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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I don’t think she was flying at all. She can direct the orbs themselves to push in any direction as long as they are within grabbing distance (remember the fight with Math where she used the orbs to attack directly). She put flight “in hand” JIC and then immediately found the reason why.
As for tracing back to where they started from, Sciona used a different exit strategy (room blocks teleport IN not out) so it is extremely likely the start point is booby trapped. Quick send Max in so she can say it for the betting pool!
Yes, Sci-fright used a different way out, but what about Gunnie?
The room probably also blocks teleporting out, under normal circumstances. It had already been established though that the teleportation blocking effects were down.
Or she has different versions of uses of her flight orb. I doubt the floor was slick enough for force on her upper body to cause her to allow her single leg to slip across so smoothly. What I actually think was happening was a combination of forces being applied to her through her orbs flight ability, one force pushing her backwards at one speed, and one force lifting her up slightly allowing her to have a low enough friction to be able to slide backwards as she liked, but not enough that she didnt have at least a portion of gravity affecting her. Another thing that reinforces this idea is the fact that she requires the use of the barrier orb in order to maintain fast flight due to the wind resistance that still technically affects her without her bubble (among other reasons to bubble up). If it was true telekinesis flight she would be unaffected by gravity whatsoever, so long as she had a strong enough power source (which these orbs appear to be) but in the case where the orb only provides pushes of force, things like wind falling through holes in the ground become possible even when you are still technically “flying.”
Hehehe…
Now Sydney knows what it feels like to take a bath of blood. I wonder if it’ll make her immortal …
Only if its the blood of virgins.
Do the virgins have to die in the process? Do you have to bathe in it or would a light basting do? Is it “live forever” immortality or the “live through anything” sort? Assuming the right set of answers, autoexsanguination could become a real preteen right of passage.
After looking through my tomes of Darkness and Evil, I find acording to chapter 13, subsection 666 the following.
The blood rites of immortality require the life blood of virgins in sufficient quantity to fully immerse oneself.
Said rite confers the gift of youthful vitality so long as it is repeated annually.
Authors Note: This rite conveys only enternal youth and beauty and is in no way a spell of invincibility. Also any virgin blood with do, the infernal realms are just fine with children. Be sure to save the corpses of unbaptised children though, these can be sold to your local witch for a decent profit. As witches need their fat to brew their flying potions. waste not, want not.
Wait, you say any virgin blood, but does that still have to be human(oid)?
as long as it is from a sentient being the ritual cares not.
Define ‘sentient’
under normal circumstances able to view itself as “I” so intelligent enough to realize they exist
So the blood of a quadrillion ants will do.
ants are not sentient enough to realize they exist, most of them barely have a brain to begin with.
in fact, to be on the safe side it’s best if you only use the blood of virgins whose species is the same as your own, in case the dark entity you are sacrificing to has something against the race whose virgin you use, like an elf or orc, difficult to say when it comes to the dark side, they can be surprisingly picky with their choice of virgin blood.
So, that rules out Politicians then?
So no one here is concerned that Bracey has a book close to hand that is apparently titled “Virgin Sacrifices for Dummies” or some such?
You’re absolutely right. The Darkness and Evil Home Companion is a more up to date and complete option within anyone’s budget and comes in an app form so you always know the most current information and can tke it anywhere. Very handy for rituals in remote locations as you can load it on your phone. He should really upgrade.
So if limited to earth species we are looking at apes, dolphins, elephants and magpies
Human(oid) is generally preferred buy you can get a newbie pass the first time out by using anything with virgin blood. Much to the chagrin of your infernal advocate. This lapse is only tolerated in hopes of gaining your soul through continued corruption and demonic pacts.
There is quite a bit of difference between immortality and invulnerability. You can be immortal and still be killed. Immortailty by itself only counts if you continue to live. Get in a car wreck, shot in the head, heart or something else vital, or be decapitated and you’re just as dead. Invulnerability coupled with immortality would be the key to success as not only would you live forever, but nothing could harm you. I’ve oft wondered though… How does invulnerability work for something like say, a nuclear explosion? The invulnerability may work to keep you from being ashed, but what about the radiation? What would that do? Mutatiion maybe?
You are correct and this is something the experienced occultist is aware of. Demon kind being the notorious cheaters they are however, do not offer this information to the novice practictioner of the dark arts in the hopes that said mage will mistake one for the other. Afterwards an “accident” is arranged so that the soul of the novice may be collected in due course without having to wait all those centuries for the end of the world or some such.
Black magic is a tricky business.
Invulnerability would render you inert out all outside forces that would do you harm, you could technically even survive starvation and thirst, though it would be painful as all hell
Or something like this could happen. Mind the step.
I imagine something like this behind that door.
https://youtu.be/QfPh19htt8w
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!
Well I play Black Mage usually, so, my main tactic is to kill EVERYTHING with fire.
Even… fire? o_O
I’ve been touring the Black Mage repertoire lately and I can say that you ESPECIALLY kill fire with more, better fire.
mebbe wood fire would be weak to chemical fire, or electrical fire
Doesn’t that just make it… more on fire?
Actually, that eliminates its fuel/oxygen supply, so killing fire with fire is a valid tactic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_fire
Watch the John Wayne movie Hellfighters. It’s about fighting fire with Explosions.
Or back burning in forest fires… where they set smaller, more controllable fires to kill off the fuel in the path of a major fire in an attempt to slow or stop the main fire.
Mouthful of multiple species blood still 1000% better than being anywhere near “creepy dolls”.
I’m sure somebody else already made this reference, but maybe Crimson won’t mind licking Sydney clean. Perhaps even with Scarlett’s help. Did I just wrote that out loud?
Yes, someone did suggest that, someone also asked if the one asking would enjoy licking up last weeks curry
i wonder how the licks (to use a World Of Darkness derogatory term for vampires hehe) feel about blood packs, is it like eating food that was previously frozen versus food prepared from fresh ingredients?
Blood Packs would be like a juice box for vamps, or one of them ‘snack-on-the-go’ things
true, us humans do suffer flavor loss on behalf of convenience too i guess; incidentally, in Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, a video game set in World of Darkness, the player character can use bloodpacks as a healing source
It’s a little late to think of it THIS time, but Sydney has a bunch of floating controls active on her comm ball. She found one of them let’s her teleport, err, ‘bee’-port. She should see if one of the others has a translator function on it to let her read arcane runes and such.
“Hmm, it says ‘I prepared explosive ru’-augh!”
Guess what spell I cast before making this post…
Yay! +1
This message will self destruct as soon as you read it *boom*
An active translator function is unlikely as it would assist in figuring out the orb controls.
Nah – she can’t use the orbs during the level-up selection.
Not that, her balls have runes on them when she activates them
I wonder if Maxima will come over to investigate,along with the other council members..?!?
“if you had the option to not walk in gore, wouldn’t you not walk in gore?”
Also it would help preserve the crime scene.
Yeah, I see a lot of vomit in Sydney’s future. That room is going to smell fantastic.
“We are pepper bees,we sting your eyes!” Part 2 hehe
However I think Maxima would be more ready for vomit in this case.
GODDAMNIT DAVE, WHY?
Im with ya man!
I have never felt worse for Sydney than I do right now, she’s taking that a lot better than I would. I was in a medical unit in the army and I can think about are blood borne diseases after seeing this page!
Yeah if I was Max I would have hovered above all the ick too.
I would have done the smart (but perhaps not for career progression) thing and not entered the gore cave at all. One bloodcaked room was enough for this lifetime.
Heh, I dont blame you.
Yes, but why didn’t Sydney take a cue from Max and hover above the gore too?
Or use the telepresence orb to visit the area without worry of getting messy at all?
Heck, given the area, using truesight might be overwhelming, but it would likely be pretty useful if she can learn to sort through the data..
Chalk it up to being a rookie I say.
So now I have to wonder which is worse for Sydney, creepy possessed dolls or a literal blood bath. I’d rather face off with the dolls myself.
So many horrible diseases just waiting to enter Sydney through tiny scratches on her skin
Horrible diseases? Remember, this is blood from dozens of different species enchanted by an evil blood mage.
She’s lucky *I’m* not GMing, is all I’m saying.
Jeez she could end up with Jabberwocky herpys or something!
Aww… And here i was hoping that Sydney would do a reference to Tomb Raider. That scene in the game made my vampire itch salivate.
Also eww fat naked redneck was in there!
Ha ha, gross XD
NITPICK!
Shouldn’t she… Not Fall, if holding the flight orb? It’s not like any other time we see her with the orb as an anchor point/center of gravity (ie: Thor flies by flinging the hammer, and holding on). I suppose she also doesn’t have localized gravity, but her lack of boob made it non-apparent earlier? Except the first time she demo’ed that one, her hair stayed in place.
Was not the flight ball but the lighthook. So pulling herself backward with no upward energy at all.Really though why lighhook when you can fly?
Oops, looking back you were right, Flight orb. I saw the orbs flight trail and thought it was the lighthook.
She’s not flying, she’s using the Fly-ball to make a dramatic slide backwards
Exactly; you can see in panel 4 that she’s leaving a line on the floor where her boot is travelling, indicating at least some weight is being exerted on the floor. Don’t think of the flight orb as giving her purely horizontal momentum, but rather a slightly angled push to make her sliiiiide across the floor.
Except it didn’t seem like the flight orb gave her momentum at all.
Before it has seemed. to detached her gravity pull from the earth and moved that detached section of gravity around as a unit. Thus in the conference room demo her hair was till being pulled down, while the down got moved around.
I guess it can also partially detach her gravity? Or just push her around, without detaching her gravity?
Had we seen that before – I can’t recall?
I think what happened is that Sydney can command her orbs to fly around, and they can push her in the process just with normal physics, and that’s what she did here. That the orb she used to do it was the flight orb was probably just force of habit/association. It did come in handy when she needed to actually use its -power- tho.
Yeah, because wet blood is slippery (don’t ask >_>)
Good thing she hasn’t remembered the redneck probably used the portal too
coots portal was a explode into the place type of portal not a climb though a pool of water one. so coot got there with a harem like single point teleport and the pool is a more opal like stargate portal. also most of the blood coot was in direct contact with got exploded and exposed to temps high enough to worry a vamp.
Sydney will wear the Dabbler make-up side effect soon enough, lol
If this was 1rst of April soon, I’d expect no less than 7 kinds of were and vampires and stuff that Sydney would turn into a mix of (with a robot leg thown into the mix because Dr McNinja logic).
But the worse would be the fluorestently glowing red neck she’d get even when not transformed!! It would defeat the power of the evil clones of green lantern!!
A pity we’re not anywhere near the 1rst of April. And also: please keep the lots-of-work drawing talent for the main comic, not for that sort of thing?
The ones capable of defeating Green Lanterns, are Yellow Lanterns, not Red (Green Lanterns’ one weakness, is the colour yellow, which is ironic seeing how the Yellow Lanterns’ one weakness is the colour green… in other words, a lemon can beat Hal Jordan and a lime can beat Sinestro)
One of the most effective anti-green lantern weapons is a #2 pencil due to alan scott’s ring being vulnerable to wood.
To be fair, Alan Scott wasn’t really a Green Lantern, and his Ring wasn’t really a Power Ring.
You are getting Green Lanterns mixed up with Power Girl: originally, her weakness was to anything natural (sticks and stones mostly)
Alan Scott was the original Green Lantern, from 1940, don’t know where you got the idea he wasn’t really a Green Lantern or that his Ring wasn’t real
He’s right, Alan Scott’s ring constructs were vulnerable to wood back in the day (dont know if thats still true), and if I remember correctly his ring was a thing of elemental magic and not connected to the power battery on OA. Hence the assertion that despite being called Green Lantern he was not in fact “A” green lantern as he was not part of the Corp. The Idea of the Corp and OA and Guardians all came with the introdiction of Hal Jordan of cours (as you are likely aware).
Funny I didnt know that stuff about Power Girl, learned something new.
Except, he recharged his ring via a lantern…
And don’t forget they love rewriting the DC universe a lot. I remember at least one version of how the meteorite he made his lantern out of came to be was sourced to the Corps. Then later it became The Starheart. It might still involve that Lantern for all I know…..I kinda stopped trying to keep track of the rewrites…..
Small girl, evil scientist and sudden transformation into a monstrously powerful chimaeric were-mess? Sounds like Bloody Roar to me.
They’re making a mess of this place. I mean beyond the existing one. Possibly destroying evidence in the process.
Where’s CSI Supernatural when you need them! We need their witty banter, their season-long subplots, their quirky hacker-girl… Oh wait, we already have all those. Huh. Maybe everything up till now was just the prequel to the real story?
You know… in every “world” that has magic in it you sooner or later end up facing some kind or version of blood magic.
For once i would like to see some magic based on toenails or that weird stuff you can find in the corner of the eyes in the morning.
Or bether still how about that mysterius fluffy thing that appears in ones navel, that shit just magicaly appears anyway so why not?
Ah. THOSE fluffy things. I think they are related to the dust bunnies under the bed.
there is magic based on all that, pay attention next time witches mutter recipes for doombrews or voodoo types do their thing (in fiction ofc, i know nothing about real world magic); ppl who believe in voodoo are known to collect their own fingernail clippings to prevent their being used against them by their enemies
Hair, fingernail clippings, used tissues…pretty much anything biological that can be acquired by a potential enemy.
Also, not the only practice that uses personal items for magic, just the most widely misinterpreted.
Also, there are some that collect their hair and nails and burn them every new year to bring health, as well as respecting their ancestors by keeping it free from evils use.
Yes but thats magic using those things as a targeting system (hit that whit this).
Blood magic can be used for so much moore like kill heal power sourse and so on.
[Wyld_One]:
They HATCH in the navel, then migrate to underneath the bed for the NEXT stage of their life-cycle, where they molt several times before males migrate to under the couch & between the cushions, while females migrate to underneath the kitchen stove/oven & feed on dropped scraps / drippings…
…when mating-season begins, they migrate to behind the fridge, where females leave their spawn hanging from the grillwork, to be fertilized by the males, who then convey it to the navel…
…& the “Circle Of Life” spins onward…
D’OH!!!?!
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Sorry.
Huh. Not sure why they left that open behind them. Smart money is on “it doesn’t lead anywhere useful, unless Sciona is an idiot”.
Health nerd here with the impulsion to state that Hepatitis does not spread by ingestion of infected blood. It is either blood to blood or sex, or ingestion of fecal matter (that is microscopic contamination on food, usually from unclean water or dirty hands)
Elven hepatitis of course could spread in any manner of way.
While true, any tiny cuts in the mouth would still result in blood to blood. The reason it’s not an issue with badly handled food is apparently more to do with the disease’s inability to survive cooking (in blood, IDK about the rest).
That said, Sydney of all people would know if she had even the slightest mouth problems.
I just don’t understand why she wasn’t flying?
Just like Maxima, I can’t imagine she would want to walk in the gore…
Oh, well, sometimes characters do stupid things for the sake of sight gags.
*gag*
Blood colored glasses. Cool.
I know she’s using the flight orb, but considering it’s Sydney, I like to think she;s just leaping straight into the air in panel 8.
Heh, just watched a video about stupid Golden Age heroes, and someone mentioned ‘blood oatmeal’ in a comment from 10 months ago, have you been waiting this long to find an excuse to use a similar comment? _O
I hope Sydney doesn’t get super aids.
On the broader subject of recruiting for ARCHON, it’s an interesting problem.
You really want to get every potential recruit, since it reduces the likelihood that you will have to fight them later. But you also don’t want jerks on your team, poisoning the espirit de corps.
It will be interesting to see them find someone who is all “Heck yeah I’ll join, and I’ll also troll and bully everyone but Maxima whenever her back is turned”. Although I guess Dabbler may already be that recruit?
(Yes, I know she’s technically not a recruit)
Dabbles is the stray you fed and petted once, and now can’t get rid of :P
Dabbler is a troll but not mean-spirited. There could always be worse.
In hindsight, as the only baseline human on the investigation team, she should have had gloves and a face mask….or a hazmat suit.
Or been explicitly ordered to fly everywhere while bubbled, and stay out of the vault proper until it had been cleared,
Mmm, Cooter slushie.
Creepy Doll by Jo Colton – the song made for this page
The other choice for reference I guess would be Ace at the moment he realizes the bowl he’s cleaning with his tongue is made of bat shit, from the very same movie.
Ah, the good old days when Jim Carrey put his crazy into acting instead of politics. . .
Lol. For some while …