April Vote Incentive
Anvil: (to shopkeep) Hmm, I don’t know, do you have anything bigger?
Shopkeep: M’lady that’s made of dwarven deep iron, I don’t really understand how you’re lifting it, but I do have a petrified tree trunk out back.
Sydney: Hey Seabiscuit, do you have any 10 foot poles?
Shopkeep: I have quarterstaves, but I don’t know how long a “foot” is.
Sydney: Dabbler your translation spell is broken!
Dabbler: It doesn’t automatically do units. I never bothered including that in my spell cause I can to the conversions in my head.
Maxima: If you’re so smart, they why are you trying to get me to dress like a Boris Vallejo painting?
Dabbler: Until we figure out how to get home, we should try to blend in.
Maxima: There’s little chance of that happening. That elder dragon thought I was a golem made out of solid gold, it tried to add me to it’s hoard!
Dabbler: And thanks to you knocking out 7 of its teeth, we can practically afford to buy this whole town!
Maxima: I knocked out 8 teeth.
Dabbler: Well I’m keeping one for myself, obviously. I’m going to make it into a kitchen knife that can cut through an engine block and still julienne a tomato!
Edit: Updated to point at the DA page. Color version coming eventually.
Looking forward to seeing this finished :D
One thing would change with the dialogue: “Dabbler: And thanks to these 7 teeth you knocked out,…” subtle change but flows better into her final comment about keeping one :D
Considering this town has centaurs, we can only hope that it follows the MLP naming conventions.
The group is now hanging out at the shopping centaur.
If Sydney wants to adventure properly she will need to pick up an ocarina from the music centaur.
Later they will catch a play at centaur stage.
I heard a rumor that one of the actors always has to be the centaur of attention. She even posed as the centaurfold of Playmare magazine.
If they stay in town long enough, maybe they can catch a hoofball game at Centaur Field. I heard the anthem is going to be sung by 50 Centaur.
If they need help finding a spell to get them home maybe they can ask the wise old mage. His mind is rumored to be a little off centaur. He calls himself the centaur of the universe.
FiM is trash!!!!
I am a fan of MLP but.. even I think you are stretching the jokes there.
Neigh, I call foal. It’s a bit much to keep reusing the same pun in every line, even if it was a spur-of-the-moment decision – reign yourself in, and stop horsing around.
Definitely foundered a but there on the overuse of the same pun. It can be the mane one but you have to make sure to curry some variety if you really want to get that desired groan effect.
Dear god the puns, they burn, they burn…well done a good set of puns is worth it!
Do we have a pun jar? If we do then you owe it big time!
I used to have a bad-pun kill-sat. But Dve won’t let me bring it here after to doused Cleveland in marshmallow cream
Want to borrow my orbital bombardment platform?
I was wondering who owned that obsolete piece of junk.
#Hilarious
DAMN, RIGHT Dabbler! A good Kitchen Knife is hard to find.
Most Knifes will do what ever it’s been promised to do for the first 2, maybe 3, months, then the edge starts going down hill and dulls quickly, for some reason.
Mind you, I do not think the engine block was on the list of things it will cut, BUT … a dragon’s tooth might be just the right thing to have handy.
that would be due to most knifes require sharpening to avoid dull edges, but they don’t give you the materials or instructions to do so to incentivize simply throwing it out and replacing it with new ones.
Or pay a professional to do it for you at a “competitive” ($$$) price…
Honestly a knife that will stay sharp for a few months will do it. Since a true folded steel blade is excruciatingly expensive and honestly easy to shatter under the right circumstances I go for sweden made knives. Victorinoxwas my first and so far only blade as to this……..please prove me wrong so when I need a new bar knife I will have an informed and unbiased opinion. ;P
Hi, blacksmith here, and occaisional bladesmith. To be frank, “a couple of months” is asking an awful lot of a knife. In the kitchen you should sharpen a good high carbon steel knife after every heavy use. (and sometimes before and during.) My daily carry gets done at least once a week, and holds up well to farm use (kill and slaughter an animal, cut a piece of baling wire, open feed bags, etc…) and still will cut lemons for the drinks or julienne tomatoes (although are you sure you really want to cut them into matchstick size strips?)
A pattern welded (read from the above comment as folded, often called Damascus; it’s wrong, but why fight it?) blade should NOT be brittle or delaminate if properly heat treated and forge welded. It also shouldn’t perform any better than a good modern steel, but they’re pretty, and I won’t tell if you don’t.
Engine blocks are notoriously stubborn, and usually made from aluminum or cast iron. I reccomend you avoid the knife and skip straight to a 12 lb crosspein hammer, although I’ve found that the straight peen also works well in this application.
Get a good set of whetstones, watch a couple of youtube vids. Sharpening is fast and easy. It’s easier when you maintain the edge. Don’t chuck your good kitchen knives in the dishwasher or in a drawer full of other cutlery, it dulls the heck out of them.
As a former cook (not chef), I must agree. If you don’t at least take a steel to your knife every day, it will dull. There is no magic that can prevent this, but the time taken to sharpen a knife will pay itself back in spades.
I’ve just recently started doing a lot more home cooking (budget and health pressures coincided to make going out constantly unfeasible any more). I’ve used knife-sharpeners before, and it’s pretty simple for straight blades and scissors. But how do you sharpen a serrated edge?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjzcMrlaP58
For those with a big and small serrated-edge blade (although the way he sharpens will screw up the serrated edge pulling it across the blade like that)
This!
As another former cook (also not a chef…I’ve never been all that good at leading a kitchen…I just love to cook :) ) I agree with this completely. I steel my knives literally every single time I use them, both before I make a single cut, then after I clean them and before I put them away. My significant other is not a former cook and therefore she has a tendency to just grab them and use them without steeling them, sooo…
What a lot of people dont understand is that steeling is not the same as sharpening. The steel that comes with most knife blocks is not a sharpening tool, it’s a honing tool. It keeps the edge on your knife sharper, longer, but it doesn’t actually stop the knife from getting dull. For that you either need the services of a professional, or…well…for most people, I suggest just sucking it up and going to a professional. They’ll do a better job than 95%+ of people can do at home, and do it quicker and easier than you doing it yourself. Sure, it costs a bit but so does a new knife when you inevitably screw up the sharpening process. Trust me on this…I have more than two decades of knife handling experience in professional kitchens, am an amateur blacksmith, and use various knives in nearly all aspects of my daily life. And for my kitchen knives, I always call a professional. I mean, sure I *can* sharpen them myself (and I do for my work knives/daily carry stuff, even my utility and hunting blades), but it’s a pain in the ass to get the good/expensive kitchen tools all ground at the correct angle, properly polished, and then well honed.
The guy who does it for me gets them all done in no time flat, they always come out perfectly, and if there ever is a screw up (there hasn’t been one in over ten years, but hey…stuff occurs), he’s on the hook to replace my truly expensive knives. :)
Well, see … after all these years. I finally get tips on the proper instruments to use for the slicing, dicing, cutting, Julienne, fricassée, or even Flambe of a good engine block.
Thank You, nobodyspecial!!!
But I still would like to know where to get a Dragon’s tooth for my kitchen.
Well,not really my kind of forging, but I’d contact Vaughn Terpac on Facebook or iforgeiron.com (goes by vaughnT on there). He does some nice dragon fangs. Here’s a link to a pic of one.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1676216005962201&set=ecnf.100007214535259&type=3&theater
It’s too bad Dave is so busy doing just the main strip, because this thing has the potential to be an AWESOME sub-strip.
So Sydney is buying a complete adventurers kit while Xuriel browses for genre correct armor. For some reason Max seems to doubt the effectiveness of that armor…
Time to break out the popcorn!
Your name is too apt for your comments.
AND another trophy awarded to Cpt. Obvious
Thanks I needed that. There was a time when the trophies was coming in a steady stream as people was making assumptions about Sydneys force field. But as that source seems to have dried up for the moment my project to rebuild the island of Atlantis on a mountain of trophies has ground to a halt.
It’s not a trophy, but after reading this comment I’m going to hit the palm of my left hand, against the palm of my right hand… then do it again a few more times.
Not that Maxima particularly needs armour, unless it’s enchanted. And, protective enchantments aren’t necessarily restricted to the covered area
Everyone knows the less a fantasy set of female armor covers, the higher the armor rating…it’s a law of fantasy fiction!
I guess the theory is that extremely minimal armor on females gives negatives to the concentration rolls of opponents. Frankly I would think that Maxima’s golden skin would already do that so that pornmor (yeah – lame portmanteau of porn and armor) would be redundant.
What say we all stroke my ego by all adopting my new term “pornmor” to refer to the ridiculously revealing armor that Boris Vallejo, et al. clothe their females in?
X-P
I don’t know where this quote is from, but I once read that if you’re facing someone wearing armor like that, either they’re nuts or rich/powerful enough to have magic armor.
So, you are saying that Red Sonja was nuts? Do you have an address we can send condolences to your family? o_O
No, she had magic.
Since when? Like Conan, Sonya hated ‘finger-wrigglers’
Just skimming the Wikipedia page. The move is much older than I am.
Ignore the movie (which was just a Conan movie, in a skirt), read the books (the ones with and without pictures :P)
If she comes from the same world than Conan…Conan never wore much in the old comics, right?
Zack Tilly! Although, to be fair, he did occasionally put on a chain mail shirt and some type of leggings, even a helmet, but he is more often seen just in a loin cloth (usually because the lovely shirt and leggings had been destroyed in battle and he was fleeing for his life)
I believe Conan and Sonya relied on the other form of armor strategy, not getting hit in the first place.
To be fair with Vallejo in particular, his clothes don’t usually meant to be armors, just revealing :) and more important he dress males in the exact same fashion.
My first thought when I saw Anvil with that club was” Bam Bam!”. lol
What? Not “Captain Cave Ma-an!!” :P
If Bam Bam was fully grown his club would be that size and probably cause seismic effects like in the cartoon. Captain Caveman’s club was more of a gadget.
Teenage Bamm-Bamm seems to have lost his super strength, if I remember my 70s Flintstones spinoffs correctly.
Yeah, he turned into the Stone Age Fred from ‘Scooby Doo’
Unless the dragon has a horde of golems that it uses for security guards, I think you mean “hoard.”
Whoops!
Also, no apostrophe for the possessive “its”, boss. #Pedant
Wouldn’t Maxima fit in well with a horde or a hoard? Either way, 50 cool points for the Enter the Dragon/Kentucky Fried Movie bit in the Patreon ad. You have our gratitude.
I totally want to see this be a sub-comic!
“Make it so.”
Agreed, but I think the Demon Academy subcomic should still take priority
We still got the petition going for Archon After Dark?
I’d sign it! Just need to find the time.
Got an “Inverloch” feel from the archer in the shop there. Now I kinda want to picture the little guy with horns!
“But Max, look at the stats on this thing!”
“Stats are the only things keeping that together!”
ROFL
But they sure look good!
The stats! I mean the stats are looking good!
May just be me, but in this scenario, it is Sydney who seems out of place, unless she is pretending to be a Halfling (ooo, can totally picture her as a Kender now, complete with top-knot :D)
OH GODS!! NOOOOO!!!!! Kender’s are like halflings with adhd and kleptomania. Or it may just be Tass who is just like that.
Why do you think she reminds me of Kender? :P
Tass was simply the one cursed with Wanderlust (he didn’t suffer the curse, the rest of Krynn did :D)
It…wasn’t just mr. Burrfoot.
Fortunately for Krynn, only a few Kender per generation got The Wanderlust :D
If I remember my original Krynn-lore right, most Kenders were cursed with Wanderlust… it was what kept the Kender population Down and the rest of the races at ease…
Somehow, a curse of Wanderlust doesn’t sound particularly ‘ease-full’ for the rest of the planet (even Dragon’s weren’t a deterrent)
Why am I not the slightest bit surprised that Sydney is the “everything including the kitchen sink” type of adventurer?
This is what happens when your DM does not enforce encumbrance.
I’m picturing Anvil asking Syd why, with her already fully armed with orbs, she needs all those?
And Sydney answers, with an evil grin that sends the shopkeeper backing away from this little girl, “because sometimes I just like to get close up and personal.”
When traveling in a strange land it’s always good to let the locals know they shouldn’t mess with you.
Wait, Anvil isn’t lifting a diamond club? o_O
Where is the heart spade? Out back? O_o
*slow clap*
Dabbler is probably just screwing with them and can get back home anytime she wants.
Hee! This is neat.
Even if it’s a D&D setting, I still refuse to believe that all dragons are bad. Example: In Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, the dragon is at first referred to as the main villain, but later revealed to be the protector of its realm and ultimately the universe.
Actually, that was how my last character was to be played, if we encountered a dragon. Regardless of how the dragon first reacted to us, try to reason with it first. Unfortunately, the party only encountered one dragon, on a day I was not present.
No one said that this dragon was dead: it attempted to kidnap Maxi, she punched 8 of it’s teeth out, it still has plenty more teeth… and a fear of gold
Note that they apparently didn’t KILLED the dragon, because it that case they wouldn’t need to sell the teeth.
Not every dragon is “bad”. But practically every dragon is greedy.
It’s not really greed, just a basic survival instinct. Piles of gold help a dragon attract mates. There are several theories as to why and almost no answers from actual dragons, as researchers into the subject are few and somewhat short-lived.
Okay, let’s put this more into what I was talking about: in most of the fiction I enjoy, dragons are not D&D style. Put it like in Luminous Arc: dragons have ultimate defense. Not really meant for attacking, dragons use their magic to protect themselves and those around them.
Did somebody use their power to throw ArcSwat into an adventure of their own design? Because this could be a very interesting series of events.
Or maybe they interrupted Sydney getting them all to try out some D&D and trap them in the adventure? That would be even more interesting. How long until Sydney’s meds wear off and she forgets the quest?
No, she only needs the meds to ‘help’ her adjust to ‘normal modern’ living, they would hinder her in a setting like this
yup, it would give sydney automatic spot checks, like the elves in d&d ;)
My guess is Leon as DM.
This isn’t a Game, Dabbles somehow ported them to that world physically and she’s claiming that she can’t send them back… yet
Sydney: *points at Max* “Add my height to her height and you have 10 feet. Roughly.”
Actually, it would be closer to point at Anvil, or even better,
Sydney: Umm, 10 feet would be twice my height.
Shopkeeper: Why do you want a pole twice your height?
Pole vault.
What is Sydney wanting to not touch?
Actually, it’s been a VERY long time since I played D&D, but I believe one of the items available for new adventurers to buy was, inexplicably, a ten foot pole. We always bought one, used it for climbing out of pit traps and the like. We never did get into how you get a ten foot pole around tight corners in a dungeon of some sort…
A 10 foot pole is also very good when testing for damage not visibly apparent (heat, poison, dark matter, etc.) or for finding if the foe has an invisible shield that may or may not zap you (as was used against a sunken ship in With This Ring.
George Silver, an English fencer who wrote two books (1599, 1605) distinguishes between pole weapons of 7 or 8 feet in length, a short staff, and the “long staff” of about 12 feet (give or take a foot). For someone of Sydney’s height a ten foot pole would be a “long staff.” Long poles typically have a convenient metal head on the end (many are adapted from farm implements, or other tools) but this is not strictly needed for it to be a “long staff.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vEtJH6b0v0
BTW, the term “quarterstaff” does not refer to the pole’s length but rather its means of production – the staff being made from the heartwood of a tree split or sawed into quarters (as opposed to a staff of lower quality made from a tree branch).
New a guy who said that in a campaign he had a character who had gotten an adamantium 10′ pole. They walked into a descending ceiling trap, and the trap got caught up on the pole.
Just realized I put new instead of knew…
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Sydney is doing… exactly what I would do… Buying everything you’ll ever need and all the weapons you can carry. Just wait until someone realizes Her orbs are actually a greater artifact, Max will have to kill sooo many evil (and some good) wizards.
Wait until people realize that Max herself is a greater artifact.
I was JUST GOING TO ASK where her 10 foot pole was!
I don’t see Sydney carrying all that stuff around. Either one of those items is a bag of holding, or she will be mooching carry space off her teammates very quickly.
What are the people thinking?
Anvil: Half giant? Belt of giant strength?
Dabbler: Succubus (duh)
Maxima: Golem? No other explanations come to mind.
Sydney: hmm, acts like a tinkerer, but wrong race, not mage, not warrior (of any sort), not thief, not monk, not ranger, … of course, if they see her with the orbs “bonded to major artifact with odd side effects” probably comes to mind
What people SHOULD think when seeing Sydney; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcG71T5Fs6M
What the shopkeeper is thinking:
“Cha-ching! A month’s sales in a day! Cash!”
Also….
Seabisquit? A 20 something in the 21st century thinks that’s the most famous horse in history?
Not saying she’s wrong, just surprised that she chose that appellation, which might be construed as a slur.
The cash is only coming in once she sells those teeth. Well, “Seabiscuit” works better than Blackey for Black Beauty, or “The Black” for the Black Stallion (wrong gender and colour).
Which means there will also be a transaction fee for the conversion of the tooth into the local currency. Also…who’s in charge of that group, if anyone? Are golems considered property / slaves? The locals might not be able to wrap their heads around a Golem giving orders to the rest of the team. Or speaking. Or having opinions.
I see that Anvill and Dabbler already have appropriate for their location clothing.
It’s Maxima and Sidney who still are wearing jeans.
After shopping and lodging, they should set up their public identities. Maybe they’ll need to hire a Storyteller or bard, just to get their stories straight.
Haha! Speech to text turned Anvil into angel and Dabbler into devil.
Let’s see:
Maxima: Race: Gold Elemental. Class: Warrior. Flight Class: A. Additional abilities: Wow! Is that a long list!
Anvil: Race: Human (large), sometimes mistaken for a half-giant. Class: Warrior. Additional skills: Diplomacy.
Dabbler: Race: Succubus. Class: Mage/Tinker. Additional skills: Yup, she’s got additional skills.
Halo: Race: Human (small). Class: Nodwick. Flight Class: B. Additional abilities: Iron Stomach, Confuse other, Confuse self. Bonded to Major artifacts.
Heatwave (not pictured): Race: Human-fire elemental crossbreed?. Class: Flying Archer (using fire arrows). Flight class: C + Hover
Oh, I forgot:
Anvil: Additional abilities: Damage absorption: Any physical blunt-force damage that hits Anvil will cause no damage. For every 6 points of damage that hits her, the strength of her next melee attack is increased by 1. Note that magical bonuses (such as punching her while wearing Gauntlets of Ogre Strength) or edged weapon attacks will cause damage.
Hiro (not pictured): Race: Human (Japanese ancestry). Class: Warrior. Flight Class: B. Charisma: 17. Additional abilities: F.I.S.S., Sound absorption.
DN: Not quite 2 years later… and I reply.
Maxima: A statue of the deity ‘Maxima’ smuggled out of the last of her temples to be destroyed who came to life to fight the forces that killed the actual goddess.
Anvil: Half human/half giant (on her mother’s side) Kicked out of her tribe for being so short.
Dabbler: Captive demon tricked/forced to serve the team but still a problem. Always trying to steal Halo’s lucky charms.
Halo: Serf/servant/sidekick to the knight tasked to bring the orbs to his kingdom to save it from destruction. Gets himself severely killed and now Halo has to do it.
I took a few seconds before I came to the conclusion that what Dabbler was holder was, err, something related to a bikini. I wonder if she intends it for herself, or to try and get Maxima to wear it.
Of course, reading your additional dialog answered that.
That still doesn’t preclude Dabbler from trying it on. She’d probably ask Sydney to wear it just to see her reaction!
As to Sydneys equipment list, I’m not surprised. She’s played enough RPGs to know you need everything you can get your hands on. Though I suspect she also needs a magic bag of effortless inventory. Maybe subspacing stuff is one of the unknown powers. ;)
Off on a completely irrelevant tangent, maybe one of those orbs will only work in space and functions as some form of FTL. (warp, wormhole, whatever)
BTW DaveB, in this fanart on your Deviant there’s a “poster” of Anvil in the background. Is the original source an old vote incentive or something? Can it still be found somewhere?
Fairly sure it’s not an old invotive, believe it is like the portrait of the Daphne’s: a pre-comic piece of artwork
I think that was Anvil’s original portrait on the bio page, but I replaced it because it was pretty old art and also her shirt was wet and you could see through it kinda. Nothing wrong with cheesecake but it out of place where I had it.
I don’t know where that file is anymore. I’d have to go digging through old hard drives to find it now. I have a bin of them cause I pull them out before I toss old computers.
… now I want to strongly encourage you to go rooting through all your old drives (I do exactly the same thing) to find all your old art.
And now I also want to have a group throw together some superheroic characters in HERO system, then run them through just this sort of scenario … :D
Maybe in future you could copy the old drive to Flash slash Thumb Drives (possibly easier to lose, but also easier to go through later), or simply use those to store your files in the first place (that way, when your computer bytes it, you don’t have to panic so much about losing your important files)
That would be wise, old disks stored for long time tend to grip risking to lose all the data.
I see, well it worth a try. Thank you very much.
On a side note: first Easley’s Odin and now Vallejo’s Valkyries, you have me salivating. Also since both artists do oil paints (not digital ones) they fit perfect with those frames and office style. Hope you did it intentionally :)
Where are Sydney’s orbs?
Stored in Mr Tubey (she doesn’t want to have to explain why her Ioun Stones are bigger than anyone elses, or why she has seven), that or they get added with the colour
Wonderful, it’s possible to get a sample, however small from that rock, how long has he had to study that thing?
On the part of creating high order elements and their decay rate, I remember reading an article that said the last couple that they created actually had slightly *longer* decay rates than the previous ones. It may be possible that further down the periodic chart new elements can be made that are usably stable. Of course, it’ll be centuries before we’d see any real results from that. The amount of energy needed to create just a couple atoms is staggering.
Well crap, wrong section for the comment.
This!
As another former cook (also not a chef…I’ve never been all that good at leading a kitchen…I just love to cook :) ) I agree with this completely. I steel my knives literally every single time I use them, both before I make a single cut, then after I clean them and before I put them away. My significant other is not a former cook and therefore she has a tendency to just grab them and use them without steeling them, sooo…
What a lot of people dont understand is that steeling is not the same as sharpening. The steel that comes with most knife blocks is not a sharpening tool, it’s a honing tool. It keeps the edge on your knife sharper, longer, but it doesn’t actually stop the knife from getting dull. For that you either need the services of a professional, or…well…for most people, I suggest just sucking it up and going to a professional. They’ll do a better job than 95%+ of people can do at home, and do it quicker and easier than you doing it yourself. Sure, it costs a bit but so does a new knife when you inevitably screw up the sharpening process. Trust me on this…I have more than two decades of knife handling experience in professional kitchens, am an amateur blacksmith, and use various knives in nearly all aspects of my daily life. And for my kitchen knives, I always call a professional. I mean, sure I *can* sharpen them myself (and I do for my work knives/daily carry stuff, even my utility and hunting blades), but it’s a pain in the ass to get the good/expensive kitchen tools all ground at the correct angle, properly polished, and then well honed.
The guy who does it for me gets them all done in no time flat, they always come out perfectly, and if there ever is a screw up (there hasn’t been one in over ten years, but hey…stuff occurs), he’s on the hook to replace my truly expensive knives. :)
I love the artwork and coloring on this strip! (the entire series, not just this page) Halo is SO cute in the panel where she actually lands a hit and the last panel. Yeah, they are the simpler renderings but they work so well for me (but then I AM otaku and watch a LOT of anime…). I’m also impressed with the detail in the drawing of the series as well as the coloring and shading of this series. It is orders of magnitude above most others I normally see.
LOVE this series!
Thanks! :)
I was wondering. Is there a way to see previous vote incentives? I looked for it but couldn’t find any.
Thanks.
The deviant art page has them in no particular order. This one isn’t up yet since I haven’t finished coloring it. Hmm, maybe I should just post the pencils in the meantime.
In fact, here it is: https://davebarrack.deviantart.com/art/Fantasy-sojourn-pencils-608565426
so, if dabbler’s new kitchen knife can cut through an engine block, what will she use as a cutting board?
Tarrasque hide.
I need to see sydney cause her orbs to orbit around someone elses head for pranks around the office. Like around pixel and have pixel try to convince max that she just dyed her hair.
Something that i always forget to send, but simply can’t avoid thinking of about EVERY time i see Dabbler in the comic – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBmMKXFmILk
The author needs to update the cast info page with the new important characters.
You mentioned bra straps. Maxima needs a bra? I would have thought she could will them to levitate since she can defy gravity.
Dave your Collar 6 link is broken. It was abandoned because of denial of service attack. It should be changed to this https://collar6.tumblr.com/.
Thanks, it’s fixed.
Also Everything you know is wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8
Argh, wrong comment page. This should be on the main thread.
mad science is never having to think “What’s the worse that can happen?”. Except Sydney isn’t even trying the scientific method here, only poking around randomly with things mankind was not meant to know!