Grrl Power #809 – Vex a vigilante
Krona’s “SWAP” was really designed to work with doors. For those moments when someone is storming out of a room, and she wants them to look like a fool, and they throw open the door and walk smack into a wall.
It’s one of her .EXE’s that has taken a long time to develop. Sometimes there’s not enough room next to the door to do the swap, and the door winds up jutting into a closet, so she added a “Are you sure?” query to the hack. It’s also something she had to revise the first time she used it in a mall entrance, one of those ones where the door is flanked with glass. There were alignment issues. And lacerations.
Then there was the time she tried to use it on a revolving door. That was almost as bad as her failed checkpoint / time travel foible.
She’s used it on other things. Swapping an empty glass for a nearby full one, swapping an enemy’s shoes, you know, right for left so they’re weirdly uncomfortable and they can’t tell why right away. In a panic once she used it on someone’s shoulder holster as they were reaching for their gun. That would be pretty confusing. They grab a magazine instead and have to look down and realize their gun was on the other side, probably pull it out in the their off hand, then switch hands before using it.
Of course if she can do that, she could probably also make them bang their funny bone on something real hard, which I think would impair their ability to shoot for even longer.
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Hello Dabbler! Also, Krona’s pretty powerful…. How the heck isn’t she on the team? :-)
She’s Semper Vigilantis. Different agency, works for the council. They co-operate, but I presume there’s an unspoken “no-poaching our employees” agreement between the two
She and Sidney are both the oddball outs.
The supernatural stuff found Krona first, and she doesn’t match the superpower template, so she is probably a new type of supernatural. Nobody is sure.
Sidney is on the superpower list, but she’s not actually a superpower either. She’s more like a Batman, just not with the crazy physical training Batman went through.
Of course the superhero group also has Math, who seems be the one with the type of physical training and capabilities of Batman. They’ve even said they aren’t sure if he’s a super or just insanely skilled at martial arts. (I guess the body hair test result isn’t being revealed, but Math does like messing with people like that.)
I’m also going to bring up Ellie. Don’t know for sure if she has any magic of her own other than that cursed magical book, but it’s definitely a magical item, so that puts her on the supernatural side pretty firmly, even if you can’t be 100%. If she went public you’d have to start trying to come up with non-magical explanations for her magic book that’s always chained to her.
Those are all the borderline and not a total fit type characters I can think of at the moment.
Of course I have a feeling that the Orbs kind of exceed the boundaries of Technology and Magic, but with the space ship functionalities, it seems to have the ultratech vibe to me.
Math and Ellie look like supers. Sidney does not.
Au contraire… Sydney IS too a Super…
A super geek!!! LOL
A Super smart Super geek!
A Super smart, Super Genre Savvy Super geek!!!
Elspbeth is High Mage Gault’s apprentice, so she would have to be capable of learning the High Mage’s magic. After Gault drained at the council meeting she opened the book and Gault warned her not to use magic…and she pulls out the automatic shotgun and goes to town.
My guess is that she is just a beginner at magic and Gault is too busy with the council to make her learn at an accelerated pace. Right now the weapons in her book are good enough. In the future, probably another high mage.
The Council called “dibs”, ’cause she doesn’t have the right proportions for a Super
No, she joined The Council because no one from Archon asked
I assumed it was because they wanted to limit the amount of time her and Halo spent together after her reaction to seeing the sphere grid. Those two together long enough = God mode unlocked… Perhaps
This is exactly the kind of scenario both Archon and the Council would want to supervise closely. Letting them wander around together on a night out with booze seems irresponsible either way though.
Having seen the code I’ve programmed drunk, I would be very hesitant to let Krona ever go near alcohol.
Ballmer Peak. https://xkcd.com/323/
There is, however, ample evidence to say that just because programmer skill may be enhanced within that narrow range does not mean that the final product will necessarily be a good one. There is both the fact that the range is a tricky one to maintain, and also the fact that judgement remains impaired despite the increase in skill. That is, ones ability to write a particular program may be greatly increased, but ones ability to judge whether or not that particular program is a good idea to write will remain decreased.
Such a peak is not actually limited specifically to programming skill. At least, my uncles swore there was such a peak for physical coordination, asserting that it was the real reason for the “hold my beer” moments – that without that peak existing, those moments would enact a far greater toll in terms of lives lost, including several of theirs. (Uncle B, as the perennial skeptic, would still be alive, but uncles A, C, and D would definitely not be.)
Anyone familiar with “hold my beer” stories is probably already sufficiently aware of the diminished judgement capacity. Or, at least, those “hold my beer” stories that did not end with some form of maiming.
To be honest, when I’ve been enbiding, the code I’ve written was utterly fascinating… Works pretty good, but still, even notated, it was kinda bizarre…
“imbibing” I think you mean?
That would be how the platypus came about.
Krona may have a macro written to change alcohol in her bloodstream to plasma.
After an evening out, remove the buzz and avoid the hangover.
Just… make sure it knows which plasma to convert in to
you present a valid point. change that macro to .9% saline for the end result, Krona!
Or make sure it has an appropriate exit route. Sydney needs a bowl of Grakz and several hours to bring the lightshow; Krona may be able to do it while still in the club (if she was so inclined, which seems doubtful).
“This is exactly the kind of scenario that would make both Archon and the Council shite themselves.”
Fixed it for ya. XD
And on the Council, as the only supernatural of her type, she has her own seat. She effectively has as strong a voice on the Council as entire species, or even groups of species, of supernaturals.
If she joined Archon as a recruit, she’d have essentially no voice in policy, and be under United States government and military authority. Pay may or may not be comparable, nothing has been said about what Semper Vigilantus pays its members.
It reminds me of the scene in Justice League Unlimited where Lex Luthor is curb-stomping The Question while pointing out that he’s not really running for President: “President? Foolish, faceless man; my campaign is a farce. A small part of a much grander scheme. President… do you know how much power I’d have to give up to be President? That’s right, conspiracy buff. I spent 75 million dollars on a fake Presidential campaign, all just to tick Superman off.”
(I don’t think Krona has any sinister motives . . . I just think the whole quote is awesome and didn’t want to just cherry-pick the most relevant bit.)
Lex should always be quoted in full :D
“As the only supernatural of her type, she has her own seat.”
Yeah, maybe… or maybe they’ll just treat her as a unique spellcaster and lump her in with the other sorcerers.
Kevin, it’s not a maybe. I’m not speculating, I’m referring to something DaveB said about Krona when she was introduced. Krona was explicitly stated to have her own seat on the Council. It’s in the explanatory blurb under page 481: “Also, she’s not actually a mage. She’s also not a super, as you can tell from her physique. Actually no one knows how she does what she does, and she’s the only one who can do it to anyone’s knowledge, which is why she’s sitting all by her lonesome behind her banner.”
Well, you’ve already laid out exactly why funding shouldn’t be an issue for The Council: There are entire species, or even groups of species, of supernaturals as members. If an entire species or group of species is sending a representative, that representative should be able to bring in a substantial amount of funding. Long lived supernaturals such as vampires, elves, animated suits of armor, and the like should be fairly wealthy if only due to the power of compounded interest. When you leave an investment sit for a few hundred years it can grow to a remarkable level with only a modest initial investment. Do that a few hundred times to diversify and protect against theft/fraud/etc. and you’ve got a pile of large caches of cash available to draw upon.
Of course, that would mean that the members aren’t paid but pay themselves to participate, which would put Krona is an awkward position since she doesn’t have a species behind her to fund her. That said, I’d think that Krona would have very little challenge changing lead into gold in a manner trivial enough to turn the best of alchemists green with envy.
That is a common fallacy among those who have not actually studied the markets. Ultra-long term investing is ultra+risky. There are just too many ways for your investment to just disappear. Obviously, you don’t want to spend your days worrying about your investment, but a regular review & adjusting really is required.
Note also that compound interest has only really been a concept for a few hundred years…
Krona is powerful, yes, but most of her effects take a while to prepare. Unless she has a macro to instantly change an opponent’s clothing to steel or something, she’d be a liability in most fights.
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Her #1 speed-dial macro should to pause time (or move herself at hyperspeed) so she always has whatever time she needs to respond to whatever situation.
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She could apply “swap” in a much more debilitating way if she chose. “Swapping” two heart valves would drop most anyone with a circulatory system.
Sydney asked the same thing back when she was introduced. The SI’s had simply just scouted her first before Archon could.
Lol. Krona will not have won the right to being a one woman Twilight Council faction by being a liability in a fight! As a seat on the Council grants massive political power that will not have been given out casually.
One of the factions is the Olympians. Including Jason (of the Argonauts) and other children of the gods. Yet Krona is ranked equal to ALL of them combined!
Amongst other pre prepared code Krona may have could be:
Turn brains into sawdust
Make opponent’s attack strike an enemy
Erase enemy (destroy their body at an atomic level, not into dust or energy but into nothing; wipe their memory from everybody’s minds * and from all electronic, written and photographic record of them).
* There is a range limit, beyond which records and memories would be unaffected (but only whilst they remain distant from Krona). However if where they live and work within a few blocks of this effect being triggered, most traces of them will have vanished. A trip near to the relevant tax office and wherever births and marriages are recorded and it would be like they never lived!
shudder Please no. This comic doesn’t need existential horror, thank you very much.
You mean aside from the one the huge Cthuloid Shipbeing created?
Or Sidneys use of “too hot for mankind” food?
Honestly, I didnt think krona was this OP before, but thinking about it, shes effectively a D&D Wizard. Give her time to prepare and knowledge about the forces she will face, and victory is all but guaranteed.
Scary little lady.
More like a D&D god. Alter reality, at will, is a Salient Divine ability. I.e. one that not all gods possess. D&D has gods that are weaker than Krona!
But all level 18 wizards can do wish.
Which alters local reallity, which is more accurate with Kora’s abilities, but since it’s the only thing she can do, it takes some time and doesn’t burn out of spellslots, she’s more like a wizard with only a permanent wish scroll.
Eh, any wizard that truly uses (or abuses if you will) the rules at lvl 17+ in 3e/3.5e/Pathfinder can easily have infinite wishes and diamonds in as little as a week or two once they hit the level and start abusing words like ‘infinite’ in regards to certain planes.
Any DM that allows a wizard infinite power around wish needs to read 1001 nights. Or, really, what the book actually says about wishes. (Assuming it is more-or-less the same as in 2.)
Besides, you run the tables by being more imaginative/widely read. The fact that these characteristics map better to wizards than some other classes is accidental.
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Could be Decollete? If it’s an innate Succubus power, I can’t recall whether it was a gadget or a power.
Dabbler used a special round shot from a gun. So technology, not magic. That said, a bondage spell would be a natural fit for a Succubus so it’s possible Decolette developed her own version.
Not saying there is no magic in them, or that there aren’t spells that do the same thing, but the ones that Dabbler used were bullets fired from some kind of gun.
It was a gadget.
It was definitely a gadget, but that does not mean that Decollete could not have a few as well. I do not expect she has to corral asteroids and space junk, but it might be handy for the occasional very unruly patron.
You forget about the alternate name “fun Saturday night” . decollete probly has some for play time.
I would think Decollets would be in the line of a pink fur coated tentacle.
Everyone in the party may or may not have one, but Daphne is part of the party and she could vorp to where she is needed with the “gun” in hand. All of the Harem’s know what the “local” one knows. It is reasonable to assume that Archon has been informed and some backup is on the way and that Dabbler’s weapon was merely the first to arrive… assuming, of course, that as Dabbler-tech, Xuriel could part with it – not a sure thing.
Of course, Max could be floating nearby, carrying Dabbler and her Tape Dispenser.
Inside the building with Tammy? o_O
*VORP*
She has to be familiar with the location to avoid ‘accidents’
And neither Maxi nor Dabbles can *VORP*, and Daphne can’t carry a living person (even if she could lift them)
Harem can see the building, the floor the hole is on, the hole itself.
Harem explained to Sydney that she could sort of feel whether their was sufficient room for her to safely teleport. She once vorped into a closed ambulance, you may recall.
If Dabbler handed over the tape dispenser, *VORP!*.
I can’t tell, frankly, whether Aranea was cocooned from the inside or outside of the building.
Dabbler may be either inside or outside, if it was she that fired the target-seeking sticky note.
It still wasn’t Daphne who fired the party-gun
Panel six is clearly inside the building, and the shot came from her right
“All of the Harem is know what the “local” one knows.”
There’s only one Harem. She’s multibody, not multipersonality.
You sure about the ‘not multipersonality’ bit? o_O
I was speaking of they’re brain.
They cannot brain today, they have the dumb.
Maybe after the hangover.
Never screw with a reality manipulatior. Scarlet witch, Gwenpool or Krona if you cross them they will wreak you..
It’s hilarious to watch you drop that reference all innocent-like and then see all the replies as if you were asking a legitimate question. :-D
Wonder if Dabbler has arrived. Those bindings look a lot like the things Dabbler used during the fight in the restaurant parking lot.
Oh, the ironing of it all. Spider girl gets webbed while attempting escape.
And yeah, page 220. Dabbler’s special webbing.
Upon further reflection, the presence of the webbing does not ergo that Dabbler is on-deck. It occurs to me that Dabbler may entrust certain of her technologies to certain individuals. In this case, I would use Peggy as an example of someone Dabbler would probably trust with this particular ordnance. Her clearances & skills would qualify her, as well her personal relationship with Dabbler. Obvious there are other possible candidates.
tl;dr — I assumed Dabbler has arrived, but by our assumptions we are easily hoisted. Just trying to keep an open mind.
Just because the general public knows about aliens now doesn’t mean humans are ready to be handed tech that’s beyond them. Back when this comic’s version of the Prime Directive was first introduced, Dabs made an excellent point about our history of homicidal xenophobia. She would still probably only trust her tech to fellow aliens… which rules out Peggy, but not Decollete as someone else above theorized.
Except that Decollette and Dabbler appear to be rivals.
“Child in danger” may supercede rivalry.
Rivals, with a mutual attraction though.
They’re Succubi.
In the long run, which is likely to win.
Mutual Attraction, or Rivalry?
Everyone feel free to vote.
Why not both?
Who can draw more orgasms out of this one before exhaustion causes sleep?
I like the way you think. Now we must put your plan into the implementation phase, pronto!
Yah, where is Syd’s headband these days? She hasn’t lost it has she?
It’s never been mentioned again since she first got it. Getting ready for a wig would’ve been a perfect situation to use it, but we don’t know if:
a) Dabbler even gave it back
b) Sydney remembers it exists (she’s been pretty busy)
c) Anyone else on the team is allowed to know it exists, given its provenance
d) DaveB remembers it exists
Sydney appears to be wearing again in the last panel, so…
Good call, so she did for sure get it back.
I just skimmed the archive, she wears it through the rest of the night (including the battles at the Council and the warehouse), which lasts for many many strips. But I don’t think it’s put in an appearance since.
I stand by my speculation. I put enough explanation into it to cover my bases. I specified Peggy only as an example and referenced her clearances plus Dabbler’s personal trust. In my hypothetical scenario, Dabbler certainly wouldn’t do such a thing without an agreement from command structure that use of her tech would be strictly limited to use.
And, to clarify further, consider that Dabbler could well provide bullets for various firearms to deliver a particular payload (such as these entangle/binding wrappings, as only one example). She doesn’t have to turn over a special gun for delivery. Dabbler being Dabbler, undoubtedly she can provide useful items that have safeguards &/or other limitations so the tech remains in the hands of those intended.
The larger point being, certain individuals with enough clearance and enough trust could be provided with samples of her tech. Bindings such as these for non-lethal capture are just so extremely useful that it’s hard to imagine that some form hasn’t been adapted for selective distribution. If Peggy can’t be trusted, someone like Maxima could.
I did say something about assumptions in my post. that was the larger point and was meant for people to engage their imagination and skills at thinking outside the box. It’s probably Dabbler, but we can’t know that yet since there are very reasonable possibilities that someone-NOT-Dabbler could be using that tech (or something that looks remarkably similar), no matter if Dabbler is the source of it or not.
That might work. I was thinking she’d want to avoid a situation where Peggy could be order to turn over the rounds to someone who wanted to sell them to a corporation or suchlike for reverse-engineering and patenting. But then, she was willing to ship Vehemence off to lockup cocooned in about a mile of the stuff, so presumably she has some safeguards in place for leaving it unattended.
It’s the delivery system she won’t turn over
“You want a sample of one of my ‘magic’ bullets? Sure, dig this one out of that block of titanium over there!” *proceeds to shoot said block two miles away*
That one’s easier: there’s nothing high-tech about the chunk of magnetizable material that gets shot out of a railgun at a sizeable fraction of light speed. The high-tech part is creating a set of magnetic coils, the necessary sequencing controls for the pulsing of the magnetic fields, and a power source in a crossbow-sized package. Given that, finishing nails from the hardware store would make perfectly good ammo.
(Really, any nails, but the wider heads on non-finishing nails would complicate magnetic and aerodynamic matters unnecessarily, I’d imagine.)
The material in the bindings would be very high tech, though not quite as much as the miniaturized tractor beam in the shell; the proximity fuse moderately so.
The gun, conversely, looks like it’s just a handle with clips on the side to hold the round (presumably pulling the trigger just opens the clips); it doesn’t make any sound when it’s fired, from which I’m assuming it’s not launching the round, which is effectively propelled by towing itself to its target. Probably only needed so she doesn’t get friction burns on her hand when the round locks in and starts chasing its target.
Ironing?
auto correct fail for irony i assume
Deliberate. It’s a meme/joke going back to newsgroup days, perhaps even BB days. Sort of a shout out to ridiculous typos, misuse of the language (ever see someone type “would of” instead of “would’ve” ?), and general deliberate mangling of verbiage ala Buggs Bunny, etc.
I’m not 100% sure this is dabbler’s mummy missile as we saw in the parking lot battle. In that comic, it compleately wrapped up “mach the knife” from head to toe, in what looks like multiple layers, and the bands weren’t much more than an inch wide. So we’re talking about many, many meters of material.
This stuff looks to be as wide as duck tape, and there are gaps, more of a proper binding rather than mummification. So we’re talking about a band that is much wider and much shorter than what Dabbler had in the parking lot battle. also this seems to be a single band, whereas the “mummy missile” shot our several streamers to compleately encapsulate the target.
Of course it could always just be Dave’s changing art style.
Yeah, never put down to a deliberate decision what can be as easily explained by laziness.
There was also dabbler herself mentioning that she’d burned through multiple rounds in the mummified vehemence scene. What is seen is likely a single round rather than Dabbler nearly emptying her supply of restraino rounds.
I was talking about when she fired a single round at “mach the knife” fired in comic #220 but we see him in process of being wrapped in that comic.
In comic #224 we see him after the bands have tightened and he’s wrapped head to toe, with no indication of Dabbler having fired a second round. (She turned around and fired one at heavenly, then was indisposed for a few moments)
This band looks like single band, so for the time it would have taken to wrap around her that many times, she would have said “what?” earlier in the process. This could be the work of Krona, or Krona and Ele, where Ele, deploys the ribbon, then Krona “swaps” it’s position to be around Aranea, then it tightens. I don’t think there was room to have the pre-coiled ribbon drop onto her from above. This definitely looks like one of those “it wasn’t there, then it suddenly was” moments.
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One post is considered ‘spam’ now? o_O
If the post is nothing but an ad, yes.
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You… have no idea what ‘spam’ is, do you
Unwanted, unrelated ads are Spam. There isn’t any requirement for them to be numerous, although that so very frequently are. I suppose in a chat channel a single mention might not be spam, but in a forum like this it is.
When the term was coined, there was such a requirement. Just not at the same website.
Hate it when post-Millennial’s change the meaning of words or phrases
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No, it’s very much you who is the ignorant party here. As per your usual MO.
Your mission to torture a minor for informations she probable is unable to provide?
Your mission is to regurgitate pages of discussion from a week and a half ago, in which many of the points evinced were just disproved as we now know for certain that Aranea isn’t acting on her own someone sent her.
You can have a self imposed mission.
Your mission seems to be making nasty to anyone who fails to read every page of Comments. Many people have real world lives to lead, which do not involve sitting on a Comments page, and reading (or writing) every word.
Make nice. If something has been discussed, in a useful way, then summarise the discussion. Don’t insult people who have real lives, and weren’t there.
Wait, if they don’t have to read our comments, why should we have to read theirs?
If they ask, then they can get an answer, otherwise…
Hypocrisy is the very soul of internet discourse.
Well, hypocrisy and made up statistics.
And things “everybody knows.”
87% of all statistics are made up on the spot, including this one.
They there lies, damn lies, and then statistics, but it’s a fact that four out of five is eighty percent.
They “say”.
And fear, and ruthless efficiency, and almost fanatical devotion. Four, four weapons… I’ll come in again.
I knew I smelled a Monty Python reference coming.
Surprise! You just picked a fight with a whoile super team that also happens to be a branch of the federal government! Plus assorted supernatural creatures and aliens.
Basically, you’re in deep shit now, girl.
Panel 4: you don’t want to see that look :o
KRONAkai Kristor.
Sorry. Had to.
Looking at that “Swap” power… Anyone remember Missile, from “Ghost Trick”?
Didn’t Krona already do that with somebody’s underwear? If somebody starts a team called the Avengers here, she would definitely need to be on it.
Took me a while to actually see what she did with it.
Ghost Trick was the first game I ever watched a Let’s Play of and it has a special place in my heart as a result because I always loved the story. I wish there were more games like it, to be honest. It’s a one-of-a-kind game as far as I can tell because while there are games that are vaguely similar, Ghost Trick was really unique and original and was drop-dead hilarious especially some of the failures which took things from bad to worse. (Denting the face being a notable one, breaking steering wheel as another.)
@Andorxor
this is a disgrace.
You know… given this was supposed to be girls night out and the gaggle that they had going when they left, something tells me that the longer this goes on the exponentially worse it’s going to get for her. They only had about a few of them to start, but given the addition of 4 or more choice ladies, she’s about screwed in a heartbeat.
Panel 4 made me laugh.
Also, Aranea is screwed on legal terms. No vigilantism. Though I’d love to see how mad Arianna can get when people keep mixing up their names, with Sydney walking by singing “That’s not my name”.
Who says she’s not working for someone? No vigilantism if you are being paid
Yes it is, and your employer is gulty too!
Unless it’s an agency that works for a government, and then it becomes a diplomatic incident.
Of course there is every possibility that the employer is another branch of government with which (due to bureaucratic incompetence and territorialism) information Archon has had for decades was not shared.
For example, the CIA and FBI began playing nice with each other after 9/11. One of the reasons that was not prevented was because the two were keeping secrets from one another.
Yeah, we saw an example of that after the Fel Fallout
Hmm. Attitude. Methodology. This could well turn out to be the same agency.
Unless she is being paid, she is a mercenary, by the feds, same thing!
It looks like Arachnia directly impacted a stud on the way out. That would have killed or crippled most people so she’s quite tough.
Well, it is fairly likely she’s a super.
It’s been obvious from the start she was stronger and tougher than human. The two go along, you never see supers who have super strength without toughness, basically because you can’t be ten times stronger than human without being 10 times tougher, or else your own strength kills you the first time you use it.
Like Maxima says: If you’re strong enough to hit somebody with a car, just hit them with your fists, they’re probably harder than the car.
I’ve always wondered why Spiderman wasn’t bullet proof, by the way. He’s strong enough to toss cars around, and doing so doesn’t rip the skin off his hands, he’s been hit by cars and thrown through brick walls and walked it off, how can his skin NOT be proportionately strong, too?
Brett’s right. There are sort of “prerequisite superpowers” for things like Super Strength. If you’re super strong, but your bones aren’t super tough, you’re going to get a compression fracture of the spine the first time you try to lift a car.
Inversely, Achilles has minor super strength [i]because[/i] of his indestructibility. He can exert more force than normal for someone of his musculature without having to worry about dislocating a joint or tearing a tendon.
Wile E. Coyote must have Achilles level invulnerability (or near instant regeneration) because he has been hit with more destructive forces than anyone I can think of and still keeps getting back up for more.
Wile E. Coyote operates on Toon Physics, which allows him survive planets getting blown to smithereens. However, mixtures of things like turpentine, acetone and benzene are not good for the health.
No not the DIP!!!
So what you’re saying is that Achilles has *default* human strength? Humans are strong enough to rip their muscles from their bones, but we don’t do it because, you know, it would rip our muscles from our bones. If Achilles is completely indestructible, including from self inflicted damage, then he would feel no pain when exerting himself, and therefore could reach standard human limit without injury. With a little muscle building (which might be hard because his muscles wouldn’t tear) he could easily be the strongest default human in the world, just by nature of being indestructible, no super strength required.
Bullets are small, sharp, and travel at high rates of speed. That’s why they’re lethal. They fit through small joints and soft tissue. Spider-man could (and has) punched out tank rounds because they’re bigger and have more surface area he can hit, but bullets? That’s a big nope.
Tires are strong enough to support the weight of a car or even a massive truck, but are not bullet proof.
His skin is proportionally strong, but even kevlar is only bullet-resistant, relatively useless against needles and not great against knives. His skin can have much greater tensile strength, but not have it to a degree that a copper-coated hunk of lead going over Mach 1 won’t penetrate it. Also, he’d have to ignore his Spider-Sense and let the bullet hit him to find out whether he’s bullet-proof.
Wonder Woman in DC comics is similar. She’s incredibly resistant to blunt impact forces (she’s been punched by Superman and not knocked out or significantly injured more than once, and Superman can one-shot asteroids bare-handed). She can be cut with regular blades wielded with sufficient force, and is usually depicted as susceptible to bullets (though not to the same degree of injury as a human) if she doesn’t dodge or deflect them.
Using a lightsaber to block blaster rounds traveling at 125 mph (Mythbusters checked) is hard enough. Blocking a non-luminous projectile at short range traveling at 800 to 1800 mph would require the person to move their arms at equivalent speed. I don’t remember hearing sonic booms coming off her arms during fights. *
* Not trying to start arguments, just putting physics into comic books.
P.S. Mythbusters also found that blocking bullets causes them to splatter, not bounce. Be prepared to get hit by shrapnel.
You don’t have to wait for the firearm to discharge in order to start moving to where the projectile will hit… if your sensing ability is powerful enough to judge exactly where the gun is pointing before it’s fired, (or to magically timey-wimey-wise know where the projectile will hit…) you can have your lightsaber or bracers/bracelets in place before activation… (?)
The WHOLE idea behind Jedi is that they can predict future and that’s why they can deflect blaster rounds.
Superman holds back a LOT, by force of habit. He is very careful in how much power he applies – so much so that it even carries over when his mind is influenced or taken over. Otherwise, all sorts of enemies would just be so much splatter on his fists.
Here’s Supe’s World of Cardboard speech for those who haven’t come across it before.
Supes: “I need to hold back, to make sure I don’t accidentally kill people.”
Proceeds to punch Darkseid through several buildings, which would definitely kill any people inside.
yep… those authors haven’t read up on the R.L.B’s* White Paper on the subject yet either.
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Small Pox, he has x-ray vision, he can see if the building has anyone in it, before he strikes.
True. She survives getting punched by Doomsday, though. He definitely isn’t holding back, and later beats Superman into a coma so deep everyone thought he was dead (the famous Death of Superman comic arc).
In practice, all he had to do was run into the Punisher, and he got gut shot. Though the wounds were apparently fairly superficial.
Not quite a stud (it doesn’t look to be load bearing) but yeah a cross brace and one that’s thicker than the rest and the impact wouldn’t be at it’s weakest point.
I see no studs or cross braces or even 2x4s.
And if there were studs Decolette would have found them first.
Does the tantric energy have to be HUMAN based? Or SENTIENT? If not, then surely SOME animals generate a usable amount of energy for a succubus – wonder if it scales by the mass or volume or what… how much does a horse weigh?
Personally, I’d guess “what”. Considering demons are supernatural and in some stories concerned with souls, I’d tend to go with that: it scales by the power of the souls involved, and by the extent of their involvement.
What exactly that means is probably that it’s entirely up to the author regarding any particular pairing.
Dabbler pointed out to X that “You. Got. Horny.” So–sentient, I would say. Otherwise, they could just disappear into the woods from time to time, which is a plot-killer.
OK, I was thinking she would escape, but at least I left the option “unless deus-ex-Krona does something”. Wonder what’s with the mummy missile. Dabbler wasn’t part of this group, was she?
Not originally, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was called in by one of the Archon team when they were recruited by Decolette in the search. Or she contacted Dabbler for help anyway.
Oh hey – So I’m aware Harem has a weight/mass/volume limitation to Vorping large things (or people) around — BUT has there been discussion of a “teleporter transponder” that she could move around, that would at least be able to give a target for Dabbler to move herself to, if not like teleport items directly to, like she does with the one built into her arm or whatever it is?
So Harem only Vorps the transponder somewhere, then Dabbler uses that signal to move much larger objects, which her tech is clearly capable of doing, whether those larger objects are herself (with her magic arm thing so SHE can move the large weapon) or just the objects themselves (like a super cannon or Hammer of Doom that someone strong can pick up and use)….
hmmmm….
That could almost definitely work, if Dabbler were to entrust that technology to Harem.
What we’ve seen of Harem thus far suggests that would be a very unwise idea. I think what we’ve seen of Dabbler thus far suggests she knows that.
I mean, it’s possible that Dabbler doesn’t recognize just how *bad* of an idea letting Harem touch her stuff would be, just that the potential is very bad, and that humans in general aren’t trustworthy, and Daphne is at least willing to lie to her superiors about how focused she is on their meetings. That doesn’t mean that she thinks Daphne is necessarily a bad person – for example, Dabbler might not guess that she’d be excited to perform an espionage triple cross. But she’s very particular about to whom she lends her tech.
Possible scenario:
– Daphne is alerted over the coms of a fight and vorps to a nearby rooftop.
– She sees a quick and dangerous opponent.
– She vorps back to base for supplies.
– “Hey Dabbler, can I borrow your mummy gun?” “Thanks!”.
– She vorps back to the scene. Sees the spider lady climbing up a water spout. (it could happen)
– She sees her head towards a window.
– Harem vorps inside the room to set up her shot, and ‘POONK!”.
And I noticed I didn’t address the security problems you brought up. My mistake. Maybe the round fits onto a standard grenade launcher?
actually pretty sure she was part of the girl’s night, or at least knew about it.
I would say
1. She was not part of the group.
2. She knew about it.
3. She is the one Decolette would call if problems arise as she is capable and would “fit” in the crowd.
As Berpol says. I add:
4. Whoever called Dabbler probably mentioned Sydney is down. Unlikely Dabbler arrived in a good mood.
5. On a related note, expecting Max to arrive shortly in even less of a good mood.
Don’t forget that comic time runs at different speed than ours. I’d say it has been max 20 seconds since WerePixel arrived at the roof and found Sydney lying face down. And was immediately ambushed. At that point, there was no time to call for reinforcements AND mention that Sydney was down to spoil anyone’s mood. They could have called before heading to the roof, but it didn’t seem like they did, or spent significant amount of time just waiting until the backup arrives. And I don’t think Dabbler has personal teleportation in her list of powers, just small objects to/from her lab. Either she was present from the start and just not shown, or the missile is not hers.
I am betting Tammy figured something out while trying to escape hanging upside down.
Comms are open.
Comm range may include the Archon headquarters. If not, Harem is part of the group.
What one Harem knows… there is only one Harem, who has five bodies.
Whether or not the comms they are wearing have range, Harem has the range.
Archon knows what is going on.
It only takes a few seconds for Harem to update Maximillia and Xuriel. *Vorp* “Max! Halo and Pixel are down, the assailant is escaping near that club Decolette owns!” Film at 11.
Based on the original bank incident, it only takes Max, even carrying Dabbler, to cross the city. Okay, double that with Dabbler in tow.
There is no reason to assume anyone but Dabbler cocooned Areana.
That should read, “…it only takes Max, even carrying Dabbler, Five or so seconds to cross the city.”
I can’t even blame autocorrupt.
The tradition is to blame the earliness of the hour and lack of caffeine.
The doctors have restricted my caffeine intake because of my heart. I have a continuous lack of caffeine.
Sorry to hear.
That would suck.
I only drink coffee once or twice a week but I drink a whole lot of black tea. I have two cabinets in the kitchen devoted to all my teas.
You poor bastard. That in itself must be causing heart problems.
She went up the building on the previous page, but this “door” could not be seen there. Which is funny because Sydney is still below, where she saw her after smashing through that “door” and the debris falling from above.
Different building
Ok, now I want an addon for a minimap in comics.
The next Grrlverse Patreon level: minimap showing character location.
The password required to access that level:
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good”
Vigilante trust up just like flies
So either Dabbler’s Binding Wrap Round or Krona swapped the webbing around the girl onto the spidergirl…
Either way, she has to be real fucking confused right now.
I’m going to third or fourth the comments that Krona looks badass there.
Since Dabbler mentioned that her mummy missile ribbons are strong enough to tow an asteroid, this should be the end of the fight.
Now cue the jurisdiction fight between Specs and Krona which Aranea should hope Specs wins. This attack was aimed at the council, Krona is a council member and a Semper Vigilantis. Oops. never mind. While checking the spelling of that, I saw that the VI duties are specifically to police the races that are members of the council, which Aranea is not, so it looks like Archon gets custody and she is looking at a 15+ year sentence for the child kidnapping (which is almost certainly better than what the council would do).
While looking this up, I was reminded that Ingsol said most of the VI are credentialed as federal law enforcement for various agencies such as the FBI. Krona wouldn’t fit in well with FBI so I’m thinking she is on the employee list as a fraud investigator for the Inspector General office of some low profile department like Education, Agriculture, or Transportation, which would make her a Special Agent with authority to carry a sidearm and make arrests. Not that she would need or want a sidearm. But as Ingsol said, it makes her presence easily explainable to human cops during an investigation.
Lessee now … Child Kidnapping, Child Endangerment, Child Abuse, Assault and Battery on a woman who was at least innofensive and she should have known was a cop, Resisting Arrest, Vigilantism, and no Carry Permit I’ve ever heard of covers Paralysis Injectors or Stun Grenades.
She\ll still get off lighter than what the council ould likely do to her.
Come to think of it, misuse of superhero powers is probably a charge by itself, or at least a serious multiplier to those other charges. After all, we tack on additional charges/enhancements to charges for doing a crime WITH a gun, as compared to just the crime, or attacking someone WITH a deadly weapon of any kind, as opposed to just attacking them.
And it’s not like superhero powers aren’t a far higher threat category than most of the commonly-used deadly weapons. Though as we’ve seen, like with the speedster in the restaurant fight, they can greatly enhance even normal attacks. After all, he only really used normal knives, but it was the superpowers together with them that made him such a threat.
Someone with sufficient martial arts training can get a fist-fight upgraded in charge from simple assault to assault with a deadly weapon in the real world, so I’d assume similar charge upgrades would occur in the Grrlverse with super abilities. I suppose a firearm is still a firearm, even if your firearm is literally your arms shooting actual fire.
I heard of a case back in the 80s where an unarmed street gang member got jumped by 4 knife wielding members of a different gang. Using just his fists and his martial arts skills, he put 2 of them in the hospital and 2 of them in the morgue. The DA tried to get him for 2nd degree murder under the “his hands are lethal weapons” legal theory. Grand jury refused to indict because they decided it was self defense. I think this was in New York or thereabouts.
The DA was over reaching. The accused may have been a gang member, but the rule is, pretty much, when you are in fear of your life, anything goes.
“simple assault to assault with a deadly weapon in the real world,” That is why they are required to register, with the local police. They must give fair warning!
That depends on the circumstances of the training.
Training recieved as part of law enforcement or the military has never born such a requirement.
Than it’s not needed, because they already have a record of your abilities, since they tested you themself and had to fill in your abillities to decide what you’re allowed to do.
You’re allowed to do anything anyone else is allowed to do.
The government deciding that it needs someone to be more badass for the government’s purposes is recognized under the law as being entirely different from an individual dedicating themselves to becoming a badass for their own purpose.
Ok. Dave, quick question. The outline Aranea made in the boards (panel 2) is, as far as I can tell, not the kanji for ‘smash’ or ‘ouch’. Isit supposed to be some horrible pun that nobody has picked up on yet?
It’s her body outline.
Turn it upside down, it’s an outline of Aranea.
It looks like she melted (or some other technique) her way through the boards to get inside before. She was trying to escape through the same entrance she made earlier.
It’s the outline she made when thrown through it back in #801.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-801-the-heliotrope-lantern/
Yes, I know it’s a cartoon cutout as opposed to a more logical hole in the boards. My question was asked because it looks like it’s the kanji for something and I wouldn’t be surprised if The Illustrious Creator did it on purpose as an Easter Egg.
And reading that strip again, I realise that I’d not noticed the scissors the first time around. So Tamatha is presumably running around loose…
Possibly. But all the time she worked on he bindings the scissors were unable to cut them.
I believe that the creator of the character said that the consruct manifasting power was inefficient and tiring so she may have passed out from the effort.
Not sure if she had actually started cutting, she was kinda distracted by where they came from, thus coining the term ‘Butt-rope’
Was hoping Kronachrome wasn’t going to just pull Victory from her arse (butt knew she was anyway), her real name is Peggy Sue (Mary’s more-annoying sister)
Eh, at most she scored a 5-second stun. Considering what was waiting in ambush for Aranea on the other side of that hole, Krona’s contribution is little more than cosmetic. A three-panel nod to remind the readers that she was even there.
She’s not any more of a Mary or Peggy Sue than Morpheus is a Marty Stu in The Matrix. Even though, within the Matrix, he’s a “do you think that’s air you’re breathing now?” reality bender, there’s always someone more badass, and you’re well aware of it going in, as is he. Krona more of a cross between Utility Belt Powers and a Glass Cannon. She’s just as vulnerable as any normal human if you catch her flat-footed (the entire reason she came up with her save point ‘time loop’ in the first place).
Krona’s the super-power equivalent of the player in Missile Command or Space Invaders — pretty impressive at range, but if even one mook gets to her location, it’s Game Over.
Unless she’s got a routine running in the background to safeguard her in the event of a lethal threat, of course. Which she likely doesn’t, now that she’s decided that the save point routine is too risky to continue using. But something like, “hyperspeed or teleport to safe location if the following conditions occur” would probably handle most threats she might face.
Also, how did the ribbon wrap around Aranea’s head, and not her hair? o_O
It’s Dabbler Tech™. It would seem reasonable that it has some sort of smart capabilities so that it doesn’t get confused & distracted by irrelevant target(s) that would leave the main objective unsecured.
Ruh-roh. Player Tw… uh. Hm.
Player Six has entered the game! Oddly appropriate, that.
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I still want to see Archon team up with Spinnarette. Like, seriously.
Completely different universe but with some trans-dimensional shenanigans anything is possible.
By the way, where is truck-san?
I know in Japan since he can’t get a driver’s license for anywhere else in the world but where exactly?
Halo (and the rest of Arcswat) have already teamed up with Mario Harmon’s Astra from his “Capes” universe while Astra was pinballing through a bunch of extrarealities.
And it’s canonical for both universes – Dave co-wrote that chapter of “Team-Ups and Crossovers” – there’s link to buy the book near the top of the right side panel.
Oop. Not Near the top – about halfway down? Dave shows the book cover and Sidney is down cront on the right…
It does look like a kanji! Does it say anything?
It’s her outline, upside-down, from when she was thrown out in #801.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-801-the-heliotrope-lantern/
Well yeah BUT it can also be interpreted as a Kanji character written by a preschooler.
Panel 4 shows the attitude which comes with being the leader and sole member of a Twilight Council faction. Showing your opponent that you mean business can prevent a war!
now we think krona having connection to the orbs so on. but what if there was birth rite or artifacts of the ship the captain the engineer the communications officer type thing krona being diagnostics type thing when fully paired up with the orb ship
The Orbs lay undiscovered for millennia.
Long enough for Fracture Station to have forgotten them, though evidently the Squidwards still had records.
Or they might have been waiting for Sydney all of five minutes. We have no idea how long the orbs were sitting where Sydney found them. They weren’t buried under centuries of sediment or embedded in ancient coral reefs or anything. There’s a good chance that the scuba training people had taken numerous classes into the same area. I think it is very unlikely they were sitting for thousands of years where Sydney found them.
I think that they would be quite capable of being found when someone who had the right characteristics showed up. And the sea floor can change rapidly, why would being found on the sea floor somehow equate to having always been on the surface? I used to snorkel a lot and even in the limited are I stayed in (protected by a natural reef that kept the larger sharks out) there was often great change after a typhoon.
They’re Clarkian technology, so advanced as to be indistinguishable from magic. If you drop them they probably just stay on top of whatever they were dropped on, regardless of anything that happens. As sediment accumulates, it accumulates *under* them, because they’re maintaining their original position defined as “on top” of whatever.
They’re probably one hyperdimensional machine sitting outside the local brane, with the orbs just a projected user interface.
I enjoyed everything about this comment, it is being adopted into my head-canon. Especially the term “Clarkian technology” which sums up the idea very succinctly.
Brichins: f you are refering to Arthur c< Clarke, it has an e on the end of it. :)
Space is BIG, you could have entire civilizations that no one in the greater galactic community have ever heard of.. This i backed up by the fact that neither Dabbler or Cora recognized the squidward ship. could be the squidwards tangled with the orb wielder in a “galaxy far far away”. And said wielder could have been discrete when visiting “the fracture”.(by hiding the orbs) or for all we know, if theire “nth” tech would normal people even see “nth”? (the mythical space wizards know one’s seen)
Also, this may have been proposed before but, the squidwards may not have seen the orbs before, but just saw something that couldn’t be explained, crapped their pants and opened fire.
Krona doesn’t have a connection to the orbs. Her abilities let her perceive much more of what the skill tree was displaying than Dabbler’s or Sydney’s senses. She thinks (probably correctly) that understanding more of the operating system of the orbs (as displayed in her deeper perception of the skill tree) will help her improve her own reality-programming. So she’s not able to use the orbs, but she wants to study the way they do what they do in order to get insights on how to use her own abilities more effectively.
Varia, on the other hand, is strongly implied to get the ability to use the orbs as a gestalt power when she touches Sydney. We’ll see when, or if, that comes up again later.
well more like Sydney controls the ship aka the orbs. while krona ends up being the other part of the crew doing scanning engineering so on type thing able to adapt or further improve apone the orbs abilitys but not directly control them. so both have to work as a team to get full power out of ship mode. while by them selves its more like EVA suits
HUh. Krona’s control interface has seven panels, each a Roy G. Biv color. Kinda similar to Sydney’s orbs. Wonder if she’s also using Nth tech, or is some kind of fledging Nth being or a full Nth being in disguise? Would make sense the way she’s basically able to manipulate reality.
Could she be the ‘pilot’ and not even know it?
Well she did see deeper levels of the orbs system architecture than anybody else up to this point and could easily have been inspired by what little she could comprehend from what she saw.
So the chance of her being part cephalopod is very low indeed.
So… they are the Keymaster and the Gatekeeper? That is not a comforting thought at all.
Krona’s the Keeper of the Keys. And Sydney’s the Lemon Merchant, get it.
And Deus knows this. That’s why ee’s gonna kill us.
“There is no Dana… only Zuel.”
Then Krona finds out how much Sydney makes and asks her “Who does your taxes?”
“The government”
Nobody has suggested the “switch a gun for a banana” yet?
Ah yes, that old trick.
I want to do pointed sticks.
Will anyone find Tamatha yet and how is Sydney doing???
Pixel,in her were-jaguar form,tells Sydney that she plans to put her on report unless Pixel don’t have that kind of authority!?
And why would Pixel do that?
Pixel had some misconceptions about what Sydney’s situation was but now that those are cleared up it should be fine.
Neither of them are permanently injured. The kid will be rescued, they were responding to an incident on their off time.
And, despite Sydney’s first impression they appear to have acquired a certain amount of comradery.
Neither performed in a stellar fashion but an emergency came up during a night on the town, Sydney’s still a recruit although a powerful one, and Pixel is a member of Arc Lite which is Archon’s investigative branch rather than Arc Swat which is the operations branch…although he turns into a huge cat with laser claws.
Pixelicious does have the authority to put Sydney on report (which is simply, reporting her to her superiors), butt she won’t, because Pixelicious made a mistake about what was happening, and Sydney performed well under adverse conditions, in spite of being, well, Sydney and barely having any real training
Krona coming to save their sore asses, and in a really quick move. I was beginning to wonder where she was.
Huh? It looks like Daphne fetched Dabbler and her “Party Gun”?
Or does somebody else just have a similar design?
Krona is one ex/dead boyfriend away from becoming a supervillain and only two people are even remotely aware of this.
And people are wanting her to get into a triad with Sydney…
And swap Leon out and Pixel in.
Okay Krona.
Now reverse your usual Macro and make Aranea have to pee a river.
That idea might backfire a bit. Aranea will just be much more anxious to flee the scene…
Aaand that would be Dabbler’s asteroid-towing bondage bullet. This fight is over.
Pretty sure that falls under “using your powers for evil”.
Kid Gloves are officially off…
Made from real, authentic, kids :P
“id Gloves are officially off…” Of course they are made from real kids, baby goats are called kids.
“It’s people!” *
* not the one you’re thinking of, but definitely a tribute
But it has to be the one I’m thinking about.
Because Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
Learnt something recently, something they never mention in Super-comics: if you decide to ignore physics by, for example, flying, why should physics suddenly start paying attention to you when you are ready to come down?
Imagine being a mile up in the air, unaffected by physics and gravity. Sounds great, don’t it?
Now try getting down, still unassisted by physics and gravity. Not so great now, is it?
Or worse, physics and gravity both return, with a grudge against you
You’re still effected by story elements and maybe your own version of fysics(flash), but I agree that a story where physics develops a grudge against physics breakers sounds like a fun story.
What story? o_O
And what the fronk is ‘fysics’? O_o
In last week’s ‘Supernatural’ Sam and Dean were afflicted by the annoyed powers-that-be by losing their plot armor and hero status. They suffered such mundane problems as getting a parking ticket, their car breaking down, a credit card being denied, one getting a painful cavity and the other a head cold. When captured (being sick in a bathroom) they found they could no longer easily pick any lock with a found bit of wire and in the final fight against the monster du jour their punches had the standard human power of ‘not that much’.
Haven’t seen Supernatural since the season before the Scooby Doo episode
Yeah I was watching it because people said it was good, and I know of its popularity, but after a few seasons it started to be me forcing myself, which made me stop.
Yeah, personally preferred it before it started with the whole ‘Angels and Demons’ crap, although, Cas is kinda cute and a fun character, just a shame all the other angels are major dicks
“Gravity … my old nemesis!”
Depends on how physics works in the universe in question — and since the universe in question allows for mages, super-humans, were-creatures with larger were-forms and no apparent source for the sudden extra mass, etc., it’s unwise to assume their physics == our physics.
For instance, in the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy universe, the key to learning to fly is to fall, but forget to hit the ground (there are even ‘flight schools’ that use particularly distracting ideas, actions, and/or physical attributes of their instructors to induce the required forgetting). It is vitally important not to think too much about that part, though, as paying attention to gravity can result in gravity paying attention to you.
Also, if you’re flying by side-stepping the physics of gravity, momentum, etc. to move in whatever direction you wish, why should moving toward the ground and arriving at a pace commensurate with a soft landing be any harder than going up, up, and away in the first place?
In the interests of full (and awesome) quotes, here is what the HHGTTG has to say about flying:
“There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] suggests, and try it.
The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it’s going to hurt.
That is, it’s going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.
Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
One problem is that you have to miss the ground accidentally. It’s no good deliberately intending to miss the ground because you won’t. You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else when you’re halfway there, so that you are no longer thinking about falling, or about the ground, or about how much it’s going to hurt if you fail to miss it.
It is notoriously difficult to prize your attention away from these three things during the split second you have at your disposal. Hence most people’s failure, and their eventual disillusionment with this exhilarating and spectacular sport.
If, however, you are lucky enough to have your attention momentarily distracted at the crucial moment by, say, a gorgeous pair of legs (tentacles, pseudopodia, according to phyllum and/or personal inclination) or a bomb going off in your vicinity, or by suddenly spotting an extremely rare species of beetle crawling along a nearby twig, then in your astonishment you will miss the ground completely and remain bobbing just a few inches above it in what might seem to be a slightly foolish manner.
This is a moment for superb and delicate concentration. Bob and float, float and bob. Ignore all consideration of your own weight; simply let yourself waft higher. Do not listen to what anybody says to you at this point because they are unlikely to say anything helpful. They are most likely to say something along the lines of “Good God, you can’t possibly be flying!” It is vitally important not to believe them or they will suddenly be right.
Waft higher and higher. Try a few swoops, gentle ones at first, then drift above the treetops breathing regularly.
DO NOT WAVE AT ANYBODY.”
Ah good psychopathic vigilante slayer has been knocked senseless, gotta love Krona and that ability of hers. :)
What? Where has she been shown to be any of what you said?
And she was not ‘knocked senseless’ by Kronachrome (or anyone). All Kronachrome did, was switch the boarded up windows, there was still nothing on the other side of the boards Aranea crashed into, and she was immediately asking what happened, and how, so she was barely even stunned, slowed down, sure
I don’t know about anyone else, but I know I’d be tempted to Switch the openings back AFTER she’d hit, so she hits then sees the hole in front of her somehow, maybe swap it again if she tries to climb through…
I may have picked up some of Daniel the Human’s sadistic tendencies…
I like your thinkasaurus rexing. Switch the walls so she hits herself trying to jump through her own hole, then switch it back so she is just confused. Then when she jumps switch it back.
Sometimes a joke is funnier because it’s repeated!
And sometimes, ka-whatever onomatophony* I’m looking at you, it’s just tired and lazy and unfunny after the first time.
* That’s a sound that is spelled like the thing it is supposed to be representing aurally.
I think Krona might have been watching too many cartoons when she was younger. She just pulled a different version of the ‘ol “move the portable hole trick” by moving the real hole instead….
I was wondering why that felt familiar… Good-ol’ Looney Tunes slapstick is still relevant in 2020…
so, she made it into a portable hole :)
Perhaps she should have turned it into black paint resembling an Aranea-shaped hole. That’d be Looney Tunes, too.
Hi Xuriel.