Grrl Power #1114 – Asset accounting
In order of desirable pretzel condiments:
- Gross ballpark nacho cheese.
- Yellow mustard.
- Yummy fondue made from cheese not designed to normally exist in a semi-liquid form.
- Alfredo sauce.
- Whole grain mustard.
- Whole grain mustard AND Alfredo sauce – Yum!
There’s a separate category for stuff like cinnamon and frosting and caramel drizzle. There’s an argument to be made for dessert pretzels, but that’s really only one step away from a dessert bagel, and that’s just weird. If you want something doughy and twisty and sweet, get a funnel cake or a tiger tail (twisty donut.)
I hate that I keep forgetting that Varia has a pronounced Bostonian accent, because honestly, in short word bubbles, there’s only so many opportunities for it to come up. Words that end in an “R” sound change into an “ah” sound, basically. There are some flavors of Bostonian that actually add an “R” sound, like “pizza” can become “peet-zer” but there’s a limit to how thick of an accent you can write out before it starts becoming illegible. Written English just doesn’t have enough explicit ways to demark certain pronunciations to make it feasible. Maybe if we used umlauts and accent graves and that little sickle thing on the bottom of “C’s”, then maybe it’d be possible, but we don’t. And so I forget that she has a Boston accent since it sometimes won’t come up in several pages of dialog.
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actually honey would be more akin to vomit then to secretion seeing as how it is regurgitated into the comb from the bee in he form of nectar. always remember it’s be vomit not be shit that everyone eats.
that should have been the not he. the form of nectar.
There is also forest honey, which is both, secretion (from aphids) and vomit.
Aphids don’t secret it, it’s their poop.
Bees collect nectar from flowers and similar sources (e.g. hummingbird feeders) and store that liquid in a separate honey stomach where enzymes start converting the sugars in the nectar into simpler sugars. When she gets back to the hive, she regurgitates the honey stomach’s contents into a prepared honey comb. Other bees in the hive then work to dry the nectar to form honey. When full, that cell gets capped.
Thankfully, honey is not strictly bee vomit, from their true stomach, but it is a regurgitation which is then mostly dried.
Beeswax is a secretion. It is essentially compressed bee dandruff, and honeycomb is bee dandruff filled with vomit. Mmm, TASTY.
People on this board know a disturbingly large and varied amount about bees. :)
With an internet of billions of users, I am no longer surprised by any demonstration of knowledge, no matter how esoteric.
I *am*, however, occasionally surprised *that* people will openly discuss/admit certain things, but that’s an entirely different kettle of vichyssoise.
Wasn’t she able to teleport more people with Harem around? Or she could only teleport herself and Harem?
Why do the random testing?
She can only *VORP* herself after touching the Daphne’s
Technically, Harem is still doing the *VORP*ing, and normally she can’t take anything living (that is not considered part of her, so shut up about intestinal parasites and crabs)
When holding onto Harem, Varia gains the power of teleportation on her own, but it looks like she has the same kind of mass limits that Daphne does. The systemic testing is to find out if the powers she gets from touching each of the prisoners would be useful in a jail break.
Higher mass limits, since she isn’t sharing her power with multiple selves, but still not able to teleport other people. From explanations on previous strips.
Also couldn’t Harem bring in some acid or blowtorches for those metal bars to be dealt with traditional methods?
The bars are not the issue.
Getting them out of the dungeon without running into armed guards is. So they want something like Geokinesis or teleport circles.
they could be considering the possibility that if the cells are damaged, it could auto-trigger the “Purge feature” somehow(though i’d assume the wristbands on everyone are more likely to be the trigger, or at least designed to knock would-be escapees out somehow)
I like that the Boston accent shares some sounds with my Aussie accent.
Not too surprising, since they have some common historical roots.
Ultimately unsuccessful gangsters?
More that both the Boston area and Australia have had a large influence by irish and, to a lesser extent, scottish immigrants, mostly from poor and uneducated circles, which often coincided with petty criminals and obnoxious rebels (anyone not content with the english occupation).
Basically, both regions wound up full of people the English didn’t like – which, like you said, were largely from poor and undereducated segments of the population.
Sometimes the decision of whether to go to America or Australia mostly depended on whether someone arrived before or after the constables in pursuit.
This became even more true after the American Revolution, when the US refused to host penal colonies for England.
Quite a few!
It looks like the cells don’t have doors; A phaser on staff?
Anyway, the best pretzel condiment IS mustard, but it has to be that top grade mustard made particularly for pretzels, which you’ll hardly ever find for sale anywhere, so you’ve got to make it yourself.
ím guessing one will be a portal option as that would be the cleanest way to get the fodder out of the area.
I’m curious about those bars – if they can be magnetically affected, Xochitl could just grab back on to Azarin and deal with them that way.
You could simply add the *
*Translated from Bostonian
But somebody might get whiny, er I mean offended.
Just so long as they don’t Pahk their kaah too faah from the baah.
It’s because Scooby Doo stole all of the R’s for himself. Funnily enough, they sometimes turn up in Tennesee where those folks use it at the Car Worsh.
Sorry, it is NOT pronounced that way, In fact ,that can be very insulting!
That is popularly, “New England Accent”. I live in New England, and we all have the same accent.
Is that what all the superfluous commas are supposed to indicate?
What’s the thing about the Boston accent? Is it something Americans regard as comic?
Not really. It has been used to exaggerate some characters for comedic effect, but it’s more that the accent is very distinct. People recognize a Boston accent in the same way that a British person recognizes an accent from Liverpool vs. London.
In this instance, I think DaveB just wanted to create a backstory to flesh out the character. And when you canonically give a character an accent, you want to make sure to consistently represent that accent as that is an important part of story-telling. That’s why people tend to get annoyed in movies and tv shows when someone’s accent tends to come and go. It takes you out of the immersion. Particularly in a comic, some people create a voice for the characters in their head and if the text doesn’t match up with how the person typically talks, it is jarring.
Well, that’s the thing, in Real Life, some people’s accents come and go, mum sometimes slips back into her Rhodesian accent depending on who she is talking with
As to text not matching a reader’s self-created voice for a character is on them, it’s not like the creator can know what some random reader out of thousands has decided their character sounds like
I can conform that accents change. In college I had a Canadian roommate and about 3 months in, people started asking me where I was from due to picking up some of his pronunciations. After moving across the Red River into Texas, my Oklahoma accent came back and became even twangier.
It is when the writer themselves canonically gives them an accent that the reader can attribute to their mental visualization of what the character sounds like. This is not assuming that the reader gave them the accent, this is assuming they have a voice in mind that has the accent that the writer gave them, but then the accent is suddenly forgotten. Accents do come and go for some people, but if you have a very specific pronunciation for a word (such as cahs as opposed to cars) it’s not going to go away just because your accent isn’t kicking in at that moment, unless you are purposely trying to pronounce the word differently.
Also in Varia’s case, the point is that it’s a very distinctive accent which is *totally* out of keeping with her appearance… she’s got the whole Aztec background, but she personally isn’t from Mexico, and talks like someone from the opposite end of the US.
“but she personally isn’t from Mexico,” No. from Boston Massachusetts.
No, it’s where Vahriah is from
Vahiar maybe?
This reminds me of Thorn of Lief and Thorn who canonically cannot pronounce his own name correctly due to his accent. (It always comes out Thørn. Admittedly, the difference between o and ø is not a phoneme in his native language, just the native language of his love interest.)
Personally can not say the number ‘one’ properly, or most words that start with an ‘R’, think it may have something to do with literally biting tongue off as a baby (do you have any idea how much force you need to bite your tongue off, when you don’t even have teeth yet? it involves falling off of a bed and landing headfirst)
I have to agree with Gigawatt, to a point. But, I deal with livestock, changed diapers, cleaned up the bottom and insides of tracked vehicles and public restrooms. I try not to and also just don’t worry much about it all.
we have an immune system for a reason. it needs exercise or it goes off and finds things to do like force that overactive muscle in our chest to take a breather.
sir, the immune system is not a muscle. it is a complex, heavily-interlinked collection of biological systems. yes, it does need “exercise,” but the best form of “exercise” for the immune system is keeping up on your vaccinations.
Jigga, not Giga
I don’t deal with kids anymore but you haven’t lived until you have to reach in and grab a calves legs and pull. Well not so much lived, but managed to do it without puking. So mine gets used quite often but it still decided to attack all my joints. And several places of my skin (psoriasis).
Excellent taste in pretzel dippings!
you seem to have forgotten honey mustard, honey/peanutbutter, and chocolate. (just don’t mix ’em)
Mixes them cause you cant tell me what to do! :)
now you have to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcJjMnHoIBI
Maybe they’ll get lucky and one of the prisoners will let her open locks by touching them. Including the ones keeping those bracelets on.
that will be the lawyer in the cell…
Is that an LPL reference? If you haven’t seen the guy’s youtube channel, hop over there an search for lpl or lockpicking lawyer. I would suggest the paperweight episode.
it is an LPL reference. note- the locks in this place are supplies by Masterlock.
wait!! Jiggawatt has immediate, instinctual understanding of what kind of power she gets on contact? and she can without errors linguistically verbalize the gist of that power?
holy guacamole Batman! that is one AWESOME secondary ability she got!!
Not Jigs, Vahriah
You mean Varia? It is not 100% working like that. She did not realise control over the halo balls when she touched Sydney.
It’s still not confirmed that she has control over the amaze-balls. For all we know, she doesn’t. For nomenclature reference Sydney is probably not a super the way others are, and it might be that the orbs’ tether to her use the same kind of bond Varia exploits, and that blocks it. We know an actual super dips her toes in the aethersphere to use her powers, and that causes interference with Dabbler’s magic. Who knows what happens with presumably Nth technology?
Vahriah gains gestalt powahs from anyone she can touch
What happened when Vahriah touched Sydney is still wild speculum from the readers
The only one who actually knows is DaveB, and he’s keeping that reveal for a later time
Technically Sydney is not actually a super, she is just using a piece of insanely advanced technology, so I don’t believe that Varia’s abilities would be able to copy it.
There is evidence, that it did.
All we know is the orbs reacted to Varia’s touch, that’s all for now. I suspect at some point Sydney and her could figure a way to share the orbs therefore doubling their number of powers that could be activated.
Although the heavy implication from the change in orbit of the orbs is that she can use them too.
They included Maxi in their orbit when Sydney was clutching on to her like a spider-monkey, so it’s just as plausible they moved because Vahriah and Sydney were awkwardly hugging and jumping
Theres still a heavy implication to us, the readers.
Yes, and note how have never said they are wrong?
Was simply pointing out that, until DaveB finally reveals what happened, that’s all it is: implied speculation and not fact
Thats why I said implied.
But, you are implying it is fact, and not speculationing
Pander: “Theres still a heavy implication to us, the readers.”
Definition of “implication”: the conclusion that can be drawn from something although it is not explicitly stated
What Varia *claimed* was that she *usually* gets a sense of what the powers provide. What she demonstrated here is that while she can verbalize something about the power quickly, being able to actually communicate that power verbally instantly is trickier.
I would guess that she would naturally be aware of any always on extra sense, such as the bird radar, so long as that sense detected anything. Anything always on that her other senses could feel, like the mustard excretion, is also a no brainer to detect.
Beyond that, it gets a bit more complicated. Powers that she would be able to easily turn on would probably need to be fairly evident in order to qualify that ‘easily turned on’ trait. Powers that would for some reason be challenging to turn on may be less evident. If she gained the power to turn molten lava into cotton candy on contact, it might not be as evident to her if there’s no molten lava nearby.
Power stunts would be less obvious. She gained the ability to teleport herself by touching Harem… and then teleported somewhere Harem had been but she hadn’t. That feels like either she got an additional ability with that touch she decided would be better left undeclared or she wasn’t savvy enough to pick up on it right away. Of course, it could also be that the actual power is somehow actually better described as ‘she gains the ability to teleport herself to locations to which Harem could teleport by touching Harem.’ But even if that was the better description, it feels natural to me that with practice she might learn the power stunt of teleporting to where she’s been that Harem hasn’t.
another gross but possibly useful power- alfredo sauce secreted at serving temperature. (side power of heat resistance for both of them)
at least the one guy didn’t giver her bird brains.
I predict puntiful power suggestions. the thesaurus is calling.
I wonder if a thesaurus has a Bostonian accent
Actually, bird brains would be super intelligence: Birds are insanely smart for the amount of brain tissue they have. A bird with human sized brains would be a real brainiac.
the mark under ‘Ç’ is called cedilla, or cedilha. it’s used in French and Portuguese (a lot) … there could be other languages that use it, i just don’t know.
Spanish as well.
Not since long.
English ceased to be a rhotic language centuries ago. The Bostonians are normal, it’s the rest of the US that’s weird.
Now wouldn’t it be something if Varia’s mother spoke with a Texas accent?!?!?
Okay, shouldn’t they be asking them why they were captured in the first place?
Not like they wouldn’t lie…
But fairly sure that’s why she’s doing the testificationing first!
Does it really matter at this point? I mean, is there a chance, knowing that there is a purge feature, that they would choose to *not* rescue someone?
Yes, once they’re out, it could matter. But it’s highly unlikely that the ascenders captured these people because these people were active threats to the world. It’s more likely they were just random people the ascenders thought they could safely abscond with for testing purposes. For example, homeless people.
It’s possibly more relevant to ask if they’re aware what the ascenders have done to them. However, they’re unlikely to know. If, for example, the ascenders decided to implant a bomb in one of them that is set to go off the moment it receives a signal that they have being sent out by short-range signal generators around the perimeter, it’s likely that the ascenders would have used some memory-inhibiting drug so the victim/purge system carrier doesn’t know about it themselves.
Except, of course, that’s a safer way of having a prison break trigger the explosion. But given all of the overlord list these guys are checking off, it’s probably more likely that they’d use a bomb that would go off if the prisoners leave the area where the “don’t blow up” signal is being generated… or the power goes out. Because what are the chances the power would ever go out? Less than 1% any given second, which means 0%, so why even have emergency backup power?
The great thing about the method that they’re looking to expedite their escape has something like a 50/50 shot of detecting such bombs before they find the ability to actually break out. Note that depends on an infinite pool of prisoners, which they don’t have and wouldn’t have time to get through. Also note that it handwaves the problem that there are many ways to break out of the prison, but also many ways to detect unexpected implants or bombs, and I have no idea which is more common.
> it’s likely that the ascenders would have used some memory-inhibiting drug so the victim/purge system carrier doesn’t know about it themselves
I think it would be more likely that they simply didn’t tell them about what they implanted.
All it would take is the twilight sedative that is used for surgery prep and colonoscopies. The prisoners would wake up with a mysterious bandage and no idea of how it got there.
That can be done later, right now time is running low and lives are in danger.
If there’s something bad about them, they’re not gonna tell her anyway.
Milk is the secretion, not honey.
At least, you think Azarin would drink milk.
That said, I agree, honey is refined bee puke, not a secretion.
I can’t recall, has she always been the mispronounced and misspelled version of the actual unit of measurement – gigawatt – or is this a recent retcon?
Yes, I’m too not-quite-awake-enough/hungover to check the archives right now.
Yeah since she met Sydney it’s been spelt with a J not a G. Spell check automatically tries to correct it, pain in the ass pretty often.
I’d always assumed that it was a pun on “jiggle”
In canon, that’s how Doc Brown says it, so that’s also how she does.
The real question here is, if she has a boyfriend would he be a Jigabeau?
That joke was quite Jigalow
As my name might suggest, I always go for the low hanging fruit.
Start the new year off with a ninja hit squad.
I am only taking payments in whiskey until January the Eighteenth. Normal operations resume the First of February, until then you only get the Drunken Master. Because winter sucks.
In a future installment the Avian Awareness Attribute will become an essential asset.
Yuk! I feel for Varia right now, she’s covered in mustard. including under all her clothes. Which does sound funny, but think about it, mustard is an irritant, especially to certain sensitive areas of a woman’s body, and she’s swimming in it under her clothes! She’s gonna need a shower ASAP.
Maybe the hydrokinesis guy can help.
She seemed more put off by that one than Mustard-Secretor…
I doubt she’d have the fine control it would take to create a water knife, not to mention the danger to the captives it would be. I’m sure once the burning and the squishiness in her clothes starts to bother her she’ll be grumping up a storm.
Was commenting how she said “NEXT” and not for Phaser
You know there’s this semi-famous TikTok created named “Condiment Claire.” French dad, American mom, went to Harvard (fencing star), and became best known for letting the world know about the mustard shortages in France. If she were a superhero, generating mustard and other condiments would absolutely be her superpower and would relish every assignment thereafter.
Any relation to the DC character ‘Condiment King’?
omg, just imagining either of them going to a restaurant and finding the food a little dry or tasteless, and then sending their condiments to the chef
Just plain butter with the pretzels; thank you. – I’m Bavarian.
Thank god, a somewhat fellow local. My culinary instincts were sounding a constant “Ieeek”-alarm at the thought of pretzels with mustard.
Most of this audience has never experienced the joy of a true Bavarian pretzel. Instead they get <> Auntie Ann’s, which is the pretzel equivalent of a Mercedes-Benz badge on a ten year old Chevy Aveo and believe me only tastes acceptable when the condiments are strong enough to drown out the taste of the underlying baked product.
Mustard? Don’t lets be silly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-lWbtYqZF4
Mustard… is very silly. why they keep ruining sandwiches with it I’ll never know. I blame the ninjas.
My question is why fools keep putting turmeric in the mustard sauce. Also, the fashion ninjas use ketchup for character assassination only, it leaves a more terrible stain.
Hydrokenises? 90% of the human body is made of water. Do you have any Idea how lethal that could be even if it was weak?
Varia is looking for something that helps them escape, not fight. There are apparently automatic weapons (“purge feature”), so being able to beat humans doesn’t help. (Also, are Goon Squads made from water too?)
Additionally, thst kind of power is very often manton-limited.
Water might be the most powerful tunneling device in existence.
Course it’s often a bit slow.
If there’s no other really good ones, I’d make an attempt with it.
Would be way too slow. They’re on a timer of at most minutes.
90% feels a bit high. Usual estimates tend to be around 60-70%, although that’s going to vary based on a bunch of factors including hydration levels, fat, and muscle mass.
Your overall point is correct, however: if someone had hydrokinesis with water that they could not see but merely feel with their assumed secondary powers, and they could move mist with enough force to hurt people, and people did not somehow have an interference field for this, they could treat the water in a person as mist enough to turn said person into mist, even if all they could grab was the roughly 50% of the person’s blood that is more or less free water.
(Also, I would expect that they probably would be limited to that 50% plus a bit of fluid in their digestive tract, their bladder, and possibly their lungs [depending on medical conditions, of course, as most people don’t have a lot of fluid in their lungs apart from the blood flowing through their lungs’ blood vessels].)
Control over the fluid in the digestive tract would be plenty to kill anyone pretty quickly.
I agree hydrokenises would be a very effective weapon against bad guys, however think about it, how gross would it be to watch someone getting the water ripped from their body? Slow would be torture, fast would be a small explosion! Like the unwhinder round Cora used on the mask back in New York. I don’t believe Dave wants that level of gore in the comic.
He says he got over that. I think the unwinder round would have been a good clue too.
I know Dave’s over the gore, I’m talking about how it would look when you’re standing there as the blood leaks out faster and faster, all the while the target is alive and screaming until the brain is drained of fluid, the target finally dies, then the body quickly turns in to a dry husk that falls apart when it falls down. I doubt any sane person would want to watch that much less do it. Coot was still alive even after the attack for all we know he’s still out here and still bonded.
None of that is really necessary, just make them need to pee really badly.
Closer to 70-75 percent. That said, finesse can be just as difficult as range or weight or manipulation. like a telekinetic who can move a dime may have a harder time concentrating through a body to pinch an artery. Not unlike comparing a broad paint stroke to detailed penciling.
The marinara sauce is good on the garlic pretzels from Auntie Ann’s.
Soft pretzels, right?
I am partial to cinnamon sugar pretzels with icing dip.
Good news is that prisoner is of course immune to the mustard.
Only while touching her. Which I expect would not have been a lingering touch.
So here’s hoping the inspiration for that power wasn’t that prisoner’s severe mustard allergy.
Being held like that it figures they are all F power class. Unlike the ones they either hire or with Concrrtiq had to keep her body in a coma and held away with her and under constant threat of death.
I’d guess that most of the prisoners would be lab rats. Therefore, no combat powers unless they gained powers from the trials the ascenders were running.
There are a number of different power classification systems out there, so it’s at least a little unclear if that’s what you meant by class F. There’s at least one system where they could also be class E, which for that system is basically powers like Talking to Animals which don’t provide direct combat utility.
That said, I only know of two systems with a class F. One of those has it be people with no powers whatsoever, and the other has it be no combat-relevant powers.
Incidentally, I am able to talk to animals. However, I don’t have any special abilities with regarding to understanding animals and they generally ignore anything I say, so I have to assume I don’t have any special ability to communicate with them.
Its a hybrid system between like four or five that use a grade system, Marvel, YuYuHakusho, One Punch Man, Darkstalkers, KittyGrade, DC, etc… (with the note Hero and Villain grade is not the same as power grade, like a D list villain is not the same as a D power grade). So the common grounds observed between them, which seems to be F-S are the most agreed upon defined ranges.
These grade systems do start to fall apart as a universal, as certain powers would have different effects, so range, power, ease of use, strain to use, and effect can also influence grade. Also of note each letter grade can be claimed to have a minus, middle, and plus version.
that said, tied at the bottom we have what I accidentally keep calling Null, but is really two classes, Z and Anti-grade.
Z class: the power is so subtle or so situation specific that you can go your entire life without knowing you have it…(some Z grades can be upgraded once discovered like breathing underwater, cloud walking, breathing in space, immune to all diseases, immune to radiation, etc…).
*I assume this is what that E may be, although some schools use E instead of A for excellent so that could throw some people off..no joke my second grade teacher was like that*
Anti-Grade: the power can be impressive but comes with a trade off that either makes it not a power or harmful to yourself to use. For instance an ability other life forms have but is unusual in your species but comes with the same trade off such as a human being gaining the power to breathe underwater but now can’t breathe in air. Conversly the self harm a good pop culture example is My Hero Academia season 1 version of Deku where he has a mighty Smash force but at the cost of breaking his bones and rupturing tissue when used. Think also being able to generate fire or electricity while not being immune so you burn and shock yourself when you use it.
-magic that ages the user can also be thrown in here.
Now the direct grade card ones.
F: Side show level powers, its small, its visible, but its not particularly useful beyond a party trick, and some people may even call you a fake, especially if its the type where just using it a little tires you out so repeat performances are very hard (think Telekinetic who has to strain to move a penny).
D: Still obeying conventional laws of physics, but is unmistakable as beyond regular human achievements. This here is where you start to go down specific lines, but a good example is classic Captain America for enhanced physique powers.
C: Also known as the combat class, where even without training your power is able to break some laws of physics and potentially be a threat to a small group of people. (Old school Spider-Man would be C class powers for example). Basically combat wise able to take on a small group of armed men without great risk to yourself.
B: Your power is strong enough that combat power wise you can take on a SWAT team or a small army, maybe be
A: You could destroy a city by lawn mowering back and forth, would take time, but you are now a threat to an army, even in modern ages. (Think the average version of Wonder Woman or Aqua Man)
S: A living nuke is a good example, you can wipe out an entire city with one or two shots at most, caused earthquakes by punching or stomping the ground, and at the high end of this wipe entire small islands off the face of the earth.
Omega (Also known as G class): You are a living extinction level event waiting to happen. Basically make hurricanes, hurricanes made of fire, lightning that can blast across an entire continent wiping out thousands of cities at once, mind control the entire population of the Earth to stop breathing, etc…
Omega-Delux: Planet busters.
Cosmic: (this scale is insane and various more between individuals and rises so fast that its clear most writers don’t really undestand the scales of energy here or sizes of things and it turns into either toon force or rule of cool…these range from people blowing up solar systems, moving suns, throwing planets at each other, basically everything from Dragon Ball Super to Sailor Moon final season to Guran Lagan etc…
AKA: the Ludicrous class.
*as a note many powers are hard to place as some are innately powerful so limitations on them thanks to strain, range, and duration becoming the class deciding factors such as mind control, particle manipulation, reality warping, quantum manipulation, etc…* so yeah you can have a reality warper at the same power class as someone who punches really hard or stone skin if they have a hard limit *or need to train more*, so transmogrifying a chair into gold and altering causality to have good luck but that’s your limit could land you at C class.
There is actually a comic on webtoon called the uniques that has a character with fire powers that burn his skin, he constantly wears gloves to cover the scar tissue on his hands because he’s ashamed of it, though he eventually learned how to create the fire without it having direct contact to his skin, so it becomes more useful over time.
“called the uniques that has a character with fire powers that burn his skin,”
I think this was also on an episode of Venture Brothers satirizing the Fantastic Four.
Yeah it didn’t damage him but he still felt the pain of burning, like the nerves felt it even without actually burning so…much worse than actual burning as it doesn’t stop and he wouldn’t die. So living hell.
They may not be supers at all, since Varia confirmed when we first met her that her gestalt power works on *everyone*, regardless of whether that person has their own powers.
Also good as pretzel dips: Hummus. Pimiento cheese.
Hummus is also good on croissants, but I felt as if I was committing some kind of international food crime.
“If you want something doughy and twisty and sweet, get a funnel cake or a tiger tail (twisty donut.)” AHEM! Churros!
Churros! Churros! Churros!
My immediate thought when reading how rare it is for words to be afflicted by the Boston accent was to consider how frequently former Mayor Menino said things that would have been able to be conveyed in spelling. But then I did a quick check on Wikipedia’s page on the Boston accent. People born since around 1950 generally don’t use “broad a” for any words other than aunt. Except, a lot of Americans use “broad A” for aunt, so that’s not really a Boston accent thing. Many other features have also been declining, though not apparently consistently enough for Wikipedia to list dates on exactly what more or less stopped when.
Those bracelets are very suspicious…
Honey is NOT a secretion. Wax from honeybees is a secretion. Honey is nectar that’s been taken into the bee stomach, allowed to run down the bee’s tongue for evaporation several hundred times, while enzymes are added in the stomach, then barfed into a honey comb cell, made from the aforementioned wax secretion.
Yes, that’s exactly what honey is. And beeswax. Forty years of beekeeping speaking there.
You can thank me later. And yes, I do eat honey. What do I care about insect habits, it tastes good, so I eat it.
You do realize that shrimp and lobsters are arthropods, right? IOW, sea spiders/insects, more or less. Yep, I eat them too. And I bet those giant ants in all those bad SF movies in the 50’s would have been delicious.
Yeah, it’s like ants, they puke it back up to feed each other.
You all do realize we now have a super heroine with her panties full of mustard?
Hopefully not the kind with horseradish.
Ballpark Nacho cheese should be classified a bio hazard
nah, it’s most likely nowhere near biological
;P
The applebee’s in my town has this wonderful honey mustard beer cheese dipping sauce that they serve with hot pretzel breadsticks. Sooooo good.
Dude, they don’t segregate their prisoners by gender? These people really ARE villains.
…What are you trying to say? I genuinely can’t tell.
This might just be the processing section for fresh inmates
Also:
*Goon Squad busts in*
GS: Everybody freeze!!
*Varia points left hand at them*
GS: AHHHHH!! MY EYES!!
Varia: Hrm, spontaneous mustard generation IS useful…
Specially if it can generate inside a sealed helmet…
How about the urinary tract? Or the sinus cavity?
Mustard up the nose? She is not evil!!
Slow down there, Satan.
Surprised a “My Hero Academia” joke didnt sneak in; At one point early in the show when the main protagonist was undergoing tests to see if he had powers, it was opined that some people might have powers, but how is anyone going to find out they have an appendix that glows in the dark?
This is one reason for setting to have people with tracker powers or *power deduction* able to know what your power is and how it works through meta-senses *it can be accused of being lazy writing, but its not like you can’t add feats later*,
its also can be a fun way to bring in characters whose powers falll under the two useful branches of the “Z-class or Hidden class: AKA, go your whole life without ever knowing you have a power. Which yeah the one branch like your example is the “we have discovered you have a superpower but…its useless*,
the other two branches being *the power is very situational and can be a descent power class but to discover you had it chances are you’d have to be in a situation where without it you might have died (radiation absorption, cloud walking, breathing in space etc…* of that oh so favore third branch of *your power is needlessly convoluted*…like yeah your power can be useful and even powerful but unless these very specific conditions or sequences occurred there is no way you’d ever figure out you could do this.
as a challenge I made a guy for that third one (when I was like 16 for super power brainstorming), while also making it a gross out power for extra measure. Copra Bomb.
the man’s power is his fecal matter can explode, but only if it is allowed to dry out first, compacted, and then ignited, exploding like a grenade.
and being he lived in America and middle class these conditions never occurred until “Tracker-X” showed up and his astral aura was examined.
Yuck. Just threating to use it would be deterring :)
Another fanfic in Grrl Power universe I wrote long ago, was partially set in an Archon training facility (not a obstacle track as it was later showed, just a gym-like place), and there was this fighting instructor. He went most his life believing he was just a very good fighter with amazing reflexes, until the day a neighbour went in a killing spree. The moment this man pointed a gun toward his back, 100 feet away, he “felt” the incoming shoot and dodged it.
I gave him Danger Detection, but only if it was intentional, imminent, and consciously directed toward him. No accidentes, no area damage, he could still be killed by a falling flowerpot, or a reckless driver. He could have never figured it out unless such an exceptional event occured.