. long list, yes."
"How long?"
"As in, not an auto-recruit but worth considering once they have a better idea of what they're actually recruiting for. And my environmental shield is up, so squeezing my arm harder won't help."
"Hmpf."
"Bea, this is supposed to be a date. Do you have to talk about work all the time?"
"So what would I have to do to improve my position?"
Looks like she does. "Giving me your ESG and SNI files would probably help-" Her eyes widen by a very small amount. "-as it would let me assign a more accurate value to your investigative and intelligence handling skills. Beyond that, a heck of a lot more combat practice against people with super powers than you currently have."
"Nothing like it." Guy nods. "Think you can find videos of Paul an' me goin' at it on the internet."
"And, um…" Tora's head reappears. "What about me?"
"Your ex-nihilo ice construction ability is amazingly versatile and useful. I'm not sure exactly how precise your control is, but the potential during disasters… Floods, fires or.. droughts, actually, is considerable."
"Oh." She smiles sweetly at me. "Thank you."
"Are you saying that she's higher on the list than me?"
I look straight ahead. "I'm carefully avoiding saying any such thing."
18:02 GMT +2
I grin at her. "This is the first time anyone's opened with that!"
"What the hell were you doing?!"
Behind me, Tora groans faintly and Guy winces.
"Looking for any League of Shadows operatives who escaped the initial wave of arrests."
She storms around the taxi and up to me, fists balled and… I think her hair's puffed up a little? I did do a little research into her as part of my attempt to investigate potential future Justice League recruits and this version of her isn't yet capable of the feats of pyrokinesis that the modern comic version is. Rather than covering her body in green fire as in Justice League Unlimited she can't project her flame further than about eight inches. It's steel-melting hot, but the short range combined with the summoning delay makes her DPS potential fairly low. She can't fly, either. Her background in Brazil's intelligence agency is a little more interesting but for whatever reason most of the files describing exactly what she got up to with them weren't on computer when I did my data gathering sweep.
"I'm sorry if I.. caught you at a bad time-"
"I was in the shower, you pervert!"
Fists back, face thrust forwards towards mine. She's about three inches shorter than me, though the heels make it more like one.
"-but I was a bit possessed at the time and I don't really remember-" And suddenly I remember seeing her. Thank you Ophidian. "-most of what we saw."
"'We'?"
"I was possessed-" Sorry Ophidian, but it's easier than a full explanation. "-by the Embodiment of Avarice. As you know the eyes were spread across the whole of the world so it wasn't like I was-."
"Whatever." She takes a half-step to the side and then shoves past me. "Gardner, I thought you said you were bringing someone from the Justice League, not the world's greatest peeping tom."
"Err, he had to pull out at the last minute."
"Don't talk me up too much, Guy." I turn around. So, Beatriz da Costa. Alpha personality and -at the moment- insufficient raw power to back it up in superheroics. And her best friend is dating a member of the Justice League.
Might be a slight chip on her shoulder, there.
"But hey, Paul's probably getting upped in a few months and he's already working for Wonder Woman."
Ms da Costa walks past Guy and Tora in the direction of the entrance, nose turned up.
"Bea…"
And she stops, sagging slightly. "Fine. I'll try making the most of it."
She's being fairly rude to me, but to be honest I find this situation more amusing than anything. "Gracious of you."
Beatriz turns back around to face me, pointing at me with her right index finger. "Don't you start with me. I was supposed to be networking tonight."
Tora pats her on the shoulder as she and Guy walk past. "Beatriz, try and be nice." Beatriz' hair flattens slightly-. Oh! It's part of her power set. I hadn't made that connection before. Internal heat or something else?
Something occurs to Guy. "Hey, Paul, didn't Bats have you doing that performance review thing? How am I doin'?"
I take a few hurried steps to catch up. "Pretty well. Based on the performances I've been able to analyse you're the most adaptable Greenie. High DPS, high utility in rescue operations and-."
Tora's head pokes around from the far side of Guy's chest. "DPS? Is that some sort of Justice League code?"
Beatriz falls in on the far side of Tora as we enter the park. "It means 'damage per second'. You mean you've actually worked out how much damage members of the Justice League can inflict?"
"It's hard to be completely precise, but yes. In order to evaluate how well the League is doing I had to work out what they're actually trying to do, and it fits into certain broad categories-."
"Paul's basically the reason why I got in."
"No, come on. I might be the reason why you got in when you did, but you'd have got in without me eventually."
Beatriz suddenly looks more interested. "So are you the guy I have to convince to let me in?"
"No, you have to convince a League member to nominate you and the whole of the League not to object. At the moment. I'm going to be trying to persuade them to change the criteria… About a week and a half from now? I'm supposed to be giving a presentation-" Beatriz crosses behind Guy and Tora and takes hold of my right arm. "-about the League's organisational structure."
She smiles sweetly at me. "And what would this 'change' mean for me?" I think she was pushing her original Brazilian accent there, rather than the North American one she's picked up from practising her English with Americans. "And Tora?"
"I'll.. just be laying out a series of options. I don't have any decision making authority-."
"I mean, is there a shortlist..?"
"Sort of. Once I came up with an evaluation criterion I added it to the list of possible future recruits-."
"There's a list?"
"There's a database of all active superheroes, and a long list of those who meet the minimum requirements."
"I am on that, aren't I?"
"On the.. long list, yes."
"How long?"
"As in, not an auto-recruit but worth considering once they have a better idea of what they're actually recruiting for. And my environmental shield is up, so squeezing my arm harder won't help."
"Hmpf."
"Bea, this is supposed to be a date. Do you have to talk about work all the time?"
"So what would I have to do to improve my position?"
Looks like she does. "Giving me your ESG and SNI files would probably help-" Her eyes widen by a very small amount. "-as it would let me assign a more accurate value to your investigative and intelligence handling skills. Beyond that, a heck of a lot more combat practice against people with super powers than you currently have."
"Nothing like it." Guy nods. "Think you can find videos of Paul an' me goin' at it on the internet."
"And, um…" Tora's head reappears. "What about me?"
"Your ex-nihilo ice construction ability is amazingly versatile and useful. I'm not sure exactly how precise your control is, but the potential during disasters… Floods, fires or.. droughts, actually, is considerable."
"Oh." She smiles sweetly at me. "Thank you."
"Are you saying that she's higher on the list than me?"
I look straight ahead. "I'm carefully avoiding saying any such thing."
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"I mean, my environmental field is up, but I don't want to test it against point-blank steel-melting fire."
Krazyfan1
Worrying for the future.
- Location
- Australia
Fluffy
Destroyer of.......most worlds
- Location
- High Earth Orbit
apparently paul suffers from permanent foot in mouth disease
Talk about single-minded focus. Good for Bea.
- Location
- Courthouse
Missing a word between I and a, probably "was"?
- Location
- Canada
Aww man I wish she'd have asked what that meant exactly.
"The hell is an embodiment of avarice?"
"It's the most powerful elemental of avarice in existence."
"So it kinda made you stronger or something?"
"That's a way to put it. It basically gave me mid level omnipotence."
"... Well then, so who did you say your girlfriend was again?"
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- Location
- Wishing I was somewhere much colder, I asssume.
Not really, his date is the one being overly aggressive about him despite finding out he was possessed during the whole "eyes everywhere" thing, and then once she found out he helped Guy get into the League she started, I think, insinuating that she'd trade "favors" for help in getting into the League.
Combined with how she was disappointed someone from the League wasn't there, I'm starting to think she only went to increase her standing as a superhero. Is she a superhero? Or is she one of the metahumans who doesn't put on a silly costume and go out to hit criminals in the face?
Either way, not liking this person so far. She doesn't seem to be a good match for Paul. I don't ship it.
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Lordamnesia
What are we doing again?
I really don't know what your talking about. It's not a pure rejection, and haven't you ever dealt with a hot lady who's pissed at you? Sometimes, they aren't any better looking then at that point.
Not that I think there's a chance in Hades of that ship, but meh, it's definitely not the worst date he's ever had (Catwoman thinking that he's just a kid).
- Location
- South of North
Given the trend of Paul's relationships so far, a bad start might be indicative of more passion in their interaction.
Praise the Tsundere ship!
Mizu
Software Developer
- Location
- Victoria, Australia
I was a bit possessed
pushing her original
Heh, this is pretty funny. Is being part of the JL really that important overall, though?
Considering she blatantly said as much, I can see why you'd think that.
- Location
- Oblivion
He should introduce her to Megan so they can practice together, if the JLU is anything to go by her power cap is pretty high.
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