Grrl Power #1171 – Accidental super soldier potion
What Max is really asking is, “Dangerous to who?” Or possibly “To whom?” I’m not sure about that breaks down.
Basically, it just occurred to Max that most adventurers aren’t, well, Apocalypse Tier threats. Or S+ Tier, or Diamond/Dragon/Platinum/Divine Tier. However its measured in a given game system/novel/actual world Dabbler’s been to.
Of course, Dabbler could respond with something like “You have to kill a Plutonium Dragon which has adamantine scales two feet thick and its breath weapon is a gamma ray beam powerful enough to turn the Matterhorn into a caldera of extraordinarily radioactive magma.” Which does, on its surface, sound dangerous, but presumably it doesn’t have super speed, and its eyes aren’t nearly as armored, which means Maxima could still take one out literally before it could blink. That is unless it has some kind of fear attack or death sphere around it or the like that might slow her down.
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“Dangerous to source” doesn’t mean the ingredients are dangerous, it means you have to do, or go to, something dangerous to get them.
“Oh, my God, they found me, I don’t know how, but they found me. Run for it Marty.”
That line only works if the plutonium dragon was Libyan.
Or Morty
Doc just had to deal with the Libyans and later Mad Dog Tannen. But Rick had to deal with the Galactic Federation, the Council of Ricks, the President of the United States, Evil Morty, Alpha Rick, and The Self-Referential Six. And that’s just covering the basics.
To be fair, Rick earned all that enmity. The two most commonly overlooked aspects of “Rick and Morty” are:
1: Rick’s not the good guy.
2: Rick’s not as intelligent as he claims to be.
Well not ALL that enmity.
Rick didnt do anything to Alpha Rick. Alpha Rick killed his family because Rick didn’t want to just take the portal formula, and preferred just being with his family and, if he was going to invent it, he’d invent it himself. Alpha Rick killing Rick C-137’s family is what set him off on being the type of Rick in the show.
Rick didn’t actually earn the enmity of the President either. The President is kind of a jerk and is used to being the most powerful person around, and Rick’s attitude and existence defies that. :)
The Council or Ricks are all a bunch of jerks. Rick C-137 actually formed it for them, and they became all conformist, then became far worse than Rick has ever been. He only earned their enmity because he didnt want to be a part of the Council after forming it.
Pretty sure the Self-Referential Six are also a bunch of jerks who don’t like Rick mainly because he knows he’s in a TV show and that’s THEIR shtick.
With Evil Morty and the Galactic Federation, yeah Rick C-137 probably did earn their enmity. :) Especially Evil Morty who just wanted to live in a universe where he is not going to be under the thumb of a Rick.
Rick isnt the good guy, though, sure. But he also eschews labels like ‘good guy’ or ‘bad guy.’ He’s basically depressed and obsessed and closed off.
I’d say many others’ grudges against Rick are justified though, such as Cronenberg Jerry. And I’d also say that unless I missed something (I’ll confess I’m pretty far behind on watching the eps) he’s brought far more harm than good to the multiverse as a whole.
Cronenberg Jerry’s grudge is COMPLETELY justified. Although moreso towards Morty. :) Morty pretty much destroyed the world then left, and Rick basically gave him the means to do that.
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question remains relevant to the super who forgets things can be hot, heavy, sharp or fast
Why is Sidney wearing long sleeves?
Because you can’t wear white outside, get it wet to cool yourself down, and not have problems. Even with Dabbler standing right there.
and knowing dabbler she’d be silly enough to soak a white shirt that doesn’t have a secondary under
Even with Dabbler standing right there? Especially with Dabbler standing right there.
Seriously it’s because she’s pale skinned with freckles, and the sun will burn her crimson without sleeves. She probably didn’t want to put on some class 100 sunscreen.
As someone who burns like this, I can guarantee that not even sunscreen would protect her, the sun is evil.
Whatever protects her from UV and other radiation in space should work on the ground, too. Not like the environment of a hot summer day at ground level is the harshest environment she’s encountered.
Maxima looks really cute in that hat…
Seconded.
Max could look cute in a burlap bag and a farmers hat! ;) Sydney too, with those big anime eyes of hers!
I challenge.
There is a categorical difference between cute and sexy.
Max can do sexy with a level of effort approaching 0. For her to be “cute” requires careful and deliberate choices that directly counter her natural build & proportions. Layering is going to be important, and nothing that leaves too much musculature exposed. Some definite hippie/boho chic, with some 90’s touches. Hmm…
– Earth tone wide brim hat
– Ivory peasant blouse, square neck, green, orange, and blue embroidery
– Orange-red cardigan, long, loose, drapey, a little white, lavender, and teal paisley embellishment along the hem
– Acid-washed bell bottoms, frayed cuffs, 2” above the ankle
– Matching belt & sandals, woven hemp, leather reinforcements; matching oversized purse
– Oversized round frame sun glasses, very slightly teal tinting
– Carved walnut accessories, chunky
Understand, this is with Max in mind, not Harper. The change in color palette & shininess would allow for more options.
Max is cute when she smiles or laughs, I’m talking about her face, not her body. Her sexiness is god-given, her cuteness is when she’s not serious or pissed. Much like my wife, she’s cute when she’d hide her sexiness, loose clothes and pony tail with glasses, you get the idea… Max isn’t afraid to show herself in all her glory, and dares anyone to try and make a point about it. She’s the mean looking angry biker gal, and likes the look! When she’s not in uniform that is.
DAVE! This site don’t seem to be compatible with Firefox anymore. When I click on a link, I get nothing but black. I’m typing this with Edge.
Could be it’s already addressed, but if not, check your extensions.
I’m on FF, and I don’t see any problems…may want to run antivirus/antimalware scans…
Same here.
Chrome doesn’t care.
Chrome also uses almost all your memory for everything. :)
I’m on FF and viewing it fine NOW, but I did have this problem a while back. Had to clear my browser cache to get it fixed. Good luck, hope this helps!
I usually use Icecat to view this site, but firefox also works for me.
That said, I run Searxes’s third-party request blocker and JShelter on Icecat, and Noscript on Firefox. I’ve not tried turning those off to see how it behaves without those defenses.
I see it just fine on FF, check your add-blockers, I had that issue with another site not lone ago.
Not having any troubles using IE InPrivate
I’m preferring Opera GX myself. :)
The horrifying thought of what Sydney would be like if she took a similar healing potion.
Going by how Sydney sometimes acts, would we know the difference?
Dabbler: Hey Sydney, I upgraded that potion for you, it’s now infused with 3 different hot sauces
Sydney: Huh, really? Wow, those must be pretty mild sauces.
Dabbler: (tastes) Oh dear, then who got yours?
Math: (running around with mouth on fire [in background])
Naa, he dives into the pool, we watch as the level keeps dropping for several minutes while smoke bubbles to the surface.
Or another would be he sprints over to a local farmers herd, latching onto the underside of a cow, sucking on a teat while blocking her kicks with his hands!
(Oh lawd… that image is going to stick for a while…)
Given Sydney’s normal weirdness it would probably make her act completely normal.
depends on the ingredients. if one is tea. there are some folk with adhd (like me) for whom tea acts like the traditional glass of warm milk before bed does to other people. knocks them out cold. the only way to counter it is infuse juice into tea for me.
if thats the case avoid coffee. tea doesnt effect me but coffee knocks me out…
I really like the design of Dabbler’s top (vest, halter?). Aside from its revealing nature the print plays well with Dabbler’s own stripes.
Re: “whom,” you don’t have to ever use “whom” if you don’t want to, “who” is always acceptable. If you like the snootiness of “whom” like I do, it’s used for the object case, aka “the one stuff is done to.”
But more generally, after “to” is always okay – it’d be a weird roundabout way of justifying that “this potion is dangerous” is something that’s “done to someone” otherwise.
No matter where the pronoun is placed, you can have that extra “m” as long as there’s a “to” that points to it, or a verb that it is an object to: “Whom did you kill?” “A farmer to whom I am indebted.” “To whom did you speak?” “Whom did you speak to?”
But, again, you can always use “who” in all of these cases. It’s easier, and always correct. Someone who tells you otherwise is pretending English has not evolved for the last few hundred years, and you can get on their case for not using “thou” right back
While I agree that ‘whom’ is clearly on it’s way out, some people still prefer to use it and just don’t know when.
– As the object of a sentence whose verb is not a form of ‘to be’ such as ‘is’.
– As the object of any preposition, not just to.
In the latter role, it’s most frequently left out when the preposition is at the end. For whom did you speak, who did you speak for? Of course, if you want to get all your “whom”s in where they can legally fit, that previous sentence should have had two of them.
As the object of any preposition? Not sure of that. Sure looks like you can construct a sentence with “whom” after any preposition, but there are plenty of sentences where it can’t follow the preposition and you need another case.
*There are issues between whom and you? (I think the constraint comes from the coordinate, but damned if I can explain it)
*We were arguing about whom ate this apple. (Feel free to debate whether it’s really the object/complement of the preposition if you want, the linguistic research about this is a glorious mess)
*You know Bernard, to whom mum I sent a letter? (You absolutely need “whose” because the genitive case is the only one that can work as a determiner. If you’d argue the determiner is tacked onto and not part of the object of the preposition proper, which certainly is valid, consider “I know my friends’ mums! For their birthdays, I sent a cake to Jane’s mum, and a letter to (mumblemumble)’s. — You sent a letter to whose?”)
The preposition you used here is sort of particular: “to speak for someone” can be, and is, considered its own entry different to “to speak” as a complex verb (different meaning, different implications, different truth conditions). It’s closer to meaning “to represent” than it is to meaning “to talk.”
A short COCA search reveals that some prepositions take “whom” more easily but still accept “who” while others sparingly have “whom” if ever at all. “To whom” is almost twice as common as “to who,” but “regarding whom” is more than seven times rarer than “regarding who.” “In who” and “in whom” are practically as common. For most very central prepositions (to, for, with) “whom” is more common but I’d argue it is very much aided by the fact they naturally correspond with the introduction of an indirect object.
That search was only in direct “preposition + whom/who” constructions. Either my COCA-fu is weak or the COCA is simply not the tool to research sentences with stranded prepositions.
The point is, wh-words actually are a complicated thing, “whom” is not that simple, and frankly no one who hasn’t studied “whom” in particular knows what the entire deal is, plus I’d bet some have studied “whom” in detail and still don’t know what the entire deal is. “The entire deal” is always complex as fuck. Especially when English doesn’t even have a “standard” but only ever-changing style guides clashing in varied ways against the rolling tide of natural language change
Sloppy spelling is very common on the internet. Being commonly done doesn’t make it any less sloppy.
Living up to your screen name, innit?
More seriously. That’s not a matter of the internet. That’s not a matter of spelling being “sloppy.” This is a process that has been long observed across many generations, and it is very prevalent in spoken language – that is, the true state of the language is as it is used, which is overwhelmingly the spoken word.
All of that is just a natural consequence of the derivational and internally-inflectional case systems making their way out of English, a process that started in Middle English at the latest when pronominal cases started fusing (syncretism). The very few remnants are a small handful of pronominal forms, and, generously, “apostrophe s” for a disputable genitive.
As for “being commonly done” not being a good metric for language sloppiness… I do hope you speak Middle English, no wait, Old English, no wait, Proto-Northwest-Germanic, no wait- eh, let’s cut to the chase and I’ll just ask you whether you think a language can be alive and unchanging. Yes, that is a trick question.
The easiest way to remember which to use is simply think about which pronouns would be used…
Who owns the puppy?
She owns the puppy.
He owns the puppy.
The puppy belongs to whom?
The puppy belongs to her.
The puppy belongs to him.
To whom it may concern…
*To her/him it may concern…
My sibling, whom I love very much…
*My sibling, her/him I love very much…
There’s an issue between him/her and you
*There’s an issue between whom and you?
Dangerous to whom, indeed. As much as I use the letter grade tier system that could be relative to the world and it’s rules indeed, which can make it a pain to make a universal system and some scaling needed if two systems interact. Like the difference between S tier threat by Dragon Quest standards vs Disgaea standards. Because if you don’t scale it then eventually everyone can write down S class power level and S tier threat on their resume when everyone in their world and destroy an entire mortal city.
More personal, when having a Paranormal Control Agency that normally deals with cryptids and ethereal monsters and such level threats has its own grading system for them suddenly encountering beings well above their pay grade.
That said the system can still stay, but have an appendeum of relative threat to particular individuals. Like sending Green Arrow vs sending Super Girl to gather the ingredients.
Makes fetch quests different, either you end up with a chance to show off how powerful someone is so long as it’s clear the journey they are on would normally be very hazardous to others, it you scale up the threats of the fetch quest.
Years back I used a fetch quest as an over arcing plot behind a series of adventures, the character was so OP however that various limitations were needed like magic that could make the.McGuffins teleport away if they touched them so had to manipulate someone else to gather them, and the main focus of this fetch quest was releasing then defeating to seal away the souls as ingredients of several eldritch abominations (basically going after the doomsday final bosses after the final boss types)
I mean, assuming the ingredients aren’t “the leyeball of the last living member of a particular species”, the top team could probably farm enough ingredients to make sure they always have some on hand
Either that or she’s intending to exterminate the species whose eyeball is required so the potions can’t be consumed by whoever thinks that might be a good idea before going up against a squad of superheroes.
Send Seneca to collect the ingredients. Kill two birds with…no, that’s a bad way of putting it.
The difference between “who” and “whom” is the same as the difference between “I” and “me”, or “he” and “him”. You wouldn’t say, “dangerous to I,” or, “dangerous to he,” so you shouldn’t say, “dangerous to who.”
Your “actual world Dabbler’s been to.” line made me think of the “Wearing the Cape” universe. Has Dabbler ever been? If not, now that she knows it exists, does she plan on going there? Just curious. :-)
So is Maxima considering forming an adventuring party?
She’s the leader of an elite team of superheroes – she already HAS an adventuring party. What she’s doing is clicking on that exclamation point hovering above Dabber’s head.
I wish I could upvote you.
But since I can’t, have a comment that praises you instead. :)
You have my upvote.
Adventure hook!
To whom or For whom are the only times you use that word in a sentence.
Didn’t go so well last few times they’ve split the party – Alar, Galytn…
Fingers crossed for some galactic hijinks with the team hunting for macguffins and each other out in the wider galaxy.
Dabbler: “You have to kill a Plutonium Dragon which has adamantine scales two feet thick and its breath weapon is a gamma ray beam powerful enough to turn the Matterhorn into a caldera of extraordinarily radioactive magma.”
Max: “… … …the mountain, or the Disneyland ride?”
“Yes.”
Wait, what happened to Seneca? Last we saw her according to the tagged pages was during planning for the attack on the Totally Not the Hive from that one Resident Evil movie fortress.
In the after action report it was mentioned that she was electrocuted and evaced, and that Goose avenged her with extreme prejudice.
All right, DaveB, you can do an adventuring side-quest for the Grrls, under ONE condition…
You have to color in the LAST adventuring expedition you drew…
https://www.deviantart.com/davebarrack/art/Fantasy-sojourn-pencils-608565426
Of course Sydney would get an arm load of junk she can barely carry, and Dabs pushing a chain-mail bikini onto Max!
That is not chain-mail. They are just chains.^^
Wouldn’t work. Max would start pinching and breaking the mail in sensitive areas. It would make the chain mail bikini very uncomfortable if it was worn by her.
Based on what’s happening here, I am now wondering if the Black Knight in ‘Monty Python And The Holy Grail’ might have somehow drunk a similar potion.
I’m guessing there’s a bit of a time skip, cause i don’t recall her getting hit with a lightning strike last time we saw Seneca
First panel in the link, “Seneca got electrocuted by an opposition tango” and required a medical evacuation. It was a text-based only explanation.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1137-sitrip/
Oh no… Has Max been bit by the adventuring bug? “But it’s for the team’s medical needs!” Proceeds to galivant through three galaxies for “regents” and not totally for the funsies.
If Sydney is recharged enough they wouldn’t need a ship either, just a good set of co-ordinances, and a roll of duct tape on Sydney’s shield orb hand!
I had to go back to verify since I didn’t recall seeing Seneca get hit by lightning, it was mentioned here
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1137-sitrip/
And linked many times on the first page of comments :P
…Anybody else feel that Maxima is asking about how dangerous, not in concern about side effects or something, but for a challenge/venting? Has in she is willing and in fact giddy to wade into danger to get the ingredients for those potions, while also excusing it as a way to stock up on miracle medicine.
So maybe a trip to fantasy world/dimension as an adventuring party in the near future?
Not me. I’m thinking she’s not expecting it could possibly be a challenge to her. She’s wondering who to take on the mission. If they’re dangerous enough to get, that would be Achilles, Hiro, Stalwart, and Dabbler. But I think she’d prefer a more interesting crew and especially not with her second in command, for both the tension issue as well as strategic reasons.
With *just* the right danger level, she can take some softer targets, but will need Sydney there with her shield for some particular moments to keep most of the team safe. But what are the chances of something like that happening?
Chance? Probability unity. Have Sydney’s orbs recovered yet?
Wait, am I missing something? What happened to Seneca?
Two comments above this, follow that link
Is one of those ingredients Powerthirst?
Let’s see, super healing potion,
ingredients
1 tear of a light dragon
a gram of Dryad pollen
three tablespoons of Maximum energy drink from the Orc homeworld
-the individual ingredients or active ones can be sought after, but somehow this is actually the cheaper option. Orcs got themselves some good trade relations out there.
pink moss from the Aesperian homeworld *not dangerous but very expensive*
and two drops of Thundercat’s blood
mix in a flask made from crystalized dragon scales and enchanted by a forest maiden (their favors in exchange can be dangerous)
now mix and cool for thirty minutes.
You forgot ‘two toenails of a snake’
Brawndo. Its got electrolytes.
Question: When was this “lightning attack” Dabbler speaks of?
most of the links in the comments are people answering that very question.
she got badly shocked off panel during the Ascender’s base raid and Goose liquified the guy that did it.
So, on a scale of ‘1 to Sweet Monkey Jesus!’ how much of “Sydney Energy” is Seneca channelling right now?
I’d put her at about “litter of hungry kittens” unless she’s around “norms”, then I’d say Monkey Jesus… Math would find himself busy if she got to him!
They should let Achilles in with her, he wouldn’t care and Seneca could possibly wear herself out! Just take ’em to the firing range first.
“It contains at least 5 full cans of Jolt soda, one RC Cola, and a shot of Sly Fox. Super rare ingredients!”
How dangerous? As dangerous as in “the next time you need a Deus Ex Machina, you better ask the guy whose name is literally that” dangerous
OK, so THIS is what prompts all the dungeon creation stuff in the coming pages. I didn’t pick up on it the first time thru.