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Grrl Power - Dabbler’s Science Corner #6
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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
Robin
Is it bad if pr means "pull request" at first read to me?
John Van Stry
Why would I be worried about survival?
eddi_TBH
Using 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
Nothing wrong with that position under those circumstances.
eddi_TBH
Which as both Clarke and Dabbler point out is a matter of semantics.
eddi_TBH
Hush!
eddi_TBH
Xurel is probably a card-carrying member. If you survive, she will answer all your questions. Except maybe, "Where are my pants?"
eddi_TBH
Hoping the secret can be kept because Superions seem to be a strictly Earth-based thing.
eddi_TBH
I 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
Rather thoughtlessly added the concept of Superions to her social blogs. Almost anyway.
Stefan J Neylon
What did Heatwave do?
Mathew Aaberg
Well 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.
Kevin Wright
Indeed, where might I find this church?
Gelatinous Cube
Sydney's right, though. This info will eventually hit the hot sheets. Better prepare now so they can get ahead of it.
Tim
This 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???"
AlpineBob
Forcibly Bread! Man, those Nazi bakers are the wurst!
Stephen Gilberg
That exclamation is longer than any I've seen from Captain Haddock.
Noise
Yeah, you'd be way better off with an ear or possibly just a hand or foot.
Michael Altarriba
I think that was exclusively blood *magic*.
Aaron Mauthe
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Jared Juetten
Forcibly bread... lmao If it's a typo, funny. If it's a pun, still funny.
Techdragon
Looks like Chibi Sydney hasn't been missing glutes day at the gym.
John Van Stry
Yes, there are definitely questions about these 'gods' of which you speak.... So they have missionaries per chance?
Playwars
Okay, 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.
Brett Peirce
Narrative 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...
Jacob Bissey
Given 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".
Michael Obert
I mean, there are probably lots of positions with openings that need filling. . .
Raymond Dannelly
My mind ponders super power breeding programs and go slightly cross-eyed as my brain races both towards super kinky and super dark...
William Elliott
I'm sure theres an opening in that position...
William Elliott
you must be hungry. Bred is what you meant...Bread is food... unless you are talking about making them into bread... SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
Jon Gibson
We 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?
Kizik Ucalegon
Nah, she just gets into really nasty flame wars. Bad PR.
Magraal
I'm guessing Heatwave's incident had to do with a wardrobe malfunction, based on a certain previous interaction...
Graeme Thorburn
"... probably forcibly bread, ..." Oh dear the yeast popular torture. Loafing around before being sliced, topped and grilled for information. I'll see myself out.
Anton Schleef
Near 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.
Michael Obert
Spread the word, and the legs!
3of4
I wonder if there are any missionaries in my area
Michael Obert
Yes, 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.
Thomas Dorner
Well, it's probably way to late, as Deus maybe already is experimenting with that.
Matthew Dodgen
These gods of orgasm need to visit more often based on Jaber and Sydney's responses 🙃
