Grrl Power #688 – Don’t look a gift friend in the skin tight bodysuit
Obviously I skipped over Sydney’s immediate reaction, which could have gone down any number of ways. She didn’t flail and knock an alien in the nose with her elbow or anything. She probably just did the slow turn, then Cora gave her the short version of who she is… and then Sydney sheepishly mentioned that she had a bit of a tab at the booth.
Honestly I’m not sure what her plan was for that. The guy running the booth got a crowd and probably a few sales right off, and in the coming weeks he’ll probably get a few people drifting by saying “that’s the place where that human girl ate that super hot stuff!”
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The only thing that will be more terrifying than the fact that she just ate at least 3 bowls of grakz is that now we know her “rescuer” now is carrying nothing at all… nothing at all… nothing at all… Stupid sexy Ned Flanders…
So while the stand owner might not care that she can’t pay after the boatload of adverts he just got free for a human eating grakz he still might want to get paid. I wonder if the handprint scan was actually a payment terminal…
It sampled her DNA. If she doesn’t pay up they make a slave clone to work it off, maybe?
What’s to stop them from doing that anyway? o_O
Laws, probably. Or perhaps they’ll send an international debt collection agency that will try to invade the Earth to collect on the debt that spiralled out of control by the massive interest.
I was wondering about that too, what did she pay with.
If Sydney thought it through, bartering, with something from her utility belt. Unnecessary though, per the author’s blog above, as Cora turned up (and presumably paid) before Sydney had to settle the tab.
The shop that sold the food probably wiped the tab anyways because of the awesome PR she brought by eating the super spicy foods-she probably caused a bunch of people to try and eat the same thing (to their own demise Im sure).
Her unknown orb is actually a status and inventory orb which has a credit account among its features.
Closer inspection of Cora’s hands shows the joints to be just thin metal connectors. Why does she have robo-hands? Have Dabbler and her been involved in a few too many sword fights with each other?
Is there a.reason to think that she was an organic to start with? Cora could just be a mechanical with a boob fetish.
Maybe she’s a slime-girl (like Teal from “Delve”, except blue)
If nanytes can replicate each other, then there’s no reason that technology couldn’t be considered genetically engineered, at some future date (single ‘cell’ grows whole blueprint to fruition), and biomechs are things (aka Moya/Talyn from Farscape).
Why couldn’t she be partially biological, partially mechanical, with her designs as they are since they were taken from (or grown from) different sources?
Man I like ‘meld’. (XCOM: Enemy Unknown)
“I’m biologically half machine. Yes I said biologically.”
“Oh this hand? It was a mannequin’s hand I found amongst some debris during a fight when I lost my original hand. It’s mine now though.”
“My chest? There was this chick that was SO hot, but then, well. Anyway, good thing for formaldehyde, eh?”
“You’re weird, dude. No, my face isn’t actually this color! It’s just vehicle paint.”
“Too Much Information” webcomic (I’ve seen author AndyOH! commenting here) describes the result of self replicating nanites as a Grey Goo Scenario. Apparently Venus was once inhabited until the nanites turned it into a globally warmed mess.
I don’t know how Dave feels about them.
That’s why self-replicating nanites need to have a self-terminating order, so that once the job they were programmed to do is complete, or after a certain time has passed, they simply ‘die off’
Maybe she’s just a head with tiny arms and legs and a cybernetic body.
Like the tiny alien in Men In Black.
Like Krang in TMNT.
Like the Brain Martian in Invaders from Mars (1953)
On closer inspection there seems to be more to her hands than that, it’s just that the inner covering is black and so doesn’t show very clearly
um i just thought it was armor or something with joints
That’s true until you look at the third panel, where you can see at least one of her hands is mechanical.
Errr…. The third panel (by my counting) does not show her hands at all…..
Maybe her outfit is hardlight, and is designed to look like that…
…I’m actually kinda surprised nobody suggested it before me…
It seems that human-like appearance is the normal biological progression for all high intelligence species across the galaxy, it is possible that her race actually is less than standard, and takes up mechanical augmentations in order to “replicate” the normal humanoid-ish form.
Missed opportunity for Sexy Flanders “Its like I’m wearing nothing at all” XD
If it is a force field that just colours her skin, then she has no nipples, is that right?
Withdrawn, already mentioned. Unfortunately I don’t have time to read all the comments usually
With a society as complex and advanced as this space station would require to operate, I am sure there is and inter-galactic vision of PayPal out there with currency conversions available.
Personally I can’t wait to see Max’s response when she finds out Sydney took down more than one of those big monster/aircraft carrier/alien things…
PayPlanet for all your Intergalactic needs. (Just don’t skip a payment, you don’t want to see the races they’ve hired on as debt collectors…)
What Sydney says in Panel 4 reads strange.
“…bodysuit could physically be any tighter without being inside you.”
I get it, but it has a strange imagery. My first reading of it, I thought she said this
‘… bodysuit could physically be any tighter with you being in it.’
I think you are earning your name.
It may be just me, but that last panel makes Cora(? The Blue-Not-Sydney-Space-Lady-Dabbler-Friend) look cross-eyed to me.
(Yes, there’s a Who’s who on the side. I had already written the footnote out before I thought of that, and I’m leaving it.)
Cora the Explorer probably is going crosseyed, just to add to the ‘creep-the-Terran-out’ factor going on with her teeth
Two points here, Sydney.
First, YOU’RE one of Dabbler’s friends, so maybe check your assumptions about Dabbler’s friends against that.
Second, by those stereotypes, Decollete is one of Dabbler’s friends. Which…. is kind of a fuzzy area, but it’s clear that Dabbler doesn’t trust her.
You know Cora I must admit is interesting, of course the conversation about her suit has made my brain go into the gutter. But she proves she is Dabbler’s friend and that is good enough proof for me.
This is an ideal opportunity for Deus X to wander in.
Hello Ms Scoville, who is your delightful blue friend?
(Pulls out HIS sketchbook and starts drawing Cora)
Ohh, just had a thought.
Both Sid and Deus like sketching pictures of possible conquests in their books.
Plot twist, Deus is Sidney’s estranged father which we have heard of, but not seen. So they pretend to not know each other….
Other than the phone call from the restaurant there’s been no
mention of Sydney’s parents.
They really should / should have been notified that
Sydney is MIA.
They probably would be, if Sydney remained MIA longer than 2 days
You’re right.
I lost track of how much time has passed on Earth.
I still don’t know for sure.
Personally just going by how long Sydney has been shown to be awake (we haven’t seen her the entire time, and it’s possible she’s managed to get a few hours sleep somewhere along the way)
anyone ever consider that as an advanced set of races. their might just be food and shelter available to all races as a simple standard it costs a whole lot less than folks showing up and starving to death in the forgotten corners of a vast station. its a simple thing that food and shelter are the rights of all beings and as such are provided. look if this is a galaxy wide meeting/crossroads then the cost of handling all the differing currencies would outweigh the cost of providing basic living expense.
Information processing is something easy to do, even on a large scale. So I don’t think that those costs would become prohibitive. But once you have unlimited energy and the resource level capable of making a dyson sphere, feeding everybody is something you could do practically for free.
If there is an appreciable cost, it is for having a personalised as the servitor.
Am I going to have to hunt down and kill all programmers and executives who keep auto-correct code working in products, even when it is turned OFF? Especially the ones who change correct words into random shit!!!!
wouldn’t be all information the hard currencies would be very complex. trade goods and trade money endure for a reason.
You make it sound like the banks keep swapping bank notes with each other. If every bank on Earth had to physically send cash, to every other bank they dealt with in another country, for every transaction, you would be right that there would be problems! But that is not how it works.
Rather they just keep ledgers of how much is owed, in each direction, and settle up periodically. Maybe daily, when dealing with large volumes or sums. Or maybe only monthly, if the expense of sending a van (or whatever) would not be cost-effective more frequently. And even then complex arrangements are made to aggregate transactions and minimise physical currency transportation.
So the vast majority of transactions are no more than a trade of information.
And if, in a Dyson sphere sized economy, the costs of physically transporting gold-pressed latinum or galactic bank notes and thousands of other types of currencies became prohibitive, then the less desirable ones would stop being used by most of the organisations. Only those which had strong trade or political links with them would keep using such.
Which is pretty much what happens in the real world too. Try to buy some really obscure foreign currency and you will find there is none in stock. If you want some you have to go to a specialist and/or pay an extra fee and wait until it is delivered.
So Cora’s spacesuit/uniform is a specific form of P(ersonal) L(ightweight) O(mni-directional) T(actical) Armor?
0.o
Yep. A PLOT-device ;-)
So are the metal-looking parts on her arms also made of hard light? And if so, why isn’t everything used by aliens at her tech level or above made of hard light?
Why isn’t everything we use made out of Bakelite? That was the new wonder material, in its day. When it was discovered it was predicted to replace everything. It did not. It was great for some things but useless for others. And has since been replaced, even at the things it was good at by other types of plastic.
Which in turn was hyped as being the wonder material. Ironicaly one of its great benefits, nameless
*sigh* still getting used to using a tablet. Fat paws problem.
Nameless=namely … its durability has also seen moves to ban it in many of its applications, such as carrier bags.
There are likely to be problems with hard light that make it bad at certain things. Bodies for instance need weight. If they have none a breeze could push them away at high speed. A person with some parts of their body weghtless, but not others, would have problems balancing, and so on.
Of course there is always simple aesthetics to consider. Peggy (and other amputees I know of) like the choice between inconspicuous prosthetics and attention -drawing artistic ones with exotic looks. Cora may well have opted for retro materials, to enjoy a cyberpunk or steampunk type feel.
And they could be hard light and just have that exotic look presently programmed in!
Our Glorious Overlord (Hail Ardern!!) is planning on passing a law making all plastic bags illegal next year (not just the flimsy grocery bags, but the heavier department store bags as well), makes me wonder what the fuck that approval-seeking bitch is planning that she is using this as a distraction
Wanna trade leaders? Given, I think ours would call your country a downgrade.
Including storage bags and trash bags?
Not sure yet, butt definitely all shopping bags (not even sure about the plastic reusable bags they introduced to replace the plastic shopping bags already)
I’m guessing that the arms of her outfit are actually solid armour while housing the hard light projector for the rest of her outfit. Regardless of tech level, a hologram (hardlight or not) would still require a projector system.
Prolly built into the collar.
The rest of her crew just have the collar and no arm attachments. Which implies that the projector system is just in the collar and that the arm pieces aren’t needed for the projection..
True, but she’s the captain and has to have the fancier stuff. Also metal gauntlets let you hit stuff harder since they have weight, unlike Hard-light.
I’d never feel comfortable in something like that. You know someone’s got a hard light projection nullifier and they’re just waiting for the perfect moment for shenanigans. Bare minimum full bodysuit made out of whatever the most comfortable antibomb/bulletproof/laserproof cloth.
*thinking out loud with fingers*
*that’s a thing*
*you do it too*
Sydney gets on the ship, sees all the naked hot guys, blushes unconscious. Hot male doctor wakes her up, has relapse.
Once she’s able to wake up and stay awake, she sings a song in her head (or out loud. Words are “I love space”) with the same rhythm as the “I love Chaaaaaps” song from Steven Universe (but I imagine her singing it more like Centipeetle than Steven).
I tend to use my claws. It makes it harder for my thoughts to escape me, if I sink them in deep.
… just don’t damage your quick.
That’s OK, I have protection, and sustainability.
After Dabbler and all the other improbably physiqued female characters, Sydney’s Kinsey scale score is probably shifting a tad.
I read a book in which a “relentlessly heterosexual” character nick-named “She-devil” by her friends, was asked about an exception. “I’m still hetero, but with a side of Sophie.” Sydney is still hetero, with a side of Dabbler.
Nah, Dabbles doesn’t count in this situation (Dabbles is everyones ‘side’), not sure who Sydney’s ‘side of’ would be, Peggy maybe? Someone she could relate to more (Maxi!!)
It doesn’t matter that, as a succubus (the best kind of bus to ride),
What matters is that she is Sydney’s exception. She counts. What was that apron or t-shirt or sweatshirt she wore? “My milkshake brings everyone to the yard regardless of sex or orientation?”
Fairly sure the ‘improbably physiqued’ males would counter any potential shift, if not move it further in that direction
Emergency everyone! We’re 600 votes below where we should be, get to work.
Hm, Cora’s face looks familiar. And I don’t think it’s coincidence.
I wonder if Daphne picked up any exotic new skills during her interplanetary fugue.
Entirely too many alien species have human-like body-shapes… with even tits in the same place.
Never mind that it is a pretty strange derivative amongst the life on earth… to think it would be common throughout space is… suspicious.
nothing at all
nothing at all
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stupid sexy alien