Grrl Power #1381 – Disassembly dissembly
While Dabbler seems like the obvious choice for space adventures, they already have a crew of stellar adventurers to give them the tour. Additionally, Dabbler is one of the team’s powerhouses… well, powerhouse isn’t quite the right word, but she is one of the team’s heavier hitters due to her experience and flexibility. Yes, Max and Sydney can probably get back to Earth almost instantly, but you never know. Does Sydney’s Aetherium Causeway work if she’s on a ship traveling FTL or jumping between gates? They don’t know, and Max wanted to minimize the impact of her and Sydney’s absence.
In private, Max has described Digit being almost as smart as Dabbler in certain fields, and almost as dumb as Heatwave in every other field. There’s also some evidence that Digit is a super-science enchanter. That is, some of the things she’s made can’t be replicated by others. It seems that she somehow imbues some of her gadgets with an extension of her powers. Sort of a telekinesis, matter rearranging/summoning/dismissing sort of affair. Where else does all that chain come from?
One of my favorite weak to strong progression fantasy series wraps up with Mark of the Fool Book 10. I haven’t quite finished the book yet, but it’s great so far. I recommend it muchly! The whole series has excellent audiobooks as well, narrated by Travis Baldree. The audio for 10 isn’t out quite yet, but if you’re a long haul trucker or an Excel Office Drone and need about 200 hours of audio, I say go for it. Maybe by the time you get to book 10, the audio will be done.
There is a new one coming soon, I promise!
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Gadget hitting on Halo’s boyfriend.
Surprised she hasn’t noticed the flirting.
The aura incident must have kindled more than an inner fire.
What did she invent after her toes uncurled?
Will an uninvited invader to her shop get invaded in turn?
Or will Dabbler borrow it for her emergency usage collection?
Halo has noticed, but she has been adapting to open relationships, as indicated by her chat with the resident computer guru after she returned from space.
Someone like Digit was my guess for this.
Also, Maxima should not hope for that. Knowing Digits track record, she will find something more dangerous to work in every invention.
I feel like bringing Digit on the ship in hope she somehow absorbs knowledge of advanced space ship tech is a bit of a underhanded move. Like Max is trying to sneak past the waiting line for discovering ftl tech advancement.
Grrl power is down to 30 on top web comics. I’m a touch sad.
I will do something about that then.
– Like Max is trying to sneak past the waiting line for discovering ftl tech advancement.
Of course she is. Why wouldn’t she be?
Oh… So Digit might basically be 40K Orks but in one person. Technology works because she believers it works. That’s hilarious really.
Sounds like the most funny theory so I will go with that for now.
More of an ‘Oooooooooh!?’ than a WAUUUUUGH!’ ?
When did her name become digit? That’s the girl that can put in a Time loop right?
Nope… This is the Tinkerer Gnome of Doom and Destruction.
You’re thinking of Pixel… a not dissimilar name, admittedly.
Actually, no… I’m mixing them up myself. Krona is the reality-hacker… Pixel is the were-Jaguar.
Or for that matter, how does the chain NOT slow down the harpoons? I mean, sure they’re going out very fast, but there’s limits.
This is also the problem that Spiderman has with his webs. How are you getting a web to go out let’s say a hundred feet at a *very* conservative estimate. If it’s spooling out from the webspinner, it’s creating drag. If the gob being launched is trailing web, it’s losing mass. Either way, the web has to be launched at considerable velocity.
Well that seems to be overthinking a lot. It’s obviously similar to a high powered water gun: the stream comes out as liquid and pushes itself forwards. The more you spray out the further it carries and the longer the strand after it solidifies in contact with air. Real spiderweb is also stored as a liquid and becomes solid only after it leaves the spider so that doesn’t even require mental gymnastics, unlike the spider sense and super strength he has…
Spider-Man’s Webshooters fire a chemical mix that solidifies into webbing on contact with air, the liquid mix is pressurized (he can control thw webshooter with his two fingers to create the different types of webbing he uses).
Yes, there is drag in on the weblines and harpoon lines. Which is why over a certain distance their path will be an arc (traditionally harpoons use a line of rope for at least for their flight distance).
What Digit will remember from this is probably: “blah blah blah, disassemble anything on my ship, blah blah blah.”
Oh Maxima, what have you done?
Also, Adam’s description of Digit’s creations reminds me of Genius: The Transgression. Although in this case all of the Havoc is generated from Digit herself and not from regular people touching her creations.
She done a stupid, is what. Or so it seems to me.
… I don’t even like the idea of Digit messing with terrestrial tech, let alone advanced alien tech.
This feels like such a bad idea. >_<
Still, it'd be nice to see someone other than Sidney and/or Maxima catch some spotlight and get a few achievements.
So… it’s possible Digit is a variant on the super-scientist of the Buffy the vampire slayer rpg. Basically a magic-user who employs machines instead of rituals. And she doesn’t know it / doesn’t know how she does it. Annnd Maxima is exposing her to all sorts of new technology. Great. That’s… great.
Anyone needs me, I’m keeping even further away from her.
Adding to the Digit comparisons, but a Parahumans (Worm) classification of Tinker seems appropriate with her technology breaking known physics and not being replicable by others.