Grrl Power #694 – Threat underwhelming
Sydney’s comment at the beginning of this page is mostly just me recognizing that this conversation has taken place across a number of backgrounds, and it sort of looks like they’ve walked halfway across a city by now. I haven’t decided if Cora is running an errand on the way back to her ship or what’s up, but you know how it is in this comic. Half the pages so far seem to be her meeting new people and having lengthy QA sessions with them.
Sydney doesn’t know what Cora’s combat abilities are, she’s mostly just laughing because these thugs are… probably lower level that her previous battle. Still, she knows if Cora is Dabbler’s friend, she can probably take care of herself.
Cora does know her own abilities and at least suspects Sydney’s.
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There’s some kind of Gravity Shield around the collapsed star or whatever that is
so people walking around The Fracture won’t be crushed.
Does that shield ALSO prevent time dilation due to intense gravity?
Maybe it HAS been a few weeks on Earth in the two or three days
Sydney’s been there.
The only thing that no-one has seemed to take into account is the possibility that these are super-bad guys, able to shrug off Sydney and Cora’s presumed attacks.
We shall see….
I doubt they are very super – they have guns
Remember why Maxima has a gun?
If they were even remotely like Maxima in terms of power, they wouldnt be engaging in petty mugging in a group.
Why not? A super-powered bully is still a bully: why do more than you have to when you can simply take it from others?
Well you’d have to be such a Deus to try and pull off that kind of crap.
No you wouldn’t be a Deus. Being a Deus wouldn’t lower themselves to this level. After all, there are countries to take over and planets to foreclose on.
Plus he would not endanger the legitimate side of his business with such sordid activity like mugging. If he is going to break the law it will be for something exceptional, and under carefully controlled circumstances where there is no more than a negligible risk to his reputation.
I doubt if he would have ever gotten involved in a random mugging, of people he did not know, even in the early part of his career (assuming he built himself up from next to nothing).
Vehemence though, he would do it just for the LOLs!
They are attempting common thuggery, hence are unlikely to be exceptional. This is beneath the dignity -and paygrade- of super crime.
I can’t even think of a group mugging super criminal.
At worst you have bank robbers (Rhino, Dr. Octopus), Henchmen (Shocker, Scorpion, Tomb Stone), scam artists (*insert every other hypnotist villain*), or robbing a fancy galla (Joker, Penguin, Harley Quinn)…
but I can’t think of any who just group up and mug two people in an alley. Batman takes down muggers all the time, but they’re never a super criminal mugger *unless Clayface or Crock got desperate at some point I didn’t know about*…
Why not? If the heavy hitters stuck to petty thuggery instead of trying to blow up the planet they could pretty much do what ever they wanted and no one would stop them.
If Darksied walked walked into a best buy and took everything, would the justice league really risk their lives and cause countless dollars in property damage trying to stop him, or would they help him laod TVs into the back of a truck just to get rid of him quicker?
Only the lowest rungs of criminal society group mug people. If you had the kinds of powers to rival, or even put at risk, those two, then you would have far easier ways to make money.
At Sydney levels you could start mugging governments and probably set yourself up as some kind of warlord.
You mean, like ‘free’ an emerging war-torn nation from a brutal ruler? o_O
At Sydneys’ level you could be mugging interstellar empires.
Well Halo did just take out several motherships, purely ‘for the experience’. Which, to non-gamers, would sound like a pretty psychotic thing to do.
Although she did act with a clear conscience, given she was defending herself. But had she not wanted to ‘level up’ the orbs, she would likely have opted for flight, rather than a fight.
Three things never trust in: The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And the ambush that is sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KOUULJuyDk
Sound advice.
Well if we’re going to draw parallels with the situation and that song I suppose Sydney would be the sorceress and Cora would be the swordswoman unfortunately we don’t have the dire werewolf here to be the suspicious looking dog that they were traveling with.
We do have a Yorpie, he’s a suspicious looking dog… :P
One who turns out to have raised a couple of wolves!
The puppies I rescued, and managed to get adopted by a friend, who took them back to the UK, needed to have them genetically tested because of a condition one of them was suspected to have. The surprise result was that they had between 75% to 80% wolf DNA! So more wolf than dog, even though they looked and behaved pretty much like normal dogs. Barking rather than howling, for example.
So completely non-suspicious looking dogs.
That one made me all Misty-eyed.
(And my son gave a belly laugh when I told him…)
Incidentally, regarding Dave’s comments… I suspect this gang is probably lower level than every battle she has been in in the strip, including the first one. Possibly even if the bank robber wasn’t Mr. Amorphous in disguise. Possibly even the flashback to the mugger…
As you all go about your holiday activities I want to remind you to take some time on New Year’s eve to check in on an intrepid explorer who has gone to Pluto, and beyond! New Horizons is doing a flyby of it’s next target Ultima Thule (which I think came out between Ultima VII and Ultima Underworld)
https://www.space.com/18377-new-horizons.html
The on-board camera has sent back these preliminary images. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nfLEjWik190/maxresdefault.jpg
Lol.
Hold on to your tongues lads, otherwise you are about to get a demonstration of tongue-fu!
May your souls rest in stretched out pieces.
Either Cora is about to show off, or Sydney is about to demonstrate the lighthook for her.
Sydney: *catches her breath* “Look, big guy. It’s not that you aren’t huge and intimidating… but I killed something about five hundred times your size… three or four hours ago? Not quite sure how long it was. This day has been pretty crazy. What I’m saying is that I could literally crush you with this super strong light tentacle while completely impervious to all attack from inside this forcefield I put up while you were distracted. You guys are F*CKED!”
Sydney: that would be intimidating if you were, well, intimidating
Alien: are you mocking me?
Sydney: oh no, no…ch’yeah!
(Apologies to Alucard)
It was in this moment that the space thugs began to suspect that they may have f*cked up severely.
Yeah, if the first reaction of the target you have surrounded and outnumbered is to start laughing at you, then there’s a good chance you’re in serious trouble.
I just thought of something that I’m not sure if anyone else has thought of this.
I would spend a point on the inside line between forcefield and energy beam to see if I (Sydney) can use the energy beam well holding the flight and forcefield orbs.
That could be one way to use a third orb, by using two that are both connected to a third.
My theory is that the two line one dot upgrade that every orb has is some type of once on stays on or a mental control hands free mode.
Except we know that it doesn’t do that, because green is the only orb that has a filled in pip in the spot of the dual lines leading to a pip-circle…yet Sydney did NOT have the air-refreshing ability constantly flowing already. She literally has had to swap flight orb and air orb to get fresh air.
…And we know it doesn’t “come to her hand when it senses it’s needed” because she got a bit hypoxic (or at least excessively CO2’d) during the restaurant battle. That was when the others realized she needed to drop her shield to get fresh air. That led to her accompanying Maxima to Deux X Machina’s
lairoffice to get the air-scrubber doohickey for her spacebat spacebelt. Only afterward did she discover in the swimming pool purely by accident that she could summon the green orb when thinking “air!” …but it still has to be held to be activated and kept activated.I’m thinkin’ some of the other pips might lead to hands-free think-mode…but only after she’s leveled up a LOT more, and it probably requires all of a certain section filled in, either on each ball, or in the rings or interstitial lines in between.
Man, what I wouldn’t give to have a peek at DaveB’s heavily layered & labeled master skill tree file…
(*sound effect borrowed from Wapsi Square)
(…Notice I said that it doesn’t move when it senses she needs air, but only when she senses she needs air… If it has any sort of actual intelligence /sapience /sophontic ability, it hasn’t been activated yet.)
(And it has just occurred to me that the previous owner could’ve been of a species like the aliens in Alien Nation where saltwater dissolves their flesh (which is like the weirdest frikkin thing since it’s gotta be something else in the water; human blood alone is way saltier than seawater, so bleeding on one of ’em would melt that bodypart, ya’d think…but I’m not saying it is one of those aliens, just that ithe orbs’ former owner could’ve found something about Earth’s Caribbean Sea to be insta-dissolvy, too insta to grab an orb and stop it from happening… I do not, however, think it was a “shark attack” because sharks actually don’t attack all that much, particularly unfamiliar things. It was far more likely to be a sea snake bite or something else poisonous…which ended up being super-deadly to the offworlder presumed to be the orbs’ original owner…)
Nope, earth seawater average 3 point 5 percent. Human blood average point 9 percent.
In other words, earth’s seawater is almost 4 times or 388 percent greater in salinity.
AETGIRAGIW
(*Ignore the bit about Wapsi Square, I double-checked my original point, realized I was wrong…and forgot to erase that footnote part.)
Well it seems that the system will not allow me to reply to CPUguy1‘s post, on page 2 of the comments. Every time I try, it changes it to a new post, rather than a reply. A worse version of the bug that has been affecting me for the last week (and maybe others?)!
So I guess all I can do is quote him, then reply to that:
One Buzz Lightyear.
To infinity and beyond!
Wait Sydney’s last battle are we referring to the ships in the spaceport or the food court where she was doing battle with (eating) grakz? Either way both of those were more powerful than a bunch of space thugs.
Probably actual combat, so her wrecking planet destroyers.
I get the feeling Cora is going to have to deal with this.
Noting past battles, Sydney’s power set has a distinct disadvantage. She has no low tier offense other than a tentacle whip.
Her powers are either (turtle and observe) or (blow them up). She has as her lowest attack setting a pretty fatal and likely destructive on a smaller scale rapid fire blast, her only other attack is carve an exploding hole in the side of a building level of destruction. During the brawl she was limited to observing from inside her bubble, and the roof top fight even using her lowest attack she was ordered to stop as she was setting the surrounding area on fire.
So she has one super defense orb, and one super attack orb.
the others amount to escape/distraction, self preservation inside the bubble, a limb to manipulate things outside her bubble *16 tons is impressive, but not at the same scale of strength as her defense and offense*, and flying around.
She doesn’t have a stun setting in other words, or a short range uni-target attack like a hand gun or sword type weapon. So she has to either bubble and ram or bubble and entangle and then smack around or throw…unless she can actually whip with the light hook.
Sydney’s tentacle orb was quite effective in taking down the fire guy during the battle of the restaurant parking lot.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1608
Yeah, but her option is either bubble up and smack em one by one or grab the big guy and use him to smack the smaller guys. Unless she can do a spin woosh with it and smack em all like a Godzilla tail spin.
Hey now, be nice to Sydney. She hasn’t had a lot of (worry-free) time in which to experiment with the lighthook to develop feats and tricks with its powers…though she has read a craptonne of comic books.
After all, she can do Bullwhip Tricks with that thing far better than Indiana Jones or Zorro the Gay Blade ever could, because every inch of her lighthook whip is under her absolute control. She literally wrote out the name of her shop with it, and then did a “serendipitous tumbleweed” visual joke, so don’t tell me it’s not under her complete control.
Admittedly there are things she cannot do with her lighthook. We know it has a weight lifting limit…but her flight orb had a speed limit on it too…so it’s likely that with enough pips filled in, she can do some serious lifting. But until then…? Well, all she needs is a few moments in which to think (which requires sufficient adhd meds in her system), and sufficient imagination and/or inspiration (which she has in near-infinite supply).
Well I could think of something that might happen with the green orb (air)
Pepper bee gas – well she just fueled up on gratz
I could think of other noxious gasses….
Yeah, her light hook has to be her go to non-lethal/short range combat. She should put some more plips into it…which if that cross-over is still canon we know she does; to at least make it so it can be used inside the shield as well.
maybe it has a Taser whip setting, otherwise, smack, entangle, toss. Which the weight limit is higher than you think, 16 tons is a lot, not support beams designed to hold up constant multi-ton traffic a lot but more than most life forms weigh which equals a lot more force than most things can dish out if she smacks with it…although we don’t know the velocity of the light hook, how much momentum it can build up.
Basic engineering, reduced version – more supports = more strength so sending it back and forth for multiple beams may greatly help, also it may even be effected by distance from the origin point / leverage, so being closer to what you are trying to lift…
Well, she could stand in her force field and batter them senseless with a spinning swarm of orbs.
Although not confirmed, I highly suspect her orbs have to stay inside her shield with her.
Your conclusion is fair. However, unless programmed with (et al) some prohibition, the furthest distance we have seen the orbs travel from Sydney is more than the distance that the shield encloses when in some of its smaller configurations.
So potentially the tactic could be used. Yet if it turns out that they cannot be used that way then we will learn a bit more about the nature of the orbs, due to enforcing such a prohibition.
If they can be used as blunt objects outside of Mr Buble, then that means they have to have some means of getting in, and if they can get in, then it’s potentially possible something (or someone) nasty can get in
Not necessarily They could have to be outside the force bubble when the bubble is formed in order to be used outside the bubble.
Yup, Whirling Ring of Orb Wrecking Balls., that is what I was envisaging.
And to get back in to be used (like the flight or air), they would have to either pass through or Sydney would have to lower Mr Buble
Indeed, although we have had no indication that the orbs can transit the shield, so I think it is more likely to be the latter option. However if Sydney had no intention of using that/those particular orb(s) then it is no loss.
For example, as Halo does not know how to use the brown mystery orb it could be left outside indefinitely.
pfft – amateurs. You don’t interact with your target. You kill them before they even know you are there and take what you want off of their bodies.
If you worked for a criminal syndicate or were on their turf and this was your go to method for mugging people; you would be taken somewhere and shot.
A mugging, especially with no parties injured aside from monetary loss ranks as a low end crime, and a law enforcement crime zone board would reflect it as *caution* with regular patrols.
A murder, especially multiple murders in a relatively small area coupled with a clear motive of robbing them, increases that to full on multi-department, bring in higher law enforcement priority investigations.
So now all other criminals in the area find their territory under a microscope because you got kill happy on a simple mugging operation.
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Thug waves gun like item at you and makes threat, you give hugs and tail wags,
thug kills you to eliminate witless( not misspelled) , you are dead.
Thug waves gun like item at non_fool, non fool mimes cooperation, then uses
own well maintained and oft practiced with weapon like device or skill and
KILL THEM!
Problem of lowlife mugger solved, do not involve police.
Go about life .
If a person / entity threats with deadly force they have already forfeted
any consideration or mercy.
Also, Sidzilla.
+20
That is like Criminal 101: Do not make such a large fuss, everyone has to care for it.
One of the most successful burglars in London (I think) took the ‘no fuss’ principle to an extreme. He would carefully case his targets, to ensure that they were unoccupied when he entered. He chose buildings where he could enter without leaving any trace.
For instance favouring a type of double glazed door, which he knew could be pushed off its tracks with sufficient pressure in a particular spot. Thus allowing it to be opened even when locked! Exiting he would always carefully replace it on the rail, so that it would appear that it had not been unlocked or opened.
Once inside he would never take anything which was likely to be missed. Typically all he would do is go through pockets looking for cash. Making sure to always take less than half of whatever he found!
As such not one of his many hundreds of crimes was ever reported as having occurred. Most people assumed that they had simply misplaced some of their cash, given that there was no sign of entry or anything being disturbed.
Yet he kept meticulous records of every address he burgled, along with the amounts taken. So that eventually, when his luck ran out, and an off-duty policeman was sleeping after an unusually timed shift, he was able to ask for every single previous one to be taken into consideration.
He actually statistically affected the entire metropolitan crime rates, because of having hundreds of crimes added to them AND SOLVED in one day! :-D
+1
Who’s the lurker with the hat? Looks like Maxima in disguise…but I highly doubt it. Maybe a super?
You may want to zoom in. The yellow you can see in the facial area is actually a beak! Still possibly a super, but more likely a bird-like alien.
Of course it could be any legendary figure, from human history, with bird-like features. Given that we know a number are sightings of real beings, be they superhuman or supernatural (which, in this setting includes ‘alien’).
So, amongst others, it could be: Thoth, Horus, Ra, The Rain Bird, a Tengu, The Thunder Bird, Garuda or a Fenghuang.
It’s the mark of a great punchline that it apparently distracted everyone from commenting on the magnificent Cora butt shot in the second panel.
Oh, I think a few have noticed that fine blue moon
I blame you for the earworm.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0fy1HeJv80
There are worse worms to have in your (r)ear
Sydney (invoking Hancock) to the guy with gun: If you don’t get out of our way now, I’m going to take your head and shove it his ass (nods back towards the doomsday looking guy behind her)
Gun Guy: What did you say Assho………….
*Shortly follows some blur motion and screaming off panel. Muffled noises seem to be coming from Doomsdays rear end (at least we assume it is his rear end) as the now Centaur looking Doomsday has Gun guy trying to push his head out.
Several of the goons are openly retching, screaming and crying.
Cora looks to Sydney in shock. Sydney shrugs her shoulders and calmly says*
“See, I told Arianna I should have called it the molestorb”
*Looks at Cora*
“What? I’ve had a long day and my meds wore off about 10 light years ago!”
DaveB, is there an archive of the Double-Rez pages? I would like to re-read “Grrl Power” in double-rez from the beginning to pick up on all those extra little details you like to hide in the comic.
Ah, leveled up, no chance of nailing this bunch with capsicun flavoured fear vomit. That is a level 1 attack, which probably would be quite effective.
When you’re level 90 strolling through the first combat zone, and the enemies don’t level with you.
:-D
They sure look like ‘greys’ to me.
Who would have guessed that about aliens?
It is appropriate for them to be greys. ;-)
Darn it, my first reply did not appear even after going to another page and back. Hence me posting another version.
So I guess that workaround is no longer reliable? :-(
That’s why been saying since this whole mess started: it’s time that counts, not switching pages
I disagree. I did extensive testing. I compared leaving it for various different times, versus page switching. The latter consistently refreshed the post (barring a few times when it vanished completely) upon returning. Notably being able to that significantly faster than the fastest ‘just wait’ option.
It was my conclusion, at that time, that you could force the site to speed up whatever it was doing, due to changing pages.
What I suspect though, from your comment and others in the past, is that the comparisons will vary depending on individual people’s set ups and ISPs. All my testing was being done with a reasonably well specked gaming machine and decent internet speeds.
Wheres I am currently staying somewhere with fairly poor speeds, that periodically stops completely. And this website is less than forgiving with sub-par performance, so it is probably contributing to (or even fully explaining) this latest problem, thinking about it.
Such is the life of a “mugger” NPC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Kz8gQxzGE
See the youtube video “Muggers – Epic NPC Man | Viva La Dirt League (VLDL)”, wich I can not link.
Your first post was simply delayed in appearing, due to the ongoing problems the site suffers.
Worth the watch though, thanks for linking it. :-)
With all the mugging the monster links…this page is already in the tv tropes comic strip mugging the monster page.
I wonder if these grays even rate enough bounty m one to pay back Cora.
These goons brought a space gun to a super fight . Fifty one shades of grey confirmed
And this is when Cora the Ex-Plorer realised: she shoulda gone for the full-helmet protection, and Sydney finally gets her “Parker Moment”
We don’t know if her hard-light clothing is also covering her head with a transparent field. Also her collar might have the Stargate Jaffa helmet tech either.
Wich also asumes the forcefield can not simply expand to full body armor on a mental command…
Read a story, about a time traveller going back to pre-Mongol invasion Poland, and a Time Watcher guy, completely protected with impervious skin and armour… who forgot to blink and took an arrow to the eye, it was literally the only vulnerable spot, and all he needed do was close his eye, and he didn’t blink
*
“Oh, the humanity.”
*have not read any of the previous comments, not enough time
:-D
I had been wanting to quote the line, but could not quite remember how it went, and did not have the time to look it up. Well done.
It’s actually a rather famous quote it was first said by a reporter who witnessed the burning of the Hindenburg over New York when it caught fire while it was trying to land
Y’know, it just seems like being a mugger on Fracture is a PHENOMENALLY bad idea. Even beyond how bad an idea mugging is most of the time.
See, I’m getting the impression that Fracture is kinda a Free Economic Zone with very little in the way of proper government. And without much if any law enforcement or security, that can sound like fertile grounds for low-level criminal violence… briefly.
But it’s a place where a lot of people from many different cultures come and go. And sure, some of ’em are gonna be in the “barely managing FTL” range, but they’re not really worth mugging, now are they?
Even ignoring the severe outlier of Sydney’s orbs, there’s a pretty decent chance you’re gonna run into someone who’s some kind of Space Marine, or doesn’t perceive time like you do, or a Space Princess with 50,000 vengeful half brothers. Or, I dunno, maybe a highly experienced explorer wearing a hard light suit that can handle any kinetic impact short of orbital infall and has a cybernetic arm equipped with a variety of weapons for disabling or killing people. Just speculating on that last.
Seems to me like there are way too many unknowns for mugging to be worthwhile. As Batman said, “Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot” and they don’t usually act unless they’re sure of the win.
On the other hand, maybe they have some kind of scanner to look for weapons and identify their potential victims. So they’re seeing “Human, no scannable tech” and “[Cora’s species], some cybernetics, environmental suit” and going “Oh, yeah, those two will be total pushovers” because their scanner isn’t all that great and they’re not all that smart.
If you’re a mugger using a cheap-ass economy model scanner to pick out a mark, it’s only a matter of time until you run into a class-1000 psychic bounty hunter or a bored god looking for any reason to evaporate mortals into a cloud of loose quarks.
Rhulan: I disavow any accusations that I…oh who am I kidding, mugger baiting is on my list of bored past times when visiting some planets…oh that look of horror in their eyes when the very shadows around them come to life with chaos vines ready to rip their flesh apart and drag their souls into the dark abyss below the proto-Hell.
Quit stealing ideas from my sex dungeo….. You know what? Nevermind.
A good line of reasoning.
But do note how many individuals there are, plus they are clearly armed. So they probably have enough overkill to deal with most unexpectedly powerful aliens.
Sydney and Cora just happen to break the bell curve.
Yup kinda like Lina Inverse.
Syd needs to learn Judo, Aikido etc. maybe a bit of magic for those times when you don’t wan t bore a hole thru the universe.
I like to do a shout out when I find a particularly enjoyable anime. Having just watched the first season of Chivalry of a Failed Knight, I can recommend it without reservation, for Grrl Power fans. Although the setting is a fairly standard type (in an academy for magical/superpowered knights) the whole thing is exceptionally well implemented. I didn’t even skip past the title sequences, as an example.
I shall be keeping a keen eye open for season 2!
This page is pure genius. I literally* cannot imagine a more appropriate response.
* And I mean that in the literal sense of ‘literally,’ not in the literal ‘don’t understand language’ sense of actually meaning figuratively.
One who turns out to have raised a couple of wolves!
The puppies I rescued, and managed to get adopted by a friend, who took them back to the UK, needed to have them genetically tested because of a condition one of them was suspected to have. The surprise result was that they had between 75% to 80% wolf DNA! So more wolf than dog, even though they looked and behaved pretty much like normal dogs. Barking rather than howling, for example.
So completely non-suspicious looking dogs.
Tip for anyone who may not have spotted this yet, but be sure to check the location of any reply you do nowadays. If your setup behaves like mine the first post of a session (at the very least) tends to go down as a new comment, regardless of whether you hit the reply button on a specific post. As you can see I was a bit too sleepy to anticipate the problem this time.
Fortunately it is easily resolved (if you spot it) by simply trying the reply again (but see below).
Sadly I do not seem to be able to reply to any posts which are not on the most recent page (but will need to keep trying as I have not done much testing on that to see if there are exceptions). In other words, on this comic page, I am able to reply to comments page 4, but not to any posted on pages 1 to 3. Should we reach a page 5 I guess I would not be able to respond anymore to comments on page 4 either.
Oh, you silly, silly thug. Of COURSE someone gets hoit! I mean, hurt.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the next comic is just Cora and Sydney walking away from a pile of beaten, bruised, and broken thugs, with Cora saying “ANYWAY, as I was saying, my ship is right over there.”
Apologies, but that last panel just makes me think of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0jBUty1_3g
Are we assuming that Sydney ended up getting a bablefish as well as the hologram fairy wings?
FINALLY!
REFLECTED LIGHT OFF THE LENSES! <3
Wait… wasn't one of them broken?
It’s broken into three pieces, but all the pieces are still in the frame. It’s not uncommon, since full frame glasses hold the lenses in by tension, rather than attaching them. As long as a keystone piece isn’t missing the lens will still stay in place but have a large crack running through it.
There’s a few problems, both logistical and logical, with using a large group to carry out individual muggings. Logistically, in an enclosed space, the threat starts to diminish after a certain number since only so many can attack at a given time when the space to maneuver in a fight is limited. And logically, the larger the group, the smaller the shares from any one mugging and most people who are vulnerable to mugging won’t be in large groups and won’t be carrying that much money on them.
I would like to point out, in regards to a comment you made a long time ago…
You’ve gotten a lot better at drawing butts.