Grrl Power

Regrets.

RIP Sydney.

"When last we saw our hero, she was being propelled through the side of Cora's ship into deep space via a cone of fire 20m long and 2m wide, curiously projecting from her derriere..."

"Abandon all hope ye who have us exit from here!"

Eh, I find all good spicy food is hotter on the way out anyway. Or maybe it's only my tongue that's the durability and consistency of shoe leather.

Ah, that beautiful afterglow...

This might be my favorite page on a comedy standpoint. Just gold. Glowing, phosphorescent gold.

Site update and naked cooking.

I'm still really curious about how this set up works. Are these men sex workers? What are the ethical issues of having a harem who you also captain and how do they address those issues?

Also... aprons. I'm assuming their existence is mandatory for health and safety reasons. And, also for pockets.

Seriously: try keeping tabs on where a timer has got to when you're up to your elbows in, say, mixing a pudding or prepping a turkey and you have no pockets.

Well, maybe not so much for pockets. It's not terribly sanitary to be reaching in pockets when you've been handling food.

As for safety... maybe hi tech kitchens are so advanced that issues of splatters and spills aren't there anymore.

I once thought it would be sexy to cook breakfast topless for my morning guest. That sizzling bacon was lethal.

That's an argument for doing the bacon in the oven right there.

Also, slightly related, they might have personal force field generators, so that they are protected while they work. I imagine a personal field probably wouldn't be the most effective, but little splatters of hot grease are fairly low-end threats.

Miss basically-a-spaceship needs help from a navigator.

One problem with artifacts from an unspeakably advanced civilization: You probably need to be at least a little Transhuman to get full use out of them.

I'd imagine the creature that built the orbs had seven arms at the least.

Actually I seriously doubt they had the full seven just because needing all seven orbs at once seems excessive. Four seems like it would be enough to cover most situations. Flight, shield and life support in three hands and swapping out the Lighthook, Pew-Pew and Truesight orb for manipulation, offence and scanning as needed. (And you can always swap out life-support for one of the others on a temporary basis if needed. Say Truesight and Pew-Pew to target a "cloaked" object.)

Of course this does depend somewhat one the powers of the last orb.

I presume that mostly because, if a human had built those orbs, they would have found a way to make it all easy to manipulate with just two hands. Think of a keyboard. If this creature, whatever it is, decided that the most convenient way to build the orbs was to make seven of them and require touch for activation, I imagine it has a means of touching all seven at once if it so wishes, simply because it's better for it to have the ability to do that if the incredibly rare case where all of them are necessary arises than for it to not have that capability and risk being caught by surprise.

We don't make keyboards that aren't fully and comfortably usable by human hands, after all (as much as some manufacturers would make you think otherwise, especially on the comfort part).

Yes, but its entirely possible that the number seven has some other significance to the makers. Five crops up a lot in human cultures because its the number of digits on the human hand rather than the number of limbs. It's also entirely possible depending on their grip structure that they might have been able to manipulate more than one orb per limb and leaving Pew-Pew (for example) on its own because it needs to be pointed.

We can speculate all day but we'd be doing so well in advance of evidence.

Tentacles.

There, I've said it. I think this flying system basically belonged to a kind of aboleth that wanted to be in space in a way that was as close to swimming in it as they could get.

Edited by Euodiachloris on Mar 5th 2019 at 11:55:54 AM

True enough. I'm just spitballing here, really, since the comic touched on the subject.

Plus, we already know of one tentacle creature; it's not a stretch to assume that there are more than one species like that.

Also, something that occurred to me - the creator of those orbs might simply be larger than Sydney and could have used more than one per appendage at once. Heck, it might be possible that Sydney could even (if held really carefully) use two in one hand - from what I can tell on a quick trawl, she might not have ever tried. She tried with gloves and on other body parts, but she never says if she's tried more than one per hand.

Huh. The cheek horn apparently did more damage than we thought. And, of course, a cunning linguist joke.

Sydney finding confidence in her sexuality despite living in the Olympic Village makes me so happy ^^

Max knows Sydney is coming back. And the commentary is right. Max shouldn't be acting alone like this. She's tough, but not invulnerable, and I'm sure there are other ways to trap her.