Grrl Power #293 – Zonked
Why settle into bed gently when you can slam into it mid laugh? For those of you wondering, Sydney used to go with the geeky sheets, but eventually she decided she wears her geekdom on her sleeve enough already, and generally speaking you can get better quality sheets if they’re not concerned about having Star Wars or She-Ra printed on them. This was originally the last page book 1 but I realized I needed to address at least one more thing, so the next page wraps it up and then we’re off to book 2!
Most of the posters in Sydney’s room are movie posters, but the one above her computer is a Rainbow Dash I found at DeviantArt (used with permission :)
Be sure to check out the Valentine’s Day Sex Drive picture I did this year (NSFW, as are all the participants). I particularly like the Star Cross’d Destiny submission as well, so be sure to check that one out through their vote incentive, and check out the comic too (click on the comic thumbnail on the left.) The main character tends to look a bit like Maxima at times. She does have purple hair, but she only looks like she has gold skin occasionally because Blair, the artist, actually takes colored lighting into account when she colors. :)
I hope to have the vote incentive updated by next weekend, but I’m having some much needed foundation work done on my house this week and that involves jackhammering through the floor in a few places in my office, disassembling the computer and general distractions as I have to deal with all that stuff, so we’ll see.
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Hey Sydney…Have you ever felt so tired that you had to literally drag yourself to get anywhere?
https://www.aggro-gator.com/images/aggro-gatordotcom31710.jpg
I’ve only had that happen twice. Well, not the physical dragging.
1) high school rotc. 4 guys decided to treat a 16 year old female to the sight of them playing strip poker, for her birthday. They were still playing at 2am when i staggered in and hit the bed. We had first day of competition the next morning. And instead of whining at 11:30 that I needed sleep, i stayed out somewhere and read a book until I couldn’t stay up anymore.
2) Grocery store. I didn’t fall over onto a conveniently placed pillow. I did however fall asleep while bagging groceries for a customer. I woke up standing behind the cart with everything bagged perfectly. Waiting to help take the groceries out.
In Navy boot Camp, I learned how to sleep while standing at Parade Rest & not fall over. I was not the first to learn that…
Our tax dollars at work, folks :)
I learned how to walk my post while asleep at bootcamp, Parris Island.
That last one sounds like a symptom of narcolepsy. Make sure you aren’t driving next time that happens.
Nope, it’s genuine tiredness. Boot Camp keeps you busy from early morning until late evening. Classroom-style study & physical exercise during the full course of the day. Standing at Parade Rest for extended lengths of time while standing in full formation outdoors allows normal levels of tiredness to sneak up on you.
He was replying to my grocery tale I think lol
Not narcolepsy if he continued doing his job, it’s actually a form of higher awareness (believe, but not sure, that it may be called “Alpha State” or something similar)
Used to happen to me doing the paper run many many years ago: would ‘blank’ out and have to go back to make sure had actually delivered the papers (if it was narcolepsy would have falling off the bike)
That actually happened to me while driving once or twice.
The first part of that is muscle memory. Get something you’re familiar enough with and you can do it without the direction of your conscious mind. The most common of these things are walking and basic motor skills. You don’t have to consciously think “left foot, right foot, left foot.” you just think “Go over there.”
The second part is actually a form of meditation where your conscious mind sort of takes a breather and stops writing to short term memory for a bit. Your conscious mind is still there and still somewhat active, you just mostly don’t remember it. It’s the same thing that happens when you’re engrossed in an activity and you look up to realize a half hour has passed when you only thought it was 5 or 10 minutes.
Combine the two and you can work on autopilot for some time as long as you don’t run into anything unusual or requiring much thought. Wouldn’t recommend trying it with driving though.
Actually is a form of narcolepsy called automatic behavior. I would make burgers in my sleep working at McD’s. Diagnosed at 17.
my brother holds full conversations and tries to cook or repair things in his sleep. More than once we have gotten in the fridge to find the tv remote, or something odd in a pot on the stove ( turned off )
So the balls… deactivate (almost walked into that one!) when she sleeps? Interesting.
Good job at sidestepping that one so quickly…Unlike some people could manage: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1628/comment-page-1#comment-298192
At least they didn’t deflate.
The balls are inert.
The BALLS are INERT.
So… where’s Ert?
Thank you so much for that comment :)
And how did they get there ?
no no no … WHO is ‘Ert’? :p
Ert is Wong. Why at Erp was a gunfighter. If you ask Who is Wong? He was a martial artist. Whilst Who is the Doctor. Not to be confused with Doc Holiday, Who is the other gun fighter. Who fought with Wyatt Earp at the gunfight at the OK corral. Don’t get that Wong.
On the note of falling balls, anyone else notice that they did a major rearrangement when they fell?
They were still orbiting on the way down.
Actually, Shiwanabe is correct: have a closer look at her balls, the BubbleOrb staid in position on her left but the Telesight had been on her right
The order had been, going left to right: BubbleOrb, Green Unknown, Telesight, Flight, Hentorb, BlastOrb and Brown Unknown
But after the shut-down order: BubbleOrb, Brown Unknown, Hentorb, Flight, Green Unknown and Telesight (with BlastOrb out of sight)
They presumably have a default position, based on their arrangement in the skilltree. I’d say they don’t follow a strict order when Sydney grabs/drops one, they just fall into a circle. And then, I guess they unconsciously default? I’m not sure why the rearrangement took place RIGHT NOW, but there you go.
Except, they seem to have fallen in an arrangement not corresponding with the skilltree. Hmm.
I assume that they either feed off her life energy to work, or that they are synced with her mental state.
Seeing as how she doesn’t feel tired after using them, I’m banking on the former.
The order in which the orbs float may be a way in which we can understand them and are a topic for discussion, but as we know little about them and nothing can be for certain, I find it has little relevance.
My parents live in an old biddies’ complex. The apartments of which are linked by communal corridors. As you walk down the corridors, the lights brighten. Dimming again, some time after you pass. Regardless of your emotional state.
If I were to follow your supposition, I should be worried that the complex managers are harvesting my parent’s life energy, to power the lights!
I think they go inactive after a set period of time, like a sleep timer. She had to wake them up to do the original demonstration for everyone.
I like the Totoro doll. Where can I get one?
If you know anyone who sews or crochets, they’re easily acquired. Just a bit of begging & offering to buy the materials. The patterns are on the web. (I know this because my wife has made 3 of the things.)
I actually know a guy who learned to knit so that he could make Totoro dolls.
Also if there is an asian neighbourhood in your city that’s a good place to look.
Amazon has them and the fabled Catbus as well.
Waitasec. She’s on her stomach, Why is she snoring?
Practice. Lots of practice.
If Shemp Howard cold do it so can Sydney.
Trust me….. or more over trust my wife you can snore on your stomach……(those confused by that last statement, I snore sleeping on my stomach)
I snore on my stomach too.
I snore on my face, I just sleep on my stomach.
There are 4 main reasons for snoring known to me:
1. Very bad head position, such as pressing your chin against the chest, effectively clogging your throat with your tongue.
2. Neck muscle atrophy, such as due to way too little exercise.
3. Enough overweight to grow a second chin with the weight pressing the throat shut.
4. Illness, such as a swollen throat or a serious cold sealing pretty much everything shut.
Meaning there can be but one reason for her to snore like this:
Its her secondary super power after the ability to swallow ( and to actually enjoy ) usually deadly concoctions of seasoning.
Actually, there is a fifth reason for snoring: having low blood pressure and passing out when going to sleep (it happens to me sometimes)
Woha. Bad one. Need I be worried ?
Please watch your health !!!
It sounds worrying to me, although admittedly not as worrying as passing out whilst driving!
Separate to that, sleep apnea is another cause of snoring* One that has a moderately increased mortality risk.
Although I have linked to Wikipedia, that is just for the ease of casual reference. I do generally rate the reliability of Wikipedia as being acceptable for most purposes. But recent studies have shown it to be deficient in medical matters. So anyone suffering from such conditions should always seek the opinion of a doctor. Or, if not able to afford such, at least do the legwork to find a reliable source.
Unlike with high blood pressure, there isn’t really anything that can be done about low, but since been made aware of the potential deadly side effect (by cancer doctor, regular doctor just dismissed it out of hand as simply ‘anxiety’) have started to ignore natural instinct when heart starts to race (which would be to try and slow it done) and take deep quick breaths to help pump the blood around (slow the heart rate is what is causing it to race in the first place)
I snore while sleeping on my stomach. My wife smacks me in my sleep all the time because of it.
So… who moved her stuff into her room?
And… how careful were they moving it out of her old place?
Never mind. I thought she would have gone back to Archon HQ rather than risk going home.
Why would she risk going home? Fairly sure she would have had an armed escort if they suspected her to be followed or attacked after what just happened
What’s to say that isn’t her place and not a bunk in ARCHON?
The plushies posters and computer takes time to set up a proper bunk in a barracks and some stuff just isn’t allowed or is looked down on.
This is her apartment. She’ll get a room at the base before too long though.
Here’s a thought. Has Sydney realized that her name “halo” is also a Beyonce song?
I wonder if anyone will ever tease her about that….
“I’m surrounded by all your rays….baby I can see your HALOOOOOO”
It would happen only ONCE.
I see what you did there ;-D
Or:
“You wear guilt, like shackles on your feet, like a halo in reverse…”
(Sydney would have to look that one up.)
“God, that was the longest day ever! It felt like it dragged on for FIVE YEARS.”
Also, I totally forgot that Sydney’s orbs went into sleep mode like that.
Don’t exaggerate it’s only been four and a half.
I was rounding! 2010-2015!!!
That are actually six years when rounded.
(Trying again…)
*ggggg* That one made my day :) Thank you. I just checked before re-reading this page, it’s a bit more than 4.5 years – sweet time of fun :D
…. Not gonna lie… She sleeps adorably aside from the snores… Those aren’t adorable… those are hilarious…
Am I the only one to imagine the ‘Soft Kitty’ song from Big Bang playing in the background?
It can’t be, she isn’t sick.
I wonder if she’s a Sheldon or Lenard fan? Assuming BBT exists in her world.
Sydney rates nerdism highly. Sheldon is the nerd’s nerd. The Emmy & Golden Globe winning super-nerd. Clearly there can only be one choice!
Leonard
Nemoy.
Sydney would more likely associate with Leonard than Shelly
Having Totoro plushie right by my head at night would creep me out.
I always imagine it being Totoro at the end of the Ghostbusters movie instead of Staypuft. Can you imagine what a giant Totoro would be like with the claws and the teeth? Now that would be scary.
Which is why it is a good thing that I am not a ghostbuster…
Just noticed that while the orbs were orbiting Sydney, even after she fell asleep/passed out, that they were in a tight “holding pattern”, but they spread out to land so as not to actually come to rest on her. Considerate little whatever-the-hell they actually are, aren’t they?
Very thoughtful of them. It’s also why I liked those final three panels.
They moved to protect her automatically when Shadow Crushed tried to kill her. There is more to them than we have seen. Kinda goes without saying.
Actually, they didn’t. It was established in the first Math vs. Sydney duel that Sydney can control the movement of the orbs.
But that would not imply that automatic movement patterns are absent. So they can have possible independent reactions – beyond level-up routine, that’s it. Do they? That’s another question.
If the orbs were capable of moving themselves as an automatic defense, then Sydney wouldn’t have had to use that armband to block Shadow Boxer’s first strike at her. After that, Sydney was aware of his attack & one of the orbs moved to partially deflect his second strike. For the orbs to move in for defense, Sydney has to be aware of an incoming attack.
I went back and looked. The orbs didn’t move until Sydney was aware of SB. Which is why she got hurt. That is actually better story-wise.
In GURPS terms, Sydney’s orbs are an Active Defense, like a dodge or evade would be. If they were Passive Defense, it would be considered the same as wearing body armor & doesn’t depend on awareness of an incoming attack.
Was it ever established that she was able to drop off the money to the bank? Don’t think she Did….
You know, i think in all the excitement she might have left the bag on the floor at the bank.
Well, that would mean that Sydney did indeed “drop off the bag at the bank.” She just didn’t do so in line with “normal” procedures…
;)
I went back and looked at it. She dropped it when she was knocked down at the start of the bank robbery, didn’t grab it onscreen, didnt have it in hand when she stood up and got taken hostage, and didnt have it visible in the parking lot. I think there’s an argument with her partner in the near future.
You think the money is going to go missing from the floor of the presumably locked-down-after-holdup bank? It’s pretty safe. It’ll either get picked up by the police as evidence or by the bank staff once things are returned to normal operation.
Yep, I can totally see Syd in the “Rainbow Dash is Best Pony” camp.
…
(but Rarity is Best Pony!)
You spelled RD wrong on the last bit there.
*”thwaps” you with a Fluttershy plushie*
“Hits every brony with a Clydesdale “
Not to nitpick, but would it really be that bright out at 2:41 AM?
Or is that the press?
Could simply be a street lamp.
When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie… Sydney still sleeps through it.
Yea, the whole battle was illuminated evenly enough, without pools of street lighting, that it must be either a full moon, or close to it.
KER-RASHH!
Seems more like ‘Ka-Sleep!”
KA-mimimimi.
KA-SNOOOORK!
Maybe she’s warming up for the grand finale Because it ain’t over until the ADHD lady sings.
This is where Sydney dreams that she’s coming on to Dabbler but OH NO SHE DIDN’T STUDY FOR THE EXAM SHE DOESN’T HAVE HER CLASS SCHEDULE AND HAS NO IDEAS WHAT CLASSES SHE HAS THIS SEMESTER!
And she’s naked and has to give an oral report in front of the whole class. Or is that not a common nightmare?
It changes to giving a report to the managers as you get older.
Not for me. I’m over 40 and I still get dreams about having to get to my exam in 5 minutes but having completely forgotten what classes I have and what my schedule is. While naked.
Let me give you another reason to look forward to retirement. Since that golden day my anxiety dreams like that have dropped to ZERO. Nyaa-Nyaa.
Now you get nightmares of going to the Social Security office (or its equivalent, if your country has one and you don’t live in the US) nekkid?
I’ve had dreams about having an exam or a project due for a class I didn’t know I had. I expect I will have them for the rest of my life.
That actually happens to me far too often :(
This is our next 2 months of comics. True story.
If that was meant to be a reply to Gamesman‘s comment, then you deserve a hearty +1.
You needed a bonus comic of someone yelling @ her to turn off her comm… then muting her system wide…
That could be a (really minor) plot point next chapter…
Also, will you finally be making a “first cover page” since there is only the second one right now?
slight problem, the com on her throat needs to pushed in 2 spots in order for her to talk through it. and since the spots are on the front of her throat it is highly unlikely that she will hit them both while sleeping.
Heh… foiled a bank robbery, got on tv, meet a whole team of supers, got invited on the team, got on tv AGAIN, came out (in a super powered sense) to parents, tried out super orbs to an Nth degree, got in a super power throwdown, outsmarted several super OP powered individuals, and impressed the hell outta the bosses (with the whole “saving the day” thing). So yeah, I can see why the slightly manic “haha, just a normal day” mood overwhelms Sydney. Its been a long day for her, must feel like its been years since she woke up….. >.>
And she is going to wake up feeling ravenous. Every time she ate today it was either interrupted or ended up on her boss’s boots.
Because of that, I’ve occasionally reminded of something Deadpool said, “I’m going to eat until I fall asleep, then sleep until I wake up from hunger.” Sydney’s just approaching that in reverse order…
…,flew like a rocket, touched the sun, got hammered in the face, was subjected to severe 6ual shirtless tension, became pirate, found her cook and nearly choked on her leg, was able to nerd out 110%, got at least on hardware reset, forced her adderall deprived ADHS brain to coherent thought long enough to outsmart a super villian, learned that Math can hurt more than your head, …
She’s going to bed! Is the four year long day actually finally over?
I now had a terrible feeling. She’s going to wake up to the exact same radio show as today, at work she’ll meet the same obnoxious customer demanding the same unobtainable comic, the same “he is not my boyfriend” and his half-sister/cousin, everybody will once again ask what’s in the tube, and she’ll be asked to go to the bank. Hey, every sci-fi show has to have a Groundhog Day episode.
OMG, not a four-year long loop! NOOO!
Just noticed Sydney has either blood stains or dropped some food on her shirt. Given the location I’m going with blood. That’s going to be Hell to get out later as it appears to have dried in.
Don’t wash it out. That is a historical piece of memorabilia.
Tour Guide: “And here we see the shirt the famous superhero Halo was wearing when she joined ARC. It even has the blood stains of her first battle. Hanging next to it is the coat of another ARC member, Agent X.”
Tourist; “But I don’t see anything!”
Tour Guide: “Exactly.”
Tour Guide: “And over here, we have the outfit that Dabbler was wearing when she first joined ARC”
Tourist: “… Just how many more of these displays are going to empty, anyway?”
That certainly leaves a lot to the imagination.
Oh well, it’s just as Mae West said, “in Hollywood, a gal has to be careful what she shows…And what she doesn’t show.”
Dabbler endeavors to leave as little to the imagination as possible.
And Dave’s recent pic of Dabbler is “no imagination required”…At all.
O.O
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! that’s the last of the archive!!!!
You mean you’ve just now binge-read the whole story for the first time? Lucky you. :)
I did that. A year ago. Or four hours ago in comic-time. :D
I did that a year ago. And two years ago. And three years ago.
I guess it is time to do it again. I just wait until I’m sure the day is over.
Welcome to the group impatiently waiting on Dave.
If you want to simulate the webcomic experience in real life, buy a comic book. Read the first page on Monday, then the next page on Thursday. Repeat that pattern until you finish the book.
Dave’s books are at least 80 pages long not 30 so it doen’t work out so well.
Another thing. You said that maybe you’d want to reverse the last two pages. I agreed when you said it, but I’m not sure that this page fits well after another Sydney-centric page. Especially one that ended with her resting on the ground. You haven’t shown how Sydney got home, and just showing her there makes for an abrupt transition without anything else in between.
2:41 am – landmark, folks.
Its day two of the flashback!
Dun dun DUN!
Tan tan TAN!
Scarlet scarlet SCARLET!
Frankly Scarlet, I don’t give a damn.
Captain Scarlet versus the Mysterions!
How do you snork, er, snore lying on your chest?
And seeing the dog from Adventure Time threw me, but I looked it up, and it’s actually older than this webcomic!
I love the decoration – Totoro and the on the Table.
Awsome Comic with lots of references
Ok that wasnt as planed – … tiny L on the table …
Wow, well spotted. Teeeny tiny detail.
End of cliff:
To sign her contract, Sydney demanded her own pony petting zoo, near Archon! And, probably as an afterthought, to get her shop in the Archon mall.
DaveB, the Trojan keeps triggering my anti-virus and I can’t reply to threads…
Yeah I know how to clean it but I don’t know how to prevent it. I’m changing all my passwords and all that but if there’s a backdoor somewhere I’m not sure how to deal with it (yet).
Thanks. It seems the sudden appearance of virus warnings was due to Avast!’s definitions catching up with this particular trojan, rather than the infection ‘getting worse’. Best of luck.
That’s the problem with WordPress, it seems to have some serious security holes all the time. I run a simple, barebones HTML+JavaScript website, and it’s being pinged all the time by hackers for access to WordPress, like this:
“GET /section/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1” 404 191
“GET /site/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1” 404 188
“GET /blog/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1” 404 188
“GET /wordpress/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1” 404 193
“GET /admin/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1” 404 189
“GET /wp/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1” 404 186
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“GET /administrator/index.php HTTP/1.1” 404 194
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A quick search returns this, for example:
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The Rainbow Dash poster is missing the Rainbow Dash part.
Look under the mouse
I am more curious about the orbs; did they fall asleep when she did, are they only active when she is conscious, did she not earn enough XP to level up during that fight?
The orbs also seem to have a sleep mode of their own if not being used. But in this case they are matching Sydney falling asleep. If Sydney gained another connector we didn’t actually see it happen. We will have to wait until she wakes up to ask Sydney.
Uh-oh. If the orbs fall asleep when Sydney does, then… can they be removed from her control whenever she loses consciousness?
On the upside, this probably means she can’t choke to death inside the shield bubble; it’d pop when she loses consciousness. … Right?
That seems unlikely given the trouble Max had getting Tubey from her. Also when she left Tubey in the car and got stopped outside the bank at the limit. Even in “sleep” mode they are still linked to her.
Now that we are thinking towards ‘tomorrow’ I had a concern that probably needs to be worked out for day-to-day ARC headquarters operation. ARC has announced their existence and have already come under attack in less than 24 hours. They will be on high alert for any incoming threats. They also have several people who can fly and probably do so to come to work. ARC will need to equip all flight capable supers with transponders to differentiate incoming staff from incoming missiles.
I’m going to take a wild guess that their com-links take care of that little detail.
Less wild guess, more you’ve read the comic. When Sydney was given the comm she was told there was a transponder and gps built in that activated if she was going over a certain speed and/or altitude. I think the bigger question is will she remember to put it ON before flying to work tomorrow.
I’m pretty sure that’s it strapped to Tubey, so she should at least have it with her, if not actually strapped to her arm.
Yep. If she even wakes up tomorrow.
Err, not to imply a living-challenged scenario. She just looks knackered enough, to sleep straight through. And, normal treatment of recruits notwithstanding, Maxima might be happy just to let her. It would be classed as ‘necessary recuperation time’, having suffered combat injury.
When she does wake up, do you think Sydney will be examining her bruises and cuts, to see if any will scar?
She certainly enjoyed the eye-patch enough. And I could see her wondering if that would qualify her for a Purple Heart. Given how close it came to being a fatal attack, that would not be unjustified, I think.
Hopefully, they don’t use Aegis for this one. Granted, it does take care of incoming, but should not be deployed if you have friendly’s in the killzone.
Aegis, from what I’ve actually seen of it (& yes, I’ve seen it in action), is capable of tracking & identifying (by IFF code) over 200 individual targets at the same time. When linked into weapons-command controls, it can also fire the weapons that the operator specifically selects before firing. Of course, if the weapons-platform itself doesn’t have that many weapons available…
If you look in the right places, this is info that was released to open-public sources…It’s FULL capabilities are classified & I won’t be getting into that.
Only that Aegis is known for friendly fire.
IFF can only identify friendlys and is foreced to categorize anything else as foes – including misreads. It also needs to know beforehand which codes to expect. This leaves a lot to sort out manually, especially if you try to cover large areas.
The second problem are overlapping signals or the crossing of flight paths, which can make it hard to sort out which is which or cause the system to temporarely tag objects incorrectly.
Which means Aegis shines at closer range when friend and foe are not into a dance already, but is not a recommendation for anything else. That’s why it is so well suited for primary defense on batteships.
Oh yeah, there’s always room for ambiguity, especially considering that most supers won’t be carrying an IFF transponder if they don’t have the Archon comm-collars.
Also, it should be mentioned that the info I have on the Aegis is more than 20 years out of date…I have little doubt that they’ve had some upgrades in the software by now that would be better at “identifying/distinction” than what I described.
5 years and 288 pages later, we have finally reached day 2.
Day minus several months. We are barely a few minutes into the pre-flashback day.
Okay, I’m oddly amazed by the fact that her glasses are still in one piece after falling on them like that.
Modern glasses don’t break easily, especially if you’re willing to spend a lot of money on a particularly durable pair.
if you are used to having glasses with just a plain hinge at the temples that hits a hard stop at the proper angle, and is damaged if you try to bend it open more than that, then yes, she trashed those glasses, however i wear glasses and i am finding it extremely difficult finding glasses now days that do NOT have a little built in spring unit at the hinge point, they allow the arm of the thing to bend OUTWARD WAAAYYY more than you would require to fit it on your head, the hard stop is still THERE, but the spring unit allows for EXTRA bending outward without damage, thus she really hasn’t done any damage at all to her glasses… i can’t stand them because they allow the glasses to shift around on my face and screw up my focus points when i have to get my head into tight spaces for my job. as a marine electrician i need to see where wire runs go for the equipment I’m working on, and when it’s a really old fishing boat that has had lots of undocumented wiring changes running willy-nilly all over the place because the crew had to jury-rig it to keep going while out at sea, blech… those springs suck for me…
as a gamer/comic book shop owner, and most people that don’t get into cramped spaces like that often, those springs can be awesome…
Besides, she didn’t really fall on them. She probably only hit the earpiece of them rather than the front of the frame and, since they appear to metal, that would probably only bend them a little, if that.
FYI Dave you have an ad up for what I assume is a webcomic called Hate Farm, but their site has been heavily hacked and may contain viruses. I backed out as soon as i got a look at it without touching any links because they’d all been changed to HackedByTh3 something or other. Don’t know if you should notify somebody about that or not but I’d quarrantine it from your end.
Just scrolled back up after posting and its a different link so i guess its rotating. Its the link right above the Collective of Heroes.
I do believe the balls are inert.
https://youtu.be/6cS18yG8DJI?t=14s
*ggggg* That one made my day :) Thank you. I just checked before re-reading this page, it’s a bit more than 4.5 years – sweet time of fun :D
Dammit. These things tend to spoil my day :(
Gah! Alien invasion! There has been an ALIEN INVASION of the Solar System!
*runs around, barking at the moon*
70k years ago and it only got within .8 light years of our sun. Don’t make me get out the Neuralyzer you’re scaring the norms.
Only one of those balls was inert (the brown dwarf)…But both of those balls were “intrusive.”
I think they have also found the breeding ground for Sydney’s orbs. https://www.livescience.com/49820-manganese-nodules-atlantic-ocean.html
It’s in the Caribbean, close enough to where Sydney found hers. I think she ran into the first few that hatched from their metallic eggs and they imprinted on her.
… and there’s one heading directly at us right now!
for a value of ‘directly at’ that includes ‘missing us by nearly a light-year’, and it’s in 1.4 million years time.
So, we have time for another raid before it gets here?
Yeah, there’s enough time for a raid, but don’t start any new multi-stage quests yet.
You guys start preparing the defences. I will look after the snax situation.
I love that we finally get to see Sydney’s room, and maybe later we’ll see the rest of her house (or apartment or wherever she lives). Also, yay, ponies!!!! :
ummm Dave. after re reading this entire series I found only one loose end. Sidney went to the bank to make her store deposit, and the bag with said funding in it was just left on the floor. am I to assume that the bank security gard put it in lost and found after all the ruckus regarding the heist? as it sits it seems like all this has happened in one day ( based on the read i did.)
this is the last time it is seen
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/204
some local might have lifted it to thinking something greedy. any how just wondering for all I know she will wake up and freak out over it the next day.
That was taken care of off camera. I didn’t want to bog the comic down with some of the mundanity of life. The bank was probably closed but I’m thinking either arrangements were made to deposit it at another branch or she just stuffed it in her glovebox before she was carried to Archon HQ.
Adventure Time, come on grab your friends! I like Sydney even more now…