Grrl Power #914 – Power stunts 201, with Prof. Scoville
For some reason I think things from space named “Space XYZ” or “Astro ABC” is really funny. Astro bucks, Space Hookers, Galactic Lunch. It’s so dumb and generic and pointless. It’s like reminding everyone that a bunch of races have achieved space travel. Yeah, we know. We’re in space right now.
Concretia’s having a real facepalm moment here, but Henchwench still has a leg up on her. We don’t know if Concretia can animate rock while in her human form or if she has to project herself into her phantom form. What did I decide to call it? Concrastral form? I’m don’t feel like looking it up. Anyway, that’s not the trick Henchwench has mastered here. She can keep Meatwench conscious while Concrastrally projecting. If that’s something Concretia can do, she’ll probably have to return to her body first and test it in steps. Apparently she can’t just wake herself up and let the Concrastral projection dissipate – she has to return to… uh, meat Concretia and merge back into her body. Conmeatia? Meatcretia?
Ug. Meatcrete sounds like something demons would come up with. And not the sexually mischievous ones like Dabbler. Like, Doom demons. The ones that decorate their walls with stretched faces. Which… I guess means that when they’re not murdering their way across some new planet, they’re very into arts and crafts. Those faces have to get on the walls somehow, right? I guess their planet murder rampages are like a trip to Hobby Lobby for them, and they have to sign up for specific invasions to get the right color palettes. Like if they want an accent of blue for the den, they have to murder rampage some Maliri or Na’vi or, uh… Kree? There’s not a lot of blue alien races for some reason. Twi’lek. Knew I was forgetting an obvious one. Yes, some Night Elves are blue. Obviously there’s Smurfs, but you’d probably only want them to do like a nice checkerboard accent for the bathroom. Like a strip around the shower.
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sounds a lot like astral possestion (yes the term is projection but she’s possessing the stone/concrete) her body keep a porton of her soul as a binding to the living world and maybe as a rough beacon she knows general area but not exact location
Well it’s more Bilocation with Petrokinetic control. If it were true astral projection, her “Ghost” would be invisible.
It might even be trilocation, if she discovers that she can operate her physical body at the same time as both.
Petromorphic possession.
one of the elemental possession traits, in some settings elementals are purely ethereal spirits that have a matching astral quality to specific elements so can control them as well as possess them to form bodies. Petromorphic, Pyromorphic, Hydromorphic, and Aeromorphic possessions.
Concretia displayed this as her main ability utilizing a dense astral body *visible but otherwhise just as intangible and following the same rules as a normal astral body* as the conduit. She is now displaying geokinetic or petrokinetic abilities as well.
However I think a lot of people are assuming that she or Henchwench is seeing out of the golem when the astral body isn’t inside it. This hasn’t been explicitly stated as of yet. So it is possible there is no multi-position sensory going on here and when she’s not inside the golem body her control over it is no different than if she were using her powers to control any stone statue or the ground/stone.
I should note when you normally see a super use this power they don’t astral project, its usually their body turns into a spirit form and then possesses the element. Element-morphing though is far more common where their body just transforms into the element and then controls it.
The heads are back! Hail hydra! *Casts icestorm.
The lengths some guys will go to to cop a feel.
*looks at paws*
*sighs*
Nope, no fingers or thumbs, I can’t try that one.
*gives Yorpie snax to make puppers feel better*
*suddenly realizing that the Yorpie snax given is laced with cannabis….too late!!!*
Yorp is now stoned…!
maybe Yorp can learn to separate his spirit from his body, and thus manipulate his now-petrified flesh, like Concretia demonstrated?
Not buying it… Dogs have been coping feels longer than recorded history. They use their nose – and, since it isn’t a human male using a hand, they usually get away with it.
The Doom Arts and crafts segway was a pretty good laugh.
Um. Syd wears bras? I just … I’m surprised. At her cup size there’s effectively no ‘bounce’ even when running. The absence of a bra isn’t even uncomfortable.
Of course there’s still the issue of chilly weather and a bra can help prevent becoming excessively pointy.
And I guess in her case there’s also military uniform rules that may require one.
I was just … surprised by the idea.
it is my understanding girls are commonly introduced/bound/trapped/indoctrinated into bras before the chevage starts to show. (training bras?). its entirely possible that Sydney just hasn’t given up yet. she’s very sensitive about the subject. and well one of the side effects of pregnancy is.. boob growth, so there’s some reason to maintain the discipline and be used to the unique and special feeling. it could also be a ‘requirement’ for t-shirts which Sydney wears a lot of.
Which is because breasts may sag sans a bra. Go look at poor African women in a documentary sometime.
Or just listen to this Dr. Ross:
https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/is-not-wearing-bra-good-for-you
The sagging can become fairly painful and even cause permanent injury, regardless of whether you exercise.
It all depends on the shape, weight, and composition of the breasts.
No need to thank me for dispelling the notion of indoctrination. I know you won’t; I’m just saying this to avoid the usual idiotic banter I get for providing people with actual science.
I’m given to understand there is also value in chafing prevention and general avoidance of inconvenient situations.
Yes, that
Sydney is sensitive about her breasts in more ways than one
Also https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-18-free-boobs-for-all/
There has also been research that shows that wearing a bra causes breasts to sag faster/more than on women who didn’t wear bras.
You need to be careful how you phrase things. Because wearing a bra certainly doesn’t cause breasts to sag faster/more than on women who didn’t wear bras. To the test for breast sag.
Same thing should be said to Wzaerreazw, because saying that not wearing a bra causes breasts to start sag (By the sound of their phrasing, quite a lot).
I only said there has been research done that says the opposite of what they claim. I honestly don’t believe bra or no bra makes much of a difference. Unless the person is doing something active like working out, because then a sportsbra should be worn.
But just normal everyday activities? Bra, no bra, it likely doesn’t matter much.
Eh, I should be less … subtle? Oblique? Indirect? Whatever.
I was kind of poking at the fact that while wearing a bra there simply cannot be any measurable noticeable additional sag. Because the bra is doing it’s job at the time.
Yes, but at some point you will take it off :p
The science says bigger breasts need support. It doesn’t matter what you believe.
The only reason I can imagine people believe the opposite is because they’re small and hence need to compensate. Like, “I’m proud I don’t need a bra, you fools need bras? Ha!”
It’s akin to the small guy buying a big car and laughing at everyone else. Well, it seems women do the opposite. They don’t buy anything and laugh at everyone who does.
I have heard actual doctors say that as far as they personally know they don’t think it makes a difference. This implies to me that whatever research has been done on the matter hasn’t shown any very significant health benefits or hazards associated with wearing them or not.
Whatever nuance that comes out to. Maybe they mean there’s no additional sag, maybe they consider ‘more sag’ to be not medically significant, or maybe they just see a lot of conflicting or inconclusive reports, or maybe doctors get confirmation bias like everybody else. But anyway, it can’t be any kind of *MAJOR* benefit or hazard, or they’d have been really clear on it the way they’ve been clear about smoking for the last 50 years.
I’d love to see how they manage a double blind test for bra wearing. I mean, a woman is going to know if she’s wearing a bra. And how would you even try to normalize for differing body types, exercise levels, diet, etc? I’d think it would be fairly difficult to find multiple sets of twins willing to put themselves though a few years of this kind of a study.
It’s probably just a bunch of horny researchers who want an excuse to take a lot of measurements of a bunch of women’s tits…
Related to the notion of confirmation bias, who would bother to fund the research other than someone wanting to support their particular bias. For that matter, has anyone ever actually seen this research? was it published in a peer reviewed journal? From a practical perspective, I had one girlfriend who was a small “a” cup at most. Her preference was for no bra whenever practical. At the other end of the spectrum, my wife, who was an athlete in school and still remains active, wears a much larger cup size and maintains that a motion damper is necessary for any comfort when exercising.
There was one already debunked french study which found bra-less was preferable. The “researcher” adamantly needed “a lot more samples.” The data he gathered appears to be bunk, however. So, it seems you and Oberon hit the nail on the head.
I don’t keep such studies on hand for obvious reasons but I did make a cursory search. Here’s one showing the potential for physical injury. We already know that soft tissue injury causes stretching/scarring and thus sagging anywhere on the body – not just on breasts.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365429/
Bear…
I’ve PERSONALLY had a doctor tell me “you can walk just fine, you’re pretending to be paralyzed.”
Right after the moron did a reflex test and my leg muscles didn’t respond at all.
Just… Just shut up.
causes of breasts to sag or not depends on size, and also genetics!! Look up ‘joanna lumley’ she looks 40 or 50…
BUT she is 74!!!
a close friend ofg mine is now 60, but she is still misbehaving like a 30 yr old, and she has only A cups, no sag..
Yes, I intended to include that with “composition” but you are very correct that genetics are related.
It’s likely more about the lack of excess food preventing fat buildup and leading to saggy appearance. Empty skin pouch is not really sag. Sag is stretch. Interestingly, average cup size has gone up as people have had better access to food.
Dear gosh… guys speculating the reasons we do things…
Here’s why we wear bras.
1. If we’re big, it helps keeps the girls from moving during physical activity, which gets sore and chafs afterawhile.
2. It makes us look like a size bigger. Boobs for a girl are like abs for a guy. We know better is better, and squeezing out an extra visual cup size is the female equivalent of sucking in your gut when one of us walks by, except we wear it and don’t have to suck it it.
3. Girl’s nipples are more sensitive. Sure, we know you guys have nipples too, and their sensitive, but ours are more sensitive. Even if you’re an A cup, any shirt sliding across the nipples while you walk, laugh, shift your weight, etc. can be… distracting. A bra holds tight, and doesn’t shift nearly as much, removing this problem. (This is also a reason so many girls are so ticked about girls being required to wear shirts even though men aren’t. The comfort shift from bra & shirt to topless is way more comfortable for us than it is for you boys. Bras pull in the back, and boobs are a huge insulator. We like to eyeball men’s pecs too, so it’s completely unfair and unbalanced. It’d be like if the laws said only healthy people could use a cane, and that you’re not allowed to use a cane if you’re limping. It’s BS.)
So, there ya go.
If I was a gal, I imagine I’d be more upset that guys’ fashion doesn’t especially emphasize most of the visually appealing parts. Sure, we can wear tight shirts, but then, so can women. I mean like, a woman can show up at a red carpet event with exposed decolletage that goes to her navel, but if Daniel Craig show up in a tuxedo jacket and no shirt, he’d be shunned and made fun of and maybe even asked to leave.
As a guy, I’m kind of glad men’s fashion is pretty limited and unsexy, because I think any guy trying to dress “sexy” like a sleeveless shirt, looks incredibly douchey. Unless it’s The Rock. That dude can pull off a sleeveless shirt because he’s got the arms, and more importantly, the charisma to do it, unlike some mulleted yokel.
Then again, I do get kind of jealous that women can pull off cool outfits without looking like they’re cosplaying. I think corsets look cool. I don’t want to wear one myself, because I am not a sexy woman. But sometimes I think if I was a sexy woman, I might have an unhealthy collection of corsets. And not kidney crushers, like, cool leather steampunky and/or Selene from Underworld-y corsets.
Not all of us who discuss are guys…. Don’t assume.
I also disagree with 2 and 3. That’s very individual.
To be frank with you Iguana, I’m glad you’re proud of being female. Too many people today (not just women) take out their gender frustrations in all the wrong ways. We know some people can do just fine with no bra. That’s not what I’m contesting. If you don’t like a bra, cool, go braless. I’m sure there’s plenty of cases where it’s more convenient not having to bother with bra size nonsense, and perhaps you attract a certain kind of guy, if you’re into that.
The reason I made such a forceful comment is because the valid science does not show what you claimed. There is only one study which claimed bras can cause sag. It was widely reported by feminist magazines – and then quickly debunked. The French scientist involved, meanwhile, repeatedly insisted he needed “a lot more samples.” I think you and I can both figure what he was doing.
Few other studies into this matter have been conducted. Most of them have been done under the watchful eye of companies like Playtex – who have a vested interest in the status quo.
That said, we know from medical science that stretch comes from two primary sources; repeated load and damage. This is true of the human body just like, say, a rubber band. Unlike a rubber band, the human body can heal. But it does NOT re-heal the same way after it has been repeatedly loaded or damaged. This is because the cellular matrix becomes warped by an uneven application of forces.
Breasts do swell during pregnancy, yes, and this is part of the reason for sag. Breasts also lose fat as the body ages because the whole body becomes less fatty. This, too, causes sag.
But another reason is gravity. Gravity is a force exerting 9.8m/s² upon the entire human body. Which simply means when your foot hits the pavement, a wave of impact ripples through your entire body, and that impact must be dissipated by the various body masses. This, in fact, is why so many people end up with injured knees, hips, and backs by old age. The accumulated damage caused by this hammering effect is enormous. The amount of force your body has to offset with each step cannot be understated.
And the breasts are not immune to these impacts. Bras do help alleviate the accumulated damage.
You may even be a rather ‘large’ woman yourself, and yet see no benefit from a bra. Genetics do play a role. But telling other people they also don’t need a bra and that the “science says so” (it does not) may in fact cause them bodily harm.
Please understand: when you state something relating to science you are no longer merely stating a personal preference. You are now disseminating information about how the world itself works. I personally find braless women hot. But that doesn’t mean I want all women to go braless; the science says that can cause more problems than just a bit of visual sag. I would not want to inflict lasting harm upon my fellow people merely because my own preferences don’t align with the world’s physics.
As a women with breasts about Sydney’s size (30-b), they bounce more then you’d think. They don’t bounce while walking or climbing stairs, but they do bounce a little bit when running, and a fair amount when jumping. It’s not painful to exercise without a bra, but it is decidedly uncomfortable. That said, I pretty much always were a bralette or low-support sportsbra–not a padded bra and definitely never an underwire bra, which is I think what people tend to think of when they hear ‘bra’.
There are actually quite a lot of blue-skinned aliens etc out there. Here’s a quick guide, courtesy of webcomic Outsider https://www.well-of-souls.com/outsider/blue_peoples.html
The lower the melanin density in human skin the more pinkish it looks due to our red blood. So aliens with hemocyanin (copper based blue blood) could potentially look a nice pale cyan. A royal blue analog of melanin could be logical as well.
blue pigment isn’t all that rare in nature, just rare in mammals *when it does appear its a weak pigment that fades very quickly into grey from exposure to light*.
So aliens with a blue skin pigment really wouldn’t require anything beyond it being a pigment.
Green seems to be reserved for antagonist races, at least per US culture. Trek’s Orions, Marvel’s Skrulls, W40k’s Orks, DC’s Brainiac, etc.
Martian Manhunter, Groot….
Yoda!
Oh, wait… IS he a good guy? I am truly not sure…
Groot is brown,
also he was a villain until 2006.
also the green equals villain thing was pretty common for decades. The idea was the hero should be in brighter colors *exception being flag themed costumes*, while the villains were in darker primary colors. Green and purple being the most common combinations, *and yes Hulk was the same colors but his status as hero or villain was meant to be ambiguous. Even some villains that started off with this color scheme did change over time to be less obvious; like Brainiac of DC comics (although the green comes and goes, the 90s version tried to make him more silver, but traditionally he is green with purple clothes).
No, Brainiac was, and always will be, a villain, Brainiac 5 (or whatever number he was in the Legion Of Super-Heroes) is not the same character
With that colour-code, what does that make Blatman? And the Boy Chunder was always in red and… green (red being a shade of purple)
Re read , I didn’t say Brainiac wasn’t a villain I said he isn’t always green . The isn’t always good or bad was Hulk.
Also red is not a shade of purple, hell purple is closer to blue in terms of pigment and light. I am referring to an old general rule in comics, nothing is a hard rule.
the rule is also very old, and is mostly reflected in characters dating back to the 1940s-1960s or so. The beauty of comics continuing to evolve is they mix new designs and styles with older ones.
while not focused on this article does a summary of color changes in comics in general (not just the costumes).
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~djbromle/color-theory/color01/Four-Color-World-The-Evolution-Of-Colour-In-American-Comic-Books.html
Nowadays you can tell the bad guys because they are white.
It was a bad joke
um Groot is a TREE!! :) I think you need to watch ‘guardians of the galaxy’.. unless your memory as gone… :D
Calling Trek’s Orions “antagonistic” misunderstands the history. If they are antagonistic, then there is really no “race” in Trek that isn’t.
Let me see, counterexamples: TMNT; DC’s Martians.
But, yeah, other than the Green Lantern Corps and the various Hulks, green usually means bad guy, especially when combined wtih purple.
Vulcans are somewhat green. Copper based, green blood. Shown fairly vividly in a couple episodes when Spock was tortured or otherwise injured. McCoy often used “green blooded” as a slur against Spock.
Well now that is a cool resource.
Damn Sidney’s hair went all Scooby Doo-like.
Seriously why didn’t Cora just shrink him inside out like the bad guy in the Ant-Man movie? Much less traumatising and easier to clean up.
Alternatively she could have used a gun that fired a capsule that unleashed robotic clown faces bees that swarmed over him stinging him, their stingers injecting nanites that forms large clown face paint patterned welts on his body that exploded into honking sounds…
wait you said (less) traumatizing.
At least then Dave could make a Nicolas Cage joke.
“Space Cleanser – guaranteed* as clean as space! Removes all contaminants^ at concentrations† above 1000 molecules per cubic centimetre‡!”
For comparison, the ‘atmosphere’ at the Lunar surface is ~400000 molecules/cm³, and is about as good a vacuum as can be produced in a lab on an Earth. ‘Properly’ interplanetary is ~10/cm³, depending on the space weather, interstellar ~1/cm³, intergalactic ~0.00000/cm³.
* Guarantee only applies when used by a trained and accredited technician under controlled conditions.
^ Not guaranteed to correctly distinguish contaminant(s) from desired substrate(s).
† Units converted to your local measurement system. Approximate value, may include rounding errors.
‡ Not guaranteed to obtain any lower concentration than otherwise present in the environment where used.
As always, the marketing copy giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
How are you forgetting Andorians!!!
There’s also Andalites!
And whatever the aliens in Avatar were called.
Human?
Technically, the Navari (Na’vi? some shit like that) were natives, the hyu-mons were the aliens
Na’vi.
Those bestiality-lovin, primitive space xenos.
No really cmon, they technically are. They use their tentacle things to both have sex and to forcible dominate the animals in order to break them into servitude.:) Truly, they are the real villains of the movie.
Power that lets her split focus huh? Maybe a power like she can remotely duplicate herself in
Also I thought she meant thumbnail as in more HUD from her glasses
Conretia is speculating. The point is, henchwench is better at using Concretia’s power than she herself is…or at least has discovered a power stunt. Which genre-savvy Sydney just pointed out. I’m assuming Concretia will spend the Invention Point to use this ability permanently.
A loose thumbnail? How sketchy!
[puncringe] [/puncringe]
Viscera and gore gets EVERYWHERE. Especially squalls of it.
It’s worse than sand, in that regard…and in every other regard as well.
Luckily Sydney has a lot of room in her bra. Handfuls of room you might say.
Not really. Surprisingly enough, bras made for women with smaller than average busts do not generally have as much extra room in them as bras made for women with average busts. I mean, if they had that much room, they wouldn’t be able to do their job.
This continues fairly evenly, so long as we’re judging bras of the same amount of fittedness. A woman who wears a bra that’s too small for her will of course have less room than someone wearing a bra a size smaller that actually fits them correctly.
Additionally, I’d imagine that a portion of anything as rigid as a thumbnail would have some sharp bits on it after it was at ground zero for that sort of demise, even if it didn’t have any beforehand, and I feel like that would be more of a problem than the amount of space it was consuming.
Buzzkill. :P
in the game “The Outer Worlds”, the first town you come to has side quests to go collect outlaws for money. But all you are asked to collect is their fingers, so they can be identified for the bounty.
Sydney should now take the thumb and put it into a small bag, to present to Maxima (and maybe Dr. Frost) for processing.
**dr frost office**
that’s nice Sydney (Frost’s face as a strong greenish tint to it) but that should have been given to maxima or one of the technicians as soon as possible for chain of custody and **deep breath** freshness. now if you’ll excuse me I have an urgent matter to attend to.
“Space Orphan” = Sounds cool.
Orphan. – Just Sad.
This has been your lesson from Cassiopeia Quinn.
I dunno, space orphan can be pretty sad too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJ3p5tvyxY
It also is a great dessert topping, but only if you’re silicon-based.
Man, I need to get my hands on some of that chitin polish.
Er, space cleanser. Definetly the cleanser.
on the topic of types of *crete , have you heard of pycrete? Its basically ice with fibers in it, but its VERY strong. Like, a basic form made with sawdust and water, in a gallon jug, takes a bullet better than actual concrete.
And, if you haven’t seen the discussion going around about it, natural ice is technically a rock (and water therefore technically a form of lava). As a geology prof of mine commented, glaciers are technically a metamorphic rock.
So… theres an interesting line of thinking outside the box.
So on top of everything else, Marvel’s Iceman is sort of a geomancer?
Maybe limited to that one molecule, water. But maybe he just never tried anything else.
I present you HMS Habakkuk, a plan hatched by the British during WW2 to build a massive aircraft carrier out of pykrete. The idea was to use it as a floating airfield in the middle of the Atlantic to provide air cover for convoys against the U-Boat threat.
Eventually the idea was shelved due to the cost of construction, engineering difficulties with propulsion and steering of the mammoth ship (it was planned to be 600 meters long, ~2000 feet for non-metric folks) and finally it turns out it was quicker and cheaper to just design longer ranged aircraft.
I’ve heard of pycrete. Mildly interesting stuff. I did an performance art project using it back in school using it, made different concentrations, put them in a public space and watched what happened.
The fun ‘crete I learned about is an old one. A precursor to cement, it was firmament. (Religions like to use the world so much and in such weird ways, many people have forgotten this is what it actually means). Basically, it was the cement equivalent to pirate grog. You’d take a whole bunch of stuff that firms up when it dries, mix it together, add your fillers, and slather/pour it onto various surfaces. Most stone-like-but-not-actually-carved-stone buildings older than 1.5k years old are made of firmament. If you got a plot of land, good chance you can make firmament.
Update: I double-checked my sources, it’s pre-rome concrete as far as age. So 2.5k years, not 1.5k years ago. Rome pretty much replaced firmament with modern-esque concerete.
Considering the pure randomness that happens with Syndey sometimes. I think we readers forget she does know how to think/come up with random leaps. I have adhd.. and I still forget that lol
“And then Cora did something and he exploded all over me?” –Sydney
Dabbler–“Oh honey, Cora does that all the time. She just wiggles a finger…”
“On a trigger” –Sydney
Dabbler–“THAT kind of explosion. Well that is much less fun, but thankfully my cleaning spell covers all kinds of bodily fluids and organic messes…”
“DABBLER!!!!!”–Sydney, running for the van, naked.
Dabbler, smiling while recording the streaking Mighty Halo. “…such as cotton.”
Given what Concretia is saying it sounds like she has tried to retrieve her body, guessing ghosting through the ground to come up under the boat through the water. But like that can’t get a golem on board, although she may be able to manipulate the sea floor to rise up and try to scoop up her body while sinking the boat.
Which would be reason to have a handler with a shock button at all times, and look outs,
which all sounds like way too much effort to keep one super in their “employ” when clearly they can hire others with money. It also means they will likely kill her when they are done with her and that the handler going “missing” and not reporting in when expected (assume they do this much at least just in case Concretia were to surprise grab/kill the guy and get her hands on the remote herself) so they know to shock her into submission again or elsewise threaten her body.
Which again means this whole fluster cuck of a situation has just added some kind of time limit to get her body back.
Why is Cora propping her chest up so hard these past two pages? Is her hardlight bodysuit low on power or something?
she’s crossing her arms, very large breasts can make that look different as crossing your arms in front of your chest when your chest sticks out so far looks awkward so the arms end up snuggling up under them.
I’m surprised the two henchmen had the balls/stupidity to even try to run off. Feet don’t usually out-distance a firearm. Even just saying “Stop right there” should have been enough to make a smart criminal give up. Or one who had just witnessed the explosive death of their former employer. And from their actions at least one of them was smarter than cowl-man, the one who slowed down cowl-man when he said he was going to kill Sydney.
Well, not justifying the actions of minor characters, but maybe fear overrode good sense. Maybe they jerked back reflexively (?who wouldn’t?), noticed Cora wasn’t looking their way, and dove for the stairwell (I’m assuming they didn’t ring for the elevator.)
Sort of a “Give Me Three Steps” situation.
And my bet is on Cora *not* saying “Stop right there” because one of her drones is following them back to whereever.
No bet, because it makes no sense for Cora to allow them to leave unless there is either imminent arrest awaiting them or some form of tracking going on with the hopes that they lead her to people up their employment chain.
A boat out in the harbor would have an anchor. And if the anchor became firmly embedded in rock down on the bottom, nobody would likely know until they tried to move.
Also, in harbors the bottom isn’t all that far away. Usually 30 to 50 feet or so, plus another 10 to 30 for sediment, silt, and clay, and you got bedrock. So, across 40 to 80 feet, I’m thinking if Concretia wants to, a big ol’ stone tentacle could come up under the boat.
Poke a hole in the boat, pick up the body strapped to the gurney and enclose it in an air pocket inside rock so as to protect from stray bullets, and then start making decisions about what happens to the rest of the boat and what the people aboard need to do to earn a dry place to stand….
she would be risking drowning her body if anyone on the boat notices and hits the shocker, disabling her while the boat sinks.
I get the impression she has tried to save her body already and got that shock till her phantom form passed out.
On the stone tentacle unless she see through it like The Darkness tentacles she would still need to get her phantom form into the boat to see where to aim; same problem with any one else having the switch.
Really she needs help on this thanks to remote shocking her.
Does it have to be anchored?
If it is tied up to a wooden wharf by a fiber rope, does that count as ‘connected’ to the earth?
If they know that concreta can sense her body’s location. then its more likely the boat is moving. doesn’t have to be moving fast. just moving. that way she and anyone she’s directing needs line of sight to identify the boat. depending on the money involved and the corporate structure. I’d try to have her as cargo on a cruise ship. that cuts out a lot of the destructive rescues and offers a lot of easy security, can have cameras everywhere outside and around. interior cabin for confinement. it offers a nice perk for the guards on their off shift. ocean going cargo ships might be workable but then you have to own the crew and have a few trained in the medical realities of caring for a ‘comatose’ body.
Knowing direction and rough distance is all you need to find something. Hell, you don’t even need “rough distance” but it will make things easier for the searchers.
Concretia doesn’t even need to go herself, she just needs to provide two (or more, since it’d be easy, but two is enough) triangulation points and then the body hunters can go to work. If she does go with them, and unless there’s some fairly specific anti-Concretia-getting-near-her-body superpower involved I don’t know why she wouldn’t since it would make collecting her body a lot faster, then it would be even easier: Use triangulation to get a really good idea where the body is, then allow Concretia to narrow that down even more as she approaches. You don’t get great viewing vantages from a ship in the bay, so the kidnappers would need to have a much larger team of people permanently placed in high buildings or whatever in order to guard against Concretia approaching the ship.
Yes, Sydney can even make people who are highly intelligent by inter-galactic standards feel dumb, despite being not the brightest herself. Human brains don’t work like hers. In all my travels through the galaxy, I met only one species for which omni-lateral thinking is not considered a sign of an unstable mind.
So…
The next step is sending Concretia’s “ghost” someplace 5 miles away to triangulate her body’s position, while sending another squad along the line of contact, right?
I’ve always thought, “Space Bucks”, “Astro Burgers”, etc. would *very* much be a typical name in space. Let’s take Seattle for example (that’s where ARChon headquarters is located, right?) Seattle has/could-easily-have stuff like “Emerald City Comic books”, “Seattle Light and Power”, “Pacific Northwest Sound”, “National Books”, “American Outfitters”.
Sailors talk about “Their sea legs”, “Seasickness”, and “landlubbers.”
Among space faring races, there’d probably be a rift between those that do business and/or live in space versus those who settle down on various planets. In space, boundaries are a lot less vague, and the challenged and infrastructure needed are completely different. So stuff like “Astroburger” says, “Our business model is used to dealing with relativistic space travel, distances measured in parsecs, and protecting your food from lasting radiation exposure.” Plus, they’re proud of being on the space-faring side of civilization. They probably give a really weird look to planetlubbers who do strange activities like exposing themselves to germs and wild animals in “camping” rituals.
They had, ” “Space Bucks”, in Space Balls!
“They had, ” “Space Bucks”, in Space Balls!” ~ Spaceballs, the Sasha Whitefur comment [On sale for only $36 Spacebucks]
Moichendizing, Moichendizing, Moichendizing. Where the REAL money from the movie is made!
Archon HQ is in Texas
Really? Are you sure? I thought it hadn’t been explicitly said, but the traits always seemed to me to point to Seattle.
Buildings having their own restaurants built in due to lack of space, except for the artisan food places, like the one that got hit in the brawl, which is like Seattle’s north end. I thought it seemed too cramped for wide-open Texas, and too open for hyper-cramped NY, and too temprate for Cali or Southeast, and too coastal for midwest. Have I been wrong all this time?
As far as I’m aware, it’s been deliberately left unstated pending plot reasons to pick anywhere in particular, but probably somewhere reasonably mid-longitude to reduce the reaction time to either coast. My knowledge of geography, climate, and building styles across the USA isn’t good enough to be much more accurate than that! DaveB is based in Texas, and I think he’s occasionally used local aerial photographs as background reference, but that isn’t necessarily conclusive.
Yeah, it’s mid-based to give easy and quick access to both coasts (and everywhere in between)
The exact location has not been given (yet), but heavily implied it was in Texas, possibly the Dallas/Fort Worth area
I present the easiest, fastest, and could possibly be accused of being the laziest or anti-climatically way to save Concretia. However all the elements exist for this to be a possibility. (in fact the following could even be done off panel while they are still talking in this room before the super fight in Time Square is even over).
First use stealth micro-drones to follow the bad guys, as well as just send the drones to the harbor.
*now second step can be done one of several ways:
-scan the ships for any using an abnormal amount of energy *that system Concretia is hooked up to has to be constantly on to be effective so the boat has to be constantly generating electricity, so the boat is always running even when docked.
-if life sign *astral imprint signature*, or similar tech exists, have a drone scan concretia’s ghost form and then find the corresponding signature.
-utilize a quantum lock detector of some sort, or wake up Dabbler and do an astral trace to pin point the body.
-just have the drones follow the guys or go the harbor, scan for bio-signatures and locate one not moving in a bed with a bunch of electrical equipment around them.
Now next part, assuming they can’t do a lock on based on the phantom form. Have the mini-stealth drones enter the boat and either scan Concretia to obtain her bio-signature or place a tracer on her.
At this point bring Cora’s ship in close using stealth run (can’t be seen or heard as implied it could do when Sydney was brought back but they just decided not to), assuming there is a range limit here, use the scan to lock onto Concretia’s body and teleport her onto the ship.
teleporter’s exist, just Dabbler and Cora’s handheld forms have smaller size limits, it stands to reason a larger model for oh say people who may want to grab and run larger items of interest like artifacts could have a teleporter on the ship capable of grabbing up larger items with a trace on them to lock onto.
there Concretia is secure on the ship, the enemy signal to the collar likely can’t get through the shield or hull to signal the collar; and just to nip this NO, it wouldn’t transmit through her astral form to the collar, the signal is to the collar specifically to shock her body its not part of her its a hunk of metal with exposed contact points around her neck not the cursed necklace of lighterup. So now they can remove the collar.
Took me a few to figure out who was in the new invotive
Fairly sure it’s the Council SpecOps team (fuck if ah can be bothered sifting through to find the proper name… and getting it wrong anyway), with Clover on the left, WereHare next, the mage (with her book), then Kronachrome (doing something behind her, hope nothing nasty) with either Crimson or Scarlet on the end in the magical shadow (can’t remember which vamp was which, but this is the one who ‘snuck in’ to Archon HQ that time)
And saving the picture gave me their name: SemperVI (knew it was ‘Semper-something’)
Is it just me or doe the new Vote Incentive look like Billy Ellish if she started hitting the weights HARD?
Not just you
Ummm… It took me till February 19 to realize exactly how VERY NOT nonlethal Cora’s shot was. Before Cora enters, we have Sidney, Concretia, Boss Sadistic, goon #1 (with the gun) and goon #2 (with the truth serum) – 5 people. Cora shoots, enters, it becomes the New York annex of the Grand Guignol, and all scenes indicate that only Sidney, Concretia, and Cora are present.
Three targets liquefied by a single shot is VERY, VERY NOT nonlethal…
Disregard they previous…
I finished typing, went back to the top, and immediately noticed Concretia mentioning the two henchmen had been allowed to run away. I hesitate to say escaped…even in New York, someone will notice people covered in blood and the trauma (post-traumatic stress anyone) is likely permanent.
“so the boat has to be constantly generating electricity, so the boat is always running even when docked.”
Boats that size are always using electricity. So, it is either attached to shore power (most likely), or running a generator.
Gotta quote DBZA now.
Gohan: *Bursts out of Radditz’s pod*
Radditz: No my space pod!
Gohan: *Cracks Radditz’s armor with his head*
Radditz: My space armor!
Piccolo: We get it! You’re from space!