Grrl Power #1065 – Knife to meet you!
Hey, +50XP for Arianna.
Tactically, this is a poor reaction. But the dude did try and burn her into ash, so… it’s hard to really blame her. She’s not a soldier, even if she goes jogging with them in the mornings. That said, her aim was pretty on point. She went for center mass, but the guy managed to spin out of the way. Also, he is wearing some fairly serious looking body armor, so she should have aimed at his face. She’s just not ready to stalk the streets at night, dispensing justice from the shadows.
By the way, Varia is still holding onto her leg below the frame there, which is why Arianna can hold on to the glowing embers of the doorframe without losing her skin.
As far as the flashbang guy in the background, we don’t know how well equipped the fodder soldiers are, but it’s a safe bet that any helmet that is “flashbang resistant” is less effective if said flashbang goes off six inches from your foot than from ten feet away. Mostly though, the guy is regretting not strapping on his back of the knee armor.
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Not what Arianna was hoping to do, but, I think our PR person deserves this win.
Psychokinetic knife throwing. Cool.
That would be the most likely scenario, IMHO.
I get the impression she’s got a power like Diego Hargreeves from Umbrella Academy.
That physics defying fingertip hold gives me the impression Arianna has a knife-okinesis like Diego Hargreeves (from _Umbrella Academy_).
I suppose that’s better than “Dave really dropped the ball trying to draw a knife about to be thrown”. :/
I’m going to go with “Did you notice Arianna has the same proportions as the other supers?” I’m talking the gravity-defying cleavage, idealized build, and physical charisma attributes.
I’m betting she’s a ‘super’ who chose to do the career path she loves, instead of putting on spandex and stalking the night.
No. The female Supers are more generously proportioned.
Apparently there’s some overlap between fitness aficionado and superhuman average.
Not really?
She’s just normal levels of moderately attractive that you would expect from someone that likes to take care of themselves.
My theory Adriana took up knife throwing for fun (max taught her) and has a passive ability to boost up the speed of anything she throws
My bet would be more on Math having taught Arianna (and probably others) some basic skills such as knife throwing, just on general principle to have mundane combat skills in their inventory whether they are supers or not. Undoubtedly, many people would find that fun. I know I did. Also hatchets & darts. The general eye-hand coordination pays dividends elsewhere in life, too.
Personally I think it more likely that Ariane learned knife throwing not by but /because of/ Math.
She will never hit him with a knife but having to duck sharp objects thrown with intent should get the message across that he has overstaid his welcome (which would be about 5 seconds after meeting)
Doesn’t look like Math taught Arianna a pinch grip.
I like the animated illustrations in WikiHow’s article on how to throw knives: https://www.wikihow.com/Throw-a-Knife
My bet is she just was ticked off that he tried to burn her alive and has gone to a few ‘knife and hatchet throwing’ recreation centers (there are a few in NYC, I’ve been to one) and just threw the knife with almost no training. :)
Yeah, Pyro just learnt why you don’t piss off lawyers, they will bear a grudge forever (or until they get their paws on a knife)
Or in my case, they will hire a team of unfortunately inept, but reasonably priced, ninja for a hit squad,
Fully as honest as they claim though, they’ve never even offered to cut me in or give me a kick back. And as far as I can tell don’t even overeat at the monthly barbecues. Hard to say when we never know how many actually attend.
the best way i’ve found to measure ninja attendance is to measure the crap flows. its a dirty job, but Mike Rowe was unemployed at the time…
Poor Mike, the chili cookoff was really hard on him.
I had to give him a bonus after that….
note to self. NEVER accept Chili entries that might have Sydney’s involvement. the waiver you had to sign before tasting as well as the availability of gas masks was a clue.
Honestly? The only thing she did wrong was not grab a second knife with her other hand, so she could throw one and still have a melee weapon
Or grab a few in the left hand, so she could reload the right throwing hand a few times :P
Remembered what that reminded me of…
https://youtu.be/JEmklTvAkbM
Problem with that scene: he grabbed hold of the blades!
She needed to keep one hand on the door frame for leverage so as not lose her flame-protection (aka, Vahriah clutching her shapely ankle)
Yeah think she’s a super too, notice that the knife didn’t just reflect the light once, but has kept glowing ever since, regardless of its angle.
I’m waiting for it to explode Gambit style.
Or maybe the glow effect is there so we viewers can tell where the knife is and has nothing to do with powers.
Looks like the comment system failed about 7:05 as that is the last comment. All of mine from about 9 AM aren’t showing up yet. Are they all being held for review?
Abnormal operation of the comment processing routine is normal.
Time delay IRL of their internet taken out. Personally is Hilarious with what went on with the Rogers company up here in Canada while this arc’s been going on.
Rogers was self inflected. There are commands used to advertise your networks’ presence (BGP) and someone fat fingered an update and accidentally deleted them. This exact thing is what took out Facebook on their last large outage.
Still cracks me up that a network outage physically locked everyone out of their data centers. *facepalm*
you mean we Americans only have a corner on corporate stupidity, not a monopoly? I am disappointed. America needs to up its corporate stupidity game. we will be number 1 in something.
If I were to take a wild guess, it’s that the comment system is rebuilding every comment page on the site on a regular basis. They’re probably stored in a database when they’re submitted, but they don’t display until the system rebuilds the pages. When there’s only a few pages to build, with a few thousand comments, it happens basically instantly, and nobody notices. Now that we’re up to over a thousand comic pages, each with a few hundred comments on it, it takes a while to rebuild them all.
That’s been my suspicion as well. I think it’s limited to the current page though – commenting on prior pages, even during a strongly delayed period, is nearly always instantanseous.
I would have sliced a lemon first, but I’m kind of a jerk.
Electronic security doesn’t work without electrons.
Automated anything can be bypassed.
Armor doesn’t cover all the joints.
Guns run out of ammunition and have lots of small moving parts
Knives work everywhere
That reminds me of that scene in Wanted. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5blXumhY8g
I had somehow never heard of this movie, but it’s on my watchlist now. Good action scenes can cover a multitude of plot sins, at least to a certain point.
It’s a pretty good movie. With some fun scenes in it. The video game based on it is terrible tho.
As a Digital Electronics Technician, I can confirm that!
Hmm… Toasterman stares at his hand, trying to figure out why Arianna isn’t even singed. Then dodges a thrown kitchen knife. Then stares at his fellow mook, who’s busy monologuing about taking damage.
I’m thinking that Arianna needs to finish off Scrub1 and Scrub2 fast, before any half-competent backup they might have manages to show up.
I’m imagining toasterman having a nervous breakdown.
“I swear, the PR lady just ignored my flames and then kneecapped one of my guys with a thrown kitchen knife!”
Toaster man looks like the Magma block from minecraft. I hope his name isn’t mag-nificent.
Of course not. It’s magna-ficent.
more like magna-inefficient
I’m rapidly cooling on him, shouldn’t be taking his eye off the target to see where her knife went, let alone rubbernecking with his back to her.
I would think Arianna would be an expert at backstabbing. being HR, Legal, and PR. at least two of those are professional backstabbers.
The lava-ish costume really doesn’t hold its promises.
Arc has a dedicated intel team to update their team on enemy powers during a fight, I imagine a super who encounters a random who might have powers they don’t know might be very worried that they’ll get killed rock-paper-scissors and have a few seconds of involuntary analyse/re-evaluate as they size things up.
After all supes are rare and valuable talent, they can get a different job if they leg it and don’t die in a fight with someone who can ignore their powers and has an additional advantage over them.
One Riddik Teacup, or a can key away from Panic.
Equally probable is that we have a minion flambee coming up in one more day.
Mr. Flamehead seems to be the type to believe that setting things on fire is an adequate substitute for HR. And for negotatiions. And for saying hello. For anything basically.
Plus he need to find out if his superpowers are a dud or if something else is going on (also the motto of evil overlords everywhere: sacrificing minions, is there any prolblem it cannot solve?)
Probably doesn’t seem to be the case but Arianna rolled a crit imo. Anybody who has tried knife throwing knows it is difficult, to say the least. Usually if a civilian throws a knife, all that happens is they don’t have a knife anymore.
Depends on the knife. A normal kitchen knife like that one, I’d agree though. Especially with the silly spinning throw. I’m of the opinion that throwing knifes and throwing spikes should fly straight.
She got lucky for sure. Even if she made a perfect throw for the fire guy, it’s pure luck that the knife hit the flashbang guy point-first.
Maybe flashbang guy was the target. Lava guy is too close for proper rotation of the knife and flashbang is just right. Tactically, it’s probably not the best plan but Arianna’s pissed off and wants to hurt somebody. If she is really on the ball she will pt a steak knife in Lava Boy while his back is turned.
Hmm, targets one guy, and when he evades, nails the guy behind him with a non-fatal disabling injury. If Arianna’s been taking lessons from anyone, it’s Math. Or Deus.
Maxima to Sydney:
“If you do have to shoot at someone, before you fire… look behind them. Assume you will miss them and hit that. Reposition yourself first so that the worst possible outcome is you will hit a drainage ditch or an empty parking lot. IF YOU’RE REAL GOOD, YOUR MISSES WILL HIT ANOTHER BAD GUY.”
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-193-wont-somebody-think-of-the-exploding-children/
(panels 3, 4, and 5)
it seems oddly appropriate that you are an archives master. I respectfully pun to your skills.
Walking sticks and canes don’t immediately go on most people’s “radar” as a weapon. Except police and staff-weapon fans. Helps if you are somewhat older than average.
Yeah, I suppose most people don’t think of themselves as having been born with a score or so of highly effective weapons…
WAY TO GO ARI!
Note to self: All PR people need to be proficient in knife throwing…
From two pages ago, it seems like she was just coming out of the break room.
I know it’s the boring conclusion but, shouldn’t Varia have her gun with her?
I don’t think most of them carry around the base. Particularly when the guns are more for show and messaging than something they intend to actually shoot most of the time.
“I used to be a merc like you. Then I took a knife in the knee.”
“Took a knife to the back of the knee.”
HAHAHA Poor guy’s having a day, isn’t he.
Now give Ari some Cold Steel ™ Torpedos to hide in her purse. :3 If these throwing spikes on steroids don’t stick, they’re heavy enough to do incapacitating damage…
Never underestimate an office lady with chopsticks in her hair.
Ah, the technique for throwing an improperly balanced knife is difficult to master.
She’s got some kind of skill if she’s not practicing like crazy.
With a properly balanced knife, on the other hand, you have to have the right distance to match the rotations to the target, so it arrives at the target pointy side forwards.
With an improperly balanced knife, you throw it so it does not rotate. Makes accuracy and speed a trifle difficult.
After all my misadventures I know way too much about knee anatomy, and this guy is destined for a life of pain and limping with 2 maybe 4 ligaments getting severed that are needed to hold the knee stable.
Eh… assuming they don’t have a ‘heal super’ on call who can fix it after he is captured.
This situation is why military bases have armed guards around.
Five bucks say that all “civilian” staff will get pistol training at minimum.
Only for those that work in the ARC side of the building. Sorry CUPP’s, can’t legally justify arming the coffee shop staff.
Of course, even arming the ARC civilians gets into dangerous territory. It blurs the line between “Military target” and “Civilian target”. I mean, the Super’s don’t wear a uniform 24/7 around the base. So the real “Civilians” are already in danger…..
I wonder if there is a precedent? What did the non-combatant contractors do during the Iraq/Afghanistan war? I know that many still had a weapon. But were they legally allowed to carry them? (Because if not, most commanders would ignore a ‘stupid’ regulation that prevents a person from defending themselves in a war.)
Side note: I was a Chaplain’s Assistant. Under the Geneva Convention, Chaplain’s were Legally required to be Conscience Objectors (non-combatants). Some were fine with this, they never travel outside a convoy and the Chaplain’s Assistant was Required to be armed to defend the Chaplain. Other’s would rather have a weapon and be able to defend themselves.
The one who wanted a weapon, it was “hypothetically” agreed that I would carry a pistol as my “backup”. During combat, I would focus on protecting the Chaplain, I might not see what he/she is doing. As long as I return to base with the pistol, then there would not be an issue. And no one in the Convoy would see anything either. Because the enemy is over there, no reason to be looking at an ‘unarmed’ officer…… He would be unarmed after the fight, he must have been unarmed during the fight. Right? Right!
The one time I heard of a Chaplain picking up a weapon in combat. He got in more trouble for talking to CNN afterwards when they approached him to ask about the fight. (Not my Chaplain, thank God. Reporters are the real enemy and lie like the Devil himself). LOL
I wonder what the Geneva conventions have to say about a Sikh chaplain?
It would be the same as every other military Chaplain. The US military has at least one Chaplain for (almost) every faith.
LOL. I gave my Methodist preacher sister a copy of a list of religious services at a base that included time for a Wicca service. That was fun.
Interesting thing I once heard. At one time a Wiccan minister )(not sure about the correct term) sued the Army for not letting him be a Chaplain. But kept ignoring the 2 requirements (outside the usual stuff for every soldier)
1) Must have a Masters level College Degree in counseling.
2) Must have a Religious authority say “This person is qualified to lead our religious services”.
(At the time, there was no Religious authority to authorize the person to lead the services.)
9 times out of 10, they are just asking everyone to follow the same rules. They are there for reasons. (don’t want unqualified people claiming to be ministers just to become an Officer.)
They used to have a Satanist too. I understand it was kind of controversial at the time.
The Cuups staff does not need weapons.
With those hot pants and two sizes too small tops they already are weapons of mass distraction.
Wondering if the Luftwaffle folks next door carry as part of their uniforms.
Those are squirt guns filled with syrup.
“PR people do that.”
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
It must be true, I’ve heard that somewhere before too.
Fun Fact: The body armor would have to some type plates , chain mesh, or stab vest to stop blades from penetrating or at least going too deep if we’re talking about mesh or vest. Bullet Resistant armor parts like the Red Sea if it’s stabbed with a Blade because Ballistic vests disburse kinetic energy while stab vests tangle and catch the blades!
Arianna is such a knife person. She is having a pointed discussion with the unscheduled visitors.
She had to make some cuts to their agenda, only allowed them a slice of her time.
she will take a stab at setting up a meeting with the appropriate tools.
Which one? The one who flash-banged himself? Or the one who tried to make her extra crispy?
It’s not too hard to make a whittle time by trimming meeting schedules around the edges.
Does take a bit practice to get the tang of it, but I’m sure she’s already honed that skill to a professional bevel.
Yeeessss, another forum membership becomes double-edged.
I can’t tell which way Dave is psyching us on the idea of Ariana having powers or not now. Even if Varia’s power is different from the super’s power, it’s usually something related to the power and it’s hard for me to link fire powers to anything that might help her with knife throwing. She has most of the body type for a super (although the typical super would probably be at least one breast cup larger).
I could just as easily imagine that Krona has done something to “hex” the guy outside so that any plausible danger finds him much more easily. Obviously not magic like “hex” but some universe hacking equivalent.
Final possibility is, of course, Dave found it funny… and so do we.
Ariana has the power to turn any object into a viable ballistic weapon, even a marshmallow, a pebble, a pillow, a sheet of paper.
If she were a super hero her codename would be “Firepower”
*Scoville hits a rimshot on universe name puns*
Umm, no, Vahriah’s power doesn’t usually have something related to the host’s power: her power from Heatwave has nothing to do with fire or temperatures at all (not even Ice)
Varia explicitly said her power usually is related to that of the super she contacts. In Heatwave’s case specifically, she gets ice powers.
Couldn’t remember what she got from Heatwave
Who gave her the nice shiny skin? Ren?
No, she gets shiny skin (I’m guessing sort of Colossus power) from Vance.
She gets some sort of electrical power from Ren.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-323-shes-got-the-touch-shes-got-the-powah/
Usually, but not always
Varia’s gestalts are going to make any kind of operation awkward, if she always has to maintain contact. At the very least they will have to walk next to each other, with one of them having to hold onto the other.
Still seven billion combinations (not counting aliens & other non-humans) does rather make up for that inconvenience, in the long run.
In the short run, Varia better get off the floor if Arianna wants to walk more that one step away from her.
No, Vahriah needs to remain right where she is until the threat is neutered (not a typo)
Oh God that injury…
Next page:
Vance: Here throw this next. [ Hands Arianna a white take-out container, which she prepares to throw at flame-brain. ]
Arianna: What is it?
Vance: Oh, just some of Sydney’s left-overs she left in the fridge.
Varia: Are you insane?
Vance: Well, the major did say that the use of lethal force was authorized.
Chemical weapons are BANNED by so many treaties-
Oh, wait. My bad. Superheroes.
Carry on. I have a gas mask ready! I hope SOME of the gooms have the proper filters or there will be vomiting (and or suffocation) in their gas masks.
Her food would probably end up being classified more as “Tear Gas” or pepper spray but with a lot more burn and possible severe skin and eye irritation to get around that.
Fun fact: Gas weaponry, including tear gas, is banned in warfare as it is a chemical weapon.
Really makes you think differently about how cops use it, huh?
I think the world’s military did not put up much of a fight over banning weapons that come back at you if the wind changes; It was some cheap positive PR. The stuff was only being used by people who didn’t care about bad PR anyway.
Two very different scenarios. Police actions need a means of crowd dispersal that is generally non-lethal. Tear gas works for that purpose.
Gas weapons were banned by treaty after the use of Mustard Gas which is… a particularly filthy way to die by inches. Because they don’t want to leave any potential loopholes, they just flat out banned ALL gas weapons, so no one can say ‘Mustard gas? Oh no, that was just tear gas…’.
Context is important. False conflations are not cool.
That’s a lotta words to say, “I support the Police State.”
Ah, Bharda?
So riots SHOULD be allowed to go on and kill people, destroy property and all because cops shouldn’t have a means of stopping them between harsh language or lethal force?
Are you proposing that riots continue unimpeded until they have done enough damage/killed enough people or that they should be gunned down by armed citizens shooting anything that moves as soon as they congregate? Curious, not angry. I have seen both happen. Not first hand, but close enough. Which do you want to have happen in YOUR neighborhood?
Disingenuous slanted questioning that both, A, implies hypocrisy, and B, assumes nonlethal force must take the form of chemical armaments.
Furthermore, you jump directly to “riots,” as if these exist independent of societal understanding & control, instead of recognizing them as a response to systemic stimuli. A riot is not either a natural disaster, or some sort of kaiju. It is the product of deliberate policy choices, over time, that have created broadly intolerable conditions, and which do not yield to popular consent, which is itself the only legitimate foundation for authority in the first place.
In case it is unclear, I will be explicit: riots are the product of systemic injustices, are wholly and entirely preventable, and do not provide an inevitable excuse for the deployment of coercive, state violence against the populace. Rather, they are an indictment of leadership, and that leadership’s priorities.
In short, I reject the underlying premise of your passive-aggressive assertions, because riots are policy failures to be prevented, not inevitabilities to be “put down.”
There is a LOT of hypocrisy out there at the moment, but I meant none, actually. Reading what I wrote, it came out that way, so, I do apologize.
Riot gas exists to stop riots. Period. It is restricted in civilian use for a reason. Chemical weapons have been used for other purposes many times over the century or so.
That said? Not all riots are caused by systemic injustice. Some are caused because some people are lying pricks who WANT death and destruction. Just not theirs usually because they are bullies, cowards or terrorists.
I understand that there IS systemic injustice and it SHOULD be addressed, but when you limit the capabilities of law enforcement in the name of ‘liberty’ or ‘justice’ often all that results is chaos, madness and death. I GET that we SHOULD do better, but SO many do not WANT to on SO MANY SIDES! I just stopped caring. As long as no one attacks MY family, go kill each other if that is what you want. Anyone who attacks MY family, I will kill or die trying.
So, to ask the question slightly less inflammatory: You want harsh language or lethal force to be the only options in case of riot? I prefer having other options, but that is just me. Tear gas kills fewer people than bullets.
“Not all riots are caused by systemic injustice. Some are caused because some people are lying pricks who WANT death and destruction.”
Source, please? I haven’t seen any riots in the news that were started exclusively to cause death and destruction, but I have seen plenty of protests against police brutality and other systemic abuses of power *declared* riots immediately prior to the escalation of violence by police.
In fair to @kalenath, @Alexis, I believe they are refering to the 1/6 incident, which understandable, if slightly errant.
The attack on the capital – which can be fairly termed a riot – was still the product of systemic injustices, HOWEVER, it must be made clear that these injustices are wholly and entirely misrepresented & misappropriated by reactionaries determined to exploit & divide the population by scapegoating minorities, women, environmentalists, progressive SocDems, and actual socialists as the cause of suffering and feelings of alienation & despair, rather than 40+ years of deregulation & “culture war”.
I can agree with all that, and still ask how we should respond to a riot. “You should have done something else” is never the right response to “What should I do now?” For that matter, “Lie down and take it, because you deserve it” isn’t the right response to anything either.
So while we should make every effort to alter the social conditions that produce riots, we still need to try to stop them from causing harm if they do occur. How?
Maybe we could build a society that keeps riots from happening not through violence, but through social support structures?
Just a thought.
PS: I find it odd that you rank people being killed and property damage as equally bad. Property can be replaced, people can’t be.
That’s a pretty evasive way to say, “I believe people who are rioting should be allowed to riot.”
Nope, wasn’t evasive at all, it was straight up ‘let criminals get away with crime’
So… The state should be allowed to use toxic and possibly carcinogenic gas against its citizens when they act against oppressive policies… because it’s not *immediately* lethal?
Wow. Okay.
You know… I give up. I GET that it is easy to call ALL cops in the US ‘oppressive’ because half of the people who say such things have NO idea what the word actually means and the other had bad experiences. I have had bad experiences with cops, but you see, I do NOT want to see riots near my home and family.
I GET that no one should CARE about me, since I am not 1) a bigot, 2) an idiot, 3) a politician or 4) the right ‘kind’ of skin color, religion, gender or sexual preference for the flavor of the week.
I DO realize that in the US these days that tolerance and understanding are FAR less important than violence, hate and discontent.
I also understand that is anyone, and I do mean ANYONE attacks my family, I will respond properly. For the record, I am not a cop, so I have NO problem using lethal force to protect my family. Feel free to try. I am sure whoever claims you will give you a nice, closed casket funeral.
I am sure that will annoy many people out there who DEMAND the right to attack me or mine any time, because I am not the ‘right kind’ of people. I am also sure that I no longer care what anyone thinks.
You sound a little too eager to be attacked, and to respond with violence. Is that where you get the impression that “many people out there” demand the right to attack you, because that’s what you want yourself?
It’s just weird that you’re essentially saying that other people’s claims about the world being hostile to them are exaggerated… and yet that the world is a hostile place that you need to be ready to defend yourself from. You normally come across as a calm and reasonable person, so I can only guess that something about this discussion has struck a nerve, or that something else in your life has unsettled you.
ACAB <_<
*nods in agreement*
If I was Pyro there I would be thinking that she did that on propose. So, that if she missed due to dodging the knife it would still hit the guy behind me. That would made staying near her a big risk in his mind, one that he should get very far away from before she tries again.
There are very few occasions when it is _not_ beneficial to look like a bigger threat that you may actually be.
She will put a pin on that subject for later
Ari has one hell of an arm. She threw it hard/fast enough to hit someone at least 20-30 feet away before her arm completed its swing. Having thrown all sorts of knives as a kid (could hit a broomstick from 10 feet consistently), if you’re putting any sort of power/speed behind the throw, her hand would have completed its motion before the knife reached toasterman.
A throw of that distance should have taken at least a second, more likely two.
To look at it another way, look how long it takes for a fastball to go from the pitcher to catcher.
Huh. in the third panel it looks like the knife is magnetically attached to the top of her finger. If she’s already throwing it, that means she was holding it by the blade, meaning it will rotate in flight. Seems she must have had a lot of training with knives in general, or she has been training with this knife in particular to be so accurate and deadly. Or, she really is a super.
Just an interesting note. I think the pyro is a bit confused about Aria’s survival, because from his angle he can’t see Varia. If you look at the first panel she’s not visible from his angle. So he’s probably unaware there is a super right within arms reach.
Or he’s thinking “Our intel was bad, nobody told me the lawyer was a fireproof super.”
One less person to admire the knee-pit of…
Regarding the new invotive: bad form! that’s click-baiting at the lowest form!!
Knee-jerk just learnt the difference between ‘resistant’ and ‘immune’ :P
I’m not sure what the frame with her holding the knife is about – she was lucky not to hit herself with that happen anywhere in the throw.
That said, the best thing that she can do is look at the OTHER guy dead in the eye, lean in and grab ANOTHER knife… And smile. (Then let him run away.)
This follow up is my head canon for her until at least the next page drops. Possibly longer.
Hey, Pam Poovey cannot be the only secretly bad ass bitch in an office setting.
The Tigers are no longer crouching. Let us see if there is a Dragon coming out of hiding.
That is a serious injury, the popliteal artery runs behind the knee and it is an extension of the femoral artery. Arianna better hope that goon’s leg gets a tourniquet above that injury quick, or she’s gonna need therapy for having ended someone via blood loss.
She’s a lawyer, she’s likely done worse
“Huh. First time I’ve literally bled somebody dry, usually it’s just figuratively.”
She just survived an attempt on her own life via Death By Crispy Chicken-ing, don’t believe she will have time to mourn some schmuck who tried to flash-bang her colleagues
Taking a life is not as easy as FPS games make it out to be. Someone like, say, a public relations lawyer who hasn’t been conditioned to kill the way a soldier has is going to be traumatized by the event to some degree, regardless of circumstances.
Most people assume lawyers are either born heartless, or conditioned to destroy other people’s lives. Or at least their wallets.
looks as though she switched hands there she grabbed the knife with her left hand and threw with the right.