PaRARGdox 112
Padma strikes back: Gosh, okay, here is the next page of Magellan! Woo! Picking up exactly where we left off. Padma strikes back!
Thank you for hanging in there while I got my head out of my butt. I really needed to figure a few things about the story – I had been concerned it wasn’t working. Having reread it all I was actually happier with it than I expected to be. So that was a plus! At any rate I needed to be OK with the story and sort out a few kinks for what is to come.
And yeas, I should have been much, much, much better with my communication, I seriously need to work on that. Thank you for your good natured commentary in the Left Hanging page… I’ve unpublished the page but kept all the comments.
Sorry it took so long, but here we are back into it. I hope to pick up the momentum again. On the plus side I am buffered up with three weeks of two updates each in the cache.
Patrons: Over on Patreon page 118 is now up…
Next update: Wednesday August 4, 2021: Sit-rep?
I’m so happy to see this back and that you’re alright. Was getting worried there if I’m honest.
Good to be back… poor form from me not to communicate better. Have been OK, Sydney has been under COVID lockdown for 5 weeks now… heading into at least another 4 weeks… I am fortunate to have employment, plus a lot more extra time to work on Magellan.
Thank you for the art.
You’re welcome! 🙂
Ooh, ouch… Tele-fragged.
The Rarg aren’t the only ones getting brutal.
Welcome back! I’m glad that you were able to take the time you needed and are feeling better. An excellent page as always.
Thanks! 🙂
I have a feeling the Rarg will develop a counter to the teleporting in some way. Her not being in the opening bit could easily mean Padma might get taken down.
They don’t need specific counter to teleporting. They only need to hit her with power nullifier.
Ohhhh boy – Hairport’s teleportation doesn’t have safeties (either that, or she can turn them off).
Teleportation without safeties is terrifying. Teleportation with safeties that have been turned off might just be more so.
She is applying the safeties for herself, but the dangers for the Rarg. She intentionally avoids teleporting herself into structures, but deliberately aims the teleports for the Rarg into structures. If that building was not already destroyed beyond usability, the addition of the Rarg to the post like that would seriously compromise its strength.
Fortunately Padma is skilled enough to not telefrag herself or her passengers… unless she wants to!
Developing that skill sounds painful.
I expect the trick is to teleport to a known safe space, while holding a stick long enough to reach a known unsafe space, and concentrating on any differences that might indicate that there’s something in the way.
I strongly suspect that somewhere there’s a concrete block with a whole bunch of (now cut-off) sticks merged into it from her practice.
I think Padma has explained before that she can feel before committing whether she would intersect with anything and adjust accordingly. Using teleportation in an offensive manner like this never even occurred to me, now I can’t imagine how it didn’t.
Glad to have you back, Grace!
Thanks! 🙂
Brutal! Effective! And hopefully painful! Need to get Frieza on their 8-legged asses!
Welcome back by the way.
Thanks! 🙂 And yes, very unpleasant way to go out!
Does phasing something into something else disrupt the structural integrity of said 2nd object ?
Because she just phased one into a support beam of an partially destroyed building….
I guess it depends on the density of the objects being phased together. The beam would be damaged, but nowhere near as much as the Rarg regardless of its armour.
Yippie! A real update!
Now they have to connect with Kwan and company to find out about popping the little hatch on the bottom of the armour.
I can guarantee Rochelle is not far away.
Smashing the visor accomplishes the same thing.
Ah yes, but you need to be strong enough to do it… and Rochelle knows she isn’t as she discovered earlier
Fatima looks like she is going to have a pretty severe PTSD if she can survive the black hole in a few hours. Speaking of PTSD, where is the Man Who Can? His power should make a mess of these little armoured shells. I guess Gary’s power got nailed with everybody else’s during the first attack.
I don’t think we’ve seen Oz Magellan in this story? Probably just as well, ‘coz Gary would just get mind controlled again 😕🙃
In the grand scheme of things – Oz Magellan are probably getting on their jet to travel to Magellan Island… waaaay too late. (And I think you mean ‘Padma’ rather than ‘Fatima’… hard to keep up with everyone, I know… me also!!)
Ah, the telefrag. If I got to pick a superpower, it would be teleportation, but I’d definitely want a version without telefrags.
Great to hear from you, Grace!
Also nice to see the update too! Thank you.
And hey! We’re all human. Your stories have continued to engage and entertain dozens of us for years. Some introspection and time spent for examining your own work are totally valid, but you’ve got the credentials to demonstrate that you’re great at what you do too!
Many thanks! You’re a long time reader and I guess you’ve weathered way too many of my radio silences. I really need to get better at communicating! 🙂
Just please remember that you don’t have to do that on your own.
If you would rather choose to do so, then alright. We’ll respect that decision.
But you have many fans from many walks of life. A few of us may be able to offer help in various ways, and we’re certainly willing.
Something to keep in mind if there’s a next time for the situation that caused the hiatus. No pressure!
Seconding VileTerror (as always) 🙂
I’m prone to going silent myself, so I might not be of much help in a simple approach, but I’m good at systems and computers – so I might be able to create a complex approach. Complex behind the scenes, of course, if it’s not dead-simple to use it wouldn’t really help – I know that very well. If such a thing is something you want, you have my email address.
Never piss off a teleporter.
I was a bit worried, but just about *you* not about the strip, if that makes sense? (I can get behind and get paralyzed by guilt over *being* behind which just stops me completely until I can snap myself out of it. It’s a vicious cycle and I was worried you were suffering something similar, and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.)
This *is* a rough arc, but that’s because this much death is bound to be heavy as heck. That said, I think you’ve done really well. It’s hard to have perspective in the thick of things, though, so I’m glad re-reading your work has brought you up to speed on the fact you’re awesome. 🙂
Thanks – I usually have good solid ideas about how the story progresses and how it gets there, but sometimes the connective tissue feels like things are getting too convoluted. The downtime gave me a chance to reevaluate some of that to get things on track in a way that hope shows our characters have more agency in the overall plot.
Its good to see you are back, Grace.
Thanks, it’s nice to be back too!
Welcome back.
Thanks!
Thank you for the welcome back, everyone!