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2019-06-20, 06:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2019-06-20, 07:21 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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2019-06-20, 07:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Exactly: it is simply not something that was shown in the comics yet. I am actually wondering, what would the alien scans say about Achilles, since his invulnerability seems to be absolute - whatever makes it happen should be either making all the sensors ping with panic or unable to penetrate Achilles at all.
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2019-06-20, 08:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-20, 09:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
I am actually wondering, what would the alien scans say about Achilles, since his invulnerability seems to be absoluteThrow him in Black Hole. He still needs to breathe and he can't escape its pull.
Also its wrong. He does not need to eat or breathe.
He is impossible to hurt physically.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2019-06-20, 09:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
He mentioned eating super ebola to save some place once. So he has been used for hazmat containment in the past. That was back during the mouth feel and portlanida level hipster comic.
"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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2019-06-20, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
It seems Dave has finally made a check to not spend forever on the obvious.
edit: and it looks like Scorpia had some kind of touch intoxication power.Last edited by Rogar Demonblud; 2019-06-20 at 12:01 PM.
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2019-06-20, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
I'm looking for a legend... is that a defense score or a toughness score? after all, if it is how well you expect someone to do on defense, then Halo should have one as well. Instead, it appears they've broken it into categories. The one you see for Achilles, Max, etc. seems to be a personal toughness score. Halo gets a shield score. And if Dave decides that the symbol is an overall defense score than I'll cheerfully disagree with his assessment. Achilles is tough, not a good defender.
Incidentally, realized I never posted my answer to my own question.
1) Dabbler - Extremely tough and versatile. The "Jill of all Trades" designation she's been given applies here.
2) Max - Even if she csn't bring all her power to bear, super speed counts for a lot.
3) Halo - Not a versatile as Dabbler (yet) but still has a wide range of options.
4) Jiggawatt - Fast enough to effectively function as short-range teleportation. Can stun or kill as needed.
5) Harem - Teleportation, and multiple bodies mean you get up to 5 defenders for the price of 1.
Achilles would literally be the last one I'd take. Even "powerless" Peggy is more valuable."That's a horrible idea! What time?"
T-Shirt given to me by a good friend.. "in fairness, I was unsupervised at the time".
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2019-06-20, 01:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Im not sure that jiggawatt can teleport indoors. Out in an open field she can hop all over the place sure, but indoors, or inside a cave? Im not so certain.
"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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2019-06-20, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
I'm looking for a legend... is that a defense score or a toughness score? after all, if it is how well you expect someone to do on defense, then Halo should have one as well. Instead, it appears they've broken it into categories. The one you see for Achilles, Max, etc. seems to be a personal toughness score. Halo gets a shield score. And if Dave decides that the symbol is an overall defense score than I'll cheerfully disagree with his assessment. Achilles is tough, not a good defender.
Meanwhile, defenCE has been the name of the stat that dictate how well your handling physical damage in i dont know how many different types of media.
So.. combined with how utterly impossible to make an actual defenDER score for anyone.
In part because its almost impossible to define what that is. And in part because it would be super subjective.
Then the conclusion should have been its defence/toughness/resilience/invulnerability/hardness thats symbolised by the shield symbol at the cast page.
And the further conclusion that all this stuff about being a good defender is because you wont admit you made a mistake.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2019-06-20, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-20, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
I think she's supposed to be dead...Since the woman's name and tattoo would indicate the zodiac sign of Scorpio, aka, the scorpion. (According to google translate, escropion or alácran would mean scorpion, but I think the tattoo makes it clear that some poison stuff is at play here.)
Or have people been licking scorpions to get high? Wouldn't surprise me.For all of your completely and utterly honest needs. Zaydos made, Tiefling approved.
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2019-06-20, 03:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Scorpion is the kind of thing some wannabe tough girl living in the desert would call themselves.
The woman at the counter got glassy-eyed at her touch, her speech bubbles radically shifted, and Dave made an explicit reference to college kids. Who are known for getting wasted.
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2019-06-20, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-20, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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I missed that. Still, not entirely sure who is licking scorpions to get high, but maybe I am just out of touch with the young whippersnappers of today. In my day, we just smoked plants.
I feel like the idea that it is just a name for a tough girl living in the desert isn't at all inaccurate, since last I knew, most scorpions aren't venomous to the touch, but it's not like I go around petting them.For all of your completely and utterly honest needs. Zaydos made, Tiefling approved.
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2019-06-20, 05:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Scorpions are chitinous, so there are no pores for the poison to ooze out of. The nickname has nothing to do with the power.
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2019-06-21, 08:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Grrl Power IV: Constantly Expanded Universe
Depending on how deep it goes meaning wise, it could also be talking about her nature. The scorpion and the frog. Basically, she is a back stabber by nature and cant help herself. This is further backed by how we are introduced to her. She robbed that guy blind and set the cartels after them
"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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2019-06-21, 11:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm pretty sure most versions of that tale don't have the Scorpion waving a neon sign saying 'I WILL BACKSTAB YOU' and doing a little dance while singing a song of how evil they are. It does usually pretend that it wouldn't, and the point of the tale is usually not that the scorpion is a jerk, but one that ensured mutual destruction of both scorpion and frog. Why she would both advertise her own dishonesty and incompetence?
So if it is a reference to the tale, it's a pretty poor one but then again, I don't really expect low level thugs to have the best literary background or even decision making skills.For all of your completely and utterly honest needs. Zaydos made, Tiefling approved.
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2019-06-21, 11:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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That might not be the name she chose but what the people call her. And a scorpion doesnt need a neon sign advertising that it will backstab you, its very nature tells us that it will do it. As for why work with her? "What kind of an idiot would backstab the cartels? Sure she did this sort of thing to make her way through the ranks, but surely she knows better than to try it on people like us." As we clearly see from her very short intro before sciona takes over, thats exactly what she did.
"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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2019-06-21, 12:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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For all of your completely and utterly honest needs. Zaydos made, Tiefling approved.
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2019-06-22, 11:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well THIS criminal did, apparently. As for the cartel, i doubt it. I get the feeling it was just used as a background story for why things went the way they did. Some traitorous woman stole from them, and was being killed for it. Sciona took over the dead body and killed the other two. Now it might depend on if the cartel shows up before sciona and crew get situated. I can kinda see them doing "Yay, free hosts!" And now we have a "cartel" thats entirely the worst of the alari people, but other than that I doubt it will play much of a role, if any.
"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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2019-06-22, 09:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, a cartel-controlled town will probably have a plentiful supply of freshly killed bodies for the Alari to take up residence in.
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2019-06-23, 04:04 PM (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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2019-06-23, 04:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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2019-06-23, 07:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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1) If a singular cartel is in control, they might just dump bodies there from other regions since the police aren't going to investigate, and you usually need that for most murder investigations. Se mató!
2) There still might be upstarts or uppity people that need to be taught a lesson now and again. The ol' whip an old person as the heroes march into town cliche.
3) If the cartel is really incompetent, they might just be killing the locals to get rid of anyone unneeded for their operation. Successful criminal organizations do sometimes flourish by NOT murdering everything in eyesight, but that is assuming that the cartel that hired the Scorpion has intelligence. Or maybe her name really is just Scorpio, like the zodiac sign, and someone was super big into astrology.
4) They might be handling some assassination on the side.
5) Could be that the bodies are the police, there are plenty of reasons that the police just can't write off a region of Mexico and not go there.
6) Organ harvesting might be a thing. Not typically the MO of the Mexican cartels to my knowledge, but with supers running around you definitely have a new market for super organs and a change in the geo-political fabric of the setting.For all of your completely and utterly honest needs. Zaydos made, Tiefling approved.
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2019-06-24, 12:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Or the violence is internal as different factions in the cartel fight for dominance or just plain empire building. To say nothing of the fun times that happens when the kids start trying to figure out who is getting what slice of daddy's pie (look what happened with the Sublime Porte).
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2019-06-24, 01:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, and following random links led me to the post-Council meeting battle wrap up where Sydney is talking the meaning of names with Gunnhildr, so I went looking for translations of a few. Xuriel could be either the minor biblical character whose name means My Rock is God or a genus of spiders (which I lean towards, given her number of limbs was formerly 8 given the two prehensile tails deleted because they were impossible to draw and her mating habits include sucking the male dry). And Maxima's family name of Oleander is a type of very poisonous shrub, made all the more deadly because it is rather pretty to look at so people aren't very careful.
Just a few interesting tidbits of info.
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2019-06-24, 07:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ok so at least now we get to see that sydney indeed is having a rough time coping with all this. Not that anyone could blame her, I mean, that sort of thing is a bit outside the expectations of even fully trained arcswat members. But at least they would have their training and experience to fall back on while sydney basically has "Ok, according to comics and gaming logic, I should try this and see if it helps"
"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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2019-06-24, 08:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-24, 12:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's also the city flower of Hiroshima, since it was the first thing to come back after the bomb in '45. Which may be the reference, given the mushroom clouds on her blasts.