Grrl Power #1241 – The Mighty Scoville
I think about 90% of you predicted this. I like to keep you guys guessing, but sometimes it would truly make no sense if the characters don’t at least try the obvious path.
The name of the dish is “The Mighty Scoville” in case you were wondering.
I played another Pathfinder session, and in the interest of science and convincing myself that I don’t have evil dice karma, here are my (D20) rolls for the game:
3, 2, 1, 4, 1, 5, 14, 5, 8, 3, 1, 6, 5, 11, 20, 14, 1, 3, 16, 16, 15, 8, 9, 20, 9, 8, 1, 14, 19.
The bold numbers are attack rolls, the other ones are mostly perception rolls, initiative, and misc stuff like will or fort saves.
That means my average attack roll was 10.5, which is not exceptional at all. The non-combat average was 6.9. The total average over all 29 rolls was 8.1. It’s not statistically that far out there, but really, those first 6 rolls had the rest of the table trying to get me to switch dice and/or switch dice rolling tray.
I was using this one cause I like that the outer wall holds about 5 sets of dice. If I don’t limit how many dice I bring I, well, I bring too many dice. I mean I still bring a few “giant” (55mm) D20s, but I just like setting them up around my area so I can fidget roll them around in my hand. I would love to have a 55mm solid tungsten or osmium D20 (osmium is apparently toxic until it oxidizes, but you can put sealant on it) because they would both weigh a surprising amount. Unfortunately I think the tungsten one would probably cost around $4,000, the osmium one would cost… let’s see, total volume of a 55mm icosahedron… weight of that much osmium… convert grams to troy ounces… Roughly $30,000? Yeah, probably not worth it just so someone can pick it up and go “Whoa, that’s surprisingly heavy!”
The new vote incentive is up! This is a bit of a weird one as it’s a character that hasn’t appeared in the comic.
It’s my Ifrit Pathfinder 1e monk, Fray! Ifrits don’t really make great monks in Pathfinder, as player characters they get a +2 to Dex and Cha, but -2 to Wis. For monks, Dex is good, Cha is largely irrelevant, but Wis is important as it can add to your AC and also has something to do with Ki points I think. But I didn’t care. I wanted a character with dark blue/gray skin and glowing orange hair, so that’s what I picked. (I don’t think Ifrit even really have dark skin, so maybe she’s 1/4 Drow? Don’t care. I think she looks cool.) Will she show up in the comic? I mean… maybe? Probably in a Dabbler flashback, but who knows?
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Poor Dabbler… First Mana exhaustion now she gets slapped by the Mighty Scoville.
Excellent artwork.
great how they bring out the menace of that dish^^
I was running a 3.x campaign in Eberron and one of the players created a mounted, charge specialized cleric as their character.
Going from 1st to around 5th level never got higher than a 3 on attack rolls…
When we gave 4th ed a try they went Warlord so that other people made the attack rolls.
(and the Roll20 dice roller hates me)
“I cast area of effect spell Summon Dish of Ass Destruction!”
DM drops the trifold and stares, a look of “SO done with your actions” absolutely flowing from their face.
Your entire party begins fleeing the arcane nuke you just conjured.
Lapha does not have a eyelid right now.
But Sydney will make her blink!
So, does that count as torture of Lapha? “Cruel and unusual punishment”?
I am not sure, as she can leave at any time. In fact, she is the one putting people under duress right now.
Lapha: “I possed an idiot.”
“Who is the bigger idiot? The idiot, or the idiot that posesses that idiot without checking?”
Lapha: “You think I don’t know what that is?”
Girl, you had 13.5 minutes to look up Sydneys eating habbits. They are seared into her memory. And specifically “that placed that named a dish after me”.
You don’t get to brag with intelligence. Dabbler was genuinely worried about your safety here. Need to baby-proof the food delivery.
She is invading hitchhiker to Sydney’s body. She is uninvited and was offered to return to her own body.
What the original owner of the body decides to do with her own body? Lapha gets no say. She decided to stay, she gets to suffer the consequences.
Yeah, this is not real life US politics.
There are consequences when you break the rules in this universe.
HILARIOUS consequences. I wonder how many bites it will take to get Lapha begging to jump?
Not the US Republican party*
Who.. actually are facing consequences, given Trump’s about a week from losing half his net worth.
Trump is an obnoxious blowhard. He is also being charged with made up crimes in a series of politically motivated kangaroo courts, because his political opponents are terrified that he might – gasp! – be able to overcome the margin of cheating in swing states this time around.
And if I have the choice of voting for the blowhard with a pretty good record in office vs the senile crook currently corrupting everything in the executive branch he touches … I’ll hold my nose and vote for the obnoxious loudmouth.
But I really, really, would prefer not to deal with current politics in the comments here. It’s obvious we don’t agree. So how about a truce? Let’s argue about events and characters in the comic instead, and leave real-world politics in the outside world.
Who landed on the moon first in your reality?
Because you sure don’t live in this one
Those crimes are very real. He’s even admitted to as much publically. Even The Joker of Batman Villain infamy knows better than to tangle with the IRS and the banks, and Humpty Trumpty has been inflating real estate valuations for loans while also deflating them for taxation purposes. That most definitely counts as tangling with the IRS.
And that’s not even getting into the political stuff he’s done.
Meanwhile, Biden just put out a State of the Union that reveals your words as being so hollow it’s not even funny to make comparisons to empty things.
I couldn’t care less that Trump is a blowhard and untrustworthy. MANY presidents have been that.
My problem? He is incompetent at being a leader, a diplomat or even a figurehead. ALL he seems to be good at is emotional manipulation and betrayal. Admittedly, he is VERY good at both of those, but such alone do not make a good leader. Then add him making up history whenever he chooses and my vote goes elsewhere. I do not like dictators and I REALLY do not like incompetent ones.
It’s not how good or bad a president is.
It is the overt, unapologetic weaponization of the judicial process that many – a majority, according to recent polls – find disturbing.
And leaves people who really don’t like Trump the man willing to vote for him because – as evidenced by the, pardon, trumped-up charges against him – the other guys are even worse, and willing to use lawfare to keep him off the ballot.
If Trump wins the 2024 elections – and he very well may, since current polls show him running well ahead of Biden – it may be the backlash over the tactics that are being used against him. Once you get away from the echo chamber of academia and the blue cities, you encounter a LOT of “He’s a son-of-a-bitch, but he’s OUR son-of-a-bitch.” And at least as much overt distrust – and disgust – directed at the current occupant of the oval office.
Part of the problem is that power has become ever more centralized here in the US. If the majority of the political decisions that affect you happen at the city or state level, people generally don’t worry too much about events at the national level – after all, at worst you can move to another city or state you like more. When the majority of decisions about what happens locally are made at the national level … people care. A lot. Because no matter where you might move, you’re still stuck with them. And the political divisions about how the country SHOULD be run are probably as stark and heartfelt as they were in the years leading up to the Civil War. Except now, rather than North vs South, it’s major urban centers against everyone else, so there’s no clear geographical line separating them.
So yes, I think we’d be a LOT better off it if many, perhaps most, of the decisions and programs at the federal level were being handled by the states. Not least because, unlike the federal government, the states can’t print fiat money to bail themselves out of the hole.
In an ideal world, I’d be happier if neither Trump or Biden was a candidate this election cycle. As it is, I have the choice of voting for the preening blowhard who advocates at least some of what I’d like to see – or the senile career politician who’s built that career out of nepotism, influence peddling, and, as has become increasingly clear, judicial suppresssion of his rivals.
If you really want to go further, can we take this offline? So far, I’d say honors – or dishonors – are about even. I get it – people care about politics. But so far, everything I’ve posted has been in direct response to gratutious, completely unnecessary snark about current politics. And I’m more than willing to let it drop if everyone else is too.
C’mon. I don’t read Grrlpower for the *politics* – in large part, I read it to get away from that sort of thing. Let’s not turn the forum here into a 21st century version of Bleeding Kansas or Sarjevo: 1914.
But so many people WANT Bleeding Kansas or Sarajevo 1914 now.
Well, until it happens to THEM anyway. Because it could not possibly happen to them, no matter what side they are on. Until it does, then they scream about how unfair life is when they get stood up against the wall they made sure other people faced. Ask Robespierre how well that worked out.
*shrug*
Not my circus, not my monkeys. I won’t live to vote again, and you know what? I perfectly happy with that.
The charges against Trump are justified
– He lied about the valuation of his assets, he inflated them for loans, he reduced them for things like tax assessments. He’s admitted to that before.
– He took classified information, when asked for it back he hid some of it, swore that he’d returned everything and tried to destroy evidence that he’d moved it
We know he took the information because it was retrieved.
There’s footage of him moving documents, then we have affidavits from his lawyers saying that Trump had informed them that everything had been returned
There’s audio of him referencing classified documents in discussions with people not cleared for classified knowledge after his presidency…
There’s photos of classified documents in publicly accessible areas in Mar-a-lago…
– he paid hush money and falsified records about it (Cohen’s already done jail time for this one)
– We’ve got audio of him telling election officials to find enough votes that he’d win, we’ve got him encouraging looters, we’ve got Trump staffers admitting plans to stop the count and have states dispute actual election results.
The idea that Trump shouldn’t face charges for his actions is complete rubbish and I’m 100% certain that if there was even a hint that Biden had done the same thing everybody at Fox, Newsmax and every GOP official would be arguing for impeachment followed by charges.
Oh, and if you don’t want to discuss politics on the board don’t produce right wing bullshit propaganda about the current political situation
And that attitude is the exact problem here. Rule of Man, instead of Rule of Law. Trump has demanded people be loyal to him, not loyal to the country or the constitution. He insisted that the Constitution should be suspended, placing himself above the Supreme Law of the Land. He is a treasonous criminal, intent on dismantling our system of government and replacing it with a dictatorship.
It’s not the Democrats advocating for the Unitary Executive Theory. It’s not the Democrats trying to abolish civil servants, and return to the corrupt spoils system. No matter how much you disagree with Democratic policies, at least they respect the Rule of Law and the Constitution. If people prefer different policies, they can vote for different elected officials, and Democrats will obey the will of the people and step aside. The Republican party, however, is hell-bent on maintaining power over the objections of the populace, suppressing their ability to vote, gerrymandering, or just overruling expressed voter preferences. If they acquire enough power to do so, they’ll rewrite the Constitution and reshape the government to enshrine their rule permanently.
You’re the one who injected yourself into other people’s conversations. You didn’t have to if you didn’t want to discuss it. You don’t have any authority to dictate what topics other people can discuss. If you don’t want to read it, just skip over it.
If the AG has to start grabbing his properties in order to pay off his court debt, Trump is likely to lose much more than half his net worth.
In a distressed sale, in this sagging real estate market when they know the seller is desperate, the seller (the court in this case) would be lucky to get ten cents on the dollar. SO they’d have to seize and sell a tremendous amount of his assets to clear $464 million.
In addition, almost all the rest of Trump’s real estate assets have some level of outstanding loans against them.
Real estate loans most frequently require the borrower to maintain over a certain level of liquidity (money in the bank) or the borrower can repossess the asset immeditately to pay off the loan because the borrower is likely insolvent.
Additionally, the loan was made with the real estate itself as collateral.
The court will have just proved, by the fire sale of a large number of Trump assets that the Trump assets themselves are mostly worthless. That could trigger a separate loan clause entitling the loaner to seize the property in order to protect themselves from a likely nonpayment situation.
Real estate is a tricky business in which to keep your head above water. And when it starts tumbling down around your ears, it’s difficult to make it stop tumbling down.
Leveraging to buy real estate can increase your assets very quickly and make you appear much more wealthy than you actually are. But you can lose all those assets just as quickly if you can’t keep all the terms of the real estate loans satisfied, even if you’re managing to pay the monthly payments on the loans.
1: The 8th Amendment to the US Constitution only applies to Americans questioning or “punishing” prisoners, and Americans being questioned/ punished. It does not apply to aliens who are in the country without a visa, or even having entered the country without passing through an established Port of Entry.
2: In all forms of comics and/or comedy, the joke takes precedence over the Constitution.
But American laws only apply to the ‘right kind’ of people according to many across America. Different reasons, different causes, different situations, but in the end, justice for modern Americans is not SUPPOSED to be fair. It is ONLY for those who can afford it or simply ignore it to take whatever they want for themselves. This is the sad, sick truth of America; justice in this country has always been a joke.
To quote Terry MacGinnis- ‘Ha. Ha. Ha.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6SVzff6umQ
Now? The joke is on Lapha. I want to see the reaction of the being she stole the body from to this.
8th Amendment, full text: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
Where does that say “but this only applies to Americans”? Every legal source I can find confirms that yes, it applies to non-citizens as well.
I think a more relevant legal view might be that Lapha is not a passive prisoner just because she’s inside a prison facility – she has a hostage and a figurative gun pointed at her head.
If we imagined she had her own body and had used it to take Sydney hostage with an ordinary gun pointed at her head, virtually any action permissible under Self Defense (including defense of others) would be legal, and on top of that any discretion a law enforcement officer has to resolve the situation and recover the hostage intakt. If they had a way to fry Lapha out of Sydney’s brain with fatal consequences for Lapha and none for Sydney, they could make the same argument any police officer would make if they shot and killed a hostage taker actively threatening their hostage.
I think it would be difficult to prove in US courts that Lapha is a person and not a malfunctioning alien computer program.
If Lapha isn’t a person, all questions of her rights in this situation are moot. And all questions about her culpability for her own actions are moot as well (if she isn’t a person, she doesn’t have actions which are her own).
If there’s no existing US court rulings on alien artificial intelligences being classified as people, ARC could likely do whatever they want with Lapha and not even have to make the details of the incident public.
I think part of the problem here is that based on Sydney’s memories, that is just really good food. It’s only EVERYONE ELSE that is horrified by her eating habits. How that gets recorded in memory could also vary depending on how you perceive the reactions of others.
Let’s also not forget that Lapha was expecting something gross and discussing, not something horrifyingly delicious to the host.
Technically this isn’t a punishment it’s just Sydney receiving something she requested and is choosing to partake of not an action of the government, you could even make an argument that it counts as self defence.
Is Dave getting more adventurous with effects or is this supposed to be the spiciest dish yet?
Probably both
They probably told the restaurant something like “The mighty halo would like the dish you named after her, but could you spice it up a bit? Her exact words were ‘I’ve had hotter soft serve!’.”
Back in the day, I would take my low rolling dice and play an RPG called Alternity. I liked the system and setup, but, to the point, the lower you rolled, the more successful your action.
My dice rolling …uh… *capabilities* are well known among my circle.
Favorite example: I played a game called Midarra with some friends for a while. It uses specially-made d6s for everything (great system, actually!), and I built my character around rerolls. Every round, I could reroll a single dice rolled by me or against me, reroll one of my own dice, or reroll both of my own dice (and I think I’m leaving one or two more out… been a while). I know how I roll, you know?
Anyway, an event which happened almost every time we played (and the average was WELL over once per session – yes, seriously and literally) was for me to get snake eyes, reroll, get snake eyes again, reroll one of the dice, and get a 1.
The only way I roll high is in games like Alternity…………
It’s an alien dish called Gratkz or something like that. It shouldn’t be possible for humans to even eat it, and Sydney inhaled like three dishes of it at Fracture Station.
I don’t think so.
It seems much more likely to be a dish from Fusion – the restaurant in the tower.
It’s pretty unlikely that a place in Fracture Station would rename a dish for “that crazy human who ate some Gratkz” but extremely likely that Fusion would name a dish after one of the more well known super heroes…
Yup, this was previously referred to a “The Unmaker”. It gives graktz a run for its money. In fact, it may be hotter than graktz – Sydney said (just before her night in the toilet) that graktz “wasn’t THAT hot”. Possibly not on the way out, though.
When the spiciness is enough to make a literal demon from hell flinch, Lapha should realize that she’s not going to be in for a fun time.
Dabbles is a succubae, not a hell demon
She’s only a “hell demon” by marriage, I don’t think that helps in this case.
Although I think Parfait should start the succubus/demon “trend” of going to that restaurant and having the “Mighty Halo”, and seeing how far they get!
The Halo Challenge now on YouTube
should have a panel where DOOMGUY flinches.
His eyes start watering behind the bulletproof glass of his spacesuit…
I’m curious how well Maxima and Achilles handle spice
So, Spice from capsaicin is not a flavor but pain from heat receptors in the mouth. Achilles shouldn’t actually feel pain from that, he can stand in literal fire/lava and be unphased. The question then is if he senses it at all…
No idea as to Maxima.
I wonder if this somehow causes a weird side-effect of Lapha suddenly developing a taste for spicy food?
“Hells it’s so painful but why do I want more?!”
Dabbler should have followed the chef’s example and worn PPE.
Hell with that. She should have worn a haze mat suite!
A hazmat suit *is* PPE.
Albeit on the extreme end of the scale.
Most people associate ‘PPE’ with those stupid little masks only that were worn during NuPlague
PPE stands for “Personal Protective Equipment”, and refers to anything worn to protect the wearer from hazards, including things like gloves and safety glasses.
Yeah, this. I was thinking of the more generalized meaning of the term, particularly a set of wraparound safety glasses.
Yeah, and most people just refer to the masks, because those were most used and talked about in the last three years
You ain’t seen wind until after the digestion!
Still say that Laph will be immune to the physical effects
She’s not immune to the *memories* of all the capsicaïn-laced horrors Sydney has devoured over the years.
Food/smell is a *very good* memory stimulant, so Lapha is going to get a quick-run of Sydney-out-of-meds recollecting the most memorable ones, probably all jumbled in a chaotic pile vying for first place…
And most likely ending with her Experience with Grakz….
And given that Lapha experiences memories as *acute and accurate* as they actually happened… Well…. She’s in for the ride of her life…
And soon realise that this will happen *every time* it’s chow time for Sydney…
The Grakz point is good.
The rest of it? She is experiencing this through *Sydney’s* body, which quite enjoys the hot food. Lapha can enjoy the… special perks of any body she inhabits (add a tail, for a non-PG13 reference). No reason to think she won’t be able to enjoy what Sydney enjoys.
capacity for spice is not a physical attribute though, it’s purely mental. laph can’t taste the stuff through sydney’s mental filter, she only gets it through sydney’s body.
IRL it would be a physical difference in the brain which causes the mental difference, but we have already established lapha can’t use sydney’s brain.
“capacity for spice is not a physical attribute though, it’s purely mental.”
You can take that claim up with people who get literal holes eaten in their soft tissue when they try to eat hot enough peppers… which other people CAN eat.
Yes, that’s the extreme case (it “Mighty Scoville” territory), but it makes the point that no, it is NOT purely mental.
Like alcohol, it’s basically poison. Some people resist it better than others naturally, some level of resistance can be built over time, but it definitely has physical effects on the body.
A lot of the dangers of hot food comes from an overreaction of the immune system. And that can very well be triggered by mental states. See placebo effect, psychosomatic diseases, etc.
The question is then, can Laphas mental state trigger Sidneys immune system?
Unlikely, to accurately control a body you need to feel what it’s going through or reaction times will be greatly impaired.
Also if Dabbler is on board with this despite personal well being hazards, it’ll be worthwhile for some reason.
Still waiting for Sydney’s Meds to do a cartoon parking meter “EXPIRED”.
why am I getting the feeling that Sidney’s toilet is a custom job rated for rocket fuel.
I had a set of dice… It was the first set I purchased when I started playing D&D once I got assigned to Fort Carson Colorado… The DM finally banned me from using the set after I ended a campaign he spent three weeks preparing in just five dice rolls, a half hour after the adventure began. We’d just completed the Temple of Elemental Evil module… and that set of dice served me quite well. He’d spend three weeks building a follow on adventure based on being captured and chained aboard a ship as slaves. My drow assassin, with a 4% chance to break chains and bend bars rolls a 00-0 on two d10… and one 19 and three natural 20s to begin an attack against the ship’s captain and deck crew. We took the ship… The DM banned my dice after that. My secondary set wasn’t as prolific, but was much better than worse.
Your DM uses magical thinking. Make use of that.
Called it… though I was hoping it was the stuff that burned more on the way out.
I’m assuming ‘memory’ here refers to long term memory, ’cause u have a memory of what I just thought three seconds ago…
Also, this comic is where I learned that apparently most people’s digestive systems don’t neutralize the spiciness of their food before it gets to the colon. Because I have never experienced food being spicy on the way out. I didn’t know this was a thing until Sydney mentioned it way back in that scene in the restaurant and then people were acting like that was normal. Weird.
Depends on the level of spice and how well you chew. Try swallowing a whole ghost pepper. It should degrade somewhere at the end of your digestive tract, saving all that capsaicin for your final sphincter.
the body can neutralize some amount of the capsaicin as it passes through, but if there’s enough, it will sting in the other end too.
I’m surprised that dabler did not come in with a gas mask, or rebreather and goggles (prime the goggles do nothing reference/joke chance)
You need to punish that d20. By which I mean, set an example. By which I mean, destroy it.
assign punishments according to the roll, so, worst punishment at Nat 1, let’s say ‘toss into a rock polisher’ and easiest punishment at Nat 20, so, ‘toss in a sock with butter’
One thing people are forgetting (either wilfully or otherly) about Graxz: it’s not the hottest thing in the galaxy (or they wouldn’t be serving it in an open stall on a freaking space station), it’s just that hyu-mons are normally not able to tolerate it
And remember who was sitting next to Sydney recording it all? One of Laph’s species, which means they can fucking tolerate that shit (or at least, be around it)
Go back and read it again: it wasn’t that they were shocked that someone was eating it, they were shocked that a hyu-mon was eating it, and doing a Twist over it
When it come to dice rolling I only roll high when my character is about to die. The rest of the time they are comic relief and end up in numerable weird situations that they then have to some how break out of.
Also I was hoping that the last ball would eject the hitch hiker. Ahh well searing hot goodness may make the hitch hiker wish they could eject.
BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE UNMAKER!
(I’m assuming this is noodles or rice from Fusion instead of GRaxz)
Grakz is up next they have to send out for it unless someone on the ship can make it. Just the threat of that should be enough after the bowl of the Unmaker.
Wonder how much exp Sydney is going to get from eating that dish. Well, if it knocks out the hitchhiker/solves the problem.
And if it ends up auto-allocating the point as well…
I wonder if this particular dish is the result of Sydney getting a copy of the recipe for Grakz from her buddy, the Food Vendor on Fracture Station?
Which reminds me: we haven’t really seen Maxima’s reaction to Sydney-level cooking like this, have we?
While it is likely that the wind is just intended as a purely (brilliant!) comic effect, there is a perfectly good in-universe explanation, as well: remember, we know that Dabbler has a wind spell. She may not be the subtlest succubus ever, but she certainly has sufficient skill in PRESENTATION!! that she could be intentionally playing this up.
Aw, the system ate my angle brackets… I intended a pair of “Megamind” pseudo-html tags around that “PRESENTATION!!”. Expect over half the people here would get the reference even without, but.
<> ?
I used double angle brackets and the word presentation, and it ate the inside pair of brackets as well as ‘presentation’
Yeah, you need to use HTML entities if you want angle brackets to show up reliably.
And just think some poor soul has to feed her by hand as she’s completely immobilized. Hope dabbler’s good at Mage Hand.
1.If Sydney enjoys eating spicy food, the memory of eating the spicy food will be pleasant. There’s no reason for the mind-leech to be worried or to suffer from this.
2. If this were not the case, Sydney has already eaten spicy food, and the memory would already be available for perusal.
3. If mind leech can pick and choose which memories to experience, it can just choose not to experience this upcoming memory.
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TL-DR this makes no sense.
It’s been established that the ætholith hitchhiker experiences the same physical sensations that the owner of the body does. They would have a hard time controlling a body if they didn’t have access to its senses. Sydney’s memories of spicy food may be pleasant, but that doesn’t mean that Lapha will interpret the experience of eating spicy food the same way Sydney does. So this is down to whether it’s the body or the mind that enjoys spicy food.
That’s not how memories work. Her memories are based on her experiences. If she remembers it pleasantly, it would be a pleasant memory. She isn’t some uber-masochist who enjoys pain that no other human can survive. She legitimately enjoys spicy food, and isn’t as impacted by the flavor as most. Both of those aspects of her would be captured in her memories.
question for legal: If the prisoner is literally asking for it, is it still a warcrime to serve her her favorite food?
If the prisoner is able to withdraw consent at any time, then there’s no room to argue that the prisoner was in any way the victim of being served the food.
It can only be a warcrime if someone *else* was harmed.
Also, doesn’t the victim of a “warcrime” have to be members of a nation you are at war with? I don’t think that doing things to imprisoned friendlies, or to criminal aliens acting without the approval of their own nation, falls into that category.
Yups, if you are not at war, it is not a warcrime, just a crime (and only if it’s illegal in the first place, and serving that toxic byproduct is not a crime… yet)
I don’t think every new thing or solution to a problem that shows up in a story really needs to be unexpected or a twist as such, and it would probably serve the story well to try to force something relatively obvious to serve as if it was a big reveal.
Sometimes it’s okay if the solution is just a cool interaction or scene that we all wanted to see just because it would be an awesome scene, no matter how expected its arrival.
Yups
When everything has to be a twist or unexpected, the story starts to deteriorate because the viewers are getting smart to the bullshit: like most of the ‘procedural cop shows’, the one responsible is always revealed within the first fifteen minutes… and immediately dismissed as even being a suspect
probably not serve*
You could always sell the osmium after you’ve blown everyone’s mind.
But osmium is only 17% heavier than tungsten. More like 16% with a brightly-colored plastic outer layer.
Pair it with one of similar brightly-colored plastic—but hollow. Or with aerogel. Leaveboth sitting together on the table and wait for someone to pick them up. It’d be worth setting up a camera to capture the reactions!
… where does that 15 minutes figure come from? IIRC a human falling unconscious (thus blocking the transfer from short- to long-term memory) makes the seven *seconds* prior to that go missing …
There’s a part of me that imagines the Max/Dab conversation going,
“What do you think? Does this count as torture?”
“Kinda? But eh. She’s a slaver and she just threatened to kill Sydney.”
“There’s a LOT of extra paperwork if it’s torture.”
“The owner of the mouth requested it. And I’m betting Arc doesn’t have official policies for possession.”
“…That feels like a 50/50 split. I’ll take that action. Twenty bucks?”
“Twenty bucks.”
“The owner of the mouth requested it.”
The mouth, taste buds, and entire digestive tract!
It’d be funny in Lapha makes it through the ordeal of eating this, only to realize that the second half of the battle is pooping it back out later.
Let no joyful voice be heard!
Let no man look up to the sky with hope!
And let this day be cursed by we who ready to unleash,
THE UNMAKER!
the last panel somehow reminds me of that “the harvest begins” panel from long ago, a page before we see the orbs for the first time.
Had a new player join my D&D table this week. He rolled only a couple things, and two of them were nat 1s. The third was, with advantage and guidance and bardic inspiration… 1/2, +1, +1, and -2 from stats. It does not bode well for his character.
Takes off take out lid Doom theme begins
How do you think we destroyed the one *AHEM* ring?
The fires of GRAXADOOM!