Grrl Power

The idea of "hacking" bodies brings back memories of the Master PC stories (most NSFW), in particular some of the deconstructions where they looked at what might happen if people started changing values willy-nilly without considering consequences (and if you really want horror, look at some of the versions which assume that the program is readily available and that people can be changed at any time by someone owning it, resulting in struggles over who gets to exploit the populace).

Really not that sort of party...

Sydney's complaints about the powers changing with forums brings up amusing memories of complaints in Mutants And Masterminds about people trying to have an alt-form for every situation.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that, as long as we're not talking Silver Age Superman levels of power, it's all good.

If they wanted any level of stealth at all they absolutely should not have brought Sidney.

Halo is great as a distraction, though.

Bishōnen hold’em, commentary on perceived reliability of news, and Sydney is bored. Eh, not much more to say on my part.

Dramatic gasp, or "Wait until Thursday".

Is it sad that I think I know, minus house rule variations, what variety of poker they might be playing in the penultimate comic? (For the record, a variant of Omaha.)

Sydney using the orb to scout is almost too good to be true, now that I see it in action. There has to be a downside we're not immediately seeing (or that not even Sydney knows yet).

Hanging Out. Also:

Even if Sydney had thought it through, I think she'd more or less come up with the same plan. One of the advantages of Harem in this situation would be the rapid 'port for extraction and escape - even if the enemy knows she's coming, she's able to get away easily.

Also, another plus is that even if one instance is captured, she could be rescued by one of her other bodies (or "unsummoned"). Sydney's method is probably the most likely to work with about as minimum of risk as you have in this scenario.

Harem becomes a little less unique

Well, if there was anything inevitable, it was Sydney getting in trouble after basically saying What Does This Button Do?

Captured and surprisingly calm

Thank goodness for the reference to Sydney's orbs on the right. So she considered the lighthook before she used the two unused ones to break her opponent's arm... maybe that is their function? That's the first time I remember her using them to strike someone without them following a limb.

Actually, we don't see the lighthook after she touches them.

So I sort of expect next comic to show it as a giant Arrow pointing to her position.

I don't think that's those orbs' fuction - I believe it was already established that Sydney has some control over their flight - it's how she beat Math before he knew what she could do.

Yep, it's been established before that she can telekinetically control all the orbs ("I could totally cheat at skeeball!"). It seems like a Required Secondary Power to allow Summon to Hand, but this isn't the first time she's whacked people with them.

The Math one seemed to be a matter of the orbs following her hand. She whiffed the punch and he didn't realize the follow-through was coming in the trailing orb (looks like the Flight orb at that) because he was casually frightening her, not entering a fight. And the way Sydney was acting, eyes squeezed shut and yelling, I half expect that she was not consciously directing the orbs in what was actually a fairly effective move of striking the bone in two different places at different angles to increase the change of fracture.

I think at this point, Sydney's best option, gruesome as it is, is to basically pepper the troll's wrists as fast and as hard as she can to bust them up, maybe even literally break her hands off. Sure, the troll might regenerate, but that much dedicated abuse to the wrist is bound to weaken the grasp on Sydney.

And it's not like the troll could easily just swat those aside - lest we forget, one of the first things they were shown to do was yank Maxima back. Sure, maybe not Maxima shunting all of her power into her strength, but still, that's a pretty impressive level of raw physical power that Sydney can call into play.

Slightly related, there's the chance that Sydney can call into play one of her Required Secondary Powers. In flight mode, Sydney can go to Mach 4. Her orbs keep up with her when she does. This means that those orbs can go Mach 4 on their own. For layman's terms, that's over 3,000 MPH. And, for comparison's sake, a Desert Eagle's bullets leave the muzzle at approximately 1,000 MPH. In theory, Sydney could do incredible blunt force trauma with those things.

But against Nega-Knuckles she was definitely using full telekinesis (with the PPO, Lighthook, and green orbs) instead of just letting them follow her fists. And you're right, this is the first time she used an intelligent angle of attack to increase breakage, but this is also the most danger she's ever been in. Nega-Knuckles was small-fry, and she was surrounded by her unspeakably powerful teammates if she got in real trouble.

edited 10th Feb '17 8:50:18 AM by Discar

De-nied

Cookie for anyone who suggested that the save point was going to come into play.

Sydney went all Silver Age on us.

Debriefing and Krona needs to check her notes to ensure she didn't do something world-breaking...

Yeah, a distributed intelligence may just throw a monkey wrench in all that. Of course, I can see why that kind of thing might be hard to test.

First, find your entangled multiple physical presenced entity....

Clams are now the dominant intelligence on Earth.