PaRARGdox 162
Action station!!!: As you might expect, we’ll be doing a bit of zipping back and forth between the four groups of time returnees! For this page it is Kaycee and Charisma over at Largo Castle, Rochelle at the Aquatic Center, and Olga and Ambrosia as they evacuate from the Cafeteria building.
Olga confirms there isn’t much time at all. Charisma and Ambrosia are still regaining their bearings. Kaycee and Olga maybe have a plan… and Rochelle is working out stuff while getting dressed… you don’t deal with an alien apocalypse half clothed after all!
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I guess Olga could info dump everything in their heads, but she still seems to be as disoriented as the others that “travelled” back with her.
I mean, I may be wrong, but do Olga and Charisma have their powers back? I haven’t seen confirmation of that yet.
It was only their consciousness that travelled back so these bodies haven’t been zapped by the Rarg-ray yet. The effects of that ray would only now be effecting their future selves as they get fettuccinied.
Sounds reasonable, but we as readers don’t fully know the rules of Etherics in the Magellanverse yet. Grace could still pull a fast one on us, I think. And, at least in Olga’s case, mental powers may travel along with the mind in Ambrosia’s time travel power.
I thought we’d seen Charisma fly since they were sent back in time, but I just checked and she’s staying grounded. If she’s actually depowered it might be interesting to see, because it’s both proof that something is going on and would mean that she has to follow Kaycee’s lead on how to act when you’re a squishy human. That plus the memories of almost dying and being rescued by Kaycee in the alternate timeline… Maybe Charisma will start to consider not being a huge bitch all the time?
If you were Olga, you might want to focus Telepathy to coordinate with IJF/Magellan Council that know Olga/Gola means business, and can push things in motion. Talk to those close by with confident leadership.
If you were Kaycee, perhaps you might have thought that Count Largo’s Doomsday Device, or something with it may be a chekhov’s gun, or at least useful. Or just leading Charisma to the boat without immediate critical damage risk. In theory her coms should still be working, and may be able to consult others. Charisma still nearly clueless but will remember rowboat time.
Rochelle may already be considering how to employ Maya Mind Mojo utility against RARG Telepathic network, to make them think they won and apply them to some use, much like Rochelle was in the Great Leap Forward.
So, Go!anna is heading off world briefly to avoid the Anti-Power Pulse, I don’t know where Kaycee is going, but I’m glad that Charisma’s staying on the ground and won’t get massively injured even if they don’t manage to avoid it, I suspect that Rochelle is forgetting that others might have and need a chance to avoid it (given the pulse didn’t affect her), and if Olga and Ambrosia are smart, they’ll be heading to the holding cells so that they can get their powers blocked like Sista Superior’s were when the pulse went off (and we all know how that went in the future).
At the Holding cells, next page:
Mort (security guard): Hey what are you kids doing here? Sista Superior here does not get visitors.
Rochelle: I need you you to put us [looks around and points to the other security guard] and her in holding. Also, turn on any EMP defences you have.
Mort: What’s going on?
Mort: I can’t lock you up, you haven’t done anyth-
*Rochelle punches Mort in the face*
Rochelle: Will that suffice? I’m on a timetable here!
Well, they can ease up some space if the ones who weren’t affected (like Fatima, Rochelle, Ambrosia, Go!Anna) don’t need to “dodge” the pulse.
We don’t know how long the recharge on the Rarg zapper is but seeing as they didn’t zap twice even when Euro Magellan got there I’m guessing it’s long enough.
So Kaycee and Olga’s groups are trying to head underground as much as possible hoping that there’s a structure that will act like a faraday cage against the zapper/emp thingy?
Both Kaycee’s and Olga’s groups are headed downwards – Olga’s probably headed towards the detention cells where Sista Superior is being held, Kaycee may know of a similar construction in the guts of Largo, or may simply be hoping that enough stone will insulate them from the pulse.
Rochelle seems to be stuck with analysis paralysis – she and Fatima don’t need to worry about the EMP, but saving others might be smart.
I doubt that the detention cells for super-powered crims is anywhere other than the main security building, and I don’t expect the student cafeteria to be in the same building as security.
Although there may be tunnels connecting certain buildings, for security reasons, I can’t see it likely that the containment cells would have more than one or two ways in/out of them.
Are Kaycee’s word balloons in panel 1 out of order?
Nope 😊
Is anyone gonna bother to inform Force Magellan to go all She-Hog from the get-go at Miss Daddy Issues’s place of business so Twilight and Co can kick some arse, too?
Plenty of things to do and explain… so little time to do it 😉