Grrl Power #623 – Stargate DIY
Because “Skybreaker” is much cooler sounding than “The Cosmic Can-Opener.” I’m betting Sciona’s plans involve light travel in which she circumvents those TSA lines. Or she’s planning on summoning one humongous tentacle?
I don’t know, I’m (mildly) sick (and being a baby) and tired and I can’t think of anything to say about this page without being too spoilery, so I leave it to you guys.
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That doesn’t sound good….
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Can I pay by instalments?
And you did not provide an Amazon link.
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Is it summoning, or is she just getting the hell out?
She would not need that large a portal for just herself. This is for something BIG!
“Is it the Iron Giant? It’s usually the Iron Giant.” – Dan O’Brien
if she starts chanting “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn” I’ll geek.
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I gotta hand it to the Big Bad, MechaGodzilla worked out, for a while….
Yes like the weirdest fanfic come to life.
I have now seen, on the big screen, the Iron Giant and Gundam battle a Mecha Godzilla.
It just hit me after I watch some anime yesterday. Your Comic is now long enough to make a great 25 Episode Pilot. Fight scene would be amazing xD
many great anime don’t get more the 13 episodes. That many hundreds of episodes format is something only a few have reached. Like DB, One Piece and Naruto. Also DB would get a hundred episodes out of the maxima/vehemence fight. Without the dabbler/heavenly sword fight and the others. They are great like that.
Most anime get 12.
TV operates on Summer and Winter seasons, ~23/24 weeks long. Most ‘new’ series, unless they have major backing, start as a half season (11/12 eps) and then go up to a full season in season 2+ – and episodes 12 & 13 are usually a 2-parter with a big cliffhanger at the end of ep12
For a Grrlpowercomic show, you’d probably want your Ep 12 to be the parking lot battle, with the cliffhanger being Kevin outclassing everyone when they thought they’d won
…I just realized …. Was that guy’s name actually *KEVIN* ?
Yup. It is mentioned when he asks for Doritos.
…Kevin (AKA: Vehemence). a man who grows stronger with each act of violence that occurs anywhere near him, watching the TV violence of Kirby.
Yes, Kirby.
“A ravenous cannibal who thrives on the blood of mass murder.”
Poyo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6k5ZPezeE
Yea, it was touch and go. His folks almost went with “Kenny”. But then he would have died.
Over and over and over and over again, butt his altered ego would be a crime fighter named Mysteron :P
And we never would have been able to see his face, considering the orange hoodie-jacket.
For years, always believed Kenny was actually a girl :(
His full name is Kevin Kapants.
+1
sorry, the 100 episodes for 1 fight is what knocked me off DB. I could not watch it for a month, come back and they are still staring at each other powering up. combined the worst aspects of a soap opera and old Justice league.
They’ve gotten much better at that in the newer DB episodes. There are fights that are over with in five minutes!
Skybreaker?
The tip looks like a small scythe.
Is it Rhe one Kronos used to kill his father?
It’s the Brane Ripper, the scythe that Cooter/Wyrmil took with them when escaping from the vault. Sciona stole it from Cooter shortly after.
It’s not a scythe, it’s a boline, a ritual sickle-like implement.
Love the sound effect.
Maybe the male drider demon thing can use this to get here?
I don’t like the idea that the extended reach she has enabled will allow for creating far larger rifts in the veil than before, giving her the skills to pull in even larger critters from afar… not to mention what else the artifact is capable of…
The extended reach isn’t so important, because we know Sciona can fly. But that “acitvate” part of the comic refers to something that was part of the handle, to which she attached the brane-ripper. I assume that that allows her to specify exactly what other brane will be on the other side of the opening she’s making.
“at least 30 seconds”??? They were standing in a wide open space, no cover, no weapons at the ready!
What do you expect?
A retreating fighting battle starting at or near the entrance, after the traps, would have bought more time. Well, at least if Maxima hadn’t shown up with an overwhelming force.
I’m just surprised Sciona didn’t arrange some noisy distraction-disaster a few states away. Involve enough civilians and ARC will have to make some hard decisions over who to send where. If all she needs is 30sec…
Because, contrary to what the vast majority of haters want to believe, Sci is not a shit, that’s left to things like SmugD and GEoD
Geez, you must keep rough company, if shoving an employee’s head into a death field is OK behaviour! Likewise with kidnapping people, stripping them naked and draining their blood. Oh and then there is that minor thing about repeatedly trying to kill cops.
Good upright citizen that. If you live next to Mordor.
Oh, I forgot, you do. Carry on. My bad.
She ‘shoved’ the head of the individual most likely to survive (which he did)
We have no idea where those other ‘blood donor’s’ came from
She had no idea Maxi and Sydney were going to be in the evil Council Chambers, and the only other times she has attacked cops is after they have attacked her first (and yes, that includes Sydney, who broke her arm in two places when all Sci had done at that point was restrain an unidentified burglar slash trespasser)
“…and so, Your Honor, you can see that not only did my client did her best to restrict the pre-meditated murder of a coworker to someone who had a small chance of survival, but she did so during a heist while she must have been under significant stress, thus showing her extreme care for others. I have also shown that the assault on the police officers was completely unplanned, and that she intended only the wholesale slaughter of a governing body of her peers. I move for dismissal of all charges, and request the court direct the officers involved to issue a public apology for injuring my client while attempting to rescue a teammate that my client was draining of all her blood. The defense rests.”
Have never claimed Sci was an innocent flutterby, just do not agree with half (at least) of the claims levelled against her
We have no idea why the Council decided to cut off her head, we have seen that they themselves are not always the ‘good’ guys and it could have been politically motivated (things like that have happened in real life, sometimes literally, sometimes just metaphorically)
You are right on the points we don’t know the council’s motives and their own actions are suspect.
However precedence on Sciona’s part has shown a lack of empathy and psychotic behavior towards he own minions, cohorts, and its doubtful all her prisoners she was draining of their blood while hanging upside down were innocent or enemies of hers given she didn’t bat an eye at the idea of a random person being turned into a vampire to be used for this purpose only that the blood of an older vampire would be more useful. She also seemed more curious if she could use Sidney’s orbs by draining her blood than needing her blood.
We have only seen her react ‘negatively’ to two cohorts or minions: that traitorous vamp and Wyrmie (and already explained about Wyrmie)
Also never mentioned anything about the other Blood Capri boxes
Also also, don’t recall that bit about wondering if she could use Sydney’s balls if she drained her blood (often forget details and am grateful when people remind me, as have never hidden the fact about having a faulty memory, nor have ever used that as an excuse)
When she was holding Sydney up by the wrists and about to stab her with a needle she pondered aloud if anyone could use her orbs if they drained enough of her blood (basically wondering if they were blood bonded to Sydney basically).
Thank you
Yeah, I’m gonna call BS on Sciona selecting Wyrmil for the face-plant into the death field because she thought he had a chance to survive it. She chose him because he was standing conveniently near it and it took the least amount of effort to use him in that manner.
She wanted what she wanted and her desires were far more important to her than any thought of loyalty or honor. Which isn’t really putting things into a good perspective since from all we have seen her thoughts on loyalty and honor are that it’s great if someone else has them so that they will be more easily manipulated into being your tool until you grow tired of them.
In most situations, Maxima is an overwhelming force, and here she has company. Not a military company (about 200 soldiers) but most of these guys packs a punch like a complete company each.
No weapons? We saw at least one holding something looked like a weapon, a big rocket-launcher type weapon
But it wasn’t “at the ready”. You need to read the whole sentence.
… Why would they be ‘at the ready’? Just because they are robots doesn’t mean you leave them in combat-stance all the time
No, but Sciona should be expecting trouble even if she didn’t have an alarm system.
So if the robots are not smart enough to get ready themselves she should have ordered them to prepare. And if they were ready they might have gotten a few shots and a rocket off into the doorway. And that could have bought her the time she wanted, especially if the doorway collapses.
Remember that the constructs are magical equivalents of robots, not soldiers. Plus the Grrlverse supernatural community program spells in near identical ways to how we program our contemporary technology.
Meaning that Sciona would need to program her constructs not to advance over the traps, or otherwise set them off. A task which would take more than 30 seconds.
Not to mention the time taken getting them into that position. But we can ignore that, as we have no idea what they might have originally been tasked with doing. Whilst they may have always been set to guard the door to her sanctum sanctorum (or whatever is on the other side of it), equally they may have been on maintenance or patrol duty.
Bases have to be built, maintained and serve some actual purpose. So the assets will have a variety of functions, rather than everything being committed to a concentrated defence at the main entrance. It is only if you have advance warning of an overwhelming attack that you can reorganise things to an optimal defence.
Without the time, you just have to make do with whatever you can improvise on the spur of the moment.
Heres a fun idea – have the guards outside a functional broom closet with a gigantic and thick door/gate. And put your sanctum behind an ordinary door with in an ordinary hallway, in a place with dosens of hallways and hundreds of identical doors. And nothing important behind the other doors.
It is hilarious.
Psst.
They would have gone for the guards part of the idea too. But check out the next page, to the one linked.
Have the doors spacialy connected at random so that entering one door exits to a different one.
Now run while ‘Yakkety Sax’ plays.
So something like this?
Nice. :)
If they ever get the portal lady (can’t remember her name) from the restaurant to join the team like Jabberwocky, I’m sure Sydney will get her to help re-enact some classic animation chase scenes.
Bloodmagic, superspeed and arcane artifacts are all good and well, but it’s the powerdrill that makes it all come together.
I still wonder why she didnt steal the ripper in the first place, did she get so shaken by deus she simply forgot?
also keeping the materials for the skybreaker in the place she used to break into the vault doesnt scream mastermind. more like scoobbydoo
She thought Deus had it, and when she realized he didn’t, but could tell her where it was, she, huh, made a second payment for the knowledge.
the ripper was from the vault (wyrmil got it out of there), why didnt she get it from there in first place before wyrmil could crawl to it?
add: i know she thought deus swiped it after she left the vault, which again, why leave there so fast if it was so crucial to her
Sciona strikes me as impulsive and not particularly disciplined. She got miffed that Deus crashed her Party. And she probably intended to kill all of the people she brought with her. Deus screwed that up, too. So she bailed with the intention of getting everything from Deus latter not realizing he had an eldrich horror as a bodyguard. At least that’s my take on it.
When she broke the pillar it left the ripper in the base where Deus wouldn’t be able to smack it out. Remember she left the portal open? Looks more like she re-entered just after the Council shut down the system to get it, but by then Wyrmil had grabbed it. She only blamed Deus after that point.
Or, combining elements of your and Boxilar‘s comments, Sciona broke the pillar, intending to get her prized item, as it fell clear. Thus making her look really cool in both getting the item and snagging the loot, in one swift move.
Only, due to impulsively rushing it, it fell into the hollow created by the rubble. As that was still within the (now expanding) death field, it rendered it inaccessible to her. As Deus was the only one in possession of tools capable of picking it out. Which would be humiliating to both request a couple of bamboo poles and to have to scrabble around fishing it out.
In her anger and pride she teleported out.
Perhaps, after that, deciding that Deus would not have had any qualms about using the technique described above. Thus assuming that he would have taken the opportunity to get the item himself.
Except, as said, Wyrmil had beaten him to it.
Wyrmil couldn’t have beaten SmugD to it, as he was currently mostly-dead, SmugD was simply an arrogant twok who either didn’t even notice there was a missing device or didn’t think it worth the effort to get it
Short term probably. We know that Wyrmil had to urgently get a replacement head (not a line you get to use every day). Possibly requiring that he pick up an artefact to do that with (the Reganator sounds like a suitable toy).
Importantly he would need to get away from the expanding death field as fast as possible. But was badly incapacitated, and in the company of enemies, so he would likely have done so very discreetly.
Once he completed his merger (with or without the aid of a toy) he could just hunker down to recover. In due course Deus and co would portal out, leaving the complex to Wyrmil.
He would be unable to approach the Bane Ripper though, as we know that was at the centre of a large death field, by that point. Meaning that (unless he had snagged an artefact that gave him capabilities to bypass that) he would have to wait even longer, until the good guys arrived.
It is possible that he heard their fight with the guardian, brief though it was. We can deduce that it was Sciona who reprogrammed it, prior to her entry to the treasure rooms. In which case Wyrmil would know that the sounds meant the Twilight Council, and maybe Archon, had arrived.
Importantly he could figure out that they would turn off the other defences (knowing that part of it had been compromised, they could not risk exposing themselves to other traps which might not recognise them).
So he might have been waiting at the edge of the death field, poking the tip of a tentacle in, and waiting until the time it did not become necrotic (loosing a tiny bit, each time, would not be a major problem, for someone as tough as him).
As soon as he decides it is safe he could slither over and grab the Bane Ripper, to aid in his escape. After which the continuity is as we saw it. So nicely matching your conclusion.
There is another possibility though, and the one I had in mind, when posting my previous.
Wyyrmil was having to play dead for a while. Because his enemies were looting the very chamber he was in, and would spot him if he moved whilst they were there.
But he also had the expanding death field right next to him. So it seems likely that he would have to watch all of them intently and anytime they were not looking in his general direction he could edge away. But not too far, or the trail of blood would be a dead giveaway.
Meaning that he would be near to the Bane Ripper for a while. Whilst it was not covering a huge area.
We have seen how long and flexible his tentacles are. He could easily have snagged a couple of the pot plants, whilst the others were distracted. And may have been able to use those to whip the Bane Ripper out of its death field, before that got too large.
Quite tricky, as that plan would be totally dependent on them getting distracted long enough for him to do his chopstick maneuver. But it is not like he could go anywhere, until they were done. So if an opportunity had presented itself, then Wyrmil could have bagged the Bane Ripper before the looting was over.
And when Deus surveyed the room, at the end, all he would see is empty pillars and Wyrmil’s corpse. Not realising that one was missing from his collection. So time to move on to the next chamber. As soon as they were out of sight Wyrmil could then exit stage left.
It’s easier than that. Time is tight. The Death Field is filling the room. Deus isn’t going to be able to get everything (his crew isn’t walking through the death field), and may have to “settle” for items he didn’t originally want.
So he has multiple people running around getting basically any item they can.
One of his crew gets the Bane Ripper, drops it on the pile and leaves to get something else. Wyrmil gets it while the pile is unattended.
As long as Deus didn’t personally get the Ripper, he has to assume it’s just one he lost in the Death Field. Whoever got it wasn’t in charge of counting them afterwards and left without realizing it was stolen.
Very good point. Nicely thought through.
She broke a deathfield container to piss off Deus, which then started to fill the room, and thus had to leave early. Part of that was emotional thinking, part of that was him showing her crew just how much better he is at this than she is.
That wasn’t where she portaled into The Vault, nothing about this place matches
Should’ve called it the Reality Bender….
Sciona’s creating the cracks in space from Doctor Who! She’s even got the shape right.
This does not bode well!
There seldom comes something good from other dimensions.
The comic format lacks the element of sound. Out of the crack she hears the the theme song from “My Little Pony”. No, think about it. She would get on really well with Discord (the old version).
Question: if Sciona is “something close to an angel”, is she trying to free something close to a GOD?
And Sydney quotes Ghostbusters a lot while only Maxima gets the references.
I think the phrase Dabbler used “One of the species humans have mistaken for angels.”
There are real angels, but Scionia’s species isn’t one of them
Whew! Wasn’t sure that I would get this morning’s page on time, after the 15″ of snow we got over the weekend. DaveB is better than the US Postal Service!
Sounds like the options of “don’t hesitate” and “fire to kill” may be vindicated. Both for Maxima, at the bridge, and Dabbler with her marshmallow grenade launcher. Although Maxima did choose a less-lethal option, against Sciona, the second time, when there was no longer an imminent threat to the people on the bridge.
Which she recognised was a mistake. That lost precious seconds, which we can now see were vital.
We kind of need the sky intact.
Do you think we will be able to glue it back together?
*looks worried*
To repair a hole in the sky you would need to use a ‘Sky Net’. But that brings in its own set of problems.
Lol. Just so.
*slow clap* +1
Let me guess, Scifright is going with mass murder as the plan/solution/goal.
Well, it looks more like a tinopener to me.
That sure is how she is using it, but instead of working on a can of veggies, she is looking at opening a dimensional rift. She is trying open get this done before Archon opens a can of whoop-ass on her (needs a different type of can opener).
It´ll be disappointing if a bunch of mutant carnivorous artichokes are not brought from the depths of vegans third hell level.
I just realized that Dave himself did the joke of the can-opener 3000.
There I go, wall, to face you and reflect about my… blindness.
Rushing the construction of an extremely powerful and dangerous magical weapon?
I don’t see how this could possibly go wrong.
Is her lair shaped like the inside of a skull?
Does it look like a skull from the other side?
Will whatever comes out of the rift end up wearing the lair as a skull mask?
Well it is a supervillain lair…
Dabbler did not say Sciona is close to being an angel. She said that she is of a species that humans have mistaken for angels.
From her actions probably angels of death or vengeance
Well, the Satan and the demons that follow him started out as angels, but got kicked out of Heaven. She may be trying for the devil motif.
You mean Archangel Lucifer?
More than likely, few people know that satans and archangels are two completely different types of angels. Thanks to a translation error not realizing the word for adversary of mankind is basically satan but it doesn’t mean that Lucifer was that specific kind of angel.
There is only one Satan, believe you meant ‘devils’
No, I didn’t.
Satan comes from: Sahtan. A class of angel in Judaism, its name means “adversary”.
It however is the adversary of mankind not God. Its task is to judge and bring to bare all the sins of a mortal’s life when they die. They can also be used to test the faith of people.
It was one of these and not a singular “The Devil” in the Book of Job, Judaism (where the Old Testament comes from) doesn’t have a singular “The Devil” figure. God ruled over all spirits good and evil.
The word devil does result from a Greek translation of the term to mean “slanderer” however it took on through Christianity a more direct and evil meaning rather than the original purpose of a Sahtan. Similar to how Demon in modern times and through Christianity was a bastardization of Daemon (which in Greek were literally any kind of spirit both good and bad).
Well that makes sense, because Dabbler is good.
*starts setting up “YAY, DEMONS!” banner*
Umm, you don’t think this might be misconstrued?
*worried look*
Sahtan Claws.
Great, she is gonna attract all the giant interdimensinlonal cats now. They always come running when the can opener is broken out.
Ah yes, interdimensional cats
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Panel three gives me the feeling that once in the room Sydney will notice Sciona’s own utility belt and start asking her a flood of questions about what she carries in it.
That rift looks ominously familiar…
So is this when we will see the “mighty burning that will herald my coming?”
I think they’ve got meds for that now…
Lovely, she’s tearing open holes in t he fabric of reality. This will end well for all involved, I’m sure of it!
The Cosmic Can-Opener has been done.
It was given by the great god Kir-By to Boris the Bear so he could defeat the robots.
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The Can Opener is a significantly powerful item in the Mansion of E.
For info, as “sealed inside one of those human air boxes” might not make sense, the speaker is under the impression that he is in the presence of two large nomes. Humans being terrifying demonic figures not seen in living memory.
The ‘air box’ is more like an impenetrable force field (as far as we would view it). Making the fact that Rosemary picked it up, without effort … rather surprising.
Personally, I was figuring he was referring to the Cosmic Can Opener of Kir-By, which was at one time wielded by Boris the Bear against the lawyers of More-Swell comics, who wished to destroy Kir-By the King’s legacy. They had pitted the Secret Heroes of the Super Wars against Boris, but the wily (and extremely violent) teddy bear turned the tables on the by showing the evidence the The King was their true creator, leading The Corporation to withdraw and focus on inventing their own Pee-Yewniverse.
Unless it’s keyed to human DNA, in which case, she probably didn’t even notice the barrier
Which, given that to the people in that area human = demon, would be rather worrying. Both for the locals and how they might treat the two folks in the shop.
Well if it not for a couple of actual demons making an appearance shortly thereafter.
As I see it – Cthulhu comes through the opening and asks where “Trent” is.
“Have you seen my son, Trent? We were sitting there watching telly and he suddenly vanished!”
There is someone who already has that power!
It’s really just a fancy way of making the time honored claim:
“My extradimensional device brings all the elder gods to the yard.”
Didn’t Dave say this arc was coming to an end soon? If Sciona lets a big bad out then the fight scene alone will take some time. So I am guessing that opening the fabric of spacetime with a cosmic can opener will actually not let something nasty through.
Not a bad guess.
However, running with the alternatives, ‘letting something nasty through’ would also allow ‘the arc to come to an end soon’. If say, the heroes are slain or enslaved, by some god of darkness.
Meaning that the opening part of the comic would just be Sydney’s head-in-a-jar, virtually living in a simulated environment.
Hopefully with some better rationale than needing to use her as a battery.
With Dave, “coming to an end soon” could mean “sometime this year”.
Sciona being impaled and/or eaten by a “bigger bad” would mean an end to the Sciona arc, and the start of a new one.
Although if she opens this huge hole I am expecting the story to either play it straight; in which case some dark horror that needs fought back, army of blood golems, Sciona’s five generals at least two of which will be a thin and fat guy comedy relief duo, or that fire demon thing Dabbler fought before as some “don’t think about Serendipity” for character related plot relevance.
or
play it for laughs, in which case it summons, Vale into the room who snags the item from Sciona to bring back to Deus as she intercepted the interdimensional signal.
or it summons something small and cute like a Ryo-ohki type creature to act as the comic’s new mascot that Sidney will take back to Archon as the team mascot. (which like the example creature is really a powerhouse).
Is that a dimensional can opener?
Evidence would support that. We saw the results of it opening a can of worms.
I hope she gets eaten by a Gru…
https://images.entertainment.ie/images_content/rectangle/620×350/dm2-clip-surprise620.jpg
???
Sciona again tonight? Doesn’t she ever stop regenerating?
“the standard beauty expression for a woman has settled in on that same basically blank, but slightly smokey look.”
Yeah, that’s kind of bugged me for a long time. It’s probably to try to depict “bedroom eyes”, but it often lacks a hint of emotion and just comes off as blank, lacking depth. There’s cases where a sort of knowing calmness can show depth, but it generally needs to be paired with some type of action or context.
I like the improvements made to the updated vote incentive.
Still very dubious about the furry ‘dinosaur’ that the ‘dinosaur trainer’ is riding mind. ;-)
Yes, yes. I know it will make sense in the setting. Probably. It still triggers my ‘anomaly detected’ button though. Given that about 350 million years of evolution separated sabre toothed tigers from dinosaurs. But, if a human can hang with dinosaurs, I guess that the pussy cat can use the same mechanism.
She might be summoning this guy: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1145
Sciona forgot part of the ceremony, in which case.
Unless she had to fly via her urologist, to investigate why she has a mighty burning, after spending the night with Deus.
“Do not summon up that which ye cannot put down.”
In that case, you really should see your doctor.
Only if ye cannot put it down for more than four hours.
Okay, I hate to be the immature one (no I don’t) but everyone else thinks the fairy lights in panel 3 make it look like Sciona has glowy nipples right?
Yes. Doubtless a few will be pretend to be mature, but I am not convinced.
wait…. is it a dimensional can opener?
*shudders, from a shiver down the spine*
*looks around for a second black cat walking by*
That better be a blood-powered power drill.
Why, is her credit no good, at her local hardware store? Do you suspect that she may have… stolen … a cordless power drill? :-O
Of course. She have a reputation you know. What would the other bloodmages say if she used some mundane electric drill?
Everyone is so sure Sciona is summoning an eldritch horror, but what if she’s just making her costume so she can go to the fancy dress ball she’s been dreaming of since she was a little girl?
My new theory: Sciona is a long-lost Disney Princess trying to find her family / reclaim her throne after being wrongfully banished, and history will vindicate her in the end.
Actually, I didn’t think she was summoning anything. I thought that she might be trying to transfer her lab/hideout to another dimension, hence the reason she is cutting around said lab/hideout.
Hmm something tells me something goes wrong… that or Sydney’s other orb activates cause of this.
Ahh, the monumental call-back.
What I mean is the one orb that we haven’t figure out what it does yet may have a hidden function meant for situations like what they are going to walk into, that or the thing that is being summoned turns out to be very VERY tiny.
Sydney already told us what it does. She just didn’t realize that her speculations were being informed by the orb in question. It is signalling an armada of brain sucking aliens that their appetizers are ready.
*nods*
She’s opening the “Closed” way to her home and family… while they deal with ARC Swat she will go home grab some things of hers and then come back elsewhere… leaving portals open if anything follows her,it’s not her problem.
So THAT’S what happened to all of those surplus P38’s the US Army had when it switched from C-rats to MRE’s.
Even more terrifying, if it is P45s!
I fail to see what a WW III fighter had to do with changing field rations?
Once you live in a radioactive wasteland you will understand.
Depending on your exposure, you may want various additives, such as: filgrastim (Neupogen), sargramostim (Leukine), pegfilgrastim (Neulasta), Potassium iodide (Thyroshield, Iosat), Prussian blue (Radiogardase) and Diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA).
To achieve or maintain a healthy lifestyle, you might have to commit to a change in diet…
ROUS‘s?
I don’t think they exist.
Or you could just mutate and adapt to the new environment.
To do that you have to:
1) survive long enough to reproduce.
2) make sure that your wrigglers (or female counterparts) are still capable of reproduction.
For which the kind of supplements listed (albeit not necessarily all really used as food additives) would give a considerable advantage over relying purely on luck.
Although, obviously, if you detect that you are living in a super-hero genre setting, just go diving into the nearest pool of radioactive volatile chemicals. Then, should you recover, and when you eventually stop screaming, you can start testing what new powers you spontaneously manifest!
Mind you, I still prefer the option that does not end up with me looking like the sludge from the pond’s bottom!