Grrl Power #1062 – Jalapeño, Jalapeño, Jalapeño
No, Leon didn’t just summon tech support.
I really wanted to title this page “Zulu Zulu Zulu” because I am almost positive there is some scene in some movie or TV show somewhere in which someone sends that message, and the message means “Invasion imminent.” Only, I can’t recall where I saw that, and I just don’t remember if the message was actually Zulu Zulu Zulu or Zebra Zebra Zebra or November x 3 or X-ray or Oscar or what. My brain is whispering that it was someone like Spock or Data, but I don’t even recall if it was Star Trek or even Sci-Fi. It’s very frustrating and you can imagine that googling “zulu zulu zulu invasion” produces results about, you know, the actual British attempts to conquer the Zulu, and “zebra zebra zebra invasion” give results about invasive zebra mussels. Like, the mollusk things, not buff furry zebra dudes. Though honestly those probably show up on page 2 of the results.
Anyway, since my brain wasn’t cooperating to recall the exact reference and I couldn’t think of anything else, I went with “word that should definitely not be on a Military Phonetic Alphabet list” just to make sure no one has any idea what I’m doing.
Edit: Ah hah! Kizik Ucalegon over at Patreon cracked it. “Zulu Zulu Zulu” is from On Basilisk Station, the first Honor Harrington book. And my fucking brain went from hearing an audiobook of the scene to trying to tell me it was Data from an episode of Star Trek. No wonder I can’t remember if an anime I’ve watched was subtitled or dubbed half the time.
Snippet: ———————
“‘Mr. Venizelos, you will commandeer the first available Junction carrier to relay the following message to Fleet HQ. Message begins: Authentication code Lima-Mike-Echo-Niner-Seven-One. Case Zulu. I say again, Zulu, Zulu, Zulu. Message ends.'” She heard McKeon suck air between his teeth at her shoulder. “That is all, Mr. Webster,” she said softly. “You may transmit at will.” Webster said absolutely nothing for an instant, but when he replied, his voice was unnaturally steady.
“Aye, aye, Captain. Transmitting Case Zulu.” There was another brief pause, then, “Case Zulu transmitted, Ma’am.”
“Thank you.” Honor wanted to lean back and draw a deep breath, but there was no time. The message she’d just ordered Webster to send and Venizelos to relay to Manticore was never sent in drills, not even in the most intense or realistic Fleet maneuvers. Case Zulu had one meaning, and one only: “Invasion Imminent.”
Edit 2: Ironically, or… serendipitously? Anyway, I upgraded to fiber internet about three weeks ago, meaning there’s a 50 foot fiber cable running from the curb to the side of my house because they haven’t gotten around to burying it yet – and my neighbor just clipped it with his weed whacker. So I’m on “tethered-through-my-phone” internet for the next week. :/
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Looks like despite her supernatural threat suppression work for the Veiled side of things she’s still on the green side to not realize that total internet failure in a building like that just doesn’t happen without it being the result of something major and the most likely thing being an incoming attack. A building like that would be a secure hub with dedicated connections for the purpose of preventing internet hiccups interrupting vital communications. Either something catastrophic happened like a nuke taking out everything in the area or it’s an enemy attack.
or both
It wasn’t just internet. 4G and 5G cell service also went to no bars, which is what really clued Leon in on what was happening. Losing all communications in a secure facility should set off warning bells if you are a fan of action movies and TV shows. Similar to being at the beach and noticing the ocean has suddenly and excessively retreated.
To be quite frank, those are the signs of the apocalypse for most people born after 2000.
During the Cold War, that could have been any day, we expected to see Nuclear Bombs, falling from the skY. Not a good time, to be alive.
I was there.
Dabbler got annoyed one time when her movies buffered for a few seconds, so she installed new internet with speeds measured in terabytes. They just called it 5g as the logical progression of 3g 4g, etc.
each g was supposed to be 100X faster but the advertising worked so well the engineers got out voted and it’s now an arbitrary term for “Generation”.
Not to mention the wi-fi which probably originated from the same room
It’s not even just the 4G and 5G, those on their own could *maybe* be explained away as equipment failure or interference; ALL of the phones are out.
Look right under the cell phone signal status, and you will see a section labelled Telcom. Telcom Trunk 1 and Trunk 2 are both showing red status lights, meaning the phone landlines are also out.
Given the nature and importance of that building, i would not be surprised if some of those landlines are old school analog copper wires; those don’t go down unless the wire has been physically cut, or the phone exchange itself is having serious problems.
Such copper wires would not be carrying POTS, no. They’d be a number of voice channels bundled together, and that’s been digital for ages. But they’d be engineered to be similarly robust, so it would still be unlikely in the extreme they’d go out accidentally. Along with the data getting cut and multi-band wireless signal jamming and it’s pretty clear what’s happening.
Says a lot about him as well that he responds to it so professionally and promptly. His training and experience are showing that he immediately sounds the alarm and activates the defenses when he sees everything failing instead of reacting like her and wondering what’s going on or thinking it normal.
Nah he just really really wants to have internet service. The fact that there happens to be an attack at the same time is a mere coincidence. :)
it took me an eternity to notice that the guys in the last panel aren’t tech support
I know it probably isn’t going to happen, but I’d love to see these badguys assaulted by the Fashion Ninja, just for the lols.
This might happen – I see at least 2 guys in desperate need of a forcible make-over.
I’m with Leon. The first rule of invasion is to disrupt communication. Seeing internet go down like that when there’s no scheduled downtime for something as major as Arc, ESPECIALLY for it being the middle of the night means only 1 thing. Trouble is coming and it needs to be dealt with swiftly.
Considering he IS the downtime and that usually would mean under 10 minutes for a server full cleaning… yea… he knows better.
And in cases like these better sure than sorry. Better lock down everything for a mistake than risk being caught with your pants down. (literaly, too)
Seriously, this.
An opponent who cannot communicate, cannot coordinate. Lack of coordination leads pretty much directly to defeat in detail.
So… 5G?
In 2010?
I’m sure Archon is as bleeding edge as can be, but the edge hasn’t even been officially named by 2010, much less designed or published. Pilot/experimental program, I guess?
It’s aways now in The Grrlieverse.
{Ackshully…. it’s always The Future as the entire series except for the very beginning is a flashback.}
My own thought was the WIFI, but I’m going to presume those are WLAN controllers he’s got on the monitor. They’d need dozens of AP’s for each group to cover that huge building.
Dabbler got annoyed one time when her movies buffered for a few seconds, so she installed a new internet with speeds measured in terabytes for every computer. They called it 5g as the logical progression of 3g, 4g, etc.
Well someone with money to burn hates the government. Wonder who it is this time.
They BURY your fiber cable? The zip-tied mine to the electrical line till it reached the house (everything fiber here [KC] is mounted on the electrical infrastructure (i.e. the cable and poles).
That only works if your elecrtical line isn’t buried as well. buut, that’s a city problem heh.
Burying electric lines seems like a great idea but apparently the reason it’s not all that common is that it dramatically changes the capacitance of the lines which can cause impedance on the lines. That’s why they don’t bury high tension lines, and most lines aren’t buried at all… The problem is especially bad when buried lines have to go a long distance. They found this out with a line run from America to Europe for the first transatlantic telegraph. Basically the line barely worked at all and even when it did it was spotty at best. They had to develop a way to prevent it from significant capacitance problems from being buried under all that ocean water.
The telegraph line used unsuitable materials. The insulators were not designed or tested for high pressure applications and failed at depth leading to grounding and loss of voltage.
High tension lines are the steel cables that provide support for the high voltage lines that usually make up the main branches of the electrical grid.
The reason most lines are not buried is due to the higher cost of maintenance. One would have to dig up the lines in order to check for defects even if there are testing points above ground to locate the section where the fault is occurring.
Of course with buried lines the risk of failure is a lot smaller also.
Not much squirrels underground, nor falling branches
There is a reason that in denser population centers lines always get buried. It is only in the rural areas that lines almost never are buried. There is a higher cost with actually burying the lines, but once it is buried the higher cost of repairs are offset by the much lower frequency of those repairs. With more people paying for those lines the up front costs can be spread out more and there also is a higher risk of things breaking lines if they ar strong from poles
I suppose that’s not too bad of a thing. One uses light and the other uses electricity, so no interference problems from magnetic fields.
Then again any work done on either cable means both being disrupted, so no net AND no power.
Typical short sightedness.
Round here they’re deploying fiber from polls using the legacy phone wires for support, which are then switched off. Makes them useful for one last time!
Now that makes sense.
Some places consider overhead poles unsightly. We tried to get an extra phone line put in at my father’s house in San Clemente, but all the infrastructure is underground, including the electric; the phone company was happy to pull all the wires, but we needed to provide a ditch from the street to the house. Not something to be done casually, alas. To start with, the front area was choked with ground cover that had a robust and tangled root system. The rest was mostly a matter of working around other utilities, breaking through a couple walls that extended underground, routing around the swimming pool and accepting that we’d have to replant part of the garden… plus, you know, permits to go digging.
Yeah. We never did get that extra phone line. But the point was that there WERE no poles to hang wires from. All the electric and data infrastructure is underground.
Could be it’s the same for the author.
Overhead lines are susceptible to interruptions from getting hit by motor vehicles, buried lines are much less susceptible to interruptions from anything other than errant earthmoving equipment.
Or supers with high strength and/or earth powers. That and getting intel as to where the lines are.
My (and my neighbors) fiber was casually draped along my back privacy fence, looking for all the world like one of the vines I rip down at least every other month. Said fence runs directly below the right-of-way and all the other cables. Took several calls until ATT finally sent someone who agreed to require it to be elevated – so they basically zip-tied it to the cable TV coax.
So… Max, Sydney, Anvil and Dabbler are out, but all the others are still there and probably not happy at being left behind?
Um, even with the element of surprise, it would be a nasty fight against Archon on their turf. With surprise gone? OUCH. Yeah, right, like a group of superheroes with LOADS of military connections neglected things like DEFENSES?
This is going to be very messy and/or very quick.
Remember when the Fel kicked open the hornets nest?
This
I knew I had heard it before. Great book.
Pander, I’m afraid that you sent me the wrong address. That is not Guesticules’ house.
I am obliged to inform you that my client is not responsible for your failure to confirm your instruction, pursuant to contact section 7, sub section C, paragraph 37. Further, I remind you that this contract also has a _very_ thorough NDA, which you are now in violation of.
Our contract attorney is a Fashion Ninja, her usual defense for such claims is liberal application of Leg Warmers, Spandex, Floofy Perm to the plaintiff. It is covered in the forced non arbitration part of the contract under section 69, sub section D.
First rule of NDA is don’t speak of NDA.
The non arbitration clause (sec 69 subsec D) refers explicitly and specifically to, and I quote, “Apocalyptic Nonfatal Mass Casualty Events Involving Plush Penguins and or extrajudicial extraterrestrial panty raids,” and was included specifically to cover the events of a Dabbler-related legal apparatus ‘handling error,’ please see Section 69 subsection B paragraph 137, line 2. As Dabbker is not presently on the premises, my client must insist on her right to binding arbitration, mediated by a panel of certified Pokémon Trainer Gym Leaders, in a best of five series of Calvinball matches. And I remind you, no take-backs.
I stand corrected. However, it’s not Calvinball, Rochambeau using the Eric Cartman style of play is specifically named. And I remind you, I go first.
… What? o_O
Beats me. My standing subscription orders for Honest Iga’s Ninjutsu Unlimited is to send them to either Ro Jaws or Brichins or Palmvos, as they are the biggest pun-using deviants here. Probably was a mix-up in communication.
No worries G.
that explains it. I though it was for some… puns… from another comic. (not pg-13) i.e. Pander trying to F_ with me.
Intern did it. I should probably pay them something eventually.
Shhhhhhh….
*finger over lips*
…let this happen.
Haha I wonder which entails more drama – dating a succubus, or dating a girl who can hack reality and can access some succubus powers/knowledge?
So… Many… Sitcom… Pitches…
I hope it’s just these two holding the fort. The computer hacker and the reality hacker playing “home alone/tower defense” in a super high tech fortified facility against a team of invading supervillains with unclear abilities and goals is the video game I never knew I needed to play until just now!
…I’m here for it, but at a minimum, we know Varia’s on site.
Yeah, before they left to visit Deux there was a page with Hiro and the B-Team talking about being left to hold the fort. I expect they show up soon because, as all storytellers know, more heroes + more villains =moar awesome.
…Stiiiiiil wanna play that video game though.
Oh, I remember.
I chatted with Dave about, briefly.
“Garrison duty can get very, very exciting, very, very quickly.
War has been described, as early as 1915, as “Months of boredom punctuated by moments of terror.”
Not JUST war, but that is the most common thing in war. Lots of boredom punctuated by ‘WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!’
My Granddad had LOTS of stories from WWII about that. Funny ones. He never shared the bad ones.
Yeah back when the world war vets were still kicking you could sometimes go to the legion on rememberance day and after they had one too many you could get the medium stories. That generation didn’t have therapists though so I think they basically tried never to think or talk about the for reals bad stuff.
While seeing Krona and Leon take out the invaders in a series of Home Alone style booby traps would be hilarious, it’s very likely there are quite a few supers on site. We already know for sure that Varia is there, and if I recall, there’s always at least one Harem on duty in uniform as per Maxima’s standing orders to her previously, but there are probably many more. The only ones we know are not on site would be Maxima, Sydney, Dabbler, and Anvil.
Which still leaves Ren, Vance, Jabberwokky, Jiggawatt, Mr Amorphous, Achilles, Heatwave, Stalwart, Hiro, Math, Pixel, Specs, Digit, the other four Harems … did I miss anyone?
Not to mention non-supers like Peggy, Sean, Detla, Seneca, Duke, and the other highly trained marines (who I don’t think have been named in the comic yet) capable of taking on Fel shock troops, and magic users like Gwen and Zephan.
Plus automatic defenses which made even Harem nervous and other security which was able to stop a vampire like Crimson from sneaking in.
They probably are not all on site. In fact most of them probably have a home somewhere away from Archon HQ.]]
(( also Pixel is not Archon and Specs is non-com. Digit should be as well (because of her collateral damage) ))
Is the last panel supposed to be the Archon response to the alarm, or the invaders breaking in? I’m guessing the former, as the windows on the roof are not broken. But why would they be rappelling into their own building? Also does not appear to be any of our known Archon characters.
I think it’s the invaders, and they got the skylights open before the alarm went out. The two supers in sight are no one we’ve seen yet, and don’t seem to be on Archon’s roster.
This situation poses a few questions: How involved is Deus in this attack? Since he is supposed to have super intelligence, perhaps he concocted a scheme to get the most powerful of Archon’s supers on the other side of the globe, occupy them with a nemesis for Max, and then launch an attack on their headquarters, obviously leaving no way to trace it back to himself. What benefit would that be to him?
What would anyone have to gain by attacking Archon HQ directly, unless they are trying to outright destroy the organization?
It’d be hard to take Archon HQ down, but if you want to steal something from Archon, making a big fuss in one area while being sneaky in another is one way to do it. Sneaky invaders could also plant devices in the USB/other ports of computers or servers (inserting anything from worms to keyloggers), place bugs, or use programs such as Active@ Password Hacker to bypass password authentication and install secret accounts on key computers. (I took an ethical hacking class as part of my IT major.) Active@ was originally developed for when all the passwords are lost or forgotten, but there’s still vital data on the computer. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Sabotage and general screwing with Archon’s operations is another option.
His being a super intelligence is as yet an assumption.
He hasn’t said it himself, and one of the _best_ ways to manipulate your enemy is to make them think you are vast more capable & competent than you actually are. It triggers analysis paralysis, and causes them to waste resources on countermeasures to moves you’re not even planning.
Yeah, but there’s a lot of evidence to support it. For sure something’s up with the dude, super intelligence has a lot of explanatory power. At worst, I would figure he would have to be well above “above average” in order to convincingly fake super intelligence.
I’m really liking Deus’ development as a (?maybeprobablyprettysure?) villain. So far my money’s on “Seemingly Well Intentioned Extremist With Apparently Benevolent Motivations But Also Terrifying Capabilities Who Totally Could Be Playing You Right Now And You’d Never Know It Until He Pulled The Rug Out From Under You.” Not a bold prediction you say? Fine – five internet bucks says Maxima doesn’t shag him.
Oh man… I really liked Krona.
Broad-spectrum jamming is always a sign of a Problem. Especially for military and law enforcement. Good on Leon for remembering you can always apologize for a false alarm, but you’ll have a much harder time fixing damage from an enemy.
Especially since damage from an enemy can involve the bioware between a person’s waist and hairline.
Eliminating enemy command and control has ALWAYS been a priority in combat. Removing enemy commanders from authority as fast as possible makes a battle shorter/easier in almost any circumstances. (berserkers notwithstanding)
Rules of war are fiction intended for civilians. There is only one rule in war. Win.
Funny how that has transferred to politics too, especially in the US recently…
DaveB sure put a lot of detail into those boots :)
There was also a Zulu Zulu Zulu reference in the Tom Clancy Novel “Red Storm Rising” and also a Trumpeter, Trumpeter, Trumpeter… Both codes for pending Air Action…
Also “Tora Tora Tora” => japanese call to confirm the attack of pearl Harbor has been started.
Time to pull out my Honor Harrington books and start rereading…again. :-)
Leon is a nerd/geek, he knows a disruption in communications could mean only one thing.
Do we get to see achilles stop things with his eye again
Can hear the ‘hut hut hut…’ from here lol.
One of the Wifi links still has a black dot. Is that meaningful in any sense?
Tenuous contact through the jamming helps clarify that it’s not some sort of software error, and visual contrast confirms that the others are all the way down, rather than oddly-colored but full.
Yeah here it overhead lines. Usually it’s cheaper for them to do it overhead but then they have to get rightaways in certain communities. But then a lot of that right away legal jargon has been accounted for for lots of different services including cable etc.
The problems you have with overhead cable is well line rot. EG where the physical wires been sun damaged and starts to crack. Not a problem with fiber but it’s also a little bit more fragile. For copper-based lines it’s another story where if you have a cracked cable rain itself can interrupt your service or disrupt it to the point of a usability.
Underground cables while looking nice has a problem with having to dig for it. With things like trees and roots and people’s accidentally cutting wires by digging where they’re not supposed to. Problem is you still have the problem with right away. EJ where do you put the cables so somebody doesn’t cut into it or somebody when they need to fix it have the manhole cover into a an underground concrete box where it’s all connected up and rerouted.
Both have their issues. But there’s some things you can’t bury power wise. That’s why you see the overhead high tension power lines. You can’t bury them without an extremely shielded cable and even then it’s a problematic issue for repair and etc.
Personally I want the quantum routers for data connections. nothing to cut nothing to interfere and you know immediately if somebody’s hacked your line. Copper can be easily tapped without even cutting the wire. Fiber not so much but it still can be tapped, but is not susceptible to ordinary magnetic interference
I think the Slide arrow is backwards? Right now it makes it look like the blast doors are retracting, not deploying.
Nope, moving left to right, you can see the edge of the panel to the left of the Braaan-Braaan
I would bet that Leon has multiple layers of firewalls too. A lot of businesses and fall prey to the M&M security. Hard on the outside gooey in the center.
I mean consider how small raspberry pie is something the size of pack of cards can be easily hidden anywhere and just chunked into the network somewhere. Well that is if you don’t have a smart router then notices when something weird just gets plugged in
I kind of wonder if the hood clan, the one that went after Syd, is shopping for a new super to subjugate
Everybody’s going to call asking why they can’t get to their cat pictures.
RE: DaveB and cut cable.
Where I used to work they had a company come in to do the carpet. Well after they were done found out half of the division the sales department suddenly didn’t exist anymore. Problem was easy to see because they cut the cable. Well it didn’t end there. They warned the company. And they did it again. Only this time it was the boss’s son who called up and said my computer isn’t working come and fix it right now. Well what’s the character company done was cut the cable, and then stuff the rest of the cut cable back down through the hole after they were done. As if that would magically reattach the cable. Once I figured it out, carpet company got a another reprimand and I think they cut it cost then this time.
Fortunately I knew how to put in a twinax cable splice. The cable has two wires running through it with a shielded outer shell. Not the size of a cable TV connection. You have to put an end on both of the cut ends. Then you put in a little connector that you can screw both of them into. Took about 45 minutes to an hour and a half between diagnosing and fixing. Twinax cable is what they use for connecting up I be a mini frame terminals . It’s very similar to cable TV cable but instead of having one connector in the middle it has two and it’s pretty heavily shielded and plastic wrapped on the inside with multiple layers. Need a special tool to cut it and special connectors.
Hmm, I wonder if Kevins prison/holding cell are on site at Archon HQ?
If so these intruders might be in for an even ruder reception than they expected if he either breaks loose from the vehemic boost of a battle over his head or is deliberately let out for…excercise and nourishment :D
Who else might be on site or able to respond real fast? Hiro, Math, Achilles, Detla, Varia, at least 1 Harem, Heatwave, Mr. Amorphous, Stalwart, Jiggawat, Vance, Jabberwocky, Ren, Pixel, Goose & the spess marine squad?
Man I would not want to have my surprise assault on that place get rumbled as I walked through the doors, or skylights as case may be.
The guy treats his subordinates with respect, seems to operate via a meritocracy and while we don’t know if he personally cares for the well-being of the his (idk, subjects?), but he at least knows he’ll have a better bottom-line long term by providing them with a better life nomatter race or background. Sure he’s morally ambiguous, but I’d take a benevolent dictatorship with him in charge in a hot second. Especially in preference to the current UK government.
So here’s a question: how would people’s opinions of Deus change if he had been depicted as obviously black, middle-Eastern or oriental?
Depends on who is reading.
Me? I was raised in a US Army family and the only color I was supposed to care about was the color of their uniform. It was quite a bit of a shock when I got into public school and was TOLD on my first day that was I was ‘supposed’ to be a racist. I laughed at the guy and asked ‘what the hell are you talking about?’ At which point, he hit me and I got suspended for daring to defend myself. I know I am ONLY supposed to care about skin color and the feelings of special people in the modern, Trump MAGA world. I should not care about stupid things like lives and property, but hey, I am strange and PROUD OF IT!
Back on topic? Many people would get upset by such, because it offends their delicate sensibilities. I would not be offended, but I ‘would’ laugh my ass off at the comments. I am not a very nice person sometimes and the modern world bring out those qualities quite a bit.
Why does Ghost Rider look like M. Bison?
I feel bad for all those bad guys, they do not even realize the amount of hurt they are in for.
Seriously? Is no one going to mention/speculate about the a–hole in a freakin’ CAPE!!, and flaming helmet?? Floating down all arms-crossed imperious looking. . . Just begging to be shown the errors of his overly trope-ic ways.
That’s… not a helmet
Honestly, i have more attention-grabbing alarms for my dsl home connection than a single lousy “ping”, not a full siren but a medium, repeating buzzer.
Leon, on a high security building, and not even a warning strobe?
Shame on you!
Actually, you’re both right, @DaveB . It’s in chapter 27 of On Basilisk Station, but it’s also on Star Trek. OBS was written in 1994, so that precedes the Star Trek entry, but in the story “Red Fire, Red Planet” of the Star Trek Online fanfic, chapter 3 has Blackhawk send that transmission.
Next thing, Fleet Admiral Riker is woken from his slumber to the Case Zulu from the Oort Cloud.
So trust your instincts… you were very close.
Since when were FanFic canon?
Never said canon, just saying that if DaveB read fanfic from the game, he would then have it in the back of his mind and could be forgiven in thinking it was a Star Trek thing.
Skylights that open? This description sounds like an old building that was reconfigured.
What else goes wrong with underground cable? It gets wet. Last winter I was without power for 17 hours because the power cable under the street had rotted out, and they had to dig up the street in mid winter to reach the failure.
We already saw the skylights being used (Maxi came in and stood on the roof at least once, even had Jan I. Tor complaining at bootprints on the ceiling… again)
Wait, they don’t cover the cables in rubber? o_O
Rubber. Works for a while.
Undersea cables have been down for god knows how long and still work. Because they have to work, being extraordinarily difficult to repair.
Then again, expensive per foot/metre.
Bottom line, it’s all about the bottom line.
Build cheap, fix later as needed when it’s someone elses problem.
“And my fucking brain went from hearing an audiobook of the scene to trying to tell me it was Data from an episode of Star Trek.”
Dave
Data did use the word several times in three episodes that i can remember however never three times in a row. Once in one of the Movies he was trying to stop a hacker from taking over the ship he had stolen, and the other two were in the series as he was attempting to stop Lore from taking over, and the third was the random alien of the week who happened to be an advanced tech race. but that is why you herd Data saying it.
If someplace like Arc-Swat quickly loses all communication systems, it’s not an accident or net failure, it’s somebody trying to isolate the entire building.
Did a zoom in on the floating fire guy,
unfortunately posting that here seems, difficult, to say the least, no image posting, and the link would be to a controlled access area *friends list only*,
but either way, so we have a guy in red cape, flames on head, red disco mask, golden smile face- face mask, pretty smooth old style body armor and the lines on his arms if not decorative would indicate a pyromorph or magmamorph on some kind.