Wtf is Kara's problem? Does she want to still be in the Phantom zone or something?
Alchemist told her that Rao (Krypton's sun/god) betrayed the Kryptonians and destroyed Krypton so as to send Kal-El to Earth in a ploy to impress one of the Endless, which was very much 100% true. Kara's pissed off that Alchemist is besmirching her god, even though it is, again, 100% true.
 
Wtf is Kara's problem? Does she want to still be in the Phantom zone or something?
She's essentially being told the truth from Alchemist. And it's not a pleasant truth even if she's only got half the story so far. He's telling her "Your beloved sun god imploded his own planet." That's all he's told her so far and it goes against near everything she believes in so she doesn't like him.
 
Wtf is Kara's problem? Does she want to still be in the Phantom zone or something?
From Kara's perspective Krypton just blew up a few days? Weeks? Ago. However long it's been since they got pulled out of the Phantom Zone. So she's suffering from the loss of everyone and thing she's known, stuck in a completely new and strange environment, and finally that new place is (on the surface) undeniably shittier in every way then her old one. Ignoring the stagnancy or the Council's ass-backwardness, or Rao being a dick (and both those things definitely weren't obvious)...Krypton was basically a highly advanced, highly cultured Utopia. And now she's on Earth. Oh and her body is also changing and gaining powers on her (which, yeah, should be great eventually, but body/power dysphoria on top of everything else isn't exactly nice now.)

Long story short, Kara has a lot of reasons to be irrational right now. Also, she's a teenager and her body is undergoing even more energetic changes then usual reacting to yellow sunlight.
 
for the likes of Archmage Bonnibel or Skycaptain Redfox.

Archmage Bonnibel? Skycaptain Redfox?

Uh-oh, mentioning those two names in front of Alchemist may have created a stable time loop.

Alchemist already planned to diversify what TV programs to show the Hellhounds and the Cursed Dolls, so Saturn Girl's angry comment might inspire Alchemist to introduce Bonnie to "Adventure Time" (TV-PG rating) and Foxie to the concept of sky pirates from Disney's "TaleSpin" or the movie "Treasure Planet."

Other possible entertainment option:
  • the Disney Afternoon.
  • Nick Junior.
  • the Magical School Bus.
  • PBS Kids.
  • Fox Kids.
 
  • the Magical School Bus.
Miss Frizzle is basically a Time Lord, and the Magic School Bus is her TARDIS.

I don't think Alchemist would want to meet up with her, as she's basically like a god unto other gods. Alchemist is a bit behind the curve, there, and Miss Frizzle is just a liiiittle too unpredictable to risk upsetting.

And you just know the little 'uns are going to find a way to meet her if they can. And with Al's Gamer system, it's totally possible.
 
It really is a matter of scale. One that Jinx, on her own, simply cannot fill.

And that will be an important lesson. For her and Alchemist alike.

The question then becomes what all needs to be done about it? Increasing cybersecurity is one avenue. Cloudflare, IP logging, sales limits and similar are all things that have been done in the real world with some measure of success.

After that, what else?

Adding further enchantments for the sake of security is possible, of course, and after a certain level of skill would be quite doable without an increase in time or magical investment. That explanation will come later in the story, however.

But the true crux of the issue is, as was said in the beginning, a matter of scale. Alchemic Solutions will need to grow beyond just two people to properly thrive and meet the demand for their product. Especially if those products are, by design, one-use only. But it will be somewhat difficult to expand given that, between Alchemist and Jinx having multiple specialties as well as perks and skills that multiply results, the two of them together are equal to a team of forty or so people.

That is, charging soul gems, repairing soul gems and then actually performing the enchanting.

Now, I do have an idea for a solution... but it would require tracking down and capturing magical cat people in an Instant Quest, and that would only be a stopgap until it's time to scale up further.
I'm… pretty sure the best solution to this is going to be building a creation forge to mass print the things, but that takes going to eberron and the city of Sharn or the depths of Xen'drix to find the plans on how they work?
 
I'm… pretty sure the best solution to this is going to be building a creation forge to mass print the things, but that takes going to eberron and the city of Sharn or the depths of Xen'drix to find the plans on how they work?

Or cheating and getting Penny to just buy the plans with her unrestricted game shop. She might ask for help in a dungeon again to pay off the debt but that should be fine.

Whenever she gets her powers back I mean.
 
Or cheating and getting Penny to just buy the plans with her unrestricted game shop. She might ask for help in a dungeon again to pay off the debt but that should be fine.

Whenever she gets her powers back I mean.
I mean… alchemist and friends might like a vacation to a place with other dragons that might socialize with them? They haven't really had anyone to talk to but Bahomet and that one elder that killed themself so far.
Plus like, 5 minutes of conversation with Tiamat
 
I mean… alchemist and friends might like a vacation to a place with other dragons that might socialize with them? They haven't really had anyone to talk to but Bahomet and that one elder that killed themself so far.
Plus like, 5 minutes of conversation with Tiamat
If that's what they want, I'd suggest a slightly safer world than the steaming pile of deathworld that is basically any D&D!verse.

I mean, the potential payoff is HUGE there, but it's also quite dangerous.
 
If that's what they want, I'd suggest a slightly safer world than the steaming pile of deathworld that is basically any D&D!verse.

I mean, the potential payoff is HUGE there, but it's also quite dangerous.

…. Yeah that's probably fair, I just really want their flight to find some dragon friends to hangout with/learn from cause like… Alchemist is a good outsider but not a very good dragon as of yet, and none of the youngest ones are that good at it either, dragon goddess child included. Except maybe the little adorable cloud dragon, that I'd really love to see more of.
 
…. Yeah that's probably fair, I just really want their flight to find some dragon friends to hangout with/learn from cause like… Alchemist is a good outsider but not a very good dragon as of yet, and none of the youngest ones are that good at it either, dragon goddess child included. Except maybe the little adorable cloud dragon, that I'd really love to see more of.
I'd suggest G4 MLP, but A.) the dragons are dumb, and B.) if anything it's one of the nastier D&D!deathworlds due to the number of epic level threats (and small children that regularly beat the epic level threats) therein.
 
Which, if he really expected Alchemist to give them a direct answer, meant that nobody was going to actually learn about it.

Bitch what do you mean???

Alchemist will literally tell you anything you ask him, its not his fault most people freak out or get mad and leave without asking more details which if you dont ask he wont tell.
 
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In regards to alchemists scalper/cyber security program, can't he ask Bruce Wayne for advice and help? Seems like the guy would know his stuff around this topic.

He still needed to catch and talk with the dolls. If they were going to be targeted by time travelers from the future, he couldn't afford to keep coddling them.

See, this shit is why you don't time travel. These idiots just caused the problems.
 
I'd suggest G4 MLP, but A.) the dragons are dumb, and B.) if anything it's one of the nastier D&D!deathworlds due to the number of epic level threats (and small children that regularly beat the epic level threats) therein.
Yeah… I mean Dnd is technically connected to Warcraft so there's always even more death worlds waiting in the wings. Plus Ravnica, and dragonlance, and… other places. I can't actually think of a D&D setting I would want to bring children too without like… setting up a whole citadel first. Honestly Eberron is one of the least immediately dangerous ones now that I'm thinking about it.

Though watching Alchemist talk to Alextraza in Warcraft as a sane Void dragon who isn't hostile in the slightest would be… hilarious really xD
 
The Guardian paused and looked down at his oversized mug and worked his mouth for a moment. He pursed his lips and looked longingly over to the coffee machine.

"...After one more mug of coffee."
One of us, ONE OF US!

Heh, Alchy really is is slowly falling into the Doctor Strange role of 'general consultant on weird magic crap, you don't wanna know about, but need to know about anyway', isn't he?
 
...Now I want to know how Alchemist would interact with him.

Also Tony Stark.
I feel like he and strange would get along great after strange stopped freaking out about this random insanely overpowered outsider/dragon/primordial champion that had popped up on his earth despite all the defenses designed specifically to stop that very thing from happening still being functional and was now amicably talking to him about magic and idiots who want answers but won't actually listen to or accept the truth.

Tony I feel like he would just stare at for a while while tony does tony things, slap him with a regenerate and walk away from the annoyance after throwing a book on basic magic at him to get him to shut up.

Edit: maybe let Jinx turn Tony into a girl if he was feeling annoyed/playful enough just to watch the Fireworks that beat havok dragon caused.
 
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Seeing as Alchemist scared the...fear out of Chameleon Boy, and frightened the other two with his presence... Then I think they might not try and change things, out of not wanting to fuck around and find out.

Also it sounds like Alchemist will get Lor-Zod before he does his time fuckery, and prevent the assassination of Superboy.

It also sounds like the idiots that birthed Lor-Zod are likely suffering the same way Kara and them were, so...probably take a while to get them anywhere near coherent.

Love the chapter, Ganthet's deep coffee addiction, and the fact that Ganthet was lecturing the League about Darkseid and his dumb ass friends/enemies.

Also someone asked earlier about Godfrey, well remember that Deathstroke was paid very well to...publicly erase his poor little ginger ass...
 
In regards to alchemists scalper/cyber security program, can't he ask Bruce Wayne for advice and help? Seems like the guy would know his stuff around this topic.



See, this shit is why you don't time travel. These idiots just caused the problems.

Well Batman did work on making alfred an Ai in that one comic where alfred got bane'd.
 
Seeing as Alchemist scared the...fear out of Chameleon Boy, and frightened the other two with his presence... Then I think they might not try and change things, out of not wanting to fuck around and find out.

Also it sounds like Alchemist will get Lor-Zod before he does his time fuckery, and prevent the assassination of Superboy.

It also sounds like the idiots that birthed Lor-Zod are likely suffering the same way Kara and them were, so...probably take a while to get them anywhere near coherent.

Love the chapter, Ganthet's deep coffee addiction, and the fact that Ganthet was lecturing the League about Darkseid and his dumb ass friends/enemies.

Also someone asked earlier about Godfrey, well remember that Deathstroke was paid very well to...publicly erase his poor little ginger ass...
Black stars I cannot wait for Deathstroke to to put enough godkiller rounds to kill Zeus into that bastard and out him on national TV xD
 
Cyber security in DC is basically nonexistent. Anyone with ANY background in computers can overcome the best security in the world by sneezing too hard.

Alchemist should buy some security suites from our world and start selling them.

Maybe teach people how not to use "PASSWORD123" as their password.
 
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Bitch what do you mean???

Alchemist will literally tell you anything you ask him, its not his fault most people freak out or get mad and leave without asking more details which if you dont ask he wont tell.

Also if you think Im exagerating this next quote is literally from this chapter.

"...How could you possibly know that?" Imra asked. Alchemist opened his mouth to answer but she cut him off.

Also im annoyed Alc didnt get to tell them of the rest of the rules of time travel.

Like there was this whole build up about it and then they just said two rules before the whole thing was thrown aside and forgotten.
 
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