Grrl Power #865 – Mental (attack) support system
The alternate version of this page has Sydney bubbling Sandy like she obviously should have, then Sandy sneezes right in her face. We all know her shield is pretty darn good, but Sydney wasn’t “in the zone” just now. She was busy thinking about sideboobs and internet comments.
This is a scene I’ve had rolling around in my head for about 7 years, and it’s good to finally get on paper.
Archon probably does have some protocol for mental invasion, but psychics in the Grrl-verse are a bit rare – or at least if there are a lot of them out there, they’re probably either real good at staying out of the spotlight, or are working for Arc-DARK, or making bank in the private sector. Or are supervillains. But that’s still technically the private sector.
In any case, with people like Zephan and Dabbler on the team, the building is warded against a lot of stuff. It’s not impenetrable, but it’s much harder to get into than most places.
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I have sneezes like that. The number of times I have pulled a muscule on my rib cage …
The worst part is when you get one while driving. The level of will power to keep your eyes open and the car going straight through a sneeze like that is astounding.
Not as astounding as you’d think… personal experience.
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Going straight is one thing. Try a coughing fit that dislocates a rib while going through a 200 degree hairpin turn in the Ozarks and doing everything you can not to black out.
Wow. I’ve never dislocated a rib (that sounds painful as hell). But I have, a couple times, had a volley of sneezes so hard I threw out my back and pulled a muscle or two. I saw my buddy sneeze really hard with his smartphone in his hand. By reflex, he headbutted the screen and cracked it.
I’ve done that- I ended up sneezing while I was walking down the stairs, and fell of it when I slipped.
I will fairly regularly crack my back with a sneeze – never injured myself, though…
For me, that one is just disconnecting the left arm from the head and shoulders by steadying the elbow on the left door, fingers loose around the wheel. Right hand off, and the body can do what it wants and the wheel won’t jerk.
Daniel here. For me, I typically get 1 of 2 outcomes. Normally I either get a false alarm warning before nothing, or I suddenly explode with a sneeze that quite often rattles my head enough to get me a little dizzy from whiplash…
The Big Bad Wolf wasn’t trying to attack the Little Pigs, he was trying to get away from his hayfever triggers! But when he sneezed so hard he blew their houses down and killed them, he knew it would be irresponsible to just leave their bodies there where nobody would find them…
Gah! Hate the false alarms :(
I remember once back in a college lecture from somewhere in the back of the room came “aahh, AAhh, AAAAHH” and then dead silence for about five seconds with everyone waiting frozen in their seats. Then came “Sorry?” and the class continued.
… I feel personally called out.
For god’s sake, drop the other one!
And that doesn’t do justice to the fact that, sometimes, after those five minutes of the pre-sneeze seemingly false, it just explodes with no warning. It’s happened once to me—not in class, thankfully—but one poor schmuck had it twice—in class! It’s a good thing we were all a pretty chill crowd, but the neighboring class were {\sl very} inquisitive about who disrupted their lecture.
I found out, with one of my friends, that if I say “Bless You” just before he sneezes, the sneeze will stall and abort. He seriously hate it when I do that…which is whenever I get the opportunity. The sound and physical reaction/look on his face is kind of what the human equivalent of downshifting from 5th gear to first while going 70 on the freeway.
I know some sneeze thieves too – they either say ‘bless you’ or fake a mini-sneeze which somehow short-circuits the routine. It’s hilarious to watch, but having been on the receiving end… know that you are a horrible person.
I know I am a terrible person for doing that. But he gets back at me my doing this thing where he the metal end of an old school #2 pencil, the part that holds the eraser, against the edge of his teeth. For some reason, that sounds sets me on edge and gives me the uncontrollable chills. And so in return, I short-circuit another sneeze, and he gets me back with the pencil and so on and so forth.
Ah, well it sounds like you’ve reached an equitable arrangement then. Carry on.
And, ya’know, bacon is really delicious…
And to think, all he’d originally wanted from them was a cup of sugar for his dear old granny’s birthday cake. The miserly porkers.
I wish, I’ve pulled all the muscles in the back of my neck (and cracked it like knuckles) with sneezes, sometimes the whip is hard enough I get dizzy. But yeah it’s the worst. Now have one of those while riding a motorcycle…and then a series of those. It’s wonder I’m alive.
I have a minimum of 2-3 hard, loud sneezes to get the job done, often just short of pulling a muscle (and actually doing so on occassion). I envy the micro-sneezers who barely wrinkle their noses and are no louder than a churchmouse.
Conversely, I can’t tolerate such people insisting I should “sneeze quietly” as if I somehow enjoy startling people by having spasms in public.
When I was a kid there was this “native american trick” being mentioned in a magazine or milk carton or whatever, that to prevent yourself from sneezing you can tickle the top of your mouth with your tongue.
Don’t ask me if it’s just a placebo effect or some ingrained feature to prevent choking, but it’s worked every time for me. Not that I do it too often since it’s nearly as annoying as an aborted sneeze for any other reason.
Might be useful for those of you who throw your backs out or nearly run off the road though, there’s a spot just behind the hard palate that is quite sensitive, just tickle that and it cancels the sneeze, 100% guaranteed*
*No guarantees
I had never heard of this, but now the roof of my mouth won’t stop tingling. Now I just have to remember it for in-situ testing.
\quote Not that I do it too often since it’s nearly as annoying as an aborted sneeze for any other reason.\unquote
I probably should have finished reading that {\sl before} tickling my alveolus. Eugh!
and if it doesn’t work, you get to sneeze and throw up.
LOL Sydney might be getting more used to Super powered military life, but she still has an amusingly far way to go before she measures up to Peggy, Max, Hero and the others…
Not that THAT is a bad thing for us… :P
Sydney continues to be an instrument of Mass Chaos.
Still waiting on Sydney’s bikini pics. Patiently. Well, maybe not so patiently.
So has everyone else.
Not EVERYONE… but I’m on that list as well… I think an in-universe explanation is that Sydney is not an exhibitionist like all the other folks that DO have such pics floating around (Harem, etc) seem to be.
Maybe we can get an over-the-shoulder view of something she sends Frix? Next Valentine’s Day?
That would keep her (essentially) physically modest character intact while giving some of the viewers a glimpse of what they have been oh-so-patiently waiting for
By the way, the latest vote incentive…
Whoa.
No. Still waiting for Sydney’s bikini pic
Just to obtain the relevant scientific data, for research purposes. Obviously.
I swear, all Deus would have to do to find out pertinent information anything secret about ARCHON is has somone hang around Sydney for a bit.
Max: “Is this about that training montage that got posted?”
Syd: “Um, yeah.”
Max: “As your superior officer, I’m obligated to chastise you about the potential security risks involved with things like that.”
Syd: “Oh, right. That makes… way too much sense.”
Max: “But, Arianna, Leon and myself are also aware you have spur-of-the-moment issues and they wouldn’t let something like that get out unless they wanted it to.”
Sandy: “Kind of undercutting me here, Colonel.”
Syd: “I should still apologize to Heatwave though.”
Max: “Good idea, but I don’t think she’ll be too upset.”
Syd: “I would, wouldn’t YOU?”
Max: “I most DEFINITELY would, but that’s me, and you… aren’t really centerfold material. No offense. I’m not fond of that sort of marketing but Brooke’s photo shoot was just behind Daphne’s in issues sold.”
I just assumed that Leon is watching all social media (and others) and stops anything too bad.
He was, but he had a spontaneous nosebleed explosion when the sideboob pic came up, and missed the window.
And thus gave the cleaners a new favourite “you’ll never believe how that stain happened” story. Although the better story would be if he’d hit the window, then hit a passer-by below.
syd, HR ARE the supervillains… They work by infiltration and blacklist.
I only have a problem when I am yawning. I don’t hear anything during it.
At least Sandy didn’t try to supress the sneeze…
Of course Arc has a protocol for that.
Same protocol as for everything:
Say loudly ‘Maxima’ three times and she will appear. :)
To be fair I would rather have Sydney to defend against mental attacks than Maxima.
Maxima has shown to be sensitive to mental attacks that one time she got hypnotised by Sconia’s death bot, while Sydney has shown that her bubble could at least handle Vehemences attack.
Just then,Maxima walks in and Sydney mentally prepares herself to take up residence in the guard house.
Okay, took me a few to figure out what went *CLACK* in panel: Sydney had started to pull down the lever in panel Gesundheit, then stopped
So close. She was saved by that sneeze. If she had pulled that alarm, that would probably be, legally, the worst trouble she’s been in so far. Causing a false alarm with a fire alarm can be anywhere from a misdemeanor to a felony, depending on where you are. As a member of Archon, the consequences may be a little different, but once that handle comes down, the fire department is on it’s way. And calling them off is a pain, and is investigated. The fine she would face would probably beggar the $10,000 HR was threatening her with earlier.
Reminds me of an… incident… I committed back in my youth. In Sydney… I broke the overhead sprinkler system with a forklift. This generated an automatic call to the fireys. Who couldn’t find the place. Which was probably the only thing that saved my ass.
Postscript. About 3 months later, some shooda-bin-committed person chucked a live fag-end away… Straight under a pile of waiting-for-a-decision wax-impregnated timber forms. (Remember this was very much pre-safety days, the forklift did not have a safety-cage and smoking wherever was still kosher.) Well, it wasn’t long before the overhead felt a bit of heat and decided to wash down the solid board of 5-ply carefully balanced on top of the rest of the timber.
So the fireys were now able to find the place — thank you gorblimey, thank you — but do you think anyone could find an extinguisher that worked? Management was very unhappy for some time, enough to impose a total no-smoking ban outside the canteen. Ah, those were the days!
Hopefully management got fined for the unsafe workplace. No working fire extinguishers, seriously? That’s why they need to be checked yearly
Hey, for my forklift training, the instructor was required to sit on the engine cover beside my driver seat… Of course, that is now not on.
Note to self: trying “u” for underline.
“ Causing a false alarm with a fire alarm can be anywhere from a misdemeanor to a felony, depending on where you are.” – porthos
As I understand it, most places that have such offences on the books specify that they refer to knowingly and/or maliciously triggering a false alarm. Defences could include accidental triggering (e.g. by an object hitting the alarm), an honest ‘wrong switch’ mistake, or even a deliberate ‘false’ alarm for good reasons (i.e. a genuine emergency requiring fast evacuation, even if it isn’t actually a fire).
Sydney’s motives here would fall into the last of those cases: she knows the fire alarm isn’t the most appropriate way of summoning help, but it’s the best she has on hand. The reasonableness of her conclusion that Sandy is under mental attack would generally be considered separately from the reasonableness of her actions based on that conclusion. She would not necessarily be penalised for making what would be a reasonable response to a mental attack, although she may well be penalised for misinterpreting a sneeze as a mental attack in the first place.
All this tech, medicine, super powers… and ALLERGIES continue to RUIN THE WORLD!
And we seriously expect to walk unprotected on exo-planets? Maxi and Achilles well yeah, but the rest of us need some help.
I’m betting the worst will be the stuff we bring with us. We have enough symbiotic bacteria to make a competent bioweapon.
Er… We’re not talking bacteria or virii. We’re talking proteins. All our allergies are simply protein incompatibilities. Mind you, some of those proteins may well reside in microbes… But most of them float in the air… That we breathe. Like pollens.
I like how the Deathworlders series has handled this – all known life-bearing worlds are basically compatible in atmosphere, gravity, etc, but each species has a few foods the others can’t process, and Terran microbes are hugely hazardous to everyone by virtue of the constant battle with Terran immune systems.
Earth is Space Australia. Australia is Double Space Australia
I love that you said that.
It’s no wonder they don’t visit, save a few pariahs.
One of the canon storylines in the Jenkinsverse is an ex-military guy from Australia, known the galaxy wide as “The Human Disaster”. Even by other humans.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/2j0ra4/ocjenkinsverse_salvage/
For those looking
Ah yes, thank you – couldn’t remember the title, that’s the first story in the lengthy Salvage series, which adds some good depth to the main storyline in certain spots.
I have read some very entertaining stories on r/HFY that explore that concept.
Humans: We built undefeatable superweapons because the universe is terrifying!
The rest of the universe: Egad, humans are terrifying.
The same also applies to other species I imagine.
There is a rather silly bit on the net that carries the title ‘Humans are space orcs.’ It’s worth listening to, simply because it covers a lot of this kind of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpKJzB5cSk
Followed by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrnMaA3uaA
Sydney’s like an A cup at best…. does sideboob even happen with an A cup?
There doesn’t seem to be enough side to…. boob.
Depends on how the breasts are compressed and how the pose is performed. Small can be very sexy. Not every Playboy model was a C or better.
Especially since Hef passed away and his son Cooper took over picking the Playmates. There’s been a tidal wave of B and C cups since then. Not necessarily a bad thing since most of the Playmates now seem to be natural rather than the heavily enhanced women that were featured during the last 20 years before Hef passed away. I’m just not happy with a lot of the other revisions to the magazine’s format that have taken place in recent years due to new editors.
low b-cup here.
Naw, we really don’t have much in the way of sideboob, although we do got a nice silhouette.
If promoting more non-surgically enhanced women is a deliberate decision on the part of whomever decides these things at Playboy, then more power to them as far as I’m concerned. Many women go under the knife for a strictly elective surgery which can actually have negative health impacts, and for what? Risking possible death or other poor results (loss of feeling if nerves are cut, botched surgeries requiring multiple corrections, etc.) just to pimp themselves out to the subset of men who are so shallow that fake breasts and possibly poor mental health in a woman is somehow attractive to them?
We-e-elll, I’m not sure the “subset” is actually that small. Here in Oz, the A-cup is pretty well banned for artistic use as it may encourage child porn. On top of that, there seems to be a (not necessarily confined to Oz) convention that a D-cup is a sure sign of adulthood.
However strict be law, there are always idiots erring on the side of stricture.
Some idiot Australian law doesn’t speak at all to the number of men who prefer large (or small) breasts. It just speaks to the idiocy of that law. Preventing an adult woman with an A cup from being used “for artistic use*” out of probably completely unsubstantiated fears that this might encourage child pornography has mindless hysteria written al over it.
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* I’m going to assume nudes here, giving the Australians possibly undue credit for not locking small breasted women out of careers in modeling clothing or other vocations which could be said to have an artistic tie in.
“… mindless hysteria …”
Nicely nailed. We do have a few sub-D models, but most sub-B models seem to come from
PommEngland and Europe. And no, those pics are not censored, I suppose because they have cloth draped over them.BTW, I do sympathise with the movement to delete “waif” modelling. That employment looks too much like slave labour with deprivation.
Eliminating someone from certain kinds of employment because of some physical characteristic which is both not under that person’s control (save surgical modification) and also is in no way interferes with the performance of that vocation is no better than racism. It is certainly sexism, as it objectifies and stigmatizes women for not “living up” to some external criteria which they, again, have no choice about having been born with the genes to qualify them.
Not sure which way you’re pointed here cobber, but all the discussion I’ve seen on the publically available press describes the employment as “requiring the girls to starve themselves to reach an unhealthy body mass in order to keep their not-very-lucrative job invitations.” Remember that modelling is NOT covered by OH&S in most nations, and there is no trade union to protect them.
Ideally, each girl does have the right to not participate in this modelling, but that’s akin to telling teenagers to not have sex.
Having ranted, if I re-interpret your comment, then yes, eliminating women from these modelliing jobs because their figures are too full does indeed objectify and stigmatize them for not “living up” to some external criteria. Sadly, being a bloke, I have no justifiable reason to attend these events, my clothing choices are not influenced by them, and I have no means of commercially penalising the principals by boycotting their products.
No, it is not at all akin to that.
All I can say is, find some activity that teenagers like, then tell them not to indulge. It is akin. The girls want the money and a chance to make the big time. As far as I’m concerned, the modelling agencies lack the moral ethics of sharks and crocodiles.
There are some less obvious reasons to not have “enhancement surgery”… Or perhaps a consideration to have “corrective surgery” if nature has not been kind. Jump to the final topic. This may be offensive to some people, and I apologise in advance.
The video didn’t provide timestamps for each subject, and the discussion I listened to trying to find “the final topic” was so inane that I gave it up as a bad idea.
My bad. Slide up to 13:45, and start the film rolling. And I repeat my apology.
Of course it does. It can be a very nice sideboob, too. Just because they are smaller doesn’t make them less nice.
I have married two smaller boobed ladies, and dated many others (consecutively, not concurrently). Extensive research confirms –
(a) they are incredibly sexy.
(b) they do side boob
Up until the semi-penultimate panel, I thought Sandy was making a heroic effort to suppress laughter at the though of someone posting sideboob shots of our heroine, or of her even having a detectable sideboob! The sneeze took me by complete surprise.
NOTE: to clarify, I’ve always been a fan of A & B cup women, probably since that (or even less) is what the majority of girls around my age had when I really started being fascinated with female humans. Yet somehow I’m now married to a woman with natural D cups, as my physical preferences were far outdone by the emotional and intellectual magic we share…
I’ve never laid hands on anything under a D-cup in my life…. not by plan, it’s just worked out that way.
Had some delightful access to a lovely pair of G-cups for one night. Her cups did, indeed, runneth over.
To be perfectly frank, given these experiences, I can’t see the appeal of A-cups.
I had a coworker who used to sneeze very loudly. Once, there was a dialog like that:
– WTF, bless you, but really, WTF?
– Sorry. But my grandma always said, if you don’t sneeze when you really need to, you heart would stop.
– Look, no offence, but when you sneeze, everyone else’s heart stops.
My dad can always manage a warning or two during the windup. I’ve never been able to. I’m pretty sure the net loss of lifespan around me is a few months.
Co-workers would hear me down the hall sneeze with an ouch, as my whole body pop’s. I call them rib crackers, people who try to hold sneezes need to experience them at least once to never hold a sneeze again.
When beset by danger
When consumed by doubt
Run around in circles
Wave your arms, scream and shout
Oh my, I haven’t heard that one quoted in thirty years. Good times.
Version I read once was:
When in danger
Or in doubt,
Run in circles
Scream and shout.
Heinlein, I think, Time Enough for Love?
He used it, but it’s WAY older than that… I first heard it from my father over 60 years ago. I think he said it was from a ’30s radio program? Though I think his version replaced “run in circles” with “wave your arms”…
At least as old as 1929, but probably even older.
Thought it sounded like a military thing.
“And Bright Light Con”
OMG can relate!
Glad to see someone else with the bright light issue. It tends to confuse people when I step outside into daylight and almost imediately start sneezing.
The condition has been determined to be genetic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
And to prove that researchers can also have a weird sense of humor, they nicknamed it Autosomal Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst (ACHOO) syndrome.
That may replace this joke as my new favorite backronym.
I have it too. It’s something you’re born with, but not hereditary. Basically it’s the body being overenthusiasted about eye protection reflexes. But it helps a lot when a sneeze is tickling but just doesn’t want to happen – usually just looking up into a bright lamp is enough to get the sneeze out.
She needs to get that checked out if it took her 15+seconds to finish a sneeze
Nah, it’s harmless. Happens frequently to me, I get the tickle, start inhaling, then get distracted, usually by a thought entering my head so the brain goes into committee to figure out how to hold and detain it. So I relax, often looking out the window into a brighter light… And it restarts… Eventually I remember to look into a really strong light… AAAAAAAAAHCHOOUUUFFF. And wait for the dog to fall out of the ceiling.
At least Sandy wasn’t in the bathroom. She could have dropped her phone in the toilet.
Dave, at the end of the list of reasons why Archon doesn’t need excessive anti-psychic defenses you have supervillains. Wouldn’t supervillains be a reason to have MORE anti-psychic defense… ?
Be Maxima.
Walking along minding own business.
Sandy says something but not paying attention.
Sydney yells “Side Boob!”
Maxima’s face is like
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but the fact that I know it’s something stupid is disappointing.”
It’s possible that someone informed her of Sydney behaving in a Sydney like manner and she’s just here to check that the situation is self containing.
I am… glad, I finished what I was eating and drinking before reading this. True story… This morning I was talking to someone on the phone earlier and had a potential sneeze that just wouldn’t sneeze.
Eventually, the feeling went away. Well, later, my rabbit was sleeping on my feet while I was messing with a “Nerf Dart” made from recycled paper and a K25 springed Longstrike on my couch. I had loaded a single dart into a magazine, slid the magazine in, primed the blaster, set it down to drink some water (it’s warm inside my cave) picked it back up and was contemplating what I wanted to do with it… with my finger a little too close to the trigger… then I sneezed. Ball of fur woke up thinking something was trying to eat him, and shot off like a rocket. Skidding across linoleum, crashing into the fridge then hiding under a displaced towel. Meanwhile, totally wishing I had a camera going to record, I realized I had pulled the trigger during my nasal spasm. Dart had been ripped in half from the force. Both hitting different objects. So I had to clean up some glass and water. Then start looking for a new lamp shade.
TL:DR Sneezes suck.
And the world didn’t end from a catastrophic war or a maniacal AI, or a rogue asteroid, but a Maxima Sneeze.
“CHOO!” and acting like it was a sneeze is exactly what I’d have my new puppet say and do, if my mental control ritual made her make some odd noises and possibly raise suspicions before my control over her was secured.
Just sayin’.
Yeah, but everyone knows sneezes don’t actually sound like achoo or ätsii or whatever whichever culture has assigned as the sound of a sneeze, it’s more of a blast of air that’s _really_ hard to mimic.
It’s official. ‘Sideboob’ is the new gesundheit.
In THIS universe, the final panel would have the whole building locked down for quarantine while they did testing on everyone. This would result in people being shut into a big room and bored while waiting for the results.
The end result of this would be Sydney mentally drifting into a daydream of an Archon-casted version of the Breakfast Club. Today’s assignment class is to pick which person plays what role in that movie. (feel free to include the principal and janitor)
Indubitably, wherever Ariana is locked down, he plays the principal.
My ex-WWII High School physics teacher:
“Anderson! If you put half as much effort into your homework as you do into that sneeze of yours, you’d be a straight-A student!”
Fifty some odd years ago when I was in middle school I had sneezes like that, where people recognized me just by being in earshot of the sneeze.
I not infrequently double- and triple-clutch my sneezes. What I mean by that is, I do this: “Ahhhh-CHOO-CHOO-CHOO!”
(Since when I have hay fever I have sneezing fits that go on for five minutes or better, I suppose that’s not surprising.)
Yes, it’s painful.
Mine annoyingly sometimes come in fours, with the fourth one waiting juuuust until after I’m like “oh, they’re done, can go back to what I was doing before”. That has resulted in many many sneezes at my computer monitor or smartphone… -_-
“the building is warded against a lot of stuff. It’s not impenetrable,”
That’s a given, otherwise it would be shielded from the Veil and possibly succubus glamor under certain conditions.
Of course, that means there’s probably the equivalent of a security backdoor that would let in intruders who knew how to use it.
Aaaand immediately revising my theory, that’s not actually Max. That’s some sort of imposter or Max-Bot or promotional cardboard cutout. Otherwise, Max would have been tagged.
Dammit replied to the wrong post ignore this please.
You could have let this one slide: the imposter could have come through the security backdoor. (shrug)
So Max is there because she has really good hearing and heard Sydney shouting that Sandy was being mind-controlled, but was skeptical about Sydney’s judgement, so she just strode over really fast rather than break the sound barrier inside HQ.
At least, that’s my working assumption, because we know Max’s hearing is good enough to have heard that.
Sending Max against a mental attacker is like sending super man against a mental attacker. If you like giving your enemy even stronger weapons it’s a good idea in all other cases try sending a bubbled Sydney or Dabbler, because those have shown to be able to handle mental attacks
There’s the person who’s the right choice for responding to the emergency, and then there’s the person who noticed the emergency and responded whether they were the right choice or not.
Maxima has the ability to choose who responds. She should call Dabbler drop her off and hide under a psychic rock.
Sydney seems to go “in the zone” more often when the shield is already up. Even if that’s not an actual aspect of the forcefield orb’s powers, she should probably be encouraged to exploit that little quirk of her personality.
I once walked in on two female coworkers having a conversation that had just reached, I have no clue how, the word “vasectomy”. Then they froze and looked at me. I did a 180 and left again, vowing to myself “We will not speak of this again.”
Which one were you sleeping with?
I used to work at Taco Bell. One time, while in the cold storage area with the door shut, I had a sneezing fit. The customers were asking what the hell was that
The problem was not just that they were loud sneezes, even now I sneeze 5-7 times in a row at the same volume
Reminds me of the times when I sneeze so hard it somehow makes my entire body ache afterwards.
I have sneezed so hard a few times that my ARMS hurt for hours afterwards and I have no idea why when that happens.
Apollo being a character made the first panel slightly confusing
Have we met Apolo? :thinking:
No, but we know his full name is Apolo Gize.
Ah yes, classic symptoms of the initial stage of Fel infestation.
Ewwww…. Sandy… cover your mouth. XD
Given the last page and the conversation that was started about pay, I now have to wonder how much Sandy makes. I’m betting it’s pretty sizable for having to deal with those nuts. :P
Loud sneezer here. Unfortunately I don’t have a wind-up 90% of the time, and I usually end up scaring coworkers, customers, roommates, cats…Discord buddies in the voice chat….
And ALL of the humans just go, “ARE YOU OKAY?! DID YOU SNEEZE OUT YOUR LUNGS?! SPEAK TO ME!”
The cats just look disgusted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCyCjk-foBo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhrBjaoWjkQ
Yeah, pretty much that, only louder. (almost spit my coffee out at that one, thanks guys!)