Grrl Power #1427 – Unlimited Class Battle Arena Round 1 Fight!
In a no holds barred Battle Royale, blowing up the whole battlefield is a pretty solid option, assuming you yourself could survive it. Of course, in an unlimited class arena, there’s a chance your opponents could too. Still, why not? Might knock out a few of them anyway. Pretty much the only thing not allowed in the UCBA is anything that could be categorized as off table support. No orbital railguns, no over the horizon artillery, no transporting infinite backup mecha or clones or oceans onto the field. Hammerspace/bags of holding are okay, but not an actual wormhole to a thousand arrays of battleship weapons pointed at the entrance of the wormhole, or, you know, an infinite warehouse full of mecha ocean clones.
Can you put a tag-team-partner in your bag of holding? Well, most of them don’t work like that, but this is Unlimited Class, so let’s assume they have one that allows you to store a living being. No, you can’t do that, because they would count as a separate entrant. There have been some special cases where a duo entered as a single entrant, but they were weird psychically paired or something.
Can you enter a starship? Like a Galactic Dreadnought? Sure, but with only a single crew member. Or a single A.I. (A proper A.I., not the shit we have now.) However, in a relatively close-range fight against 7 other Unlimited Class opponents, it’s a pretty good way to get boarded and lose your ship. There have been a few instances in the past where people tried to cheat by entering a powerful ship or mecha and another powerful entrant shanghaied it to double up their fighting power, but it’s a stupid tactic, because you can just enter Goku wearing Iron Man’s armor piloting a Warhammer 40K Titan in the first place. The only thing “cheating” like that would do is it would let you “beat” an otherwise difficult opponent because they’re really on your side to begin with.
That isn’t to say organizations haven’t tried to stack the final matchups by flooding the entry pools. The problem at that level of competition is getting beings that powerful to take falls. The Gokus and Supermen would be offended by the cheating, and the Friezas and Dr. Dooms would incinerate you for suggesting that anyone would believe that they could be beaten.
There are a lot of good “thing powering up sounds.” The Proton Power Pack from Ghostbusters is a good one, though it’s probably more the reaction than the sound in that scene. The guy yelling “Power UP!” in Altered Beasts is actually pretty fun. As soundbytes go, “POWER OVERWHELMING” is an amazing one. But really I’m talking about sound effects, not He-Man yelling “IIIIII HAVE THE POWEEEEER!” Which incidentally is another good one. Share your favorite “thing power up” moments.
Here’s one of Gaxgy’s in progress shots of the painting Maxima promised him. Weird how he draws almost exactly like me.
I’ve finished the main picture with the nude variant. (More like the clothing is the variant, because it’s easier to add clothes than erase them.) But I haven’t finished the bonus comic yet, so I’ll update the incentives soon.
Patreon doesn’t have a nude version yet, but I’ll try and update this each week until it’s done.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.





C – G – A# – C – D
Those who know…
A close third for that one.
Yeah, but you have to do the Richard Dreyfuss hand gestures along with it.
You’re thinking of François Truffaut.
Well, you’re right. I was depending upon volatile memory.
I see that and respond with
D-E-C-C(8vb)-G
That’s correct. I don’t know what the C G A# C D thing is.
For those of us who don’t know?
It’s is the sequence of notes that were used during the first contact in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6KKFab4XWg&t=5s
This.
The humming sound of a crappy AC-DC converter loading a bunch of electrical devices.
Has the UCBA ever had a reverse-cheater enter? That is, somebody who wanted to destroy a particular thing (a rival’s house, a bank, a devouring swarm of interstellar insects approaching their planet) entered a wormhole canon and started exporting all these massive attacks to their desired target.
Nice idea!
I was thinking if Halo entered she could use the Etherium Causeway to eject opponents from the field of battle, as she did to Vehemence. Presumably that results in disqualification. But I don’t think the Shield Orb is up to the current challenge.
Why do you think that?
It stood up to the squids of mass destruction on the Alari homeworld, which seemed to boast similar firepower.
it sure did but it got redlined from that and if a single attack gets through. Splat.
No worries, red is actually only the very first level of stress. There’s a bunch more, including rainbow and plaid, but considering each level is exponentially more powerful, you’d need a literal supernova going off point-blank to even get to rainbow shimmer…
You dont come back from plaid.
That was indeed also a concern while fighting said squids!
Bombast Laser :)
Introduced in MechWarrior 4 video game.
Total POS in the boardgame. I prefer the Blazers myself. Just enough damage to headchop, and the idea of a double barreled laser shotgun just tickles me in nice places.
That’s the Godzilla breath weapon charge sound effect
I like a high pitched VVVVRIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE sound. No mater the thing powering up. Rocket booster? High pitched VVVVRIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE. Laser gun? High pitched VVVVRIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE. Charging spell? High pitched VVVVRIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE. Something that high pitched has GOT to be powerful!
Unless it’s a whiny child throwing a tantrum (and ‘child’ is not an indicator of actual age :P )
I guess one thing I might want Maxima to have in this situation is something that would stop her opponent from grabbing their gear out of hammerspace.
It might not do anything most matches. But it’d make the one match where it works absolutely hilarious.
Go magical girl!
“what do you mean, ‘doom’ “?
I love that that has escaped it’s niche fandom.
Proper ominous hum brought to you by the 40k community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbO8BGr0Tgs
I can’t believe I got this far down in the comments before encountering
“OMINOUS HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM”.
Awwww, poor Scholock. So epic, yet forgotten so soon.
I was looking for that one, too. My all time fave is Iron Man repulsor beam startup, though. (Probably because I’ve never actually *heard* Schlock’s plasma gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66HehQDsFiM
No one has (and survived)
I mean he has fired it near his friends.
I am probably being too literal.
It’s also just a comic sound effect :P
it sounds exactly as it does in text
I think the THX sound would work well for powering up.
Also, the sound department on Star Wars 2 Clone Boogaloo played with some interesting alternate FX. My favorite was the gravity bombs that caused silence then an electric guitar twang.
Loved the magic word Glasuckhole.
I heard the X-Buster charging!
Forgive me for not keeping up with the comments today, but I notice a sort of parallel between the silver bombshell (who is probably Maxima) and the grey who was flexing his bicep in the intro bubble. So… do we think that’s Kevin?
On a related note, they could both use a ka-pants at the moment. (See #268)
what key is that note in? Be Flat
Kevin is Deus / Deus is Kevin – the big scar is from removing the horn
… what horn?
Kevin is Vehemence.
Deus has access to portal magitech and used it to go shopping for 3D printers on Fracture Station.
Believe they got confuzzled with the horny zebra Dabbles fought (fucked? same difference with her sometimes :P ) prior to first cumming to Dirt
P-tsssss
“Fireball”
“Freeze”
“DOOM”
“Doom? DOOM? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, DOOM???”
lol, my fave: Dwarf! We had a dwarf in our d&d party with a bladed cursed shield, when thrown, it spun like a sawblade, but it was cursed, so the dwarf was stuck to it as it flew. never missed, but the dwarf had to make a saving throw against throwing up. Always counted as melee.
Exalted has the spell “Total Annihilation” which does pretty much what it says… mechanics vary between editions, but phrases like “does uncountable damage” should be considered typical… it’s a sorcerous nuke. And much like Maxima, *serious* characters usually have ways to shrug off being nuked, but it does clear the field of all the minor-league players.
Perfect dodge seems pretty common. Mostly it’s a matter of enough imagination to describe it.
Just for the fun of it, I created a D&D version of Lina Inverse’s Dragon Slave spell, and I set it to use d30s for the damage roll, and it was an area of effect spell.
“rocks fall, everybody parries.”
quick! Parry the Platypus!
I get and approve this reference.
I am rather partial to the bwummm bwumm bwumm bwumm bwumbwumbwumbwumbwummmmmmmmmmm slow build up like the Godzilla breath.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDBEc16ukuI
The Gauss Gun in half life has an excellent powering up sound, it has a rotating energy chamber so it has a whom- whom- whom sound that grows in volume, pitch, and speed as it reaches maximum charge.
Cora: When you are out there, try to face any explosions, etc.
Max: Sure, but why?
Core: I’m putting your hard light projector back here, in the small of your back.
If she really wanted it protected, Cora would make it a plug… you know for back there. Not sure if Max would be up for that though, she got distracted while wearing just a thong so I imagine a plug would be a bit too much for her.
Hilarious, but logically speaking, if the costume is going to be mouthless anyhow, the best place to keep something like that safe is in her mouth, not her butt!
You know, like integrated with a boxer’s mouthpiece or similar, where she won’t be biting down on important bits.
If it was in her mouth, the light wouldn’t project outward. Although if it was like a pacifier that could work. Maybe plug both ends just in case one gets fried the other is still a backup.
Schlock Mercenaries “Ominous Hummmmmmm” is always a favorite
My first thought.
Ominous Hummmmmmm is a classic for a good reason
This was my first thought as well
The only answer, really.
I would concur but it didn’t even leave scorch marks.
The Rule 34 that actually matters:
Maxim 34: If you’re leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun.
(70 Maxims Of Maximally Effective Mercenaries)
Oh, look, Jiran is showing off again.
Also looks like we now know which is Max. And that her cloths aren’t anymore durable then they usually are.
It reminds me of Wearing the Cape.
Where the protagonist starts wearing Kevlar, but the author fairly quickly adds a gadgeteer to the team who can make super-tough clothing (among other things).
Since Kevlar would still get ripped off fairly quickly given some of the hijinks, and Wearing the Cape isn’t that kind of series.
every attack sounds like Rock Music: Jiran Jiran
you overlooked the real scare sound of loud brash (potentially over) confident fighter going quiet. think jacky chan, spiderman, or homura akemi.
Gasp!
They all survived?
Inconceivable!!
That word doesn’t mean what you think it does.
I only wrote it once, and I do think I imagined the proper meaning.
But be my guest and elaborate on what you think it expresses.
Please look up the proper quote.
There is another one other than The Princess Bride? Inconceivable!
(In a very thick exaggerated Spanish accent)
You keep using that word.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
(though there a sooooooo many hilarious quotes from that movie that is impossible to have a favourite)
Favorite power up sound: The Stargate ka-woosh ~ <3
*whirrrrr, ka-chunk; whirrrrr, ka-chunk; whirrrrr, ka-chunk; whirrrrr, ka-chunk; whirrrrr, ka-chunk; whirrrrr, ka-chunk; whirrrrr, ka-chunk, waa-waa, boom-whoosh-boom*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8j9Fl34RAU
Camera flash capacitor charge up. A note bending whine.
That flyback converter/transformer duty cycle shift is just iconic, yes.
Especially the one on really cheap disposable cameras.
Simple, but inevitable.
The single most terrifying power up sound effect I can imagine is an 80s dial up modem. Anyone confident enough to use that here would be bad news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
I completely agree.
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Yeah, that’s the sound. Scarey.
I liked the sound effects in the movie Forbidden Planet from 1956. The Krell’s power was nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAYA3WOSyxA
Not exactly an opening /sound/, but definitely an opening moment …
Target the Reavers.
Target the REAVERS!
..
Target EVERYONE!
SOMEBODY FIRE!
No Ramiel powering up his giant hyper beam? For shame
Chief, I know you’re new here, but set obliterator beam power to Intermediate-2.
Aye-aye, sir. nThe levels don’t seem to be numbered.
“The bottom intermediate level is labelled ‘destroy universe’.
Found it, sir.
“Use the level above that. It is labelled “The Big Bang”. It is immediately below the level labelled ‘Obliterate multiverse’.
Level set.
Press the button labelled ‘Fire Weapon’.
Pressi..
Gotta be the sound of the Wave Motion Cannon charging up in Space Battleship Yamato.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0x4XHdbyc
I like the super saiyan power up aura sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMgApE0oKfY
Panel 5: Zen the Intergalactic Ninja?
A lot of good power up sound effects have already been suggested, but I just wish that ‘DOOM’ in the last panel was a ‘KADOOSH’ instead. :P
too lazy to go look up the proper spelling but , ‘Fire Wave Motion Gun’
Power Up Sounds:
Lion-O: “Thunder… Thunder… Thundercats’ HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
Cheetara: “I swear if he calls me that one more effing time…. it’s gonna be snip-snip-bounce-bounce… with the Sword of Omens…”
Tigra to Cheetara: easy, Gurrrrrl, he’s talking to ME. *purring voice*
Perfect. From now on, any championship fighting tournament should begin the round by setting off a massive explosion in the middle of the arena. Eliminates weaker contestants, obscures LOS, and offers a great backdrop for emerge-from-shadow reveals! WWF, get started on that!
It wouldn’t work here but my favorite will always be the startup check from Mechwarrior/Battletech:
Reactor: Online
Sensors: Online
Weapons: Online
All systems nominal
Thing powering up? I mean… megaman/megaman X charge shot?
Super Metroid’s final boss beam charging up the second time.
♪OhcrapOhcrapOhcrapOhcrapOhcrap.♪
Less Sci-Fi and more industrial. That sound after engaging the double pole single throw lever that activates a rather satisfying thunk of a large relay being engaged. On it’s own not a bad start noise because you know you just did something that did something. However, the best version is when it engages a 30+ year old large electrical transformer where the lacquered iron plates are imperceptibly separated, such that when it turns on dozens of metal plates shift by less than a millimeter simultaneously. Best described as click-thuTHUMPHummmmmmm.