Grrl Power #665 – Rock paper particle beam
Sydney hasn’t really ever stopped to think about it, but her shield probably has some sort of “remain calm and ___ on” feature, because she’s gone from a pretty typical if more aggravating than usual nerd girl who was in no way an adrenaline junkie to having stuff try and kill her a whole bunch in the past week or so. Like really try to kill her. Previous to the start of the comic, the most dangerous thing that had happened to her is the one time she got mugged and had a hulk freak out on the guy, and realistically, she’s probably almost gotten hit by a car once or twice in her life, or had something almost fall on her. She’s definitely broken more than her share of bones. We’ve all had a close scrape here and there. At some point, Sydney may curl up in bed, wrapped around a pillow and have a proper freak out session, but in the heat of battle, it never seems to occur to her.
I mean, think about this page. A hand the size of an olympic swimming pool smashes into her, accelerates her downward into the ground from like, I don’t know how tall that thing is, but let’s say she was 200 meters up. So she’s streaking toward the ground at probably mach 1 at least, smashed fifty feet into the strata, and she’s just mad she doesn’t have three hands. We know the fly ball gives her immunity to vertigo, but that should still all probably freak her out a little?
I wanted to make this a double sized page because the thing Syndey is fighting is really big and also I got caught up with the latest Onepunch Man manga and reading that always makes me want to draw bigger. Well, reading any comic makes me want to draw bigger, because most comic pages are like 5-7 panels, tops, but Onepunch Man makes me want to draw bigger action specifically. I mean a lot of the best action shots in that comic (most good action comics really, well, mangas. American comics not so much.) are single panel splash pages.
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Poor Squidward. Now he will never be able to realize his dream of playing First Violin in the Eldritch Horror Philharmonic Orchestra. All those millennia of diligent practice gone to waste.
Squidward was also working on diversifying his musical skills on the 3-D piano, but now he’ll have to discontinue his lessons. His instructor is pissed off because now he’ll have to find another paying student.
looking forward to know if it will end like King Arthur’s duel with the Black Knight!
will it be flailing harmlessly when it has no more limb to loose?
He still has ability to play the four horsemen’s hellish harmonica. At least if he gives up with the small attacks soon.
Still pretty good….
“pretty good” …do…do you mean the comic? ..cause its not “pretty good” its the super hero comic book version of cocaine.
It is to Super Hero Comic Books what Geralt of Rivia is to Sexy man-candy… (I’m a straight male by the way but you can’t deny that mans sexy, it would lesson all males to do so) I’m pretty sure that if Joey from Friends ever met Geralt of Rivia he’s just go home and cry.
Gus – It’s the scars right, chicks love the scars.
First I thought “Geralt of Rivia” was a butchery of “Geraldo Rivera.”
Cocaine isn’t as addicting as Grrl Power.
It’s been hinted that the orbs have some influence on her mind to suit their function, so a calm mode makes sense. In the book whose title escapes me, Halo feels something akin to disappointment when she releases the pew pew orb.
I imagine it’s enjoying today’s workout.
actually, that’s a bom-diggety title for a book.
The Book Whose Title Escapes Me
each page would be 4-ply thick, and have a small hidden compartment from which a little paper escape artist could emerge (like a built-in bookmark)
I did state in the last issue that she may have a Aura up with the shield.
The only time we see her fearful is when she was stuck in the bubble with Vehemence, unless she was play acting?
So if that was true fear than its not a relax vibe but maybe a fear filter? Somehow the presence on certain things are filtered out by the orb?
I am hoping she was just acting, because it would be to hard to explain how it filters “fear” from presences outside and not presences inside the shield.
I’ll feel silly if you used the j/k font and my device didn’t display it
BUT….
Team-Ups and Crossovers by Marion G. Harmon.
There’s a frickin’ picture of the cover on the right of this page!
The author actually reads this web comic!
(Howdy! When is the expanded guide being released?)
I remember the flight orb avoid vertigo, for example.
Seen here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1847
Don’t assume that: Just because something’s big, that automatically make it slow
Even in the latest Gold Digger they got a 5,000 ton beasty can accelerate to just under Mach 1 in a few seconds. Lotsa energy there.
Yeah, that’s something that has always annoyed me in games or movies: big giant things (as opposed to small giant things) are always depicted as slow plodding creatures, where is the Insane Bolts of the Giant World? Or the Giant Monks?
That makes partial sense. Big doesn’t mean slow, but heavy does mean high inertia. See if you can crack a tow chain as easily as you can a much lighter whip.
Still. jet aircraft are anything but “light”.
Also, did you ever hear what would happen if you dropped a cockroach, a mouse, a cat, a person, and a horse down a well? The cockroach woudln’t even register the fall. The mouse would hit and scamper off without injury. The mouse might be bruised a bit, but not too bad. The human would be injured. The horse would hit like a big, blood and viscera filled, water balloon.
Of course, afterwards, you’d be arrested for false imprisonment, cruelty to animals and battery. If the horse went last, they’d probably raise that up to attempted murder.
Whoops, I should have proofed that better.
Ignore the typo of “Wouldn’t”, in “The cockroach woulldn’t register the fall.” Replace mouse with cat in “The cat might be bruised a bit, but not too bad.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7KSfjv4Oq0
Yep, it has mostly to do with mass & how strong the graviity is. The strongest mitigating factors to falling speed is how thick the atmosphere is & the aerodynamics of the object’s shape. With Earth gravity & Earth-normal atmosphere, the acceleration is 32′ per second per second & tops off at Terminal Velocity (fastest falling speed according to conditions). Now there are other factors such as drag coefficient, aerodynamics of shape, & so forth, that have an effect on the final Terminal Velocity. For example, a normal sheet of paper has a high Drag Coefficient & will fall slowly, compared to the better aerodynamics & faster speed if you crumple up that paper first.
At the point of impact though, the sheer Mass is where you see the biggest effect.
If all other things being equal (sizes, gravity, aerodynamic shapes, atmospheric conditions, etc) except for Mass, the lighter object impacts with less Force than the object with higher Mass.
TL/DR: The lighter object goes “plink” but the heavy object goes “crunch.”
Regarding jet aircraft and fast. Fast and quick (agile) are two different things. The SR 71, the fastest aircraft of all, has a turn radius like a freight train. In a melee situation or dog fight, fast (velocity) isn’t going to be nearly as useful as quick (acceleration).
Part of that is from real life. I can run faster than a cat but the cat can accelerate and react much faster.
It’s the same essentially when trying to catch a dachshund.
That dog is fast (i’m a bit faster), but the turning capabilities of a dog like that are mostly inertia and center of gravity based, so nearly impossible to grab it without a big dose of luck (or cookies) on anything else than an unobstructed straight line.
An issue related to Squidward’s speed that I haven’t seen addressed yet is nerve fiber speed. When a signal is propagated by electrochemical means such as in earth biology there is an physical limit to how fast a signal can travel to an extension of a creatures body. For something the size of a gray whale there is a measurable delay from brain to tail. Granted, Squidward’s mere existence implies a vastly different biology but it would probably require something along the lines of purely electromagnetic communication between the brain and sub-brains controlling the the creatures extremities to get reaction speeds fast enough to surprise Sydney.
what a wonderful Maxima piece for the vote.
Thanks for reminding me to vote. By the way Grrl Power wins that popularity contest by far.
Yeah it’s an expression she doesn’t usually wear but it still looks like her. That’s some good work there.
I could do with a similar facility to keep me calm at work ;)
Probably shouldn’t come with a built-in energy weapon tho :/
…Especially if the position is being the boss.
One bad day & everyone could be fired…or terminated…
Whatever you want to call it, it would still be literal.
I love how you draw Sydney’s parabolic trajectories each time she shoots a beam.
On the other hand, how does she deal with vertigo when she lets go of the flight orb to grab the PewPew Orb (sorry, not hip enough)? Can the shield orb cancel vertigo too?
I think vertigo is at least partially based upon a fear of falling. Given that Sydney with shield deployed can take a heck of a lot of banging around without Sydney suffering any harm, maybe the shield cancels out all worries about potential injury or death. Sydney does seem to be pretty cocky at times when she’s all bubbled up.
The only time I remember her being truly afraid while she was in the bubble, is the time she brought Vehemence into the shield with her.
At the time, though, she was fighting not just her own natural inclinations, but Vehemence’s ability to cause violence, itself probably also a form of fear.
Well considering Sydney is a full-citizen of the nation of Geekdom, she probably knows the Bene Gesserit mantra on how “Fear is the mind-killer”.
Also as a Scuba Diver she’ll know how to stop panicking as while diving it can get you killed.
Plus if she’s been in as many accidents as you say, she will be familiar with Shock (the medical one) and will naturally be more resilient to it.
An hour after this fight, once she’s relatively safe and the adrenaline she’s feeling is out of her system….
She’ll be a quivering wreck.
I have ADHD at least as bad as Sydney, and can confirm how it puts you at the end of the bell curve re accidents due to clumsiness. I have at least 20 or 30 tiny scars from different events involving all the statistical probabilities that some gov’t agency is bound to be tracking. From face to foot. I’ve also got amazingly fast and well tested reflexes at both dodging and catching dropped objects, and knowing which to reflex use in the hundredths of a second available to make the choice.
Point in case of this would be after the Robo Fight when they were having their ass handed to them from Mars. As Krona said the first time she was excited about denying Tartarus and then when Max arrived she practically broke down. Adrenaline crash will be a bitch after this one.
Forget Sydney’s scuba-diving zenlike qualities… I want to see her spelunk inside a giant alien! That’s got to be the most interesting part of fighting a giant… anything. Getting up in there for some Fantastic Voyage, pew-pew laser endoscopic-proctological remodeling.
Correction: If you could resist the desire to boastfully monologue, the fight would be over already. You’re not a Bond villain, Sydney. Just take it down already!
Remember talk is a free action in comics.
This isn’t a comic, no one dies permanently in comics (unless your name is “Uncle Ben”)
The URL disagrees with you.
Knew someone would make that comment
Yes, technically it is a comic, butt to Sydney, it is real, and the point is: deaths (and serious injuries) have repercussions and consequences (remember Brooke’s foot? nothing could be done to save one of her toes)
It’s Walky! and Dina – one of the three comics I actually abandoned due to character death https://www.itswalky.com/comic/this-was-the-best-i-could-do/ (apologies if outside links not allowed)
Well this proves that the bubble really is true Sydney and not Hollow sit me. I kind of expected that from the get-go due to the fact that when she’s in Halo form while she herself can move about and look around she doesn’t seem to actually move from the spot where she projects very often. I’m still wondering why she said the whole death by a hundred papercuts thing instead of trying to give Mecca Squidward a nasty case of decapitation..
If nothing else that explains the here come the big guns Comments at the start of the flashback I don’t know how many arcs ago now.
Seeing how she cut it across the head a few times already and it didn’t decapitate him I’m guessing the creature is just too massive for the beam to penetrate all the way through, at least while she is only able to fire in short bursts as she switches between shooting and flying.
Page number 4, so way back another 661 pages ago.
Typo:
Caption text: If it makes you feel any better, it has one less hand?
Grammar: “If it makes you feel any better, it has one fewer hand?”
Formally, ‘less’ applies to continuous quantities (capable of essentially infinite subdivision e.g. water, speed), while ‘fewer’ applies to discrete quantities (countable items e.g. hands, lives) .
“At some point, Sydney may curl up in bed, wrapped around a pillow and have a proper freak out session, but in the heat of battle, it never seems to occur to her.”
More than likely this will happen after all of this is over. May be fairly close after the incident or even weeks after. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug and trauma has a funny way of slowly creeping in after the fact in many cases.
Yea, she is going to crash HARD, once she’s home safe.
On the plus side, seeing the therapy sessions is gonna be fun.
Odds are, before it’s over, the therapist is going to need therapy. Not for what Sydney experienced, and relayed, just from her in-session antics.
I see the shield also gives her some kind of inertial dampening, seeing how she suffered no damage from bouncing inside her shield this time.
I really enjoy the commentary on her reaction to somewhat absurd or hyperlethal situations. Lampshade hanging what goes on in the story and that it’s a bit weird or seemingly opposite of what happened earlier is something I really enjoy in fiction.
It’s part of what made the God of War IV game so much more than the other – the characters comment on what’s happening, how amazing it is, and sometimes how it seems contradictory or even a bit stupid (“So your plan relies on a big chunk of luck?” – “You are welcome to suggest a better alternative.”). It doesn’t really solve the contradictory nature of what’s going on, but it does a lot for making the characters feel like people who are aware of their situation, the world around them and how it must appear to others, and not just a vehicle for the player in a story where everyone blatantly ignores all the positively absurd things the player does as is often the case in the earlier God of War games or the Elder Scrolls games
The commentary isn’t in the comic itself right now as Sydney doesn’t have anyone to talk to, but it’s still refreshing to know that yes, her reaction is abnormal and counterintuitive even to those inside the universe and she’s not just being blase just because being bold in the face of superthreats is a staple of the genre.
Now what’s Sydney to do after defeating the giant squid!?
Level up again, then get rescued by Dabbler somehow or steal the ship and warp to earth
Have calamari for lunch?
I love the fact that she is holding the shield with her left hand.
I think I missed something…
How is she keeping her shield up while flying and using the PPO?
Never mind.
do not know if this has been asked, but does she really need to hold them in her hand or just need a phyacal contact? if it is the second one. then why now shoce the orbes under her shirt?
It has been asked many times. Yes, she must hold them in her hands. She’s tried other places, including in her ass crack, but they only work when she holds them in her hands.
When Sciona grabbed her wrists, Sydney could not activate the orbs just by touching them with her fingers. She has to actively hold them in her hands.
She has to hold the orbs in her hands. It was mentioned waaaay back here:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/589
I mostly want to know how in the first image she’s flying, shooting the beam, AND holding the shield at the same time.
You will notice the sine-wave type path she flies? She is dropping when she is shooting, because she switched to the PPO, then switched back and adjusted he flight path.
Riger, she is flying up, swapping flight to PPO and firing a short burst, then swapping back to flight. This is why she keeps having these parabolic arcs in her flight pattern.
As Town Crier mentioned, she is switching between the Fly orb and the PPO, which she mentioned doing a few pages back on Page #657
Wonder if she could get more tentacles and hold more orbs?
More than she has already?
if she got 2 or more tentacles, and could hold orbs so they worked with themy, should could start holding more than 2 orbs at a time
Sorry, I really don’t like this. Just my personal opinion, but while the fight looks incredibly cool, this is far too much. This thing killed an entire WORLD full of people like Sciona, and here is Sydney, a recruit with only ONE week of training and she’s PWNING it! After this, how are you going to come up with anything that can actually put up a challenge to Halo? After building Squidward up as this immense threat, now he’s being taken apart like a well-roasted turkey with minimal effort by ARC-Swat’s most junior recruit? Sorry, maybe there’s something I’m missing, but I find this totally unbelievable. I love Sydney, I love Grrrlpower, but for me, this breaks my suspension of disbelieve, big time. (I still love the webcomic, it’s just the current fight…)
Feeling the same way
Unless this is just Sydney’s (false) claim of what really happened and one of the other recruits cuts in pointing out an obvious flaw in her story. You know, like how if this was a movie there would be that record-scratch sound as someone goes “Wait a minute, didn’t you say *insert contradiction here* earlier?” and then the screen wibbles to Sydney looking awkward at the rest of the class going “You noticed that?”
Like in Monkey Island 2 where the whole game is framed as Gybrush telling Elaine what happened so when you die she calls you on it.
https://youtu.be/LwqFSq51t_U?t=7m31s
Yes, I agree. Unless this is just a Chinese Whisper report by Halo to ARC, I’m disappointed in how easily she’s taking McKree apart.
Sciona might have been an outlier for her species, it was mentioned they were conquerors or raiders of sorts so she probably wasn’t their version of Maxima, but she could have been stronger than average.
Furthermore, while we only see one squid now, there could have been a whole army of them when they attacked the planet. And while they lost and were (nearly) wiped out the locals might have put up a strong resistance and took out a few of these as well.
Lastly, while she barely had any training it should not be forgotten that Sydney has top tier abilities and a wide array of them that together make her a strong threat. However back on Earth she won’t be able to just cut loose with her laser like she is doing here.
We know something wiped out Sciona’s homeworld, and while Squidward is a likely suspect, we have no solid evidence that it’s the culprit. It could be merely a scavenger, scout, or warning system for the entity or entities that did.
Furthermore, Sydney is clearly trained in some kind of martial art as she took down a guy a head taller, twice as heavy, armed with a gun, has actual super-powers, and military training IN SECONDS before she whipped out her orbs or was “recruited” to join Arc-swat.
She was always dangerous. It’s just that most people can’t see it.
Sydney’s best super power has nothing to do with her orbs. It is the power she was born with. This is her innate ability to surprise the hell out of everyone. She was able to floor Mr Amorphous because who expects to be Judo tossed by their tongue? Fast as Maxima is, Sydney still managed to nail her with “Fear Vomit”.
If Sydney was your typical junior recruit, then it would be expected that she’d flee and try to shelter until the cavalry arrives. But since this is Sydney the expected thing is the last thing you should expect.
To quote a Judo trainer I know, “The most dangerous opponent you will face is the one who has absolutely no clue what they’re doing but still tries to do it. These people are extremely unpredictable.”
Which sums up Sydney’s style of fighting.
Which is one of the reasons that noobies to the martial arts get to wear WHITE belts… white is associated with DEATH… and that’s particularly applicable because those who KNOW what to do (ie black belts) can react according to their training to an attack from another trained individual, but they have NO CLUE as to what the noob will do and they MAY end up attempting an attack or defense that could injure or even kill one of them…
Keep in mind that Sydney is INSIDE his shield. She was able to figure out how to get within in and had the ability to do so. It is possible that Sciona’s people couldn’t do this. Also keep in mind that when her orbs were detected (or detected as null items, take your pick) by Squidwad or his associates, it immediately triggered an attack on her. They KNOW she and her orbs are something lethal to them, and want to get rid of her as quickly as possible.
It has not been proved that Squiddly even has a shield, or if he has an innate ability
Toe-Ma-TOE… Ta May Ta… It’s all Semantics at his point in the game… Sydney shot her PPO at him and it WOULD have hit… but it didn’t due to “something” MAKING it miss… therefore it was a “Shield”… HOW that shield came to be is irrelevant to the combatants, only to US, the readers… if DaveB thinks it will make a difference and feels like adding a few more pages, then WE might get to hear about it, otherwise… Meh, whatever… Sydney is INSIDE the effect and is taking it down bit by bit where it can’t hit back EFFECTIVELY…
Hasn’t Squidward now pushed her out of his shield, if it is a shield?
Good point, I considered that possibility too. It isn’t clear whether it would deflect Sydney trying to fly back in or not.
In any case, I don’t expect the lightbee trick to work twice.
It’s pretty hard to defend against though – even if Squidward can see the ‘bee and knows she’s about to pop behind him, he still has to defend against shots from where she is now.
My reply will be different.
Rather than trying to downplay this current threat to imply a greater one can come later.
My reply is…
you don’t have to keep coming up with a BIGGER STRONGER ENEMY.
We need to move away from the DBZ mindset of antagonists.
It shouldn’t have to be *we defeated this guy, now a bigger stronger threat with a higher power level is showing up, we better train and get better weapons ect…”
this I felt really hurt DBZ’s story telling compared to say Dragon Ball before it. and pretty much ruined Supernatural for me, especially as their premise was ordinary humans had to have a way to defeat so each time they went (its bigger and more powerful than the last thing) they still had to go all folklore monster rules and have some way to rock/paper/scissor it that ordinary humans could use.
Superman didn’t have to have a bigger badder threat originally,
neither did Batman, Spider-man, The Hulk,
enemies don’t need to keep being bigger, stronger, more kill count, ect… to still count as a threat, or cause drama, a lot can be said of using situations and opponents where the *blow up the moon, using dimension shattering shards of negative space, or pure Anti-matter life force annihilation beams” would be a bad idea due collateral damage, the legal system, intelligence of the opponent, not wanting or it being excessive to do so.
Like, having a superhero who goes from *I have defeated the Mega God of Multiversal Destruction* but lacks the training or capability to dial that back to oh say stop a bank robber, or investigate an interesting opponent, or deal with day to day life (one of my favorite series is Tenchi Muyo and half the cast are planet busters or greater and 99% of the show is slice of life).
The comic, especially early on gave me more of an action-comedy vibe, so I wouldn’t expect constant escalating power levels anyway.
Good point. With older superhero comics, the moments I liked best were often those where they were just goofing off, doing their daily routine, interacting with each other… normal situations, but with superpowers to spice them up so to speak.
That makes up a large part of this webcomic, which is why I love it so much. I’m just worried that Sydney will become too overpowered – she’s already incredibly powerful and she has currently only 37 of the 126 nodes in her skill tree activated. In other words, she still has to access about 60% of her true power!
Wel, I’ve enjoyed the story so far, so I guess I’m probably being too pessimistic. Wouldn’t be my first time. :)
I have faith that the comic will stay closer to slice of life training and being a new superhero.
Given the diversity of her power set, the two hand limitation aside I’d say the majority of those nodes are going to be a combination of catch up with other team members *speed and light hook strength* or give her more diversity in specific power sets that she has to get creative with *life if the air ball is just gasses or actually life support*, other options for comms, the PPO had a weaker spread shot option,
I doubt we’ll see Omni-elemental issues like suddenly one does a freeze beam, explosive bubble blasts, Antithesis energy waves, and the like.
and the other option is there, that some might be overpowered to the point of uselessness. Maxima can shift her stats around, if Sydney can’t manually adjust the PPO for instance main beam after its powered up it could be become utterly worthless except in these extremely rare cases where she doesn’t have to worry about bystanders, property damage, or her team mates getting caught in the blast during the battle. Even firing straight up becomes a problem on Earth with airplanes and satelites to worry about. It could even be a sobering moment for her to realize that when not facing one on one against a building sized opponent in an already desolate landscape that she can’t go all out in any other kind of situation. But that said she is still limited to the one offensive option and was lucky she could teleport inside of her opponent’s shield.
if we scaled this guy down to her size with the same kind of shield, she wouldn’t have been able to teleport inside of his shield and it would have been a much harder fight for her.
I’d say this has more the dimension of “Guy vs Mosquito” vibes then “Deathstar vs X-Wing”… but then again they Shoot lasers and try to cut each other to ribbons… at least Sidney does.
That reminds me of the “One Punch Man” episode where Saitama can’t kill this one mosquito even though he obliterates Squidward-sized enemies with one punch. Hilarity abounds.
Hold on @DaveB – is this commentary official? The Last Orb is basically Councellor Troy :D
{ oh lol I can’t say that with a serious face !!!!!! }
“Hold on @DaveB – is this commentary official? The Last Orb is basically Councellor Troy :D”
You mean that its abilities are inversely proportional to the amount of cleavage it’s showing? :>
I could accept that as a point. The Last Orb is a field that based on how your trying to portray youself, sexy, threatening, unimportant people will interpret you that way. Like cloaking but purely mental. You want to instantly become friends with someone – just hold the orb and think sexy thought. This doesnt change you in any way but other people suddenly see cloudy images with low camera angles and light flares! ‘ㅃ,ㅃ
At some point when trying to survive, the brain simply chooses to willfully ignore everything except that which keeps you in one piece. There is every chance that once the fight is over, and she is returned to a safe enviroment, that she will have one enormous freakout, as the reality of what she just survived comes crashing down on her like a metric fuckton of bricks.
This guy might call it a draw when he ends up like the Black Knight.
Then again, even limbless, he can do more than just bleed on her.
My question is, does she need to grip them with her hands or do they need to just touch her flesh? If it’s the latter, she could just stuff one of them down her pants to free up a hand.
She needs to hold them with her hands. This has been demonstrated, repeatedly.
Hands: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/589
Someone remind me why Sydney needed to level up before taking this guy on?
She’s taking this guy on because she needs to level up.
She’s hoping to unlock warp speed.
She put a point into Flight
Which unlocked the track that is speculatively warp-speed, along with, probably, Mach 5.
Why would she want a high-tech race car? ;)
MegaSquidward bravely sacrifices itself while the 10 mile tall ship quietly slips away.
Maxima and co will get back there to find Sydney sitting on top of a pile of rubble, dead Squidward in the background, with Sydney all ‘We cool’
And Max re-evaluates the threat Sydney could pose if she goes off the rails.
Halo: Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
Giant alien: ‘Tis but a scratch.
H: A scratch? Your leg’s off!
G: No, it isn’t.
H: Well, what’s that then?
G: I’ve had worse.
G: I’m invincible!
H: You’re a loony.
*cuts of all other limbs*
H: I am off.
G: All right, we’ll call it a draw.
You may be somewhat correct.
” I. Lose. But. you do not. Win. Heh. Heh.”
I have a new theory: If this is the future, Sydney is fighting future version of her, after too long using the orbs you become a giant squid monster thing.
Jakkabbi, you have won the internet for today. THAT would be a good twist!
You need to update that telepresence / truesight also include teleport under the orb powers, also please can we get a hint as to what the last orb does?
Last Orb: Omega 13.
Adrenaline is a funny thing, you never know how people will react to supreme stress. Often a fight causes tunnel vision and they focus on what’s right in front of them to the exclusion of all else.
Also Sydney’s a recreational SCUBA diver. That has to give her a little bit of grounding in carrying on with a plan in the face of the unexpected. When you’re 100 feet deep and something goes sideways is a good time to keep calm. (Granted she had ADD trouble with the coursework.)
Carry on!
Basic licenses stop at 20m. Advanced go farther than that, but you need multiple dives in special conditions to get an advanced cert, in addition to doing a minimum number of regular dives. Night dive. Orienteering dive. “Deep dive.” Adventure dive, imagine getting sucked into a water current through coral reefs. Do a Superman pose and mimic your guide and you’ll be fine. Do it wrong and you slam into coral at >15mph.
If she’s as hard up for money as implied, doing the keys plus a basic dive course probably ate 2 years worth of savings. Advanced diving classes are even more expensive.
Orrrr…her parents could’ve bought her the dive lessons and the Florida Keys vacation as a major birthday/graduation present…?
For some reason I’m imagining Sydney using the Fly ball to spin in a pirouette and going all out with the PPO as she descends, kind of like a galactic Cuisinart of Destruction.
And she doesn’t need to worry about her where her shots go for two reasons….
1) she is inside of its shields.
2) she is on a ravaged planet.
Although I wonder why she didn’t try just to ‘core’ it as a first shot and then chopped it up later.
@DaveB you have a small typo in the text note…
If it makes you feel any better, it has onE less hand.
Or a Tasmanian Devil with laser eyes.
I think the only reason why she can only use the “stick-and-move” method, is because she would probably have to be stationary and on the ground to cut all the way through the main body. Its speed and power would be enough to keep her from doing that by smacking her away. Removing limbs would decrease his capacity for short and mid-range strikes.
or the Death Blossom scene from the movie “The Last Starfighter”.
Very calm, bu for some reason I’m imagining Sydney using the Fly ball to spin in a pirouette and going all out with the PPO as she descends, kind of like a galactic Tasmanian devil of Destruction.
That’s ‘Death Blossom”.
Speaking of orb protections and a mach 1 crash into the pavement, how does that not kill her? I can agree that the shield would stop the “squish like a bug” that the hand is doing, but the “getting hit by a wall flying at you with the speed of sound” levels of acceleration and deceleration should still rupture her internal organs into a smoothie like paste.
Because as everyone knows; “it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the landing/rapid deceleration”.
The orb makers are a subset of everyone, and thus made their all powerful shield not have that obvious weakness.
This is what I thought, but clearly she has an inertial dampener much like tony stark; despite being “vanilla human” both of them seen impervious to harm from impacts. I mean, Iron man drives me nuts because just because he’s in a tin shell shouldn’t make him totally immune to impacts and sudden G’s. Its like saying that because your inside a car you cannot be harmed by crashing into things.
For Sidney, I’d guess the fly ball would protect her – she has her own gravity when she grabs the ball, so she’s not feeling any G’s at all from the sudden acceleration/declaration of being swatted into the ground. It appears Dave is one step ahead of us.
It looks like she had the Flyball in her right hand at time of impact, both from the hand and the ground. Well, there’s a blue glow in her right hand…
I’m still waiting for the moment when one of the crew finally shows up. Knowing our chances it’ll be Mathias in all his hundred year old glory still looking the same and just saying “Oh, I just got so good at martial arts that time couldn’t even beat me.”
‘but her shield probably has some sort of “remain calm and ___ on” feature’
Nooo, that wouldn’t be good. One of the most important hero tropes is that they are generally NOT nothing without their source of power. Sydney’s just rising to the moment.
Clearly her shield also has inertial dampers. Squidward wouldn’t need to break her shield if that had just flattened all her internal organs against her ribcage.
Either that or the flight orb has the inertial dampeners. Which raises the question — was she holding the flight orb or the ppo when that happened?
Apparently there’s some redundancy in the flight and shield orbs.
The flight orb has inertia dampers for acceleration and maneuvering.
The shield orb protects against g loads.
The skill tree may show them connected or having a common terminus.