Action, Adventure, Excitement, Part 5 DC - Chapter 5 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 23:05:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 01:53:10 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006567 >On Sun, 7 Mar '99 Dane0R0A Said >/*"Do you think I do not? His existance here is enough information to >construct his entire life, this cycle. Would you like to see the list >of beings that one has killed, or has caused to die, in his criminal >carreer. I do not like killing, but I will kill if it will improve >the lot of the living beings of the Macro Universe, and IF I can find >no less drastic line of action which achieve the same results. To add >to that, I KNOW that his spirit would have moved on to his next >cycle, where he might have improved himself. I do not kill merely to >defend myself, when I kill it is to defend all that is. When I ask my >followers to kill it is to defend themselves, and all that is. Those >that I have killed or caused to be killed, to save all that is, would >stretch across this rather small galaxy. If you could have captured >him, that would have been enough, for the short run, but he will >continue in his chosen path, until stopped permanently by an outside >force. He will either be killed, or his mind -altered-. While I find >both ends, repugnant, killing is the least repugnant, because it will >free him."*/ Aurora explains. Turning his back, momentarily, on the recently arived Maltusians, the immortal hatchling Ruby Fire Dragon approaches the Starspawn. "Aurora," he says, his glacier-coloerd eyes glittering coldly and his voice again taking on a booming, echoing quality, "I, too, view a fraction of the MacroCosmic All and I know, at least partialy, what kind of an irreprehensible soul that the Owlman is. Still, it has become obvious to me that you and your ilk are a tad too blood- thirsty for my liking, save perhaps for your dealings with the Stardragon." "Like Parallax, and Magneto before him, you and your kine Destroy to Recreate. I Create without first having to Destroy. Might does not Make Right, Oracle, Might should Serve Right. When you assign such a small value to a single being, even one as corrupt as Owlman, you reveal the hidden fact that you assign very little value to the inhabitants the Macro Cosmic All that you and the other Starspawn claim you protect. It is by this very act, alone that you do not improve the Omni-Cosm but deminish it, ultimatly your deeds make you and yours no better than Cerberus, or the Stardragon on a bad day. Ultimately, Aurora, one has to ask themself; do you ultimatly make an omlette in order to break some eggs or do you make an omlette in order to feed a hungry villiage. I've chosen to feed the village, what've you decided? Ponder that, if you will." "And, for the record, Owlman {will meet/will have met} his untimely end when the Anti-Monitor {causes/has caused} the premature heat death of the Crime Syndicate's universe by causing a leaking of terminal amounts of entropy into the dimension long before it's natural colapse point. Super-Woman, Owlman, Ultraman, Johny Quick, and Power Ring will meet their ends by being devoured directly by pure decay. A worse death than even I would wish on even my worst enemies." ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:36:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:19:26 -0500 (EST) Shadow Said As CAoL Message # 00006568 >On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 21:53:51 EST >Dane0R0A Said As CAoL Message # 00006566 > >/*"Do you think I do not? His existance here is enough information to >construct his entire life, this cycle. Would you like to see the list >of beings that one has killed, or has caused to die, in his criminal >carreer. I do not like killing, but I will kill if it will improve >the lot of the living beings of the Macro Universe, and IF I can find >no less drastic line of action which achieve the same results. John adds, his demeanor darkening "Your own words give you the lie." >To add to that, I KNOW that his spirit would have moved on to his >next cycle, where he might have improved himself. I do not kill >merely to defend myself, when I kill it is to defend all that is. >When I ask my followers to kill it is to defend themselves, and all >that is. Those that I have killed or caused to be killed, to save all >that is, would stretch across this rather small galaxy. If you could >have captured him, that would have been enough, for the short run, >but he will continue in his chosen path, until stopped permanently by >an outside force. He will either be killed, or his mind -altered-. >While I find both ends, repugnant, killing is the least repugnant, >because it will free him."*/ Aurora explains. "Well then, _Starspawn_," John says it like a curse, "next time do not wait when you see one who you say deserves death but _act_, instead of reproving those who have acted, and end the life you find so worthless. At least that way I will not have to listen to more of your hypocratic prattle." ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:34:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:41:50 -0600 Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006569 John misses Owlman because he doesn't want to kill him. Aurora thinks John shouldn't have worried about it. John says some stuff in rebuttal, with which Legion and Dhyclhanc agree. Aurora makes her rebuttal. Dhyrclhanc and John both make rebuttals of their own. Meanwhile, Moonstone shakes her head in semi-disgust. She turns to Cap and asks, "Was the guy who took over the new Green Lantern the same who took over your sister? Did anything seem familiar about the possession?" "And GL, Roland," the diminutive dragoness adds, "while you two were playing king of the mountain inside GL's skull, did you happen to notice anything about our kooky, caged figure-eight?" Finally Moonstone returns her attention to the debaters. "If the philosphy club meeting is over, can we get back to work, please? My little brothers have a longer attention span than you all. Not to mention our newest arrivals didn't rip time and space a new hole to listen to you five debate deontological theories versus consequentialist theories of right and wrong." Moonstone College edge-a-ma-kated ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:39:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:06:03 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006570 In a message dated 99-03-05 14:40:45 EST, you write: >>>All bear the symbol of the Green Lantern Corps, the males on the >>>chest, the females on armbands. > > Moonstone arches an eyebrow. [Funny, I don't remember the Smurfs >being DC characters...] Roger suddenly chokes for no apparent reason. >>"/Just what we need/,"quips Dhyrclhanc, "/Ganthet the 'Renegade >>Guardian', and a Cadre of Oans and Zamarons, the last surviving >>offshoots of the ancient Mathusian race./" > > "Gesundheit." "Nope. *She* hasn't changed much...." ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:39:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:05:55 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006571 In a message dated 99-03-08 19:37:00 EST, you write: >chase.> > John misses Owlman because he doesn't want to kill him. Aurora >thinks John shouldn't have worried about it. John says some stuff in >rebuttal, with which Legion and Dhyclhanc agree. Aurora makes her >rebuttal. Dhyrclhanc and John both make rebuttals of their own. > Meanwhile, Moonstone shakes her head in semi-disgust. And the black-clad newcomer winces and looks away, with the slightly sick look of a child listening to family members argue..... ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:39:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:06:00 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006572 In a message dated 99-03-05 03:38:14 EST, you write: >^/Congradulations, bro./^ says the Sentinel-Lensdragon, exo-porting >one lit cigar into Blaze's hand and another into his own mouth. "What, I don't get one?" Roger asks plaintaively. ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:39:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:05:59 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006573 In a message dated 99-03-04 23:52:22 EST, you write: > "Hey, he started it," Roland responds lightly, looking singularly >pleased with himself for a moment. "Yeah, yeah," mutters the black-clad newcomer. That's what you said when you got him killed, too. Goo thing someone was around to make him immortal...." >Then he continues. "The rest sounds par for the course for the CAoL. >Four hundred years, huh? I'd have a bunch of questions for you, >except I don't want to muck with our personal time stream. The _last_ >thing we need is Wrinkle joining the mix." "Oh, Uncle W? Heck, Dad, he's mellowed out a *lot* since -- oops. You're right, at this point in time he's still a little....umm, uptight, shall we say?" > "But actually, I meant the Transformer." "Ooops. Sorry, Dad, wrong newcomer." >Noting the rather thorough confinement of Sinestro, Morgan turns to >the organic newcomer. "_Now,_" she sighs, collecting her thoughts. >"if you _are_ our son, I'm sure you'll be understanding of a little >healthy paranoia. She smiles. "With your permission, I'd like to do a >quick scan. A paternity/maternity test, as it were. Check out the >DNA, confirm that part of what you've told us. None of which, by the >way, has set off my Truth Sense." "Ahhh, well actually, Mom..." the black-clad newcomer looks a bit abashed. "I, um, developed something of an immunity to your Truth Sense over the years...all those cookie jar incidents, don't you know. But go ahead. I should warn you, though, I've had some genetic restructuring and grafting done. Baseline is still intact, though." He grins impishly, converting his rather plain face into something that women naturally react to the way Uhura reacted to her first tribble (it's the eyes -- something about the absolute honesty and trust radiating from them....). "Nothing but pure R&M in there." >Morgan closes her eyes and holds out her hand to the newcomer. When >he takes it, she holds it silently for a few moments, then opens her >eyes and stares at her husband. Her voice is even, tinged with mild >shock. "Roland, my love, you're a father." "Oh, good," the newcomer quips with an absolutely innocent expression. "I'd wondered." But his humor goes unnoticed...probably a good thing for his continued life expectancy. > Roland's jaw drops. Slowly, it retracts. "I am." He blinks. >"Really." He looks at Morgan. "Are you even pregnant yet?" > >"No. Not yet. Wasn't planning on it for some time yet, either." She >stares at their son for a moment. "Um... so..." Then a thought hits >her. "What did we decide to name you?" "Oh, you've got a couple years yet...depending. And my full name is Roland Seosaidh (sp?) Harmon Morgan Greywolf-Phoenix. Most of the family started calling me 'Roland Jr' at an early age, for obvious reasons. It got shortened to just 'Roger' before too long." ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:39:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:22:42 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006574 In a message dated 99-03-04 19:39:46 EST, you write: >Anyone looking in the right direction will note a somewhat beat-up >hover-van flying towards the building. It's *obviously* surplus from >one of the anti-super-villian task forces (patches of mismatched >paint where insignia used to be, plates bolted over former weapons >mounts, that sort of thing. Think of a police vehicle bought at >auction...) The van has flashing yellow lights, and an unusual logo >stuck on. > >When it gets closer, you can read the sign: > > Dominatrix Pizza A stray thought leaks out over the link. *Gee...I could nip the Evil Empire in the bud right now...prevent the Concession Wars...save billions of lives.* *Or I could have pepperoni and bacon....* ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:39:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAEIV: Killjoy On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:22:45 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006575 In a message dated 99-03-04 14:17:26 EST, you write: >John adds to Rhia, ^You see?^ >She's silent a moment, ^Yes... I do. You were right.^ After another >moment she adds, ^How come you never had me learn from her?^ >^Because I could acheive the same effect with others. I'm sure you >can figure out who I used. Besides, the time-differentials...^ >Rhia, ^ I must have had the strangest set of role-models >compared to most other children.^ ^(cough) Aunt Rhee, you two *were* my role models...along with the rest of the CAoL. I don't know from strange on your end...^ ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:06:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 20:26:19 Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006576 >On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:41:50 -0600 >Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006569 > > John misses Owlman because he doesn't want to kill him. Aurora >thinks John shouldn't have worried about it. John says some stuff in >rebuttal, with which Legion and Dhyclhanc agree. Aurora makes her >rebuttal. Dhyrclhanc and John both make rebuttals of their own. Roland watches the discussion, glancing once in Aurora's direction in (surprisingly faint) disapproval, but is uncharacteristically silent. Anyone who monitors his stray thoughts on the lens link detects a long-suffering sigh and _vast_ familiarity with this argument. > Meanwhile, Moonstone shakes her head in semi-disgust. She turns >to Cap and asks, "Was the guy who took over the new Green Lantern the >same who took over your sister? Did anything seem familiar about the >possession?" The Big Red Cheese shakes his head. "No...everything Sinestro has shown is golden light. The...thing...that attacked Mary was ebon, and somehow...alive." > "And GL, Roland," the diminutive dragoness adds, "while you two >were playing king of the mountain inside GL's skull, did you happen >to notice anything about our kooky, caged figure-eight?" Roland smiles. Broadly. "Well. _That_ was an amazingly Silver-Age comment." He grows serious quickly. "Yes. He seems to be _made_ of energy-no remnants of the biological Sinestro at all. That I could sense, anyway. Why?" Rayner just blinks, jaw going slack. "y'know, i think i'm starting t' know where he gets his 'tude from..." > Finally Moonstone returns her attention to the debaters. "If the >philosphy club meeting is over, can we get back to work, please? My >little brothers have a longer attention span than you all. Not to >mention our newest arrivals didn't rip time and space a new hole to >listen to you five debate deontological theories versus >consequentialist theories of right and wrong." (OOC-M: ROFL! You GO, girl!) (OOC-R: FTR, Roland disagrees with his hunny. Yes, I know this is about as common as diamond-bit hen's teeth, but it does happen on occasion. This is a pretty major rift in the CAoL's philosophy-heck, look at Roland and Morgan-and hopefully we'll hash something out sooner or later. In the meanwhile...) The Oans look at each other, a bit perturbed. "This is an extremely important moral point-" one begins. "-that you 'Guardians of the Universe' would debate until the end of time, no doubt, given the chance," one of the Zamarons ends. The Zamaron in question winks at Moonstone, then looks at Ganthet. She motions to the Guardian. Ganthet shrugs. "Morgan Greywolf," he says, walking to that worthy, "there is much that must be explained to you." Several Zamarons take positions around the thoroughly imprisoned Sinestro, and begin transporting him/it to a pocket dimension. Morgan blinks, completely baffled. Roland does much the same thing. "Wha- yo- bu- *sigh*" he tries to begin. ^My articulate hunny,^ Morgan giggles across the private link. ^I don't see you doing any better,^ Roland replies, trying to sound miffed but not doing very well. ^That's because I know better than to open my mouth,^ Morgan quips. Roland sighs. (tm Seosaidh) "Yes. Explaining your need to explain would be a good start." Ganthet very carefully does not smile. Expert students of facial motion, as well as all cosmics present, can 'see' the smile anyway. "As you have no doubt noticed, your mate has proven to be a pivotal being in a number of mulitversal crises." He turns to Morgan. "Have you not noticed a predilection for developing new, inexplicable skills under great duress?" "...Yes, actually, I have," Morgan replies calmly, the same way one might calmly note the landing of a UFO next to their rose bushes. (Although landing ON the rose bushes might elicit some annoyance.) "Not all of them can be accurately described as 'new,' Ms. Greywolf," Ganthet says, faintly embarrassed. After a moment, he continues. "Our alternates from the Oa your 'Callahanian Army' saved...intervened in your progress. What do you remember from the time between you healed the chief of your clan and your return to that Oa...as a wolf?" Morgan ponders for a moment. "Now that you mention it..." she says quietly. Ganthet nods. "Exactly. For example, where and when did you receive your Bene Gesserit training?" Morgan begins to answer, the response on the tip of her tongue. And like a snowflake that lands there, melts away before it can leave. She begins to look concerned. As does Roland, whose face darkens quickly. "You _do_ have explaining to do." Ganthet looks nonplussed. "Yes, I believe I said that." He turns again to Morgan, who is starting to sit down. Roland, realizing that his wife is about to try and sit on empty air, psionically 'borrows' control of her Philosopher's Stone/Power Ring (hey, if Dhyclhanc can use those horrifically long names, so can I! ) and creates a La-Z-Boy behind her. Morgan sends an absent ^Thank you, dear,^ as if he'd pulled a chair out for her rather than made one out of thin air. Ganthet grins wryly. "I suppose I should get to the point. We Oans can be long-winded-and here I go again. From the beginning." Ganthet creates a hologram of Crisis #1, page one. "Once, there were infinite worlds. As far as anyone-" he looks around. "Oh dear. One moment." All JLA members who were not part of Crisis, except Rayner, vanish, returning to their lives. "There. Now then. -anyone in this universe is concerned, the alternate realities were destroyed, all timelines merged into one. This one. "As you are all no doubt aware, (save you, Kyle Rayner; my apologies) this is patently untrue." Morgan and Roland nod, still slightly boggled. (Roland's eyes narrow at the sight of Crisis #1, BTW.) "From what we-the Oans of this reality-have been able to piece together, this reality now serves as a 'cornerstone' of the Oan multiverse-what some of you might know as the 'DC' multiverse." Roland chuckles ruefully. "The realities that were 'destroyed' were in fact moved, many altered in some way or another, but they continue to exist. Many such are 'reflections' of this 'cornerstone' we are presently in. Those with a version of Oa are especially potent. "The Guardians from the Oa you rescued are considerably more farsighted than we; in many ways they resemble the 'Arisians' of your acquaintance, being able to visualize possible futures, weed out improbabilities, and cause the desired future to come to pass with minimal effort. "For example, they could prepare a single potentially powerful, influential being to serve their needs. Such needs, for Guardians, would of course be benificent, for such purposes as defeating their Parallax, preserving a pivotal iteration of Arcadia, containing one of the avatars of Chaos, and saving the greater multiverse." Ganthet smiles. "I trust you understand thus far?" Morgan nods, the light dawning in her eyes, though she boggles even further at the implications of Ganthet's tale. "To the point, then," Ganthet says (finally!) as Roland, as boggled as his hunny, moves to her side and holds her hand. She takes a very firm grip, hugging the hand to her. "The Oans brought you to _their_ pocket world, where they had preserved their Green Lantern Corps for the time that the Parallax entity would be defeated. They trained you in the arts of meditation and mental training, provided you with additional knowledge of the world in which 'Callahan's Place' resides, and used the 'Bene Gesserit' imagery to explain the otherwise unlikely training. It was not yet time for you to know what had happened; had you been consciously aware of the stakes which were being gambled on your gifts, it might have been too much to withstand." "Now wait a sprocking minute!" Roland snaps. "Who decided-" "i did," Morgan says quietly, the realization just then dawning on her. "oh," Roland replies, extremely subdued. "The Guardians of that world _did_ suggest it, but they are even more reluctant to tamper with unwilling minds than your kind, Roland. At any rate. Her magical training was beyond the capacity of even the Guardians, having given up that path before your world had begun to coalesce. For a plurality of reasons that should be obvious to all, they chose Arcadia for this teaching." "...yeah." Morgan begins to relax, as the memories begin returning more quickly. "The gift of immortality _was_ as you remember it, chosen for your sacrifice and at the notorious whimsy of the High Faerie." His phrasing is clearly meant to exclude present company. "While this potentiality was visualized, its certainty was not. They chose to remain aloof from this for reasons unfathomable to me." Ganthet shrugs. "Though I do believe, from what I have been made aware of, that there was some influence of your previous visit-the Royals of Arcadia had already become fond of you during your first, true visit." Ganthet chuckles. "The Oans of that reality were, for that reason, quite cross when Titania chose to add the first couplet from your favorite Green Lantern oath in your wedding; they saw potential disaster had you remembered all _then._ While Arcadia and Quaren were dealt with, Roland still needed his stabilizing element for the harrowing to come in Z'On'Dar's plot." At this, _Roland_ boggles thoroughly. "me?" Ganthet laughs outright. "Child, if you have not realized your importance by _now,_ I doubt anything I can say will enlighten you." He turns back to Morgan one final time. "During your training in Life forces, your affinity for wolves led you to two extraordinary companions. Or they to you. It seems that 'Cutter' and 'Leetah' have deliberately shrouded that bit of knowledge from even the Guardians and the Royalty." The twinkle in his eye is apparent. "It seems that they felt a little mystery important to even the most cosmically aware entities." Ganthet took two steps back. "And that, I believe, is the full extent of this particular tale. In closing, the Guardians and the Arcadians wish to thank you again for your assistance." Morgan blinks again, but her sense of manners saves her from looking like a codfish. "You're welcome! And thank you, Ganthet, for awakening those memories." Ganthet bows. "And with that, I leave you all to your quest. May whatever fortune you believe in be with you." The Zamarons finish sealing Sinestro in his purple cube prison, then restore his freedom within it. Sinestro blinks, then _just_ starts to scream before all six Zamarons, cube, and Sinestro vanish. The other Oans begin 'walking' back up the portal tube. Ganthet turns to follow, then glances back and winks at Roland. "Oh, and when you have the time, you might want to ask 'Power Ring' what happened to _his_ predecessor." They all vanish. Roland spends a few more seconds boggling. Then a non-sequitor comes to his rescue. He turns to Morgan. "What oath?" Morgan takes a few seconds to realize what he's asking about, then a few more to access the right memory. "When I was training with the Guardians, I had the opportunity to study the Book of Oa. There was one oath that I was always fond of, an obscure one only used by one Lantern. 'The cosmos through, in every part, one thing endures: a loving heart. Against the knaves, who'd quell this song, Green Lanterns stand, to right the wrong!'" (OOC Editor's Note: Liana of M’Elu's oath, GL2 #162 -Responsive Roland) Her eyes sparkle a bit as she remembers. "I never really wanted to be a Green Lantern, but I always hoped I'd find an excuse to use that oath." Roland ponders deeply for a moment. Then he grins. "Weeeell, while we're not GLs, we _are_ members of the Justice Legion." He holds up his right hand, his Legion ring glinting in the light. "While not all Legionnaires from that universe have oaths, some do. And not just their Green Lanterns." Roland chuckles. "I don't think changing 'Green Lanterns stand' to 'the Legion stands' would be _too_ horrid an edit. That oath might even become a popular one. Especially given the Legion's propensity for soap-opera romance." Morgan stands, a wide smile on her face, and throws her arms around Roland. The La-Z-Boy vanishes. "I LOVE you!" she cries, and kisses him rather soundly. Roland boggles again. (OOC: Cap is very deliberately being patient...BTW, this section is pretty much over. As soon as someone prods the lovebirds, we can move on to the next gig. ;^) ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 22:38:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 01:19:51 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006577 > On Mon, 08 Mar '99 Morgan and/or Roland Said >>"Mike Knight" Said >> "And GL, Roland," the diminutive dragoness adds, "while you two >>were playing king of the mountain inside GL's skull, did you happen >>to notice anything about our kooky, caged figure-eight?" > > Roland smiles. Broadly. "Well. _That_ was an amazingly Silver-Age >comment." He grows serious quickly. "Yes. He seems to be _made_ of >energy-no remnants of the biological Sinestro at all. That I could >sense, anyway. Why?" > Rayner just blinks, jaw going slack. "y'know, i think i'm starting >t' know where he gets his 'tude from..." "Kyle," says the Martian Manhunter, "was that comment realy nessessary?" > The Oans look at each other, a bit perturbed. "This is an >extremely important moral point-" one begins. > "-that you 'Guardians of the Universe' would debate until the end >of time, no doubt, given the chance," one of the Zamarons ends. The >Zamaron in question winks at Moonstone, then looks at Ganthet. She >motions to the Guardian. *They* haven't changed much. };=8) >Morgan stands, a wide smile on her face, and throws her arms around >Roland. The La-Z-Boy vanishes. "I LOVE you!" she cries, and kisses >him rather soundly. Dhyrclhanc has a big silly grin on his face, surrounding the lit cigar still held fast in a set of shark-like teeth as he walks over to the edge of the building wher the Oans and Zamarons are departing. */Those are my sibs!/* he sends with obvious pride in his mental voice. > Roland boggles again. > (OOC: Cap is very deliberately being patient...BTW, this section >is pretty much over. As soon as someone prods the lovebirds, we can >move on to the next gig. ;^) Dhyrclhanc approaches the good Captain, giving the Freelance Immortals a little more, well deserved, cuddle time. "Excuse me," the draconic Lensman says, removing the stoggie from his mouth "but I know you and your sister share the magickal energies that give you your powers, I was wondering if there was anyway that you could tell where she had been in this dimesion? I have a bit of a Psychometric talent, and I figured that it might give us a little more insight into what is going on here." ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 22:38:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: RE: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:27:02 -0500 Zia Said As CAoL Message # 00006578 >On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:22:42 EST >SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006574 > >A stray thought leaks out over the link. *Gee...I could nip the Evil >Empire in the bud right now...prevent the Concession Wars...save >billions of lives.* >*Or I could have pepperoni and bacon....* Dame Marvel is sitting in the back of the group, quietly lady-like with her feet crossed at the ankle as she 'floats'. Almost like she has nothing but patience to wait for this conversation to go on. She _might_ well be unrecognizable, given the change in looks and the uncharacteristic patience. She just shakes her head at Roger's stray leaked thought. "Fallacious logic; specifically post hoc, ergo proctor hoc reversals. You should know your paradoxical theorization better than that. If you had, you wouldn't know before you started that the Wars had occurred; someone would have had to tell you to stop the event chain. I wonder if they might have crawdads?" And the black-clad newcomer winces and looks away, with the slightly sick look of a child listening to family members argue..... *Friends shouldn't let friends preach alone.* She sends on a beam to Roger, although any good psi or Lensed individual will get it as well. Then, purely in fun, Dame Marvel continues, *Think I should give 'em the ol' pacifism makes the worlds go round speech yet? That nearly always distracts them, if I filibuster long enough. Even The Starspawn don't care to listen to me long. Everyone flees in mutual consent, usually.* >"Oh, you've got a couple years yet...depending. And my full name is >Roland Seosaidh (sp?) Harmon Morgan Greywolf-Phoenix. Most of the >family started calling me 'Roland Jr' at an early age, for obvious >reasons. It got shortened to just 'Roger' before too long." "Actually, I think it was Roggie, then Rogue for a long while, first, and Wilgo as a play on Wilco and your talent for leaping in harm's way before it got back to Roger, wasn't it?" Dame Marvel adds, sotto voce. Not loud enough to interrupt the conversation, but I doubt anyone hear wouldn't hear it in some manner or other. Dame Marvel keeps her peace until the Oans depart, then snorts. "If they're not the ones that BECOME the Arisians in their later and my sooner, I'll EAT my Lens. They're already more manipulative than my grandfather, if less successful at it. If not for their complete cluelessness regarding Shadow, I might worry somewhat. It's enough to make me almost glad they moved out of the local neighborhood, even though - " She cuts off and shakes her head. Speaking up to the whole group, she asks, "Aurora has a fix on where Mary departed to. Shall we go along and try to find her before arguing internal valuation and moralistic systems from egocentric and moot viewpoints further, as Moonstone so wisely suggests might be a completely unfruitful and ill-timed debate?" "After we fortify with a bit of pizza, that is. I'm hungry." ================================= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 22:38:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 01:33:31 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006579 > On Mon, 8 Mar '99 SkyeFire Said >> ^/Congradulations, bro./^ says the Sentinel-Lensdragon, exo-porting >> one lit cigar into Blaze's hand and another into his own mouth. > > "What, I don't get one?" Roger asks plaintaively. *I am not entirly sure about you, yet, kid.* sends the draconic Green Lantern, affixing Roger with an icy stare from his glacier colored eyes. ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 00:04:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAEIV: Killjoy On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:38:17 -0500 (EST) Shadow Said As GR.CAoL Message # 00002258 >On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:22:45 EST >SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006575 > >In a message dated 99-03-04 14:17:26 EST, you write: > >> John adds to Rhia, ^You see?^ >> She's silent a moment, ^Yes... I do. You were right.^ After another >> moment she adds, ^How come you never had me learn from her?^ >> ^Because I could acheive the same effect with others. I'm sure you >> can figure out who I used. Besides, the time-differentials...^ >> Rhia, ^ I must have had the strangest set of role-models >> compared to most other children.^ > >^(cough) Aunt Rhee, you two *were* my role models...along with the >rest of the CAoL. I don't know from strange on your end...^ > >things, a walking psionic ECM suite. And with the family, he's >extraordinarily sensitive -- to the point that he may not realize >he's overhearing private exchanges. Something that will doubtless >cause some emarrasing moments in the future. If anyone dislikes it >when he does this, let me know and I'll retcon it. /OOC> I'm going to ask this retconned.. John and Rhia are talking on what is somewhat equivalent to Morgans and Rolands personal link. Theirs comes from hundreds of years in each others heads, plus having rebuilt each other a physical body a few times. It is *not* something you can just pick up. :^) ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 00:35:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:41:56 -0600 Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006580 >On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 20:26:19 >Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006576 > >>On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:41:50 -0600 >>Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006569 >> >> Meanwhile, Moonstone shakes her head in semi-disgust. She turns >>to Cap and asks, "Was the guy who took over the new Green Lantern >>the same who took over your sister? Did anything seem familiar about >>the possession?" > > The Big Red Cheese shakes his head. "No...everything Sinestro has >shown is golden light. The...thing...that attacked Mary was ebon, and >somehow...alive." Moonstone clucks her tongue in annoyance. >> "And GL, Roland," the diminutive dragoness adds, "while you two >>were playing king of the mountain inside GL's skull, did you happen >>to notice anything about our kooky, caged figure-eight?" > > Roland smiles. Broadly. "Well. _That_ was an amazingly Silver-Age >comment." He grows serious quickly. "Yes. He seems to be _made_ of >energy-no remnants of the biological Sinestro at all. That I could >sense, anyway. Why?" Moonstone sighs, "I had hoped these attacks were by the same person. Unfortunately, it sounds now like they weren't." She shrugs, "Cosmic coincidence, apparently." > Rayner just blinks, jaw going slack. "y'know, i think i'm starting >t' know where he gets his 'tude from..." Moonstone arches an eyebrow. "Who?" > The Oans look at each other, a bit perturbed. "This is an >extremely important moral point-" one begins. > "-that you 'Guardians of the Universe' would debate until the end >of time, no doubt, given the chance," one of the Zamarons ends. The >Zamaron in question winks at Moonstone, then looks at Ganthet. She >motions to the Guardian. "Exactly, this is a topic better left for back at the Place, discussed over a God's Blessing." Moonstone agrees, then drops the subject, obviously more interested in why the Oans are here. > > Ganthet bows. "And with that, I leave you all to your quest. May >whatever fortune you believe in be with you." The Zamarons finish >sealing Sinestro in his purple cube prison, then restore his freedom >within it. Sinestro blinks, then _just_ starts to scream before all >six Zamarons, cube, and Sinestro vanish. The other Oans begin >'walking' back up the portal tube. Ganthet turns to follow, then >glances back and winks at Roland. "Oh, and when you have the time, >you might want to ask 'Power Ring' what happened to _his_ >predecessor." Moonstone remained quiet through this, absorbing it, though more like hearing a new chapter to a story rather than the way Morgan and Roland were handling it. Though, in her case, the entire CAoL were, until that day, just figures in a story. She would have had the same reaction to meeting Gandalf the White and Frodo Baggins and hearing an unwritten tale from their travels together. > Roland spends a few more seconds boggling. Then a non-sequitor >comes to his rescue. He turns to Morgan. "What oath?" > >Morgan takes a few seconds to realize what he's asking about, then a >few more to access the right memory. "When I was training with the >Guradians, I had the opportunity to study the Book of Oa. There was >one oath that I was always fond of, an obscure one only used by one >Lantern. > 'The cosmos through, > in every part, > one thing endures: > a loving heart. > Against the knaves, > who'd quell this song, > Green Lanterns stand, > to right the wrong!'" > (OOC Editor's Note: Liana of M'Elu's oath, GL2 #162 -Responsive >Roland) Moonstone smiles, "Mmmm, a -very- nice oath, Morgan. Might want to adopt that one, GL. A hero with a touch of the romantic in him can be a -very- attractive thing." >Her eyes sparkle a bit as she remembers. "I never really wanted to be >a Green Lantern, but I always hoped I'd find an excuse to use that >oath." > > Roland ponders deeply for a moment. Then he grins. "Weeeell, while >we're not GLs, we _are_ members of the Justice Legion." He holds up >his right hand, his Legion ring glinting in the light. "While not all >Legionnaires from that universe have oaths, some do. And not just >their Green Lanterns." Roland chuckles. "I don't think changing >'Green Lanterns stand' to 'the Legion stands' would be _too_ horrid >an edit. That oath might even become a popular one. Especially given >the Legion's propensity for soap-opera romance." > >Morgan stands, a wide smile on her face, and throws her arms around >Roland. The La-Z-Boy vanishes. "I LOVE you!" she cries, and kisses >him rather soundly. > > Roland boggles again. Moonstone tilts her head toward the kissing couple, "See?" ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:04:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 04:01:55 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006581 > On Mon, 8 Mar '99 Mike Knight Said > >>Morgan and/or Roland Said >> >>>Mike Knight >> Rayner just blinks, jaw going slack. "y'know, i think i'm >>starting t' know where he gets his 'tude from..." > > Moonstone arches an eyebrow. "Who?" */Precisely what I was about to ask./* says Dhyrclhanc, via the Psi-link. > In the Pre-Crisis DC Multiverse, there existed an Earth in the anti-matter Universe of Quard. Here, everything was, more or less, reversed than it was on Earth-1 and instead of a Justice League who protected people they had the Crime Syndicate who preyed on people. Power Ring was the cognate of Green Lantern in that Universe. Although, his ring was more akin to Alan Scott's ring than Hall Jordan's or Kyle Rayner's; it was Magickal *not* a result of Oan Weird Science. It was implied that there had been more than one individual who had possessed the sobriquet "Power Ring" in that Universe. >>Morgan stands, a wide smile on her face, and throws her arms around >>Roland. The La-Z-Boy vanishes. "I LOVE you!" she cries, and kisses >>him rather soundly. >> >> Roland boggles again. > > Moonstone tilts her head toward the kissing couple, "See?" *Not to worry, milady,* sends Dhyrclhanc to the dragoness, *This one taken. By one Jenny Lynn "Jade" Haden-Scott, if I'm not mistaken. The daughter of the first Green Lantern, the "Alan" he spoke of earlier, and a Green Lantern, herself. They make quite the couple, too.* ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:07:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:25:38 -0600 Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006582 >On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 04:01:55 -0500 >Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006581 > >*Not to worry, milady,* sends Dhyrclhanc to the dragoness, *This one >taken. By one Jenny Lynn "Jade" Haden-Scott, if I'm not mistaken. >The daughter of the first Green Lantern, the "Alan" he spoke of >earlier, and a Green Lantern, herself. They make quite the couple, >too.* *Mmm, too bad,* Moonstone replies, *He's kind of cute,* flashing Kyle a smile, then adding, turning to the Sentinel-Lensdragon, *For a human. But still, Dhyrclhanc, there's no harm in reinforcing the love you already have. As long as the sentiment's honestly felt. And while, obviously, an 'oath' is not needed to wield a Green Lantern ring, as a mantra to clear the mind, a statement of firm belief, and a focus for you to build upon in mental combat, it has obvious benefits. If one oath is not to Kyle's taste, perhaps another that holds more meaning for him would suit him better. *And I do agree the original is a bit hokey, -for my tastes-,* Moonstoon adds, with an obvious smile and obvious enphasis that she is refering to her tastes alone and not tryig to insult anyone else's, other than maybe as a gentle tease. ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 03:05:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 05:53:19 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006583 > On Tue, 9 Mar '99 "Mike Knight" Said > >>Dhyrclhanc Said >> >>> Mike Knight Said >>*Not to worry, milady,* sends Dhyrclhanc to the dragoness, *This one >>taken. By one Jenny Lynn "Jade" Haden-Scott, if I'm not mistaken. >>The daughter of the first Green Lantern, the "Alan" he spoke of >>earlier, and a Green Lantern, herself. They make quite the couple, >>too.* > > *Mmm, too bad,* Moonstone replies, *He's kind of cute,* flashing > Kyle a smile, then adding, turning to the Sentinel-Lensdragon, *For > a human. Dhyrclhanc's eyes goggle. }8=:o > But still, Dhyrclhanc, there's no harm in reinforcing the love you > already have. As long as the sentiment's honestly felt. And while, > obviously, an 'oath' is not needed to wield a Green Lantern ring, as > a mantra to clear the mind, a statement of firm belief, and a focus > for you to build upon in mental combat, it has obvious benefits. If > one oath is not to Kyle's taste, perhaps another that holds more > meaning for him would suit him better.* *Kyle always has had problems in choosing an oath.* the immortal hatchling Ruby Fire Dragon agrees. > *And I do agree the original is a bit hokey, -for my tastes-,* > Moonstoon adds, with an obvious smile and obvious enphasis that she > is refering to her tastes alone and not tryig to insult anyone > else's, other than maybe as a gentle tease. */That reminds me/* says everyone's lovable Sentinel-Lensdragon, and he holds his hands out, as if expecting something to drop out of the air into them. At that moment, the cage of emerald flame that once held Sinestro's energy form disolves. A dark green, antique rail-road lantern appears in Dhyrclhanc hands as he shoots up into the air. His wings unfurled, he hovers low over the city. */It is probably about the time to do this again./* He holds the lantern out with one hand while touching it with his "Sentinel's-Ring", which is worn on the other. "/*In both bright, blessid, Day and in black, sacred, Night; Justice -- I seek, Evil -- I fight. To those who practice Villany, worship Darkness, or cause others' plight; All these shall suffer 'neath this Sentinel's Light!"/* Dhyrclhanc's Elder Dragon "psi-aspect" flares into being while he recites his oath. Then... "/*I am Power, Life and Magick, made Incarnate. Now and Forevermore, I AM PHOENIX!*/" His Aspect flares even larger and brighter, changing it's shape to that of a huge bird-of-prey. Moments later, he alights on the rooftop. "OK, now that is taken care of. Where to now, bro? And who wants a ride?" his eyes glance up at the Xavier still hovering above and just to the side of the JLA embasy. ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 12:50:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 09:27:17 EST Driscoll Said As CAoL Message # 00006584 >On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:41:50 -0600 >Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006569 > >chase.> Ok > Finally Moonstone returns her attention to the debaters. "If the >philosphy club meeting is over, can we get back to work, please? My >little brothers have a longer attention span than you all. Not to >mention our newest arrivals didn't rip time and space a new hole to >listen to you five debate deontological theories versus >consequentialist theories of right and wrong." Jim bows slightly towards Moonstone. "Agreed, expecially since such conversations leave us uncomfortable..." His form shifts into that of The Controller, "Expecially since our existance would never have happened had someone of Aurora's mindset and power have eradicated The Controller before he could give birth to Justin Fliesch and then myself. Even if I may end up spending much of my existance backtracking The Controller's trail and making sure he does not return, I still enjoy existance. Now what is this about a missing person and mind control?" ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 12:50:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 09:51:19 EST Driscoll Said As CAoL Message # 00006585 >On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 05:53:19 -0500 >Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006583 > >Moments later, he alights on the rooftop. > >"OK, now that is taken care of. Where to now, bro? And who wants a >ride?" his eyes glance up at the Xavier still hovering above and just >to the side of the JLA embasy. #"I think I would. That way I may check on the being I found in The Controller's lab and of your medic has awakened him, find out how he came to be there. I also have to go through The Controller's records yet before I can try to figure out the next reality to jump to. I should be able to shuttle any who do not care for teleportation as well."# says Jim, returning to his Human appearance. #"Besides, I am still curious as to what has brought you all here."# ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 12:50:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:53:42 -0600 Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006586 >On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 05:53:19 -0500 >Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006583 > >> On Tue, 9 Mar '99 "Mike Knight" Said >> *Mmm, too bad,* Moonstone replies, *He's kind of cute,* >> flashing Kyle a smile, then adding, turning to the Sentinel- >> Lensdragon, *For a human. > >Dhyrclhanc's eyes goggle. }8=:o Moonstone gives the ROY (as in Red-Orange-Yellow) dragon a slightly wicked grin that says in perfect body language, 'Just the reaction I was hoping for'. >> But still, Dhyrclhanc, there's no harm in reinforcing the love you >> already have. As long as the sentiment's honestly felt. And while, >> obviously, an 'oath' is not needed to wield a Green Lantern ring, >> as a mantra to clear the mind, a statement of firm belief, and a >> focus for you to build upon in mental combat, it has obvious >> benefits. If one oath is not to Kyle's taste, perhaps another that >> holds more meaning for him would suit him better.* > >*Kyle always has had problems in choosing an oath.* the immortal >hatchling Ruby Fire Dragon agrees. The humanified dragoness gives a noncommital shrug. *I would, too. I haven't figured out exactly what I believe in, either. I imagine an oath could change over time, even, as a Green Lantern's beliefs change.* >"OK, now that is taken care of. Where to now, bro? And who wants a >ride?" his eyes glance up at the Xavier still hovering above and just >to the side of the JLA embasy. Moonstone replies, "If it has a place I can change, I do. I don't want to walk unarmed and unprotected into another fight." ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:07:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 19:53:32 EST Driscoll Said As CAoL Message # 00006587 >On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:53:42 -0600 >Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006586 > > Moonstone replies, "If it has a place I can change, I do. I >don't want to walk unarmed and unprotected into another fight." "Unfortunately such fights are common in a reality such as this. If you are concerned it would be my honor to escort and protect such a beautiful female, at least until we do board." Jim says with a deep bow. Jim stretches out his hand towards her, and the fingers stretch out into tendrils that begin to wrap about her. Soon the humanformed Jim is gone, but Moonstone now appears to be dressed in a form fitting superhero-esque costume in blue with gold metallic bracers, the left one bearing a small screen and keypad; gold boots with finely etched circutry barely visible on them, and a gold belt with six small square packs on it. Each shoulder has a gold metal strip that goes over it, front to back with a small round lens-like circle on each. When jim speaks again the voice comes from the left bracer. "I am now a fully equipped super-suit. being sentient I of course offer an automatic defensive system, as well as a wide variety of offensive and diagnostic items pre-built in. Any items you may need that are not here can be verbally requested unless ofcourse you would want me to place a neural interface for the time I am acting as your suit." ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:06:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:46:08 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006588 In a message dated 99-03-09 01:39:38 EST, you write: > *I am not entirly sure about you, yet, kid.* sends the draconic > Green Lantern, affixing Roger with an icy stare from his glacier > colored eyes. Roger shrugs, totally unfazed. "That's okay. I'm entirely sure about *you*, Uncle D. Always have been." He leans nonchalantly against his uncle's lower knee joint, with all the confidence of a kitten taking posession of someone's lap. ================================= Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:51:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:10:38 Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006589 >On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:05:59 EST >SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006573 > >In a message dated 99-03-04 23:52:22 EST, you write: >> "Hey, he started it," Roland responds lightly, looking singularly >> pleased with himself for a moment. > >"Yeah, yeah," mutters the black-clad newcomer. "That's what you said >when you got him killed, too. Goo thing someone was around to make >him immortal...." (OOC: I'm assuming that's 'good' rather than 'goo.' 8^) Roland and Morgan look at each other in confusion, and more than a little surprise. "'Killed?'" they ask in unison. Kyle turns still greener... >> Then he continues. "The rest sounds par for the course for the >> CAoL. Four hundred years, huh? I'd have a bunch of questions for >> you, except I don't want to muck with our personal time stream. The >> _last_ thing we need is Wrinkle joining the mix." > >"Oh, Uncle W? Heck, Dad, he's mellowed out a *lot* since -- oops. >You''re right, at this point in time he's still a little....umm, >uptight, shall we say?" Roland's jaw drops. (Almost out of his head. 8^) "'Uncle _W?_' Are you telling me that WRINKLE joins the-" Wrinkle arrives. "You didn't hear that," he says to Roland, who relaxes instantly. Morgan's reaction dies aborning. The ancient-looking old man looks at Roger through slitted eyes. "I don't usually interfere with the companions of Time Lords. But if you are going to..." Wrinkle stops, studying Roger for a moment. Then he smiles. It is _not_ a pleasant smile. "Never mind." Wrinkle fades quickly. [Since he's rapidly obviating his own existence, I need not involve myself here,] he thinks as he vanishes. (OOC: Since Roger is still having trouble filtering thoughts of CAoL members past present and/or future, he can hear that if the player wants...) >> "No. Not yet. Wasn't planning on it for some time yet, either." She >> stares at their son for a moment. "Um... so..." Then a thought hits >> her. "What did we decide to name you?" > >"Oh, you've got a couple years yet...depending. And my full name is >Roland Seosaidh (sp?) Harmon Morgan Greywolf-Phoenix. Most of the >family started calling me 'Roland Jr' at an early age, for obvious >reasons. It got shortened to just 'Roger' before too long." (OOC-R: Yes, you got the spelling right. Impressive.) (OOC-M: But can he pronounce it? ) ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 02:10:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: AAE V: Making the wrong rings right 8^) On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:35:51 Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006590 >On Fri, 05 Mar 1999 00:57:22 -0500 >Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006551 > >> On Thu, 04 Mar '99 Morgan and/or Roland Said >> Roland gives her a mock-stern look. /Folx, we're making a detour >> on the way out of this dimension. Assuming that Mary is not here. >> Aurora?/ (OOC: Dane, Mary is in fact _not_ in this dimension. >> However, she _was_ here, giving Aurora a trail to follow.) ooo^With >> the Oans off making babies, and the remaining Guardians toasted by >> Parallax, our only real option seems to be New Genesis. I am, >> however, open to suggestions, sib.^ooo > >ooo^ Oans or just Maltusians, sib? And you're right, the New Gods of >New Genesis are probably the best bet as far as building the best >containment field for the Renegade, here. ^ooo ooo^Oans, AFAIK. Well, and Zamarons, but let's not confuse the DC challenged, yes/no?^ooo >> "ohhh..." Rayner sits woozily. "and I thought it hurt the _last_ >> time I fought Sinestro..." He looks up at the large dragon, gulps, >> then smiles as he notices the GL accoutrements and gives him a >> 'thumbs up.' "...yeah, when I can concentrate long enough to get >> the ring working again. does Alan know you saved his ring? He >> didn't say, but I think he's upset that I lost it." > >"/I wasn't even aware/" deadpans the draconic Green Lantern, as he >switches over to his "Sentinel" Costume (a combination of Alan >Scott's Sentinel costume, Kyle's Green Lantern costume and Tomar Ro's >(One of the villianous psudo-GLs from the Legion's timeline) Green >Lantern cosutume)) "/That you were the one who lost it in the first >place./" "um..." Kyle thinks desperately. Then his ring flares. "Whew. It's not the same ring." Kyle frowns. "But it's the same _kind_ of ring. That's impossible, isn't it?" (OOC: This is, obviously, before the Oans arrive and explain the multiverse.) ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 02:10:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: AAE V: Tune in next time for Twin Cheese... On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 22:03:17 Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006591 >On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 01:19:51 -0500 >Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006577 > >> On Mon, 08 Mar '99 Morgan and/or Roland Said >> >>>"Mike Knight" Said >>> "And GL, Roland," the diminutive dragoness adds, "while you >>>two were playing king of the mountain inside GL's skull, did you >>>happen to notice anything about our kooky, caged figure-eight?" >> >> Roland smiles. Broadly. "Well. _That_ was an amazingly Silver-Age >> comment." He grows serious quickly. "Yes. He seems to be _made_ of >> energy-no remnants of the biological Sinestro at all. That I could >> sense,anyway. Why?" >> Rayner just blinks, jaw going slack. "y'know, i think i'm >> starting t' know where he gets his 'tude from..." > >"Kyle," says the Martian Manhunter, "was that comment realy >nessessary?" "Huh?" Kyle asked, astonished. "No, J'Onn, that's not what I meant." Rayner looks a little embarrassed. "I was kinda torqued that this guy I've never heard of is handin' me grief. I mean, I'm in the JLA, and who does he think he is, giving me a hard time? But he's...been there, y'know?" Roland half-smiles, half-scowls at Rayner. ^*sigh* I suppose it's not _his_ fault that Hal was framed. Or that he got caught in one of Sinestro's schemes. Or that he's not Corps material. And I'm not exactly one to throw stones at someone's fashion sense...^ "You'll do, kid. Eventually." >> Morgan stands, a wide smile on her face, and throws her arms around >> Roland. The La-Z-Boy vanishes. "I LOVE you!" she cries, and kisses >> him rather soundly. > >Dhyrclhanc has a big silly grin on his face, surrounding the lit >cigar still held fast in a set of shark-like teeth as he walks over >to the edge of the building wher the Oans and Zamarons are departing. > >*/Those are my sibs!/* he sends with obvious pride in his mental >voice. "mmph!" is about all Roland can say at this point... >"Excuse me," the draconic Lensman says, removing the stoggie from his >mouth "but I know you and your sister share the magickal energies >that give you your powers, I was wondering if there was anyway that >you could tell where she had been in this dimesion? I have a bit of a >Psychometric talent, and I figured that it might give us a little >more insight into what is going on here." Cap thinks a moment. "Hmm..." he floats into the air a few inches, concentrating. "...mary..." "THE ROCK!" Cap falls to his knees, looking as tired as the World's Mightiest Mortal _can_ look. "She went to the Rock of Eternity! But if she beat her possessor, why isn't she back, and if she didn't, why would they go there?" (OOC: When folx look at him like, 'what's the Rock of Eternity?') Cap grins sheepishly. "Ah, the Rock of Eternity is where the old wizard who gave me my power, whose name I use to transform, lives. It's a magickal pocket reality." >On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:27:02 -0500 >Zia Said As CAoL Message # 00006578 > Speaking up to the whole group, she asks, "Aurora has a fix on >where Mary departed to. Shall we go along and try to find her before >arguing internal valuation and moralistic systems from egocentric and >moot viewpoints further, as Moonstone so wisely suggests might be a >completely unfruitful and ill-timed debate?" "'Moot viewpoints?'" Roland asks dryly. "But the ladies have a point-now is not the time or the place. Aurora, if you'd open an X-Window, if you please?" >On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:41:56 -0600 >Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006580 > >>On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 20:26:19 >>Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006576 >>He (OOC: Roland) grows serious quickly. "Yes. He seems to be _made_ >>of energy-no remnants of the biological Sinestro at all. That I >>could sense, anyway. Why?" > > Moonstone sighs, "I had hoped these attacks were by the same >person. Unfortunately, it sounds now like they weren't." She shrugs, >"Cosmic coincidence, apparently." Roland scowls. "I mistrust coincidence. Sinestro was _ready_ for us. Kyle 'knew' who I was. "This was a setup. Pretty slick one, too. Whoever it was, though, didn't figure on most of the CAoL refusing to fight other heroes." >On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 09:27:17 EST >Driscoll Said As CAoL Message # 00006584 >Even if I may end up spending much of my existance backtracking The >Controller's trail and making sure he does not return, I still enjoy >existance. Now what is this about a missing person and mind control?" Roland points a thumb at Cap and creates a hologram of Mary. "The Big Guy over there talking shop with Wonder Woman-" he chuckles as he realizes that they've gone off to do so next to Superwoman, who's still dangling from a flagpole, wrapped in her own lasso, "-was a pivotal figure in the whole hoo-hah that went down during the Epsilon War. When his sister-" Roland gestures at the hologram- "came to get him, she was mindjacked by an entity or entities unknown." Roland's face darkens. "We're going to get her back." He turns to face the X-Window. (OOC: I'm assuming that, by now, the X-Window is open. If not, Roland concentrates for a few minutes, finds the trail, and does so himself.) If Roland were any less experienced a dimension-hopper, he'd set a personal record for most times boggled in one day... TBC at my hunny's request (it's not my fault...) ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 02:10:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 02:21:46 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006593 > On Tue, 09 Mar '99 "Driscoll" Said > >>Dhyrclhanc Said >> >>"OK, now that is taken care of. Where to now, bro? And who wants a >>ride?" his eyes glance up at the Xavier still hovering above and >>just to the side of the JLA embasy. > > #"I think I would. That way I may check on the being I found in The > Controller's lab and of your medic has awakened him, find out how he > came to be there. I also have to go through The Controller's records > yet before I can try to figure out the next reality to jump to. I > should be able to shuttle any who do not care for teleportation as > well."# says Jim, returning to his Human appearance. #"Besides, I am > still curious as to what has brought you all here."# "That's One." says Dhyrclhanc, to no one in particular. #/Short version Jim. The CAoL were recently involved in a Reality War with being from a race devoted to spreading Chaos. This was in a varient alterverse which included a version of the Babylon 5 Station. The Captain {mental image of the Big Red Cheese(tm)} was involved due to his {noble/innocent/virtuous} soul. Later, his Sister {mental picture of Mary Marvel}came looking for him. From second hand reports, I believe Something-That-Man-Was-Not-Meant-To-Know(tm) did a Possession-Is-Nine-Tenths-Of-The-Law(tm) act on her and skipped out of the dimension. We are trying to find her and rescue her./# ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 02:21:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 02:56:06 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006594 > On Tue, 9 Mar '99 "Mike Knight" Said > >>Dhyrclhanc Said >>Dhyrclhanc's eyes goggle. }8=:o > > Moonstone gives the ROY (as in Red-Orange-Yellow) dragon a > slightly wicked grin that says in perfect body language, 'Just the > reaction I was hoping for'. Dhyrclhanc grins, revealing a set of molars that would make a shark envious, and, in return, sends *^{mental image of himself (in his 6' tall, wingless, "Lens-T'Skrang" form) bending down on one knee and kissing Moonstone's hand} Madam, you and I are more alike than you could even begin to imagine.^* };=8) >>"OK, now that is taken care of. Where to now, bro? And who wants a >>ride?" his eyes glance up at the Xavier still hovering above and >>just to the side of the JLA embasy. > > Moonstone replies, "If it has a place I can change, I do. I > don't want to walk unarmed and unprotected into another fight." "Thats two." says the draconic Lensman to thin air. "That shouldn't be a problem," he then says to Moonstone. Turning to the semi-humaniod hunter android, he says, "Nimrod, 'port to the ship and get Dasher to help you convert the forward port cargo bay into a stateroom for Moonstone." Nimrod gives the dragon his trademark wet-fish glare but then dissapears with an electrical hum and crackle. Turning back to Moonstone, his garb shifting from his Sentinel Costume back to his Medieval vest and B5-style Ranger's Cloak, he explains, "Even with the Xavier being twice as large as a standard Defiant-class Corvette, I still had to convert the foreward starbord cargo bay into a stateroom for myself. I hope the living quarters will be to your liking." "As for everyone else," he says, turning to the rest of the CAoL, "I'm afraid that given that the three ships I used for guides; the Federation Defiant, the Vorlon/Minbarri White Star and the United Worlds of Warlock Arcane Mark II were all warships, I'm afraid the logings are only a little better than what you might find in a college dormitory. Although, anybody who wants to take a look before they decide is welcome to come aboard." he gestures towards the pale-hued ship. /^Any ideas about where we should go next, bro?^/ he sends to his adopted sib. ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 02:21:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 03:21:26 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006595 > On Tue, 9 Mar '99 SkyeFire Said > >> *I am not entirly sure about you, yet, kid.* sends the draconic >> Green Lantern, affixing Roger with an icy stare from his glacier >> colored eyes. > > Roger shrugs, totally unfazed. "That's okay. I'm entirely sure about > *you*, Uncle D. Always have been." He leans nonchalantly against his > uncle's lower knee joint, with all the confidence of a kitten taking > posession of someone's lap. Dhyrclhanc's entire neck and body twists around so that he's looking "Roger" in the eye. *[You know, I used to *like* X-Man before you showed up. Now, I am not too sure.] Listen, "Roge", as I have said to your "Father" once or twice in the past, and will probably end up saying to him at least a couple of more times in the future (considering the fact that we will both probably stay, more or less, true to form) "Please step back, you are 'wrinkling the suit'."* ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 04:42:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 03:32:17 -0600 Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006596 >On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 19:53:32 EST >Driscoll Said As CAoL Message # 00006587 > >>On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:53:42 -0600 >>Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006586 >> >> Moonstone replies, "If it has a place I can change, I do. I >>don't want to walk unarmed and unprotected into another fight." > > "Unfortunately such fights are common in a reality such as this. If >you are concerned it would be my honor to escort and protect such a >beautiful female, at least until we do board." Jim says with a deep >bow. Moonstone blushes, "How could I refuse such a gracious offer?" > > Jim stretches out his hand towards her, and the fingers stretch out >into tendrils that begin to wrap about her. Soon the humanformed Jim >is gone, but Moonstone now appears to be dressed in a form fitting >superhero-esque costume in blue with gold metallic bracers, the left >one bearing a small screen and keypad; gold boots with finely etched >circutry barely visible on them, and a gold belt with six small >square packs on it. Each shoulder has a gold metal strip that goes >over it, front to back with a small round lens-like circle on each. >When jim speaks again the voice comes from the left bracer. Moonstone, for her part, appears surprized, to say the least. > "I am now a fully equipped super-suit. being sentient I of course >offer an automatic defensive system, as well as a wide variety of >offensive and diagnostic items pre-built in. Any items you may need >that are not here can be verbally requested unless ofcourse you would >want me to place a neural interface for the time I am acting as your >suit." Recovering her wits enough to reply, the young Dragoness answers, "Uhm, no, no need for any neural interfaces, I think we're already more intimately acquainted than I was expecting." ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 04:42:52 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Tune in next time for Twin Cheese... On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 03:54:38 -0600 Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006598 >On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 22:03:17 >Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006591 > Cap thinks a moment. "Hmm..." he floats into the air a few inches, >concentrating. "...mary..." > "THE ROCK!" > Cap falls to his knees, looking as tired as the World's Mightiest >Mortal _can_ look. "She went to the Rock of Eternity! But if she beat >her possessor, why isn't she back, and if she didn't, why would they >go there?" > (OOC: When folx look at him like, 'what's the Rock of Eternity?') Moonstone arches an eyebrow in Cap's direction, "The what?" > Cap grins sheepishly. "Ah, the Rock of Eternity is where the old >wizard who gave me my power, whose name I use to transform, lives. >It's a magickal pocket reality." >>On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:41:56 -0600 >>Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006580 > >> Moonstone sighs, "I had hoped these attacks were by the same >>person. Unfortunately, it sounds now like they weren't." She shrugs, >>"Cosmic coincidence, apparently." > > Roland scowls. "I mistrust coincidence. Sinestro was _ready_ for >us. Kyle 'knew' who I was. > "This was a setup. Pretty slick one, too. Whoever it was, though, >didn't figure on most of the CAoL refusing to fight other heroes." Moonstone nodded, her own reservations being echoed by Roland. ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 05:05:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 07:44:09 EST Dane0R0A Said As CAoL Message # 00006599 >Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006576 > > Roland watches the discussion, glancing once in Aurora's > direction in (surprisingly faint) disapproval, but is > uncharacteristically silent. Anyone who monitors his stray thoughts > on the lens link detects a long-suffering sigh and _vast_ > familiarity with this argument. ^Roland, when you have been fighting evil, tyranny, and oppression for half a trillion years you will have come to understand, as I and many of my followers have, that sometimes it is necessary to kill for the greater good. That does not mean that I enjoy killing, for I most emphatically do not, but just as the Arisians understood this, so do I. Sometimes it is needful. And for that reason alone do I not shirk my duty to promote the greatest good for the greatest number. Otherwise Cerberus' forces would have conquered all that is by now. I applaud your resolve in not killing, and I only hope that you never encounter a situation where you must break it, but I know that the longer you fight evil the more likely such a situation is to occur.^ Aurora sends ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 05:05:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:01:39 EST Dane0R0A Said As CAoL Message # 00006600 >Driscoll Said As CAoL Message # 00006584 > Jim bows slightly towards Moonstone. "Agreed, expecially since such > conversations leave us uncomfortable..." His form shifts into that > of The Controller, "Expecially since our existance would never have > happened had someone of Aurora's mindset and power have eradicated > The Controller before he could give birth to Justin Fliesch and then > myself. Even if I may end up spending much of my existence > backtracking The Controller's trail and making sure he does not > return, I still enjoy existance. Now what is this about a missing > person and mind control?" {^Why else do you think he was not?^} Aurora asks. ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 05:36:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 04:32:08 -0600 Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006601 >On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 02:56:06 -0500 >Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006594 >> On Tue, 9 Mar '99 "Mike Knight" Said >Dhyrclhanc grins, revealing a set of molars that would make a shark >envious, and, in return, sends *^{mental image of himself (in his 6' >tall, wingless, "Lens-T'Skrang" form) bending down on one knee and >kissing Moonstone's hand} Madam, you and I are more alike than you >could even begin to imagine.^* };=8) ^So that's how you kiss with that beak,^ Moonstone replies with a faint blush. >> Moonstone replies, "If it has a place I can change, I do. I >> don't want to walk unarmed and unprotected into another fight." > >"Thats two." says the draconic Lensman to thin air. > >"That shouldn't be a problem," he then says to Moonstone. > >Turning to the semi-humaniod hunter android, he says, "Nimrod, 'port >to the ship and get Dasher to help you convert the forward port cargo >bay into a stateroom for Moonstone." > >Nimrod gives the dragon his trademark wet-fish glare but then >dissapears with an electrical hum and crackle. Moonstone blinks, thinking the Lensdragon is going a bit overboard just for a quick change of clothes, but shrugs it off for a couple reasons. One, it can't be that tough of a conversion if Nimrod and a guy who looks like a missile can do it alone and at the drop of a hat. And two, it could be interesting to see what Dhyrclanc and crew consider a room fit for dragons... >Turning back to Moonstone, his garb shifting from his Sentinel >Costume back to his Medieval vest and B5-style Ranger's Cloak, he >explains, "Even with the Xavier being twice as large as a standard >Defiant-class Corvette, I still had to convert the foreward starbord >cargo bay into a stateroom for myself. I hope the living quarters >will be to your liking." Moonstone smiles, "I'm sure it will be fine." ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 05:36:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Tune in next time for Twin Cheese... On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:30:29 EST Dane0R0A Said As CAoL Message # 00006604 Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006591 >>Zia Said As CAoL Message # 00006578 > >> Speaking up to the whole group, she asks, "Aurora has a fix on >>where Mary departed to. Shall we go along and try to find her before >>arguing internal valuation and moralistic systems from egocentric >>and moot viewpoints further, as Moonstone so wisely suggests might >>be a completely unfruitful and ill-timed debate?" > > "'Moot viewpoints?'" Roland asks dryly. "But the ladies have a > point-now is not the time or the place. Aurora, if you'd open an > X-Window, if you please?" Aurora's winged unicorn shape suddenly, seemingly, melts and reforms in her prefered humanoid female shape. Then twitching a finger, she creates an X-Window to the Rocks Of Eternity. > (OOC: I'm assuming that, by now, the X-Window is open. If not, > Roland concentrates for a few minutes, finds the trail, and does so > himself.) (OOC: its there) ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 06:12:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Tune in next time for Twin Cheese... On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:02:34 EST Dane0R0A Said As CAoL Message # 00006606 >Dane0R0A Said As CAoL Message # 00006604 > >> Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006591 >> >> "'Moot viewpoints?'" Roland asks dryly. "But the ladies have a >> point-now is not the time or the place. Aurora, if you'd open an >> X-Window, if you please?" > > Aurora's winged unicorn shape suddenly, seemingly, melts and reforms > in her prefered humanoid female shape. Then twitching a finger, she > creates an X-Window to the Rocks Of Eternity. (OOC: OOPS, I thought that Cap's statement that she had gone to the rocks of eternity was a buried clue as to the next Destination. Retcon time. ) Aurora's winged unicorn shape suddenly, seemingly, melts and reforms in her prefered humanoid female shape. Then twitching a finger, she creates an X-Window to Cap's home city. ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:37:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Making the wrong rings right 8^) On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:13:19 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006608 > On Tue, 09 Mar '99 Morgan and/or Roland Said > > "um..." Kyle thinks desperately. Then his ring flares. "Whew. It's > not the same ring." Kyle frowns. "But it's the same _kind_ of ring. > That's impossible, isn't it?" (OOC: This is, obviously, before the > Oans arrive and explain the multiverse.) "Ask Power Ring," says Dhyrclhanc, off-handedly, but then, more seriously, "Then again, I have no idea what happened to it after you 'lost' it, but I found this one on Oa, sometime after, I assume, you and Parrallax did whatever you two did to it. Oa, that is. No offence intended." ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:06:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:05:17 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006611 > On Wed, 10 Mar '99 "Mike Knight" Said > >>Dhyrclhanc Said >>Dhyrclhanc grins, revealing a set of molars that would make a shark >>envious, and, in return, sends *^{mental image of himself (in his 6' >>tall, wingless, "Lens-T'Skrang" form) bending down on one knee and >>kissing Moonstone's hand} Madam, you and I are more alike than you >>could even begin to imagine.^* };=8) > > ^So that's how you kiss with that beak,^ Moonstone replies with > a faint blush. ^Very carefully^ agrees Dhyrclhanc, with a quick sidelong glance at Rhiannon. ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:09:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:45:20 EST Driscoll Said As CAoL Message # 00006614 >On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 03:32:17 -0600 >Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006596 > > Recovering her wits enough to reply, the young Dragoness >answers, "Uhm, no, no need for any neural interfaces, I think we're >already more intimately acquainted than I was expecting." "I cry your pardon and if this makes you uncomfortable I can reform myself. For me however this feels very natural as we were originally designed to form the body for our father, Justin. It was not until later that he experimented with implanting artificial intelligence into our Nanite colony and giving us birth. We spent a long time co-existing that way, up until Justin sacrified himself inside a paradox. There are times that we miss how it used to be." ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:39:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:42:24 -0600 Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006615 >On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:45:20 EST >Driscoll Said As CAoL Message # 00006614 > > "I cry your pardon and if this makes you uncomfortable I can reform >myself. For me however this feels very natural as we were originally >designed to form the body for our father, Justin. It was not until >later that he experimented with implanting artificial intelligence >into our Nanite colony and giving us birth. We spent a long time >co-existing that way, up until Justin sacrified himself inside a >paradox. There are times that we miss how it used to be." Moonstone ahs as she realizes just who Jim is. She giggles a moment, then says, "Oh, of course. That's alright, Jim, I wasn't aware of who I was talking to. And if you find it comfortable this way, I don't object. Just, if you need to rearrange yourself, leave my hands free. The rings are various magical items." ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:07:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:40:12 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006617 In a message dated 99-03-10 02:52:36 EST, you write: >>"Yeah, yeah," mutters the black-clad newcomer. "That's what you said >>when you got him killed, too. Goo thing someone was around to make >>him immortal...." > > (OOC: I'm assuming that's 'good' rather than 'goo.' 8^) >>"Oh, Uncle W? Heck, Dad, he's mellowed out a *lot* since -- oops. >>You''re right, at this point in time he's still a little....umm, >>uptight, shall we say?" > > Roland's jaw drops. (Almost out of his head. 8^) "'Uncle _W?_' > Are you telling me that WRINKLE joins the-" > Wrinkle arrives. "You didn't hear that," he says to Roland, who > relaxes instantly. Morgan's reaction dies aborning. The ancient- > looking old man looks at Roger through slitted eyes. "I don't > usually interfere with the companions of Time Lords. But if you are > going to..." Wrinkle stops, studying Roger for a moment. Roger, for his part, looks more mildly annoyed than anything else. "Hey, what did I *do*? C'mon, there wasn't enough data in that little slip of the tongue to do any--" >Then he smiles. > It is _not_ a pleasant smile. "Uh. Oh." > "Never mind." Wrinkle fades quickly. [Since he's rapidly > obviating his own existence, I need not involve myself here,] he > thinks as he vanishes. (OOC: Since Roger is still having trouble > filtering thoughts of CAoL members past present and/or future, he > can hear that if the player wants...) "Hey! I heard that! Come back here and fight like a demigod!" Dropping to a mutter: "Dad wasn't kidding; he really *was* unpleasant when he was younger." (assuming Roland or Morgan asks who we was talking to/about): "Uhh -- nobody. Sorry. Just a runaway train of thought on a dead-end track." Roger grins a bit weakly, and sends a quiet request to his cybernetics to start scanning his personal timestrand for anomalies. [Obviating my own existence? Coming from anybody else, I'd discount it. But from him....] >>"Oh, you've got a couple years yet...depending. And my full name is >>Roland Seosaidh (sp?) Harmon Morgan Greywolf-Phoenix. Most of the >>family started calling me 'Roland Jr' at an early age, for obvious >>reasons. It got shortened to just 'Roger' before too long." > > (OOC-R: Yes, you got the spelling right. Impressive.) > (OOC-M: But can he pronounce it? ) ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:44:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:36:18 EST Driscoll Said As CAoL Message # 00006618 >On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:42:24 -0600 >Mike Knight Said As CAoL Message # 00006615 > > Moonstone ahs as she realizes just who Jim is. She giggles a >moment, then says, "Oh, of course. That's alright, Jim, I wasn't >aware of who I was talking to. And if you find it comfortable this >way, I don't object. Just, if you need to rearrange yourself, leave >my hands free. The rings are various magical items." "Understood." The suit's gloves re-form into fingerless versions freeing the rings. ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:20:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:11:18 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006620 In a message dated 99-03-10 12:09:02 EST, you write: OOC: I didn't get Zia's original post, so I'm piggybacking... > >> "Iah tried to warn you, Buckmeister." She comments softly to >> Roger. >> >> "You're gonna be lucky ifen you survive to see your own time >> again." Dame Marvel shakes her head at him. "Snap it up, and >> remember these people are strangers to you. You're being rude, >> Rogi. Most of them aren't immune to paradox squeezes, either, so >> you're endangering their future life, too. And Micheal's busy >> dealing with his own problems, you're dancing the danger line >> without a net over complete nullification." Roger throws her a quick cheshire grin. "I love you too, Aunt Z." ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:20:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:11:16 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006622 In a message dated 99-03-10 05:22:06 EST, you write: > Dhyrclhanc's entire neck and body twists around so that he's looking > "Roger" in the eye. *[You know, I used to *like* X-Man before you > showed up. Now, I am not too sure.] Listen, "Roge", as I have said > to your "Father" once or twice in the past, and will probably end up > saying to him at least a couple of more times in the future > (considering the fact that we will both probably stay, more or less, > true to form) "Please step back, you are 'wrinkling the suit'."* "Roger," Roger corrects automatically, and sighs as he steps away. "Well, you have to admit I come by it honestly, at least...." ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:09:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:28:29 Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006626 >On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 07:44:09 EST >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00006599 > >^Roland, when you have been fighting evil, tyranny, and oppression >for half a trillion years you will have come to understand, as I and >many of my followers have, that sometimes it is necessary to kill for >the greater good. That does not mean that I enjoy killing, for I most >emphatically do not, but just as the Arisians understood this, so do >I. Sometimes it is needful. And for that reason alone do I not shirk >my duty to promote the greatest good for the greatest number. >Otherwise Cerberus' forces would have conquered all that is by now. I >applaud your resolve in not killing, and I only hope that you never >encounter a situation where you must break it, but I know that the >longer you fight evil the more likely such a situation is to occur.^ >Aurora sends ^Aurora, I have had this discussion with my _wife_ on several occasions. We are no closer to an agreement, though we don't let our disagreement interfere with our marriage.^ Roland sighs heavily. ^And while you may not count Byron, seeing how he's alive now, I _did_ decide to kill him. I made up my mind, deliberately, when I didn't see any other option, and did it. And it's haunted me ever since.^ He smiles faintly at Morgan. ^Though it's hard to complain about the results, I've spent my life looking for other options, and since Gaunt I've rededicated myself to the ideal.^ ================================= Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:09:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:17:25 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006631 > On Wed, 10 Mar '99 SkyeFire Said > "Roger," Roger corrects automatically, and sighs as he steps away. > "Well, you have to admit I come by it honestly, at least...." Having uncurled, Dhyrclhanc comments, "'Nathan' to quote what your Father said only moments ago, 'Kid, you'll do, eventualy.'" [Why do I see the potential for a reverse replay of the Rae/Nathan Saga here? or, as the christmas sweatshirt says, "It's a girl."] A Perverse snigger escapes from the immortal Ruby Fire Dragon hatchling's lips. ================================= Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:26:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 05:45:58 -0500 (EST) Shadow Said As CAoL Message # 00006635 >On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:19:26 -0500 (EST) >Shadow Said As CAoL Message # 00006568 > >>On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 21:53:51 EST >>Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00006566 >> >>killing is the least repugnant, because it will free him."*/ Aurora >>explains. > >"Well then, _Starspawn_," John says it like a curse, "next time do >not wait when you see one who you say deserves death but _act_, >instead of reproving those who have acted, and end the life you find >so worthless. At least that way I will not have to listen to more of >your hypocratic prattle." /Hypocritical,/ Rhia corrects John. /Hush you,/ he sends back with a grin ================================= Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:26:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 05:50:26 -0500 (EST) Shadow Said As CAoL Message # 00006636 >On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:53:30 -0500 >Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006610 > >> On Wed, 10 Mar '99 Zia Said > >> "Iah tried to warn you, Buckmeister." She comments softly to >> Roger. "You're gonna be lucky ifen you survive to see your own time >> again." Dame Marvel shakes her head at him. "Snap it up, and >> remember these people are strangers to you. You're being rude, >> Rogi. Most of them aren't immune to paradox squeezes, either, so >> you're endangering their future life, too. And Micheal's busy >> dealing with his own problems, you're dancing the danger line >> without a net over complete nullification." > >/I am, I think/ quips everyone's lovable Lensdragon. John lazily casts a critical eye over the big guy and smiles, /I don't see how you can't be./ ================================= Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:26:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 05:54:54 -0500 (EST) Shadow Said As CAoL Message # 00006637 >On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:40:12 EST >SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006617 > >In a message dated 99-03-10 02:52:36 EST, you write: > >> "Never mind." Wrinkle fades quickly. [Since he's rapidly >> obviating his own existence, I need not involve myself here,] he >> thinks as he vanishes. (OOC: Since Roger is still having trouble >> filtering thoughts of CAoL members past present and/or future, he >> can hear that if the player wants...) > >"Hey! I heard that! Come back here and fight like a demigod!" >Dropping to a mutter: "Dad wasn't kidding; he really *was* unpleasant >when he was younger." John just shakes his head, then relegates the whole episode to the unimportant file. ================================= Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 05:04:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:51:26 -0500 Caprice Said As CAoL Message # 00006638 >On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:22:34 >Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006628 *snip* > Roland pales. "Kang?" > Wrinkle blinks. Then he laughs out loud. "So THAT'S how you'll >know he's coming! Sometimes this job _does_ have its perks...I love a >good Predestination Paradox..." Legion has almost a smile on her face... well, actually, it's a match for the one on Wrinkle's. "Any Paradox can be Paradoctored." Her voice(s) still have that odd multiple echo effect due to being in this universe. Those watching this coversation are treated to a rare sight. A paradox spirit doing a triple-take as he looks at Legion. He gives another of those smiles, which Legion returns. Wrinkle says, "If you're travelling with her, I'm the least of your problems." [OOC: forgive me for jumping in, but with all my actions and posts lately being an exercise in futility, I wanted to try a different direction.] ================================= Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:06:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:41:10 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006640 In a message dated 99-03-11 02:10:01 EST, you write: > Having uncurled, Dhyrclhanc comments, "'Nathan' to quote what your > Father said only moments ago, 'Kid, you'll do, eventualy.'" Roger goes *pale.* "Nathan!?? Oh, nooo....that parallel never even occurred to me! Oh, sprocking Light, things couldn't get that bad, could they?" He looks around at his extended family. "Ohhhh, boy...." > A Perverse snigger escapes from the immortal Ruby Fire Dragon > hatchling's lips. (Whimper) "At least one of us is going to enjoy this." (Whimper) ================================= Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:06:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:41:07 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006641 In a message dated 99-03-11 02:09:44 EST, you write: > Wrinkle reappears. "Actually, he was talking to me. But I erased > it from your memories since he was fouling our collective timeline," > he explains to Roland and Morgan. Then he turns on Roger. "You > called?" He's still wearing the smile he had when he left, but his > tone becomes as dry as the void. "You try guarding a time stream > filled with types like Destroyer, Al-Aswad, and Timemaster and see > how cheerful _you_ are after a few eons." Roger, heir to the legendary Phoenix Lip, get in a shot before Morgan's greater wisdom can stonker him: "If you can't keep your sense of humor about your job, I'd say--" > On a tight beam to Roger, Morgan sends in a tone he's probably > all-too-familiar with, although it's new to her (well, almost - she > has been playing den-mother to _this_ group for a while ), > ^Roger, pipe down. _Now._^ Roger shuts up FAST. In a very tiny voice he beams back ^yes ma'am.^ ================================= Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:37:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:10:31 EST Dane0R0A Said As CAoL Message # 00006643 >SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006641 > > In a message dated 99-03-11 02:09:44 EST, you write: >> Roland pales. "Kang?" >> Wrinkle blinks. Then he laughs out loud. "So THAT'S how you'll >> know he's coming! Sometimes this job _does_ have its perks...I love >> a good Predestination Paradox..." The small but powerful voice of The Stardragon chimes in /*"I do NOT like paradoxes AT ALL. They itch."*/ ================================= Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:37:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Setting the wrong things right On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:15:10 EST Dane0R0A Said As CAoL Message # 00006644 >Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006626 > > ^Aurora, I have had this discussion with my _wife_ on several > occasions. We are no closer to an agreement, though we don't let our > disagreement interfere with our marriage.^ Roland sighs heavily. > ^And while you may not count Byron, seeing how he's alive now, I > _did_ decide to kill him. I made up my mind, deliberately, when I > didn't see any other option, and did it. And it's haunted me ever > since.^ He smiles faintly at Morgan. ^Though it's hard to complain > about the results, I've spent my life looking for other options, and > since Gaunt I've rededicated myself to the ideal.^ ^May That Which Creates, and The Stardragon smile upon your idea, and help you to attain it.^ She answers. ================================= Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:04:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 05:55:35 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006647 > On Thu, 11 Mar '99 Shadow Said > >>Dhyrclhanc Said >> >>/I am, I think/ quips everyone's lovable Lensdragon. > > John lazily casts a critical eye over the big guy and smiles, /I > don't see how you can't be./ Aroo? The Lensdragon's masive head swings over in the direction of the ex-Zodaii agent, affixing the mage with his hewn from glaciers eyes, "And what, precisely, Old Friend, is that supposed to mean?" ================================= Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:35:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 06:24:01 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006648 > On Thu, 11 Mar '99 SkyeFire Said > >> Dhyrclhnac writes: >> >> Having uncurled, Dhyrclhanc comments, "'Nathan' to quote what your >> Father said only moments ago, 'Kid, you'll do, eventualy.'" > > Roger goes *pale.* "Nathan!?? Oh, nooo....that parallel never even > occurred to me! Oh, sprocking Light, things couldn't get that bad, > could they?" He looks around at his extended family. > "Ohhhh, boy...." > >> A Perverse snigger escapes from the immortal Ruby Fire Dragon >> hatchling's lips. > > (Whimper) "At least one of us is going to enjoy this." (Whimper) "First of all," returns the Big Guy(tm), "I was refering to Nate Grey aka 'X-Man', not Nathan Christopher Askanni Summers aka 'Cable'. Secondly, if you are planning to use that Sam Beckett quote with any regularity, you are going to have to start paying me royalties." ================================= Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 20:26:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:31:02 Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006654 >On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:51:26 -0500 >Caprice Said As CAoL Message # 00006638 > >>On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:22:34 >>Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006628 >> Wrinkle reappears. "Actually, he was talking to me. But I erased >>it from your memories since he was fouling our collective timeline," >>he explains to Roland and Morgan. Then he turns on Roger. "You >>called?" He's still wearing the smile he had when he left, but his >>tone becomes as dry as the void. "You try guarding a time stream >>filled with types like Destroyer, Al-Aswad, and Timemaster and see >>how cheerful _you_ are after a few eons." >> >>On a tight beam to Roger, Morgan sends in a tone he's probably >>all-too-familiar with, although it's new to her (well, almost - she >>has been playing den-mother to _this_ group for a while ), >>^Roger, pipe down. _Now._^ >> >> Roland pales. "Kang?" ^^^^^^^ (OOC: Oy. Serves me right for editing with my brain in the wash. That is also supposed to be Timemaster; I couldn't remember any time-meddlers native to the Champions continuum at first and typed in Kang. Then I remembered Timemaster and edited Wrinkle's line...but not Roland's. Le sigh.) >> Wrinkle blinks. Then he laughs out loud. "So THAT'S how you'll >>know he's coming! Sometimes this job _does_ have its perks...I love >>a good Predestination Paradox..." >On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:10:31 EST >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00006643 >The small but powerful voice of The Stardragon chimes in /*"I do NOT >like paradoxes AT ALL. They itch."*/ "Then get some Hydrocortizone," Wrinkle replies, more dryly than ever. "The two of us entering conflict would be the proverbial irresistable force and immovable object. An exercise in fu-" >Legion has almost a smile on her face... well, actually, it's a match >for the one on Wrinkle's. "Any Paradox can be Paradoctored." Her >voice(s) still have that odd multiple echo effect due to being in >this universe. > >Those watching this coversation are treated to a rare sight. A >paradox spirit doing a triple-take as he looks at Legion. He gives >another of those smiles, which Legion returns. Wrinkle says, "If >you're travelling with her, I'm the least of your problems." (OOC: I'm leaving this in; it's cool and it gives me an out.) With one last look at Roger, regarding him the way a cat regards a mouse that has eluded him, Wrinkle begins to fade. "Just don't get any ideas in _my_ jurisdiction, 'Paradoctor.' I eat archmages for breakfast. Literally." However, the smile is gone when he says it. Then, a moment later, so is Wrinkle. ================================= Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 06:06:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 08:54:07 -0500 Caprice Said As CAoL Message # 00006659 >On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:31:02 >Morgan and/or Roland Said As CAoL Message # 00006654 > > (OOC: I'm leaving this in; it's cool and it gives me an out.) > With one last look at Roger, regarding him the way a cat regards a >mouse that has eluded him, Wrinkle begins to fade. "Just don't get >any ideas in _my_ jurisdiction, 'Paradoctor.' I eat archmages for >breakfast. Literally." However, the smile is gone when he says it. >Then, a moment later, so is Wrinkle. Legion still has that nasty smile on her face. "Then again, I'm not an Archmage." There is an extra voice in the echo of the last four words... but you really can't tell who's. [OOC: Okay, moving from here to the X-window.] ================================= Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:04:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 13:44:15 -0500 (EST) Xzerrion Said As CAoL Message # 00006662 On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Caprice wrote: > Legion still has that nasty smile on her face. "Then again, I'm not > an Archmage." There is an extra voice in the echo of the last four > words... but you really can't tell who's. Xzerrion grins. "Neither am I, just and illusionist with pretentions." ================================= Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:35:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Mother and Child Reunion On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 02:08:22 -0500 (EST) Shadow Said As CAoL Message # 00006667 >On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 05:55:35 -0500 >Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006647 > >> On Thu, 11 Mar '99 Shadow Said >> >>>Dhyrclhanc Said >>> >>>/I am, I think/ quips everyone's lovable Lensdragon. >> >> John lazily casts a critical eye over the big guy and smiles, /I >> don't see how you can't be./ > > Aroo? > >The Lensdragon's masive head swings over in the direction of the >ex-Zodaii agent, affixing the mage with his hewn from glaciers eyes, >"And what, precisely, Old Friend, is that supposed to mean?" John stares right back at the dragon, "Well" Another John is to DC's right, "it's just that" And another to his left, "there are things we," One between the first two, "or I, I should say," And between the first and third one, "have seen you do" All of them finish, "that would lead one to beleive you mostly immune from minor paradox squeezes." Rhia rolls her eyes, /If you're done playing?/ she asks John. They all look at each other, clasps hands, and all but the original disappears. ^What?^ he asks her. ^Your going to give yourself a headache coming back and saying all those things at just the right moment.^ ^That's why I have all those computers back home.^ ^Just don't complain to me when you have to do it.^ John stands there grinning at DC. BTW, if he has hewn from glacier eyes, would they melt in the fire of someone's regard? :^) ================================= Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:07:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:32:56 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006674 In a message dated 99-03-12 06:35:30 EST, you write: > "First of all," returns the Big Guy(tm), "I was refering to Nate > Grey aka 'X-Man', not Nathan Christopher Askanni Summers aka > 'Cable'. Secondly, if you are planning to use that Sam Beckett quote > with any regularity, you are going to have to start paying me > royalties." Roger says nothing, simply raising his eyebrows. But an image leaks out over the general link -- deliberately? Inadvertently? With Roger, it's hard to tell -- of "Uncle D" seated on a Really Big Chair in front of An Even Bigger Entertainment Center, with a lap full of, in order, a five-year-old Roger, his snoozing pet Sehlat, and a Dhyrclhanc-sized bowl of popcorn. The EC blurbs "we will return to the Sci-Fi Channel's 24-hour Quantum Leap Marathon after these messages." Pint-sized Roger grabs a handful of popcorn and looks uuuup at his huge favorite uncle. "Uncle Dhyrclhanc? Won't Mom be angry at you for letting me stay up so late?" The Sentinel Lensdragon grabs his own handful of popcorn, somewhat larger than Roger himself. "I'm seeing to your cultural education. Besides, how's she going to know?" Roger looks thoughful, digesting this idea. "Because....she *always* knows?" Uncle D starts to look just a bit worried.... ================================= Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:07:16 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: GR: Listening in... On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:53:55 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006679 > On Sun, 14 Mar '99 Shadow Said > >>Dhyrclhanc Said >> >>> Rhia rolls her eyes, /If you're done playing?/ she asks John. >>> >>> They all look at each other, clasps hands, and all but the >>> original disappears. ^What?^ he asks her. >>> ^Your going to give yourself a headache coming back and saying all >>> those things at just the right moment.^ >>> ^That's why I have all those computers back home.^ >>> ^Just don't complain to me when you have to do it.^ >>> >>> John stands there grinning at DC. >> >>/^I have to agree with Zia, Old Freind. You keep that kind of thing >>up you are liable to give yourself a headache, or worse. Of course, >>I have no idea how those computers, that you mentioned, are set up. >>So it will not be the first time that I was wrong about something.^/ > > Martin, please, watch the puntuation notes. That was between *Rhia* > and John, in a private send, in what I have already said is a close > to untappabble link. All everyone *heard* was Rhia asking John if he > was done playing. Whoops, my fault! Some of us, including myself, obviously, need to be more carefull when we read these posts. One retcon, comming right up. Besides, it didn't come out the way I wanted it to, anyway. John does his Fission Shtick, Zia makes her private remark to John (which nobody but John hears). Then, Dhyrclhanc, due to his "Duck"-like luck, comments... /^You know, Old Friend, I think Rhia will probably agree with me when I say that if you keep pulling stunts like that you are going to give yourself a headache, or worse.^/ Better, I hope? ================================= Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:19:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 18:51:05 EST SkyeFire Said As CAoL Message # 00006740 In a message dated 99-03-18 01:11:52 EST, you write: The "Big D" did write: > Also for the record, if "R.J." (hey, I like the sound of that) is > indeed from 400 years in the future then the Dhyrclhanc from then > has already undergone the draconic equivilant of "Awakening"; at 600 > years old the "adolencent" Ruby Fire Dragon would reach adulthood, > roughly doubling in size and tripling in power (i.e., if the current > Sentinel-Lensdragon is powerfull enough to oppose a Demi-God, or > Hero, the adult version of the The Big Guy(tm) would be powerfull > enough to possibly take on a Minor Demon.) }8=:O > > 'O course, he'd also be power napping enough to also be the > equivilant of a surrogate grandpa to RJ, too. };=8) OOC: Oops. I may not have made Roger's timeline clear enough. While the last placetime Roger *recalls* being before landing in the middle of Roland and Rayner's grudge match is ~400 years from now (subjective time along the Phoenix-Greywolf family timeline), Roger is also about 375 years old, give or take 15 years. So unless Dhyrclhanc Ascends in the next half-century, the odds are pretty good that Little Roger would have spent a few years sitting on the adolescent Sentinel Lensdragon's lap, listening to his aoutrageous stories and trying to play with the Bright Shinies in his pockets -- like the giant anla-shok pike, the Eye of Aggamatto (sp?), the Ultimate Nullifier ("Now how'd *that* get in there? Sorry about the planet, bro..."). You get the idea. /OOC ================================= Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:34:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: AAE V: Oan't you come back to me... On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:23:42 -0500 Dhyrclhanc Said As CAoL Message # 00006762 > On Sat, 20 Mar '99 SkyeFire Said > OOC: Oops. I may not have made Roger's timeline clear enough. While > the last placetime Roger *recalls* being before landing in the > middle of Roland and Rayner's grudge match is ~400 years from now > (subjective time along the Phoenix-Greywolf family timeline), Roger > is also about 375 years old, give or take 15 years. So unless > Dhyrclhanc Ascends in the next half-century, the odds are pretty > good that Little Roger would have spent a few years sitting on the > adolescent Sentinel Lensdragon's lap, listening to his aoutrageous > stories and trying to play with the Bright Shinies in his pockets > like the giant anla-shok pike, the Eye of Aggamatto (sp?), the > Ultimate Nullifier ("Now how'd *that* get in there? Sorry about the > planet, bro..."). You get the idea. /OOC };=8) If RJ's biological age is around 375 years (Well, 360 to 390, but math was never Martin's strong suit), give or take however much time he many have spent doing the temporal leapfrog shtick, then the "mainline" version of Dhyrclhanc is only about 25 years his senior; ie, he'll be "stuck" in "adolescence" for the next 200 years, or so. Also, for those of you keeping score, *this* version of DC is from around 100 years in the future; the mainline Sentinel-Lensdragon is still poking around the inner planes looking for Fuzzy's soul (and, yes, I will (eventualy) get back to that SO story. I went out of my way to get my greedy little hads on a copy of the "Manual of the Planes" for that particular purpose.). Also, FTR, the dragon-sized An'lashok(sp?) pike can't be found in DC's coat-pockets. I can't say anything about that Ultimate Nullifier(tm), however. };=8D ================================= Next stop - the SHAZAM! Universe