Grrl Power #1245 – Sappyrrhic defeat
Is Garamm bad at his job? Probably. I mean, that was a fairly suspicious setup. But – college is a time for experimentation, and if college romp movies have taught us anything… well, it’s that men are either Aryan looking lacrosse douchebros named something like Kiff Kiffington the Third, or are one of the many categories of Undesirables, but that all of them are some variety of sex criminal, and for some reason the Dean won’t press criminal charges when his car gets filled with popcorn. He just puts the offenders on triple secret probations or whatever. But also, that women are constantly having topless pillow fights and/or showering. Unless they wear glasses and keep their brown hair in a ponytail.
Quick digression here, how is it that every major college seems to have a lacrosse team, but there’s no National Lacrosse League? (Okay, I just googled it after I typed that in, and it turns out there is a NLL – but what I mean is how come it’s not a major televised sport? Do they even carry it on The Ocho after dodgeball season is over?) It just seems weirdly popular until the instant you exit academia. If I have, in my entire life, met anyone who played college lacrosse, it has never once come up in a conversation, leading me to believe that lacrosse is one of those things writers think people do in college because they’ve consumed other media where people talk about being on the college lacrosse team, and now it’s like a writers’ in-joke. “Okay, we need just a bit of backstory for Chad Chaddington… Not much though, because GhostFace kills him before the end of the first act. Hmm. Lacrosse scholarship? Perfect!”
Back to the comic. Would I fall for the sapphic bait and switch? Actually, no, because the idea of watching sexy coeds have lingerie ticklefights sounds unbearably awkward. I mean, watching it I’d be okay with. Being in the room while it happened? A flop sweat would be the least of my problems. Is there such a thing as a flop poop? I’m not saying I would invent such a thing right then and there, but I have a feeling I would find myself preoccupied with the possibility in the moment. And then the girls would be all, “Hey, DaveB, we’re doing some good work over here, but you’re not paying attention. What are you thinking about?” and I would be like, “You absolutely don’t want to know.”
Also I’m ticklish enough that if someone squirted me with the mythic Giggle Juice, I’d probably unmoor most of my tendons while flopping around on the floor, so I wouldn’t dare open that door.
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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so… no tickle fight?
I mean, one of those guns MIGHT be Dabbler’s tickle gun…
Um, I am betting that Cora’s gun HAS tickle rounds, since she likely has everything else a properly equipped space adventurer might need. (AND THEN SOME!)
I am NOT betting that she had them loaded at the moment.
Would YOU?
Cora it’s more a believer of the lethal options.
Set tickle gun…to KILL.
set tickle rounds to goat licking sole mode
Yeah it is, it’s called Rib Tickler because the tickle of your ribs being grazed by the massive bullet is the last thing you’ll ever feel.
I mean, if you ask real nice the guys there might indulge.
I think Lacrosse is just the perfect rich guy sport that’s not polo. Not being popular is the point, don’t want anyone to think the stereotypical rich guy is actually cool
Lacrosse is the official national summer sport of Canada, developed by native Americans, then refined to its current form by European
invaderscolonists. In its Native form, it was played by hundreds of people per side on a field that could stretch for kilometres and played for days. The modern form has between 6 and 12 players per side on a field or arena up to about a hundred meters long. Lacrosse is a popular game across many walks of life, not just the rich.I’m betting that gun has a selector for 1 to 4 barrels and currently is set to 4. One wrong move and Garamm is a fine mist in front of a BIG hole in the wall showing several burning trees (or that planets equivalent).
I will never use a use a phone to do this again. It was supposed to be a reply to the comment below. I’m too old and my fingers are to stubby and Shakey.
Yeah, the Iroquois lacrosse team made the news awhile ago due to passport issues when they were going to the UK to play. It got sorted, but I can’t imagine their frustration. Also, there’s a video about the last crafter making the sticks by hands that is very interesting.
Lacrosse is big in eastern Canada, primarily Ontario, and I think Quebec, don’t know about the maritimes; it isn’t all that popular in western Canada, although it is starting to catch on, mainly because hockey is so expensive.
I dunno – lacrosse isn’t TOO spendy. Certainly not “let’s get a new horse this season” spendy. More like a mid-point between soccer and hockey.
It’s remarkably popular in the northeast, midwest, and Canada. And live pro-lacrosse is really amazing (go Buffalo Bandits!). Highly recommend. I’ve seen it televised and it’s almost too fast to follow zoomed in like that.
Yups: a little more violent than football hooligans, but not quite as violent as a Stanley Cup finals :)
Lacrosse was always a huge deal at expensive New England prep schools, and you can bet most Hollywood writers came from a similar background, so using it as a code for stuck-up rich dudes is natural. Also, Johns Hopkins is a traditional lacrosse power, which just screams preppy elitism.
Out here in the Chicago area lots of public high schools have lacrosse teams and while some are full of rich kids (Hinsdale Central and Lake Forest I’m talking about you) a lot of them are not. My kid played lacrosse in high school and college; he was a convert from soccer when he found out you could hit people with a stick legally.
Yup. If you have the ball on your stick defending players can hit you anywhere on the arm up to the shoulder with their stick to try to get you to drop it. I once saw a kid get his arm broken like that. And I don’t mean “X-rays later showed a fracture, …” I mean “Look, he’s got two elbows on that arm”. The ref didn’t blow the whistle until one of the players on the other team picked up the ball and shot it out of bounds to stop play.
Which in and of itself is not unheard of when a player gets injured, to the point that it’s a convention that players will do this and the team that benefits will then in the name of sportsmanship deliberately inbound the ball back to the team that threw it out of bounds upon resumption of play.
Lacrosse is played by people who stopped using titanium sticks because they were too fragile and kept breaking when smashed across other players’ skulls and hence switched to carbon fibre.
The only people who are more scary on a ballgame pitch are those female British highschool girls who play field hockey.
People switch from aluminum sticks to titanium – even though they cost 2.5x more – because the titanium ones are as light if not lighter and don’t break when you hit people with them. Especially the long sticks (all 3 defenders and one midfielder get to use longer sticks than the other two midfielders and the forwards).
“I honestly, TRULY didn’t think you’d fall for that. In fact, I devised a much more elaborate trap further ahead for when you got through this easy one. If I’d known you’d let yourself get captured this easily, I would have just dangled a turkey leg on a rope from the ceiling.”
I know I’ve heard this before, I don’t remember where, and while I am 100% it isn’t an Emet-Selch line from FFXIV, it absolutely could be. X’D
GLaDOS says it in Portal 2.
Reading that line in GLaDOS’ voice somehow makes that phrase even more hilarious. XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-kMuqSLdKw
Imma go replay the portal games this weekend. ^_^
That’s it. X’D
GLaDoS :)
ok, these are futuristic guns. couldn’t one of them have ‘this is the wrong end’ written on it? or maybe pointily bits to add to the menace.
That still couldn’t top the gattling gun with bajonets.
I would have just added an ominous hum.
Surprisingly, ominous hums are not as effective as you’d think. Why, my baby sitter back in the 70’s would actually touch my bedroom door knob, despite an ominous hum AND a metal plate lying on the floor in front of it. Never ceased to amaze me.
Admittedly, it was a new baby sitter each time, that might have had something to do with it.
Classical conditioning only works if you can repeat the experience.
Racking a shotgun produced the second most ominous sound in the known universe. A friend of mine once said it’s especially effective behind a thug about to mug a fellow pizza delivery driver.
I briefly had that as my phone’s notification alert, but it tended to disturb people.
I have never understood why people do that, all you are doing is expelling a round; since if you are anticipating conflict, the weapon should already be loaded and ready to fire. Now the click as the safety is disengaged, on the other hand . . .
Not having a round in the chamber is an excellent safety precaution, though. Then the first time you rack it you load the chamber.
Sure, one less round than you could potentially have had, but really drops the chances of an accidental discharge.
And in a combat situation, you just gave away your position and element of surprise.
The Omnious Humm only works in combination with the “THOOM” generated by the Sthroll Amunitions HB209 (irishman) and a being willing to use it for anything from opening conversation to bulkheads.
I recognize that reference dot gif.
The artificially added CHAK sounds are almost as good.
I recall in Schlock Mercenaries, generating an ominous hum was actually a selling feature for plasma guns.
He rejected an AP-130 plasgun in favour of his old-school BH-209 (which can’t be fired in a vacuum, because it requires atmospheric gas for its fusion reactor – a point that proves fatal to Schlock at one point) because it lacked the glow of doom and the ominous hum.
According to https://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php?title=Plasgun the BH-209 CAN be fired in a vacuum (on that page, there’s a link to a strip demonstrating it); it’s the AP-130 that can’t.
Not that I’d count on the BH-209 being able to handle many shots in a vacuum; it’d have limited internal gas storage to work from, after all.
With a plasma gun, how many shots do you need?
When you’re using it as a plasma rocket to slow your descent down a 6km deep hole, more than it can store!
Otherwise, just the one.
How about a gun with a sigh that says:
“This is a camera
Just smile and
Wait for the flash!”
(insert crazy Joker laugh here)
or a ray gun that sounds exactly like Krusty’s laugh
Check out the Simpsons video game, I believe there’s one in it!
Some neon lines and extra scopes always work with SF guns.
I would think the major sign of a futuristic gun would be that the guard and grip would actually fit Frix’s hand. Maybe he just grabbed a weapon sized for someone with smaller hands.
The classic Claymore (the mine, not the sword) labeling, “THIS SIDE TOWARD ENEMY”
don’t forget ‘do not eat’
That’s on the frag grenade (the “do not eat”), or at least it was back in the 1980s when I went through Basic. Also in the heating pack for MREs that you were supposed to fill halfway with water then drop in the meal pouch.
I used to know a Navy Seal who had a T-shirt that said “This Side Toward Enemy.”
Yeah, just about sums up his job.
I guess space doesn’t use Terran gun safety rules (no finger on trigger)? Peggy would have all three carrying the pink latex gun.
Also Frix looks pissed! New side to him.
I think safety rules don’t apply if you actually ARE meaning to use deadly force at the slightest hint of provocation (and are trained professional).
This is the answer. Finger off the trigger, *unless* you are actually aiming at the target and preparing to fire.
Insert obligatory “duh” here.
1) They ARE in a combat situation, aiming at their target who is a known mercenary/kidnapper.
2) There are no friendlies behind said target. I bet they know their weapons enough to judge overshoot or penetration.
3) Slightly unconventional door breach with a hostage inside.
Oh hell YES, they are ready to shoot.
There *is* a friendly behind the target: the hostage, which you later acknowledge.
And if you look carefully, NONE of the weapons are aimed anywhere near the hostage.
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Well… on closer examination, Frix’s gun MIGHT be a bit close to aiming that way, but I don’t really blame him since his girlfriend is the one who got hijacked. He is also aiming down, so unless he fires something extreme, it likely won’t hit the desk where the hostage is located.
Now, the body that Lapha left in there IS almost certainly in the line of fire of those barrels, but in all honesty I don’t see anyone or anything getting upset about an empty body being potentially threatened. So maybe… I dunno.
I certainly wouldn’t want want to be the poor lob who has to try and sue Cora’s crew for such a thing.
Pretty sure it’s coincidence. They didn’t pause to survey the room for the location of any hostages before pointing those guns.
That we KNOW of.
Cora did hack the systems, so she may have hacked something else to make sure he was alone in there.
Then again, I assume that people who are unprofessional in Cora’s line of work either get out of it when the lawsuits pile up or do not live very long. Contrary to popular belief, ‘adventurer’ is not a safe line of work. I am betting the medical for lower ranked ones is not very impressive either.
remember, the hostage is also technically barely not property to boot!
Not going there…
Just. Not.
The rule is keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot. I think they’re ready to shoot.
Eager, even, I dare say.
I’d be pissed if I was Frix, too. They tried to possess and kidnap his alien girlfriend.
And because of it, the news of her Nth tech is now rippling out at FTL speeds.
The Cora team is here, “amer comme un pamplemousse , et armé comme un porte-avions” lit. bitter like a grapefruit, and armed like an aircraft carrier.
Frix looks pissed, angry woof alert!
Beat me to it.
Yeah, I think he resents his space-girlfriend bein’ messed with.
Ya THINK???????
“Yes, I do. It gets me in trouble, sometimes.” :)
Oh dear, Frix has an “angry boyfriend” look. This does not bode well for Garamm.
As for the Lacrosse thing, in my long life I’ve met exactly one Lacrosse player (and that was 45 years ago when I was working as a tech at the Uni). I know the Uni didn’t have a team (we don’t do that sort of thing much down here), but I presume he played the sport with others on a team and they had matches against other teams in some sort of league thing. Nevertheless he was the only physical data point I ever met. Maybe it’s like Fight Club “The first rule of the Lacrosse league is you never talk about the Lacrosse league”. :-)
Frix’s look says to me “stop bantering, every time you banter with the enemy you afterwards say things like ‘we needed him alive!’and ‘I kinda feel bad for his family’ and it is getting annoying. Just step aside and let me pull the trigger, you can interrogate the stain on the wall if you really want to.”
Panel 4 might be the finest thing you’ve ever drawn.
Frix’s gun looks like one of strife’s gun from darksiders :) (Mercy : https://www.godisageek.com/2019/11/darksiders-genesis-introduces-strife-in-new-trailer/)
Maybe a La cross scholarship is how they give the legacy guys a free ride.
Yup, got it in one. Same goes for Crew, etc.
For a moment I thought that was Dabbler.
In all likelihood, Cora used an edited record of Dabbler as the base for the fake video. What better than a succubus as the bait for a sex trap?
I scrolled to find this conversation, and all that’s left is to agree with it.
Cora totally used a clone command on a pocket of space with Dabbler in it, while she projected one of her favorite glams, aura and all. I wouldn’t be shocked if all THREE bodies where just Dabbler in different outfits. Because she IS that much of a perfectionist, and she couldn’t possibly know what would be most attractive at this kind of distance.
Also, Dabbler would likely be flattered that her college form was used as bait to lure out Lapha’s accomplice.
What’s really weird about space gun noises is when they happen, but the gun is just a plain old gunpowder powered slug thrower. Like Mal’s gun in Firefly. It had that weird little buzzy hummy capacitor charging kind of noise, but it shot regular bullets. We saw them, they were just bullets. Nothing special. Yet there was that space gun noise.
Some lines of rifles use electric caps with their caseless rounds instead of mechanical percussion caps. Useful for rapid firing, but with larger capacity of rounds. I would imagine this is the direction for the more powerful propellants used in higher velocity rounds.
Also helps with supply chains; The primer is the trickiest to manufacture part of a cartridge.
Well, trickiest to manufacture without blowing yourself up, anyway; You can home brew them if you don’t mind the occasional one going bang.
There was technology back in the Mid 90’s called MetalStorm that did this. Bullets were stacked in a barrel and were singly fited by a pulse of electricity. There were several configurations depending on barrel type and arrangement. The handgun had 3 independent barrels. Beanbag, rubber, and FMJ. To fire you would pick the barrel and trigger the gun. You could also have an array of 10 shot barrels that when combined could achieve over 500,000 rounds per minute fire rates.
I think the real reason it didn’t go beyond development is because as far as I could tell the spent barrel was not field reloading and needed to go back to the factory.
metalstorm totally exists today and is marketed worldwide. It’s particularly good for point-defenses, throwing up a wall of lead.
Obscenely high rate of fire for under 1/100 second isn’t actually all that different from a massive shotgun.
There is a really cool sci-fi series on Reddit called ‘First Contact’ and on Amazon called ‘Behold Humanity! May we come in?’ where they talk about kinetic weapons A LOT.
The gist is that lasers and other energy weapons are very damaging, have limited ammo problems and are generally very easy to aim while Kinetic weapons (Bullets, missiles, whatever) can use varied kinds of ammo and can generally hit far harder. There are all kinds of arguments for an against all of them,but it comes down to a few words-
‘Rocket assisted projectile with nuclear payload’ ’nuff said.
I think lacrosse today is like soccer in USA movies from the 80’s and 90’s. USA directors wanted something more exotic than the big 3 (base, foot, basket) and that was unisex where both boys and girls could be in the shot on equal ground. So they added in a few scenes with the kids practicing soccer or playing a game to show some sort of character development, either a success or flop. These days soccer is actually quite popular in the USA (not up to the big 3, but growing), so they need a new exotic sport. So now every other high school/college tv show/movie suddenly has lacrosse.
Should have done the harmless-corridor-scene-photo-as-a-hat joke from Fifth Element.
Sure, static image isn’t as convincing, but that will never not be funny.
Yes, but not just lead. They were also looking at 40mm grenades launched for area defense. They likened the airborne option to ink jet printing.
Difference being: in Fifth Element, he was looking to make sure the corridor was empty, here he was checking who was at the door (unless you have a haunted doorbell like ours that makes noise whenever it fucking feels like it… speak of the shitter, it just went off while typing this!)
I watched lacrosse on TV last week. I think it was on FS2 or something. Don’t quote me on that, but it was on cable TV.
Even ESPN semi-regularly shows NLL (and both ESPNU and the ACC Network show college lacrosse). Spectacular lacrosse goals are regularly part of Sportscenter’s “Top 10” plays of the day
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve ever seen anyone use the word “coed”. Possibly because nobody my age even remembers a time when colleges were segregated by sex. My mother, she’s old enough to remember, but not me.
I’m old enough to remember that if you visited a young lady in her dorm room you were required to keep the door open and one foot on the floor at all times. This was explicitly stated in the rules for the dorms. It actually applied to the men’s dorms as well but I never saw it enforced. This was at one of the state’s regional universities. The largest school in the state actually had co-ed floors where the sexes were only separated by a common lobby. I also did some course work at Texas Women’s University where, at the time at least, only graduate level courses were co-ed.
Explicitly stated you say? I bet there were couples who took it as a challenge and had sex without breaking that rule.
“Keep the door open and one foot on the floor at all times”.
That wouldn’t slow me down much.
How was Garamm thinking this would go? He lets the sexy coeds in, they squirt him with giggle juice, and then … realise he isn’t Tenri, and that Tenri is missing or unconscious?
Well, nice to see that even the males of sapient descendants of space velociraptors aren’t immune from that kind of thinking-with-your-genitals stupidity. We knew Garamm is somewhat prone to be distracted by the sexy when he tried sweet-talking Lapha in getting the mods he deemed hot for her new body in the midst of their escape from the previous bungled kindnapping attempt.
Tenri isn’t missing or unconscious. Tenri is on the table.
Fair point.
I played lacrosse in college. Never knew it existed before going there, though…the rich kids’ sport in my high school was Crew.
All I can think of is the positively-antique SNL “Landshark” sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NS2H55dxI
I am actually kind of surprised it was Cora and crew on this and not the friend group or local space police, guessing Dabbler made a call and took over for local authorities on this case.
Well, we know that one of the hats that Cora and crew wear is freelance law enforcement, together with ‘hard-loving space adventurers, treasure hunters, xenoarcheologists, and wealth redistribution specialists’, according to Frix’s self-description back in #725.
I’m leaning towards this being more of an improvisational thing, with local authorities not being informed. If cops are the same way in the rest of the galaxy, there are far too many ways getting them involved is a bad idea. Dabbler and Sydney know a crew that could handle it, so they call a favor in.
“A favor for a friend’ is often better than involving local authorities, ESPECIALLY when secrets (like Nth tech) need to be kept.
I mean, better to keep things on the low-down than to involve certain Earth agencies I can name since people like the the FBI, CIA and others simply CANNOT seem to keep secrets even when the bosses do not blab them all over the nightly news to score prestige points with hostile nations.
I think that “freelance law enforcement” is euphemism for bounty hunters … and that IF local authorities did get involved, they would find out that Cora has all paperwork for that OK.
Did we know Frix is a leftie before this?
Given his profession, he’s probably Ambidextrous. He’s using his left hand because it would be awkward to use his right with the other two standing right next to and slightly in front of him like that.
In that case he should have a pistol in his right hand too. It would suit his chaotic neutral space rogue style.
… Pointed at Sylv’s back? o_O
Or worser, Cora’s head?
Yes, he was eating BBQ ribs with Sydney using his left.
So did Lappie sell him out, or did Sydney fish the memory of his location out of her while they were bonded when she was reviewing her love life?
Once they figured out that Tenri had been hijacked, one of her friends from the group that she arrived with could have provided her physical address. Even if you didn’t know where she was, her residence is a logical place to start searching.
Her ‘friends’ bailed the second Harem went to arrest them
Yes, but Parfait would know how to contact them
Parfait might even know where she lives. Are student directories still a thing? All you would have to know is where she goes to school. It’s not that hard to find a person who isn’t hiding.
They have a body, and a name. A bit of reality hacking, an identify spell, and a lookup on a galactic register probably got the dorm number.
But yha, having that much info and not letting her die probably broke Lappie…. or the threat of seconds being served to her.
Don’t even need that. Parfait went to the same school as all of them and knows Tenri well enough to be on a first name basis.
Didn’t need to hack the cameras, they could have worn picture hats like the mugger in The Fifth Element…
He didn’t need to check the door. He needed to check the date.
My son played lacrosse in high school and college and for a while was trying to get in shape to try out for the NLL. After a bit he decided that taking advantage of his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering was a surer route to making money. He’s still in pretty good shape though.
Lacrosse was an East Coast prep school and college thing for a long time (I was born and raised in New England) but then exploded across the U.S. Sports Illustrated took a survey a while back to find out why it was so popular. One reason was that it hit a sweet spot of “some contact but not too much”; you can smack people around but terrible permanent injuries are rare. And if you can’t run but have quick hands you can be a goalie.
Notably, one of the top 3 answers was basically “Mom and Dad don’t understand the rules so they don’t yell at the refs and coaches.”
Good lawd Garamm, only a mega-moron would fall for that… I swear, him and Lapha should get the award for that galaxy’s dumbest criminals…. Oh wait, they just did! An all-expense paid trip to the local lockup. And Garamm is going to get all the “special” massages that big Bubba is willing to give him!
To quote the old pirate “You give up a few things, chasing a dream.”
My high school had a lacrosse team. I knew at least one person who was on it.
I don’t know if my college had a lacrosse team; it was a lot bigger, so I didn’t know anybody who was on a sports team.
Honestly surprised they let Alpha go with all those classified secrets
Says who? If anything, I’m pretty sure lapha is going to be stuck for a while since the only loose end is being rectified.
If Alpha is meant to be Lapha there’s no evidence she’s been let go.
The flame here is Tenri
Yeah, my tribe the Choctaws word for it is Ishtaboli which means something like “Little Brother of War.” Nowadays, we just call it stickball and in Oklahoma there are several teams which play. They allow for something like 30 members of a team to be on the field at a time. Choctaw stickball teams tend to be two types of players, the skinny fast guys who get the ball handed to them and move it across the field and the big guys who skirmish for it. Little brother of war indeed.
Rich/upper middle class kids play Lacrosse. These same kids do not throw away their 4 year degrees in the hopes of making professional lacrosse a thing. They all become finance bros and whatnot.
Most obscure college sports are ways for rich people to get their failsons through college on “merit.”
In addition to being our National Sport, it’s a convenient backstory element if you want a character to be a badass/explain an abnormal pain threshold, but for it to be a bit exotic/esoteric instead of just making someone ex-military. Also it’s a convenient way to have a teenager have an excuse for being comfortable with some high intensity mayhem, since it’s hard to work an ex-(the usual suspects for badass backgrounds) into a character’s backstory when they haven’t even reached an age they’re permitted to drink or vote.
I wonder if Dabbler sent Kora to get Gramm o was it something different?!?
Does Slyv have a Tentacle Gun? It looks like Sydney’s Tentacle folded and stuffed inside.
Them is some BIG GUNS!
April Fools, Garamm!
In an amusing point of trivia, lacrosse is the #1 sport that Special Operations look at when vetting people for the training. The combination of running/endurance, rewarding aggressive play, and fast/competent hands is ideal preliminary training for a soldier shooting people, while games like basketball that might equal tend to have more injuries for some reason, and baseball and football especially.
So, did they find Gramm independently, or are they working with Max?
I’d imagine Dabbler sent the request. “Hey, so an Aetholith named Lapha stole the shell of another Aetholith named Tenri, who my sister tells me is a student at Wherever University, and possessed Sydney. We want some leverage to see if we can’t get her to vacate – go check out her room for me.” There’s possibly money involved, although I’m pretty certain Cora would be willing to do this for free – Sydney’s her friend too.
Then Cora, being a professional, did a little research, found out that Lapha’s primary known associate was Garamm, and set up this little ambush.
I’m not really sure what Garamm thought was going to happen here, though. Was he intending to abduct the coeds? They’re allegedly there to see Tenri, so when they see her flame imprisoned and some other shell laying around, they’re going to know something is up. Then again, I suppose Garamm wasn’t really thinking with the head on his shoulders…
I think this is happening ON the university Tenri was studying in. I mean, this room is where Tenri lives, they don’t need to know who specifically is guarding her.
Knowing it’s Garamm would have increased their confidence in the sexy-co-ed-pillow-fight ruse working.
“Is Garamm bad at his job? Probably. I mean, that was a fairly suspicious setup. ”
To be fair, this Demon High and it has at least 9 succubi. The lust Aura must be active everywhere. And stopping them would probably arouse more suspicion.
Maybe so, but we are talking about a guy that started to dry-hump his boss while hiding from Arc-swat. Granted she was kinda into it a bit but really? No both Garamm and Lapha are just foolish at best, outrageously stupid by the rest. Plus the entire reason Lapha’s body was eaten was instead of running for dear life, or at least helping Garamm out of the manhole, she took the time to argue with a passer-by.
So, are they like the galactic equivalent of tweakers?
I was thinking more along the lines of lemurs…
just follow the leader, even if it means falling
to a horrible death. (SPLAT!)
(insert video of an over-ripe watermelon
exploding from the rubber bands)
That’s lemmings, and lemmings don’t actually do that. Lemurs are primates native to Madagascar.
Yeah, I meant lemmings, and I know they don’t, it’s just the popular belief. I just referencing that idea.
Lemurs don’t follow the leader. They come in mobs, not herds or packs or flocks. Prides already don’t have any follow-the-leader activities, and mobs are even more disorganized than prides.
You may be thinking of lemmings. Contrary to Disney visual effects, they aren’t actually suicidal. They’re herd animals that stay closely packed when on the move, and they get crowded off the edge of cliffs entirely against their will because five hundred other lemmings 20 meters away haven’t seen the cliff yet and won’t stop shoving.
Lemmings (and Lemurs for that matter) are probably smarter than tweakers. It is a local joke that if a crime was stupid or spectacularly inefficient it was likely perpetrated by the local meth addicts.
Also, if your guns don’t make noises when waved, you are doing something wrong.
Might I suggest upgrading to a Strohl BH-209 Plasgun? Sergeant Schlock knows what is good:
“Jevee Ceeta: You do know you can get ten times the output from a weapon less than a tenth that size, don’t you?
Schlock: I like the soothing sounds I get out of this one.
SFX: Ommminous Hummmmm
Jevee Ceeta: The glow of doom from the barrel is a nice effect, too.”
Schlock Mercenary, Saturday March 15, 2003
I am seriously torn between *ominous hum* and *eppaulette annie grenade* for which is coolest.
Although cool, an eppaulette-sized nuclear bomb is kind of a weapon of last resort (also, small point of order, it’s fuelled by fullerened antimatter, not an annie-plant). A plasgun is the gift that keeps on giving. In a choice between the two, I’d take the plasgun any day of the week.
Overall, “60km long cannon that fires anti-proton plasma through wormholes” is probably the coolest, although it isn’t exactly man-portable.
LOTA for the WIN!!!!!!!
And yes, plasma cannon is probably better, but as a ‘F YOU!!!!!!’ grenades are hard to beat. Antimatter (Nuclear) hand grenade? ‘Throw it and RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!!!!!!!’
Throw it and don’t bother running most of the time, because there’s no way you can get out of the blast range of a 13.75 kiloton antimatter bomb, unless you’re standing right next to a nuclear bunker.
https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-06-04
My dad was partly responsible in his first command for a who handled SADM. That is ‘Strategic Atomic Demolition Munition’ also known as ‘backpack nukes’ which were not very backpack sized. He also told stories of the Davy Crocket payloads and the recoilless rifle special munitions that were stored on his base.
They took security VERY seriously for good reason.
He was the one who told me the joke about the ‘atomic hand grenade’. Even firing it out of a recoilless rifle, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere on the battlefield when it went off.
Doesn’t need to be man-portable. Just need a good spotter.
It’s best if the spotter ISN’T a brain-jacking, suicidal, sociopathic monster, but whatever works.