Apocalypse Now, closed RP with fleet-admiral-red

howlofthewolf:

In the Military camp in Hyrule, close to the Excavation site of Hyrule’s sacred beasts and guardians, Wolf was in his tent, doing some serious exercises. Huffing and puffing as he finished up his push-ups, he wiped his forehead with a towel. It certainly was quite hot here in Hyrule Field. On the radio he had set up, the song “Fortunate Son” by Clearance Clearwater Revival was playing, the song being broadcast throughout the base.

“Sir.” A messenger poked her head in, “They’re here.”

Wolf nodded, getting his shirt on. Grabbing his rifle, he slung it over his shoulder, and walked out. Looking around, he observed the men and women in the base, milling about, cleaning their rifles, maintaining the trenches, etc. Others were playing basketball at the makeshift basketball court that had been set up. He looked over at the airbase, where pilots maintained their fighters and other aircraft.

Walking down to the landing strip, where the BEA Falcon-500 transport had landed, he watched as the hatch opened, revealing the two GDI admirals, Green and Yellow. Looking over, Wolf grinned and outstretched his arms to gesture toward what was going on around them.

“Welcome to hell, bitches.”

@fleet-admiral-red

Green, ever the serious one, gave Wolf the driest response possible with an unamused look even as Yellow gasped at Wolf’s greeting.

“If this is hell, then I’m the Devil. This place would have been under heavy assault and we’d have been forced to make an emergency jump from the transport towards the surface, while being shot at by hostile AA.”

Fleet Admiral Green folded his arms. “How are the plans for the assault coming along? The Scorpion’s Hand aren’t going to just laze around and forget to fortify the LZ while the Coalition prepares.”

On a Peak Towards Adventure

summoner-matthew:

fleet-admiral-red:

She nodded with a bright smile. “Yeah, Mr Matthew, go ahead!”

As she followed the Summoner along to the forges, Lux wondered what the Order of Heroes was. It was surely at least some sort of benevolent alliance, but one that thus far hadn’t been known to the wider multiverse.

Not to mention the magic readings she was picking up almost constantly. Properly cataloging magic-technology interactions in this universe would help a lot in her operations here.

As the Summoner walked towards the forges (this castle was so huge, so it’d take a while), he started explaining things to Lux.  “So then, this world, the World of Zenith, it has three things of note.  The Kingdom of Askr, who the Order of Heroes works for, the Emblian Empire, our enemies, and a crapton of gateways to other worlds.

“Askr’s royal family can open the gateways to these worlds, but can’t close them.  Embla’s royal family can close the gateways, but can’t open them.  For a time both factions were at peace, but then Embla got it in their heads to stop closing the gateways, and instead invaded them, with the intended goal of conquering all worlds.

“Embla and Askr are both native Tier 7 worlds, but Embla has the ability to mind-control others to their side in what’s called a ‘contract’.  These contracts force you to fight for Embla, either with you being aware of it or believing something else entirely.

“We don’t have enough troops to maintain more than a token garrison at the currently opened gateways.  There are just too many gateways and too many Emblian soldiers to deal with right now, which presents a problem.

“Then there’s me.  I’m not native to Zenith.  I was summoned here in a ritual to get a ‘Great Hero’.  Judging by Commander Anna’s face she was expecting Master Chief or Doomguy, but she got me instead.  Luckily for everyone involved I’ve got Summoning Magic, and a special power I call ‘Tactician’s Insight’.  I don’t know if I’ve always had this power or if I gained it during my time here, but regardless, these two things made me the chief tactician of Askr.

“So I’ve been summoning Heroes and studying my powers to try and refine what I can accomplish.  Folks seem to enjoy how I command the battlefield, though sometimes I end up worried about my abilities myself.”

Lux had nodded slowly in understanding as they progressed towards the forges.

Matthew’s mention of the Forerunner/Covenant Technological Achievement Tiers as well as the legendary Spartan-II, John-117, brought a spark of curiosity to her. Was he from a universe where the UNSC was perhaps fictional? It seemed likely.

The Emblians also sounded like big trouble. No wonder Serina had said stuff about keeping gateway establishment in here highly secret. It seemed autonomous drones that couldn’t be mind-controlled would have to suffice in security operations planetside.

Since both factions were non-spacefaring, Lux could easily set up shop in a nearby star system. Preferably a barren one, so she could crank out as much wargear as was needed without fear of disturbance.

She’d have to build up a military and support infrastructure from scratch, and it was most likely why Red had called her over here for help.

“I see. So, are your summons really random, Mr Matthew? It sounds to me like they are.”

dragon-in-a-fez:

I know we’re always talking about how Pacific Rim embraces the ridiculousness of the human race because “just build a giant robot to punch them in the face” is probably the most full-on human bullshit response we could have thought of to an invasion of giant aliens, but can we pause and also consider that the aliens are basically doing the same thing

like they wanted to invade us and their first thought about how to do so was “let’s genetically engineer giant fucking monsters that will crawl out of the depths of the ocean and trample cities”

Pacific Rim is just the story of two species that on a scale from 1 to 10 respond to every problem with a 17

ultralaser:

thetruenomenfictus:

fromthemindofatwentyorotherlycan:

idhren:

elodieunderglass:

zamboni-whisperer:

elodieunderglass:

beezelbubbles:

elodieunderglass:

petermorwood:

luminescent-love:

youaresogayskarth:

finnickodaired:

barackinaroundthechristmastree:

WHAT COLOR ARE MIRRORS

let’s reflect on this

fun fact! mirrors reflect each color equally, except for green. if you have ever seen a mirror perfectly aligned in front of another mirror, a.k.a. an infinite mirror, you can look through it and see that it becomes greener and greener. therefore, mirrors are technically green!

holy shit

The glass is greener over here. Not a typo.

If you look edgewise through a sheet of glass you see that it’s green because of iron impurities (Google for it). Reducing the iron reduces the green.

Perfectly aligning mirrors to multiply reflections also multiplies the apparent thickness of the glass, and the green tint becomes more apparent the “deeper” each reflection seems to be.

Science is like history: it was never this interesting at school. 🙂

Yep! And this is because – I’m sorry to say – mirrors are not a unique or separate substance with magical properties. Mirrors are silvered glass. They have two colors: the color of the silver, and the color of the glass. The “silver” doesn’t have to be silver, though it usually is because mirrors are traditionally made with silver nitrate, because it’s a whitish metal. You can have mirrors silvered in gold or black or red. You take literally any piece of glass, pour a coating of silver on it, seal it, and call it a mirror.

You have to seal it because otherwise it tarnishes and spots. Even though the glass protects it from air, the silver oxidizes just like any other silver, which is why antique mirrors have that funky age-spotted look.

Mirrors used in science are usually pure clear glass with no impurities (so the glass has no color) and are silvered in gold or aluminum, so they are white or gold. A warm-toned mirror would have a pink glass and would make things have a rose-gold look. Phryne Fisher, in the books, has a mirror with pink glass.

(Mirrors silvered in silver – that is, most mirrors you’ve seen – are probably faintly grey from the silver and faintly green from the cheap glass, but it doesn’t need to concern you at all – even if you noticed a strong color, you’re often so used to looking in them that your brain edits out any discrepancy – like how your nose doesn’t get in the way of your vision even though it’s right in front of your eyes all of the time.)

My grandmother had a mirror that was silvered in gold. It was a little disconcerting. The silver in mirrors is why vampires don’t have reflections. (And why the cutlery at Castle Dracula was made of gold.)

IS THAT TRUE ABOUT THE REFLECTIONS BECAUSE IF SO THAT CHANGES ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING???

It’s true!  (Source is The Journal Of I Read It Somewhere One Time, so take it with a truckload of salt, but I’m pretty sure it was a published book and not the internet, so like, only a pickup truck, not a dump truck.)

Watsonian explanation:  Silver as an entity and/or concept was upset about being used to pay Judas, so as some kind of compensation God gave it evil-fighting powers, and this is why vampires don’t have reflections in silvered mirrors as well as why werewolves are killed by silver bullets.  (Also works for vampires not showing up on film, because silver nitrate, although obviously that isn’t part of the ~*~original folklore~*~ and also doesn’t explain digital cameras.)

Doylist explanation:  A lot of things that are traditionally anti-vampire turn out to have antibacterial properties- the only ones I remember are garlic and silver, but I think there were others- so supposedly when anti-vampire treatments helped somebody out of a decline or whatever they were actually helping fight off an infection.

@elodieunderglass

Ahahaha I love the conversations we have

A lot of things that are traditionally anti-vampire turn out to have antibacterial properties

So would that mean vampires are weak to antibacterial soap?

The power of hand sanitizer compels you!

antimicrobial soaps were just banned by THE VAMPIRE CABAL

space-flannel:

i want a setting that was once a high fantasy world but time has passed and the days of quests are over while the age of indoor plumbing has begun but the elves and stuff like still exist 

like i want fuckin.. space operas where humans weren’t all that phased by aliens because there had always been other species, and our starfleet utilizing translation potions to help communicate

or a cyberpunk world with like digital magic and the hideous, deformed descendants of dragons creeping through the deepest darkest alleyways of the cities, devouring any fool who dares go down where the neon lights don’t reach

magic mecha to defend us from the giants awoken form their slumber by fucking dwarfs who couldn’t stop mining where they knew they shouldn’t, meanwhile rival mage factions are getting close to all out war to be fought with spellcasting pistols and rifles rather than wands or staffs

come on guys what the fuck happens 1500+ years after our young hero leaves his village to become a mighty warrior i gotta know y’all