Grrl Power #580 – The glamorous life of the superheroine
Yes, somehow while examining the interior of the vault, no one stepped in that spot. Maybe not too surprising as it’s basically in the middle and they were mostly examining the interior vaults and perimeter. Also Maxima was flying just above the gore carpet so she didn’t get any on her boots. Obviously Maxima is not a girly girl and needs to be wrapped in lace and floating on a field of heather or anything, but if you had the option to not walk in gore, wouldn’t you not walk in gore?
Being a superhero in the Grrl verse can be pretty glamorous, which we haven’t really delved into all that much yet, (partially because drawing adoring crowd scenes is really time consuming) but of course they don’t put stuff like this in the theoretical brochure. Sydney is sort of in the pilot program, now that the team has gone public. Future recruits will be told it’s not all celebrity lifestyle, they’ll have to do that thing in the military where they crawl through the mud under the barbwire, but Archon PR isn’t exactly going to lead with the gore bath story.
Actually, Maxima would probably tell them. The last thing she wants is a bunch of super powered celebutards on the team.
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Well, she certainly put her, well, not just her foot but her whole being into that one :P
Sydney should seriously consider fisherman’s waders as part of her “utility belt load.”
In this case, her scuba-mask would have been a better option
Gross. Hope she doesn’t catch anything…
I’m thinking one of the “classified” orbs is a rapid repair/rez deal…………
More than likely, the entire set was designed to sustain life for a intergalactic traveler………….
. . . for a *seven-armed* intergalactic traveler.
Or an eight-armed intergalactic traveler who likes to keep a hand free.
That hand is for a Big Gulp.
Some localities don’t allow Big Gulps anymore, so check your ordinances before purchasing.
If it don’t allow a Big Gulp, I ain’t going!
We do know that the orbs are locked to her genetic code considering Varia’s ability to apparently use them also (though this is still untested) if this is the case it is possible the her genetic code could be locked to prevent contamination. This may mean she is immune to vamprisim or Lynchthropy. A lot of maybes and mights I know. but wouldn’t it be funny that on top of everything else she no longer ages or is unable to build any muscle mass or stamina because her body is “Locked”? while I suspect the last orb is some sort of med bay, is it for her… or others only? (this does make the Doc kinda redundant) so maybe not. Or is it calling the alien armada signalling dinner is served…
They have a super doctor, so she should be ok.
Nobody wants impurities in their magic ingredients, I’m sure she’ll be fine.
Are you crazy sure Siona would care about that?
Since she had to use it herself to get in, yes. She seemed rather self-centered like that.
“Over two dozen different species”, If a single one is a were-something, depending on what it is Sydney could be overjoyed with a sudden change, or desperately looking for a “Cure”.
Were-gopher
Were-ferret. A werret, if you will.
For the doubled hyperactivity.
squirrel. then Math could give her an energy drink with caffeine in it….
or maybe some Black Blood of the Earth.
Why would she drink oil? o_O
He means black blood of the Earth.
Scab oatmeal?!?
You so ruined breakfast for me…
Can I have yours then? Because it made me hangry.
Is that a mix between hungry and angry? Do you need a snickers?
Yes and no thanks. ONLY blood oatmeal will truly satisfy me now…though the bacon, sausage, bleu cheese bagel sandwich that I’m having for breakfast will save lives. Granted it wont prevent the bruises, contusions, abrasions and maiming that is going to happen. (no worries about sprains I wouldn’t inflict one of those on anyone.)
Go get some kiszka. Though you could literally fry your blood oatmeal then…
Not me!*
*lying
It was the name, wasn’t it? Shakespeare was wrong with the whole “A rose by any other name…” bit. That’s why Canadians renamed ‘Rapeseed Oil’ to ‘Canola Oil’ back in the ’70s (sure, there’s the erucic acid levels difference as an official explanation, but let’s be honest about how awkward it was buying an oil with the word ‘rape’ right there in the name).
What if scab oatmeal was rebranded to Cruortmeal, the all-natural, 0 fat, 0 carb, 0 cholesterol breakfast with over twice the daily required intake of iron?
It wasn’t just a renaming. Canola is descended from rapeseed, but it is a different plant thanks to selective breeding.
I rather like blood pudding.
Black or white?
Kiska is better.
So… she was flying horizontally… but then suddenly fell the second she was over the pool of blood? Huh?
No, she was doing a dramatic backward skate (no, not a Moon Walk, EmJay got the name wrong), note her body position, classic ice-skating move
She still seems to be using her flight orb as part of it. I would have thought she’d “float” over the pool, as if she was water walking… Or I guess blood skating.
Basically she was trying to style and use the flyball for a horizontal push and skate away on the blood-slick floor, so since she wasn’t using any lift…. *sploosh*
Or if pure horizontal push isn’t possible without “flying” she added vertical downward force equal to gravity, so she could slide.
She was using the orb to slide backwards, then happened to put her foot down right in the pool. She fell halfway into it before catching herself with the orb.
Dave… think you goofed the physics here. Cause if that’s the way the Fly ball worked, every time she flew she’d bounce up and down due to ground obstacles. She couldn’t see the ground in the clouds to compensate, much like she couldn’t see the ground drop away under the blood.
Ummm…
Never mind…
That was because the orb was in full flight mode and she had the shield orb to center herself.
This time, she was just pushing herself to the side and with nothing vertical in mind.
I think what he means is the slide was accomplished with the fly-ball, and the place where she “put her foot down” as in releasing the fly-ball to resume standing normally, happened to be in the pool. With your interpretation she would have only gotten her foot in it, and maybe banger her crotch, because she would have fallen at the edge instead of the center
No, she never released the Fly-ball, her foot never left the ground, wet blood is slippery, the Fly-ball simply gave her the momentum, which carried her to the center of the portal before she dipped more than just her toes into the cold clammy blood-pool
Technically she didn’t release the fly ball, but she did cancel the effect.
It is hard to see if it is her left or right foot that slipped in the portal, but notice that it is the tip of the foot that sinks in. That only makes sense if it is the foot of the leg she had raised backwards. If it was the foot she kept on the ground while sliding her heel would’ve sunk in first.
And the reason she lowered her leg is because she stopped gliding.
The real question here is why isn’t Sydney using the fly orb continuously?
You just covered the very practical reasons why rough and ready Maxima is set to always on flight in the vault. What possible reason could Sydney have for wanting to walk in gore when she can fly?
Wait wait wait, if the portal is still open… does that mean they could, theoretically, use it to track down where Sci-fright staged the break-in from? o_O
Probably, though I doubt there is anything left in there.
Probably not, but there may be clues left behind leading to where she went after
The room blocks teleports, but there’s a loophole. That’s it right there, where Sciona dug it out.
It’s a whoop-hole
It’s more of a Cooter-hole.
You’re welcome.
Nooooooooooooooooooope! :)
But seriously yeah I bet they can.
Sydney appears to be puking in the last panel.
Is she puking?
From her sound effects, I guess she’s spitting instead.
Yeah, spitting. Like when you’re shovelling manure out of a barn in the spring, you do a LOT of spitting. BTDT.
That’s one of the problems with shoveling manure… the work just keeps piling up, don’t it? ;^)
Top of the many reasons that I will never willingly work on a farm, ever, again.
Confused for a bit there. Blue effect made me think it was the ‘light-hook’.
Plus the fact the light-trail leads to Hentorb, can see why would be confused
Did Sydney start moving (getting dragged by something) before she grabbed the flight orb, or was she NOPEing away from the “creepy doll” door and just happened to slide over the hole that cooter came thru?
She backed away sliding… then meet the portal.
I’m thinking the second option – now that you put it that way.
Looks like she is using her flight orb to make a dramatic giant step backwards.
Scab oatmeal…..1000x eww. Gunna say that’s going to be at least in the top 20 of things Sydney wishes she could have lived without doing.
It’s also automatically added to her venomous swearing thesaurus.
Crunchy Scab Oatmeal!
A balanced part of Vampires breakfast!
Now with more species!
100% Natural!
No, it’s 100% supernatural!
Is ‘Noped my way into a major cluehole’ suitable nomenclature for a field report?
She did a Daphnee
Maxima comes over with an angry look on her face….!
“Scoville! I told you to make yourself useful,not make more messes for Crimson and the other council members to clean up!!!”
Sydney tries her pathetic eyes but it don’t work on Maxima! Later on,Sydney is on KP duty…
Perhaps Mr.Bubbles can make niagra quantities of water to wash off with. hopefully soapy water, adding new meaning to the name Mr.Bubbles.
Just don’t leave her unsupervised around a stew/chili pot.
“Hmm, a little bland. What around her could kick this up? Aha! Oh, these are only scotch bonnets, but I guess they will have to do. Make sure the knife is sharp. Green cutting board for veggies. Dicey, dicey. And into the pot. Stir well and taste. Much better.”
“Scoville, are done with those potatoes yet?”
“Just about, sergeant. I only have 6 more to go.”
“Good, then I can give you the other half to do as well.”
“That was only half the potatoes?“
Well, the USARMY has had Bloody Stupid Johnson’s toenail clipping device for peeling potatoes for some decades now. Of course, they simply chose to use it to demonstrate to the grunts that there is an easier way to do the job, but the Mess Sergeant simply chooses not to let them use it. Heh.
Actually, peeling potatoes is no longer used as a punishment, simply because there aren’t any potatoes to peel… by the time they arrive, they’ve already been processed into hash browns or French fries or mashed potatoes or whatever.
Nope, they have a special supply of PunishSpuds
Not in the Air Force. During Basic Training, you may still receive mess duty, but you never touch any of the food. They keep you busy washing dishes, mopping floors, and cleaning up messes. It’s actually considered a privilege, not a punishment, because while it can be back-breakingly exhausting, you get to eat whatever you want for mealtime and get to avoid doing Physical Fitness training for a day.
In the Navy, it isn’t a punishment, because all junior enlisted personnel serve 90 days of Temporary Assigned Duty (TAD) upon reporting to their respective command. For most sailors this will mean being sent to a shipboard galley, which includes, but is not limited to, washing dishes in the scullery, food prep, mess deck cleaning, and/or line server. The only exception is anyone who is in a “critical rating” and can’t be spared.
Even in Russia, potato peeling is becoming a thing of the past, because they are outsourcing the feeding of their personnel to civilian contractors. Civilian contractors are decidedly more professional at cooking than most soldiers, and also steal significantly less than military intendants for fear of losing the contract.
TL;DR: In the modern military, the only time you will ever peel spuds is in a field kitchen or a shipboard galley. All the military mess halls on base are outsourced to civilian contractors, so if you’re on base and it’s your turn to perform kitchen patrol, you’re most likely going to be washing dishes or cleaning floors.
Like said: PunishSpuds, they are not for eating, just for peeling
Or Maxima will raz her with a reference along the lines of: aunt flo, cousin red, have the painters in, surf the crimson wave
Finding the open portal while it’s still possible time to track down Sci-fright? Yeah, can totally see how that’s a bad thing :rolleyes:
Butt, we can’t let logic get in the way of the Anit-Maxi hate, now can we?
Required Johnathan Coulton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgfklKnOg4w
And the flashlight shows you something there just inside the door.
With a tattered dress and a feeling you have felt somewhere before.
Yeah that song’s been running in a loop through my brain since panel 2.
OK, I’m gonna have to call shenanigans on this. I can understand nobody accidentally stepping in the apparently slightly deeper looking puddle of blood in the middle of the room before now.
But I CAN’T believe that among all the Council members present, all of them wouldn’t have noticed said puddle is much deeper than it looks / contains a lot more blood / is still an active portal.
They’ve been there for some time, long enough to get Cooter into interrogation and for them to start opening up the magical equivalent of the breaker boxes. Sydney suddenly and “comedically” discovering THIS IS AN IMPORTANT CLUE shouldn’t happen twice.
As Sydney is this comic’s protagonist, of course she’ll be at the right place and the right time to move the story along. Also rule of funny. Who would you want to find the epicenter (if that’s what it is) of the wall splatter?
There’s rule of funny / protagonist plot progression and then there’s Mary Sue BS. Ingsol, Crimson or Master Gault should’ve been able to tell that there was something odd about the blood puddle (bluddle?) in the middle of the room before now.
They might not have mentioned it before now for the sake of this comic’s “rule of funny”, but that just suspends disbelief. Or possibly there’s some kind of Idiot Ball effect that Sciona integrated into the portal to make it harder for the Council to backtrack her…
Or it’s a combination of absolute shock over the condition of the vaults, plus being hit with the weakness spell the guardian put on them.
Humans drink water, but can rarely notice a deep hole in the middle of a large shallow puddle.
Humans also can’t identify from a simple sniff if said puddle of water is from over twenty different brands of bottled H2O.
isn’t ingsol one of the vampires in on Sciona’s plan?
I think the problem was that blood was all over the place. They could tell it was blood, they could tell it was from different sources, and it was like white noise – any more specific information was just lost in how much of it was there.
White noise generally means you can’t determine anything because there’s just too much input coming in to draw a valid conclusion. It only rarely means that you are limited to the rather specific “over two dozen” qualifier for the parts of the thing you’re examining.
‘over two dozen’ is not specific ‘over two dozen’ is just as likely to mean ‘within two dozen i could determine the exact number but i cant so theres more’
not to mention, the original owner of blood and the amount of blood in specific places is different kinds of input, like how many people are talking, what it is they are saying and how loud the sound is
Maybe the portal was just spherical and removed a chunk of floor while it was active. So now there’s just a perfectly non-magical hole there that filled with blood while the room got splattered.
Kind of like how a Stargate will take a chunk out of anything located too close when it opens?
Again, shouldn’t either of the vampires noticed that then? A hole deep enough to drench Sydney would contain far more than the volume of a perfectly pureed person (i.e. Chunky Salsa’d Coot, much less the blood in him)
I agree, yuffiek, some shenanigans/plot magnetism are afoot.
True, but… how exactly being able to smell blood would allow them to determine the volume of blood in a hole? They would smell that there is blood, lots of it… yeah, obviously, just look around on the walls.
But remember that how strong something’s smell is depends on the surface in “contact” with the air, so some molecules can get airborne and be detected by olfactive cells. A hole, by definition, has a reduced surface compared with its overall content (otherwise, it’s a puddle). A puddle two inches deep will smell the same as a hole three feet deep with the same “aperture”.
The only way to determine there is more blood without plunging something inside (with an opaque liquid, such as blood), is to watch it dry (or, here, clot), but it’s a slow process and it’s not even perfectly reliable (you could probably determine it’s not two inches deep because the skin of blood would remain uniform instead of getting cracks in it, but I’m not even sure of that… someone should call Dexter to get info about that).
Okay, sound properties could probably be used, too, and ripples when shocks propagate through the ground, but it’s not something one would do spontaneously.
The room is painted in blood spatter. However, there is a puddle of it in the middle of the room. Shouldn’t that tell anyone: “Hmm, looks like someone blew up a bathtub full of blood in this room, but there’s more of it here, in the middle. Maybe I should take a closer look at this spot.”
More blood in the middle usually just means that’s where the guy got killed.
This. Someone apparently having exploded into blood in the middle of the room full of various deadly wards doesnt really warrant immediate investigation, especially when you have a live witness right there.
The whole damn floor is covered in blood, how exactly are they supposed to determine that the puddle in the middle is actually a hole just from looking and slash or smelling it?
What if neither the council’s nor archons search protocols yet contain a search method relying on chance, humor, and tropes? Seems like a pretty easy oversight when you are studying things seriously from a purely forensic viewpoint that you’d miss the classic switch in the best leaning spot in the room
I don’t think Dabbler’s cleaning cantrip is going to be enough for Sydney.
Possibly true, but we’ll at least get to see Sydney in make-up (probably the only time ever).
It worked on coot, and he was exploded.h
It’s a good trick, but I can only do it once!
Let’s hope none of those species is a blood borne transmute vector, like vampire or werewolf. Getting that in your mouth is as bad as getting bit.
Not necessarily. There’s plenty of things that are safe to consume, but not at all safe to get in your blood stream.
Besides, Sydney suddenly becoming a vampire/werepanther hybrid might not be the worst…
We will not be getting a busty were-Sydney. The reality in which Sciona had any significant amount of Pixel blood to work with nolonger exists.
Only enough to empower her golem was procured in this one.
1) That’s misusing the word “species”.
2) Using blood with magical diseases as a vector for magic is a stupid idea unless you know with 100% certainty what the two magics are and how they would interact. IIRC, the full mechanics of vampirism and zoanthropy are not understood in the grrl power universe.
That said, if it is possible to cure either vampirism or zoanthropy (even just post-mortem) then the cured blood may retain some kindof predisposition towards use as a magical conduit. De-transmogrified zoanthrope or vampire blood could end up being Sciona’s biggest asset.
Sciona knows at least how to use vampire blood. Plus she is a blood mage with a few centuries of experience… we barely know what knowledge she posses.
She and her team had to come through that, so any such nasty potential side effects might well have been filtered out. Granted, she’s a Blood Mage and the rest were monsters of various sorts (and she doesn’t, apparently, care about their well being beyond the time she needs their help) so maybe not.
But Sydney turning into a busty pink were-panther (with laser claws) while remaining her normal self in human form would be funny. Even funnier, her dismay if she turned into a pink non-Super pink were-panther with a figure like her non-were’d form. Though being Sydney, she might be more upset about the lack of laser claws . . .
Laser claws in the now, figure in the future.
Would be extra funny if she got 3x the flat chest.
I don’t think that would be readily noticeable unless does an adults-only image of Sydney.
Which I somehow don’t expect to see anytime soon.
Not to us but I doubt she’d miss it when trying out the form back at base and we’ve seen her tactlessly bring up female biology with less provocation in the past.
Some viruses cannot survive outside the host for long. No one (in our universe) knows how long the vampire or werewolf virus would last outside the body and that stuff is old enough to go crusty.
Yeah but there was a whole pool of it in the portal, looking fresh enough to be still liquid under the possibly crusty surface
I’m imagining a little set tea table now, with a dozend killer teddies, mysterious chinese porcellain dolls, that doll from Animal Crossing (Aika ville), and Chucky arranged around it.
Let’s hope for Sydney that Decollette knows that insta-cleanup spell, too.
Maxima may have to tell Halo to “make herself usefull” more often.
It may be a more proactive version of saying “What could go wrong?”
Open the door! Open the door! Open the door! Open the door! Open the door! I wanna see the creepy dolls! ^^
Creepy dolls are fun from a safe distance (i.e. a different dimension). :-)
You’ll love the Anna Lee collection then.
What is realistic biohazard procedure for falling into a waist-deep pool of blood from multiple unidentified sources and getting it all over you and into your mouth?
I don’t think the professionals will take that at all lightly, so I assume Sidney will be spending some fun time getting decontaminated, checked over by doctors multiple times and probably jabbed with all of the vaccines and whatever meds for the most likely bloodborn pathogens she might have been hit by.
Good way to make “don’t do that” stick as well as practical.
Or just a Dabbler clean and scan spell.
The old-fashioned treatment is a much better deterrent but unfortunately not as reliable, or I would have said do it the old-fashioned way anyway.
Realistic biohazard procedure is basically to check if the blood is contaminated first, and pump her full of antiviral meds to be on the safe side. Then again this is a pool of blood from various stuff so I don’t really think there is a procedure for that.
That is, we usually deal with people accidentally stabbing themselves with potentially contaminated stuff, not falling into pools of blood.
The good news is she’s significantly less likely to catch HIV from that kind of exposure, the bad news is Hepatitis B is still a big threat, eyes, mouth, nose… HBV don’t care =p
Most bloodborne diseases can’t cross the species barrier either, so I guess the danger depends on how much of that is human blood, or human-like anyway…
So somebody stole Chucky?
I am personally looking forward to what Sydney looks like after being zapped with Dabbler’s cleanup/beautification spell.
Also, “possessed creepy dolls”. Are we going to get to meet ‘Chucky”?
Here are some possibilities. https://horrorfreaknews.com/30-horror-movies-creepy-dolls
Then again, it may just be Pinocchio or Ted.
Why not all three? There’s also Suicidal Tickle Me Elmo… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INVxODqDucw
If we’re giving links to creepy doll videos, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgfklKnOg4w is a must. (Jonathan Coulton’s Creepy Doll song)
“Hi! I’m Talky Tina, and I don’t like you very much.”
…’scab oatmeal’…
…sadly, not the first time I’ve heard that phrase…
I wonder if one of the comm-ball upgrades are a universal translator sort of deal
Probably’d be a “discern meaning” rather than a direct translator
Hmmm… wasn’t ancient vampire blood being used to make that portal, or was that for the Giant Golem?
I might personally prefer that to ‘random murdered people’ Scab Oatmeal.
Wait until she finds out some of that came from Coot! Not the first time he’s been in someone’s mouth, I’ll wager.
Betting Syd throws up at least 3 times in the next 30 minutes. Time for her to break out the super hot sauce she carries in her utility belt for just such an occasion!
Wait a minute. At least 2 dozen different species…
…did she use samples of Council blood to breach the chamber?
So how did Sydney, who was using the flight orb to go straight sideways, fall into thee pool?
Simple. She wasn’t using the flight orb to give her any vertical lift, just a horizontal push.
Straight is straight, though. We haven’t seen the orb do anything other than ‘the direction she wants’. Which in this case, is straight.
It’s blood Crimson, and you’re a vampire: The least you could do is give our girl a tongue bath. ;)
Would you lick off last week’s chicken leftovers?
I might off Sydney ;)
(just kidding puking would ruing things later)
Has nothing to do with whether or not Max is a “girly-girl” . . . does no one here do their own laundry? Have you never had to get blood off of clothing? It’s difficult if not impossible, damn right she’s flying over that.
As someone prone to minor foot injury, I’ve never had a problem cleaning my socks.
Boots, on the other hand, are a nightmare to clean without also locking in that awful wet leather stink.
Max just got the fear vomit off her boots, she certainly wouldn’t want gore on them.
Also, “scab oatmeal”. Blood will form scabs, that is true, but oatmeal is already oatmeal. Wouldn’t blood be scab batter?
Well – blood cleaning tip. A diluted concentration of hydrogen peroxide will do nicely on clothes. just use a few drops until it disappears. Don’t run through a dryer first. Also note that there could be a slight fading of the colors, but if it’s ruined anyway, why not?
I’ve used something called ‘Puri lens’ to do it – it is a contact lens cleaner. When it is done it becomes just water.
I thought it was cold water and lemon juice for blood.
I mean peroxide is just water with extra oxygen, it turns into water when the oxygen oxidizes stuff.
It’s because blood and most living cells contain the enzyme catalase, that when combined with (H2O2), converts it into water (H2O) and oxygen (O2). Hydrogen peroxide has been used as an antiseptic since the 1920s because it kills bacteria cells by destroying their cell walls.
Chemistry is so fun.
I’ve used peroxide on bloodstains. It hard set bits of it.
Best way I have found was either a lye based soap like Fels-Naptha, or an enzymatic detergent if you have it. Oh, and loads of elbow grease.
Also, soaking the garment in lukewarm water first helps a lot.
Why does that sound like something Nick (in Left 4 Dead 2 might say? After all, he’s the one who bought us this gem:
“Brains come out; swamp water doesn’t. Don’t ask me how I know that.”
Hopefully no-one will mentions to Sydney that a lot of this blood came from Coot, or she’s gonna have a breakdown.
Time to see a Succubus about a cleaning spell, I think. Since Dabbler is busy, maybe Decolette has one?
“SCAB OATMEAL”….. Thank you very much for the visual. My life is now complete. Someone please kill me…
I demand a girly-girl picture of Maxima in lace on a field of heather. I have money, I can make it worth your while.
It’s just a puddle, it can’t Possibly be that deep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aZcSGtwy8g
Sure it can’t.
Who else here thinks Scab Oatmeal would be a cool band name?
i feel the same as her no creepy dolls. i would fall in a pool of blood a million times before going near that room. the childs play movies are the only movies i wont watch since i was little.
Hey DaveB, your neighbour sidebar nit picker again.
Tailsteak is finished Leftover Soup, it will no longer be updating. But he did start a new comic called Forward which can be found here: https://forwardcomic.com/ if you are interested.
Dammit, just saw I was lack to the nit pick, sorry DaveB
Scab oatmeal? In your mouth? Double ick! I think I’m gonna hurl! Bonus points for Syd in finding Sciona’s portal though. Can they use it to find her HQ? OTOH, now that she has her original body back, I suppose she’s long gone from there.
Syd had better go see doc when she gets back to HQ hopefully docs powers include diginoiseing blood pathogens and not just regenerating tissue to save Syd a ton of lab tests..
Just gimme one of Abbott’s old junk pile Architects and the reagent package and I’d have it done in two hours, tops.
Pretty sure ARC-SWAT has better medical tech, though, all those taxpayer dollars at work… =p
Cue the USPS commercial with the creepy clown doll…
Oh my! That can’t be healthy.
So the portal uses the inherent resistance of blood from multiple sources to stabilize itself? And if you even use blood from different species there’d be a full on war going on in there. That’s whole blood, so you’d get both a splash of immune system cells and the full compliment of serum proteins, so since the blood is still red enough to fool her and fluid enough to not act like sponge gel there’s still a heck of a lot of mojo left in it. I guess the scabs form from the used up bits of blood after the magic’s sucked all the power out of it.
Anyhow, it’s a wonderful mix of biomedical science and blood magic, I wonder if she added any guinea pig blood for its unique cells?
She should try out her Atmo-Sphere to see if it has an environmental scrubber function built in.