Grrl Power #188 – Halo’s first order as a recruit
Boy Sydney’s just full of mysteries lately isn’t she? Don’t fret, this one at least will be resolved relatively soon.
I knew whatever gross combination of flavors I tried to come up with, there’d be some Scandinavian or Asian country that would be all “Hey, that’s our national dish!” So I apologize beforehand. I’m sorry your national dish happens to be the sort of thing that someone would come up with if they were trying to invent an awful combination of flavors for comedy purposes.
I thought about this after I laid out the page, but there’s really no way that Harem would sit with herself like that. She’d divide and conquer and be part of 5 different conversations at once. But no I wanted to draw her all sitting together in one panel, because I’m a big dummy who likes spending 3 hours penciling a single panel. I suspect she’ll drift around the table once the appetizers arrive. Still, I’m pretty pleased with the art on the page, so I’ll go ahead and say it was worth it. (And yes I know I need to go fix Strawberry Blonde Harem’s outfit from the last time we saw her as she was still in her Thing 1 shirt. When I drew this page I decided she’d swap out which one of her was in uniform.)
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So, I went to a 5 Guys burger joint today, and their soda machine had a couple of dozen flavors listed, including various waters. What was even neater, was when I tapped the Ginger Ale icon, it offered 5 different flavors of ginger ale. Neato.
*VORP* *VORP* *VORP* *VORP* *VORP*
“Slurp” “Slurp” “Slurp” “Slurp” “Slurp”
“Mmm” “Mmm” “Mmm” “Mmm” “Mmm”
“Munch” “Munch” “Munch” “Munch” “Munch”
“Burp!” “Burp!” “Burp!” “Burp!” “Burp!”
*VORP* *VORP* *VORP* *VORP* *VORP*
“HEY! Come back! You forgot to pay!”
Yeah, some fast food places use machines that give you a fair number of choices. Burger King’s been using them for over a year now around here.
yeah, I just saw that the other night when out shopping. Lime seagram’s ginger ale. awesome :d
Yeah in that case it’s basically Ginger Ale with 7-up (or similar lemon-lime) syrup Good for something different though.
5 guys is pretty much Subway with hamburgers.
Seriously, they have that many options.
It’s called the Coca-cola Freestyle. Has 200 beverage options. Five Guys tries to a combination of Taco Bell & Chipotle for burgers & hot dogs. Above average, but not as great as its been made out to be.
Andrew lies. Five Guys is without doubt the best burger joint in the business.
But they’re just well-done hamburgers. The beef isn’t anything special, you can’t get it cooked medium or medium-rare, and the buns fall apart just like everyone else’s buns. As far as I can tell, you can go to Wendy’s and order the same thing, and it’ll taste just as good.
I have eaten burgers in every country in Europe, plus various locations in Africa and the U.S.A. The two best I have ever eaten were in the South of France, in Nice* and at Figueres, in North Eastern Spain.** Both were cooked rarer than would be legal in the UK. With superb sauces, which perfectly complimented them. I am drooling, at the memory!
* Where the recent massacre using a lorry occurred. Literally, as it was from a road-side cafe. Albeit that I think it was spared from being on the route of the rampage, from what I saw of the news footage. Every time my friends and I toured Europe, that was the one town we always made sure to stop at. And those burgers figured heavily in the decision!
** Just over the border from France. Housing the Salvador Dali museum. If you can’t make them out, those are loaves of bread stuck onto the wall (architectural rather than baked in nature).
Do not blaspheme in my cheeseburger church.
What the hell! Where is your 5 Guys?!? Mine has a fairly standard soda fountain, with about 4 soda flavors plus ice tea and lemon-aid.
I only get the single burger*, with sauteed mushrooms and onions, plus lettuce, tomato, and mustard. YUM!
* Um, I do have to get a small order of fries. But they heap the fries up so much that it’s basically the large for any other FF place. And the oil soaks through the bag. Don’t judge: That’s how you know it’s good!
My guess is that Andrew may be in an area that is running a “pilot program”, both to gauge consumer reaction & to iron out the kinks in the system.
Would hate to be the guy who has to order/restock all those syrup pouches though…
Huh, so Dabbler’s lips and hair dye are the same colour as Maxima’s collar. Somehow I think she did that on purpose.
The character page says Harem gets “stronger” when she combines herselves. Does that mean mentally as well as physically? If she limits herself to 2 bodies, for example, would each one have 2.5x the brain power of a normal human? It wouldn’t increase her intelligence or knowledge, but she would be able to process information faster–good for a fight.
Then again, she could do this without combining. If one Harem hears a juicy piece of information, she can analyze it from 5 different angles regardless of where her other selves are. However, in this situation, her 5 brains would also be dealing with the ‘overhead’ of their respective bodies–processing their experiences and handling their semi-autonomous body functions. Whereas, in the first example, the inactive brains could (presumably) be fully dedicated to processing whatever Harem wants them to.
[Semi-related note]
While Harem might not have the most raw power, the utility of her abilities is immense. Not only can she teleport 5 bodies instantaneously, but she can do it with perfect coordination. This allows her to consistently strike a single opponent from multiple directions at once. More importantly, she can do it without hitting herself. It allows her to be effective against superhumans with minimal collateral damage. And that’s just the beginning!
Not as far as we can determine, the closest you could come is having a Networked computer put into sleep mode.
EDIT: And yeah, Harem’s been working on developing her own Martial Art based on both her teleportation and her Body-Split abilities.
There’s other applications that do no include combat.
A completely none traceable or hackable form of communication.
Data gathering, while one is in the field think what 4 of her can do just with google.
Item transfer, need a coat for the arctic? Vorp! It’s there, even if she has to have it on to port it.
She would be incredible in a chase, as long as she can see, rooftop alleyway doesn’t matter, she can fallow anyone. Even if there in a jet would be my guess. Staying hidden well, that’s another problem.
It means that Harem has powers beyond just splitting herself into four more doubles. She does have some say so over what the others will do though they have autonomy. It seems she decided that having five of her and one fifth strength can do more than one of her at full strength. A fascinating idea to be sure.
well with all five combined into one she’s almost as strong as Anvil. At 5 bodies she’s about as strong as a normal athletic 19 year old.
She has one consciousness. That means as each body acts independent, she has a form of simultaneous operating split personality.
What we do know is even pain is felt by all bodies. This brings the question of the strength of the connection.
This means with her multiple brains each paying attention to five senses of multiple other body’s and there thoughts that she has rediculous multitasking abilities.
As such she should be able to plan ahead aware of most actions and reactions for a few moves like a chess player. The problem with this power crunching ability with networked brains is she likely has a slower thought process. (When left and right of your brain are not properly interacting you develop split and faster thought process. From experience and published science)
If Harem stuffs herself five times at once… and then recombines into 1 body. Would she explode? Or just explode with a colossal fart? Or fart/vomit at the same time? What happens to the matter in her 5 different stomachs when she teleports/combines with her other selfs?
If you think that’s a problem, why don’t you think it’d be a problem that the matter of 5 bodys goes into 1?
Obviously that’s not the case, so why stomach contend be any different?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxxsP7VWVN8
Or why girls don’t fart
Hilarious, and gross.
On the off-chance that there are readers of these comments who both like superheroes and comedy, this Who’s Line is it Anyway compilation might be entertaining.
First you fart after your food has been digested not as you eat it.
Belch maybe since eating so fast tends to send pockets of air down with the food.
Why would she combine herself after doing that? And would she be combining physical bodies or energy forms? I’d say the latter. So you concepts are silly and only good for one visual bit of nonsense. Now get imagining! I shall purge my own memory cells for more relevant data.
She will be as strong as anvil and the food will be highly compressed so no explosion although possibly an arse volcano.
DaveB has now made a reply on the previous page of comments which resolves this
So full, or hungry, each copy that gets re-absorbed goes into separate storage and comes out exactly the same as they went in. The contents of their stomach, or … um … other organs, do not get shared.
Likewise it explains why they do not need to visit the tattoo parlour after being unteleported. And whatever they are wearing or carrying (subject to her minimal weight limit) will presumably be frozen in time as well.
Pro tip to Harem: If you are in a hostile environment and it has to be endured rather than avoided (for instance if needing to reach a destination beyond the environment that cannot be seen and therefore teleported to directly, at least needing to be crossed in a series of shorter teleports), then put as many of your copies into storage as you can.
If crossing a desert, take a good swig of water first. If going into a radioactive area, drink some red wine, or knock back any drugs that will inhibit radiation damage. If about to enter water hyperventilate first, to saturate your blood with oxygen. Likewise for a vacuum. But in the latter case also exhale at the end of your hyperventilation, before going into storage. That way you reduce the effects of explosive decompression when that body gets called back.
When the active body reaches the limit of their tolerance to the environment, recall a fit body and put the exhausted one into storage. Keep repeating until you exit the hostile area or run out of healthy bodies.
I think that is only Prime who can store and create bodies.
That’s the thing, not even Thing-1 is sure which is/was ‘Prime’ Daphne
Well, I think there is a reason for that T-Shirt. Also she could just “collapse” all bodies and look at the mirror.
but which body to collapse the others into since she can choose which to move to which.
Zack Tilly: any of them can be the ‘solo’ body, Thing-1 is just the one she decided to do the least modifications with, but that doesn’t mean she is the original, and at the same time, it also doesn’t mean she isn’t
For all we know, during her ‘experimentations’/’testing her limits’ she had 6 bodies, and the original Daphne died: the point is, she doesn’t know anymore, and it’s possible DaveB doesn’t either
First off, apologies for the extremely long post. But, hopefully it will be of enough interest to be forgiven. Please be aware that it explains things rather too well. So read it at your own discretion, as it may contain spoilers.
Ok here is a Harem hypothesis. Based solely on her Science Corner statement that “My brains are quantumly entangled…there is only one of me“, and trying to figure out how the other anomalies she shows can be explained. To do this, I incorporate alternate Earths into the hypothesis.
Daphne learns at a young age that she can teleport and has much fun playing with her new power. Finding out that she can teleport to anywhere she can see. Even to places she can see on live TV! Then one day, she wonders how it works. Checking out Star Trek theory, she finds that she may be creating a copy of herself at a new location, whilst destroying the original version of herself at the old location. Rather disconcerting. But this then gets her to thinking “Maybe I do not have to destroy the old version of me, but can keep both?”.
So she imagines that happening, really hard, when she teleports next. But one vorp later, she turns around and there is just empty air behind her. She figures that imagination alone is not enough. She needs to actually be able to see the other her. So, she rushes to the bathroom and looks in the mirror, and tries the same experiment, whilst looking at herself. Intending to teleport where the image stands. “VORP” and suddenly there are two Daphnes looking at each other!
Unknown to her, what has actually happened is that there were two Daphnes each in identical parallel Earths attempting the same experiment. By trying to teleport to a place where there were two of her, one of the two managed to teleport to the location that she could “see” (the same as she would on TV). Only what she was actually doing, instead of teleporting between two locations on the same world was travelling to a mirrored position on the parallel world!
These two Daphnes are absolutely identical in all regards, but mirrored to each other. Which satisfies the criteria for quantum entanglement. They are instantly and permanently linked in a quantum entangled state. What one senses the other does, and so on. Unfortunately the human brain is not designed to get two lots of conflicting sensory input, so this caused a massive problem for Harem. For days, she kept crashing into things, and bumping into herself, talking in unison, hitting walls because her other self was walking through an open door and so on.
But the brain is adaptive, and gradually new pathways formed, partitioning off the sensory input, motor control and even higher thought so that each body could act and think independently. All the time each synapse that adapted and changed was exactly mirrored in the other body. So both brains had all the experiences from each body, whilst being able to focus on just what is happening in its local body to avoid conflict. But still allowing it to examine the other input, when desired.
Eventually she mastered this. Thinking that she had created a duplicate of herself. Not realising one body was actually from another world! And here a change occurred. Each body needed to breath, eat and drink. With every breath that was taken, and every molecule metabolised into the body, each body was incorporating different matter. Such that although there was still the quantum linking between the two bodies they were no longer absolutely identical in every way.
One day a Daphne fell and cut herself. The other Daphne felt the pain, but did not bleed!
One experiment with home tattooing later, she discovered that tattooing one body did not alter the other. And a lifelong obsession was formed. Being sure to keep one body clean so that no parent or teacher could catch her out. One day the inevitable happened though and her tattooed body was caught in a position where she would be exposed. Rather than trying to teleport to a different spot, as she might have done earlier in her youth, she tried to teleport her untattooed self to her tattooed body. She succeeded. But with much panic realised that her other self was no longer in existence!
Frantically she pushed her teacher away, searching for her other self. Only to throw the teacher half-way across the room. Somehow she had become stronger!
What had actually happened is that the tattooed body being swapped out of that reality by the incoming clean body tried to return to its natural world. Only to find that paradox prevented it. Most of the atoms in her body were already present in that other universe, but in completely different states elsewhere. Whereas her super power allowed her to teleport to the one dimension, it could only do so because every atom was absolutely identical, but arriving in a mirrored state.
But unconsciously attempting to reverse this process was blocked because the body had mixed up lots of atoms from the air, food and water. Like a body’s immune system rejecting foreign matter, the other world was rejecting these foreign atoms from another world. Had they been in an identical state,but mirrored it would work, but they were not. Entropy had jumbled everything up over time. Thus making return impossible. Ever.
The tattooed body was stuck in between dimensions. Expelled from one by Daphne’s own power, but unable to arrive in the other. Those atoms which were still native to the other Earth, having not yet been swapped out of Daphne’s body were still trying to return to their home dimension. Whereas the ones native to the plain body’s world were trying to stay there. A tug of war that kept them in limbo.
Those atoms which were native to plain Daphne’s world were being drawn to the quantumly entangled body they were associated with. Thus adding some of their mass (the rest being in limbo) to Daphne’s body, strengthening her bones and muscles, thus making her stronger.
In due course she managed to call back her tattooed self. And learnt how to replicate her panicked ‘absorption’ of her other body. And inevitably came the day when she figured that if she could make one copy of herself, why not two, or three? So headed back to the mirror.
Meanwhile, on a nearly identical Earth Daphne’s parents were mourning an anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance. Cursing that she had ever gained the power to teleport. Never having achieved the closure of finding her body to bury.
In fact exactly that same scene was playing out in a third alternate Earth. Meanwhile a fourth Earth had two Daphnes, one tattooed and one not, also heading to the mirror in the bathroom. Figuring it best to only replicate the plain Daphne, she stood in front of the mirror, Vorped and success, there were three Daphnes, two plain and one tattooed!
Meanwhile, in universe four, a recently quantumly disentangled tattooed Daphne begins the long and traumatic mourning for her lost self. Ever after regretting the day that her plain self teleported into the mirror and was never seen again!
And on our Earth, Daphne curses you because she has no powers.
And now I wonder how many brains you’re going to fry with that theory.XD
Interesting.
I do wonder if she has tested how her quantumly entangled mind interacts with relativity.
Instantaneous teleportation or communication is problematic relativistically speaking and then there is the twin paradox.
Could her minds get out of sync?
Drawing from memory here:
There is a theory that particles can be quantum entangled, in which case they are mirrored exactly.
This means that, if something happends to the first particle, the exact same thing will happen (at the exact same time) to the other particle. Regardless of distance.
If this exists, it might be an option for FTL comunication in the future.
This same quantum entanglement could probably allow all Harems to be in sinc regardless of distance
That theory is well substantiated enough that it’s generally considered to be true (IIRC, it’s part of quantum mechanics). Particles can indeed be quantumly entangled (it’s actually far more common* than most people think), and I believe they’ve done experiments that show this in practice too.
Unfortunately, this does not allow for any kind of actual communication – AFAIK, actually transferring any information that way is not even theoretically possible.
IIRC, the problem is something along the lines of needing to know at the receiving end something about how the state was changed for each particle at the sending end, and that you can’t know this in advance – so you’d have to transfer that some other way, in which case you might as well transfer the actual information that other way instead. I don’t remember the details, but it should be possible to look up – I think I’ve seen a YouTube video explaining it fairly clearly.
(*) I’ve seen this explained; someone found something off about the way entanglement was usually explained, and after a good bit of research and talking with other physicists, he realized that the only way to understand it that makes any sense is that entanglement isn’t actually a rare exotic phenomena – instead, entanglement is the exact same thing as measurement. Whenever you measure something, you entangle the particles of that something with the particles of your measurement apparatus.
Again, I may be misremembering details, but I think that means that most particles are entangled with *something*, just not necessarily what we want them to be. And, entanglement isn’t difficult to destroy, a measurement can easily do it (by replacing it with another, apparently).
My ameture understanding of quantum entaglement says that it cannot be used to transmit data bacause entaglement between two particles is broken when one of them is manipulated. I think it’s best to just say “Harem’s brains stay in sync because that’s her power.” and let that be that. Laws of physics have to break somewhere in super hero stories.
That sounds plausable enough
Instantaneous teleportation or communication is problematic relativistically speaking and then there is the twin paradox.
Could her minds get out of sync?
Let us for the sake of argument posit that she is quantum entangled with all of her other duplicates. How would one try to disentangle them, say a super villain who is in the know enough to consider it? She or he wants to totally cut one or more of Harem’s bodies from each other. Cut off the collective. About the only way to keep where they are a secret if she can actually use that as a sense.
Would a Faraday Cage do it? A stasis field that cancels or stops all Brownian motion and the decay of time effects? Maybe some kind of Null Field could possible block quantum entanglement fields? An interesting subject to ponder. Could use someone who is a quantum physicist to chime in on this.
Your theory (and the related story) holds water, much like a Klein Bottle. I like it.
[earscratch]
*wags tail*
Reminds me of the power of *spoilers* the main villain from JoJo’s Bizare Adveture Part 7: Steel Ball Run who was named Funny Valentine(and was president of the US) who named his ability Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (or D4C) who could not only pull himself from parallel universes but could pull others into them and if anyone besides him came in contact with their alternate selves then they would turn into Menglet Sponges.
By the way, apologies to DaveB. I deliberately kept two links in my post, expecting that it would be put into limbo until it was arbitrated*, under the anti-spam feature. Affording DaveB the opportunity to review the post before deciding whether to let it go live. I would have been fine with keeping it under wraps, if it did hold any spoilers to planned story lines. As it was, the post went live immediately without the normal message that it was pending review. :-(
* Or whatever the term is that is eluding me.
Moderation.
By the way, I think it only take account of the links pointing outside< the grrlpowercomic domain.
+1 :)
Although this is a good theory I vagely remember that it is said that if harem ever combines her bodies and decides to reform again newly created bodies will be copies of original body (which is redhead one) and not be the old changed ones. This means she is not sumoning bodies from other dimensions sicne each dimensions Daphne will be slightly different than original of grrpowers dimension.
Your starting argument is a good one. And this reply does not refute that. But the concluding point could do with clarification. Whilst alternate world’s theory requires that each universe have some difference, it does not need to be a significant one. In fact, the base criteria is merely a change at a quantum level. So there are in fact, potentially, infinite alternate worlds out there.
Of which a vast number would be practically identical, given that quantum changes happen all the time everywhere. So this universe, as we would recognise it, would have very very many versions of it. A tiny change in some distant galaxy would leave the situation on Earth exactly the same as we know it, despite spawning a new universe to accommodate the theory.
Specifically my hypothesis required that the four Earths, and in particular the four Daphnes involved, be absolutely identical even down to the smallest quantum level. Otherwise quantum entanglement would not be possible. It requiring that the particles involved be the same to start with. Assuming the alternate worlds theory is actually true, there will be a huge number of worlds to choose from where there are indistinguishable Daphnes doing exactly the same thing at exactly the same time. And will carry on doing so until some practical difference in that universe propagates from the distant event that differentiates the universes. Which probably will not happen in their lifetime.
Of course, there are worlds out there where there are different versions of each person. And given the infinitely variable possibilities, there will also be ones where any given person appears in any possible role that they might have in life. So in one you could have been born in America and have risen to become the President of the United States. Whereas in another world there would be a version of you who is a yak herder in Mongolia.
That is an interesting aspect of the theory which features very heavily in fiction, so it is understandable to be more familiar with that side of it. But it is not a requirement.
Let us assume that within the megaverse, universes are clustered in such a way that similar ones stay close to each other. So that the ones where the big bang did not happen huddle close to each other. Likewise ones where it happened somewhere that is not here. And assume that our hypothetical means of travel to peek at these universes does not take us too far away from our local cluster. Then most of the worlds you would be likely to visit will have a version of you doing pretty much what you do normally.
Simply because we have a vast universe, with a mind boggling number of small quantum events taking place. Every one of which will be generating identical copies of you in a new universe, unless one of those quantum events happens to be close enough to alter the course of history here on this insignificant little rock we live on.
I must point out, as a matter of interest though, that there will be vastly more alternate Earths out there which have dinosaurs running around them than bald great apes. The dinosaurs ruled the Earth for a staggeringly longer time than humanity has been around. So there will be loads more alternate Earths featuring versions of their history than ours. In our particular known timeline, that is.
If you look beyond that to the really different worlds, there will be loads where no life evolved on Earth or things completely unrecognisable to us evolved here instead of either dinosaurs or apes. Let alone ones where some universal law might be varied. Say one that allows super powers.
Cool, DaveB has just given a reply on the previous page of these comments:
Which allows me to address the first point you made in your reply to my alternate world hypothesis post:
Given that this is incompatible with the author’s comment I quoted above, I think that the point you are recalling is actually that when Harem creates a brand new body (in other words, exceeding the greatest number that she has previously had) it is the the same as her original untattooed body.
Which is not incompatible with my hypothesis, where the same thing happens. But simply because she chooses to copy the original, rather than one of the tattooed versions. Of course, if she tries to copy a tattooed body someday, and fails, then that might invalidate my hypothesis. Or co-incidentally she might have reached her limit of bodies*. But that can be tested by trying again with her main body.
* Which I think would primarily be inhibited by the capacity of her brain to be partitioned off to control each body. As her brains are quantumly entangled it means that they have to be identical. So she does not have five different brains to store information and conduct other thought, she only has the one. She must already be using her brain extremely efficiently to even control five bodies. Unless there is some other effect in operation, such as a specific super-power just for this.
the science corner explained that each body has its own brain but she has an over arching consciousness so she can process information for each body on an independent level up to the threshold that it reaches mental crossover from surprise or intensity.
I still can’t find that page :-(
And all the local dimensions around here have slightly different versions, so I really need to see the one that folks in this dimension have read.
Waiter: Well, some products do come into contact with some nuts during preparation, but we do not use peanuts at all in this restaurant.
No David Nuttall your mind-control will not work against me. I can fight your evil intent. Nooo, my will is fading, I am weakening…
You do not have to be nuts to work here, but it helps!
While we do have lingonberry soda here in Sweden, it’s generally thought of as a bad idea even by most of us… =p
DaveB – just looked over your SFW Peggy vote incentive.
A-Buh…
Particularly love the almost feline look to her eyes.
The Barrett is very nicely rendered, though the .762 shells (while a nice touch, along with the ranging map) are a touch confusing.
…and that mistletoe… [rawr]
And I just love the invisible top! I think Halo has granted me some power of truesight though.
You can’t see it :)
So asuming that she ordered some really hot food.
I wonder if Harem is going to underestimate it and we’re going to get another pain reaction when one of her takes a bite
:) So far Syd did hit Harem in the face via Whitey (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/402), freaked out her via Punky (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/558) and now slapped her in the head via Prime (this page) in just few hours.
Could she do a full house until midnigth?
I’m just happy that Peggy is in a panel. I’d love to see a closeup of her tat sleeve.
Looks like I got my wish with the vote incentive! I like it! I would have preferred a little less cheesecake, but on the other hand we wouldn’t see the tats so well! I like it!
That’s because it’s the valentine’s incentive :P
And ding, the comic hits #2 in the Top Webcomics ratings list. Congrats DaveB ..
I only vote about every 3 days; but when I do, I vote for Grrl Power, Two Kinds, and Not A Villain. Sometimes it feels a little silly.
I suspect a normal appearance dish with a weird dip or side Bowl, or super hot side. Either that or normal dish cooked in chilli peppers. (She will claim at some point that that is where she gets her powers, hot food)
I was mutcing around some of my older web sights I like and found this, so auhmm Dave wtf?
https://wereworld.comicgenesis.com/d/20021123.html
Dave is a generous guy. He loaned out Dabbler for use in that web-comic. Before he even started her here!
*Grins and adds the 101st hashmark on a chalkboard labeled “Asked about Dabbler in Wereworld*
Congratulations!! You get the No-Prize! ;)
I missed this one. Just in case you have some doubts check these:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/621
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/376#comment-7191
Also if you look at the right side bar below of Webcomics I Like…but are usually NSFW what do you see?
I think the author deserve a bit more than just a glance to the comic, my friend.
Death and tactics. How Harem can make the most of dying and achieve immortality.
1. She should not fear death, she can just create a new body when one dies. *
2. If Harem does have not already keep an unmodified copy in storage, she should immediately put original flavour Daphne into storage and keep her there indefinitely. Whenever a copy dies off, she will be able to replace her with a young and fit body. Unless all of her active bodies are killed or incapacitated simultaneously, Harem is effectively immortal.
3. Triage any mortal wound. If it is serious enough to likely be fatal in the current circumstances, but has a good prospect of survival in a well-equipped A&E or intensive care unit, then immediately place the body into storage. Be sure to have the unit fully staffed and briefed on the situation prior to recalling the body.
4. Mortal wounds with poor prospect of survival, or any other unwanted condition which cannot be cured, allow an interesting option. Pop the body into storage and prepare resources for later deployment.
Identify the greatest known threat and customise the package based on that. Lacking a specific target, the default could be explosives. Preferably in a liquid or other easily consumed state. Complete with any necessary detonator, light enough to fall under Harem’s weight limit for holding in hand and teleporting. Ideally using a dead-man’s switch, given the means of deployment.
Other options include Ebola, or similar nasty biological agent, nerve gas or any weapon which could be deployed within a human body. Bring the body back and quickly consume the package, making sure to re-enter storage before detonation or dying. Recall the body when her enemy is located and in a position that the body-weapon can be teleported to them with optimum chance of success.
This is also a useful tactic to use if a body reaches old age, and needs to be replaced with a young model.
* Even if Harem figures out that she is calling her bodies from alternative universes – all her experiences are shared, so if any one of her bodies stays alive the sum of her existence is preserved.
Ethically though she should consider the trail of mourning friends and relatives such tactics will be leaving behind in other universes. From what we have seen of her, so far, that might not be an issue that will bother her much. But, she should also consider the risk that there is a 50/50 chance that the universe she is currently in is the one that she will be drawn from when ‘copying’ a body. So she would need to face the prospect of loosing Daphne prime, rather than gaining a second one. Even if she knows that there is some other universe where both of her will be living on.
She creates duplicates of herself. I don’t see any reason they should be duplicates in every way apart from age. So, she’s gonna get old, and it’ll kill her eventually.
Ahh, you must have missed reading the word of god on the previous page of comments. DaveB indicated that:
So my point 2 above was just capitalising on that useful side-effect.
If creating a new body, or replacing a dead one, Daphne should first locate the most valuable item she can hold. She could also consider any object she is capable of consuming, or otherwise carrying internally, provided it does not interfere with her teleporting ability.
Duplicating an item which could grant super, magical or psionic powers would be preferable to mere monetary value. But if the former are unavailable or would not not function in a duplicated state, then gem stones, expensive electronic circuitry, rare earth elements or art objects can all be considered.
Regarding the Peggy invotive: that is some high quality leg she has, did Dabbles at least help with the design?
In just a few months comic time Sidney is promoted to corporal. I take it the recruitment advert/press conference greatly boosted their numbers sufficiently to artificially boost everyone’s rank who was already enlisted.
Given the foreshadowing that we had glimpsing a bunch of supervillains eyeing up Maxima like a pork chop, I suspect that battlefield promotions will be up for grabs during the next couple of months.
promotions on the enlisted level for schooling or special skills already exist so she could start at private (e-1) and work up or start at specialist (e-4) and be granted corporal (also e-4) for placement on the squad.
Does Harem, Harem, Harem, Harem and Harem count as a clique?
Yes. It also counts as a harem.
Fish and dairy… no culture does those together that I can think of. Imagine: Shrimp flavored ice cream.
[bleah]
Prawn cocktail ice cream is something I would happily try!
Why does everyone forget Japan exists?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/24-utterly-bizarre-japanese-ice-cream-flavours?utm_term=.wlG6DAg1N#.vfnjVGRMg
jellyfish,
Oyster
Shark fin
white bait
squid ink
eel
Octopus
Crab
Fish
Shrimp.
And thoes ar not the odd ones on that list!
I wonder what the vampire flavour tastes like? Usually the pondering is the other way round, when dealing with vampires.
Maybe Harem is sitting with herself because somebody decided to do assigned seating?
Makes sense. Probably by someone who knows who likes to hang in which cliques. And they were just not thinking that Daphne might want all her bodies in the same room at the same time.
Although a it is possible that they asked folks where they wanted to sit and Harem just said “make sure to put me next to Sydney, I want her to get used to me”, rubbing her sore eye. Without thinking to add “and next to …”.
One other option just sprang to mind. “I don’t care where, just make sure it is as far away from Maxima as possible!” Whilst massaging the various sore bits from her super-wedgie.
Yes Harem, I could imagine tasting that now…which one of you is having the pregnancy cravings?
Speaking of dire flavors, there’s one you can pull on people — or rather, trick them into bombing themselves with it.
Take a big glass bowl, say at a party. Fill it with a mix of peanut M&Ms, Reeses Pieces and Skittles. They normally look different but intermixed, the eye is fooled into thinking they’re all the same candy (M&Ms).
The combined flavor is not merely clashingly prankworthy, it’s also synergistic. The combination has two additional flavors that any one of the candies lacks entirely by themselves. A bitter aftertaste and this oddly chemical taste, almost like cleaning fluid.
I need to try this someday.
It still boggles my mind that she can run five different bodies doing five distinct things without getting all confused.