Comic for Thursday, August 11th
I looked up “spiting” like… twelve times. I’m really sure it means “spite-ing” and not “spit-ing”. Well. About as sure as I get on grammar, which is to say “Google says that’s right”.
Yes, the IDS are sort of filthy cheaters. No, I don’t think they are signatories on internationally treaties that ban chemical weapons. Yes, they do use them a lot. One of the things I got asked a few times is what Kally actually did in the airball game against Naomi, as actually creating a compound in the air that would knock someone out would have rather drastic implications (as we’d be getting into molecular magic being casted in a literally flash). Indeed, Kally cheated more directly, and like here only used magic to disperse the compound. And no, I’m not going to try to give you a chemical compound. As chemistry goes I’m just smart enough to know that there is almost certainly someone in the comments that could tell me why whatever I came up with would certainly not work 😛 . That said, we will see eventually more specifics on how it works and mechanics.
Combining magic with technology in clever ways is sort of the IDS’s thing. Needless to say, they totally stole the concept from Kor’s World, but hey, imitation and flattery, etc. 😐 They frequently use fairly ‘simple’ magic backed by insanely fast calculation speeds, pretty much purely geared for combat. Obviously mages like Kally are an exception (as she doesn’t use an autocaster), but where mages like her come from will be made eventually clear – she’s not unique being a natural mage from the IDS for certain, though they have less of them.
Typically people cannot ‘see it’ once it’s dispersed in the air. Mione is very good at seeing things, though she didn’t recognize what she was seeing the first time really.
Lastly, I will probably go to some sort of hell for thinking that I-Code is funny, but I can’t help it. Technically it means Immortality Code, a term that will make more sense in the future, but that it displays numbers like a code across the eye when it activates… yeah, I’ll just quit while I’m behind here 😐 The reason that it’s somewhat acceptable is that it was mostly an accident – much like most of the effects, the effect of it activating was added to make it more comic-page accessible. Originally it was called a “Code”; though I waffled about calling it Immortality Code; when I realized that it could be shortened to I-Code after seeing how the drawn effect looked… yeah, totally couldn’t resist… 😐 I have no regrets.
PS: du-vit is something I’ve used in place of a swear word for the IDS before.
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Yeah, spiting. Spitting would have two Ts.
Yeah, that’s just not fair, English. Well, glad it’s right in that case, that puts us at PastUtopia: 1, English: 260.
Presumably the IDS gas isn’t fatal (being that they are technically some sort of police). That means Rovak’s “I-Code” triggers whenever he gets wounded/knocked out, not killed. That is a little better, and makes him almost unstoppable. However, the gas isn’t going anywhere. Can he adapt his body to be immune, or is he going to get stuck regenerating? I imagine we’ll see next page, either way we should learn more about his power.
It’s a bit tricky when it fully activates, but we’ve seen him recover from minor scraps too. I’m too lazy to find a link at the moment, but when he was strolling into the building originally, we saw him do it.
I feel like that is a spell I made in oblivion. The major difference being everything in the room would be extremely dead as they were just hit with a spell that deals 600 damage in fire, ice, shock, absorb, damage, and drain health in 100 feet for 30 seconds, I have an on touch and an on target version. That equates to 3600 points of damage and if I toss the bonus of the weakness to magic, shock, frost, and fire 100% in 100 feet for 10 sec. Then they are screwed, especially since I can cast these about 30 times.
Please kick their butts Tyler. They have made my Mage angry at the direspect.
Well, the IDS are still technically lawmen sorts, they probably have to resort to the dirty cheating methods to avoid using the shock, fire, ice, drain health quite as much… 😛
Their version has other downsides though, like if helmets and gasmasks stop being so horribly unfashionable no one wears them 😉
Yeah true. I have just made something scarier on oblivion. I managed to get my character to have 300 intelligence and wisdom with a speed of 302. The max is 100. My spells I mentioned now do 600 of each type in a 189 foot range for 60 seconds. That is strong enough to kill a dungeon. It also just killed my entire army at the battle for Bruma. Oops. I can only use it once. I also run so fast that I can run on water and go from the top of the map to the bottom in an in game day, which equates to ~30 minutes.
I am worried about the “monster hunter” title. I also just noticed the IDS armor looks like a mix of “war machine” from marvel, N7 form mass effect and Spartan and ODST from halo, just diffent enough to not get sued from here to kingdom come.
I think armored suits like War Marchine / Iron Man etc are a better comparison to what I’m aiming for with Kor’s World suits (which can fly); they are more ‘full exosuit’ than ‘futuristic armor’. The IDS armor has powered elements (as they incorporate a boost engine), but more of ‘armor’ then a cohesive suit.
I don’t use any reference for them, but ‘general light-weight sci-fi armor’ across all genres is certainly the inspiration. As a webcomic, I don’t typically have to worried about getting sued (unless you do something like use brand names etc), that said, the more problematic elements of similarity are that people tend to associate things with things they look like (rightly so, to an extent) so it’s better to avoid exact similarities.
“Three are still up.”
Didn’t he mean four? Tyler and Mione are still standing, in addition to Rovak. That’s three. But is Marc still standing? I can’t tell because we don’t have a clear view of Tyler’s group. Though, the lack of a panel focused on Marc implies that he did not catch Mione’s warning in time.
Anyway, I hope Rovak responds. I’d love to see a three-way fight. Rovak has good reason to attack these two IDS soldiers, anyway. For one thing, he has to make it look they’re enemies so witnesses (i.e., Tyler and Mione) do not get the impression that his team is working for IDS. That would be bad for IDS and probably bad for Rovak’s future with them.
On the other hand, these two idiots just blabbed out loud that Rovak’s team was likely contracted by IDS, so it may be a moot point now.
It’ll only be a moot point if Tyler or Mione understand enough of the IDS’s language to translate it. Also they may have an internal communication system to help them talk over external sounds.
Still I also hope that this becomes a three-way fight.
Ah, you’re right. I can’t believe I missed the brackets to indicate a foreign language. I guess I was just too tired. Also, it makes sense that these IDS soldiers would be using headsets over an encrypted channel or something. And what with wearing full enviro suits with helmets, it’d be difficult for anyone to hear them.
Indeed, these language things are tricky; still not a 100% way to handle it, but for now trying out the brackets.
I think Marc is collapsed in the bottom left panel. You can see what looks like him falling over behind Mione. If he’s still conscious or not, I don’t know.
Odd that he would not have heard Mione’s warning as by the ordering of the panels it should have been before the knock out drug dispersed.
Would also imply that the Orish soldiers got knocked out (or ran away).
I would also suspect that Tyler wouldn’t have any reason to know the IDS language. When the IDS were entering the building, they could barely communicate at all with the Bureau agent, so there might be a fairly total communication break down.
That does look like a prone person in the bottom-left panel. But that’s barely visible. It’s not a good view.
Also, in panel 4 (under the 1st panel), it looks like there are 3 people standing on the right as the cloud disperses. The one in front wearing the long coat is clearly Tyler. That means the other two are Mione and Marc. On the left side, only one person is standing (Rovak, obviously), with what appears to be one or two others lying down behind him.
It’s a tricky line, since drawing things at distance without resorting to stick figures is incredibly time intensive, and drawing everything up close gets us back into the 20 panel problem.
We’ll get a status report on everyone in soon though 😉
Interesting. On recognizing the I-Code the IDS Solider knows Rovak is probably trouble. This seems to imply that people that have one (prototypes? cyborgs? innate talent?) are generally somewhat insane.
Is it a side effect of what makes them have one? Or is it a side effect of having one? I can see that being immortal would certainly have the potential to make someone go insane.
The first time we saw that I-code was when Ila kicked his butt (CLICK HERE). If you read the comments on that page, PastUtopia and I discussed it without naming it. I’m still guessing that he’s a cyborg of some kind, and thinks that Tyler is one also.
Spiting is to spite something. Spitting is to spit at something.
I’m also confused by the “spiting a computer” line.
Deconstructing a little, I think the first IDS solider is saying that one of the reasons to interfere here was that the security system seemed to be trying to stop them from doing so (presumably by locking doors, elevators, etc). The second IDS solider is agreeing, but saying that he/she is not sure that doing it just to spite that entity (presumably a computer) is a good reason.
Those lines, combined with the alt text, make me think that it was almost certainly MYM trying to keep them away from Tyler.
Yes… he’s more or less saying “interfering here just to piss off a computer isn’t a good reason”.
“I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I’m all out of bubblegum.” Duke nukem
“Damn you’re ugly.” Serious Sam
“Extra Life!!” Annoying serious Sam person
Considering this is my fith time through the archives… It’s a little sad that I only just understood that line. I’ve been like, why would you spit a computer? Grammar error? Naw, someone else has to have said something…. right? No. Just turns out I’m bad at my native language.
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Awahh! No! Bad IDS! Don’t attack Tyler! >.<
i am gone for awhile I come back to this!! !_!
I hope Ila is kicking their asses……
I mean, it’s not the first time they’ve done that 😛