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2018-07-13, 06:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
I don't think she will dissolve, she'll probably be possessed and get glow-y eyes and float-y bits (because Power Floats and Power Gloves)
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2018-07-13, 07:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Im not saying she will dissolve. Im saying she is already dissolving. We can see it on the last panel of the comic.
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2018-07-13, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Yea from her complaints about how she just got her body back it’s pretty clear that she is losing it one way or another here. Probably from blood loss after casting this big spell.
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2018-07-16, 05:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
So.. called it a few times
And yeah.. Sydney is indeed genuinly ****ed now. And not in a good way.
Its going to take Max quite a while digging the Brane Ripper up again.
And Dabbler a while to make a new portal.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2018-07-16, 05:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Its a good thing she has discovered her enviroorb and that her shield works in space. Now she needs to activate her warp drive orb upgrade. :p Quick, someone recheck the orb tree and see if there is an orphaned flight node that may not be accounted for yet! But yeah, this looks pretty bad. Monster behind her, lost on an alien world with no way to get back, she earned this extra loud curse. Hey maybe the last orb will be navigation! Like, her teleport power only activated under the right circumstances, so maybe if she hits orbit she can somehow use her last orb to point her the right way, fly till she has to recycle her air, then reorient and repeat. That will take some serious orb juggling, and without a warp rive is laughably ineffective but still, a reasonable use for the last orb along the space ship route.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
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2018-07-16, 07:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
There is one, tiny, possibility that Syd can make it back on her own power. I'm not sure whether it would be a good thing for narrative purposes (she's plenty overpowered as is, having to wait around/survive on an increasingly-more-blasted hellscape until she's rescued could be good exercise), but it could work.
She will probably level up at this point, and if she lucks into a "return to location/place/person I remember" function of the Commball's telepresence power, she could well teleport herself back. It would be overpowered as hell, and would quasi-mirror a power of one of the existing heroes, but it seems like something a sensor suite like the Commball could have.
Technically, Deshantis herself could also 'port back, the memory of the place is probably vivid enough to try and get there. But she'd have to unteleport the rest of her to be able to carry Syd back.Bearer of the Psionic Flame
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2018-07-16, 08:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Very dangerous moment for Sydney. She may have to confront whatever got out of the Screw-ship alone.
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2018-07-16, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, that is going bad for Sydney, sure.
But what does that all mean for Earth? I count ~25 souls rushing towards the portal, and none are seen after it closes, and the battery itself contained a few less than that - visually, at least. Maybe each horror face represents a few thousand souls, but I first assume, it just a few dozen.
So, do they possess human bodies? How fast? Are they incorporeal/insubstantial? Maybe even indestructible, but decaying when out of a soul battery? If they decay, how long before they do so? Can supers be immune? If so, which ones? Will we finally see one of the good guys die? Or are the batteried souls just a nuisance?
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2018-07-16, 10:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2018-07-16, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-07-16, 11:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
I'm wondering if she's about to run into someone who can explain the orbs to her (and us). We're overdue for an infodump on the Spectrum Spheres.
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2018-07-16, 11:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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That might happen, or it might not, it isn't necessarily something that the Author has actually worked out yet.
I don't like that idea, because FTL is non-trivially different than swimming. I mean, she does need navigation, there's no question that that would also be good, I just can't see FTL as the first level up from flight, because that implies there's a second level up. Where do you go up in power from FTL, if the FTL is adequate to get her home from here in significantly less than years, it's got to be pretty much full power FTL, it's faster than Trek Warp drive.Last edited by halfeye; 2018-07-16 at 12:02 PM.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2018-07-16, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2018-07-16, 12:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
If she's going to get it now, then it would be the first surely? I don't remember what she leveled before, but I didn't think it was flight?
Unless the species that created the orbs had 8 arms or something (admittedly, not impossible), requiring three different orbs just to do FTL starts getting complicated fast.Last edited by halfeye; 2018-07-16 at 12:44 PM.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2018-07-16, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Technically, Deshantis herself could also 'port back, the memory of the place is probably vivid enough to try and get there. But she'd have to unteleport the rest of her to be able to carry Syd back.
But what does that all mean for Earth? I count ~25 souls rushing towards the portal, and none are seen after it closes, and the battery itself contained a few less than that - visually, at least. Maybe each horror face represents a few thousand souls, but I first assume, it just a few dozen.
So, do they possess human bodies? How fast? Are they incorporeal/insubstantial? Maybe even indestructible, but decaying when out of a soul battery? If they decay, how long before they do so? Can supers be immune? If so, which ones? Will we finally see one of the good guys die? Or are the batteried souls just a nuisance?
Do the possess multiple human bodies?
And unfortunately impossible to answer with the available information. I do suspect there are more than just 25 souls though. Else it would hardly be worth it.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2018-07-16, 02:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Varia. And, is it a matter of being unable to teleport people, or a matter of not being able to teleport enough mass to take a person along? I can't remember which it is.
Either way, I think short of re-corporating Sciona and repeating the portal stick trick, Harem is still the only field agent capable of assisting Sydney there. Even if it's by grabbing the portal stick and carving a portal to anywhere else, away from the murderous alien apocalycorkscrew.Bearer of the Psionic Flame
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2018-07-16, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
We don't have hard numbers, but a Barrett .50 is about the limit with all five Harems active. Which means her limit when down to one self is still going to be less than Sydney's weight. I think we figured out that she might be able to transport a child masswise.
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2018-07-16, 04:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Im thinking the last orb almost HAS to be navigation. We have shields, weapons, communication, environmental control, that light hook as a tractor beam equivalent, all we are missing is navigation.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
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2018-07-16, 05:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
The interesting thing is though, we don't really have communications. The "commball" is Sensors and Transporters, i.e. what on a 'Trek ship would be the bridge post of the Science Officer. It doesn't offer ranged communication (just regular speech, even if via telepresence), or broadcasting. The last unknown orb may well be actual Comms, assuming that the latest 'air supply orb' acts as both Life Support and Medical.
Navigation, and FTL flight if such functions exist (not all spaceships are meant to be interstellar), would probably be a part of the Flight orb.
edit: or, activated as part of synergy between Flight orb and Commball, assuming those interconnections on the skilltree are for that purpose.Last edited by Sean Mirrsen; 2018-07-16 at 05:40 PM.
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2018-07-16, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Too be fair, we dont know what the range is on the orb. Just that it lets her infiltrate a warded warehouse from across the street at the very least. For all we know, she could have ftl communication methods available on the com orb. It works as a combo of the communicator in star trek, and the holo projector in star wars, and in addition lets her scan things like a freaking tricorder AND act as a transporter. This thing by itself is a swiss army orb. There is no telling exactly what it might be able to do.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2018-07-18, 01:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
It's not really about the distance it can project the lightbee to. It's just not a communications device. Sensing auras, seeing through illusions, data gathering by reconnaissance, projecting distractions. It's a tactical orb. There's no "send message", let alone "receive message". No broadcasting, no listening in, no jamming, no translation. A proper communications device would have at least some of those things. The 'commball's communications are limited to an equivalent of "walk over and tell somebody".
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2018-07-19, 05:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Wow Dabs, kinda quick to cut sydney loose arent you? Dont you have any interstellar connections? Maybe talk to the alien representative on the council, find out the feasibility of sending an intergalactic uber to pick her up? She DID just get stuck on another planet while trying to help said council not get wiped out. You owe her one.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2018-07-19, 06:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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I get that this comic is supposed to be cheesecake with "plot," but did we really need Dave to spend 75% of the commentary on boob size?
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2018-07-19, 06:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Wow Dabs, kinda quick to cut sydney loose arent you? Dont you have any interstellar connections? Maybe talk to the alien representative on the council, find out the feasibility of sending an intergalactic uber to pick her up? She DID just get stuck on another planet while trying to help said council not get wiped out. You owe her one.
We dont know how far away the Alari empire is. It might take a couple months to get there for all we know.
I get that this comic is supposed to be cheesecake with "plot," but did we really need Dave to spend 75% of the commentary on boob size?Last edited by lord_khaine; 2018-07-19 at 06:53 AM.
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2018-07-19, 07:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Possible existence of commercial FTL travel aside, this might be a more serious situation. When the location you want to get to necessitates a whole sidequest arc with acquiring two artifacts of uncertain doom and tearing Reality a new one with the pair of them duct-taped together, and when your resident Quantum-Entanglement insta-teleporter person feels woozy just being there, you might be dealing with a place you can't just book a transstellar flight to.
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2018-07-19, 07:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
I think Harem's problem is that the gate was messing with the quantum connection in her head(s). Without the gate being open she should be fine.
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2018-07-19, 07:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2018-07-19, 10:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
The text below the comic says "No woman left 700 light years behind". Unless that's a reference to something that has a number in it, I think that is probably an indication of how far away Sydney is. Which compared to the size of the galaxy (100,000 light years) isn't that much, but at c it's 700 years, so FTL travel (or a portal) is necessary to get her back.
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2018-07-19, 10:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-07-19, 01:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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At least Maxima remembered to do a head count. One bit of professionalism achieved.