Grrl Power #499 – Inopportunity
This is the power Sydney bought the first time the skill grid came up. Yes, sometimes I plan stuff waaaaaay in advance. Sometimes I’m like “heh heh, that’s a funny joke, I should totally edit this page I’ve already started drawing.” Mostly there’s more planning. Mostly.
This is definitely an inopportune time for Sydney to learn about her new ability though. Obviously she should have spent more time training with her orbs before now, but being a newly minted superheroine has kept her pretty busy. The comedy of errors currently underway will probably reprioritize her training in the future.
As some have pointed out, the situation should never have gotten this far, but this site was supposed to be a “confirm site is abandoned and move on” situation. Not that every plan goes according to plan, but Maxima thought that between Pixel being in charge and Sydney’s shield and other abilities that an away mission would be acceptably low risk and make for good training. There’s just been a confluence of events all of a sudden which is causing the current crisatunity.
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Anyone else just stop for a second & realize, this might be why we don’t know what the 2 unknown orbs do? because they need to be used in conjunction with another orbs power use.
It’s been a suggested theory for those orbs before, yes, but it’s a solid notion.
or Sydney hasn’t experimented with them properly yet. Government sponsored vivisections are a really scary thing.
We can discount that, at least. The only orb that Sydney has avoided was the PPO (since the ‘burning the forest down’ incident). She is an avid gamer and keen super hero enthusiast, and those orbs give her super powers. The PPO is just too high profile and risky to hide. The mystery orbs have simply eluded discovery because their effects could not be determined by solo experimentation in a suburban environment.
Alternatively they just require complex situations to use. So the ‘needs to be used in conjunction with other orbs’ could well contribute to this. Perhaps the Brown Demon creating orb, needs to specify what powers you will grant to the human you are converting. PPO and they are eternally immolated in flames or Fly Ball (which actually manipulates gravity) and anyone in their vicinity is crushed under the weight of 10Gs?
Whereas the green mystery orb simply needs the user to designate what colour of discharge and pustules the plague orb will inflict on victims? Maybe the truesight orb grants the victims foresight of how they will die from the plague? Whilst the Lighthook orb disease manifests as Yellow Fever initally but mutates into Evard’s Spiked Tentacles of Forced Intrusion?
Or perhaps their effects have been activated, and Sydney just does not know what they are because they are not obvious. It is worth pointing out that both orbs do have skill points already allocated to them, on the skill tree.
I don’t think the unknown orbs need to be used in conjunction with another orb. If you look at the skill tree each orb has a link skill with each other orb (fly ball and PPO are linked for example), which makes me think that they have combo powers aswell as base powers.
Not really discounted: Sydney did say that after the Forest Incident she only really fluttered around her own apartment, and the other day indicated she barely used even the Lightbee
Maybe the points in the unknown orbs are like the teleportation point for the comm-ball. It wouldn’t be able to be used without the lightbee, and she doesn’t have the base power for the orbs.
Or perhaps she needs to be in bed with a partner and it will make her into a Futanari?!
Mulling this over, some random ideas for what they might do
* grants/revokes super status to individuals – the orb makers also made the supers XD
* heals wounds/animates the dead
* tampers with the flow of time,sydneys initial tests flopping when she failed to notice she suspended herself in time
* turns nuclear missiles into random things like whales or potted flowers.
* allows walking through stuff like walls/forcefields.
* allows her to speak or understand any language.
“* turns nuclear missiles into random things like whales or potted flowers.”
Now that is highly improbable…
:D
Infinitely improbable!
Did you drive yourself to that conclusion?
Your jokes are annoying but we all know you have a heart of gold!!
Don’t panic everyone. I’m sure these puns will end soon.
Till they do let’s spin a Yarn!
WE
APOLOGIZE
FOR
THE
INCONVENIENCE.
I came to the conclusion by mostly harmless conjecture.
Ahh you must have an Elite brain the size of a planet!
Bah, the threat of an imminent government sponsored vivisection will show you what you are really made of.
Sydny OP.
No Nerf plz.
I’m shocked that there hasn’t been a super running around with a bat that temporarily/permanently decreases the abilities of those of which have been hit.
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Eh, maybe it’s in Dabblers hammer-space. Which would probably turn into a victoria’s secret weapons closet after the pop-culture night with Sydney.
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Dave has previously stated that there is no all-purpose power cancelling.
Power cancelling no, however they do have power Dampners, I would point to the first arc with our villain who is powered by war much like Dabbler is powered by sex. you also have counter measures for any power used and ways to cancel them out without actually using a power.
All that means, is they will have to come up purpose-built power-restrainers (like Kevin’s new room)
Those cuffs Harem was slapping on the enemy fighters seemed to have done an adequate job though, even if it was mostly by keeping them sedated (which itself runs into its own set of problems)
Technically the comic states that they don’t have power dampeners yet. Rather they tailor a room to the individuals weaknesses.
Opal has a room that’s pressurized and any portals would cause explosive decompression.
While Kevin’s Room is continually filled with pot smoke. And the least violent things they can find to amuse himself with. (Seriously can’t wait for him to make a return. He makes a good villain and would be fun to see him pop in every now and then.).
As for the cuffs. They aren’t power restrainers. They are simply cuffs that inject the wearer with sedatives, putting them out of commission (as long as they don’t have invulnerability, sedative immunity, or high speed regeneration (the only 3 thing that would definitely prevent the sedatives from working.).
No, Maxi said they didn’t have all-purpose power dampeners, which is not the same thing as none at all
That’s why said that bit about keeping them sedated had it’s own set of problems: ignoring those three points you said, getting the dosage correct for individuals of differing body masses can be tricky (too much could kill them, too little and it doesn’t even give them forty winks)
The cuffs could be designed with basic med-readers easily enough (similar to what’s in Sydney’s armband). Monitor pulse, respiration, body temperature and so forth, then administer dosage over time, until you reach an equilibrium.
Now, this sort of cuff would be counter-able by a yogic guru with the ability to control physiological autonomic functions consciously, but figure those are rare.
I am interested to know if there’s a “Nemesis” style super out there, similar to whassername’s gestalt power, in that it’s tied to the presence of another super, but in this case, designed to oppose the targeted character’s power. So if you’re up against a fire-thrower, you get immunity to fire, up against a super with infravision, you immediately become comic-book cold-blooded, and so on.
Well, TollHouseCookie was sort of a “Nemesis” Super, but instead of your suggestion regarding immunity, he countered their powers
Nemesis can be held by just putting him in a normal jail cell and never having any supers attack him at all.
And maybe throwing a knife at his butt, apparently.
I hope his prison outfit comes with googly eyes, as standard. To remind supers not to zap him.
“While Kevin’s Room is continually filled with pot smoke. And the least violent things they can find to amuse himself with.”
Then why show Kirby to him? Kirby is a ravenous cannibal who thrives on the blood of mass murder!!!!!!
Because kirby is also adorable
“will probably reprioritize her training in the future.”
Hehe – optimistic author is optimistic. Sydney is probably going to go mad on training trying to unlock more upgrades, and when it doesn’t happen in the first day or so, extrapolate this to mean she needs to go questing and defeat mighty foes to level up faster. Queue sneak attacks on Math in 3…2…1…
On a today’s-comic-related note, and given where the big bad is currently standing, one question. What happens if Sydney raises her shield while she is bisected by the usual circumference of it?
More than likely, Sci-fright will simply be pushed out of the way, hopefully outside of the bubble
Yeah, for some reason I can’t see the shield being used in an offensive capability, even accidentally. It’ll actively work against such things.
Except for people ramming into it, that is. Can’t do much about that, it’s part of the shielding.
Or ramming people with the shield up. Mach four is no trifle business, at 50 kgs it’s 47 Megajoules of kinetic energy. Even accounting for the differences, that can probably be considered a tank-destroying impact. Of course, she already have that level of firepower… but shield ramming seems to offer more scaling and precision, at least until she gets some serious practice down.
Recall that her orbs cannot go beyond a certain distance and what happened when Maxima tried? The shield orb posed a similar challenge for Maxima.
Sydney might be able to literally walk forward and crush things. Which means, the mass side of the equation is not fixed at 50kg, but is amplified by the orbs’ apparent inviolability effect. So, that shield could be far more deadly than the PPO or even Maxima’s implosion attack.
The best defense is a good offense, right?
We have seen the shield deform to avoid squashing things, like tables, and to allow Sydney to go through doors. It seems to have automatic safety features built in. This is handy, as it prevents Halo accidentally crushing innocent civilians and allies. But it would likely prevent this kind of attack too.
Although we do know that the orbs respond to her mental intent, so she may well be able to override even a safety feature.
I think it’s because her intent was to go through the door. The shield doesn’t deform when attacked or barraged by flaming clouds of debris, so I don’t think it’s a safety feature so much as an inbuilt ability of the orbs to integrate with her mind.
Example, from her reaction at the news conference we can tell there was no such “safety feature” the first time when she unintentionally set the forest on fire. Which means it’s just a mental block and not truly a function of the orbs themselves.
Sydney discusses it later, with Maxima and indicates that she has to work hard, to get the PPO to activate. It is fair to say that this could be a mental block, but the description she gave of it did not leave me with that impression.
Another safety feature though, which is indisputable, is the protection that the orbs have from being moved away from Sydney. Unless they created a mental block in Maxima (always a possibility) then they stopped the strongest super in the world from moving them.
This, at least, we know is not responding to Sydney’s desires, as the effect kicks in even when she most definitely does not want it to.
All that said though the orbs may well respond to Halo’s desires, on this matter, as you suggest.
However given that Sydney went quesy when Maxima ripped off Vehemence’s arm. Plus even though Maxima was in danger of being killed, Sydney wished she had not been part of that happening.
So Sydney’s subconscious (or conscious) desire may not be to crush people to death, even if they are hostile.
“Queue sneak attacks on Math in 3…2…1…”
More likely Sydney will try to gain experience points by asking Math to randomly attack her like Clouseau and Cato in the Pink Panther movies.
hahaha – I would love to see the faces of her teammates when they overhear that one!
Or Ari’s face if she encounters it :D
While the resident Golden Girl is torn between expressing stern military disapproval and snorting with laughter at Sydney’s hijinks.
My friends, what we have here is an opportunity for Comedy gold and a series of pratfalls for a villain. In pops Sydney as or hungry villain is about to chow down, or maybe even wondering who the heck this person he can’t chomp on who is in his freezer might be. Then suddenly up pops the shield as he’s about to chow down on Syd…. Yeah this could go about a billion different colorful ways at this point, I can see sooooo many probabilities here its actually making my head hurt, either that or its time for another pain pill, take your pick. I could even see her raising the shield and cutting the vamp behind her in half, oh yeah, soo many opportunities since I think she may actually be the main character if not close to it.
Ooh, extrapolation time, lets see guess what will happen :). How about:
Sydney sees looming shadow, yelps unintelligibly and instinctively pummels the villain in the face with every orb while turning the air blue. Villain doesn’t move or react at all during this, spits out one bloody tooth when Sydney stops, and growls.
Sidney eeps and sheepishly offers them a tissue before yelling “SNEAK ATTACK!” and trying again.
I see a lot of warnings for Sydney, and I thought so too at first. But now I’m more leaning towards a surprise ADHD attack :-)
Somebody might be in for a surprise.
Well Syd managed to get to Pixel to save her, that big ugly thing might want to watch out otherwise Syd will blast em with a laser blast.
Maxima, it’s time to take Halo off active participation in missions until she’s been through some training. She’s worse than an ROTC cadet!
Am I only one who remembers Sydney is on a borrowed time?
PS: I noticed many readers did not recognize that shadow behind…
Hint: it has half head…
If Sydney didn’t take the ‘breather’ to relieve her bladder when she had the chance, then she shouldn’t have stopped wearing diapers: all Kronachrome did was put a snooze on the overwhelming urge to pee, not the need (ie the bladder would still be full and in need of a emptying, Sydney simply wouldn’t be feeling the cramps and the need to do the Pee-Pee Dance {or, in her case, the Pee-Pee Squat})
Do you really want DaveB to have shown her peeing over the side of the building? This ain’t that sort of webic!!
Facepalm…
And maybe Sydney was too excited to remember to find dark corner… (knowing her track record, no surprise)
And no, noone expected Syd peeing drawing(only you apparently)…
Oh, it has a full head alright…It’s just that both halves didn’t originally come packaged together.
How is Sydney on borrowed time? If anything, she’s exactly the opposite. She’s story-based immortal for at least the next 4 months until the flashback of the story catches up with the beginning :)
Although that part in Kick Ass where the narrator berates the audience for the assumption that he lives just because he’s narrating by mentioning other comics like Sin City does spring to mind.
Is that Sydney narrating though? Or is it the replacement Sydney, from Korona’s quick save?
Drunken.dx meant about Sydney’s bladder
Glancing over her shoulder, about now, should relive that problem.
The bad guy doesn’t know it but the last thing he should is startle Sydney. The resulting explosion of abilities could take out the entire block…
Don’t forget she has to pee
She already peed on the roof after the card game.
…Once Sydney is fully levelled, she will be on par with Krona.
You know… all of a sudden I’m a little happy that Krona set a save point a couple pages ago… ‘just in case’. Or at least that’s what I hope it is…
Something that has occurred to me:
Krona’s little “uh…” in Panel Five.
I wonder what her Reality Vision is telling her (or tellingly NOT telling her) about Sydney’s disappearance. Is she seeing a trail where Halo’s molecules were travelling? A distortion where spacetime was just warped? Or nothing at all, as if she were never on the rooftop in the first place?
Darkseid’s Omega Effect springs to mind.
I’m thinking that Sydney suddenly vanished so she put down her Goggles to try to figure out WHAT happened, hence the ‘Uh…’
Although it would be funny if her goggles told her nothing about the orbs, or if it was telling her something identical to her ‘reality hacking panel.’
Whilst I originally read it the same way that Pander proposes, in her initial paragraph, your comment has made me realise that might not be the case.
Recall that Korona has predictive text running. So, in that panel, she might be reading ahead to:
“Holy Crap, I can teleport!?”
Or, if she just reads the key word at the end, she might have time to skip to the end of the chat log….
“Now I… AAAAARGGhhh…gurgle”
Let us hope that will give Korona time to intervene, before the terminal gurgle!
I noticed that someone is oddly absent in this comic: Harem. I guess she moved out.
Harem is porting around the warehouse, looking for Sydney.
She shouldn’t have that much *VORP*ing around to do, Sydney did say she was in the basement below a grate: Harem had to have seen which window Lightbee went through, so that would be a starter point, and then work down til she finds the sewer grate
True that she could just teleport past the grate. Which would be good for providing first aid. But only if the situation is clear. Which requires looking around, on the way down.
The further trouble is if she wants to get Pixel out she needs to find a door. Likewise to get the team in, as whatever can take out Pixel, so easily, is more than a match for Harem, on her own!
I’ve noticed that other than commenting on the ‘junk catheter’ that the other poor victims of the half-headed fiend never seem to get any mention at all in the descriptions of potential rescues of Pixel or discussions of the situation.
Here, allow me to fix your cold hearted insensitivity to the plight of people who have been being bled for a lot longer than Pixel:
The further trouble is if Harem wants to get Halo, Pixel, and the other unconscious victims out out she needs to find a door. Well, Halo can probably handle getting her own self out, using the same method she did to get herself in. But that method doesn’t help transport any unconscious bodies.
Actually I specifically mentioned rescuing them on the last comic, not once but <a href="https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2406/comment-page-3#comment-twice.
As for Harem, I was, as Guesticus astutely deduced below, fixating on the limitations that she has solo scouting.* So was mentally picturing her having to pick up a hostage, to carry them out, as she could not teleport them to safety. Clearly, all other things being equal, rescuing a colleague would take priority over random strangers.
However you do make a good point about medical prioritisation. Whilst we do not know when the others were captured, it seems likely that it was prior to Pixel.
Mind you, from what I can see, they all look to be in a similar state. Given the non-blood draining tubes, it may well be that the hostages are being kept alive purposely, and are not being bled to death** Therefore the situation is not as clear-cut as you portray. Harem is a trained medic though, so can triage them and prioritise the most severely endangered.
Of course, if they have been drained for significantly longer than Pixel, and are not getting plasma, or similar to replace the lost blood, then they may sadly be dead by the time Harem gets there! In which case my points stand unaltered.
Alternatively it may turn out that none of them are in a fit condition to transport to safety. In which case she would need to tend to them on site. Which would make it all the more important to ensure that reinforcements know the quickest route to get there.
* With the extra bodies she has, and depending on how many are not already tied up in priority tasks, Harem could indeed rescue all of them. Barring the presence of an Arch-Villain, who could probably wipe the floor with her, no matter how many bodies she committed to the fight!
** Which would answer a previous question about ‘why the blood vessels are so unfeasibly small?’ (to paraphrase). This supports that only small amounts are being taken at a time, rather than the entire supply, in one go.
Poor Yorpie, have you forgotten that there are more than one Harem? Even if the others were assigned to other Recon Teams, an actual rescue mission would take priority and allow at least one other her to be assigned, at least as a paramedic, so, while one could be scouting out an exit (or to see who else is in the building) one should be making for the Pillar of Purloined Powers as quickly and as safely as she can
And once inside she will have Sydney’s yelling to home in on.
I wonder, when the tele Halo is out, does Halo see out of both sets of eyes at the same time or can she switch?
Possibly be able to switch if she concentrates on one or the other: like having a telescope to one eye but keeping the other eye open
DaveB has explained it as similar to changing your focus from bugs on your windshield to signs down the road.
One eye on a telescope sounds better :P
Maybe a little less time spent in physical training, a little more time spent in “WTF do my powers do” from here on out? And by “a little” I mean “ALL the time.”
Well, she has only really had them outside of Mr Tubey’s gizzard for an extended period of time for about three days, and those three days have been almost full on with only that short period on the firing range with Maxi for any sort of testing
Max also had Sydney out for testing Sydney’s flying speed & maximum “effective” altitude. Max & the rest of Archon are well aware that Sydney needs to have time to test & analyze her powers & are scheduling time to do so. I doubt that such testing sessions are going to end anytime soon.
;)
Okay so Halo can teleport, but the Holographic Halo has to travel to the teleport endpoint. HH can pass through solid objects, but what happens when she tries to ‘port into a solid object? Can Halo Tele-frag people by porting while holding a holographic stick through their head? Does the port not happen? Maybe a partial port with objects intersecting other solids being left behind? Air would have to be displaced or swapped into halo’s origin point either way.
That has been discussed a couple times, personal opinion is that the Teleport function only becomes available when there is no solid object intersecting with Holo-Halo
That makes sense to me too. Otherwise Halo’s yellow orb glyph would have stopped graying out back when she used it by Vehemence and her force field was passing through him.
I don’t think that’s right, otherwise she would not be able to teleport while her holo-self is using the shield orb, unless she were in the middle of falling. None of her orbs thus far have shown such a counter-intuitive usage pattern.
The shield probably offers no interference (on its own) to a teleport. Simply because we know that it deforms to fit around impeding objects. When Halo is the one doing the impeding. The reverse situation and it remains rigid.
Should Halo teleport, whilst her shield appears to be bisecting a villain (or an ally, if done inadvertently) it would simply wrap itself around their nearest surface, to keep them on the outside.
It does not, actually. Remember when Sydney flew into the billboard?
In my other post I clarified why I believe this occurs.
Good point.
Shields up, Mr. Sulu!
…Has anyone radioed for backup? Anyone? Because five minutes or so ago might have been a good time to have done that.
If H did’t on another body off camera Max will have one or more of her heads later..
Harem is in five different places and can teleport to the most senior commander currently available, if she does not already have a body with them. No radio necessary.
Although it would not hurt to stick to good police and military protocols and report in, regardless. Harem is not exactly the most reliable individual. Plus there is no harm in the HQ getting the report twice. That way any errors or ambiguity in one will hopefully be clarified by the other.
Considering there are at LEAST 3 other people strung up like Pixel down there, they had better have called in the cavalry, along with medevac. A lot depends on if Harem took the time to get Sydney to describe EVERYTHING she could see or not.
I found Sydney’s favorite lollipop!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lSHzpSvVqU
“It only hurts when you breathe .. or exist!”
Meanwhile goth girl is doing her swan impersonation. [inner monologue: don’t show the pain, calm, serene on the outside, oh my god I am dying!]
I like how the one guy went for the ice cream…He IGNORED the spoon & hand-shoveled the ice cream into his mouth. That was literally an LOL moment for me.
:D
Did anyone else think the bald guy actually spat blood at first? o_O
Blondie looks almost bored! (you sure that’s not the real Sydney? o_O DaveB, you totally have to hire her for “Grrl Power: The Musical” :D) Nevermind, but her only reaction was when she was forced to spit :(
Hmm, do you think Ary would be willing to play the role? How good is she at swearing?
“Hmm, do you think Ary would be willing to play the role? How good is she at swearing?”
Well, hand her a script & cover your ears…
:D
Goth girl was the least effected. She’d probably dye her hair for the part (assuming she’s not blond because the hair looks dyed).
Yes, that is Ary
If someone made an anime based off of your comic, I wonder how they would handle the sound effects…
Probably like the 1960s batman did
BIFF! POW! BAM!
Somehow it’s not the same without the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9GqATedqPQ
That’s better.
Exactly. There was also an animated Batman cartoon movie where they made even more hilarious onomatopoeia during the fights in the same way. It’s called Batman: Return of the Caped Crusader.
Hilariously campy.
That’s because it has the original stars, all of the original stars (well, those that are still around that is)
There was an episode of ‘The Avengers’ (i.e. John Steed and, at that time, Emma Peel) in which the heroes encountered a renegade comics artist… and one of the fights involved large placards on which various sound-effects were lettered in bright colours…
^_^
So long Sydney, it’s been a slice.
Teleportation freaks me out, especially since it’s been all but confirmed that Star Trek teleporters are deadly clone machines.
Star Trek was incredibly inconsistent about how they worked. On the one hand, you could end up with a clone (Riker), on the other hand, you were actually transported and could experience time-in-transit and interact with some kind of space(Barclay), and on the other other hand (which you probably have due to a transporter accident) you could end up in an alternate universe…oh, and you could use them as a fountain of youth, or to cure any disease, and logically, they should work as save points.
Given that we DO have that element of ‘perceived time in transit’ up to and including TAKING ACTIONS while in the matter stream, I tend to think that the element of consciousness is contiguous between the body at point of departure and the body at point of arrival. That is to say that the body might be deconstructed and replaced with an exact duplicate, but the mind is moving in the energy of the matter stream and is being deposited rather than recreated.
There are in theory, several different kinds of teleportation, and we don’t know which kind Sydney’s is.
Star Trek teleporters dissassemble you on a molecular level (for an exploration of this, read the first ever official Star Trek novel, “Spock Must Die”). Whether or not that kills you may be a matter of Faith; medicine of the time doesn’t seem to consider you to be dead, for what that may be worth. How long can a person live without a body/intact brain? Also, the jury seems to be out on whether it is your original matter that transported, or if a copy is built from materials at the source.
Sydney’s teleport may be some kind of tesseract (warping of spacetime), quantum tunneling (probability/Heisenberg drive), short-cutting through another reality or something else.
We know that Harem works via disintegration/cloning, but her “special effects” are very different from Sydney’s.
Technically speaking, every atom in your body is already different than every atom from as little as 5 years ago. Cells die. Atoms get worn off. Life cycle hapens. New cells and atoms replace the old ones. So just because the transporter reassembles your atoms doesnt make you a different person morethan the passage of time does. In fact it does so less since it uses the same atoms.
Unless it uses different atoms, in which case it operates the same as the natural progression of time, just sped up a bit over a distance
There’s nothing in quantum physics which would prevent teleportation of matter without turning it into information first. We just haven’t figured out how. So the prevailing assumption is that deconstruction is required.
In 1500 AD it was assumed a heliocentric solar system was impossible, so the above assumption doesn’t really mean much.
Man that would be silly, how would Ra carry the sun, in his chariot, if the Earth was whizzing around it?
There was an outer limits show about how you need to destroy the original and incinerate it to make teleportation possible, and the creatures who created teleportation require a human to do the destroying because they’re incapable of making that decision :) The episode was called ‘Think Like a Dinosaur.’
I can recommend The Prestige, on the grounds that it centres around a stage illusionist teleportation trick. A very cleverly scripted film. Not to mention Michael Caine, and others, putting in superb performances. If you have not seen it yet, I am sure you would love it.
So for the 500th strip, Sydney is abruptly killed, and we proceed to the adventures of Maxima et al.
…hey, it’s called Grrl Power, not Halo Power. If Mary Cagle can do it, so can Dave.
Except, we know that Sydney survives because this is her recollections from four months into the future
…I could have sworn we’d looped around by now, but I can’t find when…?
Nope its only been 3 or 4 days so far. During which sydney became a superhero, rich, saved her store, saved everyone from vehemence, uncovered that there are aliens on earth, found out about vampires, werewolves, fae, mages, and every other type of monster or sentient creature, found she can fly at mach 4, found she can see through illusions, found she can teleport, met a little person and tried to ask about the game of thrones guy, found out alot about harems powers, met a reality warper, beat a fwe martial artists, interrupted a presidential meeting, was shot at, beat up a fake bank robber, became famous, threw up on mxcimas shoes, ad was outed as a vegetarian.
But she still hasnt deposited the money from the comic book shop.:)
In 4 months she will probably have saved yhe world a few times I hope :) love sydney.
and then we jump to that moment 4 months from now and Sydney starts fading out
It’s not entirely Halo’s recollections, since there have been strips and panels NOT involving Halo in them.
Well! Let’s hope that this villain doesn’t just kill Sydney immediately and instead gives her fair warning by taking the time to indulge in menacing banter.
Hey, if Syndrome can get caught up into a trope, than the Bloodmage can too.
;)
We already had an annoyingly genre savvy villain. Vehemence
With the misalignment of the upper and lower jaws, any banter will come out sounding like Sylvester Stallone after a visit to the dentist.
I don’t know if I’m the first one to mention this, and I’m honestly not going to go through 3 pages of comments to see if I am, but as an experienced officer in the military, Maxima should be well versed in Murphey’s Laws of Combat ( https://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-war.html ), specifically Field experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it, No OPLAN ever survives initial contact,n and When you have secured the area, make sure the enemy knows it too.
Sydney alsoknows that no battle plan survives contact with the enemy; during the Super Battle Royale, Sydney’s plan required that she use the Lighthook inside of her sheild…But when it appeared outside of the shield, she had to change her plan.
Sydney’s already been racking up the “Combat XP,” even before tonight’s encounter…
:)
Shields up!
Put the shield up around her and the pink jaguar (why didn’t she revert when knocked unconscious? Or is that an only on death thing – and so we don’t have a small naked pink haired girl ‘hanging around’) see what she can do about getting Pink down. With the shield up she could maybe yell for Harem – now that attracting attention should be less fatal – or leave the shield up and use the light bee to walk out (possibly through the odd door) so she can give a better idea to Harem where she is.
If absolutely necessary, use the light bee to head back to where she started from, and ‘port back, although that leaves Pink in a bad spot (no pun intended).
Trouble is that Sydney does not know she has an arch villain behind her. She has just seen this room and it appeared to be clear (although she did not have a proper look around, in her panic). Bear in mind that her first thought was to get out her medi kit and try and treat Pixel. Which she can now do…
Wait wait wait…
Power = PPO. Space = Flight. Soul = Comm. Reality = Lighthook. Time = Force Field. Mind =? And one Ball to rule them all and in the darkness bind them?
…nah, it’s a stretch.
It took me this long to notice the… nasal strip?… under the bridge of Sydney’s glasses.
It’s a bandage. The result of walking into an illusory tree that wasn’t.
It is a plaster, from when Sydney thought that the tree, next to the old guys, in the park, was a secret door. At least it gave her a legitimate need to use her utility belt’s supplies.
Those orbs pack a punch. Sidney should just spin them in a circle and rapid fire the troll. Let’s see her shake that off.
Is this just me, or is having that ability going to significantly upgrade her power rating ?
Actually if you check out the character profiles, it has included that ability, in her current power rating, since the comic started!
Sry nice skill point that got bought. (Hopefully she’ll be able to tell what they can do before purchase next time. ;) )