Grrl Power #912 – Maximum trauma!
Well that seemed to have shut Sydney up.
There were a few comments on the previous page about how that guy’s arm will be useless now. You were correct.
So yeah. I expect some, heh, mixed reactions to today’s comic, from “He deserved that.” to lectures on how fantasy depictions of using horrific ordnance on criminals is probably bad and only just a little bit funny. Well, Sydney’s face there in panel six makes me laugh every time I look at it.
I went back and forth if I wanted to go through with it, but this is what I had planned from the beginning of this sequence. Remember way back in like page 194 where I was like “I don’t know how much gore I’m going to put in the comic” and then much later Sciona bisects Cooter because I thought it’d be funny? Good times. Still, this isn’t exactly new behavior for Cora.
BTW, That’s not a tentacle on Sydney’s shoulder. It’s a vertical selection of rib meat.
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Concretia might be glad her current body is made of stone, and likely doesn’t have a sense of smell.
Well, I don’t think a fresh corpse/puddle like that smells THAT much.
ruptured digestive system always has a distinct odor depending on diet…
you would be surprised.
One of the things that makes so many horror movies laughable is among the many senses the characters lack is a sense of smell, trust me dead bodies stink real quick, especially if certain organs have been ruptured. Even brains give off a weird smell.
Every time a slasher villain stabs someone through the gut anyone else entering that house should be asking if the septic tank exploded, especially if that victim had a high fat diet.
I’m not doubting you, but I’m morbidly curious to hear how you know that. Please tell?
Surgeons will tell you the internal human body smells bad even through their masks. Several dismembered bodies would definitely produce a distinct aroma.
College biology mainly, and fresh kills from family that hunt.
I raise hogs. I also butcher said hogs. They are said to be a biological equivalent to the human body, so much so that we share disease and can transplant organs from them. The insides of pigs really stink. I can only imagine what it would smell like if I fed them meat.
If you don’t know the insides of bodies stink, you’ve never spent time in a slaughterhouse.
And I’ll tell you this, I don’t think ANYTHING smells worse than the inside of a sheep. OMG!
My father used to kill five or six sheep every year for the fireman’s picnic to support the VFD, and I could smell those things a quarter mile away. I don’t know how he stood it.
I think that it was Quora that somebody asked for some of the things that most people would find unexpected about a battlefield. The first was that it was so noisy that you had to shout to be heard. The seond was the stench.
You never attended a slaughtering, am I right?
Like the one in the comic? No.
Not quite like that. I mean a proper “home” slaughtering (actually at a local butchers’ facilities).
Han Solo, right after lightsabering a Taun-Taun open: “And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!”
Ummmmm…wow, thats a high tech bullet for ya. instant kill
For a certain definition of “instant” – after all, he got halfway through a sentence.
Explosive round with remote detonation. The instant can be chosen and presumably before impact is also an option.
Good for battlefield control.
Yeah…. it’s not the gore, which would not be that great in the first place, that is making thing rough for sydney, it is being in the front row splash zone that makes things horriable.
Sydney is probably going to think twice about attending a show of Gallagher from a front-row seat from now on…
Well, I can say, I found it funny!
Of course, I’m not the one with it all over my face. :p
Good thing she wears glasses. I’d hate to have to blink that out of my eyes.
But her glasses fell off last comic.
Slapped off…
Sadly she can’t use those luxurious gloves…
*collected for “evidence”*
Barely would be enough to fill a small ziplock
She’s not wearing her glasses, she got slapped in the previous page or so.
Well, guess who got their glasses smacked off..
Well this is embarrassing, also, ewww. Someone is going to need some super visine to get *that* red out.
He slapped the glasses off on the previous page, so her eye boogers might be a bit scabby for a while.
Not saying he did or didn’t deserve it but Sydney did not deserve to watch that
Now’s where we find out how bad Sydney’s eyes really are, I guess.
You know, I have to wonder if this is actually worse than the time Sydney fell into the blood portal. On the one hand, she was splashed with way less blood this time, but on the other hand she knows who this blood belongs to, but on the third mutant hand she probably hates the guy who this belongs to, and on the fourth Goro from mortal kombat hand, hating him might make her want not to have his particles on her…
Yeah but that was a blood portal. It was probably sterilized. This dude could have disease and stuff. Plus she didn’t see a human explode that time for added fucked uptedness.
well time to see Cora’s med-bay. Probably didn’t cross Cora’s mind as she said most FTL class civilizations have diseases taken care of so blood being a major bio-hazard just didn’t occur to her.
I’d say it is. The blood portal was at least liquid, with just a few bits of that same liquid congealed, and had been in place for a while before she found it. This is fresh, and warm, and it has bits.
She didn’t get any in her mouth this time…
All in all, I’d say if Sydney could deal with the aftermath of the blood portal with a bath in near-freezing water and apparent long-term consequences, she’s going to be fine after a very thorough shower and a medical exam. Any lingering issues from this just goes in the package of her ongoing therapy. She has already shown she is fairly resistant to PTSD, one blessing of her personality I suppose. I do hope she is somehow prevented from injecting herself with an unknown mind-wipe drug. It smacks me as potentially more troublesome than dealing with the experience the normal way.
Meaning to ‘no apparent long-term consequences’. Damn the inability to edit typos in posts.
“I need an industrial-strength bath, please…like, now.”
Hand her over to Fritz. I’m sure he’ll take REAL GOOD care of her.
CLEAN IT WITH FIRE!!!
His, name is NOT Fritz, I knew a Fritz. Vietnam war Veteran.
Presumably not THIS Fritz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujQ-nMc0WGE
Was thinking of Frank Fritz, from ‘American Pickers’
All in all I seriously doubt Max would have a problem with the boss being splorched. Not after what he did to Sydney at least. I can see the dialog to follow this one when Max finds out ;
Max: I said to use non lethal rounds!
Cora: He wanted to kill Sydney to get the orbs after he backhanded her while she was restrained.
Max: …
Max: …
Max: Ok, that works.
While max would be frustrated I dont think the backhand would catch her ire (they are combatants after all) the saving concretia and what he made her say wilt being electricuted is the thing that would royally piss her off. Plus now they have an enemy who is now either so freaked out it will take him a day to talk and a new recruit that they have to rescue.
Maxima has a particular protectiveness for Sydney in particular.
Just realizes isaid particular twice, which is particularly particular of me.
For no particular reason, this particle of the discussion strikes me as particularly funny.
Peculiar!
Is it peculiar to be particular when discussing a person reduced to particulates?
Particularly peculiar, indeed.
Sydney: …also he tortured Concretia and made her say ‘thank you for fixing me, Daddy’.
Max: …that was too quick, Cora.
Good point
So, if I had to guess, that round was built to handle someone like Concretia, or someone where slicing them to ribbons is the optimal response. I believe that Sydney got out the word ‘Concretia’ and if Cora has access to some of the basic database info on the villains that ARC has faced before, it would make sense for Cora to switch loadouts.
Actually, thinking on it, the majority of the hostiles that aren’t Hench Wench and Brut are all down, so it would make sense to switch to a loud out that would ensure disabling them, and minimize collateral. From what we can see, it seems to create a condensed sphere of ‘fuck you and everything you hold dear’, where as a beam that misses or over penetrates could drill a hole through multiple buildings.
Assuming she’s just being polite and letting Maxima work out any issues she might have, she likely could have ended this fight with a shot to HW’s golem. If she caught the earlier reference to Concretia, or simply piggy-backed on Sydney’s glasses cameras, she’d know that Concretia is likely still the most dangerous threat to be disabled. From there, we can extrapolate that she either left the round for HW/HWG/Brut in play for consistency, or as a viable option to the expected threat. That she wound up shooting Mr Squishy McAsshole instead is just tactical volatility.
I assume Cora could be packing many kinds of ammo for many types of enemies and can switch between them easily like Dredd’s Lawgiver. Should be easy with her level of technology. Seems like she just wanted to kill Mr Bloodsplosion McDouche in a messy yet cool way. That’s how the galactic jetset like Cora rolls.
Why would she want to atk concretia anyway. If she caught wind of their conversation or Sydney whom had the time to list out what was going on while stalling for time. Would be to note allies.
It would depend on what she overheard. Assuming she saw Hench Wenches golem and overheard how HW’s powers work, she has a pretty reasonable assumption that Concretia, being very visibly similar to HW’s golem, is on the enemy side. Even so, she’s still the obvious threat, even if she has a reasonable (but seemingly incorrect) expectation that the others might have powers.
@ Ro Jaws, while probable, she may have been taking aim at Concretia and decided to switch targets without speaking a new command since she was expecting a lethal shot. I’d expect that she likely had a round of ‘fuck you’ loaded, and rather than switch it out just because her target didn’t look all that dangerous, decided to just let it rip. McSplatters is just as dead as if she’d ventilated or vaporized his head, and the round does seem to have a fairly limited collateral damage capability (as I mentioned).
Sydney has her eating hair, did it at least add a bit of spice to that Jack-in-the-Buffet ‘splosion?
….so going to hell one of these days.
Man, seeing that link back to #194 really makes me miss Sydney’s look in the old style. She especially looked a lot better not being shaded, and her bangs were funny.
Keep up the comicking either way!
“Comicking” Greater minds invent their own words.
There’s a lot that can be said about the excessive use of force etc. etc. etc. but honestly I think before we can even get that far we need to acknowledge that the “heroes” in this story are both military and also cops. So, everything they do is already fundamentally wrong, because they do those things with one foot each in one of the worst things a human being can be.
“You are evil not for what you do, but for what you are” is not a very good take, Socratease. It pretty much proves that your perspective on things is wrong from the outset.
It’s also an utterly hypocritical. It’s almost funny how every single time something bad happens near or in a crowd of ACAB people, the first thing out of everybody’s mouth is ‘CALL THE POLICE’. ACAB until you need the cops to help you, right?
ACAB people?
This is what happens when complex social issues and human psychology are reduced to acronyms and abbreviations. Please don’t feel offended. You aren’t the first and certainly won’t be the last.
In this specific case, it’s not a reduction of their ideology into an acronym but rather a description of the acronym they themselves created. ACAB stands for “All Cops are B——-” I’m not sure the rules on foul language int he comments so I’ve blanked the letters for the last one.
Their philosophy is that through mental gymanstics and blame gaming, people who tout this ideology believe that every single cop without exception is personally responsible for every time any cop anywhere in the world does anything bad, and are fighting for the abolishment of police in general.
The hypocrisy which I am pointing out is that we’ve seen many times this year where these people are protesting against the police and then suddenly start screaming for the police to come help them if something bad happens.
So the accurate response to someone sloganing “ACAB” is “All ACABs are morons”.
“So, everything they do is already fundamentally wrong”
really? Stopping a murderer from murdering children is fundamentally wrong just because the person doing it is a cop?
You have a seriously messed up idea of morality. Actions are not fundamentally wrong because of WHO you are. The action itself is either right or wrong INDEPENDENT of who is doing the action.
also, the idea that cops and military are the “worst things a human can be” is ridiculous. Both cops and military are carrying out policy determined BY US. If you think they are evil then its time to look in the mirror because YOU VOTED FOR THAT!
Stop blaming cops for enforcing the laws put in place by politicians YOU VOTED FOR. If you think those laws should not be enforced then change the way you vote and stop scapegoating the cops who are just trying to enforce the order that was designed and chosen by the majority of voters. The military is the same, just on the international side instead of domestic. We vote for those politicians, they make the policy, and then they send the military to enforce the policy. If you don’t like it, stop voting for those politicians.
scapegoating cops and soldiers as if they wrote the laws or crafted foreign policy is a horrible thing to do. they don’t deserve to be treated that way.
It’s a nut job morality based on wishful thinking: that there could be such a thing as a completely nonviolent human society.
It’s fundamental. Because humans can use arbitrary violence to get their way, and because such violence cannot be countered without the ability to apply violence, therefore there must be people willing to enact controlled violence on behalf of society, in order to prevent the arbitrary violence.
Murderers have te right to murder who ever they want, who do the cops and soldiers think they are to stop them?
You would think they were acting on behalf of the countries laws or some shit!
What’s even worse is a lot of politicians are like “The situation with the police is unacceptable. To solve this systemic problem, you need to vote for ME, the person who has BEEN IN CHARGE HERE FOR MULTIPLE DECADES. By keeping the same exact people in power, we can solve this problem that has been existent as long as you remember!”
and people buy it for some reason…
Ah- implosion rounds. They come with a little sticker on the box that says “Only use with face protection- or keep your mouth closed.”
Possibly made by Almost Always Lethal Munitions. With the company motto: “We put the O in Overkill, without the collateral damage of comparable ammo!”
What’s this “overkill” you mention? There is no such word, there is only “open fire” and “I need to reload”
Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.
Sydneys next session with Dr. Frost is going to be interesting.
On the plus side, Sydney now has the perfect justification for a lengthy bath therapy session with Frix.
1. Now we see the purpose behind Chekov’s Memory Wipe Injector (the Chekov’s Gun Rul: if it’s not going to be used, it should not be in the story.) It is used to show Sydney’s horror, and therefore the horror of what she has just seen.
It tells us that whatever we dear readers may feel from the spray of blood and bony bits is nothing compared to what she just saw. It is a fine horror force multiplier.
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2. It seems to me that the question whether Cora committed “murder” or otherwise acted wrongly commingles several questions (A) tactical necessity, (B) law, (C) morality or ethics:
(A) Tactical Necessity: The casual “Oops” makes it seem that killing the guy was not strictly necessary; Cora was in complete control of the situation and yet deliberately chosen a delayed-action Julienne round. However it’s hard to 2nd-guess the first responder.
(B) Law: is complicated. Assuming the relevant law is NY State’s criminal code, it seems unlikely anyone would charge (much less prosecute) Cora for this killing as the dead guy threatened lethal force first and had armed goons still able to back him up – as at least one of them appeared to be unwisely doing.
(C) Morality: Cora’s moral sense is that killing bad guys messily is good, since it discourages the rest. We may or may not agree with that sense of morality, but it’s hers. She enjoys her work but there’s nothing wrong with that.
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3. Panel 4: Henchman on the left is reaching into his jacket, presumably for a weapon, with a weapon already pointed in his direction by what he thinks is an angry super (Cora’s not an Earth super but from the standpoint of threat assessment might as well be). He has chosen poorly, but maybe because there just aren’t that many supers around, criminal behavioral standards have not yet adjusted.
Henchman on the left is looking at the other guy; it’s hard to tell from the mask whether he’s coordinating a counterattack or going “Dude, stop! Let’s hold up our hands and shout “We have valuable information!”
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4. Being rescued is important for Sydney but this is an important moment for Concretia as well. Will Cora recognize her as a hostage also to be rescued?
To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, “Sometimes a memory wipe injection is just a memory wipe injection.”
At this point, Cora explains to SYdney that they are not actually dead…yet, like Dr. Guillotine for 41 blinks after he had his head cut off, and thanks to GalTech they will stay alive for a bit yet.
Be careful to reference WHICH Dr. Guillotin died from beheading, because the inventor of that machine died of natural causes, while a different Dr. Guillotin met his end from the falling blade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin#:~:text=Guillotin%20was%20put%20to%20death,P%C3%A8re%2DLachaise%20Cemetery%20in%20Paris.
I am personally on team ‘that was unnecessary’.
I mean I don’t feel bad for the criminals as such, especially not that jerk. I just think that with all her tech she could have -easily- NOT killed, and chose to do so.
I am more disappointed in her for not bothering than anything else.
I can think of arguments both both for and against lethal response here but in truth the simple explanation is this; sanctity of human life is not the pinnacle of priorities for Cora. Don’t know what is, or where sanctity of life would fall on the spectrum for her but this wasn’t it. Bad thing for the bad man whose last bad idea was thinking he had things utterly under control.
The Joker will not be returning to Arkham this evening. ;)
The question is not whether her choice was “necessary”. The question is whether her choice was expedient and effective, and whether it had as much or better chance of minimizing ***harm to hostages*** as any other available option.
The kidnappers set up a situation whereby death of someone was likely…. even overtly intended. Protection of the victim (Sydney) overpowers any presumption of value to their individual lives.
If the supers were in charge of the LLC and HW was hired by them; then lambskin gloves et al hired the LLC. Now that lambskin gloves is fatally occupying a much greater area; the LLC MAY be unemployed, but HW is STILL their employee.
I mentioned to someone either last page or two ago that Sydney might be sliding into the role of the morality chain for some of the more “violent” characters like Cora, Dabbler, and Maxima; due to her likability and “innocent by comparison” outlook making them want to be less violent around her.
But of course the worst mistake a villain can make is hurting the morality chain *much worse if they are fridged*, because that tends to set off the vindictive mode or full on rampage mode.
Imagine Sydney being the voice of reason and moderation.
Now considering the situation Cora was definitely justified in using lethal force but that could have been dangerous for Sidney. Imagine having “choked on a bit of bad guy” on your grave stone. And don’t tell me she doesn’t have a stasis rifle in her arsenal. That thing is powerful. It even took out Maxima for a couple of minutes which is hard to do even with more than lethal weapons. And no idea how much Cora knows about Concretia’s whole situation but killing the guy might be dangerous for her too.
Nanowire ammunition. For when Close Enough is all you need.
Remember the rules of combat.
here’s one: When the bad guys are in range, so are you.
Never ,be in a Target Rich, area!
Not necessarily. Depends on the range of your respective weapons. A .308 Winchester beats a 9 mm in that respect every day of the week.
You are right; although I have heard during our current 2A discussions that somehow a pistol is poor defense to a rifle in a shootout…..something about slower bullets. Since they didn’t use qualifiers and didn’t seem to have seen the final scene of Fistful of Dollars (1964. Ramon Rojo: “When a man with a . 45 meets a man with a rifle, the man with a pistol will be a dead man”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQPhLeyzkLY ); I assumed they weren’t aware of the benefits of a handgun in a close range fight…..and the relative equivalence of both types of firearms when their ammo strikes flesh.
Whatever the theoretical technical advantages and disadvantages, I suspect a far bigger factor would be the people using the weapons – their skill, their knowledge of the terrain, their willingness to fire for effect, etc. A rifle is likely to have faster and more accurate bullets than a pistol, as the longer barrel allows more acceleration, but they’re both fast enough that dodging a fired round isn’t really an option.
A rifle(or long gun, more generally) gives more accuracy and better recoil management than a pistol due to ergonomics – very advantageous in gunfight, but note that this is unrelated to caliber and also applies to a 9mm submachine gun.
Rifle bullets also have more power, more inherent accuracy and better penetration of armor.
The speed of the bullet doesn’t really matter beyond its effects on power and long-range accuracy.
Big thing is: doesn’t matter how more powerful your firearm is, if the other person has theirs aimed at you while yours is pointed in the wrong direction
If I had to guess… I’d say the bullet was full of nanites which were immediately circulated through his blood stream, sending out microassemblers to turn his own nitrogen, phosphorus, and glucose into trinitrotoluene. Then after a signal is sent from the gun, the nanites act as blasting caps, and a portion of his blood and now explosive tissue explodes.
Or Blortch.
Pretty sure that was justified homicide. I mean it’s not like Cora could have explained all that in any length of time in order to prevent him from harming Sydney. So yeah.
BTW, I don’t think it would be things like nanowires because we don’t see any shrapnel potentially injuring Sydney. I think she just turned 5 pounds of him into low grade explosive which was more than enough. I mean, I have five pounds of me explode and I’m good. I am good and done.
Unlikely – just raw explosion wouldn’t carve him up so neatly – and also would at the least create bone shrapnel.
My theory is force fields (seems to fit Cora’s style better) but nanowire works. Not as a grenade, but actually cutting.
Cora already prevented him from harming Sydney by taking out his gun arm.
To quote Hilda “Well that was pretty traumatic, but such is the life of an adventurer.”
As for the badguy, how fucking dumb do you have to be to insult someone who just told you they are loaded for bear? (Apparently Kaiju Mutant Mega-Bear in this case)
Clearly his death is a net gain for the genepool, if not the janitor.
Does it make a difference to insult them after they’ve already shot you with a bear gun? Politeness doesn’t put bullets back into barrels.
No but it may stop the remote triggered splorch round from going off
DaveB – Quentin Tarantino, much? Also, is this a callback, or is Sydney drenched in someone else’s blood going to become a running gag (lot of running, lot of gagging?)
Additionally, great sequence overall, especially Sydney trying to get at the hypo loaded with something the victim just mentioned might turn her into a vegetable – she’s willing to take that chance.
OMIGOSH!
It wasn’t until I read the comments that I realized the explosion of viscera wasn’t a second action but the result of the first action as there was a delay between the shot and the shot detonating. Hence Cora’s comment “oops” because she’d already killed him. He just didn’t know it yet.
Now THAT is funny.
Normal People: Oh that’s so gross!
Me: HAHA BOLTER ROUND GO POP
What the fuck even was that, a delayed action SHAKK pellet?!
Today on “Cooking With Cora”, we’re having Blood Soup, Head Cheese, Sliced Ribs, Pork Shoulder and Mu Goo Guy In A Pan. Bon Appetit.
This page reminds me of Evil Dead, particularly the TV show (Ash Vs Evil Dead), which had some truly hilarious gore scenes. (I’m sure there are some other slashers and etc. that also do, but probably not comedy/horror in quite the same way).
Seconded.
Welp, Sydney’s gonna need therapy for C-PTSD after that…
Is that his left ear on Sydney’s knee?
Okay. Yeah. Gore.
I have actually seen something in real life that approximates this page. it did not involve a gun. It involved a paper shredder. To clean up, we used mops on the walls and ceiling. Looking back, I have no problem dealing with that memory since it was the fool’s own fault he fell in. Drinking on the job is rarely a good idea. ‘There’ it was just messy.
As for guns? Cora seems a fairly nice person but her job takes her to extremely not nice places. Guns are tools and Cora knows her tools.
But yes, Sydney is going to need SERIOUS therapy for this one.
Similarly (and there are photos online if one is morbidly curious), do a web search for “737 el paso mechanic” to see why one shouldn’t walk too closely in front of an operating jet engine.
This comic reminds me of a scene from The Expanse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oATT8mKoILE
Maneo makes history for sure. If you’re impatient, start at the 7 minute marker
aaaah, now i miss my Sergeant…
Ew. Wire grenade. I’ve seen the proposal, but the technical hurdles are pretty high. And they’re not really pursuing it because devastating as it is to bare flesh or standard clothing, it doesn’t penetrate any kind of armor. Concretia would probably take a few chips, but wouldn’t be all that hurt.
Our technological hurdles: They’d require lightweight wire strong enough to withstand the detonator pulse (just barely, maybe, possible), or a godlike supercapacitor for an EM detonator pulse that will sling out the wire without demolishing it (not considered feasible barring fundamental new discoveries).
But our technical problems aside, if Cora’s got a working model, and one small enough to be packaged in a launcher round, then ya, she’s the boss of this fight against anybody that’s got tender flesh and blood exposed.
I would say though that she made an important mistake. Her dialog discloses that she’s fully aware that she’s about to kill this guy. And she said it in front of at least three witnesses. So there’s going to be absolutely no way to claim it was accidental or the loadout was not what she thought or that she thought he was tougher than he was, etc.
Your phrase “is about to” is erroneous, and presumes that she had the ability to stop him from dying. Cora killed him with one round while he was in the process of attempting to murder a bound kidnap victim.
The man was already dead the moment the round impacted… it just took a certain amount of time for the round to validate the target organism ID, determine safe radius for wire deployment without injuring other organisms, deploy the wire, and then mandoline the target.
As a tactical choice, this round (and a few moment’s banter establishing how easy it was to kill the guy) both protected the hostage and eliminated all opposition from attempting to rally. Given the presence of a super (Concretia) controlled by the boss, any non-lethal act on Boss Tartare would likely have resulted in injury to many more and potential death of the hostage.
No one other than Cora gets to make the call. It’s not like she is going to explain the 1200 different kinds of weapon and ammo she had choices between.
Looking at it strictly from a legal (not tactical or moral) standpoint: it’s not a mistake to say “oops” if no one is going to prosecute. She is a Good Samaritan saving the life of America’s Cutest Super.
No jury will convict.
No prosecutor with any ambitions for advancement will prosecute.
Any prosecutor with no ambition and nothing better to do (surely they all have something better to do) is not going to get past the defense argument that “oops” was a cry of dismay at realizing that instead of blowing the guy’s head off (which she had a legal right to do under the circumstances) she used a Delayed Splat Weapon.
Wow… that’s an impressive amount of splatter. What happened to the other two guys since they were right next to him?
Whatever it was, it turned them into mush.
Not likely. I’m pretty sure that was a one-organism round, or it would have endangered Sydney. It didn’t affect Concretia, who was the same distance in front of Boss Tartare as they were behind, more or less.
>BTW, That’s not a tentacle on Sydney’s shoulder.
Seems like a missed opportunity here.
We didn’t actually see what it did and she is friends with dabbler after all….
Back to the scab oatmeal problem.
Now with added Chunk