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Grrl Power #1117 - Charge!
🕑 Added 2023-01-09 11:01:00 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Heh, okay, so a lot of you guys spotted For Whom The Death Tolls immediately on the last page. I mean, he wasn't hiding, I guess I was banking on the fact that there's a bunch of other people with hoods and masks, and the skull mask wouldn't make him stand out so much. I guess putting him back in a red hood and cloak was a bit of a giveaway.
Unfortunately, the fact that so many people recognized him right off will make Jiggawatt's actions seem tactically... well, dumb. But as I said, there's a bunch of bad guys with hoods and they all have different masks, and the number of people who can take even a moderately powerful arc of electricity is fairly low, so it's not the worst opening move. Granted, it's a little predictable for the person named Jiggawatt to always toss out lightning bolts, but it's not like chucking a flashbang in the 25x60 cinder block room would have been great for the hostages. Presumably these three are upper-echelon Ascenders, so pulling her sidearm probably isn't a significant threat either. If they weren't wearing masks, some chemical mace would probably have been a respectable and somewhat unpredictable opener. But when you can pump out a few terawatts, it probably feels pretty good to cut lose when you get the chance.
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Person
I almost didn't recognize him without the goggle eyes.
Harmony Petersen
... you know, if Sydney had been there, she would have stopped Jiggawatt from turning herself into an electric slurpy by pointing out genre-savvy tactics. Just sayin'.
