Grrl Power #1076 – Obsidian crop circle
“Sydney! What did you do to the desert?!”
“As deserts are defined by the amount of rainfall they receive… technically I didn’t change anything?”
So, Sydney had a bold plan, and enacted it. There’s something to be said for decisive action, even if it’s likely that a much better plan could have been envisioned at a future date with ample time for planning.
I’m not sure if the scale quite comes across like I wanted it to. The bottom panel started off as a screenshot from Google Earth, and I think that obsidian disk is like… 10 kilometers across? I know it looks like a jagged purple mess, but I actually spent a lot of time cutting out little bits and bobs here and there for roads and patches of farmland from the original screenshot. Sydney didn’t want to actually fuck up any existing infrastructure, though she’s probably caused some headaches for future development and will have definitely will have thrown off some grazing habits.
Tourist attraction wise, I would suggest naming it “Lake Scoville,” or “The Scoville Cataclysm.”
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I was sure she’d go with the vacuum gate…
Maybe finding him in that storm was too hard?
Or maybe the Causeway intentionally avoids sucking in Atmosphere?
I guess “if you can’t get the Sand-mancer to the place without Sand, bring the place without sand to the Sand-mancer”?
A vacuum will not drain the earth’s atmosphere.
A relatively microscopic opening like Sydney’s gate will let air leak away from earth but not with the kinds of effects sci fi movies display. The earth’s atmosphere after all is surrounded by vaccuum without any kind of barrier and is hardly being drained away in a matter of seconds (or billions of years really).
Gravity holds the atmosphere close to the surface of the planet (density sharply falls of at about 30 km if you look at the landing of a SpaceX booster. It does a re-entry burn that ends a little above 30 km and when it ends it will pick up speed again for a couple of seconds but then it will very rapidly start to descrease in speed. Since it is the air pressure that slows the booster this can only happen if at 30km altitide the density suddenly increases a lot)
The air pressure at the surface is 1 atmosphere and opening a gate to true vacuum has that as a pressure differential. Earth will try to hold on to that air even through that portal, though it will require an actual physicist to figure out how gravity will behave around an actual discontinuity (i.e. will the gravity work perpendicular to that portal even if the portal is aligned with the direction of the gravity?)
Somebody did the math for the ISS and found that an opening of a few square cm (which is relatively to the space station many orders of magnitude bigger than the portal is to earth) would produce barely any wind inside the ISS and would take days to drain the air out. You could seal that hole with a bit of duct tape and be fine.
A portal to deep space vacuum would allow air to escape but people would not get sucked through. Mr Anger management issues ended up near Fracture Station because he tried to rush at Sydney not because he was sucked through. (and yes, him holding his breath and be fine for a bit was realistic as well. Though if he had been a baseline human he probably would have had severe eye damage, moderate to severe long damage and moderate to severe decompression trauma given how long he was in space unprotected.
You’re forgetting. Gravity affects air pressure as well.
The reason air doesn’t just rush off the planet into space is that GRAVITY is acting as an opposing force.
Now, open up a portal down deep in the atmosphere?
Like, at sea level?
And it becomes a fire hose effect.
You have tons of air pushing on you from all directions.
14.7 PSI-ish?
Earth’s atmosphere weighs in about 5.5 QUADRILLION TONS.
Pushing into vacuum opening of roughly 2880 square inches (average size of a door).
So you’re able to schlorp through about 21 TONS
It’s not “explosive decompression”. But the weight and volume
The extra fun thing is that the wider the portal is, the more efficiently the air can be pulled through. The turbulence of the air flowing through against the air that ISN’T flowing through keeps small holes from dumping the atmosphere quite as quickly; with something door-sized evacuating air from the atmosphere, you would wind up with a frickin’ gigantic vortex of air that can start to drag big things through it.
For that reason, I highly suspect that Sydney’s aether causeway doesn’t pull atmosphere through. Otherwise, it would start to make a godawful howling sound the moment it opens in atmosphere.
ObPedantry that’s not the way it works.
The only way you hear a leak is if the pressure outside (or wherever you aren’t) is greater than the pressure inside (or wherever you are). This is an important thing for, eg, someone training as a pilot or astronaut or whatever to learn. That’s one of the reasons why hypoxia is so sneaky.
For the rest of us it’s usually just a bit of physics trivia.
https://youtu.be/4xdMOAQulqg?t=81
Orrrr this could happen. :)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YNbSauU–h0
The other end being underwater could also be interesting. Sand under water might be harder for him to access.
“Okay, considering the last time I fought Darude there was an… issue with collateral damage. But I didn’t make the world’s biggest PARKING LOT!”
“Given that our track record includes DESTROYING a parking lot, shouldn’t we count this as collateral un-damage?”
“NO!”
Funniest comment on here.
(At time of writing)
Nobody has pointed out how far she had to fly? She circled that thing sixteen times! (If I counted the rings right). If it has a ten kilometer radius, that means she’s leaving swathes .6 kilometers wide (600 meters across). She probably spiraled it, but that’s quite a ways to fly fast, especially since she has no force field protecting her from speed. I think it works out to 560 kilometers or so.
A human can’t really breathe without a mask above 140 km/hour or so, so it would have taken four hours for her to do that. She’d also have hellacious windburn.
I think Dave forget she’s not a superflyer without her force field for the air resistance and stuff.
First off, it’s 10 km ACROSS, so its diameter is 10 km, not its radius. With that in mind, its length is less than half what you calculated, around 250 km, and for a 300 m wide blast. Less than two hours at 140 km / h.
Second, you are considering that she has to be just above the area she is hitting, projecting the energy strictly vertically. But put her a little higher, let’s say 50 m to be sure the depicted flames are not too huge.
Now, we still want her to make 16 revolutions, but in, say, half an hour, at 100 km / hour (so she can aim more easily, she wants to minimise overlapping and overshooting). This gives her a 50 km long spiral for which the final loop has a 2 km radius, with a shot at a 1° angle and slightly over 5 km long, but this seems plausible for the PPO, in my opinion.
Put her at 1 km high and the angle becomes a more manageable 18°: still low, but far easier to maintain more or less accurately, but the flames must become purely metaphorical. :-D
(of course, this could indeed be a mistake by DaveB ;-) )
true enough! but also…
If she’s capable of shooting a beam that is 300 meters wide at the bottom, she can probably go up over Sandy and shoot down, melting him completely with one beam. Even if his arms are sticking out of it, he’s likely glassed.
Good point, but, depending on his own speed, he may be able to dodge, or at least to move over areas where collateral damage becomes a real concern.
Furthermore, my calculations put Sydney 50 m high, whereas we can see Max fighting against him from far higher (you can’t see the edges of a 10-km circle from a height of only 100 m), so they were above her… And shooting the PPO towards space may seem less dangereous, but she may hit a plane or a satellite, and they are harder to .
Also, she may not be able to see him in the sandstorm. Shooting blindly would be the worst idea.
Only Sydney could think glassing part of the planet is a good thing. And might actually be right! Lol.
In other news this is when we find out his power is more about silica control than sand control.
That’s what I was thinking: you thought a living sand storm was bad, get ready for a living cloud of microscopic obsidian shrapnel!
This would definitely screw with local weather patterns, similar to a lake effect.
I beg to differ, DTD – Ripley was the original proponent of glassing part of a planet. …well, technically Truman was, but we aren’t sure he knew enough about the effects of Fat Man and Little Boy to call it Glassing.
A handy reminder that Syd’s power set actually exceeds Max’s in some respects
Max just floating there, dumbfounded, “Wat”
She certainly has a lot more variety. And her powers aren’t as physically taxing to use since they come from artifacts and not any innate power reserve.
The “NYOOOOOOOOOMS” were a nice tough!
Holy moley…
I always underestimate what happens if you get creative with superpowers as well as I keep forgetting how powerful some characters are.
At the very least, this should provide some data on how this guy’s power works, but with a 10 kilometer radius? This is often beyond the limits of such elemental manipulation powers.
As for the headaches of future development? With the Supers and the technology on his hands, I’m sure Deus will come up with a way to profit from this.
While this may stretch it a bit, he might be able to create a dome from the glassed sand and develop the area.
But that’s just one idea of several I can come up with. There are surely others.
We already know he is a fan of solar, Give him a week and he’ll have the bottom of it excavated and the thing turned into a solar lens for power production.
As for finding out about darude’s power? He’s done. Not in a sense of he’s beaten because he has no sand, but look at Max’s reaction. And she’s on Sydney’s side. Darudes going to be like “Yeah, I give up, just don’t turn her on me”
“If she’s willing to make a new nipple for the EARTH I DO NOT WANT TO FIND OUT WHAT SHE WILL DO TO ME… i surrender… please?”
Deus was already saying he needed more power for his fabricators, and the biggest solar-reflective solar farm, the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Plant, is roughly a 1/10th mile diameter farm and provides enough power for all of Pasadena, California. And remember, square law, she upped the DIAMETER from 1/10th a mile (1/100th a square mile) to 6 miles (36 square miles).
In other words, the Scoville Thermal Solar plant will provide 3,600 times the energy of the world’s largest thermal solar power plant. So roughly 4.4 billion Megawatt Hours or 4 Petawatt Hours. Or enough energy to power the entire U.S. with some spare change left over.
Addendum: The “Spare change” is enough to power Texas.
Eh, that’s going to be a horribly uneven, cracked, and impure glass surface. More of a hazard than anything else.
I’m not saying Deus won’t find a use for it, but it will be long term, and involve a lot of work.
My thoughts as well. Dunno if it’s purple because of some local minerals or an additional superpower effect, but it’s definitely not reflecting in any specific direction. Other than roughly ‘up’ on average. No effective way (barring a specific superpower) to harvest that for a heat collector, but you could probably rig some good windfarms next to it and capture the new local wind currents.
Oh yea, never said it’d be easy, but of a thermal solar plant, the most expensive part is all the glass, but obsidian is naturally reflective when sheer. And even if it’s not as good as proper glass, there’s a LOT of it with a LOT of coverage. Even 1/3rd the power output of THE ENTIRE US would be more than sufficient for Gatelyn’s current needs.
Your number seems way off to me. 10 km diameter->78.54km²->78.54E6m² with ~2500kWh/m²year irradiation in central Africa ->196.4e12Wh per year pure irradiation. That would only be ~200 TWh raw input per year. I would be surprised if you would be able to extract more then a third of it. However that doesn’t look bad compared to the 22k TWh global electricity consumption
Sure, “visit scenic Galtyn, see the World’s Greatest Terrarium!”
This makes me wonder what Maxima’s maximum output for energy (heat, lasers, punching power) is and how it compares to what Sydney just did with apparent ease.
Not to say that relative biggatons would decide a fight between them, because of different powersets, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she feels somewhat emasculated by seeing this after possibly standing head and shoulders above everyone else for the majority of her life.
Vitrifying a ~10km diameter area of sand to a depth of, say 6 cm, takes about 11 petajoules of energy if my math is correct. (~25 megatons TNT) Max taking out the Fel Battlecruiser was “several hundred petajoules”.
Still, Sydney casually demonstrating “EXTERMINATUS!” like that is going to be a bit of an issue.
She would have the power to do it but would she have the insanity?
Okay, I expected Maxima to do the glassing of the desert – but it works either way.
I am a it surprised Maxima is surprised. I guess she never considered doing small scale terraforming with her powers before?
Also, serious question:
Is the PPO actually hot now, or is that just comic relief?
This would be a interesting part of understanding the orbs.
Well, it did create a forest fire before the comic began when Sydney was testing it out in the forest.
But that might have simply been a Heat-Blast mode.
It does not indicate the orb itself becomes hot.
Ah, I misunderstood. I didn’t catch in that afterpanel that the orb itself was actively hot.
Yeah she’s never commented on the heat before, and she’s used it for sustained fire before (at least several minutes battling the Squiddy squadrons on Alar). Maybe this effort took longer and was continuous, etc, but I’m guessing comic relief since burning the user would be a pretty bad Nth-tech design.
Imagining Sydney trying to push the orb into a tree trunk without touching it.
I do not have words for these actions
A gigantic mirror… That could set some things on fire and stop everyone from driving (or walking) during the day
I’m thinking that it would be raised up and put on pillars to give shade. It would get hot but would reduce light levels and thus heat under it.
I’m wondering if the folks on the ISS would be blinded when they pass over….
also any air travel in the general area will be nearly impossible
Yeah I somehow figured she was going to work by removing the sand part of the desert. Honestly why she couldn’t just use her site orb to locate the person controlling the sand I don’t know.
Last time I checked her sight orb let her see through illusions and invisibility, not through opaque matter.
I meant the fact that she could use her site orb to project an illusion of herself and use that to seek out the main body. Sort of like how she accidentally teleport herself into that Atari girls clutches when she was using an orc body or was it a troll body?
Because the sight Orb does nothing against a physical mask. As Peggy demonstrated quite well.
If the power set is similar to Concretia then range isn’t a major restriction.
I don’t think Darude is controlling the sand remotely, it seemed like he was part of it.
Creating that much glass should level her up at least 2 points.
And people will assume it was from a single attack like Max’s big explosion.
Which might be a good thing intel-wise as people won’t expect Sidney to be able to do such a… to cause such a mess
Except opposing military will see through that the pattern and gaps are wrong fir a single blast she specifically avoided roads etc and probably made a spiral like pattern
I’m no scientist, but that’s going to mess with the weather something fierce isn’t it.
I’m not sure but the temperature of the glass right now is about 3000 Fahrenheit. 0_0
Close 2870.6 degrees Fahrenheit melting point of sand, it would create a new low pressure zone with all that heated air. Which means any high pressure areas those with rain and clouds would start to rush into the area.
I’m not a climate scientist, but that guy making an artificial sand-storm the size of a city already messed with the weather something fierce. Hopefully Sydney will remember that while she’s filling out the paperwork for causing major environmental disruption during a field operation.
According to Google, to get purple glass you need manganese.
… there is a chance that for this kind of purple, you need “Maxima” particles.
Looking back, when Maxima tested her shield with a blast, you got purple glassy rings around it.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-161-cooldown/
Manganese isn’t the only way to get purple glass. In theory you could get that color through interference effects if Sidney’s power tended to produce features of the right scale. Like, if the “pixel” size of her field generator was on the order of purple light’s wavelength.
No, this is a sign we’d best not stay. That’s not purple, that is the 8th color. Octorine. (sic) I, when science is advanced enough it’s magic. When magic is studied and codified enough it is science…best not linger or speculate long, just run. p.s. I never leave home without my potato or my towel.
Yes but the world is still round, with no elephants or tortoises in sight.
maybe it’s just 2 tortoises humping, that would explain earthquakes anyway.
Ah, I was wondering what it would take in garden-variety sand to get something other than yellow blast glass, like you have in at least one part of the Sahara from meteor air-burst explosions, or the sickly-green Trinitite you find at nuclear test sites in Nevada.
South Africa is one of the largest producers of manganese with the Kalahari desert estimated to hole 70% of the world’s reserves. Admittedly, Mozambique, one of the “neighboring” areas is over a thousand km from said desert if I’m reading the map right, but it’s plausible that Gallatyn might have untapped manganese reserves.
But according to Minecraft, obsidian is purplish-black.
(Not serious. But kinda serious, because maybe this was something that DaveB didn’t put much research into.)
Obsidian is a rock.
obsidian is lava glass
Right about now Maxima is realizing she is not the only Person of Mass Destruction on her team.
Last frame. It’s a purple nurple.
Did Sydney unlock/find a wide beam toggle for the Pew Pew Orb? Last time the beam looked rather narrow and would require lots of passes to get that much coverage.
I think she’s actually always had it. She described being able to narrow or widen it and we got to ‘see’ some of that during the fight with the aliens. Like it has an aperture. She just never got to really try it out much prior to joining.
I thought that was for the scatter beam she unlocked in the fight against Robo-Venger (#551). She calls it a new chevron there that she didn’t have (or hadn’t noticed) before the upgrade.
Also while fighting the alien drones it shows a thin beam that she sweeps through the swarm, no wide beam is shown or mentioned.
Doesn’t mean she couldn’t have found the button for it on the beam setting some time later though.
Flying at Mach 16 I doubt how narrow the beam is would be a huge problem. Many circles looks by the finish to be the solution she used.
Max testing Halo’s shield left similar affects with each blast.
Flying at mach 16 would have made such a mess of the atmosphere that the sand likely would not have been there to be melted when she came back around to it.
She’s had three points in the Pew Pew Orb for quite a while, but had only demonstrated two different attacks. DaveB messed up at some point, as explained in his comments on page 945, so maybe this is the third form of attack she was supposed to have.
Last frame. It’s a purple nurple.
Goggles instead of a shield.
In a war zone.
Well, I suppose Maxima is right there in case she needs an extraction.
Sydney, you do know what the words: “ecological disaster” mean, right? This might be a desert but there were probably thousands of animals that you just burned to death.
A 10km splat is not an ecological anything. Volcanoes do that on the regular. So does all grain farming everywhere. Dont kneejerk your emotional responses.
And worst come to worst supers can break it up later.
Right it’s not an unprecedented ecological disaster. But it certainly is an ecological “thing”. Both of those things you mentioned (volcanoes, large scale grain farming) have large, not-completely understood ecological effects. So, don’t make the opposite mistake of saying “eh, everyone does it all the time, it’ll be fiiiine”
What are the odds that she extincted at least one obscure endangered species of lizard or bug or something by rendering the last 5 square km it lives in uninhabitable?
Galytn’s Director of Natural Development and Extraction says that Archon needs to make reparations for exterminating at least 3 unique lizards and 12 unique beetles.
Sydney did not destroy the ecosystem. Darude had already done it by tearing up all that sand.
Massive sandstorms caused by the bad guy are also an ecological disaster. The animals that were still there are very much dead already.
will anyone think of the puppies!!
Probably zero. Sand guy throwing around several metric tons of sand all over the place isn’t good for the ecology either.
I’m not sure I get it… Sydney melted the sand quartz into solid? She burned the sand away, only revealing obsidian?
Former. She melted and fused the uppermost layer of sand into glass into a new form of Trinitite.
She liquified the sand into (purple -obsidian?-) glass. That’s what glass actually is: melted silica.
Yes, but also no. Setting aside the fact that glass can be made from a variety of materials, it’s melted and rapidly cooled silica. Cool it slowly enough to crystallize, and you just get a solid mass of quartz, or possibly fused quartz if enough pressure and heat was applied. Which I think is what we’re seeing. It’s definitely not obsidian, since that, like most natural glass, is defined by the cause and environment that formed the glass, not the color, and obsidian is formed from lava.
“Sydney didn’t want to actually fuck up any existing infrastructure, though she’s probably caused some headaches for future development and will have definitely will have thrown off some grazing habits.”
or she coincidentally created an entire set of new industries by providing a humongous supply of new resource. collecting, mining, and refining of the obsidian or whatever it turns out to be. if it turns out to be useless – recycling into something useful and maybe Art from exotic materials. if it turns out that her pew-pew beam is exotic enough to create something much more useful then normal standard obsidian – then she might be invited to create more … for profit ofc.
she might be invited to reproduce this same effect somewhere else, even if the resulting material turns out to be useless.. who knows — anyways profits!
It’s Deus’s back yard… he’ll find a use for it.
After extorting some kind of payment from ARC and possibly another date from Maxima, of course.
By my math (I did it elsewhere), its reflective power can me turned into a thermal solar power plant with enough Watts to power the entire US.
Sydney just inadvertently solved Gatelyn’s power needs.
Deus erects a huge electricity-generating tower in the middle of the glass field.
Not implausible. We know he’s been building solar updraft towers, and a field of black volcanic rock is going to be pretty good for maximising the temperature gradient…
Got to wonder how this actually solves anything. Its not like there isnt industrial loads of sands outside the circle.
Or for that matter how Sydney survived flying around unprotected near a sandstorm rough enough to penetrate Maxima’s force field.
it’s not that it penetrates the force field, it’s that her field doesn’t exactly protect against her lungs being filled with sand
because her various orifices aren’t protected by it for practical reasons such as “eating” and “breathing”
I think they’re referencing her damaged clothes which her field protects to a certain (far past squishy human durability) extent.
This can be a rather good investment. Today, obsidian still has important uses. Its smooth, glassy texture makes it popular as a raw material used to make jewellery. From reflective beads to interesting gemstones, obsidian makes beautiful jewellery. Some surgeons prefer to use Obsidian scalpels as they are literally atoms thick sharp. Plus as Sydney said, Tourism! She should also be helping herself level up with all that.
Obsidian scalpels advantage over steel ones is less because of the thickness, but because the obsidian sharp edges are smooth at molecular level :) steel scalpel edges are basically serrated at molecular levels, so it will make less smooth cuts. Smoother cuts allow for less scaring afterwards when the skin heals :)
Yeah that’s it. Couldn’t think of it properly, having a bad head day. Seeing an obsidian Vs Steel scalpel next to one another under an electron microscope as a comparison was stunning.
Obsidian isn’t exactly rare though, so the demand would have to be pretty localized. I’d buy a souvenir chunk as a Halo fan, but unless this has some unique property it’s likely not worth exporting.
Not actually obsidian. Natural glass is defined by how it was formed, not so much what it looks like, and this wasn’t formed from felsic magma coming out of a volcano and cooling rapidly. This would be something entirely new, like the Trinitite formed from nuclear testing. Syndeytite, if you like. Glass formed from a super-powered conflict.
“You are not the Emperor of Man Sydney!”
“I was thinking more “Halo” rather than Warhammer Max for glassing the planet”
“Less of the nerdy puns and jokes recruit”
She is not a recruit anymore, she graduated.
Isn’t Sydney a private now, since she finished boot camp?
She VITRIFIED the area?!
well thats a thing what stops him from lifting the sand below the melted stuff?
If Darude’s silicakinesis is limited to granular particles, he’d be rather hard pressed to pull sand out from underneath a VERY large slab of glass.
Pretty much depends on the thickness of the Halo-tite obsidian; he probably can’t control the sand/silica that’s under 6-50 feet of glass.
The weight of a single massive slab of almost glass.
a key element of a conflict IS battlefield control
Usually not taken this literally.
…
My D&D team ended a war by popping three damns simultaneously & destroying 2/3 of a kingdom’s food production by flooding its irrigation systems with sea water, right at the height of the growing season.
“You are facing a cataclysmic famine. You have no crops for the year, no time to replant, and even if you did, your soils are ruined for the foreseeable future. Sue for peace, and our employer will agree to provide enough food to keep your people from starving. Or, you can try fighting a war on an empty stomach. Incidentally, they won’t be stopping during the winter.”
“A good plan right now is better than a perfect plan too late.” Quote from somebody I can’t remember that fits the situation.
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” – George S. Patton
Welp. Looks like the Sahara has a second eye now.
That could negatively affect the credibility of her prior denial of being involved in an event of widespread destruction.
Better start hoping that his power is tied directly to sand and ONLY sand.
Otherwise Sydney just gave him the ability to become most horrific flechette weapon in the history of Earth.
Sydney has shown herself to have an offensive potential that dwarfs that of all of earth’s militaries, combined.
She has the power output of a Star just in the PPO. So Sydney herself is a Kradeshev 2 Civilisaiton in power output.
Humanity as a whole is a 0.73, give or take.
With her orbs she is technically an entire civilization on her own, one so advanced that she is not allowed to go through any stargate because you are not allowed to give a caveman a space gun and she is casually the biggest space gun.
Sure, if you take the metaphorical way that Sydney described using the PPO as completely literal and assume that Sydney can fully utilize all of that energy output, sure.
Back in Galytn! Now what will Max and Sydney do next?!?
Who wants to bet with me that mister Darude there will just lift the glass and make it 100 times worse?
How to get a hernia with superpowers 101.
Dark Thinking here, what if he is part of the obsidian?
Nyan cat…Sydney got to be a meme.
She has to be pleased. Now what happens when the video hits internet and 4 Chan ups the meme factor?
That new manganese obsidian nipple is gonna cause major solar reflection problems and heat issues at any focal points above it.
At first blush, this seems like a Very Bad Thing, ecologically, but almost all the Trinitite broke down in just a few years. So I’m inclined to say it’s… recoverable, and not a permanent fixture (depending on how much power she used). Making decent glass isn’t easy and can’t be done on an ad-hoc basis.
The question is, will this limit Darude’s abilities? Did Sydney just give him lots of GLASS to work with instead of just sand?
Yeah, it can’t be that thick (maybe a few inches to a foot), so if Darude is able to go a little deeper into the sand, that could be bad.
Yeah, if, all of a sudden, he has armor-piercing obsidian shards at his disposal…..
Yeah, no. Glass is too soft and too brittle to pierce armor. People, however, are generally much more fragile.
There’s going to be a bit of a problem when the next rainstorm blows through. Just where is all that water going to go now that it can’t be absorbed? Get ready for a massive thousand year flood.
This is already a desert, so flooding on serious rain is a accounted issue (dry ground is terrible at absorbing water).
However Deus has many Geokinetics and Super Strength people at his disposal. It takes them a week to fix that, tops.
That “new nipple” tag made me snort. Also, “Sydney, What did you do?” I see a new discussion on powers and uses thereof in Sydney’s future.
“A good plan enacted swiftly is far superior to the perfect plan enacted too late” military truism
Did she just find a limit to the orbs? The pew one looks to be overheating if she can’t hold it anymore.
Thank you!
I was about to ask that too.