Grrl Power #1385 – Do your thing – on the holoplinth
Frix’s mistake her is telling Sydney it’s probably okay to mix and match. I mean, the pool of possible selections is already huge. Let’s say there’s 1,000 humanoid spacefaring species in the Milky Way, and Sydney could reasonably be disguised as maybe 350 of them, given they’re trying to roughly match her dimensions and she requires cuteness and probably doesn’t to pretend to be a child. Actually, let’s say there’s only 100 that match those criteria, especially on the cuteness front, like she doesn’t want to be some plantigrade stick insect thing that has a reasonable amount of its population in the five-foot range. That’s still SO MANY choices, because within each viable species disguise, there’s a bunch of variation – I mean, she could just disguise herself as a different looking human woman. Given the things I’ve brought up about body language that different cultural or national backgrounds can impart and how that would add a layer of complexity to aliens trying to disguise themselves as humans and vice versa, a human disguising themselves as a different human is probably the smartest way to go.
But then, they’re not trying to fool people who know them, or even anyone who even knows who they are or are off-planet. They just need to be able to mingle in crowds
Then on top of that, telling her she can add antlers or those moth-fern-antenna things as eyebrows or something? Frix, you might be a mighty space adventurer, but you do not have that kind of endurance.
This is all assuming Sydney doesn’t want to try being a guy for the next however long this trip is going to take. No really being a guy, of course. The haptic feedback of these glowbods isn’t on that sort of level. But just for experimenting socially, it could be an option. Granted it adds a layer of complexity to a situation she hasn’t exactly trained for in the first place. They’re not trying to infiltrate a given species’s society, but walking down the thoroughfare and someone who is of the species you’ve disguised yourself as walks past and taps three fingers to their chin, do you return the gesture? Tap your cheek? Forehead? Tap 4 fingers? Two? Again, they’re not exactly trying to infiltrate German occupied France, but best to keep odd behavior to a minimum.
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Perhaps a remotely piloted avatar frame would be the way to go?
From the looks of it this would cause the least problems of pulling it off.
I’m assuming the vote incentive where she pilots one while her body is in a legally-distinct Bacta tank hasn’t happened yet in-story (if it ever will), so they don’t know yet that the orbs will follow her to her avatar. As her primary purpose here is to serve as a quick transport for Maxima in case of emergency, she’ll need her orbs, so (they think) they’ll need her to tag along personally.
That said, claiming she’s using an avatar body could certainly be an option.
Sydney is wrong. Option number 5 is cute.
Finaly I can comment here. I was stuck on that forbidden bug.
Same here, was beginning to think had been banned (wouldn’t be the first time)
I agree. But cute is … in the eyes of the beholder I guess.
Guess what the next option was :P
I just love the fact that each and every eye has corrective lenses.
I agree.
And it must be a horror for the optician to measure all of them.
Which if the 11 though?
Same!
Sydney reminds me of the X-Men’s Kitty Pryde when she was giving Nightcrawler an impromptu ‘fashion show’ after they had been taken by the Shi’ar empire. (REALLY early Claremont days).
Dave you intensly underestimate the level of interest the more thorough parties have in this kind of crowds.
This is a semi civil competition in producing the most advanced fighters in the galaxy.
Several army recruters and spies will be present, most of the sponsors will have direct ties to the regimes and crime gangs.
These people won’t play, but they will be watching and especially winners will be observed.
Sydney arrives on the same ship as Maxima. She will be watched intensily by some of the most thorough organisations in the galaxy.
I agree, but army recruiters and spies are small potatoes. The real issue will be the bookies, which I assume is what you meant by “direct ties to … crime gangs”. An unknown and very small (I’m assuming, based on a “planet wrecking equipment” scale) fight with zero background information shows up and starts winning fight after fight, racking up prize money while at the same time a few people start racking up wins on massive bets on her with ridiculous odds?
The bookies will use any means, legal or not, to dig up any and all information they can get, and that includes tracing her travel and heavily scrutinizing anyone she’s traveled with. Sydney, and her disguise, will be subject to every scanner in the known universe.
Sharp.
I didn’t realize that.
My gangs were just collecting better guns.
Kind of a silly fear.
Criminal Syndicates and enemy armies won’t be recruiting there for the same reason our IRL gangs and spies don’t recruit from UFC tournaments. Way too public.
A. They recruit through literal websites. Publicity isn’t that bad for all positions.https://www.nsa.gov/careers/_includes/
B. Not on UFC tournaments these people get paid too much for the amount of value they offer, but they do on hackathons and robotwars. This is a fight in which robots and artificial constructs participate. You just have to find someone who can make many copies of their current champion.
I expect that while there will be some scrutiny it will be superficial at best.
For the same reason nobody pays particular attention to the support team of the heavy-weight boxing championship contender.
Only Maxima will enter the tournament / arena. The others will pose as part of her support. Which in fact they are, just not the usual roles one finds in such teams (like coach, trainer, medic, manager, cheer). As long as they look the part nobody will take a second look at Sydney, Daphne, and I do not know the actual name of Digit :)
Of course getting Sydney to look and act an expected role is going to be a bit of a challenge. Personally I recommend brain surgery ;)
A. Trainers of boxers get a lot of attention from match fixers and journalists aside.
B. This is a fight in which war machines and artificial organisms participate, the support staff has quite certainly connections to the creature and proprietary knowledge of the creation.
I’ve been playing with images on Copilot the last several weeks. Several times I’ve gotten a character image I like, but then it makes something drastically different and I can never get the first image back. Hope this isn’t like that for Sydney.
The Eye-ticle looks like an image generation glitch. the script dumbly reproduces the glasses for each eye..
although … imagine that each eye needs a different strength prescription glass(es). that would be a nightmare.
DaveB, we need a way to contact you that isn’t Twitter or Facebook. The Forbidden bug was very annoying and I couldn’t give you a heads up that it was happening again.
How would Sydney look as…Colonel Bleep?!?
For those not familiar with this very early color cartoon series from the 1950s, just go here…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bleep
‘Gray’ with glasses is absolutely cute. Even moreso if sounds like I “heard” it with The Silence’s voice: https://youtu.be/EQZLVwwY2WE?t=73
Panel 5: “Hey, my eyes are up here.
And down here. And there. And everywhere.”
The 403 Forbidden has been fixed? Yay!
Dave has addressed several of my concerns. What if they meet the same people that they’re impersonating?
Just make up something instead.
Also… Hiding Sydney’s Orbs. Don’t hide them. Have the team be excessively bedecked in Holobling as seen at the store at Fracture Station. I’m thinking Witch’s hats with fake Orbs.
Also. Should they all be the same Aliens? A mix would just multiply the already complicated issue.
Angry Shoggoth is totes-adorbs!
Character creation… The longest part of many RPG games process. And that’s without dipping into character stats.
Don’t known if any one else played the old Aftermath RPG, but the character creation process was arduous.
a goblin would fit perfectly
hehehehehehe
A disguise as a not-full-mature member of whatever species might help cover for gaps in Galactic common knowledge and/or Sydney Moments.
“It takes Sydney almost as long to create her character in RPGs as it does for her to complete the main quest.”
That is _such_ a mood.
I gotta say, panel six is real cute, disagree with Sydney on this one.
Love the K6BD mention with Cio in panel 8, although it doesn’t seem like a fit for Maxima …unless Maxima is secretly a fan fic author.
So each of those species use glasses? Could be there be some species that never need glasses?
Also, shouldn’t the orbs be hidden? Is the Glowbod unable to do anything with the alien tech?
that one looks like a predator, wait until you yawn and you see your whole mouth unfold lmao
Surely there is some sort of shapeshifting plant-like species that would count as cute and nobody would bat an eye if they look humanoid since “Those guys can look like bloody anything!”
I feel like they’re missing an obvious answer. Given that Lapha has been inside her head, she’s already got a lifetime of Aetholith memories to draw from, their build-a-bodies we’ve seen are about the right shape, and Sydney can have a degree of flexibility in her appearance without raising too many eyebrows.
kobold Sydney is still the best option thusfar.
We get an insight into Frix’s fetish.
The color schemes he has selected for Sydney are heavily ranging in the dark spectrum between grey-ish and blue-ish, quite similar to Frix’s own color scheme.
I think however that Sydney should go for something more colorful, and with a headspace that can hold her floating balls. Inside.
This is a MUTINY. I am leading a MUTINY of your WEBCOMIC.
USE THE KOBOLD DISGUISE
DO IT OR YOU’LL WALK THE PLANK
I like the kobold disguise.
But I am still disappointed she wasn’t infected back when they were mind controlled.
Pink Dinosaur + Hare = Easter Bunny?
7/10 lonely human beings just got their wishes uploaded.
should totally go as a klingon
Uhm, why not just go as one of those space humans? Some change in appearance, maybe some different colors, bam, inconspicuous.
Whatever she gets should be the “average” of that race to minimize being hit on by space romeos of that species.
Or are space norms such that every person at those events presents as a 10 if they can afford it? (making a plain jane very stand-outish?)
She could knick her own customized rpg character for the design.
You need to stop this!
…2 more weeks of Sydney skins, tops.