Grrl Power #557 – Surprise bone… golem
Sydney, did you ever think you’d be bored with the appearance of a giant… bone golem, I guess? In her defense it’s late, and this is the second giant guardian thing she’s seen this week. But don’t worry, this fight won’t last quite as long as the other one.
Ok, so full disclosure, this was supposed to be a double page with the preceding one, and the page after this was also a double, but big surprise, drawing two double pages takes almost twice as long. I really wanted to keep it as a double, but it put me far enough behind that it eroded my buffer and it was stressing me out. So anyway, Sydney’s comment is a direct continuation of her “this seems like a bad idea” dialog from the previous page.
Sydney totally is an “I told you so” type of person, but usually only around a peer group or people she doesn’t like, but she likes everyone here and also everyone outranks her. It might make her feel a little smug that she’s the only one who called something like this happening, but she’s just the only one who said it out loud. The Council didn’t just invite Archon along because they were feeling cordial. They were well aware Sciona might pull some stuff like this, and they’re not dummies, they are increasingly cognizant of the value of having Arc-SWAT as bodyguards allies.
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Yakno considering how little time has actually in fact passed… I like how fast her reaction of “odd… SHIELD UP!” has gotten.
Also amusing that…. not one of the council folks around there? happened to have inched closer to Sydney in case she shielded up..
you know for safety.
So what do you council guys… where did they all go?
Dave’s policy (to cut down on unnecessary drawing time) is to place anyone not pivotal to the current page just out of shot, from the angles depicted.
Most likely they are presently ‘girding their loins’.
I know I certainly would need a change of underwear!
Oh no, I put full stock on “welp… I’m outta here.”
I am more a fan of “exit stage left”
No, don’t get up, I’ll just nope myself out….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjWe31S_0g
I’m more of a fan of “exit pursued by a bear”
That is by far the best stage direction written into any play ever.
Well, like you said, not much time has passed from the time the Council members touched the door pads and Skully busted out, Sydney would have been way off to the back out of the way
Yeah, I too figured the Council invited Archon along because they wanted a heavy hitter like Max present just in case something like this happened.
If you drop back 3-4 pages -Just after the pool- Halo was not supposed to come along.
It wasn’t until Max was told it would be under water and A high pressure dive that Sydney got invited in the first place. Only max was supposed to be there from ARC so for this fight Halo is a random element.
That discussion shows us that Halo coming along wasn’t in Max’s plan. Whether it was in the Council’s plan, or in Sciona’s plan, depends on how much each of them knows about Max’s powers…
also depends on what motives a hypothetical schemer might have regarding Halo, who is still a relative unknown to non-ARChon folks. there’s a big hill of guesswork needed to make Halo the target of this sitch.
the only reason Sydney was brought was because she can generate air, per the new discovery at the pool.
There is no way anyone knew she could do that as it was only just discovered, and the orbs are unreadable by magic means at this time.
Sciona would have had her memory altered in the temporal reset at the mars bar factory. So wouldn’t know more than the basic public about halo. Shoot I’m thinking she herself as forgotten she can port now. and the Council would have just figured on Max and Dabbler.
I don’t think her ability to generate air is the only reason- her shield would still be intensely useful in a high-pressure environment. I’m entirely on the fence as to whether Dabbler and/or Maxima could survive the journey to this depth unaided- I wouldn’t be surprised if Max is that tough or Dabbler has something in her bag of tricks, but these conditions might be so hostile that they need the shield. (That was certainly my interpretation of “gear up recruit.”)
Yea, the air was very handy (cutting down on the need to load up with rebreathing equipment and/or air tanks) but it was not essential. Whereas protecting Dabbler, and any other squishy passengers, from the extreme pressure was essential.
well yes the shield to I hadn’t thought i needed to mention that as it was part of the equation from the start… how would she hold pressure and new air without it…
I figure Dabbler has a spell that would equalize things for her and or Max but given Sydney’s proximity to max and abilitys when Max was told she just went with the “F IT” attitude and said gear up.
Halo is a random element in most circumstances.
Hydrogen.
Methodology: Roll 1d110, result “1”, lookup in table of elements.
I rolled a ‘2’ & found Helium. Now my voice sounds all funny.
I got element 30, Zinc. Tried to think up something funny; it didn’t work.
then you’re not trying, you should’ve been able to zinc zumthing up right avay!
(◔_◔)
“I got element 30, Zinc. For some reason, my mind drew a blank…I just couldn’t zinc of anything.”
What puns… Everything but the Kitchen Zinc
it landed on its edge. Im pretty sure that means I get unobtanium.
Nope, sorry. You only get unobtainium if the die lands on the ceiling on its side. Landing on the ground or desk on its side gets you phlebotinum.
They are behind the times with updating the list… the scientific community is already up to 118 confirmed known elements.
and the 5th is Love…
one of my all-time favorite flying-cars movies…
+10
Fortunately 110 covers all the new-fangled elements, like unobtanium. The odds are low for them, collectively, as I do not see Sydney associating herself with poor documentaries, like the Core.
tellurium.
wtf is tellurium??!??
wait, looking it up… apparently i’m mildly toxic and crumble easily. . . yeah, it makes sense now.
-_-‘
umm I think I did something wrong the die gloweded and a djinn poped out asking what I wish?
Xenon – I always knew I was noble. And a useful element for ion engines. Call me Mr. Xenon!
Rolled a 16. Sulfur. I guess scrambled eggs was not a good breakfast choice.
35 – Bromine. Room-temperature liquid, flame-retardant, pesticide – sounds like handy superpowers, if they didn’t also include an almighty and name-defining stench.
Alternate methodology for those who prefer real-world dice: 1d12 for the tens, 1d10 for the units. Reroll in the unlikely event of getting 119 or 120.
Hey, stop trying to take those! Bro, Mine!
The Element of Surprise, [WTF]
Ahh, Nijanium. I guess we should have expected that.
just out of curiosity, has it ever been revealed if halo can cast her force field elsewhere or just around herself? can she cast more than one such as around herself then also around the bad guys? r better yet, it it as a weapn by making large field around water or air, then making it shrink, compressing them, and then releasing it by bad guy like an explosive?
or if compressing air or water she could release them in center of large fire to blow them out
no the most it has shown is that it can expand to cover a group but not as a separate thing from her.
Your ideas are good and it may be used in later shield upgrades, however at its current level it has not been shown to pull off more than cover Sydney and enlarge to cover others around her. -the press con when max blew up the tank.-
I feel like saying Max blew up a tank is like pointing at a lion and calling it a cat. Technically true but it fails to convey the right meaning.
I was going to use the fallout joke used during the dinner fight but went with “blew up” instead
Fun fact: liquids don’t actually compress! (Or at least, not NEARLY as much as gases do.)
A “charging” Super Soaker works by compressing air to fit in the tank with the water, so that there’s more air pressure in the tank helping to push the water out.
Water pressure (e.g. in diving) is just the force of the weight of the water above a given point. Gravity is pulling all of the water toward the bottom, but there’s only so much space at any given height, so at a certain point some water has to sit on top of the rest. When you put something else beneath the surface, gravity is still pulling on the water it displaces, which creates force pressing in on it. The water doesn’t compress, but it’ll compress that other substance if it has a gaseous or elastic component.
This principle is what makes hydraulic machinery work- you can transfer force from one place to another, changing direction and even magnitude along the way, by connecting two moving objects with a volume of water contained entirely between them- push on A, A displaces water toward B, B moves.
(And that’s why the scene from the prologue of Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, with sunken ships only sinking until they hit a level of water density where they still float, and then continuing to sail, doesn’t happen in real life. Which is a shame, because it’s a hauntingly beautiful image…)
yes, but ever wondered what would happen if you got to the bottom of the Marianas trench and put a cubic foot of water in something that could keep it at that pressure, such as halo’s force field, then released it above sea level in open air? anything can be compressed with enough force, look at black holes, white dwarf matter or neutronium, in stellar forms.
i just have a tendency to see other ways to use abilities, like thinking superman would be better if he stopped bank robbery by using heat vision on guns from background or super breath to freeze them in their tracks, rather than cause property damage by flying in thru wall throwing shrapnel everywhere, or letting bullets bounce off him and hitting bystanders
Water is basically incompressible. Yes, obviously if you apply enough force, something will change, but even the bottom of the Marianas trench isn’t enough to compress water. I think what happens with enough pressure it that it undergoes a state change to something like ice vii? Not sure which ice it is, but it takes about 70,000 atmospheres which would require a depth of 424 miles of water.
I actually read about a scientist who managed to compress water into a solid. it remained a solid at room temperature and above, and I’m not sure if it only melted at a high temperature, or if it just melted really slowly, but it had some interesting properties
Very High Density Amorphous Ice. It can only form at high temperature, not low. Although there are many types of ice, with different temperatures and pressures required for them to form.
Plus it has even been theorised that squeeze it hard enough and it will become a metal.
Are you seriously calling 160K high temperature? It’s -113.15 celsius or -171.67 fahrenheit. It’s only warmer that the High Density Amorphous Ice in previous paragraph.
And, yes, everything can be compressed to neutronium, but you can’t find enough pressure anywhere in our solar system. Regarding black holes, you can compress matter to form black hole but I don’t think you can say black hole is compressed matter.
*puts on Bermuda shorts*
Time for a holiday on ice.
*gets distracted with that imagery and starts thinking of a tiny star that becomes a diamond, not a black hole, then wanders into another star’s gravity and becomes a diamond planet*
*thinks- if I welded a ring band onto that, then asked a jeweler to cut and shape it for me, then the scrap would be enough pay, right?*
Well you can get diamonds out of Uranus!
It diamonds there. Do bear in mind though that the Sun shines on it, rather than out of it. But it should still sparkle nicely, after a shower on Uranus.
No bidet required.
sinking ships, if their structure is not too broken, do sort of “sail” to the bottom ( where things like sails permit). that’s because the bottom of the ship is ballasted to be heaviest, even with water filling the rest. so it stays upright, and the shape that allows it to slip thru the water on the surface still does so underwater, all the way to the bottom.
Huh! Didn’t know that. Neat.
The idea in Going Postal is that the ships resume sailing instead of sinking, though. (The reasoning is that water pressure increases as you go down, so objects that the low-pressure water of the surface won’t support will eventually sink to a depth with high-pressure water that does support them. Once there, they reach equilibrium and float at that depth as if on the surface of a second, shallower sea, allowing (for instance) sunken ships to go on sailing around the depths.)
This doesn’t happen, at least not in our world, because (Andor’s explanation is better than mine)… but it sounds really cool. ^_^
Maybe in the world without shrimp? There would be no need for prawn cocktail sauce, so it probably has never been harvested, and forms a deep layer of thicker-than-water ocean depths.
Aren’t those usually called submarines?
no submarines are boats and ships that can come back up after sinking
By tradition all submarines are ‘boats’ not ‘ships’.
Submarines kind of disprove your position. How does a sub maintain a specific depth if depth has no impact? Granted a broken ship is an open system and a sub is a closed system, but given the right circumstances anything is possible. Perhaps the ship hit a region of a different density caused by salt concentrations and the story merely told the false assumptions of the characters? I’m merely spitballing here, but anything to make others think. :)
submarines use water ballasts, chambers that with opening to the outside that can close and open remotely. When they want to sink, they open the doors and the submarine sink, and then they use compressed air to chasse out a certain amount of air to stay at a precise depth. There is only archimede involve here.
certain amount of water*
Going Postal could happen with deep enough seas, but then you’d have a star full of hydrogen and oxygen because of the mass.
What if you surrounded it with a megastructure, positioned optimally so that its mass attracted enough of the ocean, to prevent it collapsing under its own weight, and heating up, to form a star?
Obviously the structure would need to be made out of a technomagical material that would not break apart under the strain involved.
*gets a large goldfish bowl and long hosepipe, to improvise a diving helmet*
Alright who’s got a boat we can test this with?
I am not cleared to answer that question other than to say I am not cleared to answer that question. if you ask my superiors on the star ocean diving project they may be able to answer, but I am not cleared to know their contact info I need a higher clearance.
*opens a new tab and watches the movie again*
she can expand it, but it appears she has to be inside it if not the center of it
She has to be inside it, but can move around within the confines. See: her trapping Vehemence inside while he was using his aggro aura.
or her floating and spinning at the press con…
actually as it seems, forcefield at this point can only be generated with orb as its center
would guess if Sydney invests few points in tree, casting multiple fields and also ranged throw fields may be possible
We have seen Sydney off to one side. If you remember the scene with Vehemence, her bum was touching the force field itself.
What we can say is that most of the time the force field is centered on her, but that is not mandatory. She does have to be within it though.
We have never seen an example of that, and if Sydney knew how to she certainly would have when trying to contain Vehemence’s aggro field, given that would also have trapped him, but without endangering herself.
Until she can learn how to create shields elsewhere all the remaining options you list are not open. But the skill tree does have more things to unlock, so maybe someday.
the key is generated with the orb at center they did not claim had to stay there, in your example the shield had been up a few seconds at least when we saw her and she could have moved after setting it. so the shield moving as syd moves is not insured but togglable in this situation. I agree she could have just set it not centered on her but with her in it as an alternate option that we will hopefully see clarified some year.
Reasonable arguments. Another example where Halo was off-centre was when she flew up above the press corps, to raise the shield. Where we see that she is off-centre, given that the people in the crowd are at the midpoint of the shield, at the time it is being raised, rather than Halo. Which we even get to confirm with another angle.
If she could do multiple shields, she could do a small shield inside a big shield.
This gives you either a containment donut (with Sydney in the center and bad guys between the shields), or a layered shield effect (with Sydney in the center of both. Maybe some expendable allies between the layers of shield, if you need the extra layer of ablative armor).
This could also serve as a kind of security airlock: small shield around Sydney, then put up larger shield when only your friends are close, then drop small shield.
Love this “monster” design – knocked it out of the park with this one.
Tres anime.
realistically, bone strength is multiplied by the use of muscles, so as a standalone (!) structural material, bad guys don’t gain over normal flesh.
The creep intimidation factor, however, can certainly make up the difference in many cases.
It really depends on who’s bones were used…
Don’t worry, the Council doesn’t know where your stash is.
Come on Syd, you are better then this.
Lots of skulls, olive green?
It´s an IMPERIAL Guardian.
Judging by it´s right arm maybe even the original Baneblade? ;)
Can’t be a Baneblade. No tracks, no baneblade cannon, no autocannon, no bolters, no lascannons, no demolisher.
It does have a blade though…
That’s why it’s the original Baneblade, before they added all that extra crap
On a completely unrelated note, is the cast page down for anyone else?
are you new here? :)
it’s under delayed repair, as the site builder tool used for grrlpower changed and broke it.
come on now i hadn’t realized it was down at all and I’ve been here forever… But thanks for telling us why it’s down. I missed the notice.
yeah chad, hasn’t worked for me in several weeks, profiles may still be there but page to choose them just gives me error
As Garbler says the cast page is down indefinitely. It was incompatible with an update to WordPress, so Dave had to disable it. As he has to do all his own IT work, and has his time fully allocated keeping to the current schedule (note his comment in today’s blog as an example), this is not likely to change any time soon.
Ok, apparently I missed the memo. Just wanted to make sure it wasn’t an accidental oversight.
Pictured: Crazy surprise party.
I would laugh my azz off if the gard dropped his weapon saying “Thank (insert deity here) You are hear. I didn’t know you would leave me in there for so long! I have only had Beans to live on trust me you do not want to go in there It REEKS…”
Probably Heimdallr, as both being a god of guardians and possessing of good hearing.
I’m impressed by Syd’s blasse attitude. After a while, the shocks are no longer shocking, and are just “yeah… that happened… not what I expected per se, but still not a surprise.”
It is very cool to just stand there – snagging the shield ball (Sydney ain’t stupid!) – and sighing with an unsaid “saw that coming…”
+1
Yup that can happen. When iw a sin field artillery, after hearing one of our rackets fire. (Very loud) then later in Iraq, after hearing a roadside bomb go off several feet infront of our humvee, my reactions was look forward and ‘that was it?’ we passed threw the bit of smoke cloud and then nothing more.
It really wasn’t that long ago that Sydney said that she’s already experienced a “banner week” of amazing things. A giant bone golem probably didn’t even peg her meter at all, in comparison.
Monster looks like a warengine for chaos space marines in warhammer 40k.
And THAT, ladies and gents, is the first of many reasons to use thousands of tiny fast, independently tracking shredder drones to guard your vault instead of some fack off huge guardian – No single point of failure, and you still have a vault if things get ugly.
There is still a single point of failure, which comes from your means of command and control. Unless they are fully autonomous, in which case you have thousands of things keeping you from getting into your own vault!
In biology diversity = survival. so one big thing or multiple small things of the same design = single point of failure to a virus.
I just wonder what is behind it…
Me! I was behind it all!*
*lying
I don’t think anyone has talked about Dabbler’s possible role in this short fight. I suspect we’ll see her in action as well as Max.
Deploy the tickle laser!
Just as per usual, Dabbler’s gotten into a good position to get boned…
heh heh heh…
Definitely too many skulls. I’m reminded of Xibalba from “The Book of Life”. I guess he must have picked it because he thought it looked threatening.
They are used to amplify the death magic he uses.
This is what happens when you assume that your security measures stay up to date over a thousand years.
It would have been significantly easier to safeguard a smaller door.
Judge me by my size, do you? Hmmm – Yoda
It’s that little fluffy bunny rabbit you need to be wary of.
Yes, one must be careful around those little fuzzy animals.
I have five little fuzzy animals, with big sharp teeth, sitting all around me, right now. Two of them are on my feet!
*looks around warily*
*checks pulse*
*pats heat to ensure brain still inside*
Frankly, my first reaction to this future-set-decoration was “magitech version of Mr Tock from Girl Genius”, and we all know what happened to him.
It never does to tick off the powers-that-be.
The options are still the same.
– Destroy
– Dodge
– Disarm
*sigh*
Do you know how hard it is to make these vault guardians? Why is ”decorrupt’ not on your list?
Do you mean Purify? Why yes, I do have Purify. It comes as part of the Disassemble package.
Fire has always been a good symbol for Purification, particularly when applied to the animated dead. It represents the act of cremation which lays the soul to rest.
Soooo…
Burn it! Burn it with FIRE!
That really depends on the quality of the air circulation/replenishment/scrubbers down there.
Their environmental system can compensate for 100 atmospheres of pressure. I suspect that it can handle a fire OK.
I wonder who they commissioned to create this vault guardian, in the first place? It strikes me that there can’t be that many enchanters capable of building constructs capable of taking on super heroes.
Supers were not a thing back thousand years ago when the construct was probably made.
I did not stipulate ‘built to take on super heroes’ simply that it is powerful enough to be used for that purpose.
Plus it may not be older than 30 years, if it was a recently upgraded security system. The council would need to improve their defenses periodically, to take into account new potential threats.
Just like any modern security system has to be updated, to cope with technological advances which may be used by criminals. In this case though the big change in society is the increase in super powers amongst the human population. So it is entirely plausible that it was actually created as an anti-super golem.
If only we could think of someone who has such enchantment capability? If they built a backdoor into their system it would be simple to corrupt the golem.
Or someone with Pika Boo Blink.
I probably just didn’t notice until now, but I see Sydney ditched the hairband. I approve, she just looks better this way.
Yea.
What do succubi know about fashion anyhow? Decollete probably picked that up sometime in the last millennium!
what Succubi know about fashion:
1. Cleavage? go for the Marianas trench, once known as the “Challenger Deep”.
2. You got butt you gotta strutt.
3. bring it, swing it, fling it. If you haven’t poked someone’s eye out, you’re not trying.
4. Those anorexic models on the catwalks aren’t sexy on any planet, even this one.
5. Don’t stop until you make someone “change sides”.
The rest are inappropriate on the internet.
something something something dark side.
#5
huh? have you SEEN the stuff that goes on out in the interwebs?? and you think it’s “Inappropriate”?? no, i can most definitely say that they would be inappropriate HERE, on THIS forum, but not “out there…”. Nah, I’m sure one can find things even WORSE than what you think #5 should be..
yes, but we’re talking about interstellar succubi here, whose technology is so advanced it is indistinguishable… well, you know. And to them, it’s not just fun, it’s evolutionarily compelled fun. They’ve had millions of years to learn ways to do what the internet has been pidfling with for 3 decades.
There is another possibility though. Remember that Earth is a destination of choice for space sex tourism. It seems likely that there would be a healthy export of Earth porn too. Quite a lot of it potentially to specific alien race’s preferences.
You think any humans would be interested in hentai? That is actually commissioned for the octopus and mind-flayer like races of the local spiral arm.
Finally it would be in the collective interests of any succubi to optimise the quality of Earth porn, for such needs. The better the porn the more tantric energy they can harvest. Be it quantity or quality, depending on the particular circumstances.
So the internet may not be so depraved just because of human cravings.
Which reinforces what I said about aspects of succubi’s fashion sense being inappropriate even for (the human part of ) the internet.
+1 ♥
There is no such thing as too many skulls.
Depends on whether they are in your back yard really.
If caving in the chamber with 1,000 meters of earth above it were a possibility (such as by an errant Max or PPO blast) the smart thing for Sciona to do would be to leave behind a big bomb to trigger the cave-in as soon as the vault door was open.
The council, knowing the risk (Ingsol did say they were prepared for booby traps) would have included a geomancer among the group to prevent a potential cave-in. Probably how they created this cavern in the first place.
So the bone golem’s first assignment would have been to kill the geomancer, with the bomb delay-triggered from the vault door opening. Then the first stage of this fight will be all about “protect the wizard that keeps us all from being crushed by the Earth.”
Hmmm… perhaps not a geomancer, but an earth elemental, though I didn’t see anyone who looked like that among the council reps present.
The only geomancer we know of is a super, rather than a mage. That does not preclude their existence mind, or someone with a comparable magical power, like the proposed earth elemental.
They aught to be careful though, as Sciona can probably counter that with a mars elemental.
Yeah but the Uber fee would be astronomical.
Oi.! Again with the puns… the both of you! :-PpPpPp
PpPpPp
This thing looks like its straight outta 40K, I approve! I’d say the Emperor approves but it oozes heresy. Go Maxima, purge it! The Emperor protects!
One of the counsel members says “oh sorry we forgot to tell you we were coming! Everyone settle down this is Paul our – for lack of a better term- librarian.”
I thought Paul was turned into a monkey? *ducks thrown book* Sorry. An orangatang?
OOK!
And this is when the epic music starts playing in the background… of the vault.
Why did they install speakers there anyways?
Next birthday Maxima will find a surprise present, with the strains of romantic music playing. A smug-looking member of Arc-Sparq will be on hand, to confirm that it has passed all safety checks and is certified safe for use. With the music playing a cheeky trill.
Nonetheless Maxima apprehensively removes the wrapping, to the sounds of the Jaws soundtrack. Only to reveal a personalised utility belt. The sound of romantic music emanating from one specialist pouch, bearing the logo
‘Personalised Mood Music by Machina Industries ™’
A note attached to which reads:
“Love D. XXX”
As Maximas hand clenches into a fist, the music turns ominous, with a loud heart-beat theme running through it.
^_^
…+1…
and max goes on restriction and cut pay while x-face’s murder is investigated. leander smiling the whole time untill he pops back up proclaiming it was faked to duck death threats.
This is a guy who knows how to set a good example!
Arianna, give Sydney permission to put her Deadpool top back on. Who would have thought that he would become a champion of political correctness?
*jaw drops open*
Here we have the first guardian named ‘Skully’. If they get past this one, they will face a second one resembling a giant Fox. (‘I want to believe’ some readers will get this callback joke.)
In these damp conditions I think the fox would moulder.
*sniff sniff*
I smell sexual tension in the air.
*sniff*
With a hint of embalming fluid and antiseptic handwash. No… antisceptic.
In these damp conditions I think the fox would moulder.
*hands you an entire box of Yorpie Snax* I award you as many +points as there are Snax in that box.
Yummy yummy yummy!
The fox is on fire, so it’s smoulder.
Well Skully would be all wet…
*throws Skully on Smoulder*
What… he is an underwater guardian, of course he is damp!
Turns out the monster is a great big puppy dog ready to play. I have met a few BIG dogs that are just big friendly slobber-monsters.
Shouldn’t it be “[…] that’s what that is”
Anyway, first thing I thought when seeing that thing was a Chaos Space Marine complete with chainsword. Was disappointed that a closer look showed differently.
So you are saying… ‘not enough space’ or… ‘not enough marine’?
‘Cause it is pretty cramped in here, for it. But there is a lot of water out there.
I almost wonder if that’s a joke or you don’t know Warhammer 40,000
(which I laugh at all the time)
I’m saying not enough chainsword and blood for the blood god.
Geez, these folks missed Masterminds 205…You build a Huge vault filled with Doooom! that contains nothing else. The maguffin is in a small hidden panel, or even better in plain sight as a decoration.
And the next page is when we discover that Skully there isn’t attacking them, it is running from the even scarier monster inside.
A giant mask-wearing skeleton themed monster? There’s only one thing to in that case.
*pulls out sword*
Bankai!
Getsuga tensho.
Oh, first zone boss is just Death Metal. Would have hoped for Blues or Mole but that’s okay too.
Yea, but this one is capable of breaking the 4th wall and climbing out of your monitor!
Ooh, another good example being set. The more people who stand up against faceless corporations’ exploitative behaviour, the better the world becomes. Step by step.
There are many things we cannot change or influence. But when we get an opportunity to make a stand we should seize it!
my sister has never worn size ten (she is petite enough that this is not being underweight) and would love to get tall and big enough to be able to wear one while being healthy, why would people suggest someone that size is fat if they had the body to win the crown?
Just so. She won the competition the way she is. To change that would be to deny all the people who voted for her in addition to the insult the organisers give to both her and the voters, by saying that.
Ain’t nothing wrong with that young lady, inside or out. personally, I think curvier than her is more attractive, but that’s my pref, and she’s in no way unhealthy – and that’s the only realistic reason for a ‘beauty’ contest to express concern.
I can understand the lady’s reaction fully, seriously no point in even going if you need to change yourself just to please some jackass faceless idiot in a an office somewhere that has tunnel-vision in terms of beauty, seriously she is in NO NEED for a diet she’s pretty enough as it is.
Personally I honestly don’t understand whats so attractive about models that are so then they look like they are half-starved, I like curves on women sure, but at the expense of an impossibly thin waist that make them seem more half-starved and malnourished than anything else, no thanks, gimme a bit more meat and realistic figures, thank you.
Mr. Person from of the beauty pageant that told her to go on a diet should probably realize that “starving” and “unhealthy thin” does not equate to beauty, then again that’s how life is for models in general so more than a few people should probably start to realize that.
sorry for the rant, needed to get it off my chest.
At some point I think Sydney would say to the group “It there any way you could stop that thing while keeping it in one piece? I want to borrow it for the next Comic Con.”
+infinity and more
Truly no costume piece is too impractical.
Could we talk about the fact that a sword like that wouldn’t actually be useful?
Katanas and other blades are as effective as they are because they have a high swing-speed since they’re thin. A bulky one like that would be pretty slow, and not just because it has a lot of wind-drag from the bone-shapes on it. The other reason it wouldn’t be practical at that size is because bigger size = more air molecules it has to displace, so its max speed would be lower than a smaller weapon.
Am I wrong on any of this? I’m thinking the guardian is there for intimidation and not function.
it’s weapons are probably enchanted to reduce wind drag, or the sheer strength of the thing lets it ignore the extra drag completely
Bones…
*drool*
*shakes head*
Practical? Mmm tasty….
To be 100% accurate, that Golem has too much flesh on it to be a Bone Golem, it could be a Flesh Golem but not a Bone Golem, because Bone Golems are made purely of bone with not flesh, while that vault guardians’ neck area are clearly made of flesh, whereas a Flesh Golem can have a bone/skeletal structure added to it for more destructive power and/or defense.
That being said the sheer size of that thing, as well as the helmet, makes me think it’s not a Golem at all but a Shield Guardian, a huge, magical construct created to guard important areas/persons, they stand anywhere from 9 to 20 ft, are made to be exceedingly intimidating and usually wield a giant 2-handed sword or axe, they are also much faster and more reliable guardians than Golems are because they can move deceptively fast despite their giant frames making for an extremely dangerous combatant when combined with their ridiculously high strength.
“Bone golem” is a useful handle for target-designation, in the event that more constructs show up. Sciona has used several varieties now, so it is worthwhile to be able to simply distinguish between them, be it in battle or in comments.
That said though, if analysing weaknesses or capabilities, it is important to correctly identify the type of opponent, so your points are well made.
We all know that without Maxima here, this would be one hell of a raid boss.
You know the old saying ‘set a Raid boss to smack down a Raid boss’.
I F**king KNEW IT!
Still… was really hoping for a gold fish.. hint hint.
*presents a >goldfish*
“It might make her feel a little smug that she’s the only one who called something like this happening, but she’s just the only one who said it out loud.”
The Council all seem mighty competent, with wisdom of the ages and preternatural instincts, so it’s best to give them the benefit of the doubt their unspoken speculations are just the elephant in the room that only a cute mascot character would question out loud (for the benefit of the audience.)
I can’t think of any other comic in which the cute mascot character is also the central protagonist. Sort of like Rick Jones except 1) cute and 2) likeable.