Grrl Power #1409 – Swords out
In case you can’t read it, the security screen in panel 2 says “EROPASS” at the top, and the screen says “Think about your favorite orgy, you dirty space trollop. -X,xox” and there’s a little heart there too. This first X is for Xuriel, the rest are the usual hugs and kisses, which, uh… Well, I guess that panel would probably not be written in English. Probably that sexy space French-ish sounding language they usually speak with each other. I know I wrote down the name the language in the post under a comic, but I don’t really have a way to search that, so I don’t remember what I called it. I thought it was a good name too, like “Exhora” or something. A lot of times when I make up words in my head, I seem to go a little consonant heavy, coming up with words like “flerng,” or “himlrrg.” Oh, look, I invented Welsh. Hah. Seriously though, sometimes I get stuck in that mode and it’s like, “No alien words for you today.”
The thing I wanted to bring up is that the security system Dabbler created for her “not good enough to be her primary weapon, but still it was super cool, so she didn’t sell them to vendors and kept them in her stash inventory.” Literally anyone who’s played an RPG knows that exact category of equipment. The “almost good enough or was my best weapon but doesn’t synergize with that cool unique shield I got, or just looks rad” stuff. That’s what this vault is.
So anyway, the security system basically scans (in a future space tech MRI way) for specific, uh, orgasms? Recollections of orgasms. Erotic memories. You don’t have to reenact them. Not that Dabbler didn’t consider that option. Maybe if you fail the scan three times. You have to train it with a bunch of specific memories, but that does seem like it’d be a pretty hard thing to fake, and it’s not something someone’s going to socially hack by causally asking about your first pet or something.
Doors that slide into the surrounding walls/floor are really not good for vaults. You have to have a vault door sized gap in your wall, meaning your vault wall has to take up a lot more depth, and leaves a big hollow space, which might be exploitable somehow? I don’t know, like an employee stick gum that isn’t really gum but is actually remotely activated acid to part of the door that slides into the hollow space and lets it build up over a long time until you have enough to do detrimental acid stuff. How often does the door hollow get checked for gum-acid?
So, there was a whole docking the ship, seeing another ship in dry dock… is it called dry dock in space? More like a freeze-dry dock, am I right? The point is the StarForge has a ship construction hangar. Then they go though security, decon, Sydney makes a joke about War of the Worlds, Cora says hi to a bunch of people, etc. The vault isn’t just accessible via an external airlock or anything. I just didn’t want to spend like 4-6 pages on all that stuff. I’ll get to a little “establishing the interior scenery” stuff later, though this base isn’t intended to a long visit.
The signs under Sydney’s word bubbles are for a gun and a hammer. The chain-whips and boomerangs and other miscellaneous weapons are in the corner of the armor vault, which is on the other side of the central elevator, not so much for balance. Mostly just for symmetry.
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Having come from WoW and FFXIV, these weapon designs are incredibly familiar
i find it hard to believe that anyone who has any practical combat experience has not at least dabbled in older forms of “civilized” combat with and without a weapon. you cant ALWAYS just laserbeam or fisticufs your opponent. knife, shortsword, bo staff, at least one must be trained to a reasonable degree. and each of them can be addapted to OTHER forms, scimitar, longsword, glaive/spear. there is NO WAY, that Xuriel has not come across a small dagger for assinations with some… magical heft…. that she wouldnt store away for an occasion like this, a dagger which would be similar to a bowie knife that max would have needed to learn how to use in basic training.
If nothing else, training in using knives (which never run out of ammo) is probably standard.
I’ve been wondering if void dock would be a term or would it just be dock or landing pad?
A memory lock plus a brain scan lock is definitely a good idea.
A memory copy or a brain simulation alone won’t be enough to fool it. You need to combine both.
Something I thought about for locked away technology is a knowledge lock: You need to know the exact shematics or at least working principles of the locked the technology to access it. This makes sure you know how the technology works (so you don’t mess it up setting the values) and excludes every civilisation with lower tech level from breaking in and stealing it.
Just make sure the outside only has a passive interface. And the actual check for valid shematics is done inside the vault.
Hmm, guess she never collected the Soul Edge, lol, although some seem pretty close. Now that would be an interesting tale if Dabbler ever came across Ivy or Voldo :)
–Maxima’s tournament opponent attacks with a series of massive magical assaults. Her weapon absorbs them all easily. She gives her opponent a cold stare and says “Do you really want to see what I can do with all that magical energy you just gave me?”