PaRARGdox 155
Bad news… good news!: Just letting you know I finally caught me some COVID late last week… ugh… fortunately it hasn’t been too bad and while it knocked me flat for about two days I am now a lot better. So, a slight delay to this week’s update… hopefully I continue my speedy recovery and it won’t impact next week.
Conscripted!: Maybe Rochelle should have worked on her recruitment pitch. This page syncs up with the sixth panel of page 9. At this point we’re starting to see what else went on in the frantic last seconds of that page…
Patrons: Over on Patreon page 156 is now up – page 157 soon…
Next update: June 19, 2022: Things can’t get any worse… right?
Next page is make or break for Ambrosia’s powers to work properly.
But I can imagine, the “things get worse” would be that Ambrosia does go back, but one minute again. Or Paridoximan dies. Either one could be a possibility.
Yeah, classic Kwan . . . empathy and compassion are difficult for her even when the world isn’t ending. Good luck, Jones, on breaking this to Paz in a way that won’t backfire.
Yeah, this will be interesting in itself, how exactly do you tell someone that you intend to eviscerate them? Even given the reasons that’s a really tough sell. We may know that the planet is about to implode, but even if Rochelle and Kaycee have realized and can explain the situation – before it happens – it’s *still* a tough sell.
Welcome to the cohort of Omicron sufferers and survivors. We are ever growing, at least until there is herd immunity.
I wonder exactly how the Grandfather Paradox is about to play out. Paz’s grandfather dies 50 years ago prior to fathering Paz’s parent? Maybe that happens to Mr. Dion who ran Prometheus instead; that should keep this whole mess from happening in the first place.
There probably wont be herd immunity. Its mutating too fast for that to effectively happen. My guess is its going to be a yearly thing like the regular winter influenza (flu) shot is. Remember the vaccine isn’t to prevent you from getting Sars-Vid-2, its to prevent you needing to be hospitalized and/or needing ventalator after
getting it.
“Grandfather paradox” simply refers to a class of paradox that arises from you changing things in the past such that you’d either never have needed to, or never been able to, go back and change them in the first place. The name is due to an easy example – if you went back in time and murdered your grandfather before he had children, one of your parents never would have existed and thus you would never have existed… but then you wouldn’t have been able to go back in time and murder your grandfather (as you never existed in the first place), so he would have lived his life normally, in which case you would indeed have existed, and thus would have gone back in time and murdered him before he had children… and so forth.
Grandfather paradoxes needn’t literally involve a grandfather. In this case, the paradox would be Paz going back in time to stop the Rarg attack, which would have caused the attack to be foiled in some way, which would have meant there would be no reason for her to go back in time to stop it, so it would happen, so she’d go back and stop it, and so forth. Paz’s power presumably avoids this by functioning more like a future sense; normally time travel in the Magellanverse avoids this by splitting off an alternate reality whenever there would be a grandfather paradox (note the reality we are viewing is an alternate of the one where Dragonklaw and Miasma blew up most of Force Magellan and the associated heroes). Paradoximan and Rochelle’s plan is to use the unique nature of Paz’s time-travel/future-sense, combined with Paradoximan’s power to alter reality via implementation of paradoxes (most of which seem to just be fast-talking reality into warping to fit his whims, but we haven’t seen much of what he can do), essentially supercharge her power so they can outright prevent the Rarg attack, rather than just making a new alternate where someone showed up and prevented it.
Wishing you a calm and full recovery 🙂
Paz would say: “Tell me what?!?!?”