Comic 1122 - Decide to train
Posted on 16th Nov 2018, 5:15 PM
in Like a Bullet from Behind
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"Could also help with mobility," Michelle points out. "If you can get good at portals, AND usin'... I dunno, tentacles or somethin' to whip yourself around like a grapplin' hook... you could be fast. Real fast. We've dodged around Carpenter's robots before--if he's gonna be packin' more guns this time around, then we need to be even quicker."
"What're WE doin' durin' all this?," Caius asks.
Michelle crosses her arm, giving it a moment of thought. "Well... we still got Bunker X, but I'm still not good with runnin' that without Blondie."
"Yeah," Fuse adds, "I doubt the tradesmen will just let her portal in and out of Bunker X."
"They did retrieve Knox from the Red," points out Dr. Finch. "That does suggest they can exert some small amount of influence over it and its use, at least when granted Mine's permission."
"Further," continues Liz, "part of the 'rules' they set forward--that you all agreed to--was that the composition of challengers could not be changed halfway through a floor. Am I remembering that correctly?"
Dr. Finch nods. "Indeed. I think we can assume that counts as permission, for all intents and purposes--at minimum, I would prefer not to gamble on whether or not Mine could portal in mid-dungeon crawl."
"Dungeon crawl," Caius chuckles, before adding a quieter "Nerd."
Dr. Finch manages to restrain his own grin before it gets too far.
"There's still the power station, too," Michelle remarks. "That WAS our plan for today, before all this weird Carpenter junk came up."
"Yeah, we were plannin' on doin' that without Blondie anyway," Caius says with a small nod. "So that's a thing."
"And," begins Fuse, "there's no tradesmen rules or... whatever, if we need to blood somebody in or out."
Aside from getting better at portals and maneuvering with your blood powers, you also consider improving your spiritual abilities. Practicing with Red or the ghost girls could help in that regard... and the mention of the power plant--which is still, eventually, to help the people currently housed on Mars--reminds you of Pierce. He might know a few things himself about mental/spiritual warfare, given that he's likely studied more magic than anyone else you know.
Let's let a squad go take care of the power plant while we train. We can give them a prototype medic golem to give us something to keep an eye on them with, treat wounds and spill blood on the floor to portal ourselves over quick in an emergency.
This golem would basically just be a little bag or sack filled with our blood, with IV needle tipped tentacles for arms so that it can pump our blood into anyone injured - we can use our blood as materials to repair their injury, and refill the blood in the golem with a portal as needed. It could have a chitinous layer on the outside to help avoid accidental punctures. Make able to be worn as a backpack, or give it suckers to attach to someone's bone armor.
Meanwhile, we need to focus on training. Perhaps spritual first - we can go to Mars, and talk things over with Red and Pierce... and maybe the ghost girls, if they want.
I do like the idea of talking things over with Pierce. Ooh! Actually, Pierce might be able to help us get in touch with Mom’s internal red! At the time we learned about the internal red, it was cut off to us. But later, we learned about rituals that draw from a specific red (ours) and we might be able to re-calibrate a ritual to be able to contact Mom’s internal red. Mom herself might be dead, but the red of a fragment seems to remain in existence, and Mom’s Red mentioned that some of her memories— or at least a bit of her personality— are stored in the internal red. That means we might be able to ask Mom’s internal red for help and support, as a much more experienced red than ours.
Maybe Moms (externalized) Red(and baby red) can help Pierce with "Targeting" the spell Twyll suggests?
also my portal idea from last page i suggest again.
We could also make smaller versions for individual use. Just a flatish sac with a needle to allow blood flow.
i believe this~! x: it would also mean that the universe itself is a container. x:
Like some sort of gloves or gauntlets for our fighter caius
Or some flammable bombs fuse can blow like a, beer bottle full of gasoline, or an egg shell filled with gunpowder.
Michelle already has the minigun, and Mine has blood powers we should shore up our other Allies too
Displace gasses or liquids to make a breathable space
Seal up a filter
Hide
As gunpowder it is a gernade of sorts
As a hot liquid in a tube we can make a magic marker (sorry about the pun, not sorry about the idea) or a glue gun. Or a glue gun that puts down metals as a welder.
Lots of possibilities to controlling what comes out of the red, the temperature and moisture level.
...Although now I wonder what would happen if we entered the red, THEN did astral projection. Would we be cut off from the red while in it? Hmmm. Maybe one of the things we could discuss with Red and Pierce.
Choo! Choo! Redeye train now boarding!
Actually...that may be a viable solution for how to move people through the red portal>train drops off Xpoeple/supplies>portal done.