Grrl Power #582 – Intragation
Huh, I think something’s going on with Coot. What ever could it be?
I made an assumption that everyone would automatically recognize all the boots in the top panel. I mean, Max and Sydney should be pretty obvious, but just in case, I cheated a bit with the Who’s Who panel. If I’d had just a bit more time, I would have done little super deformed faces on each word bubble. I would be better to add those for the book version, which won’t have a Who’s Who on a fold out tab for every page. I probably should have done some incidental spatter on their boots too.
Happy Thanksgiving to those in the states. Lots of people won’t be up to their usual routines, and I briefly considered posting a stick figure filler page today because with the damage to my parents house from Harvey, we’re hosting Thanksgiving this year, so my drawing time is a little limited, but I… didn’t. Maybe if I had announced it on Monday’s comic but I didn’t think about it till too late. Besides, just because you’re not bored at work doesn’t mean you’re not bored at home, waiting for the big meal to be ready.
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Someone is playing someone.
Maybe someone is not listening to their own personal “ear wyrml”. Oh and Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It may not be something celebrated globally, but I like to think that we all could take the time to reflect on the good thing in our lives.
I’m calling it:
Coot wasn’t just their ticket in, he’s their ticket out as well, as they are hiding INSIDE HIM!
Ah, thats a great deduction and a friggin smart plan on the bad guys part.
That would be my guess as well.
That’s taking Inner Voices to another level…
I’m suspecting the inner voices are a telepathic link. They’re saying they need to leave the base coot is going to lead everyone to.
Better an ear wyrm than a Night Gallery style earwig. They not only eat through your brain, if it is female it could lay eggs in them thar grey matter….then the young’uns hatch and go to town on yur brain chomping all those lovely dendrites an axons till they get their fill an molt then crawl out through yur ear, sometimes also nasal cavities. Yucko magnified! The host usually dies. Better that way too.
Host dies, before or after the young’uns leave the nest? o_O
It’s ironic that this guy can’t stand up. So he might be a sit-down comedian?
I suspect he’s already “standing up”, and if he stood up, it’d be obvious.
I think that a carefully placed word bubble is hiding what you are referring to, but I also get the impression that his standing might not be that impressive.
ATTEEEEEEENTION!! AH-TEN-TION!!! WHY AREN’T YOU STANDING TO ATTENTION YOU MAGGOT?!?! ESPECIALLY WITH YOUR DREAM GIRL RIGHT THERE- ………Oh, you are. Um, er, yeah, OK…
…Maggot indeed… XD
I am uncomfortable with your comparison. that hits my male ego below the belt as it were. it also makes comparisons that women find all too descriptive in too many ways.
I’m assuming that’s Wyrmil hitching a ride in Coot (and possibly being responsible for him being alive and in one piece).
Why would he give a damn about Coot spilling everything though? You’d think he’d want Archon and the Council to come down on Sciona like a ton of bricks.
Coot does seem to have acquired a “friend”.
Similar to, but not quite like this, I suspect…
Meh. She just pushed him face first into a death field and punched a hole through his chest… then left him with the Lazarus Scalpel and kept the portal open. They still have a dysfunctional relationship.
Where does it show/say Wyrmil has the Lazarus Scalpel? Doctor Chuckles is the one that wanted that, if he got it there is no reason for him to leave it behind.
it was the Regenerator Wyrmil wanted. which he might’ve gotten hold of.
Regenator.
I don’t recall Dave saying he typoed it, and the page where it was named still reads Regenator.
Regenerator does seem to be a common comments typo of the name, however. Human nature to try to make a real word out of a proper noun, perhaps?
I’m guessing that Coot was not only their ticket in, he’s their ticket out as well.
If they were all in there we’d probably bee seing a chorus instead of a monologue. So it seems likely that it is only Wormy in there being ignored by Cooter. Cooter’s head seems to be empty enough, I wonder why Wormy’s voice isn’t echoing.
I was thinking that something was Wyrming its way into his mind (such as it is). This might be the way that it regenerates; converts the mass of its new host into its new body. Sort of like a parasitic wasp larva that eats its host as it grows.
I LIKE the way you think…. Which really worries me at times like this.
Well, since Coot is being Coot at the same time I guess you could say they’re both parasites to each other… =p
A Coot-Wyrmil “marriage” does seem the most likely explanation. The presence of any others seems unlikely. They couldn’t be sure Coot would survive, and they would be even less sure he would be friendly. [Lots of people get a bit annoyed when you send them into death traps.] Also, Coot doesn’t seem to be able to leave with any loot [beyond a towel.]
Whrmil does have reason to think poorly about his former employer, but first things first. He is in the hands of people who are very upset with him. If he doesn’t get out of there fast, about the best he can hope for is a very secure jail cell, if he spills everything and makes a loyal slave. And there are several very annoyed jailers. If he has any idea of how to get out of there alive, this may be the only chance to try it. Later, he can see about expressing his disappointment, likely in a lethal way, but he needs his freedom now.
Okay, guess those ideas that Coot has a parasitic Wyrmil is correct
No no no, the parasite would be the one who does not contribute anything meaningful to the interaction. Wyrmil is suffering from a parisitic Coot infection while he recovers from his injuries.
Ah. Phrasing. >_<
Wyrmil hasnt done anything useful yet except be a hole for Sciona.
What? No one offered to strip off and hug Sydney to share body-heat? o_O
I have to admit to a bit of curiosity about that, as she seems to be dry – no dripping. Either someone has a cantrip that dried her off, or the life support ball can dry her off. But it would be expected to warm her up too, and she’s still shivering.
Without a massive warmup very quickly, she’s a prime candidate for life-threatening hypothermia. Polar Bear clubs, the 300 club, etc is well and fine – but she has low body fat, is not acclimated, and did not have the practise or physical exercise/sauna/etc setup for her chill dip. She needs gobs of heat before she collapses. The others present should NOT be ignoring her immediately dangerous medical situation.
not acclimated? all that practice scuba diving to get her cert was in hot tubs then?
Remember, nazis invented SCUBA gear by drowning and causing death by hypothermia to figure out what materials were needed to survive such things.
I bring this up because while wearing a suit, temperature doesn’t really matter much- and I assume it was more shallow seas and big pools that they trained in.
Correction: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus was co-invented by Jaques Costeau and Émile Gagnan in 1942
of course she’s familiar with water. But I doubt she learned scuba in near-freezing water. Special forces get special trainging, classroom and in the field, to learn how to ‘harden’ themselves against unprotected expoeure to freezing trmperatures.
I imagine that in water as cold as she just went for a dip in, a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_suit would be a better choice than the Wetsuit that most people think of, too.
Yeah, the oddly-named ‘dry-suit’ is what is typically used for cold-water diving, such as Arctic and Antarctic
It is called a dry-suit because the water stays on the outside and you stay dry on the inside. Wet suits allow the water to come into contact with your skin; best used in warmer water.
Sydney has managed to unlock that “air supply” function but maybe yet has to unlock the “comfortable temperature” function. There’s more to “Life Support” than mere atmosphere, ya’ know. Maybe that function is already unlocked at the same time when she discovered the “air supply” function but she doesn’t realize it; perhaps if she felt that she was in danger of freezing to death literally rather than just feeling cold while holding the right orb, it might even warm her up now.
Seems like something the pewpew orb might be able to do.
I was thinking that too. Lasers and heat and stuff.
Perhaps a node linking the Pewpew orb & the life support orb?
Maybe one of the passive enhancements from the tailor is that the clothes dry faster than normal
Remember the alternate, to us, 2015 with self drying clothes? We could sure use some.
That would definitely not be a good thing in the circumstances, if it just speeds up normal drying processes. At the moment, temperature is a far bigger worry than wetness.
Clothes dry as the water in them evaporates, but it takes a lot of energy to do so – more energy per gram than just about any liquid outside a speciality chemicals catalogue. That energy is lost into the environment, and needs to be replaced by heat drawn from the clothes and/or the wearer, cooling them down. Speed up the evaporation process, and you speed up the cooling process, just at the time when Sydney can least afford to be losing body heat.
Strange as it may seem, if there’s a limit to the removal of clothing, Sydney may actually be better off if the remaining clothes are prevented from drying once she’s down to that limit. It still takes a massive amount of energy to heat water from ocean temperature to body temperature, but reducing the loss of heat through evaporation means that a thermal steady-state is reached in less time and at a higher temperature.
This does of course assume that it’s a purely passive effect: no heat source built in to the clothes, just Sydney’s (overactive but currently overworked) metabolism. If there is a viable heat source then it’s almost certainly a net win to keep it worn and active, even if it does mean increasing evaporative losses and thermal inertia.
Incidentally, our world already has finishes that can increase or decrease the drying rate relative to untreated fabric, as long as you know which one you want before you make the garment. There’s always room for a Super to make versions that perform better and/or can change preference at will, but the idea is not that far outside our known capabilities.
Although Dabbler’s busy at the time, I’m sure she’s not the only succubus here with a ‘cleaning’-cantrip. It might lack heat, but at-least it would leave her dry, so she wouldn’t get any COLDER.
Yeah, but Decolette’s busy with Ingsol. Chorius is there too, and we don’t know that demon’s powers. Wait, is he a demon? Maybe just a (as stated by someone before) Frasier-voiced eldritch abomination, albeit a very non-insanity-inducing one.
There’s also an Elf and a Mage present who might have some kind of cleaning magic that doesn’t add makeup.
There is a lot of room in that entry area with the moonpool thing. Maybe Max grabbed her by the wrists/ankles & spun around really fast? SPIN CYCLE!! XD
If that’s a moonpool, doesn’t air pressure inside the chamber have to match water-pressure outside meaning that sudden departure — unless the chambers are actually at a very shallow depth — could lead to decompression problems?
She doesn’t need Max for that. With her flight Orb Sydney could have spun herself…. Or she could have done a few high speed laps of the big room to quickly air dry herself.
I thought the Air Orb would be set to Hot Air and put under her shirt.
That would dry her off.
that would require her to hold the orb. while many of us would appreciate the potential view, drawing that may not be as fun. as far as her feeling cold. yes that was a potentially lethal dip. I have noticed that many women are not geared to feel warm ever. I’d like to think that Maxima or someone checked some vital signs and has determined that Sidney is cold but not in any danger (she is dry, that helps a lot!) and that leaving her to work through the mental image she has of herself as being cold may in some small way help with the impulsiveness. yes we are using a geologists hammer reduce a mountain to gravel, but we have to start somewhere.
Her pipboy monitors her vitals. Presumably it has a hypothermic death imminent alarm that Max is listening for.
Decollette might have a “dry off” cantrip, and probably would be happy to share body heat, possibly inducing a catastrophic squick reaction in Sydney.
Wet clothing would pretty much guarantee hypothermia. I think we have to assume an hour or so of drying and warming. Nothing time critical is going on. That interview would probably need to go on for a good while anyway.
C’mon now. Harry Potter managed to strip down in the snow, dive into a ~15′ deep pool of cold water, grab a sword at the bottom, have an underwater fight with a horcrux, and then get dressed again, and never so much as shivered. I’m sure Sydney will be fine.
I mean, if I saw it in a movie it has to be how things really work, right? Aren’t there laws about that kind of thing?
there are laws about this sort of thing… and i did say potentially. my sarcasm detector app is not working right now. but i don’t think the laws say what you think they say…
INCONTHEIVABLE
I have a hot air orb. I have it in my head.
I mean it is my head, and some people say it blows hot air.
Stripping off seems excessive but I’d happily share my labcoat. And no, that isn’t just my work wear.
I assumed she was scared.
Look to the left of Sydney in panel 1. I believe that’s the trailing end of a scarf, but it could also be something heavier. Either way she’s probably got some extra cloth on her to at least help a little, though the thought that she’s still got wet clothing plastered to her skin is more than a little concerning. I don’t see signs of her dripping but also don’t see any mechanics that could have been used to dry her off.
never mind, on reflection, I’m a fool and that “scarf” is one of the support pillars scionia’s team put in.
:D
the who is who is gone for me.
That, or Coot is actually just taking them into letting him ‘escape’ so that they can follow him, and which point he enacts a cunning and dastardly plan to truly escape and get his revenge on Sciona’s club.
. . . Nah.
Yes, they shall release him, he shall unleash his cunning plan to loose his pursuers, then get his action-heroey revenge…
As for the gams in the first panel, took awhile but the only other legs those stylish boots could possibly belong to, would be Gault
According to the who’s who, those are crimsons legs…
If so Gault has some shapely legs ;)
Yeah, that’s why said it took awhile, and the only other possibility would have been Gault (forgot about the stalking elf :( )
only other? you mean besides Crimson, who is listed in the Who’s and was wearing very similar clothes 2 pages back?
Yes, other than Crimson who they do belong to, like said, took a while to figure that out
Check the time stamp for this thread: 11 minutes after the page went up
yeh fortunately we don’t exist in their universe lol, this must be what time travellers and deities feel like, being able to jump thru time and space
Found Wyrmil
He’s now Earwyrmil
I am starting to believe that every comedian on the planet know at least most of the funny successful ones have met coot or one of his immediate family members
“Hold my beer!”
is a common mantra of the species.
Is that so they have a free hand to reload?
Happy Thanksgiving to you….!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Bored at work, bored at home — honey, I ain’t here ‘cos of being “bored” anywhere. Grrlpower is something I **make** time for! :)
+1 to that. It’s very much ingrained in my thursday routine.
Is it just me, or is Ingsol looking a bit Frankenstein’s monster-ish in panel 4? It’s a good, square-jawed look, but doesn’t seem quite right for this character.
I love how Cooter’s expressions go from “I’ll say anything to those boobs” to arrogant confidence to slightly confused.
You did a good job with the boots, don’t worry about it. The word balloons help, of course, but Maxima and Halo are pretty recognizable from any angle. Maxima almost always stands with her legs apart – for stability, and to keep her metal skin from destroying the thighs of her pants.
Her stance is also due to her military training: you don’t spend months of your life doing pointless marching and parades and not stand like that for the rest of your life (personally spent two years in local ATC, and, nearly thirty years later, still stand like that)
Yeah, military habits die pretty hard, don’t they? Once I got out of my 4 years in the Navy, it took me a good 10 years to break the habit of swearing with every other world…
Huh, Air Force tried to break me of that habit going in.
Air Force taught me new “expressions” in boot camp I couldn’t use outside the military. Probably just the result of doing boot camp in June-August in San Antonio.
Air Force? So, expressions like “Pardon me, but would you have any Grey Poupon?”
No, like this:
you really didn’t believe me when I said ‘not for use outside the military, didn’t you?
I believe that no one outside of a Grey Poupon commercial, or the Air force, has ever used that expression.
Sure you weren’t swearing before you went in? o_O
Yeah, the overall look is closer to Franky than how Ingie looked in the beginning
Especially when Sydney is still shivering after her deep-sea polar bear plunge, jumping into nearly freezing water, and not changing into dry clothes.
and then there is the height difference.
Her clothes are from very special material. Maybe water-proof-when-convenient is one of the properties.
Hubris-is-tic?
Hubristic – Excessively proud or self-confident…
Daniel the Human taught me some Google-Fu…
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=hubristic&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=1F8XWv_rKqzr8AeXl7ewDQ
Is it me, or is Coot wearing make-up?
He *is* wearing makeup – Dabbler used her cleaning cantrip on him afew strips back and the makeup effect is part of it :P
Ah. Of course. Thank you.
Really brings out that heavy brow ridge, doesn’t it?
In the hallway, in your head…
both empty
Second Panel Camel.
no, Dabbler’s second word balloon covers it up.
made you look.
I foresee some identity crisis in Coot’s near future. And funny monologues when drunk. “Oh, god! SHUT UP!”, “Huh? There it was again. This moonshine must be going bad. It makes me hear voices. Now, what wus i sayin..”
“Hold my drink and watch this”?
Um… Dave… we weren’t kidding about the danger of hypothermia in the comments last time. Sydney is in SERIOUS danger of death here. This isn’t something anyone who has any sort of survivial training (like, say, a member of the military who is standing right next to her) would ignore for even a second. Sydney needs to be warmed up, urgently, or she’ll die.
What we don’t see, is Sydney wrapped in a blanket, or Val
well, to be fair, normally poeple dont get the ability, ty fly out of water within two seconds of being dunked in, so not as much heat had been litched out. and the water that is already on her can only take so much, so its not quiiiiiite as bad as real world cases.
Yeah, I played that for laughs, but I should probably address that. I might have to do it slightly out of sequence, as I don’t know I have time to rush an insert page, especially with the holidays sucking up my time this week.
I would think that any of the spell-casters could whip up a warming cantrip…
Just need to add an extra throw away line like “do you need a second hit of the warm-up spell” or something in the background. Could wait a few comics too.
Hey, Max, hit me with a tiny fireball, wudjya?
Yes, I spelled that lasr word correctly.
But can they do it without activating her libido?
You don’t have to spell everything out, that interview could have been going on for hours while they got Sidney dry. She’d probably feel the cold in any chilly place for days afterwards, too. Maybe a post story trip to a sauna?
Daniel here. Who’s to say she isn’t actually already all warmed up & it’s just in her mind? Dredging up the sympathy? It’s not like she’s a highly trained soldier yet. There’s a chance there’s puppy dog eyes just above the panel limits…
It’s a possibility that came to mind, not my final answer tho…
maybe Sydney has something useful in her utility belt, like a space blanket?
My first thought was she’s still wigged out from being covered in SCABS.
Actually, I first thought that she might be having a bit of a panic attack after falling into a pool of clotting blood.
Does anybody know what the deal is with airplane food?
its bad. the less said the better.
It isn’t the airlines’ fault, though. See my long comment below.
OK, after reading that I can sum it up into a much shorter answer: “Mom didn’t make it.”
[Most people prefer the food they grew up with.]
Ha! Good answer! :)
Sliding down the page, the bit about Mom was out to the side and I was “Wait – whose mom died?”
First class airplane food isnt too bad
No, it isn’t. I’ve even heard tales of Lobster Thermidor being served in first-class.
You’re in a plane, you gotta eat, whatcha gonna do?
Yes, actually. It’s the low pressure and the lack of humidity. At Angels 30 (that’s 30,000 feet for those non-Air Force guys out there), cabin pressure is lower than what you’re used to, and humidity is about 12%… drier than most deserts. In those conditions, your sense of saltiness and sweetness both drop by about 30%. Oddly, your sense of sour, spicy, and bitter flavors are almost unaffected.
But taste involves both your taste buds and your sense of smell. We need evaporating nasal mucus to smell, but in the parched cabin air, our scent receptors don’t work properly, and the effect is that this makes food taste twice as bland. So airlines have to give in-flight food an extra kick, by salting and spicing it much more than a restaurant on the ground ever would.
But it gets even worse. Now we’re finding out that our ears play a role as well. People eating to the sound of loud background noise (such as jet engines) rated food as being less salty and less sweet than those who ate in silence. Another twist: to those surrounded by noise, food surprisingly appeared to sound much crunchier. However, a plane’s loud background noise does not affect all tastes equally. For example, seasonings like cardamom, lemon grass and curry taste more intense in the sky than salt or sugar.
Then there are all the challenges of preparing the food. For safety reasons, it’s prepared on the ground, then packed, blast-chilled, refrigerated, and finally must survive re-heating in the air, which is usually done in a convection oven that blows hot, dry air over the food. (Induction ovens are starting to be used, but for safety reasons they cannot use microwaves or open flames.)
My best advice? Order the stew. If the stew’s not available, go for fried rice and fatty fish. Pasta, noodles, chicken breast, or anything deep-fried just doesn’t fare so well in an airplane galley.
Thanks for the info.
I’m guessing the difference in taste also has something to do with what molecules are responsible for the flavour in each specific dish. The low humidity and pressure would cause some things to evaporate quicker than others and change both retention and exposure to the receptors in your tongue and nose, which adds another layer of confusion on top of everything else.
So the foods that have fat soluble primary flavours probably work best, as MSpears says.
Now that you mention it, that sounds logical and well-reasoned. I wonder if anyone’s actually done any research into that?
The reduced air pressure results in increase blood retention in the head and, by extension, a swelling of the tongue that induces a cold-like effect on taste (even if colds affect nose, not mouth). At that point, airlines just say to hell with it and make bad food because, if you won’t enjoy it either way, why bother putting effort in?
The same thing happens when exposed to the effective weightlessness of the ISS, which is why sriracha is one of the most popular foods up there. Perception of spice isn’t affected the same way as actual taste and garlic is potent enough to hold its own.
Actually, they put a lot of effort in. For example, cooking any meat sous vide (vacuum marinated) so that it absorbs as much flavor as possible. Airlines have to prepare the menus up to a year in advance. Their own chefs taste their own recipes on a plane (or in a chamber that replicates the humidity and low pressure of flying at altitude) so they know what they need to do to adjust the flavor.
Airplanes aren’t kitchens and you have a lot of people to serve. For a hot meal right after take off, you have to make a meal that can take being heated for a long period of time in the serving container. The food is precooked or par-cooked and kept at temperature (they can’t do on-the-spot cooking, and they don’t have the energy budget to cook-then-refrigerate-then-reheat). The shortest hold times are usually about 60 to 90 minutes. So except for stews, say goodbye to any delicate proteins. Vegetables are even tough to do well. A lot of starches (aka pasta) begin to break down. Nevertheless, if you notice, you get the best meal right after take-off (and why they serve dinner at 4pm) because it is the easiest high quality meal to get to the passengers.
For meals served well after take-off (usually trans-oceanic flights only), they have to heat from scratch. The ovens are pretty terrible, totally packed with food (450 meals from a few galleys), inconsistent heating, and operating on a tight energy budget. You can’t afford to undercook anything or burn something, so you have to be super-careful about choices.
Once you take into account the immense variety of dietary restrictions that airplanes have to cater to: Halal, vegetarians, vegans, pescatarians, allergies of all different varieties, spice-haters, lactose intolerance, pregnant women, people with suppressed immune systems, etc., and you start to realize just what type of situation these airlines are in: being something for everyone. Ultimately, you have to hit the lowest common denominator. Finally, if there is any food-borne illness, there is going to be a serious problem (can you imagine a run on the restrooms over the Pacific?) So safety first, and if compromises in taste are necessary, so be it.
Sandwiches and wraps can be done fairly well on short-haul flights, but it’s really tough to be done well all of the time and you run into sogginess problems on long flights unless they’re very dry. The delivery chain is very complicated and you’re dealing with multiple temperatures. For instance, lettuce is very sensitive to temperature. On a blistering day, those aluminum carts can get hot if they get held up unexpectedly (wheel chair assist closes down the galley). You need to be perfect all the time, and it’s just really hard to do that in such a complicated environment serving hundreds of people.
So, again, it isn’t like they’re trying to make bad food. It’s just that all the conditions conspire against them.
I guess I knew only half the answer and was too quick to judge. Thanks for the correction.
Your suggestion that umami holds up better than other flavours is interesting, though. Do you have any idea why that might be?
And, regarding spice-haters, most of the western word, so far as I can tell, would not consider them a specialist diet so much as the default. Which is fine, considering how easy it is to acquire in additive form. It’s not something people should be pressured into.
Not a clue. :)
I agree with you; spicy should be a choice, not something forced on you. Either you like it or you don’t. I usually don’t like spice, but there are exceptions (like when I have a stuffy nose or when I’m in an airplane).
Oh, and by the way, umami also isn’t affected by the low pressure and low humidity. So if you don’t like spicy food, go for something with a lot of umami (e.g. a mushroom stew).
hey, thanks for this, makes me appreciate it a bit more, though I was always aware of the simpler logistics nightmares and space/energy restrictions imposed by the airplane environment.
I have been informed to order the kosher meal when buying my tickets, as it is allegedly MUCH better.
I’ve had airplane food 80’s and 90’s as well as modern MRE’s. The MRE’s were better.
I think the voice in his head just threw up its “hands” and quit.
Does it occur to anybody else that coot kinda resembles a Dwarf? He’s definitely a lot broader than his height suggests he should be.
The beard doesn’t hurt, either.
Loving the new “some blonde” entry.
If your belly starts telling you “no” would you say it was a “Belay” button?
At least we know wormy is safe, no way is Coot up to date on his shots.
So if they combine into a single person, is he gonna yell “Woot!”
I hosted Thanksgiving for the first time too this year (in Canada so last month). It was not too bad, hope everything goes well for you too.
*cheers*
Hey, Wyrmil is talking, but not getting credits in the sidebar. He needs to talk to his agent!
I had to laugh at the first panel. The word balloon placement makes it look like vulva, knee and boot are talking.
Now this is a tricky one.
Who do I actually feel sorry for? Coot for not only being used as a Trojan horse, torn apart, and now apparently somehow having been stitched back together for however long he has, just so Wyrmil can survive … or Wyrmil for having to ride the Cootmobile?
Or maybe I’ll just feel sorry for Sidney for being freezing cold, ’cause seriously, Coot and Wyrmil are bad people.
eh, I wouldn’t judge Wyrmil that badly. Coot however fully deserves what he got.
Why? For having his family murdered by monsters and then hunting them down? Yeah, he should totally have just forgotten his family (and we don’t know if they mean his parents and siblings, or spouse and offspring) and moved on
No, that part is perfectly understandable.
But Coot presents as willfully ignorant, painfully sexist (even if it leaves him open to manipulation as well as offensive to non-succubus women) and at the very least religiously intolerant.
He really is “that guy” the stand-up comedians talk about, and I for one would cross the street if I saw him coming.
If saw you coming, would cross to the next state…
Me? Oh, dear. I regret having given such offense, even if I’m not sure how.
Never mind Guesticus, they’re just racist towards arachnoids.
Do arachnoids veiw rolled up news papers to be a form of hate speech?
Wyrmmil taking a ride in the Cootmobile? But that could give him Cooties… :P
Ew. As a giant worm, Wyrmil may be a hermaphrodite, but I really hope he and Coot are not biologically compatible.
Well, Wyrmil did seem interested in Coots’ claim about having the endurance ‘of a horse crossed with a jet fighter’…
Wyrmil, you need to talk louder.
Wait… Coot isn’t stupid.
Hear me out.
Wyrmil and Coot were told different things by Ms. Murder Angel. Coot’s doing the same thing Dabbler is- partially. Be the dumb redneck to pander to the other so you can get info to spill.
He’ll only reveal himself as smarter than he looks when the trap is sprung- being bring the team to the ‘hideout’ which it really is- but everyone was ready and waiting. Just no one told Wyrmil for whatever reason.
Joker did it with the bank robbery. It works.
Also, I’m thinking about Vance again. What if each of his spiders are like he said, psychically linked, but they weren’t initially, and it was just ONE spider with psi-link super powers that added others into its hivemind by proximity? He could empty his ‘body’ and attack any number of foes simultaneously- and for the spiders that die, their slot, for lack of a better word, in the hivemind would fill itself with another nearby spider? Or maybe their souls (if Dave is using souls, which is why I said psychic manifestations) can infest a nearby rock, splinter of wood, or something else and reform that spider to rejoin the hive and replace numbers effortlessly?
Episode 331, Vance hasn’t been given a specific superpower yet.
So he may have been, and probably was, messing with Sidney. Well, at least her brain.
i am fairly certain coot is not happy about what happened there with the portal and exploding.
if he actually has any amount of brain matter, he would be thinking “screw this, i am sicking other some monsters at the other monsters”
otherwise, hypno-boobies.
also, if wyrml can apparently speak in his mind, couldn’t he also read it? unless he can only read up to a certain depth,
If there are people hitching a ride in Cooter (It could also be a conversation between his brain and his currently-in-control dick) it would be pretty stupid to come out. Archon will either let him go or ship him off to a jail for normal people.
I’m guessing that he may have been infected/turned by whatever he drank that sciona gave him. By now he might be part were-, wyrmil, vampire, alien, and whatever other monsters you can think of.
From what we saw, it seems a shadow within a crack was used to open a small enough portal to send some blood into the vault. That blood was them used to open a portal to allow more blood through so they could open a larger portal. We later learned from crimson that the blood is a mix of over 24 different species of monsters and aliens. I’m also willing to bet that same blood is what gave cooter his immortal abilities.we saw him shake off a disintigation beam, fire, electricity, freezing, projectiles through his neck and chest, and darts that must have been filled with various poisons and tranquilizers designed to take down monsters with much stronger immune systems than mere humans. not to mention he can create exploding ropes that project from his body, and he can literally explode and regenerate from blood soup or organ slurry. and he retained him memories. My guess is that ArcSwat is going to have to forcibly recruit Cooter, one he’ll be a valuable asset to the team, second they are going to have to keep him for medical observation and study.
The fact he now has a second voice inside his head is kind of worrying, as it means that either during his regeneration he has accidentally created a chimera either with Wyrmil or one of the other original sources of the blood he has been infected with.
And this now raises some more questions, Sydney accidentally got that blood in her mouth, if she accidentally swallowed any of it, Sydney may very well develop some abilities similar to other supers and monsters. Sydney might become like Cooter, nearly indestructible and immortal. I wonder how Sydney would react to a second voice in her head.
nope, the potion miss laser moth gave coot made the ropes that attacked the automated turrets and the explosion. thats the trap that the Iksar with death beams for eyes was such a fan of. coot didnt shrug off any of those attack except the mile freezer burn one, the trap potion hydraulically kept him standing why it auto targeted the turrets. bet dave has coots revival 100% wyrml doing which is why the council said they though he was almost impossible to kill. its the councils job to kill rogue monsters and they got magic and alien tech on their side, not being able to kill whatever wyrml is kind of a problem.
I bet Sydney has just thought of a few more things to add to the utility belt.
The Who’s who is still wrong about “some blonde’s” eyes. Eyes with heterochromacy =/= dichromatic vision.
While occular heterochromia (shortened to just heterochromia) is the correct term, dichromatic eyes is a vague one that doesn’t necessarily mean the same as dichromatic vision or being a dichromat.
Intragation? But math is hard!
Depends on how long he has been on booby-acclimation duty :P
Probably still not as hard as Hiro :D
I am thinking just Wyrmil. He’s the one who got trashed badly enough to need an alternate route out.
How long must Coot endure that blonde chick???
You, haven’t figured out who she is yet? o_O
To be fair to Coot(crazy, I know right?)
They specifically got the dumbest/most ignorant person they could find so they could trick him.
So it’s really their fault for leaving him alive so he can reveal their secret base.
Except they didn’t leave him alive. They exploded him pretty good.
Even more their fault for not killing him proper then.
Or it could be like some people think, and that Wyrmil fixed him up to survive the whole death thing.