Grrl Power #633 – The universe’s buttholes = X+1
Sydney’s right. I spent very little effort on that sound effect. Honestly, I started coming up with some noises, but I was like, VROUNCH? SHRAAKZZZ? GLUDVOR! Actually, that one sounds like an alien’s last name. Well, it would if it had a lot of unnecessary apostrophes in it. G’luD’voR!
The relationship between the Skybreaker and the sigil on the floor will probably be explained at some point. It’s not honestly critical to the plot, but I know some people were wondering about it. For now just assume that magic is complicated and allows convenient storytelling hooks.
Hah. I just realized I drew Sydney’s hair blowing in the wind even though she’s in her bubble. Maybe she farted. In terror, at the universe being torn a new one? A terror fart, yeah. Even though she’s being characteristically glib.
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Great… Now we have an interdimensional pet door! Hope it’s to a dimension of hot, friendly cats me humanoids! (Probably not, but one can hope!)
Should have been cat like humanoids… Stupid autocorrect…
If you leave it the way it was it seems like something Alf would say.
makes the bricks of explosives seem a bit insignificant
*hops through it*
Here I come Sydney!
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I can’t wait for the day we get a splash page with a six-armed alien and a prehensile tail, holding a copy of Sidney’s orbs, floating over Earth.
With our luck, he’d be incredibly hot, and have a thing for flat chested, hyperactive, nerdy, little, blond, vegan girls. Poor Max and Dabbler…
Who likes girls like that? *raises hand*
I still want to see Varia linking with Halo, using multiple orbs at once. I don’t think Varia has to hold hands, just be touching, so that’s up to 4 at once – I wonder if cross-orb tools become unlocked at that point? Like maybe the air orb can inject an air-fuel mix into a teleported PPO shot?
It’s also not clear (unless I missed it) what happens when Varia is touching multiple people, but we do know that her interaction with supers is different than vanilla humans. Maybe she could link Halo and Dabbler, bringing all the orbs into play at once? Or just get Varia flight capability and have as many people who can grab onto her ankles, so she gets dozens of powers at once?
I wonder what Varia’s power from a Dabbler gestalt would be?
If there is one then that increases Varia’s power from 8 billion different option, to something that would require the Drake equation, to get an estimate!
I wonder if she’s even allowed to touch her.
She might learn significantly more about galactic life forms than she should from newly gained inherent knowledge.
Think Varia can figure out the “unidentified alien” in Xuriel’s ancestry?
Sidney’s final form.
Flat chested, hyperactive, vegan, little, blond, nerd girl?
vegetarian not vegan she eats ugly animals. On a side note I like to think she was doing one of those hair swishes (slow motion of course) that girls sometimes use to get guys to notice them
I’m thinking gravitational anomaly at the brane/planar interface between two very different dimensions.
DB may not have planned it that way, but it would definitely fit Syd’s bubble allows gravity through, so it probably allows gravitational disturbance waves through.
Also, looks metal as hell.
It seems to me her hair doing that from her whipping her head around at the noise really quickly since she is looking at Dabbler instead of the portal in panel two.
Sydney is the Kwisatz Haderach, she is the One, the Octarineth Element. That is indeed her supreme form!
NEADS MOAR KIRBY DOTZZZZ.
Kirby Crackles,
official term.
Sounds like Sydney’s contribution to the consultation on the next update to the Archon battledress.
i mean i would think if anything could penetrate the shield it would be THE VERY FABRIC OF REALITY BEING TORN ASUNDER. you don’t get much higher yield OH FUCK than that. but sure terror farts work.
Ever hear a carbon arc after the arc is already struck? That sound.
Only Noah, his family, and a bunch of animals, can tell us what that sound was like. Maybe a passing angel or two too.
My only response (until I read comments):
https://i.imgur.com/rzh0WSU.jpg
guys there is a weird portal in my living room any idea where it came from?
It is called a TeeVee, and it should be powered down more than it is powered up.
Hmmmmm…I’m wondering if the big scary demonic guy that threatened Dabbler with his return “after a great burning” will step out through that rip and say “Did you miss me, Tantalis?”
In that case, we know it has to be Monday. Everyone knows the world will end on a Monday. That’s why everyone hates Mondays… That, and we all go back to work on Monday…
I hope this story arc is leading to a crossover with the book Tamer:King of Dinosaurs like the vote incentive picture suggests
https://smile.amazon.com/Tamer-King-Dinosaurs-Michael-Scott-Earle-ebook/dp/B077DD4BRT/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1526947583&sr=8-2&keywords=tamer+king+of+dinosaurs
I’m guessing it is
I have an unearthly sound in my head, but its not a medium with audible functions…
do I
A: Try to describe the sound
or
B: Try to sound it out using letters…
I believe you chose the better of the two options, leaving it to the imagination, and little chance of people thinking it sounds like a cat choking on tinfoil.
:-)
Sydney’s hair makes total sense. She had a Pew Pew opening a moment ago which she was closing up. The Forb was squeezing in to make a more vertical shape so she would fit among the closer gathering team members. So air was being expelled until the Pew Pew window was sphinctered. Not the only sphincter being closed tight at the moment as well.
Skybreaker? Looks like it was named for the last time is was misused.
You are a genius! I always have trouble naming things as a DM. Now I have a new source of names. Naming things for the last time they were misused. It is going in my DM playbook. Genius…
Dwarf: what in Hades is a rubber chicken of holding?
Kender; Mine!
VROUNCH? SHRAAKZZZ? GLUDVOR!
Too bad Don Martin’s not around anymore. He could’ve come up with some great sound effect words.
I remember a particular Martin piece where a hippie was asking another “what’s for dinner?” The response was “leftovers”, after which the first hippie twisted his beard out into a bowl…
“Sklurch!”
I just realized how much easier for Sciona this would be if Hekapoo existed. She can just steal a pair of Dimensional Scissors!
Given that the last time we had a random hole torn in the universe we got a bunch of Lovecraftian horrors that turned out to be decent enough folks, I’m guessing this time it’s something relatively innocent or mundane looking that’s horribly dangerous.
(Either that, or this turns into a “how do we stop the universe from being squeezed through the COSMIC SPHINCTER” storyline.)
Soooo, Furbies? Of course, I do remember an episode of the Simpsons where the little Mogwais went rabid.
Behold a being that can destroy entire worlds, easily break through meta-material that can stop heavy particles moving at near light speed like its jello, and easily over power giant monsters and military forces that rule entire galaxies.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/b/bb/Ryoohkikidyall.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140220040436
And very very fond of , naw they are about to go reality hopping….. Astra here we come!
Ryo-ohki!!!!!!!!
It is my head canon/hope that it becomes canon, that Ryo-Ohki, upset that Kenshi has been missing so long rips apart the barrier between dimensions herself, and goes to Geminar to get him back.
I see that Sciona is a fan of classic villain lines.
I came to the conclusion that the blood runes where there to trigger the destruction of the base once Sciona had crossed the portal opened with the Skybreaker
The Skybreaker also sounds like the name of a Decepticon. Quick, someone draw the Skybreaker into Jet that turns into a robot, even though its a sword attached to a Dimensional Can Opener!!! And now that I look at it, the Skybreaker can also double as a weapon for someone in RWBY! Its amazing the kinds of thoughts you have when you can’t sleep at 4:00 in the morning.
Different set of runes
No wait klonopin and yogurt!
No wait! Klonopin and yogurt!
All right, listen up, you one-lifespan, three-dimensional, five-sense skin puppets!
For one trillion years I’ve been trapped in my own decaying dimension, waiting for a new universe to call my own. Name’s Bill! But you can call me your new lord and master for all of eternity!
Oh… well, in that case…
Hello,
BruceBill!Maybe it will be Slaanesh… Dabbler could distract her/him/it…..and we should document that…For Science!
Okay, who else is expecting this guy to show up?
me, but he’ll have googly eyes stuck all over him…
Has anyone asked about Syd’s vulnerability while that window’s open in her shield? Is fresh air getting in? Can she fire that version of the PPO while underwater without filling the bubble?
I suppose if this is the rumoured spaceship, the answers are NO, else it’s use in space would be .. tragically short.. but inquiring minds wanna know!
A shield that you cannot attack through is too limited for combat use. There has to be at least some option to fire through the shield- light passes through, so a laser setting on the PPO would likely work.
Syd has actually discussed this issue in great detail on the very first pages of the comic.
I realized that both above and in its previous appearance, the PPO rounds don’t actually pass through an aperture ring, but originate just outside of the shield. I think the ring is just a targeting UI – just like with the lighthook, the shots appear outside the shield. Which also makes sense as a safety feature, because triggering any of the other orbs inside the shield would be disaster for a new user.
No, this is a different version of the PPO, first use during the Wars Compound Assault
Shoulda checked the linked page first (
Sydney also phoned up Dabbler, about this very issue, late at night. Whilst Dabbler was more interested in what Barbarian could do to her, than Science! questions.
SYD did (recently reread, again), but Dave clearly drew an opening, no?
Weird. This is the same sound I have set as the ring-tone for when I get calls from work.
Aahzmandius, a green, scaly denizen of Perv, a world known for its foul-tempered reptilian humanoid inhabitants.
“Have I got a deal for you.” he shouts out at our group with a grin like a double arm load of knitting needles.
… No relation
Sydney, cocky smugness is NOT a good look for someone responsible for ripping the Universe a new multi-dimensional arsehole!!
Actually, if she lives through it, she’d have a right to be pretty smug about that.
And yet that is the look most people have who do that, usually right before and during before the (insert interdimensional horror that can’t actually be controlled because seriously who could have beta tested the magic sigils really?! shows up).
this is the moment when drip steps through the portal.
…and this is how Sydney destroyed the universe.
THE END.
So sad.
Still can’t hold it against her. Anyone can make an oops, and there are others. Plus a nice handy wormhole to go exploring. Or she can hang here with Achilles and make mosaics out of shiny bits of world rubble.
I just hope the shield doesn’t absorb the explosion in full, and give Sydney a forced respec on her skill tree.
Don’t know why I didn’t notice it before, but Sydney has changed the shape of the Force Field, not just it’s size.
Normally she makes it go torpedo shaped for high-speed flight.
Probably not a bad idea to engage that promptly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFsVGsaCvsk
A shining example of how to live an improved lifestyle.
Plus a spooky Alari appearance.
If the very universe itself is being torn asunder, then that’s an aether wind, not a fart wind or air wind; that’s literal spacetime distortions tossing around Sydney’s hair. The bubble’s sturdy stuff, but even it can be impacted by spacetime warping-winds. (Aka Sydney did not fart; spacetime farted!)
And we have a Robert Asprin fan up in this bitch!!!! Glad to have you onboard brother and or sister! Just between you and me I’d rather it be Pookie, Tananda, or Bunny coming out of the portal, or all of the above!
GLUDVOR!
It opens up to L-Space
Oook!
Can’t wait to see Sydney battle a rogue thesaurus. It’ll be a battle of words.
Sounds like a job for Iron Cloth!
Oh, look, his work team are already on site.
1) Blood Sygils, still on the floor and now covered in blood splatters from a totally hopped up on magical blood bloodmage (yes, I could try to say blood even more times in one sentence). Resulting in quite a number of short circuits across the sygils pathways.
2) The portal not finished as the creature using the instrument of opening destroyed before final connection made. Normally that probably would have just cause the opening to collapse and close except for 1) above.
3) Also add to this, is the base self destruct mechanisms (that Sydney found and tried to alert the team about). If any of the blood splatter from our wounded bloodmage makes that connection at any point….
4) Inside Sydney’s shield might be the best place for the members of the team. Question is, can she expand it to keep them all shielded? And will it hold when space/time is going higgly-piggly with a massive series of explosions at the same time?
5) and where would they end up afterwards? And will there still be ice cream?
Yeah that probably nothing.
I wonder if we’ll get to see Sydney trying to plug the hole with her force field and if it’ll prove too much for it if she does.
Simplest explanation for Sydney’s hair would be that she’s simply turning suddenly to face the — chronoclastic infindibulum? — and her hair’s still catching up with her head. But, yeah, the simplest answer is the one used in El Goonish Shive: Magic is a bit of a drama queen.