Grrl Power #280 – An inauspicious start
Sydney knows about the aura which is the first step in resisting it. It’s like disbelieving an illusion. We’ve seen that her ADHD can be an asset in some cases, but here it’s working against her, as we see her slip from active resistance to “yeah and so’s you’re mom!” in about 4 seconds.
I always knew this step of the plan would fail, in fact I’m not even sure what Sydney had planned for the lighthook. There’s a lot of options; wrap it around his arm to see if that will block the lightning, try and choke him, shove it down or up certain orifices, even make a spring to try and push him off Max. Sydney doesn’t even know if it works that way yet. She’s not the Green Lantern after all. Well, hopefully she can turn it around on the next page.
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Dabblers face when the light hook appeared with a n’yop is priceless
You can make out that tiny face?
Man, I always get a smile out of GP, but that “tag line” (or whatever you’d call it) in the bottom margin cracked me right up! ^_^
…I should perhaps not read really good comics at 1AM whilst I live in a rooming house with 4 other people and thin walls. (“sorry!”)
This, precisely.
cheerily spits
Tipsy Chiseler?
Cheesy Lip Stir?
Sh*ts Creepily?
…oh wait, you probably meant “Precisely This”. Ok, never mind.
I know, I love it.
Perhaps since there are 3 ‘in’ the shield, the plan is to run out of oxygen faster since Mr. V and Maxima are struggling and using up heap big lungs of it and Sydney could squeeze the dome down? Nothing stops a fight like blacking out.
Sydney, with the least endurance, would be the first one to pass out…Then the shield drops when she lets go of the orb.
Also, I’m quite certain that Vehemence can substitute oxygen with vehement energy.
endurance isn’t the key here. Oxygen usage, by things like big working muscles, is the key.
But V might be able to ka-pants himself an O2 tank.
Incidentally, it appears I was correct in guessing that Dave was having Sydney hold the comm ball when entering the aura and dropping the shield, mainly to see the effect of the aura change. Since Dabbler is outside and has some sort of spell/portal awaiting completion (Sydney dropping her shield, I assume), one could also assume she was the one notified by Sydney for the 3-steps ahead plan.
And, I am assuming, Dabbler is touching the shield to ensure the timing for when it drops.
I figured Dabbler’s just trying to get in. I doubt Sydney told anyone anything, since, uh, they were all a little too angry to listen.
She speed texted them on the armlet. They got it on their own devices.
Yeah, but have they really had time to check their messages yet? o_O
Considering I’ve sent a text and they get it a half-hour later? (I know because I was there when the phone received it.)
Just thought of something. Why wasn’t Sydney affected by V’s aggression aura until she was inside the shield with it? Is it because of ADD, or because she was so focused on something else at that time that nothing could interrupt her concentration? Also, how does V’s aggression aura work? Does it make people fight with the first person they see, or the last person they argued with, or even the person that they like most out of all the people around them? Why didn’t it effect Dabbler? Was its effect on her her aiming her bow thingy at V? What the heck would that bow thingy have done if it had hit him? It has to be more than just a bow. Most of all, WHAT IS SYDNEY’S PLAN???
Okay, no more questions for now. Can’t wait to see what Sydney does!
It was because of her shield. The aura can’t penetrate her shield so she was unaffected until she put the aura generator in her shield with her.
Because knowing about the aura helps in resisting or at least focusing the violence… As stated by DaveB
” Why wasn’t Sydney affected by V’s aggression aura until she was inside the shield with it?”
her shield was blocking the aura, once the aura generator was inside the shield, it stopped the aura from affecting anyone outside the shield, which does not include Sydney.
“Also, how does V’s aggression aura work?”
that hasn’t been fully explained, to me knowledge, but i guess that it removes all inhibitions toward violence and hurting others, including your friends, while pumping your aggression up to 11.
“Why didn’t it effect Dabbler?”
it *was* affecting Dabbler, but she was just focusing her aggression on V until she got distracted, also that bow thing looks a lot like that magnetic slingshot/rail gun/mass driver she used in the presentation.
It’s been explained that is is just about literally the rail gun from Hell. It packs a punch..
Why? https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1564
Look at Sydney and the aura… The aura is emitting from Vehemence. If you look at Sydney, there’s section in the aura being cut out by her shield, the aura is not inside her shield.
Then, look at the previous page. You’ll notice the shield is cutting the aura off…
Nothing gets in, nothing gets out. In otherwords, Sydney isn’t locked in there with V’s aura, V’s aura is locked in there with her.
Getting him inside the shield was gutsy, obviously. This move confirmed one thing I suspected, that the aura is a constant effect that Vehemence can keep “on” much like Dabbler apparently could do with her aura. So the only way to use the cut-off effect was to get him inside of it.
Next step in the plan? Hm… could fly away with him still inside, perhaps. Granted that Vehemence was able to ground himself when Maxima tried a highball, but can he do that and keep Maxima down at the same time?
I have no idea if he would still follow inside the shield bubble, but it’s an amusing thought.
I’m gonna take a WAG and say that IF Sydney’s shield can lift up the portion of “ground” that is INSIDE the shield with her, then, combined with the fact that the shield stops his aggro-aura cold from inside to out… if he tries to stop her the same way that he stopped Maxima, it will work out for Sydney, and NOT him… reasoning: he WILL be “stuck” to the ground INSIDE the shield… but since the shield stops the aura, it will also stop the sticky spell at the same spot. and since that portion of the ground will be lifted off the ground by the orb it won’t do him any good…
The problem is in the ‘if’ portion, which I’m leaning towards the ‘not happening’ part. At the very least, it won’t cut a piece of concrete under his feet due to the shield set to avoid cutting things when formed. I wouldn’t be surprised the shield wouldn’t budge because of that safety feature.
If only that light hook had snapped down and done a slap on Dabblers’ backside… If only.. heh
to power Dabbler up, naturally.
I have to wonder if she is faking him out right now concerning the Lighthook. Considering she’s used the Lighthook enough in the past to figure out a number of uses, she may very well have realized she can’t summon it into the Shielded area. (I suspect she’s stalling for time to allow Harem to teleport everyone else away so she can drop the shield without the Aggro field being effective if V reactivates it.)
Try to think three moves ahead.
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of DaveB!
I’m batting .000 so far on that.
1) Harem has a teleport weight limit of about 25 lbs. (12 kg)
2) Harem cannot teleport living material of any type or amount.
WoG.
I thought it was 50 lbs.
Doesn’t matter she can’t teleport other people.
Unless that person has first been turned into 50 or less pounds of inanimate matter.
50 lbs when it’s a single body. All five bodies, it’s 25 lbs each. Approximately anyways.
Where was that said?
Chalk board on panel four on the Dabbler’s Science Corner #2 indicates carry-on limit of approximately 25 to 50 pounds. Those numbers are preceded by the statement that her carry-on limit grows somewhat higher the fewer bodies there are, so safe to say the 25 is with all her bodies.
Unless she meant 50 lbs while split and MORE when combined. You are making an assumption:)
Which makes more sense since she said she needed to up teleport for some stuff that was at her weight limit
Up teleport= unteleport. Stupid autocorrect
No, the max is 50 lbs given the statement says the carry on weight increases the less bodies there are.
Then there’s the demonstration where she had to remove a body and take off her shoes to handle heavier gear.
I see nothing at all in Dabbler’s Science Corner which says 25 pounds. I’m really not sure where you’ve taken that from. I see where it says her max is 50 pounds, and that she is stronger and is able to carry more the less people who she’s split into, but that in no way seems to imply that she can carry less than 50 as one person. In fact, it seems to imply that her max weight as one person is 50 pounds (including her own gear), and if she unteleports herself into fewer people, she can carry more than 50 pounds.
Where you see 50 is also where you find 25. It states approx. 25 to 50 lbs as a blanket statement to cover her max carry on weight for multiple bodies to single body. This is precisely where people are getting the maximum weight of 50 pounds for a single body from.
During Dabbler’s Science Corner, it was basically said that the limit is dependant on how much Harem can carry. She loses strength with more bodied. So in theory she can carry a lot more stuff in the teleport if there’s just one of her out at a time.
As far as I’m aware, it was never really said whether she can teleport other living things or not… If she cannot teleport other living things, then her body would theoretically be a complete wreck because all the beneficial bacteria would not still be there. If beneficial bacteria are exempt, then her teleporting would be better than an autoclave for sterilizing equipment.
The part where she can’t teleport people is directly from Dave himself during several comments in the comic. The little details like bacteria, I’m assuming there are gonna be exceptions.
Huh. Didn’t catch that, even with a recent archive crawl. Ah well, there’s other ways to get as many people away from the battlefield as possible
It’s written on the blackboard behind Dabbler, in Dabbler’s Science Corner strip.
Not sure if this was theorized or not, but is it possible that Sydney dispelled the aura herself? It did kinda dissapear when she clenched the Comm orb.
I think he dispelled it himself. In the panel it looks like she is slowly leaning her fingers toward the PPO orb when the aura went away and she rethought that chain of actions.
That makes sense, I totally missed the PPO moving towards her hand.
I called it. The shield part anyway, (comic page 275, comment page 4, 8th comment from the top).
Which, for the record, feels almost exactly like guessing your Christmas present before opening it. A tiny bit of the regular “i called it” joy/satisfaction, which is almost completely drowned out by the disappointment of not being surprised by it. The only thing that makes it remotely fun is that I didn’t call the part about her not knowing/being unable to use the Lighthook inside her shield, which is of course blindingly obvious in hindsight. I honestly can’t decide whether the enjoyment of trying to guess or predict future story events balances out this feeling or not. Definitely food for thought…
I never really thought about ADD/ADHD in that sort of light before but it really does seem to help with stuff like analyzing recent memories for information that could be useful in the current situation. DaveB does a really spectacular job of portraying what ADD is like on pg 278 the only major difference is that the quantity of information she goes through on that page probably actually occurs in about 3-7 seconds (depending on just how many times Batman type thoughts show up and how long it takes to eliminate those and all of the X’d thoughts). If you want a really really good example try reviewing all of the pages referenced on pg 278 and a page on either side of each of them over the course of about 10 seconds.
I am definitely looking forward to her new/modified/improvIsed plan now though. I also wonder exactly which of those it will turn out to be = ).
*gives you the prize of a $50 gift certificate to Red Robin*
And a free ipod nano.
Only if he hits the dove.
Now I’m hungry for red robin… Dangit
I find myself pondering the direction Dabbler’s thoughts must inevitably go to when she sees Sydney using the lighthook. I’m also fairly certain that no matter what the official name is, the vast majority of people are still going to call it things like The Penetrator.
Locally it is called the hentorb or the molestorb. Sydney wanted to call it The Violator. Max said no very firmly. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/793 And Dabbler is probablly trying to figure out a way to make one for herself.
Seems to me that if Dabbler knows the (original) plan, she’s expecting the “lighthook” to be INSIDE the sphere, and she’s going “oh shit” rather then “YAY, tentacle time”
After seeing this I hope this fight is not the end of Vehemence, I see he has a respect for Sydney that I think other villains may not ever have. I can see him wanting to see her full potential and the like. Villains who can at weird times be an ally given the weird comic book timing of certain events. I have warmed up to him as a result of this.
It won’t be. Dave B has already talked about how he wanted to set up V to be the sort of guy who people go “oh crap it’s the Juggernaut/hulk/magneto, call for backup now!” when they see him.
Actually it should be ‘It’s Vehemence, decapitate him with the first shot and put him in orbit BEFORE he gets powerful.’
It’s about the “oh crap” part, not the “what to do about it” portion.
Not much ‘oh crap’ when you know that the way to beat him is to simply kill him beforr he can become a threat
Who’s to say he hasn’t learnt from this and powers up before revealing himself in future?
Are there any additional advantages you’d like your honey bunny, Vehemence, to have? :)
So let me just get this straight. You feel that, the next time Vehemence ‘reveals’ himself, he’ll first have powered up to the point of a 50 superhuman slugfest, BEFORE revealing himself?
Pray tell, where are these additional 50 superhumans coming from? Probably from his butt, where most of his powers reside.
how about a Soccer game? Those can get mighty Brawl-y
Decapitate and toss him? You really think he can grow a new brain stem? :p
It’s vehemence. I’m not taking any chances lest there be another year long fight with powers coming out his butt again
Just for that, I don’t want to see him grow one brain stem. I want to see him grow TWO brain stems. One on the neck stump, the other from his anal orifice. =3 Then toss him to space so he can get violent in a vacuum. That would be sweeeeeeet.
That would make sense since He DOES seem to have his head up his own ….
Ahem
Why don’t just throw him to space or try to make him waste energy? He needs violence, so maybe the inverse could weak him
They would, but now he’s so powerful that he has ‘magic feet stick to the ground so he can’t be moved BS’ powers. To prevent that. Which he didnt have in the beginning but now he has it because he has ‘power to burn’
Are you still so bitter about that? You just want Vehemence to be dumb villain and monologue about all his powers when he shows for the first time to be satisfied? Because otherwise, there is no “in the beginning” where he could have demonstrated his powers, THIS is the beginning where he is demonstrating them. Dave chose another role for him, a smart villain who timed the revelations to work in his advantage. He had plenty of time to practice lesser version of his spells/abilities/whatever he is using, now he just has enough power to make them really count. Or there is another equally good explanation in Dave’s mind, waiting for “a dramatically appropriate moment in the comic”.
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Recently I read an interesting comment in the archive (from which I borrowed above quote). If it wasn’t written in 2011, I would think it was about you. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/262/comment-page-1#comment-2830
Retry… I’ll see if it works this time.
I think the complaint is not so much that V’s revealing previously unknown powers as it is that most of the “previously unknown” powers are ridiculously specific, thematically unrelated to the supposed motif of his powers, and exactly whatever power he happens to need at a given instant. Right down to an “emergency pants” effect and a “stuck to the ground” effect.
Seriously, if you were describing the powers of supers, how often would “can create emergency pants” come up? Zee-row. “Can be stuck to the ground at will” is more plausible, but in either case what possible relationship do these effects have to Vehemence’s thematic signature of “Violence?” The question is whether there is there any plausibility or, failing plausibility is there any thematic justification for them?
And the answer, in several cases, is just …. Nope. Unless he’s got some kind of Godlike power that can literally be anything he wants it to be at any given instant, each reveal of something ridiculously specific and thematically unrelated is … well, IMO, damaging in some way to the quality of the story. It’s just wild weird elements with no thread to tie them together. And if he does have some kind of Godlike power that can literally be anything he wants it to be at any given instant, then what the hell does *THAT* power have to do with him thematically?
Or they just happen to be spells he learned how to use because they seemed you know, prudent.
Virtually all the effects shown so far that V has made, can easily be classified by established superhero RPG powers:
– Energy Vampire
– Aura Projection
– Energy projection
– Strength enhancement
– Matter Creation |__ [stunt: pseudo-regeneration] (notice his new arm is metal not flesh)
– Matter Control |
Easily possible within most Common Supers RPG systems.. perhaps very high level/rank/point value/whatever, but easily possible.
Its already been shown that V is highly pragmatic, and pretty cunning. He likely isn’t showing his whole bag of tricks, and has only used his powers where he needed to, and in ways to make even an attentive observer believe him to be omnipotent. Even his ranting has been carefully crafted to make himself seem unstoppable.
The problem is, he is so drunk on power right now, he is believing his own hype.
This is good enough a response that I don’t feel the need to respond myself, except to say to human that it’s not bitterness, any more than you are a sycophantic vehemence fanboy. Vehemence is not “a smart villain”… He is a heavily plot armored villain.
Human=huan. Stupid autocorrect
He could be either at this point. But if in time how he is doing what he is doing is explained well then its fine.
The Violence is simply giving him Power, how he uses that power is no different than if it came from drinking gallons of jet-fuel (or what Sydney likes to drink)
To put it another way: he gets his Power from Violence, he uses that Power to make whatever the damn he wants because he has taking the time to learn those things
So…. basically you think it would be an awesome idea for Vehemence to have the power of, what we in the role playing game world call, ‘twinkdom.’ Bascially ‘Violence = whatever power you want’
Ignoring, of course, the fact that Vehemence has said about 10 times now that this is the first time he’s actually had the power to do all these things. Yet at the same time, you feel he’s had ‘experience’ using these powers. I’m astounded that you are able to twist logic around so thoroughly – he simultaneously is doing this for the first time ever AND is already well practiced in every aspect of these new things which he is doing, many of which really has nothing to do with ‘violence.’ Despite being gained FROM violence.
“You’ve cut me off from all the violence happening outside your shield”
So Sydney’s shield blocks even his inherent absorption of vehemic energy.
If you go back to the page that showed the whole aggro aura you’ll see that Sydney’s shield is blocking a portion of it.
all the villains had hand-cuffs that were constantly administering knock-out drugs, the aggro aura was overriding those drugs so when that got blocked by the shield all the villains had nothing stopping those drugs from putting them back to sleep. all the bad guys are sleeping now and none of the good guys would ever keep fighting amongst themselves without the aura present.
it’s not that he’s cut off from the violence, it’s that the violence is no longer happening.
If V says he was “cut off from all the violence happening outside your shield”, then he was. I don’t think he would be lying about that. And it doesn’t just mean he has stopped feeding everyone agro, it means he has stopped absorbing low-level environmental violence as well. He should be weakening soon, although there is no way of knowing how long that will take.
That said, I totally think Sydney should try tickling him. :)
Violence: 1. Extreme force.
2. Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
3. Widespread fighting.
with every non-news civilian high-tailing it out of there, all the bad guys unconscious again and all the good guys calm and no longer fighting each other again, what violence is actually going on outside the shield?
Why do some comments just not appear here when using the “reply” button from Firefox?
When retried, I got a “looks like you’ve already made that comment” but it’s not showing up on the page. Does anybody else see a comment from me, posted in response to huan, in the above comment thread by Setokayba, Pander, and huan? Do I have some weird caching issue where it’s not showing up for me but shows up for everybody else?
Or is the “reply” button just not working for Firefox users or people who don’t run Flash or something?
Okay, testing. I wonder if I’ll be able to see this self-reply?
And I can. What the hell is going on?
Well, I guess that confirms it’s not a profanity filter…
And if this one goes through it’ll confirm that it’s not about the nesting depth….
So what the heck is it?
I have had a similar problem. But it is not confined to Firefox. Safari on both Mac OS and iOS as well as Chrome on both will go out usually right after I do a restart. It usually comes back in a few hours without my doing anything. I just check periodically until I can comment and then post what I’ve been mentally composing all day. I though the hitch might be at the ISP level, but I don’t know what to do.
I had the same problem for no apparent reason earlier, except my first post was a top-level one. I suspect mine was due to an embedded link, but have no proof, since others can post links without apparent problems.
I had an idea… So we don’t really know about HOW Sydney’s balls work. My theory is that the balls add a new ability to her brain. Basically after using the balls enough, or getting a specific upgrade, she can use them without holding them. The only thing which goes against it is that a) they were in the bottom of the Ocean, so someone wanted them gone FOREVER (or maybe that IS in the support of my theory). B) there were upgrades which had already been made and stayed even if she wasn’t the only owner.
Also, how funny would it be if her idea about alien tracking the balls was right?
I’d say this encounter shows how Sydney’s _figurative_ balls work, anyway… (Sorry, but I couldn’t leave it hanging there.)
Is Sydney Telepresented?
the telepresence orb floats back up in panel 9, so no.
More specifically I guess, could this work in her favour using the telepresence orb? (Just messing around with theories.)
I’m calling it.
Vehemence is a lying liar. He can’t kill Maxima yet, or he would have already. He’s trying to intimidate Sydney into dropping the shield because otherwise he’s stuck.
Can’t kill Maxima, can’t power up enough to be able to kill Maxima, can’t let Maxima go to force Sydney to lower the shield. He’s stuck so he’s bluffing.
I’m also convinced that his “regeneration” powers were a lie too. Cellular reproduction requires a lot of energy – which he claims to have in abundance, that I believe – but I’m guessing that a simple one for one regeneration requires more energy than he absorbed from Maxima’s attack. But since he had even more Vehemic energy saved up, he drew on a little extra of that to make his regenerated arm, eye and teeth tougher. Just to make it look like a bad idea to try that again.
He’s scared, otherwise he wouldn’t need to kill Maxima at all.
He thinks Maxima is weakened so if he is trying for an escape at this point it makes sense from his point. But I think he has gotten addicted to being so juiced up he’s not going to quit until someone or something forces him to sober up by extracting all his vehemic energy in one massive drain. And then Max will evaporate him. The next vehemic user we see will be seeking revenge for his death.
I think you are on the right track.
All of a sudden, V’s power supply has been shut off, and there is no telling how long his reserves are good for. I would further venture as extremely probable that HE doesn’t know how much reserve power he has. By his own admission, V is powered up way beyond anything he has achieved before – and he could hit EMPTY in an hour, or in the next heartbeat, or anywhere in between.
And V is smart enough, if the rush isn’t clouding his judgement, to realize that. Another reason to use his remaining charge to break off the attack. While he has options to cover an escape.
How I wish this was going to be true.
How I am sure it won’t be :(
How does dabbler put her pants on if her hoof is larger than the pant hole?
Space magic
Space lube.
The miracle of Velcro.
That’s what I said… Space magic
:)
Most women’s jeans contain a certain amount of stretch, especially the fashion varieties. I have a pair won’t jump fences in due to this. also, I’m sure she can alter her shape at will.
I believe that reknowned theoretical physicist Dr Sheldon Lee Cooper has the answer –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjFlOtXPRTI
Those are what we call ‘stretchy-pants’, or, they are like her top, illusion slash holograms
I apologize if this is not a new idea – certainly, I suspect it’s a stupid one – but what if our darling Sydney managed to disrupt and dispel that vehemic energy by doing something playful, something silly . . .
Something like tickle him, for instance?
;)
Some have suggested tickling as a distraction, but as a vehemic energy drain you are original. As far as I know. But it seems the Lighthook is not cooperating. And getting that close is a very bad idea.
On the other hand. That spell Dabbler is firing up. I bet tickling generates tantric energy so she may have a spell of that nature.
I agree that getting herself close to him would likely get her smushed, but I cannot help but wonder if the modification she’s coming up with in her plan is a way to use her pseudopod thing to get to him after all.
I’m pretty sure she wasnt going to use the lighthook to ‘tickle’ him. Because honestly, that would be stupid. For one thing, ‘tickling’ is not the opposite of violence, and it’s not something which can stop Vehemence from killing Maxima. It’s one of those ridiculous theories people have been putting forth, along with ‘use love to fight him’ and ‘Dabbler orgy to combat Vehemence’ and ‘hugs!’.
A far more likely scenario would have been Sydney planning on using the Lighthook to BIND Vehemence like a lasso, or like Dabbler’s mummy gun thing. Since the lighthook is likely far more unbreakable to accomplish a non-violent takedown of Vehemence.
Of course, that is not an option now since she can’t figure out how to make the lighthook form inside the shield. So another good option would be to use the orbs themselves to bind him somehow, given their immobility from outside forces other than Sydney. And before someone says it, because I KNOW they will, the orbs have never been budged by anyone else. Vehemence did not budge the orb when he pulled Sydney by the lighthook – he pulled the lighthook, which then pulled Sydney. Major difference. Even Maxima was unable to budge the orbs (albeit she was trying to budge them from further away from Sydney than their maximum separation amount). But still, it seems like a pretty good strategy if she can’t use the lighthook within the shield.
Hey! MY wacky plan involved large amounts of dope, lots of Doritos laced with Vicodin and our heros doing an impromptu performance of ‘Hair’ (face it, Harems choreography would be excellent). It was a COMPLETELY different wacky plan :-).
But yeah, tickles and hugs are not gonna work. Did you know tickling is actually a very sadistic thing to do to someone? Especially if you don’t stop when asked?
What powers are left that Halo doesn’t have and could be upgraded, or my guess, combined with other orb powers to make new ones? I’ll bet one of those two mystery orbs does something related to absorbing powers or energy. Maybe it starts out with a weak energy dispelling, and the upgrades move it through energy absorption and eventually stealing other people’s powers as the final upgrade.
Also, not an actual theory, but I just had this idea in my head and thought it was funny… if you take the power tiers of her orbs out of a video game context, it’s like it’s meant for training. I’m stuck thinking of the orbs as a toddler toy now. You only get the really cool powers once you’ve mastered the basics. Really, who would design a weapon that you can’t use most of for any reason other than as a learning aid? Outside of being a nerd and thinking it’s really cool. Which it is. But, I mean, for non-nerds. It’s not entirely practical. Maybe it was made on accident or by crazy peeps, who don’t care about silly things like “logic.”
New theory: DaveB is actually a supervillain who gains power from the frustration (sort of like Vehemence or Dabbler, except with frustration instead of violence or lust) of his readers waiting for him to reveal how Sydney is find a way to beat him. =OP
That… wouldn’t surprise me.
just a quick guess that popped into my head. Maybe one of the undiscovered orb powers is to combine different orbs with one orb leaving her free to use more than two at once. 3 total?
Operation Waiting-for-the-next-page-with-a-mixture-of-glee-and-finger-chewing(nail biting has been surpassed long ago)-tension Is A Go!!!
Interesting, so not only does her shield block “magic” it even blocks her own magic. That could get awkward. I wonder if that applies to all her non-passive powers or if it only applies to the tentacle orb.
Then again, her only other (known) non-passive power would be the PPO, so I wonder if that will still shoot off since the origin is the orb and not just popping into existence like the tentacle. Either way, still a cool thing to know. I wonder if her shield would stop teleportation as well…
Harem’s already stated she can’t teleport through Sydneys (sorry, the MIGHTY Halos) shield, so teleportation is out as far as we know. I’d guess the PPO would also not work inside the shield. Consider, the PPO destroys something inside the shield and the shock wave from the resulting explosion (being fully contained by the shield) destroys the wielder.
It would be classic gotcha time if being inside Sydney’s force field is being inside a power damping field. It just takes time to zero in on the type of power to nullify it, requiring her to use the telepresence to examine the source to tune it in. So now she notices a previously grayed out icon on the FF and hears a mental “ding” (like when he realized the safety on the PPO had disengaged).
So then if she trapped Harem inside her shield would she be stuck there forever (until they suffocated)? I wonder if her “dephazing” herself is considered teleportation.
You know what would be awesome, in some strange and twisted turnaround, Sydney becomes friends with Vehemence in jail.
V: There’s no reason we can’t be friends.
S: You tried to kill Maxima, and turned a bunch of supers into villains to nearly kill us.
V: Well you did crush my throat and drown me afterwards, and I am going to spend the rest of my life here.
S: Touche.