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Alice Grove MCDLT - April 2017
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: brasca on 09 Apr 2017, 14:42 ---Good to see my suspicions confirmed although it seems that it was a joint effort of Gavia and Sedna that captured Pate.
Hopefully, Alice can survive this onslaught because this being the vacuum of space it's not like they can call out to Church to stand down now that his king is captured.
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I would have designed supersoldiers with built-in radios.
Storel:
--- Quote from: brasca on 09 Apr 2017, 21:30 ---They seem to have some way of propelling themselves through space, but it's uncertain as to whether Sedna grabbed Pate while Church was away fighting Alice or Gavia has been absorbing everyone into her force field. She had the ability to cancel gravity so her abilities may be upgraded beyond that and she can also cruise through space. She's not wearing her space suit so I'll assume she can breathe in the bubble she's created. And from the looks of it she seems to have calmed down since she's not firing energy blasts at Church so at least they don't have to try to snap her out of a berserker fugue.
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I'm not sure Gavia was firing the energy blasts in the first place. Those energy blasts came very close to several of the characters but missed every time (except for the very first one that Church deflected). I'm thinking the blasts may have been anti-meteor defenses taking out what remained of the ship while intentionally avoiding the survivors. As to why the first one actually hit Church... er, no system has perfect aim? Hmm.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Storel on 10 Apr 2017, 00:35 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 09 Apr 2017, 21:30 ---They seem to have some way of propelling themselves through space, but it's uncertain as to whether Sedna grabbed Pate while Church was away fighting Alice or Gavia has been absorbing everyone into her force field. She had the ability to cancel gravity so her abilities may be upgraded beyond that and she can also cruise through space. She's not wearing her space suit so I'll assume she can breathe in the bubble she's created. And from the looks of it she seems to have calmed down since she's not firing energy blasts at Church so at least they don't have to try to snap her out of a berserker fugue.
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I'm not sure Gavia was firing the energy blasts in the first place. Those energy blasts came very close to several of the characters but missed every time (except for the very first one that Church deflected). I'm thinking the blasts may have been anti-meteor defenses taking out what remained of the ship while intentionally avoiding the survivors. As to why the first one actually hit Church... er, no system has perfect aim? Hmm.
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Maybe, but looking at her in the bottom panel http://www.alicegrove.com/page/5 it appears that she's summoning fire balls in the palm of her hands. And we know she's had pyrotechnic capabilities before.
derech:
It seems unclear who (or if anyone) shot something at Church, and if why. But clearly before that, even if very shortly before, at some time he'd "armored up". Whatever else, he's knocking Alice about, and she hopefully has a way to stop or reverse her motion. We don't know how she started moving, but Church was able to counter her (and then some) with a lot of force and without moving backwards himself. So we'd imagine all three of them have some way to counter near zero G. If it's just Church that might be a very bad thing, at least for the others.
So Gavia is shielding/hiding/helping/moving them, Sedna is far more protective of Ardent than she is "capturing" anyone, and Pate is still out of his element.
Church seems far more reactionary to the immediate threat than to what else happens later; attacked, he counters. Does that mean anything for later? It's entirely possible the people in charge of this place intervene. If not, who knows. As far as capturing Pate and using him as leverage, it's entirely possible that it's been prearranged that he's expendable. Or Church isn't quite as loyal in reality as he's been carrying on. That is, why would a seemingly pretty much immortal indestructible being would throw in their lot with a low-tech criminal mastermind crime boss (or what have you) sort of short-lived human anyway. Life debt seems unlikely bordering impossible, how could he be coerced, what sort of romantic entanglements would be at all enticing, economics seem to have no bearing, and so on. Political or visionary perhaps, but then one questions the motives there to carry it out, that content is at least a bit questionable given the violence and coercion used to get to space for a chitchat with some trees or whatever they are.
Not that we have any indication that there are any such plans or ever have been, but I wouldn't trust in the success of any plans using Pate's physicality as a bargaining chip. Not that it wouldn't work if things are as they seem, but at the least Church seems unconcerned of such. Although maybe it's just because he thinks he doesn't have to worry about it, or if he does he can just get his revenge on everyone after if it goes wrong.
Neko_Ali:
The rays were probably streaks of burning debris flying from the exploded ship. It seems to have only happened immediately after decompression, so it makes sense. Now Gavia is just maintaining a bubble around the four of them while Church and Alice fight it out. Probably waiting to see if Alice wins, or they have to do the 'Stay back or your boss gets it' routine.
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