davebarrack
patreon
Grrl Power #1226 - Whippet good
🕑 Added 2024-01-25 11:00:10 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Sydney has been wanting to try this since she figured out how to do the nitrogen trick in Galytn. She just didn't think it through all the way. She figured, change Oxygen to Nitrogen, everyone passes out, then change it back. They wake up a little dizzy, maybe have a headache, but it's all good. What she hasn't figured out is if she can change the air already in someone's lungs to and fro. Probably should have tried this in the Arc-SPARQ lab.
Still. It's not the worst tactic against, you know, really bad people. Sydney was just lucky (or possibly unlucky as the case may be) that these particular demons actually need oxygen. It's pretty easy to imagine certain breeds of demons not really needing a lot of O2. If you're standing knee deep in lava... honestly I have no guess as to how that would affect the atmospheric composition - besides probably a shitload of ash and little crystalized bits of rock that would fuck up a normal human's lungs. Well, a normal human that's immune to insane temperatures, but not immune to inhaling powdered obsidian. I would guess that 5 feet above a lake of lava, there would be... slightly less oxygen? It's not like the heat would fuck up the O2. I think other gasses would just be added to the mix and the percentage of O2 would drop proportionally. Molten limestone would give off a shitload of Co2 for example, and that would make it harder for Heat Ignoring Man to breathe.
Of course, I write and draw this page, then 3 days later as I'm posting it, I see on the news that Alabama JUST approved Nitrogen Narcosis as a form of execution.
You know, I'm against state sponsored death penalty, not because some people don't really deserve to die - I just really don't trust that the state will handle prosecution and evidence correctly. The number of wrongfully convicted people over the years should make any reasonable person hesitant to grant the government that power. (Also, some non-extradition-to-the-US countries are non-extradition because we have capital punishment) - BUT, all that aside, I know a lot of people object to it because the lethal injection method has never been proven to be humane, and that's why part of the cocktail is a paralytic, blah blah blah. Well, I've always wondered, if you want to kill someone painlessly, honestly, how hard would it be to just rig up like 100 double barreled sawed-off shotguns and rig them all to go off at the same time? Kind of going all in on the Firing Squad concept. Call it the Red Mist method. Or just a small room with 45 claymores all facing inward? That'd be even more sure-fire. Even if they didn't all go off at the exactly same time, I imagine once one of them went off... the rest of them would probably go off. Granted, as close to painless as those methods might be, I'm not sure that anything where the cleanup involves opening a sluice gate and turning a hose on an area is strictly humane.
Of course, this is all happening in the comic long before Alabama decided to out whippicide, so Sydney will likely avoid some new team nickname like The Alabama Strangler, though this move might eventually get named The Dixie Chokehold.
Oh, and FYI, since it's not windy today, Sydney just turned a dome of air into Nitrogen, and since it's the same temperature as it was, it's not blowing around and mixing any faster than air normally would, so Harem's fine where she is for a few more minutes.
Comments
eddi_TBH
It's not a poison in this case. It is bad air (pure N2) driving out good air (80%N2 and the all-important 19%O2) (the last 1% is mostly argon)
Sir Butcher
Aaaaaa, where these stories are coming from?? This is really just a horror story, it doesn't work like this. (Yours is like, the fifth story like this I read today). Why would a single breath of pure nitrogen would cause unconsciousness? It just stops your lungs from taking in more oxygen, but it won't magically remove the oxygen already in your body. If you hold your breath you won't just collapse in a second, it takes a while until you feel suffocation, and even longer before you lose consciousness. In nitrogen atmosphere, it is the same: except you won't feel suffocation because your body can get rid of the CO2 (this is what causes the need to breathe). If you go into an area where there is no oxygen, you will just breathe normally. Then, 30-60 seconds later you get dizzy, disoriented, have concentration problems, and THEN lose consciousness. After 5-10 minutes, you suffocate and die. The danger here is you won't realize something is wrong. Our body can't really detect the oxygen level in our blood, so you go in, breathe normally thinking everything is fine, then feeling funny, dizzy and it is normally too late at this point to escape. But it won't happen from a single breath, you have about a minute to escape - assuming you know what is going on.
Andiri
I'm having trouble suspending my belief because any creature that *could* have nitrogen poisoning wouldn't set foot on Earth without at least a hazmat suit. The air is already more than 3/4 nitrogen. It would be like a human walking around on a planet with an atmosphere that was 3/4 carbon monoxide. Making it 100% carbon monoxide wouldn't matter much.
TexasTies
Nitrogen hypoxia is scary. I work in telecom. There are old horror stories of techs entering a manhole they forgot to pump free of nitrogen. A single breath later and they're a body on the floor. Their partner outside hears them collapse and rushes in to help. A single breath: now there are two bodies in the manhole. Essentially painless, instant death.
