Grrl Power #510 – Maybe it’s a cupcake beam
The title to this page is a joke, but how bizarre would it be if Sydney started shooting cupcakes out of the PPO? It might tell her something about the origin of the orbs though. She’d be popular with bachelorette parties. And at… well, lots of places. I mean, who doesn’t like cupcakes? Ooh, especially if someone made a coffee cake cupcake? That’d be… I guess that would be a muffin technically. Ooh! Unless there was cinnamon frosting on it. Oh boy that’d be good. Unless it was too much cinnamon. Do they make butter flavored frosting? Cause that’s something butter needs. 9 parts powdered sugar.
But I digress.
Well, Sydney might get in a little trouble for not spending her point in the agreed upon manner but on the other hand, she’s gotten two skill points in under a week. If that remains a constant she’ll have half the skilltree unlocked by the time she makes private. Hopefully Max and Zephan won’t be too upset with her, at least for that. Locking up while Pixel exited stage left is another story.
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This should be good.
Maybe, since we don’t know if she can fire through her shield…yet…
It would make sense that she can since every science fiction show with shields can shoot threw them… But the hentai orbs effect was outside last time she used it so the shield itself will most likely be the starting point for the blast. reference them beating vehemence with jump-rope and dabblers “supernatural effects”
Yeah, but that’s only with lasers, which can’t be stopped by a transparent shield. We really don’t know what the PPO is firing.
I would wager either superheated plasma, or something akin to the Thanix in Mass Effect.
Lots of possibilities, I like particle beams myself, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle-beam_weapon which can be pretty exotic…
that may be true however given that these are a set of powers and work with each other i don’t think any of them would work in the shield that could cause fatal harm to the protected people inside.
my point is it is a set of orbs designed to work with each other, so the ppo would not fire inside the shield if it cannot fire through it.
that would be something however it fires inside phases through the shield and hits things outside to…
she won’t shoot through the shield, the energy blast will originate from the outside of it like the lighthook does. this also assumes that she didn’t buy the ppo X shield orb combo power upgrade in which case i can only guess as to what is going to happen.
THE SHIELD BECOMES THE PPO BEAM!
that would be cool
Right, Sydney. Aim that uncontrollable energy beam in that direction your ally was thrown. And where prisoners are mined for their blood.
Naah.. she’s angled upwards, should be fine. Might hit the moon, though.
Sydney wouldn’t be the first fictional character to damage the moon with a beam ability. :P
No, but unlike with DBZ, there are some very real consequences to blowing up the moon in GrrlPower.
As I remember the ppo is more of a waterjet cutter then explody ki blast. assuming she has that kind of range she would scar the moon. The earth under the tank seem to dispate the energy into a dust cloud. now firing at a up angle the mail issue without knowing max effective range is hitting aircraft/ satellite or some alien starship.
True.
But whilst examining the negative potential, what you describe was before the upgrade. Now it might be on ‘high-explosive’ mode!
Harem may be just about to teleport up to the rooftop, so could be caught directly in any blast (also possible with a beam mind, but less chance of being in the wrong place than with a blast, burst, cone, wall or circle of fire).
Plus if the building is destroyed, in the blast, then she and Sydney* would be at risk of falling damage. Both have techniques to avoid such, but a surprise collapse could easily catch them by surprise and prevent them from reacting before the fall harmed them.
Then, of course, Krona is at the base of this building. So could end up being underneath any collapse!
Plus blowing up the moon… bad.
* Halo’s bubble would help mind (it is likely to get snagged by bits of the building which have not collapsed yet, on the way down, so a long drop is unlikely. Although a rough tumble down is probable. So I could see Sydney being slammed against the force field repeatedly, on the way down.
However the shield does tend to both keep Sydney in its centre and contract to avoid obstacles, which might mean she ended up falling a lot further before rubble was hit. The latter response may be at Sydney’s subconscious (or conscious) desire though, so need not necessarily apply here.
DBZ? I thought ‘e was talking about Chairface Chippendale!
… so the moon will now have “CHE” carved into it?
oops – typo – “CHA”
No, ‘ZORGLUB’. Only mirrored.
‘BULGROZ’? o_O
EHT ESSNEMI BULGROZ. EHT SUINEG BULGROZ.
If someone doesn’t know (I have no idea whether it is well-known at all), ‘Z is for Zorglub’ is the only tome of “Spirou et Fantasio” (belgian-french comic series) to have been translated into English.
In which a scientific villain, Zorglub, devises his language (reverse the spelling of words but keep them in the same place) and mind-controls people via spooky science.
He uses his army of “Zorgmen” to launch a “Coca-Cola” advertisement on the Moon, but when they successfully launch the thousands of rockets it painted in bright red letters “acoC-aloC”.
Failed at “essnemi” it was supposed to be “esnemmi” but yeah you all got it.
At the very least it’s a nice colour.
Well us roleplayers consider “CHA” to be an abbreviation of “charisma”. As one too, surely Sydney would consider that “callipygiance” would offer better potential for mooning?
Chairface
Tushy.
What about Poochy?
*wags tail*
Oh Yorp, you’re my favorite fictional canine of them all…
Yeah, Richard the Dickish Warlock in Looking For Group blew up a moon quite a while back. Fortunately, he left the second moon intact. Hmmm…Now that I think about it, that world probably has (& maybe still does have) some relatively freakish tidal patterns.
Spirit of Wonder did it intentionally… :D
Shoot for the stars with starfire (TM)!
Can see the chunk cut out the edge of the moon now.
Along with a deceleration of war from a distant planet that she unluckily hit.
“Of course we mean deceleration of war. Accelerating a war would be very irresponsible.”
But how ist the amount of celery important for war?
I’d rather have celery for war than to have celibacy in peace. Let’s face it, I get irritable after a while of going without my favorite activity…It would soon lead to war anyway.
It’s the crunching – too much and nobody can hear their orders.
You mean she accidentally brought peace to a distant planet? o_O
…Maybe brought it to pieces? That would accomplish the same thing.
Ahh, the Judge Death solution to crime.
“Only the living commit crime, therefore living is punishable by death!”
Assuming infinite range, firing into space would be a very bad move. There’s nearly a 100% chance of hitting something and you have no idea what it or its new orbit will be.
Thankfully, the distances in space are vast so in all likelihood, Sydney will be long dead from old age prior to impact somewhere not in our solar system, where the locals will probably consider it a freak natural event, assuming that the impact is not an extinction-level event.
Yeah, space is so vast that, if Sydney were to hit anything that holds a technologically-intelligent species with space-traveling capabilities (what are the odds on just that factor?), they triangulate the energy signature of the beam to have originated on Earth, gather together a space fleet, travel all the distance…They just might encounter our solar system with a dead star & Mars is the first planet left in orbit after the sun’s nova phase.
To help with your Drake equation calculations you need to factor in that we have observed that there are numerous alien races with interstellar travel capability, given how many of them have come to Earth. As many appear to come (sp?) as tourists, that would imply they are using faster than light travel.
In which case the only hope would be that the beam is not literally instantaneous, but is at least limited to the speed of light. Then at least we have the delay on its outbound journey, before the retaliatory fleets get launched. Unless they spot it in advance of the impact, of course.
You forgot the part where the mobilized armada makes a gross miscalculation of scale and gets eaten by a house cat upon arrival.
Small dog
Depending on the beam’s range and speed, and the speed the universe is expanding, it might not ever hit anything.
I seem to remember that in some part of the Mass Effect series you can pass by some random NPCs, some recruits and a seargeant or something.
And the sarge is ranting about just that….
Actually lets try this…
Nope, link didnt work like i wanted. Pure text maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q1IaWLsyrQ
It takes real self-control to not start reciting that ass-chewing right along with the NCO. Particularly when you get to the eyeball part.
*claps speech*
Almost as good as some of the Mass Effect ass-chewing I came across on Deviant Art….
… um…. when looking for digital art. Yea, that was it.
Mass chewing?
Debating…. mmm… less of the masticating, than that, to be honest.
mastication, asstication, muffin butt…oh, wait, that’s muffin top…
I. LOVE. THAT. RANT.
Ahem. Sorry. But it’s really great. “Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going ’til it hits something! That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship! It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years! If you pull the trigger on this you are ruining someone’s day, somewhere and sometime! That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not “eyeball it!” This is a weapon of mass destruction! You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!”
Mass Effect 2. As you enter the Citadel for the first time.
Assuming infinite range, firing anywhere is firing into space.
infinite range could also mean the distance between the two prongs of a staple
That would indicate a very bad misfire. Hopefully you and the gunnery crew survive the experience.
Actually, the chance of hitting anything by firing randomly into space as a perfectly parallel beam is nearly zero.
It’s the reverse of Olber’s Paradox. Instead of light hitting your eye from a random direction, it’s a beam leaving in a random direction.
Your screwing with perfectly good wild-assed speculation… :-)
No problem. It’s all in the name of SCIENCE!
Thing is there is actually a bias possible here. Sydney is shooting at a target, even if it dodges, she will still be trying to aim. If there is something bright, in the direction she is pointing, that might end up attracting her fire. Especially given that the orbs respond directly to her mental commands and Halo is acting impulsively here.
That shiny thing which caught her attention could be a plane, an osprey, Maxima, the Moon, Mars, Alpha Centaurai or a galaxy. And the orbs are sophisticated enough that they might compensate for galactic drift and time elapsed since the light was emitted, when locking onto the target!
Wait, are you saying ‘If something is fifty feet away it’ll take one second to reach them, which would be a certain speed. We’ll ignore that speed, because it doesn’t matter. What matters is that its a 1/1000th of the distance required per 1/1000th of a second. The actual distance traveled and time isn’t applicable.
If the target is 10,000 light years away, then it’ll STILL move at 1/1000th the distance required per 1/1000th of a second. Just this time it would be 100 light years per second. That’s why we only calculate ratio and not distance over time.’?
I am saying that the orb would not necessarily shoot in the direction the light is coming from (which is not where it presently is, nor is it in line with where it will be in the future*) rather it will accept that as the desired target, compensate for where the target will be when the PPO beam hits, then fires at that location.
Of course we doggys can do that in our head, when catching a ball. But we do not practice that much for planets or stars. Not unless they are really shiny and … what was I saying?
* When talking distant astronomical objects.
Besides, everyone knows doggies bark at the moons and the stars.
Catching the moon – such a puppy thing.
Please don’t
Vash the Stampede made a lot of people mad with that one.
It’s worse than that; if I understood correctly, she chose to use the PPO option she just randomly picked – and it could mean “extra wide spread” for all that she knows, immolating everything in even vaguely the direction she’s pointing…
Don’t use completely untested abilities in a *combat situation*, Sydney >:[
I think itll be a freeze beam
Wise words. Sydney clearly has not learnt from Pixel’s last warning, along similar lines.
That time Sydney died…
Yes, when she rashly teleported into Sciona’s lethal reach.
Pixel = Krona
dude they are all in the battlement and Pixel is a fighter that toss was nothing to her and she is likely on the ground running back. from her angle she will see a red beam level the roof she hit. and they can get back to the hostages under ground via another sewer grate.
Basement* not battlement… corrected with wrong word again. sorry this happens mostly with threw and through… how it ended up with battlement is beyond me but apparently the candy factory is now a fortress…
It is a super villain lair, I suspect it has been a fortress for some time now. It just looks abandoned.
And Pixel still managed to make a hole through the wall…
… that is gonna smart in the morning!
Dave, butter flavored icing is called buttercream. :P Especially if you used butter flavoring in it as well as vanilla.
Yes, locking up was bad, but bare in mind until recently she was a civilian & she has yet to complete the equivalent of Basic Training which would help counter it.
She is still a civilian. She just happens to be part of an elite fighting force. It’s still quite a ways to her being military…
No Sydney isn’t a civilian she signed on the line. She just doesn’t have any formal training big difference. This is as they say OJT on the job training the military doesn’t do this normally they run recruits through boot camp / basic but this is a new branch and they haven’t ironed out how that will work.
A standard of a lot of military training is “tell-show-do”: tell the trainee how to do it, show the trainee how to do it, have the trainee do it.
They don’t know what-all Sydney is capable of and, for a large share of what they do know, she’s the only one (that we’ve seen) capable of it. So there’s nobody who can tell her, and nobody who can show her.
Still, though, there’s basic stuff like discipline, standard protocols, situational awareness, recognizing when ANY decision NOW is better than a GOOD decision LATER…
Yea, the threads above (correctly) list a bunch of bad things that could happen from blasting impulsively like this.
But getting smacked by the tentacle, without having speeded up her selection process, and promptly raising sheilds would have been deadly, for Sydney. She does not have any lycanthrope or super toughness or regeneration.
Likewise for the risk to her allies. Halo is now safe, behind her shield. But they can still be attacked, and the construct’s tentacle can clearly reach down to attack Krona or Harem, below. Or it can get down from the roof as easily as it got up.
Likewise as regards to the risks to the (probably still distant) incoming air cavalry.
She does not have any lycanthrope or super toughness or regeneration.
At this time.
Heh. We have seen Sydney trying to get Dabbler to chop her arm off, so that she could get a cybernetic upgrade.
I can envisage Sydney slathering tasty sauce all over herself and begging Pixel to bite her! Perhaps just after the event depicted in the present vote incentive?
If Pixel does not bite, I suspect that Clover will not either. Because honey badger has a well known policy that would apply. Alternatively perhaps Sydney will try using a carrot, to tempt Katrina, the werebunny?
I know what she’d be. I know Dave said no reptiles, but…
badger
badger
…
you fill in the rest, dude!
Sounds ‘armless enough to me.
May be ‘armless, but some snakes can still kick
I’m a little confused. At what point did Sydney place the point on the tree? Panel 1: Worried about Pixel. Panel 2: Realizes she’s in danger. Panel 3: Grabs the shield orb. Halo shouldn’t have been able to raise the shield without assigning the point and getting out of “Skill Tree” mode.
That said, I’m sure whatever she assigned in the PPO is going to be nasty for that husk…
I hope.
Panel 3: Grabs PPO and assigns point randomly.
Panel 4: Cuts to action with shield already up having grabbed it a close second presumably.
Yep, when we look at the first two panels we see its “unknown – unknown – shield – flight – PPO – horb – comm ball – …”, so the position of the PPO in the third panel checks out.
The orbs seem to use a combination of mental control and manual input prompts. The light bee didn’t teleport her until she actually pushed the button to trigger it. But the orbs also respond to her desires and move according to her thoughts. When she wants an orb, it flies to a free hand. She really, REALLY wanted her shield up when the big nasty gollem showed up, but the skill tree had orb functions suspended.The instant she selected a skill upgrade, the orbs resumed normal function and responded to her desire to raise shields NOW. Except for alternate button functions, they literately respond at the speed of thought.
It might be that alternate functions can respond at the speed of thought and she just hasn’t figured that out yet.
She first has to figure out the functions. The orbs may even register her brain waves for the first few uses till they know when she is making that request mentally to aid response automatically.
Bubble-ball is still visible in panel Panicked-Point-Pick, fortunately, not only did it get freed up quickly, it ended up in her hand and deployed even quicker
Unless she has unlocked the stun setting.
Might be variable control from carving a pinhole to the full power she experienced before. It might have already been up at 11 and now can be turned down to 1.
So, she discovered the ‘Tickle’ feature? Things will get interesting, and messy, if Dabbles ever completes her Tickle Gun!
a combination golf and Tickle beam. a Par~Tickle beam
Two reasons why things will get ‘messy’: first, and the fun way, is what happens when you ‘excite’ someone, specially a female, with enough tickling; secondly, and the decidedly not-fun way, is Sydney accidentally switches from ‘tickle’ to ‘flambé’
I guess she better practice on Heatwave first then.
Just so long as it isn’t now set to “heal”/”repair”. As useful as that would be in the long run, that’s a bad target to discover such an ability on
Why? Don’t you know Healing magic damages the Undead? ;)
It doesn’t. That is a notion derived from the thesis of death- and anti-death energy, first made more commonly known by D&D and its variants, and also adopted by some or several JRPGs, such as Final Fantasy. Do note that classical World of Darkness do not follow that thesis. ;)
This notion is also used against Zombies in Minecraft.
Pretty sure that’s a Construct, not Undead.
Not necessarily useless in battle against an enemy. Sesshomaru thought Tenseiga’s heal/resurrect abilities were useless, until he used it on undead, which brought them to life, so he could kill them with his other abilities.
I’ve read a novel in which resurrection was used on an “unkillable” mummy… who promptly died again, properly this time, on account of being unable to survive with various internal organs preserved in jars many miles away…
Wimp.
Alternatively it may have been set to one and has just been turned up to 11.
I can always hope.
That’s the problem with not having an instruction manual, you don’t know if your getting a super blaster, or cupcakes…
Which would be an incredibly useful feature for her to have, especially as a police officer. But even combat units make use of stun grenades, so there clearly is a need for it. Be that special forces hostage rescue missions, or any unit wishing to avoid other collateral damage. Be that to the building or any equipment in the area. Likewise avoiding setting off ammo or other secondary explosions.
OK it may prove to be totally ineffective against a construct. But not necessarily so, given that these have been animated with blood magic. That might make them vulnerable to some attacks that would normally only work on fleshy targets. Especially true if the stun interferes with thought processing. Even if they are magical robots, they still need to do that, in order to function effectively.
It would also have the very useful side-effect of not directly killing her allies, if things go horribly wrong!
So maybe it will take the construct out of the fight temporarily. But if it does nothing, then Sydney can always turn off that mode and try again. With the bonus of having had a practice with shooting the PPO and finding out if it is too dangerous to use without practice.
She grab the PPO first with one hand, her other hand is down. Without transition she has her shield activated. The first time she leveled up, grabing an orb locked her hand on it and she had to use her other hand to place the upgrade bead. My guess is that grabing two orbs automatically allocate the bead to the link betwen them cause you don’t have any hand left to grab it.
That being said, what could be a mix of energy projection and force field?
-Allow her to shoot through her shield instead of obliterating herself
-Personal immunity to her own direct blast and AOE
-Shield projection (great for protecting allies, preventing lateral damages or capture)
-Offensive shield damage what it touches
-Deflecting shield
-A ray that cancel force fields
Most of these probably don’t work since it seems to be a new command on the PPO, but I love making lists.
She didn’t grab the PewPewBall with her right hand: she allocated the SkillPoint with her right hand
And when she first levelled up, she latched onto the CommBall after accidentally poking one of its nodes
Actually, what happened was that Dabbler suggest to Sydney to use the Comm ball to see if anything would pop up, like labels. When she did, her orb set too that as confirmation that she wanted to spend the point in Comm ball section of her skill tree, and she couldn’t figure out how to back out of the selection.
Good thinking, but the FORB and the PPO were already linked before this upgrade. I would speculate that it allows them to be used simultaneously.
Nope, they weren’t. Here is the wallpaper view of Sydney’s Skill tree that Dave created:
https://davebarrack.deviantart.com/art/Halo-s-Skilltree-Wallpaper-01-428873707
remember DaveB comment? may be
-a ray that transforms target into a cupcake!
(Big one there!)
she grabbed the ppo in panel 3 and assigned a point to it then grabbed the shield orb for panel 4 or grabbed the ppo then the shield orb for panel 4 which assigned the combo-power point. we’ll probably know which on the next page as the latter would do something that is a strange? combination of the two powers, like covering the target in the shield and nuking them inside it or violently expanding the shield or exploding outside the shield or making the shield damage things that hit it or something. if it’s the former we probably won’t be able to guess which she picked since she hasn’t actually used the ppo in our view aside from that one time when she lasered the shit out of that tank which probably doesn’t count cuz the laser was likely the combo power between the ppo and the flight orb.
Shame she won’t know what she picked until the next upgrade. :)
(That is seriously going to bug people.)
Theory – Since she grabbed the PPO as a raqndom and then immediately called the Forcefield into her hand (good panic reaction on the latter BTW) her point got spent on the open node linking the two orbs.
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Given the two unknows were directly opposite whatevr Sydney grabbed, she clearly grabbed the PPO.
The node linking the PPO and forcefield orb is visible on the panel and it’s not where her hand is, but that would’ve been cool
We haven’t seen before how exactly Sydney spends a point. Grabbing an orb while the skilltree is open selects the orb to upgrade, but it hasn’t been shown how she then selects which node to apply the point to.
If for some reason she couldn’t touch the desired node (wearing mittens, hand is chopped-off, out of reach) she would be stuck.
Thought based selecting of a node sounds safer… as long as you can concentrate which isn’t Sydney’s strong suit.
Actually, last time (the first time) she saw a glowing node and fingered it
All it says on the page is that she couldn’t let go of the orb after touching it and that she spend the point on an orphaned node. It doesn’t say how she put the point into the node after grabbing the orb.
I’d always visualized it as
have skill point
Grab an orb
Skill point now in that orb
Mentally chooses available node
Skill point flies to node and locks in
Hand released from orb
I didn’t try to visualize it until we saw her with a glowy thing in her hand that was the right size to fit into an empty slot.
Kind of like Final Fantasy X’s Chamber of the Fayth socketing of orbs into recesses, or the game’s own Sphere Grid that Sydney’s is clearly based on (which makes me happy).
Thank you, was sure that we saw her finger one of the nodes and then go full Tauntaun on her ball
AOE explosion from her shield?
… IN her shield?
Can’t be. This is all a giant flashback; we know she survives until she makes corporal and she’s not there yet.
She would (probably) be immune to it if it’s in her shield. Which would probably make that one of the more powerful offensive maneuvers she could pull off.
Perhaps anyone attacking her shield receives the full output of the PPO?
Well we wont know WHERE she put the point until the next upgrade, but we’ll soon have an idea about WHAT this upgrade was – new effect, power increase, or something else.
Not sure why the green recruit without any significant combat training and only one prior combat experience would get in any sort of trouble for freezing in a combat environment. If anything, the officers who put her in that position would, especially if anyone suffered any permanent sort of injury.
The group was supposed to be on a quiet covert surveillance mission. Nothing violent was supposed to happen. They were just to keep an eye on a suspect building and report any happenings. The green recruit and the universe manipulator were just being given a useful job, but also to be kept out of trouble. There was not supposed to be any fighting. Pixel might get reamed for leaving her post for her version of covert surveillance, but Sydney locking up when facing a mini-boss is understandable and will be incorporated into her future training if/after she survives this encounter.
The adrenaline response is called Flight, Fight or Freeze for a reason; Sydney took the last option, because if you do not have a plan before panicking, it is too late to start planning when the energy is being directed to your muscles instead of your brain.
IRL the full-time military doesn’t care what is ‘supposed’ to happen you don’t put recruits into positions where anything can happen prior to training. That’s why even before assignment to a team or anything else the recruit is sent to basic training. Now if the recruit falls into a special category like in this case they still won’t be deployed until at least an accelerated version of basic is completed. Prior to that completion based on scheduling all they are doing is being on base and doing on base training. So unless somebody is attacking the base they would never see anything.
The logic for putting Sydney in the field before her training is complete is multipart. For one, The Mighty Halo is both one of the most powerful and most versatile.members of ARCSWAT. For another, thanks to the comm ball, Sydney has knowledge normally reserved for much, much higher ranking people than herself. And finally, Sydney has demonstrated herself to be capable of analysing a situation in the middle of combat and coming up with strategies on the fly. The reason Maxima brought her along is, despite being mostly untrained, Halo is too valuable an asset to leave behind. She brings too much to the table to not utilize her as an asset. That she doesn’t know property military protocols or field procedure doesn’t change the fact that ARC has extremely limited resources, as far as Superpowered agents are concerned, and Halo is one of the most powerful and most versatile members of the team.
Someone isn’t attacking the base, but someone is attacking everywhere Sydney is ending up: first the dearly departed restaurant (which was supposed to have been an after Press-Conference get-together with the team), then the Council meeting (where Maxi was hoping that someone there would know something about Sydney’s balls) and now here, which was supposed to be a quiet reconnaissance in an attempt to find out who staged the attack
The bad guys must be getting inside information from somewhere.
Gasp!
We may have an informer, behind the 4th wall!!!
*starts examining readers suspiciously*
Uhhhh…. Sydney? You’re going to fire the PPO without checking what’s behind your target… which is a building where Pixel is embedded in right now…
Let’s just hope for those cupcakes. Or a trout in the face.
The angle is seriously misleading: in the last panel, she is aiming up
Even better, having the PPO aimed upwards will make for one helluva signal flare. Max sees THAT go off, I bet she releases all limits on her flight speed just to get there. “Oh, F***, that was the PPO….”
Come to think of it, that might actually be the next page: cut to a Max POV showing a familiar red beam stabbing into the night sky….
well we know Max’s “max speed” is more then Syd Mach 4 (3000 ish MPH) lets assme max can hit mach 5 or about 1 mile per sec. assuming that they search area is’t insane max can be there in less then a 10 count. but she blow out a lot of ear drums on the way..
Depends, a lot of the sonic boom is due to aircraft shape. She’s going to make one, but how big? I just wonder if she shows up on radar because a hypersonic, missile sized object could cause a pretty good panic as she flies through military control zones…
She will cause a pretty good panic just flying past JFK airport!
I would assume her com package includes a GPS tracker just for that reason..
A sonic boom is caused by the compression of air in front of a moving object moving at high speeds. Bullets make a sonic boom when fired, that is why it is so hard to actually suppress the sound of gunfire.
There was no question that Maxima would not produce a sonic boom. The point was whether or not the air she displaced would carry enough energy to break windows. Normal bullets, despite creating a boom, as you say, do not break windows with the boom. Neither do most aircraft, for that matter, under normal operating conditions.
But military aircraft, flying at high supersonic speeds, close to the ground have been known to smash windows, just from the sonic boom. So clearly there is some point at which an object is both large enough and fast enough to do that. However, given that we do not know Maxima’s top speed,* that would be hard to determine in her case. If ultra fast supersonic missiles have been reported to break windows, when passing, then Maxima probably will do so too.
* Although Maxima does, Sydney was not told. But she did say that it is more than Sydney’s ~400mph.
https://youtu.be/znlBMHFdCEY
Not sure how Adam barfing into a sick bag helps? Although his nonchalant attitude is to be admired.
Here’s a breakdown from NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-016-DFRC.html
But the two key points are: longer thinner shapes produce less boom and the boom doesn’t increase much past Mach 1.3.
Manouvering can significantly increase the force of the boom, though, so she’d have to be careful to accelerate/decelerate smoothly increasing her travel time.
i dont know about anyone else… but frankly, i kinda really wanna have Maxima incoming in the line of fire…..
As a side note, Halo panic firing a star class cannon, nothing could possible go wrong with that right?
I can foresee a few things that might be considered minor side-effects. BFG for the loss!
“I meant to do that”…
That would be Pixel’s line…
“All part of the plan, more or less.”
What if the new feature absorbs energy instead of shooting, therefore turning it into a de-powered husk?
Personally I’m hoping for a tractor beam upgrade for her PPO (Gravity manipulation FTW!). Her face as she pulls the miniboss towards her would be a sight worth seeing.
While funny that sounds a little close to what the lighthook already can do.
I think Dave is saying that he would very much like some dessert. Please.
Maybe there needs to be a cupcake version of that thing what lets you buy folks a cup of coffee? I would totally do that.
When I used to live in the city there was a concierge service in my office that never got used. I got to talking to them and they said they were so bored they would be glad to do anything. I had cupcakes delivered anonymously to random people in the building for a few weeks. That was fun.
I’d happily send Dave cupcakes if america wasn’t 2 weeks away by mail. Somewhat concerned about this whole “too much cinnamon” idea though. He would not have enjoyed my apple crumble (https://spicefreakblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/stunningly-cinnamon).
Tactical cupcakes, but make mine German chocolate…
This stuff? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scho-Ka-Kola
I’m in the USA, and a pretty good cook, so I could use your recipe (and someone else’s funding, I can’t afford it) and get it to him nice and proper.
It doesn’t feel quite the same that way but we can probably make it work. Let me think for a while what would go down well.
Obviously, absinthe’s out of any sensible person’s cupcake price range and food for Dave =/= food for Sydney. Current thoughts involve carrots and cocoa butter.
I can already hear Sydney spending her NEXT point, and the next: RESPEC! RESPEC!!
And now I hope she bought what let her shoot thru the shield…
Find out what it means to me!
sockittomesockittomesockittomesockittome…
(A little Aretha Franklin?)
I’m of an age that remembers this as the gag-line of Judy Carne:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Carne]
Yeah, from Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, TV variety show…I’m old enough that I watched it weekly (& sometimes weakly).
Okay, I’m not of that age… but just out of curiousity, did I quote Aretha Franklin’s RESPECT correctly?
Yes
Godamnit! My brain was playing silly buggers with me again. In connection with the name Aretha Franklin it was providing me with this image!
Sounds like your brain may be in need of a (unpatented) Sydney Brain-reset, the only way your brain could have been even more wrong is if it showed you <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hN7X5gUktas/TD4IACQgKOI/AAAAAAAAC9w/JGHT33qw1oY/s1600/Miyagi.jpg! :P
Damnit! Not sure what went wrong
this image!
I keep forgetting the laser orb is the red CRACKED one. The last panels confused me for a moment. “why is the laser orb above her head?
I think it is actually crackling lightning bolts. Personally I visualise them as being in constant motion, and if you hold the orb close to your ear you can hear a tiny boom of thunder followed by the crackling noise. With a whiff of ozone, mixed with sulphur, if you sniff it.
Polite people don’t go around sniffing other peoples’ balls, not without buying dinner first
Meh. Humans.
How can you even confirm who it is you are talking to, without a good sniffing?
Disappointed it wasn’t one of the unknowns that was upgraded.
THEN
PPO and Sheild.
Have we seen Halo shoot while shielded?
At the test range?
She shot while flying, then had to swap from PPO to shield quickly due to the blowback.
More orbs than hands. I’m sure Max has tactical selection in her training outline for Sydney…
She can do stencils for shapes and stuff now for greater ease in making pretty pictures. She’s like a laser printer now.
She can doodle on the moon. Erasing is the next point.
That would be awesomely and powerfully anti-climatic if she just bought the power of “erasing”.
Poof! “uhhhh… where did it go?”
It mostly just erases damage from the PPO. Be cool if it actually turns out to erase ALL damage and it takes a few more years of comics for Sydney to realize that SHE HAD THE POWAH TO HEAL ALL ALONG!
Like Orihime heals, not by healing or regeneration buffs, but by Denying Damage Done?
Nah see, when the point was spent it went from mere overgrown cutting plasma torch (or whatever) to a Damage Absorber as its super power gimmick. So it heals by absorbing the damage from an object or person and puts it into “storage” from where it can then rebestow that damage to another unrelated person or object.
But the first time Sydney discovers the control to go from blow to suck she has it aimed at previous PPO damage which it then absorbs. If she attempts to do damage with nothing in the tank the first shot will appear to fail but in reality the PPO actually absorbed some random damage in the area by default (when tank is empty). This leads to a hilarious situation where she accidentally removes all damage from an End Boss character who was down to 25% after a long hard fight. This leads directly to her learning about the true nature of the PPO after point buy so she at least can heal every body back up to 100% so they can do the whole battle over again only this time with the Boss knowing all the successful strategies they have used on him over the last half hour.
Her coworkers are less than thrilled.
As long as it doesn’t simply turn it invisible (or semi-transparent for those pedants so fixated on the eyes making them blind)
I wonder why the ARC crew were so obsessed with finding out what happens when they max out the flight branch? I would max out every spot in the comm-ball first. I mean, knowledge is power, right?
because the point they wanted her to pick was the last in a line of them on the flight orb, and that it had some dotted line trailing off into nothingness. so they wanted to see if it would A) let her go faster than she currently could, and B) because of the now-filled in branch, to see if it opened up a NEW set of points to continue to fill in at other level-up’s allowing even further mods to speed, or something else yet unknown.
Spot on. And there is one further perk, in that Maxima has measured Sydney’s top flight speed. So that will allow them to estimate the increase for each skill upgrade. If Sydney can go an extra 10 mph faster, then they will avoid paths that look like they will just ‘increase defense’ or ‘increase damage’, as they might be similarly unimpressive improvements.
But if her flight speed jumps to mach 20, then they know that Halo will be the most powerful super on Earth, once she has filled in her skill tree. Or off it, if that is what the extra flight upgrades allow.
To see if it activates the next branch. They have yet to figure out how it works at all. Maxing out a power is pure toss-up, because nothing is labelled. I don’t think that’s obsession.
Hearing the cupcake beam made me think of Star vs. The Forces of Evil. And how cool it would be to have a Narwhal Blast, or Star’s Cupcake Blasts.
Sydney needs a pet laser puppy as her new sidekick.
Field testing a new ability is probably *not* a good idea. She should try her regular beam first.
Having said that, it’s totally in character for her to want to try something as soon as possible.
Yeah, Sydney should have learned that lession three minutes ago.
Welcome to the Real World: this is how to find out how things really work, and not in controlled experiments
“There’s only one way to find out.”
(see first page of pictures @ https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/589889.html )
^_^
Not sure what a page about the Blue Beetle has to do with anything…
Methinks that the key part was the intention to investigate was ‘underneath the volcano’. There appears to only be the one route down…
Oops! Guess shoulda actually read the first image :(
Hehe – dat head twist.
Dave has (broadly) defined Sydney as a person who would not intentionally take a life. This is his way of telling the audience that the thing she is fighting is a machine rather than a person.
PLACE YOUR BETS PEOPLE
100 Quatloos on “Projected Force Field” aka “Cage Beam”.
I don’t think she picked a linking node. But I don’t know that for certain.
Projected from her PewPewBall? o_O
As Observer, we don’t believe she picked the link node (which was still visible and away from her hand)
I bet she chose the little lonely node on the side of the ppo https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1166. becouse of the “new power”. and for the abilety she got with that…. i see 2 possibile. the first it is a in range limited beam, so she now has a lasersword or plasmasword. or a guided plasma missle.
The new power she really gets is laser POINTER, enabling her to become the newest PowerPoint Ranger. She can bore the villains to death.
Reminds me of the time I inherited an unpainted Space Marines army. So I painted them white with blue highlights and made their banner a blue “W” on a white background.
The Microsoft Word Bearers… dreaded wielders of the Blue Screen of Death.
That single node seems special though since that same styled node (encircled instead of connected with a single line) appears on each orb. It might be an ability/function that all the orbs share and not specific for the orb it is connected to.
She randomly grabbed and entered the point though so we (and Sydney) won’t know yet where the point went till the grid shows up next.
mirror blast: copies what’s in front of it and creates a duplicate under the orb owner’s control
immodium shocker: an earth shattering kaboom
You mean Illudium Shocker.
Imodium is an anti-diarrhea medicine, so I shudder to think what an Imodium Shocker is.
Pants ripped off and a pebble-dashed bathroom. But diarrhea cured, as there is nothing left inside to come out!
Sounds like one hell of a bowl movement. Afterwards you’d be lucky if you have any bones left.
[blatantly stolen from Futurama]
yes, illudium, but i figured it would be funny to see people’s reactions to the misprint
Ahh, cunning plan. Prune your comment, to expose a stone of contention, then prune some more and prune, prune, prune. Juice in case something funny might flow.
as good __ anything.
as good >>as<< anything.
You can tell everybody is so totally into the skill point thing as the typo hasn't been spotted yet. (and this crew loves spotting them)
You meant the under-comic comment, was searching your comments for the typo :(
LOL
I make tons of typo’s cause I apparently think words as sounds and then type those sounds leading to classic there vs. their and other such. Probably making a ton of grammatical mistakes as well.
So you will find some.
I’m mildly dyslexic, which makes things fun…
Yeah, it doesn’t matter how many times you read a good book because it’s different every time, right?
;)
One of my favorite pins to wear:
“Dyslexics Untie!!!”
(…we’re more “fnu” that way)
but why was ‘dyslexic’ spelled properly?
Yuo cna cnoervt any bclok of txet unsnig a dslexiya agrolihtm, yte sitll lavee it prefeclty raedbale to msot ppeole. I ralley do nto see wyh floks get tiher pnaites in scuh a tswit aoubt esnuirng thta the ltteers all go in the rgiht odrer!
when you’re not native to english language, that is more difficult to read^^
Good catch: people tend to forget, for that example to work, one must need to know the proper spelling in the first place
I work with chemicals. One misplaced letter in instructions there potentially could be lethal…
If that’s what it’s like with Dyslexia no wonder they need 3x as long to read anything.
Also I couldn’t get “Leave” without context so it’s not perfectly readable ;)
Ahh but context counts. You often have to interpret a sentence using that. And one letter in a randomly scrambled paragraph (I did not edit it to make it more legible where it got harder) is not bad going. When you balance that against how often folks get a corn cob up their butt because one letter was wrong!
*typos
:D
See. No lie.
“Eek”? Chill, Syd – if Max can’t get through your shield, this robo-thing sure can’t.
Its best not to assume that.. They’re dealing iwth magic after all, Magic that was proven to break through her ally’s shield earlier that night. While nothing has broken her shield yet.
They havent’ exactly much clue about her obs, so never know what its kryptonite will be.
As per Vehemence, though, we know magic does not penetrate her shield. Besides, her shield may be magic – we still don’t know what her orbs (man, that still sounds dirty) are all about. Ultra-high tech? Magic? Both? “Clarketech”, as some have named it.
Kronatech?
She still needs to take that thing apart, while she is protected, Bodie and Kronachrome are still out side the protection but close to the action, if MegaMecha decides early that it can’t get to the nutty interior of the crunchy shell, who do you think it will turn its attention to? o_O
Max hasn’t used her best against the shield. Possibly cause she can’t slowly ramp up her finisher attacks like she can her “Gold Beam” or whatever and was worried she might accidentally kill Sydney and then end up bonding to her orbs so that everywhere she went she’d be wearing a dead woman’s shoes. That’d screw up morale for a while…
Test to destrution is not a good idea when dealing with one of a kind, irreplaceable objects/people…
That’s a disturbingly valid point.
good call angling upwards, hopefully no aeromobiles, space stations spae ships or aliens are there.
BUT. I CALL THIS MOMENT! This will be the moment when she accidently uncovers a giant invisible ship on accident. by… blasting it accidently.
Well unless she just bought herself a heat blade.
still kinda throwing some of this on Maxima. Relatively speaking it was implied she wasn’t very far (all in the same night, and she seemed to be within relative easy of helicopter time.) When they talk about a super duper dangerous monster, a weird situation involving 2 sets of unique unknown powers, AND the call gets cut off in a panic of doom..
You fly your WMD butt there.
Dangit, Jack Harkness…
That is Captain Jack Harkness, lover of the Universe.
I so called it! Just watch; she unlocked Stun, which has no effect on the magical artifact that starts pound on her shield.
Halo: What?! Nothing? What a rip-off! Okay, drop the PPO and… Lighthook, I choose you! Okay, big, tall and ugly, let’s see how you like ground-impact forces. Well, that takes care of that. [ Touches throat-mic ] Max, Pixel’s been thrown into the building we were supposed to watch. I think she could be really hurt. Could you take her to hospital?
Max: How badly hurt is she? How’d it happen?
Pixel: [ Groan ] Yeah, I could use a little help here. I got knocked for a loop and my vision and hearing is all messed up; I may have a concussion and definitely lots of external and internal injuries. I don’t think I’m going anywhere without help.
Max: On my way.
Halo: Hey no crawling away! I need you for evidence! [ Lighthook smashes down on top of the cracked bot/manikin/whatever. ] Max, I have the situation under control. Harem, do you have Krona?
Harem: Yeah, we’re safe. What was that big flash I just saw?
Halo: Not much, it turns out.
Even machines can be ‘stunned’ (remember how the Jawa managed to ‘capture’ Artoo?)
“PPO, now with added EMP blast”?
That will wipe out electronics, but what will it do to a magical construct?
Neutralize the magicks?
So Sydney and the Bloodbot have a whip-off?
Whip it!
Whip it good!
When a good time turns around
You must whip it
You will never live it down
Unless you whip it
No one gets away
Until they whip it
(theme song for the battle found!)
Valid. Fitting. Approved!
But there’s also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MppsR-i8C3s
I can’t find one of The Chosen One vs Betty (with Black Betty as the fight music)
“Halo: Not much, it turns out.”
Don’t you mean, “Not much remaining?”
Nope. I had her firing her new Stun blast, which did diddlysquat to the magical construct, so she grabs Lighthook to slam it into the ground beside the building instead.
We still have yet to determine if Sydney can safely fire her PPO from inside the shield. I guess we are about to find out. (or if she has just put herself inside the worlds biggest easy-bake oven.)
Like a thousand safeties on these things. She’ll be fine. Pissed. But fine.
During the vehemence fight for attempted and failed to use lighthook within her shield.
Makes sense that ppo would work similarly.
Replace “for” with “she” in my previous reply. Autocorrect screw up.
If you look at that fight, after she puts her shield up, with V and Max inside with her, she calls the PPO to her hand as the magicks try and affect her, but she releases it realizing that she could possibly make him stronger. I don’t think the shield has any effect when considering her own beams, it may just open a little portal to allow the beam from the PPO to pass through.
The tentacle forms on the other side of the shield (as far as we can tell by eyeballing it). I imagine the PPO would do the same if it can fire outside of the shield.
Which we shall find out shortly…
We know she survives until corporal — remember that this is all a giant flashback.
Yea, but go back to that scene. Does she look like our Sydney above?
*worried look*
I think I saw DaveB comment somewhere that instead of this all being a giant flashback we should look at the first pages as a flashforward.
Not much difference except for which point in time we say it is the present.
Christmas? Did someone mention presents?
*looks around eagerly*
Oh. Too early…
*settles down, back to sleep*
Yes, Dave, butter icing is a thing. It generally includes a dash of vanilla essence but it doesn’t have to.
Funny, I said the same thing when I got back from the grocery store yesterday.
Didn’t you realise that you need an avionics store, to buy a flight speed upgrade? But don’t worry I still respec’ you.
Buttercream frosting – search for the term.
Uh, Sydney, you did fully test that you can use the PPO inside the shield, didn’t you?
Why would she do that? She’s Sydney after all…
Eeew eeew!
Turn on your search filter before doing that!
Upon consideration, the double lined nodes seem to represent something special, like an Über-Ability of that node, and are unlocked last. The Nodes linking 2 orbs are probably unlocked by grabbing them simultaneously during the powerup.
Where the point on one orb is allocated is any ones guess. Could be random, linked to the current state of mind of the user, or upon the judgment of reality arbiter that decides whats best for the lower being (like a condescending parent beyond space and time). Or It could simple be determined by the direction of movement after grabbing the Orb.
For the PPO power up, the 4 available nodes seem to be connected to ÜBER-ability, Power intensity (3/5 before), and whatever freakish things the circle nodes are.
The circle nodes could be modes of operation, and if they represent the circle Sydney had on the orb, that means the the point was probably spent there.
Each of the Circle Nodes also have an upgrade slot
Now the fun speculation about WHAT she unlocked:
* Homing Beam -> (upgrades to) several Homing Beams
* Cone Beam -> Torrent of Doom(TM) upgrade
* Stun Beam -> Works on non-living targets too
* Freezer Beam (actual Cold, linking to the Frozen Dark Matter world instead of a Sun) -> Absolute Zero(TM)
* Time-Freeze Beam (aka “Time Out Beam”) -> Instead suspends the targets in a timeless pocket dimension
* Graviton Beam (Waves of gravity, aka “Bye bye Beam) -> Ultimate Push!(TM) (Multiple Targets)
(Her current beam seems to have the “Piercing” upgrade)
Side note:
Her unexpected “performance” during the demonstration occured while she was using Flight+PPO, the one with the unlocked connector node. That could be the reason for the intensity: She was using the “Bomber Combination”.
I think it might actually be a cupcake beam. The next page is the monster turning into a giant cupcake. I am hungry for cupcakes now
If Sydney Scoville, Jr got Majin Boo’s beam ability…
It is an ENERGY blast after all. So the beam turns the ‘Monster’ into a ‘Red Bull’.
The drink or the monster from The Last Unicorn?
both!
Bah! ‘Monster’ tastes better than ‘Red Bull’, why would you want to make it worse? o_O
Sydney better come up with a good explanation for Maxima so that way she can avoid a court martial…!
Max would be the one getting a court martial. I had to learn the rules when I became an officer, and the commander is always first in line for any potential shit-storm…
look behind where you are aiming, Sydney!
Five to one odds she punches a hole through the robot, then a tiny hole through the moon, then lastly 500 light years later it hits a star and destabilizes its core making it explode…. :p Just sayin. She did say it felt like touching the surface of a star last time she fired it.
… my money’s on a ’60s style Hanna-Barbera explosion with very small pieces of Mannikiller MK 2 pattering down- just with no sound other than said pattering …
The thing I always scoff at is when planets ‘explode’, there are still pieces left, which would attract each other- so cutting a planet in half would just make it fix itself. Sure quakes and such (probably destroy most life) but it would still be there unless atomized or converted to energy or something.
So even if there was a hole through it, if it was small enough it wouldn’t matter, and if it was big enough, it would collapse on itself, repairing its own damage.
I know someone named Leia who would have a difference of opinion on that topic.
I’m surprised how unaffected she was.
She was looking at a blue screen; they all had to image what would show up there later.
But it was a blue screen of death! :-O
Depends on how powerful the initial explosion, and if the beam cuts through to the central core of the planet first, the resulting explosion would shatter the planet and then the blast radiating out would scatter the pieces before they would ‘repair’ itself
Either option is not going to result in a nice day for any of the organisms that normally squirm around on its surface.
Art Alert:
I do notice some inconsistencies in the damage to the warehouse. Panels one and two show damage to the wall, but in different patterns. The second panel may just be additional bricks falling away.
The last panel shows damage to the window, but no damage to the wall. Does this building regenerate?
Well it does have troll blood in it :P.
Heh.
Alternatively there were two walls, and the gradually increasing damage to the wall made it completely collapse, by the final frame, pulling completely away from the undamaged wall beyond it. ;-)
*checks calendar*
Or it could be an Easter Egg. That is the Mars warehouse, after all. :-)
No, what you believe to be additional damage to the wall is simply the dust from the impact, it is greater in panel two because it has had more time, and in the last panel there is no dust left to fall so all you see is the actual Pixelated damage
Okay, most people are excited but honestly I don’t get this… if its a panic upgrade it should have been to the shield not the PPO. You are saying she went for that first in panic? You can also see her pop the shield instantaneously later…
Second, hope that node she bought allows her to shoot through her own shield because she couldn’t figure out how to make the light hook go past it, but she knows how to shoot past it?
I LOVE this web comic… but this… I don’t buy it… I know its going to be for the story and it will be awesome but nope.
You will notice she reached out with her right hand to pick an upgrade. You will also notice the PPO was the orb that was conveniently in front of her right hand. The shield orb had just rotated out of that position. (Yes, the orbs still move while the skill tree is up.)
The result is that the PPO was in the right place at the wrong time, so that was the first orb she grabbed, and that’s where the point went.
What you are describing is a rational upgrade. Sydney had been mentally locked up trying to come to the best logical choice, and that may have cost Pixel her life! So what she has resorted to, in desperation, is a random upgrade. This was the significance of Sydney closing her eyes. She was just reaching out blindly and grabbing whatever upgrade fate bestowed on her.
You have that the wrong way around, I am afraid. We have seen several examples of Halo using the tentacle whilst the shield was raised. The most memorable may be the guy declaring that “My skin is impenetrable and my claws can cut through anything” (to paraphrase, from memory). Under Maxima’s orders she had remained shielded, yet, despite that, was still able to use the tentacle.
The problem occurred when Sydney needed to use her shield’s mental protective powers, to block the aggo aura for the rest of the team. Which required raising the shield around Vehemence. Her plan at that stage was to use the tentacle to subdue him. This though is where she found the flaw, in that she could not use the tentacle on the inside of the shield.
That bit though we do all hope (or that she always could use it outside of the shield, the same as with the tentacle).
Failing that gaining immunity to fire (and/or whatever energy the PPO actually uses) would be real handy if it is limited to interior use.
Better to do something rather than nothing, but why try the new thing now, in battle? Risky business, Syd.
“Eat whatever I just bought” sounds like the worst “Mom at a restaurant” experience ever.
The worst “Mom at a restaurant with a non-English menu” experience ever.
A few minutes ago, she used an untested command on the field, in a moment where she was in control, with an orb she is familiar with, and it lead to her death. Now she does the same thing, in a moment she is not in control, with an orb she never learned to control well even before she got a new command button.
Not learning her lesson, being fooled twice the same way. yadayadayada, can only finish with memorable repercussions, if not lasting. The fact that she is fighting a tentacle monster give me very morbid images. Sensible souls stop reading here.
Sydney activate the new button on the PPO. It shoots a flamboyant large persistant ray. On the orb, there is an indication of the damage adding up and a grinding damage multiplier. The thing feel pretty satisfying but unfortunately, Sydney is unaware of several things:
-This is mp damage
-It prevents her form seing what her opponent is doing.
-The manequine is smarter than it looks.
The monster throw his appendage through the roof and makes it come back up under Sydney. It break both her hands so she can’t hold her orbs. He then procede to show her that there is nothing “sensual” in “nonconsensual”. After ten minutes of savage hentai action (out of screen obviously) that would give more substenance to Vehemence than to Dabbler, Maxima arrive on the scene and send the contruct to nonexistance. Timidely and carefully, she put a friendly hand on Sydney’s shoulder, to see if she is still there. It takes her some time, torn between her shredded happy place and her newfound nihilism, to finally make eye contact. Before passing out, she murmur : “Ts’ok. T’was my sobbering, fromative superhero moment”
End of chapter.
To quote Sydney, “Eww..”
… +150…
Shield is contiguous. Just aligned with the ground.
Two points.
1. Dabbler said anything sexual gives her power, even an orgy causing massive property damage and broken bones.
2. As was mentioned the shield does have a bottom its just molded to the floor to stop un-intended cutting.
-14,730
Dave wouldn’t do that.
Sydney wouldn’t react like that. The story would immediately end, she’d never be able to heal psychologically from such a thing. I know I didn’t.
Welcome to Combat Under Fire, where common sense and pre-planned strategies no longer apply
Cupcake beam, yummy.
I’m reminded of a book I read years ago. I think it was one of the Elminster series. Main character steals a magical robe displayed in his master’s tower. Turns out it converts all spells cast by the wearer into “Conjure Rotten Vegetables.”
You beat me to it.
“SIR ISAAC NEWTON IS THE DEADLIEST SON OF A BITCH IN SPACE”
That was supposed to be a reply to the link to the ME2 video posted above.
The new point made her beam green? It has given her the option for scatter-shot? She can now remove tattoos with the PPO? It is now a sodium lamp that acts as a navigational beacon? It can emit different types of radiation? It will end hilariously in any case so who cares?
Green Kryptonite radiation beam?
In other words, in a world without Superman, a green laser-pointer.