Grrl Power #265 – In summation…
One of the (few) drawbacks to having an especially active community here in the comments is that a page or two following a big reveal will generally be retread or just confirmation of what’s been discussed by you guys. It’s stuff that needs to be said in the comic anyway since not everyone reads the comments and also there’s the book version to think about. I’ll reiterate one thing I said in the comments for the previous page since it’s easy to miss, is that while Vehemence can draw power from any sort of violence, from a mugging to an earthquake, violence with intent is higher quality and better ‘tasting’. Presumably it comes with lots of Vitamin V. Also there’s a finite amount he’d be able to absorb from something as violent as an earthquake since the range at which he can absorb the energy from is limited. A 2000 mile long fault line’s no good to him if he can only absorb stuff from… well, I haven’t decided his range, but it’s well under a mile. Localized violence is better.
I really wanted this page to be a double page, as Vehemence’s speech took rather a lot of room, but I think I’ve kind of gotten into the habit of trying to make every page I can a double. I’ve done 7 of them in the last 10 pages, and it’s been a little stressful. Burnout is far too dramatic a word, but making this page and the next singles was almost like a vacation for me. By vacation, I mean I didn’t have to draw all day Sunday as well as the other 6 days and it was nice. I did some chores, went to the gym… then spent the rest of the day coloring the vote incentive anyway, but the point is that I wasn’t under the gun trying to get a page finished so I wouldn’t be behind on Monday which is when I write and start penciling new pages.
There were several suggestions in the comments that the team take a break and power up Dabbler to match V’s level, and Dabbler alludes to it here. It would be an epic bait and switch if I just suddenly changed the comic into a 20 page lesbian orgy right now, but… nah. :)
The question is, if Vehemence is so powerful, or at least so potentially powerful, how did Arc-LIGHT not know about him? Granted they haven’t done a great job tonight anyway, but in Vehemence’s case, he’s mostly just hung around in the background gathering power and never really needed to join in. What’s he going to do, get powered up during a race riot, then leap out and start attacking looters? He’d pulp anyone he hit, and while killing someone is usually a pretty violent thing, a dead rioter can’t continue rioting.
Even when he hung around underground super fight clubs, which given the low incidence of super powers are rare, but they still happened, he’s got nothing to prove. He’s just there for the meal. He’s revealing himself now mostly because as debuts go, this is a pretty good one, and also right now he’s so amped it’s like he’s been snorting Excedrin.
Here are some fun links for you. This one makes envious of the gals, cause whereas girls can wear basically anything without anyone batting an eye, guys are generally limited to 2-3 kinds of shirts and either pants or shorts, meaning there’s a whole range of geek wear I’m shut out of, like this Baroness tank dress. Though even if I was a girl, I’m not sure I would traipse around in something quite that sheer, though maybe it’s only partially see-through under studio lights. And probably direct sunlight, but then how often do proper geeks get exposed to that? Anyway if you’re within a decade of my age that site may have a few gems for you.
Here’s a quite funny webcomic I found, Deathbulge. As with a lot of webcomics, it takes a few strips to find it’s footing but is solid once it hits its stride. The RSS seems to be broken unfortunately, but it’s worth going through the archives IMO.
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I’d wear the hell outta that Baroness tank, assuming it comes in amazon sizes…
(Wheeee!!) Sorry, I just had a Math Moment there. :-)
Hmmm…Does that mean you have a high level of MATH-matical ability?…
So? The guy is nigh invincible and super strong.
Does he fly? No?
Well then, just grab him and literally throw him into orbit.
He can come down once he’s had time to calm down.
This one’s super easy, and Halo nailed it when the fight started. Turn it in to slapstick by tripping him and making other humerous yet effective tactics. Nobody will be focused on the violence, they’ll be focused on the humor. And unless this guy’s also wearing clown makeup and can eat Comedic energy (I WANT A COMIC ON THIS) He’s done. xD
thats the thing, he doesn’t need anymore vehemic energy. He already powered up and i dont think he loses energy over time
He does, but it’s way too slow to help the team now.
I think he does loose energy over time (cause it must take a lot to keep his body operating like that all the time) but his own attacks feed a charge back into him comparable to the energy he used to make them so he’s not loosing anything noticeable by attacking and he attacks damn hard at this point.
meh, lose energy. Though I suppose he does the other too.
God it looks like he is a small guy sticking his head and shoulders out of a larger guy XD
Ya’ know, some body builders in real life actually look like that’s the case.
Damnit! He does! Cannot Unsee!
Oh, Ew. Just realized how muscled he is. When you get to that point, I’m sorry if someone takes offense, but you just look grotesque.
That’s because humans can’t get that kind of musculature naturally- in order to get something like that the person has to be taking a lot of steroids.
Maybe that’s his exoskeleton and then can just grab him by the shoulders and pull him out.
then = they
I guess that’s because the only muscles that haven’t bulked up to ludicrous proportions are in his face.
That’s probably the only way he could look weirder than he already does.
I’m sure it’s been suggested to shoot him in the other eye, but I have no illusions that his injured eye is missing. Still, he has not opened it since it was hit so I don’t think he can right now. So sniper shot #2 to the other eye, with Halo pronouncing that “If a man can’t see, he can’t fight.” Seems appropriate.
You never seen, or heard of, a movie called “Blind Fury”? A little movie starring Rutger Hauer as a blind swordsman
Based on the Zatoichi movies.
Nice dog.
except he’s waaay tougher now than when Peggy hit him with that first bullet. Odds are another one would just bounce off his eyelashes at this point.
I’d say it falls under Worth a Try.
Time to load up the AP rounds.
Exactly! If you’re have a 50 person orgy and no one gets hurt and nothing gets broken, then you’re doing it wrong.
If your having a 50 person orgy. Your doing it right. Injuries are just a bonus
The 50 people and moderate injuries, sure ok. The open parking lot and property destruction I’m a little wary of.
Any orgy you can walk away from (even if your legs are shaking) is a good one.
Any orgy you cannot walk away from until a day or two later is a great one.
I wouldn’t know, I never went past a threesome…
My condolences.
An orgy that counts as a natural disaster, well we’ll leave that to your imaginations.
Expect a low survival rate, but at least you go out with a bang!
Death by snu snu!
The mortician would have to put in some serious overtime to remove the joker-esque smile from your face. Or insist on a closed-casket funeral service (assuming that he could even get the casket lid closed over your torso…).
Guess I’m a little prudish about PDL (Public Displays of Lust). In a building, behind a privacy fence behind a treeline, under a big tent, atop a really tall building, etc. with consenting adults, almost all’s fair in love and war. Just a few reasonable rules, leave a little barrier between the consenting adults and the nonconsenting adults & pre-adults, try to keep the deaths, maimings, & crippling to an absolute minimum and don’t blow up the block, city, county, state, country, continent, planet, etc.
Killjoy!
Well.. I say: counter by starting that orgy for making the succubus stronger, stat!
And were are they going to get forty five more people for this orgy?
I dunno about the other forty four, but I volunteer!
me too!
Count me in.
I’m up for the task. I’ll go in as deep as I can get.
Uncover me guys, I’m going in.
Check in with Gold Leader before coordinating ass-ault pattern Omega.
Still waiting for the: “Well Colonel, it’s been fun, but time for me to be leaving you to the clean up. Toodles! Oh, and Miss Scoville? It truly has been a pleasure meeting you, shame it was under these circumstances.”
It is a logical possibility. And Maxima will be furious. But the only way I see it happening is if General Faulk or Zeph give her a direct order to stand down. And tracking and capturing Vehemence will become Job 1 for the near-term.
According to him, not attacking him is no longer an option, which would seem to preclude him just walking away.
Here’s my question (the answer to which could potentially change the nature of the challenge they’re facing):
Does vehemic energy drain away from not being used…OR, does it stick with him forever?
If the former, then his assertion that ‘it’s far too late’ to NOT fight him isn’t really accurate. Have Sydney truss him up like a hog, have Max toss him into space, have Dabbler gas him, etc., etc., and just wait for him to cool his tits.
If the latter, however, we’ve got a big, big problem. By saying ‘it’s far too late’, maybe he’s saying that, if they DON’T fight him, he’ll tear ass through the world just for the hell of it…leading me to think that maybe, for an innate vehemic energy user, violence becomes like a drug.
In that case, it’s ‘too late’ to not fight him because he’s a got a rage-boner the size of a cruise missile, and by God, SOMEONE’S GETTING SLAPPED WITH IT.
Most power gathering gigs like this do keep the power gathered, though with very slow bleed off. When they do anything it uses up their stored power however. Something like just regular punching someone would probably not use up hardly anything for him, but if he chose to flatten a tank with a right hook, it would probably drain some of his energy.
Most interpretations I’ve seen for Succubi power ups basically say that the one charging up can’t gain power from their own actions (Otherwise Succubi would spend all of their time masturbating and could probably 1 punch the average demon lord).
Hahaha, never thought about it like that. But if they could/can all that succubi need is a electric dildo and a value pack of AA batteries and they got a legit tantric power generator XD
I’m wondering about how efficient the conversion rate is. Anvil is a kinetic absorber, if she teamed with Maxima, perhaps she could absorb enough of his blows to deliver one more debilitating than empowering.
But, if the energy absorbed is close to equal to the power of the blow, this strategy would be useless.
Plus, Avil might reach a limit first, if either of them have one.
I still say levitate him by some means so he can’t reach the ground or any surface and leave him literally hanging!
Of course nothing says he can’t be put into stasis… or held within an anti-gravity field… do they have a member of the team with either of those abilities?
What happens if Dabbler uses illusions on him?
Ok. Who’s going to levitate him? Who’s got the anti-gracity or stasis fields?
Dabbler’s magic has thus far proven ineffective, and he has been proven magically savvy.
Not sure about the illusion bit. Depends on how the illusion works.
I love the mini comic at the end. What’s dabbler’s book by the way? Probably something like “1001 BDS&M methods”?
Boy Scout Handbook. With well-thumbed pages in the Knots section.
Dabbler probably considers the Kama Sutra to be an elementary introduction Primer guide.
Well, if he’s ticklish, there is your answer right there. Nonviolent and debilitating.
Pudding is the answer. Pudding is the answer to nearly all life’s problems. ~ Bill Cosbey
Well maybe not pudding exactly but how about a couple of barrels of that Lube they used on Mythbusters. That stuff used to assist cattle birthing. As flavoring may I suggest either ipecac, grapefruit extract, everyone’s favorite scoville condiment or all of the above?
I would suggest one of these: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/192
Nah, try page 118, Panel 4, the one at the far right.
Grrl Power #118 – Got it in one
Okay… if none of that works I guess it is time to call in a projective empath… or a dozen. You know, powers that are more subtle and don’t actually involve (directly) violence. From what I have seen of the team so far they have the “front line powers” well in hand but it seems they are seriously lacking in non-violent crowd control powers.
Well . . . they DO have a succubus right there. Time for a repeat of the Jabberwocky solution?
Doubt it will work. He pointed out that her sleep spell didn’t have enough power, and that was before Maxima charged him up. Same with any other magic, I’m pretty sure.
Can not help but notice Max still doesn’t look impressed…
This would be a perfect recruitment platform. You can taste this kind of violent orgy of destruction often if you join us. At a minimum you can spar with max on the quiet days.
Tasty violence every day of the week. I
It strikes me that the lighthook could, if brought in from behind Vehemence, and used to form a restraint harness around him, could be used to get him out of contact with the ground. If the tentacle comes in from essentially right between the shoulder-blades, he wouldn’t be able to grab hold of it. After that, Maxima flies Sydney to a high enough altitude (with Vehemence being lifted as much above them as possible) that Vehemence begins to asphixiate. Harem could teleport up a couple of scuba tanks with masks to extend how long Sydney and Maxima.
If it’s necessary to take exotic measures to restrain Vehemence, restraining him immersed in a shear-thickening non-Newtonian fluid would be an option. If he tries to act violently in that fluid, it essentially solidifies around him in instantaneous reaction to the force applied.
If it’s judged necessary to kill him, simply toss him up high enough that he’s essentially in vacuum. Unless he has a life-support power of some type, he’ll be dead within 10 minutes at a pessimistic estimate.
Works in theory, not counting that he managed to throw off the Lighthook earlier in the fight, well before he reached full strength. He didn’t have to grab it then either – just overpower it.
If he can’t grab it, and it’s lifted him away from the ability to exert leverage against it, how’s he going to throw it off? Once he’s off the ground, he could flail around with arms and legs as much as he likes, but without traction, he’d be going nowhere.
Sydney could just put him inside the sheild. The question is if it’s air permiable or not (I don’t remember if it does or not). Works for Sue Storm :-)
And we find another person that didn’t read the FAQ. The force field is centered on Sydney, always, until at some future level up she gains the power to generate two force fields in different locations one being away from her. That’s Word of God (DaveB).
AND another trophy for Cpt . Obvious .
How could she conceivably grasp him with the hentacle in such a way that he can’t get his hands on it?
Considering that it’s capable of continually flexing, if she brings it in essentially directly even with his shoulder-blades (at about heart level) to do the initial formation of the ‘harness’, then sways the portion of the hentacle that he is reaching for, she’d be able to maintain his harness while Operation ‘lift and separate (Vehemence from oxygen)’ took place.
I don’t think even master-level yoga practitioners can scratch between their own shoulder-blades. Vehemence looks like he’s built (skeletally) on basically normal proportions, and the thickness of his own muscles would further restrict his ability to reach behind himself to grab the light-hook.
I’m not even a basic at Yoga and I can reach that point. Exerting much force from doing so? Don’t know, but it is possible.
At which point he grips the part of the harness wrapped around his chest and unwraps it from himself.
My issue is the ‘lifting’ part. Since his slapstick splat, V looks a lot more prepared for the molestorb, so while Sydney may get it around him again, lifting off the ground afterwards is another story. She tries to lift, he’ll just pull back; no need to apply grip, just pure upper body will do.
I’m surprised nobody’s thought of this option yet.
Overload him.
Of course people have! The problem is, we don’t know what his limit is, and it’s possible he doesn’t have one. It’s not a good look when you try to overload somebody and wind up turning him into a god.
Not to mention we don’t know what would happen if they did successfully overload him… Do we really want to see the kind of collateral damage that might happen from him being pumped up with enough violence to make him go boom?
Regardless of what his limit might be, what about the collateral damage incurred from just getting him pumped up that high anyway?
OK it makes him stronger, but can he do anything with it? Is he now going to power a spell or just be big and strong?
There is also the other question… What powers Syndies Orbs?(It still hasn’t been established what kind of magic makes them run has it? If they’re powered by Vehimic energy too much hilarity will most likely ensue….
Okay, so I know this has probably been said in the comments, but since I’m too lazy to trawl through twenty pages of comments could someone please answer this? Okay, so. Why doesn’t someone else distract Vehemence so Dabbler can sneak up behind him and plant a smooch, so then she could use her mind control-ey powers to convince him he should, say, let himself be tranqued?
Because there is a very high probability he will shrug it off even if by some miracle she can even get close enough to do such. He literally broke one of Dabbler’s spells before he is powered up at his current level, along with the fact he is very familiar with magic. Add the fact that he isn’t even fazed that Dabbler is a succubus.
How about this for using using Sydney’s shield: She just has to make it really big with him inside (so big that he can’t reach her) then either fly (or have Max fly her) somewhere and then drop him off.
That said at this point he can jump really far so she might not be able to make her shield that big.
two words, over pressure.
(all V would have to do in such a situation is clap his hands, the shock-wave would pulp a human like Sydney, hell a “soft” clap would knock her out and get the same thing done with less of a mess, though at this point he might be too high on violence, literally, to care
Have Sidney enclose him in one of her Force bubbles. It’s already been established that she needs to let fresh air in eventually. So just make it tight around him so there is minimal extra oxygen.
Thus trapping Sydney in there with him. She has to be inside the bubble. Why do you want to hurt Sydney, dude?
Observer, got another Force Bubble here!
Aaaaaand Capt. Obvious gets another trophy.
Force bubble was my first thought too, but as you have pointed out, Sydney has to be inside that.A clever limitation plotwise.
One option could be to create two force bubbles, an outer one containing Velmance, and an inner one protecting Sydney. The problem is we haven’t seen if she’s able to do that, and I’d err on the side of no.
The other issue is we don’t know if the bubble’s strength is enough anymore.
I want to see him fight the Hulk! Hulk hits him, he gets stronger, he hits Hulk, Hulk gets angrier and stronger, repeat untill they both explode…
I know what to do! Alchahol, lots and lots of alchahol
… You know, I just noticed in the Cast page, Math’s icon has his “superpowers” listed out– capped out martial prowess, enormous speed, one dot in strength, two in defense… and three in energy beams? Did he get a kickass laser rifle or something? o3o Did he get exposed to all that gamma radiation from Jiggawatt’s positron-electron annihilation and develop laser vision (because it totally works like that)?
I think he just does chi blasts (ex. Kamehameha/Hadouken)
Amateur dentistry at range?
It sounds more like he’s a battery and what happens when you overcharge a battery…
…BOOM!
They just need to lay it on thick and heavy until he explodes from drawing in too much power.
That makes a really dangerous assumption– that he has an upper limit, or that something bad happens that he hits it. Besides, we don’t know how far into his power he is. What if that tattoo runs all the way through the spectrum up to red? People will be dead before he gets there.
get water ballons red filled with liquid banana,blue filled with neopreme sealant foam,trough red at his
feet and blue at torso
I think we are about to discover the ability of another of Sydneys orbs. I am thinking some sort of power negation or energy drain ability myself.
Thier best bet right now would be secondary powers of some sort.
Just catching him in Syd’s shield sounds more and more promising. He’ll either run out of air or out of power eventually (punching a shield that does not react is not very violent). I noticed that all his examples are violence against people (not objects).
Or maybe just punching him into a shortterm stable Low Earth Orbit.
And somebody might have a non-mentioned power left. Like Hiro’s ability to absorb sonic attacks.
Or maybe if Math is back up, he could just keep dodging and tripping him?
If Sydney catches him in her shield, she’ll have to be trapped in there with him.
Another trophy for Capt. Obvious…
Boy, Cap’s really racking them up today…
gonna need a bigger trophy case :D
I barely even caught the one on page 2, and for a moment I thought there wouldn’t be one for page 3.
Should’ve known better than to doubt the masses. :P
Hit him with a brown note. If you want to be nice, provide a proper-sized toilet, some privacy, and the Sunday paper. That pretty much does it for any guy. If you want to be mean, let him fill his pants and then deal with the results. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
A: Myth Busted
B: I’m not sure who has that super-power, or has admitted to having it for that matter.
C: Would be hilarious.
D: Might backfire in that it doesn’t stop the enemy, at which point you go from dealing with the hulk to dealing with the hulk covered in a hulk sized helping of fecal matter. Do you wanna be that guy?
Had a GURPS super who could do that.
Was part of his power to cause temporary “non lethal” physical trauma.
He could cause muscle cramps/spasms , make you cough, sneeze,throw up, pass gas (top or bottom),go to the bathroom, or my personal favorite induce vertigo.
D: That would be a real sh*tty job, but SOMEBODY will still have to deal with it…
You know what we need to defeat this guy?
The Power of Friendship.
Quick, where’s Archon’s resident Maujo Shoujo?(For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s Japanese for “Magical Girl”.)
At the moment, that’s Sydney. But don’t suggest that to her or you’ll find out why we call the Lighthook the Hentorb in the comments.
Actually, it’s Mahou Shoujo (from Google Translate, which did come up with the correct kanji: Mahō shōjo, which would also be Mahou Shoujo)
In this case regular Google search and Wikipedia are your friends: 魔法少女
Or Masou Shoujo (魔装少女) {Magic-clad Girl} in Kore wa Zombi Desu ka?
the heroines from those types of shows may be powered by friendship, love, peace or what have you, but they all get kinda or very violent while doing their job in the end >_>
Hell, sometimes from the beginning, Madoka Magica has them dying placed into pendant which must stay intact near the body at all time, and then the Magical Girls who do live ending up corrupted into the things they must destroy.
seems like he handed them a means to nullify him. load “For Who the Bell Tolls” into a sticky goop gun, plaster the two of them together and you’ll either create a runaway reaction or the nemesis factor will suck all his juicy vehemism out and he’ll be back to square one.
also is he powered by sentient psychological state or physical effect?
Death Toll’s power doesn’t work unless Vehemence attacks him. And probably doesn’t work while he’s unconscious. You can’t just use him as a weapon.
As DaveB pointed out, Vehemence powers up with BOTH physical violence and/or any violence with intent. While V can power up with just physical violence alone (thunderstorm, rockslide, etc.), violence with intent has a better “flavor” to it. He doesn’t even have to be a part of the violence, because he can absorb the “vehemic energy” from a limited distance, but he charges up much faster if he gets directly involved (as a giver or a receiver).
“if I just suddenly changed the comic into a 20 page lesbian orgy right now, but… nah.”
I hate you.
With all due respect. ;-)
I smell Patreon Extra!
Curious to know Vehemence’ eyes tolerance on hot sauces like Tabasco, or “volcano blood” (page 29, panel 7)…
Sydney suggests “Ring of Fire”.
Actually, she used all three of those…But lost her “charge up” on Maxima’s boots on p. 46.
The real kicker was when Peggy took Syd for lunch (p.118)…The Unmaker! She was even considering topping THAT with *pure* capsaicin before it damn near put her eye out with a noodle-slap.
Too bad she’s probably digested that by now. It might’ve come in handy to render Vehemence totally blind at this point.
If its violence hes powered by what we need is a nice Shaolin to come kick his ass while being perfectly serene about it.
.. It seems to me he is not counting on the simple fact… Maxima can still blast him upwards… and upwards is space… and in the words of my people.. SUCK VACUUM!… Even IF he can survive space he will have no leverage, seems to have no flight powers. and might get a free one way trip into the sun… if he is lucky. If not he might drift around space, slowly burning off his energy until he gets low enough the vacuum DOES effect him… In which case slow death.
So…. yay.. didn’t think this through if you ask me.
I have a thought: In cases where a super gets power from external sources, I often see them as having an upper limit. Cross that limit, and things start to get dangerous for the super.
So, the team just starts beating the ever loving crap out of Vehemence, Achilles, and Sydney’s shield. Violence. Pure violence. Overload that fucker with vehemic energy. Make him pop.
The question is does he overload before his lightest tap is lethal to Max? Or does he overload at all? A dangerous assumption from their point of view.
That is indeed one to file under “absolute last resort.”
He feeds off violence. What’s the opposite of violence? Humor? Love? Chanting monks? He says it’s pointless to not attack, but the reason he says is only that “it’s too late for that”. What if the team just high tails it out of there leaving him to just sit there? He wanted a battle royale, but if there’s no one to fight, what’s he going to do?
Probably start smashing buildings and killing civilians until they come back and fight him some more, this is not a fight they can just walk away from.
Break some stuff (as in the city and anything else around it) until either there is nothing left to break or the team has no choice but to turn back and fight him. Remember as well, violence he inflicts will still feed him, and he is at a point where he can match Maxi at her strength, both not a good combination for the heroes.
I must say i like V alot as a character
I really doubt that poison or knockout gas is going to work any better on the cellular level than Maxima punching him or Dabbler’s sleep spell worked on a larger scale, resistance to damage is resistance to damage. Same thing for taking away his oxygen, he is already outputting far more energy than can be explained by metabolizing the oxygen he breathes. Also, I wouldn’t bet too much on him not having flight powers by now, so far his increased strength, speed, and toughness seem to be just a side effect of his accumulating vehemic energy, if he actually starts spending it he is likely to be able to cause all sorts of interesting effects. This is an entire energy type he is using, not just a single power.
It may yet be Max that saves the day, using the ability to think at incredibly high speeds. (She can calculate the trajectory of a bullet going by fast enough to get her hand out in front of it with enough margin for error that it is considered perfectly safe to at shoot civilians near her during a training exercise, she can probably figure out the likely outcome of every imaginable ploy involving the powers her team has available during the time it takes Vehemence to say a single sentence.) Other possible solutions include Dabbler suddenly remembering that she has just the gadget for dealing with this type of situation or Sydney getting a powerup for one of her orbs or figuring out how one of the mystery ones work. Maybe she even gets a powerup that lets her put her shield around things that aren’t her. :) I’m sure there are lots of other possible solutions, but for sure they don’t want to try and over power his ability to absorb vehemic energy, it’s entirely possible that he can use the energy to increase his storage capacity, in which case they would run the risk of turning him temporarily into a demigod.
So read all the comments for the last two pages and still waiting for someone to mention the obvious. Straight up murder. Not one member of arc-swat has attempted to kill V except possible Peggy and thats only if you believe Maxima did not believe he could take it. Remember the tank demo…..a 50 cal would bounce harmless off it…..Dabbler rail gun went through it lengthwise with zero trouble a knocked Achillies across the mesa AFTER going through the tank. Sydney’s PPO cut into the tank like it was not there, then supper heated the sand causing an explosion. Maxima’s tiny little firefly bomb knocked Hex across the lot.
Arc-swat is the police for the super powered world, they have clearance to use deadly force. Maxima has killed people on record, Dabbler most certainly has sometime in her long life. Powering up from being beaten is way different from absorbing several hundred thousand joules at minimum from a rail gun projectile. Dave could fool us all and simply have Max announce “Pursuant to special order 1.0.15 of the Arc-swat engagement protocols surrender or we will use lethal force”
god, i would love that.
If they had realized what was happening they could have popped him a while ago. Now, a couple levels of power absorption later, maybe not… or not without evacuating people a little farther back, like many miles, from the uber blast to come.