PaRARGdox 184
Powering up!: As you may remember The Hierophant is able to channel the powers of the Greek Pantheon of gods and goddesses (and the Demi-gods also)… one at a time. The first time we saw this was in Bad Karma when he summoned the Fist (Strength) of Hercules – see page 4.263! Hermes is aka Roman version of Mercury, and the fastest dude in the pantheon.
Ranger Bill has a mega army of nanobots he is able to control telepathically… they can make whatever he imagines, but obviously there are some limitations… including time, and knowledge of how certain devices work/fit together. He might act like a dunce, but he’s pretty smart! When putting together micro spinning circular saws, for example, they can be done on the fly.
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As Arte always used to say, “Very interesting”.
Rather than a direct conflict with the rarg, use counters to their actions to stalemate them and then initiate dialogue to defuse the situation.
Well, I’m not sure that this is where this is going but, it is a good plan.
After this story arc is done,what will be next?!? Who knows???
Master Drake is still out there…
Indeed.
I know some readers are very gung-ho about genociding aliens, seemingly feeling there isn’t any moral quandary to consider with such an act.
Fighting against Q’Arth, on the other hand, I think will be easier to justify a “show no mercy” mentality. Hopefully those readers will be sated with such violence.
question is whom of those who slipped back will manage to contact another of the people who slipped back first? besides those that they were already with, I suspect Jones will contact Go Anna, Rochelle probably has a busted communicator, but Jones is probably trying to contact the people that were nearby at the end last time while Charisma is flying them back to the island,
Rochelle hacked her communicator to alert security, on their “secure” line, about the approach of the Rarg.
yes but that was before the zap, hers would have been disabled with everything else that wasn’t far enough away or in a faraday cage or otherwise protected
From now on Rochelle will definitely be carrying a mini Faraday protector in her pouches! I had thought of that for this sequence, but since I hadn’t introduced it way back in the start of the story I figured that for her to pull one out now would be a bit of a cheat. So, sadly for her, she’s flying dark along with all others. Charisma and Kaycee, on the other hand…
Ro probably made a lot of the stuff Kaycee has in hers! 😇
I wonder . . . did the Hierophant ever get invited to the Fast Club? Given ancient pantheons frequently being depicted nude, I kind of imagine that he would have had no problems with their philosophy.
Good point about the ancient Greeks being a bunch of nudists! I suspect that he wasn’t asked or, if he was, he declined.
Heh… a good episode for Magellan: WHAT IF? with a more thoughtful bent than a typical storyline 🙂
Just a one off panel of someone doing the fast club run and Heirophant just happening to be running the island nude for the kicks, doing the Umbrella Academy passing cars meme.
does he ever channel Hephaestus?
Hmm, interesting.
If the Heirophant has access to the powers of all the Greek deities, right down to the demi-gods like Herakles, then he has a very broad powerset.
Admittedly, there is some overlap in the powers amongst the gods, some of the powers might have limited functionality for a superhero (“I invoke the Islandiness of Nesoi”) and he can only channel one deity at a time, but inevitably or out of necessity (“Compulsion of Ananke”) nothing is beyond the Heirophants capabilities.
Dammit, I always have trouble with ‘ie’ and ‘ei’.
Every reference above should be Hiero – sacred/holy
and not Heiro – horse medicine.
Bloody English.
So, Heirophant is like a toned-down Shazam, only invoking one god’s power at a time. Wonder how he came by that power? Ancient artifact, most likely – that’s how Shazam got ’em.
Very much a toned down Shazam, but as Aname noted, a wider range of possible power-sets 🙂
Or like Ultra Boy?
One of my favorite LSH members 🙂
Yeah, he’s pretty cool!
Since it is fist of Hercules, not strength of Hercules, shouldn’t it be feet of Hermes?
I did juggle the “call to power” summoning around a bit, decided to go with this. Maybe “strength” was already taken by a different god/goddess lol