Grrl Power #1471 – Curb avalanche
“Say it ain’t so, doc! I only came in with a case of magma!”
“I’m sorry, Mr. Fuji. It’s definitely diamonds. On the plus side, the tumor removal should pay for itself.”
“Doc, do you ever think it’s weird our economy values tumors so highly?”
“I think it’s weird humans wear our tumors on their fingers and necklaces and ears.”
Aaaand scene.
Sydney probably meant to say “gregariousness,” which means someone who is highly sociable, outgoing, and fond of the company of others. Garrulous means being excessively talkative, especially about trivial or unimportant matters. Arguably, both words apply to Sydney, though the latter is rarely meant as a compliment.
Corite is what happens to copper when it’s “mana infused.” It has all sorts of neat properties that I haven’t quite figured out, but it’s great for smithing and enchanting. Infused metals “evolve” into new materials, you know, steel becomes adamantite, gold becomes orichalcum, etc. I’m sure Dabbler might bring it up at some point.
Final version is up, both at TWC and Patreon.
Sexy bodymod news lady Gail has a special one-on-one interview with Tournament Quarter finalist Saraviah Nightwing! And if you subscribe to Gail’s Space Patreon, (which, due to the vagaries of Earth and Gal-Net’s DNS servers, happens to be the same as the Grrl Power Patreon, go figure) you can see that same interview in the nude!
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Now I want a lesson in fantastical metallurgy. Mana-infused uranium!
With pearls of wisdom like those….
What in the world is that floating disconnected in front of Sydney? It looks like a cross section of a mitochondrion with a bite taken out of the bottom.
I believe it’s a steak on a fork (or some other similar implement) that she’s feeding to Woof.
Frix is a Woof.
Steak on a Spork held by Syd from episode 1469
I think DaveB was trying to keep her hand busy in the scene.
It looks like Frix is not appreciative of the steak being just out of reach :)
I suddenly want to put all my space bucks on Eats Chicken! I won’t. I still think Max will win, but EC looking like the dark horse!
It will take more than that to de-feet Eat Chicken.
Diamonds are not cancer. They do not spread. And mountains don’t die from them. Unless humans destroy the mountain to get them.
So humans kill mountains to get diamonds, just like orcas kill sharks just to get the liver.
MMMM, love me some liver and onion. Shark liver is high in Vitamin A and makes a darn fine lubricant for some liquid cooled engines and Radial engines. Oh it’ll work fine in a sleeve valve air cooled radial.
I wonder how sentient Eat Chicken is. I mean, it has to be intelligent enough to register for the tournament unless it has an owner that’s capable of containing it. It doesn’t seem to absorb intelligence at least, only abilities and properties and such.
I also wonder if it was created artificially or if it was found on some planet, and in the latter case, if it was the apex predator in its environment.
I assume it won’t keep its new abilities forever because otherwise its species would be incomprehensible.
I’m kinda imagining if it’s not capable of advanced thought than Eats Chicken is extremely dangerous and I could see something capturing it and putting in this tournament as a way to try and kill it.
I am really curious now about the origins of EC considering how insanely powerful and versatile its abilities are and with how feral it appears to be.
Imo, Eats Chicken is bio-metallurgically engineered, a kind of cyborg that includes living metal, a la the T-1000 or Colossus. It is too bizarre to not be manufactured, probably by a company like the one Dilbert works for. It would contain some kind of On/Off switch to keep it under control, and has the brain power of a chicken. In the competition it operates on reflexes and instincts for mayhem. It is likely a result of 3 or 4 corporate projects merged together for lack of progress and/or funding. A combination of sound ideas, mission bloat, and serial mismanagement, Acme Industries introduces: Eats Chicken!
IMO, most likely it was artificially created in a lab somewhere specifically for entry into this contest; a biological construct similar to Rambo Barney in the first round. Maybe semi-intelligent, maybe remotely piloted. A remote pilot is most logical based on what we’ve seen. I don’t think scanning and re-creating those weapons is feasible, but separating the pre-existing weapons it ate and pushing them out through the body is. But how would a semi-intelligent beast know what things were weapons vs not? How would it know how to fire them? An intelligent remote pilot would be able to do this.
Corite sounds like it should be a component of Orichalcum (Red, White and traditional Golden) and/or Hepatizon (black), which in Fantasy are all (or should be) magical versions of Bronze.
I’m still surprised Sydney did not volunteer for the Arena for leveling purposes. Or at least bemoan all that free exp.
That’s uh…. that’s very valid. I guess the thought just hasn’t quite occured to Syndey/Dave.
Or perhaps she prefers safety over xp. For all we know the orbs might not “pay out” if it’s practice or specifically done for the purpose of leveling?
They are still trying to keep her possession of the Orb secret for the Galaxy at large.
Frix begging to be fed is so adorable!
I thought Steel became mitherial and Diamonds become adamantite.