PaRARGdox 171
Final places…: Sounds like Rochelle managed to get through to Tom Bass! In addition to touching on where Charisma and Kaycee are, and Go!Anna, Dane and Tros… we also get to see where flying powerhouse Billy was (airborne) and that speedster Nadine has split the scene. Both Billy and Nadine perished following the initial Rarg attack, so maybe they’ll have a less fatal outcome this time?? Ditto Freya, Ken Spence and Justine/Redd who previously got roasted to a crisp by Sista Superior in that elevator!
For cameo completists… in frame three, in addition to Billy Banks, we see his fellow third year flight enabled cadet Fabian who is almost never seen, so yes, he’s still a cadet at Magellan. Also, second year Jaxine Jax… she of the purple wings, who bit the dust after being skewered by the Rarg in the previous timeline… and fellow second year cadet, Ravi Chopra as goddess Shakti. First introduced in Olga & Brelvis and then seen briefly in Lock(e)down in pages 6.182-83.
In panel 4, in addition to Nadine there is second year cadet Verne Julze, also briefly introduced in Olga & Brelvis… looks like he’s a speedster too! No word yet on the identity of the first year cadet in the background. But it does seem to indicate that Magellan Academy like to recruit at least one speedster per annual intake.
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Next update: October 8, 2022: Get ready for the VOMMM!
Man… Rochelle is STILL gonna make Sioni do her chores?
I know he’s annoying but he just got blown up by Sista Superior not 10 minutes ago!
Is her middle name “Petty” by any chance?
lol… it was his bet, after all… 😀
Fatima: Told you.
Scioni: Hrn…
(Yes, referring back to my comment on this page.)
Hold on. Wasn’t that bet made at the alert….?
Rochelle started changing things before that point in the timeline.
So I submit that Scioni is going to argue that there was no such bet and does not owe those chores.
Unless I missed something and now he remembers too.
They went back to after the alarm was already going for a while. Rochelle and Scioni were at the pool when the alert started, http://magellanverse.com/comic/parargdox-42/ note that Scioni makes the bet as they’re making their way out of the pool, with everyone wearing swimsuits.
Here’s the page of them having just slipped back http://magellanverse.com/comic/parargdox-159/ note that Rochelle is partially dressed in what’s obviously a locker room, with the alarm already going on.
So Scioni has already made his bet.
Yes indeed! And Rochelle is not one to let an opportunity for more study time go to waste.
Yes, immediately after the initial alert as shown on p42. When Rochelle had slipped back it was sometime shortly after that, as p42 shows them leaving the pool area, but p159 (her “return”) shows her with Maya and Fatima who are changing out of their swimwear and back into their uniforms.
Good conditioning to make him listen to her next time.
Inconsequential points, but:
“Airborn” should have an “e”, airborne.
“Dimesion” should have an “n”, dimension.
Trivial points, I just do not want your American readers to get any funny ideas about dropping any more letters out of the English language.
Sorry to nit-pick.
Many thanks – those are typos and I’ll fix those up.
As for US/UK spelling… as a rule, if a character speaking is from the US, I’ll use US spelling. Characters from countries where the UK spelling is the norm I’ll use that instead. This is why you might see two different characters say ‘colour’ and ‘color’ respectively. I say ‘as a rule’ because even I get mixed up myself sometimes!
That’s a really clever and interesting way to work nationality and accent into inaudible text. I may have to steal it in the future! 😜
Since I don’t believe it is known what the range of the nullifier bomb is, I would have said off the island for those that can. Also, if there are any flyers who can fly at near-speedster speeds, I’d recommend they de-a$$ the area as well (the others are just going to be stuck on the ground).
Hmm. Then again, they *don’t* know how far it goes. If it doesn’t go to the far end of the island, then their fast movers are still powered. However, if they go across the water and are still caught by the blast, they’d basically be dead as they’d be too far out to swim back unpowered.
I’d still recommend any teleports or dimension hoppers who can safely port far from the island (or to another dimension) to do so. They *should* be safe from the blast.
Somebody better get Verne some scuba gear, so he can run his 20K…
The big question is if the Rarg change their tactics seeing the island acting like they know what’s coming for them?
Seeing what? They can’t really recognize what the activity on island means, and they are unlikely to have that many alternative plans either.
Also, activating the dampener is STILL going to be their most effective available move, and it will disable majority of people here. Just not as big majority as on “first try”.
Potentially, the Rarg may be monitoring the civilian broadcasts like the Magellan Island civilians would have. In the case of VVVOMMM superweapons, they may already be charging and warming up to fire before they get that intel. Aborting may be dangerous. Adjusting targeting for optimal population shifts.
Loss mitigation nicely done Cadet Kwan. What else do you have up your sleeve?
Defensive fields general order may be next, but perhaps too late.
Nitro man does not seem like someone to sit back and let others deal with things, but his ride is about to power down. Do you think it has fold out wheels?
RUN speedsters, RUN! Even if speed is cut by distant exposure, they will still be faster than Norms. Billy hates being grounded, but we have not seen him run fast.
Sorry force Magellan. Go! was almost in the Faraday Cage. So close. If only they gave the way back to Tros. (Hopefully she gets in faster than flyers get to ground)
How does Kaycee and Charisma know when to leave the bunker? Guessing when transmissions cut off.
Ken wont even be able to “dalek” the stairs after he gets VVVOMMM’d.
Carried by Justine maybe? Her suit would fail too though and her powers would be gone.
I think those three are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
The Rarg are telepathic.
And Tros or Dane did mention at the beginning of all this that the Rarg seemed to reverse engineer the power nullifier technology far more quickly than what was estimated.
There may still be another force at work behind the scenes here.
I had gotten the impression (my own imagination?) that Prometheus had a working model of the neutralizer cannon on board their station, probably just in case Magellan tried to interfere with their mining op. That would have made the work much easier for the Rarg.
Can’t wait to see how it turns out this time…!