Grrl Power - Dabbler’s Science Corner #6
Added 2024-10-14 10:00:12 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
It's been decided to keep Deus's supposed revelations about the nature of Superpowers mum at the moment, mostly due to the assumed "gold rush" of scientists playing god with live human specimens. Since human DNA is the only known way to interact with the Superion field, there's no animal testing possible, or, really any other laboratory experiments, other than seeing if anything that's extremely close to human DNA might also work, and also what the limitations are when it comes to the field's interaction with "living" specimens. Like, could a vial of a Super's blood also somehow summon lightning the same way the Super it came from can?
No, if the information got out, everyone who has a working knowledge of human history or human nature or just a functional brain realizes that a bunch of low-level Supers are going to wind up in dungeons, hoosegows, gulags, and centre pour peines aménagées. Okay, maybe not the last one. That's French for "Center for reduced sentences" but the first time I read that my brain saw "Center for penis ménages" as in ménage à trois, but exclusively for penises. And the image my brain conjured wasn't a gay ménage, either, but like, literally just for penises, so it'd be a room full of guys walking around with sandwich boards, only the board extends up over their faces, and the phalluses stick out of a hole in the board like each guy is an ambulatory glory hole. That's all totally irrelevant to my comment, just thought I would inflict upon you how my brain works.
Anyway... Oh, right, dungeons full of low-level supers being experimented on, probably forcibly bred, you know, all the usual tropes.
Comments
Is it bad if pr means "pull request" at first read to me?
Robin
2024-10-15 19:15:43 +0000 UTCWhy would I be worried about survival?
John Van Stry
2024-10-15 13:17:35 +0000 UTCUsing super terrorists as test rats. Which is really not even morally ambiguous, no matter what he may claim. Heck even informed volunteers should be checked for holes in their head.
eddi_TBH
2024-10-15 03:18:51 +0000 UTCNothing wrong with that position under those circumstances.
eddi_TBH
2024-10-15 03:16:46 +0000 UTCWhich as both Clarke and Dabbler point out is a matter of semantics.
eddi_TBH
2024-10-15 03:14:43 +0000 UTCHush!
eddi_TBH
2024-10-15 03:13:20 +0000 UTCXurel is probably a card-carrying member. If you survive, she will answer all your questions. Except maybe, "Where are my pants?"
eddi_TBH
2024-10-15 03:12:12 +0000 UTCHoping the secret can be kept because Superions seem to be a strictly Earth-based thing.
eddi_TBH
2024-10-15 03:09:28 +0000 UTCI can think of too many countries where caging up supers would be a routine operation. Using bigger and meaner supers who are treated like demigods. Some may simply kill them but others will be taking them apart.
eddi_TBH
2024-10-15 03:07:59 +0000 UTCRather thoughtlessly added the concept of Superions to her social blogs. Almost anyway.
eddi_TBH
2024-10-15 03:05:41 +0000 UTCWhat did Heatwave do?
Stefan J Neylon
2024-10-15 02:32:20 +0000 UTCWell Dabbler (or Cora) did say humanities art and culture were the only real things of value we can offer. But given that succubi exist pretty sure the universe is more than screwed up enough to think of this themselves. Dabbler is probably just being naive.
Mathew Aaberg
2024-10-15 00:51:01 +0000 UTCIndeed, where might I find this church?
Kevin Wright
2024-10-14 23:44:13 +0000 UTCSydney's right, though. This info will eventually hit the hot sheets. Better prepare now so they can get ahead of it.
Gelatinous Cube
2024-10-14 21:11:57 +0000 UTCThis page gave me HFY-vibes, as in "Are humans seriously the only species in Creation that can easily think up things *this* weird *this* easily???"
Tim
2024-10-14 17:57:16 +0000 UTCForcibly Bread! Man, those Nazi bakers are the wurst!
AlpineBob
2024-10-14 17:43:57 +0000 UTCThat exclamation is longer than any I've seen from Captain Haddock.
Stephen Gilberg
2024-10-14 17:33:05 +0000 UTCYeah, you'd be way better off with an ear or possibly just a hand or foot.
Noise
2024-10-14 16:48:24 +0000 UTCI think that was exclusively blood *magic*.
Michael Altarriba
2024-10-14 16:32:37 +0000 UTC🍞
Aaron Mauthe
2024-10-14 15:42:21 +0000 UTCForcibly bread... lmao If it's a typo, funny. If it's a pun, still funny.
Jared Juetten
2024-10-14 14:39:29 +0000 UTCLooks like Chibi Sydney hasn't been missing glutes day at the gym.
Techdragon
2024-10-14 14:32:46 +0000 UTCYes, there are definitely questions about these 'gods' of which you speak.... So they have missionaries per chance?
John Van Stry
2024-10-14 14:28:13 +0000 UTCOkay, as someone's who's French your digression on les centres pour peines aménagées made me laugh a lot. But on the subject of the whole DNA thing, hadn't they been considering testing if blood and tissue samples could activate Varia's powers ? Might also be an interesting first step into Arc Dark, with them diverting a few of the samples to test some less savory things like those considered by Dabbler and Sydney in this page.
Playwars
2024-10-14 14:24:52 +0000 UTCNarrative note: Red blood cells do not have a nucleus and therefore no essentially-guaranteed-intact DNA There are other things in the blood (white blood cells of course which DO have a nucleus, and many other various sources of FRAGMENTS of DNA) so it's not like you wouldn't be able to get SOMETHING out of a vial of blood, but it's not like it's going to be chocked full of DNA is all I'm saying...
Brett Peirce
2024-10-14 13:46:59 +0000 UTCGiven the description of that specific kind of orgasm, I actually think missionary, and it's variants, is probably the only position one would *want* those gods to be involved in. Like, if it's a position that involves your leg supporting your weight, uncontrolled twitches are probably less than ideal, and given whiting out is a form of losing consciousness, even temporarily it would be bad if you're not already lying down. I guess there are some doggy style variants and cow girl variants where it might be fine, but the description practically screams "missionary".
Jacob Bissey
2024-10-14 13:09:40 +0000 UTCI mean, there are probably lots of positions with openings that need filling. . .
Michael Obert
2024-10-14 12:35:53 +0000 UTCMy mind ponders super power breeding programs and go slightly cross-eyed as my brain races both towards super kinky and super dark...
Raymond Dannelly
2024-10-14 12:28:26 +0000 UTCI'm sure theres an opening in that position...
William Elliott
2024-10-14 12:22:28 +0000 UTCyou must be hungry. Bred is what you meant...Bread is food... unless you are talking about making them into bread... SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
William Elliott
2024-10-14 12:21:10 +0000 UTCWe already know from sciona that super blood can be used to give you super powers. She had that whole super boost thing back during the portal incident... Or was that all exclusively 'alien' blood?
Jon Gibson
2024-10-14 12:12:27 +0000 UTCNah, she just gets into really nasty flame wars. Bad PR.
Kizik Ucalegon
2024-10-14 11:34:45 +0000 UTCI'm guessing Heatwave's incident had to do with a wardrobe malfunction, based on a certain previous interaction...
Magraal
2024-10-14 11:08:57 +0000 UTC"... probably forcibly bread, ..." Oh dear the yeast popular torture. Loafing around before being sliced, topped and grilled for information. I'll see myself out.
Graeme Thorburn
2024-10-14 10:27:42 +0000 UTCNear the end of your rant you meant bred, not bread. At least, I'm fairly sure you didn't mean that those super's were being used the way a certain giant would use the bones of an Englishman. I could always be wrong, though.
Anton Schleef
2024-10-14 10:26:14 +0000 UTCSpread the word, and the legs!
Michael Obert
2024-10-14 10:19:02 +0000 UTCI wonder if there are any missionaries in my area
3of4
2024-10-14 10:17:34 +0000 UTCYes, this God of Orgasms intrigues me. Does Dabbler have any literature? Also, good to see Social Media is good for nothing but trouble in this world too.
Michael Obert
2024-10-14 10:12:18 +0000 UTCWell, it's probably way to late, as Deus maybe already is experimenting with that.
Thomas Dorner
2024-10-14 10:09:40 +0000 UTCThese gods of orgasm need to visit more often based on Jaber and Sydney's responses 🙃
Matthew Dodgen
2024-10-14 10:07:42 +0000 UTC
