Grrl Power #775 – Grrl’s night!
Exciting scheduling and making evening plans! I know what you guys come here for.
And yes, Krona Bips her ear, and then I didn’t draw anything in her ear. I guess she’s got the same invisible bluetooth earpieces that the Avengers use.
I think the more important question, Kat, is can rabbits swim? Actually, I assume just about any quadruped can doggy paddle. I mean, a horse can swim. Or… kind of kick around in the water. I’m not sure if not immediately drowning counts as swimming. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a video of a rabbit swimming though.
I’m not sure where the Semper Vigilantis are exactly. It’s either some sort of underground pool, or just a covered one designed to look like a cave. It’s probably somewhere off to the side of where the Twilight Council had their meeting with Arc-SWAT back before the whole Sciona thing kicked off. Given that there are some aquatic or at least amphibious members on the council, it makes sense they would have a variety of accommodations. It’s weird seeing Scarlett there though. There’s nothing about vampire lore that says that they can’t swim, but you never really think of vampires as big swimmers.
Yes, some legends say they can’t cross running water, which is supposed to refer to rivers I think, but it would really screw vampires with that limitation trying to navigate any modern city with a sewage system, storm drains, municipal or residential plumbing. Sure, there’s probably some ratio of how much water it has to be vs. how far they are from it in order to affect the vampire. Otherwise a vampire could get trapped whenever the sprinklers go off.
Now, if a high level priest could bless a city’s aquifer, the sprinklers would be a serious problem for vamps. Also fire sprinklers, water fountains, etc. Your local pastor couldn’t pull that off. That guy is what, probably a level 3 cleric? He could do a wheelbarrow full of water balloons all at once, tops. But I’m betting a bishop could do a medium sized aquifer. Well, maybe a water tower.
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Don’t knock the whole Exposition thing we all need it from time to time right?
Given Krona’s powers, I have little doubt she could make her ear-bippy thing invisible.
Or have a technopathic connection with her smartphone, just using the gesture as a trigger.
Or have the soundwaves generated without an actual physical ear-piece (basically simulating the physical object and the Bluetooth connection to the phone).
A virtual ear-bippy.
She does seem to handle her powers like some sort of computer program, so it’s possible she “deleted the skin” of her earpiece, or maybe she added that function to her earlobe? Some Humans can bend joints beyond the normal range of movement, some can replicate unusual sounds, she can create a localized time loop, disarm explosives at a distance and change hair colour on a whim. Turning an earlobe into a bluetooth earpiece might not be outside her abilities…
Just a macro that transfers the sound to her ear / from her mouth (and answers/hands up) when she taps her tragus?
Don’t forget remove bathing suit tops. So much for conservation of mass. I guess if she turned it into air…
Into water would make more sense. Into air would create a puff of wind.
Might have just teleported it back to the wearer’s room, seems easier than deleting it from existence.
Transporting it untied into the water creates somewhat plausible deniability.
Krona has been getting away with this for a long time. If it’s found at the bottom of the pool well it could have happened in the wake of Pixel’s jaguar belly flop.
You’re talking the ability to “reset” somebody’s injury state, hitting snooze on bodily functions, changing hair colour or clothing size etc. Aside from energy requirements, I don’t know if reality hacking has any constraints as to what can or cannot be done. Erasing something from existence or transmuting things seem easy enough compared to the rest.
For a moment I thought they were at the moonpool at the entrance to the vault, despite that making no sense for previously shown reasons.
Krona’s fashion sense is… interesting. I can’t imagine most people choosing to wear a china dress to a pool.
Also, I had to look up fried cheese. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen those things before, but I’ve never heard them called that.
Clearly she shares some of the same issues with Sidney; it looks like a deliberate call back to me.
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Oh man, if you’ve never had fried mozzarella you are missing out. Not even gonna pretend it is good for you, but so damn good. In Seattle, there is a place called Mamma Stortini’s that has mozzarella breaded with Parmesan cheese, then fried. It’s a glorious little heart attack on a plate.
I always thought that Taco Town made the best multi-layered fried heart attack.
Round my neck of the woods we call fried cheese “fried curds.” At least that’s how it’s printed on the menus.
How many people realize what Little Miss Muffet was eating while sitting on her tuffet?
Curds & Whey = Cottage Cheese.
Chunky parts are the curds, the thin, milky liquid is the whey.
Yups, loves me some cottage cheese (the variety with chives), will wait until it’s close to its best before date (to give it a little more ‘kick’) break it up with a screwdriver (one of them little sewing machine ‘drivers) and then eat it with a finger :D
Chives are good. Also like Cottage Cheese with Pineapple bits stirred in.
Can get Cottage Cheese w/ Pineapple, can’t remember if had or what thought of if did (may have to get some to check)
“Fried cheese” is on a lot of chain “fast casual dining” menus as “mozzarella sticks”.
It’s a few inches of mozzarella cheese, breaded, and fried. If you don’t let it cool down before eating, the breading seems fine, but the cheese and oil inside are still practically molten.
No No No No… Ya gotta do it properly, like in Schlock…
There was a place in Milwaukee, many years back, that did fried cheese wrapped in egg roll wrappers. It was heavenly. (And agreed with gorblimey about the chupaqueso!)
I think I remember seeing that in Seattle once too. I want to experiment with making it with different cheeses. My next attempt will be with Indian Paneer cheese. Maybe with a Butter chicken or Tikka Masala dipping sauce.
try jalepeno cheddar, too for a nice little burn…. maybe wrap it in maple bacon
I once visited a Greek place that fried feta wrapped in phyllo dough. So salty. So delicious.
Ok, so don’t piss off the reality hacker. Must be nice to have admin privileges in real life. Probably a good thing I don’t have that power. I couldn’t be trusted.
Those wishing to experiment with hacking reality may enjoy the Magic 2.0 book series by Scott Meyer.
I don’t want to hack reality I just want to find the guy who’s been writing my story recently, and suggest some cast changes/additions. The writer from a few years back like sex scenes, but changed the cast too much. Just as I was starting to get interested in someone as a friend he/she got thrown under the bus, sometimes literally (RIP)
How was Krona pissed off? Pixel was the one who created the wave, and while Elsbeth provoked it it was an innocent thing and not in any way a prank on Krona.
This is the bad writing manifesting itself. Here you have a character acting as a sex offender for no good reason other than the author thinks it is funny or sexy when a hot character looses her bikini top.
Look at panel four, that is the looked of a pissed of woman
The real question should be “Why was Kronachrome pissed off?”
It’s not a case of bad writing, people do react like that: blame an innocent (or not quite so innocent) party instead of punish the one truly at fault
There’s also the fact that Pixel is swimming nude, so there isn’t any Bikini top for Krona to hack. Or perhaps Pixel suddenly finds herself wearing Elsbeth’s top. Krona could have relocated it rather than remove it entirely from existence.
Yeah, had noted about Pixelicious being naked somewhere else (and speculating on whether it is a giant pink panther leaping on the werehare that has Kat freaking out, or the giant naked pink panther leaping on her :P )
Assuming she’s not wearing that cheongsam purely as a fashion statement, it’s a nice and subtle way to reveal more of Krona’s background, even if just a little.
Not… necessarily, just a quick search for what it was, showed a video about a guy asking Chinese people how they feel about foreigners wearing it, and it seems, overwhelmingly, as long as the woman looks good in it, they don’t care
Hence why I said, “Assuming she’s not wearing that cheongsam purely as a fashion statement”.
There’s also that her eyes seem more Asian here than before, although I’m ultimately not sure what to make of that inconsistency with her previous appearances.
I agree. It’s like the author decided to park her in an Asian dress and thought that making her look like and Asian was required. Really poor decisions are being made here in witness to the entire internet.
Go back to Kronachrome’s initial entries, if you look closely through her goggles you can see the eyes are slanted slightly
I looked through the archives and I really don’t see evidence of Epicanthic Folds in Krona’s eyes. The first page that Krona appears in shows her with round eyes. Even when she closes her eyes there is no indication of a slant to her eyes.
This doesn’t really prove anything about Krona’s ethnicity however since her round eye look could just be explained away as “Manga Eyes”, where every character, particularly cute females, have big round Mickey Mouse eyes.
A quick online search indicates that Krona is a very rare first name and apparently no Kronas on record have an ethnicity other than caucasian. I don’t have membership in any of the ancestry sites, so someone who can do a deeper dive than I did may be able to find out more history of the name.
There is also the possibility that Krona is of mixed ethnicity, say Korean/Swedish for example. That would make her a Scandinasian.
Wasn’t meaning that page, just on some of the others there is a slight slant
Didn’t bother checking the Wars Factory fight arc to check further
Addendum: either Krona hacked herself to match her cheongsam, or DaveB did an art retcon to change or further define her character.
I’d tend to assume the art retcon, mostly because Krona seems smart enough to reason through how iffy editing her ethnicity would seem to people who were born into a particular ethnicity. It’s not putting on blackface (since that was almost always a deliberate playing up of negative stereotypes). But blackface, minstrel shows, whitewashing (hiring white actors to play non-white roles instead of available actors of the actual ethnicity), etc. have tainted the idea of putting on the appearance of another ethnicity with a huge amount of negative baggage. The Council might have its own baggage in regards to passing, cultural appropriation, stereotyping, etc., but we don’t have a lot to go on there (aside from Pixel’s reaction to misnaming her were-species, aversion to Twilight and grousing about misidentifying wolves howling as being moon-related).
That said, that’s more so in America than some other countries, and we don’t know where Krona is from. Krona is the name of a unit of currency in Iceland and Sweden, but that doesn’t necessarily imply she’s from either of those places (might even mitigate against it — with the exception of 50 Cent (rapper) and Dollar Bill (of the Watchmen), there aren’t that many examples of people named after currency).
I could see Krona thinking it would be cute to edit herself to match her dress, but I can also see her thinking a step beyond that and going “or not . . . not would probably be better.”
I just checked between the archive and the ones I’ve saved. Krona was like that from the beginning. Her asian appearance was just subtle enough that a lot of people didn’t notice until now.
Plus, she rarely took her goggles off
Not that you’re wrong, but I thought I’d point out the asshole televangelist Creflo Dollar as another example of a person named after currency. Like all televangelists, he soaks his suckers for money that he uses to support a lavish lifestyle. Quite the opposite of all Christian teachings, and just another way that religion ruins everything.
Or Krona hacks her appearance to match whatever she wears and we may never see the original Krona.
Yup, was thinking that: if she can hack reality, then if she hacked her ethnicity then, as far as the rest of the universe is concerned, she has always been that ethnicity, and only those outside of reality (or on the other side of the Fourth Wall) would know differently
Okay, going back to Kronachrome’s original introduction, and, while it’s difficult to spot, she had similar eyes (maybe it’s just DaveB was able to improve his art, plus, focused more on an un-goggled Kronachrome this time)
Fun Fact: We never see Aqua’s (Konosuba) panties because she uses magic to make them invisible so people “can’t peek at them”
Umm, if they are invisible, wouldn’t that mean people would have an unobscured view to her privates? o_O
Some how, that may just be a little worse…
Piers Anthony had a better solution in his book “Color of her Panties”
Can’t remember if the panties kept changing colour and pattern, or if something kept getting in the way or distracting the peeker (read it over 20 years ago, details are long lost)
Years ago, I went out to buy a kimono for my mother. I asked the sales lady if she thought the one I picked out would look good on a woman with red hair. The sales lady brightened and pleased at the thought, so she assured me that it would.
Sure, but that’s a bit like asking the barber if you need a haircut. Don’t be too surprised if the answer is ‘yes.’
I bet a barber would love my hair. It’s almost 18 inches at this point.
Well that’s one way to keep explinations on panel and in official cannon… at least as far as the book and pixel swimming in puma form goes….
Pixel is a were-jaguar and jaguars are excellent swimmers in the Amazon river and tributaries. They are known to snack on piranha. Tigers are excellent swimmers as well, on the opposite side of the world. Rabbits, with their big feet, are reasonable swimmers as non-cetacean mammals that size go. Apparently their fur is waterproof enough that they can just float on calm water for several minutes, at least until their fur is soaked through.
There is a very good story by Alan Moore in his Swamp Thing comic about vampires who lived in a town submerged because of the construction of a dam.
He also used the ‘bless the city water supply as a weapon against vampires’ idea in his graphic novel Top 10: The Forty-Niners .
And the used it in the Constantine movie. I read a book where a guy held off a vampire with a jacuzzi.
Re: DaveB’s comment about vampires and running water… hey, at least vampires in GrrlPower don’t have the same weaknesses as the ones in Rifts (the role-playing game from Palladium). Any running water damages them, which turns a plain Super Soaker into a deadly weapon against vampires!
(On the other hand, Rifts vampires are immune to almost everything except sunlight, running water, and wooden stakes, so a railgun round that can destroy most robots in two or three hits will just piss them off.)
If you like the idea of holy water sprinklers, then you should watch Constantine.
Movie or TV?
Ooo, oooo, I’ve seen the Keanu Reeves movie, AND Buffy/Angel I think it was, throw a blessed Cross into the water tank, give the Vampires/Demons the chance to leave the event and when they refuse, cigarette lighter to the fire sprinklers….
There was a recent TV series, not Buffy or Angel, with right foul-mouthed Brit wanker playing the part
Basically, he looked like a cross between Cas from “Supernatural”, and Columbo :P (or, maybe simply just a supernatural Columbo)
That would be Constantine. Too bad they decided to cancel the show. It was starting to get good!!! *sigh*
Constantine also appears in DC’s Legend Of Tomorrow.
Yes, he did such a good performance on the show they felt it would be bad just to drop him entirely, and they needed a smartarse with a non-Yank accent after they got rid of Snart (it was either that, or piss of the few remaining loyal fans by bringing Snarky Snart back from the dead for more than a brief time-travelled cameo)
1) A disposable lighter will probably explode in your hand before getting a fire sprinkler hot enough to go off.
2) Setting off a fire sprinkler only sets off that sprinkler. The discharge radius of one sprinkler is fairly small.
3) What comes out of a fire sprinkler can only loosely be described as water. It’s closer to sewage, minus the fecal material.
Some systems are designed with inter-linked heads within a given zone (say, an entire room), but yeah mostly they’re independent.
The initial discharge is water… that’s been sitting in the pipes for years, marinating in the pipe sealants and cutting oils and collecting sediment. The lines get flushed and running fresh water fairly quickly, but yeah that first minute or so is some nasty stuff that may do as much damage as the fire itself.
Wasn’t a disposable, think you Humans call them “zippo” lighters? And it seems to have been those inter-linked heads, it’d be useless if it was just that sprinkler. Mind you, they certainly wouldn’t be able to touch you after…
Dun dundundun, dundun, dundun…….can’t touch this… :P
To clarify, I was addressing the tropes usually seen involving fire sprinklers in movies and TV. Out of school I went to work for a company that renovates commercial retail space, where fire sprinklers are common. Much like the trope where someone goes crawling through HVAC ductwork that’s all clean and smooth and shiny inside, the reality of it is different enough that I tend to roll my eyes when I see it portrayed that way.
in The Middleman, the titular hero activates the Nakatomi Emergency Protocol, which enlarges the air ducts to a navigable size.
What you are seeing regarding ductwork is likely period correct.
Up through the Sixties, returns in commercial buildings were often fourteen or twelve gauge steel and they cleaned them often. Modern foam board plenums and flexduct is cheaper to replace than clean.
When I was in junior high school, the buildings had economizers and I used to sneak into the school library in the summer through the roof units and read.
Vampires and Lycanthropes can be a real problem to anyone not used to them using Rifts rules, because Literally they are Immune to everything up to wave motion guns! Death star? The planet blowing up under them Probably will not kill them unless in the blast they get impaled through the heart with a wooden stake, but exposure to direct sunlight will! but If you know there weaknesses are they easily crippled and killed, so break out the fire hoses! after all you have to wash down the inevitable soaked heaps of ash somehow! That’s why I started putting them in body and power armor.
(Ironicaly it took a semi sentient magic H Bomb to kill the master intelligence behind one Vampire kingdom in Rifts, Yes you heard that correctly and entire Kingdom of Vampires. You see a norman Hbomb would have just made them hungry at worst because it would kill off there food supply, and maybee destroy there Crypts and backup lairs forcing them to improvise. And even then that just ended the threat from ONE VAMPIRE INTELLIGENCE! theres over a dozen others in the Americas alone, never mind the rest of the multiverse!)
Re: the planet blowing up not killing Rifts vampires, but direct sunlight will: Technically, blowing up the planet they are on the night side of will pretty shortly result in them being exposed to very direct sunlight. Night is just being in the shadow cast by the planet, after all.
Was thinking of that when read it :D
Kronachrome, sweetie? IT WASN’T ELLIE WHO GOT YOU WET!!!
No, but she encouraged the kitty cannonball.
Just because she encouraged it (or maybe simply saw what was about to happen), it was still Pixelicious who splashed down (then again, she’s not wearing anything… )
The kitty cannonball was just a distraction, so that Krona would not be the default suspect.
She undid Ellie’s top *after* and *in reaction to* the splashing caused by Pixel’a werejaguar cannonball which Ellie called for.
Undid, as in to make not happen. She can be vengeful!
Ah, I mis-read the first 2 panels as Krona executing a “moveto” command on Pixel
I missed that bit in the 5th panel where Krona made Ellie’s top disappear until I read these comments.
Does anyone remember when the swimming rabbit attacked President Carter? Even at the time, it sounded like the set-up line for a joke, but it was real.
I’ve always mentally associated that with Monty Python’s killer rabbits, though I know the Python bunnies came first.
I don’t like Carter, but I always though he got the short end of the stick over that. Rabbits don’t normally swim much, and a mammal behaving oddly in the wild is likely to set off any farmer’s ‘rabies!’ Alarms.
Now, I have read that rabbits supposedly don’t get rabies. Maybe it’s even true. But I bet no farmer with any significant investment in livestock that would have to be destroyed if rabid is willing to take the chance.
Any mammal can get rabies. Small mammals like rabbits and most rodents are unlikely to contract it just because they’re less likely to survive an attack from a rabid animal like a fox.
Except, an animal with rabies isn’t likely going to be taking a few laps in the local watering hole…
That was a swamp rabbit (Sylvilagus Aquaticus), too. They’re the largest ot cute pet bunny sized. Swamp rabbits can easily get to nearly two feet long, which is medium-sized dog territory. They don’t weigh as much as a dog that size . . . but that just makes it easier to leap for your throat. :-)
That said, I wouldn’t want to share a small boat with a freaked-out, spitting, potentially rabid animal that size (or really, any size).
I was surprised at the time how much traction professional spin jockeys got out of magnifying and repeating an anecdote about warning off a potentially rabid animal during a fishing trip, though. I’ve read several places that it’s supposedly the most memorable thing about his presidency (though according to whom and how that was determined is rarely specified). I would have assumed it was brokering the Israel/Egypt peace accords, or possibly the failed attempt to rescue the Iranian embassy hostages, but nope . . . splashing water at a rabid swamp rabbit.
That should have been “the largest cottontail species, not cute bunny sized.” Apparently I accidental part of sentence, as it were.
Just because Kronachrome is beside the swimming pool, does not mean she has any intent on getting in the swimming pool :D
True, but in this case, the swimming pool came to her, in the form of a mini-tsunami.
The ‘can’t cross running water’ thing has always been a bit weird. Depending the lore they can change into mist, or bats, or other animals, or even fly/glide without changing forms. Why wouldn’t they be able to get over a river that way? Or what about bridges?
The only explanation I can come up with is if the vampires have some way to glide over obstacles, but the shifting currents of a river mess up whatever foothold they use to stay afloat, so they’d fall into the river instead of gliding over it.
The “running water” myth was likely invented by Bram Stoker. The original vampire folklore does not mention this at all, but witches, ghosts, and spirits cannot cross running water (why, I don’t know).
Hm, i just replied this elsewhere … i think?
“Can’t cross running water” comes likely from old superstition that “Evil creatures” cannot make CROSSES.
Therefor, they cannot voluntarily cross lines, roads, rivers, et cetera.
Oh, that’s a clever pun. Whoever came up with that idea should be posthumously awarded some sort of fiction award, because you know there’s no way they’re still around.
Unless they’re a vampire.
Remember how Dracula got to England in that novel? He crossed running water to get there (unless he travelled via the Chunnel… )
I don’t remember the book completely, but my recollection is that the limitation was that he couldn’t cross water while awake/aware. He got to England asleep in a coffin packed with his native soil (another vampire limitation in the book). I know even less about the fokelore
Dracula couln’t cross running water himself, but he could be carried across. So he was carried onto the ship in a shipping crate, and jumped ashore after it ran aground.
Not quite. The ship’s log that is found on board notes crew members falling ill and dying during the trip in a manner that makes it fairly clear that Dracula was feeding on them during the crossing. It seems like a volitional limitation, like the obsession with counting, for instance, grains of rice or wheat that some vampires are described as having. In other words, Dracula might not be able to make himself move across the water, but have no difficulties with allowing someone or something else to carry him across.
By the way, the obsessive counting legend (often described as a defense . . . i.e. covering the grave with millet or poppy seeds so the vampire is trapped there, since he can’t count them all between sundown and sunrise, nor leave before he’s done counting) is very much where the idea of Count von Count (and his girlfriend Countess von Backwards, his Uncle Uno, etc.) on Sesame Street originated.
Never heard of the Countess or his uncle before, Count Homogenized on the other bottle… :D
Ocean water isn’t so much “running” or flowing the way a river or stream moves from its sources to the ocean. It’s more “sloshing” in the sense that it’s a mass of water that is moving to and fro in response to lunar and solar gravity and wind pressure. Circulatory currents like the North Atlantic Current or the Gulf Stream might be considered running water, but given the lack of a sample population of vampires, it’s a hard hypothesis to test.
If that were the case (and assuming going above the water counts as crossing, regardless of height), it would be an interesting vignette in the Grrlverse or similar settings to have a vamp-specific smartphone app, for instance, that maps out available airplane routes to get the vamp from one location to another (presumably in the cargo hold) without flying over rivers, ocean currents, etc. that would be problematic.
The “can’t cross running water” thing seems most likely to be from christianity seeping into the folklore superstitions:
Creatures of Evil or Fae could not CROSS things(they could not make a CROSS), period.
In one instance, a guy got away from demons or faeries or whatever by running over a plowed field, and the creatures had to run along the plowed pattern instead of across it …
Stupid, yes.
This seems an unlikely source for the running water idea. The play on words, with the two meanings of “cross”, works in English. However, it does not seem to work in the other languages that I( know.
In any case, I doubt that vampires are prevented from doing an action, just because the word for it SOUNDS like a holy object in someone’s theism.
Yeah, because then, all it would take to defeat one, is for a potential victim to get upset with them (you, get cross with them?)
There’s a joke that works on similar sounds –
“Quick, Sister Mary, show the vampire your cross!”
“You stupid vampire, why don’t you just f@#$ off!”
Yups, that’s what was thinking of :D
I suspect it is one of those “ritual purity” things, rather than anything actually physical; running water would wash the filth they consist of away, as opposed to stagnant water that wouldn’t. Certain aspects of Muslim ritual cleanliness require running water, for instance, and there are no doubt others. And since we know there are types of magic in the GP universe, it may be that someone can enchant the water so it doesn’t harm entities that otherwise would have to stay out of it.
Much of the undead of old legends are creatures that haunt a particular place, and can’t cross the boundaries of that place. Running water that marks the edge of whatever boundary is something they can’t move through. Stoker’s count was extra-scary because here was a creature that was clearly *SUPPOSED* to be limited to a particular place, played by “the rules,” but was using hateful hacks and tricks to exceed its allotted boundaries. Stoker’s vampires are unable to cross running water and must sleep on their native soil each day – ergo, they cannot operate outside the bounds of their native land. There’s even a boundary issue with individual dwellings – they’re not part of the vampire’s allowed territory unless the master of that boundary gives it up to them.
But Dracula ships coffins full of his native dirt all over the world, has himself shipped across those boundaries he can’t cross himself, relies on the traditional politeness and welcomes of unsuspecting people unaware that there are such dangers, etc. The Monster is a hazard of a particular place, but Dracula is also a villain, a malicious mind set on overcoming the monster’s supernatural constraints.
What sort of accursed book can’t get wet? o_O
What happens if it does? O_o
I’m imagining the book to be like Gizmo now. Don’t feed after midnight, Ellie…
Book would probably be fine, but there’s probably some items in it that would be ruined by the soaking. Probably have to empty water out of ALL the item-portals, too.
Books and water don’t mix.
And is ‘cursed’ because it is permanently chained to her, not because … it multiply if it got wet or something.
The sodium, lithium and potassium blocks in would definitely have a problem getting wet.
Afterwards you shouldn’t open it unter “pool”.
That would just give you some balls and a long stick. The table would not fit.
“You just say things for exposition.” Next thing, someone comes in to ask where to hang that lampshade.
Rabbits can swim. In fact, any mammal can swim automatically, aside from the higher primates who have to learn how to do it first. Anatomically, a non-primate mammal’s lungs are positioned in such a way that the body remain buoyant enough to keep their face above water for some time, allowing for breathing.
Of course, tiredness, rough waters, or other impairments will contribute to the probability of drowning.
The fun one is watching bats swim: https://youtu.be/62T-Ht_jWHE
Screw the Butterfly, someone teach me the Bat-stroke :D
Bruce Wayne would like to meet you for a drink.
That socio womaniser? Not a chance
Hmm, are primates the only non-marine animal that can hold its breath? o_O
In humans it’s considered a consequence of speech, which requires voluntary control over breathing.
What is the difference between speech, and simple primate vocalisations?
Probably not something that you’ll ever understand, guesty.
LOL!
If coming from politicians, no difference
Complexity and precision. If the primate’s vocalizations are limited to generalities like “Danger over there!”, then they are not speech. If the primate can express “Bob*! There’s a jaguar right above you, jump back!” then it is speech.
* Or whatever manner the group uses to identify a particular individual
Giraffes are also incapable of swimming, due to their unique body shape.
And, ironically enough, the common hippopotamus actually can’t swim despite being an aquatic mammal. Their relatively short legs and dense bones give them negative buoyancy, so they instead walk along the bottom and jump to the surface when they need to breath.
Oh, I didn’t know about giraffes. Thanks!
Some species of sloth cannot swim.
Maybe they can, but can’t be arsed to do so.
Is it just me, or would be funner if Pixelicious vocalised the “ROAR” rather than actually roaring? :D
Virtually any sound is funnier when voiced.
who’s the missing fifth character?
Scarlett. She’s not in the Who’s Who because she’s not speaking in this comic.
Yeah, thought it was Heatwave at first, butt then read where they were and the mention of swimming vampires
Swimming bunny: https://youtu.be/Kp76qKw5X2k
So much hate in the comments for that
People say that cats hate water (domestic, not large wild big cats), and yet… plenty of domestic moggies love to swim
Lots of misconceptions about animals hating water. Some are biased.
There was a cat that needed a sedative anytime time it was given a bath. Another cat in the same litter? No issues. Problem: it was a survival instinct. The first bath the cat had was given by someone who was inexperienced and got water in its ears and nose making it extremely uncomfortable around water.
Sometimes it’s because cat fur has different reactions when wet. Domestic cats that still have wild traits (like bengals or main coons among others) have no issue taking a bath or shower WITH YOU because in the wild, animals will do some of their business in streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes to throw off tracking of predators.
It could just come down to purely personality or if they’ve done it before. Almost any animal can swim depending on the situation legs or not, snakes have no legs and are rather good swimmers mostly. Spiders? 8 legs and not so much. Probably because of where spiders breathe from lol since when they’re in water they’d need to roll completely upside down to breathe. Not counting all spiders there are some that eve create air bubbles using webbing so they can pretty much scuba dive for food.
Guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, birds, ect. Most small and large animals have some instinct for swimming. Even deer can freaking swim!
Me? I’m just human… (mostly. Sometimes I wonder.) I can’t swim for skittles even with a damn life vest on!
Yeah, yu expanded on what was thinking: animals are unique, some cats hate even getting their paws wet, and others happily play in the rain
For the record, hippos are quadrupeds and can’t swim.
They don’t need to swim, they run along the bottom of the rivers and fuck your day up
They practically walk, trot and run along the bottom of rivers and would not recommend ever getting in water near them. They may look lumbering but they can move up to 15 miles an hour with spurts up to 30 miles an hour, which is nearly as fast as a Cheetah. Besides the fact they spray their faeces out in the water like a spray hose you are more likely to be killed by them biting you than a Lion. Fun fact is more people are killed by hippos each year than by Lions. They are VERY aggressive especially in water.
I was once in a campaign where my party was in a functioning underground sewer. Level 10 party encounters level 20+ vampire. I convinced our paladin to bless the running sewage water. GM went along with it. The vampire wouldn’t stop laughing though.
The problem with that approach is that you have to work out the properties of holy sewage.
Hmmm… Okami is the only source that comes to mind. If it’s reliable, Brown Rage is an explosive.
Geeze, I would tend not to believe that sewage would pass muster for a liquid clean enough to be blessable, by the blessee, the rules of the religion they follow, or the gods that preside over it’s acolytes.
Holy dude: “I bless this foul, stinking mire of faeces, scum and rot in the name of Pelor!”
Pelor: “No you fucking don’t.”
I can imagine the ribbing that god would get from other gods if they allowed it. Gods don’t forget, and are usually immortal.
Lloth: “OH EM GEE, remember when Pelor blessed an entire sewer and the nearby catacombs literally exploded blowing up half the city? That was so fucking funn!”
Other gods: *breaking into omnipotent hysterics*
Pelor: “Geeze, can you guys let that go? It was two hundred and fifty thousand years ago.”
Tiamat: “No, Pelor, no we fucking won’t”.
A god of agriculture or comedy might be all for Holy S**t, though, albeit for entirely different reasons in each case.
Depends one the god. Nurgle would like that. Admiringly he would also like his Paladins to drink it too.
You mean “OH EM ESSE”, don’t you? It’s “Oh myself”, in this situation… :-)
Heh. A party I was in found a vampire, sleeping in his coffin. The DM almost went nuts trying to figure out damage after we dropped the “Create Water / Bless Water” combo on his sarcophagus.
A friend of mine used blessed water and a bag of dry cement mix to entomb a vampire in holy concrete. Did damage at the same rate as the vampire regenerated, while cutting off any gaps form escape routes.
It looks like they’ve shrunk down really tiny and are nestled in the fur of some dark-colored critter.
I believe Vampires can’t cross open moving waters under their own power.
So that’s rivers, seas, and oceans.
My theory is that it has something to do with the ions that such moving water generates, and pumps into the air, which somehow acts to limit a Vampire’s abilities.
Might also explain their problems with Silver, and how daytime also locks down the abilities of classic vampires (instead of Hollywood ones who get a really bad sunburn).
Priests can’t actually bless large bodies of water, because the water needs to have various oils and minerals added to it as part of the sacrament to MAKE it holy water. Enough that I can feel the difference with my fingers. Further there’s a whole ratio of how much water can be added TO holy water before the holy water is rendered unholy. The rule is always add TO holy water, because pouring holy water into any amount of non holy water renders the water unholy. Which is not how dilution works, but… Catholics.
(Source, 40 year old Irish person. I.E. not her first mass)
Now we need a swimsuit pinup “The Ladies of the Semper Vigilantis”
I second this.
DaveB yes Rabbits can swim quite well, its one of the reasons they have webbing like structure between their paws and can paddle quite well. Though I do not recommend chucking your bunnies in a swimming pool as it will freak them out.
Chucking anyone in a swimming pool will freak them, humans included
All mammals can swim. It’s just that, they don’t always particularly want to, and in some cases, they’ve been bred by humans into a form that is no longer very good at swimming.
I understand pugs, for instance, can’t swim.
Pugs are a species of gargoyle. Adorable, though.
I think I’ve seen a pug wearing a flotation device in a swimming pool in a documentary about dog rehab, but I’ve never seen one in the river where my dog likes to go. My dog is a jug, btw, a cross between a pug and a jack russell terrier, and he has no trouble swimming. Although he doesn’t like to go in the deeper parts.
Krona seems to like to remove underwear from pretty girls, mmmh. (yeah, I know that a bikini isn’t strictly underwear, but shut-up!)
Strictly speaking, she didn’t remove underwear from Gunnhildr, she just altered them into a thong (and wedgied her).
Actually, no. If you read the quote under that comic it seems to be implied that she have swapped it with a model’s thong … somewhere.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-482-panty-raid-0/
Somewhere there is a Victoria’s Secret model walking down the runway in a pair of granny panties. Suddenly the fashion world is all agog over the “Nana look”.
I’ve always assumed that those margin comments were non-canon like the chibi sketch that is sometimes below the main strip. Do we have author commentary on that?
Well, the strip trump the quotes (and mini strips) but if they don’t contradict each other…
Jaguars, can swim very well, as some live near the Amazon river.
Wiki: The jaguar enjoys swimming and is largely a solitary, opportunistic, stalk-and-ambush predator at the top of the food chain
Yep and it’s main competition in that regard is the Puma/Cougar
Pumas are dramatically smaller and less powerful than jaguars. Where their ranges overlap, the pumas do everything they can to avoid jaguars.
True, but they also share similar Niches in the proverbial food chain (the two have reportedly been seen sharing kills) which is why I called them their main competition, especially once you get into the Northern groups a Cougar is a lot closer to the Jaguar’s size.
Yeah, the jaguar’s main competition is actually caymans (little croc/gator things) that they regularly go toe to toe with and frequently kill and eat.
Krona and Sydney have a LOT in common!
They both like knowing they are the reason cute girls are naked? o_O
They’ve both been involved in a swimming pool de-topping incident, certainly. Sydney’s was accidental while pulling a prank on Harem by using her life support orb to make it look like Harem had mega-farted in the pool. Also knocked Harem’s soda into the pool and soaked her phone, so (as is fairly on-spec for Halo) the damage exceeded the intent. Krona, on the other hand, apparently deleted the top from existence, if the icon is descriptive.
Owing someone for a replacement phone (or the deductible on phone insurance) might be more expensive than owing them for a bikini top . . . I freely admit I have no idea how expensive bikinis are.
Depends on where you shop and what season it is. I’ve seen them go for as little as $5 USD (thrift) to over $100 USD (in-store and online) without having anything particularly fancy on them.
Meh.
I bought my wife a new Samsung for 45 dollars off contract two weeks ago.
It was a model which came out two years ago mind you, but the technology isn’t advancing as rapidly as it once was and it uses the same replaceable batteries as the phone I carry.
If you shop around neither the bikini nor the phone are necessarily expensive.
Elsbeth’s book, on the other hand…
Thought you were saying you bought your wife a 45 dollar Samsung bikini! :P
Fix that camera angle – they’re all out of frame!
I always thought it was werewolves that couldn’t cross flowing water.
Never heard of flowing water being a vampire thing.
“Im pretty sure I would know that running water would kill me…”
Why hasn’t The Lone Ranger ever fought Werewolves?
He has the bullets!
We don’t know that he hasn’t. The future Lone Ranger, John Reid, was the lone survivor of a group of six Texas Rangers, betrayed into an ambush. He was gravely wounded, but survived due to the intercession of Tonto, who nursed him back to health. Other than a rather brutish villain named Butch Cavendish, we aren’t given the identities of anyone involved in the ambush, nor is the nature of Reid’s wounds delved into in much detail.
It’s not hard to imagine that the Rangers might have been ambushed by werewolves, in a weirder, more wondrous West.
Of course, if the Lone Ranger survived being mauled by werewolves, it does have some rather grim implications for why he always keeps a gun with silver bullets handy. A version of the Lone Ranger fighting a battle not only an external struggle against villains in the old West, but also an internal struggle against his now bestial nature, would make for an interesting book or movie.
As an aside, Britt Reid, the Green Hornet, is explicitly stated to be the son of Dan Reid, Jr. Dan Reid, Sr. is the Lone Ranger’s brother, which makes the Green Hornet the Lone Ranger’s grand-nephew. (It’s not brought up now that two different companies own the rights to the characters, but it was in GH’s original origin story).
If using a phone while driving is illegal, I’m pretty sure using a phone whilst hacking reality must be at least frowned upon.
I just thought it was Krona’s power that let her tap her ear to answer her phone…
Pixel is definitelly my favorite character.
Anyone notice that Krona’s Reality Hacking GUI is coloured in the same spectrum as Halo’s Orbs? Might be that DaveB is tossing some hints our way, hmm? :)
No, Krona’s GUI just rotates through the color wheel. The orbs are more nuanced with multiple colors in some of the orbs and odd patterns. You might make an argument that Sidney’s orbs follow the color wheel too, but they aren’t as fluid and the Unknown one looks more brownish to me. It was mentioned before that Krona does have some insight into Sidney’s orbs, alluding that the powers stem from a similar source, but the orbs are MUCH more complex than Krona is able to fully understand.
Did Krona hack her eyes from blue to green?
Can’t believe that Sydney is actually going forward with this, but it’s good character growth regardless.(Also, not gonna lie, that dress on Pixel looks amazing.)
Hopefully this all works out for her.
Pixel is pink Kitty
Krona is the girl in foreground.
Part of the confusion comes from the fact that Pixel, in human form, is small also.
Most ministers I know are multi classed. Usually with bard, occasionally rogue if they have a rough past.
One I met as a kid was at least a level 3 monk. (3rd degree black belt. He taught self defense courses in the basement of the church.)
Most ministers I’ve met are multi classed. Usually bard but occassionally rogue if they have a rough past.
One I met as a kid was at least a level 3 monk. (3rd degree black belt, taught a self defense course in the basement of the church.
I just spent 20 minutes watching rabbits swimming on youtube.
No regerts :D
Oh, in case a certain muppet-face pops up to attack the spelling (ps, no fucking clue what a ‘palmtri’ is, oh, and a Milky Way bar doesn’t have no fucking nougat, that would be a Moro bar, fucking Yanks fucking up chocolate bars)