Grrl Power #903 – Sole searching
While I was drawing the “vibration propagation” sequence, I couldn’t get the Aquaman “Loobloobloobloobloob” noise out of my head. Hopefully I’ve gotten it stuck in your heads for at least a few minutes.
I haven’t decided if Concritia can straight up fly in her astral form… It’s not really astral though. Let’s see, she can project an energy form of her body into stone… Let’s call it her asphtral form. Like Asphalt and Astral? Really forcing that portmanteau there. Anyway, I think she can hover a few feet above rock, like one of those shitty dreams where you can fly, but only at waist height?
Concretia could probably feel the elevator moving, but maybe she didn’t have her toe in any stone when it started up. The vibrations from it moving could probably be pretty easily swallowed up by the background thrum of the average metropolis. There’s probably 20,ooo people and 2,000 cars moving around the streets within a few blocks of Times Square at 9pm any given evening. So basically vibration pollution would be on par with light and noise pollution.
In a world with actual superpowers, there’d probably be some ISO for naming conventions. Techtonapathy, vibralocation, tremor sense, tactile sonar could all mean the same thing, or wildly different things depending on how many near the same variations there are of the same powers. Though honestly, techtonopathy sounds more like you can feel the emotional state of the ground or something.
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“Concretia” is her super name.
Her given name is probably something like …
…Sandy.
Or Greta, she is kinda meta…….
She’s on a roller derby team and her name is Aggro Greta…
I’m just waiting for a cameo from Roger Ramjet
Conthwayla (yes, that’s how it’s pronounced, and the registrar of names was an idiot)
Jewel. Jewel Bueller. Her broth’s name is Ferrous Bueller.
Ro, please give your crown to Gary. He is your rightful king now.
con garnet all with the petrified puns already
Gary is the king of funny puns. I prefer seeing people cringe at bad ones.
I abdicate. Ro is my hero.
Besides, her name might be Gem. Gem Hadar. The big kidnapping plan will founder and fail, based on Sydney’s shifting the shape of her loyalties.
That’s deep, but spacey. I’d rate it a 9.
That made my day.
For what its worth, I liked her concept, now I also kinda like her so far….
So shes proably going to die, yes?
I dunno. ‘Amy Portcullis’ is a much subtler wordplay (a-gate).
A play on ‘pozzolan’ like ‘Pozzlin’ or some such for her surname could also make a nice reference to ingredients found in some concretes.
Though, place names that refer to somwhere or something famous for concrete could also be much subtler nods that don’t lean on the Batman punny name method.
not a university, corporation or government… Religion?
So… Spike the Priest?
yeah, i was thinking back to that foreboding page list with Kevin. might tie into the demon hunters and such
as it is a mixed setting I am suspecting vampires (or other supernatural group), possibly afraid of being outclassed by their own prey in time trying to find a way to give themselves super powers as well *heck Sciona could do it with her blood magic as seen in her lair*,
it wouldn’t be the first time a theme like that occurred. In Marvel comics I recall multiple times vampires tried to pull this with the X-men. Don’t remember the specifics but it may have been that when a mutant was turned into a vampire they kept their mutant powers plus got vampire powers and maybe if those vampires turned others they passed on their mutant powers along with vampirism.
So something along those lines, vampires or other supernaturals abducting supers, possibly also using hypnosis when releasing some after taking blood samples so they don’t report what happened; trying to stay under Archon’s radar *possibly also under the radar of the Twilight Council if we assume they aren’t behind it*
Hmm, don’t recall Vamp Jubilee retaining her fireworks
Then again, can’t recall any other mutant vampires (wait, was that story about Dracula turning Wolvie into a vampire, and Vamperine turning the rest in vamps canon or a “What if…?”)
M day had already depowered Jubilee. Also check out Apocalypse vs Dracula, and the vampires attacked the X-MEN that was how they got to Jubilee in the first place, happened more than once.
Jubilee became a vampire after the House of M event that turned many mutants into non-mutants. She was one of the ones who lost her mutant abilities.
With new information thanks to Pander bringing up the strip the Russian mafia is a good contender too.
I’m thinking hardcore fan club trying to verify Archon’s stats and abilities for their D&D expansion rulebook on Kickstarter. It just won’t fund if it’s not 100% accurate.
Put Mr. Amorphous in charge of the stretch goals
Obviously: Disney.
They want a seven-film Archon Cinematic Universe deal and a cable series ready to go by May, so there’s plenty of time to build a fanbase for the sequels and the all-important 2021 holiday season toy sales.
Mickey and Goofy get out of the elevator.
Mickey: Halo! Here, sign this NDA!
Goofy: Ayup!
Halo: (Freeform profanity stream)
Goofy: Gawrsh!
Almost sounds like a skit Devilartemis on YouTube would do if he was a grrlpower fan.
Twilight Council renegades?
I used to have dreams where I flew at about waist height, and they were really nice!
Horizontally or Vertically? Superman or Magneto?
Seems like it would have to be Superman style, or waist high you’d be “floating” rather than “flying”.
Maggie flies, just… very ‘arrogantly’ :P
Almost forgot that the Flying Buffalo (M. Bison) also flies vertically
“When. Have. I. EVER?”
*guy she nut-smashed walks out of the elevator*
“…Ah. Hm.”
Basically, every one she’s ever met for more than five seconds
The concrete-vibro-pathy wouldn’t work very well. Really just short range. Stone is massively attenuating to vibration. Consider how strong earthquakes are in order to create a little tremor. There is a rule of thumb that the reduction in vibration is something like 20 dB (100x reduction) in 10m of soil/stone. (For example, if you dig a tunnel 1m wide it only has to be 3m down to be basically undetectable by most seismometers).
I live in a stucco house near the corner if 2 busy arteries. I can feel it every time a large truck goes by. Don’t notice it much during the day, but it is hard to get to sleep sometimes. My house is is 20+ meters from the busiest and most annoying road.
Loose soil…. Compacted or settled soil conducts sound and vibration just fine…. Concrete is a crystalline matrix which requires special joints just to keep bridges from shattering from vibrational stresses. Stand on a bridge while truck s roll by….
So were going to see who the idiot is that wants halo’s orb things at long last, honestly its got to be some stupid idiot who has lots of money an no brains to think that they can just take them like that or some stupid crap.
It only needs to be someone with a lot of influence and a lot of confidence, whether that influence was bought with money or fear, and whether that confidence is deserved or not… is a different question
I’m going with Sciona – LOTS of influence, and ability to get/find money as she needs it to influence other Earthlings she’s doesn’t feel it’s prudent (?) to kill and possess? pretty decent justification for her confidence as well – she just didn’t QUITE anticipate Maxima AND Halo – she won’t make that mistake a second time, I think
So you think its Sciona? Hmm makes sense, best to take out one of the possible threats BEFORE it becomes too big a threat. That or she wants Halo’s body to be able to use those orbs.
Still if its not her its got to be some idiot who has a lot of influence and confidence that is misplaced and gives them a big fat head.
You mean… SmugD?
Back from the future… doesn’t look like Sciona herself, and I’m struggling to imagine her being part of or associated with group that gets off the elevator…
And…it turns out to be the original owner of the orbs, frustrated after a thousand years of searching for the things that someone just randomly found them.
“What have you done with these settings? This isn’t even a practical progression!”
If that was the case wouldn’t the owner just recall them?
Unless the internal AI was just fed up with being misused and ignored, and deliberately hid from the prior owner until Sydney found them.
“Of course I left you after your last visit to Earth, Ankor-Ra! You quit doing anything beyond grabbing snacks without getting out of the palanquin! Here I am, brain the size of a planet and after 400 years you never even opened the skill tree.”
Then the question is why the AI is with Sydney who has super ADHD. XD
Easy-peasy – Sydney is entertaining! Wouldn’t you love to be the AI of a superpowerful and indestructible weapon system that is being used by someone with poor impulse control and a really imaginative gift for profanity…?
So, I was thinking (always a dangerous proposition, but wtf) Halo maintains control over the movement of her orbs even when out of sight/reach, right?
Orbs are indestructible from a practical standpoint, right?
Orbs are trapped in a bubble in the concrete, ok?
With me so far?
So, why not have them circle each other at top speed while maintaining contact with the inside surface of the bubble until they wear their way through?
Might get noisy. Meh
Would probably work…eventually, but Concretia would immediately feel what she was doing and could reinforce the containment or simply remove the gaps around the balls leaving them no room to move.
assuming momentum means anything to tech emitting light that isn’t light and occupying space without occupying space.
honestly expecting a “beast mode” moment at some point where they just erupt from their confinement if Sydney gets agitated enough.
To be fair, shes probably treating this like a ttrpg campain atm, rolling imaginary dice and yelling about making the check/save in her head
It’s an infringement on Toph’s copyright.
I wonder if zombies suffer from Post Mortem Depression.
That’s why they eat brains according to The Return of the Living Dead.
And just like that, HELL froze over!
She didn’t say she was never, just asking for examples of when
Heh… Will be interesting to see actual depiction of Eastern Europe underworld members.
Fridge Horror thought: Sydney is incredibly lucky that none of the orbs were firmly trapped in the coral reef when she found them. Imagine her stuck below the water, unable to surface because one of the orbs couldn’t be freed.
“If I started listing when, we will still be here in 2020!”
My friends and I translated Aquaman sound as BUH-NUH-NUh-Nuh-nuh-nuh :-)